100 Years Ago – May 2, 1919
LOUISVILLE: The new fence around the front of our school building is quite an attractive addition to that handsome building. - Mr. and Mrs. Claude Jackson left this week for West Point where they will make their home. - Miss Nannie Wood is now clerking at the Ten Cent store. - Mr. Tom Crawford of Alabama visited his relatives Messrs. B. T. and J. B. Webster and families this week, being the first visit here for about 35 years. - First Lt. Billie Woodward’s friends will be delighted to know he has landed in the States after several months service overseas. - Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thompson have the finest garden we have noticed this spring.
Glazer & Kaplan Big Specials for this week: $2.50 Old Kentucky Overalls for $1.98; $2.75 to $3.00 Carhartt Overalls for $2.29; $1 Men’s Union Suits for $ .79; and $1.50 Men’s Union Suits for $1.19.
DEATHS: A. J. Love, owner of Love Wagon Works Durant, died at a ripe old age Wednesday. - The angel of death came down March 16, 1919 and claimed our mother and grandmother, Mrs. R. D. Johns, whose husband went to Heaven some years ago. God spared Mrs. May Johns to live a long and useful life, being near 80 when she died. She was a good wife and mother and a better friend the poor never had. Often I have seen her share with those she considered less fortunate than she things she really needed for her large family of 12 children, and I know there has never been a woman who cooked more meals for more strangers than she did. [written by granddaughter Girtie May Cooper Perkins] - Mrs. G. W. Jarvis passed away at her home here April 25th, after an illness of some weeks. Mrs. Jarvis was a good Christian woman and will be greatly missed in her home and community. She is survived by her husband and several children. The remains were carried to the family cemetery at Preston Saturday for interment.
Memorial Service will be held at Antioch Church the third Saturday in May. Everyone come and bring dinner, singing classes invited. Also graveyard cleaning on Thursday before.
NOXAPATER: Attorney J. H. Price of Indianola was a guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Price here this week. - Dr. B. W. Holman returned home Friday from Indianapolis, where he was a student in a Veterinary College. - Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hunt attended the funeral of Mr. Rufus Crow at Ackerman Tuesday. - Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Permenter are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine boy on the 28th.
75 Years Ago – May 5, 1944
BIRTHS: Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McBrayer are the proud parents of a baby daughter, born April 22 and named Shirly Anne. - Born to Sgt. and Mrs. Johnny Kinard, a fine baby girl, named Betty Gene.
Memorial services will be held at Fulton Cemetery the first Sunday in June.
DEATHS: Mrs. Mary Stewart Morris, wife of R. C. Morris, died of a heart attack at the family home Tuesday. Surviving are her husband, two sons, four daughters, mother Mrs. Kate Taylor, and brother John E. Stuart. Funeral services were held at the Noxapater Baptist church with interment in Mt. Carmel cemetery. - William Robert Hickman, son of the late A. C. Hickman and Mattie Bryant Hickman, born March 18, 1897, passed away quietly in the dawn of April 28, 1944. He had been afflicted for 21 years, most of the time confined to his bed. He was a member of the Baptist Church. Left behind is his devoted wife, Mrs. Eva Meador Hickman, two sons, his stepmother, Mrs. A. C. Hickman, 3 brothers, 4 sisters, and a host of relatives. Funeral services were held at the Noxapater Baptist Church with interment in the church cemetery. - Funeral services were held May 4th at Poplar Flat Baptist church for Mrs. Susie Williams Winstead, 57, with interment in the church cemetery. Born in south Mississippi in 1886, orphaned in infancy, reared by a Jackson couple, she married John Winstead in 1900 and they moved to Winston county twenty-five years ago. She had been in ill health for several years and seriously ill the last three months. She passed away Wednesday. Surviving her are her husband, three sons, three daughters, and 4 grandchildren. - Mrs. Willie Myers, 67, of Calhoun died from a stroke last Monday. Services were held at Harmony Baptist church with interment in the church cemetery. She leaves four children and several stepchildren.
LOUISVILLE: Pfc. James Nichols was called home from New Orleans for the funeral of his grandfather, A. J. Dempsey. - Mr. and Mrs. William L. Wright and babies Memrie and Jeanette spent last week in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Wright.
NOXAPATER: The baby of Mrs. J. D. Land is recuperating from the painful illness of the past few days. - Pvt. J. B. Jordan, Jr. of the USMC at Parris Island, S. C. was called home by the death of his mother-in-law, Mrs. R. C. Morris.
