The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-07-17
PLEASANT HILL.

w. E. Shropshire's old mule Wis
tied us and spent the day, Sunday,
but we never gave him any straw
berries for dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Jackson and
daughter, OF the city, visited friends
here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Whiteside, of
Fulton, are visiting IN and around
Pleasant Hill this week.
Miss Mary Tidrow, OF Rives, one
of Number Four's most beautiful
young ladies, visited friends and
relatives here Sunday.
And still we have plenty of straw
berries, but the public declaration
of the fact has made us consp1cu-
Gus liar and we are constantly ex-
pecting an invitation to become
president of the Ananias Club at
Rives.
o, yes; we remember you, Snow
drop, and do heartily thank you for
the nice compliment passed in your
last letter; and oh, how l wish you
could have attended our social
gathering or reunion and we would
have been real cousins. We always
read your communications with in
terest and always consider the COM
pliments from such a gifted pen as
yours the grandest; so write
again.
Oh, yes; we met Topsy, and
found in her perfect specimen OF
health, strength, and beauty COM
bined with all the womanly graces-
wit, humor, life and kindness. My,
what an ornament she would make
in some good mans mansion.
And Gypsy; was there in all of
her glory and was arrayed in the
garb of the queen OF her tribe, and
we regard her as true queen in
any and all society, full of lite and
kindness, full of respect for all,
good humored, good natured, hard
to turn down on joke and can't be
turned down at the table, and with
all due regards for the queen, we
decline her offer of becoming a
gypsy and to be the Pharao of the
tribe and will content ourselves in
one little district of a county; eh,
Gypsy.
And Bildad was not there. We
guess his mamma would not let him
come. There were two of the
grandest flowers yet bloomed max
ing inquiry of you, Billy. One was
a Wild Rose, just sweet fifteen; the
other a Pearl of priceless value,
about sweet thirteen. All, Bildad;
if you had just come, it might have
proven to be the brightest day of
your life.
We saw in an Arkansas paper
where a fellow found pearl and
sold it for So, 500. Shucks; we found
one on the day of The Commercial
picnic at Sulphur Springs so valu-
able that So, 500 would just about
pay the interest one day on its val
ue. Eth, little Brown Eyes.
To all the cousins who would but
could not come to our picnic, we
say you have missed one OF the
greatest pleasures of your lite and
have blotted from the diary of your
lives one of the most glorious oc-
casions and happy days yet record
ed, and to those who could have
come and would not, we say we are
glad you did not, tor we realize the
embarrassment and torture you
would have endured by being at
one place and your hearts some
where else. Before the picnic we
felt free to write or let it alone, but
now we feel under obligations to
write and keep our space filled, and
we feel that much thanks is due the
editors, and especially to Mrs. Bair1
for the palnstaking IN making all
feel so welcome, pleasant and free.
Mrs. Baird is certainly one of the
incest, most oblig1pg, friendly, So
cable, warm-hearted women it has
been our pleasure to meet. and her
little girl is one of the sweetest and
incest hammered children we ever
saw, and a perfect specimen of
health and beauty, and we just fell
head over heels in love with those
| old sleek headed editors; they took