Extractions
from Digging Up The Past
February 2005
Choctaw
Herald
Most of our
farmers are harvesting oats this week.
Several of
the
Died at his residence near
Mrs. Susan
Phillips died May 2,
Moved with her husband and 5 children to
To The
Public ---- I am prepared to do all kinds of shoe
work. W. W. Wallace
Mr. H. J.
Bruister has been appointed by the Governor, Commissioner of the first district
of this county, made vacant by the death of Mr. P. T. Dicks.
Mrs.
Padget, who lives nine miles south of Butler on the "Ridge Road," to
Bladon Springs, will be one hundred years old next Sunday, the 24th.
Married on
the 16th, at the residence of Mr. J. W. Hurst, by the Rev. F. A. Freeman, Mr. A. Rudder and Miss Lucinda C. Goree.
Good beef
is sold in town almost every week at the very reasonable rate of 3 cents per
pound for fore quarters and 4 cents for hind quarters.
Last week
after we had finished "setting up" the so called Treasurer's report,
it was carefully laid away in a dest drawer, to be delivered to Judge Warren
who wanted to file it in the Probate Office. When he called for it on Thursday
morning, it had disappeared and for some time could not be found "high nor
low.' Finally, however, it was discovered behind a drawer, where it had been
carried by the mice. We could not help but exclaim, "confound
the mice, they are worse than the Commissioners."
A little
child of Mr. Allen Manely died last Monday.
Mr. Jesse
Taylor is building a water grist mill near Desotoville.
Mr. Belton
Rudder brought a large wagon load of watermelons to town for sale last Monday.
J. D. Cook
will return to
William
Tuttle, white, had his trial for failing to work on the public road, last
Saturday, and was fined $2 and cost. The cost amounts to a bale of cotton.
Pay your
taxes so you want lose your place.
Mr. F. A.
Powe has accepted a situation as clerk in the store of Mr. Mills.
There has
been less drunkenness in town this court than for several terms past.
Unclaimed
letters at the post office - Silas Allen - colored, G. B. Chaney,
David Bozone, W. H. Johnson, Sol Kelly, Mrs.
Mary E. Land, Miss Mattie Oslin, Miss Clara Oslin, J. B.
Sanders, Miss Mary L. Sikes, Miss B. Watkins, Warner
Bailey.
Mr. Jesse
Norwood, formerly of this county, died in
Married on the 19, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev.
T. B. Woodward, Mr. Walter Ezell and Miss C. E. Lee.
Our little
village can boast of five dry goods, one confectionery, one drug store, two
hotels, one masonic lodge, one Church, two barrooms,
one academy, a mill site and a live newspaper.
Mrs. D. J.
Wright died near Forkland,
There have
been fewer white persons in town during the holidays than we have ever known
before. The colored people had all the fun without interference from "de
white thrash."
Married on the 28th, by Eld. J. K. Ryan, at the bride's residence, G. L. Scarborough and
Mary E. Adams.
On last
Friday, in Mr. Walton's store, at Desotoville, Ed.
Ezell and Richard Spencer, both white, had a difficulty in which the former
received two severe wounds with a knife.
Mr. Wild
will preach in