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The Hancock County Historical Society has the privilege of gathering a selection of Hancock County communities, each beginning with a sequential letter of the alphabet as a geographical and historical tool for familiarizing young people with their home county. There will be an insert in each edition of the Historian for the next thirteen issues, each containing two brief histories and descriptions of various communities in alphabetical order. You may save them to acquire the complete collection if you wish. At the end of that period, we will print a collection them for presentation school children. This is being done as an extension of a Mississippi state presentation of items in alphabetical sequence in Jackson offered last summer. Our project is being sponsored through the generosity of Hancock Bank, Merchants Bank and Peoples Bank. Their support of this "community" project is sincerely appreciated.
Thanks to Mr. E. C. Carr for his generous donation to the society for the purchase of another secretial chair for the Lobrano House office. We may soon be able to form a group of "Apple box sitters anonymous".
We also want to thank Ann Onymous for the donation of a new folding table for the office, around which you may sit when you