The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-02-05
BLACKGUM HALL


line near Yorkville, and Mr.. Jameson
who lived near Nashville ferry, were
very chummy. They would exchange
visits and spend several days witt
I first one and the other. Mr.. Jameson
tired Of these lengthy calls and set
her wits TO work to break them up
During long wet spell and the roads
\ bad, she entered the room where the
good men were having a time. II was
near the hour of midnight, she said,
"Mr. Bolles did you see the messenger
that came for you minute ago."
"No madam, what was his errand ?"
"Said your wife very i'll and for you
to come to her at once" No such
messenger had been there, but Mr.,
Bolles got under his hat and hit the
road afoot for home at a 2:40 gait,
arriving there at l a. M, making six
miles an hour. He found the family
all sound asleep and Mrs. Bolles as
we'll as could be. Now in those days
there was no stock law and the fields
were fenced and the stock run at
large. Mr.. Bolles bided his time for
eighteen months and the time was
ripe for a comeback. Mr.. Jameson
was at that time living in the brick
house on the Craddock farm on the
Pickinsville road. A large sandy lane
ran through the farm. The sun was
furiously hot. A mile to the south in
the Kirkdale bottom, Mr.. Jameson had
a field of fine corn in full roastening
ear. Mrs. Jameson was in the middle
of a weeks washing, bare headed,
with her sleeves rolled above her ell
bows.
Mr.. Bolles riding by, called, MRS.
Jameson, is that Mr.. Jameson's corn
back there on the creek" eyes, why ?"
"There are 20 head of cows in the field
and they are playing havoc with the
corn" In those days women wore
dresses Mrs. jameson grabbed her
skirts in one hand and boiling stick
in the other, down the road through
sand and sun she flew. But when
she arrived at the field there was not a
COW near nor had there been. AS a
rule, this is the way, good is return
ed for evil" Stick peg here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jameson were next
door neighbors to us for several years
and when a boy | visited in the Bolles
home, in which was several pretty
girls. Here | found the GOODNESS that
existed between the two families grew
out of this practical joke. Forget it
not.
| have just. read in the paper what
Tempest and Splivins had to say of
the Blackgum letters and | had some
trouble in screwing my head back
right 1t was so turned | found my
self looking opposite to the way
was going.
The reader may ask what does p
P. stand for? Why the Peoples
Paper" of course, and edited by the
brainiest man in the South.
This turning of the head reminds
me of the drummer who put up at
the st. Charles hotel in New Orleans.
The clerk instructed the porter to
show the Corn Traveller to his room
on the 9Th floor and attend his wants.
Being man false personal he said
to the porter, "Be so kind as to ur~
screw my left leg and hang it on
hook" that being done he said un-
screw my arm, now take out my teeth,
now please take out my right eye"
The false limbs, teeth and cork eye
being disposed of he said BE careful
now | want you screw off my head and
hang it up"
At this request the porter reached
up, got his cap and said, Boss you
have to unscrew your head yourself
this niger is gone" and down he went
to the office floor at one step to
landing.
Miss Daisy, the interesting CORES
pondent from Dowdle to the p. p. asks
old Johnnie a very knotty question.
She says a certain auto never moves
out of its shed without a basket of
eggs and asks johnnie where do you
stand on this?' If she means the eggs
! stand on the outside Of at least a
half dozen at one time. But il she
means the car ! stand on the inside
or the running board.
One day last week I attended a
meeting Of Caledonia Camp Woodmen
Of the World. All the officers were
reelected except two. Mr.. Will Myers
was elected Council Commander and
W. p. Halbert was elected TO the
Board Of Managers.
From what | learned at this meet
ing the society in this country is in
a commatoSe state and only waiting
for the camp physician 70 announce its
death. / am told that not a member
has been initiated since the bogus
raise Of dues and cut in the policies.
There may be a damage suit started
against the county by a man who
claims his false teeth have been torn
into splinters by the jolts on the rock
roads.
Mrs. Bobbie Jones Of Cherokee re-
Gently presented her husband with a
new baby girl and he is hauling logs
20 Nickles & Sons mill preparatory
to building another room to his house.
Says he is glad there was not twins
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