Looking Back 5/8/25

By Marie | May 6, 2025 |

90 YEARS AGO May 17, 1935 Dr. and Mrs. R. J. Criss spent a few days this week in Gulfport where Dr. Criss attended the medical convention there. A little girl was born to Mrs. J. P. Stone in a Memphis hospital last Saturday. Miss Elsie Kincade, student at Copiah-Lincoln Junior College at Wesson is expected home Sunday to spend the summer with homefolks. 80 YEARS AGO May 18, 1945 Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Clark of Big Creek who have a fine son named Hubert C. Jr., born May 4. They have three other children, girls. With Yalobusha Men In Military Service: Ed Burns, Pharmacist 3-C of the Navy Hospital Corps returned to Camp Lejune, S. C. Saturday after being at home on a ten day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Burns; Eugene Perkins, FIC, of the Navy is at home on a 24-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Iva Perkins of the Sylvan Knoll Community and Raymond Jones, S. 2-C of the Navy, came Thursday to be at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Jones, unity he reports back to Seattle on May 24. Oakland News: Postmaster Carson Hughes received a cablegram Sunday from his son Lt. Carson Hughes, Jr., who has been a prisoner in Germany, saying that he is well and safe and hopes to see him soon. 75 YEARS AGO May 18, 1950 Eugene Spearman and William Baird York of Coffeeville and Ira Meek Lane, Jr., of Scobey are among the 634 students expected to complete the requirements for degrees at Mississippi State College at the end of the sememster. Cecil Brower has this week received a temporary appointment as rural carrier on Route 2, to begin his new duties on Monday, May 22. Billy Womack received his discharge from the Air Force May 14th and is now working in Memphis 70 YEARS AGO May 19, 1955 John Burgess Stone, son of Atty. and Mrs. J. P. Stone and last month graduate of Coffeeville High School, will leave Saturday, May 21, for St. Maries, Idaho where he will be employed this summer with the Forestry Department. In the closing session of the 117th annual convocation of Royal Arch Masons of Mississippi held in Jackson last week, C.C. Pate of Coffeeville, was named Grand Sentinel. 65 YEARS AGO May 19, 1960 From 42D Bombardment Wing, USAF, Loring Air Force Base, Maine, comes a report that Staff Sergeant Robert H. Morgan has recently been presented the award for Outstanding Non-Commissioned Office of the Year. George Ayers, Marie Pipkin, and Lura Wortham of Cofffeeville, Thomas E. Moorman of Oakland and Gene Standridge of Tillatoba are among the 140 young people at NWJC who will receive associate degrees and certificates there May 22. 60 YEARS AGO May 20, 1965 The Coffeeville High School baseball team recently took championship honors in the district and are now in the midst of the North Mississippi play-off. Members of the team are Woody Jones, Larry Kilgore, Bobby Martin, Allen Parker, Mike Jones, Greg McCormack, Lonnie Williams, Rickey Denley, Steve Brower, Coley Bailey, David Arrington, Joe Bailey III, Mack Wilbourn, Sam Pace, and Coach Aaron Burney. 50 YEARS AGO May 15, 1975 Diana Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wright represented Yalobusha County in the Mid-South Spelling Bee in Memphis Friday, May 2. She placed sixth in the Mid-South and second in Mississippi. 45 YEARS AGO May 15, 1980 Mr. George W. Russell former Agriculture Teacher, Principal of Central High School and Assistant Superintendent of Coffeeville Consolidated School District, was awarded a plaque commemorating 30 years of dedicated work. Lisa Boyle, Sheila Reed, Myrna Clay and Lori Brower were awarded trophies and ribbons in placing in State Competition of Modern Language Association in Oxford April 18. 30 YEARS AGO May 23, 1985 First Baptist Church, Coffeeville has called Edgar Rick Sellers, Jr., as their Minister of Music, Youth and Activities. Coffeeville Consolidated School District has been notified by the State Department of Education of the award of funds for two sections of twenty-two students each for a kindergarten pilot program for the 1985-86 school year. Haley Hall, 7-year-old daughter of David and Pam Hall, will perform this week, May 23-25, at the Maxwell House in Nashville.

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