The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1919-08-28
MRS. WILLIAM GOAT
GIVES A PARTING SHOT
Editor Reveille:

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Last week l was in Port Gibson but
did not get lawyer to enter suit
against you. Some of them were out
of town so have another chance at
you unless you have them sewed up
so that they will not go after you.
My dander is still up on account of
your publishing my letter to my child.
Why don't you, sir, say something
about the way some of the parents all
low their unsuspecting daughters to
dress?
When / was in town the other day,
was at the Post Office and one of the
sweetest and dearest girls whom
know personally was waiting for the
Office to open; she stood at the door
utterly unconscious that, because she
was so thinly clad, her figure was
plainly seen; an old gray headed gen.
tleman evidently of the ante-bellum
stamp noticing the direction of the
eyes of the on-looker, walked over to
the door and stood between her and
the gazers. She had not the slightest
idea she was too thinly clad and of
the scene she was creating. Why don't
that Parents League discuss this mat
ter of dress and you publish their
suggestions instead Of goats letter
to her child?
Why don't you say something a.
bout the roads and bridges? ! heard
a candidate saying that a fellow saw
a hat in the road, got down to get it
when a voice under the hat yelled,
"Let that hat alone, l am under here;
he offered to help him out when the
voice said, 81 don't need you, ! am
horseback and will be out in a min
ute". If our mudholes and dust holes
are such as that don't you think it is
time for the board to do something? ?
Let us know if is is against the
law to sell by short weight and to
sell food for people to eat when the
food is spoiled?
think it is about time for you to
let us goats alone for we are doing
the best we can for our children, our
neighbors and ourselves. Are you?
Whenever we go, we all go together.
How about YOU? There was a lady
at the church service the other Sunday
afternoon in Port Gibson and there
were 46 people present. That was
the onlv service that evening and was
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town of 1000 people; the time was be-
fore supper-the most convenient
time for everybody yet the Christian
people were in their cars, on their
galleries or reading their papers. In
that congregation were two Hebrews
who, while they may not believe in
the Christian faith, by being there
showed that the yare in for anything
good that will help the community
Where were the 400 or 500 Christians
of your town? A large part Of that
CONGREGATION were children! Parents
where were you?
You, sir, stop porting your hot shot
into the young people until you have
warmed up the parents of your town
to the fact that by their examples hey
are letting their children slip from
hem and allowing them to form ha-
bits that are running them; we goats
do not tell our kids to do something
by themselves but we GO with them;
wherever you find the kids. on Sun,
day or any other day, there you viii
find the nannies and the Williams;
IS it that way with you parents?
Unless you hear from me. through
the courts, this may be the last tine
YOU will hear from
(MRS.) WILLIAM GOAT.