The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-09-25
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CHlleOka.
/ write too carelessly sometimes, and
sometimes the compositor makes the
best of poor penmanship, and makes
me say what l did not say, and spell
words like L did not spell. But no mat
ter now.
am sorry to say that we are having
a general epidemic of inf1uenza-caused
from going to the fair, we suspect.
so it may be, but it looks nightly like
bad cold. Misses Virgie Tomlinson,
Maggie and Minnie Hewlett have it; so
have Miss Lena Convey and 'yours
truly" and few are escaping it.
Mrs. Low, mother of NJ esdames Ham
cock and Green, died Sept. 18th, of old
age. She was buried at Pleasant Mt,
the following day. The old landmarks
are passing rapidly away.
Because of personal af1liction, and
sickness in his family, Rev. w. b.
Patty, occupied the pulpit at the Metho-
dist church last Sabbath, for the first
time since the fourth Sunday in Au-
gust. he discussed on the temptation
of Christ, delighting the congregation
by his unique preaching. In this line
l cannot refrain from speaking OF the
Sunday-schOOl class composed OF HtGle
Misses Nellie TumlinSon, KnOn Patty,
Mable Wilkes, and Lizzie King, and
Masters Waiter Stephens, Richard
Wilkes, and Jim Patterson. A hand
5omer, brighter set OF children cannot
Ue found; they have perfect lessons and
ii is a real pleasure to teach them.
Will Williamson has gone to Nash
Vile 70 become zone of the Vanderbilt
boys"
MIR. and Mrs. Clabe Taylor, left the
18th inst. for Texas. The best wishes
and prayers OF all CulleOka followed the
| train that bore them southwark. They
will visit Mr.. raylOr's daughter, Mrs.
Marsh, his granddaughter aud great
grand-dau9hters, Mrs. Eubanks and
| Helen and Fay, and his son, MIR.
TaylorVille. From there they go furth-
er west to visit Mrs. TryIOr's sons. DIR.
Walter and Rev. Clint.
Misses Lillian Love and Florence
| Shell have returned from Pulaski.
Miss Shell went on to Spring Hill to
! iDin her mother at Mr.. Will Wilkes.
Mrs. Lou Vaught is back from visit
| to Mrs. Nance at COrnersville.
| MR.. Margaret Ramsey and daugh-
ters, Sallie and Sue of Florence, are
mingling with their old CulleOka
| friends.
Mrs. Clovis Prewett, of Columbia,
Mrs. May Kuykendall and children, oI
| Miss, and MIR. and Mrs. Lee Reynolds,
of BufOrd's Station, were guests OF their
relative Mrs. F. J. Moore last week.
| They visited Mrs. John Fitzpatrick, at
| MuOresville, before returning to Co
| lumbia.
The many friends of Miss Brownie
! TomIinson were rejOiced over her gain
! ing the blue ribbon i'll the contest for
the handsome riding outfit offered to
the best young lady rider. She is not
only graceful rider, but her flower
like beauty would attract attention in
| any crowd.
Mrs. Sallie COckrin has bought farm
| in the Bear Creek neighbOrhUod, and is
| having improvements made. She will
move their sometime i'll October. Mr..
! Mike WilsfOrd will move to the same
neighborhoOd about the same time.
( Their families will be missed from our
| midst.
| Mr.. Gibson shipped a car of cattle
| South last week.
! You "got there on the "Fair Her
ald," MIR. Editor. But the HERALD is a
| hustler at all times.
O1lentimes L wish, "Oh, would L were
the editor of newspaper There was
a time in the history of the world when
| newspaper men grOveled in miserable
| poverty. Instead of brOwn-stone, he
| had to be content to live in a common
white marble or red brick shanty; often
with not more than four or live SER
wants to minister to his or her numerous
family wants. lie was not able to
drink any domestic wines, and his
| reVeries were all crew in a cloud OF
smoke from corn-cOb pipe or an
American cigar. He wore homemade
jeans trousers, and went in his red
| flannel shirt-sleeves. His digestion
was impaired by diet of secondhand
| tomato cans, chunk OF cake from
every wedding table, and a sample pie
| from the culinary department of every
newly married couple. He had to hus-
| tle.himself to get up good paper, else
no one would read it, and the result
would be "A sheriff's sale of a few hands
full type, of Washington press, the rem
nanI of defunct towel, and half gal
! Ion of mud ink. This terrible strain,
| together with the frugal fare, soon aged
| frpStaH his fa FanlaininO
| hairs with gray. Now, happily, all
! this is changed, and the editor of
| newspaper is an important factor in our
| body politics, whatever that may he,
| and repeat that sigh to be an editor.
Instead of eating empty tomato cans
| Iik e the much abused william goat, he
| can eat the tomatoes and send the can
| to the society for the relief of the lndl-
gent. He wears store clothes and pays
! for them in advertisements; he Is invi-
| ted out to dinner six times every week,
| and is always given the seat of honor;
he is invited to drink eleven times be-
tore dinner, and every man who drops
in gives him a handful of imported ci-
CARS. Everybody calls him Colonel,
! and asks his advice on all important
matters. No well balanced farmer
would think about planting a crop with
out first asking the editor Of his taVOrite
paper whether he ought to plant it in
| the bottom field or III the moon. No
man will build a house until he has
cons ulted the editor OF paper as TO
whether il should front north or south.
| Men are elected to office, cabinets form
| ed, war declared, and kings dethroned
at his suggestion. He gets the biggest
| apple in the orchardJ and the biggest
Watermelon in the patch; he does the
biggest business on the smallest capt.
| tai, the biggest advertising on the small
est circulation; gets more GUESSING and
fewest thanks of any man in the job.
Yet he is happy; he knows his friends
will read his paper because they like it,
and his enemies viii read II to see what
he has to say. If his brain aches from
the effects OF last nights revel, and the
printer is calling for copy, his table is
| Iadened with the ever ready exchanges,
and the scissors are at hand. No man
should be happier, live longer, or carry
more flesh; and instead of being bald
/ headed, he should have hair to sell. l
reiterate, "wouId / were the editor of a
| newSpaperr' VERNA VILLIERS.