The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-31


the men. and of course we all know
that this is right.
Rev. John Robertson preached at
Mount Harmony in Ridge Beat last
Sunday morning at eleven o'clock,
but We did not have the pleasure of
being present to hear him.
Prof. Wilkerson's school gave an
entertainment TO their friends with
declamatiorls. dialogues, ETC., on last
Tuesday. The weather was incle-
! ment, but tfia crowd was large, and
the behavior among both students
and spectators was perfectly good =
We had the extreme pleasure one
day this week of meeting and how
dying with our good friend, Mr. Fay
cite Mitchell, who is moving from
Hightogy neighborhood to near Mill
port. We always like to meet such
good citizens as Mr. Mitchell sAs41ss
Wednesday morning we went from
Vernon to the teachers institute at
Kingyille, and spent two days in in
stitute work, and while there we had
the pleasure Of addressing the fol-
| lowing named teachers upon educa-'
tional topics: E. r. Harris, county
superintendent w. j. Baird; H. l.
Quin, w. E. Ayres, G. T. Faust, j.
Glasgow, w. o. Draper, Chas Me2ore,
Major Harris, S. S. Hays, Jas. Coo,
r. e. Falkner, L. S. Coleman, /. q
Rector, Raney Miller, A. ]. NewtonN
w. B. Rowland, ]. A. Thomas, NJ.
G. Lollar, j. G. Stokes, ]. B. Hays,
w. F. McGee, E. w. Branyon, j. c. |
Chandler, w. c. Hays, w L. Sims, /
t. B. Hays, H. G. Morton, j. T. Mil !.
Ter, E. @. Black, Misses Minnie Ayres, /
May Alexander, Wilma Howell, Bes- |
sic Howell, May McReynolds. Hattie /
Quin, Laura Baker, MoI1ie Shackel- I
ford, Mamie Baker, Eula Ayres, On /
ME Stokes, Biddie Guin, Minnie Hol- |
lis, Emma Sulzby, Wilma Ford, Lon /
ME Tomlin, Virgie Waldrop, Annie |
Hawkins, Addie Hawkins and Mrs.
Mettie Williams, besides many pa
irons of the Kingville school and 9TH
ers who were there as spectators /
We are always pleased when we have T
the privilege Of talking to such intel
ligent audiences as we had before I
us Wednesday and Thursday at King +
Thursday we partook of hearty din
ner which had been prepared by the
good ladies for the occasion, and I
everybody ate plenty and seemed to
be happy, and we surely felt that
it was good for all of US to be there.
When we were not too busy eating,
we thought of ..Dan,'' tCol. Slocum, =
Venice" Emmett j." and other
of the Dispatch Correspondents and|
wondered If any or all of them were
then faring as sumptuously as was
Warwick" We left the institute
for Blooming Grove via Vernon and
arrived at Blooming Grove at high
noon on Friday, Christmas day, at
which place We found about 500 peosl
pie assembled to listen. to the pupils
of Miss Ca1lie Hawkins, the very eff
cient teacher at that place, make
speeches, ETC., which had been pre-
pared for the oceasion.5 After hav-
ing partaken of sumptuous dinner,
Warwick was5 called upon for the I:
speech of the evening, taking the
constitution of Alabama pertaining to
schools as his subject. In the mean
time we had some very interesting !
talks from Prof. John f. Hawkins, ]
of Union public school, and
his father, Mr.. S. H. Hawkins, of the I
Grove school district. {
Mr.. Dock Hollis and Miss Eliza (
beth Wheeler have been made man
and wife by Brother w r. Beal since 4
our last writing, and we wish for
them all the happiness for which
they have been looking for on their
journey through life.
him as such. Ncs f
The little child of Mr.. Weathers, f
Just east of Vernon, died one day /
this week.
DR.. George C. Burns is very sick Fl
just now of infiammatory rheunia-
Lism, but we trust that we may be fs
able in our next letter to report his
His son, DR.. W. A. It
Burns, of Birmingham, has been ca1f4
ed, and he is now with his father, Fl
and is likely to remain with HIM
until some change for the better r
takes place in the condition of his /
father. Ic
Mr.. James T. Moore, of Bedford,
one of Lamar county's best men, was \
n town among friends a short while J
Monday afternoon, and told us that A
1e was going to see his brother, Mr.. "a
". r. Moore, one OF our BARRIERS, who