The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-12
HICKORY VALLEY MELANGE.
BY P. g. NJ.

D. Woods.
T. n. Prewitt is in st. Louis this
week buying his spring and summer
stock of goods. Heis expected home
the last of the week.
L. n. Prewitt, r. A. McAnulty
and D. NJ. McAnulty have been inn
proving and identifying their houses
by the erection of new yard fences.
Thursday evening the Elders of the
Madison Presbytery, Cumberland
church, convene here and Friday
evening the Presbytery of the same
church.
Mrs. Foster, after spending more
than a month here as the guest of
her son, Rev. Cliff Baber, has re-
turned to her home at Columbus,
Mississippi.
Tom Prewitt made a run down
to- Grand Junction Friday evening
and thence to Michigan City to see
his best girl, returning to the Valley
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Carroll, of New York, came
over from South Carolina last week
with Monroe Avent, and was here
several days enjoying the shooting
on his hunting grounds.
Edgar Wheeler, of the Spring
Greek country, who has been in our
school for the past five months has
had to quit school to begin the farm
work on his fathers plantation.
Rev. D. NJ. McIver, Presbyterian,
of Bolivar, occupied the pulpit at
this place Sunday morning and even
ing, and in the afternoon preached
at Oak Grove, southwest of town.
Mrs. r. A. Kimbrough, of Jack
son, wife of the well-known pastor
of the Baptist church here, and at
Middleburg, has been quite danger
ousfy i'll for some time, but is now
slowly cOnvalescing.
Our good friends, Albert Barnett
and Judge Harris, are not only the
most popular and accommodating
statesmen in the Valley, but they are,
at least, so think the gentler sex, the
most accomplished and gallant of our
youths.
Hon. John d. Woods, after spend
ing a few days here at his home, has
returned to Nashville to resume his
duties as one of the States Legisla.
tors. We miss the good humored
Squire greatly, for he is one of ma.
lures noblemen.
Mr.. and Mrs T. n. Prewitt and
Capt. Chas. A. r. Woods, of this
place, and Mr.. L. B. Andrews, OF
Grand Junction, were entertained
at dinner last Monday by Mr.. and
Mrs Ernest Rose, at their home just
north of town.
]. NJ. Avent has lost several very
fine colts during the past week with
disease that has baffled the skill of
the local horse doctors. Monday
he had a veterinary surgeon from
Jackson to come and look at his herd
and see if he could check the rava
ges of the disease.
Last Friday morning, about 7:3e
O'Clock, this district and those lying
continuously, but especially those
southeast of us, was visited by g
miniature cyclone. Houses and barns
were unroofed, fences destroyed,
chimneys demolished, forest and or
chard trees Up-rooted, cotton houses,
corn cribs and out-buildings over.
turned, and in the storms path were
many of the evidences that charac
terize the dreaded cyclone.
John McKinnie has promised some
of his friends rare sport the latter
part of this week. When he burns of
the sedge grass that covers the creek
bottoms on his plantation, he intends
that a season of rabbit shooting shall
be enjoyed, and it is expected that
many of the innocents will be slaught.
cred. He has generously promised
the scribe, who cannot be present,
three or four brace of the choicest.
Our young friend, James Rose,
has, so we are informed, accepted a
position with the Oliver-Finnie
Grocery Company of Memphis. We
are sorry to lose him, for he was one
of our first acquaintance in the Val
ley, but we congratulate him upon
securing a position with such well
and favorably known firm. Jim is
an intelligent, capable, honorable
young man, one we would be glad to
see do well in the commercial world.
Rev. D. NJ. McIver, of Bolivar,
came down Saturday and interviewed
our people and requested their sup
port and patronage for his little re-
ligious paper that he is editing, not
for pecuniary purpose, but rather
to advance the cause of his Master
in our midst, by placing at least one
religious paper within the possibility
of possession of all our people. His
is a commendable and laudable work
which should enlist the earnest sup
port of all who would have whole
some literature among us. This lit
tie paper is well edited and promises
to be valiant soldier in its defense
of lions walls.
p. G, NJ, is not insensible to the
many complimentary remarks that
the Melange" has evoked from
the many readers of The BULLETIN,
in the various parts of the country,
and now he takes this opportunity
to answer question he has been so
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