Crosby NewsLocal news for Crosby, MS continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.News 7 Today- January 16, 2008 For news tips and story ideas, e-mail news7wdam.com Welcome to the News 7 Today page of WDAM.com. If you have an idea for a future interview on our program, please send it to us at news7todaywdam.com and ... via WDAM-TV Hattiesburghttp://www.topix.net/city/crosby-ms/2008/01/news-7-today-2?fromrss=1 News 7 Today- January 11, 2008 For news tips and story ideas, e-mail news7wdam.com Welcome to the News 7 Today page of WDAM.com. If you have an idea for a future interview on our program, please send it to us at news7todaywdam.com and ... via WDAM-TV Hattiesburghttp://www.topix.net/city/crosby-ms/2008/01/news-7-today?fromrss=1 Crosby put men to work- January 6, 2008 The decline of the South Mississippi lumber boom left cut-over, near barren land and unemployed men. In 193031, philanthropist L.O. Crosby Jr. (extreme left) decided to give these men work.He purchased cut-over land near Picayune and paid former woodsmen to drain, clear and to lay out and plant 5-acre tracts of strawberries.As the Depression progressed there was little demand for strawberries, but Crosby kept the men working and paid. In 1945 the farm was reforested with slash pine from the...http://www.topix.net/city/crosby-ms/2008/01/crosby-put-men-to-work?fromrss=1 |