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The following year Imes, local attorney John Frierson and local dentist Dr. D.D. Griffin formed a partnership and purchased The Columbus Commercial from Maer's widow. Imes merged the two papers in 1922. A subscription was $3 per year for home delivery and $2 for delivery by mail. The paper was a bi-weekly publication.
The city is located approximately 10 mi (16 km) west of the Mississippi-Alabama state line along U.S. Route 82, U.S. Route 45, and numerous state highways. US 82 leads southeast 29 mi (47 km) to Reform, Alabama and west 25 mi (40 km) to Starkville.
Baptist Memorial has 328 beds and is a Level III trauma facility. The hospital is the seventh largest provider of medical and surgical services in the state of Mississippi. [2] The hospital has been certified by The Joint Commission. [3]
The Canton, Aberdeen and Nashville Railroad was built with a stop in Weir in 1883, and Weir donated some of his land to create the small town of Weir, Mississippi in 1884. [3] He also served as its founding postmaster, and continued to live in the house until his death in 1900. [3] The house remained in the Weir family until 1985. [3]
Mississippi Highway 42 passes through the center of State Line as St. Peter Street, leading west 53 miles (85 km) to Hattiesburg. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of State Line has a total area of 4.30 square miles (11.1 km 2), of which 4.27 square miles (11.1 km 2) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.078 km 2) (0.70%) is water.
Ford is honored during a memorial service in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., December 30, 2006. Gregory Willard, President Ford's personal attorney and former White House aide, was responsible for the overall planning and conduct of the state funeral as president and Mrs. Ford and the Ford family's designated personal representative.
The township of Romulus was set off from a part of Huron Township by an act of the Michigan Territorial Council on March 17, 1835, and the first township meeting was held on April 16, 1835, two years before the State of Michigan was admitted in to the Union (1837), in the house of Joseph T. Pullen. The first supervisor was David J. Pullen.
The State Line Trail is a lengthy, repurposed stretch of railroad right-of-way once used by the Chicago-based Chicago and Northwestern Railway (C&NW).At the time when standard time zones were being drawn throughout the United States, railroad corporations and their schedules played a key role in determining which locations were assigned to different time zones.