The Pulaskian., 1921-01-13
". r. Beck
 
  Pea Ridge Pod Man


 of moving this spring. Many rent CTS have bought themselves. homes and share croppers who have made good have been able to rent farms and other renters who had to take anything they could get after mak- ing a good crop were of course of fered pick of a number of places, or cheaper rents, and some renters, who made failures or short crops had to hunt another place, and for these and other reasons were justified in nov ing, though people who do not un- derstand think there is no excuse for moving In the Ironton neighbor- hood and on the Arch street pike, T. B. Bennett has moved onto the Jas. Wells place, his wife's old home place. H. B. Mise has moved onto a farm of his own, the Milton Wells place,
 A new gravel pit for the Hot Springs road in Saline county has been opened up at Little John Law horns. The soil from the surface is as red as paint, and possibly it is good red paint.
 I spent Thursday night, January 6, at J. M. Colburn's. The men folks work in the Riddle shops. On my last trip two of them were laid off and they were glad of 1t because 1t gave them time to set out the large bill of fruit trees I had sold them. They only had time to set them out when they were put back on. They have lots of work to do at home, but they work every day they can in the shops, while pay is good, because they realize 1t may not last forever. That is the great big advantage of every working man having a home in the country. When he gets a lay off he enjoys it, but if he has no home and farm, when he gets a lay off he grieves for his lost money or time, and does not enjoy the lay off.
 Ivey Chapel completed a new school house recently and now have their new church nearly completed.
 On my way from the Arch street pike to s. D. Crooks l found in the road a perfect little white arrow head, mate to the one Dorothy Ben- nett gave me, so had to stop in and tell her about 1t. Sammy introduced me to each member of the family as they came in, even to Collie the dog He said, Collie, this is Mir. Beck. :" To his sister Stella he said: Stella, this is Unk Beck 1 enjoyed the night with them very much.
 s. H. Mcclure is an old timer here who after rambling around returned thirty-fiye years ago, married and settled down on the place he has lived on ever since. He has the old half-inch bore rifle his father hunted with. His father paid forty dollars for 1t. It was originally flint lock. After the invention of the new cap and ball guns he worked 1t over into its present form. cap and ball rifle. One of his neighbors told him that he had seen his father kill deer with it quarter of mile. When a if teen or sixteen year old boy he had an old army musket, which he had cut off to two-foot barrel. He went with his father to Parson Stutz' water mill at the head of Lorance. (There is still water mill there and has been ever since 1t was first es- tablished. They took their guns and two dogs along, as we'll as ten bushels each of wheat and corn. While awaiting their turn they in- tended to hunt They got to the mill about 10 a. m., but there were sev- eraI others ahead of them, so they did not get their grinding until the next day. That night they spent with the Stutz family. About dark Bob Stutz, boy about his own age hol- lered, "Pa, something has got the old sow." The Parson came out of the house and listened, then he hollered, Its bear. Boys, get your guns" " He did not think 1t was worth while to get his little sawed off gun, but his father told him that 1t was the very gun for use in the brush, so he took it along. There was an old bear and two cubs. Their dogs treed the two cubs about fifty yards apart up trees at the head of the lake, while the Stuh dog treed the old bear a little further away. He and Bob went to the cubs and their fathers to the old bear. He started right in to where the cubs were, but Bob re-