The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-07-16

that we had been gone for a long
! time and had come back on a visit.
I 1t must have been the year 1916.
We noticed no change in the village;
/ there will he none when Gabriel's
4 trump shall sound: but we missed
some of our old friends and inquired.
What became of George -?"
"Oh, he's dead. Drank himself to
death. We buried him six years
ago" We'll, 1 declared And where
+ is Sam -?' I'VE buried him
three years ago. He drank himself
to death. too2. You don't tell me.
And where is Charley -? Is
he dead, too?" Yes, he has been
gone four years you buried him
four years ago? Well, well -"
"Oh, no, we didn't bother TO bury
him. We just poured him back into
the barrel"
Born to Mr. \. S. Partain and wife
on July 7th a ten-pound girl. Papa
Partain is beginning to sit up and
take notice of some ordinary things.
on the Sth instant we had a Sc
we're thunder storm, during which
Mr.. Louis Stephenson had rather
CLOSE call" The lightning struck
one corner of his house and tore it
up badly, shocking him so severely
that it was quite a while before he
recovered. We are glad that he was
not more seriously injured.
Maj. 0. NJ. Lawrence is visiting
here.
On July 9th we had with us the
candidates for congress from this dis
trict in joint speaking. Hon. E. S.
Gambler, Jr., who is now serving his
fourth term, is opposed by Hon. Geo.
T. Mitchell, of Lee county. 1t was
the most pleasant meeting Of the
kind we have ever seen. The contest
is a recommendation to both gentle
men. District Attorney Mitchell is
a good speaker, bright and we'll in
formed, while Little Zeke' is known
by every man in the district as a rep
resentative with an enviable record
for good, clean, honest work-work
LOT the pEODiS OI OiSbIiCL OuG. ne
is a bigger man than he looks.
All people living on rural route
should give attention to this: Your
carrier would be under obligations
to you if you would keep a small tin
snuff box, or can, in your mail box
to put small change in. You drop a
penny or two into the mail box with
what you want mailed, and it takes
the carrier too long to fish them out.
Try picking up a penny when your
fingers are cold and you are in a hur-
ry, and you will see that it is only
humane to put in d snuff box to hold
such change In addition to this, it
will improve the morality of the car
rier-he won't be tempted so often
to use words that had to be left out
of the dictionary in order that it
might be sent through the mails.
We tried to telephone some news
to The Dispatch last week. That was
all. If you want to know what good
service is like, try the Columbus cen
trail, and you will Iearn-by contrast.
We country Reubens had just as we'll
not have connection with Columbus.
We could save time by walking to
town and attending to business per-
sonally. Our home system is, on the |
other hand, here to serve the peo- |
pie now, before they die of old age. |
One of our 'fat-woods billies" had |
oats thrashed last week-Mr. Tom |
Walters. Seventeen dozen bushels |
thrashed out thirty and one half
bushels, and nine loads made nearly |
three hundred bushels of as good |
grain as ever grows-clean, plump, |
fine grains. Now it was not mem |
Der of the Ananias club that made
this report, but the man who thrash
ed them, Mr.. E. E. Harris. Nobody, /
not even the Artesia heather, who /
opposes schools and morality, viii |
doubt his word. Brother Bud" will |
have to try again.
A man may know that he is a fool
when he is sober. but he forgets it
when drunk
Mrs w. H. CASTOR is visiting in
Columbus.
There was an old-fashioned sing
ing at Elbethel Primitive Baptist
church last Sunday. Quite a num- |
Der of our young folks attended.
''Jails and prisons are the compile
ment of schools; so many less as
you have of the latter, so many more
you must have of the former" said
Mann. A truer saying never
was uttered. That is the opinion of
many ha1f-educated people; it is a