She looked quite fetching in her pink print sunbonnet. She's 88, he's 93 and they're coming up on their 74th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Greenville was in good spirits and, by all appearances, in good health. Mr. Greenville is in the hospital undergoing therapy and responding well, she said. I remember him as a Christian gentleman who always tried to do his part to get along with everybody at the courthouse, an endeavor requiring concentrated effort.
County government can often be something akin to anarchy.
Each county official, elected independently, possesses an individual mandate to conduct his office as he sees fit. The problem with everybody being equal, of course, is that nobody's in charge. Back then, if there wasn't a fresh controversy for the front page at least once a week I wasn't doing my job. The majority of those poor, befuddled unfortunates, as I remember, were old drunks in dire need of drying out, temporary though it might be, and the criticism against the judge was politically motivated, as was most everything at the courthouse. Then there was the county commissioner who had gotten himself elected despite the fact that he could neither read nor write.