100 Years Ago – November 28, 1919
LOUISVILLE: Louisville Methodist Church will have a new pastor, Rev. J. D. Dorman, formerly of Water Valley. Brother Carlisle, who has filled the pulpit here for three years and was very instrumental in erecting the handsome new edifice, was sent to Coahoma. - Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Davis, Messrs. W. O. Butler and Sherril Fox attended the Shriners Meeting at Meridian last Wednesday and Thursday. - Our friend W. D. Covington has the smoothest way to catch wild turkeys of anyone we know of. He captured two nice young gobblers this week in his barn. The wild birds had taken up with his tame flock and came to the barn to roost. - The Louisville Drug Store stock and fixtures was sold at public auction last Saturday and was purchased by J. W. Howard and Son Drug Co., who will move their stock into the building occupied by this stock at an early date. - Mrs. O. E. Kinard is thought to be out of danger from a serious illness. - Mr. W. T. Crow, one of our county’s oldest citizens and one of the most valiant surviving veterans of the civil war, left this week for Edenburg, Leake county, where he goes to visit his sisters. -
DEATHS: Mr. W. T. Peterson died at his home in the northern part of the county last Saturday night. He was taken ill with acute indigestion on Thursday before. He was nearing his 70th year and was one of our county’s cleverest and most highly esteemed citizens. A successful farmer and stockman, he was a benefactor in his community. He leaves a number of children.
MARRIAGES: Mr. Tom Coleman and Miss Lizzie Rix were quietly married November 13th. - Clyde Fulton and Miss Clara Woodruff were married at the at the Baptist parsonage by Rev. J. E. Wills, on the 26th. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. J. H. Woodruff and the groom is one of county’s promising young men.
NOXAPATER: Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hunt visited the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, near Sturgis Sunday. - We extend a hearty welcome to Mr. Clint Cockrell and family who moved here the past week from his county home east of Louisville. - Friends of Rev. G. W. Gordon will learn with regret of his serious illness at Aberdeen, where he went to attend the Annual Conference. Mrs. Gordon and little daughters were called to his beside Saturday.
75 Years Ago – December 1, 1944
DEATHS: Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Fulton sympathize with them on the death of their infant son at the Louisville hospital November 21st. - Claytown reported the death of Mr. Edward E. Tucker at the home of Mrs. S. J. Tucker Saturday. He had been ill only a short time and was feeling well when he went to bed that night. He died in his sleep. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Fulton cemetery. - Charles E. Estes, Jr., aged twelve, died suddenly at Methodist Hospital in Memphis, after being hit by a truck. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gullard Estes of Memphis and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Estes of Noxapater. - Funeral services for Mrs. Willis Taylor, 68, sister of Mrs. E. P. Craddock of Louisville, were held at French Camp November 25th, with internment in the church cemetery. She passed away the day before in the Jackson Infirmary in Jackson, after a 5 weeks illness. She is survived by her husband, four daughters, two sons, four brothers and two sisters.
LOUISVILLE: Buddy Earhart and James Coleman went up to the Miss. State-Ole Miss game with Claude Fair Saturday. - Mrs. David Wilson and son David went to Philadelphia for Thanksgiving with her mother, Mrs. Joe Duncan. - Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ray and children of Mobile and Mrs. Oma Tucker and girls of Columbus spent their Thanksgiving with their mother, Mrs. Tom Hudson. - Miss Louise Hill of Jackson spent several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hill. - Mrs. Bill Rives is very seriously ill at the Louisville hospital. - Miss Marjorie Woodruff spent the Thanksgiving holiday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Woodruff.
WEDDINGS: Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Stringer of Louisville announce the marriage of their daughter Miss Dorothy Stringer to Herchel Puckett of Jackson November 25. The couple will make their home in Jackson where the groom is engaged in business with Puckett Brothers Wholesale.
NOXAPATER: Friends of Miss Jessie Mae Hensley are glad to know she is sufficiently recovered to return home from the hospital in Meridian. - Friends of Mrs. Audrey Deweese regret to learn that her son Willie Deweese was killed July 8th while on active duty overseas. - On Monday Mrs. B. F. Whisenant visited her mother, Mrs. Annie Humphries who is sick at her home in the Calvary community -
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Darby and Paul spent Thanksgiving day in Philadelphia, guest of their parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Darby. - Mrs. Onell Shepherd will make her home here with her parents until her husband returns. - Mrs. E. E. Jordan and Sammy, after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crosby and other relatives, have returned to their home in Flagstaff, Arizona.
