The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-08-08
A LITTLE TRIP TO HUMBOLDT.

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trip from Lexington, the countryside
of "old Henderson" to Humboldt, the
inhabitants of which claim that pros
porous and progressive town to be
the metropolis of Gibson county
Last Friday morning The Progress
man and wife, in company with Mr..
and Mrs. j. F. Winslow, left Lexing-
ton in the Winslow Chevrolet, bound
for Humboldt, intent on combined
business and pleasure. The start
was not an suspicious one and not
until the home of ives King was
reached, was the trouble with the
mahine discovered and remedied, Yves
was on guard and entertained the
trio who waited onMr. Winslow while
hunting trouble" and it was with re-
luctance that we had to decline his
cordial ihvitation to enter HIS coy
home and tarry d while with him.
for Wes is proud of bis beautiful and
SCISSOR of good farm (which they
say he works. and the only thing we
can imagine against him is the fact
that his garden, or i good situs, is
but hole in the beautiful timber
andrthere lies the secret of the fact
for Wesi $ proud Of his beautiful and
extensive grove.
Resuming the journey, Jackson was
reached, passed and not a hint of
trouble until the outskirts Of Hum
bolt was reached when a puncture
was had and Mr.. Winslow, instead of
mending or replacing the tire, resolv-
ed to 60 on into town on three tires
and one rim, The little mishap was
relieved BY the fact here we met Esq
| d. L. Elkins, on his way home, some
31s miles distant, in the little neck OF
Crockett county, which was taken
4 from Madison to help in making the
county Of Crockett. 1t is always q
/ pleasure to meet. dee" and we fee
that he was glad to meet our party
from the fact that in the afternoon
he same back to town and stayed
with us until the falling shadows
warned us that we must head back
toward "God's. Country" Dee Ell.
kins has read The Progress just 81
years last April.
"A fine dinner prepared by our sis
ter, Mrs. G. T. Ray, was enjoyed anc
the pleasure of the occasion was add.
|IEd to by the fact that we found Wis.
ting in the Ray home our neices
Misses Gertrude and Ruth Barry, o.
Stuttgart, Ark.
We found that G. Terry Ray, a!
Gibson county agent and distributor
for the Chero-Cola works at Jackson
is doing good business-evidently
making living.
Before leaving. Humboldt, in. com
pany with Esq. Elkins Whose stand
ing in the Humboldt community il
ALL we visited the extensive man
ufacturing establishment of B. G
FARRELL & Co., and made arrange
ments for the delivery of sweet pota
to hampers, for the. use of member
| / Of the Lexington, Sweet Potato Grow
ers' Association. The price per ham
per of 80 quarts is 20 cents, the or
der to b. booked without delay an,
the hampers to be delivered in goo
time fort use. -, sA;4sfAAg
III On otlr return, the first drop o
rain fell when we were just this sid
of the Billie Noel store, seven mile
| from Jackson, but we beat the mai
rain to the city and there put up il
the garage of the United Motors Co
on College Street, Mr.. Owen being tn
| gentleman in charge. We can affor
to state because of Mr.,0wen's kind
ness and light charge for shelter, tina
his garage is a good place for motor
lists to stop and this is no adver
| tisement. ~ : ~ -
| The rain was so heavy, the hour $
late and the roads so slippery that "
knew it would be useless to attemp
to make the entire trip to Lexingto
| that night, so we headed for the HON
| of Mr.-G. @. SWinslow (brother of
| F.) reached there before the famil
had retired and there spent tn
night--fer which hospitality we ar
indebted to Mrs. Winslow and daugh
| ter, Miss Gladys, for the ''old man
was on stay Of three days or NOR
at Beech Bluff.
Telephoning from Jackson to GU
home here, we were apprized of tn
0 magnificent rain which fell Frida
$ afternoon and our trip over the bal
d ance. Of the route Saturday mornin
n showed that good rain fall fro,