Word: quitman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quitman's reaction to her crusade has ranged from the lethargic to the down right hostile. Lawyer Stanley Bennett, whose two cows grazed on the courthouse lawn, protested that the milk and butter milk produced thereon was vital to the health of Quitman's widows and orphans...
...most needed was to have its cattle fenced in. "Miss Edna" is Mrs. Edna Cain Daniel, editor & publisher of the Quitman, Ga. Free Press (circ...
Miss Edna shut him up with a front-page editorial headed "Buttermilk Bennett." Last fortnight Brooks County, of which Quitman is the county seat, was at last persuaded: it passed a law requiring cattle to be fenced. Said Editor Daniel, in quiet triumph: "The farmers are boycotting us now, but they'll get over it." Despite this thumping victory, Miss Edna could not afford to relax. For months she has watched the draft creep up on 50% of her composing-room staff, healthy Frank Ramew, 26 (Frank's father, J. H., is the staff's other half...
Chapin, and she held her own with col leagues like Irvin S. Cobb. But small-town journalism was in her blood. She went back to Quitman, married the Free Press's Editor Royal Daniel,* took up the fight for tolerance and decency and such progressive steps as the removal of hitching-racks from Quitman's streets...
...bridge. Two 14-year-old Negro boys stopped a 13-year-old white girl who was crossing the trestle on her way home from school. The boys took her to the riverbank underneath, attempted to rape her. Deputies arrested the boys, took them to the county jail at Quitman...