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January 27, 2010

Anonymous The Star Herald Wed Jan 27, 2010, 08:20 AM CST

Jan. 28, 1960

A runoff will be necessary to determine who will serve as constable of Beat Five in Attala County based on official returns of the election held Jan. 26. Jesse J. Ferguson, who served two terms as constable 1944-52, now a forestry patrolman for Mississippi Products Company, with 124 votes, and Leonard Blanton, farmer and road foreman in highway work with 106 votes will be runoff on Tuesday, Feb. 9. Also a candidate was Quitman Gregory, farmer, who received 38 votes.

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The village of Thomastown, 15 miles south of Kosciusko, has a new doctor who will open an office there on Feb. 1 for the general practice of medicine. Dr. Dewight S. Keady, 30, has already arrived and is making preparations for opening his office.

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F.A. Neal has been selected as the recipient of the first annual award as Layman of the Year from the First Methodist Church of Kosciusko. The Lyman of the Year award is sponsored by the Starkville District Board of lay activities and selections for the award are made in local churches through the Methodist Men’s Club of each church. He was presented a Golden Rule by Hilliard E. Jordan, president of the Methodist Men’s Club.

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The first cooperative merchandising event of 1960 planned by he Merchants Committee of the Chamber of Commerce will be a Community Bargain Days event set for next weekend Feb. 5-6. John B. Crosby, manager of City Walgreen Drug Store, is chairman of the committee this year.

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Presenting a check to Sheriff W.T. Wasson for $32,620.36 as Mississippi Power & Light Company’s Attala County advaloem taxes for 1959 was C.E. Bolt, MP&L; acting manager.

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Fishing is the best in years at Youth Center Lake say Mrs. Catholeen Woods and Julian Melton, former JP of Beat one. She caught two bass weighing six and one-half pounds, and four and one-half pounds. Melton caught a whopper weighing seven pounds, a smaller one weighing two pounds. Others catching bass weighing four pounds or better were Ms. Beatrice Lacey, Mrs. J.C. Lucas, Mrs. Ivy Gibson and Mrs. Clara Roby.

Jan. 24, 1985

A cold front that brought light snow and record cold temperatures to central Mississippi during the weekend closed schools, snapped power lines, made water a luxury in some homes, and turned heaters man’s best friend. The low reading Saturday night, as measured by Kosciusko weather observer Ed Reese was 11 degrees. Readings for Sunday climbed to only 15 before dipping to minus one Sunday night.

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The list of candidates running in Kosciusko’s municipal elections this spring grew by one in the past week as an incumbent announced for re-election. Latest to toss his hat in the ring is H.L. Myricks, the current ward four alderman.

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The Order of the Golden Rule, an international affiliation of funeral homes, has announced that Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko will begin its 15th year with the Order.

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Volunteers will make a house-to-house canvass Sunday afternoon collecting funds for the March of Dimes Mothers march against birth defects. Leading the drive in Kosciusko is Mrs. Howard Lewis; Mrs. Wade Shumaker in Ethel; Mrs. Arlis Godfrey in McAdams.

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Mrs. D.H. “Nell” Hayes, a math teacher at Kosciusko Junior High School, retired effective at the end of the fall semester. Her retirement comes at the end of 38 and one-half years in the classroom.

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Mr. and Mrs. Edwin O’Briant of Kosciusko announce the engagement of their daughter, Anne Marie, to Danny K. Plunkett of Kosciusko.

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Art Cook of Kosciusko left Monday, Jan. 14, for a semester’s study as an exchange student at the Polytechnic Institute in Plymouth, England. Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Cook of Kosciusko, is a fourth year architectural student at Mississippi State University. He will spend 12 weeks at the institute of design.

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