The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-10-16
BLACKBURN HALL

a house cleaning recently and yo
have made the way clear for neS
correspondents, am offering you m,
Services, and as the Tempest" "Blu
Eyes" Cherokee" and "BAly" ar
doing such nice work, hope you will
add old "Johnnie" to the list.
AS rule when one man or woman
drops out of any kind of work there il
always better one to take Their
place. have heard it reported tina
under the new management the edi
tolials and general makeup of thC
Dispatch is much better Let thai
be as it may but if you can add to
your list Of correspondents a cyclone
from Mt. Vernon, Whirlwind from
Lamar and Prairie Buck from Art
esia or Mayhem, by the beginning OF
the new year, you give your readers
all the news worth reading.
am now writing for the third gem
GRAFTON as the owners Of the Dispatch.
4 When the late Hon. p. w. Maer was
a boy at school | was writing for
his mother. For many years after
Mr.. Maer took over the management
of the Dispatch | had access to it's
columns as special correspondent and
now | am in the same line with the
son and daughter of my lamented
friend and hope our business rela-
tions will prove as pleasant as that
Of their father and grandmother, and
our letter will prove of interest and
benefit to the readers.
The New Salem school opened up
last Monday with roll of as pupils
and Mr.. Herbert Nix, principal, and
Mrs. John Sharp, assistant. Mrs.
Sharp is an experienced teacher but
this is the first school for Mr.. Nix
and | am looking for a. successful
term, why?
In my time | have had the service
Of young doctors and young teachers
and they have, as a rule, given bet 1
ter satisfaction than older ones. The
young teacher and doctor do their
best to build rep while the old ones
depend on their rep instead of their
work.
regret to hear that Mr.. ]. T. Whit
ley, one Of the New Salem trustees is
talking of resigning. was young
but now | am old and have seen many
changes and witnessed the going and
coming Of many men and from what ]
| know of Mr.. Whitley he is one of
the best men / ever met, broad in
mind, liberal in his views as to the
rights of others, sound i'm Judgment,
fair in his dealings with his fellows
and in fact an honorable, upright.
high toned gentleman. Wish we had
more of his kind.
Mr.. Jim Burke is another of tho
Salem trustees and he is doing his
pest. to serve his neighbors as they :
should be.
If all the school trustees of the :
county were such as he, a four or five
months school would be worth as
much to the pupils as a seven or
linc months school as we have been
having. Let the trustees get work I
If the teachers or get his goat. Let
he patrons stand by the trustees and :
III see that all do their duty.
Now listen, if this truck business :
vas tried out or cut out till this coun-
y is out of debt it would help solve
he tax problem. Children of today :
get their education too cheap. Don't
it as if they had to work
or it. My brother walked six miles
o school, my children walked four
niles through the prairie mud to and
rom school
If there is not a halt made in the
expenditure Of the county funds we
will soon be taxed out of house and :
Iome
Mrs. Johnnie has been sick for! :
hree weeks but is better now She :
Iad her heart set on having a big :
ime at the homecoming" next :
,eek. She was a great dancer in her :
Dung days and she is anxious to see :
he turkey trot on Main street and If :
hat turkey can out trot the trot she :
makes me trot, then he is some trot :
err
Tell you what she did I reduced :
ny cotton acreage to one acre and :
tainted it last Saturday in April. :
hen Mrs. Johnnie says chop it out =
D hoes width and pillow once a week :
got an so well at that she had me 3
, 90 over it twice a week with the =
low. About the middle of July 3
i'd it by on a Monday. We had a =
retty good shower and she says, =
rop IN with a heel sweep. SO in
ent and laid that cotton by twice in 3
Ne week.
Now the result Made 410 H. bale. 3
old it for $3.50, seed $40, $3.50 in 8