100 YEARS AGO,
SEPTEMBER 1920
LOCAL NEWS: W M. Garrard who has charge of the operation of the Indianola Cotton Compress has expressed a willingness to cooperate with Staple Cotton Growers Association in any way the Association deems proper to further the interest of the association in caring for their cotton until rules and regulations are established. While Mr. Garrard is a cotton buyer, he is also a producer of several hundred bales of cotton annually.
The Indianola School Board has announced that the 1920-21 school year will open on September 14 with S. P. Walker as the superintendent. Teachers will be Misses Louise Dodd, Harriet Reeves, Willie Ladd, Ada Miller, Stella Wise, Jessie Ladd, Janice Moore, Hattie Green, and Edith Morris.
50 YEARS AGO,
SEPTEMBER 1970
The world’s largest cowbell will be presented to Mississippi State at the football game in Jackson this weekend. It was built in a farm shop in Inverness. A photo shows Fred Garottt of Indianola Will Green and Scott Poindexter of Inverness admiring the seven-foot-tall cowbell emblazoned with Bulldog logos on a specially built trailer.
AROUND THE TOWN BY MRS. R. M. YARBROUGH: Captain and Mrs. Howard Q. Davis, Jr. are visiting his parents. Captain Davis recently returned from an eighteen-month tour in Germany and will leave soon for Vietnam.
25 YEARS AGO,
SEPTEMBER 1995
The Mid-Delta Arts Association announced new officers for the coming year. Ernie Baker is President, John Brindley will serve as vice-president, Marsha Wooten, secretary and Burton Ely, treasurer. Board Members are Jimmy Lear, Beverly Pentecost, Robert May, Joyce Hull, Harold Manning, Mark Polk, Nancy Meclmurry, Adelaide Fletcher, Katherine Purcell, Paul Jaudon and Karen Dickman.
Indianola’s Teresa Kilpatrick who is Mrs. Mississippi left yesterday to compete in the Mrs. America pageant which is being held in Palm Springs, California.
IA SCHOOL NEWS: Lt. Colonel cheerleaders for the 1995 school year are Mary Kate Yurkow, Erin Rapert, Liz Ferretti, Jenny Jenkins, Natalie Fratesi, Margie Scroggins, Ginger Sligh, Katie Burkhalter, Andrea Atchley, Anna Woods, Erica Skelton and Amy Cobb.
Will Jennings, senior at Indianola Academy, has been nominated for the prestigious High School Heisman Trophy. The award recognizes excellence in community leadership, scholastics and sports.
15 YEARS AGO,
SEPTEMBER 2005
Hurricane Katrina has packed local motels and the homes of those lucky enough to have relatives living in the Delta. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Carver Randle was filled with 20 of her relatives who fled the hurricane (Local churches fed hundreds of refugees for weeks).
SPORTS: The IA Soccer team defeated Marshall 8-0 One of the outstanding players in the game was Ann Shelby Adams.
UPDATE ON WILL JENNINGS.
Twenty-five years ago, Will Jennings, son of Buster and Paula Jennings was an outstanding student at Indianola Academy in academics and sports.
Today, he is Dr. William Thomas Jennings of Tupelo, Mississippi.
He has practiced medicine with North Mississippi Medical Clinics in Tupelo for over eleven years. He is married to the former Madelyn Black of Indianola and they have two daughters.
Dr. Jennings received his bachelor’s from Delta State University where he was an exemplary student and then received his medical training at the University of Mississippi Medical School.
He is certified by the American Board of Family Physicians and is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
