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Flashbacks

July 24, 1958

Plans are being formulated by the executive committee of the Central Mississippi Fair Association for a record breaking show here during the week of Sept. 29-Ot. 4. An outstanding feature of the fair each year is the State Dairy Show with 200 head of blue-blooded dairy cattle expected to compete for the more than $2500 in cash prizes.

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A Kosciusko firm received government contracts totaling $613,539 during the second quarter of 1958, while awards for all Mississippi manufacturers ran $3,627,587. Watson Automotive Equipment Company representing Superior Coach Corp. received awards for more than $600,000.

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Services are being scheduled at Kosciusko’s newest church, The Church of the Nazarene, by Rev. C.A. Dickerson.

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Four girls from Attala County attended 4-H Club Congress at Mississippi State University. They were Melba May from Ethel Senior 4-H Club; Sally Walker also from the Ethel Senior 4-H Club; Mary Adcock from McAdams; Wayma Tindoll from Carmack.

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Members of the Shady Grove Community Club toured the Rex Brown Generating Plant as guests of the Mississippi Power & Light Company in Jackson.

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Brantley’s Cardinal Food Store, free delivery. Specials –Large size homemade Kosy Bread, 19 cents; fresh local lima beans, lb. 11 cents; Diamond paper plates, pkg. of 12, 12 cents; 25 lb. Magnolia’s Best flour, $1.79; fresh dressed hens, lb. 29 cents; Prairie Belt bacon, 65 cents lb.; picnic hams 39 center lb.



July 28, 1983

A heat wave which has plagued several sections of the country for the past week claiming over 100 lives, pushed temperatures in Kosciusko to 96 degrees for six consecutive days. Weatherman Ed Reese said the 96 reading is the highest temperature thus far this year. The mercury rose to 96 degrees last Thursday establishing a pattern which continued through Tuesday. Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital administrator Thomas Bland said no illness or deaths with weather connections had been reported in Kosciusko.

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Two financial groups reached tentative agreement this week in which Merchants and Farmers Bank of Kosciusko will buy the Madison County facilities of The Mississippi Bank of Jackson. M&F said the purchase would raise its assets by about $30 million. It currently claims a $138 million base.

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Jomar Ables of Sallis was awarded first place prize in the poster contest sponsored by Community Control of Hypertension. Winning second place was Mark Keith Dupree and Vicki Riley, third, students at Long Creek School at Sallis. The poster contest was a feature of the recent observance of High Blood Pressure Month.

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Miss Tammie Renee Phillips and Kerry Lane Hudgins pledged their marriage vows in a ceremony solemnized June 23 at 3 p.m. at the Greenfield Baptist Church in Greenville.

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Mike Wynne, 18, drives the blue panel truck around Kosciusko that sells cherry, blueberry, and lime snowcones to anyone with 35 cents waiting on the street. Mike said the music of Chuck Mangione, referring to the eight track tape used to let people know the snowcone truck is on their street, has been with him for about three years. He and his brother Gregg have been in the snowcone business for four summers now, and that the business is expanding.