15 Year Old Girl Leads State in Poultry Raiser
Elizabeth Walker, 15, Lafayette County, won first in poultry division home demonstration work for 1921 and earns a Chicago trip from the National Dairymen's Association. Her poultry income and dairy sales total $1,068.28 for 1921, with net profits of $565.87 from poultry and $502.41 from dairy. She is widely recognized as "The Thousand Dollar Club Girl" and serves as president of Taylor’s Girls Home Demonstration Club.
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Lafayette County
Lula Tumison
Mary E. Doney
Tion
Elizabeth Walker
Poultry Division
Chicago
National Dairymen’s Association
Tumison
Thousand Dollar Club
J. W. Walker
Oxford
Taylor Consolidated School
Taylor
Girls’ Home Demonstration Club
Illini Central prize winner and poultry club star emerge
Miss Walker wins the Illinois Central Jersey heifer Gamboges Oxford Fauvette and cash prizes at Jackson and Meridian. Her Lafayette County start in 1919 led to top state girls club status through perseverance and education. Lester, intercollegiate orator, Taylor Latin and Bryan essay medal holder, plans Oxford PhD in English after college at year’s end.
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Walker
Illinois Central
Oxford Fauvette
Jackson
Meridian
Lafayette County
Bank of Oxford
Taylor
Bryan
Sigma Epsilon Library Fraternity
Lester
University of Oxford
Citizens praise state and county governance in Abbeville letter
Abbeville Mississippi December 5 1921 reader F M Pettis commends Governor Russell and Lafay ette County officials for solid services. He highlights a well kept courthouse good roads strong banks high school quality and guaranteed deposits as evidence of local satisfaction and harmony.
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Abbeville
Miss
Eagle
Russell
Oxford
Lafayette County
Board of Supervisors
F. M. Pettis
Batesville Student Wins Mississippi Rhodes Scholarship
Mr. Diane Lester of Batesville Mississippi has been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for Mississippi after prevailing in a field of fifteen. He earned a B A from the University of Mississippi this year and now teaches Latin there. As an undergraduate he led on sports and campus life, captaining the baseball team in his senior year and serving as editor of The Mississippi.
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Diane Lester
Batesville
Miss
Mississippi
Young Lester
Lester
University of Mississippi
the Mississippian
Ole
Results Tell There Can Be No Doubt About the Results in Oxford
An Oxford citizen testifies to Dean's Kidney Pills curing nocturnal urination backache and kidney pain after riding rough roads. G T Irby of Ford Auto Agency endorses the remedy as highly effective, noting relief after starting the pills from Rowland Drug Co. Two
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Oxford
G. T. Irby
Ford Auto Agency
S. Depot St
Dean
Rowland Drug Co
Cured Me Completely By Dean's Pills Adclaims
An advertisement fragment promotes Dean's pills claiming complete cure with no return symptoms. Sells at 60 cents at all dealers and lists Foster Milburn Co. as the manufacturer based in Buffalo New York.
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Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Mfrs
Buffaloe
N. Y
White-Walker nuptials tied at Memphis residence
Mr Ben White of Memphis and Miss Wilma Walker of Abbeville wed at the home of Rev Lee Lipscomb on Saturday afternoon. They departed for their new home near Memphis where Mr White is employed in dairy work.
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Ben White
Memphis
Wilma Walker
Abbeville
Lee Lipscomb
White
Hair-Graves Tie The Knot In Tupelo Ceremony
Mr John Hair and Miss Adedle Graves united in marriage Sunday at 5 pm at the county courthouse Tupelo. They left for Oxford to begin residence. Hair is a young local businessman and Graves was a bookkeeper at Lawhorns meat market. They will live with Mr and Mrs Doyle Mize on East Second North Street.
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John Hair
Adedle Graves
County Court
Tupelo
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New
Royal Cook Book
New Royal Cook Book
ROYAL
Crullers
Aera
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Federal Reserve System
First National Bank
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