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“Items, some condensed, from copies of the Monroe County Appeal of three or more generations. They will bring back memories and tell the continuing story of Monroe County.

May 1, 1903

Miss Jesse Burrall, personally known to hundreds of Monroe county Baptists and for several years a faculty member and head of the internationally known Burrall Bible Class at Stephens College, Columbia, will be married to Dr. Earle Edward Eubank of the Cincinnati University in June.

October 28, 1904

Rev. B.G. Reavis, by a vote of 146 to 1, was re-elected pastor of the Santa Fe Christian Church.

November 4, 1904

Miss Bess Shearman of Paris captured the prize offered by the Baptist Union, a high-class religious magazine, for the best descriptive article on an outing trip. Miss Sherman (sic) told of her visit to the World’s Fair.

November 8, 1929

The 100th anniversary of the organization of the Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, on Highway 26 six miles east of Paris, was appropriately celebrated Sunday.”

Source: Newspaper articles from unidentified Monroe County sources dated 29 Apr 1976, 27 Oct 1977 and 3 Nov 1977; submitted by Judy Baker Barklage.