100 Years Ago – January 16, 1920
LOUISVILLE: Mrs. E. T. Turner returned home from Memphis Hospital last week greatly improved from an operation. - Loyd Hughes, son of J. H. Hughes, left last week for the A. & M. College, where he will enter as a student. - Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Files and Miss Maud Ellis visited friends in Ackerman the first of the week. - The Fair Co. underwent the task of moving their stock this week down on the south side, and the firm is now fittingly domiciled in the brick building next to the bank. - Mr. W. M. Wheeler was down from Pontotoc last week, and while here sold his rich Hughes creek farm to Brantley and Doss. - Mr. H. E. McCully, Deputy Chancery Clerk the past four years, resigned his position and accepted a traveling position with Gibson Grocery Co., and we are glad to know is making good. - Dr. Montgomery reports the birth of a fine boy on the 10th to Mr. and Mrs. Lenard Bennett. - Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Jones of Belzoni were visitors here this week. Hamlet’s many friends are glad to know that he is succeeding handsomely in the practice of law in his adopted city, one of the richest sections of our state. - Mr. John F. Hopkins, one of our county’s best-known citizens, suffered a stroke of paralysis at the home of his son-in-law Leroy McMillin, several days ago. He was brought to the home of his son, L. H. Hopkins, Tuesday and is a very critical condition, being paralyzed almost all over.
From the Decatur Times: Tom McMullen, who is with the drainage surveyors in Neshoba county tells us that the famous buzzard was killed by the boys of the surveying party near the Newton county line one day last week. The buzzard was very old and the bell was fastened around his neck with a copper wire. He has been seen at various places in this and other states during the past 40 years.
DEATHS: Mrs. Amanda Kirk, widow of the late Dr. C. T. Kirk, died at her home at Handle on January 3rd. Mrs. Kirk was one of the best women of our county. She leaves to mourn her demise sons Dr. C. A. Kirk, Mr. C. T. Kirk, and daughters Mrs. Tom Chappell and Mrs. Jim Eichelberger. - News reached here Wednesday that Mrs. Lizzie Whitehead, one of Fearn Springs’ oldest and most highly respected women, died on Tuesday night. She leaves a large connection to mourn her death.
MARRIAGES: News reached here yesterday that Mr. Bob Mitchell, Jr. and Miss Jessie Graham were married at the Methodist Church in Columbus Wednesday evening. Miss Jessie is the charming daughter of our townsman, Mr. L. B. Graham, one of our leading merchants. The groom is a son of Mr. R. L. Mitchell of Estes, and a member of the Estes Lumber Co., one of the largest lumber mills in the county. He recently completed a business course in Memphis, and holds a good clerical position in Okalona.
75 Years Ago – January 5, 1945
FRONT PAGE: KILLED IN ACTION: T/4 Oakley R. Ivy, the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ivy, was killed in action Dec. 12 in Germany; Pvt. Addkison,20, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Addkison, was reported killed in action somewhere in France Nov. 1. - Grover Linch, for 37 years a mail-carrier in Winston County, retired January 1st. At first, he carried the mail on horseback, then by buggy, and later by motorcycle, which threw him more times than he could remember. Then he came in a Model T Ford and continued up the line to the latest models.
DEATHS: Death came peacefully to Mrs. Rosa Lee Byler Hinton, 75, on the morning of Dec. 31st, from heart trouble and other complications. She was born in 1869 in Lauderdale Co., Tenn. and 56 years ago married Lawrence L. Hinton and they moved to Louisville in 1922. Services were held at the home of her daughter here, then the body was carried to Halls, Tenn. where services were held at the home of another daughter, with burial in the Halls cemetery next to her husband. Two daughters, two sons, and four grandchildren are left to mourn. - Funeral services were held for Mrs. Jane Elvira Clark, 90, from the family home at Flower Ridge Dec. 30th, with burial in the church cemetery. Mrs. Clark passed away at the family home Friday. Born Sept. 23, 1854, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie H. Cagle, a pioneer family of Winston county, and married Thomas W. Clark in 1872. There were twelve children born to them, with four daughters and four sons now living.
LOUISVILLE: Lt. and Mrs. Bennie C. Hurt of Charleston, S. C. announce the birth of a baby girl, Betty Jane, born Nov. 20th. - Mr. R. L. Suber, who has been very ill, was taken to Philadelphia hospital Monday. - Miss Dyalthia McCully of Ole Miss has been spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben McCully.
WEDDINGS: Mrs. Robert Louis Ivy announces the marriage of her daughter, Miss Mary Virginia, to Captain Laune Carl Erickson, Air Forces, U. S. Army, Nov. 9th in Atlanta, Ga. - Miss Bess Ann McMillin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. McMillin, became the wife of Sgt. Herbert Kitchens, son of Mrs. Honnel Kitchens, Dec. 30 at the Baptist parsonage, Walnut, Miss.
NOXAPATER: Mrs. Flora Carter and daughter, Miss Luvie, returned home from Lockhart, S. C. where they spent Christmas with their mother and grandmother, Mrs. Regina Carter. - Mr. and Mrs. H. R Woodruff of Rocky Hill spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Boswell.
