Long-Winded Gov. Murphree Spoke Here In ’35
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Members of the 1995 Magnolia Youth League team sponsored by Sunburst Bank were (front from left) Shannon Crow, Jeremy Johnson, Justin Chandler, Jason Langdon, Justin Thomas, Larry Harris, Danny Harris, (back row) Bret Griffin, Jace Hamilton, James Vaughn, Shane Whiteside, Rod McLeod, Steven Hill, William Turner and (back) Coach John Crow. – Photo by Jack Gurner
• 50 Years Ago, July 17, 1975 – Becky Reid (Jones) was pictured on the front page preparing to leave for the Miss Mississippi Pageant in Vicksburg. She represented the city as Miss Water Valley.
In July of 1965 T. H. Scarbrough, Yalobusha County Farm Bureau President, showed the new luminous safety shield to be attached to slow moving vehicles. Because the program was brand new, all involved in the photo can be for- given for displaying the sample upside down.
• 60 Years Ago, July 15, 1965 – The Yalobusha County Farm Bureau Federation is joining the state organization in supporting a campaign to install warning devices on slow-moving vehicles. The warning devices are large triangular metal signs in orange and red Day-Glo colors. Plans call for their installation on all farm and commercial vehicles.
The Mississippi Sheriffs’ Association has launched another drive to secure legislative implementation of a long-discussed plan to make it possible for county sheriffs to succeed themselves in office. Removing the restrictions from sheriffs running to succeed themselves has been up in the air since 1962, when voters approved a constitutional amendment which would have made it possible for sheriffs to run for re-election in the counties where the offices of sheriff and tax collector were separated. However, for one reason or another, the legislature never moved to implement what some legislators considered to be a mandate from the voters. The sheriffs’ succession plan which is being offered now by the state sheriffs’ association is opposed to the plan offered with the approved amendment in 1962. Now the sheriffs want to be allowed to succeed themselves and retain the tax collection duties, too.
• 80 Years Ago, July 19, 1945 – A public hearing will be held at Sardis on August 2 to consider the character and extent of public parks and recreational facilities in reservoir areas under control of the War Department. J. B. Massie, president of the Yalobusha County Sportsmen Club, is desirous of having the Yalobusha County Club represented at the meeting.
Pfc. Creekmore Pippin, 38, of Coffeeville is now at Army Air Force Redistribution Station at Miami Beach, Fla., for reassignment after a tour of duty outside the continental United States. Pvt. Pippin served in the European Theater for 23 months.
Cpl. Barron Caulfield arrived home Wednesday to spend a furlough with his mother, Mrs. A.D. Caulfield. Cpl. Caulfield, who is with communications in the Eighth Air Force, has been in England for 28 months.
And in the Classified section: “WANTED – One new electric smoothing iron! You can’t get it, lady, but M. Allen can fix your old one. Telephone 2633.”
Not only was the war effort making it impossible to purchase new appliances, but old rags were also in demand. The Boy Scouts of Water Valley planned to gather waste paper and rags from the residences of the city on July 26. The rags will be sold by the Scouts for the benefit of the local Scout treasury. After collecting the rags, they will be sold by the Scouts to the filling stations, garages, and others who need wiping rags—an item which was hard to obtain.
• 90 Years Ago, July 12, 1935 – Gov. Dennis Murphree spoke last Friday night to one of the largest crowds ever to assemble in Water Valley to hear a candidate speak. The city park was jammed and filled by the immense crowd, while in addition, two rows of parked automobiles entirely surrounded the park. Hon. Ike Stone of Coffeeville introduced “the next governor” at the speaking, as the candidate held the crowd’s undivided attention for one and a half hours.
Under the headline “Then and Now” on the front page of this edition, the following story was printed:
“Many years ago there was a law in Illinois that did not allow a Justice of the Peace to perform a marriage until he had actually received a written commission. Frequently, because of bad and slow communications, commissions were not received for weeks, but the justice was informed that he had been appointed. This unusual marriage certificate was found in the archives of Fulton County, Lewiston, period 1840.
‘To all the world, greetings: Know ye that John Smith and Polly Myers is hereby entitled to go together and do, as old folks does anywhere inside Cappers precinct and when my commission comes I am to marry ‘em good and date ‘em back to Kiver accidents. Oliver M. Rogers, appointed J.P.’”
