Stories from Thursday, September 28, 2006

The eighth annual Delta Cotton Pickin' Jubilee is set for Saturday, Sept. 30 in the heart of downtown Marked Tree. The town will begin to fill with friends and alumni Friday just in time to attend the Marked Tree High School homecoming parade at 2 p.m. With tailgate parties at 5 p.m. and the game at 7 p.m., friends will have plenty of time to reminisce...

Tribune Sports Staff "It was a game of keep-away," coach Brian Weathers said after his junior Warriors experienced their first loss of the season 24-16 at Brinkley last Thursday. "They had the ball 70% of the time and they just kept going down the field three to four yards a pop. We only had if five times the entire game."...

Tribune Sports Staff There is no longer a goose egg in the win column for the Marked Tree junior Indians as they traveled to Turrell last Thursday and hammered the Rockets 20-0 to go 1-3 on the season. "I was very proud of our effort," coach Matt Wright said the day after the game. "One thing that worried me was that we had had no real success during the year. I know the kids had been taking some ragging from different people and I wondered how we would respond to that."...

Tribune Sports Staff It took four days to complete, but the Piggott Mohawks and EPC finally met to complete the flooded/stormed-out game begun last Friday. Having to drive the 180-odd round trip miles twice, however, made the 41-6 defeat the Warriors experienced all the more painful...

Tribune Sports Staff In street fighting, the guy who gets in the first punch usually has the upper hand. Well, that's exactly what Clarendon did Friday night when Marked Tree traveled south to play the Lions. Overcoming two illegal procedure penalties, they took only four plays to go 54 yards. After kicking the extra point, they took a 7-0 lead with just 2:16 gone in the game...

Roger Paul Holt of Harrisburg died Sunday, Sept. 24, 2006 at the NEA Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born Sept. 19, 1953 in Marked Tree to Paul Vernon Holt and Elsie Faye Collins. Following high school he attended and graduated from the Delta Vo-Tech in Marked Tree. ...

Cecil Bryant Jackie Richardson of Trumann died Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006 at Riverbend Park in Hardy. He was born in the Promised Land Community near Trumann and was a lifetime resident of Trumann. He was currently self-employed having an in home repair and carpentry business. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a volunteer for the Trumann Fire and Rescue Unit and the ambulance service of Trumann...

Ida Johnson Bettis, 80, of Harrisburg died Monday, September 18, 2006. She was born Feb. 3, 1926 at Smithville, the daughter of Al Toney and Mary Baker Johnson. Bettis and her parents moved to eastern Poinsett County in 1938 and were cotton sharecroppers and tenant farmers. The family moved to Harrisburg in 1941 and she graduated Harrisburg High School in 1944 in a class of all girls. The boys were in active military service of World War II...

Frank Wortham, 46, of Marked Tree died Tuesday, Sept. 19 at St. Bernard's Hospital in Jonesboro. He a member of the Marked Tree Fire Department and served with the 875th Engineer Battalion of the National Guard. He attended the Sneed Street Baptist Church and served three years in the Army...

Tribune Editor Opening a museum is hard work, but ask the volunteers responsible and they will quickly say their labor was worth every minute. They are thrilled that the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza will be celebrating its grand opening on Friday, Oct. 6...

Tribune News Staff Te Lepanto City Council met last Tuesday night with a short agenda, but entertained some issues from meetings in months passed. After going over the financial statements and previous meetings minutes, Councilman Charles Farley questioned a number of items on the financials...

Opinion By DAN BRAWNER Back in 1969 when Elvis was making his comeback, he sang a song on his Christmas special that year with the same title as this column. The words of the song spoke of world peace, an end to hunger, brotherhood and things like that...