Ben Pearson, who was born at Paron in Saline County in 1898, became known as the Father of Modern Archery. In the 1920s, Pearson made his first bow. He finished next-to-last at the 1926 state archery ...
A blazing sun beat down one day last week on the Mississippi delta cotton fields as hundreds of white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and ...
August 22, 2022 by Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and ...
“We got down on our knees,” said John D. Rust last week, “and picked cotton when we were boys. We decided then that we would try to invent a machine that would do this back-breaking toil. We have that ...