The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-06-11
uItIpoRT NEWS NOTES.

all or not The different persons who
gather news for your paper should
feel like members of one family,
each one speaking nicely of each
other and be ready to help one an
other over the difficulties that they
might fall into. but some of US get
sharp cuts over our illiterate or un-
educated ideas. MiIlport is a very
small town, and not great many
things happen in the space of one
week worthy of notice in a newspa-
per- / could mention a lot of little
frivolous things that would scarcely
be read, much less appreciated; but
as to genuine news or events of any
interest, l can't, get it, because l
simply write the MilIport dots be-
cause the editor asked me so kindly
to contribute them, and my many
friends seem to appreciate them so
much, while a great many people
pass then unnoticed. Others are in
tersted in the happenings of our
town, and l happen to be fortunate
at other places, but when it comes
to me trying to compete with some
of the writer's I am entirely out. l
certainly enjoyed Prof. Thixton's let
ter last week on education and bet
ter salaries for the teachers. / sure
am glad he left off any comment on
the Sunday picnics, as l think his re-
marks and some things / have said
in regard to what we thought of all
day singing are about to get Brother
Johnnie's Irish stirred, as the old
saying goes. He said a few weeks
ago there was a prize offered in The
Dispatch for the newsiest letter, but
it did not mean lectures, essays,
copying from other periodicals and
so on. Well, now, I beg one brother
to just put me on the right line of
thoughts and I will hew to the mark.
have never written a lecture nor
taken any particular subject to
write on, but I thought in writing for
a paper we were allowed to put into
expression any thoughts suggest
ed. Hundreds to our minds that we
believed might prove of benefit to
some one. This is why we write, or
at least, it should be. I certainly do
enjoy all the letters, but I am a lit
tie sensitive. [ don't like criticism
in any one. I wish one editor would
allow US to write on a few subjects
instead of letter, for I am quite
sure I could be much more interest
ing, because always did have
mania for writing compositions
Then, again, that is why I think it
would be worth great deal to edu-
cate the mind and heart by reading
other peoples thoughts and storing
them away in the recesses of your
memory to refer to when you deem
it prudent or necessary.
Well, I got the prize and sure did
appreciate it, but did not try to
write any lecture to get it. Brother
Artesia scored me last week on my
ignorance in thinking an Alabamian
would not get the prize. He says it
is a hard job to get some folks to
take hint. Well, it is sometimes.
Tt is real hard for folks to know
when they have said enough Peo-
pie very often say a powerful lot and
have not said much either. I am
sure glad he has fallen back into line
with the others It's nice to be
sociable and go on in peace with the
others if they do make some terrible
blunders, and then he pours it to old
Caledonia and Millport about their
old bachelors and old maids. Now
he suggests that we utilize all of our
cabbage into sauerkraut, thinking it
will take four carloads to do. Well,
now, we have not got a single old
maid, but about twenty-five of the
sweetest, prettiest girls you can find
anywhere, and only two or three old
bachelors, and they are of the ex-
ira class. And, besides, we will
surely feed them on something bet
ter than sauerkraut, a German dish
consisting of cabbage and salt. How
about canned beans, corn. tomatoes,
jelly, preserves, mince pickles and
soon, and he added a little more
fuel to the flames by mentioning
about getting salaries for what we
do on Sunday. Well. l write my let
ters on Sunday evening to The Dis
patch, but it is because I can't pos
sibly get it written on Monday time
enough to get it off in the mail.
Health of our town fine. crops
reasonably good, lots of rain, with
few beautiful days.
Mr. Henry Windham, Of Elliott,
Miss, in company with Mr.. Jim
Windham and wife and daughter,
Bessie, who made a visit to Millport
last fall, and many many warm