March 29, 1900, Wilmar, Mar. 28 - The city council met last evening in an emergency meeting and declared a rigid quarantine against all points, and especially those known to be infected with smallpox. May 10, 1900, Wilmar May 9 - J. A. Johnson, a sawyer in the employ of the Gates Lumber Company at this place was caught in the machinery of the plant this afternoon and mangled in such a manner as to cause death a short time after. He was a young man of fine intellectual attainments, he having spent some years as a student at the University of Mississippi, and later taught some months, and then accepted a position with the Gates Lumber Company, with a view of studying mechanism. His remains were interred today by the Woodmen of the World, of which order he was an honored member.