Local society notes and visits across towns
Miss Bessie Billingslea returns home from Clinton. Ashby Cowan of Vicksburg visits Francis Weille. Bill East stays with J R East family. Mrs Dr Watson hosts sister Mrs Vic Russell. Miss Hattie King of Jackson visits H L Wilson home. Mrs R P Henry of Natchez with Major Henry. J A Lindsey attends Sunday School Convention in Junaluska NC. Mrs M M Barnes of Florence visits son W H Barnes. Miss Martha Dodson of Shaw visits Nona Martin. Emma Buchanan returns from Clinton normal. J C White and family head to Amite LA to visit relatives R L McLaurin and Miss Jean Watts of Vicksburg visit Laura McLaurin. Board of supervisors in session reviewing assessor rolls. Dr D H Loflin of Texas attends funeral of son Harry, remains arrived from France. Misses Susie May Barnes and Louise May return from Greenwood. J M Evans of Pelahatchie visits Brandon. Mr and Mrs J H Crain depart for Wilson AR after visit. Misses Susie Blue and Anna Buchanan to Hattiesburg for two weeks. Mrs A M Hobson and child mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Billingslea
Clinton
Ashby Cowan
Vicksburghs
Francis Weille
Bill East
J. R. East
Dr. Watson
Vic Russell
Hattie King of
Jackson
H. L. Wilson
R. P. Henry
Natchez
Major Henry
J. A. Lindsey
Junalush
France
Susie May Barnes
Louise May
Greenwood
J. M. Evans
Hattiesburg
A. M. Hobson
Little Daugh
Local Social Roundup With Tours Hospital News
LT teen Bush heads to Charleston West Virginia with Mrs Sam Hobson soon. Miss Mabel Gaydens leaves tomorrow for a western tour covering Col orado California and the Pacific coast. Mrs C E Gayden and son Howward return from A very where they visited Mrs Gaydens parents accompanied by Miss Mary Russell and Eleanor McMain. Mrs Jos Wynn returns after three weeks with daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs W S Turner Leakesville Miss Irene Evelyn Turner born June 21 1921. T H Collier hosts a rosebud house party with Celia Redfield Olive Williams and Edwards men Howard and Earl Ratliff. Rankin County friends learn Philip Didlake is recovering from gall stone operation at Baptist Hospital Jackson now in his 70s and able to sit up. Mrs T J Garner bearer of Clara Mulhollan Townsend is critically ill at Baptist Hospital Jackson cancer of the liver. Dr C A Thomas returns home from Boston after National Medical Association meeting and visit to Rankin county. he serves Southern Pacific surgeon and has large practice. Miss Vesta May visits from Raymond for week end with family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos. Wynn
W. S. Turner
Leakesville
T. J. Garner
Clara Mulhollan
John Townsend
Baptist Hospital
Jackson
C. A. Thomas
Tucson
Ariz
Rankin County
Thomas
Southern Pacific Railroad
Vesta May
Raymond
Remains of Corporal Harry Loflin Rejoin Family in Dry Creek
The World War veteran Corporal Harry Loflin, son of Dr. and Mrs. D. H. Loflin of Texas, arrived from France in New York on June 15 and was sent to Brandon for interment at his Dry Creek home. He volunteered early, served on the front lines, fell in battle, and lay in the poppy fields of France before final burial was arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Loflin
Brandon
Dry Creek
Loflin
D. H. Loflin
Texas
France
Corporal Harry Loflin
New York
Remembered Soldier Corporal Loflin of Leonard
The record recalls Corporal Loflin who enlisted in September 1917, trained at San Antonio, married Cecil Pendergrass, and was killed in action on September 12, 1918, in France at age 26, remembered as a highly honored local young man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard
San Antonio
St. Michiel
France
Camp Travis
Cecil Pendergrass
H. §.Pendergrass
Fannin County
Loflin
Fortign Battlefields
County Agent Notes on Truck Growers Meetings
County Agent V Burks announces meetings for truck growers in Florence on Saturday July 16 at 2 30 PM to strengthen the Trucking Association and plan for the coming year. A Brandon meeting follows Monday July 18 at 11 00 AM under Farm Bureau with A and W Railroad and Extension staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Brandon
Farm Bureau
A. & W. Railroad
Extension Department
V. Burks
Pressing and Cleaning and Help Wanted Notice
R. C. Taylor's steam cleaning and pressing business is taken in charge with personal attention promised. Opens Monday morning July 11. Clothes sent for and delivered. Male help wanted for a large direct to farmers sales operation. Write J. R. Watkins Co. Dept 114 Winona Minnesota. Boys Scouts camping trip next Monday with safety-focused schedule and fundraising appeal for better men. Scoutmaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Taylor
J. R. Watkins Co
Winona
Minn
Trustee Sale of Rankin County Land in 1921
Trustee of J I Holmes and Laura B Holmes will sell by public auction at the Rankin County Courthouse Brando n on Monday August 6 1921 between 11 a.m. and noon. The sale follows a November 27 1912 deed of trust securing an indebtedness, recorded in Book 3 page 367.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. I. Holmes
Laura B. Holmes
Rankin County
State of Mississippi
Miss
Chancery Court
Mississippi
Tme
Court House
Brandon
Quiet Fourth in Pelahatchie and town notes
Pelahatchie records a quiet Fourth with stores closed and locals attending picnics and games in other towns. Reports include Miss Hattie Cox leaving Gammill Lumber Co for Jackson, Miss Esther Massengale and Miss Kelly visiting, and several locals hosting and visiting family, plus a solemn note on Grover Tanner’s burial and two returning war dead. Plans mention a Rankin County bridge project and local school meetings as summer notices.
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Albert Shields
A. M. Shields
Ohlever
Brandon Miss
Harry Watson
Pythian Castle
C R. v. Seatter
Jackson, Miss
W. W. Holmes
East Capitol Street
J.D. Graves
D’lo
Buckley
Ucky inRe
Board of
Bapecyisors Tin Seu Cpeae
Pelahatchie
L. E
Will Mashburn
Sam Rhodes Jr
J. H. Noblin
Bennett Bell
Cade Jones
R. E. Murray
E. W. Cawthorn
Johnston Winstead
Scott County
Hattie Cox
Gammill Lumber Co
New Mill Company
Miss Cox
L. E. Mashburn
Esther Massengale
Miss Kelly
Massengale
Kelly
Maude
Bessie Mashburn
Mashburn
Robi. Marshall
Shumaker
Barrett
Kentwood
Ray Phillips
Denson
Myrtle
North Rankin
Long
Jack
Carthage
Mr. Long
Norah Williams
John Church
Steven Gilbert
R. T. Gilbert
Alice Martin
Sue Martin
Goree
Nonie
Meridian
Pearlman Goree
Rosa Bynum
Martha Munsterman
John Munsterman
Margaret Lucile Brown
Gill Place
Concord Road
Chancery
Sears A
Donnell
Ocaeee
Board of ‘Supervisors
D. Donnell
Inca Will Seoet
W.G. Barnes
Brandon, Miss
First National Bank
J. B. Stirling
R. F. Young
O. J. Waite
F. J. Julienne
Jackson, i
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Canadian Rockies
Illinois Central Railroad
W. H. Brill
New Orleans
Irene Hubbard
B. S
Home Economica
Miss Hubbard
Mississippi State College For Women
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Salem Consolidated School
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