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Library of Congress1961

Image 2 of Holmes County herald (Lexington, Miss.), October 12, 1961

EDITORIAL PAGE JloLei County HERALD JACK SHEARER JREDITOR Entered at the Postoffice at Lexington Mississippi as Second Class Mail under the Act of Congress of March 3 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in advance in Holmes and adjoining counties par year 300 six months 175 elsewhere per year 330 six months 200 Publiahed every Thursday by the Holmes County Publishing Co Inc 201 Tchula Street Lexington Mississippi EDITORIAL COMMENT NATIONAL PRESS WEEK IS OBSERVED OCT 915 This week October 915 is National Newspaper Week Millions of words will be written by hundreds of editors throughout the nation on the topic of the role their publications play as Heri tage of Truth Frontier of Freedom which has been declared the theme of the week Unfortunately there will be considerably fewer words written con cerning the other side of the coin the shortcomings and inadequacies which are evident in the newspaper profession There will be little said about the serious responsibilities which newspapers often fail to realize Perhaps the most important task of any newspaper is to objectively report the events which transpire in the area which it serves Objectivity however is sometimes quite difficult to obtain Even when the editor of a

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Library of Congress1961

Image 2 of Holmes County herald (Lexington, Miss.), December 14, 1961

EDITORIAL PAGE MJme HERALD Published by the Holmes County Publishing Company at 200 Tchula Street Lexington Mississippi Entered at the Postoffice at Lexington Mississippi as Second Class mail un der the Act of Congress of March 3 1879 Subscription rates for Holmes and adjoining counties per year 300 six months 175 elsevvhe e pel year 350 Jack A Shearer Jr Editor W J Pritchard Linda ILeonard Mechanical Superintendent Womens Editor EDITORIAL COMMENT NEWSPAPER STILL TOPS AS ADVERTISING MEDIA Reprinted From StarFIerald Kosciusko The introduction of a new product or a new place of business is the most diffi cult of all advertising jobs It is a job which is nearly always entrusted to the newspaper by both local retailers and na tional advertisers The manufacturer of a new electric shaver has listed six reasons for choos ing newspapers as a medium for intro ducing the new product 1 Newspapers permit concentration in specific markets 2 Newspapers allow a company to capitalize on the news atmosphere of the medium in announcing a new product 3 The newspaper provides the advan tage of large page sizewith greater impact 4 The newspaper offers greater flexi bility than other media 5 The newspaper gives

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Library of Congress1963

Image 2 of Holmes County herald (Lexington, Miss.), July 18, 1963

j4omed County HERALD Published by the Holmes Cotinty Publishing Company at 200 Tchula Street Lexington Mississippi Entered at the Postoffice at Lexington Mississippi as Second Class mail under the Act of Congress of March 3 1879 Subscription lates for Holmes and adjoining counties 300 per year six months 200 elsewhere 400 per year PAUL TARDYEditor ALL1E S TARDY Associate Editor_ Retailers govern economy The whole welfare of a community is closely related to the prosperity of local retail outlets The conditions of churches schools government libraries and other cultu ral institutions are largely a reflection of the health of business community Thus it is one of the first functions of a local newspaper to assist m the development of a sound local econo my Newspaper advertising is a proven stimulant and long range supporter of local retail trade Few publishers however are so shortsighted that they would not re cognize the neqd for other forms of advertising in the local community The newspaper publisher wishes his advertising to be effective and he knows that newspaper advertising can be effectively supplemented by good window display posters at point of sale and personal salesmanship within the store Any supplemental advertising which helps

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Library of Congress1856

[Route of a proposed railroad in Washington and Knox townships, Holmes County, Ohio]

Title provided by cataloger. Pen-and-ink on paper. Mounted on cloth. Shows the route of a proposed railroad, roads, streams, property lines, and the names of property owners. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Oriented with north toward the left. At right side, possible attribution note that is only partially legible: Wyndham [illegible] Jones. [Illegible]. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Mrs. William D. Wrighton; April 1962. vcFY24

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Library of Congress1959

Image 1 of Holmes County herald (Lexington, Miss.), December 31, 1959

JJoimeS Sountu HER M Volume 1No 49 LEXINGTON MISSISSIPPI Thursday December si Progress Late Start No Space Sorry Due to a late start on this weeks issue after the Christ mas holidays and the lack of space we were forced to leave out some of the news this week This news will appear in next weeks Herald GROUND BREAKING ceremonies for the newly formed Black Creek Charcoal Co was scheduled to take place on the site of the plant just west of Lexington Thursday to day at 10 am Lexington officials and civic leaders were on hand for the cere monies as were other dignitaries from Jack son and Herbert Hyman one of the owners Pictured above watching Mr Hyman look through the transent last week as the site was being laid off are William Cooksey who will be in charge of maintenance at the plant and C M Martin Plant supt in charge of production Good Paper Good Competitor FourCounty News Bows Out by Chester Marshall After more than five years of operation The Four County News of Pickens ceased pub lication this week with the Dec 30 issue In a front page editorial Publisher CurtfHs H Multen said

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Library of Congress1962

Image 2 of Holmes County herald (Lexington, Miss.), July 12, 1962

Weekly Publisher Outlines Problems lie printed from The Publishers Auxiliary By Mel Hodell One of the most enjoyable aspects of my life is making money This is part and parcel of being in the newspaper busi ness as far as Im concerned Its fine and dandy of course to contribute every thing to your community and the public up to your eye brows free of charge in a continuing burst of mighty causes But after the day is over and you go home there is a matter of finding your off spring wellshod with a hair cut and a full satisfied sto mach And seeing as how the news paper business is a private enterurise there really is en joyment in making abuck on ce in a while I believe my greatest frus tration comes from the situa tion involving the split per sonalities who deal with a smaller newspaper when it comes to money On the one hand we often are wrooed with the most en thusiastic passion possible when it comes to printing news promotion advertising assorted whatnots about e ery thing and everybody in the newrs columns free of charge On the other hand we too often

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Library of Congress1963

Image 2 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), June 6, 1963

i r We Must Print The News A Lying Newspaper Is No Good Continued From Pape One T testified that the then Sheriff Smith had told Holmes supervisors he did not intend that any Negroes will vote while he was sheriff I was un der oath to tell the truth And I did The men who disputed my testi mony were talking for quotation in the Holmes County Herald Those who denied Sheriff Smith made the statement at the time and place designated did not do so in court They were not under oath Thein state ment was made to a newspaper that has consistently agitated racial mat ters since it was founded four years ago a newspaper that has done everything it possibly can to destroy me personally and my newspaper This is simply because I have re fused to bow to the wouldbe political bosses of Holmes County or permit them and the Citizens Council pres sure groups through which they work to dictate the editorial and news poli cies of this newspaper T might add that I shall continue to resist their domination and print the truth about all matters of public importance so that the people

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Library of Congress1938

Image 2 of The Durant news (Durant, Miss.), June 9, 1938

f THE DURANT NEWS R PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY _ Hazel Brannon Editor and Publisher Subscription in Advance200 Per Year MEMBER MISSISSIPPI PRESS ASSOCIATION Entered as Second Class mail matter in the Postoffice at Durant Mississippi Liquor Dealers Again Three weeks ago we wrote an editorial about the liquor dealers in Holmes county In it we said tha there were 42 places in Holmes county with Federal licenses to distribute liquor and wines According to our record we listed seven places in the city limits of Tchula on the western section side of our county among the 42 Mayor W C Perry of Tchula checked upon the places listed and found that only two of these places were inside the city limits the others being on the out skirts Mayor Perry said that he made an effort to keep up with what was going on in the city and that he didn t believe these two places sold liquor Thus Tchula is cleared up hub actually sell whiskey to the best of our and official knowledge We are glad to make this statement We can only say that we wish we could say the same of the other communities in Holmes

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Library of Congress1961

Image 1 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), December 28, 1961

SJtf ftwetngtmt Abugrligprl S Principles and Men Truththe Weapon we use in their Defence____ Volume 124 Lexington Mississippi Thursday December 28 1961 Number Thirt By Hazel Brannon Smith This is the last column of Eyes for 1961 At the years end we al ways mentally review events of the past year and take a tew moments to anticipate what the New1 Year may bring We wish to express again this week as we did in our Christmas column our sin cere deep appreciation tor the friendship and support of our thousands of friends and readers throughout Holmes County and the state W e shall always strive earnestly to be worthy of your trust Despite the continuing at tacks from a few fanatics principally in Lexington this editor and The Lexington Advertiser have continued to make gains in 1961 We might add these gains have been realized in spite of the lies that those opposed to us have circulated and caused to be circulated My friends hear these lies and report them to me in detail together with the names of persons doing the talking My friends think I should expose these people by printing their names and what they are

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Library of Congress1962

Image 8 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), May 3, 1962

Negro 4H Rally Held In Tchula Saturday About 1500 4H Club boys and girls their leaders sponsors advisors and parents attended the annual Negro 4H Rally Day Saturday which featured a parade in downtown Tchula led by the Belzoni Band and a beautiful 4H float decorated in the traditional green and white and a splendid program at the Tchula Attendance Center Saturday marked the first time the 4H Rally Day had been held any place in Holmes County other than Lexington Barbara Ann Luckett presi dent of the Junior 4H Coun cil Senior Section and Wal ter Hums vice president both of Tchula served as mis tress and master of cere monies at the program which was held before a packed house at the Tchula Attend ance Center 4H Club boys and girls participating in the parade and rally wore their uniforms and 4H caps The devotional featured an original playlet on Creation which was written and per formed bv students of the Tchumla School with Pauline Banks at the piano As the crowd assembled in the large auditorium the guest band from McNair High School in Belzoni led by Bandmaster Lonnie Haynes gave a program of appro priate music

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Library of Congress1948

Image 1 of The Durant news (Durant, Miss.), April 8, 1948

THE DURANT NEWS 90th YEAR NUMBER 30 DURANT MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY APRIL 87 1948 J 200 Per Year I THROUGH HAZEL By Hazel Brannon Your editor is very humbly proud this week of the fact that she re ceived first place for the best news story first place for the best news paper published by a woman and second place in feature writing in contest sponsored by the Mississip pi Federation of Press Women Top winners in this contest are entered in the national contest sponsored by the National Federation of Press Women Recognition of our effort in our chosen field means a great deal of couise but we do not Ynind saying the reward we like most is when folks say Miss Hazel you sure do put out a good paper Wed rather have our subscribers like us than win all the glory in the state or nation And thats the truth Army Day Tuesday April 6th is being celebrated in Holmes county tomorrow April 9th Durant citizens are given a spec ial invitation to attend Col Harwood C Bowman who served as a Brigadier General under Lt General Joe Stillwell in the ChinaBurmaIndia treatre will make the principal speech

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), September 3, 1903

Literary News and Notes The article on Joseph Pulitzer in Everybodys for September is pecu liarly illuminative of the mans charac ter and his ideals of newspaper making In the light of his present extraordi nary endowment of a College of Jour nalism at Columbia it affords an inter esting index to The line of thought of which that is the culmination Herbert Maxwells notable discussion of Animal Intelligence in The Month ly Review is reprinted in The Living Age for August 2 In lighter vein and perhaps even more attractive to lovers of outdoor lite is Edmund Selouss charming sketch Terns in the Nurse ry from The Saturday Review Three noticeble articles on literary topics of perennial interest appear in current numbers of The Living Age In the number for August 22 Charles L Eastlake writes of Thackeray Aug ust 2 contains Augustine Birrells re view of New Editions of Charles Lamb and September 5 an article from Walter Frewen Lords dashing pen on Charles Reades Novels Ir Holmes writes Thomas Bailey Aldrich in the August Century had an odd liking for ingenious desk accesso ries in the way of pencil sharpeners paper weights penholders etc The latest contrivances

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Library of Congress1906

Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 4, 1906

BELFAST IN 1905 Continued from Page Sixth DEATHS January Lucy May Nickerson aged 22 ra A Pitman aged 54 John C Norton aged 82 John Parr aged 60 Mary 1 Carr aged 57 lu uarj v h M Holmes aged 65 unit E Sleeper aged 66 Evtlena C Moody aged 71 Emily Shales aged 86 Varies K Harrison aged 54 I mlnna Brown aged 70 i iiia 1 A rinMiong aged 55 hauiel L Pitcher aged 70 ircii Mimner G Erisbee aged 22 ge H Webb aged 80 nnie L hanmn aged 65 ii ive 11 Cooper ageo 66 _ Ellen 1 Whitten of Montville aged 4S n abort W Edgecoaib aged 49 pril Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs W il Kimball f iiaries A Hopkins aged 48 icy A Conner aged 55 V ait ha II Wording aged 86 Rebecca i Wood aged 76 Charles V Cobbett aged 7i t th v Brown aged 88 i Hannah T Philbrook aged M ay 7 EovisaC Lampher aged 80 oia H Erisbeo aged Marx V turti aged ih 17 John B Walton age 14 Vilbley G Spence aged 61 I iv Sarah Beilin aged JOMar L urti ag d I

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Library of Congress1928

Image 2 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), May 10, 1928

PAGE TWO COMING Optometrist Lexington City Drag Store Monday Tuesday Wednesday May 7th 8th 9th Hare Your Eyes Examined lilawn Fitted Lenee Chang CONSULTATION FREE Aom Office Greenwood Miaaleaipi Three Days Only JTreeLgisg TWO MONTHS NONSKID AG E PAYMENT PLAN Use the easy par eh a ae plan to boy General while prices are lowest and yea get the benefit of DualGrip Nonskid when you need it most friii on the General tet now means two months perfect nonskid mileage practically frtel At this season good rob ber shows nest to no wear When summer comes your tires will still be almost new all paid for and ready to roll for a year or two Under the fanaons GTAC payment plan Generals top qaality tire is as easy to buy as ordigargmimp No More Dowd Less In The End Igenehai j TtE I goes atom way to mabtfriundt SUPERIOR SERVICE STATION Lexington Mississippi The only store in Lexington with this famous payment plan Odorless Dry Cleaners clean clothes with no odor Phone 125 HOME BREVITIES t 4 Mr and Mrs Jessie Stigler and li I tie daughter Elisabeth made the mot trip from Greenwood Sunday with M and Mrs R

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