NEWS FROM YEARS PAST
October 24, 1902
CUMBERLAND: Rev. R. M. Richardson of Memphis visited his son, Dr. Richardson, here this week. - Mr. and Mrs. K. V. Ernest are entertaining a new son at their home since last Friday. - Mr. Gilbert of Alabama, a relative of Mr. N. H. Williams, is visiting and prospecting in this section now. - Noel Skelton made a business trip to West Point Monday, returning the same day. - Mrs. Gay is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Caradine, at Pheba, this week.
A young farmer of Choctaw county was arraigned before the Federal District Court at Aberdeen last week on the charge of retailing liquors without revenue license. The testimony developed that a gallon of whisky had been ordered by mail for Christmas use, and that the young man had yielded to solicitations of a friend and sold him a half pint of liquor, and that was all that he had sold. Judge Niles dismissed the case with the declaration that the transaction did not constitute a retail dealer under the United States statutes, but that if the man had been a “lounger about town,” in possession of a gallon of whisky, the circumstances would have been different and more suspicious.
PERSONAL MENTION: Cotton was quoted yesterday at 7.70. - Mrs. J. E. Dorris of Poplar Springs returned home Wednesday after a several days visit to her sister, Mrs. J. W. Hays. - Rev. Chas. Pittman of Rosedale, Miss. spent Monday here enroute to visit relatives out in the Lerma community. - Mr. Jno. R. Nichols of Columbus, representing the Columbus Marble Works, spent Monday in town in the interest of his house. - Mr. Barry Bays of Grenada has been spending the past few weeks here, on a visit to his sisters, Mesdames Jno. Marshall and W. H. Arnold. - Mrs. Fannie McCain, of Bellefontaine, had the misfortune last Sunday afternoon to fall and break her arm. Dr. Shaw of Embry, was summoned and dressed the limb and at last reports she was getting on nicely.
News was received here Wednesday of the death of Mr. Robt. Smith, which occurred at his home in West Point on that morning. The report did not tell how long Mr. Smith had been ill and of what he died, and the intelligence was a sad surprise to his friends here. The deceased was a citizen of Eupora and was a member of the firm of Smith Bros., until they discontinued business here two years ago, and had countless friends in Webster who sympathize with this family in their bereavement. The funeral occurred from his late residence Wednesday afternoon and the remains were carried to Pheba, and interred in the family burial ground near that place yesterday.
