100 Years Ago – December 5, 1919
ANNOUNCEMENTS: We are authorized to announce for Chancellor for the 6th District, subject to the Democratic voters at the Special Election to be held January 3rd, 1920:
Z. A. BRADLEY: Winston County presents the name of Judge Z. A. Brantley as a candidate to succeed Chancellor A. Y. Woodward the special election Jan. 3, 1920. Judge Brantley is a graduate of the Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tenn., graduating with the highest honors of his class in the year 1898 and has been engaged in the practice of law at Louisville since the fall of 1898. He is recognized as one of the leading lawyers of the District and he has had considerable experience on having filled the position as Chancellor since Judge Woodward’s failing healthy last Spring.
HON. T. P. GUYTON: Mr. Guyton was born and reared in Attala County near the line of Holmes and Carroll. He graduated at the Miss. A. & M. College in 1898, volunteered in the first Miss. Regiment and served throughout the war between the United States and Spain. Returning home, he was elected from Attala County to the Miss. Legislature and served in the 1900 session. He then received a Civil Service appointment as clerk in the Division of Judicial Accounts, Treasury Dept., Washington, D. C. While holding this position, he studied law at Columbia University, graduating in 1903. Upon graduation, he returned to Mississippi engaged in law practice.
MONUMENT COMMITTEES: The Central Committee of the Soldiers’ Monument met on Tuesday night and appointed the following committees throughout the county to raise money to pay for the Soldiers’ monument to be erected in our county in honor of the old Confederate Veterans, and the young World War boys. The manner or way in which these committeemen and ladies may go about raising these funds is left entirely with them, but the Central Committee will issue a letter suggesting some features of the work at early date. It is hoped these Committees will take an interest in this important matter, and raise this money in a very short time. It will be easy if our people will only think of the importance of it. Following have been appointed:
BEAT 1 – LOUISVILLE : Mrs. J. B. Gully, Mrs. J. D. Doss, Mrs. D. L. Fair, Mrs. W. C, Hight, Miss Kittie McMillin, Mrs. W. F. Woodward, Mrs. W. F. Hull, Mrs. H. A. Harris, Mrs. F. J. Slider, Mrs. W. M. Fox, Mrs. H. B. Peters, Mr. J. P. Cagle, F. E. Sharp, R. L. Kirkpatrick.
BEAT 2 – MCLEOD: John McLeod, W. A. Garrigues. ENON: Mrs. C. A. Jones, Mrs. T. M. Yarbrough, Mrs. Maude Woodruff, Mrs. Dillard Fulton. FEARN SPRINGS: Mrs. C. A. Kirk, Mrs. H. J. Anderson, Mrs. Jim Eichelberger, Dr. H. H. Tabor, B. F. Furgerson. - PERKINSVILLE: Mrs. Sam Triplett, Mrs. John Triplett, John Schooler.
BEAT 3 - BETHEDEN: Mrs. O. E. Kinard, Mrs. M. M. Long, J. M. Ivy, T. A. Crumpton. LOAKFOMA: Mrs. M. W. Triplett, Mrs. W. R. Frazier, Mrs. C. H. Betha. MILLS CREEK: Miss Deane Richardson, Mrs. Tom Frazier, Miss Metts. CENTER: Mrs. W. H. Fulcher, Mrs. J. L. Hill, Mrs. Kirk Bouchillon.
BEAT 4 – HIGH POINT: Mrs. Tom Price, Mrs. Emmett Kemp, Miss Hathorn. SHILOH: Mrs. Hubert Hall, Mrs. D. A. Lucius, Miss Lena Haynes. RURAL HILL: G. W. Hinze, W. B. Shumaker.
BEAT 5 – PLATTSBURG: Mrs. Walter Webb, J. H. Kelly, Curtis Lee. NOXAPATER: Mrs. W. H. Gunn, Mrs. T. G. Hopkins, Mrs. R. H. Glenn, Mrs. H. J. Wright, Mrs. Perry Frazier.
75 Years Ago – December 15, 1944
FRONT PAGE: Mrs. Albert McMillian is quite seriously ill at her home north of time. She suffered a stroke Wednesday of last week and has been in a very critical condition since.
DEATHS: Death came early to Walter T. Chambliss Dec. 8th, as he died from a heart attack around 2 a.m. at the home of his daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hull, with whom he had made his home for the past five years. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at the family home on Metts street, with interment in Masonic Cemetery. Born in Prattville, Ala. Nov. 11, 1866, where he spent most of his life, he married Winston county native, Miss Viola Kirk, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Kirk, July 4th, 1889. They were living in York, Ala. when Mrs. Chambliss died 19 years ago. - Funeral services were held for Mrs. Mattie Hathorn Woodward Monday at the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., with burial in Masonic cemetery. She passed on the 11th at the family home on South Church street, having been sick with heart trouble since May 1942. Doctors didn’t think she would live much past May 1942. A daughter of the late Hugh L. W. Hathorn and Mattie Jernigan Hathorn, she born in Louisville Feb. 20, 1880 and lived all her life here. She was married to Robert Earl Woodward Nov. 26, 1902 and to this union were born three children. The second child, Robert Stanley, died in infancy. Son Harry and daughter Miss Elsie are left to mourn their mother’s passing. Along with the children, her husband, two sisters and two brothers survive her. - John Henry Wilson, a 71-year-old black resident of our county and well-known veteran fox hunter, passed away December 3rd, in the Mill Creek community.
Mr. W. P. Fulton, who lives with his son Walter J. Fulton, celebrated his 83rd birthday on Dec. 10th with a boundeous dinner, served cafeteria style at noon. Mr. Fulton comes from one of the oldest pioneer families of the county and we wish him many more happy birthdays.
BIRTHS: Born, to Lt. and Mrs. Howard Covington, a fine boy on the 13th inst. Mrs. Covington is at her parents’ home in Kannapolis, N. C., while her U. S. Army husband is stationed at the Panama Canal Zone.
WEDDINGS: Miss Evelyn Pearson, daughter of Dr. S. W. Pearson, became the bride of First Lt. Var Crosby Bobo, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bobo of Eupora, Dec. 10th at the Louisville Methodist Church.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fulcher celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary quietly at home. There have several children, 23 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
LETTERS TO SANTA: Dear Santa: I am a little girl 8 years old in the 3rd grade at Ford. Please bring me a locket, bracelet, nuts, fruits, and candy. Please remember the little children whose daddies are far away from home. Don’t forget my mother, father, and my teacher Mrs. Crowell with something nice. Your little friend, Carol Jean Black. - Please bring me a pair of gloves, a base ball, and neck tie. Remember my two uncles in Hawaii and France, and my cousin in Germany, and the other boys in service. Lots of Love, Clement Williamson, Calhoun School.
