The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-20
BLACKGUM HALL

JOheS are always putting some man Ut
boy but you say but little about the
women and the girls. Here ! have
been sick for four months and oh,
how kind the women have been to
me. Sometimes found real plea
sure in being sick, for | learned how
many good Samaritans we have here
in New Salem. Before | took to my
bed | put a quilt in the frames, but
didn't get but one or two squares
stitched, and while | was too sick to
think of my work, along came Mes
DANES S. Partain, Nora Adair, j. l..
Whitley, Della Cole, l.. A. Stephen
san and Lou Cain and gave themsel-
YES quilting bee and finished up the
job even to the hemming of the quilt,
Then Mrs Aaoir would run over to
see what she could do for me, some
times spending a day at my bedside.
Mrs. Cole was so kind and attentive
too, and if she couldn't come would
send one Of the girls to see how /
was. Mrs. Ella Cain was among
those who gave me a helping hand.
j had given up the hope Of saving
any fruit, my good friends Mrs. j..
j Thomson, Mrs. Corine Partain,
Mrs. Lila Game and Mrs. Nora Adair
came in and canned up a nice lot Of
fruit, for all Of which | am very
proud and thankful Now last, but
not least, is my little friend, Lucille
Adair. She is in her fifteenth year,
but as nice a housekeeper as ever
welded broom or baked a hoecake.
She came in, took charge as a train
ed nurse and an experienced house
keeper and for six weeks she stood
at the head Of Blackgum Hall to the
satisfaction of the Johnnie's and the
establishment of her friends. | hope
to live to see her established in a
home of her own and with some nice
young fellow to keep her in stove
wood. 1t is so nice to live in such a
coed neighborhood as New Salem. |
got about half Mrs. Johnnie said as
she talks so fast and ] am hard of
listening.
The way to enlarge the trade terri
tory of any city is to put the prices
of goods right and the wireless tele-
phone will do the rest. A rawhidc
operator will talk longer and louder
about cheap goods than Jap will at
the warship scrapping.
The whole world was to stop two
last Friday at a given time
out of regard for dead soldier. If
such would be the case in regard to
the Son of Man what would the re-
suit be? The people are fast becom
ing man worshipers. More noise was
made over General Foch than was
ever raised over Woody, Sturgeon.
Sam Jones or Billy Sunday.
While in town last Saturday / met
my old friend Jim Goyne of Mt. Yer
non and he was batting the air try
ing to sell his crop of peeans. Mr.
Goyne is one of Lowndes' best farm
ers. His pecans and all other fruit |
on his farm are from seedlings. Not
y
season | am going to get lot of .
seed from him to reset my orchard (
Two thirds of my trees are seedlings .
and they never miss a crop while the
grated trees miss often.
notice some man in Memphis,
Tenn, has nominated Mr.. T. ]. Locke
Of Columbus for governor, second
he nomination. If Mr.. Locke has
ever failed at anything it was that
which he has never undertaken. This
state needs Locke on it and a T. j.
will do as well or better than Yale.
No joke, Mr.. Oil Well, my can and
Jugs are ready for the first run you
make.
Listen, Mr. T. L. Doodle, Of Birm-
ngham, Ala, called at Rlackgum
Hall last week and said "Whoop 'em
up Old Johnnie, can't get on with
tut Blackgum Hall"
Mr. Dowdle is a New Salem boy
Who is making good in the Magic
City His old friends are rejoicing to
know of his success.
| keep telling you the Dispatch is
he outcirculatingist paper in the
country. Here comes a letter from
NY old friend S. A. Beasley away out
n Oklahoma, saying:
Hello, Johnnie, how are you? l.
vas certainly glad to see your letter
n my Dispatch. When I read it |
'elt like was talking to my old
riend back there. ! had decided to
lave my paper stopped but now ]
ouldn't do without it for any amount.
Ne made good crops here. We have
,lenty of corn and hogs. Corn is sell
ne at 20 to % cents the bushel, and
logs to cents a pound and oats
% cents the bushel. Everything we
lave to sell is cheap and all we have
0 buy is high. Johnnie, tell as about
Id Crazy Cat, she must be dead L
No sir, my good friend, old Crazy }
at is very much alive will trot her ,
ut soon.
The market here is about as II is {
here except corn and oats. Corn is Z
cling at 50 to so cents and no oats
N the market. Sorghum 40 cents. a
ibbon cane s. cents, hogs 6 to
ents, beef to 4 cents on foot. hens .
o cents, ROSTERS - cents and women {