The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-01-24
Lynnville.

EDITOR citizen In your issue
of the 18th inst. l fad that a cor.
respondent from this place (Boas
has made some statements touching
the conduct of the rising genera
ton in this village and community.
Now, as to the crimes of drunk
enness, gambling and dancing car
ried on in this place by professed
Christians, have nothing to say
only how does Boas get into these
gambling and drinking houses I'M
less he belongs to the ring? That
is a mystery to me.
As to the rulers of the Church
winking at these crimes, this / pos
itively deny. Being ruling elder
in the Presbyterian Church in this
place, l profess to have an opportu-
nifty to know. We as Session and
as individual members do on all
suitable occasions admonish the
members of our Church to abstain
from everything that would bring
a spot or stain upon their Christian
character. This we do privately,
and not publish them to the world
until we find we can not reclaim
them. Then we bring charges and
try them accordingly.
When next VIZ hear of Boas he is
diving into the private matters of
the Church, 'censuring the rulers for
not exposing their weak brethren
to the world before they have an
opportunity of admonishing them.
Now, l would suggest to the Church
here to employ Boas as detective,
so we can know what is going on in
all places. have lived ia this
community for more than forty
years and can safely say that the
Church members and people gener-
ally In this part of the county will
compare favorably with any other
section. Respectfully,
Jan. 18th, A. A. DIcKERsoN.
We will say to Roxana that we
consider her communication no in
trusion whatever, and would be glad
to hear from her often. We have
been waiting patiently to hear from
our friend Hut, but it seems that he
died with the old year. Wishing
our town to be represented in each
issue of your very valuable paper,
we have concluded to write you a
few items.
The inclemency of the weather
has prevented our farmers from
making any preparations toward a
new crop, but our young folks seem
to have taken advantage of the bad
weather and enjoyed themselves in
attending parties, hops and musical
entertainments. We had the pleas
ure of attending party at Captain
Eph. Gordon's a few evenings ago.
The occasion was graced with both
style and.beauty, and we considered
it one of the incest things of the
season. The supper prepared by
his most estimable wife was indeed
The table was filed
to its uttermost with all kinds of
meats, fruits and candies. Neither
pains nor money was spared that
would add to the enjoyment of the
occasion. Eph. never does things
by halves. After supper the young
folks repaired to the parlor, and
there they tipped the light fantastic
until late hour. The hop at the
Thompson hall came off Wednes-
day evening last, but owing to the
bad weather, but few young ladies
were in attendance. We heard of
several who stopped on the way.
However the young men enjoyed
themselves hugely. We also had
The pleasure of attending party at
Miss Tennie Walkers last Friday
night. The supper was excellent,
lust such as Miss Tennie knows
how to prepare. We were very
much surprised to see so many
young ladies' out, as the roads were
n quite a dilapidated condition.
The young ladies of the Poor Creek !
were present, looking
Is beautiful and lovely as ever. We |
,hink from all appearances that /
Poor Creek will lose one or more of
hose fair ones soon. Those boys |
lon't ride so far and stay so long /
or nothing.
DIR. Mack preached to a large
here last Sabbath.
the peace and quiet of our town
vas very much excited last Satur-
lay by an arrest made by our town
constable. The arrest was resisted
md parties came in on both sides,
which came very near terminating
n something serious.
Our esteemed friend Mack Wag-
taft left US a few days ago for
Nashville, where he expects to re-
main some time. In losing him we
ose one of our most worthy young
nen. The Misses White of Pulaski
ave been spending several days
lere, visiting friends and relatives.
Sol.