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By SUE WATSONStaff Writer
The approximately $360million investment inMarshall County’s industrialand manufacturing capacityby new companies movinghere is paying off for the citi-zens, according to JustinHall, executive director of theMarshall County Indus trialDevelopment Authority. And there is plenty of
room for expansion, he said.“Marshall County has
established itself as a pre-mier competitor for large-scale industrial projects, notonly in the Southeast, but inthe nation,” Hall said. “Weare attractive to many typesof industries due to the exist-
ing infrastructure, highwayand rail systems.“With continued infra-
structure improvements andthe opening of I-269, I expectthe industrial park to gaineven more momentum in theupcoming months andyears.”So far, there are about
1,000 new jobs in theChickasaw Trail IndustrialPark – 600 in distribution and200 in manufacturing. Therest are in sales, manage-ment and support industries,Hall said.For those who want a job
in the warehousing and dis-tribution market, VolvoGroup has indicated it will
By BARRY BURLESONEditor
Friday was the deadlinefor candidates to sign up forthis year’s elections, andseven Marshall Countyincumbents received noopposition.Unopposed are Mae
Garrison, justice court judgenorth; Ernest Cunningham,justice court judge south;Kenny Dickerson, sheriff;Jerry Moore, superintendentof education; Keith Taylor,supervisor District 3; JuanitaDillard, tax assessor, (allDemocrats); and BillKinkade (Republican),House of Representatives,District 52.A complete list of candi-
dates for other positions fol-lows:• Chancery clerk –
incumbent C.W. “Chuck”Thomas, Willie F. Jeffries Jr.and Jon Wilson. All three areDemocrats• Circuit clerk – incum-
bent Lucy Carpenter, CathyElliott Brittenum, PatriciaPenilton Glass. All three are
By SUE WATSONStaff Writer
Chuck Lirette and KerryBrady were looking to moveout of Memphis, Tenn., to thecountry.They settled in Holly
Springs after buying a bunga-low on a four-acre lot on CraftStreet. It was just the rightspot for the two to beinvolved in indoor remodel-ing and outdoor gardening.“It’s an easy town,” Lirette
said, “a town you can relax in.
We go back (to the floor ofthe old milk house which isnow used as a sitting area) atnight and enjoy the stars.”Lirette gives Kerry the
credit for the design of every-thing in the house. Theyremodeled the kitchen andden and knocked out holes inthe master bedroom so morelight could get in. Theyremodeled the bathroomsand added a new screened-inporch on the north face of
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NEWS BRIEFSSpecial election set forCongressional position
Gov. Phil Bryant has seta May 12 special electionday to fill the vacancy in the1st Congressional Districtin north Mississippi createdby the death of Con -gressman Alan Nunnelee.
Candidates will haveuntil March 27 to qualify inthe office of the MississippiSecretary of State.
Candidates in the spe-cial election will run withoutparty labels. If a runoff isneeded, it will be held onJune 2.
Business After HoursThursday at newspaper
The Holly Springs MainStreet Chamber and theByhalia Area Chamber ofCommerce announce aBusiness After HoursThursday, March 5, from4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. atThe South Reporter office.
The event is in celebra-tion of the newspaper’s150th anniversary. Thenewspaper got its start in1865.
The South Reporter islocated at 157 SouthCenter Street in HollySprings, a half of a blocksouth of the courthousedowntown.
The celebration is beingheld in conjunction with thepublication of the annualProfile Edition.
Citizens urged to getinvolved in cleanup
Countywide CleanupDays are set for March 21through April 7.
The City of HollySprings, the Town ofByhalia, the Town of PottsCamp and MarshallCounty are joining togetherfor a massive cleanup.
All citizens are beingasked to take an activepart. Dumpsters will belocated throughout thecounty. Each homeownerand renter is being askedto clean up curbside andplace trash bags on thecurb for pickup the follow-ing week. Each businessand church is urged togather their employees andcongregation to assist inthis massive effort as well.
For more on the county-wide cleanup days, call thePastor’s Advisory Council,662-216-0369; the mayorof Holly Springs office, 662-252-4280, ext. 1201; or theMarshall County chanceryclerk’s office, 662-252-4431.
Remember to windclocks forward
Daylight Saving Timebegins this Sunday, March8, at 2 a.m.
Don’t forget to wind yourclocks forward one hourbefore going to bedSaturday night.
Daylight Saving Timewill end this year onSunday, Nov. 1.
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VOLUME 150 (USPS-504320) HOLLY SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI 38635 • THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015 NUMBER 10
County ‘premier competitor’
Embracing the moment
Holly Springs – ‘a town you can relax in’
Countyelectionslate set
Photo by Sue WatsonVolvo Group is shaping up its campus on Gateway Global Drive. The distribution center has over a mil-lion square feet of warehouse space and is moving its products from other centers to the MarshallCounty facility. It will warehouse replacement parts for Volvo trucks and other large equipment products.
Photo by Barry BurlesonDakota Dailey and his father and coach, Craig Dailey, embrace Saturday night after the Marshall Academy Patriots knocked offMadison Ridgeland Academy 44-43 for the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools Overall Tournament championship. Formore on the Class A Patriots’ amazing run through the tourney, three wins over Class AAA schools, see Section B.
• Couple loves small-town lifePhotos by Sue Watson
Chuck Lirette holds steady as he works on a guitar.
Chuck and Kerry are pictured in front of their new bungalow on Craft Street in Holly Springs.
Pastor Da’Henri R.Thurmond Sr. is the guestminister for the AnnualTrustee Day Program atAnderson Chapel C.M.E.Church, located at 730Martin Luther King, Jr.Drive, Holly Springs, onSunday, March 8, at 10:45a.m., where Pastor WilliamS. Banks is the pastor.
Rev. Thurmond, a nativeof Augusta, Ga., serves asthe senior pastor at St. PaulC.M.E. Church in Savannah,Ga. He received his earlyeducation in the RichmondCounty, Georgia, school sys-tem and is a 1986 graduate ofWestside ComprehensiveHigh School. He is a 1990graduate of GeorgiaSouthern University wherehe was inducted into theGamma Beta Phi HonorSociety. He is also a 1992magna cum laude graduateof the Medical College ofGeorgia where he wasinducted into the IMHOTEPsociety, as well as Who’sWho in American Collegesand Universities.
Reverend Thurmond hasbeen employed as a respira-tory therapy supervisor anda senior clinical oncologyspecialist within pharmaceu-tical/biologic sales. He hasserved as a mentor for theRichmond County SchoolSystem, CHAMP camp vol-unteer, coach in the RCRD,the school council at SegoMiddle School, board ofdirectors of the SouthsideFamily Y and board of direc-tors of the CSRA UnitedWay. He is a proud memberof the Omega Psi PhiFraternity, Inc.
In spite of an exciting andrewarding career, Pastor
Thurmond acknowledged ahigher calling and purposefor his existence and beganhis journey as a preacher ofthe gospel of Jesus Christ.He is currently pursuing aMaster of Divinity degree atthe InterdenominationalTheological Center, PhillipsSchool of Theology. PastorThurmond is an ordainedelder in the ChristianMethodist Episcopal Churchwhere the presiding prelateis Bishop Kenneth WayneCarter.
Pastor Thurmond is mar-ried to Antoinette JohnsonThurmond. They are theproud parents of two chil-dren, D. Ramsey Jr. andBarbara Maxine.
Pastor William S. Banksand the board of trusteesinvite everyone to AndersonChapel for a spiritually andinspirational good time onSunday, March 8, at 10:45a.m.
Joyce Hope Baird Joyce Hope Baird, 66, of Ashland, died March 2, 2015 at
Baptist DeSoto Hospital in Southaven. Aretired technician at TRW of SterlingHeights, Mich., she was a member ofShiloh MB Church in Ashland, where shewas president of the church Usher Board.
Visitation will be March 6, 2-7 p.m. atthe funeral home and March 7 from 2-2:55at the church.
Services will be held at 3 p.m. onMarch 7 at New Dimension Salt and Light Ministries in HollySprings. Burial will be in Macedonia CME Church Cemeteryin Ashland. Pastor Actavatis Allen officiated. J.F. Brittenumand Son Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
She leaves a son, Derrick (Phyllis) Baird of Jackson; hermother, Annie B. Baird of Ashland; four sisters, DorothyMorris of Detroit, Mich., Mamie Paige of Ashland, LorettaKimbrough, Carolyn Kimbrough, both of Ashland; four broth-ers, Terry Baird, Charlie Baird, David Baird, Danny Baird, allof Ashland; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Henry BairdJr., and Carlton Baird.
Maggie lee Patterson Brown Maggie Lee Patterson Brown, 86, of
Memphis, Tenn., formerly of HollySprings, died Feb. 28, 2015, at GraceHealth Care of Cordova, Cordova, Tenn.She was the widow of William Brown. Shewas a retired laborer in cleaning andpressing.
Visitation will be March 6, from 3 until5 p.m. at the funeral home; March 7, 10a.m. until 10:55 at the church.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. on March 7 at HarrisChapel MB Church, where she was a member. Burial will bein the church cemetery. Rev. Frank Thompson will officiate.J.F. Brittenum and Son Funeral Home is in charge of arrange-ments.
She leaves two sons, William Brown, Robert Lee Pegues,both of Memphis, Tenn.; grandchildren who were her care-givers, Chester Tunstall of Cordova, Angela Jefferson ofMemphis; and 12 grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her daughter, MargaretWhite.
Archie O. edwardsArchie O. “Junior” Edwards, 84, of Hickory Flat, died Feb.
25, 2015, in New Albany. He was a Baptist and employed withRowland Heating and Air.
Services were held at 2 p.m. on Feb. 27 at Holly SpringsFuneral Home Chapel. Burial was in Pine Grove Cemetery inHickory Flat.
He leaves his wife, Mary Lois Edwards of Hickory Flat; hisson, Jimmy Edwards (Dian) of Shannon; his daughter,Margaret Hardin of Hickory Flat; his brother, Cecil Edwardsof Nevada; his sister, Francis Massengill of Hickory Flat; fourgrandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
For online condolences visit www.hsfuneralhome.com.
Fred lee Glover Fred Lee Glover, 71, of Holly Springs,
died Feb. 28, 2015, at Methodist Hospitalof Olive Branch. He was a retired laborerwith the City of Holly Springs UtilityDepartment.
Visitation will be March 6 from 2 until7 p.m. at the funeral home and from 1:20p.m. until 2:25 at the church.
Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. onMarch 7 at Providence MB Church.Burial will be in Cottrell Memorial Garden. Rev. LonnieWhitfield will officiate. J.F. Brittenum and Son Funeral Homeis in charge of arrangements.
He leaves two daughters, Belinda Rounds of MapleHeights, Ohio, Alice Rounds of Olive Branch; two sons, GlennGlover of Holly Springs, Timothy Glover of Cleveland; a sister,Mollie Robinson of Memphis, Tenn.; a brother, ShermanGlover of Holly Springs; 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Willie lee Harden Willie Lee Harden, 80, of Byhalia, died Feb. 24, 2015, at
Methodist Hospital in Olive Branch. Hewas the widower of Sarah Hill Harden anda member of St. Paul MB Church inByhalia. He was a school bus driver andmechanic.
Services were held at 11 a.m. on Feb.28 at St. Matthew’s MB Church inByhalia. Burial was in the church ceme-tery. Pastor Paul Harden officiated. J.F.Brittenum and Son Funeral Home was in charge of arrange-ments.
He leaves 10 children, Oscar Lee (Belinda) Harden of OliveBranch, Francis Mae Harden, Gretchen Hope, Randy(Celestine) Harden, Willie Harden Jr., Carl (Angela) Harden,Gwen (LuQuinton) Jackson, all of Byhalia, George (Tasha)Harden of Holly Springs, Curtis Lee (Sheran) Harden ofChulahoma, Herbert (Shaneka) Harden of Memphis, Tenn.;seven sisters, Elizzie Harden, Bulih Tunstall, Sattie (Leroy)Randolph, Josephine (Charlie) Harp, Bearth Webb, VirginiaJones, Earnestine Harden, all of Olive Branch; a brother,Willie B. (Joanne) Harden of Olive Branch; and 25 grandchil-dren and 24 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by three children, Robert LeeHarden, Josephine Harden and Nathaniel Harden.
Jerry HillJerry Hill, 87, of Holly Springs, died Feb. 26, 2015, in
Oxford. She was a former Marshall County tax assessor.Services were held at 3 p.m. on March 1 at First Baptist
Church of Holly Springs, where she was a member. Burialwas in Hill Crest Cemetery. Dr. Joe Lusby officiated. HollySprings Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
She leaves two sons, Byron Hill of Holly Springs, JohnnyHill of Oxford; two daughters, Haven Hill Hudson ofCookville, Tenn., Cathy Hill Morgan of Vicksburg; her broth-er, Tommy Peden of Birmingham, Ala.; 13 grandchildren and31 great-grandchildren.
For online condolences visit www.hsfuneralhome.com.
Benjamin Mayfield Jr. Benjamin Mayfield Jr., 57, of Holly Springs, died Feb. 26,
2015, at North Delta Hospice House in Southaven. He was adisabled factory worker with Holly Springs Brick & Tile.
Visitation will be March 6 from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. at thefuneral home and 9:30 a.m. until 10:25 at the church.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on March 7 at JonesGrove MB Church in Holly Springs, where he was a member.Burial was in Cottrell Memorial Garden. Rev. John Powell offi-ciated. J.F. Brittenum and Son Funeral Home is in charge ofarrangements.
He leaves his wife, Irene McKinney Mayfield; a daughter,Veronica McKinney of Holly Springs; a son, Anthony Mayfieldof Holly Springs, his mother, Earline Malone Mayfield of OliveBranch; and two sisters, Dianne Miller of Olive Branch, DorisMayfield of Holly Springs.
He was preceded in death by his father, Benjamin MayfieldSr. and a brother, Timothy Mayfield.
Wanda louise nelsonWanda Louise Nelson, 68, of Savannah, Ga., died Feb. 27,
2015, in Savannah. She was a Methodist.Graveside services were held at 1 p.m. on March 3 at Hill
Crest Cemetery. Holly Springs Funeral Home was in chargeof arrangements.
She leaves her brother, Larry Jones of Savannah; and twosisters, Jo Mitchell of Memphis, Tenn., Mary Daniel ofSavannah.
For online condolences visit www.hsfuneralhome.com.
Joyce Faye smithJoyce Faye Smith, 57, of Byhalia, died Feb. 26, 2015, in
Byhalia. She was a waitress with Perkins Restaurant.Services were held at 2 p.m. on March 3 at Holly Springs
Funeral Home Chapel. Burial was in Magnolia Cemetery inCollierville, Tenn.
She leaves her husband, Leander King; her mother, SaraElam of Snyder, Texas; her son, Michael Johnson (Amanda)of Collierville, Tenn.; her daughter, Jessica Smith (BJ) of Mt.Pleasant; her brother, Tom Elam of Snyder; two sisters, GailBurleson, Kathy Herrley, both of Snyder; and four grandchil-dren.
For online condolences visit www.hsfuneralhome.com.
robert Clifton treadwell Robert Clifton Treadwell, 82, of
Byhalia, died Feb. 24, 2015, at BaptistDeSoto Hospital in Southaven. He was amember of Bridgeway Baptist Church, apolice officer in Collierville, Tenn., and a veteran.
Private memorial services will be held at a later time. HollySprings Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
He leaves a daughter, Amanda Treadwell of Byhalia; twobrothers, David Treadwell of Collierville, George Treadwell ofOlive Branch; four sisters, Betty Ann Stokes of Moscow,Tenn., Nita Jane Houner of Holly Springs, Carolyn RebeccaHenning of Rossville, Tenn., Sandra Kay Russell of Memphis,Tenn.; and one grandchild.
For online condolences visit www.hsfuneralhome.com.
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To all the voters and sup-porters in the north district ofMarshall County, I, LeonCothern, would like toannounce my candidacy forconstable. First of all, I wouldlike to thank everyone fortheir vote and support thatwas given to me four yearsago.I have lived in District 2 of
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Byers (Sandflat) High Schoolin Mt. Pleasant in 1974, I pur-sued a career in trailer tractorrepair and service for over 30years, eight of those years ofwhich I was owner and opera-tor of Holly Springs TrailerRepair & Service in theIndustrial Park of HollySprings.I have met and worked for
and with people not only inMarshall County, but all over,having a good relationshipwith everyone involved.I’m willing to work with
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When I was asked to be the speaker atthe Noxubee County Historical Society’smonthly meeting, I was a bit fearful.People interested in history know theirstuff. They expect their speakers to be upto speed.
I was asked to speak because mygreat-grandfather Dr. James Elbert Wyattwas the county doctor in Prairie Point, ahamlet in northeast Noxubee County, formany decades at the turn of the century.
I felt confident enough to accept thespeaking engagement because of aphone call I received about 15 years ago.
The caller was a woman who had pur-chased the McComb home of my grand-father and grandmother.
“There are all these old boxes in theattic,” the woman said. “I don't feel rightthrowing them away. I think there’s someimportant family history in those boxes.Someone really needs to come and getthem.”
I called my Aunt Faye in San Antoniobut she was too far away. There was noone else nearby. I dropped my plans forthe weekend and headed to McComb.
Thank God for blessings. The boxesheld a mother lode of irreplaceable familyhistory.
As I sortedthrough the pho-tos, the letters, thedocuments chroni-cling our family’shistory over gener-ations, a glimmerof interest ingenealogy beganto glow.
Over the years,little by little, Iaccumulated histo-ry about our family. It was a good thing.No one else in my family had the least bitof interest. If I had not done it, much ofour family history would have been lost.
That would have been a pity. Becausemy family has deep roots in Mississippi.Wife Ginny’s roots are even deeper.
Turns out my children are sixth gen-eration Mississippians 29 times over.Twenty-nine of their 32 great-great-great-grandparents were Mississippians. Theyare seventh generation many times overas well. The Buntins of Coffeeville, theKnights of Covington County, theTuckers of Natchez and the Porters ofPort Gibson were all here whenMississippi was still a territory.
Mississippians have a greater senseof roots, tradition and history than per-haps any other state in the Union. So it islagniappe that I became interested ingenealogy and lagniappe that there wasso much history to be discovered.
Dr. Wyatt’s mother, Elvira Gholson,was an impoverished widow with twoyoung boys to raise. Her cousin SamuelGholson, a general under NathanBedford Forrest, was speaker of theMississippi House just before the CivilWar. Elvira had no money, but theMcGowan family let her live on theirland. How ironic, a hundred years later,I'm friends with the same McGowan fam-ily in Jackson.
Fortunately, I know a lot about this erabecause Dr. Wyatt’s brother R.R. Wyattwrote an autobiography titled TheAutobiography of a Little Man. The bookwas typed entirely by my grandmotherLyda Will Wyatt, my namesake, daughterof Dr. Wyatt, who later married JohnOliver Emmerich of McComb.
The online archives of the MaconBeacon was a great help in reconstruct-ing the life of Dr. Wyatt, his wife FannieEliza Doss and their 10 children. I was
The House that freshman state Rep.Tim Ford joined in 1980 was one ruledby an all-powerful speaker who tookcare of his friends, ignored his enemiesand marginalized the relatively smallnumber of African American lawmakers– a group that had grown from four to 17in the election that brought Ford to theLegislature.
Before his career was over, Fordbecame a remarkably effective leader ofthe Mississippi House ofRepresentatives at a time when thechamber had been rocked by a bloodypolitical battle between “old guard” leg-islators and a group of so-called House“rebels.”
Ford was not a leader of the “rebel”group that sought to unseat entrenchedDemocratic House Speaker C.B.“Buddie” Newman of Valley Park.Newman was an old school legislatorwho ruled the House with an iron fist.
But Ford was the acceptable compro-mise candidate for speaker who helpedput the House back together. Ford wasable to beat back challenges by fellowrepresentatives Tommy Walman andthen Ed Perry to win election as speak-er by acclamation – mostly with the sup-port of the “reformers.”
Ford served as speaker from 1988through 2004. Quick with a laugh andpeaceable by nature, Ford’s frequentgood-hearted admonition to quarrelinglawmakers to “be sweet” during spiritedfloor debate set a different tone in thechamber.
Since 1976, Mississippians have seenthe tenures of eight governors andseven lieutenant governors. But onlyfour House speakers have served thestate over the last 39 years. Newmanheld the post from 1976-1988.
Former Speaker William J. “Billy”McCoy of Rienzi held the post from2004 through 2012. Current HouseSpeaker Philip Gunn of Clinton becamethe first Republican sinceReconstruction to lead the chamber ofthe Mississippi Legislature in 2012.
Before Gunn, Democrats controlledthe House Speaker’s post in Mississippifor over 135 years. Beginning with
Speaker WalterSillers in 1944and continuinguntil Newmanwas ousted inthe infamousHouse Revolt of1987, all Housespeakers ruledwith an iron first- rewardingthose loyal tothe speakerand punishingthose who bucked him.
Those 1987 House reforms limitedthe speaker to two four-year terms,restricted the speaker’s committeeappointment powers and redistributedpower on the “money” committees -Appropriations and Ways and Means.The reforms also reinstituted the speak-er pro tempore position and gave theposition considerable powers - voting inthe speaker’s stead and chairing theManagement Committee that allocatesoffice space and staff.
Ford succeeded Newman in 1988.But the 1987 “reforms” eroded andFord was eventually able to win backthe power to succeed himself as speak-er and eventually served 16 years in thepost.
Rep. Robert Clark of Ebenezer waselected Speaker Pro Tempore as part ofFord’s gambit seeking a second term asspeaker in 1992. Ford early on saw thepolitical and policy benefit of makingmembers of the House Black Caucus astrong part of his ruling coalition. Menlike Rep. Percy Watson moved into posi-tions of influence that had their begin-nings under Ford and grew stronger
under McCoy.Ford, whose shock of dark hair and
perpetually flushed cheeks made himrecognizable from one end of theCapitol Building to the other, was thelast of the analog age Mississippi Housespeakers. Facebook was invented theyear Ford retired from the Legislature.Twitter came along a couple of yearslater.
The always-on, instant feedback andginned up displays of “grassroots” sup-port were not part of Ford’s politicalstyle. Neither was the old school impo-sition of reward and punishment thatmarked the tenures of Newman andWalter Sillers before him.
Ford worked well with conservativeRepublicans and liberal Democratsalike. Truth be known, Ford’s politicalphilosophy was on many issues moreRepublican than some actualRepublicans. But he never cut ties withAfrican American lawmakers and withrural Democrats.
I found Ford to be genuine and a manof his word. We sparred over open meet-ings and open records legislation in theearly 1990s, but he listened and grantedthe Mississippi Press Association anaudience to let us plead our case onFirst Amendment issues.
For the son of a successful Baldwynphysician who had not known povertyhimself, Ford had real empathy for theless fortunate and was a friend of publiceducation at all levels. Ford knew howto make a legislative deal and how tocompromise on methods without com-promising his principles.
Ford left Mississippi better than hefound it when he entered public service– and that’s a powerful legacy.
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I’ve watched the movie“Hoosiers” at least 25 times.
Last week, I got to witnessa very similar event in person.
My favorite movie of alltime was on my mind con-stantly as I watched theMarshall Academy Patriotsmake a magical run throughthe Mississippi Association ofIndependent Schools OverallTournament.
Championships by smallschools in this tourney arefew and far between. It hasbeen dominated by the bigboys over the years, mostfrom the Jackson area.
MA’s enrollment this yearis around 215. The threeschools they defeated lastweek for the gold ball have acombined enrollment of closeto 3,000.
Marshall faced MadisonRidgeland Academy in thefinals. I was told at the tourna-ment that MRA has about 990students in grades K-12.
But more than any othersport, the small schools havea chance in basketball.
In “Hoosiers,” Hickoryshocks the State of Indiana byreaching the championshipgame in Indianapolis. In alarge arena and before acrowd bigger than any they’veseen, the Hickory players facelong odds to defeat a teamfrom South Bend, a muchlarger school with taller andmore athletic players. Butwith Jimmy Chitwood scoringat the last second, tinyHickory takes home the 1952Indiana state championship.
This Marshall Academyteam, like that one fromHickory, had a star player,Dakota Dailey, but he wouldbe the first to tell you – thiswas not a one-man show. Ittook a united, dedicated, hard-working team to win this goldball for the Patriots from HollySprings.
Marshall’s fans were out infull force Saturday for the titlecontest. But needless to say,they were outnumbered bythe MRA supporters, whoonly had to travel a few miles.Plus, naturally, with more stu-dents they would have morefans.
I kept an eye on the crowdmuch of the night, whileanother was looking throughmy camera, trying to get thebest photos.
Coach Craig Dailey’sMarshall Academy team, forthe most part, kept the bulk ofthe folks quiet. And, to be hon-est, in shock.
No one, except for thosefaithful MA fans, expected tosee what they were witness-ing.
This was MRA, winner ofsix of the last 10 OverallTournament championships,including five in a row from2007 to 2011.
And back in 2004 and 2006,Jackson Academy won thecrowns.
Marshall beat the Raidersin round one of the tourna-ment last week – in doubleovertime. The other win cameover Magnolia Heights, fromnearby Senatobia and also aClass AAA school with anenrollment about three timesthat of Marshall Academy.
My son Andy was on thebench Saturday for the cham-pionship game. Now a studentat Southern Mississippi, heplayed for Coach Dailey inhigh school. I will use Andy’swords in closing.
“Well, the greatest coach inthe state, best player in thestate, and best basketballmom/wife in the state finallygot what they deserve, anOverall State Championship.Thanks for taking care of me,letting me tag along, andteaching me why the game ofbasketball is go great. I’m soglad to say I will forever be a‘We Believe’ player and familymember. No one deserves itmore than you, Craig Dailey,and Bridgett Dailey.”
Tim Ford guided Mississippi House into modern era
Close to NowhereBy Linda Jones
Real life‘Hoosiers’
See UNDERSTANDING page 5
A brief lookinto the past
Understanding your past enriches your life
Daughter Dana and I hadtalked for a bit about a trip toJackson and the museums andthen heading on to Vicksburgto visit a spectacular quilt shop.Dana and a good friendTammye make a trip to StitchN’ Frame a couple times ayear.
So, a couple weekends ago,we piled into the van and head-ed south. “We’re going toJackson... look out Jacksontown!”
We got there in time for anearly lunch at The MayflowerRestaurant, an old traditionaldiner located right smack inthe center of Jackson’s politicalarena.
Side note here: whenWalter Webb, former editorand publisher of The SouthReporter, bought brand newcomputers, the staff went on atraining trip to Clinton. On theway home, all of us had lunchat The Mayflower, one ofWebb’s favorite restaurantswhen he lived and worked inJackson.
Every time I go to Jacksonnow, I have lunch at TheMayflower.
There’s a lot we enjoy doingin Jackson – the MississippiAgriculture and ForestryMuseum (a really interestingplace), the Museum of Art,and one of our favorites, TheMississippi Museum ofNatural Science.
I passed on the museumsthis trip. Dana dropped me offat the Mississippi Departmentof Archives and History. Sheheaded to the museums; Iheaded back to the past.
I’ve never been in any placelike the archives. The deskclerk patiently explained howto fill out the forms to be aresearcher. He patiently toldme, twice, how to get aroundthe corner into the mediaroom. (you had to swipe a cardand go through a complicated,to me, checkpoint area, to getin).
You have to scan youraccess card to get in the doorand lock all your bags in a lock-er outside the actual room.Naturally, I left pen, paper andmoney in there. Then I headedinto the actual media room. Areally large room, the walls arelined on three sides by enor-mous file cabinets which holdvirtually thousands and thou-sands of small – 2x2x1 – micro-film boxes. I can’t imagine thehistory that this place holds.
After a perusal of the com-puter that lists all the microfilmsubject, I pulled out two boxesof microfilm and looked at overthree-plus years of HollySprings newspapers from themid- to late-1800s. The cataloglist of Holly Springs newspa-pers was incredible. Therewere so many newspapers inthe 1800s – most of them sur-vived less than a year.
Looking through the micro-film was, well – thrilling. Manyof the pages were torn and a
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Wyatt’s WorldBy Wyatt Emmerich
Dear Editor:You will see the answer to the Great
Pyrenees dog and three goats walkingaround town for two days, today, withthe picture in The South Reporter(which ran last week). Long story. Bobby Barber had two
of the dogs and some goats at our farmon Higdon Road for a long time. OurGreat Pyrenees dog, Lempy, was oldand passed away in late 2013. Bob wasgetting to where he could not take careof goats, so my son Ken took them tothe sale. We still had the other GreatPyrenees dog, Snow. He was so lone-some after Bobby passed away June 3,2014, and I had to take care of him.Tommy Winter was Bobby’s long-
time friend; they went to school togeth-er, went to goat sales, etc., for all theseyears. My family and I decided to giveSnow to Tommy. They were suchsweet, lovable dogs and so smart. Snowhas had a wonderful home ever since
with goats and sheep. Tommy takessuch good care of him, but he went tothe back of the pasture, he and hisfriends (goats) and he wanted to seethis girlfriend across the fence. So hisbabies (goats) went with him. I guessTommy did not know he was gone.Snow must have enjoyed the town. I saw it on Facebook and wondered
if it was Snow! And it was. City workersfound the owner and Snow and babieswent right to Tommy! My family and I love Snow and I go
visit him; we love Tommy and familyand visit them also.Thanks for everyone in Holly
Springs (and the city employees) fortaking care of them.
Ernestine Barber
Dear Editor,As residents of Marshall County, we
write this letter with much gratitudeand appreciation. We would like to
thank the determined and dedicatedinvestigative team of the MarshallCounty Sherriff’s Department, JasonMills and Cody Teel. We commend your tireless efforts to
complete tasks in the snow, sleet andrain so that our troubled minds wouldbe at ease. Knowing someone really cares and
is hard at work to protect and keep thepeace is a comforting and reassuringfeeling.Each new day was a day of discov-
ery, which was a further indication ofyour dedication. As the items werebeing returned to us, eventually, acalming spirit returned to our resi-dence. So again, thank you, Jason Mills and
Cody Teel. You are a wonderful repre-sentation of the fine men and womenwho serve in the Marshall CountySheriff’s Depart ment, and you aregreatly appreciated.
Sincerely,The Mora Family
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MARCH 4• Berachah Ministries, formerly Mt. Sinai COGIC, of Mt. Pleasant willhave a Holy Ghost revival, Wed., March 4- Fri., March 6, 7 p.m. nightly,conducted by Prophet Jeremy Gatlin of New York, NY. Everyone isinvited. Pastor, Elder Curtis Pritchard Sr.
MARCH 5• Relay For Life of Marshall County’s Team Captains and PlanningCommittee will meet Thursday, March 5, at the Marshall County Libraryat 5:15 p.m. If you cannot come, please send someone from your team.We are asking all team captains to have your members registered bythe meeting. Help will be provided if needed.• Family Education program - free family education class on Thursdays,6 p.m.-7 p.m. Featuring the STEP curriculum. Location is Suite 1400 AHwy. 4 East. Contact Rachel Alcorn at Communicare 662-234-7521with questions. Snack and drink provided.
MARCH 6• Mr. and Miss Holy Family Pageant, March 6, 7 p.m. 395 N. West St.• Harvest Night, March 6, Davis Temple and Outreach Ministry, 635West St., Holly Springs. Guest speaker, Bishop Carlton Williams ofOrlando, Fla. Everyone is invited. If you need a ride call 662-512-8514.Host pastor, State Elder Robert Davis.
MARCH 7• Free Branch MB Church Holy Cake Scripture Program, 6 p.m. PastorJ.L. Tunstall invites all.• Benefit program for Cynthia Pegues, 6 p.m. Wilkins Chapel CMEChurch, Waterford. Pastor Robert Odum. All choirs invited. Sponsoredby Mary Lesure and Monique Lesure. 662-403-0091, 662-523-2046.• Victoria Volunteer Fire Dept. will have a barbecue, March 7, 10 a.m.with barbecue slaw, fries, dessert and drink. All proceeds go to the firedept.• Singing--Mt. Calvary Pentecostal Church, located 1/2 mile south ofGoodman on Cayce Rd, will resume their monthly singings onSaturday, March 7, 7 p.m. The featured guests will be the WilliamsFamily. Pastor Billy Watkins invites everyone! For more info., call 662-851-7509.
MARCH 8• The Marshall County Friends of the Library will meet at 11:30 a.m. fora business meeting. At 12 noon, Holley Stone Muraco will present aprogram on her work with marine life (dolphins, walrus, whales, andother mammals), along with a slide show presentation of her work andtravels. Refreshments provided.• Beverly Chapel CME Church, Holly Springs, will have a communityprayer service March 8, 2:30 p.m. Host pastor, Rev. W.T. Winbourn,guest speaker, Rev. Anitha Keith; and guests Ruben Chapel CMEChurch of Baldwyn. Everyone is invited. For more info. call PatriciaPegues, 662-252-4593 or 901-573-0065.• The Bobby McGilliard Evangelistic Team will be in action at VictoryBaptist Church, 2550 Wall Hill Rd., Independence. Youth Sunday, 10a.m. preaching and singing, 11 a.m., eating afterwards. For more info.call 662-233-2208 or 662-501-6202.• Isaac Chapel will have Family and Friends Day, 2 p.m. The church islocated at Hwy. 309 and Hernando Road. Pastor Willie Ward invites all.
MARCH 12• Lessye Lee Davis 4-H Club will meet at the Marshall County Library,6 p.m. Bring your binder, paper and pencil and wear your 4-H T-shirt.• Family Education program - free family education class on Thursdays,6 p.m.-7 p.m. Featuring the STEP curriculum. Location is Suite 1400 AHighway 4 East. Contact Rachel Alcorn at Communicare 662-234-7521 with any questions. Snack and drink provided.
MARCH 13The Byhalia Public Library will have a Book Sale, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Thebook sale is to fund local author Clista Ash’s Author Meet and Greetwhich will be held Monday, March 23, 6 p.m.
MARCH 14• New Hope Baptist Church, 137 Valentine Rd., Holly Springs, Invitesyour to their first singing of 2015 featuring the local talent of MikeDeVore on March 14. Fellowship meal at 6 p.m. and singing at 7 p.m.and he will have plenty of copies of his new CD. Bro. Tony Watkins andcongregation invite you to join them. • Finley Grove Church family will have their annual Pastor and Wifeappreciation for Pastor James C. Green and wife Sis. Margie Green at6 p.m. on March 14. Guest speaker, Rev. J.W. Smith Jr. with theKimbrough Chapel Church family. Public is invited. Program chairman,Joyce Brown.• Prayer breakfast, Sat., March 14, New Faith Outreach Ministries,1296 S. Red Banks Rd.. Speaker, Min. Gunnettee Joyner, host pastor,Tracy Jeffries.• Singing at Winborn United Methodist Church, March 14, 5 p.m., onHwy. 178 between Potts Camp and Hickory Flat. Servants HeartQuartet. Meal follows singing. For more info. call 662-252-6059.
MARCH 15• Free Branch MB Church Usher Day Program, 2 p.m. Guest speakerRev. Dwight Rucker, Mayes Hill Church, Hickory Hill, Tenn. Pastor J.L.Tunstall invites all.• Twelve Tribes of Israel, Wilkins Chapel CME Church, Waterford, 11a.m. Speaker, Lawrence McKinney. Pastor Robert Odum invites all.• Singing Union, 3 p.m., at Yarbrough Chapel CME Church, west ofHolly Springs on Old Hwy. 4. All are welcome. Pastor, Rev. FlorestineWoods, president, Bro. Robert Pearl Jr.
MARCH 17• The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Holly SpringsSchool District has been scheduled for Tues., March 17, 6 p.m. at theHolly Springs High School Library, 165 N. Walthall St., Holly Springs.
MARCH 19• Humane Society regular monthly meeting is Thurs. March 19, at 6p.m. at the Adoption Center on Eddie Smith Dr. We welcome all animallovers. Call 662-564-2900 for more info.• Family Education program - free family education class on Thursdays,6 p.m.-7 p.m. Featuring the STEP curriculum. Location is Suite 1400 AHighway 4 East. Contact Rachel Alcorn at Communicare 662-234-7521 with any questions. Snack and drink provided.
MARCH 21• Bountiful Blessings Ministries, 26 Tyro Rd., Chulahoma, will have anordination service for Bro. Ernest Palmer, March 21, 2 p.m. Pleasecome join us. Apostle Mae L. Palmer of Aurora, Ill., in charge,Evangelist Dorothy Palmer, chairman.
MARCH 24• Lessye Lee Davis 4-H Club will meet at the Marshall County Library,6 p.m. Bring your binder, paper and pencil and wear your 4-H T-shirt.
MARCH 26• Family Education program - free family education class on Thursdays,6 p.m.-7 p.m. Featuring the STEP curriculum. Location is Suite 1400 AHighway 4 East. Contact Rachel Alcorn at Communicare 662-234-7521 with any questions. Snack and drink provided. • Third annual “A Taste of Holly Springs” March 26, 5:30 p.m. at AsburyUnited Methodist Church. Taste some of the best dishes from localrestaurants and caterers at their booths. For more info. visitwww.hsmsc.org or call 662-252-2943. Sponsored by the Holly SpringsMain Street Chamber.
MARCH 28• St. Paul Church/Outreach Ministry, Byhalia, Community CountywideSenior Citizen Day, 1 p.m. until, at the St. Paul Outreach Center. Thechurch is located at 1393 Hwy. 178, Byhalia. Entertainment, food, doorprizes and more. Host pastor is Dr. Andrew Cheairs.
UNDERSTANDINGContinued from page 4
PASTContinued from page 4
able to do a search for “Dr. James ElbertWyatt” and retrieve dozens of articlesand snippets in the newspaper chroni-cling different events in their lives.Here’s an account in the February 8,
1913, Macon Beacon of one of Dr.Wyatt’s days as a country doctor:Last Sunday evening Geo. Johnson, a
negro on Hon. Walter Price’s plantation,in a fit of insane jealousy, filled the faceand neck of his wife with bird shot, andwhen his wife was prostrate on theground, struck her with the butt of thegun, breaking the stock. Thinking herlifeless, he attempted to end his own mis-erable existence by sticking a fork intohis throat and twisting the prongs untilthey were bent. He then took a dull ax,and setting the butt end on the table,rubbed his neck across the edge until hemade a hole large enough for an egg togo through. The negro was found welter-ing in his own blood almost dead. Dr.Wyatt was summoned and he sewed upthe cuts in the negro’s neck and dressedthe woman’s wounds and, strange to say,at last accounts, both are still living.
Sometimes when you research familyhistory you stumble upon things youmaybe didn’t want to know. For instance,I discovered my great-great-grandfatherCaptain Charlie Doss was leader of theNoxubee County Ku Klux Klan duringReconstruction. Doss led the effort toterrorize blacks and reinstate whitepower.While I was doing this research, my
own company was working withAncestry.com to put the archives of 25Mississippi newspapers online. Thesearchives will go back dozens of decadesand allow people to search all the text bykeywords and retrieve the pages as theyappeared in print.Ancestry.com is the leading genealog-
ical Website in the country. It makesresearching your family tree a snap,because it accesses other family treesthat intersect yours.For instance, the Emmerich family
tree, which I produced, is now beingaccessed by hundreds of other users. Itgives me satisfaction to know that mostof our family’s important genealogical
information is now on the Web, where itcan be used by future generations.If you are into genealogy, I invite you
to participate in this national effort to pre-serve our history. Eventually, the entiregenealogical history of our country willbe filled out.I was impressed by Macon. It is a pret-
ty town with some beautiful old homesand a great sense of its heritage. Morgan Douglass, a Millsaps grad
with Macon roots, helped me and my sonJohn locate several of our ancestors’graves. He has a beautiful country homein Macon. He was a very gracious host.It was nice to ride through the back
roads and see the agricultural prowess ofthe black belt prairie. Like the Delta, thisrich farmland made the area vibrant andbustling 100 years ago. Since then,Noxubee has lost two-thirds of its popula-tion. Federal transfer payments are nowprobably the biggest source of income.Understanding your past enriches
your life. I urge everyone to take care topreserve precious family informationand hand it down.
This season’s Marshall Academy Patriots claimed the OverallTournament championship last week. It was the school’s first since1971. Pictured are the 1971 Patriots, with their trophies from the sea-son. In front (from left) are trainer Fred Carlisle, Robert Akins, BenYarbrough, Chuck Rounsaville, Mike Harrison, Jimmy Lee Hughes,
George Yarbrough, Jewel Johnson and trainer Walter McClatchy. Inback (from left) are trainer Billy McClatchy, coach Noal Akins, LarryColey, Tommy Rodgers, Johnny Hill, Billy Person, Mike Boone,Stephen Fleming, Bobby Bonds, Bob Dent, Gary Utley, assistantcoach David Rather and assistant coach Randy Hynum.
Marshall’s 1971 champions
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
couple looked like the edges had beenburned.The Civil War was just barely over
and carpetbaggers were apparentlyeverywhere. Ads to cure everything –miasma, the vapors, etc. – blazed acrossthe pages. Many were aimed to the ailsof women.I saw the first pages of The Reporter
(in the same font we still use) from 1870.The newspaper was then in its sixthyear. It was really eerie reading thenews – not as history, but as actual hap-pening events.During the 1919-1920s, when The
Reporter absorbed The South, therewere dreadful stories about World War I.I could read these, as the pages were inmuch better condition than the 1870spapers.It was humbling to sit there and turn
the handle of the microfilm machine andgo back in time. I was stricken with aprofound sense of the history as I wasturning the pages.History has always been a love of
mine – to sit and look at these pagesfrom the past was such a joy.It was so exciting to look at the micro-
fiche catalog and see newspapers fromHolly Springs as far back as the 1840s,and a few earlier.The 1865-1869 film of The Holly
Springs Reporter wasn’t in the files.Apparently, that film was out for repair.But I did get to see the 1870 The HollySprings Reporter.The Holly Springs Reporter began
publishing in 1865. The South was inter-mittently published from the 1800s (Icouldn’t find a first issue) until 1919,
when The Holly Springs Reporterabsorbed The South. The Holly SpringsReporter billed itself as the oldest paperin the area. The South billed itself as thelargest. The advertising fanfare prom-ised great things for “The SouthReporter.”The roll of microfilm for those first
years was naturally the one that was outfor repairs. I was seriously disappointed.It was virtually impossible to read the
“news.” It was in very tiny type, veryclosely printed and on very old paper.But the ads were spectacular. They cov-ered the sides of the front pages andmost of the insides. To me, it appearedthat the news wasn’t quite as importantas knowing which miracle cure to takeor, even more importantly, how to makelight and fluffy biscuits. Ads took up anentire half of the paper – running fromtop to bottom – touting how light andfluffy her biscuits were because sheused whichever brand of flour was beingadvertised. There were so many ads forso many things that are strange andeven funny now.• Sometimes, I laugh and say I’ve
been at The South Reporter since 1865but it’s not true. Barbara Taylor hadbeen working at the paper seven yearswhen I first started.My first day here started out strange.
When I arrived and walked in the door,Barbara was there, waiting for me. Shehad on the same dress. Both of us werewearing a black and white, large printchecked dress.I’ve been at the paper now for 28 and
a half years. Seems like a lifetime. I’veworked a couple weeks each time at two
different places, as a temporary clerk,but The South Reporter is the only jobI’ve ever had. One job interview, withWalter Webb.At the only job interview I’ve ever
been on, I asked about vacations. Webbjust kinda laughed, waved his hand andsaid, “We’ll talk about that later.” It waslater when I found out vacation and daysoff at a newspaper were much differentthan for the rest of the working world.Life revolves around deadlines.So much so that during the time my
late husband Butch was having heartsurgeries, one of his heart surgeons wasplanning a surgery on a Monday. Butchtold him that I couldn’t take off work ona Monday, could the surgery wait untilWednesday or Thursday. (He had thesurgery on Monday.)Lots of things have changed since
October 1986. The computers havechanged several times -- each time Ithink it’s a great new computer -- after Ilearn how to use it! One of the reallynoticeable things is the size of the news-paper itself. We are at the mercy of theprinters -- if they change paper size, wego with them.The very early papers I spent so long
trying to decipher at the archives mademe very grateful for computers. Thoseold pages, some of which are repro-duced in the 150th section of the Profileedition were set by hand. Each letter ofeach word was meticulously laid out byhand -- mirror image.Next time I lose something on the
computer and have to retype it -- maybeI won’t moan and complain quite asmuch...
Living in the pres-ent can be hard.Instead, we can live inthe past, pining forthe so-called “goodold days,” or rueingthe mistakes wemade years ago. Orwe live in the future,longing to be freedfrom our present tri-als or fear what the futuremight hold. Why? As theBritish writer C.S. Lewis said,“The present is the only timein which any duty can be doneor any grace received.”
Practice living in the nowthis Lent. How? When chop-ping an onion for the casse-role, chop the onion. Focus onthe activity you are doing.When attending a meeting,attend the meeting. Whentalking with someone, givethat person your full attention.When praying, pray. Salvationcomes in every now of our
life. String togetherenough nows well-lived, and you have awell-lived life.
Hope you allenjoyed the snow; itleaves a beautifulclean sight, brightand cheerful, yetchilly.
Remember to hugand kiss your spouse and chil-dren each day and beforeBed. Tell each other you lovethem; it may be your lastchance.
Young people, be kind toyour elderly; they are yourmentors. Listen and learnfrom them, especially yourparents, pastors and teachers.We will lead you in the rightdirection.
Have a great week. I loveyou all.
I’m adding a bit to closeBlack History Month. OnFriday eve, I watched “Selma:
A March to Remember” onTV. Tears came to my eyes.We have come a long way. Weall need to go back in historyand review why our ancestorsdied for us. We now have allthe opportunities in the U.S.that are there for us. Wheyare we downing ourselves?Young people, you are ourfuture. If you continue to killeach other, you all will benumber one in prisons. Wenow nearly outnumber anyother races. Wake up; don’tquit school. I know we all havedreams; follow them. If youcan’t do it alone, talk to some-one who will listen and helpyou. Follow them.
Do a good deed for yourneighbor, a family member,and your life will change. TheDevil is everywhere, but ourSavior is out there, too;remember He was also tempt-ed by the Devil. You can sayno and mean it. Think about it.
“He that goethforth and weepeth,bearing precious seed,shall doubtless comeagain with rejoicing,bringing his sheaveswith him.” Psalm126:6.
R e m i n d e r :Daylight SavingTime beginsSunday, March 8, at2 a.m. Clocks are turned for-ward an hour, effectively mov-ing an hour of daylight fromthe morning to the evening.
Sympathy is extended tothe family of Jerry Hill ofHolly Springs in her deathlast Thursday. Services wereheld Sunday afternoon atFirst Baptist Church, withburial in Hill Crest Cemetery.Mrs. Hill was the mother offour children, and a formerMarshall County TaxAssessor.
Jean Gurley accompaniedher sister, Betty Bennett ofHolly Springs, on a trip toChile’s Restaurant in OliveBranch, Sunday, Feb. 22, toparticipate in a birthday cele-bration for Chuck Bennett.They were also joined byChuck’s friend, TracyWilliams, Vickie BennettSweet, and Jeff Pitman.
In the February 12 editionof Potts Camp News, a correc-tion needs to be made to thestory about the late PFC RossWright, a U.S. Army veteran.His son, Johnnie marriedLetha Dean of Little Rock,Mississippi, not Arkansas, aswas printed. We regret thiserror. Little Rock is inNoxubee County.
Last Saturday SherryColhoun celebrated an earlybirthday lunch at SpaghettiWarehouse in Memphis,Tenn., with her husband,Garrie; daughters, Elizabethand Rebecca; her mother,Margaret Hart; and Ben andJ.R. Ivester. Afterwards theywent home with Elizabeth forMuddy’s cupcakes and theopening of gifts.
Jackie Luther and her sis-ter-in-law, Emeline Payne,attended a wedding showerfor Aaron and Leanne Barberat Southern Eatery in HollySprings this past Sundayafternoon.
Happy late birthday toLinda Gibson (Feb. 28). Sheand Billy Joe Jarrett share thesame birthday and celebratedby attending abluegrass/gospel singing atFulton.
I think it goes without say-ing that most everyoneenjoyed the snowfall lastWednesday. After the ice,snow was a welcome relief, ifwe had to have bad weather.Schools closed around noon,students were able to enjoythe snow during the daytime,and David Fuller’s dreamcame true, as he had beenwishing for it to snow all win-ter. It was one of the loveliestsnowfalls we have had inquite some time. Everyoneseemed to be having a greattime, judging by all of theshared pictures. Two of ourgreat-nephews fromCalifornia, Jordan and ColtonMuraco, who now live intown, had snow skied before,but had not witnessed a reallive snowfall. They even wentsnowboarding and sleddingdown Stone Mountain, inPotts Camp, and enjoyedevery minute of it!
David Fuller created asnowman at his house, and
then with the assis-tance of neighbor-hood children, builtone on my front lawn.Afterwards, they atesnow cream (most forthe first time). It was amagical afternoon.
Congratulations tothe editor and staff ofThe South Reporterfor putting together
the annual Profile Edition, fea-turing a section dedicated tothe paper’s 150th anniversary.News reporting has come along way from its beginning.And the layout has beenupgraded 100 percent orgreater. So much haschanged over the years, fromhand-set copy to digital.
In 1976, I became involvedin the newspaper businesswhen Fred M. Belk andWilliam Minor purchased thesecond weekly paper in HollySprings. Previously namedThe Light, a contest was heldto give the paper a new name,and the winning entry wasThe Marshall Messenger. Iwas hired as the managingeditor and publisher.
Ron Moody, a local photog-rapher and journalist, taughtme the art of news reporting,and creating pages for thepaper. There were ads to sell,news to go out and find, set-ting up copy for the paper onan electronic machine, as wellas the day-to-day operation ofthe business. There was quitea bit to do in order to get apaper out to clientele.
While it was very interest-ing and challenging, it wasalso time-consuming, gettinginto the office very early inthe morning and sometimesgetting home around 2 a.m.,then back to the office on theday the copy was taken to theprinters in New Albany to bethere at 7 a.m. Afterwards,papers had to be delivered toarea and local businesses, aswell as labeled for the PostOffice. Running a newspaperwas hard work, but veryrewarding. You knew every-one in town and lots of peoplein the county, as well as mak-ing many friends.
There were days whenexciting adventures weretaken in order to report thenews; other days there weretrials to cover at the court-house, as well as news thatwas often harder to writeabout.
Prior to becoming a news
reporter, etc., I worked for 15years for Wilbur C. “Red”Brown at Brown Printing Co.in Holly Springs, a businessthat was established in 1948.My job was bookkeeper andtypesetter; however, therewas no end to the thingslearned in this business. Mr.Brown taught me how to cre-ate jobs by layout and design,which was an asset later.
It was also fascinating tolearn about the methods ofprinting; and the machineryused to get a job to the cus-tomer. There was a Linotypemachine; a Heidelbergmachine and an offset press.Copy for the offset press wascreated on a Vari-Typer,which was a highly ingenious“word processor” of the pre-digital age.
Mr. Brown always said thatprinter’s ink gets into yourblood and stays there; there-fore my enjoyment in writing.
What I learned from onejob was carried over into thenext one; i.e., creating flyers,posters, booklets, programs,scrapbooks, etc.
I will close by saying, “Ihad some great teachersalong the way!”
Happy Birthday to the fol-lowing who will celebratetheir special day during theweek:
Alan Evans, EvieFerguson, Carol Hurdle,Allyson Pipkin, LaverneProvost, and Renee Russom(Mar. 5), Patrick Goode,Deanna Alderson Waugh(Mar. 6), Vic Stilwell (Mar. 7),Wendy Moore (Mar. 9),Shelly Thompson (Mar. 10).
Prayer requests: Sandra(Gilliam) Beaver, Mrs.Charlie Brown, LindaBumpas, Mike Cooper, JodyEdwards, Marie Edwards,Mary Fowler, Tim Gholston,Marlin Gilliam, Gale Goode,James Gray, Mary LoisGreen, Maura Hicks, PaulineHutchens, Linda Jones, Rev.William Kemp, TerriKitchens, Troy and LucilleLeopard, Robert H. and JeanKing, Gracie McCallum, GaryMcNeely, Elizabeth Morris,Junior Overall, Raiford Rhea,Larry Robbins, MelanieRogers, Faye Turpen, JackieWest, Anna Grace Whaley,Velma Wilkerson.
To place news, birthdays,prayer requests, etc. in thiscolumn, call 662-333-7054, orsend email to: [email protected].
Angel’s CornerAnnie Reid
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Those participating in a neighborhood project of building a snowman on the lawn of Mary Minor,Thursday, Feb. 26, were Devontae Wilks, Jayne Rowland, Deondra Wilks, David Fuller, and ChristopherRowland.
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How does the saying go?“March comes in like a lamband goes out like a lion.” I’mnot sure if one would call thefirst day of March a lamb, asfor the most part, it was mildtemperature-wise; but wereally got a big rain. Not thatI am complaining, as we willprobably be needing this rainin the months to come.
The crowd at church wasdown somewhat yesterday(Sunday) as it was pouringdown all the way there. Ifailed to take my umbrellaand even though my raincoathas a hood I still got my hairvery damp.
Sue Rowland told me thatthe GAs are to go on a retreatthis weekend at Wall DoxeyState Park. Sue will be incharge of arts and crafts.Other teachers going areTracey Watkins and PhyllisGivens. The girls are JayneRowland, Sue’s granddaugh-ter, along with Terry andRhonda Cook’s daughtersJade and London Cook, aswell as Allison Holmes andAmanda Watkins, who isTracey’s daughter.
Terry Cook is our songleader, and if he is out for
some reason, TraceyWatkins fills in for him. Bothof these men have beenblessed with wonderful voic-es.
Last time I sent news, Isaid I would be telling moreabout the Union CountyMaster Gardeners’ upcomingHome and Garden Show,which will mark the seventhyear of this event.
State Farm Insurance Co.will sponsor the Lunch andLearn event on April 10 at 12noon. The featured speakeris Lynette McDougal, MSUFlorist and Horticulture spe-cialist, who will speak on be“Flowers to Showers.”
For tickets call JoyceMorrison at 662-538-5333.
This year’s luncheon issalad-themed and will be pro-vided by Nickols’ Catering,with the desserts comingfrom Sugaree Bakery.
Immediately followingthis, will be a presentation byDr. Shannon McGee, DVM,who will be exploring theunnoticed worlds of plantsand insects, which co-exist.
Then at 3 p.m. we willhave the very knowledgeableand most interesting FelderRushing, who is a well-known
horticulture expert. He has aradio show on MPB everyFriday and Saturday morn-ing.
Among the other manyfun and educational thingswill be an antique tractorshow and many vendors,showing a multitude ofthings needed around thehome and garden.
There will be many inter-esting plants and unusualplanters, etc. to say nothingof the food and different foodvendors.
This year there will besomething for the kids sobring them on out to instill inthem a love of plants and howto grow things.
I will leave you with thisthought from Max Lucado,who says, “When you are inyour final days of life, whatwill you want? Will you wantyour college degree? Or willyou find comfort readingyour financial statement? No,what will matter most will bethe people and relationshipsin your life, as well as thethoughts of how you willspend eternity.”
[email protected],landline 662-988-3685, cell662-316-8963.
“Living in the now”
GAs to spend weekend at Wall Doxey
Shower honors Aaron and Leanne Barber
The Holly Springs Main Street Chamberand
The Byhalia Area Chamber of Commerceinvite you to a
Business After HoursThursday, March 5, from 4:30 pm. to 6:30 p.m.
at The South Reporter office,
in celebration of the community newspaper’s150th Anniversary.
The office is located at 157 South Center Streetin Holly Springs.
Front Page February 5, 1959, when The South Reporter moved to South Center Street.
Marie Alderson ofMarshall County was award-ed the State of MississippiOutstanding Soil & WaterConservation DistrictEmployee of the Year at the70th annual meeting of theMississippi Association of theConservation District held inJackson. Marie has threeyears of service with theMarshall County Soil & WaterConservation District. This award is given to the
Mississippi Association ofConservation District employ-ee who helps their district pro-mote and demonstrate theconservation and develop-ment protection and properutilization of soil- and water-related resources in their dis-trict. Alderson has brought
numerous new district activi-ties to local city and countyschools here in MarshallCounty: Activities such as
Watershed HarmonyProduction, poster contests,celebration of Dr. Seuss,Arbor Day programs, Sam E.Soil classroom demonstra-tions, Envirothon Teams,Youth Camp participation,tree planting programs and
Soil Stewardship Week activi-ties. Pictured above is Steve
Cantrell, president of theMississippi Association ofConservation District, pre-senting Marie Alderson theaward.
Local author MarylaneWade Koch will join the out-standing faculty of the Mid-South Christian Writers’Conference on Saturday,March 7. Koch has over 30years of experience in writ-ing, editing, and speaking.She has authored numerousarticles and published sever-al healthcare books and inspi-rational stories. She servesas vice president of theByhalia Christian Writers,the Mississippi Writer Guild,and the Byhalia Area ArtsCouncil. Koch, a Byhalia res-ident, enjoys teaching othersthrough Write LifeWorkshops .
Vonda Skelton, nationallyrecognized speaker andauthor, is this year’s keynotespeaker. She is founder andco-director of ChristianCommunicators, a confer-ence and community dedicat-ed to educating, validating,and launching women intheir speaking ministries.She is an occasional actressin film, theater, and commer-cials, and she is currentlyworking on a screenplay. Youcan find out more aboutVonda and her ministry atVondaSkelton.com.For more information
about the Mid-SouthChristian Writers’
Conference, visithttp://www.midsouthchris-tianwriters.com/ or contactApril Carpenter, conferencedirector, [email protected] or901-378-0504.
For two weekssolid, the MarshallAcademy Patriotshave been on theroad in search of theelusive Golden Ball.They first swept the1-A District tourna-ment at home. Thenext week foundthem in Marks,sweeping that tour-nament for the 1-A North-Half championship. RebulAcademy in Raymond wastheir next stop, competing forthe 1-A State championship.The last stop for the seniorPatriots was MississippiCollege in Clinton for thestate overall tournament lastweek.Their first opponent was
Jackson Academy, a strongAAA team. Going into twoovertimes, the Patriots pulledout the win with gooddefense, free throws and well-timed shots from the floor.Ironically enough, the sec-
ond game on the road to thechampionship was rival AAAschool, Magnolia Heightsfrom Senatobia. Having notmet up with them at all dur-ing regular season play, thePatriots were hungry for thewin. They came out of thegate running; however, theChiefs proved to be formida-ble, as they led by 16 at onepoint during the game. ThePatriots dug for that fire,found it and won the game,advancing them to Saturday’schampionship against thedefending overall champions,Madison Ridgeland Aca -demy.When I took my seat
Saturday, there were threeyoung men sitting next to me.I didn’t recognize them asours, so inquired as to whothey were and why they werethere. All three were studentsfrom Jackson Academy,
major rivals withMRA. They wanted tocome and cheer onour team, even wav-ing Patriot poms andcheering our boys’names!The Patriots came
out of the gate on fire.They never let up theentire game, playingslow ball. It was a
sight to behold, as their gameplan came into place and cer-tainly quieted the rowdyMRA fans. When the game went into
overtime, everyone stood towatch the action. At thebuzzer, we were up by oneand had sealed the deal -Marshall Academy Patriotstook the overall win for thefirst time since 1971 in bas-ketball! Our fans stormed the
floor, surrounded the teamwith hugs, words of congratu-lations and lots of smilingfaces! Needless to say, the MRA
side quietly exited the gym,hanging their heads in defeat. What a thrill ride it has
been watching this team ofyoung men all of these years.Saying goodbye to the seniorplayers, Christian Compton,Dakota Dailey, ThomasFaulkenbery, Jordon Harrisand Tobe West, is hard. Theyhave shown their loyalty tothe Patriot program and
coach Craig Dailey for yearson end. They have con-tributed not only on thecourt, but off as well. Theyare a fine group of youngmen who will be missedmore than words canexpress. Good luck to themin their future endeavors.The Marshall Academy
cheerleaders contributed agreat deal of support duringthe season for both of thePatriot teams, especially dur-ing tournament time. Theywere the only squad to travelwith their team. They wereled by cheer coach DwanaMcAlexander. The seniorgirls – Caitlyn Brooks,Cheyenne Bolden, MontanaEasley, Mary CatherineHutchens, Wesleyann Rayand Anna Summerlin will besorely missed next year.They have given meaning totrue Patriotism at everygame. They cheered theirhearts out and made thischeer year one for the books.Thank you, one and all, forthe wonderful memoriesmade!
(To put your news in CityPersonals, please [email protected]; mailto City Personals, The SouthReporter, P.O. Box 278, HollySprings, MS 38635 or call662-252-4261. You may alsoe-mail your City Personalsnews to [email protected]).
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Senior Patriots, cheerleaders and fellow classmates rejoiced on the floor of the gym at MississippiCollege in Clinton after the Patriots win the overall state title. Pictured: front, from left: Wesleyann Ray,Caitlyn Brooks, MC Hutchens, Montana Easley, Cheyenne Bolden; back, from left: Christian Compton,Tobe West, Dakota Dailey, Thomas Faulkenbery, Jordon Harris. Not pictured is Anna Summerlin.
Byhalia Business of MonthCarrier plant manager Andrea Duncan was delighted recently to accept the trophy presented by ByhaliaArea Chamber of Commerce signifying that Carrier had been selected as Business of the Month byByhalia Area Chamber of Commerce. Carrier has been in business in Collierville, Tenn., for more than 40years, employing more than 1,500 during their peak manufacturing season. Always a strong supporter ofgiving back to local communities, they currently are a Chamber Champion of Byhalia Area Chamber ofCommerce.
Monthly Bible study continues at the Holly Springs Police DepartmentChief Dwight Harris, along with fellow officers, welcomed members of the community to join in theFebruary Bible study. This month’s Bible study, held Thursday, February 5, was led by Pastor ActavatisAllen of the New Dimension Church. Chief Harris expressed the need for prayer in the department andthe community as a whole, as we are all faced with everyday challenges that affect our community. Thedepartment’s next Bible study is scheduled for Thursday, March 5, at the Holly Springs Police Departmentand the doors are open to the community. Pictured are, from left: back row: Capt. Elijah Wilson, Capt.Darryl Bowen, Officer Anthony Jones, Pastor Actavatis Allen, Chief Dwight Harris, Charisse Harris, WilliePowell. Front row: Tina Craig, Harmony Perkins and Dana Perkins.
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New Freedom FamilyMinistries will celebrate its10th church anniversaryMarch 15 with the officialdedication of their building tothe Churches of God inChrist, Inc.
Services begin at 3 p.m. atthe church, located at 206Highway 30 in Oxford.Bishop T.T. Scott, prelate ofthe Northern Mississippi Ec-clesiastical Jurisdiction ofCOGIC, will deliver the mes-sage and officiate the cere-mony. Dinner will follow inthe fellowship hall. The pub-lic is cordially invited to at-tend.
“We are making history,”said Elder Edwin Smith, pas-tor and co-founder of NewFreedom. “While there havebeen several COGIC-relatedgroups in Oxford before us,we are the newest and thefirst congregation to actuallybuy and dedicate a buildingas a house of worship for thedenomination here.”
Smith and his wife, Evan-gelist Missionary FannieSmith, launched the churchin March 2005. Then they oc-cupied a storefront at 809 Col-lege Hill Road. The growingcongregation remained thereuntil purchasing its presentlocation in December 2012.
“My husband and I arejust so thankful that the Lordhas blessed us to endure andmake it to this point,” FannieSmith said. “Truly, it hastaken several years of time,prayer, finances, patience andhard work in bringing this vi-sion to reality.”
Starting churches is some-what of a Smith family tradi-tion.
“My paternal grandpar-ents, the late Eddie Lee andLucy Sales Smith, began thefirst Church of God in Christin Holly Springs more than80 years ago,” Pastor Smithsaid. “That building was adance hall that they trans-
formed into a sanctuary. Ialso had two uncles on my fa-ther’s side of the family whostarted successful churchesin Memphis. My wife was afounding member of the Pil-grim Rest COGIC in Oak-land. In that sense, I guesswhat we’ve done is not thatunusual.”
Before starting New Free-dom, the couple led the Uni-versity of Mississippi COGICFellowship from 1984 to1994. Again, it was the de-nomination’s first campusministry in the Oxford area.Smith also briefly pastoredKelly Chapel COGIC inRobinsonville in 1994 beforeaccepting a faculty position atOral Roberts University inTulsa, Okla.
Services at New Freedominclude prayer and Bibleband Wednesdays at 7 p.m.,Sunday School at 9:30 a.m.and morning worship at 11a.m. Everyone is welcome toattend any and all services.For more info. about the min-istry, call 662-380-5019, emailat [email protected] orvisit their Facebook page.
On Saturday night, Feb.14, Free Branch Church cele-brated couples night.
Arbidella Hoof was chair-person, along with Linda Pre-ston, co-chair.
Each couple’s table wasdecorated with white tablecover, red roses, candles androse petals.
The appetizer was a tossedsalad with a choice of raisins,croutons, nuts, bacon bits,thousand island dressing andranch dressing. The mealconsisted of a choice betweensteak and chicken breasts forthe meat, green beans, bakedpotato with cheese and hotrolls. The meal was invitingand delicious.
The desserts were beauti-ful as well – cheese cake with
a drizzling of caramel saucetopped with sweet, juicystrawberries, red velvet cakewith cream cheese icing, andbrownie squares topped withred cherries. Sweet tea wasserved as a beverage. Theydined by candlelight.
The food was served bythree ladies. Georgia Boga,Joe Ann Moore and MaryJones Porter.
They also played two
games: Couples in the Bibleand How Well Do You KnowYour Mate? The winners wereBen and Clara Mayes. Therewas a tie for second place,Rev. and Mrs. Preston,Sylvester and Joe Ann Jones.
Photos were available for asmall fee. Photographerswere Jonny Anderson and hiswife. Couples exchangedgifts.
It was a wonderful night.
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Photo by DeMill DixonFrom left, back row: Damien Taylor, April Vaughn, Leela Hubbard, Nicolous Bennett, ZaQuaylon Coleman,Elton Collins, KeZiel Boyd, Zantaous Boyd; first row, from left: Jarvis Moore, S. Boyd, Mrs. Hicks, Jar’QualaMoore, Jamonte Mitchell, Any-kiel Milan, (baby Ms. Moore) and Demetria Parks.
By Mary HickSWhat better way to say
goodbye to the old year andhello to the New Year than toshare with you, the commu-nity, the 2014 calendar of theclub? We not only celebrated“The Reason for the Season.”We came together as a clublearning to “Make the BestBetter.” Below you will find alist of meetings, programs, ac-tivities and community serv-ices of the club.
• Met twice a month, eitherat the 4-H office or the Mar-shall County Library
• Established the CouponBox stationed at the Marshall
County Library; this projecthas been in effect since 2006
• A Halloween Pizza Partyat Pizza Hut (Everyone in cos-tumes, even Mrs. Hicks)
• Sponsored a Black His-tory Coloring Contest at theHolly Springs Primary School
• Participated in the MayDay and Rust CollegeFounders’ Parades
• Sponsored a Food Driveat the Holly Springs PrimarySchool
• Participated in ExhibitDay, where craft items madeby the club were displayed onthe courthouse lawn andjudged
• Traveled to Fulton forProject Achievement Day
• Sponsored a 4-H Recruit-ment Drive at the HollySprings Primary School
• Participated in Veteran’sProgram at the Ida B. WellsMuseum
• Members were recog-nized at an awards program
• Attended the ExtensionOffice Christmas Open House
This year we’ll be more pro-ductive as we are exploringnew avenues of the 4-H organ-ization.
I give kudos to my parents.Most of my parents attend themeetings.
Lessye Lee Davis 4-H Club news Pictured, back row, from left: Ben Mayes, Winford Jones, Bennie Collins, Izonia, Eloise Walker, ClaraMayes, Arbidella Hoof, Sylvester Jones, Elton Collins Sr., Eddie Hoof, Willie Jones, pastor Joe Louis Tun-stall, Linnette Marion, James Freeman, Selma Marion Sr. Second Row: Dorothy Collins, Willie Walker,Pastor John Powell of Jones Grove, Webster Collins, Jaioma Freeman, Gwen Jones, Debra Sims. Seated:Linda Preston, Mrs. Powell, Joe Ann Jones, Mrs. Tunstall, Leon Sims, Rev. Charles Preston.
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Dr. Gemma Beckley, chairand professor of social workat Rust College, has beenawarded a Fulbright Scholargrant to do research in Indiaduring the 2015-2016 aca-demic year, the United StatesDepartment of State and theJ. William Fulbright ForeignScholarship Board an-nounced recently. Beckley isthe first Fulbright scholar inRust College’s history.
“It feels wonderful,” Beck-ley said. “I am so excited!”
Beckley has establishedherself as an authority in thefield of social work, havingworked nationally and inter-nationally to help women andchildren in rural and under-served communities. This willnot be her first trip to India.The National Association ofSocial Work NASW PioneerAward recipient has traveledto the country several timeslecturing and conducting re-search.
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Geography and PowerPointMarshall Academy freshman Abby Sanders describes Christiania, Denmark’s alternative city, during herPowerPoint presentation to the world geography class.
Famous people PowerPointThe seventh grade Mississippi history class at Marshall Academy had to design a PowerPoint presentationabout seven famous people from Mississippi. Students were required to research artists, muscians, writers,entertainers, athletes, and outstanding citizens of our great state. Pictured, from left: Kirsty Wang, AbbyLay, Erin Burleson, Melanie Cheesman, Sonni McKinney, Waylon Langston, and Michael Ragsdale. (Notpictured - Grady Brooks.)
Education
Dr. Gemma Beckley
Beckley becomes first Fulbright Scholar at Rust
The following studentswere named to the Dean’sList at the University of Mem-phis for the Fall 2014 semes-ter:
Amber Adams, MariaBittick, Devin Doole, MiaHairston, Matthew Miles,Rachel Moore, Emily Moses,Angela Patrick, John Rogers,Shameika Taylor, BrianaWells, all of Byhalia;
Stephanie Berry, KatieGilliland, Tierenee Nichols,Liberia Nucklos and SarahPoteet, all of Holly Springs.
Studentsnamed toDean’s Listat Universityof Memphis
By BEVERLY PHILLIPSHolly Springs Intermediate
School joined the movementnationwide and wore red onFebruary 7, to support thefight against heart disease inwomen. Shown in picture arestaff members (from left) fifthgrade teacher McNeal(seated); fourth grade teacherDawkins (standing); principalBrown (seated); sixth gradeteacher Mason (kneeling);and fourth grade teacherHunt (seated).
Holly Springs IntermediateSchool Domino’s Pizza Fund-Raiser dates are March 5-8.Please hop on the bus andhelp us out by purchasing apizza. The school will receivea portion of the profit. Inorder for us to receive a profityou must carry a form withthe intermediate school’s
name on it. Your child will bebringing one home; you canpick one up from the office, orat the Parent Center.
Holly Springs School Dis-trict will be closed for springbreak March 9-13. School willresume on March 16.
Students at Holly SpringsIntermediate School will joinmillions of their peers acrossthe country to celebrate the18th annual National Educa-tion Association (NEA) ReadAcross America Day. Al-though, Dr. Seuss’ birthdaywas Monday, March 2, we willcelebrate his birthday onMonday, March 18, from 1-2:50 p.m. The Mississippi As-sociation of Educators is tak-ing the entire month tocelebrate his birthday. Lastyear we had a very large num-ber of families and commu-
nity leaders to participate. Wehad 130 readers. This year weneed 131 or more readers.Yes, we can do it! Please an-swer our call and come in onMarch 16, and participate byreading to one or moreclasses at the Holly SpringsIntermediate School. Re-member “You are never toold, too wacky, too wild, topick up a book and read witha child.” Librarian Linda Stew-art will have plenty of booksavailable or you can bringyour favorite book. Authors,you are welcome to come andread your book. Let our stu-dents know who you are. Wehave plenty here in HollySprings and Marshall County.For more info you can contactlibrarian Linda Stewart or Par-ent Center liaison BeverlyPhillips at 662-252-7733.
Making the connection between home and school
The South Reporter - Thursday, March 5, 2015 - Section 1 - Page 10
Legal Notices
Legal No ticesDeadline
Monday, 5 p.m.
Substitute Trustee’s Notice of SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF Marshall
WHEREAS, on the 17th day of March, 2004and acknowledged on the 17th day of March,2004, Vincent A. Yasky, a married man joinedherein by Margie Yasky, executed and delivereda certain Deed of Trust unto D. M. Grisham,Trustee for National Bank of Commerce and Mort-gage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., asnominee for National Bank of Commerce, Bene-ficiary, to secure an indebtedness therein de-scribed, which Deed of Trust is recorded in theoffice of the Chancery Clerk of Marshall County,Mississippi in Book 351 at Page 448; and
WHEREAS, by various assignments onrecord said Deed of Trust was ultimately assignedto Nationstar Mortgage LLC by instrumentrecorded in the office of the aforesaid ChanceryClerk in Instrument #2015000222; and
WHEREAS, on the 9th day of October, 2014the Holder of said Deed of Trust substituted andappointed Emily Kaye Courteau by instrumentrecorded in the office of the aforesaid ChanceryClerk in Instrument #2015000223; and re-recorded in Instrument # 2014004543; and;
WHEREAS, default having been made in thepayments of the indebtedness secured by thesaid Deed of Trust, and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requested the undersigned so todo, on the 12th day of March, 2015, I will duringthe lawful hours of between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00p.m., at public outcry, offer for sale and will sell, atthe south door of the Marshall County Courthouseat Holly Springs, Mississippi, for cash to the high-est bidder, the following described land and prop-erty situated in Marshall County, Mississippi,to-wit:
Lot 54, Southeast Collierville Farms Subdi-vision, Containing 2.12 Acres, being in Section 31,Township 1 South, Range 4 West, MarshallCounty, Mississippi. A Plat of said subdivisionbeing of record in the Office of the Chancery ClerkOffice of Marshall County in Plat File #805-B.
Being the same property conveyed toGrantor(s) herein as shown in Warranty Deed ofrecord at Book 336, Page 10 in said Register’sOffice.
SUBJECT TO 1ST LIEN
I will only convey such title as is vested in meas Substitute Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this 13th day ofFebruary, 2015.
Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee
855 S Pear Orchard Rd., Ste. 404, Bldg. 400Ridgeland, MS 39157(318) 330-9020
rdb/F14-1098PUBLISH: 2.19.15 - 2.26.15 - 3.5.15
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Substitute Trustee’s Notice of SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF Marshall
WHEREAS, on the 17th day of November,2006 and acknowledged on the 17th day of No-vember, 2006, Justin A Cowan and Tracy Cowanaka Traci Cowan, husband and wife, executedand delivered a certain Deed of Trust unto Rob VBudhwa, Trustee for Mortgage Electronic Regis-tration Systems, Inc. as nominee for FieldstoneMortgage Company, Beneficiary, to secure an in-debtedness therein described, which Deed ofTrust is recorded in the office of the ChanceryClerk of Marshall County, Mississippi in Book 426at Page 266; and
WHEREAS, Justin A Cowan and TracyCowan aka Traci Cowan, husband and wife isalso known as Traci R. Cowan per the landrecords of Marshall County, Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, on the 30th day of September,2010, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems,Inc. as nominee for Fieldstone Mortgage Com-pany, assigned said Deed of Trust unto Bank ofAmerica, National Association as successor bymerger to LaSalle Bank National Association, asTrustee for Certificateholders of Bear StearnsAsset Backed Securities I LLC, Asset-BackedCertificates, Series 2007-FS1, by instrumentrecorded in the office of the aforesaid ChanceryClerk in Inst #2010005307; and
WHEREAS, on the 23rd day of July, 2014the Holder of said Deed of Trust substituted andappointed Sean A. Southern by instrumentrecorded in the office of the aforesaid ChanceryClerk in Instrument #2014005277; and
WHEREAS, default having been made in thepayments of the indebtedness secured by thesaid Deed of Trust, and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requested the undersigned so todo, on the 12th day of March, 2015, I will duringthe lawful hours of between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00p.m., at public outcry, offer for sale and will sell, atthe south door of the Marshall County Courthouseat Holly Springs, Mississippi, for cash to the high-est bidder, the following described land and prop-erty situated in Marshall County, Mississippi,to-wit:
5.005 acres more or less, in the SouthwestQuarter of Section 19, Township 1 South, Range2 West, Marshall County, Mississippi, and beingmore particularly described as follows, to wit:Commencing at a 1/2” rebar found on the Northside of Sand Road, said point being the South-west corner of Section 19, Township 1 South,Range 2 West, Marshall County, Mississippi; runthence South 88 degrees 54 minutes 56 secondsEast 654.81 feet to a 1/2” rebar found in the centerof Sand Road; thence North 01 degrees 14 min-utes 00 seconds East 1072.77 feet to a 1/2” rebarfound and the POINT OF BEGINNING of saidtract; run thence North 01 degrees 14 minutes 00seconds East 872.12 feet to a 1/2” rebar set;thence South 88 degrees 35 minutes 09 secondsEast 250.00 feet to a 1/2” rebar set; thence South01 degrees 14 minutes 00 seconds West 872.12feet to a 1/2” rebar set; thence North 88 degrees35 minutes 09 seconds West 250.00 feet to thePoint of Beginning, and containing 5.005 acres,more or less.
ALSO: 0.493 ACRES, MORE OR LESS,FOR A 20 FOOT INGRESS AND EGRESSEASEMENT IN THE SOUTHWEST QUARTEROF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 1 SOUTH,RANGE 2 WEST, MARSHALL COUNTY, MIS-SISSIPPI, and being more particularly describedas follows, to-wit:
COMMENCING at a 1/2” rebar found on theNorth side of Sand Road, said point being theSouthwest corner of Section 19, Township 1South, Range 2 West, Marshall County, Missis-sippi; run thence South 88 degrees 54 minutes 56seconds East 654.81 feet to a 1/2” rebar found inthe center of Sand Road and the POINT OF BE-GINNING of said easement; thence north 01 de-grees 14 minutes 00 seconds East 1072.77 feetto a 1/2” rebar found; run thence 88 degrees 35minutes 09 seconds East 20.00 feet to a 1/2”rebar set; thence South 01 degrees 14 minutes00 seconds West 1072.65 feet to a 1/2” rebarfound in the center of Sand Road; thence North88 degrees 54 minutes 56 seconds West 20.00feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, and contain-ing 0.493 acres, more or less.
LESS AND EXCEPT: 0.400 ACRES MOREOR LESS, FOR A 20 FOOT INGRESS ANDEGRESS EASEMENT IN THE SOUTHWESTQUARTER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 1SOUTH, RANGE 2 WEST, MARSHALLCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, and being more partic-ularly described as follows, to-wit:
COMMENCING at a 1/2” rebar found on theNorth side of Sand Road, said point being theSouthwest corner of Section 19, Township 1South, Range 2 West, Marshall County, Missis-sippi; run thence South 88 degrees 54 minutes 56seconds East 654.81 feet to a 1/2” rebar found inthe center of Sand Road; thence North 01 de-grees 14 minutes 00 seconds East 1072.77 feetto a 1/2” rebar found and the POINT OF BEGIN-NING of said easement; run thence North 01 de-grees 14 minutes 00 seconds East 872.12 feet toa 1/2” rebar set; thence South 88 degrees 35 min-utes 09 seconds East 20.00 feet to a 1/2” rebarset; thence South 01 degrees 14 minutes 00 sec-onds West 872.12 feet to a 1/2” rebar set; thenceNorth 88 degrees 35 minutes 09 seconds West20.00 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, andcontaining 0.400 acres, more or less.
SUBJECT TO: Rights of way and easementsfor public road and utilities.
I will only convey such title as is vested in meas Substitute Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this 5th day ofFebruary, 2015.
Sean A. SouthernSubstitute Trustee
855 S Pear Orchard Rd., Ste. 404, Bldg. 400Ridgeland, MS 39157(318) 330-9020rdb/F12-0871APUBLISH: 2.19.15 - 2.26.15 - 3.5.15
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF MARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JERRY WATSONHUCKEBA DECEASED
NO. 2015-0067WJAMES RUSSELL HUCKEBA EXECUTOR
NOTICE TO CREDITORSLetters Testamentary having been granted
on the 13th day of February, 2015, by theChancery Court of Marshall County, Mississippi,to the undersigned, upon the estate of Jerry Wat-son Huckeba, deceased, notice is hereby givento all persons having claims against said estate topresent the same to the Clerk of said Court forprobate and registration according to law, withinninety (90) days from the first date of publicationof this Notice, or they will be forever barred.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on this the 13thday of February, 2015.
/s/ JAMES RUSSELL HUCKEBAEXECUTOR
WILLIAM F. SCHNELLERJONES & SCHNELLER, PLLC, AttorneysP.O. Box 417Holly Springs, Mississippi 38635
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE
WHEREAS, on December 9, 2008, SteveJones, single person, executed a deed of trust toLem Adams, III, Trustee for the benefit of Mort-gage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., actingsolely as Nominee for SunTrust Mortgage, Inc.,its successors and assigns, which deed of trust isrecorded as Instrument No. 2008006761 in theOffice of the Chancery Clerk of the County of Mar-shall, State of Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid deed of trust wasassigned to SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. by instru-ment dated November 7, 2012, and recorded inthe Office of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk as In-strument No. 2012004862; and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid, SunTrust Mort-gage, Inc., the holder of said deed of trust and thenote secured thereby, substituted UnderwoodLaw Firm PLLC, as Trustee therein, as authorizedby the terms thereof, by instrument dated January20, 2015 and recorded in the Office of the afore-said Chancery Clerk as Instrument No.2015000361; and
WHEREAS, default having been made in theterms and conditions of said deed of trust and theentire debt secured thereby, having been de-clared to be due and payable in accordance withthe terms of said deed of trust, and the legalholder of said indebtedness, SunTrust Mortgage,Inc., having requested the undersigned Substi-tuted Trustee to execute the trust and sell saidland and property in accordance with the terms ofsaid deed of trust for the purpose of raising thesums due thereunder, together with attorney’sfees, Substituted Trustee’s fees and expense ofsale;
NOW, THEREFORE, WE, Underwood LawFirm PLLC, Substituted Trustee in said deed oftrust, will on the 12th day of March, 2015, offer forsale at public outcry for cash to the highest bidder,and sell within legal hours (being between thehours of 11:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M.) at the Southfront door of the County Courthouse at HollySprings, County of Marshall, State of Mississippi,the following described property situated in theCounty of Marshall, State of Mississippi, to-wit:
Tract 1: A tract of land being a part of theHoyt L. Gray and wife Juanita Gray property asrecorded in Land Deed Book 102 at Page 561and Land Deed Book 102 at Page 544 in theNortheast Quarter of Section 30 Township 3South, Range 2 West, City of Holly Springs, Mar-shall County, Mississippi, and being more partic-ularly described as follows to-wit: Commencingat a 1/2 inch rebar found recognized and ac-cepted as the Northwest Corner of the NortheastQuarter of Section 30, Township 3 South, Range2 West, Marshall County, Mississippi, run thenceSouth 88 degrees, 43 minutes 02 seconds East,1314.05 feet to a 1 inch axle with gear found atan old fence post on the 75 feet East right of wayof State Highway 7; thence, South 17 degrees 14minutes 59 seconds West, along said right of way,a distance of 459.58 feet to a 1/2 inch rebar found(North 17 degrees 14 minutes 59 seconds East,a distance of 210.00 feet from the Northwest Cor-ner of Robert "Bob" Williams property) and thePoint Beginning of said tract; thence North 17 de-grees 14 minutes 59 seconds East, along saidright of way, a distance of 179.56 feet to a 1/2 inchrebar set; thence South 88 degrees 38 minutes51 seconds East a distance of 266.87 feet to a 1/2inch rebar set; thence South, a distance of 83.16feet to a 1/2 inch rebar set; thence North 88 de-grees 38 minutes 51 seconds West, a distance of80.14 feet to a 1/2 inch rebar set; thence South, adistance of 90.00 feet to a 1/2 inch rebar set in theNorth bank of a ditch; thence North 88 degrees32 minutes 54 seconds West; a distance of240.00 feet to the Point of Beginning.
Tract 2: A tract of land being a part of theHoyt L. Gray and wife, Juanita Gray property asrecorded in Land Deed Book 102 at Page 551 inthe Northeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 3South, Range 2 West, City of Holly Springs, Mar-shall County, Mississippi, and being more partic-ularly described as follows to wit: Commencingat a 1/2 inch rebar found recognized and ac-cepted as the Northwest Corner of the NortheastQuarter of Section 30, Township 3 South, Range2 West, Marshall County, Mississippi; run thenceSouth 88 degrees 43 minutes 02 seconds East,1314.06 feet to a 1 inch axle with gear found atan old fence post on the 75 feet East right of wayof State Highway 7; thence South 17 degrees 14minutes 59 seconds West, along said right of way,a distance of 280.00 feet to a 1/2 inch rebar set;thence South 88 degrees 38 minutes 51 secondsEast, a distance of 266.87 feet to a 1/2 inch rebarset and the Point of Beginning of said tract, thenceSouth 88 degrees 38 minutes 51 seconds East,a distance of 207.13 feet to a 1/2 inch rebar set;thence North 17 degrees, 22 minutes 39 secondsEast a distance of 280 feet to a 1/2 inch rebar seton the North line of the Northeast Quarter of saidSection; thence South 88 degrees 37 minutes 36seconds East, along said Quarter Section line, adistance of 350.00 feet to a 1/2 inch rebar found;thence South 16 degrees 55 minutes 26 secondsWest a distance of 480.00 feet to a 1/2 inch rebarfound; thence North 88 degrees 32 minutes 54seconds West, a distance of 587.00 feet to a 1/2inch rebar set in the North bank of a ditch; thenceNorth a distance of 90.00 feet to a 1/2 inch rebarset; thence South 88 degrees 38 minutes 51 sec-onds East, a distance of 80.14 feet to a 1/2 inchrebar set; thence North a distance of 83.16 feetto the Point of Beginning.
WE WILL CONVEY only such title as isvested in Underwood Law Firm PLLC as Substi-tuted Trustee.
WITNESS OUR SIGNATURE, this the 12thday of February, 2015.
Underwood Law Firm PLLCSUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE
BY: Catherine W. UnderwoodMajority MemberControl #14121235PUBLISH: 02/19/2015, 02/26/2015, 03/05/2015
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
WHEREAS, on September 18, 2009, JordanBuchanan, a married person joined by MatthewBuchanan, executed a certain deed of trust toLaurel A. Meyer, Trustee for the benefit of Mort-gage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., asnominee for Fairway Independent Mortgage Cor-poration, its successors and assign which deedof trust is of record in the office of the ChanceryClerk of Marshall County, State of Mississippi inInstrument No. 2009004436; and
WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was subse-quently assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, Na-tional Association by instrument dated January21, 2014 and recorded in Instrument No.2014000465 of the aforesaid Chancery Clerk's of-fice; and
WHEREAS, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Na-tional Association has heretofore substitutedShapiro & Massey, LLC as Trustee by instrumentdated January 21, 2015 and recorded in theaforesaid Chancery Clerk's Office in InstrumentNo. 2015000423; and
WHEREAS, default having been made in theterms and conditions of said deed of trust and theentire debt secured thereby having been declaredto be due and payable in accordance with theterms of said deed of trust, JPMorgan ChaseBank, National Association, the legal holder ofsaid indebtedness, having requested the under-signed Substituted Trustee to execute the trustand sell said land and property in accordance withthe terms of said deed of trust and for the purposeof raising the sums due thereunder, together withattorney's fees, trustee's fees and expense ofsale.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Shapiro & Massey,LLC, Substituted Trustee in said deed of trust, willon March 12, 2015 offer for sale at public outcryand sell within legal hours (being between thehours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at the SouthDoor of the County Courthouse of MarshallCounty, located at Holly Springs, Mississippi, tothe highest and best bidder for cash the followingdescribed property situated in Marshall County,State of Mississippi, to-wit:
Commence at the Northwest corner of Sec-tion 17, Township 3 South, Range 3 West, Mar-shall County, Mississippi; thence East 800 feet;thence South 2,754 feet to the point of beginningin center road; thence South 88 degrees 15 min-utes West along center of public road 150 feet toa point; thence North 5 degrees 0 minutes West291 feet to a point; thence North 88 degrees 15minutes East 150 feet to a point; thence South 5degrees 0 minutes East along wire fence line 291feet to the point of beginning and containing oneacre, less public road right of way.
I WILL CONVEY only such title as vested inme as Substituted Trustee.WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on this 13th day ofFebruary, 2015.
Shapiro & Massey, LLC1080 River Oaks DriveSuite B-202Flowood, MS 39232(601)981-9299
197 Shipp LaneHolly Springs, MS 3863514-010830BE
Publication Dates:February 19, 26 and March 5, 2015
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In the Chancery Court ofMarshall County, Mississippi
Jessica Thomas PlaintiffVS. Cause No. 2015-0079AAntowin “Bo” Hampton Defendant
SummonsThe State of MississippiTo: Antowin “Bo” Hampton
Notice To DefendantYou have been made a Defendant in the suit
filed in this Court by Jessica Thomas, Plaintiff,seeking a divorce from the Defendant, Antowin“Bo” Hampton. There are no other Defendantsother than in this action involved in this suit.
You are requested to mail or hand deliver acopy of a written response to the Complaint filedagainst you in this action to Smith Whaley, PLLC,the attorney for the Plaintiff, whose address is P.O.Drawer 849, Holly Springs, MS 38635 and whosestreet address is 120 E. College Street, HollySprings, MS 38635.
Your response to the complaint must bemailed or delivered no later than thirty (30) daysafter the 4th day of March, 2015, which is the firstpublication of this summons. If your response isnot so mailed or delivered, a judgment by defaultwill be entered against you for the money or otherrelief demanded in the complaint.
You must also file the original of your re-sponse with the Clerk of the Court within a rea-sonable time afterward.
Issued under my hand and the seal of saidCourt, this 27th day of February, 2015.
C.W. “Chuck” ThomasChancery Clerk of Marshall County
By Tenisha Zinn, D.C.(10-12c)
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF MARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ETHERLINE E. JONES
DECEASEDNO. 2015-0104W
CONELL JONES EXECUTORNOTICE TO CREDITORS
Letters Testamentary having been grantedon the 2nd day of March, 2015, by the ChanceryCourt of Marshall County, Mississippi, to the un-dersigned, upon the estate of Etherlene E. Jones,deceased, notice is hereby given to all personshaving claims against said estate to present thesame to the Clerk of said Court for probate andregistration according to law, within ninety (90)days from the first date of publication of this No-tice, or they will be forever barred.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on this the 2ndday of March, 2015.
/s/ Conell JonesEXECUTOR
WILLIAM F. SCHNELLERJONES & SCHNELLER, PLLC, AttorneysP.O. Box 417Holly Springs, Mississippi 38635
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF MARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANCES HATHORNE, DECEASED INTESTATE
CAUSE NO.: 2014-0496AMAUREEN HATHORNE JONES
PETITIONERSUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPITO: THE HEIRS AT LAW OF FRANCESHATHORNE, WHOSE NAMES AND AD-DRESSES ARE UNKNOWN AFTER DILIGENTSEARCH AND INQUIRY
You have been made a defendant in the suitfiled in this Court on behalf of FRANCESHATHORNE, deceased by MAUREENHATHORNE JONES You are summoned to ap-pear and defend against the Complaint filedagainst you in this action on Friday the 13th dayof March 2015 at 9:30a.m., in the LAFAYETTECOUNTY CHANCERY COURTHOUSE in theCity of Oxford, Mississippi, before the honorableJudge Glenn Alderson, Chancellor, and in case ofyour failure to appear and defend, a judgment willbe entered against you for the money or otherthings demanded in the Complaint.
You are not required to file an answer orother pleading, but you may do so if you desire.If you do file an answer or other pleading, youmust mail it to Sharon D. Gipson, P.O. Box 474,Holly Springs, Mississippi 38635 and also file theoriginal of your response with the Clerk of thisCourt within reasonable time afterward.
ISSUED UNDER THIS MY HAND ANDSEAL OF SAID COURT, ON THIS THE 27THDAY OF FEBRUARY, 2015.
C.W. “CHUCK” THOMAS, CHANCERYCLERK
OF CHANCERY COURTMARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
BY: Teneshia Zinn, D.C./s/Sharon D. GipsonTHE GIPSON LAW FIRM PLLCPOST OFFICE BOX 474HOLLY SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI 38635PHONE: 662-333-1097/601-291-9691
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OFMARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KAREN SHAW, DECEASED INTESTATE
CAUSE NO.: 2014-398A ALEXIS SHAW, PETITIONER
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF MISSISSIPPITO: THE HEIRS AT LAW OF KAREN SHAW,WHOSE NAMES AND ADDRESSES ARE UN-KNOWN AFTER DILIGENT SEARCH AND IN-QUIRY
You have been made a defendant in the suitfiled in this Court on behalf of KAREN SHAW, de-ceased by ALEXIS SHAW. You are summoned toappear and defend against the Complaint filedagainst you in this action on Friday the 13th dayof March, 2015 at 9:30 a.m., in the LAFAYETTECOUNTY CHANCERY COURTHOUSE in theCity of Oxford, Mississippi, before the honorableJudge Glenn Alderson, Chancellor, and in case ofyour failure to appear and defend, a judgment willbe entered against you for the money or otherthings demanded in the Complaint.
You are not required to file an answer orother pleading, but you may do so if you desire.If you do file an answer or other pleading, youmust mail it to Sharon D. Gipson, P.O. Box 474,Holly Springs, Mississippi 38635 and also file theoriginal of your response with the Clerk of thisCourt within reasonable time afterward.
ISSUED UNDER THIS MY HAND ANDSEAL OF SAID COURT, ON THIS THE 27thDAY OF February, 2015.
C.W. “CHUCK” THOMAS, CHANCERY CLERK
OF CHANCERY COURTMARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
BY: Teneshia Zinn, D.C./s/Sharon D. GipsonTHE GIPSON LAW FIRM PLLCPOST OFFICE BOX 474HOLLY SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI 38635PHONE: 662-333-1097/601-291-9691
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Substitute Trustee’s Notice of SaleSTATE OF MISSISSIPPICOUNTY OF Marshall
WHEREAS, on the 9th day of May, 1998 andacknowledged on the 9th day of May, 1998, LarryRobinson, an unmarried individual, and Eartha E.McAuley, an unmarried individual, executed anddelivered a certain Deed of Trust unto Charles M.Mooney, Sr., Trustee for First Home Mortgage,Inc., Beneficiary, to secure an indebtednesstherein described, which Deed of Trust isrecorded in the office of the Chancery Clerk ofMarshall County, Mississippi in Book 236 at Page397; and
WHEREAS, on the 12th day of April, 2010,the present holder of said Deed of Trust filed aDeclaration of Interest in the land records of Mar-shall County, Mississippi, recorded in Instrument#2010001605; and
WHEREAS, on the 7th day of April, 2010 theHolder of said Deed of Trust substituted and ap-pointed Emily Kaye Courteau by instrumentrecorded in the office of the aforesaid ChanceryClerk in Instrument #2010001633; and
WHEREAS, default having been made in thepayments of the indebtedness secured by thesaid Deed of Trust, and the holder of said Deedof Trust, having requested the undersigned so todo, on the 26th day of March, 2015, I will duringthe lawful hours of between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00p.m., at public outcry, offer for sale and will sell, atthe south door of the Marshall County Courthouseat Holly Springs, Mississippi, for cash to the high-est bidder, the following described land and prop-erty situated in Marshall County, Mississippi,to-wit:
Beginning at the Northeast corner of theJohn W. McAuley and wife Bessie K. McAuley(Bk.113, Pg. 312) in the SE 1/ 4 of Section 21, T-2-S, R-4-W, Marshall County, MS, said pointbeing on the West Line of Victoria-Cayce Road;thence South, along the West line of said road,107.5 feet; thence South 85 degrees and 10 min-utes West, parallel with the McAuley North Line,395.87 feet; thence North 5 degrees and 00 min-utes West, along the McAuley West Line 107.1feet, more or less; thence North 85 degrees and10 minutes East, along the North Line of McAuley,405.24 feet to the point of beginning. Containing1.0 acre, more or less.
This being the same property as conveyedby Bessie McAuley to Eartha E. McAuley, in theWarranty Deed Book 201, Page 660, dated01/11/85, and recorded 01/28/85 in the ChanceryClerk's Office of Marshall County, Mississippi.
I will only convey such title as is vested in meas Substitute Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this 26th day ofFebruary, 2015.
Emily Kaye CourteauSubstitute Trustee
855 S Pear Orchard Rd., Ste. 404, Bldg. 400Ridgeland, MS 39157(318) 330-9020/F10-0232PUBLISH: 3-5-2015 / 3-12-2015 / 3-19-2015
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OFSALE
WHEREAS, on March 29, 1999, Timothy A.Elks and wife Angela K. Elks, executed a certaindeed of trust to Rowan H. Taylor, Jr., Trustee forthe benefit of Cendant Mortgage Corporationwhich deed of trust is of record in the office of theChancery Clerk of Marshall County, State of Mis-sissippi in Book 249 at Page 120, Modified in In-strument No. 2007011183, reformed in ChanceryCause No. 07-0391-A and recorded as Instru-ment No 2008004377 and Modified in InstrumentNo# 2010003077; and
WHEREAS, PHH Mortgage Corporation fkaCendant Mortgage Corporation, has heretoforesubstituted Shapiro & Massey, LLC as Trustee byinstrument dated December 17, 2014 andrecorded in the aforesaid Chancery Clerk's Officein Instrument No: 2015000108; and
WHEREAS, default having been made in theterms and conditions of said deed of trust and theentire debt secured thereby having been declaredto be due and payable in accordance with theterms of said deed of trust, PHH Mortgage Cor-poration, the legal holder of said indebtedness,having requested the undersigned SubstitutedTrustee to execute the trust and sell said land andproperty in accordance with the terms of saiddeed of trust and for the purpose of raising thesums due thereunder, together with attorney'sfees, trustee's fees and expense of sale.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Shapiro & Massey,LLC, Substituted Trustee in said deed of trust, willon March 26, 2015 offer for sale at public outcryand sell within legal hours (being between thehours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at the SouthDoor of the County Courthouse of MarshallCounty, located at Holly Springs, Mississippi, tothe highest and best bidder for cash the followingdescribed property situated in Marshall County,State of Mississippi, to-wit:
Beginning at a point which is 1416.3 feetSouth and 2620.1 feet East of the Northwest cor-ner of Section 16, Township 5 South, Range 1West, Marshall County, Mississippi. Said pointbeing the Northwest corner of the Mary ReidSchool Property Lot. Said point also being in thecenter of the Pontotoc Avenue, Town of PottsCamp, Mississippi; thence with said Pontotoc Av-enue run North 20 degrees 05 minutes West for200.0 feet to a point in the Oakview Street; thencewith said Street run North 55 degrees 15 minutesEast for 70.7 feet; thence leaving said street anddown fence line run South 39 degrees 45 minutesEast for 105.0 feet to an iron rod; thence runSouth 66 degrees 00 minutes East for 60.9 feetto an iron rod; thence with fence line run North 64degrees 30 minutes East for 117.0 feet to an ironrod on fence line; thence run South 33 degrees15 minutes East for 49.5 feet to an iron rod onfence line and the Northwest line of the Mary ReidSchool Property Lot; thence with said line runSouth 61 degrees 45 minutes West for 278.0 feetto the point of beginning; containing 0.67 acresmore or less
LESS AND EXCEPT PUBLIC ROAD RIGHTOF WAY.
And including a 1996 Gateway double-widemobile home, bearing VIN 11-96-235945AB.
I WILL CONVEY only such title as vested inme as Substituted Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on this 23rd dayof February, 2015.
Shapiro & Massey, LLCSUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE
Shapiro & Massey, LLC1080 River Oaks Drive, Suite B-202Flowood, MS 39232(601)981-9299
64 Oakview StreetPotts Camp, MS 3865914-009982GW
Publication Dates:March 5, 12 and 19, 2015
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The following vehicles will be auctioned tothe highest bidder at Davis Wrecker Service, 4124Hwy 178 W, Red Banks, MS 38611 at 9 a.m. onMarch 6, 2015:
1997 Ford F-150VIN 1FTDF1764VNA83202
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Photocopy by Linda Jones, Courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Need a new car?I suspect more than one of us would jump all over the chance to buy a car like the one above. Printed aboutthat size in The Holly Springs Reporter, Friday Morning, October 21, 1870, I just have to wonder how manypeople could afford that car and how many bought one. Obviously, advertising worked in the 1860s or so.The car was my favorite, the dainty biscuits a close second and I can’t even decide on a third. Perhaps --“Nux & Iron, Praised more than any other medicine. If you are suffering from Kidney trouble, malnutrition orany of the other common ills, Try a bottle of Nux & Iron and experience its wonderful Curative powers. Price,$1 a bottle. Ford’s Drug Store, Opera House Block. Agent for Tanlac.” I think I need a bottle or two.
Photos from the Past
LEGAL NOTICEFORMAT FOR
PUBLICATION OF ORIGINAL PERMIT APPLICATION
I, Oscar Phillips, LLC, in-tend to make applicationfor: a Package Retailer per-mit As provided for by theLocal Option AlcoholicBeverage Control Laws,Section 67-1-1, et seq., ofthe Mississippi Code of1972, Annotated. If grantedsuch permit, I propose tooperate as a limited liabilitycompany Under the tradename of Phillip’s One StopLiquor, LLC Located at8013 Hwy. 178 W., Byhalia,MS MarshallThe name, title, and ad-
dress of the owner/part-ners/corporate officersand/or majority stockhold-ers/members/trustee of theabove named business are:Oscar Phillips812 West StreetHolly Springs, MS 38635If any person wishes to
request a hearing to objectto the issuance of t his per-mit a request for a hearingmust be made in writingand received by the Depart-ment of Revenue within(15) fifteen days from thefirst date this notice waspublished.Requests shall be sent
to:Chief Counsel, Legal DivisionDept. of RevenueP.O. Box 22828Jackson, MS 39225Date of First Publication:Dec. 18, 2014Dec. 25, 2014This the 15 day of De-
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WHEREAS, on January 31, 2006, LATOYAMCDONALD, executed a certain deed of trust toJ. MORRIS, Trustee for the benefit of JAY MOR-RIS, MORRIS AND MCCALLA, which deed oftrust is of record in the office of the Chancery Clerkof MARSHALL County, State of Mississippi inBook 402 at Page 193; and WHEREAS, saiddeed of trust was transferred and assigned toCARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLCand recorded July 24, 2014 as Instrument Num-ber 2014003193; and
WHEREAS, CARRINGTON MORTGAGESERVICES, LLC has heretofore substituted KentD. McPhail as Trustee by instrument recorded onFebruary 17, 2015 in the aforesaid ChanceryClerk's Office as Instrument Number2015000596; and
WHEREAS, default having been made in theterms and conditions of said deed of trust and theentire debt secured thereby having been declaredto be due and payable in accordance with theterms of said deed of trust, CARRINGTONMORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC, the legal holderof said indebtedness, having requested the un-dersigned Substituted Trustee to execute the trustand sell said land and property in accordance withthe terms of said deed of trust and for the purposeof raising the sums due thereunder, together withattorney's fees, trustee's fees and expense ofsale.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Kent D. McPhail,Substituted Trustee in said deed of trust, will onMARCH 26, 2015 offer for sale at public outcryand sell within legal hours (being between thehours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at the frontdoor of the County Courthouse of MARSHALLCounty, Mississippi, located at 128 East Van DornAve., Holly Springs, MS 38635, to the highest andbest bidder for cash the following described prop-erty situated in MARSHALL County, State of Mis-sissippi, to-wit:
COMMENCING AT THE NORTHEASTCORNER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTEROF SECTION 32; THENCE RUN SOUTH 1759.6FEET; THENCE WEST 644.56 FEET TO APOINT ON THE WEST BOUNDARY OF THEILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD; THENCE IN ANORTHERLY DIRECTION ALONG SAID RAIL-ROAD 110.9 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-NING FOR THIS DESCRIPTION; RUN THENCENORTH 3 DEGREES 45 MINUTES WEST WITHTHE WEST BOUNDARY OF THE ILLINOISCENTRAL RAILROAD 120.0 FEET; THENCENORTH 62 DEGREES 59 MINUTES 53 SEC-ONDS WEST 301.24 FEET TO A POINT ONTHE EAST BOUNDARY OF OLD HUD-SONVILLE ROAD; THENCE SOUTH 33 DE-GREES 15 MINUTES WEST 87.0 FEET;THENCE SOUTH 60 DEGREES 26 MINUTES12 SECONDS EAST 372.44 FEET ALONG ADRAINAGE DITCH TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-NING.
I WILL CONVEY only such title as vested inme as Substituted Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on this 24THday of FEBRUARY, 2014.
/s/ Kent D. McPhailKent D. McPhail SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE
Dumas & McPhail 126 Government Street Mo-bile, AL 36602 (251) 438-2333
Publication Dates: February 26, March 5, 12and 19, 2015.
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Legal Notices
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE OF LAND
Under and by virtue of the authority vestedin me as Substitute Trustee in that certain Deedof Trust dated July 13, 2006, executed by ElbertMcKinney and Maggie A. McKinney, unto LeslieB. Shumake, Jr. as Trustee, to secure an indebt-edness therein described to Bruce E. Archer, saidDeed of Trust being of record in Land Deed ofTrust Book 414 pages 613-616. Deed of Trustwas assigned to BEA Enterprises LLC by Instru-ment dated December 22, 2009 and filed as In-strument No. 2009005852; BEA Enterprises LLCappointed the undersigned as Substitute Trusteeby instrument dated February 11, 2015 andrecorded as Instrument No. 2015000571 all in theland records of the Clerk of the Chancery Courtof Marshall County, Mississippi; and default hav-ing been made in the payment of the indebted-ness thereby secured, and the undersignedhaving been requested by the legal holder of saidindebtedness to foreclose said Deed of Trust, no-tice is hereby given that I, as Substitute Trusteeaforesaid, will, within lawful hours, at the Southfront door of the Marshall County Courthouse, inthe City of Holly Springs, Mississippi, on MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015 offer for sale andsell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash,the following described property, situated in theCounty of Marshall, State of Mississippi, to wit:
TRACT IA lot in the Northeast Quarter of Section 14,
Township 4 South, Range 5 West, MarshallCounty, Mississippi described as: Commencingat the Northeast corner of Section 14 and runthence West along the South right of way of thepublic road 55 yards to a point; thence Southalong a dam 44 yards to a point; thence last par-allel with said public road 55 yards to a point;thence North along the East boundary of Section14, 44 yards to the point of beginning.
TRACT IIA 5.23 acre lot located in and being a part of
the Northeast part of Section 13, Township 4South, Range 5 West, Marshall County, Missis-sippi and more particularly described as follows:Beginning at the Northeast corner of said Section13; thence along the east line of said Section 13and an old fence line a distance of 1200 feet toan iron pipe; thence west a distance of 190 feetto an iron pipe; thence North a distance of 1200feet to the north line of said Section 13 and a pub-lic road; thence east along said public road andnorth line of said Section 13 a distance of 190 feetto the place of beginning. Containing 5.23 acresmore or less and subject to all legal highways andeasements of record.
TRACT IIIIncluding in the 5.23 acre tract of land is the
following property which is the house and lot andappurtenances thereto more particularly de-scribed as follows, to-wit: Commencing at theNortheast corner of Section 13, Township 4South, Range 5 West, Marshall County, Missis-sippi; thence West along the North line of Section13, 95 feet to the point of beginning; thence Southparallel with the East lien of Section 13, 458.5 feet;thence West 95 feet; thence North parallel withthe East line of Section 13, 458.5 feet; thenceEast along the North line of Section 13, 95 feet tothe point of beginning. Containing 1.0 acres moreor less. Subject to easements and restriction ofrecord. PARCEL NO: 274-14-1/ 274-13-1.02/ 274-13-1
The purchaser will be required to pay the fullamount of his bid in cash at the time of the sale. Iwill sell and convey only such title as is vested inme as Substitute Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on this the 19thday of February, 2015.
William F. Schneller, Substitute TrusteePublishing Dates:
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In the Chancery Court ofMarshall County, Mississippi
In the Matter of the Estate Of Arnold Jefferson Rose, Deceased
Cause No. 2014-0243WWilliam Rose PetitionerVS.The Unknown Heirs andWrongful Death Beneficiariesof Arnold Jefferson Rose, Deceased
RespondentsSummons
(By Publication)The State of MississippiTo: Unknown Heirs At Law and Wrongful DeathBeneficiaries of Arnold Jefferson Rose, De-ceased
You have been made a Defendant in the suitfiled in this Court by William Rose, as Administra-tor of the Estate of Arnold Jefferson Rose, De-ceased, seeking to determine the heirs at law andWrongful Death Beneficiaries of Arnold JeffersonRose, Deceased. Defendants other that you inthis action are Lula Rose, Billy Hugh Rose, GaryGlenn Rose and William Rose.
You are summoned to appear and defendagainst the complaint or petition filed against youin this action at 9:30 o’clock a.m. on the 10th dayof April, 2015, before the Honorable Robert Q.Whitwell, in the Courtroom of the Chancery Courtof Marshall County, at Holly Springs, Mississippi,and in case of your failure to appear and defenda judgment will be entered against you for themoney or other things demanded in the complaintor petition.
You are not required to file an answer orother pleading, but you may do so if you desire.
Issued under my hand and the seal of saidCourt, this 17th day of February.
C.W. Thomas, Chancery ClerkBy: Tenisha Zinn, D.C.
Of Counsel:Baldwin & Baldwin, PLLC748 North President StreetP.O. Box 3199Jackson, MS 39201-3199(601) 960-4533(601) 960-9097-Fax#
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALEWHEREAS, on the 22nd day of March,
2012, ROBERT MEUCCI and RUTH J.MEUCCI, executed and delivered a land deed oftrust to Jennifer L. Shackelford, Trustee for thebenefit of CITIZENS BANK, Beneficiary, whichis recorded in Instrument No. 2012001358,which was a renewal and extension of a deed oftrust dated December 2, 2008 and recorded inInstrument No. 2008006583, a deed of trustdated March 3, 2008 and recorded in InstrumentNo. 2008001550, a deed of trust dated January7, 2008 and recorded in Instrument No.2008000191, a deed of trust dated June 7, 2007and recorded in Trust Deed Book 442, at Page684, a deed of trust dated March 22, 2012recorded in Instrument # 2012001358, in the of-fice of the Chancery Clerk of Marshall County,Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, default having been made inthe terms and conditions of said deed of trustand the entire debt secured thereby having beendeclared to be due and payable in accordancewith the terms of said deed of trust, and the legalholder of said indebtedness, CITIZENS BANKhaving requested the undersigned Trustee to ex-ecute the trust and sell said land and property inaccordance with the terms of said deed of trustfor the purpose of raising the sums due thereun-der, together with attorney's fees, trustee's feesand expenses of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JENNIFER L.SHACKELFORD, as Trustee in said deed oftrust will on FRIDAY, April 17, 2015, offer for saleat public outcry for cash to the highest bidder,and sell within legal hours (being between thehours of 11:00 A.M. AND 4:00 P.M.) at the Southfront door of the County Courthouse at HollySprings, Marshall County, Mississippi, the follow-ing described property situated in MarshallCounty, Mississippi, described as:
INDEXING: 4.848 ACRE TRACT OF VA-CANT LAND IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTEROF SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 1 SOUTH,RANGE 4 WEST, MARSHALL COUNTY, MIS-SISSIPPI; being more particularly described asfollows:
COMMENCE at a ½" re-bar found at theNorthwest Quarter of Section 31, Township 1South, Range 4 West, thence South 26 de-grees 20 minutes 24 seconds East, 12.69 feet,to a ½" re-bar found on the South right-of-way ofGoodman Road (MDOT 97-0021-01-008-10)said point being the POINT OF BEGINNING,thence North 89 degrees 21 minutes 55 secondsEast, 96.30 feet, along the South right-of-way ofsaid road to a ½" re-bar found next to a right-of-way marker; thence South 86 degrees 59 min-utes 12 seconds East, 203.70 feet, along saidright-of-way to a ½" re-bar set; thence South,1005.94 feet, to a ½" re-bar set; thence South89 degrees 44 minutes 41 seconds West,292.40 feet, to a ½" re-bar found; thence North2 degrees 58 minutes 10 seconds East, 158.55feet, along an old fence line to a 1 1/4" pipefound, thence North 3 degrees 13 minutes 50seconds West, 131.42 feet, to a ½" re-bar set ata fence corner; thence North 00 degrees 45 min-utes 09 seconds West, 241.57 feet, along saidfence line to a ½" re-bar set; thence North 00 de-grees 28 minutes 11 seconds West, 465.84 feet,along said fence line to the POINT OF BEGIN-NING. Said tract containing 6.848 acres, moreor less (295,058).
LESS AND EXCEPT:COMMENCE at a ½" re-bar found on the
South right-of-way of Mississippi Highway 302,said point of being the Northwest Corner of Sec-tion 31, Township 1 South, Range 4 West;thence East, 155.55 feet; thence South, 13.13feet, to a ½" re-bar set on the South right-of-wayof said highway, said point being the POINT OFBEGINNING; thence South 86 degrees 59 min-utes 12 seconds East, 150.00 feet, along saidright-of-way to a ½" re-bar found; thence South,581.60 feet, to a ½" re-bar set; thence North 86degrees 59 minutes 12 seconds West, 150.00feet, to a ½" re-bar set; thence North, 581.60feet, to the POINT OF BEGINNING, said tractcontaining 2.00 acres, more or less, (87,120 sq.ft.). All according to survey by Donald JeffHollingsworth, RLS # 2525, dated August 12,2005.
This tract is a conveyance in fee simple,with the reservation therein and thereby of aneasement for ingress and egress over the North100 feet of the property described in this tract byGrantors (Glazeway Properties) for their use anduse of their successors and assigns in the usageof the remaining, previously unsold part of theproperty described in deed of record at Book296, Page 110-111, as corrected at Book 306,Page 569.
Together with all building, hereditamentsand appurtenances thereto belonging; Specifi-cally that Mobile Home described as: 1994 Bel-mont, 70 x 14, Serial No. MSB941470S12589and whose Certificate of Mobile Home as RealEstate is dated December 21, 1994, recorded inLand Deed Book 263, Page 154, on December30, 1994, at 9:11a.m. in the office of theChancery Clerk of Marshall County, Mississippi.
SUBJECT TO: Rights of way and ease-ments for public road and utilities.
SUBJECT TO: Laws, ordinances and reg-ulations which govern the use and occupancy ofthis land enacted by the United States of Amer-ica, the State of Mississippi and its political sub-divisions, and particularly including thesubdivision regulations and zoning ordinancesadopted by ordinances of the Board of Supervi-sors of Marshall County, Mississippi, none ofwhich render title unmarketable.
I will convey only such title as is vested inme as Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 20day of February, 2015.
JENNIFER L. SHACKELFORD, TRUSTEE(09-12c)
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
WHEREAS, on January 11, 2010, Linda J.Coffman executed a certain deed of trust to Re-conTrust Company, N.A., Trustee for the benefitof Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.as nominee for Bank of America N.A. as its suc-cessors and assigns which deed of trust is ofrecord in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Mar-shall County, State of Mississippi in InstrumentNo. 2010001267; and
WHEREAS, said Deed of Trust was subse-quently assigned to Nationstar Mortgage LLC byinstrument dated January 12, 2015 and recordedin Instrument No. 2015000263 of the aforesaidChancery Clerk's office; and
WHEREAS, Nationstar Mortgage LLC hasheretofore substituted Shapiro & Massey, LLC asTrustee by instrument dated February 11, 2015and recorded in the aforesaid Chancery Clerk'sOffice in Instrument No. 2015000647; and
WHEREAS, default having been made in theterms and conditions of said deed of trust and theentire debt secured thereby having been declaredto be due and payable in accordance with theterms of said deed of trust, Nationstar MortgageLLC, the legal holder of said indebtedness, havingrequested the undersigned Substituted Trustee toexecute the trust and sell said land and propertyin accordance with the terms of said deed of trustand for the purpose of raising the sums due there-under, together with attorney's fees, trustee's feesand expense of sale.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Shapiro & Massey,LLC, Substituted Trustee in said deed of trust, willon March 19, 2015 offer for sale at public outcryand sell within legal hours (being between thehours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.), at the SouthDoor of the County Courthouse of MarshallCounty, located at Holly Springs, Mississippi, tothe highest and best bidder for cash the followingdescribed property situated in Marshall County,State of Mississippi, to-wit:
See Exhibit "A" attached hereto and made apart hereof, which is affixed and attached to theland and is part of the real property.
Manufacturer: KABCOYear: 2006Serial No: KB011564AB06Model: KB3207Hud Label No: 1AOMBNO2502-0491Length X Width: 64 X 32
All that parcel of land in Marshall County,State of Mississippi, being known and designatedas Lot 50 of Cooper Road Farms (Phase I). Con-taining 2.00 acres, located in Section 22, Town-ship 3 South, Range 5 West, Marshall County,Mississippi. A Plat of said Cooper Road Farm isrecorded in the Land Records of said county inplat file 899-A.
By fee simple deed from BLM,LLC as setforth in Deed Book 363, Page 602 dated02/01/2006 and recorded 02/16/2006, MarshallCounty Records, State of Mississippi.
Tax/Parcel ID: 265 22 06200
I WILL CONVEY only such title as vested inme as Substituted Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on this 23rd dayof February, 2015.
Shapiro & Massey, LLCSUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE
Shapiro & Massey, LLC1080 River Oaks Drive, Suite B-202Flowood, MS 39232(601)981-9299690 Shamrock LoopByhalia, MS 3861114-011190BEPublication Dates: February 26, Match 5 and 12, 2015
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Notice of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company,L.L.C.’s Proposed Abandonment and
Capacity Restoration ProjectTake notice that on February 13, 2015,
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, L.L.C.(“Tennessee”) filed with the Federal EnergyRegulatory Commission (“Commission”) an ap-plication for a certificate of public convenienceand necessity (“Application”), pursuant to Sec-tions 7(b) and 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, toabandon by sale certain mainline facilities, lo-cated in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Ten-nessee, Kentucky, and Ohio, and to construct,install, modify, operate, and maintain certainmainline facilities located in Ohio and Kentucky,as described in more detail below (referred toherein as the “Abandonment and CapacityRestoration Project” or the “Project”). The Com-mission assigned Docket No. CP15-88-000 tothe certificate proceeding. Tennessee, a sub-sidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc., is an interstatenatural gas transmission pipeline company thatis subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.Tennessee has been in operation since 1943and its principal office is located at 1001Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas 77002.
The facilities to be abandoned in place con-sist primarily of one of multiple looped parallelpipelines that comprise approximately 964 milesof older vintage, mainline pipeline facilities be-tween Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, andColumbiana County, Ohio (these facilities arereferred to herein as the “Abandoned Line”), asmore completely described in Tennessee’s Ap-plication. In order to replace the capacity that
would otherwise be lost by abandoning theAbandoned Line, Tennessee proposes to con-struct and operate: (i) approximately 7.6 milesof new pipeline looping in Carter and Lewiscounties, Kentucky; (ii) four new compressorstations, all in Ohio; (iii) additional compressionat one existing compressor station in Kentucky;and (iv) additional compression at one compres-sor station proposed in a separate docket(Docket No. CP15-77-000) to be constructed byTennessee in Kentucky (collectively, referred toherein as the “Replacement Facilities”), as morecompletely described in the Application. Theconstruction of the Replacement Facilities willallow Tennessee to maintain service to its exist-ing firm customers. Tennessee proposes tocommence construction of the ReplacementFacilities and begin the reconfiguration of itssystem by late first quarter of 2016.
Tennessee is requesting that the Commis-sion issue a final order granting the requestedauthorizations by February 15, 2016. The is-suance of the requested authorizations by thatdate will allow Tennessee to construct the Re-placement Facilities and to carry out the activi-ties necessary to abandon the Abandoned Linefacilities by late 2017. During construction,restoration, and mitigation activities for the Proj-ect, Tennessee will follow the Commission’s Up-land Erosion Control, Revegetation andMaintenance Plan (May 2013 version) and theCommission’s Wetland and Waterbody Con-struction and Mitigation Procedures (May 2013version).
If you are interested in reviewing Ten-
nessee’s Application pertaining to the Project,an electronic copy of the public version of thecomplete Application is available for public view-ing at the locations listed on the Project’s web-site, available at the following address:http://www.kindermorgan.com/content/docs/FERC_Viewing_Locations.pdf.
Additionally, a copy of Tennessee’s Appli-cation is available for viewing on the Commis-sion’s website at www.ferc.gov. Also availableon this website is the Commission’s most recentlandowner pamphlet entitled “An Interstate Nat-ural Gas Facility on My Land? What Do I NeedTo Know?” The pamphlet includes the FERC’ssummary of landowner rights at FERC. Youmay reach the Commission through its websiteor by calling the Commission’s Office of ExternalAffairs at (866) 208-3372.
Should your property be directly affected bythis Project, a representative of Tennessee willcontact you in the near future to discuss theProject. Tennessee has mailed notices tolandowners directly affected by this Project, tolandowners whose property abuts the Project,and to local government entities. If you have notreceived such a notice, your property is mostlikely not affected.
Tennessee strives to be a good neighboras it provides a safe, clean, and reliable sourceof energy to the nation’s consumers and indus-try. Questions concerning this Project may bedirected to Tennessee at 1-800-622-4481.
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SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on December 13, 2013, the
Chancery Court of Marshall County entered ajudgment in favor of James E. Miller, Plaintiff,against John Robert Miller; and
WHEREAS, the said judgment was enrolledupon the judgment rolls of the Marshall CountyCircuit Court on December 8, 2014; and
WHEREAS, a Notice of Levy was servedupon John Robert Miller’s land on January 14,2014, and personal service of John Robert Millervia service by publication;
PURSUANT to Miss. Code Ann. § 13-3-111et seq., the Sheriff of Marshall County will executeupon and sell at public sale and outcry to the high-est and best bidder, on March 19, 2015, at thedoor of the Marshall County Courthouse, 128East Van Dorn Avenue, Holly Springs, betweenthe legal hours (between the hours of 11 o'clocka.m. and 4 o'clock p.m.), the following describedland and property, towit:
This property is 118.70 Acres in the S.E.1/4of Section 10, East ½ N.E. ¼ Section 15, N.W. ¼Section 14, Township 6 South, Range 4 West,Marshall County, Mississippi and being more par-ticularly described as follows:
Commence at a Corp of Engineer’s Markerfound at the S.W. Corner of Section 10, T-6-S, R-4-W, thence N 89°18’07’’ E 2634.48 feet to apoint, said point being the POINT OF BEGIN-NING, thence N 0°01’39”W 528.00 feet (passinga mag spike set in the centerline of BlackwaterRoad 76.88’) to a ½” re-bar set 6’ north of a 12”painted post; thence N 88°03’06”E 726.13 feet toa ½”re-bar found on the east side of BlackwaterRoad; hence N 89°22’31”E 559.64 feet to a ½” re-bar found on the south side of a ditch; thence N84°58’16”E 682.87 feet along an old fence to ablazed 24” Oak Tree; thence S 64° 24’00”E106.00 feet along said fence line; thence S52°35’00”E 256.80 feet along said fence line;thence S 44°27’00” E 458.65 feet along saidfence line to a ½” re-bar set to a 30” Oak Tree (xcut into side of tree); thence S 39°47’09” E 66.27feet to a point; thence N 88°50’09”E 671.63 feetalong the north line of Section14 and fence line toa ½” re-bar set; thence S 0° 00’29”W 2650.35 feetto a ½” re-bar set; thence S 89°28’20” W 676.08feet to a 2” flat bar found; thence S 89°02’31”W787.52 feet to a ½” re-bar set; thence NORTH2640.00 feet to a Corp of Engineer’s markerfound; thence S 89°18’07” W 1836.26 feet alongthe north line of Section 15 to the POINT OF BE-GINNING.
Said Tract contains 118.70 ACRES more orless (5,170,363 sq. ft.)
Each bidder shall be required to present aletter of credit from a state or federal chartered fi-nancial institution up to the amount bid at the saleand shall be required to make a cash deposit of20% of the price bid to Freeland Martz, PLLC, at-torneys for the Plaintiff, on the date of sale. ThePlaintiff shall not be required to present a letter ofcredit for the amount of the judgment. The suc-cessful bidder shall tender the balance of the bidupon price to Freeland Martz, PLLC within 48hours of the date of sale.
The Sheriff of Marshall County will convey allof the right, title and interest of the property de-scribed herein by deed as prescribed by Miss.Code Ann. §§13-3-187 and 89-1-65. All costs ofsale and advertising shall be taxed as costs. Pur-suant to Miss. Code Ann. § 13-3-185, the pur-chaser shall take the property discharged of allliens of judgments and decrees.
This the 20th day of February, 2015.Sheriff Kenny Dickerson
Prepared by:J. Hale Freeland, MSB No. 5525Freeland Martz, pllc405 Galleria Lane, Suite CPost Office Box 2249Oxford, Mississippi 38655662.234.1711662.234.1739 – [email protected]
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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE OF LAND
Under and by virtue of the authority vestedin me as Substitute Trustee in that certain Deedof Trust dated March 25, 2005 executed byJoAnne King unto Jennifer L. Shackelford,Trustee, to secure an indebtedness therein de-scribed to Bank of Holly Springs, said Deed ofTrust being of record in Land Deed of Trust Book380 page 26.
Deed of Trust dated July 21, 2008 executedby JoAnne King unto Jennifer L. ShackelfordTrustee, to secure an indebtedness therein de-scribed to Bank of Holly Springs, said Deed ofTrust being of record as Instrument No.2008004337.
Deed of Trust dated August 12, 2008 exe-cuted by JoAnne King unto Jennifer L. Shack-elford, Trustee, to secure an indebtedness thereindescribed to Bank of Holly Springs, said Deed ofTrust being of record as Instrument No.2008004816.
Deed of Trust dated May 27, 2010 executedby JoAnne King unto William F. Schneller,Trustee, to secure an indebtedness therein de-scribed to Bank of Holly Springs, said Deed ofTrust being of record as Instrument No.2010002597.
The undersigned was appointed as Substi-tute Trustee by instrument dated November 17,2011 recorded as Instrument No. 2011004460 ofthe records of the Clerk of the Chancery Court ofMarshall County, Mississippi; and default havingbeen made in the payment of the indebtednessthereby secured, and the undersigned havingbeen requested by the legal holder of said indebt-edness to foreclose said Deed of Trust, notice ishereby given that I, as Substitute Trustee afore-said, will, within lawful hours, at the South frontdoor of the Marshall County Courthouse, in theCity of Holly Springs, Mississippi, on Friday,March 13, 2015 offer for sale and sell at publicoutcry to the highest bidder for cash, the followingdescribed property, situated in the County of Mar-shall, State of Mississippi, to wit:
A 1.00 acre tract of land in the SoutheastQuarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 36,Township 4 South, Range 2 West MarshallCounty, Mississippi and being more particularlydescribed as follows: Commence at the South-east corner of Section 36, Township 4 South,Range 2 West; thence North 1259.99 feet; thenceWest 724.01 feet to a 1 inch angle iron, said pointbeing the point of beginning; thence South 0 de-grees 30 minutes 34 seconds East along a wirefence 210.49 feet to a 3/8" rebar set; thence North89 degrees 51 minutes 59 seconds West 207.47feet to a 6 inch fence corner; thence North 0 de-grees 30 minutes 34 seconds West 210.59 feetto a point on the south line of Lot 650 of the HollySprings Lake Estates Subdivision; thence South89 degrees 50 minutes 17 seconds East 207.47feet to the point of beginning. Said tract contain-ing 1.00 acre more or less. Said survey preparedby Don Hollingsworth RLS No. 2525 dated 19thday of July, 1994.
Also: All of our interest in a road that allowsingress and egress to the above described landas follows: Part of the West side of the SoutheastQuarter of Section 36, Township 4 South, Range2 West, described as beginning at a point 799.5feet west of the intersection of the west line ofSection 31, Township 4, Range 1 West and USHighway 78 and running thence North 1283.8 feetto a stake; thence East 67.86 feet to a stake;thence South 1283.8 feet to US Highway 78;thence West along said highway 67.86 feet to thepoint of beginning and containing 2 acres more orless. The west side of the southeast Quarter ofSection 36, Township 4 South, Range 2 West de-scribed as beginning at a point 799.5 feet west ofthe intersection of the west line of Section 31,Township 4 South, Range 1 West and US High-way 78 and running thence North 1283.8 feet toa stake; thence East 67.86 feet to a stake; thenceSouth 1283.8 feet to US Highway 78; thenceWest along said highway 67.86 feet to the pointof beginning and containing 2 acres more or less.
The purchaser will be required to pay the fullamount of his bid in cash at the time of the sale. Iwill sell and convey only such title as is vested inme as Substitute Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on this the 9thday of February, 2015.
William F. Schneller, Substitute TrusteePublishing Dates: February 19, 26,
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE
WHEREAS, on the 2nd day of July, 2002,ROBBIE KIMMONS, executed and delivered aland deed of trust to Prestige Title, Trustee for thebenefit of FIRST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL COR-PORATION, Beneficiary, which is recorded asBook 307, at Page 520, in the office of theChancery Clerk of Marshall County, Mississippi;and
Assigned to RAPPA CUSTOM HOMES,LLC on May 22, 2009 recorded as Instrument No.2009002380; and
Assigned to BANK OF HOLLY SPRINGSdated May 22, 2009 and recorded as InstrumentNo. 2009002381; and
Assigned to RAPPA CUSTOM HOMES,LLC dated January 28, 2015 and recorded as In-strument No. 2015000371;and
WHEREAS, on the 26TH day of January,2015, Rappa Custom Homes , LLC, Beneficiary,did appoint and substitute Jennifer L. Shackelfordas Trustee in lieu of Prestige Title, by Substitutionof Trustee recorded as Instrument # 2015000345;and
WHEREAS, default having been made in theterms and conditions of said deed of trust and theentire debt secured thereby having been declaredto be due and payable in accordance with theterms of said deed of trust, and the legal holder ofsaid indebtedness, Rappa Custom Homes, LLC,having requested the undersigned SubstitutedTrustee to execute the trust and sell said land andproperty in accordance with the terms of saiddeed of trust for the purpose of raising the sumsdue thereunder, together with attorney's fees,trustee's fees and expenses of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JENNIFER L.SHACKELFORD, as Substituted Trustee in saiddeed of trust will on the 6th day of March, 2015,offer for sale at public outcry for cash to the high-est bidder, and sell within legal hours (being be-tween the hours of 11:00 A.M. AND 4:00 P.M.) atthe South front door of the County Courthouse atHolly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi, thefollowing described property situated in MarshallCounty, Mississippi, described as:
INDEXING: A TRACT OF LAND BEINGPART OF LOT 40 ACCORDING TO THE PLANFOR THE CITY OF HOLLY SPRINGS, ALL INSECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 2WEST, MARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI;being more particularly described as follows:
Commence at the Southwest Corner of Lot40; thence North 0 degrees 28 minutes 23 sec-onds East 22.30 feet, to a ½ inch re-bar set on theNorth right of way of Williams Road; thence South89 degrees 49 minutes 55 seconds East 440.06feet along the North side of said road to a ½ inchre-bar found; said point being the POINT OF BE-GINNING; thence North 89 degrees 04 minutes51 seconds West 110.41 feet, to a ½ inch re-barfound; thence North 0 degrees 28 minutes 05seconds West 150.00 feet to a ½ inch re-barfound; thence South 89 degrees 04 minutes 31seconds East 110.00 feet, to a ½ inch re-barfound; thence South 0 degrees 37 minutes 29seconds East 150.00 feet to the POINT OF BE-GINNING. Said tract containing 0.379 acres,more or less. All according to that survey pre-pared by Donald Hollingsworth, RLS No. 2525.
TOGETHER WITH ALL BUILDINGS,HEREDITAMENTS AND APPURTENANCESTHEREUNTO BELONGING.
SOURCE DEED: This is the same land andproperty conveyed to ROBBIE KIMMONS byWarranty Deed from Irene N. Autry, dated July 2,2002, and recorded in Land Deed Book 328 atpage 26 in the office of the Chancery Clerk ofMarshall County, Mississippi.
At the time of this publication, a search of thepublic records reveals no tax liens filed by theUnited States or the State of Mississippi. Thesale of the property described in said Deed ofTrust shall be subject to any and all instrument ofrecord, prior liens, encumbrances, deeds of trust,easements, restrictions, building liens, unpaidtaxes, assessments, penalties, and interest, if any.The title is believed to be good, but the Trusteewill convey and sell only such title as is vested inher as Trustee.
The right is reserved to adjourn the day of thesale to another day or time certain without furtherpublication, upon announced at the time for theabove.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this the 4th dayof February, 2015.
JENNIFER L. SHACKELFORD, SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE
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TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on July 27, 2011, Melvin Lee
Jones, Unmarr, executed a Deed of Trust to W.Stewart Robison, Trustee for Walter MortgageCompany, LLC, Beneficiary, which Deed of Trustis recorded in Land Deed of Trust Instrument#2011003182, in the office of the Chancery Clerkof Marshall County, Mississippi;
AND WHEREAS, this Deed of Trust was ul-timately assigned to U.S. Bank, N.A., as trusteefor Mid-State Trust VII, by instrument recorded inInstrument #2015000175, in the office of theChancery Clerk aforesaid;
AND WHEREAS, default having been madein payment of the indebtedness secured by saidDeed of Trust, and the holder of the note andDeed of Trust having requested the undersignedTrustee so to do, I will on the 11th day of March,2015, offer for sale at public outcry and sell duringlegal hours between the hours of 11:00 A.M. and4:00 P.M., at the south door of the County Court-house of Marshall County, at Holly Springs, Mis-sissippi, for cash to the highest and best bidder,the following described land and property, situatedin Marshall County, Mississippi, to-wit:
The following land and property lying andbeing situated in Marshall County, Mississippi, de-scribed as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point11811.0 feet North and 1350.0 feet East of theSouthwest corner of the Southeast Quarter ofSection 18, Township 2 South, Range 4 West,Marshall County, Mississippi in the center of ex-isting public road at the Southwest corner of Wat-son John Anderson, Sr. 20 acre tract as it nowexists and appearing of record in the Land DeedBook 172 at Page 217 in the Chancery Clerk's Of-fice of Marshall County, Mississippi; thence North6 degrees 17 minutes West along center of saidpublic road 200.0 feet to a point; thence North 83degrees 43 minutes East 763.0 feet to an iron pin;thence South 6 degrees 17 minutes East 200.0feet to an iron pin; thence South 83 degrees 43minutes West along wire fence line and Southboundary of said 20 acre tract 763.0 feet to thepoint of beginning and containing 3.50 acres,more or less.
I will convey only such title as is vested in meas Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this, the 4thday of February, 2015.
/s/ W. Stewart Robison, TrusteePublish: Feb. 12, 19, 26, and March 5, 2015
South ReporterROBISON & HOLMES, SOLS.
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE OF LANDUnder and by virtue of the authority vested
in me as Trustee in that certain Deed of Trustdated October 6, 2010 executed by John A. Ticeunto William F. Schneller as Trustee, to secure anindebtedness therein described to Bank of HollySprings, said Deed of Trust being of record as In-strument No. 2010004777 of the land records ofthe Clerk of the Chancery Court of MarshallCounty, Mississippi; and default having beenmade in the payment of the indebtedness therebysecured, and the undersigned having been re-quested by the legal holder of said indebtednessto foreclose said Deed of Trust, notice is herebygiven that I, as Trustee aforesaid, will, within lawfulhours, at the South front door of the MarshallCounty Courthouse, in the City of Holly Springs,Mississippi, on FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2015 offerfor sale and sell at public outcry to the highest bid-der for cash, the following described property, sit-uated in the County of Marshall, State ofMississippi, to wit:
Farm No 23 Beechtree Farms, S13, T3S,R5W, Marshall County, Mississippi described as:Farm No. 23 Beechtree Farms containing 3.10acres located in Section 13, Township 3 South,Range 5 West, Marshall County, Mississippi. Aplat of said subdivision is recorded in the office ofthe Chancery Clerk of Marshall County, Missis-sippi in Plat File 917-B 1004-B and 1016-B. Sub-ject to rights of way and easements for public roadand utilities.
The purchaser will be required to pay the fullamount of his bid in cash at the time of the sale. Iwill sell and convey only such title as is vested inme as Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on this the 13thday of February, 2015.
William F. Schneller, TrusteePublishing Dates:
February 26, March 5, 12, 19, 2015(09-11c)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Seeking clear title for 2007 Kikker motorcycle:
Serial # 200700000002372.Anyone holding interest in vehicle contact by
certified mail return requested within 10 businessdays. Harvey Cheever P.O. Box 547, Potts Camp,MS 38659.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
JAMES E. MILLER PLAINTIFFv. CAUSE NO. CV2014-440JOHN ROBERT MILLER DEFENDANT
SUMMONSTHE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI TO: John Robert Miller for having or claiming aninterest in the following described land: 118.70Acres in the S.E. ¼ of Section 10, East ½ N.E.¼ Section 15, N.W. ¼ Section 14, Township 6South, Range 4 West, Marshall County, Missis-sippi.
You have been made a Defendant in the suitfiled in this Court by James E. Miller, Plaintiff,seeking a writ of execution to levy executionagainst the property to satisfy the judgment infavor of the Plaintiff, as provided by Miss. CodeAnn. § 13-3-161.
You are summoned to appear at the publicauction that will take place at 11:00 A.M. on the19th day of March, 2015.
A PUBLIC AUCTION WILL BE HELD AT11:00 A.M. ON THE 19TH DAY OF MARCH,2015 ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE MAR-SHALL COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT128 EAST VAN DORN AVENUE, HOLLYSPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI 38635.
Issued under my hand and the seal of saidCourt, this 13 day of February, 2015.
Lucy Carpenter, ClerkMarshall County Circuit Court
Post Office Box 459Holly Springs, Mississippi 38635
BY: Rebecca Colhoun, D.C. Prepared by:J. Hale Freeland, MSB No. 5525Freeland Martz, PLLC405 Galleria Lane, Suite CPost Office Box 2249Oxford, Mississippi 38655662.234.1711662.234.1739 – fax [email protected]
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Public NoticeThe following vehicles will be sold to the
highest bidder at Yarbrough Wrecker Service at86 Coke Rd., Byhalia, MS 38611 at 9 a.m. on03/20/2015.
1999 Lincoln NavigatorVIN 5LMPU28L1XLI02762
2003 Hyundai SonVIN KMHWF35H33A734201
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IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF MARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
TIMOTHY HOLLIFIELD andDONNA HOLLIFIELD, PLAINTIFFSVS. NO. 2015-0064WEARL D. WILKINS, AND ALL OTHER PER-SONS, FIRMS OR CORPORATIONS HAVINGOR CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLEINTEREST IN THE FOLLOWING DE-SCRIBED LAND LOCATED IN MARSHALLCOUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, WHICH WAS SOLDFOR TAXES AUGUST 29, 2011, TO WIT: “LOT9 BARNETT VICTORIA FARMS DEED BK 28PAGE 543, PARCEL 208-27-01200, S/T/R27/03/04, PPIN 21606 YR 2010"
DEFENDANTSSUMMONS
TO: Earl D. Wilkins, whose present address andwhereabouts are unknown, after diligent searchand inquiry; and all other persons, firms and cor-porations having or claiming any legal or equi-table interest in the subject property.
You have been made defendant in the law-suit filed in this Court by Timothy Hollifield andDonna Hollifield, Plaintiffs, seeking to Confirm TaxTitle on the subject property being described asfollows:
Lot 9 Barnett Victoria FarmsDeed Bk 288 Page 543Parcel No: 208-27-01200S/T/R: 27-03-04 PPIN 21606 YR 2010
ALSO KNOWN AS:Lot 9 of Barnett-Victoria Farms in the South-
west Quarter, Section 27, Township 3 South,Range 4 West, Marshall County, Mississippi andbeing more particularly described as follows:Commence at a sand stone found and acceptedas the Southwest Corner of Section 27, Township3 South, Range 4 West; thence North 00° 11' 00"East 1034.72 feet to the point of beginning;thence South 89° 49' East 1,321.32 feet to a 1/2"re-bar set; thence South 00° 11' West 200.00 feetto a 1/2" re-bar set; thence North 89° 49' West1,321.32 feet to a point; thence North 00° 11' East200.00 feet to the point of beginning. Said tractcontaining 6.07 acres, more or less, in the South-west Quarter, Section 27, Township 3 South,Range 4 West, Marshall County, Mississippi.
The land and property herein conveyed isfurther shown, described and depicted in that cer-tain plat and survey of Barnett-Victoria Farms pre-pared by Donald Jeff Hollingsworth, RegisteredProfessional Land Surveyor, dated December 11,1996. Said plat being filed for record in Plat File811B in the office of the Chancery Clerk of Mar-shall County, Mississippi.
The Complaint filed against you has initiateda civil action described in the Complaint.
You are hereby summoned to this Court andyou are required to mail or hand-deliver a copy ofa written Answer either admitting or denying eachallegation in the Complaint to Confirm Tax Title,Plaintiff's attorney, whose address is: Jones &Schneller, PLLC, P.O. Box 417, Holly Springs,Mississippi, 38635.
YOUR ANSWER MUST BE MAILED ORDELIVERED NOT LATER THAN THIRTY DAYSAFTER THE 19TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2015,WHICH IS THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICA-TION OF THIS SUMMONS. IF YOUR ANSWERIS NOT SO MAILED OR DELIVERED, A JUDG-MENT BY DEFAULT MAY BE ENTEREDAGAINST YOU FOR THE MONEY OR OTHERRELIEF DEMANDED IN THE COMPLAINT.
You must also file the original of your Answerwith the Clerk of this Court.
Issued under my hand and the seal of saidCourt, this the 11TH day of February, 2015.
C.W. “CHUCK” THOMAS, CHANCERY CLERK
OF MARSHALL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPIBy TENESHIA ZINN, D.C.
Publish: February 19, February 26, and March 5, 2015.
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TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALEWHEREAS, on July 27, 2011, Melvin Lee
Jones, Unmarr, executed a Deed of Trust to W.Stewart Robison, Trustee for Walter MortgageCompany, LLC, Beneficiary, which Deed of Trustis recorded in Land Deed of Trust Instrument#2011003182, in the office of the Chancery Clerkof Marshall County, Mississippi;
AND WHEREAS, this Deed of Trust was ul-timately assigned to U.S. Bank, N.A., as trusteefor Mid-State Trust VII, by instrument recorded inInstrument #2015000175, in the office of theChancery Clerk aforesaid;
AND WHEREAS, default having been madein payment of the indebtedness secured by saidDeed of Trust, and the holder of the note andDeed of Trust having requested the undersignedTrustee so to do, I will on the 11th day of March,2015, offer for sale at public outcry and sell duringlegal hours between the hours of 11:00 A.M. and4:00 P.M., at the south door of the County Court-house of Marshall County, at Holly Springs, Mis-sissippi, for cash to the highest and best bidder,the following described land and property, situatedin Marshall County, Mississippi, to-wit:
The following land and property lying andbeing situated in Marshall County, Mississippi, de-scribed as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point11811.0 feet North and 1350.0 feet East of theSouthwest corner of the Southeast Quarter ofSection 18, Township 2 South, Range 4 West,Marshall County, Mississippi in the center of ex-isting public road at the Southwest corner of Wat-son John Anderson, Sr. 20 acre tract as it nowexists and appearing of record in the Land DeedBook 172 at Page 217 in the Chancery Clerk's Of-fice of Marshall County, Mississippi; thence North6 degrees 17 minutes West along center of saidpublic road 200.0 feet to a point; thence North 83degrees 43 minutes East 763.0 feet to an iron pin;thence South 6 degrees 17 minutes East 200.0feet to an iron pin; thence South 83 degrees 43minutes West along wire fence line and Southboundary of said 20 acre tract 763.0 feet to thepoint of beginning and containing 3.50 acres,more or less.
I will convey only such title as is vested in meas Trustee.
WITNESS MY SIGNATURE, this, the 4thday of February, 2015.
/s/ W. Stewart Robison, TrusteePublish: Feb. 12, 19, 26, and March 5, 2015
South ReporterROBISON & HOLMES, SOLS.
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Superintendent’s ListFourth Grade: Madeline P.
SandersonFifth Grade: Averi Allen,
Cayden Clarkson, Elijah Clark-son, Austin Martin, DariusMcNeal, Jacob Miller, HunterPalmer, Lauren RussomSixth Grade: Adam Burge,
Kylie Gurley, Lakeidra KingEighth Grade: Madison
NewmanPrincipal’s ListFourth Grade: Kaylee
Betts, Jasmine Byrd, EmmaClark, Kenley Floyd, EmilyHarper, John Harris, LoganMiller, Dalayni Odom, NacaylaPigues, Jusus Ramirez, Gra-cen Sage, Jacob VanzantFifth Grade: Tucker Akin,
Kristian Byrd, Makenzi Cur-tis, Tatiana Govan, LameikaHall, Shameeya Hodges,
Caleb Holmes, Landon Hous-ton, Carleassia Jeffries, Madi-son Lemons, CamilaMaximiliano, MatthewMcGee, Aleigha Nichols,Amanda Pickens, PrestonShaw, Hailey Skelton, PrestonStatum, Cody Taylor, JanyaTurnage, Cadence WaitSixth Grade: Ronnie Ayers,
Jordan Bennett, ToulmanBoatwright, Jonathan Bolden,Karleigh Brannen, AlexisCarter, Chanyce Collins,Chloe Frazier, Ian Glover,Kaylee Harris, Savannah Hop-kins, Madison Hutchens,Kaiven Lesure, MirandaMardis, Mary Mills, Lucas Mi-
rante, Shaylee Nichols,Mckenzie Parker, MilagrosRamire, Devin Sanders,Shanell Sharp, Kenlee StantonSeventh Grade: Chandler
Boren, Megan Cheatwood,Bradley Clifton, Magan Fra-zier, Brady Hunsucker, XavierKnighton, Ja Quives Muse,Nathan Peace, Ana Ramirez,Jeremiah Scott, Kristen Snow,Ashanti Turnage, Laken Van-zantEighth Grade: Morgann
Bing, Anthony Bryson, OliviaFloyd, Zachary Humphreys,Collin Massengill, JaBryanPegues, Matthew Rikard,Jalan Shaw.
Blue Mountain College hasbegun accepting applicationsfor six new academic scholar-ship programs – three for in-coming high school studentsand three for incoming com-munity college transfers – be-ginning in the fall of 2015.“Blue Mountain College is
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Community helpersDetective Kerry Reid visited Ms. Walton’s second grade class at Byhalia Elementary on Jan. 30 to discussthe duties of police officers and safety information. Students were working on a unit in reading and socialstudies about community helpers. Pictured are Mokeshia Walton, Detective Reid, Ashley George, andMelanie Todd.
Mentoring speakersSteve and Beverly Lewis, who work in real estate and have a trucking business, were the Gamma NuChapter of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity mentoring speakers on Thursday, February 12, at Holly Springs Inter-mediate School. They told the group to learn how to unplug what you see on TV. The group is picturedwith the Lewises.
Local students assist at state capitolKaycee Robbins and Annette McGee, both from Byhalia, recently served as pages for the MississippiHouse of Representatives. Rep. Bill Kinkade (R-Byhalia) sponsored their visit. Kaycee is the daughter ofStephanie and Travis Boren and attends Byhalia High School. Annette is the daughter of Theresa McGeeand attends Byhalia High School. Pictured above: Rep. Bill Kinkade (R-Byhalia), Kaycee Robbins, AnnetteMcGee and Speaker Philip Gunn.
The Division of ContinuingEducation at Northwest Com-munity College will offer aone-day ServSafe® ManagerTraining class on March 21 inthe Berry Building, Room 101on the Senatobia campus. Thedeadline to register for theclass by mail or in person isMarch 5.The ServSafe® program
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latest FDA Food Code, foodsafety research and years offood sanitation training expe-rience. Managers learn to im-plement essential food safetypractices and create a cultureof food safety. All content andmaterials are based on actualjob tasks identified by food-service industry experts.There will be another one-
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You just had a flat tire alonga dark country road. Luckily,you downloaded a flashlightapp into your cellphone andnow can put it to use.But that flashlight, handy
as it is, may be just one ofmany doors you unwittinglyopened to let spies take upresidence inside your phone.“Most free flashlight apps
are creepware,” says Gary S.Miliefsky, CEO of SnoopWall(www.snoopwall.com), a com-pany that specializes in cyber-security.Creepware is malware that
spies on you and your onlinebehavior, and could passalong information to others.For example, Golden-
shores Technologies, thecompany behind the popular“Brightest Flashlight Free”app for Android phones,agreed in 2013 to settle theFederal Trade Commission’scharges that the software se-cretly supplied cellphone loca-tions to advertising networksand other third parties.The problem doesn’t begin
and end with flashlight apps,though. Many seemingly in-nocuous apps that peoplecarry around with them ontheir mobile devices have thecapability to eavesdrop ontheir activities.“Consumers trust first and
verify never,” Miliefsky says.“As a result, most of theirsmartphones are infectedwith malware that they trustin the form of some kind ofuseful app or game.”Miliefsky offers these tips
for ousting those spies insidethe phone:• First, assume you’ve al-
ready been compromised. It’snice to think all is probablywell, but most likely it’s not.Somewhere in the phone thespies are at work and it’s timeto take the privacy behaviorsand privacy policies of theseapps more seriously.• Verify the behavior and
privacy risks for apps beforeinstalling them. Do some re-search and ask the question:“Why does this app need GPS,
microphone, webcam, con-tacts, etc.?” Most apps don’tneed these ports unless theywant to invade your privacy,Miliefsky says. Find an alter-native before installing riskyapps.• Do a smartphone ver-
sion of spring cleaning. Deleteall the apps you don’t use thatoften. Replace the apps thattake advantage of too many ofyour privacy settings, such asGPS, phone and text-messagelogs, with similar apps thatdon’t.• Turn off WiFi, Blue-
tooth, Near Field Communi-cation and GPS except whenyou need them. That way, Mi-liefsky says, if you are at alocal coffee shop or in a shop-
ping mall, no one can spyusing nearby (proximity)hacking attack. They alsocan’t track where you wereand where you are going onGPS.• Check to see if your
email has put a tracer on youand your phone. “If you use aGoogle email account andhave an Android phone, you’dbe surprised that even withyour GPS off, it’s trackingyour every move,” Miliefskysays. You need to go into thephone’s settings to turn offthat tracking feature, he says.In your Android phone, go to“settings,” then “location.” Se-lect “Google location report-ing” and set “location history”to off.
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Producer meetingRepresenting Marshall County for 2015 was: (from left): Lemon Phelps – MSU Extension, Mike Haim-sohn – beef, W.D. “Bill” Fitts – beef, Art Waymire – forestry, Victor Stilwell – forestry, and George Mur-phree – forestry.
Mississippi State Univer-sity’s North Mississippi Re-search and Extension Centerhosted its annual Producer Ad-visory Council Meeting Feb.20, at the Magnolia Confer-ence Center in Verona. Thecouncil’s goal is to solicit pro-ducer input in advancing NMResearch and Extension Cen-ter programs. Producers pro-vide their perspectiveregarding future research.
This annual meeting allowsgrowers, producers, ranchersand other agricultural clientsto meet with scientists andspecialists from MSU’s Exten-sion Service and the Missis-sippi Agricultural and ForestryExperiment Station to shareconcerns, ask questions andprovide feedback about re-search and Extension pro-grams.Producers in northeast
Mississippi, including Mar-shall County, were invited toattend the meeting. Fifteenbreak-out commodity commit-tees met after the general ses-sion. Commodity groupsrepresented were aquaculture,beef, cotton, dairy, equine,forestry/wildlife, fruits andnuts, goats, grain crops, orna-mentals, peanuts, sweet pota-toes, swine, turf and vegetableproduction.
The U.S. Department ofAgriculture’s Natural Re-sources Conservation Service(NRCS) has extended the ap-plication deadline sign-up forthe Conservation Steward-ship Program (CSP) generalsign-up until March 13, 2015.Applications are taken on acontinuous basis but applica-tions received by this date willbe ranked and considered forfunding in FY 2015.“CSP is a way of incentiviz-
ing our producers who main-tain a high level ofconservation on their landand agree to adopt higher lev-els of stewardship,” said StateConservationist Kurt Readus,NRCS State Conservationistin Mississippi. “By focusingon multiple resource con-cerns, landowners canachieve a sustainable land-scape and maintain or in-crease the productivity oftheir operations.” Through CSP, participants
take additional conservationsteps to improve the resourceconditions on their land, in-cluding soil, air and habitatquality, water quality andquantity, and energy conser-vation. Several new activitiesare offered in FY 2015 to ad-dress resource concerns, in-cluding many new forestryactivities. CSP will also help broaden
the impacts of NRCS’ Land-scape Conservation Initiativesthrough a new pilot effort,which accelerates privatelands conservation activitiesto address particular goals,such as creating habitat for at-risk species and conservingand cleaning water. The land-scape initiative offered in Mis-sissippi is the Longleaf PineInitiative.Applications should be
submitted to the local NRCSoffices by close of business onMarch 13, for ranking andfunding consideration for FY
2015. As part of the CSP ap-plication process, applicantswill work with NRCS field per-sonnel to complete a resourceinventory of their land, whichwill help determine the con-servation performance for ex-isting and new conservationactivities. The applicant’s con-servation performance will beused to determine eligibility,ranking, and payments.USDA offers financial and
technical assistance to agri-cultural producers or forestlandowners for the activemanagement and mainte-nance of existing conserva-tion activities and for carryingout new conservation activi-ties on working agriculturalland. Eligible lands includecropland, grassland, prairieland, improved pastureland,non-industrial private forest-land and tribal agriculturalland. Applicants must havecontrol of the land for the five-year term of the contract.
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By Sue WATSOnStaff Writer
The City of Holly Springswill have a busy year getting anumber of public works proj-ects moving along.The board of aldermen
passed four resolutions neces-sary to get the lagoon im-provement project underway.The project was redesignedafter bids came in over themoney that was available tomake the repairs.Public works director Clay
Moore said the design of theproject was refined so that ex-isting monies can be applied tobring the lagoon up to par. Theimprovements include upgrad-ing the aerators that provideagitation to oxygenate the la-goon waters. The lagoon willbe dredged to remove buildupof sludge. Then chlorinatorswill be added to kill off mi-croorganisms and a dechlori-nation process will be used toremove chlorine beforetreated water is released intoarea streams, he said.“We had to restructure the
design of the project after bidscame in too high,” he said. “Sowe are starting over.”The Mississippi Depart -
ment of Environmental Qual-ity has oversight over thelagoon. The city is required tocomply with DEQ regulationsand requirements. The newimprovements will meet up-coming requirements, as well.
Hill Crest Cemetery The board approved a
change order to decrease theoriginal contract amount by$113,647 – the amount thatwas going to be spent on over-laying the cemetery roads – inthe Hill Crest Cemetery proj-ect. The new contract sum is$210,586. Moore said $113,647will be freed up to spend onother improvements.The board approved pay-
ment to IMS Engineers, thecompany that holds the con-tract for the cemetery renova-tion project, for about $8,542 inwork already completed.The board approved pay-
ment to Barnes and Brower inthe amount of $13,740 forfence repair and painting at thehistoric cemetery.
Water supplyInstallation of a system to
synchronize the communica-tion between the city’s threewater tanks so one pump doesnot fight another was ap-proved. Currently, the systemis managed manually and 24hours a day. When the newsystem is installed, it will bebalanced remotely using com-puters so the pumps do notfight each other, Moore said.
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The Byhalia mayor andboard of aldermen dealt with afull agenda February 17, in-cluding utility rate structureand a church expansion.In attendance at the regu-
larly scheduled board meetingwere aldermen RichardMinor, Daylon Cannon, JoeTunstall, Mike Hamblin,alderwoman Mary AnnCooper and Mayor Phil Mal-one. Department heads GarySmoot, Leland Reed, and GaryLooney were present alongwith town clerk Teresa Turnerand town attorney JimmyWoods.The meeting was called to
order at 5:30 p.m. by MayorMalone with prayer by Alder-man Tunstall. Under old business, Woods
said he was waiting to hearfrom the Public Service Com-mission on the proposed utilityrate structure.Don Hollingsworth said the
town was bombarded everyweek with requests from po-tential businesses and indus-tries interested in locating inthe Chickasaw Trail develop-ment and wanting specific gasrates. He suggested the townset up a table for gas ratesbased on volume usage andhave it approved for futureuse. It also needed to be estab-lished if more storage capacitywas needed.It was decided that
Hollingsworth would workwith Mayor Malone, alongwith other interested parties,to establish such a table to besubmitted for approval.Under new business, the
minutes from the previousmeeting, the claims docket,and the revenue and expensereport were approved, alongwith budget amendmentsneeded to cover unexpectedrepairs. The board approved a pay-
ment to Elliott and Britt forwork on the extension ofStone Wall Road.Smoot asked for approval
for an employee to attend aseminar in Jackson fromMarch 30 to April 3 to keep hiscertification. The board ap-proved the employee’s atten-dance.Reed presented a copy of
plans reflecting the requiredengineering stamp for expan-sion of Victory Church. Theexpansion would consist of a20- by 80-feet steel structureon the east side of the buildingwhich would house bath-rooms, classrooms, and alobby. The expansion wouldbe bricked, doing away withthe storefront look. The drive-through canopy would be ex-tended. The existingnoncompliant structure wouldbe bricked. Part of the build-ing would have an A-frameroof. The plans would also in-clude the enclosure of an areain the rear of the building touse for another classroom andrefreshment area for children.Rev. Melvin Shackelford
said he might be out of townfor the next several weeks andwas asking to present the re-quest to the town board priorto the meeting of the ZoningBoard in March.Tunstall inquired about
parking issues. Shackelfordsaid they had not had anyparking issues since most ofthe businesses in the areawere closed on Sunday. Hesaid there was room to add ad-ditional parking in the rear, ifneeded. The board approvedthe expansion pending ap-proval of the Zoning Board.Reed presented the board
with a quote from A1 Fire toupgrade the fire extinguishersat the recently purchasedNorthcentral building provid-ing compliance for one year.This was put on hold untilcloser to time to move into thebuilding. Malone said phoneservice and Internet personnelwould be looking at the build-ing the following day to pro-vide quotes for these services.A locksmith would also be pro-viding a quote to change thelocks. Board members wouldbe polled to approve expendi-tures.Reed presented an applica-
tion to renew membership inthe Association of Flood PlainManagement Program at acost of $75 and an applicationto renew membership in theMississippi Associa tion ofCode Enforcement at a cost of$50. These were approved.Reed requested that sev-
eral MSA air zoners no longerin use by the Byhalia Fire De-
partment be declared surplus.After approval, it was decidedto donate these to the AshlandFire Department. Reed presented informa-
tion to the board on a grant ap-plication that would helpprovide full-time firemen forrecruitment and retention ofadditional firemen. ByhaliaFire Department was consid-ered a combination fire depart-ment with one full-timeemployee and the remainingpersonnel volunteers.The receipt of this grant
would allow building up of thefire department. Reed hadtalked to a local grant writerabout preparing the 100 per-cent grant. The cost to havethe grant application preparedwould be paid from the grant,if the grant was approved. Hesaid $1,500 would be chargedby a local grant writer to com-plete the grant application.This would be a four-yeargrant. Proceeds could be usedto purchase turnout gear forrecruits. The board approvedthe writing and submission ofthe grant application.Chief Looney requested
permission to put a 2007Chevrolet Trailblazer, ac-quired from a drug seizure,into service by the Byhalia Po-lice Department. He said itseemed to be in good mechan-ical order, but would requiresome body work and decalsapplied. This was approved.Looney said there was a
handout in alderman packetsrequesting the gym be desig-nated as an indoor training fa-cility for exclusive use by theByhalia Police Department.After a motion and second, theboard discussed the benefitsfor the town. Looney alsoasked that this include the cur-rent board room when vacatedby the town. This was ap-proved. Mayor Malone presented a
resolution to allow the city todeal with a planning group outof Booneville to borrowmoney as needed. This wouldshorten the time needed tocomplete future transactions.This was approved.Woods said the closing was
completed on February 12 onthe Northcentral property. The meeting was ad-
journed at 6:24 p.m.
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Ground breaking for Murphy uSAMurphy USA held its ground breaking ceremony last week on 280 Alexander Drive near the Walmartshopping center. Participating are Nikki Gatewood, manager; Rosalyn Shirley, manager; Jamie Cossitt,district manager; Mike Jordan, district manager North Mississippi; Ruby Golden, New Albany store;David Beckley, Holly Springs Main Street Chamber; Mayor Kelvin Buck; Cleve Luster, division director;Felicia Gann, Pontotoc store; and Shanette Folsom, Holly Springs Main Street Chamber.
By Sue WATSOnStaff Writer
Two Holly Springs resi-dents were arrested recentlyby police officers andcharged with attempting tosmuggle contraband into theMarshall County Correc -tional Facility.Police chief Dwight Harris
said the arrest of two femalestook place on February 14 atabout 9:37 a.m. Sondra Latrice Perkins,
31, of the 800 block of WestRidge Cove, Holly Springs,and Latoya Lavette Johnson,30, of the 400 block of StinsonRoad in Holly Springs, werearrested and charged withpossession of contraband in acorrectional facility, the chiefsaid. The two were taken intocustody and transported tothe Marshall County Sheriff’sDepartment for processing.Harris said the two sus-
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Democrats.• Constable north – in-
cumbent Johnny Fitch,Lawrence Sharp Bullard,Leon Cothern, Joe Cunning-ham, Michael Perkins,Christopher Paul Sisk, BillySmith, Herbert Walls. Alleight are Democrats.• Constable south – Don
Cothern, Thomas E. Crouch,Anthony T. Jones, KennethBernard McMullen, Bill Row-land, Bobby Watson. All areDemocrats, with the excep-tion of Watson, who is run-ning as an Independent.• Coroner – incumbent
James Richard Anderson,Tracy D. Reynolds. Both areDemocrats.• County attorney – in-
cumbent Shirley C. Byers andJ. Kizer “Ki” Jones. Both areDemocrats.• Supervisor District 1 –
incumbent Charles Terry,Goston “Redd” Glover, Ki-mosheia Martin Rucker. Allthree are Democrats.• Supervisor District 2 –
incumbent Eddie D. Dixonand Andre C. Jones, both De-mocrats, and Samuel“Spanky” Skelton, who is run-ning as a Republican.• Supervisor District 4 –
incumbent George Zinn III,Cole Fesmire, Ricky R. Jonesand Antjuan Lester, all De-mocrats, and Harry Warren,who is running as a Republi-can.• Supervisor District 5 - in-
cumbent Ronnie Joe Bennett,Steve G. Wilson. Both are De-mocrats.• Tax collector – incum-
bent Betty Byrd, Rodney“Duv Sac” Lowe. Both are De-mocrats.• State Senate, District
10 – Bill Stone and Steve Hale.Both Democrats are incum-bent senators, with Stonemoving from District 2 to Dis-trict 10.• State Senate, District 19,
Kevin Blackwell (Republi-can).• House of Repre -
sentatives, District 5 – incum-bent John Faulkner,Jacqueline Simon. Both areDemocrats.• House of Repre -
sentatives, District 13 – in-cumbent Steve Massengill(Republican), Justin Cluck(Democrat).The first primary is Tues-
day, Aug. 4, with a runoffTuesday, Aug. 25, if needed.The general election will beheld Tuesday, Nov. 3.For more information on
the election, call the MarshallCounty circuit clerk’s office,252-3434.
begin taking applications inthis second quarter of 2015 forhourly wage jobs, he said.Volvo has a couple of supervi-sory and administrative posi-tions on the Mississippi workswebsite, www.mdes.ms.gov.“We hope Marshall County
residents will take advantageof the new job opportunities inthe county,” Hall said. “Wehave great businesses locatedthroughout the county. I hopeour citizens will pursue em-ployment opportunities locally.These are well-paying jobsright at home, so employeescan cut down on their com-mute times and will not have tocross state and county lines tofind a great job.”Interest in the park and
area continues to mount. Eachnew tenant brings infrastruc-ture upgrades to the area andhelps position the sites to meetthe needs of the next project,Hall said. Potential projects in
both distribution and manufac-turing continue to be consid-ered.Hall believes there is
enough interest in the Mar-shall County area to supportindustries, including the localones who found ways to be-come more efficient and pro-ductive during the recession of2007-2009. The adjustments by local
industries has led to growthwithin these companies as thenation has moved out of the re-cession, Hall said. “I do think that we have the
assets companies are lookingfor to remain attractive, even inan economic downturn,” hesaid.New residential growth will
also benefit the county as resi-dents find good-paying jobs orchoose to move to the area.There are ample subdivisionsin the area that have lots forsale, he said.
By SUE WATSONStaff Writer
Parks and Recreation director Travis Isom an-nounced registration for softball and baseball iscoming up soon in Holly Springs.Several aldermen ex pressed interest in the pro-
gram, which is being designed to serve all ages. Alderman Bernita Fountain asked to be allowed
to sponsor basketball camps in May, June and July. “I want to have something each month,” she
said.Aldermen Christy Owens and Sharon Gipson
also expressed interest.“What other activities do you plan?” Gipson
asked.Isom said he will have flag football and tennis –
any sport where there is a field for it.
“I want to use them (the fields) and have a pro-gram,” he said.Basketball is on tap year-round at the Eddie Lee
Smith Multi-Purpose Building.Isom said some cities have baseball year-round,
but tennis is a seasonal sport.He said he wants to start the programs and build
them from the ground up, year after year.In basketball, he wants to teach skills for basket-
ball before having open court on Tuesdays andThursdays.Mayor Kelvin Buck suggested a calendar be de-
veloped and then the current activities at the parksshould be advertised on a marquee. Isom also plans to contact sponsors who would
provide scoreboards and other amenities.In other business, the board of aldermen:
• approved a closeout of a Rural DevelopmentLoan on the elevated tank, well and treatment planton the Holly Springs north bypass road, with a finalpayment to the contractor. The interest rate on theconstruction loan of $1,941,190 held by three localbanks was lowered from 3.5 percent to 3 percent. • approved promoting Terry Rhea from assis-
tant technician to new service/drafting technicianand promoting Richard Boga from meter reader tometer technician.• approved the resignation of officer Kenneth
Jones. The board approved a request to advertisefor one police officer position.• approved requests for travel for training in the
Streets, Buildings and Grounds Department, by themayor’s office and city clerk and board of aldermen,and in the utility department.
Signup for summer baseball, softball coming soonELECTIONContinued from page 1
Photos by Sue WatsonROXUL stone wool manufacturing facility is going full steam at the first facility to be built in the United States, located on Cayce Road in Chickasaw Trail Industrial Park.
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ASICS distribution center added an extra 300,000 square feet of warehouse space at the facility atWingo Road. Current warehouse space is 845,000 square feet at this site.
A new spec building is under construction at Gateway Global Drive in Marshall County. The buildinghas 554,000 square feet of warehousing space. The site is large enough to double the size of ware-house space.
The Byhalia Police Department responded to 39 calls duringthe past week.Chief Gary Looney released the following report – miscel-
laneous, 8; escorts, 3; juveniles, 3; thefts, 2; disturbances, 5;motor vehicle accidents, 5; fires, 1; damaged property, 2; med-ical, 4; harassment, 4; and alarm calls, 2.Byhalia police officers also made five arrests during the past
week, according to Chief Looney.
The regular meeting of the board of trustees of the HollySprings School District has been scheduled for Tuesday,March 17, at 6 p.m.The meeting will be held in the Holly Springs High School
library, 165 North Walthall Street, Holly Springs.
City school board to meet March 17
Byhalia police go to 39 calls
Members of the Holly Springs High School JROTC presenting theflags for the National Anthem prior to a recent basketball game areTakayla Jefferson, Chazmonique Jackson, Dominique Howell andCedric Hampton.
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the house where they love tosit in good weather to enjoymeals and the outdoors.
The porch is outfitted inwicker furniture and looks outover the flower gardensplanted with native species ofplants they selected fromStrawberry Plains AudubonCenter’s native plants sale.The couple loves to raise theirown vegetables and plant heir-loom varieties – a real organicgarden.
The two have been volun-teers at the Audubon Centerfor a number of years, espe-cially during the humming-bird festival in September.
They are also exercise en-thusiasts and take severalwalks a week in Hill CrestCemetery. They also ridemountain bikes. They ride thebike trails in Oxford andMemphis.
“We walk in the cemeteryso we don’t have to lie in it,”Lirette quipped.
There is an old bodock treethat fell down in the back yardbut is still alive. It makes agreat spot to sit and enjoylooking at their garden andfield with their dogs.
The bungalow was built in1900 and an addition wasmade in 1979. The propertywas once a part of a dairyfarm. The repairs made on thehome are all on the 1979 addi-tion, Lirette said. In 1900 theconstruction materials andworkmanship was much supe-rior to today, he said.
Lirette said their first bestfriends when they moved toHolly Springs were the peopleat Booker Hardware andTeddy’s Building Supply andHarvey Payne, who helpedwith electrical or plumbing is-sues that Lirette didn’t want todo himself.
Lirette is an aerospace en-gineer and his training as anengineer has transferred tohis hobbies in building and re-pairing things. He was born inHouma, La.
Kerry was born in Anoka,Minn., and studied at Mon-tana State University and WestVirginia University. She worksas a registered nurse thera-pist.
The two met in Charleston,West Virginia, dated long dis-tance for a number of years,then married.
Kerry moved to Memphisin 2004 and the two moved toHolly Springs in 2005.
Lirette is the father of fivechildren and Brady themother of two. Both havegrandchildren.
What the couple likes bestabout Holly Springs is thesmall-town atmosphere, goodneighbors and businesspeoplewho are friendly and helpful.They also love the antebellumhouses and the history of thearea and the Audubon Center.
They both appreciatedgood parenting.
“Chuck and I feel that ourlife experiences and wonder-ful mentors, including our par-ents and teachers, gave us anappreciation for balancingwork, fun and self-sufficiency,”Brady said. “Holly Springscame into our lives at just theright time and it’s a great placeto call home.”
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A snow day
Photos by Mary Minor and Barry Burleson(Top) Rylee Farr plays in the snow last week at her home nearCornersville. (Bottom) A snowy Cedar Hill in Holly Springs isaglow at dusk on Wednesday, Feb. 25.
Photos by Sue WatsonChuck built this table, with no nails, of white pine and used black cherry for the Dutchmen (dovetails).
The ideas for remodeling the kitchen were all Kerry’s. She wanted open cupboards painted an ivory andthe walls an ochre yellow. “I like warm and inviting,” said Kerry, “old and welcoming, but still functional.”Both Chuck and Kerry take turns in the kitchen with much of their food coming out of their home garden.
Kerry and Chuck enjoy a duet. Kerry used to teach piano, havingstarted lessons at age 6. Chuck has been playing guitar since age8. He learned from his Uncle Pete.
By BARRY BURLESONEditor
David didn’t slay just oneGoliath but three last week inthe Mississippi Associa tion ofIndependent Schools OverallTournament.Class A Marshall Aca -
demy stunned Class AAAschools Jackson Academy,Magnolia Heights and Madi-son Ridgeland Aca demy andclaimed the coveted gold ball.“It was a storybook ending
for the most fun time in mylife,” said coach Craig Dailey,whose son Dakota is a senioron this MA team. “A friend ofmine said, ‘All in God’s greattiming.’ And that best sumsup how I feel.”It was Marshall’s first over-
all crown in 44 years, the lastcoming in 1971.It was Dailey’s first overall
championship as a coach onhis fifth trip to the title game –three coming at Delta and one
other at MA (in 2012).“Twenty-three years of
coaching, 13 state champi-onships, four overall runners-
up, countless district andnorth state championships, Ican honestly say this is thebest team ever,” he said. “I felt
a divine calm that it was allmeant to be.”MA finished with a 35-5
season record.It didn’t look good Satur-
day evening in A.E. Wood Col-iseum on the campus ofMississippi College whenMarshall trailed MRA 32-25with 1:47 remaining in the ul-timate “Hoosiers-like” titlematchup.But the Patriots, breathing
the same fire as their headcoach, fought back and won44-43.Corteze Love hit a lay-up,
Malik Riddle drilled a threefrom the corner, and DakotaDailey scored on a drive tothe goal. With 43 seconds left,it was tied at 32.That deadlock stood when
MRA missed a long-rangeshot from the corner and aputback in the closing sec-onds of regulation.The Pats took control in
overtime. Consecutive buck-ets from Love, Dailey and Rid-dle put them in front 38-32with 1:32 left in OT.The big school did not fade
away, cutting it to two twice –with 34 seconds left and with17 seconds left.Two free throws from
Christian Compton with 31ticks remaining and two byDailey with 14 seconds leftput the seal on what somecalled “the biggest upset inMAIS history.”A strong contingent of
Marshall fans celebrated withthe players and coaches onthe floor as they received theultimate trophy of all trophiesfor private school teams in thestate.“The ups and downs and
the peaks and the valleys arewhat was meant to be inbringing us to this time andthis moment,” Coach Dailey
Photo by Barry BurlesonJordon Harris (left, back) and Christian Compton apply some full-court pressure versus MRA in the championship game.
SportsReportThe South Reporter Thursday, March 5, 2015 Section 2, Page 1
Behind The ScoreboardBy Claude Vinson
NBA updateHave all of you NBA fans
found the time to catch upwith what your favorite teamis up to (or down to)? Bear inmind that they are past theall-star break and the mid-way point in their 80-gameschedule. A quick glance atthe overall standings willhave you believe that at thispoint that the Eastern Con-ference is the most domi-nant. But is that really so?It is always a good idea to
see who is leading the re-spective conferences. Pre -sently, the Atlanta Hawkslead the East with a record(47-12), which is at least 10games better than the clos-est team, or teams. Actuallythere are three other clubswhich own the record, re-spectively. Toronto, Chicagoand Cleveland all have 37wins. Their losses rangefrom 22 to 24. Chasing thefour is Washington with 34.Usually, the Wizards are notcounted as real contendersfor a conference title. Likemythical Cassius, they bearwatching this season.Within the East there are
13 teams running below.500. Is that a sign of strengthor weakness?The Golden State War-
riors own the best mark inthe West, 46-11. There arenine teams below GSWwhich are above .500. Thesecond team on the list is theMemphis Grizzlies. Theyhave a record of 41-18 andclimbed the ladder after run-ning the gauntlet. They didhave a couple of hiccups.Both were on a two-gamewinning streak over theweekend. There are only fiveteams below the water markin the West. The lowest teambelow the top 10 has arecord of 31-29. Is that a signof weakness or strength?We are wondering at
what time will the teamsmost likely to reach thechampionship game be re-vealed. If the playoffs wereheld this week, the eightteams from the East wouldbe Atlanta, Toronto,Chicago, Cleveland, Wash-ington, Milwaukee, Miamiand Indiana. Be cognizant ofthe fact that Derrick Rosewon’t be available to theBulls for four to six weeks. In the West, the eight
would be GSW, Grizzlies,Rockets, Trailblazers, Clip-pers, Mavericks, Spurs andThunder.What about the two well-
known players who “wenthome again” and how havethey fared? King James re-turned to Cleveland and theCavaliers, not in first place,but doing well. King James’10-year-old son is alreadybeing recruited by collegeteams. The King bristled atthe notion, but I think I de-tected a little bit of pride inthe king’s remarks.To warm your heart fur-
ther, Kevin Garnett bought athousand tickets to be givenaway to fans for the game onMonday – Timberwolvesand Clippers. Garnett saidhe wanted to reward the fansfor receiving him so warmlyon his return. Well played,K.G.. However, try not to getejected from that game asyou were in the game withthe Grizzlies on Saturday.
Wow, wow and wow!
• Patriots shock JA, Magnolia Heights and MRA for gold ball
Hawks packing for Jackson
Indians down Warriorsfor trip to quarter-finals
By BARRY BURLESONEditor
For the second straightseason, the Byhalia Indiansare headed south on I-55.Coach James Sales’ team
clinched a trip to Jackson forthe Class 4A State Tourna -ment by surviving a trip toPontotoc Saturday night. TheIndians escaped with a 49-47win over the Warriors.“That was a very tough
game,” said Sales, whose
team lost in the state semi-fi-nals in 2014. “It was a veryphysical game.“I think our tough sched-
ule, against a lot of 6Aschools, paid off for us. It pre-pared these guys.”The Indians had to battle
from behind in enemy terri-tory. They trailed 19-11 afterone quarter, 31-27 at halftimeand 40-39 following three pe-riods.
Showing off their MAIS Overall Championship trophy and medals Saturday eveningin Clinton are (front, from left) Sarah Grace Jackson (film), manager Grady Brooks,Christian Compton, Thomas Faulkenbery, Tyler Bolden, Boyce McKinney, Eli Pearsonand manager Bo Martin; (back, same order) Tobe West, Dakota Dailey, Bridgett Dailey
(bookkeeper), head coach Craig Dailey, Corteze Love, Malik Riddle, Peyton Taylor,Jordon Harris, Drayton Potts, assistant coach David Robilio, Zach Sorrell, JustonMask, manager Wyle McMillen and Arthur Love (bus driver). The Overall crown fol-lowed State, North and District championships for the Patriots.
Photo by Linda McKinney
Photo by Barry BurlesonMalik Steele (34) battles against a Yazoo City player.
Photo by Willie Ann SheltonCadarrius Crumb (55) scores two versus Kossuth Saturday.
By CLAUDE VINSONSports Editor
The Holly High Hawksdelivered a knockout blowto the Kossuth AggiesSatur day night and at thesame time punched theirticket to the Big House –well, sort of.The Mississippi High
School Activities Associa-tion has changed the stateplayoff format this seasonand the quarter-finals of theboys’ state competition willbe played at Jackson StateUniversity.The loud crowd in the
Hawks’ aerie had been sub-dued somewhat with theLady Hawks being knockedout of the search for a statetitle, in the early game, butit quickly rebounded whenthe Hawks took the floor tocontinue the quest for a re-turn to Jackson. The Hawksmade the trip last in 2010.They were rewarded im-
mediately with a three fromDeQuan Smith. Carlos Pooltossed in the second bucket.The Aggies reeled a littlebut they were ball movers.They weren’t allowing theorb to gather any moss.Conversely, the Hawks
were moving, shaking andshooting.By this time, Smith had
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The Potts Camp Cardi nalshad to travel to the Delta inthe opening round of theClass 2A basketball playoffsand a strong effort came upshort.The Cardinals dropped an
83-75 decision in Hollandaleto Simmons High SchoolFriday night, in a game thathad been delayed due to win-try weather all week. It was
the Blue Devils’ 11th win in arow.“I am proud of the team
for their efforts this season,”said Kenzaki Jones, headcoach of the Cardinals. “Wefell short of our goal, butthrough it all, we give Godthe glory.”Simmons led 20-6 in the
first quarter and 33-11 in thesecond before Potts Campclosed to within 37-24 at half-time.
The Devils went on a 15-5run in the third quarter tomake it 62-40.At the end of the period, it
was 66-44.Xavion Allen was on fire
for the Cardinals. He fin-ished with 29 points, includ-ing five threes. RogerHarmon was next in line with16 points, and Corey Grimesadded 11.Potts Camp finished with
an 11-21 record.
HAWKSContinued from page 1The Hawks were main-
taining a comfortable differ-ence but it was no cake walk.These Aggies had come toplay. They kept nipping atthe Hawks’ tail feathers andcutting into their lead. Theirpoints were coming from theHawks’ miscues. Holly Highescaped the first half with an11-point margin (38-27).Both squads kept throw-
ing deuces and treys at eachother and it evolved into areal shooting match. Poolbeat the buzzer by a split sec-ond and nailed a long ball tomake it 61-45.Holly High was holding
the Aggies at bay but itwasn’t decisively puttingthem away. The Hawksmoved out to 81-55 before itbecame clear that theywould be moving down thebig road to the Big House.About halfway through thefinal quarter, coach Kilgoredid some bench clearing.The reserves sent in addednine points for a total tally of90-57.Smith led Holly High with
23 (including five treys),Kylan Freeman had 16,Cardarrius Crumb 15 andKeota Taylor 10. Pool addednine and Treyvon Johnsoneight. Johnson also had eightrebounds and Crumb andKeota Taylor seven each.The Hawks will play
Velma Jackson at 4 p.m. onWednesday, March 4, at JSU.With a win, they will advanceto Mississippi Coliseum for a4 p.m. Class 3A semi-finalgame on Tuesday, March 10.“We have to go down
there Wednesday and leaveit all on the floor,” said coachSylvester Kilgore, whosesquad improved to 20-9.“The kids are very excited,and it’s great for these youngmen to be able to go toJackson and compete for astate championship.”
Hawks-Leflore The Hawks defeated the
Leflore County Tigers in theopening round of the Class3A playoffs Tuesday of lastweek at home.This one looked as if it
was going to be actionpacked. The Hawks went 4-0in a few motion-filled sec-onds, but the Tigers werekeeping pace. The leadswere slight, usually hoveringaround one point. Holly Highlost some potential bucketsto errant passes but stillmanaged a five-point lead atthe end.The Tigers were really
ruffling the Hawks’ feathersin the second until Smith
went on a three-ball binge.He sank a couple to put theHawks ahead. The Tigerswere still doing some dam-age in the paint. Holly Highwas getting good mileage atthe charity stripe and sowere the Tigers. The formerhad missed three of 13 and
the latter two of 10. TheHawks were up 35-26 atintermission.The Tigers dug the claws
in a little deeper in the thirdframe and shrunk the Hawklead to four. That didn’t seemto set well with the hometeam.They went on a scoring
tear and ran up a 14-pointlead (53-39). Both squadswere still doing well on free-bies. Holly High was holdingon to a double-digit differ-ence of 59-47 at the bell.Leflore was not done yet;
they opened the fourth peri-od by trimming the Hawklead down to four again.Both squads were trying toremain upright with thesteady pressure they wereapplying.Freeman moved the
Hawks out to 72-64 at theline with 1:04 left. They heldserve and added one morepoint for a 73-64 final.Scoring 15 each for Holly
High were Smith, Johnsonand Taylor. Crumb tossed in11 points.Crumb also had seven
rebounds, while DeAndreFinley dished out sevenassists. Pool had six steals.
By CLAUDE VINSONSports Editor
The Holly High LadyHawks’ post-season runended one win short of a tripto Mississippi Coliseum.They fell to Belmont
Saturday night at home inthe second round of theClass 3A playoffs.The tip went to the Lady
Cardinals but the LadyHawks denied the first pos-session basket. The visitorspicked it up a play later. Apair of freebies and a stick-back had the Lady Hawksout early 6-2. Ball handling and poor
shot selection were taking atoll on the hosts in the sec-ond half of the first period.Belmont was getting somepoints off of fast breaks andsome garbage points. Theyled 17-7 in the first.The Lady Hawks were
still being plagued by somemental lapses. The LadyCardinals weren’t missingmany angles and very fewshots. With 2:58 remainingin the second, the visitorshad a 21-point margin (32-11). The Lady Hawks wereappearing defenseless. TheLady Cardinals just over ranthem in that quarter. It was43-21 at halftime.Belmont was employing a
box-and-one offense in thethird. It was strictly a slow-down, clock-burning tactic.The Lady Cardinals weren’tsuffering, they had a 20-pointlead (45-25). They hadElisiah Jones and ChloeWatson take turns in puttingon dribbling exhibitions torun the clock. The keep-away ploy was working, theyended the quarter on a 51-27note.The stalling stratagem
was their best offense in thefinal frame. The visitors werein no hurry with a sizeable24-point margin. They endedwith a 56-32 victory. LaKendra Bell led Holly
High with 11. Jametrius
Moore had nine points andeight rebounds. BrandiWoodson was the toprebounder with 10.The loss ended the Lady
Hawks’ season with an 18-11record.“Belmont is really a good
team with a rich tradition ofsuccess,” coach SylvesterKilgore said. “We got off to arough start and couldn’trecover.“The young ladies in our
program have really come along way (from five wins asninth graders).”Moore is the only senior
on the team.“We’re excited about next
year,” he said. “We have tolearn from this season andgo back to work. We will beback ready to compete evenharder next year.”
Lady Hawks-LefloreIn view of winning the
District 2-3A championship,the Holly High girls alsohosted a first round game inthe playoffs on Tuesday oflast week.
The Lady Hawks pulledaway from Leflore County inthe second half and won by26 points.They were up first and the
visitors didn’t get the tip butthey got the first bucket, along trey from the left cornerby Brianna Yates. The hoststook a one-point lead but theLady Tigers’ DiamondClemons threw in anotherlong ball. The Lady Hawkskept the edge though, 13-9 atthe end of the quarter.The Lady Hawks were
rebounding well but so weretheir opponents. Holly Highwas outshining the opposi-tion in the transition game.They were getting to the lineoften and soon had Lefloredoubled up at 32-16. Somefloor changes didn’t bode atall well for the Lady Hawksand they lost a few pointsinstead of delivering an earlyknockout punch. However,they were still ahead 33-21 atthe break. Holly High faced a one-on-
one Lady Tiger defensewhen they returned to thefloor. They only had minorproblems evading thedefenders and soon had a 20-point lead (41-21). And final-ly, the Lady Hawks apparent-ly decided to give the visitorsthe “old one-two.” StarlandriaWalton and Bell started driv-ing the ball and when theyweren’t scoring, they weredishing to posts. There was a30-point margin (53-23)when the horn sounded.The final period was pret-
ty much a walk in the parkfor the Lady Hawks. TheLady Tigers were still play-ing as hard as possible but itwas to no avail. The LadyHawks were flying just a bittoo high and soared to the64-38 victory.Soaring highest for Holly
High were Walton (25) andBell (22). Bell and Woodsonled a strong reboundingeffort by the Lady Hawks.
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This year’s State BasketballTournament in Jackson just won’t bethe same. That’s because the H.W.Byers Lady Lions will be not be therefor the first time in eight years.
The Byers girls lost 70-49 Mondaynight at East Webster in the secondround of the Class 2A playoffs, one winshy of Jackson.
“It was a remarkable streak,” saidJason Thompson, whose Lady Lionswon state championships in six ofthose eight trips to MississippiColiseum, including four in a row.
“It was inevitable (that it would end);it was bound to happen at some pointand time. Unfortunately, it was lastnight.”
East Webster took control early,going up 21-8 after one quarter.
“They got off to a great start, and wecouldn’t muster up enough to come
back,” he said. “They made the shots;give credit to them.”
The Lady Lions were down 38-24 athalftime.
Abria Gulledge led Byers with 24points. Keoasha Moore had 10.
The Lady Lions finished with a 20-12record. They lose six seniors –Gulledge, Lanchai Collins, AuteziaSellers, Lakeisha Reynolds, MarquitaRubin and Monique Rubin.
“Hats off to all of my kids,”Thompson said. “They didn’t quit allyear – maximum effort. And thanks tothe Byers community for their sup-port.”
On Friday night of last week, theLady Lions went into hostile territoryand stayed alive in the post-season.
They visited the Delta and beatLeland 60-57 behind a 33-point effortfrom Gulledge.
“She came up really big from thefree-throw line,” coach Jason
Thompson said.Gulledge hit 13 of 14 free-throw
attempts in the first round of the play-offs, all of those coming in the secondhalf. She was eight of eight in the thirdquarter and five of six in the fourth.
He said his team did not get rattledplaying in a tough environment on theroad.
“It’s just part of the process – goeswith the territory,” said Thompson,talking about the post-season. “Thekids withstood all the challengesFriday night and fought to the end topull it out.”
Byers trailed 27-25 at the half butoutscored Leland 22-18 in the thirdquarter to go ahead 47-45. The LadyLions hung on from there.
Reynolds added 16 points in thethree-point victory.
Byers lost a couple of players,Tialexus Stevenson and AuteziaSellers, to foul trouble.
In the fourth, they sur-vived a last-second shotattempt by Pontotoc.
“We could have put itaway with some free throws,”Sales said. “We gave themsome opportunities.
“But thank goodness,things we in our favor. All ofour hard work in practice ispaying off in the games.”
Jamaris Briggs andKendrick Parker scored 14each.
The Indians, with a 25-7record, will face QuitmanFriday at noon in the Class4A quarter-finals at JacksonState University.
Quitman features a DandyDozen player, Darius Hicks.The 6’7” forward has beencalled the “best junior in thestate,” by the Clarion-Ledger.
Sales said his team “willwork hard in practice thisweek and be ready.”
He likes his teams’ bal-ance. Eleven played and con-tributed in the win atPontotoc.
“And it took all 11 to pullthat one out,” he said. “It’s agood thing to have thatdepth.”
Byhalia-Yazoo CityThe outcome of the first
round playoff game at homeversus Yazoo City onTuesday of last week wasnever really in doubt. TheIndians were on the warpath
from the tipoff and dominat-ed 83-57.
When Keodric Harris andRasheid Steele nailed threesnear the midway point of thefirst quarter, the lead was 21-9. After one period, it was 27-14.
Byhalia continued to putthe hurt on Yazoo City in thesecond quarter.
At the 3:54 mark, MalikSteele scored on a put-backto up the margin to 35-17.
The Indians, who hitseven threes in the first half,got one from Avion Grahamto put the host team up 44-19.
Then, fittingly, JustinJones closed the first halfwith a long-range three justbefore the buzzer sounded.Byhalia led 52-23.
Yazoo City tried to make acouple of runs in the secondhalf but to no avail.
Malik Steele made a cou-ple of short shots to finishthe third period, making thescore 67-43.
Ladarius Confer’s stealand basket stretched the leadto 29 (77-48) halfway throughthe fourth and Byhalia wenton to win by 26.
Ten Indians scored in thepost-season victory. Harrisled the way with 19. Othersin double digits were MalikSteele with 16 and Conferwith 15. Rasheid Steele hadnine.
With a win Friday inJackson, Byhalia willadvance to the state semi-
finals Thursday, March 12, at2 p.m. at MississippiColiseum.
Marshall County SupervisorDistrict 2
Eddie DixonBest Wishes For A Winning Season
To All Marshall County Athletes!
Streak ends for Byers Lady Lions
Darryl Hubbard III, age 10, displays his medallion awarded to himon February 14 after he participated in the Annual Knights ofColumbus Free Throw Tournament held at Holy Family Gym onWest Street. Hubbard qualifies for the District/North Half level(s) ofcompetition. Pictured with Hubbard is James Rayford Sr., chancel-lor of Council #8760, which stages the local level competition.
Photo by Willie Ann Shelton
Ten-year-old qualifies for next level
Photo by Barry BurlesonAvion Graham (right) guards a Yazoo City player up-close.
By BARRY BURLESONEditor
Marshall County will bewell represented in upcom-ing all-star basketballgames.
Three Marshall Aca -demy seniors will play inMississippi Association ofIndependence Schools all-star games this Friday,March 6. Plus, two MAcoaches will lead all-starteams.
Wesleyann Ray will playfor the North in the Class Agirls all-star game, set for 11a.m. at Jackson Prep inFlowood. Also, MA’s KeithTaylor will be the headcoach of the North.
Dakota Dailey andChristian Compton will playfor the North in the Class Aboys all-star contest, sched-uled for 12:30 p.m. atJackson Prep. And,Dakota’s dad, coach CraigDailey, fresh off of leadinghis Patriots to the MAIS
Overall championship, willbe the head coach of theNorth.
H.W. Byers senior AbriaGulledge will be a memberof the Mississippi teamwhen it takes on theAlabama all-stars Friday,March 20, at the Dunn-Oliver Acadome, AlabamaState University inMontgomery, Ala.
Jason Thompson, headcoach of the Lady Lions,will be an assistant on theMississippi staff. Headcoach is Patricia Wilson ofMeridian and administra-tive coach is Donny Fullerof Gulfport.
And on Friday, March27, Starlandria Walton ofthe Holly Springs LadyHawks will play in the annu-al North/South All-StarBasket ball Game for highschool juniors.
She will be a member ofthe North team in the gameset for Mississippi College.
Players, coaches goingto all-star contests
The Byhalia Sports Association will host a final registra-tion for youth softball, baseball and T-ball this Saturday,March 7, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Byhalia Town Hall.
Cost is $65 per child, which includes full uniform. Pleasebring a copy of your child’s birth certificate.
For more information, call 901-246-8843 or 216-3117.
Byhalia sets final registration
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CHURCH DIRECTORYASSEMBLY OF gOD• Chewalla Assembly of God, 1511 HigdonRoad, Holly Springs, Terrell Stacks, pas-tor, 662-292-3210.• Friendship Assembly of God, Victoria,Pastor Virgil Scherff, 838-4000• First Assembly of God, 730 S. ByhaliaRoad, Collierville, TN. 853-9952. PastorRev. Jason MurphyBAPTIST• Antioch Baptist Church, 838-7606,Victoria, MS., Rev. Roger Daniels• Ashland Baptist Church, Ashland, 224-6473• Baptist Hill M.B. Church, Potts Camp,Pastor, Rev. Lacy Scott• Believers Baptist Church Fant Ave., Holly Springs• Bethany Baptist Church, Rt.1 PottsCamp• Bell Grove MB Church, 853 Tyro Road,Chulahoma, 662-564-4511 • Bett Baptist Church, 2665 Bett Road,Coldwater, MS 38618, Pastor AlvinWhitehead Sr. 662-292-2964• Brookside Baptist Church, 4993 Hwy.302 e, Olive Branch, 662-890-4069, Rev.Marvin Tharnish• Braybourne Baptist, 13311 e. Goodman,Olive Branch, 662-893-LORD, Dr. FrankHuddleston, • Calvary Baptist Church, 665 e. RisingStar Rd, 252-4453, Jerry Moore Pastor• Carey Chapel, Rt. 1 Red Banks• Cayce Baptist Church, Bro. eddieJohnson, • Charity Baptist Temple, Watson, 838-2478• Chewalla Primitive Baptist Church, 40Lacy Ivy Road, Off Hwy. 178, elder JerryWise• Chewalla Baptist, 2020 Higdon Road• Chulahoma MB Church, 5509 Hwy. 4West, 662-564-2895• Clear Creek Baptist Church, Lamar,Pastor Andy Skelton• Cornerstone Baptist Church, PastorJimmy Wilbanks, Hickory Flat, Sun.Afternoon 1:30 p.m.• Barton Baptist Church, Rt. 5 Byhalia, Dr.John McMullen• BridgeWay Baptist, 107 Taska Road, Mt.Pleasant, Gary Adams• Concord Baptist Church, Slayden, 252-5440• emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church,Red Banks Road• Faith Haven Baptist Church, Red Banks,252-5706• Faith Baptist Church, Old Hwy. 178,Hickory Flat • Faith South Victoria, Rt. 1 Red Banks• Faith Baptist Church, 3964 Hwy. 309 N,Barton, 895-4360• Fellowship Baptist Church, Byhalia838-4377
• Finley Grove Missionary Baptist, 2250Hwy. 7 N, Holly Springs, James Green• First Baptist Church, Byhalia, 838-2250• First Baptist Church, (SBC) Byhalia 838-3621• First Baptist Church, Holly Springs, 185e. College, 252-2627• First Baptist Church, Hickory Flat,Rev.Gary Linville, Pastor, 333-7752• First Baptist Church, Potts Camp, 333-7602• Free Branch M.B. Church, 2233 HigdonRoad, Holly Springs, Joe Louis Tunstall,Pastor, 662-551-1050• Friendship Baptist Church, OldHernando Rd., Pastor Bro. Justin Haynes, SS 9:45, Worship 11, 662-213-7939• Grace Baptist Church, 5285 Cayce Rd,Johnathan Cates, Pastor, 901-647-9906• Harris Chapel, Hoover Rd, Ashland, MSRev. McArthur King, Pastor• Hearn Grove MB Church, Byhalia,Pastor Rev. Archie Bowens• Hebron Missionary Baptist Church,Lamar Rd., Ashland 224-8733• Hickory Flat Baptist Church, Hickory Flat 333-7752• Hillcrest Baptist, 1580 Hwy. 309 S,Warsaw, Pastor Jim Buchanan• Holly Hill Baptist Church, Hwy. 7S, 662-544-0418• Hopewell Baptist No. 1, 365 Bonner,Holly Springs, Rev. Leroy James• Hopewell Baptist No. 2, 1115 Hwy. 7 N,Holly Springs• Jones Grove Baptist Church, Hwy. 7, 252-3990• Kimbrough Chapel Church, Hwy. 7, 252-4629• Liberty Hill MB Church, Hernando Road,838-8520, Rev. Calvin Rayborn Sr., pas-tor, 901-949-0771• Macedonia Baptist Church, Byhalia838-2550• Marshall County Baptist Assn., 440 Hwy.78 W 252-5110• McIntrye MB Church, 88 McIntrye Road,Pastor, Robert Garrison• Meadowbrook Baptist Church, 3115 OldPigeon Roost Rd., 838-6337, Pastor,Oscar Geeslin• First Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant,Pastor Bro. Mike Pennock, 662-851-7230• Mt. Ollie M.B. Church, Hwy. 349, Rev.Anthony Marion Pastor• Mt. Newell MB Church, Red Banks, Rev.Arthur Fitzpatrick, Jr., 252-2015• Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Laws Hill 252-2116• Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Marianna Rd564-3595• Mt. Peel Baptist Church, Laws Hill,252-5504
• Mtn. Gillian Missionary Baptist, Church,County Line Rd. 838-2330• Mt. Sinai MB Church, 1855 Mt. SinaiRoad, 564-2271, Rev. Chris Williams.• Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Mt. Zion Road,Red Banks 851-7187• Marianna Baptist Church, Hwy 309 S, 1mile north of Hwy 4• Opulent Life Church, 619 Hwy. 7 South,behind Popeye’s Chicken. Telsa DeBerry,252-8308• New Harmony Baptist Church, Old Hwy.7 N. 252-2450• New Hope M.B. Church, Laws Hill, 3120Hwy. 310, Waterford, MS 38685, Dr.Bessie Tables, pastor, 662-252-1118• New Hope Baptist Church, Slayden, BillyAdair, 877-3949• Open Door Baptist Church, Hwy. 78Between Hickory Flat & Potts Camp,
333-4490, Pastor David M. Helmic• Pleasant Grove Missionary BaptistChurch, Red Banks• Pine Grove Baptist Church, Pine Grove224-8622• Powell Chapel MB, High 4 east, eddieL. Walker, 252-7875• Providence Baptist Church, 295 WhittersAve, Holly Springs• Red Banks Baptist Church, 252-7468• Red Banks Freewill Baptist Church, RedBanks Road• Reid’s Gift Baptist, Potts Camp, 333-4291, Rev. Jerry Lee Williams• Rising Star M.B. Church, Chewalla LakeRd.• Salem Baptist Church, Potts Camp• Sandhill Baptist Church, Hwy. 7, 252-5157• Sims Chapel Missionary Baptist Church,Michigan City-early Grove Rd. 224-8466• Slayden Baptist Church, 252-4559• Smith Grove Baptist, 5776 Smith GroveRd.• Spring Hill Baptist Church, Waterford 252-5131• Strawberry Missionary Baptist, Hwy. 311,252-5997 • St. Marks Baptist, Hwy. 78 east, 252-5656• St. Matthew Baptist. Byhalia, MS838-5441
• St. Mark Baptist, Hwy. 78 e HollySprings, 252-5656• St. Paul MB, Rev. Andrew Cheairs, Hwy.309 Byhalia 838-4774• Temperance Hill Baptist, Church, Hwy.78 e, 333-7421• True Vine Missionary Baptist, 525 WestStreet, Holly Springs• union Valley M.B. Church, 1264 unionValley Rd, PO Box 413, Byhalia, PastorLondon Joe Richmond, 662-564-3111• Victoria Heights Baptist Church, VictoriaRoad, Joe Nunley, pastor• Victory Baptist Church, 2550 WalHill Rd.,Independence, 233-2208, DewayneWilkerson• Wyatte Baptist Church, 30721 Hwy. 4east, Senatobia, MS 38668, 662-562-6587, Pastor Scott RogersCATHOLIC• St. Joseph Catholic Church, 305 e. VanDorn 252-3138CHuRCH OF CHRIST• Ashland Church of Christ, 224-6704• Byhalia Church of Christ, 70 Algee St.Bro. Brad Pettis pastor• Church of Christ, Hwy. 178 Potts Camp,William Coates, Minister, 333-7684• Church of Christ, Holly Springs, Hwy. 4e, 252-2680• Hernando Road Church of Christ, 252-1808• Laws Hill Church of Christ, Just off Hwy.310 West, Michael Baggett• Victoria Church of Christ, 192 FriendshipRd, 662-292-6076, Minister DavidJackson• Wall Hill Church of Christ, 1484 Wall HillRd., Marvin N. BairdCHuRCH OF gOD• Miracle Temple Overcoming Church ofGod, Alan Corner Rd. 252-1854CHuRCH OF gOD IN CHRIST• Miracle Temple Church of God in Christ,14420 e. Goodman Road, 838-4176• Christ Temple Church of God in Christ,210 W. Park Ave. 252-5741• Faith Temple Church of God in Christ,Roberts Chapel Rd. 252-4654• Hopewell Church of God in Christ,Byhalia, 838-3476• St. Luke Church of God in Christ, OldSalem Rd east, Ashland, MS, Pastorelder Nathaniel Holleman, 224-6353• Watson Church of God in Christ,Watson, 838-3225EPISCOPAL• Christ episcopal Church, 100 N.Randolph, 252-2584ISLAMIC• Nation of Islam, 165 N. Memphis, HollySprings, 252-6738JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES• Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall,Hwy. 178 W, 252-6426LuTHERAN• Grace Lutheran Church, 945 Hwy. 311N., Holly Springs 252-4224METHODIST/CME• Adolphus Chapel CMe Church,Marianna Road, Pastor Billy L. Williams• Anderson Chapel, Hwy. 78 W 252-1938,Rev. William Banks• Asbury united Methodist Church, 225 W.College, 252-1766• Barton united Methodist Church, 895-3189• Berries Chapel CMe Church, MichiganCity, Rev. Robert Hardaway• Beverly Chapel CMe, 1095 Old Hwy. 4West, Pastor Rev. W.T. Wilbourn• Calvin Chapel united Methodist Church,Hwy. 78, Holly Springs-252-7958, Rev.C.D. Miller, Pastor-252-4330• early Grove united Methodist, PastorWayne Sheffield• emory Independent Methodist Church,Rev. Leon Burton, Pastor, Byhalia,838-7878• First united Methodist Church, 175 e.Van Dorn, 252-1439• Free Springs united Methodist Church,Harmontown, Troy Barton, Pastor• Gray’s Chapel CMe, Rev. Brian Davis• Hamilton Chapel CMe Church, 19Hamilton Rd, Waterford, MS 252-6943,Rev. Lesha Agnew• Hebron Chapel CMe, Old HernandoRoad, Rev. Lexine Smith• Hickory Flat Methodist, Rev. Neal Vick• Isaac Chapel C.M.e. Church,Rev. WillieWard, Pastor, 838-4680 Osborne BellHwy. (309)• New Hope CMe Church, Red Banks,Pastor Rev. Doris Alexander, 662-551-2345• Nichols Chapel CMe Church, AlgeeStreet, Byhalia, Pastor Rev. RoderickLewis, 838-7556• united Methodist Church, Byhalia,838-2237• united Methodist Church, Potts Camp,Rev. Don Newton, Pastor 333-6335• united Methodist Church, Cornersville,Rev. Don Newton, Pastor 333-6335• united Methodist Church, Bethlehem,Rev. Don Newton, Pastor 333-6335
• united Methodist Church, Waterford, MS• Hopewell No. 2 M.B. Church,Hudsonville, Rev. R. B. Hardaway,Pastor• Hudsonville C.M.e. Church, SouthSlayden Road, elder Bobby G. Wilson,252-1515• Isom Chapel CMe Church, Slayden,1436 Isom Chapel Road, Pastor, Rev.Michael Adams, 252-2859• Mt. Pleasant united Methodist, 851-7301• Newell Chapel CMe, Rev. Q.H.Whihtlock Jr., Moore Road, Victoria 838-4822• Mt. Comfort, 120 Mt. Comfort Road, 252-4552, Rev. Morris Stephens, Pastor• Mt. Gilead CMe, 4025 Hwy. 4 West,Holly Springs, Rev. eddie LeSure Sr. andRev. Dr. Mary LeSure, 662-519-1724• Mt. Pisgah C.M.e. Church, 3877 CayceRd, eddie Joe Wilson, pastor• Mt. Teamer CMe Church, 813 MusgrayRoad, 662-551-1655, Holly Springs, Rev.Henry Damons• Mt. Zion CMe Church, Little Snow CreekRoad, Ashland, MS. 224-3278, Rev.Calvin Davis• Rice Chapel united Methodist, PastorWayne Sheffield• Roberts Chapel, Slayden, MS, Rev.Willie Hoey• St. Paul CMe Church, 4759 HigdonRoad, Lake Center, 601-252-4746. PastorRev. Charles e. Dooley• Taylor’s Chapel united MethodistChurch, 154 French Road, Victoria, Ms.,Rev. Juanita Booker, Pastor, 838-2260• Victoria-Red Banks Methodist, Rev.Anita Lawson• Walton Chapel CMe Church, Waterford,Rev. Wilbert Bolden• Wilkins Chapel CMe, Waterford, PastorRobert Odum• Winborn united Methodist Church, Bro.Danny estes• Yarbrough Chapel CMe, 2997 Old Hwy.4. Rev. Florenstine S. Woods, pastorPENTECOSTAL• Apostolic Lighthouse u.P.C., 7015 Hwy.4 West, Terry Teddlie, pastor, 662-416-1858• Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, 178Stonewall Rd., Byhalia, 601-838-4601• Bethlehem Church of the Lord JesusChrist, Bethlehem 333-7046• united Pentecostal Church, Byhalia,838-2740
• united Pentecostal Church, Victoria, 838-6952• evangel Full Gospel Assembly, evangelDr., Holly Springs, 252-2756• 1st Pentecostal Church of Holly Springs,Old Hwy. 78 east, 252-3057• Church of the Living God, Davis Temple,635 W. Street, Holly Springs, elder R.L.Davis• Heritage Apostolic Church, 400 HeritageDrive, Holly Springs• Mt. Calvary Pentecostal Church, 3993Cayce Rd, 662-851-7509, Pastor BillyWatkinsPRESBYTERIAN• First Presbyterian Church, 252-4678• First Presbyterian, Byhalia 838-2235• Greenfield Presbyterian, Waterford, 252-3311, Pastor, Rev. W. James Lyons• Hernando Presbyterian Church, 2070Mt. Pleasant Road, Pastor Steve Woods,662-449-0120OTHER• A Place Called Hope, Pastor evelynFinley Moore, 8939 Mid South Dr., OliveBranch, MS• Anointed Christian Faith Center, 1426 SRed Banks Road, Pastor Floyd Moore• Church of Living Gospel, Byhalia, 838-4661• Church of Lord Jesus Christ, Byhalia838-3674
• Landmark Temple Of Jesus Christ, Hwy.78 W. 252-1728• Faith Christian Church, 117 CollinsCircle, 252-5905, Percy Craine, Min.• First Church of Jesus Christ, Barton,MS., Rev. Joseph M. Cupp, 895-3133• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter DaySaints, Lamar, Ms, President Michaelerickson, 662-365-8185• Harvestime Apostolic Church, 693Skating Rink Rd., Pastor Carl Waldrop, 901-268-8087• House of Prayer, 553 Tunstall andMocking Bird Road, Byhalia, CommandaLeSure, pastor, 662-560-7078• Latter Rain Church, 519 Hwy. 178W,Holly Springs, MS 252-6350• The Bahai Faith Study Group, 252-5282• Tabernacle of Prayer, Overcoming,Church of God, Woodward Ave., HollySprings, elder Jeremiah Lesuere, Sr.• Mt. Sinia Church of God in Christ, RedBanks, MS elder Curtis Pritchard 851-7381• New Dimension Salt & Light Ministry,185 McAlexander Rd, Red Banks, PastorActavatis Allen, 662-551-1569• Red Banks Road House of Praise &Worship, 252-4316, Pastor Ricky Barnett• Dominion of Faith Ministeries. 252-3036,Holly Springs, Pastor Henry L. Gillespie,Jr.• Byhalia Church of God, 2550 Hwy. 309S., Pastor Billy Smith, 662-838-6891• Community Temple Holiness Church,1331 Mt. Zion Rd, 662-851-3388, Pastorelder Frank Moore.• New Fellowship Christian Church, 122Watson-DeSoto Rd, Byhalia, MS 38611,Pastor Michael Hughes, Sr., 838-2330.• Mighty God Ministries, Victoria, MS,Pastor Marvin Brooks, 838-2788• Victory Church, 103 Lowry Drive,Byhalia, Pastor Melvin Shackelford, 901-831-7623• New Faith Outreach Ministries, 1296 S.Red Banks Road, Pastor Tracy Jeffries,629-0360.• Jordan Temple of Deliverance, 1273McAlexander Road, Holly Springs, PastorBishop earnest Jordan, 901-220-9415• Mustard Seed Ministries, 3213 Hwy. 309South, Byhalia, Pastors Virgil & Vanessaezekiel, 901-487-8084.• Opulent Life Church, 118 S. Memphis,St., Holly Springs
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• HoMES FoR SALEMT. PLEASANT, 104 Wildcat Bot-tom Cv., 3BD, 2BA on 4 acres, work-shop, pole barn, very secluded.$149,000. Call or text today. JeremyRyan Crye-Leike Realtors, 901-488-8461. (46tfnc)––––––––––––––––––––––––––2BD, 2BA home, on 2 acres, in By-halia, 170 Ridge Rd., $54,000,Woodland Hills, Adam Long, Crye-Leike Realtors.662-429-3660.(51tfnc)––––––––––––––––––––––––––LEASE PURCHASE: 3BD, 2BAbrick home, Red Banks area. 901-301-5899. (09-10c)––––––––––––––––––––––––––• MoBILE HoMESCREDIT A little low? With a qualifiedincome we can get you approved ona new home with a score as low as575 and only 10% down. And that iswith a fixed interest rate! WindhamHomes, Inc., Corinth, 888-287-6996.(04tfnc)––––––––––––––––––––––––––I PAY ToP DoLLAR for used mobilehomes. Call 662-296-5923. (10c)––––––––––––––––––––––––––2003 14X40 1BD, 1BA single widefor sale, in great shape, $12,900, de-livered, 662-760-2120. (10c)––––––––––––––––––––––––––MoVE-IN READY, double wide,3BD, 2BA vinyl, shingle, CHA, stonefireplace. $32,900 incl. delivery & setup. 662-760-2120. (10c)––––––––––––––––––––––––––• FoR RENT ALL RENTAL PRoPERTY adver-tised herein is subject to the FederalFair Housing Act, which makes it ille-gal to advertise any preference, limi-tation or discrimination based onrace, color, religion, sex, handicap,familial status, or national origin, or in-tention to make any such preference,limitation or discrimination. We willnot knowingly accept any advertisingfor real estate which is in violation ofthe law. All persons are hereby in-formed that all dwellings advertisedare available on an equal opportunitybasis. For more information on theFair Housing Act, go to www.hud.gov.(tfn)––––––––––––––––––––––––––No PETS: 1BD apt., fully furnished,$390. 2BD and 3BD also. 3BD haslarge yard, carport and den. Depositrequired. No calls before 8 a.m. orafter 5 p.m. 662-252-2177. (51tfnc)––––––––––––––––––––––––––THE GRoVE AT CAYCE An up-scale, manufactured home commu-nity. Country living, nice, safeneighborhood. 2BD, 2BA, 3BD, 2BA,pay weekly, utilities and water in-cluded. Move in today. Playgroundand swimming pool. 662-851-3572.(21tfnc)––––––––––––––––––––––––––QUIET, SECLUDED efficiency apt.,utilitilies, appliances furnished, 15minutes from Collierville or OliveBranch, $500 month, $140 week;901-486-2774. (08-10c) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––NICE, LARGE 1BD apt and studioapt. for rent. Quiet, safe, furnished,kitchen, laundry room, cable. Rentor sell, reasonable. Hickory Flat,close to exit. 901-351-2443. (08-11c)––––––––––––––––––––––––––BYHALIA: 2BD, 2BA trailer on .5acre with a pond. $650 a month,available immediately. 901-212-6605. (10-11p)––––––––––––––––––––––––––TRAILER FoR RENT, 2BD, goodshape, on private property, CH,stove, refrigerator. 662-216-3565.(10-11c)––––––––––––––––––––––––––• REAL ESTATE2 ACRES, Byhalia area. Owner fi-nancing. Call 662-544-1007. (20tfnc)––––––––––––––––––––––––––2 ACRES for sale, 10 minutes southof Collierville at Roper Plantation.Only $29,995 with $295 down; 9%APR, payments only $238.97 permonth. Call 662-544-1007 forbrochure. (20tfnc)––––––––––––––––––––––––––LEASE/PURCHASE HoMES. 6lots, 3 to 6 acres each. Will finance,land, house or doublewide. 1878 S.Slayden Rd. Hunting land. 662-316-2821. (30tfnc)––––––––––––––––––––––––––29.3 ACRES, Slayden area, heavilywooded with excellent homesites andplenty of game. $99,000, JeremyRyan Crye-Leike Realtors 901-488-8461. (12tfnc)––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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said. “It’s a great way to goout.”Dailey was the top scorer
in the win that “shocked theworld,” according to DarronThomas of Southern Sportsand Travel Buzz Board. Hescored 22. Riddle followedwith 10.Marshall led 7-6 after one
quarter, trailed 16-13 at half-time and the game was knot-ted at 20 following threequarters.
MA-Magnolia HeightsThe Patriots shocked long-
time rival Magnolia Heightsin the semi-finals Friday, rally-ing for a 57-55 win.Marshall was down by as
many as 16 points in the firsthalf and trailed 32-22 at half-time.But the second half was a
different story.The Pats tied it twice in the
third quarter – 34-all and 36-all. The Chiefs then went on a7-0 run to take a 43-36 lead tothe final period.
Thomas Faulkenberycame up with a key steal earlyin the fourth and scored toslice the deficit to 47-45.A couple of minutes later,
Peyton Taylor hit a hugethree from the corner, fol-lowed by a two-point basketfrom Dailey.Riddle gave the Pats the
lead with 1:05 left - 54-53 - and30 seconds later hit a coupleof pressure-packed freethrows.Magnolia Heights missed
a shot just prior to the horn.Leading point producers
for the Pats were Dailey with18, Riddle with 17, Love withnine and Compton with eight.
Marshall- JAThe MA boys started the
Overall Tournament Tues dayof last week by knocking offbig school Jackson Academy76-67 in double overtime.They battled back from be-
hind in this one, too.The deficit was 14-10 after
one quarter, and it wasstretched to 25-17 at the inter-mission.The Raiders went up by 11
(30-19) in the third andlooked to be in control.But Dailey wasn’t about to
let the season end just yet. Heled a late surge that tied thegame at 53 after four full quar-ters.It was tied at 59 after the
first OT.Love got things going
MA’s way in the second OTwith points off an offensive re-bound. A little later, whenCompton hit four straight freethrows, the Patriots were up65-61.Riddle hit key buckets with
1:30 and 41 seconds on theclock. Dailey and Comptonsank freebies in the last 23seconds to close the door onthe Raiders.Dailey finished with 37
points. Riddle had 11, Love 10,Compton nine and Tayloreight.
From the coach“Peyton hit some huge
shots during the week,”Coach Dailey said. “We wouldhave never gotten to that finalgame without him. Jordon(Harris) stuck Clint Moses(one of MRA’s top players)down the stretch and led us inour scramble defense in theprevious two games. Theleadership and heart of Tobe(West) were invaluable to thisteam. He was like having asecond assistant in the cham-pionship game.“Thomas played the game
of his life Saturday. I havenever had a better individualdefensive performance.Corteze was a warrior con-trolling the boards and bat-tling in the paint. Malikestablished himself as a fu-ture superstar. He showedtremendous guts in the mostpressure situations – icewater in his veins. Christian –I’ve never had a senior finishbetter. He battled through asemi-final ankle sprain withthe heart of a lion.“Dakota is without a doubt
the best I’ve ever coached, notonly as a player but as a leaderand that part is what I’m mostproud of. This bunch wouldrun through a wall for me butthey would jump off a cliff forhim. He is a testament to what‘We Believe’ is all about.”Dailey, Compton, Riddle
and Love were named to theall-tournament team.Coach Dailey said he
wanted to thank the MA fam-ily, headmaster Diane Greer,George Poteet, the late FrankSwords, countless parentsand friends and “everyonewho has played a part in myfamily’s 10-year run here atMarshall.”A week earlier the Pats
had won the Class A statechampionship, MA’s fourthstate title in five years.
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Congratulations!Marshall Academy PatriotsMAIS Overall Champions
By BARRY BURLESONEditor
Coach Keith Taylor saidhis Marshall Academy LadyPatriots remained upbeatafter a season-ending loss toColumbia in the Overall Tour-nament.Class A Marshall fell 60-45
to the Class AAA school onTuesday afternoon, Feb. 24,at Mississippi College in Clin-ton. “You could tell they were
the more experienced team,”Taylor said. “Our youthshowed.“I think we ended as high
as you can with a loss.“I’m proud of what the
girls accomplished this sea-son, and they’re ready to getback to work and looking for-ward to next year.”He loses only one senior,
Wesleyann Ray, off a teamthat finished 31-14 with a Dis-trict 1-A championship and aNorth A crown. The LadyPats were fourth in the state.“Wesleyann had an excel-
lent senior year,” Taylor said.“She was one of our teamleaders who contributed bothoffensively and defensively.With our accomplishmentsthis season, it was a good wayfor her to go out.”MA battled from behind
most of the game versus Co-lumbia Academy, stayingclose, before losing by 15.Blake Martin’s three got
the Lady Pats to within 9-8 atthe 3:21 mark of the first. Then the Lady Cougars
went on a 10-0 run beforeAlexis McGreger closed theopening quarter with a three.Marshall trailed 19-11.Columbia pulled ahead by
as many as 16 in the secondquarter before Audrey Poolegot in on the long-rangeshooting act for MA. Herback-to-back threes cut thedeficit to 32-24, and that wasthe score at halftime.The story was much the
same in the third. At the 4:34mark, the Lady Patriots weredown 43-24. But MA sliced itto 12 with 59 seconds to go inthe quarter and was behind49-36 going to the fourth.Twelve was as close as the
Lady Pats could get in thefinal quarter.Martin scored 20 points to
lead the Marshall offense.Poole followed with 12, andMcGreger scored eight.Sam Wilkins pulled down
seven rebounds.The Lady Pats were 12 of
21 from beyond the three-point line, but they were justthree of 13 from the free-throw stripe.“I think we grew up a lot
this season,” Coach Taylorsaid. “Getting to play in theOverall Tournament was agood experience for thisyoung team. We really did ac-complish a lot this year.”
Lady Pats completesuccessful season
Photo by Theresa Bolden-DevoreSam Wilkins slips past a Columbia Lady Cougar at Canton.
PATRIOTSContinued from page 1
Photos by Barry BurlesonCelebrating a big shot in the win over Magnolia Heights in the semi-finals are (from left) Eli Pearson, Juston Mask, Tyler Bolden, JordonHarris, Tobe West and Andy Burleson.
Corteze Love (24) scores versus Madison Ridgeland Academy.
Sharing some hugs and smiles after beating the Chiefs Friday are(from left) Arthur Love, Dakota Dailey, Thomas Faulkenbery, DavidRobilio, Craig Dailey and Malik Riddle.
A couple of MRA players try to trap Dakota Dailey.
By SUE WATSONStaff Writer
Jail administrator BobbyHarris is a dedicated and de-pendable employee at theMarshall County Sheriff’s Of-fice, according to sheriffKenny Dickerson.
Harris has great communi-cation skills, is trustworthyand treats everyone with re-spect, the sheriff said.
He has a good personalityand meets the public well. Hecan talk to the poorest and therichest and gets along witheverybody, Dickerson said.
The seventh child of 12children of the late John andBessie Harris, he was raisedon a farm in Chulahoma onthe Jimmy and Carey TuckerPlace. He is a twin.
Harris attended Galena El-ementary and Byhalia HighSchool.
He worked for ContinentalFoundry in Olive Branch – asteel mill – where metal formswere poured for car parts andoil field cutoff pumps.
“Anything done with castiron we made,” he said.
Harris put in 20 years atthe foundry before startingfull-time with the sheriff’s de-partment. He started as apart-time deputy and thenmoved over to part-time jailerunder sheriff Bobby Joe Ad-kins, then went to work full-time at the sheriff’sdepartment under sheriff
Ernest Cunningham.As a deputy and part-timer
at the sheriff’s department,he worked off hours andweekends.
As jail administrator, Har-ris oversees the jail and thejail employees and keeps upwith the training of jailers.They must complete theirtraining and get certified as ajailer in two years, he said.
Working in law enforce-ment requires constant learn-ing on the job, especially nowthat jail management is moresophisticated.
It was an unexpected meet-ing with sheriff Kenny Dick-erson when he was runningfor sheriff that opened thedoor for Harris to be namedjail administrator. Harris saidhe met the sheriff out in thecountry where he was birdhunting and talked with him.
When Dickerson won therace in the 1990s, Harris wasnamed jail administrator to re-place the late William HaroldLewis when he retired, Harrissaid.
While employed part-timeat the department, Harris saidhe did lots of other thingssuch as striping of patrol cars,installing radios and doingmechanic work. Under sheriffDickerson, Harris startedhelping the sheriff cook at thejail.
On one early occasion,Dickerson noticed Harris
seemed to know how to cookfish.
“He said, ‘You must havebeen cooking before you metme,’ ” Harris said. “His opera-tion was a whole lot biggerthan mine.”
Harris said he always hadcooked fish and sometimeswould barbecue meats.
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tigator’s office, mentionedHarris and his “world-famousspaghetti.”
“It will be one of the worst,greyest, and coldest day inwinter and about 10 o’clockyou can smell somethingcooking on the sally port,”she said. “Bobby will be outthere stirring this big pot andshaking ingredients in it. He
won’t tell you how he makesit – except for the basic ingre-dients. It’s absolutely wonder-ful.”
He is a member of SmithGrove MB Church, where heattended church as a childwith his family. Harris stilllives in Chulahoma with hiswife Helen, a nurse for Al-liance Hospital. The couple
have three children – adaughter Chevonne has fouryears before retiring from theU.S. Navy. The oldest son,Mitchell, owns a truckingbusiness. Bobby Jr. is a musi-cian and keyboard player. Heplays gospel and blues.
Harris said working at thejail has been a good career
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and has given him an oppor-tunity to raise a family.Life has not been without
its challenges. He had amelanoma taken off his leftheel in 2006. Then in April2014, Harris was diagnosedwith prostate cancer, which isnow in remission. He had nochemotherapy with prostatecancer or the melanoma.“The doctor said I was the
second patient he ever heardof with melanoma on theheel,” said Harris. In July 2014, Harris was di-
agnosed with pancreatic can-cer. He has been undergoingchemotherapy and said thescans showed that the pancre-atic cancer had not changed.
He goes for chemotherapyat West Clinic in Southaven.Harris said he has good daysand bad days.He has lost weight and
some hair but overall he is op-timistic that he will work fourmore years at the jail. He is 57years old.Dickerson said it is Harris’
personality, his manner withpeople that makes him such agreat employee.“He treats everyone in a
manner they should betreated,” he said. “He hasbeen a big help to me allthrough the years. He is al-ways willing to accept assign-ments. I am blessed to havehim as an employee.”
HARRISContinued from page 1
Photo by Sue WatsonEric Yeager and Bobby Harris cook fish for one of the sheriff’s famousfish fries. Yeager is employed with the sheriff’s department as a jailer.
By LINDA JONESStaff Writer
Bailey Eubanks, 18 and astudent at Hickory Flat HighSchool, started really singingaround the age of 5, accord-ing to his grandfather JimmyWilson.“He was about 5 when he
started singing karaoke, witha mike and all. But he couldn’tread, so he couldn’t read thewords on the karaoke ma-chine.” Wilson said.“We were driving down 78
coming from Memphis(Tenn.) and there was anElvis song on the radio. He lis-tened very intently. Then, hewas singing Elvis. He sangElvis for years.“He started singing other
music in 2013, but he is al-most an Elvis music diction-ary. He can tell you anythingabout Elvis and his music.”Wilson continued.Eubanks started singing
karaoke at the now defunctKudzu Cafe in Ashland. Hesang at a place in Grand Junc-tion that has also closed. Andhe’s sung karaoke at Fill YourBelly, a restaurant on Good-man Road in Horn Lake.Most Friday nights
though, Eubanks can befound singing at JB’s Restau-rant on the square in HollySprings.“He’s just an old soul,” said
Kristen Feathers, waitress atJB’s.“Everyone likes his
music,” Lynn Pullen, Fridaynight bartender at JB’s said.“And they’re amazed at hisvoice and amazed that at hisage he likes the genré.“He’s broadened his music
and his voice has gotten somuch bigger. He pulls in acrowd from teenagersthrough 60-plus. There’s awide range of people whocome to hear him.”While we were talking, a
song, “Got Rhythm,” came onand Eubanks knew the year,1955, the singer, JohnnyCash, and the label. SamPhillips had said no to record-ing the song with Cash, but
after he made an appearanceon American Bandstand,Phillips recorded Cash and“Got Rhythm.” Eubanksknew all that instantly, off thetop of his head.Eubanks is part of a close-
knit group that sings on Fri-day. Mike and Teresa Dunlapinvited Eubanks to come toJB’s with them on Fridaynight, along with their goodfriend Teressa Williams.“The first time we heard
him sing was at the 2013 Ash-land Spring Fest. I invited himto the wildlife supper at mychurch, Bethel UnitedMethodist in Hickory Flat.Now he’s a member and wego to church together,” saidWilliams. Williams, who often laugh-
ingly calls Eubanks her“child,” has travelled toNashville, Tenn., several
times with Eubanks. “We were all sitting in a
Mexican restaurant in Ripleyone night after church andstarted talking aboutNashville.”Eubanks, who really
wanted to go to Nashville,searched on his phone andfound out that Ray Stevenswas going to be singing at theGrand Ole Opry. That wastheir first trip – the first ofthree so far.Eubanks has performed at
the World Famous Tootsie’sOrchid Lounge several timeswith Brent Browning andNicole Rapisardi, the houseband at Tootsie’s. Browninghas told Eubanks to come andsing on his stage anytime hewants. The last trip toNashville, with his grandfa-ther and Williams, Eubankssang at Rippy’s, a club alsoowned by Tootsie.“Why do I sing? Because I
can,” Eubanks said. “Youknow the Lord blessed mewith a voice, so I’m using it!I’m asked to sing on schoolbus trips and I sing walkingdown the halls. The principalhas even asked me to sing,”he said. Veterans Day thisyear, Eubanks sang Elvis’s“American Trilogy” for theschool’s tribute to veterans.He’s received rave reviews forthat performance.The son of Dawn and Greg
Eubanks, his mother is also
an incredibly talented singer.“My mama has been
singing since I was little. Wesing together sometimes. Iget it from her, I guess.”He has several ideas about
what he’d like to do afterschool. He plans to go toAlaska that summer and theneither go to Ole Miss andstudy law or go to the Univer-sity of Tennessee in Nashvilleand make a living on Broad-way, playing venues there,working his way through col-lege.Whatever course his life
takes him on though, musicwill surely play a large part.
Eubanks’ music gets rave reviews
Photo by Teressa WilliamsBailey Eubanks
Photo by Teresa Dunlap PhotographyBailey Eubanks sings “American Trilogy” at Hickory Flat High School as State Rep. Steve Massengillholds the flag.
By MARY R. MINORContributing Writer
Henry Jarrett has fondmemories of Eagle Springs.
“The first 17 years of mylife I spent with my parents,one sister and four brothers,in the Bethlehem community,after which my dad pur-chased a house and farm, con-sisting of 107 acres, on theoutskirts of Potts Camp; landknown as the Eagle Springsproperty. This property waskept until my mother, the for-mer Ada Hopper, died at theyoung age of 52,” said Jarrett,who will be 88 years of age onJuly 23.
“The house was very largewith two full stories and anattic, sitting on a hill, withmineral springs at the bottom.After my mother died, Dadsold the property. The newowner kept it for a while andthen let it go to the BoyScouts. Other families lived inthe house and later it was torndown.”
Jarrett attended OvertonSchool in Bethlehem fromgrades one through eight,and caught a bus to attendPotts Camp School fromgrades nine-11.
“After my 11th year, I leftschool to go out and ‘get rich.’My first job was hauling logsand working for Jim Pipkin athis sawmill for a long time. Hewould come to get me at day-light each day and give me aride back home at duskydark.”
“I worked three years for acompany that furnished crossties to railroads; was em-
ployed by Gennison-Wrightfor 10 years (also in lumberand cross tie business);worked for Holly SpringsBrick and Tile for eight years;and retired in 1997 after work-ing at Southern Brick andTile in Byhalia for 25 years.Wallace E. Johnson had alumber yard across the rail-road and I lived upstairs in thetwo-story building. That iswhen I got into the brick busi-ness,” Jarrett said.
He was married to the lateMary Alderson (the love ofhis life) for almost 63 years.They were the parents of twochildren, Mark and Miriam.Mark and his wife, Vickie, livein Tupelo; Miriam is marriedto Clark Ormon and they livenear Ashland. He also has fivegrandchildren, and ninegreat-grandchildren. He en-joys spending time with hisfamily. He has one brotherleft, Russell Jarrett, who livesin Ft. Worth, Texas.
Jarrett’s hobbies are read-ing the newspaper, his Bible,and watching a few programson TV. He enjoys attendingchurch and is a member ofSalem Baptist. During thewinter months at night he at-tends churches in town. Hewas saved at age 14 at OldSalem Church, one-fourth ofa mile from where the churchis now.
As he was rememberingEagle Springs, he said, “It wascalled mineral water. Peoplefrom Holly Springs woulddrive down with five-gallonjugs to get the water, becausethey thought it was good and
beneficial. I drank a lot of it, soI should be healthy!”
Many people have told sto-ries of the springs downthrough the ages, and the in-formation below tells some ofits history.
Eagle SpringsPeople started moving
near the depot, buildinghomes and businesses. Aboardwalk was built from thedepot to Eagle Springs HealthResort. In an article datedMay 5, 1887, the editor of theHolly Springs Reporter statedthat “the small town of PottsCamp had struck a ‘boom.’ ”The town had sprung up
along the banks of the TippahRiver in 1887. Since the firstshrill scream of the locomo-tive echoed through the hillsand hollows of Tippah, newlife seemed to be infused inthe country and the people.Where there had been thesounds of woods creatures,there was now the sound ofthe anvil and saw. Several gen-eral supply stores, a black-smith shop, doctor’s officewith a drug store, post officeand the K.C.M. & B. Railroadfreight and depot buildinghad all sprung up.
Also, approximately one-fourth mile west of town there
was a fine chalybeate springwhose healing powers wereknown by many for milesaround. In December 1885,Allen Hill purchased thenorth half of the northwestquarter of section 21, town-ship 5, range 1 in MarshallCounty, MS, from BenjaminPowell. Mr. and Mrs. Hill builta hotel and began selling lotsaround it. They did not realizehow successful their enter-prise would become. Peoplecame from near and far todrink and bathe in the medic-inal waters.” It has beenstated that the medicinalsprings were named Eagle
Springs because eagles hadnests in trees on the hill.
Several of the older resi-dents said they remembergoing on picnics at the min-eral springs. Mary L. (Nel-son) Gurley said that whenshe was a girl in school, thatshe was one of several countychildren who rode the schoolwagon. As they traveled upSand Hill (now Potts CampRoad) in the afternoons, theywould get off the wagon at thefoot of the hill with a cupmade from tablet paper to geta drink of water from EagleSprings and then would runup the hill by way of a path inthe woods to catch the wagonas it continued up the hill veryslowly.
Other stories about EagleSprings are as follows: Peoplecame in wagons, buggies, onhorseback, trains, and later inthe newly invented automo-bile, to drink and bathe in thewonderful water advertisedas a “cure all” for every ail-ment.
Many of them were so des-perate they covered their bod-ies with mud and prayed for amiracle. People of societycame to spend a week orweekend at the Hill Hotelnear the springs where theyplayed cards, tennis, croquetand held dances in the largeballroom.
On Sunday mornings, atrain with a carload of peoplefrom Memphis, Tenn.,stopped at the depot. Theywould walk the boardwalk tothe springs or hire a horseand buggy from the livery sta-ble to drive them to thesprings. O.B. Williams oper-ated Williams Livery Stable intown during those early days.The train would return for thepassengers in the evening.
Large crowds attended po-litical picnics at Eagle Springs.Among the famous men whospoke there were GovernorsHarrison, Bilbo, and Var-damen. Wall Doxey, who laterbecame a U.S. senator, was aregular speaker at the springsduring his career.
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Eagle Springs – ‘I drank a lot of it, so I should be healthy’
Photo by Mary MinorHenry Jarrett with a photo of him and his wife on their 50th wedding anniversary.
Dated photo of old Potts Camp Depot from where people left ontheir journey to Eagle Springs.
By BARRY BURLESONEditor
It seems fitting for Wadeand Amy Burrow to be oper-ating a business in the centerof downtown Byhalia.After all, it’s in a building
rich in history, for their familyand the town.“My family has been here
forever,” Wade said.“Byhalia holds a special
place for us,” said his wifeAmy (maiden name Boren),who also grew up in the town.Just more than a year ago,
Amy opened McCrary’s An-tiques, Arts & Crafts in abuilding that was constructedin 1884 by Wade’s great-grandfather, W.C. McCrary. McCrary’s Mercantile
Store sold basically any-thing – from hardware toclothing to dry goods.“They were undertakers,
too; they even built coffins,”Wade said. “They kept themupstairs.”The economy in the late
1800s, of course, was all basedon agriculture.He said “credit was a big
deal” back then.“They would supply all a
family’s needs and carrythem (on account) for an en-tire year,” Wade said. “At theend of the year, they wouldsettle up their account.”There have been several
different businesses in thebuilding at the corner ofChurch Street and Highway309 since McCrary’s Mer can -tile closed about 50 years ago.Those include a feed store,upholstery shop and an LPgas company.“In the early 1990s, my
mother and sister bought itback and had a restaurantwith apartments upstairs,”Wade said.One side of the big build-
ing was vacant.“My mother really wanted
to do something like whatAmy is doing now,” he said.Fire struck the building
about 15 years ago.“It burned one side all the
way down to the first floor,and the rest was damaged bysmoke and water,” Wade said.The fire-damaged building
was later sold to the currentowner, Jim Seay of Historic In-vestments.“He gutted it, refurbished
it and restored it structurally,”Wade said.In early 2014, Amy wanted
to do something creative, hesaid, and she needed an outletfor that.“She had an idea to put an
antique store in here, andhere we are,” Wade said.Amy said when she walked
in the door, the first thing shesaw was outlets nine feetapart.“One outlet per vendor,”
she said. “Everything fell intoplace.”Wade and Amy are leasing
the building from Historic In-vestments.They got a lot of hands-on
help with their project, includ-ing from good friends Chadand Michelle Feathers.“They were here day and
night, helping us get started,”Amy said. “We did some re-furbishing work ourselves.McCrary’s Antiques
started with five vendors onone side of the building.Within a month, there were26 vendors on that side.“In July (2014), we reno-
vated the other side. Now wehave 38 vendors.”There are three apart-
ments upstairs, all rented.The loft upstairs is rented
for various venues. Amy her-self hosts paint parties.
She said her new businessventure has received tremen-dous support from Byhaliaand Marshall County, but vis-itors also stop by from out-of-state.“I had a retired designer
from New York come in,” shesaid. “A few days ago, I hadfour from Alabama.“It’s a good, high-traffic
area. It’s a busy intersection.”The McCrary and Burrow
families are a rich part of By-halia’s business, church andcommunity history. The Bur-rows once had a downtownbusiness, too.Jean Burrow, Wade’s
mother, was well known asthe town’s historian and alsoa big antique lover.“She instilled that in me,”
Amy said. “She wanted an an-tique store for many years,but it didn’t work out. Shemeant a lot to me.”Wade, 43, and Amy, 40,
have been married 17 years.They have two children, Cati,15, and Mark, 12. The familyattends First PresbyterianChurch in Byhalia.“It’s a labor of love for our
family and for our town,” Amysaid. “We reside in neighbor-ing DeSoto County but By-halia is our hometown.”And the “labor of love” is
going well.“Everyone has been so
supportive,” she said. “Wehave antiques, arts and crafts,and if we don’t have what youare looking for, we will do ourbest to find it for you.“Lots of people come in
just to chat. It’s a good feeling.I love it.”
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Photo by Barry BurlesonWade and Amy Burrow stand in front of McCrary’s Antiques, Arts & Crafts in downtown Byhalia.
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Photo by Barry BurlesonThe Burrows are in business in a building constructed by Wade’s great-grandfather, W.C. McCrary.
By SUE WATSONStaff Writer
As long as there are Hol-lands living on Russom Roadin Marshall County there willbe plenty to eat. Several generations of Hol-
lands have worked the land –a 700-acre home place boughtin 1899 by Conklin Holland.The land has had only threesets of owners, the ChoctawIndians, a second owner andthe Hollands.Jesse and Yvonne Holland
continue to work the land,with their four children help-ing out in various ways in theproduce and goat soap busi-ness. Living on the land and con-
tributing their energies to thefarm lifestyle are three of theJesse Holland family - Can-dace, Fred and Twyla. SonJesse Jr. is a reporter for theAssociated Press in Washing-ton, D.C. He contributes tothe farm through the designand upkeep of the farm’s web-site, www.hollandfamily-farms.com.Jesse James Holland,
known to his family as Sonny,is the great grandson of Con-klin Holland. Yvonne Holland comes
from the Boga family in Ben-ton County where she grewup in a large farming family.Her grandfather owned 1,700acres of farmland.
The Hollands and theirchildren all play a part in theyear-round produce and goatmilk soap business. Candace,Fred and Twyla help on thefarm while Jesse Sr. producesthe family website,www.holandfamilyfarms.com,which is used to market theirproduce and soaps. He is ajournalist with AssociatePress in Washington, D.C.Other family members –
Robert Holland, a retired car-tographer and Jesse’s brother,and his youngest sister JoyceHolland, retired cardiac emer-gency technician, are involvedwith growing and supplyingvegetables for the farm.Yvonne’s youngest brother,Lawrence “Joe” Boga, helpswith the farm, too. And Fred’swife Brittany has her certifica-tion in making jams and jel-lies. Five grandchildren helpgather and sell the produce.The Hollands sell their pro-
duce at small farmers mar-kets including the HollySprings Main Street Cham-ber’s Saturday morning farm-ers market at the courthouseand also in Ashland and inCollierville, Tenn. Private cus-tomers from as far away asDenver, Colorado and Bowie,Maryland, purchase soapsfrom the website.The Hollands are college-
educated and have careers offthe land. Fred, named after
his grandfather, is theyoungest and a full-time part-ner in the business. He holdsa bachelor’s and master’sfrom Mississippi State andteaches agriculture at H.W.Byers in Marshall County.Candace, who holds multipledegrees, makes and packagesthe soap.
Twyla, the oldest holdsseveral degrees from OleMiss. She has held two posi-tions with Baptist Hospitaland now works in Baptistheadquarters in Collierville,as a microbiologist informa-tion specialist.The Hollands were role
models for their four children. Jesse Sr. attended Missis-
sippi Valley University in IttaBena, where he earned an in-dustrial arts degree.He taught in the Memphis
City School System and theSt. Louis, Mo., schools for 40years.Yvonne spent 40 years
working for the MarshallCounty School District.A graduate of Mississippi
Industrial College with a de-gree in English, Yvonneearned a Master’s in elemen-tary education and was certi-fied in library science at OleMiss. She wore lots of hats dur-
ing her tenure with the
county school district. Theyincluded teaching junior highand middle school classes(Slayden Junior High andSand Flat High). She alsoworked as a librarian for K-12and as a family counselor andcurriculum coordinator atH.W. Byers.The Hollands are mem-
bers of Grays Chapel CMEChurch in Hudsonville wherethe Hollands have been mem-bers for at least 90 years.They have been married 47years and still enjoy a full life.“Jesse Sr. is the one with
the green thumb,” his wifesaid.He especially likes to ex-
periment with various vari-eties of tomatoes andvegetables. People are inter-ested in these unusual vari-eties of vegetables because oftheir shape, color and appear-ance, she said. Some of the fresh vegeta-
bles and fruits they grow in-clude collard and turnip
greens, cabbage, onions, cu-cumbers, peppers, squash,eggplant, potatoes, blueber-ries, figs, pears, mint, rose-mary and the most popularproduct, black Russian toma-toes. A variety of goat milk
soaps are available, colorfullywrapped and tied with twine.The soap is made from themilk of three dairy goats – So-phie, Heidi, and Annabelle.Visit the goat milk soap pageon the website to select andorder soaps. Each bar is im-printed with 1899, the yearthe Holland forebears tookover the land in MarshallCounty. There are a numberof natural fragrances availableand the soaps contain nochemical additives or preser-vatives. The Hollands proudly
keep the family farming tradi-tion alive and well in Hud-sonville and on Russom Road.For additional information
write [email protected].
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Retired educators continue family tradition
Courtesy photosIn front from left are Jesse Jr., Twyla, Candace and Fred; in back are their parents, Yvonne and Jesse Sr.
Jesse Holland in the greenhouse
By MARY R. MINORContributing Writer
Betty Allen, at age 76, istaking it kind of easy duringher retirement years. Afterworking and raising a largefamily, she needs this time toreflect on her life, help outwhen needed, and enjoy lifeand time with her children,grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.She was the third child out
of 10 born to Willie and Is-abela Lester Isom. The family
grew up across the TippahRiver, south of Potts Camp,where her father was a share-cropper and her mother laterbecame the cook/manager atMary Reid ElementarySchool. This was prior to inte-gration. Her mother laterworked as a homemaker forseveral families in the area,one of whom was the lateWilla Floyd, a former post-master in town. “My mother worked at the
school somewhere around 10years, and was a very hardworker,” she said.“Growing up we chopped
and picked cotton, andhelped out in the family gar-den. We also had fruit treesand picked blackberries. Ourparents planted a truck patchwith sweet potatoes, andother vegetables. I still enjoythe sweet potatoes. On thefarm, sorghum was grown,and we helped cut, strip, andeverything it took to makethe sorghum. There is noth-ing better than fresh home-grown, sorghum molassesand hot buttered biscuits.”Allen only completed the
11th grade in public school,attending St. Mary’s CatholicSchool in Holly Springs. Thenshe married Esau Allen andthey began raising a family.When her children weregrown she decided to go towork, and applied for a job inOxford.“I did not get the job be-
cause I did not have my highschool equivalency,” she said.“My husband and I moved
to Memphis, Tenn., after wemarried; where we lived forseveral years before movingback to Mississippi. My firstjob (in Memphis) was work-ing in the cafeteria of the 100North Main Building; whereI stayed until coming back toPotts Camp.”After moving back to Mis-
sissippi, she applied herselfby studying, attendingclasses, and then receivedher GED.She continued in the work-
force, having jobs at DeluxeProducts, Hoover, and Sun-beam in Holly Springs, andthen at a shirt factory in Hick-ory Flat (this was one job shedid not like because of thestress, plus this was duringthe time her 17-year-old sonpassed away).The next job she held was
in the cafeteria of Potts CampHigh School, working under
Doris Day and Joan Gurley,who were the managers atdifferent times. She thentransferred to Mary ReidSchool as cafeteria manager.In 1980, after working for theMarshall County School Sys-tem for 21 years, she retiredto care for her ailing hus-band, who passed away in2003.
“After I retired, three ofmy daughters furthered theireducation by attendingNorthwest Community Col-lege. At that time I becamethe official ‘babysitter’,” shelovingly said.Allen began reminiscing
about the past.“I have always enjoyed
reading and, as a child, wouldread any kind of book that wehad on hand,” she said. “Thiswas during the time we readand studied by lamplight, aswe did not have electricity.Once I was too close to thelamp while reading and myhair caught fire. I really didnot mind as I wanted a hair-cut anyway, so one of my
brothers cut it.“We had good times grow-
ing up. Having brothers andsisters, and other relativesaround, we did not lack forsomeone to play with. Lifewas good. We may not havehad the finer things in life, butwe were happy.“Our parents were strict
back then, and their disci-pline was done in love and asa way of keeping us in line. Ialso remember the old T-Model Ford that my fatherhad.”A member of Mt. Ollie
Missionary Baptist Churchwhere she sings in the choir,Allen said, “The first thing Ido in the morning is read myBible and give thanks to myGod.”She enjoys traveling, read-
ing, puzzle books – especiallythose offering more of a chal-lenge, and is also involved inthe lives of her grandchil-dren. This past summer shetraveled to Ohio with otherfamily members to watchgrandson Xavion Allen, a
Potts Camp High School stu-dent, play in the Junior Na-tional BasketballChampionship game; and at-tended cross country meetsin which he competed. “All of the basketball play-
ers call me ‘Grandma,’ ” shehappily said. Allen does not dwell on
the bad things in life, and hasa positive attitude. She alsobelieves in healthy eating anddaily exercise; walking out-side, weather permitting. The mother of 10 children,
six of whom are still living,the family also consists of 18grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.Her children are Linda
who lives in North Carolinawith her husband and family;Sharon and husband, SammyMassey, live in the home withher mother; Timothy andShelia Allen and family live inHolly Springs; Kenneth Allenand family, Alnita Joy Kim-mons and family, and UrsulaTrammell and family, all livein Potts Camp.
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Marshall CountyThe right location for success.
With great pride in our strong industrial base already in place,Marshall County has an eye on the future.
www.marshallcoms.com
Seated, left to right: Bill Scott, Kathy Crawford, Dot Childress, Lori Shaw, Standing, left to right: Russell Johnson, Bill Dawson, Rodney Whaley, Jerome Leseuer,
Al Beck, and Justin Hall (IDA Director).
Board members not pictured are Flick Ash, Kelvin Buck, John Faulkner, Dollean Porter, and Phil Malone.
Marshall County’s distinctive location in the Mid-South has evolved into a place positionedto play a major factor for economic development throughout Mid-America.
Marshall County is positioned for progress.Come grow with us!
Marshall County Industrial Development Authority
Rodney Whaley - ChairmanAl Beck - Vice-ChairmanKathy Crawford - Sec./Treas.Lori Shaw - Attorney
Justin Hall - Executive DirectorRhonda Ash - Administrative Asst.Larry Britt - EngineerRussell Johnson - Past Chairman
J.M. AshAl BeckDot ChildressKathy CrawfordBill Dawson
Kelvin BuckJohn FaulknerRussell JohnsonPhil Malone
Jerome LeseuerDollean PorterBill ScottRodney Whaley
Board Members
Marshall CountyIndustrial Development Authority
520 J.M. Ash Dr. - Holly Springs, MS662-252-3916
Allen remembers good timesgrowing up near Potts Camp
Photos by Mary MinorBack row: Kenneth Allen, Timothy Allen and Ursula Trammell. Front row: Alnita Kimmoms, Betty Allen,Linda Jenkins and Sharon Massey.
Betty Allen (sitting) is pictured with daughter Sharon Massey.
Marshall CountyForestry Association
P.O. Box 489Holly Springs, MS 38635-0489
662-252-3541MISSION: The Marshall Forestry Association is a county chapter of theMississippi Forestry Association. It is a nonprofit organization, estab-lished to promote an understanding of and appreciation for the forestand forest-based industries in Mississippi.
ACTIVITIES and SERVICES: The Marshall County Forestry Associa-tion’s overall objective is to protect, develop and promote forest inter-ests in Marshall County. The Association is a strong voice for themembership, which is comprised of landowners, consultants, loggers,manufacturers and other forest industries.
MEETINGS: Meetings are held quarterly and designed to present awide range of forest-related topics
EDUCATION: The Association places an emphasis on educationthrough field days for youth and adults; forestry short courses; outsidespeakers; and networking among members.
LEGISLATIVE: Marshall County Forestry Association and forestlandowners work hard to influence government issues, such as forestrypolicy, taxes, the environment and private property rights.
To assist you with your forestry needs or for more information about the Marshall County Forestry Association you may call:Marshall County Extension Service at 662-252-3541Mississippi Forestry Commission at 662-791-9746
By SUE WATSONStaff Writer
Rodney Crane took overthe job of assistant fire chiefwith the Holly Springs FireDepartment in 2006. He cameon as volunteer fireman 28years ago. Fire chief Kenny Holbrook
said he was doing Crane’spresent job when he hired thefirefighter.Over the years, Crane has
developed his skills as a fire-fighter and has always beenconsistent in his attitude, Hol-brook said. “He is always just cordial
and nice to people and has apositive attitude about thejob,” Holbrook said. “Hetakes the job seriously and toheart. He’s a dedicated em-ployee.”Holbrook said the job is a
great responsibility to makesure firefighters are trainedand that firefighters are pre-pared for any challenge theywill face.“I became fire chief and
brought him on as a full-timefirefighter under my adminis-tration,” Holbrook said.“What he does now is thesame thing I was doing then.”By that, Holbrook meant
that Rodney Crane is respon-sible for training the local fire-fighters and for keeping upwith any changes that comeacross the board - such asnew homeland security proto-cols.“He is doing a great job,”
Holbrook said. “It is noteverybody who has the abilityto teach people. He has therespect of the people he trainsand works elbow to elbowwith the crew. We lead by ex-ample from the top down.That’s the way he learned andthe way he teaches it.”Holbrook said Crane is so
good at training firefightersthat it frees him up to doother administrative duties. “To be a small department,
we’ve experienced some ofthe worst things and had agood outcome,” Holbrooksaid. “That is because of con-stant learning and training.”Rodney and his wife
Sharon married in 1995, butwere childhood sweetheartsin school.Sharon Crane has 23 years
in at the Holly Springs UtilityDepartment and works as anadministrative assistant at theelectric department. Rodney said he lived at
Rankin Circle at age 14 or soand the firefighters were outthere a lot. He thinks seeingfiremen at work helped in-spire him to become a fire-fighter.He started volunteering as
a firefighter when attendingRust College. During thattime he was driving a schoolbus for the city. He was a part-time firefighter on call andworked eight-hour weekendshifts. He began working for
pay at the fire department in1993. He took over as assis-tant chief when his cousinElree Crane resigned the po-sition.Crane is the son of Theotis
Williamson and Della Crane. He attended Cadet High
School and graduated fromHolly Springs High School in1986. After attending RustCollege a year, he attendedthe fire academy. Crane saidhe took a liking to what hesaw in the medical field.“I got that knack like my
mother for blood and gutsand playing doctor,” he said.The fire department was
working out of the old fire sta-tion on Falconer Avenuewhen Crane came on as vol-unteer. At that time, therewere two-man shifts as full-time and about 25 part-timefiremen. Today, the depart-ment runs a four-man shiftand firefighters work 24/48-hour shifts.The equipment firefighters
have access to today is im-proved over yesteryear.“We are better off since
they came out with thermalimaging,” he said. “And wehave better air packs that lastand we are able to fill up onsite.”Short answer, it is a lot
safer to be a firefighter inHolly Springs.And grants have provided
some good firetrucks, chieftrucks and brush trucks andExpeditions.The Cranes have three
children, Adrian and Audri-anna and Latandrea and onegrandson. Sharon Crane said being a
firefighter’s wife is not as badas it could be. It is somethinga wife gets used to after yearsof hearing tones go off duringthe day or night. “I am used to being a fire-
man’s wife,” she said. “It takessome getting used to.”The fire department
started running medical callsin the city in 1980. A jaws unitwas formed in 1978 or 1979.The city firefighters turn outto a lot of rural fire stationcalls. The station answersfrom 1,300 to 1,400 calls ayear. From January 1, 2015 toJanuary 12, the firefightersran 45 calls.Crane said he goes to state
training at the fire academyand then comes home andtrains his firefighters what hehas learned. “I enjoy getting guys up to
date,” he said. “We are doingHazmat now and officer train-ing in February. Crane also teaches the
American Heart Asso ciation’sCPR and First Aid courses allover the county.Some memorable fire calls
include the Cuba Street “Mir-acle Baby,” who was foundunder the collapsed roof of ahouse that exploded. Morerecently the recovery of a
man from the grain bin onCallicutt Road was a memo-rable and successful rescue.And in 1994 a structure fireduring the ice storm in Feb-ruary at Red Oak Apartmentswas an intense experience.There was a house explosionin Potts Camp that is also re-membered.Every day is fast and dif-
ferent, Crane said. The job isstressful when a person diesor is severely burned, he said.Firemen stick together dur-ing these times. After an espe-cially difficult call, firefightershave a Critical Incident StressDebriefing. If that does nottake care of the post trau-matic experience, firefightersgo to professional counselingto deal with tragedy, Cranesaid.
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Sharon Gipson-Alderman Ward 2; Bernita Fountain-Alderman Ward 1;Mayor Kelvin Buck; Tim Liddy-Alderman-at-Large;
Mark Miller-Alderman Ward 3; Christy Owens, Alderman Ward 4;Shirley Byers, City Board Attorney; Belinda Sims Hollowell, City Clerk
City of Holly SpringsOfficialsHolly Springs, the little City with all kinds of character.Holly Springs is a city filled with a rich history and inspiring tradition.These great qualities serve as the foundation for the spirit that guidesour progressive vision for the future. For more than 175 years the people of Holly Springs have shaped the true heritage of thiscommunity.
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By MARY R. MINORContributing Writer
Holley Muraco has dedi-cated her life to better under-standing the world of oceananimals and works as a ma-rine mammal reproductionspecialist.
She assists zoos andaquariums with populationmanagement and publishesresearch that assists withwild animal management.
She is the daughter ofMitch and Jeanette Stone,granddaughter of the lateT.M. (Coach) Stone andAnnie Ruth Stone and of Mr.and Mrs. H.U. Gurley. Shegraduated from Potts CampHigh School, attended North-west Mississippi CommunityCollege and received her B.S.in biology from MississippiState University.
She learned researchskills while working as asummer student at the NorthMississippi Branch Experi-ment Station in HollySprings.
Muraco initially studieddairy science at MSU, whereshe learned about breedingand advanced reproductivetechnologies known as“ART.” After graduating withher biology degree, sheworked at several places togain hands-on experiencewith exotic animals.
She first worked as a dol-phin and sea lion trainer atthe now closed MarinelifeOceanarium in Gulfport, be-fore moving to Orlando, Fla.,where she worked as a sharkand fish biologist at Disney’sThe Living Seas at Epcot.While living in Orlando, shealso worked at Sea Worldwith beluga whales, walrus,polar bears, harbor seals anddolphins and then at Disney’sAnimal Kingdom withAfrican elephants and low-land gorillas.
After several years of gain-ing first-hand knowledge ofhow to care for and train zoo-logical animals, Muracoturned her attention towardsresearch. She was accepted
into a reproductive physiol-ogy Ph.D. program in the An-imal and Dairy ScienceDepartment at MississippiState University.
Over the years, she haspublished numerous papersfrom her research, traveledthe world and spoken atcountless conferences. Herinternational research travelshave included Holland, Swe-den, Italy, Bermuda, Cuba,Canada, China and Mexico.
Muraco was the first per-son to have a successful dol-phin artificial insemination inEurope and the first to use“ART” to achieve a walruspregnancy in the UnitedStates.
She also starred in a BBCdocumentary about her wal-rus research entitled Walrus:
Two Tonne Tusker. The filmtook two years to make andincluded travel to remote re-gions of Alaska to study wildPacific walrus and interviewInuit and Yupik indigenouspeople. Muraco has pub-lished peer-reviewed re-search papers on spottedeagle rays, killer whales, dol-phins and walrus.
She is married to MikeMuraco, and they have twoboys, Jordan and Colton.They share their home with adog, cat and two parrots.
They are spending time inPotts Camp while she is fin-ishing her doctorate at Mis-sissippi State.
Her hobbies include pho-tography, rock hounding andcreating nature-inspired jew-elry.
Muraco loves her animals
A walrus gives Holley Muraco a kiss on the cheek.
Holley Muraco shares a hug with a dolphin.
By BARRY BURLESONEditor
About 26 years ago, Dougand Janice Waggs’ youngestdaughter asked if she couldplay softball at Ingrams Mill.“We took her to play there,
and once when the umpiredidn’t show up, Doug um-pired,” Janice said.Then later, there was no
coach for Ellen’s team, andDoug volunteered.They were hooked.A few years later, the By-
halia couple noticed there wasan abandoned ball field onHighway 78 (now 178) in theMarshall County town.“We said, ‘Why are we driv-
ing to Ingrams Mill?“The field had been pri-
vately run, and it wasn’t inuse,” Janice said. “Every bodysaid we would not be able touse it.“But every obstacle, we
were able to overcome.”In the fall of 1993, the By-
halia Sports Association wasborn, with teams signing up in1994.“We played games in Olive
Branch for a year or two, andthen they called and said theydidn’t have room for the boysbut they’d take the girls,” shesaid.“We said no, if you can’t
take both, we don’t want to dothat.”BSA then approached Tate
County about playing in itsleague, and that worked out.In 1998, the city provided
some money to build a coupleof new fields on Lowry Road,at the industrial park. BSAboard members did the labor,
except for the fencing.“It was just an open field –
swampy,” Doug said.“One day I had 20 to 25 pal-
lets of sod out there, laying it,one sheet at a time by myself.A man driving by in an antiquecar on Edwards Roadhollered, ‘That will take youweeks.“In the meantime, people
starting showing up to help –40 or 50 people. When the guycame back by later, I justwaved to him like I had doneall the work myself.”Things were progressing
well for BSA, with the newfields and all, but somethingkept bothering Janice. Mar-shall County did not have itsown youth baseball and soft-ball league.That’s when she pulled to-
gether interested and commit-ted folks from thecommunities of Holly Springsand Potts Camp, and MarshallCounty Dizzy Dean got itsstart just over 10 years ago.“For that core group who
got it started, it was all aboutbringing the kids together,”Janice said. “We saw kids fromall across Marshall Countymaking new friendships, whonever knew each other be-fore.”Hickory Flat and Mt. Pleas-
ant have also participatedsome in the Marshall Countyleague, which is still goingstrong today. When they started BSA,
Doug and Janice were bothworking full-time jobs. Whenthey left work, they’d “fly tothe field,” she said, and go totheir other job, a non-paying,
volunteer passion.“We typically get home
about 10:30 p.m.,” she said.Both are now retired –
Doug a few years ago and Jan-ice just a couple of monthsago.“It gets in your blood –
we’ve done it so long,” Dougsaid. “We’ve tried to get itgoing in the right direction.We’ve had our ups anddowns.”Janice said it’s a joy to
watch youngsters progressfrom T-ball all the way throughthe program and grow andlearn along the way.“And it’s more than learn-
ing the sport itself,” she said.“It’s the citizenship, the team-work, the sportsmanship.”
Team fund-raisers are usu-ally held in the fall. Boardmeetings begin in January.Registration starts in Febru-ary. Games begin in lateMarch or early April.“There’s a lot to do – up-
keep of the fields, paperwork,resolving conflict,” Janice said.“But it’s worth it.”As an example, they re-
called a young lady who wasstruggling with her hitting,and Doug worked with her.In a close game, with her
team trailing, she was at theplate with two outs.“Nobody thought she
would hit it,” Janice said. “Shewould have been the thirdout.”Instead, she hit the softball
into the outfield and won thegame for her team.“I saw a light come on and
the confidence,” Janice said.“It suddenly clicked for her -‘hey, I can do this.’ ”She recalled two little boys
who either walked or rodetheir bicycles to practices andgames.“I didn’t meet their mother
for three years,” Janice said.“We have so many stories
like those.”Players from BSA have pro-
gressed and done well at thehigh school level and collegelevel. Some even chose coach-ing as a profession. Otherscome back and help coach orumpire games.“When we first started, By-
halia High School had no base-ball or softball teams,” shesaid. “When our (BSA) kidsbecame old enough, ByhaliaHigh School started teams.“At first, they even had to
play on our fields.”Doug and Janice are hope-
ful the towns and county willband together even more andhelp improve facilities for thechildren.“There’s so much poten-
tial,” she said.In the meantime, they will
keep pouring themselves intoa cause that is very dear totheir hearts.“It’s all about the children,”
Janice said. “It’s for them, andit’s so important. They’relearning life’s lessons.”
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The Town Of ByhaliaMayor Phil Malone
AldermenMike Hamblin - Joe Tunstall - Daylon Cannon
Richard Minor - Mary Ann CooperTown Clerk - Teresa Turner
Welcome To ByhaliaYou are invited to come join us
and become“One More Piece of the Plan”BYHALIA BY CHOICE
Photo by Sue WatsonDoug and Janice Wagg
For Doug andJanice Wagg,‘it’s all aboutthe children’
By BARRY BURLESONEditor
Noel Jones called his firstpiece of artwork “a sponta-neous explosion.”A few years ago he was put
on a different shift at his jobin New Albany at Master-Bilt.“I had a lot of time on my
hand,” Jones said. “I pickedup a small computer standdoor, a scrap piece, and I tookit outside and grabbed somepaint, sticks and leaves. I cre-ated a piece of artwork withit.”He hung it on a wall at his
house.His nephew, Jeremy
Wilkins, came over and Jonesasked him, “What do youthink about this art I got fromPier 1? Of course, I was jok-ing. He said he really liked it.Then I told him, ‘I did that.’ ”The graduate of Holly
Springs High School and RustCollege has been creating art-work ever since.“I asked God a certain
prayer, and through my art-work, He’s answering thatprayer,” Jones said.He grew up playing drums
and producing music for a lotof local groups in HollySprings.“I would mix it (the music)
and engineer it,” Jones said.“I’ve found creating artworksimilar to creating a musicaltrack.
“It’s the same technique;you just add a little here andthere.”Jones said before he starts
a new piece of art, he lays hishand on a blank canvas andsays a little prayer.“Then I just get out of the
way and let God workthrough me,” he said. “Inever know what the out-come is going to be. The artcreates itself. My body gets ina zone.“I can tell the artwork is
complete when I pick up mybrush and I can’t apply it any-more. It’s like we’re commu-nicating.”Jones and his wife, Angela,
whose maiden name isGlover, grew up in the HollySprings area. He met herwhile he was working atFred’s, and they married in1999.They live just across the
Marshall County line in DeS-oto County, about halfway be-tween his job in New Albanyand hers at Campbell’s Clinicin German town, Tenn. Theyhave two sons, Savion, 11, andCamden, 6.His parents, J.T. and Ruth
Jones, live in Holly Springs, asdo two brothers, Paul Jonesand Al Jones.“It’s nice to be back in this
area, closer to family,” saidJones, who made the move several years ago from
Huntsville, Ala. “Here, thekids can spend time with theirgrandparents.”He usually paints in his
garage or on the kitchencounter.“I just make time to do it,”
Jones said. “It’s a sense of re-lease.“I have to get it out of me.
And it’s a sense of accom-plishment.”Each painting has a sym-
bol – three dots, one for hiswife, another for his oldestson and another for hisyoungest son; and a red linewhich represents himself.“That way I’m pulling the
family in as part of my art-work,” Jones said. “Plus, mysignature is at the bottom ofevery painting.”He paints mostly on can-
vas, but does some work onwood panels. Most of the time he uses a
brush, but sometimes a fluidpour, and he has blended
tones by hand.“Every piece has its own
language,” Jones said.He has a website, noeljone-
sart.com. Plus, his art is ondisplay at both the Painted Pi-geon Gallery & Gifts in down-town Olive Branch and TheGallery at 156 in downtownHolly Springs.Jones has three of his
paintings in the foyer of thenew Methodist Olive BranchHospital, seven at BrownM.B. Church in Southaven(where he is a member), andthere’s one in Holly Springsin the office of his sister-in-law, Lexine Smith, at theBank of Holly Springs.“She (Lexine) once told
me not to create all of mypieces of the artwork thesame; do something different.And that has been my creed.“I’m glad I never took art
classes. I would not have fol-lowed the rules. It has to bespontaneous.”
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Jones’ artwork - ‘every piece has its own language’
Photos by Barry BurlesonNoel Jones displays one of his works.
Noel Jones shows off some of his brushes.Another piece of Jones’ artwork
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By BETH BREITHAUPTStaff Writer
For some, it’s quilting, wa-tercolors, needlework, orflower gardening. For others,it’s writing, hunting, fishing,golf, or playing music. ForBob Barry of Slayden, it’swoodworking that has be-come a passionate hobby,claiming his time and effortsto become more and moreskilled.Barry grew up in Slayden,
the eldest of four children(Dan Barry, Joy Gilbreath,and Kay Mynatt) born toLovie Barry and the late BillBarry. He graduated fromSlayden Agricultural School,then went to junior college atNorthwest, and finished atMississippi State Universityas an electrical engineer in1972. His career buildingsemi-conductors took him toAustin, Texas, then Dallas,San Diego, then back toTexas in 36 years. Although he built com-
puter electronics parts by day,he got interested in wood-working in his 30s. His dadmade a living as a metalworker, a craft he passed onto Bob’s brother Dan. Plus, ashe was living in Texas at thetime with his wife Mary andtwo daughters, Erica andAmber, he had no one to tutorhim; so he just bought a radialarm saw and began teachinghimself in his garage.The first thing he built was
a chair----a massive, sturdy,throne-like chair made offour-by-fours that was ex-tremely heavy and meant tobe used inside. Laughing, hesaid Mary wasn’t partial to itssize and it didn’t stay insidethe house too long. But the woodworking bug
had bitten, and he began buy-ing equipment and tools, bothnew and antique, a little along,building worktables, and ex-ploring native and exoticwoods.“I just love the grain of
wood,” Barry said. “Just don’tmess with it, covering it upwith paint and stain. Eachkind of wood has inherentbeauty.” He even likes theknots and spots that othersmight see as imperfections,but he sees as a natural, beau-tiful part of the tree.“Sometimes I stain if you
can see the wood grainthrough it. I usually finish apiece with polyurethane. Onbowls I use a spray lacquer,”he said.“My favorite thing to build
right now is wooden bowls. Ibought a lathe a few yearsago,” Barry said. It’s a biglathe, and he has dozens oftools to which he holds asteady hand that do specificthings when transforming asquare post into a turnedpedestal, vase or leg. Barry has made many,
many bowls and vases, allsizes and shapes, some withlids. “The smallest thing I’ve
made was a two-inch bowland the largest thing is ourbookcase in the hall,” he said.The Barrys retired in 2008.
They began thinking of wherethey would want to live in re-tirement, thinking they wouldsettle near their daughterswho were married and hadstarted families of their own.Then one daughter up andmoved.“I told Mary, ‘We can’t re-
tire near the girls; there’s noguarantee they’ll stay put!’ ”“So we decided to come
home to North Mississippi,”Bob said.Mary also graduated from
Northwest, where she stud-ied bookkeeping. They mar-ried then and went to
Mississippi State as youngmarried students. They willhave been married 45 years inJune. Buying some land from his
dad on the family homeplace,Barry built his wood shopduring a two-week vacation,before they started on thehouse, so they would have aplace to secure tools and lum-ber and house materials. It’s adream of a shop—huge,neatly organized and heatedby a woodstove that once be-longed to family.“The three essential tools
of a wood shop are a lathe,band saw, and a table saw,”Barry said. He loves old tools,and modern ones, too. Hisshop contains many of both,anything he could possiblyneed to make something outof wood. There’s a rack forstoring boards too, or dryinglumber.“Wood needs to be dry to
use it or else it will shrink,warp or twist, really messingup your finished piece. Itshould have 5.7 to 8 percentmoisture,” said Barry.The biggest board Barry
has in his inventory is a SouthAmerican bubinga board thatmeasures 18-20 inches wideand is 14 feet long. Barry saidhe was making good moneyat his job and didn’t mindspending top dollar for beau-tiful exotic woods from allover the world when he wasworking. He loved the varietyof colors, grain patterns, den-sities and how differently theyworked. Sometimes he’ll get a tree
that has fallen on someone’sproperty and mill it himself,and let it dry for manymonths or a year before heuses it. He’s toying with the idea of
building a steamer that wouldallow him to bend wood intocurves, rather than cut curvesfrom a wide piece of stock, orcut pliable eighth-inch widthsand glue many together.The Barrys are active
members of Slayden BaptistChurch, where Bob can becounted on to build anythingthat’s needed. There was a beautiful 90-
year-old baby grand pianothat was in the activity cen-ter/fellowship hall taking upspace. Miss Lovie, Bob’smother, remembers it beingat the Slayden AgriculturalSchool when she started firstgrade. But it just couldn’t betuned to play anymore, so thechurch decided to give it towhoever wanted it. No onehad room for it. So Bob tookit apart. He made 75 pairs ofearrings out of the keys. Hemade crosses and braceletsout of the strings. He sold themetal frame for $75, which heused to buy supplies to makethe jewelry. Jewelry salesraised over $570 which they
used to buy a new commer-cial kitchen sink for the activ-ity center kitchen. He and Mary designed
their home and Bob has mademany of the pieces of furni-ture they use every day. Be-sides the huge bookcase, areCraftsman-style end and cof-fee tables, a beautiful cherryjewelry chest of drawers forMary, bowls, trinket boxes,vases, and more.Mary loves to garden as
much as Bob loves to workwood. They have a large veg-etable garden every year, fruittrees and blackberry andraspberry canes. Mary’sflower garden, enhanced bybridges, decks, retainingwalls, terraces, a glider madeout of African limba wood,and benches, to name a fewthings, is a work in progress,like all good gardens. Bob likes to carefully make
a well thought out plan andfollow it on his projects. Maryis the opposite, letting herflower garden evolve accord-ing to new plant acquisitionsand ideas as they come to her.Bob says he’s not a bit cre-ative, but Mary is very cre-ative---making jewelry, tyingmacramé, crafting beautiful,colorful quilts that grace theirlovely home like functionalart, even making concretepatio bowls by imprinting ahuge real leaf on the top,painting and sealing them.Bob loves new projects but
repairs antique furniture forfriends and usually does cus-tom projects.He would love to build a
Windsor chair, which he saysis an extremely difficult thingto make. because of all the an-gles and many pieces. Hecould take a class in it or tryone from someone else’splans, but would rather figureit out himself. He said he would make
many mistakes trying to get itright, and might have to buildseveral before he perfected it.Then he’d be satisfied andprobably wouldn’t want tomake Windsor chairs any-more. He enjoys the chal-lenge of new projects,learning as he goes, becom-ing ever the more talentedand skilled woodworker.The Barrys’ daughters
now live in Texas and Okla-homa, and there are fourgranddaughters and a grand-son between them. Erica hasMiranda, 16, Brian, 10, andTaylor, 5. Amber has Carley,5, and Olivia, 3. The grandchildren come
and spend summers with Boband Mary, discovering thefreedom and joy of nature andcountry life, fresh vegetables,fresh fish, bugs and all. Bob makes wooded rub-
ber band guns, swords,shields and slingshots for thekids in his wood shop, espe-cially enjoying making boytoys, since he raised girls.They love being back
home in Slayden near familyand friends, on the familyland, and the leisure thatcomes from being retired butstill having the health to enjoyit. They feel God has blessedthem immeasurably.“Nobody is as lucky as
me,” Bob said with a gratefulheart.
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Photos by Beth BreithauptBob Barry works in his shop at Slayden.
Bob Barryjust loves‘the grainof wood’
Photos by Linda JonesDathan Herring has been the pastor at Heritage Apostolic Church for almost a year.
By LINDA JONESStaff Writer
Pastor Dathan Herringpreached his first sermon atHeritage Apostolic Churchin Holly Springs Easter Sun-day, April 16, 2014.Herring and his family
came to Holly Springs from,well, all over the world. Aninternational evangelist andtraveling minister, he haspreached all over the globe.He grew up in North
Miami, Fla., and while in histhird year of college realizedGod was calling him to theministry. Going into his finalyear, Herring went to a sem-inary, Indiana Bible College,in Indiana.“It was so far from
Florida!” he said. “I wentback for a second year anddecided to just go do the realwork.”There was a church look-
ing for an outreach pastor, soHerring went to Potts Campand Bethlehem Church ofthe Lord Jesus Christ. He be-came an evangelist out ofthere.“I connected with the
Thomases in January 1999and I began evangelizing inNovember 1999. When I leftPotts Camp, I was based outof headquarters in St. Louis,Mo.“Barry and Karen have a
picture of me with Kasie,Brittany and Emmily. I was20-21 and they were littleguys, maybe 12 or so.”Herring was based out of
New Orleans when he knewthat God was calling them topastor. Herring and his wifeHolly felt like God was goingto send them to a church ina short time. Herring andHolly have three children,Morgan, Miles and Marley.“I was talking with a close
friend, James Carney, a pas-
tor in Hattiesburg and hetold me about a church inNorth Mississippi that waslooking for a pastor.”Going through all the
proper channels, Herringsent his resumé throughSection 3 of the United Pen-tocostal Church Interna-tional Presbyter and now,he’s in Holly Springs again,this time as pastor of Her-itage Church.Heritage Apostolic
Church has services in theirbuilding behind ThomasArena. The sanctuary seatsapproximately 200, is full onSunday – and it’s growing.There are currently 168members on the roll.“There’s a lot of talent
here,” Herring said. “Wehave music, ministry, teach-ers, decorators, graphic de-signers.“And cooks! We have
some of the best cooks in theworld! We have a men’sbreakfast once a month andthey can cook!”Heritage has services
Sundays at 10 a.m. and 6p.m. and Bible study at 7p.m. on Wednesdays. Thereare classes for children and
adults and a nursery for new-borns to 2 years. They alsohave a chemical dependencyprevention and supportgroup at 6 p.m. on Wednes-days.Herring is very excited
about the new churchthey’re building. The newchurch site is just past Hwy.4 West on Hwy. 7 South.“There are a lot of differ-
ent things that have to cometogether,” Herring said.“The sanctuary will seat 400and we will be able to expandwhen needed. We have 22acres and lots of potential forgrowth.”The church and school,
Heritage Christian Academy,will be combined in the same3,400-square-foot building.There will be the school,
gym, sanctuary, Sundayschool classes, an officecomplex, prayer room andchoir room and a fellowshiphall with a full kitchen.“It will be built in two
phases,” Herring said. “Firstthe school – we would love tobe in the school by next fall.That’s our target date. Thesanctuary should be ready inabout two years.”
Heritage Apostolic pastor excitedabout construction of new church
A hope chest made by Bob Barry
Back thru the yearsThe Holly Springs South,
January 13, 1886Business of Holly SpringsWe have in the city, one
monthly and three weeklyjournals. There is “The Enter-prise,” published by the ShawInstitute, a well edited andprinted monthly publication,doing credit to the University.“The Register,” R.S. Mosby,
editor, which after a brief, butbrilliant career as a daily publi-cation, reverted back to aweekly publication with energy– a most sensible decision.“The Reporter,” by John
Calhoun and W.T. Barry, amost creditable newspaper.“The South,” by ye humble
scribe, is now in its 16th year ofpublication.The Jug Factory – We have
in the city a factory for themanufacture of earthen ware,in the hands of its proprietor,Mr. J.G. Leach. It is well sup-plied with machinery and mostthoroughly equipped for itspurpose. The factory produceslarge quantities of potterywhich is a favorite of kitchensof passenger boats running onthe broad Mississippi. It is avalued institution of our city.Robert Hastings, grocer at
the Holly Springs RailwayJunction, has also suppliedmany tons of coal used in thecity. Mathewes & Neely haveentered into competition withhim in the coal business.L.A. Cohen has a new cloth-
ing establishment on the southside of the square.
The Rather Brothers keepon hand a full assortment ofsewing machines and a consid-erable variety of other goodson the southeast corner of thesquare. They are enterprisingmechanics, and are capable ofall manufactures and repairs inthe line, which range includesguns, pistols, clocks, and toys.The only thing they fail to rem-edy is a tongue which is out oforder, and hung in the middle.J.A. Reeves has a butcher
establishment on CollegeStreet. N.W. Cothan has a gro-cery store on the north side ofthe square. The Old Barber Es-tablishment has been movedto Market Street.Herman Snyder has added
a bakery to his restaurant andmakes excellent cakes andpies.“The Waverly,” is our
newest and one of the mostpopular hotels. W.J. Tidwell isthe proprietor. Mrs. Nunnalyhas a good custom at the OldThomas House and H. Hul-broner is opposite the oldMethodist Church. The OldLawrence House has under-gone extensive repair, but isyet vacant. The I.C. Railway isbuilding a modern hotel at theDepot.T.J. Robinson is the only
photographer in the city atpresent. C.S. Mattison and Dr.Ross are our dentists.There are three or four
blacksmith shops and twoshoeshops, one owned by J.W.Boone, the other by CharlesDunlap.
John S. Finley is the newpostmaster and Sol Barr is hisdeputy.There are twelve lawyers
and only seven physicians, in-dicating that our litigation ex-ceeds our sickness.Mrs. D.R. Butler, on the
southeast corner of the square,has one of the oldest and bestsupplied drug stores.R.E. Walker has a retail gro-
cery store on South CenterStreet. J. Davis, at the south-west, has an up-to-date clothingstore. Howard & Howard arewide-awake young druggists.J.E. Anderson, on the west
side of the square, has a largestock of groceries and staplegoods.McKesseck & Chilton; this
firm, colored, has just startedin business.John S. Finley keeps a lum-
ber yard on College Street.Levi Roberts has a fine,
large, livery stable on CollegeStreet. Buggies, carriages andsaddle horses are ready at amoment’s notice, and all ani-mals are in fine shape, and willget you there in a hurry.The Bank of Holly Springs
is the only establishment of itskind in our city. Judge OrlandoDavis is president. H.C. Fort,cashier, and Will Ross, book-keeper. These fine gentlemengive you most courteous atten-tion.Will Roberts is our popular
omnibus and hack owner. Heis most considerate – to theladies, young and pretty onesespecially!
From 1886, Snyder makes excellent cakes, pies
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Barbara Taylor has moretime at The South Reporterthan any other current em-ployee – 35-plus years. She was hired the same
day she graduated from highschool in 1979 by the ownerand editor George Yarbrough.Mother and daughter team
Eloise and Charlotte Wolfewere the main full-timestaffers who did the news writ-ing and sold and composedthe ads – the heavy lifting.Lincoln Martin was also
working in the layout room.He came in under Yarbroughand ran the print machines.Taylor first worked about
24 hours a week. The newspa-per office was closed onThursday.Yarbrough sold the news-
paper two weeks beforeChristmas in 1979. The newowners came and helped putout the paper for the firstmonth or more, she said,while Walter Webb, the neweditor and publisher, got usedto the reins.The office was contained in
the whole building that waslater divided to make two busi-nesses, The South Reporterand South Center Printing. When people came into the
office, they spoke with some-one at the front desk. The win-dows were not see-through asthey are now and the layoutworkers were not in sight.Stencils were used to run
off the address labels of sub-scribers initially. Taylor saidall subscriptions expired atthe same time, in November.Anyone who bought a sub-scription in October, for exam-ple, had to come back andorder a year’s subscription inNovember, or pay for both theOctober issues and the yearlysubscription at the same time.Taylor started learning
how to do everything in thecomposing room. She typedthe editorial copy – the sto-ries – and ran them out. Afterthe stories were proof-read,she would go back to the ma-chine and correct any errors,a line at a time. The correctedline was pasted over the top ofthe line with an error.“We all did everything,”
Taylor said. “I started ad de-sign immediately.”Copy was run through a
hot wax machine whichcoated the back side of theprint, and the copy was thenpasted onto pages. The news-paper was printed in Oxford.It was during the 1980s
that computers were intro-duced into the composingroom. During those years gro-cery ads from Big Star, JitneyJungle and Piggly Wigglywere on the pages of thenewspaper. Taylor said shedoes not remember whenlarge regular advertisersstarted delivering circulars tobe inserted inside the newspa-per sections.At every stage when a new
technology was introduced,Taylor said she dreaded learn-ing how to do it at first. But,once she learned to use the
computers to design pages,putting out a paper was mucheasier, she said. “Everything has gotten so
much easier because of com-puters and the Internet,” shesaid. “The only thing that has-n’t changed is the stuffing ofinserts on Tuesdays andWednesdays.”Taylor said she has en-
joyed working at a weeklywhere she has learned to doall the jobs. She likes variety.She also likes people whohave come to know her anddepend on her for their ad de-signs. In recent times, Taylorhas also taken on ad sales.“You don’t miss, because if
you are out, someone else hasto do your job,” Taylor said.She said she was lucky to
have good babysitters andfamily members who helpedtake care of her small childrenover the years while sheworked.Overall, newspaper work
has been good, Taylor said.“It’s been very interesting.
It’s never been dull. I’ve likedeverybody I have worked withand my bosses have beengood to work for,” she said.“The main thing is you have tolike your job.”
Taylor has35 yearsof serviceat paper
Photos by Sue WatsonBarbara Taylor works at a new iMac purchased last year.
Barbara Taylor, in a picture from the past, works on tearsheets for advertisers.
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Lincoln Martin startedworking at The South Re-porter after high school grad-uation in 1968.His first assignment was to
keep the newsroom andprinting areas clean. Heworked as a handyman andas a janitor. George Yarbor-ough was owner at the time.The office had its own
printing press and had a runof about 2,500 newspapers,Martin said. Raymond Baileywas shop foreman and theman who taught Martin torun the press.Martin was drafted into
the army in 1969 and servedtwo years, with 12 months ofthat in Vietnam. He said heworked moving munitionsfrom one place to the otherwhile in Vietnam.Martin returned to the
newspaper in 1971.“I picked up right where I
left off,” he said. The South Reporter also
operated a commercial printbusiness. Martin worked onthe newspaper on Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday andran the commercial presseson Thursday and Friday.After Bailey left to run his
own print shop, James Neiltook over as foreman. Neileventually bought a printshop in Ripley and Bailey ranone in Holly Springs.When Yarbrough sold The
South Reporter to a group ofinvestors, Walter Webb tookover as one of the partnersand as editor and publisher.During his tenure, the PigeonRoost News was establishedas a free paper to run in thenorthwest portion of thecounty.The newspapers were
being printed in Oxford andthe old press was no longerused at The South Reporter.The commercial presses con-tinued to accept work orders.Martin described the shift
from working on The SouthReporter to taking over thecommercial printing busi-ness.“One Saturday I was up
here and Mr. Webb askedme, ‘Lincoln, have you everthought about owning yourown business?’“I told him I had never
thought about it, but ‘let mego home and talk it over withQueen (his wife).’ ”The owners set it up
where they could take ashare of the profits for twoyears. “I give credit to Mr.
Webb,” Martin said. “He wasthe one who asked me andgave me that opportunity totry it on my own.”After two years, the own-
ers offered to sell out thecommercial print business toMartin. In 1980, he took over the
print shop and the presseswere moved over to one sideand a divider wall was put upto separate the two busi-nesses.Martin said he started out
with a girl setting type and hewas doing all the printing.“I would hire people to
come in and help put bookstogether,” he said. Janice Spight was the type-
setter, did paste up and an-swered the phone.Gradually, as the business
grew, Sandra Faulkner, Clif-ford and Philip Martin, andQueen Ester would come dothe bookkeeping after school.Queen Ester taught at GalenaSchool.
Later, after retiring fromteaching in 2002, QueenEster began to work full-timeat the printing office.Robert Banks came on in
recent years as graphic de-signer.He does most of the de-
sign work for the printingbusiness and the new silkscreening shop that wasadded a year ago.Martin said he had good
luck getting the loan to pur-chase the business. TubbyGresham at the Bank ofHolly Springs helped himwith his loans.He said the printing busi-
ness is hard to make a livingat. At first he worked daylightuntil about midnight manyweeknights and on Satur-days.“It’s hard to make it in a
small shop,” he said. “I could-n’t hire a person to do what Ido. I did everything. Downthrough the years, I couldn’tafford to hire a person to dowhat I do.“The boys were asleep
when I left in the morningand asleep when I got homearound 11 or 12 at night. I hadto do most of the press workmyself.”His son Clifford and San-
dra Faulkner now help oper-ate the presses. Banks is thedesigner and his wife, QueenEster, keeps the books anddoes the billing.Martin said he started out
with the linotype system andhot metal-type printing. Eventhe newspaper at one timewas printed on hot metaltype. The new printing agehelped turn out work fasterand easier.“What we do in one day
now, it would take us a weekto do back then,” Martin said.“Everything is so fast. It is atyour fingertips, now.”To master the printing
press when Martin startedout would take five years oftraining.“An apprentice printer
took five years to work in ashop and get a job as a full-time printer,” he said. “That’swhat was told me.”
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Lamar Day is a veteran ofthe United States Army, serv-ing his country in World WarII. At 90 years of age (andproud of it), he has lots of sto-ries to tell about his service,his work career, and retire-ment; and his love for TheSouth Reporter.
I enjoyed a visit withLamar and his wife, Mable,on a rainy Saturday after-noon, Feb. 21, at their homein Potts Camp. We talkedabout his long-term relation-ship with the county newspa-per. He said that when hecould see better, he wouldread it from front to back andback to front.
“I worked for the U.S.Forestry Service for 34 yearsand read the paper then as abusiness,” he said. “And, dur-ing my time as a real estateagent, used the paper for list-ings, keeping up with whatproperties were available, etc.It has been, and still is, a veryimportant aspect of my life;keeping me up to date withhappenings in the county,with community news andevents, charity benefits,deaths, sickness, sports, etc.
“I have always found thepaper to focus on the positiveand to report the news truth-fully, and look forward to re-ceiving it each week. I alsowant to commend editorBarry Burleson and his stafffor the wonderful job they doin putting out the paper eachweek. One hundred and fiftyyears is a long time to put outa paper – I won’t make it that
many years,” he jokingly said.Day related stories about
his time in the Army, sayinghe was drafted right out ofhigh school, at age 18.
“I went into the U.S. Armyon May 11, 1943, and servedin Africa, Italy, and Franceand was discharged on Dec.6, 1945, when World War IIwas over. After serving awhile in the Corps, JamesPotts hired me to go to workfor the U.S. Forestry Service,where I stayed for 34 years,serving as dispatcher (from1960-1980), and forestry tech-nician supervisor, as well as aland appraiser and timbercruiser.”
He and his family movedinto a house at the WinbornFire Tower in 1960 and werethere until 1968, at whichtime they moved into town intheir present home. As a dis-patcher, he was responsiblefor spotting fires from thetower and calling in the loca-tion to their main office inHolly Springs; and as aforestry technician supervi-sor, he was responsible forsummer student programs.
While living at the towerhe said they had a radiologi-cal monitoring station used totest for gas, etc. They hadthree testers – CD600, 610,and 620. After he retired onFebruary 11, 1980, thetesters were no longer used.
“During the years thetower was manned by dis-patchers, people visited thetower from all over the U.S.and signed a register in theoffice. The tower was a his-torical place and still stands
today,” he said.Displayed on the walls of
their den are quite a largenumber of certificates,awards, citations, etc., thatDay received over the years.He said there were more, butthey ran out of space to putthem up. A collector of caps,there are two in his collectionthat he is proud of: his WWIIVeteran, and his NationalBoxcar Association 40 and 8.
He and his wife also havea beautiful, large, orange andwhite cat named Bobby thatkeeps them entertained.
The Days are members ofAmaziah Baptist Church inUnion County. He is also amember of the MarshallCounty Forestry Associa tion,and was a member of the for-mer Potts Camp Lions Club.
During high school heplayed on the Potts Campbasketball team, and contin-ued to attend and support theteam for many years. He is nolonger able to attend games,but continues to follow theteam’s progress through TheSouth Reporter.
The Days are the parentsof five children (one de-ceased), three grandchildren,and “quite a large number ofgreat-grandchildren andgreat-great-grandchildren,”he said.
Reading, watching TV, andspending quality time withhis family are some of the en-joyments he is experiencingduring retirement. Some-times all of the family comeshome on Saturday morningsfor a family breakfast, whichmeans so much to them all.
Day looks forward to newspaper Photo by Mary Minor
Lamar Day
Clockwise, from top, at a recent Byhalia Area Chamber ofCommerce Luncheon, are Doris Moore, Dilma Simpson andJo Jones, ladies who helped build Byhalia for this new gen-eration of readers of The South Reporter and Pigeon RoostNews; L.E. and Rhea Malone, loyal readers of The SouthReporter and Pigeon Roost News; and Gertrude Anderson,proud member of the Byhalia Area Chamber of Commerceand reader of The South Reporter and Pigeon Roost News.
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Longtime newspaper readers
By SUE WATSONStaff Writer
Claude Vinson has servedas the sports editor at TheSouth Reporter since beinghired by Walter Webb in 1993.At the time, Vinson was work-ing as the director of Parksand Recreation for the City ofHolly Springs during the lateEddie Lee Smith’s administra-tion.
Vinson said he had writtenarticles on games while in themilitary, where he served as acoach for basketball and foot-ball teams.
Vinson said he told MayorSmith that he wanted to leaveParks and Rec because hewas having to travel back andforth to M.D. Anderson Hos-pital where his wife was un-dergoing treatment forcancer.
Webb found out about hisintention to leave Parks andRec and asked Vinson if hewould like to be the sports ed-itor for The South Reporter.Vinson resigned at Parks andRec November 1 and startedto work with The South Re-porter November 2, 1993.
“When I was in the mili-tary coaching and officiating,I always did some writing,”Vinson said.
His articles were run in themilitary news on the base.
He has written sports arti-cles and columns for TheSouth Reporter 21 years. Vin-son started driving the news-paper’s delivery van in about1999. His route has taken himabout town and to PottsCamp, Hickory Flat, Ashland,along Highway 72 to Mt.Pleasant, Slayden, Lamar andto Chulahoma and Red BanksRoad. Recently Vinson hasscaled his van route down andhas no set date, but he ex-pects to retire sometime thisyear after basketball season.
His relationship with thenewspaper business began atage 14 when he delivered theCommercial Appeal in HollySprings with his brother Tay-lor’s help. They kept the routefor five years.
“I got up at 5 a.m. sevendays a week,” Vinson said.“We’d pick up the papers at 5at Stafford’s Cafe, roll andband them and throw themand be at school by 8 o’clock.”
Vinson started out in theRosenwald School in HollySprings, which he attendedthrough the fifth grade. Heasked his mother the year hefinished the fourth grade tobe allowed to go to St. Mary’s,but his grandmother objectedand his mother said he couldnot switch schools.
“I think Grandmother was
behind us not going to St.Mary’s when it opened,” Vin-son said. “She was a staunchMethodist. I don’t know whymy mother changed hermind. She said she went overand talked to the teachers.She asked me one day if I andmy two brothers wanted to goand we said, ‘yes.’ ”
It was at St. Mary’s thatVinson’s love for the writtenword took root and he said heowes his whole success in lifeto the education he got there.
“When we first got to highschool at St. Mary’s, we hadFather Flood, who taught lit-erature,” Vinson said. “That’swhat really spurred me on. Iwrote an essay on snowstorms and I called it ‘WinterWonder Land.’ He thought Icopied it.
“I want to know whichmagazine you got this from,”Father Flood demanded. “Isaid, it was not from a maga-zine. I got that out of mymemory.”
Vinson said he started run-ning a few articles in thenewspaper covering events atParks and Rec. At the timethere was no real sports sec-tion at The South Reporter.After he started submittingarticles, Webb made a sportssection, he said.
Vinson said the sports sec-tion really took off with the ar-rival of Barry Burleson at thenewspaper.
“Barry, with his interest in
sports – it just ballooned,” hesaid.
He said The South Re-porter is recognized as one ofthe best small papers in thestate for its attractive layout.
Vinson attended Rust Col-lege after leaving the AirForce after 21 years of serv-ice. He minored in journalismat Rust and graduated with adegree in health, physical ed-ucation and recreation(HPER) with a coaching cer-tificate.
He coached the CatholicYouth Organization’s ballgames for eight years locallywhere the teams won threechampionships in basketballand numerous champi-onships in volleyball.
“The trophies are overthere at St. Joseph’s,” he said.
“I had two semi-pro basket-ball championships, one inChina and one in New Hamp-shire. I coached semi-pro inbaseball and football in NewMexico. When I was coachingfootball, we beat an Armyteam that was unbeaten forfive years in a row.”
Claude and Cornelia Vin-son were the parents of twogirls and three boys. All live inMemphis except one wholives in Atlanta, Ga.
Vinson said he started typ-ing his stories at the unit untilhis children forced him to usea computer. Eventually, helearned to use the computerand to send his stories by e-mail.
“It wasn’t easy to break thehabit, right?” he said.
Vinson said he has otherinterests to pursue after hisretirement at the newspaper.
“Believe me, I think it’stime,” he said. “I still have theinterest, but at my age, I findit hard to go cover a game atnight.”
Vinson expressed endear-ment for his associates at thenewspaper.
“I’ve worked at a lot ofplaces and have been a part oflarge and small organizations,but working at The South Re-porter has been one of themost rewarding experiences Ihave had,” he said. “Peoplehere are unmatchable. I liketo highlight both editors be-cause they gave me carteblanche. They said, go for it.”
“Dr. George Ross Ridge,with degrees from Harvardand Yale, and a man of letterswho taught at Rust College,said there were just two news-papers in Mississippi – theTupelo Journal and TheSouth Reporter. Everybodyremarks about our layoutwhen I travel over the state.”
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Joyce Clayton is an avidreader of The South Reporterand has been for the past 20years. Prior to that time, shewas raising her two childrenand working outside thehome.Now in her retirement
years, she gets her weeklynewspaper as soon as it is de-livered to the Post Office,comes home and reads it fromfront to back. This is her wayof keeping abreast of happen-ings in the community andthroughout the county.“I look forward to getting
my paper each week to seewhat has been going on, andwhat events are coming up,”she said. “And, my mother,Mrs. Jesse Smith, was a com-munity correspondent for anumber of years, writing theNortheast Potts Camp News.”In addition to her love for
her county paper, she also is asubscriber of another weeklyand a daily newspaper.“In the mornings, the first
thing I do after arising is to puton the coffee pot; then I go outfor the daily newspaper. Bythat time the coffee is ready, soI sit down and spend aroundone and one-half hours read-ing the news,” she said. “Iwould feel lost without my pa-pers!”After she married, and
when her first child, a daugh-ter, was 6 years old, she beganworking outside the home,and worked at a shirt factoryin Hickory Flat for sevenyears, quitting prior to thebirth of her second child, ason.“I went back to work when
Lynn was just a baby. This wasnot intentional, however, afterreceiving a call from a friendsaying they really neededsomeone to work at theHoover plant in Holly Springs,
I went back. The plantchanged to Sunbeam, and be-tween the two factories, Iworked 11 years. While work-ing at Hoover, a job becameavailable in the cafeteria ofPotts Camp School, so I tookthat to be with my son. After 20years of cafeteria work, I re-tired in 1992.”Some of the ladies Clayton
worked with during her 20years in the cafeteria wereDoris Day (who was the cafe-teria manager at the time shewas hired), Sallye Clayton,Dale Hollingsworth, RubySharp, Dorothy Cook, andBarbara Jarrett.“I really enjoyed that job,
and the students. The workwas hard, but enjoyable.”In addition to her two chil-
dren, Clayton has three grand-
children and two great-grand-children. She enjoys spendingtime with her family. Occasion-ally she and her son go on va-cations, as they enjoy the sametype activities. During retire-ment, Clayton spends lots oftime looking up family history,and has records dating back tothe 1700s. She is also a mem-ber of the Marshall CountyGenealogy Society.Clayton is also a very active
member of Temperance HillBaptist Church, and a formerSunday school teacher. Thingsshe enjoys include walking, lis-tening to gospel music, as wellas attending gospel singings,and working on her plasticcanvas craft projects.“At one time I enjoyed jig-
saw puzzles, but have other in-terests now,” she said.
Photo by Mary MinorJoyce Clayton is pictured with her community newspaper.
Claytonreads paperfrom frontto backBy KRISTI ATWOOD
(Olga Reed Pruitt’s granddaughter)
Written in December 2012My daughter-in-law, Kelly,
was asking me about mygrandparents, which got methinking about my grand-mother who we called “Daw.”Most of us have memories ofour grandparents, if we had theopportunity to live close tothem. For some, you remem-ber your “Gramma’s” baking,for other’s maybe you learnedto love gardening from yourgrandpa.Daw was my father’s
mother, and the only grandpar-ent I knew. She moved out toWashington to be close to uswhen I was about 2. I don’t re-member her teaching me tocook anything except friedbologna, which may have par-tially led to her heart disease.She was born Olga Reed Milli-gan in 1896, and was an authorand a poet. Olga Reed Pruitt wrote a
column for many years in TheSouth Reporter -- It HappenedHere. Taken from “It Hap-pened Here: True Stories ofHolly Springs” a collection ofstories about Holly Springs his-tory taken from her column.
And Dreams Came True
This is the last of the mightyoaks under which the Chicka-saw Indians, white traders andearly prospectors camped be-fore the land was ceded to theGovernment in 1832 and HollySprings was only a dream inthe white man’s heart.Like a lonely sentinel it
stands where once a luxuriantgrove of holly trees flourishedaround a spring 30 feet wideand 10 feet deep, “largeenough to swim a horse.”The holly trees are gone
now and sand has filled thespring.Only this ancient oak re-
mains, a silent reminder thaton this spot a dream was bornwhich grew to be HollySprings.
Naming the TownWhen Alexander C.
McEwen first came to NorthMississippi in 1834, activitycentered around the spring inthe hollow. Desiring to havegoods shipped to him, Mr.McEwen directed that they bemarked simply, “the hollysprings.” It is thought that hisact was responsible for namingthe new settlement.Many of the early citizens
engaged in silk culture. OnSeptember 28, 1839, The Holly
Springs Banner carried this ad-vertisement: “T.J. Davis offersfor sale silk trees (morus mul-ticoulus trees) believing Mis-sissippi to have a future in thebusiness. His store is at thecorner of LeGrange and Mem-phis Streets.”
(210 W. College Ave.)The First Educational
InstitutionThe history of Holly
Springs is inextricably coloredby the history of her educa-tional endeavors.In January 1836, the same
year in which the ChickasawCession was organized intocounties, there was a meetingto take steps for setting up aneducational institution in thetown that had not, as yet, evenbeen incorporated. From thismeeting the Holly Springs Fe-male Academy arose.The building was situated
on this lot (No. 271) on theSouth side of Hernando Road,now West College Avenue. Itwas of hewn logs with a clap-board roof, a modest but com-fortable structure. It wasoverhung with friendly oaktrees, and shadowed walkswandered over the grounds.Rates of tuition were $8, $12and $15 for the first, secondand third classes respectively.James W. Hill was chosen
president of the first Board ofTrustees, A.C. McEwen, sec-retary. The Board consisted ofJ.M. Blackwell, John A.McKindree, James Davis, C.Kyle, Parry W. Humphreys,R.H. Patillo, K.S. Holland, JohnHardin, James Elder, WilliamC. Edmondson, CalvinSquires, John Walker.** Edward Mayes, History of
Education in Mississippi, p. 46.West Chulahoma Ave.The First “University”
in MississippiAlong with the organization
of the Holly Springs Female
Academy in 1836, the peoplerealized there was also needfor a “college for young gentle-men.” Trustees were accord-ingly elected for the literaryinstitution. In 1837, $22,650was raised by subscription andthis brick building erected.*The institution was incorpo-
rated as the University of HollySprings in 1838 and the reportto the trustees for that yearshowed that there were 100students. It was the first timeMississippi had seen such anambitious title. Tuition was $3,$4 and $5 per month in thepreparatory school and $7 permonth in the college.At the close of school in
1839, the trustees announcedthat “Holly Springs University,not having succeeded last ses-sion, it has been disposed of tothe Methodist Church. Theyaim to establish a medical andlaw department.” **The University never was
the success that was antici-pated and finally closed in1843.Rev. Sam McKinney re-
opened the school for boys in1850. As Chalmers Institute itflourished until 1879 when itclosed as a result of the yellowfever epidemic.The buildings were used
again when Major T.S. Ander-son founded the Holly SpringsNormal Institute in that sameyear. The school was incorpo-rated and there were fiveteachers.The historic educational
building is now a private home.* Memoirs of Mississippi,
Vol. II** Holly Springs Banner,
June 15, 1839• Holly Springs has fur-
nished Mississippi with fourSecretaries of State: KinlochFalconer, Henry C. Myers,James Hill Negro, George M.Govan.
Olga Reed Milligan Pruitt 1896-1979
‘It HappenedHere: TrueStories of Holly Springs’
By MARY R. MINORContributing Writer
Bobby Smithwick at age 81and a half, is a longtimereader and subscriber of TheSouth Reporter, and looks for-ward each Wednes day after-noon to getting his copy fromthe Post Office. Sometimes,he sits in his car and readspart of the paper before leav-ing his parking space.His long-term relationship
with The South Reporter goesback to when his mother waswriting the community news– back to his high schooldays, he says. Also, while hewas in service, his mothersent him numerous articlesshe had clipped from thenewspaper – to keep him con-nected to his hometown andcounty.The eldest child of the late
Walter and Sallye Ball ReedSmithwick, of Potts Camp, hehas two sisters, Betty LoveShaw who lives in HollySprings with her husband,Guy Knowlton Shaw; and Bar-bara Wasson, who resides inKosciusko with husband,Tom. He is also the father offour children, Walter Smith-wick, Jr. (New Market, Ala.),Terri Smithwick (HollySprings) Clark Smithwick(Germany), Sam Smithwick(Kennebunk, Maine); eightgrandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.His story is as follows:“My father died at the age
of 41, when I was just 13 yearsold, leaving his wife withthree small children. I beganworking at the Pan Am Serv-ice Station in town afterschool each day and in thesummer until I graduated in1951. The station was locatedwhere the Corner One Stopis, on the corner of ChurchAvenue and Center Street.My jobs included washingcars, changing oil, fixing flats,pumping gasoline, and othermiscellaneous duties, and weworked seven days a week.The owner of the station atthe time was CharlieCawthon.“My mother lacked one
year of finishing school, andcompleted her education in1950, just one year before mygraduation in 1951. Duringour senior year, we experi-enced a couple of firsts – thefirst to have a school year-book (The Campers), and thefirst graduating class to take asenior trip. We traveled toWashington, D.C., in the firstcommercial school bus that
Potts Camp had. That was agreat experience for many ofus who had never taken along trip before. On the trip,some of the things we sawwere the Blue Grass Ridge ofKentucky, Natural Bridge,Washington Monument,Smithsonian Museum, Lin-coln and Jefferson Memori-als, toured the Capitol, droveby the White House, touredthe U.S. Department of theTreasury, took a tour ofWashington, D.C.“After graduation, Jim Pip-
kin hired me to work at hissawmill, which was run byMartin Vanzant. After work-ing for six weeks, I enlistedinto the U.S. Navy. Mymother worked for the draftboard at the time and advisedme to join another branch ofservice if I didn’t want to gointo the Army, so I did. Thiswas during the Korean Warand I was in Korea, on boardan aircraft carrier, when thetruce was signed. After threeyears, I was honorably dis-charged in August 1954.” Smithwick attended
Northwest Community Col-lege, after his discharge fromthe Navy, graduating in 1956with an associate engineeringdegree, and went to work atFryling Electric in HollySprings. Starting out as adraftsman, he later becamemaintenance supervisor andtool designer for special toolsused in the plant. He wasthere until 1962, “when theplant was in the process ofclosing.”After Fryling closed, he
moved to Huntsville, Ala., towork for Brown Engineeringas a tool designer, makingprinted circuit boards, andwas there for 12 years.Moving back to his home-
town, he became self-em-ployed, selling Carbide Tools,and also selling circuitboards. During this time hepurchased a groundhogsawmill, became a cattlefarmer, and went into thepulpwood business.“In 1982 I went to work at
Ross Metals in Rossville,Tenn.; and in 1986, I went towork for Continental PET inOlive Branch and retired fromthere in 1998. At that time I fo-cused on my cattle operationand sawmill business (on asmall scale and as a hobby),”he said. He also enjoys help-ing people with projects. Smithwick is very commu-
nity-minded and interested incommunity events. He said hehas always been interested inthe obituaries, as he enjoysgenealogy and keeping upwith family history. A Methodist, Smithwick is
also a member of the Mar-shall County Forestry Associ-ation, as well as the BentonCounty Forestry Association;serving as a board memberfor both associations; and ispast president of the BentonCFA. He has attended manyforestry-related workshops,seminars, field day events,etc. for both organizations. Heis commander of AmericanLegion Post 128 in HickoryFlat, and is married to the for-mer Katie Murchison, ofLafayette County, who nowtakes up much of his time asshe has Alzheimer’s. He isvery dedicated to his wife andher health problems, takingher with him most every-where he goes.“In closing I want to con-
gratulate The South Reporteron their 150th Anniversary,and hope they continue foranother 150,” he said.
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As Originally Published inThe Holly Springs SouthReporter (1920-1941)Edited by Robert Milton
Winter• Holly Springs, Miss. (Oc-
tober 10, 1935). By lineal de-scent, The Holly SpringsReporter will be seventy yearsold in December 1935, TheHolly Springs Reporter havingbeen founded in December1865, and the IndependentSouth in 1867. *
* A.M. Clayton gives thisaccount of early newspapers inthe county. “Holly Springs hasalways had one or more goodnewspapers. The first everpublished was a Democratpaper by E. Percy Howe, thename of which cannot be re-called.... Then there was apaper published for a shorttime by Pattillo & Curtis, Dem-ocratic in its politics. The Con-servative, a Whig paper, waspublished by Foster & Fal-coner, followed by The HollySprings Gazette by Thomas A.Falconer. The first number ofthis paper was issued July28th, 1841, and continued nineyears.
The Holly Springs Banner,a Whig paper, was conductedby George A. Wilson, a man ofvigorous intellect and for sometime District Attorney. TheMarshall Guard, a Democraticpaper was begun first January,1841, by Robert Josselyn –lived several years and was ahighly respectable paper. InNovember 1847, The WeeklyJacksonian was commencedby Lloyd Selby and kept up forfour years, and was succeededby The Marshall Jeffersonian,with Wyatt Epps, editor, No-vember 1851. The first numberof the Mississippi Palladium, aDemocratic States’ Rightspaper, was issued April 25,1851, Henry Stith editor,Thomas A. Falconer, pub-lisher....
In 1850, The Holly Springs
Gazette passed into newhands, with F.D. Anderson andR.S. Stith, editors and propri-etors destined to still furtherchanges in subsequent years.In 1851, James W. Williamsbegan The Marshall Guard,which continued nearly threeyears. In April 1853 the firstnumber of The MississippiTimes was issued, SamuelBenton editor and W.A.Tucker publisher; it continuedto 1857....In June 1853, TheDemocratic Banner was is-sued by W.H. Govan, and inNovember 1854, The EmpireDemocrat was commencedwith J.H.R. Taylor as editor. Atthe commencement of the war,there were three papers pub-lished here, The SouthernHerald by Thomas A. Fal-coner, The Star, by Solon L.Whittington, and The Consti-tutional Union by Upshaw &Barrett....Since the war therehas been one or two Radicalpapers here, now discontin-ued, and The Reporter andThe South still in existence,Democratic and Conservativein politics, and both maintain-ing a high reputation.” Centen-nial Address, 12-14.
• On January 1, 1920, C.H.Hurd, proprietor of The HollySprings Reporter, and the lateFrank C. Mattison, proprietorof The Holly Springs South,combined the two papersunder the name of The SouthReporter, the first issue beingdated January 2, 1920.
The Reporter was foundedby James Ballard, and was thefirst paper published in HollySprings after the close of theWar Between the States.
Ballard was a restless anderratic fellow, and in a fewyears sold the paper, for in acopy of September 3, 1869,Columbus Barrett was pub-lisher, and later had hisbrother-in-law Kinloch Fal-coner associated with him.Major Falconer was Secretaryof State when he came backhere to attend his father andbrother, Judge Thomas A. andHoward Falconer, in the yel-low fever epidemic of 1878,and himself died from it.
Col. John Calhoon, a young
newspaperman from Canton,Miss., came here about 1869and established The Conser-vative. Harry Bosworth, an-other young newspapermanfrom Canton, was associatedwith him a little later, I believe.
• In the early seventies,Col. Calhoon acquired The Re-porter and discontinued TheConservative, Bosworth re-turning to Canton.
• The Mississippi Press As-sociation met here in thespring of 1878, with Holland asPresident and host. It was abrilliant meeting, and HollySprings entertained them roy-ally.
At its next meeting in 1879,the association ordered that ahandsome memorial, a graniteobelisk, to the five editors wholost their lives in the fever, beplaced here, out of complimentto Holland. The associationcame in a body to the unveil-ing, to which the whole townturned out.
Names of the other editorson the monument are: KinlochFalconer, W.J. Adams, O.V.Shearer, Singleton Garrett,and J.R. Allen. Adams was theson of the founder of TheLedger, and became The Jack-son Clarion-Ledger.
After the fever W. LoganWalker was associated withCol. Calhoon as business man-ager and advertising solicitorof The Reporter until 1886when I bought the paper. Mr.Walker continued with me.• Same man founded South
The Holly Springs, orrather The Independent
South, as it was first called, wasestablished in 1867 by Jim Bal-lard, who had previouslyfounded The Reporter.
Col. F.A. Tyler, part ownerand associate of The MemphisLedger, sold his interest andbought The South about 1877or ’78.
Manlius Hall, of The Cov-ington (Tenn.) Ledger, sold hisinterest in that paper andleased The South about 1889for a year, and had Capt.Thomas Kemp, who had beenpublishing The Byhalia Jour-nal, associated with him.• Frank Mattison Takes Hold
Upon the death of his fa-ther, Capt. J.B. Mattison in1910, Frank C. Mattison wasassociated with Mrs. Hall, andsoon after bought the paper,and continued as owner andeditor until the consolidation ofthe papers in January 1920.
The South Reporter was astock company, owned by C.H.Curd and Frank C. Mattisonand certain members of theirfamilies. Frank Mattison waseditor and manager, Mr. Curd,who had just been installed ascounty superintendent of edu-cation, being forbidden by lawfrom engaging in other busi-ness.
The consolidated subscrip-tion lists gave the paper a netcirculation much larger thaneither had enjoyed. The paperwas improved with largerspace devoted to local matters.
Bramwell Davis, ofCharleston, Miss., bought thepaper in July 1923, having soldhis interest in The MississippiSun to his partner W.S. Meri-wether.
He changed The South Re-porter from a “patent side” toall home-print, and improvedits appearance and readingmatter.
Still more space was de-voted to local matters, and farmore to county correspon-dence, making The South Re-porter the hometown paper foreach community.
He began publishing yearsago – linking the present withthe city’s historic past. It was athis suggestion I began writingof the historic homes.
A look back – history of The South Reporter
By DEVARIESTE CURRYContributing Writer
Elmira Curry of Waterfordturned 90 in January. Havingbeen a positive force in hercommunity for decades, sheis considered by many to be atreasure.
So, it is fitting to reflect onwhat she deems her greatestachievement. Asked thatquestion a few years ago, shesaid, after some thought, “mychildren.”
Indeed, having raised 10children in Mississippi duringsome of the darkest days inthe state’s history and duringtimes of extreme economicdeprivation justifiably can beconsidered an achievement.
In a world that said “no,” atevery turn, Curry managedto give her children eternalencouragement and goodhope for a brighter future.How she did that is illuminat-ing.
Perhaps the most impor-tant thing Curry did is set anexample of how to live withhope. No matter how difficultthe circumstances she faced,she never complained. Shehas lived with a grateful heartand expectation of a brighterfuture. She had several mot-tos that kept her and her chil-dren encouraged.
“Keep saying tomorrowwill be a better day until a bet-ter day comes.” “It won’t al-ways be this way.” “It could beworse than it is; I am blessed.”“Stop saying what you can’tdo, and focus on what you cando; if you keep saying youcan’t do it, you will believethat, and you won’t do it.” “Actlike you are not always goingto be in this place and living inthese circumstances, and youwon’t be.”
Second, she taught herchildren to make God theiranchor; that believing in apower greater than them-selves could be a source ofstrength, comfort, and direc-tion when the world was spin-ning out of control; and thatbelieving in a just God was notinconsistent with taking re-sponsibility for themselvesand working against injustice.
Third, knowing that herchildren’s hearts (and minds)were the wellspring of theirlives (Proverbs 4:23), with herhusband, she filtered whather children consumed fromthe world around them so thatthey would not be inundatedwith messages that woulddamage their psyche and givethem a negative opinion ofthemselves and their possibil-ities.
She filtered books, music,dialogue, and people whosewords were more damagingthan edifying. Once, when awoman for whom one of herdaughters did domestic workfired the daughter becauseshe thought the daughterread too much, Curry chosenot to share with her daugh-ter why she was fired, tellingher instead that the reasonwas not important.
Filtering also meant com-municating to her childrenher high expectation of themand surrounding them withpeople who gave them en-couragement and had ad-mirable traits. Her childrenvisited the campus of Missis-sippi Industrial Collegeenough to understand thatthey were expected to attendcollege and that college wasnot out of their reach. She andher husband included thechildren in exciting discus-sions with church leaderswho visited from other states.She taught her children to notautomatically take at facevalue what someone else said,irrespective of the speaker’sposition or title. They wereencouraged to think for them-selves and to express them-selves freely.
For Curry and her hus-band, filtering also meant notexposing their children tosome of the most traumaticand heinous incidents of thetime. They understood intu-itively that there was a greatchance that detailed knowl-edge of such incidents couldmake the children hostile, de-pressed, or bitter, instead ofinspiring them to believe inthemselves and the prospectof a better future.
Finally, Curry taught herchildren that they fail onlywhen they stop trying. One ofher favorite expressions is:“Just because you fall down inthe mud, you do not have tolie there and wallow in it. Getup and keep moving.”
By giving her childreneternal encouragement andhope, Curry has raised 10hardworking, decent humanbeings who know how to sailthrough difficult waters; wholive with integrity; and whoare committed to honoringtheir parents by trying toleave the world better thanthey found it. Thus, she justi-fiably can say her children areher greatest achievement.
(Editor’s Note – ElmiraCurry was a community newscorrespondent for The SouthReporter for about 60 years.)
Eternal encouragementand good hope
Elmira Curry
John M. Mickle
By WALTER WEBBThis year marks the 150th
anniversary of The South Re-porter. I had the honor toserve as editor and publisherfrom December 1979 to July2001. Holly Springs is a town
steeped in history and fromtime to time residents such asJohn Mickel have chronicledthat history in The South Re-porter.I had not been in Holly
Springs long before I learnedthe importance of knowinglocal history. I was asked tospeak to the Thursday Clubabout the history of The SouthReporter and newspapers inMississippi.Coming to Holly Springs
from being manager of theMississippi Press Asso ciation,a trade association of thestate’s newspapers, I knewabout state newspapers buthad to do some research forthe history of The South Re-porter.After giving my presenta-
tion in the downstairs diningroom of Featherston Place, theladies were coming up to com-pliment me. The last was MissRuth Finley, who with her sis-ter, Margaret Shackleford, do-nated the land that is now theStrawberry Plains AudubonCenter. She said, “Mr. Webb,that was a nice presentation. Ididn’t hear a single mistake.” The host on that day,
Frances Buchanan, told me re-cently that if Miss Ruth hadheard one, she surely wouldhave let me know.When we first arrived in
Holly Springs to take over TheSouth Reporter in 1979, it wastwo days before Christmas.We ate Christmas dinner onpacked boxes, and then it wastime to go to work.It was like jumping on a gal-
loping horse. The newspaperbusiness is deadline oriented.It’s a constant feature of everyweek. The newspaper goes outeven if it’s on blank sheets ofpaper.My job was to fill those
pages with good journalism,good advertising and contentof wide interest to subscribersand readers throughout Mar-shall County, and get it thereon time.As 1980 dawned on Mar-
shall County, unprecedentedhistory was in the making.After a rough and tumblecountywide election duringthe prior summer and fall, thefirst African American sheriffin county history was beingsworn in.In that first edition as The
South Reporter editor andpublisher, I covered the swear-ing in of Sheriff Osborne Belland the full cast of officials tak-ing office that day.Lined up along the rail in
the courthouse, it was impos-sible to get a picture with all ofthem in the frame. As theyheld up their hands to take theoath, I took three picturessweeping from left to right,since I didn’t have the lens tomake a panoramic shot.I wasn’t sure how to display
them in the paper so I cutthem up with an X-Acto knifeand spliced them together tomake one picture. That picturespanning across the top over abanner headline was the firstfront page of my 21-yeartenure at The South Reporter.In the newspaper business
you get used to not receivingpositive feedback about thenewspaper. With this firstissue, however, several peoplenoticed something differentabout their newspaper.
• • •The South Reporter, and all
newspapers, are obligated tocover the news, however ithappens. It’s not always com-fortable, especially for commu-nity newspapers. Those covering the news
are not insulated from peoplethey see every day on the side-walks, in churches andschools, your friends and yourneighbors. The editor is read-ily available whenever some-one feels they’ve beenwronged. I noticed over theyears that whenever someonecame into the office with anewspaper rolled up in theirhand you knew you wereabout to get an earful aboutwhatever they felt was wrongor false or inaccurate, mis-quoted or even misspelled.
Covering county and citygovernment is important newsto citizens of the county. Sittingthrough never ending meet-ings, especially night meet-ings, puts pressure on meetingdeadlines. My ambition was ifthere was time to get it in thepaper, we would make that ef-fort.Many a week in those first
years, I would finish writingstories and laying out the frontpage as the sun came up onWednesday morning, just intime to pack the pages in thevan and drive treacherous,winding Highway 7 South tobe printed in Oxford. A set ofchains was always ready incase there was snow or ice.If a driver did not show up
or was inordinately late, hewould be fired. At that point inthe process, nothing was moreimportant than getting thenewspaper to print and gettingit in the hands of readers andmailboxes of subscribers,many who scheduled theirweek around the newspaper.Subscriptions for a newspa-
per are always preferred be-cause they pay in advance, andyou know how many to print.Rack sales are always a wildcard. You have only an esti-mate to print based on previ-ous experience. But variableslike snow or ice can throw itinto a guessing game and youdon’t want to print papers thatare never sold.Single rack sales of The
South Reporter on Wednesdaywere heavy, especially in frontof the paper office when peo-ple lined up waiting for thenewspaper to get back fromthe printer. At Carlisle’s Big Star, we
sold a lot of papers to groceryshoppers. The sales were soheavy that we had to buy adouble-shelf rack to holdenough. Dennis Carlisle didn’twant to ever run out. One dayCarl Irvin, the assistant man-ager of the store, told me thatpeople don’t read the newspa-per. “They just buy it for thegrocery ad.” From his per-spective, he probably wasright.In an effort to get a grocery
ad in a shopper’s hands, gro-cery stores started insertingpreprinted ads in the paper. In-serts came to be so much ofthe business of the newspaperthat we built an addition to thebuilding to house stuffing andmailing operations.Burrow’s Big Star in By-
halia didn’t consider TheSouth Reporter to have suffi-cient subscribers in the By-halia area to use the paper todistribute their inserts. So thestore mailed them third classto boxholders on Byhalia
postal routes. It was very ex-pensive. We proposed to Mr. Bur-
row that we could create a ve-hicle to carry his inserts. Thatwas the birth of the PigeonRoost News. We cut Big Star’smailing cost in half by insert-ing its ads in the Pigeon RoostNews, hoping to attract an-other inserter and display ad-vertising to pay for the mailingcost. In time the Pigeon Roost
News proved to be successfuland continues today to be anintegral part of the Byhaliaarea. Though some 6,000 box-holders got it free in the mail,residents got indignant if itwasn’t in their mailbox everyWednesday.Marie Moore was the edi-
tor when we started it. She isnow an accomplished mysterynovelist, but I tell her she gother start at the Pigeon RoostNews.
• • •Not long after I arrived in
Marshall County, District 3 Su-pervisor Dudley Walker in-vited me to tour his district.What I saw was the source ofmuch contention that playedout in supervisors meetingsfor years to come.For whatever reason, peo-
ple were flooding out of Mem-phis, Tenn., into the northwestcorner of Marshall County, at-tracted by the $99 down and$99 a month mini-farms in sub-divisions accessible only ondirt roads, which rain andfreezing temperatures turnedinto muddy ruts. Residentscrowded the board room andwanting the supervisors topave their roads.It took a long time to rem-
edy the widespread problem ofpoor roads in the county, butthe advent of the county unitsystem, which voters ap-proved twice before the Super-visors accepted it, did morethan anything else to pavethose roads. Developersbegan having to put roads inshape for the county to takeover and the enacting of zon-ing regulations and a zoningadministrator brought stabilityto development that had goneon with few rules.
• • •Newspapers write the his-
tory of the county, so they arealways connected. Some of themost important stories, alongwith road conditions and thecounty unit system weregarbage collection, economicdevelopment, crime and lawenforcement; tourism, educa-tion and bond issues; race re-lations, industry, and always,county politics.Probably one of the most
consuming issues in the 1980s
was Highway 78. Almost everyweek we went out to cover awreck, often with fatalities, ontwo-lane stretches of Highway78. There were several milesof four-lane around HollySprings and the dirt work thathad been completed for thefull length sat eroding foryears.There were editorials in
The South Reporter calling forcompletion of four-lanes asthere were around HollySprings. The paper printedand distributed black bumperstickers saying “Four LaneDeath Highway.” I was invitedto appear on a public affairspanel about the highway on aMemphis TV station.Elections were a big deal
for the newspaper. What welearned was that people reallywanted to see the votingbreakdown by precincts theday after an election, especiallyif there were runoffs.Before computer voting
machines providing instant re-sults, it was an all-night propo-sition waiting for the votes tobe counted by hand and theboxes delivered to the court-house.The 2000 Presidential Elec-
tion was an especially difficultnight in putting the newspaperto bed. When the TV networksprojected that Democrat AlGore would win the election, Iset up the front page to pro-nounce that Gore had carriedthe county and would be Pres-ident.However, returning to the
TV an hour later, Bush wasbeing projected the winner.The paper came out withoutknowing who would be Presi-dent. Several days later the re-sults showed that Gore hadcarried the popular vote butBush had won the electoralvote after recounting of votesin Florida was halted and Bushwas awarded their electoralvotes.
• • •Like most businesses dur-
ing the ’80s and ’90s, comput-ers were revolutionizing hownewspaper operations wererun and introducing greaterefficiencies. When we arrivedat The South Reporter, the firstgeneration of Compugraphictypesetting computers werebeing used to set up the paper.There was a single-line read-out that showed what youwere setting. However, if youmade an error in the font sizeor line length, you’d have totype it all over again. Barbara Taylor, who was al-
ready working at The SouthReporter, had gotten so profi-cient in operating that typeset-ter that she would have to stoptyping and wait for the typeset-
ter to catch up.I bought the first business
computer for the newspaperaround 1984. It was a Kaypro 4“portable” that weighed 31pounds.I had never operated a com-
puter before, and it took quitea while to understand the man-uals and stretch my brainenough to learn how to set upa data base of our subscrip-tions, print a report of their ad-dresses and expiration datesand print out addresses on la-bels for mailing. There wasn’tany memory in the computer,so the mailing list had to be di-vided onto four discs. These systems became ob-
solete so that within a fewyears we progressed to a type-setter as big as a refrigeratorand “idiot terminals” replacedtypewriters. Stories weresaved to a 5.5-inch disc and in-serted into the typesetter.They were all dedicated type-setters and couldn’t do any ofthe functions today’s comput-ers, tablets or cell phones do.When we parted ways with
Compugraphic, we adopted anIBM-based system. Thoughmost of the publishing worldwas using Apple computers,their expense was outside ourreach.The network cables formed
a chain, so if a connectioncame loose or shorted out, thewhole system went down.Being dead in the water at thedeadline to get the paper setup and waiting for a technicianto come from Jackson is a sick-ening feeling.Finally we joined everyone
else and bought Apple com-puters with all the graphic fea-tures that did away withtypesetting on photographicpaper and manual paste-ups.Scissors and X-Acto kniveswere no longer necessary asthey had been for so manyyears. We had Power Macs forad makeup and pagination andblue and orange iMacs fortypesetting. The newspaperwas carried to Oxford on a CD.With Photoshop and a laser
printer we could create separa-tions needed for four-colorprocess photos that, if done ina photo lab, were too costly.The first color photo pub-
lished in The South Reporterusing this process was a pic-ture of the poinsettia crop atJones Nursery in Slayden andit was beautiful.In the early ’90s, daily news-
papers were getting into theInternet. The South Reporterwas the first weekly newspa-per in Mississippi to have thenewspaper on Internet. Wehad a turnkey vendor who set
it up. After the newspaper wasfinished each week, we con-verted stories to text and sentthem to a server. The problem that has con-
founded the newspaper indus-try with an Internet edition ishow to make money or evenmake it pay for itself. Initiallysome of the real estate compa-nies would advertise on oursite but you couldn’t chargemuch for it.And there was the problem
of attrition of regular sub-scribers who opted to read iton the Internet for free. News-papers are addressing thatnow by locking out those whohave not paid a subscription.
• • •The South Reporter has
been fortunate to have dedi-cated, hard-working employ-ees. There is very littleturnover. If my math is right,Barbara Taylor has been work-ing every week at The SouthReporter for 36 years. Linda Jones typed copy
when she came to the paper in1986, but her writing abilityemerged when she was as-signed to talk to some bicy-clists riding across thecoun try. She’s been writingher column ever since with aloyal following.Beth Breithaupt came to
The South Reporter when webought out The MarshallMessenger in 1988.There was a dependable
crew who worked one or twodays a week stuffing and ad-dressing the newspaper formailing and distributionaround Marshall and Bentoncounties. One of the most loyalwas Carolyn King, who camein 1986 and stuffs papers andprepares the bundles of news-papers for mailing each week.Over the years students
have worked at The South Re-porter as summer interns orpart-time reporters. Somehave gone on to successful ca-reers in journalism, such asJarvis DeBerry, who writes ed-itorials for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.A surprising number have
been editor of the Daily Missis-sippian at Ole Miss. PaulCrutcher, Debbie Kloha,Frank Hurdle, Lee Eric Smithwere all DM editors. Pam andCarole Kloha also worked dur-ing the summer.I was privileged to be at the
helm of The South Reporterfor 1,093 issues during an ex-citing time in Marshall Countyhistory. The South Reporterwill continue to record that his-tory as long as there isnewsprint or Internet band-width.
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By JARVIS DeBERRYIn June 1993, during my
first week as a reporter forThe South Reporter, federalauthorities arrested 15 peo-ple – including the policechief – on drug-relatedcharges. Everybody wastalking about those arrests.Had anything so scandalousever happened in HollySprings? I suppose that’s howWalter Webb, then the pub-lisher of The South Reporter,knew there would be a mar-ket for a mid-week specialedition of the newspaper.Again, that was my first
week. So I got the impressionthat the news industry is al-ways so exciting.At age 39, I’m not as sold
on the Drug War as I was at17 – I’ve come to see it as abad idea that’s been horriblyexecuted – but my enthusi-asm for journalism hasn’twaned. That’s all the more re-markable because I didn’tstart at The South Reporterwith any expectation that Iwould stay in journalism.In May 1993, I had just
graduated from the Missis-sippi School for Mathematicsand Science in Columbusand, in August, I was headedoff to St. Louis to enroll in theengineering school at Wash-ington University. Math andscience would continue to bemy focus, and writing wouldremain a side interest.But the months I spent
writing for The South Re-porter proved influential intwo ways. First, as Webb hadwarned me that it might, theink got in my blood. I came toenjoy interviewing peopleand writing their stories. Sec-ond, as nobody would havepredicted, I flunked an Eng-lish proficiency exam re-quired of all incomingengineering students.I only had to demonstrate
that I could write well enoughto be an engineer. Eloquencewasn’t expected. Just profi-ciency.Still, I flunked.
The dean of the engineer-ing school sent a notestrongly recommending mefor English composition –that meant I had no choice –and in our face-to-face meet-ing said my essays “lackedparagraph development.”When he showed me my
exam, I knew instantly whathad happened. “Oh!” I said,“You see, I worked at mysmall-town newspaper thissummer, and the style thereis short paragraphs, some-times as short as a sentence.I was still in that mode duringthe test. That’s why my es-says came out like that. Trustme.”He didn’t trust me.After I got over the humil-
iation of being made to takeEnglish composition, I real-
ized that writing is what Iloved most. I had never reallydreamed about engineering.So I changed my major to
English. And I worked at TheSouth Reporter at every op-portunity: summer breaksand Christmas vacations.I had spent most of that
first summer writing fea-tures, but before I left for col-lege, news editor VickiCarlton let me try my hand ata crime story. I wrote aboutthe stolen goods sheriff’sdeputies had recovered at alocal pawn shop. That made the owner of
one local pawn shop soangry, so convinced that peo-ple would associate him withcrime, that he let it be knownthat he was looking for me.And when he did burst
through the door, I hadnowhere to run. Fortunately, Carlton was
able to convince him that myinformation had come fromthe sheriff’s department. Thesheriff’s department told himthe same.The confrontation with the
pawn shop owner was a per-fect bookend to the start ofthe summer, which hadbegun with the town buzzingabout the drug busts. Bothstories illustrated how muchpeople care about the news.Either they care because thestories are about their home-town or they care becausethose stories are – or are per-ceived to be – about them ortheir businesses. No matterthe reason, it’s the job of thejournalist to be as accurate as
possible.I write for a much larger
audience now, but the yearshaven’t made my first sum-mer at The South Reporterany less significant. Iwouldn’t be where I am nowif I hadn’t been where I wasthen.
Jarvis DeBerry is the son ofMelvin DeBerry and the latePennie Mae Winfrey DeBerry.He is the grandson of the lateRoy Lee and Willie Mae De-Berry. He lives in New Or-leans with his wife, Kelly, andtheir daughter, Naomi.
Jarvis is a columnist forNOLA.com | The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Hecan be reached [email protected]. Followhim at twitter.com/jarvisde-berry.
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(From Thursday, Jan. 22,1970, South Reporter)I really got a kick out of
Herbert Phillbrick’s remarksin this week’s Washington Ex-clusive, in which he told of thetwittings he had received be-cause of a glaring typographi-cal error in the previous issue.I had noticed it and thought,“Thank goodness, we aren’tthe only ones!”In one article in this paper
last week, one of the demonsevaded us through seven read-ings (including editing andproofreading) and some pa-pers had actually been runwhen, by sheer luck, the errorwas spotted. That may soundunbelievable but somehow afew errors will sneak by, nomatter how hard we try to dothings correctly.That’s why I felt such empa-
thy with the writer of this littlepoem which Mr. Philbrickused. It goes:The typographical error is
a slippery thing and sly.You can hunt until you’re
dizzy, but somehow it gets by.Til the forms are off the
presses, but strange how stillit keeps,It shrinks into a corner, and
never stirs or peeps.The typographical error is
too small for human eyes,Til the ink is on the paper,
then it grows to mountain size!The boss, he stares with
horror and tears his hair andgroans;The reader who okayed the
proofs just drops his head andmoans.For all the other printing
may be as clean as clean canbe,But that typographical
error is the only thing you see.(Editor’s Note – Don Ran-
dolph found some old papersand shared some of them withMary Minor and others. Thisarticle was forwarded to thenewspaper office by MaryMinor).
Photos by Dinah Rogers, NOLA.com | The Times-PicayuneJarvis DeBerry is pictured on the job in New Orleans, La.
DeBerry got his start at The South Reporter Sometimesmistakesjust get by
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