The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-26
HICKORY VALLEY MELANGE,
by P. C. NJ.

Ernest Rose and family Sundayed
with relatives at Middleburg.
Will Mays family have moved to
Memphis, their future home.
Albert Barnett was in the country
Sunday the guest of the home folks.
George McCaskill spent Sunday
in the country the guest of his pa
rents.
Little Miss Alice Averil has re-
tured from a weeks visit at Grand
Junction.
Mrs. Gussie Spight, of Salisbury,
is the guest of the family of r. A
McAnulty.
Lucius Chairs, of North Missis-
sippi, is in the city this week, the
guest of friends.
Miss Bette Richardson, of Tenn
pie, was the guest of Mrs. L. j.
Prewett last week.
Rev. r. A. Kimbrough, of Jack
son, occupied our pulpit Sunday
morning and evening.
Monday our school enjoyed half
holiday, it being the anniversary of
Washington's birthday.
Edgar Wheeler, of the Van Buren,
country, has re- entered school, hav-
ing conquered the measles.
Monroe Avent was on the sick
list the latter part of the week,
but is now able to be out again.
Mrs. Annie Rose returned the
latter part of the week from a visit
with relatives at Grand JUNCTION.
Miss Sallie Ferguson was the guest
OF her uncle, Lon Ferguson, north
west Of town, the first of the week.
Miss Kate Porter who has been
visiting in this neighborhood has re-
| turned to her home near Grand juno
ton.
Saturday, our little village was
filled with people from the country,
and the merchants did good bust
ness.
Col. Oscar B. Polk came out from
Memphis Saturday and will stop
some time on his plantation near
here.
The Baptists had preaching Sun
day morning and evening at the
morning service there was one acqui-
sition.
The Madison Presbytery of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church
will convene here early in the month
of March.
1t was the pleasure of your scribe
to be the guest and enjoy the hospi-
tally of Mr.. and Mr.. t. A. Prev
EFT last week.
Mrs. Margaret McAnulty has been
quite i'll for some time, in fact, was
quite dangerously i'll for a few days
last week, but is now convalesing.
The youth and beauty of the vi
cinage gathered at the home of j.
A. Hogan last Friday evening and
spent a few hours in delightful So
cial enjoyment.
Crook Black came out from Mem
phis last week and is buying up a
drove of cattle for the Memphis
market. This neighborhood has just
about disposed of all of its butchers
stuff.
Hon. John ID. Woods came in
from Nashville Sunday evening and
after a stay of twenty-four hours
went to Bolivar, there to meet the
committee on visitation of charities
appointed by the legislature to in
vestigate the management of the va
rious state institutions.
Our school will give an entertain
ment ere long, the proceeds of which
will be used to buy books for a school
library. This is laudable and prais-
worthy undertaking, deserving the
support of all our citizens. The
date and nature of the entertainment
will be announced in THE BULLETIN.
Our humorous friend Judge"
Harris, whose native wit and droll-
cry has won for him local reputa-
ton as a wag, is seriously consider
ing a proposition to accept the re-
sponsibilities of the lend mans "
place in Jim Roses and Claud Nc
Kinnie's famous Valley Minstrels.
" Judge is the right man, and with
Albert Barnett as leading artist in
the role of heavy swell, the success
of the Minstrels is assured.
There are some places in our pub
lie highways that are in a deplOra-
BILE condition. And when one stops
to consider the amount of time re-
quired by statute from those liable
for road work, it is sufficient to
make a thoughtful person exclaim
against a law or condition so fruit
less of gratifying or substantial re-
suits. Time is money, or its equiv
alent, and the amount of time re-
CURED, by law from those liable for
such service would, if calculated at
the most insignificant price paid for
the commonest and least skilled sort
of labor, show the stupendous loss
of money and time, and the imper
feet, unworked, impossible condi-
ton of the highways of the COM
monwealth would speak volumes
against the methods now in vogue.
The legislator who can solve the
problem of road improvements by
an economical expenditure of money |
or time, as against the uncertain
consumption of both in the past and |