LOOKING BACK
75 YEARS AGO AUGUST 12, 1949 Colonel Robert F. Strickland of Clio has recently been designated as air inspector of the Air University.
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‘Ok-rah’ or ‘Ok-rey?’
or 'Ok-rey?' My Daddy always laughed and said that you could tell a great deal about a person, especially where they came from, based on how they pronounced 'okra.' 'Is it pronounced 'okrah' or 'ok-rey?'' he would joke. 'I always just call it 'good!'' Now, my feelings on okra are a bit more complicated … Since I was a small girl, okra has always been on my family's supper table, most often in the hot summer months when the plants thrive.
Council upholds responsibilities
Members of the Clayton City Council took a bold move when they unanimously voted to request financials of the city and minutes for the past four years at a special called meeting on July 18. This is not the first time the council has requested records but previously no specific time span was specified.
LOOKING BACK
75 YEARS AGO AUGUST 5, 1949 The Barbour County Dress Revue was recently held at Cowikee Lodge. Mrs.
Supporters keep the presses rolling
With the hot summer heat we are having in the South, it’s hard for us to believe we are getting ready to publish our annual Back-to-School special edition and getting ready for football season. Ironically, we had a seminar during our monthly Friday Focus meeting on sports reporting.
A roadmap to autocratic control
Libraries are meant to be bastions of free access to information, but this bill will lead to censorship and suppression of diverse viewpoints. In an audacious display of overreach and disregard for the principles that underpin our democracy, state Rep.
LOOKING BACK
75 YEARS AGO JULY 29, 1949 Officials of Radio Station WJJJ of Montgomery announced today that Henry Watson of Clayton and Bobby Mathis of Blue Springs, both Barbour County 4-H Club members, won $5.00 prizes in the recent Southern RFD State Wide contest sponsored by the station in cooperation with Montgomery businessmen. Mr.
LOOKING BACK
75 YEARS AGO JULY 22, 1949 The Barbour County Farm Bureau Family Picnic was held at the Cowikee Farm Camp on July 15th. A large crowd of probably 600 to 700 people attended.
It’s ‘mater season!
The time of the year has arrived - It's 'green 'mater season!' as my family always calls it. There is a time during midsummer when it's so hot you can absolutely bake cookies on the dashboard of your vehicle. It is a time when the rubythroated hummingbirds are swooping and diving and quarreling over their feeders in their high, peevish voices. This is the time of the year when the green tomatoes in our garden are growing fat, sleek and ... green!
Open letter to fire department volunteers
Open Letter to The Clayton Fire Department, Clio Fire Department, Texasville Volunteer Fire Department, Blue Springs Volunteer Fire Department and Green’s Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department: The loss of our house on Louisville Street in Clayton, that a fire of unknown origin completely destroyed on Sunday, June 23, 2024, was devastating to us and our families. Our mother purchased the property, then known as the Herring House, in 1953, when it became our home. After our mother’s untimely death in 1965, we continued to live there until the last of us graduated high school.