FLASHBACKS

SEPTEMBER 27, 1940

Not in 19 years has Neshoba County’s cotton crop been as late as this year, according to records of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, Washington D.C. No cotton was ginned in this county prior to September 1st this year. According to Bureau records, the last crop for which no cotton was ginned during August was 1921.

SEPTEMBER 29, 1950

Suanne Holland winner at the Doll Show given by the 5th grade Home Room as an improvement project from which $47 was realized. Suanne showed three story book dolls, one majorette, Cinderella, and a bride, Miss Sadie Sharp and Miss Myrtle Moore, the two fifth grade teachers responsible for the show. 

SEPTEMBER 29, 1960

“Klondike Karl” Grove will present his troupe of 40 trained Alaskan Huskies in the big FREE grandstand show at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair which is to be held in Meridian. 

SEPTEMBER 24, 1970

Mrs. Donald Anderson, president of the Neshoba County Extension Homemakers Council, presents a check for $100 to Chamber of Commerce President Rack Burt onbehalf of homemaker clubs in the county. 

SEPTEMBER 25, 1980

The 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek will be marked with an observance on Saturday at the treaty site in western Noxubee County. In the treaty, the Choctaw Indians ceded to the United States a large area of Mississippi, including all the land now in Neshoba County.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1990

Sixteen year old Tabitha Savell, a student at Neshoba Central High School, received a computer Tuesday from the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Mississippi. Tabitha, who has spina bifida and is confined to a wheelchair, received a monitor, printer, mouse,computer stand, paper and disks from the foundation.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2000

The Philadelphia-Neshoba County Arts Council will host an antique benefit auction on October 5, with proceeds going to retire the debt on the council’s theater on Byrd Avenue. The auction will be at 6:30 PM at the theater.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Surrounded by 30 family members, an emotional O.D. Jackson accepted the 2010 Citizen of the Year award Monday night, telling the crowd gathered for the annual Community Development Partnership banquet that he was happy to have a “small part” in organizing the Chamber of Commerce in 1954 and the park system in 1960.