October 31, 1902
WALTHALL: Mr. J. M. Moore and wife visited friends in Eupora Sunday. - Mr. and Mrs. Watson Sugg visited at Mr. T. W. Cooper’s Sunday. - Miss Lee Ray, who is attending school here, was called to the bedside of her brother Saturday. - Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Brannon, accompanied by Mrs. H. H. Holland, visited J. M. Holland at Denton, Saturday and Sunday. - For the black schools, there were twenty-one applicants for teacher’s license Oct. 24th and 25th. Only seven obtained license.
HOLENLINDEN: The Trinity Association, which convened at Monte Vista, was well attended, the Zion, Yazoo, and Columbus Associations having representatives in the assembly. The next place of meeting was given to the Cumberland church, Cumberland, Miss. - Misses Vannie Foster and Ollie Wofford, who are attending the Bellefontaine high school, visited home folks Saturday and Sunday. - Mr. W. H. Wright visited his sister, Mrs. W. A. Rogers, at Walthall last week. - Mr. R. P. Cohen, our popular mill man, lost one of his oxen last week. They were yoked together and went down into a pond to get water and in some way, one of them fell and broke its neck.
TOWN AND COUNTY: Mrs. J. G. Felton left Tuesday night for a several days visit to her daughter, Mrs. Townsend Moss, of Winona. - Dr. W. F. Townsend, one of Montgomery county’s rising young dentists spent Sunday in Eupora, the guest of Mrs. Darden’s family. - Rev. H. Y. McCaleb of the Cadaretta neighborhood, spent Monday here with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Avent. Mr. McCaleb was enroute home from Grady, where he on last Sunday held a memorial service as a last tribute of respect to the late Messrs. Nokes. - Messrs. J. H. and Burton Hale, together with their families, of Helena, Ark., have moved to Eupora and will probably make this city their permanent home. The two families have rented the W.W. Naron home, and Mr. and Mrs. Naron are domiciled with them. Messrs. Hale have purchased the timber of a 500 acre tract of land belonging to Mr. W. A. Finch, out in the Monte Vista community, and will work up the timber into rough staves which will be brought to Eupora for shipment, employing local labor in this work. They come well recommended and Eupora is ever ready to welcome such citizens to our community.
A letter to The Progress from Clay, West Virginia announces the death of Mrs. Gertie Shafer, which occurred at her home in that place last Friday after an illness of about two weeks. Mrs. Shafer was a comparatively young lady and will be recalled by her friends in this county and Miss Gertie Edwards, daughter of Mr. G. W. Edwards, of the Calooga neighborhood and was born and reared in Webster county. In 1892 she was married to Rev. C. E. Shafer and in ’93 they moved to West Virginia, which state has since been their home, moving from place to place, wherever Mr. Shafer was called by his ministerial work. She leaves a sorrowing husband and three small sons to grieve for her.
