Lone Oak Community

Lone Oak Has Historic Background Progressive School - Fine Leaders

The community has sixty-one families residing in its district.  Of these, thirty six are land owners, twenty-three rent land for crops and three families are workers. The Community is actively interested in the County Fair that will be held next week. We intend to participate in a number of the events. We will exhibit in the community Hall with a showing that will feature all the activities of Reynolds community. Here you will see products of our farms and homes, of the school, of the other things that are carried on here. We will also participate in the School Day events – the floats, parade, etc. You will find Reynolds right in the band wagon, boosting the Fair and working for the advancement and progress of the best county in Mississippi – old Calhoun.
Lone Oak community organization was the first to co-operate with the County Agent’s office and the engineering department of the A. & M College in conducting a paint demonstration for the benefit of the people in that section of the county. This demonstration consisted of two day work by the experts and people of the community in painting their two story school building on the outside and since that time the community has gained interest to the extent that they have put over a program of [interior] decoration and equipping their school building with modern school desks and supplies. The teachers for this section are: Lonnie Harville, principal; Misses Katie Maddox and Mattie Edna Carter, assistants, who are all talented leaders and will add much to the leadership of the Lone Oak Community.

There are six churches in reach of the people, with preaching twice each month at the school building. Has a live Sunday School and singing once each month.

The community now has two doctors, 3 teachers, one lawyer, one good store, 2 saw mills, and a lot of other conveniences.

The farms are most productive with lots of fine creek bottom and rolling lands producing fine crops of cotton corn, lespedeza and all crops grown in this section of the State. The farmers are a progressive set of men, who employ power machinery and all modern implements in the making, saving and marketing of their crops. Nearly every farm in the community is a dairy farm, with cream separators and milk cans. The skim milk is fed to fine hogs and chickens which, when marketed, add to the wealth of the Community and to the advancement of the section.
[Improved] roads, well graded and conveniently laid-out for the public traverse the district, and the people receive their mail at hands of rural free delivery carriers.

The Lone Oak Community is known throughout the County, because of its leadership and the spirit of their various organizations. They have a Community club with the following as committees: Spikes Lester, Pres., H. P. Bollinger, Vice-Pres., Miss Uva Spradling, Secretary.
Program Committee – Mrs. T. Spradling, Spikes Lester, Mrs. C. O. Womble
Community Improvement Committee – Finis Lester, C. O. Womble, C. C. Davis
Agricultural and Fair Committee - Finis Lester, R. W. Dulaney, H. D. Dunn, T. W. Spradling
Livestock and Poultry Committee – Herbert Hollingsworth, Mrs. H. G. Dunn, Mrs. R. L. Cobb, R. W. Dulaney, Mrs. R. W. Lucas.

Home Making Committee – Mrs. W. R. Johnston, Mrs. R. W. Dulaney, Mrs. G. T. Doak, Mrs. R. L. Cobb, Mrs. Spikes Lester

All of the above committees have been busy during this year. The program committee always plans entertaining programs for the meetings and recently this committee with the assistance of the school and other community leaders, rendered a community program that was enjoyed by all visitors and at the same time, netted the Club a large sum of money that will be used for the benefit of the Community.

Lone Oak will be the possessor of a new Methodist Church in a few days, as building material is now on the ground. [repeated paragraph]

Everyone remembers the fine showing that Lone Oak made last year in the community exhibit and Float contest, and from all indications this live community will make a strong showing for first places this year. All of the farmers North of Schoona believe in the purposes of the County Fair and will be visitors and supporters of the coming County Fair program.