At 01:07 PM 11/20/98 -0700, you wrote: >Oct. 2, 1917 page 1: The Local Exemption Board received from the District Board for Eastern Arkansas the following list of the men who have been certified as selected for military service and not exempted or discharged: > >Howard E. Hasken, Lacey I bet this was Mr. Howard Haskew who used to wear gum boots year round because he was shell-shocked in the war......never was quite the same as others after he came home. >Harry B. Luckey, Monticello >Geo. Bird Cotner, Wilmar >Morton C. Buins (sic) (?Binns), Ladelle I'll bet this was Merton(Murton)Mirton{the way it was pronounced anyway} Binns.....later owned the Binns grocery store behind McKiever Rexall today...........As a kid I always thought it was two people who owned it. I thought my grandparents were calling it Mirt and Ben's. My grandma said she lost me in it one day when I was about two and found me down one of the isles eating a raw cabbage. Mr. james Binns, the son, laughed and told my grandmother to turn me loose again because at that time, cabbage was the most expensive vegetable in the store. Mrs. Binns is still alive .....mother of Mrs. Earl Willis and Mrs. Barabra Miles. I think she's in her nineties and still has a very active mind. If I'm not mistaken, she was a Veasey prior to marriage. >Jesse Emrick Blake, Wilmar >Herman P. Hayes, Florence >L. Windfred Wilson, Monticello >Samuel F. Hamlet, Campbell > >Same date: When the exemption blanks began to come in at the office of the Exemption Board last week, the fact was brought to light that a wedding had occurred of which very few had any knowledge. The blanks for Ralph Thomas were signed by his wife who, prior to June 23rd, had been Miss Tommie Hardy. The bride is the daughter of D.M. Hardy formerly county clerk. The groom is now engaged in the grocery business in Little Rock. The marriage took place in Warren and the couple had guarded the secret very scrupulously. Their many friends extend hearty, though necessarily belated congratulations. > >Same date: Mr. V.J. Trotter received a telegram yesterday morning stating that Rev. C.D. M'Swain of Emmett, Ark., died there that morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. McSwain is a former resident of this city and was a member of the Monticello District of the Little Rock Conference of the M.E.church for a number of years. > >Jann > > > >Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com > >