Looking Back 11/7/24

90 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 7, 1934 Last Thursday, November 29, Captain John L. Collins celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday at his home here. Last Saturday some 11,000 gridiron fans saw Ole Miss defeat Miss. State in a close football game in their annual scrimmage at Jackson. The final score was 7 to 3. Tuesday of this week Mrs. Ella Henderson Taylor died at the home of her sister, Mrs. George Cook near Gray Rock. 85 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 8, 1939 Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Jarrell, north of town are the proud parents of a son, Francis Ray, born Monday. Lovejoy Marders, 47, Oakland planter, died Monday night. Miss Marilyn Walker accompanied by Misses Allie Wallace and Martha Lou Jones, of Oakland attended a three day meeting of the Girl Reserves in Tupelo. 75 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 26, 1949 Sister Pittman was elected President of the Coffeeville Girl Scouts Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Brandon moved from Sunflower Monday to the Franklin house and will have an apartment with Mr. and Mrs, Ed Brandon. Mr. and Mrs. Smiley Arrington are the proud parents of a baby girl born in the Grenada Hospital. She has been named Joy. 65 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 26, 1959 Among the thirty-five students honored for exceptionally high scholarship standing at the Scholarship Recognition Day at MSCW was Miss Terry Denley. Tommy McCormack, senior at Delta State in Cleveland, has received one of the highest honors bestowed upon college students in America in having been selected for Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. 60 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 26, 1964 Award Winners in Corn Yield: Larry Turner, Johnny Turner, Norris Coleman, Cole Williams and Allen Pittman, were award winners in the corn producing contest. Champion Cotton Growers: Whit Hight, Luke Purdy, Bobby Burey, Johnny Jones, Phil Sides, J. L. Barber and Bobby Pitman cotton growers who were award winners in the yield-per-acre production competition sponsored by the Coffeeville Chamber of Commerce and local Merchants. Joe Bailey Ill got a telegram Monday afternoon congratulating him on his winning one of the senior scholarships. He participated in Scholarship Tests given at Millsaps College Saturday. 55 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 27, 1969 The Farmer’s Implement Co. dealer ship for John Deere Equipment, was recently sold to Grenada Equipment, Inc and changed hands a few weeks ago. Mr. Dewayne Clark and Mr. W. H. Jackson, partners in the Grenada Equipment, Inc Grenada, are the new owners having the franchise and dealership from Mr. J. C. Sides. Miss Dorothy Helen Peters and Donald Lynn Helm exchanged wedding vows at a double ring-ceremony on Friday, October 24, in the Charleston Church of Christ. Miss Jo Adams will be among the 19 student beauties in competion for places in the Rocketeer Revue, MWJC yearbook, Wednesday night, December 3. Miss Sue Mary Shaw is among the 142 MSCW seniors now in public school systems across the state for nine weeks of practice teaching, An English major, Sue is getting her professional experience at Milam Junior High of Tupelo. 45 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 22, 1979 Myrna Clay, a Yalobusha County 4 H`er, left last Friday to represent the state at the 58th annual National 4-H Congress in Chicago this week (Nov. 25-29) as the state record winner in food preservation. Julia Brassel. Allison Brewer, Kaye Calder, Stacy Ayers and Gina Fly, Girl Scouts, with Mrs, Lila Fly, Mrs. Jessie Woodall and Miss Leora Simpson visited one of the few remaining grist mills at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Liles recently. 40 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 6, 1984 Benjamin C. Pace has recently been inducted into the Mississippi State University Chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa National Honorary along with 33 other students at State. Mr. and Mrs. Pitt Stone Kimbrough Of Grenada are announcing the birth of their first child, a daughter, born November 28. She has been named Kali Martin Kimbrough. From “Coffeeville Time”: Our railroad is gone. Maybe we knew that months ago. We were told, but just couldn’t give up such a vital part of out little town so easily. We remember back in the 30’s and early 40’s when we had numerous freight trains passing through Coffeeville night and day – and vaguely we remember when we had passenger trains loading and unloading people at our depot several times each day, in the 20’s and earlier. Towns were built near railroads back then, and for years the trains were a very vital part of the transportaion of people and goods from any distance. It was sad when we watched construction crews taking up the steel rails and crossties last week.