Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-09-21
THE EDITOR m the GULF CITY
And A Trip Across The Bay.
by THE EDITOR

end vacation spell, as we hsd been
on duty oil summer without any rec
reation at all owing to the dull war
times. :.
Our objective point was the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A. Metzger of
that city. They have lately purchas-
ed them home of their own down
there. It's near the Jackson square
on Charleston ST. and-a comfortable
premises.
George is still with the Marley
Commission people and has been in
the house all summer but now that
the busy season has opened up went
out on the road the day we left town
While in the Gulf CITY this scribe
took stroll over op pauphin street
and got peep at the house in which
our family the Faulks-lived when
he wa, a boy aud attended Barton
Academy down there. 1t is No. 1856
Dauphin st. or used to be called
Dauphin Way also, and was known
as the McPhilips house. Its large
two story house of dull reddish color
and to our surprise is still standing
pretty we'll, though 1t was recogniz-
ed as getting little old when our
family had it rented; IN fact had been
fixed up then some by the carpen.
tiers skill. 1t has somewhat of dill
lapidated look now sure enough.
On old Hallett street just above
the corner from such place we dis
covered quite change wrought.
The family home and shop of our old
friend Will Locker has entirely dis
appeared. In fact we notice from the
Mobile papers Will has cotton into
the ministry of the Baptist church
and is quite prominent with them:
He followed band music awhile But
on that spot stands now the No. 9
establishment of the Smith Bakery
and while this editor has seen a great
many sights in skipping round over
the country right here in the old
town in which we once lived we saw
one more that's worth mentioning as
it caught our eye and we stopped
and watched it long time. The
making of bread by machinery right
IN the broad open view of the public
as il was done in the front room with
glass windows allround and broad
signs inviting everyone to LOOK
at Smith S bread being made.
| Formerly you know it was done 10
back rooms and the general impress
sion was that the public ought rot
to see it and we had been told that
those red streaks we sometime but
seldom saw in loaf was amber juice
squirted IN the dough by careless
tobacco chewing helper. Here there
was machines to mix the dough, ia
cut the dough into sizes for rolls; tC
roll such rolls into shape and ditto
as to oafs and endless belts all the
time running carrying such from
machine to machine in its course oil
manufacture Well its sight worth
a real busy man S time to pause and
see, and looked so clean and sanitary
and inviting that made u fellow kin
der hungry and IL was nearing the
dinner hour too when we looked at
lit.
On this trip the writer got 10 put
through long cherished desire. that
is to go across the bay. Like many
of the fellows whom the joke is told
upon that dwell within less than if
ty miles of Mammoth Cave and have
never visited that great world won
der, we had lived in Mobile, looked
across at the eastern shore many a
time and planned to go then aud
often since but never got to it.
The Bay boats which formerly
were in this service no more ply
these waters, namely: the Herein
and the Carney both of which were
used as Revenue cutters in the Civil
War if we remember correctly. One
had been sold sometime ago and car
ried away possibly to Louisiana and
the other condemned maybe and
beached across the river. Tie Pleas
ure Bay and the Apollo are the crafts
which now ply in this trade, and it
was on the former we took passage.
Both leave the dock at Mobile at the
same time but the Apollo soon
steamed ahead of us. she taking the
| oaw channel and we the old hnt she