*1916 – C.H. Hays had an ice cream parlor. He began giving profit sharing coupons. A customer could redeem coupons for items in a catalog.
*1917 - The Union Appeal cost $1.50 a year.
*1929 – Hugh Kelly moved to Union and opened a grocery store in the Masonic building.
*1934 – S & W Motors brought a talking picture, a Popeye comedy, to City Park.
*1934 – The town library was moved from Speed’s store to the Masonic building.
*1936 – J.T. Buntyn bought S & W Motors on Bank Street. He immediately bought the old Bank of Union building, on the southwest corner of Bank and Main, and the Williams Brooke building adjoining it on the west to remodel for his Chevrolet dealership. The fronts of all buildings had been flush from the time they were built beginning in 1905. During the remodeling, however, Buntyn moved the front of the corner building back, leaving space in the front for a gas pump island with a canopy for cars to receive fill-ups. He later changed the name to J.T. Buntyn Motor Co. Then, he sold to B.J. Milling for Milling Motor Co. in 1948. Milling remained in that location until 1951 when he built a new building for his dealership where White’s Body Shop is located today.
*1941 – Time changed to Central Daylight Time on August 1.
*1942 – There was no Neshoba County Fair this year during World War II.
*1942 – Class composites were not made at Union High School during World War II.
*1945 – Windham Furniture Co. advertised a limited number of used refrigerators that were all wood and metal.
*1946 – Elbert and Helen Bradley Willis opened Willis Food Market at their home at 201 E. Walnut St., the southeast corner of E. Walnut and Horne streets.
*1950 - Senator L.B. Porter opened an office upstairs in the Red building (later the Marshall Lewis Dept. Store). He later moved to the Masonic Hall.
*1956 – Pace’s Lake was closed to fishing and swimming.
*1957 – Stores in Union decided to close on Wednesday afternoons instead of Thursdays.
*1958 – Mrs. Rose Wallace opened a ½ acre lake for swimming and a drive-in on North Street.
*1959 – Union’s teenagers were featured on Teen Tempos, a teenage dance show, at WLBT-TV station in Jackson on Saturday, Feb. 7.
*1961 – The library was moved from the Masonic building to the back of City Hall.
*1962 – Coca-Cola was offered in cans.
*1971 – Interstate 20 began opening in sections in the 1960s and was completed in Mississippi in 1971.
*1976 – The new library opened at 101 Peachtree St., on the former E.C. Cooper property.
*1977 – The town Board of Aldermen voted to limit trains to 10 minutes of blocking traffic at crossings on the west side of town.
*1977 – The Highway 15 Bypass around Union was opened June 17.
*1990 – Litton Road, which had once been called Golf Course Road, once again had a name change, this time to Industrial Circle.
*1993 – Latimer Funeral Home opened at 114 James St.
*2002 – County Line Country Club was established.
*2018 – The Mississippi Power Company office located on the first floor of the Masonic Hall closed in October.
*2019 – The Added Touch florist opened in August in the building left vacant by Mississippi Power Company.
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