The Columbus High School Marching band will perform during the Columbus Day Parade Saturday, October 7. The parade will begin at approximately 9:40 a.m. and will head east down Maple from Vermont.
The courthouse yard was a playground for all the kids. Marble games were played and acrobatic stunts performed. Cap Bennett once walked around the courthouse on his hands; a negro boy, Russ Kittrell, was best jumper, clearing 13 feet easily in the standing broad jump. Kippy Benn could throw a faster ball than anyone in town. He would pick up a potato on the north side and sail it over the courthou…
