Joel T. Payne; Winn Parish, Louisiana
Contributed by Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
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Joel T. Payne

Editor of Dodson Times

Mayor of Dodson, La. 


As one of the good citizens of Winn Parish, living and laboring at Dodson.  
He is a son of Dr. I. R. Payne, who was born in Georgia, but who came to 
Louisiana at an early day and married Sarah Jane Foster here, who was also 
born and reared in Georgia.  He died Aug. 2, 1879, she March, 1900.

Joel was born Sept. 22, 1868, and was reared here in the usual way.  Aug. 9, 
1901 he became editor of the dodson Times and has continued in that position 
ever since.  He has been mayor of Dodson since May 1, 1903, which office he 
holds now.  He married Lucy M. Gaar April, 1888.  He is a Methodist Protestant, 
K. of H., and a member of the Farmers' Union.  Mr. Payne is a good editor and 
has recently purchased a new and better press and other equipment for his paper.  
He makes an attractive paper for the parish and well serves his town and section.  
Few towns of the size have so good a paper.  We have always found him amiable, 
clever and obliging.

His motto:  "Do what you can to make the world better while you live in it for 
you shall pass this way but once."


(The above article appeared in The Guardian newspaper, Vol. XXVII, No. 8-9, 
published September-October, 1907 at Winnfield, La., and copied from the 
Watson Memorial Library, Cammie Henry Archives, Northwestern State 
University, Natchitoches, LA., and submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, 
Winnfield, LA.)