The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-05-05
CALEDONIA
BY EMMETT J.

The annual decoration of graves of
our dear departed loved ones was
held on last Sunday at the Egger
Cemetery, when flowers were placed
on all the graves by loving hands in
sacred memory of the dear ones
quietly sleeping in the silent city of
the dead. This touching ceremony
wildly brought to memory the loved
faces of some that were near and
dear to us, but who, alas, are no
more. The day was ideal, and q large
crowd was at the cemetery all day.
All brought roses in abundance to be
placed upon the mounds of those who
had passed over into the great beyond
and now await the call of the trumpet
that shall call them from their graves.
From early in the forenoon until the
setting of the sun there was con-
tlnual stream of automobiles, buggies
and wagons bringing folke with beau
tlful flowers to be used in paying a
tribute of love to the memory of the
dead 1t is fitting that we assemble
at least once each year to place flow
ers upon the graves of those we loved,
but who have "faded from our sight"
The writer and his wife returned
last Saturday from Greenwood
Springs, where we spent fortnight.
While there we were entertained in
the hospitable home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Crenshaw. We found the
farmers of that section somewhat dis
couraged over the outlook for crops
this year. In the first place, there
has been so mNch rain that very lit
tie planting has been done up to this
time. Another very serious draw
back is the scarcity of labor. Hands
are jumping their contracts every
day to go to the saw mills, where
they can make from five to seven
dollars day. The farmers state
that at the best, labor is scarce and
high priced. They cannot afford to
pay from three to four dollars day
for hands to work the farms, yet that
is the price asked. There will be
five acres planted in cotton to one of
corn in the Greenwood Springs Sec
ton, and hundreds of acres of good I
land will not be planted at all be-
cause of the scarcity of labor. We
were informed by one farmer that he
had eighty acres of fine bottom land,
and only two hands to cultivate the
same. Gardens are late and a large
acreage has not yet been broken.
1t seems from, the way Sheriff j.
B. Lewis and his deputies have start
ed out that they are determined to
put all the moonshiners out of bust
ness in Monroe County. From the
first of January to the present time
hey have captured seventeen stills,
with all their equipment. Early last
week the officers discovered a still
within a mile of the depot at Green
wood Springs. Later in the week
hey captured three more stills, with
several gollons of mountain dew
fresh from the fountain head. How
sver, none of the distillers were cap
ured One party was caught billing
The fat" but he managed to make
his escape. Sheriff Lewis has his
irish up and his war paint on, and
says he is going to break up the
whisky business in his county.
An |. o. 0. F. Lodge is to be or
ganized at Splung, eight miles north
# Greenwood Springs, in the near
'uture. Twenty-Five names have
been sent to the Grand Master, who
has been requested to grant a char
er for the lodge. The degree team
# Union Lodge, and also members
Of the lodge at Caledonia are ex-
pected to aid in instituting the new
odge.
On the twentieth of April, after
only two days of suffering, Mrs. Mat
lie Angel closed her eyes in dream
less sleep of death. She had the best
# medical attention, but in spite of
all that loving hands could do, she
vas never able to rally. Funeral ser
aces were conducted at the residence
" the Rev. Mr. Ellis, pastor Of the