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90 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 23, 1934
Mrs. A.L. Tilghman of Oakland died suddenly of a heart attack Sunday. She was 50. On November 7th Mr. Rufus Purdy and Miss Ida Pittman were happily married at the residence of Rev. W. V. McDonald. Sanders Pate, Dewey Pittman, Jr., and Vance and Hardy Chapman were in Tupelo Sunday evening seeing the President. Little Miss Erma Jenelle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Mays, won honorable mention and medal in a baby contest conducted by Sears, Roebuck and Co.
85 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 24, 1939
Miss Ruby Wolfe and Mr. Charles Shaw surprised their friends last weekend by getting married. J, C. Sides, Frank and Sam Hyde, Dr. Smith, W. O. Blaylock, Upton Brewer and C. C. Pate spent a part of last week in Isaquena County on a deer hunt. C. C. Pate was the only one of the local group who bagged a deer.
75 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 24, 1949
John W. Jones, 81-years-old, of the Dividing Ridge Community won first place in the Corn Contest at the Fall Harvest Festival Tuesday. Work has started on a new building on Main Street between Barber’s Service Station and Mrs. Boswell’s building. When completed, it is to be used as a display room for General Electric Appliances and Oldsmobiles and will replace the present Brewer’s Garage. Corporal Archie Shaw, son of Mrs. Frances Shaw, arrived in Okinawa in September for a tour of overseas duty in the Far East.
70 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 25, 1954
Bruce Stidham, George Miller, Alex Pipkin, Bobby Tierce and John Stone, Parliamentary Law Team from the local FFA Chapter, placed first in the northern division and second in the “Big 5 Council” in a contest meeting at the FFA Camp at Grenada Dam Monday afternoon, November 22. Mr. W., Thad Trusty, President of the Bank of Water Valley, and one of Yalobusha County’s most beloved citizens, was honored on his 80th birthday with a dinner in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bennett in Water Valley Thursday night. The first place prize of $50.00 went to Robert Williams in the corn production contest and $50.00 to Luke Purdy, winner of the cotton contest in the annual Fall Harvest Festival.
65 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 19, 1959
Funeral services were held last week at Omega Baptist Church near Eudora, Ark. for Mrs. Cora Murphree, 79, who died in Houston, Texas. David Dale French graduated from the Light Vehicle Drivers Course in Fort Jackson, S. C., November 13 with an academic grade of superior which made him one of the honor graduates of the class. Mr. Bradford Murphree, aged 70, died Saturday morning, November 15, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. O.S. Landreth.
55 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 20, 1969
Cole Williams took top honors in the Coffeeville Chamber of Commerce yield- per-acre contest and was recognized at the Fall Harvest Festival Tuesday night. Members of the Weblos Den of the Cub Scouts who participated in a personal Fitness Day at Oxford Saturday, November 8, are Keith Bell, John Nelson Covington, Rob Clay, Scott Purdy, Tim Fly, Louie Riddick and Eugene Pipkin. The whole county is sharing in the signal honor recently received by our popular tax assessor, Guy Dale Shaw, at the 40th annual meeting of the Mississippi Assessors Association in Jackson this month, he was chosen President of the Association.
45 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 22, 1979
Odis Gee, 21-year-old son of Henry and Ida Gee, was killed instantly last Wednesday night when his car left the road and plowed into a tree. Hope Brooks III, 17-year-old son Mrs. Betty Bryant Brooks of Memphis and grandson of Mr, and Mrs. A. A. Bryant, was accidentally shot in the leg Sunday morning while deer hunting with friends west of town. Mrs. Shirley Pritchard Walker, widow of Mr. Gaines Walker, died Monday, November 19.
40 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 29, 1984
Monica Leah Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Bell and a graduate of the University of Mississippi, has joined Ethyl Corporation as a chemist in the Research and Development Department. Army Staff Sgt Tyrone F. Moore III son of Jimmie and Marjorie Moore of Coffeeville has arrived for duty at Fort Knox, Ky. He is a tank systems mechanic with the U. S. Army Armor Center previously assigned in West Germany. Dwayne P. Duvall who is a senior at Kirk Academy in Grenada is among the state’s 153 National Merit Semi-finalists who were recognized last week for their achievement by the Mississippi State University Alumni Association.
10 YEARS AGO
OCTOBER 30, 2014 Miss Leatrice Randle Griffin celebrates her 100th birthday on October 30, 2014.
