100 Years Ago – February 13, 1920
The flu is about to break up the Legislature, many members being down with it.
LOUISVILLE: Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Baker, a fine girl on the 9th. - On account of the flu, the schools of Greenville closed down temporarily last week, and Frank Atkinson, a teacher there, returned home for a few days. - Senator R. C. Jones came home this week from the Legislature on account of illness. - Miss Mary Kate Gully is home from her school at Hernando temporarily. - Dr. Montgomery reports the arrival of a fine girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Robeson on the 8th. - Miss Lettie Bond of McHenry is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. P. White. - Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Yarbrough leave this morning for Memphis, where she will receive medical treatment. - Dr. C. A. Kirk of Handle returned home yesterday from a two-weeks stay in New Orleans, where he went to remain a month and recruit up from his arduous labors, but learning that his section had a good deal of sickness, he cut short his visit and returned home. - Dr. E. D. Kemp write us from New Orleans, where he is taking special course in “Diagnosis and Laboratory.”
DEATHS: Jack Kirkpatrick, who has been in Ashville, N. C. for treatment for some time, passed to the great beyond on last Monday morning, and his remains were brought home and buried at Mt. Pleasant cemetery yesterday. He has been a sufferer from Tuberculosis for some months, following a case of flu last winter. He was just past thirty years of age, leaving a devoted wife and one little boy to mourn is departure. He was a very industrious young man and just a few years ago had completed his education at A. & M. college, and started out with a very bright future, and his unfortunate death is a sad blow to his young wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Kirkpatrick. - On January 12, 1920, just as the sun had disappeared behind the western horizon, the white winged messenger of death hovered over the home of Mr. D. T. Allen, and claimed for its victim, Mrs. Adlee Allen. She was a choice spirit, as a wife, she was so true, helpful and companionable. As a mother, affectionate and wise, as a friend she was sincere, inspiring, and ever true. How beautiful has been her life. She lived it well. How blessed has been her home, with such an ideal wife and mother.
The people of Ackerman are feeling good over the fact that the report comes that a four-foot vein of coal was stuck in the mine one mile east of town last night.
MARRIAGES: Mr. R. W. Suttle and Miss Ray Jackson were married on the 11th inst., Rev. J. D. Fulton saying the ceremony.
A CARD: I desire to inform the public that I have purchased the watch and repair shop of Mr. Will Lewis, and am now in the Warner Grocery Co. Building on North side of Main Street, where I am prepared to do all kinds of watch repair work. All work guaranteed. I will appreciate your patronage. R. L. Ivy.
75 Years Ago – February 9, 1945
FRONT PAGE: Pvt. William Franklin Kinard, 35, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Kinard of Cox Street was reported killed in action in Belgium Jan. 13, 1945.
DEATHS: Funeral services for James Berlin McAdory, S1/c, 19, U.S.M.C., were conducted at Oak Grove cemetery Jan. 13th by Rev. W. L. Kitchens. He volunteered for duty at the age of 17. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Bernard McAdory, he had returned from sea duty on the U. S. S. Black Warrior. He wrote home that he would be home Jan. 15. However, he had fallen from a platform on an elevated train structure Jan. 3 and rushed to the hospital, where he died five days later.
LOUISVILLE: Mary Erline and Lester Jarvis, Jr. visited their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Moody, over the weekend. - Kenneth King spent the weekend visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. King. While there, he enjoyed a fox hunt. - Mrs. Douglas Nettles from Auburn, Ala. spent the last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Suber.
WEDDINGS: Miss Mattie Ruth Farish, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Farish, became the bride of Mr. John Wilson, son of Mrs. Tom Wilson and her late husband of Lewisburg, on December 26, 1944 in the study of Elder D. D. Moody, Church of Christ minister, Lewisburg, Tenn. - Mr. and Mrs. Roger Eubanks of Pascagoula and formerly Louisville, announce the marriage of their daughter, Imogene, to Samuel Warren Brown, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Brown, Sr. of Brookhaven. The ceremony was performed Jan. 28th at the First Baptist Church, Biloxi. - Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Filer announce the marriage of their youngest daughter Mary Jacqueline to PhM3/c Marcus C. DuBose of the U. S. Navy. The double ring ceremony was performed Jan. 16, 1943, by the father of the groom, Rev. D. J. DuBose, at the home of the groom’s sister, Mrs. Fred McGraw, in Andalusia, Ala.
NOXAPATER: Mrs. Onell Sheppard returned to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Price, after visiting the Sheppard family for two weeks. - Mrs. Lucile Land and son Jimmie are visiting relatives in Greenwood. - Mrs. J. N. Young is recuperating from her illness of the past two weeks.
BIRTHS: Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis L. Falls, a fine baby boy on Feb. 3rd. - Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Clark are the proud parents of a baby girl, named Mary Frances, who arrived Feb. 3rd. - Born on Feb. 7th, to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Smith, a fine daughter, named Paulette. - Lt. and Mrs. Woodward Thompson are the parents of a fine boy, born Jan. 30th, and named Richard Raynor.
