The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-04-16
VALLEY MELANGE.
BY P. c. N.

Thad Prewitt was on the sick list
the first of the week.
Edgar Dunlap came up from
Grand Junction last Saturday and
was the guest of friends.
Clarence Rose is to move back to
the Valley the lst of May. Since
leaving here his home has been at
Jackson.
Misses Ella and Sallie Ferguson
and Matte Harris were in Bolivar
Saturday shopping.
Tom Prewitt went down to Grand
Junction Friday evening.
We have seen only one field of
growing corn this spring and it was
a fine stand.
4 camp of the Woodmen of the
World was organized here last Mon
day evening by Deputy Gore, of
Coffeeville, Miss.
The rains continue and the work
of the farmer is delayed. There is
not farmer who is not way behind
with his work.
Col. Chas. A. r. Woods was at
Grand Junction Sunday, the guest
of the families of DR.. t. E. and
Esquire Thurston Prewitt.
Mrs. James Chambers returned
Saturday evening from pleasant
visit with friends at Jackson.
The Valley was visited last Sat
urday by some patent medicine men
but we are informed that the har-
vest of sheckles was not very plen-
teOus.
Saturday was a very busy day
with our merchants and some of
them did splendid business. The
Valley is drawing trade from an
ever increasing territory.
DR.. r. A. Norman celebrated
his eighty ninth anniversary last
Thursday by gathering around him
his children and their children and
grandchildren. The Doctor, though
nearly blind and partially deaf, still
is actively interested in all the local,
political, civil and religious affairs
of the people with whom he has lived,
for whom he has practiced and to
whom he has preached for more than
half century.
Hon, John d. Woods, the repre-
sentative from Hardeman, has re-
turned from Nashville, the present
session of the legislature having adj
journed. He has during this SEES
sion maintained, in the legislature,
the high standard of intelligence,
conservatism and vigilance borne by
his predecessor, jim Jones, who was
the peer of any man on the floor of
the lower house.
Last Friday evening the beauty
and chivalry of the Valley assembled
at the residence of Mrs. Lou Fergu-
son, in the north part of town, and
spent several hours in social amuse-
ments. The guests were entertain
ed III charming manner by their
handsome hostesses Misses Ella and
Sallie Ferguson.
Judge Harris has made a reputa-
ton as a pedestrian that entities
him to first honors. But they do
say 1.-The Light that lies in woman's
eye has been his hearts undoing;"
and has been the cause of many a
lone midnight stroll.
Albert Barnett was at Grand juno
ton Sunday evening.
We could tell how well Thad
Prewitt can ride a ''bike' but we
won't do it; we could tell how long
and steep the hill, how broad the
ditch, how high the bridge, how
deep the gully and how hard he fell
but we won't do it; we could tell
how white, frightened and breath
less he was when he said to jim:
''please see if my neck is broken,
but we won't do it.
Your scribe is under obligations to
Miss Ella Ferguson for a box of the
incest cake that ever tempted the
appetite of a disciple of Blackstone.
We appreciate these little acts of
and kindness, and they
will live in our memory when the
shutdown of life adds halo to the