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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
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
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
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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r TCHULA 5 4 4 Continued from page 8 Mrs R G Williams and son Bobby of Jackson and Miss Elmarie Lacy of Goodman spent the week end with Tchula relatives Rev and Mrs A R Beasley visited home folks in Hickory Flat and Blue Mountain last week Mrs Boyd Sheppard and Mrs Byrd Jones spent Friday in Greenwood Ann and Carl Fincher came home with them for a few days visit Mr and Mrs J C McNeit of Jack son spent Friday and Friday night with Mr and Mrs Roy Walt and family Mr and Mrs J N Bedwell have re cently had several most interesting let ters and pictures from their son James D Bedwell who is stationed in China with the U S Marines He stated that he would be moved to Peking China at an early date to be one of the guards at tho American Embassy The ninth grade of the T H S had a picture show party in Belzoni Thurs day night Mr Dave Longinotti Mr John Camp bell and Mr Wm Beachman retired rail road men of Durant accompanied Louis Longinotti to Tchula Monday to visit friends Mrs Evelyn Sweet was accompanied