EXCERPTS FROM THE 1926 EDITIONS OF
THE LAUDERDALE COUNTY ENTERPRISE
Published weekly
in Ripley, Tennessee
Transcribed from the originals by Sarah Hutcherson
Typed and
Indexed by Carolyn Duvall
*** PLEASE NOTE
*** Some pages were inadvertently omitted in the indexing process. They are
indicated by parenthesis and are numbered (89) through (93).
ENTERPRISE Friday July 2, 1926
Beloved Physician Dies
Dr. John W. Sanford, a
practicing physician in Lauderdale County for 40 years and a man loved and
esteemed by all our people, died at the Baptist Hospital in Memphis at 8
o’clock Friday morning of last week. He had only been in the hospital one week,
suffering from a malady which was hard for physicians to diagnose. The news of
the passing away of this good man brought sadness to hundreds of homes
throughout Lauderdale County, not only to those whom his skill as a physician
had greatly endeared him because of his successful ministrations in alleviating
pain and restoring health, but to all who knew him, for his genial personality
had made its impress for good upon humanity in all the varied walks of life.
Dr. Sanford would have been 64 years of age had he lived until Saturday, July
3. He was a native of Tipton County. After his graduation from the old Memphis
Hospital College in 1886, he moved to Lauderdale County and located at Glimp,
where he practiced his profession for many years. He came to Ripley in 1900. He
had been county health officer of Lauderdale County and was a past president of
the Lauderdale County Medical Association.
Dr. Sanford was twice
married. He was first married to Miss Celeste Sharpe, who died many years ago.
His second wife was a sister of the first, Miss Frances Sharpe, who also
preceded him in death. Surviving Dr. Sanford are four sons, Dr. W.V. Sanford,
Burton S. and Robert A. Sanford, of Ripley, and John Sanford of Baltimore; one
daughter, Miss Celeste Sanford of Ripley. He was a brother of Mrs. C.F. Sanford
of Ripley, Mrs. Hattie Taylor and Mrs. Frank Cuthbert of Brownsville and Dr.
B.R. Sanford of Henning.
The remains arrived in
Ripley Friday night, but the funeral did not take place until 2:30 Sunday
afternoon, awaiting the arrival of his son from Baltimore. Services were held
in the Methodist Church, burial was with Masonic honors in Maplewood Cemetery.
*** A Peep Into The Past--July 6. 1900
Miss Minnie Pierson,
of Dallas, Texas, is visiting in the city.
Miss Duet Coleman, of
Woodville, is visiting Miss Emma Baxter.
Miss Cecily Mitchell is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Mitchell, at Nankipoo.
Mr. Jim Moore and Mrs.
Iverson Stewart were married last Tuesday night.
Mrs. Laura L. Hay, who
has been keeping house for her son, Mr. Will Hay, the past six months, left
Monday for Lake City, Ark. End of Peep Into Past ***
Farm News Notes
District Agent H.S.
Nichols of Jackson, county agents Judd Brooks and W.M. Hardy of Madison County
and H.A. McPherson, of Haywood County, were visitors in this county.
Lois Crews of the Dry
Hill Poultry Club has made an unusual record with her flock of twenty-five
white Wyandotte hens. From this flock this year she has hatched off over 100
baby chicks, sold forty settings of eggs, besides marketing some, having all
for family use desired. A full balanced ration has been fed all season.
Family Reunion
A delightful home
gathering was enjoyed by Mr. and Mrs. Charley E. Walding and all their children
and their families last Saturday and Sunday at
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their home in Ripley. The dear mother and grandmother, Mrs. Jane
Walding, who is in her 80th year, was able to be with the happy throng. A great
feast was prepared for all and was enjoyed also by other friends and relatives
who gathered with the family. Their welcome was as warm and generous as words
could convey and all were made to feel at home. Following the feast Mr. Will
Brown made a family group picture of Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Walding, Mrs. Jane
Walding, Mr. and Mrs. Buck Walding and family, Mr. and Mrs. Buford Walding and
baby, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Casey and family, Miss Lillie Walding, Messrs. Audrey,
Lutrell, and Leon Walding, of Ripley; Mr. and Mrs. John Walding and daughter,
of Memphis; Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Evans and baby of Dyersburg; Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Walding and son and Mr. and Mrs. John Evans, of Walnut Ridge, Ark.; Mr. Dee
Elkins of Memphis.
Social Happenings
Mr. and Mrs. J.E.
White announce the marriage of their daughter, Dorothy Romaine, to Mr. Roy
Evans Jacob, of Columbus, Miss., which occurred on June 26, Dr. L.0. Leavell
officiating. Mrs. Jacob is one of the most attractive and popular girls of the
younger set, who regret to lose her. Mr. Jacob is a graduate of A. ?. M.
College of Columbus, Miss., the class of ‘25. He is a civil engineer and left
Sunday morning for ?unbury, Pa., to accept a position with the State Highway
Department of Pennsylvania, where Mrs. Jacob will join him in a few days.
Concord
Mr. J.S. Layne and
daughters, Misses Jessie Lee and Eunice, spent Saturday in Ripley.
Mr. Charles Moore. of
Ripley, spent one day recently here with his sister, Mrs. Alice Lou Brantley.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Pewitt and daughter, Wauline, of Flippen, spent one day recently in the J.B.
Milam home.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Hargett from near Central spent Wednesday night here with parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Chalk.
Additional Gates Locals
Little Misses LaRue
and Elizabeth Duncan have returned to their home in Memphis after six weeks’
visit with grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. N.H. Braden.
Mr. and Mrs. M.S.
Gamble, of Nankipoo, and Mr. and Mrs. O.V. Williams, from near Halls, were
Sunday guests of Mrs. W.C. Gamble.
Local and Personal
Mrs. V.W. Yates
continues ill with chills and fever.
Mrs. M.A. Hedgepeth is
still confined to her bed, but is improving.
Mrs. W.B. Midyett and
Mrs. Carl Dodson spent Wednesday in Fulton, Ky.
Miss Rose Love Gudger
spent last week in Memphis visiting Mrs. J.B. McKinney.
Mrs. Brandon Davis of
Syracuse, N.Y. is visiting her aunt, Mrs. R.D. Jenkins.
Mr. C.C. Adams, of
Norwood, Ohio, is spending a few days here with homefolks.
Mr. and Mrs. J.F.
Lusk, of Eylau Farm, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Gracy.
Mr. Alex Klutts
returned last week from a visit to his brother and sister in Salisbury, N.C.
A little 2 year old
child of Mr. Raymond Cannon, who lives near Edith,
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died last Saturday.
Mrs. Ada Nixon left
last week for Birmingham, Ala., to accept a position as secretary of the
Y.W.C.A.
Misses Lillian Folts
and Georgetta Hutcherson returned yesterday from a visit to relatives in
Houston, Texas.
A cotton bloom from
Mr. Walter Hart’s river bottom farm was sent to the Enterprise office Friday,
June 28th.
Mrs. F.W. Bondurant
and sons, Fred and Bill, of Dallas, Texas, are visiting her parents, Dr. and
Mrs. G.A. Lusk.
Dr. and Mrs. R.S.
Maclin and son, Robert Spencer Maclin, and Mr.
Percy Rice left Thursday for Pittsburg, Pa., making the trip by auto.
Mr. Tom Dennie spent
last week in Oxford, Miss., called there by the illness of his sister, Mrs.
Lavada Johnson, who had undergone an operation.
Mr. G.O. Ferguson and
Mrs. T.P. Ferguson, Jr. returned Monday night from Russellville, Ky. Mrs. G.O.
Ferguson remained on a visit to her father.
Mrs. L.D. Bruce, of
Memphis, spent the weekend with Mrs. G.J. Johnson.
Little Frances Bruce,
who had been here two weeks, returned home with her.
Miss Willie Gaines,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Gaines, of Gainestown, underwent an operation for
appendicitis Sunday morning at the Ripley hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Clay
Williams and little son, Don, and Mrs. Otis Moore and little daughter, Ona,
spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Beasley at Glimp.
Mr. W.M. Brown left
Thursday for Memphis to attend a convention of photographers which will be in
session over Friday. His little daughter, Frances, accompanied him.
Messrs. W.R. Samuel
and John Cook left last week for Blytheville, Ark., where they are erecting
three brick houses on Main Street for Mr. E.F. Wilson of Ripley.
Mr. W.B. Henderson
returned Tuesday night from the Baptist hospital in Memphis, and is recovering
from a recent operation for appendicitis. His nurse, Miss Ragon, accompanied
him.
Mr. W.T. Rice and
family visited in Covington Sunday. Mrs. Rice reports her brother, Mr. Albert
Daniels, who recently underwent a mastoid operation, as being still unable to
work, and during the past week he has gone through the clinic.
Gates
Mrs. W.B. Perry is
attending the bedside of her son in Obion.
Mr. T.S. Williams was
called to Paragould, Ark. Thursday by the death of his brother.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Akin of Forked Deer, and Mr. and Mrs. Levi Clark of Woodville were Sunday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thurmond.
Knob Creek
Mr. W.W. Kellick spent
Saturday in Ripley.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Crihfield and daughter, Alice, of the Bluff, spent Sunday in the R.C. Crihfield
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Castell
Faulkner and Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Faulkner attended the funeral of their
sister, Mrs. John Caldwell of Memphis, at Central Thursday of last week.
Mr. Bill Jones, of
Luckett, spent Friday night with his brother, Mr. Ed Jones.
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Little Emmett Jones
spent Saturday night and Sunday with his cousin, Wilmer Vowell, at Glimp.
Mr. Everette Kiestler,
of Lightfoot, spent Friday with his brothers, Messrs. Ila and Tom Kiestler.
Mr. and Mrs. H.S.
Price and baby attended the bedside of Mr. John Henry McPherson at Lightfoot
Saturday night and Sunday.
Mrs. Ed Jones, Mrs.
Cleveland Whitson, Mrs. Whitson and Mr. Pearl Griggs attended the funeral of
Mr. Blakely’s son at Luckett Sunday.
Woodville
Mrs. Sallie Chapman is
visiting her daughter, Miss Kate Chapman in Alamo.
Mrs. Olivar McConnico
and daughter, of Paris, are visiting her brother, Mr. Aubrey Hardy.
Little Kenneth Hendren,
of Perciful, spent a few days last week with his aunt, Mrs. Levy Clark.
Perciful
Little Geraldine and
Agatha Yancey are ill with measles.
Mr. John Lovell and
family, from near Friendship, were Sunday visitors in the Joe Ellis home.
Pleasant Hill
Little Bettie and J.W.
Ray, of Memphis, spent several days last week with their aunt, Mrs. F.I.
Barfield.
Mrs. W.L. Bizzell
spent from Thursday until Saturday with her sister, Mrs. N.C. Sinclair. in
Henning.
Mr. David Thum
happened to a very painful accident Saturday, his arm being dislocated when the
horse he was riding fell with him.
Mrs. Bettie Lloyd, who
has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Emory Dickerson, in Memphis the past
15 years, has come to live here with her son, Mr. Champ Lloyd. Mrs. Lloyd is 83
years old and made the trip in a car and felt fine on arriving.
Curve
Mr. Aubrey Smith
returned to Memphis Thursday for another operation, this being his third.
Miss Annie Crystal
Garrett, who lives with her grandmother in Memphis, spent Tuesday with her
father, Mr. M. Garrett.
Henning
Mrs. Geo. Miller is
confined to her bed with sciatica rheumatism.
Mr. Roy Bizzell, of
Memphis, is visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Bizzell.
Mr. P.A. Crutcher, of
Chattanooga, is a guest of his sister, Mrs. E.L. Fields.
Mrs. Guy Chapman was
called to Indiana Saturday by the death of her uncle, Mr. Ed Fuchs.
Miss Margaret Fain
returned Tuesday to her home in Memphis after a week’s visit with Miss Rena Lea
Lewis.
Pea Ridge
Aunt Sarah Crawford is
spending this week with Mrs. J.L. Sellers at Henning.
Little Winnie Sellers,
of Henning, spent last week with her aunt, Mrs.
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W.W. Hopkins.
Coal Creek
Grandma Lyell has
returned home after spending a week with her son.
Luckett
Mrs. Albert Jones
visited her father, Mr. John Vowell, at Glimp Saturday.
Mrs. J.G. Younger, of
Lightfoot, is visiting her son, Mr. Herman Younger.
Miss Lillian Crawford
of Memphis is visiting her sister, Mrs. Cleve Love lace.
Mr. and Mrs. Freddie
Blakely of Crutcher spent the weekend in the T.N. Blakely home.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Wilkerson, of Dyersburg, were called here Saturday by the death of their
brother, little James Albert Blakely.
The death angel
visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. T.N. Blakely Saturday, June 26, and took away
their little son, James Albert Blakely, after an illness of only a few days.
His remains were laid to rest in Poplar Grove cemetery Sunday morning. He
leaves a father and mother, three brothers and four sisters to mourn his death.
Conner
Mr. Win. Spiller is
quite ill with measles.
Mr. Newt Escue had his
hand hurt Saturday while cranking his car.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommie
Binkley and baby spent Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. Alice Lee, at Mary’s Chapel.
Mrs. John Click and
son, Clarence, of Mason, attended the bedside of Mr. Win. Spiller a few hours
Sunday.
Mr. & Mrs. A.G.
Bracklin of Asbury and Mrs. Rosetta Kirby attended the bedside Mr. C.C. Kirby
who is quite ill at Arp.
Lightfoot
Mr. and Mrs. T.L.
Nelson and Miss Willie Lee Burns, of Ripley spent Sunday afternoon in the home
of her mother, Mrs. J.P. Black.
Poplar Grove
Mr. Prentiss Weeks and
sisters, Vera and Bertha, spent Sunday at Whitefield.
Little J.C. Hoskins of
Asbury spent the week with his uncle, Mr. Luther Ammons.
Mr. Alfred Crutcher,
of Memphis, visited his father, Mr. W.M. Crutcher, this week.
The 8 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Blakely, of Luckett, was buried Sunday.
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Joe
DeVinney was elected cotton weigher at Ripley, Joe Lankford at Henning, and
Arch Mitchell at Halls.
C.N.
Wilkes, T.G. Avery and R.J. Moore were appointed a committee to have Gates
levee road repaired, the cost not to exceed $1500.
Ira
Dunavant, Searcy Barfield and C.H. Sullivan were appointed a committee to ask
the state highway department to locate a road from Henning to Fulton.
*** A Peep Into The Past--July 13. 1900
Miss
Ethel McCraw of Braden is visiting Miss Kate Johnston.
Mrs.
D.J. Majors left Sunday to visit her parents in Concord, Ga.
Mrs.
B.C. Walker and Miss Annie May Durham are visiting in Durhamville.
Mrs.
Zee Trimble and Mrs. T.J. Tiliman left yesterday for their home in Alabama.
Misses
Bessie and Lida Browning, of Hamburg, Ark., are visiting the family of Maj.
C.C. Partee.
Mr.
Pinkney’s residence, known as the Ben Boydstun old place, near Grace Church,
burned Saturday.
Mr.
G.J. Hutcheson, of Mack, returned Sunday from a visit with his daughter, Mrs.
John Rogers, in Waverly.
Mr.
J.B. Stewart, who has been in school at bowling Green, Ky., has returned to his
home in Lightfoot, and Mr. J.D. LcLeod, who was also there, will return this
week. End of Peep Into Past ***
Sheriff
and Mrs. A.H. Craig announce the marriage of their daughter, Christeen
Elizabeth, to Mr. N.A. Kirk, of Grenada, Miss., which occurred on Saturday
evening, July 3, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. L.0. Leavell, Dr.
Leavell officiating. The bride wore a
becoming model of white chiffon voile.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirk have gone to Grenada where they will reside.
Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Maclin complimented their house guests, Misses Dorothy Pearce
and Malinda Black, of Toone; Evelyn Wooten of Covington, and Mr. Eugene Savage,
of Bolivar, with a most enjoyable day at Open Lake on Monday. The amusements of
the day were boating, swimming, and fishing. A bountiful picnic lunch was
served at noon. The party also ate supper at the lake before returning to town
in the cool of the evening.
John
Wesley Gaines, for six consecutive terms representative of the Sixth Tennessee district
in Congress and one of the leading barristers of the south, died at his home on
Love Circle, Nashville at 5 o’clock Sunday morning. An illness of little more
than a week, caused by lesion of the heart, brought about his death, though he
had complained of what was thought to be acute indigestion for possibly three
weeks.
Mrs.
W.B. Midyett spent Monday in Memphis.
Judge
John P. Gause, of Mercedes, Texas, spent Tuesday in Ripley.
Mrs.
J.S. Hamilton, of Memphis, is visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.E.
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Rose.
Mrs.
Tab Barfield, of Cherry. spent Monday with her sister, Mrs. Will Foust.
Mr.
and Mrs. J.L. Alley, of Forest City, Ark., were weekend guests of Mrs. M.L.
Brodie.
Mrs.
L.O. Leavell and children will leave this weekend on a visit to her parents in
Frostburg, Md.
Mrs.
Martin of Memphis is visiting her sisters, Mrs. J.M. Taylor Jr., and Mrs. W.T.
Craig.
Mr.
Graves Brown has moved his family from Memphis to the N.A. Yancey farm at
Halespoint.
Miss
Edith Cox and Elizabeth Black of Memphis were Sunday guests of Miss Alva Moran.
Mrs.
Sallie Cobb of Memphis was a guest of her sister, Mrs. W.H. Foust, Sunday and
Monday.
Mr.
and Mrs. W.F. Fergason left Saturday night for Detroit, Mich. To visit their
daughter, Mrs. C.B. Russell.
Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Fite, of Memphis, spent Sunday
and Monday with Mr. And Mrs. R. Lee Webb.
Mr.
and Mrs. E.H. Lang and son Edward of Toreon, Mexico, will arrive Friday on a
visit to home folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ford and children of Memphis
spent Sunday and Monday with parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Green.
Mrs.
E.G. Parham has as her guests this week her sister, Miss Ada Cassell and
cousin, Miss Lillian Mabry, of Tupelo, Miss.
Mr.
Ernest Craig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Craig, underwent an operation for
appendicitis at the Ripley hospital Wednesday night.
Mrs. Hattie Durham and granddaughter, Miss Harriet Sutton, left
Wednesday night for Fulton, Ky. to visit her sister, Mrs. B.C. Walker.
Mrs. Nan Bibb fell Sunday in her dining room and broke her left hip. Her
condition is considered critical, owing to her advanced age, 85 years.
Mr. Z.L. Turner, cashier at the depot, and Miss Fannie Muse were married
Sunday at Helena, Ark. They arrived here Monday and have rooms with Mr.
and Mrs. W.H. White.
The family of Dr. J.W. Sanford is very grateful for the sympathy and
assistance tendered them in their bereavement.
Mr. Edmond Gracy, of Memphis, spent Sunday and Monday here and was
accompanied home by his mother, Mrs. J.W. Gracy, who is spending this week with
him.
Misses Agnes and Catherine Foust, Margery Barbee, Annie Harbert Durham
and Edwina Scott visited Mrs. Bertha Hutcherson in Brownsville a few days this
week.
Miss Mary Sue Morris, Mr. and
Mrs. Rip Blakely and children, Mr. and Mrs. Flint Leverett, of Memphis, spent
Sunday and Monday with parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Morris.
Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Beasley and daughter Pauline, son Lester, and little
granddaughter Leloss Beasley, all of Glimp, spent Friday in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Clay Williams near Ripley.
Mrs. D.J. Lloyd and daughters, Claudia May and Nellie, Mrs. Edgar
Quisenberry and Miss Sadie Tennent, of Atoka, and Mrs. T.A. Byler of Ripley,
were guests of Mrs. John A. Duncan at Nankipoo Thursday of last week.
Mr. J.W. Hedgepeth left Saturday afternoon for Junaluska, N.C., as a
delegate from the Memphis Conference Sunday School Board. The other delegates
are J.D. Sexton, Murry, Ky.; R.N. Phipps, Jackson, Tenn.; A.R. Steele,
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Mayfield, Ky.
Mrs. Bessie Pittman, age 34, wife of Mr.
Paul Pittman, died Monday night in Oakville Sanitarium, Memphis. Burgess &
Peters, undertakers in Ripley, went after the remains and brought them that
night and prepared them for burial. Interment was in Mt. Pleasant cemetery
Wednesday morning. Mrs. Pittman resided near Luckett prior to going to the
sanitarium about three years ago.
Invitations
were received last week by relatives in Ripley to the marriage of Miss Mildred
Strayhorn to Mr. George Otis Sowell, at the home of the bride in Koscuisko,
Miss., on July 8th at 1 p.m. Miss Strayhorn is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allie C. Strayhorn
who formerly resided in this county, her mother being Miss Lizzie Johnston. Mr.
and Mrs. Sowell will reside in Dubuque, Iowa.
Arp
Mrs.
J.P. Jenkins and children, of South Corbin, Ky. have been visiting here the
past week.
Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Pitts, of Memphis, visited in the Ab Pitts home the first of
the week.
Mrs.
Ed Bell and children of Bassett, Ark. are visiting in the W.B. Wadsworth home.
Mr. Bell spent last week here.
Mr. and Mrs. H.D. Scott, of Fowlkes, and Mr. and Mrs. John Hale of
Memphis were called here Tuesday by the death of their father, Mr. Joe S. Hale.
On Tuesday morning, Mr. Joe S. Hale Sr. was called to his reward. He had
been a patient sufferer for many months. Mr. Hale was a good man and greatly
missed in this community. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at
Mt. Pleasant Church by Rev. J.M. Kendall, Interment was in Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery.
Miss Blannie Sue Bizzell is visiting her aunt, Mrs. J.D. Jennings, in
Rip1ey.
Mr. Ray Gaines, of Paragould, Ark., was a Sunday guest of Mrs. E.W.
North.
Mrs. W.G. Thum and Miss Laura Parker of Covington were Saturday guests
of Mrs. E.W. North.
Miss Hattie Cox returned to her home in Memphis after spending a month
here with friends and relatives.
Miss Anna White has returned home after spending a week with her cousin,
Mrs. N.C. Sinclair, in Henning.
Mrs. Lucy Smith, of Bolivar, is visiting her brothers, Messrs. Ben and
Joe Glenn.
Little Janette Burks of Ashport spent the weekend with her aunt, Mrs.
Hattie Wood.
Messrs. Tom and Jesse Mitchell and their families motored to Osceola,
Ark. Sunday and were accompanied by their father, Mr. Jake Mitchell, who
remained for a visit to his children.
Miss Frances Wiley, of Halls, spent the weekend with her sister,
Mrs. A.L. Mayes.
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Mrs.
C.S. Yort, who has been confined to her bed with rheumatism, is able to be up.
Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Ball, of Blytheville, Ark., spent Sunday with his
brother, Mr. A.A. Ball.
Mrs. J.G. Thompson spent Sunday and Monday in Memphis, a guest of her
niece, Mrs. D.M. Garrett.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hughes, of Nankipoo, spent Tuesday afternoon with
her sister, Mrs. Will Garrett.
Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Thompson, Mrs. Z.P. Thompson and children, Louis and
Virginia, spent several days the first of the week in Memphis.
Mrs. Mollie Williams of Ripley spent Sunday in the S.A. Parchman home.
Mr. Odie Stone of Mary’s Chapel spent Sunday in the H.H. Bray home.
Master Thomas Miller, of Hurricane Hill, spent Saturday and Sunday with
Master Ben Grimes.
Miss Eleanor Maddox of Brownsville was a weekend guest of her aunt, Mrs.
F.C. Rice.
Mrs. A.N. Cockrill, of Crawfordsville, Ark., is spending the week with
her father, Mr. C.H. Rice.
Mrs. Vaden, of Forked Deer, spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. Robert
C lark.
The children of Mr. John Daniels Sr. had their annual reunion at his
home Sunday, the 4th.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Daniels, of Henderson, spent Sunday and Monday in
the home of his father, Mr. John Daniels Sr.
Mr. A. Wiley lost his house and contents Monday afternoon by fire while
he and his wife were visiting in Blytheville, Ark.
Mrs. G.E. Smith and son James went to Dyersburg Friday to attend the
bedside of her daughter, Mrs. Leon Perciful, who was ill.
Mr.
Ross Dennison spent Sunday night at Dyersburg, guest of Mr. Will Brown.
Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery and Mr. Marley Harrison, of Dyersburg, visited
their sister, Mrs. T.W. Latham Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Andrews and children of Central spent a few hours
Saturday night in the R.C. Crihfield home.
Little Lackey B. and Stella Young have returned home after spending a
week with grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Crihfield.
Miss Mattie Guthrie left Sunday for Blytheville, Ark. to spend the
summer.
Mr. Carter Sutton has been at Halespoint the past ten days with his son,
Mr. Bob Sutton.
Mr. J.G. Caldwell went to Plumpoint Tuesday to spend a few days with his
son, Mr. Dee Caldwell.
Miss Eddie Sue Mullikin of Memphis spent Sunday night and Monday with
her father, Mr. Wilson Mullikin.
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Mr. George W. Hutcherson of Ripley is spending a few days with his
daughter, Mrs. J.H. Lovell.
Mr. and Mrs. J.T. King, of Dyersburg, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs.
Rosetta Kirby.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe White and baby spent Sunday with parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J.E. White, at Perciful.
Mrs. R.H. Stebbins, of Newbern, spent the week with her daughter, Mrs.
W.G. Glenn.
Mr. Parrish Blankenship attended the picnic at Brighton Saturday and
went from there to Atoka to spend Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night with
his aunt, Mrs. G.W. Massey.
Mrs.
M.F. Downing, of Martin, spent last week with parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Lloyd.
Mr.
A.W. Tuholski, of Peterson, N.J., joined his wife and baby here Saturday night.
They will spend the remainder of the summer in the J.B. Alston home.
Mrs.
T.A. Biggs, of Memphis, who spent the past week with parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.H.
Poston, left Tuesday morning for Miami, Fla. to visit her brother, Mr. Clarence
Poston.
Mrs.
James Klutts is quite sick with malaria fever.
Mrs.
D.A. Kimble and children of Ripley visited her sister, Mrs. Lillie Hill,
Sunday.
Mr.
Lonnie Heathcott and family spent several days in Strogdom bottom with
relatives and attended a family reunion at the home of Mr. Buck Hendren.
Mr.
and Mrs. T.C. Stone and children and Mrs. Odie Stone and little son spent the
weekend in Chester county and were accompanied home by Mrs. Mollie Hodges.
Little
W.T. Maness came very nearly being killed late Saturday afternoon when he was
knocked down and the front wheel of a car passed over his head, bruising one
side of his face and one ear, but otherwise he was unhurt.
Mrs.
Lena Price is attending the bedside of her husband at Henning hospital.
Mrs.
Dalton Maxwell of Memphis is visiting the home of her brother, Mr. T.B. Mason.
Mr.
Stanton Price was carried to the Henning hospital Wednesday for treatment of
his limbs.
Miss
Lillian Osteen spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Ben Osteen, at Curve.
Miss
Lucile Woodard returned to her home at Lightfoot Monday after three weeks visit
with her sister, Mrs. Zula Lawson.
Mr.
Jim McMurry entertained the following people with a picnic at his store in
Ashport Saturday afternoon; Mrs. Ruth Mason, Mrs. Lottie Maxwell,
Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Griggs, Mr. and Mrs. Doss Cannon, Mrs. Florence Williams, Mrs.
Pal Shoaf, and Mr. Tucker Hipp.
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Mrs.
Fannie Allen, of Parchman, Miss., is visiting her brother, Mr. J.F. Baucom, and
friends here.
Mr.
Claud Crump and brother, Wilmer, of Memphis are guests of their cousin, Mrs.
S.B. Hill.
Miss
Cornelia Jones of Memphis spent Sunday and Monday with her mother, Mrs. Mary E.
Ferguson.
Mr.
Earl Whitaker, of Memphis, spent from Sunday until Wednesday with his father.
Mr. C.S. Whitaker.
A
10-pound daughter was born July 5th to Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Pennington in the
Methodist hospital in Memphis.
Mrs.
R.D. Chisholm has returned to her home in Dermott, Ark. after a visit to her
mother, Mrs. Alice Chisholm.
Deputies
J.H. Lee and M.L. Wood, of Gates, captured a still and 150 gallons of mash on
the Davis farm near Curve recently. Three men were arrested, Lee Ellis, Cecil
Maxwell and brother. Ellis was bound over to court
and the Maxwells turned loose for lack of
evidence.
At
the home of Mrs. Fredonia Bass at Nankipoo, on the evening of June 29th, Rev,
and Mrs. A.L. Mayes were entertained. A large number of guests were present.
Contests were held, games were played and a mock trial was enacted. Delicious
refreshments were served preceding the presentation of the gifts which was made
in a most artistic manner, the gifts being drawn with the “Old Oaken Bucket”
from an old fashioned well.
Mr.
Clyde Ingram of Memphis visited his mother, Mrs. Ora Clark, Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.
Frank Shoemake of Milwaukee, Wisc. is visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.M.
Shoemake.
Mr.
Paul Keltner of Hammond, La. spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. M.M.
Keltner.
Mr.
Russell Keltner happened to a very serious accident Saturday when he got both
bones in his right arm broken cranking a car.
Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Keltner and daughters, Peggie and Edna, of Memphis, spent Monday with his mother, Mrs. Mollie
Keltner.
Mrs.
Josie Dunavant of Ripley is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Jim Adams.
Miss
Mabel Osborn of Humphrey, Ark. is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Jim Adams.
Mr.
and Mrs. A.G. Steelman spent Friday in Ripley, guests of their daughter, Mrs.
Henry Hyde, Jr.
Mr.
Jim Hutcherson has accepted a position in Memphis and left Sunday morning.
Mr.
Charlie lull, of Hayti, Mo., is attending the bedside of his sister, Mrs.
Kennedy, who is not quite so well at present.
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ENTERPRISE Friday July 16, 1926
Babe Left In Auto
Last Sunday evening,
while Capt. and Mrs. G.J. Hutcheson were worshipping at the Presbyterian
church, where union services were being held and the message being delivered by
Dr. F.H. Peeples of the Methodist church, a girl baby was left in their car,
which was parked in front of the church. After the service Capt. and Mrs.
Hutcheson drove to their home on Ashport street, placed their car in the garage
and retired for the night. The rear seat of the car not being occupied, the
tiny bundle of human flesh deposited thereon, was not discovered until the next
morning when faint cries of an infant were heard emanating from the garage. To
the great surprise of the family, it was found, upon investigation, that a
beautiful girl baby, two months old, neatly dressed, and wrapped in two
blankets, had been placed in their car at the church and had spent the night in
their garage. The precaution of it being warmly clad served to protect the
little one, so that she was none the worse from a physical viewpoint.
As soon as the news
spread the following morning of “a new arrival” at the home of Capt. G.J.
Hutcheson, the event was the talk of the entire town, and the ladies
especially, in large numbers, hastened to the home to see the
newly acquired possession and with true womanly instinct “everyone
of them wanted the baby.” Capt. Hutcheson, who has passed his four score years,
says he hardly feels equal to the task of rearing one so young; however, he is
not content to relinquish his rights therein unless guaranteed that it be
placed into hands that will “bring it up in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord,” and care for it as devotedly as though it were “flesh of their flesh and
bone of their bone.”
The baby was kept at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J.R. Lewis until
Wednesday afternoon, where hundreds called to see her. At the request of the
juvenile court of Lauderdale County, a matron of the Tennessee Children’s Home
Society, 117 Monroe Street, Memphis, came to Ripley and carried the little one
to that institution Wednesday afternoon.
Criminal Assault
Guy Cole alias Coleman
alias Balden, a negro about 38 years of age, was captured near Glimp at the
home of his wife Monday afternoon about 5 o’clock by Sheriff Craig and his
deputies. He was brought to Ripley that night and placed in jail but was later
removed to an adjoining county for safe keeping, as the charge for which he was
arrested was rape, said to have been committed last Sunday about 6 o’clock upon
the 19 year old daughter of Mr. George Moore who resides on Keller mounds in
the 5th district. The facts were reported to us were that the young lady,
accompanied by a younger brother and sister, were enroute to the bluff in a
buggy, when the negro encountered them on the roadside and dragged his victim
from the vehicle. The boy ran for help and Mr. Howard Tichenor came to the
rescue, but was helpless to render service, as the negro kept him at bay at the
point of a pistol until he had accomplished his diabolical crime, and then made
his escape until captured as above stated.
Additional Locals
Dr. J.R. Lewis reports
the following births during the past week: daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Lofton
Maxwell; and a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Paul Haynes, both families residing in
the Flippen community; a daughter to Mr.
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and Mrs. Rozelle Turner at
Curve; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lawson at Ashport.
Mr. Richard Fortner left
Sunday driving through Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New
York in the interest of the Kool Kar Shade Company located at Jonesboro, Ark.,
of which he is president. His mother, Mrs. R.L. Fortner, accompanied him as far
as Warren, Ohio, where she will be joined by her daughter, Mrs. C.E. Snyder,
continuing their trip to Niagara
Falls, thence to Philadelphia to attend the Sesqui-Centennial.
The store of Mr. S.B.
Hill at Gates was robbed Wednesday night of merchandise to the value of $50 or
more, consisting mostly of shirts, socks and wearing apparel in general.
Entrance was effected by breaking the top of the plate glass in the front door,
and the thieves departed through the rear door. A restaurant and grocery, owned
by Jim Fountain, color, was also entered and relieved of practically his entire
stock of groceries, cigars,
candies, etc. No arrests have been made.
Mr. W.H. Rose, brother
of our fellow townsman, Mr. J.E. Rose, died at his home in Memphis Sunday
morning after a brief illness of appendicitis and other complications. He was
51 years of age and leaves a wife and three children. The funeral was held at
the home on Monday afternoon at 6 o’clock and the following from Ripley who
attended: Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Rose; Mr. Walter Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Rose.
Deceased was at one time a resident of Ripley and was associated with his
brother in the plumbing business.
Mrs. Nancy Walker Bibb
One of Ripley’s oldest
and most beloved citizens passed to her reward Monday night, in the person of
Mrs. Nancy Walker Bibb. Though having passed her four score years, her death
was not the result of the infirmities of age, but was due to a recent fall
which she sustained at her home, breaking her left limb at the hip.
Mrs. Bibb was born in
Middle Tennessee on January 16, 1842 but came to Lauderdale County at an early
age, residing at Arp before moving to Ripley.
She was the wife of Mr. S.H. Bibb, who preceded her in death about ten
years and who was known to a host of people as “God Bless You” Bibb, this being
his most familiar expression upon all occasions. Only one step-son, Mr. S.R.
Bibb, of Monette, Ark., survives. The funeral was held at the home Tuesday
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, conducted by Rev. J.M. Kendall, pastor of the Ripley
Methodist Church, of which denomination the deceased was a member. The burial
was in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery at Arp.
Local and Personal
Mrs. Mary Morgan, age
79 years, died Monday at her home near Arp.
Miss lone Dunavant, of
Hammond, La., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. F.A. Henry.
Mrs. Tom Jones, of
Dyersburg, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Rodgers.
Mr. Elliot White of
St. Louis is home on a visit to parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben White.
Miss Bertha Summers,
of Belzoni, Miss., spent the weekend with her sister, Mrs. H.B. Read.
A son was born Tuesday
to Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Savage at the Women’s Hospital in Memphis.
Mrs. S.B. Kerr and
daughter,, Miss Harriet, of Metropolis, Ill., spent the weekend with their
cousin, Mrs. Hackett.
Miss Audry Ferguson
was called home Sunday from Sheffield, Ala. on
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account of the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Robert Kirkess.
A son was born Sunday
to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kirkess but lived only a few hours. Mrs. Kirkess, who
has been critically ill, is improving.
Mr. Eugene Thornley,
of Bellville, Ill., has been spending the past week with his mother, Mrs. Dora
Thornley and other relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewell
Geen and son, and Mr. Horace Carter, of Beaumont, Texas, are visiting Mr.
Geen’s aunt, Mrs. J.C. Doyle, and other relatives here.
Ray, nine-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Forsythe, was carried to Memphis Friday where he
underwent an operation on his hip at Dr. Campbell’s Clinic. His condition,
which has been critical, is reported slightly improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Asa
Talley and little son, of Johnson City, arrived Sunday on a visit to his
father, Mr. H.A. Talley, near Woodville, and other relatives in the county. Mr.
Talley is a linotype operator on one of the leading papers in his hometown.
Dr. J.A. Porter sustained a fractured rib and was otherwise
painfully injured in an automobile accident near Millington Monday as he was
enroute to Ripley. Accompanied by another gentleman, who was driving, he
encountered a head-on collision as both cars were running at the rate of 30 to
40 miles an hour in an effort to speed through a cloud of dust as quickly as
possible, the occupants of neither car being aware of the approach of the
other. The only wonder is that a more serious accident did not result. The cars
were put out of commission, but their occupants escaped unhurt except Dr.
Porter. Mrs. Porter came Tuesday and carried him to Memphis for medical
treatment.
Henning
Mrs. M.C. Griffith and
son, Marvin Jr., of Memphis, spent the weekend with parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.B.
Coker.
Mrs. Laura Lankford
has returned to her home, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Albert Crook, who is
recovering nicely from her recent operation.
Mr. Ryan Miller
happened to a very painful accident last week. While
attempting to crank a truck, in some way it slipped, breaking both
bones in
his right wrist.
Mascedonia
Mr. Bud Escue of
Brownsville is visiting his nephew, Mr. Roy Escue. He will also visit relatives
at Gates, Forked Deer, Halls and other places before returning home.
Gates
Mrs. A.B. Green and
baby, Anne, of Ripley, spent Thursday with parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Lee.
Or. Sara C.
Blankenship, of Hopkinsville, Ky., is visiting in the home of her brother, Dr.
J.R. Conyers.
Miss Beadie
Pennington, of Knoxville, is spending her vacation with her father, Mr. J.R.
Pennington.
Mrs. Harry Mohan and
children of Ripley; Mrs. Fletcher Boyd and daughter, of Memphis, and Mr. and
Mrs. Willard York, of Friendship, spent Sunday with their father, Mr. J.R.
Pennington, near Ripley.
Mrs. Ed H. Hay and
children, of Texas, are visiting her father, Mr. W.M. Morris.
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Mrs. Ernest Thornley
and children, of Memphis, are visiting her mother, Mrs. Ollie Thompson.
Curve
Allen, little son of
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Ball, has been quite sick for several days.
Mr. M.B. Porch and wife,
of Union City, are visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Porch.
Mrs. Marvin Garrett and children spent the weekend with parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Lackey, in Covington.
Mrs. Annie Haynes returned to her home in Memphis Saturday after
spending several weeks with her daughter, Mrs. S.V. Carmack.
Four Officers Wounded
Brownsville, Tenn., July 10. -- Firing which began when two
parties of officers mistook each other for a moonshiners band in woods about 10
miles east of Brownsville last night resulted in the wounding of four men, two
seriously. Lee Styers, deputy sheriff, was shot through the abdomen and is not
expected to live. Ike Curlin, deputy sheriff, was shot in the hip and ankle and
his condition is critical. E.C. King,
sheriff of Haywood County, was wounded in both legs, and Billy Whitten,
deputy sheriff, received a scalp wound.
One party was led by Sheriff King and included Styers, Whitten and
two other men. The other band was in charge of Deputy Sheriff Curlin, who had
with him Deputy Sheriff Clark and another man. Neither was aware that a raid
had been planned on a still supposed to be in a copse of dense woods and
trouble was expected if the moonshiners were encountered.
The party led by Curlin is said to have fired first. Sheriff King
and his man stood his ground and approximately 50 or 60 shots were fired from
pistols before each party withdrew with their wounded.
The sheriff and those with him carried Styers, who was hardly able
to proceed, to his home, about a mile distant, and while there Deputy Sheriff
Clark arrived to tell the news of a terrific fight in which he and his
companions had met a band of moonshiners. It was seen that a mistake had been
made, but it was a little late for explanations.
Sheriff King placed
the wounded men in automobiles after they had been given attention by Dr.
Keaton and carried them to the Crook Sanatorium at Jackson.
Mr. Styers is a
native of Lauderdale County and was born and reared in Ripley, being a son of
Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Styers. He moved to Haywood County about ten years ago, and
lived in the Wellwood community. About six months ago he was commissioned a
deputy sheriff under Sheriff King of Haywood County, who considered him one of
his most trusted officials. The community where he resided had no better
citizen and Christian gentleman than he. His parents, wife and four children
have the sympathy of a host of friends in the unfortunate incident which caused
the premature death of this good man in the 40th year of his age.
Mr. Styers d