100 YEARS AGO,
SEPTEMBER 1919
EDITORIAL NOTE: Our new teachers went to Greenwood to spend their brand-new salaries. They brought back a gingham dress, two jars of freckle cream, two hair nets, a bag of peanuts and no money.
W. M. Garrard left Monday for New Orleans as a delegate to the World Cotton Congress.
A score or more of Indianolians are greatly elated at the news from the Burk Burnett Oil Field The Texas Eagle Oil Company has brought in a gusher according to a telegram sent to one of the local stockholders. Among the local stockholders are D. Kaplan, Abe Weinberg, D. F. Voorhees, John W. Johnson, Leslie Fletcher, W. D. Baird, W. F. Heard, Paul Hosier, C. J. Van Arsdale, an G. T. Garnett.
50 YEARS AGO,
SEPTEMBER 1969
Student Council officers at Indianola Academy announced that they are donating $100 of their funds to victims of Hurricane Camille. Pictured in a photo are Emma Fisackerly, President, Marcia Neill, secretary, Nancy Allen, reporter, Irene Robertson, treasurer and vice president, Catherine Fisher.
CLUB NEWS: The home of Mrs. Allen Edwards was the setting of the opening meeting of the Twentieth Century Club. Mrs. Joe Oglesby presided. Co-hostesses were Mrs. P. W. Allen, Mrs. E. S Van Cleve, Jr., Mrs. Oscar Townsend, Mrs. Frank Crosthwait and Mrs. Birdell Atkins.
At last week’s Loins Club meeting, vice-president Chester Holloway introduced Indianola Indians Coach Bill McGuire. Coach McGuire gave the club an outlook on the prospect for the 1969 season for the Indians.
25 YEARS AGO,
SEPTEMBER 1994
Bobby Sykes is a lucky man. A lighting bolt hit a tree near where he was standing by his truck Thursday evening. Some of the power went through his fingertips and down and out through a nail in the bottom of his boot. “I didn’t realize it went through me until I found myself on the ground and my glasses were 30 feet away,” Sykes said.
The Indianola Academy Homecoming Court will be presented before IA’s game against Manchester Friday night. They are Mary Margaret Clayton, Mandy Stevens, and Kelly Nobile senior maids, Molly Miller and Melissa Shepard, Junior maids, and Megan Burns and Cade King, sophomore maids.
Katrina Fay Hutchins was presented as Miss Gentry High School at the 40th annual coronation ceremonies.
15 YEARS AGO,
SEPTEMBER 2004.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT: Mark and Laura Stowers announce the birth of their daughter, Anna Faith Hamilton Stowers on September 15, 2004.
The Ladies Auxiliary of Clark Lyon VFW Post 4731 will coordinate a local effort to collect needed items for women troops serving overseas. Contact Sharon Wade or Rita Roncoli for more information
VFW AUXILIARY STILL GOING STRONG
The VFW Auxiliary is still very active with 85 members. Sharon Wade is still an officer and is currently serving as President of the state VFW Auxiliary. “We support our veterans and active duty soldiers. On Memorial Day we place flags at the gravesite of veterans in Indianola, Inverness and Caile. Each member of our Auxiliary adopts a military person serving overseas and sends them cards and goody packages throughout the year. We also support our VA Nursing Home in Oxford and the one in Kosciusko. We have many projects for our veterans and service people that don’t get much recognition. That’s okay because we are not in this for recognition,” Wade said.
