100 YEARS AGO,
JANUARY 1920
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Lane Chandler pulled off quite a number of stunts in the air Sunday. Among those who made the flights were Mesdames Kate Fernandez, J. M. Harbert, Woodley Chandler and Misses Beth and Margaret Chapman and Will Faison,
EDITORIAL BY J. A. RICHARDSON
Bilbo was a notorious governor at any rate and is the only man on earth who was elected to office whose principal recommendation was that he was a self-confessed bribe taker.
W. M. Garrard, J. L, Keathley, Miss Zelphia Garrard and Miss Willye Crosby heard the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Greenwood last Thursday night.
WARNING; Influenza is again stalking the land. Be on guard for this plague. Alarming reports are coming in.
50 YEARS AGO,
JANUARY 1970
Judge J. P. Coleman was the featured speaker at the noon meeting of the Moorhead Rotary Club on January 21st. The former governor of Mississippi is now a judge of the United States District Court of Appeals, Fifth Judicial District.
Marine Corporal James. Vance, 18, perished in a blaze of rocket and small arms fire while on patrol Sunday fighting for his country in South Vietnam.
AROUND THE TOWN BY MRS. R. M. YARBROUGH:
Arriving for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Corder are her mother, Mrs. W. A. Mahen of Union and her sister and husband, Mrs. And Mrs. Monte Davis of Washington, D. C.
25 YEARS AGO,
JANUARY 1995
Indianola Tiger Scouts have been walking tall on the stilts they made as a project. Chad Dowell, Zach Matthews, William Linn and Benjamin Rosenthal are depicted in a photo showing their stilts off.
Ben Robertson and Mary Margaret Clayton have been named Mr. and Miss Indianola Academy in the Who’s Who contest for1994-1995.
The Gentry High School Rams and Lady Rams will see their first action in the North Central Athletic Conference tournament today in Ruleville.
The Gentry boys are ranked number 5 by the Associated Press and number 10 in the Clarion Ledger rankings. Jeremy H. Jones, Vanderell Jones and Tyrone Washington were high scorers in Gentry’s win over T. L, Weston.
15 YEARS AGO,
JANUARY 2005
Governor Haley Barbour has appointed Bill McPherson of Indianola to the Mississippi Blues Commission. The Commission is designed to promote and encourage Mississippi’s musical heritage.
Barry Wood, 78 died on January 16 at his home. He was the retired president of Indianola Insurance Agency and a native of Indianola.
He was active for many years in the Indianola Lions Club serving as president and deputy district governor of District 30 of Lions International.
Margaret Ross Long scored 16 points and was high scorer in the Indianola Academy Lady Colonels in their 48/23 victory over Carroll County.
UPDATE ON MARGARET ROSS LONG
Margaret Ross Long is now Mrs. Jonathon William Davis and lives in Memphis. She was a star athlete and honor student at Indianola Academy.
After graduating there, she received a bachelor’s degree in insurance and Risk Management from the University of Mississippi and a Master’s in Business Administration from Belmont University in Nashville.
She was married last May at the First United Methodist Church in Indianola.
She and her husband now live in Memphis where she is Business Development Manager at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis.
Her husband is a practicing attorney there. Although she is not playing basketball these days, she still loves and plays tennis, which she also excelled in.
