The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-04-26
"RIPPLING WAVES" LETTER.


most pleasantly with relatives about
Columbia, we returned home to find
our own little band enjoying good
health, and oh! so glad TO see us.
We stopped over at Glass, Obion
county, and spent a few days with
our aunt, Mrs. Newt Moore, where
we saw very fine section OF country,
our drive being five miles out from
Oblon Station. There are hundreds
Of acres Of by far the finest wheat
and clover we have seen anywhere.
The land is quite level, with here
and there a skirt of wood and
pretty farm house of modern style,
which renders ii very pleasing to
the eve. There the farmers were
busy planting corn.
We passed t rough very poor
section of Dyer, Lauderdale and
Shelby counties, where there was
much water, and beats anything we
have yet seen in Arkansas for
malaria. When we arrived at Mem
phis we were much surprised to see
the great river so full, but our sailing
was all the more easy
A Jolly, social crowd were on
landings, from Memphis to Ashport,
among the list Mr.. and Mrs Lemons
and babe frcm Richardson's Land
ing, Tenn.
The next morning those still on
board were shocked to learn that
Mr.. and Mrs. Lemons had narrowly
escaped watery grave in the rather
of waters. The boat reached their
landing at three O'Clock in the
morning, and as the darkness was
so intense the Captain suggested
that they remain on board and get
off on their return down the river,
but they thought they would have
no trouble finding their home. After
the boat had pulled out some dis.
lance from shore, the night watch
man heard screams over there and
reported to the Captain, who landed
the boat again and throwing out the
search-light, located them in water
above their waists, the man holding
| his babe above his head to keep him
out of the water. Ladders were
lowered to them and they soon
climbed upward to land again.
Their road had caved in end the dirt
having lodged, made a second bank
upon which they lodged when they
walked off, else they would have
drowned Immediately. The bank in
many places has caved badly, in
every Instance where a sand bar has
formed on the opposite side.
Millions Of dollars are spent an
nually on this river to prevent the
banks from caving, by sinking will
low mating along the banks and
placing rocks on top of the bank
Seven hundred carloads were
brought to this place last fall to STOP
"a cave.in that had started above oul
town. Government boats are a
work all the time, too, when the
river is low, digging sand from the
river bed, where bars are forming II
the main channel.
The weather continues cold, anC
cotton and corn are not coming W
very well. Gardens ale tlourishing
though, and we are now enjoying
mustard, onions and radishes from
our own garden.
So far prospects are very good fo
fine fruit crop.
We learn from the papers tina
sleet and snow fell in North Yves
tern Arkansas the seventeenth. Th,
J finest apples that grow in Americ;
: are raised there. They take tn
premium everywhere exhibited, tn
last having been presented at tn
Worlds Fair in Paris last year
SO you see Arkansas is in the leat
in many ways; the last commenda
BILE act Of one of her Senators bein
to present a bill to require whiske.
, drinkers to procure license. 1t ha
; passed the Senate and is now befOr
the House. She is FAST becoming
Prohibition State.
I Last week men were arrested her
and taken to Helena on the charg
of running "blind tigers"
The good people of Columbia d
not know how quickly they can pu
, whiskey out of their town, if the
L will only try. The whiskey me
f will fight it to the last, of course, bU
the good can fight, too, and ca
win if they will. 1t takes money
too, but not half so much as is sper
in drunkenness and riOting, to sa
4 nothing of the pleasure of havin
the otherwise good husband an
~ ldbll6I az nOuI6, anu tue DOy Ju6
has drifted in the saloon just to Sc
Z what's inside and become so infatus
ted, with the beauties t?) within
). may be content to spen that tim
in usefulness. There are many vail
reasons why the saloons should b
3 closed,
:, Mr.. r. P Stegall returned wit
us, on a prospecting tour, and 4
finely pleased with this country.
:, Mr.. Will G. Lee, OF Lasea, Tenn,
now clerking for The Pullen Co
Osceola.
The lynching of May Hear
white, at Osceola, a few weeks az,
for the murder of Clyde King, wI
r a deplorsble affair, and is regrette
/. by the good people Throughout. tn
county not Lecause Of the loss I
such a citizen, but because the
y think the law should decide sue
y cases. The mob consisted of twent!
Is five masked men, most of who
D. were from Troy, Tenn, the tormt
home of young King. 1t is sal
that when they frightened the rop,
1t Hearn dropped back dead, but the
n drew him up to the limb Of a soiital
1r walnut tree in the jail-yard, an!
l way, where they left him until ne,
IL morning. When taken down, h
m neck was not broken.