Malakoff’s telephone office during the 1920s, 1930s, and part of the 1940s. At that time, it was Gulf States Telephone Company. The office was in the Boyett home.
Date of photograph unknown.
Photograph and information for caption courtesy of the late Mrs. Vanice Broyles James
William Edgar Boyett
From The Malakoff News
3 May, 1917
After a lingering illness, Will Boyett passed into the beyond last Friday night. He has been a patient sufferer for years, although not confined to his home continuously. He had been the manager of the Malakoff Mercantile Co. for a number of years until the first of the present year, when he tendered his resignation. The funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the residence by his pastor, Rev. T. C. Sharp, and interment followed in the Malakoff cemetery.
Mr. Boyett was born in Washington Parish, La., Nov. t, 1866, and came to Texas with his parents in 1869, settling near Malakoff in 1871. June 3, 1901, he was married to Miss Nettie Owens, who with their daughter, Miss Alpha, survive him. Besides these are his father, S. L. Boyett of Malakoff; two brothers, Tex of Payne Springs and Doc of Purdon; sister, Mrs. Lilla Walker of Athens. The services at the grave were in charge of the local Masonic lodge of which the deceased was a member.
Hen Party
Malakoff Methodist Church
From The Malakoff News
19 April, 1917
The ladies of the Methodist Church are planning a social at the home of Mrs. R. D. Melon for Friday afternoon from 3 to 6 p.m. Everybody is cordially invited to come and bring a hen, eggs, or their equivalent in money.
Life Sentence
Roby Ingram Broyles and Edna Alma Cunningham Broyles
From The Malakoff News
19 April, 1917
This morning Roby I. Broyles and Rev. H. B. Laney left on the early train for Corsicana. On their arrival, they were met by Miss Edna Cunningham, who has been employed at Hubbard City for some time past, and it did not take long for Parson Laney to pronounce the words that made them man and wife. Rev. Laney returned on the morning train and said both parties seemed very well pleased with the life sentence and would return home on the night train after spending the day in Corsicana.
from The Malakoff News
19 April, 1917
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Rotary Club Elects Officers for Ensuing Club Year; Richards is New President
from The Malakoff News
Superintendent M. B. Richards
Friday, April 8, 1949
The Malakoff Rotary Club at the Tuesday Noon luncheon meeting completed the election of officers for the ensuing club year beginning on July 1st.
The new leaders selected by unanimous vote are: Supt. M. B. Richards, president; J. R. Yeager (Trinidad) vice-president; Clyde Humphries, secretary; and W. A. Trotman (Trinidad) treasurer.
Rotarian Joe Barnett, serving as principal speaker at the Tuesday program, discussed the faults of the club and the member Rotarians. Among others, the speaker adjudged failure to function on the part of committees as the worst fault of all. If each committee would operate with the president and function properly he said, a big difference could be noted in attendance and progress of the club.
Visiting Rotarians for the week=s meeting, included A. P. Smith, and Supt. J. R. Low of the Athens Club.
from The Malakoff News
12 April, 1917
