1927 Monitor Herald

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1927 Monitor Herald - Page 2

The Monitor Herald
Vol 28 No 4 / Aug 25 1927

NEW OFFICERS
 
Our officers for the ensuing four years, decided by the nomination exercises of Tuesday of this week, tabulated and promulgated by the County Executive Committee on Wednesday following the Awful Tuesday, are:
 
Spencer Aycock and Jack Evans will represent us in the State Legislative halls; Sam Smith will do our sheriffing; Bill Davis will do our recording, etc., in the Chancery Clerk’s office; Ernest Lane will attend to the duties of the Circuit Clerk’s office; Ed Dye will ride round over the county and assess our taxes and Q. T. Crowson will have the superintendency of our teachers, etc. in charge.
 
The Board of Supervisors will consist of Jim Bryant fro Beat One; Joe Overby, Beat Two; Jess Collins, Beat Three; “Bub” Barton, Beat Four; and Bob Young from Beat Five.
 
These are all men, good and true, and will make us excellent officers, provided we work with them and hold up their hands in time of need. If we do not work with them or help them, then they will make a dismal failure, and for that matter the most accomplished men ever in office would under like conditions make a bad go of it too.
 
The defeated candidates are taking the matter in good form, making it evident by their acts that the election “went democratic.”
 
Card From County Dem. Executive Com.
 
On account of some talk reaching the members of the county democratic Committee with reference to Stanley Murphree retaining the Chairmanship of the committee after Dennis Murphree entered the race for governor, and not resigning, we the rest of the committee have this to say, and take this method of saying it so that it may reach every one:
 
Stanley Murphree tendered his resignation in open meting and insisted that it be accepted.
 
The rest of the committee, both Bilbo Men and Murphree men, refused to accept the resignation, and elected W. R. Swindoll as Vice Chairman, to act in his absence.
 
We make this explanation for the benefit of some few who really don’t know Stanley Murphree.
 
DEM. EX. COM.
W. R. Swindoll, Vice Chm.
Joe A. Bryan, Secty
 
Mrs. Henry Newsom, formerly Miss Vesta Fox, of Liverpool, La., spent the weekend in the city as the guest of Mrs. Clarence Edmundson.
 
Miss Edith Blaylock returned Wednesday from a visit with her sister, Mrs. Jack Trout of Oakland.
 
State of Mississippi To T. C. Barber, Post office address unknown:
You are summoned to appear before the undersigned Mayor of the Town of Calhoun City, Miss., and Ex. Of. Justice of the Peace of Calhoun County, in said state, on the 19th day of September, 1927, at the town of Calhoun City, Miss., at my office therein to defend the suit of Calhoun City Motor Co. vs. T. C. Barber. No. 28 in said court, wherein you are defendant.
 
This the 17th day of August, 1927 W. J. Paaterson [sic] Mayor and Ex. Of. Justice of Peace.
 
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the school board of Calhoun County is called to meet in the town of Pittsboro, Miss., on Friday Sept. 2nd, at 10 o’clock a.m. to consider the following matters:
 
Changing the boundary of the Chapel hill Consolidated School District so as to include more territory.
 
Changing the boundary of the Slate Springs and Mallie Hardin School districts.
 
Changing the boundary of the Unionville Consolidated School District.
 
Respectfully, E. A. Wagner, County Supt.
 
CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OPENS SEPTEMBER _th.
 
We are in receipt of the announcement of the opening of the second session of the Chapel Hill Consolidated High School at Big Creek.
 
This is not the second session of the school at Big Creek, for there has been a school at this point for these many years, but is the second session of the school as developed and having use of the Smith-Hughes work.
 
They had last year a very successful session under the management of Superintendent A. E. Strain with the help of O. C. Shipp and a competent corps of assistants. They are under the same management this year with some changes in the assistant teachers, and we predict for them a more successful year this than the past.
 
They are backed by a live P.T.A. and trustees, and according to the wording of their announcement—it shows that they are determined to succeed and are going about it in a manner calculated to win success.
 
The principals Strain and Shipp are amply seconded by Mises Ruth Provine, Susie Kinsey, Inez Morgan, Inez Summerall, and Elizabeth Harris, in the teaching force, and Mesdames Terry, Ross, and Caldwell on the executive force of the P.T.A.
 
 
Announcement Of The Pittsboro School
 
The goal set for the Pittsboro Consolidated High School for 1927-28 is a standard three year high school. You have the building and practically all equipment necessary. You have nobly contributed to the purchase of the teacher’s home. A forward movement necessary in all consolidated schools. You have proven to the Superintendent and faculty that you are solidly behind us in co-operation.
At a meeting recently held it was decided to make another effort to grade and terrace the campus on Friday, August 26th. So plan for this. Bring the best that you have for this work and dinner. We will have all necessary material on hand for the job.

After due consideration of all parties concerned, we have set August 29th as school opening day. We hope to have all books necessary on hand. The faculty and trustees urge that everybody attend the opening exercises.

My we add further that the Baptist revival will be held the first week of school by a former beloved pastor, the Rev. A. N. Reeves. The faculty will deem it a privilege to dismiss school and attend church in a body.

We take pleasure of announcing the following members of the faculty for the coming season: J. L. Taylor, Supt., Math and History; Sudie Pearl McPhail, English and Latin; Mrs. J. L. Taylor, Grammar School; Miss Aileen Hicks, Grammar School; Miss Carrie Williams, Primary. Music teacher to be selected. J. L. Taylor, Supt.
 
A Card of Appreciation
 
We take this method of thanking the good people of Calhoun City who were so good to us during the sickness and death of our wife and mother. She suffered a long time, but you were patient and answered our call when needed.
 
May the good Lord so raise up helpers for you when needed.
 
Respectfully, J. T. Bennett, Mrs. J. G. Taylor, W. W. Bennett, Mrs. L. M. McClung, J. R. Bennett, L. F. Bennett, Mrs. J. O. Kimbrell, Mrs. Fannie Bardwell, Mrs. Wm. Stillman, M. E. Bennett.
 
Mrs. Sarah Francis Bennett, wife of J. T. Bennett of this place entered her last long sleep Tuesday, at 8:25 p.m., and was laid to rest in the Reasons graveyard over North of Schoona, in the neighborhood in which she lived so many years before coming to Calhoun City.
 
Mrs. Bennett was 72 years old and leaves to mourn her departure her husband, J. T. Bennett, and nine children, namely, W. W. Bennett, Mrs. L. M. McClung, Mrs. Wm. Stillman, and L. F. Bennett, all of Calhoun City, and Mrs. J. O. Kimbrell, Pine Valley; Mrs. Fannie Bardwell of Long View, Texas; M. E. Bennett, of Pittsboro; Mrs. J. G. Taylor, of Artesia; and J. R. Bennett of Montgomery, Ala.; besides a goodly number of grand children and a host of friends.
 
She was universally beloved, a member of the Methodist church since early girlhood, and a consistent follower of and worker in her Master’s vineyard. She sustained an injury one night last winter, while on her way to church, accidentally stepping off the walk and falling, from which she never fully recovered, though she was able to walk around to some extent and it was thought that she would eventually get well.
 
The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. H. D. Crowson, assisted by Rev. Cecil Ellard.
 
We extend to the sorrowing family our deepest sympathy.
 
SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENT
The patrons of the Sarepta school are requested to meet at the school house Wednesday morning, August 31, with tools, teams and other necessary implements, for the purpose of grading and cleaning up the grounds, and to fasten down the seats. Jess Yancy, Prin.
 
 
FROM DAY TO DAY IN MISSISSIPPI By Mrs. Helen Goodwin Yerger
 
Dr. Dunbar Rowland, director of the State Department of Archives and History, has recently received from Mr. Brooks McGowan, a prominent merchant, of Columbus, the original descriptive and historical muster roll of the “Quitman Rifle Guard” which was organized by his father, Captain McGowan, at Waterford, Marshall County, in March 1861. Captain McGowan led his company through the entire War for Southern Independence as Company F of the Ninth Mississippi from York County, S. C., where he was born Feb. 2, 1832. After the Civil War, he lived in Holly Springs, Miss., and was buried there July 11, 1894. This gift of a muster roll that has been a cherished possession for more than thirty years is a distinct service to the state and an addition to its archives. It is of special value and interest because it continues the history of the members of the company up to the time of the death of Capt. McGowan.
 
J. R. Baker, bookkeeper for the State Penitentiary Board, reports that the total cash receipts for the year ending June 30 came to $1,909,429. This does not include the last 1,899 bales of 1926 cotton still on hand. This is to be sold next Thursday, at Parchman.
 
FARM FOR SALE: Said to be second richest on Topashaw Creek. 195 acres—180 of which is all bottom land. Residence in hailing distance of two-teacher school and of two village stores. Church right by. Good water and plenty of good neighbors. Easy terms. See Frank Doolittle, Calhoun City, Miss.
 
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Monday, August 29 “Faust” – With Emil Jannings. If the power of evil can destroy the good on earth—then may the world be yours! The two powers—light and darkness. 35 cents for the family.
 
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Fouke, Ark., August 17, 1927
Editor Monitor and Readers:
As we have not seen any news from this place for quite a while, thought I would write a few lines.
 
We enjoy reading the Monitor-Herald very much. We are interested in the up-building of Calhoun County for that was our home before coming here.
 
I suppose all of the farmers are through laying by. We have been through about two months. But it is time to begin again as the cotton fields are pretty white. As a general rule the crops are good in this part of the country.
 
I guess all of you Calhoun boys and girls are having a nice time this summer. We are having a jolly time out here.
 
Our family and two other families, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sprayberry and Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Costin, took a trip to Hot Springs about the middle of July. We had a nice time—the scenery was beautiful.
 
The protracted meetings are being held and we are attending them now.
 
Wish some of you folks were here to go fishing with us. The fish are plentiful and are being caught by the car loads.
 
Several families from Fouke, a family from Texarkana, one from Shreveport, La., one from El Paso Texas and Mr. Fred Burt from Paris, Miss., gathered on the banks of the bayou and spent the day catching and frying fish. Plenty of fish were caught and we enjoyed the day very much.
 
Mr Mitchell McCormick and family, his father and Mr. Fred Burt, all of Calhoun County, are visiting friends and relatives here.
 
School will soon begin and I will be glad of it. I go to school at Fouke and will take second year high school work (10th grade) this year. We have one of the finest high schools in Miller County at Fouke. A girl from Calhoun, Bertha Sprabery. [sic]
 
SMITH-PARKER

Miss Rubye Ellen Parker, daughter of M/M. A. F. Parker, of the Big Creek community, Calhoun County, and F. Afton Smith, of Water Valley were married Tuesday, August 16, at 2:30 p.m., the ceremony being said by Presiding Elder Rev. E. S. Lewis, and taking place at the minister’s home on Margin Street. After a short trip to Memphis, the couple will make their home in Water Valley where Mr. Smith travels for a wholesale grocery.
 
The bride is prominently connected in this section. She is a sister of Mrs. W. A. Winter, of near Grenada. She is a young woman of unusual educational attainments; she is beautiful in disposition as well as in person and is thoroughly fitted in every way to meet her new obligation and duties as wife and helpmeet. Her husband enjoys the good will of all who know him. He has been connected for a number of years with his present employers and they regard him as one of their most valued and trustworthy assistants. The Sentinel tenders its congratulations. – Grenada Sentinel
 
To My Friends And Customers
My gin is now ready for the 1927 crop of cotton.
Tuesday, the 16th, we ginned our first bale, ginning for R. E. Dye.
Our gins are first class shape and we are ready to render you our same efficient service. Bring your cotton and let’s go.
Am paying top market price for seed.
Yours for Service, W. C. BOLAND Calhoun City, Miss. .
 
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A LETTER FROM W. A. WOODWARD
 
We are in receipt of a letter from our old time friend Wiley Woodward, of Boynton, Okla. who used to reside in this county, and who still owns a good farm over in the Conner Crossing neighborhood on Topashaw Creek.
 
He also sent us some photographs of some scenes in Seminole, Okla, which is an oil town. This article referred to as “liquid gold” changes the nature of towns and men, as we happen to know.
 
Some fifteen or eighteen years ago we, the editor, tore our “Sunday Pants” climbing down out of a big pecan tree just a few miles out from the then sleepy village of Seminole, and had to use our buggy robe as a screen of decency to get from the buggy into our room at the hotel without being arrested.
 
Had there been as many autos and people on the streets then as one of the pictures above referred to shows to be there now, we never would have made it. The oil was struck there since our mishap.
 
We publish the letter herewith, and will say that we, with his many other friends back in “Old Calhoun” are glad to know that Wiley is doing so nicely.
 
Dear Old Strat:

I am enclosing a check for $1.50 for subscription and also sending you a few pictures you can show your friends of a town named Seminole, about 150 miles West of my town and first oil was struck about 15 or 18 months ago and I don’t think they have struck a single dry hole since beginning the tow [sic] of Seminole proper. Seminole is 6 miles long and a jam from one end to the other, almost impossible to get through, five miles an hour is good average. Other good towns have sprung up around it. They say it takes a half day to get in post office and banks unless you are early or late. You never in your life saw such a rush.
 
I think a trip there is worth the money to any man, more especially a trader or a man that wants to do something.
 
I think Oklahoma is the greatest state in the West. She is leading the world in oil. We have several town s owned entirely by negroes. We have one town called Ritchardville that one negro owns all of it and he got it from oil on his land. We have some little oil around us, but it does not pay much. We have a very fine refinery here that works 125 men and pays from 50 cents and hour to 75 cents—that is not bad wages.
 
We have people here from all over the United States and some from other countries.
 
The worst thing against Oklahoma is the water. We have no good water in this part. I have been very cautious and careful and have made some money here, have a good home and guess a good business.
 
Had a chance to go to Kansas City to buy fall stock in airplane free but I did not go – sent my son, Jack. I buy my groceries from men who lived in Mississippi—Griffin of Houston, has 6 wholesale grocery stores and a Mr. Dorroh raised at Slate Springs sells me.
 
Can’t see why some of my old Calhoun friends don’t pay me a visit – only 2 or 2 ½ days drive.
 
I am certainly glad to see my old friend Dennis Murphree in the race. I have always thought a great deal of the Murphree family and more especially of Dennis and want to see our Calhoun folk turn out and give him 100% vote.
 
Strat, wish you would sell my farm fore me. Wish I could have been there to vote for you.
 
Very respectfully, W. A. Woodward.
 
LABORERS, CONTRACTORS & MATERIALMEN NOTICE
 
Notice is hereby given to all contractors, laborers, journeymen and or materialmen, who performed work and or supplied material on Federal Aid Project 152 A & B of Calhoun County, Mississippi, that Dawson Brothers & Beaver, Inc. filed suit on the 22 day of August 1927, against Little & Dean, Inc., contractor and the United State Fidelity & Guaranty Company, Inc. surety and that said suit is now pending in the Chancery Court of said county, returnable to the October Rules 1927 of said court.
 
You are hereby notified that if Little & Dean, Inc. contractors on said project, and said surety are indebted to you either as contractors, laborers, journeymen and or materialmen on said project to intervene within the time prescribed by the laws of the State of Mississippi in Chapter 217 of the laws of 1918, thereof or your claim will be forever barred. This the 22nd day of August, AD 1927   J. E. Williams, Chancery Clerk.
 
NON-RESIDENT NOTICE

The State of Mississippi
To the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, Incorporated, whose post office is Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, and Little & Dean, Incorporated, whose post office is Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee:
You are summoned to appear before the Chancery Court of Calhoun County, Mississippi, on the 10th day of October, 1927 at the October Rules thereof to defend the suit No. 3602 in said court of Dawson Brothers & Beaver, Incorporated, wherein you are defendants….
J. E. Williams., Chancery Clerk
Bruce D. Newsom, Solicitor for Complainants
 
PETITION FOR PARDON
State of Mississippi, Grenada, County
To Governor Dennis Murphree,
We, the undersigned respectfully petition you to pardon William Aven, convicted in the Circuit Court of Grenada County at Grenada, Mississippi, January term, 1925, for the reason that he has been sufficiently punished.             

Signed: William Aven, W. M. Yeager, and others.
 
 
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