The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-11-12
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Additional Local Item.
The Field Day exercise held at the
L. F. Catron farm north of Somerville
Wednesday was well attended and was
counted a splendid success. The atten-
dance was large. there being present
farmers from more than hall the dis
tricts of the county. There were
a number of ladies' present and the day
was a very interesting one turnout.
A basket dinner with barbecued meats
was served at the noon hour and there
was an abundance of it and of fine
quality. County Agent ). w. Motfatt
is elated over the good day had
Next Monday is the fifteenth of Nov
ember and has been for some years the
date on which the open season for quail
shooting in this county began. 1t is,
in fact the date fixed by the general
law. But when the general law was
pending before the last legislature
Representative McRee amended it so
as not to apply to Fayette county and
had the open season to begin in this
county on December Is. From word
coming in from different parts of the
county there has already been a good
deal of shooting this season, in spite of
the law and the amendment. The Fal-
con regrets exceedingly that Represen-
tative McRee had this amendment
made. 1t is sure to cause disregard of
the law, and talk about prosecuting vi
olaters of the game law in this county
you might as well talk any other i'm
possible thing Juries will hardly pay
any attention to such things. But it is
the law now and we are willing to abide
by it, as far as our hunting goes, are
you?-
About as merry party as has gone
out from this city in the present season
was a party of some twenty live
'possum hunters that went from here
ON last Thursday night. The ladies
outnumbered the men. two to one, but
they proved the true sportsman's
courage and waded thru cane. brake,
brier patch and mud as il they were
old hands at the job, never once waver-
ing when obstacles confronted. Not
even barbed wire fence checked the
progress of the crowd. Francis b.
Norman furnished the necessary hunt
ing paraphrenalia, including the 'possum
dogs. and led the party. He is an ex-
perienced hand at the business and knew
just where to go. A degree of success
made glad the hearts Of the hunters.
and short time later when they as
sembled around the Appleberry spring
and partook of a splendid lunch prepar-
ed by the lady members, gladder still
were they. The lunch was eaten
around big camp fire, and long after
the turn Of the night toward another
day The party made their way home,
tired, but happy over pleasant outing.
Rev. R. P. Duckworth will leave the
first Of the coming week for Trenton
where he will attend the annual meet
ing Of the Memphis conference, M. Z.
Church South. This closes the third
year of Mr.. Duckworth's pastorate in
the local church. During that time ne
has received into the church here ninety
seven members. He has shown himself
a consecrated Christian worker and ne
has many friends here who are hoping
for his return TO this work for another
year. He carries with him to the con-
ference meeting very creditable re-
port for the work done in the church,
and the further information that plans
now contemplate the erection in the
spring of the new church edifice about
which there has been discussion for
several years. Already the soliciting
committee has gone over the field and
secured additional subscriptions to the
amount of almost one thousand dollars
within the past month and with the
large number Of the subscriptions which
are payable on January first next it is
thought that work can be gone right
along with in the snring on cash basis
and all funds needed will be available
before the building is completed.
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n:.s- - A. Csomarh