The courier-index., 1920-03-05
Interesting Maria',na NeUs
 Items FOrty-Three Years Ago

A the meeting of the LAngulle Chapter D. A. h., "A held with Mrs Sam Harrington on meanesuss vss
 of tf this oms week %tss an o fron, copy of the Marianna Index under date of Mame Johnston At the meeting Wednesday Mrs J. T. Robertson read paper on My fioneeLs A R interesting FesrsrS 1920 The extracts from the old Index read by Miss Johnston folow o p;a,ard M ~ "Marianna Index, January IS, l877 Rlcnafd M prewett publisher and proprietor At s2Oo per an num- invariably in advance.
 ADVERTISEMENTS Al,
 Shelby Honse by Mrs Jane Wayne, Helena, Ark Equal IAt,' to any hotel west of the Mississippi
 Sam Booton's new grocery and saloon snd dressmakng Plain sewing and fitting done to order r na
 John oHarn, billiard hall and Saioon er ans M ae
 Penny Savings Bank B B Nunnay' pres presideIns' Ias w. H. Furbush, cashier Directors c' n. bahhS' 'As Dr D. H. stayton practicing physician and sur Office South Poplar street pcone and peon and dealer in chemicals. fine soaps, etc. fufe
 wine; and for seesns anS
 M McLeods Landing and Gak ood aGwsb wbe shrs s5 cents each good suits, $7oO each handsome suits s1ooO each vests, 75 cents each good brogans, M par kip sen nses Soss pa pa ladies' cotton hose, 12 # cents pair heavy awool scarlet g good asnss yard domestic to l212 cents yard.
 P. D. McCalloch W K: Jones' T E Weld, J. B. Grove, pSs Derrick F. l. ao Block .ra M D. sberf e,aff of St. Fra cs county, John Gist, John " Green, constable o.o. steamer osceoIa Mark D. Flowers Master; A. Hay cock, clerk oc.,c
 Judge Hutton we delighted to say, IS impfov- ing in his health trust that hearts will soon cheered again by his merry laugh and ever welcome The little dance Capt Hewitts on last Tues day s svsnns sa o the ladies' from Maranna did not attend. r., u Bunne Howard left last Monday for school in Ken lucky The former will enter the male college at Midway while Miss Bunnie will spend the next four
 Major Wm. H. Govan, after speding the holidays is! has returned to his home in Maranna. The Major is looking remarkably we'll
 alenee of diphtheria is due in great degree to the gas which is thrown off from coal stoves in lily ven
 (EDITOR'S NOTE-Some explanations of several of the items above, furnished by Mrs E. D Wall will ier-Index For instance the last local quoted above shows how suspicious we naturally were about new introduced under cloud Up to this time only wood had been used Some of the more venturesome ones poses. The physicians evidently looked with dsfayor the spread of dptheria The John Parham mentiOend in of the locals sheriff of St. Francis county in this city John R. Jarratt the husband of Mrs. J R. Jarratt and the father of Ernest Jarrat of San Antonio, Texas, and R. ID. Jarratt of ths city MT Jarratt Maranna in 1873 and erected the first brick store in the city. Miss Bunne Howard Mrs. Sumpter sister of the late Mrs. J. B. Grove Dr. B. B Nunnaly the father of Mrs M. E, Newborn and Misses Jessie and Laura Nunnaly. Major W. H.. Govan uncle of Capt Frank Govan, father of Mesdames F. N. Burke and W. L. Ward and husband of Mrs. Frank Govan. Capt. Hewitt was the father of Marshal Hewitt. Wm H. Clark the husband of Mrs Margaret Clark and father of Dudley Clark and of Miss Emma Clark and Mesdames w. F. Harris and Ihos E. Wood. w. K. Jones the grandfather of Mrs James Harrington. Richard M. Prewett young lawyer who associated with Jas T. Brown in the practice of law. His body is buried here tho he had relatives in this section. C. H. Banks was the father of Mrs. w. D. Newborn. w. H. Furbush was and the first sheriff of Lee county.)