Word: yazoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frightened livestockmen fought through the swarms to set smudges and dump oil on all exposed water. A few. fearing an epidemic of anthrax might follow, inoculated their stock. At Yazoo City, Miss., someone oiled his mules with axle grease; they were not bitten. The news spread and soon most mules in the adjacent territory were slick and glistening...
Practically everything that happens in Yazoo City-parades, flirtations, business deals-happens on Main Street. It is the only real street in town and if you are looking for someone, you just stand on Main Street and wait. Soon or late he will come along...
...Yazoo citizens knew that during his own 35 years of stormy local journalism, Editor Birdsall had certainly feared nothing. A few years after he bought the Sentinel (1895), he and his in-laws shot it out with the Kelly boys from Benton, Miss., because of an article which he had printed. In that affray he lost a brother-in-law, D. D. Dorsey. T. A. Kelly was also killed. Governor James Kimble Vardaman had to send troops to protect the jail that lodged Editor Birdsall. Now that he was dead, feud-wise Yazoo City talked it over quietly on Main...