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Our
Yesterdays
“Items, some condensed,
from copies of the Monroe County Appeal of three or more
generations. They will bring back memories and tell the
continuing story of Monroe County.
May 1, 1903
Miss Jesse Burrall,
personally known to hundreds of Monroe county Baptists and for
several years a faculty member and head of the internationally
known Burrall Bible Class at Stephens College, Columbia, will be
married to Dr. Earle Edward Eubank of the Cincinnati University
in June.
October 28, 1904
Rev. B.G. Reavis, by a
vote of 146 to 1, was re-elected pastor of the Santa Fe
Christian Church.
November 4, 1904
Miss Bess Shearman of
Paris captured the prize offered by the Baptist Union, a
high-class religious magazine, for the best descriptive article
on an outing trip. Miss Sherman (sic) told of her visit to
the World’s Fair.
November 8, 1929
The 100th
anniversary of the organization of the Pleasant Hill
Presbyterian Church, on Highway 26 six miles east of Paris, was
appropriately celebrated Sunday.”
Source: Newspaper
articles from unidentified Monroe County sources dated 29 Apr
1976, 27 Oct 1977 and 3 Nov 1977; submitted by Judy Baker
Barklage. |
