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November 24, 2009 02:33 pm

— Nov. 26, 1959

Kosciusko Lodge No. 1946, Loyal Order of Moose, will institute Sunday, Nov. 29th, at the VFW Home, 1:30 p.m. with about 150 charter members, according to a spokesman for the group who adds that Kosciusko Lodge will be the 14th Lodge in Mississippi, with over 1900 lodges in English speaking countries.
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Preparations are being rushed for a sparkling parade of 47 units to usher in the Christmas season in Kosciusko on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 6 p.m. Hundred of Yule lights will festoon the streets of the business section, and light standards along the line of march will be decorated with Christmas trees to make an attractive setting for the procession. Long before the hour set for the parade to start, throngs of the young and young-at-heart citizens of this whole Central Mississippi area will fill the streets and jam every available bit of space to view the spectacle.
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Clint Hicks, manager of Kosciusko’s Penney store, announced today a special Christmas payment for store associates. The payment will include all regular associates employed on or before Oct. 1, 1959. Participating in the local store will be Mrs. Bessie Patterson, Mrs. Lacie B. Allen, Mrs. Stella Hutchison, Mrs. Yverlette Newell, Mrs. Eleanor Scrub, Mrs. Lorena Parker, Mrs. Onie Bailey, Mrs. Myrtle Young, Patsy Fryery, Sandra Kea, Talmadge Bain and Charles Ray.
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Following in the footsteps of Pilgrim forefathers, Kosciusko citizens will observe Thanksgiving Day with religious services at the First Methodist Church at 10 a.m. The community-wide services will include congregations of the host church, the First Baptist and First Presbyterian churches. Sermon of Thanksgiving will be preached by the Rev. Lloyd A. Sparkman, Baptist pastor, with the Rev. W. R. Richerson, host pastor, and the Rev. E.L. Jackson, Presbyterian pastor, assisting.
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Census takers scheduled to take the 1959 Census of Agriculture are: Mrs. Annie M. Trimble, Mrs. Patsy Brown, Mrs. Opal Ramage, John E. Jones, Rev. James W. Carpenter, Elon Thornton, Percy G. Rainey, Gladys Lansdale, Johnny A. Belk, Kenneth Chennault, Homer L. Duncan, Rev. William M. Scott, L.Z. Cook, Emmett Davis and C.L. Oliver.

Nov. 29, 1984
Attala County supervisors say they agree that values being set for tax purposes on flood prone land are too high, but told people who complained about it last week that their hands are tired. The $195 value placed on such land is set by the state and outside the power of the board of supervisors to alter it, supervisors noted during three days of tax hearings.
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Michael E. Goff, District Forester for Weyerhaeuser Company at Kosciusko, has been promoted to the newly created post of Area Resource Manager, Kosciusko area.
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Sheller-Globe Corporation has reported that sales and earnings in fiscal 1984 were the highest of any year in the company’s 55-year history.
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Larry Terrell has been elected to serve as 1985 president of the Kosciusko-Attala Chamber of Commerce and Industrial Development Corporation by the agency’s board of directors. At the same time, the board promoted Scott Wiggers from vice president to president-elect, selected Dr. Don Weaver as vice president and re-elected William Mitchell as treasurer.
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The Kosciusko Museum and Information Center located on the Natchez Trace Parkway attracted 758 visitors from 27 states, Australia and Japan during its first week of operation. The center was dedicated Nov. 1 in ceremonies with Hugh S. Potts Jr., who headed the sponsoring Kosciusko Heritage Foundation, presiding. Edward Piszek, a Philadelphia, Pa., businessman was the principal; speaker at the formal dedication. During the center’s opening day, Frances Roby, Sylvia Jordan and Charleen Woodward served as hostesses registering 38 people representing seven states.