Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1922-04-20
THE RICHLAND RECORD
FRANK WHITE, Editor and Owner


Richland, Texas, April 16 1922.
The Oxford Eagle,
Oxford, Mississippi.
! There is no doubt in my mind that
you will wonder who the dickens
this letter is from and for what pur-
pose it is written, for | am sure | do
not know the present owners and
editors, but | did meet one Mr.. Price,
at Mexia, Texas, some weeks ago
who told me ne was from "my home
town Oxford, Mississippi. This
young fellow at that time was oper-
ating machine-typesetting ma
| chine, you understand-on the Mexia
Morning Telegraph.
When | was devil in the Ok
ford Eagle, it was owned by Mrs.
E. A. Thompson. Wilma Kennedy
and Tom Stone were the other mem
bers of the crew, except and old ne
gro who pulled" the G. Washington
press, whose name | do not remem-
Der. was there as 'devil'' in the
job end which was under the control
of Tom Stone, and it was there we
printed the life of that notorious Will
| Matthews, and also printed the
Magazine for University. of which
the present Governor of Mississippi
was business manager.
l merely mention these facts that
you might verify same to see if |
really am a product of those North
Mississippi Hills. l was pretty well
known there when a kid, being
agent for the old Memphis Morning
News and for number of years
devil" in one of the two printing Of
fees there at the time. Barbour &
Burt ran the other office, and Will
/ Robertson was the other man. They
also printed the Oxford Globe and
the University Record of which Mar
vim H. Brown, now of Fort Worth,
Texas, and a possible candidate for
Governor of Texas two years hence,
was the business manager.
| | have wanted to write letter to
the "Old Home Town" for a long
time, but this Easter Sunday after
noon l pulled paper out OF the post
office box and 10, and behold it was
the Oxford Eagle. Wonder who was
so good to send me a paper. | failed
to see how it was addressed, being
so eager to get at the contents when
| I gazed upon that familiar headline,
which | know so well. Anyway, the
paper caused me to come to my Of
flee and proceed to write this let
ter.
/ There is many things in this paper
| that is of much interest to me, and
as | remember the happy and sad
: j ,ofI
with people whose names appear in
this paper of the week of April Ii.
| For one, there is Miss Della Rod
gers name mentioned as being a
member of new hospital staff of the
DR.. Scale Hospital at Holly Springs
Possibly Miss Della has forgotten
me only at times-possibly when
she passes the old home. which was
I just short distance from where she
and Grandpa McClartv lived south
east of Oxford. Miss Della was one
4 of my mothers best and dearest
friends, and it fills my heart when
/ | think of the days they have spent
together, in that long ago.
| Then, in another place, there is
the name of Miss Laura Fades. God
bless her. She had the patience to
try and teach a gang of us young
sters something when we were COM
ing along, and she is still there, or
in that section. 1t is awful hard to
remember the names of the boys and
girls that were in my class when
Miss Laura dispensed knowledge,
but following is a few of them: VIII
lie Bramlett, Hexter Bogard, William
and Whit Rowland, Edwin HoWry,
Herman Howry, Edwin Furr, Clara
Lee Hampton, Vivian and Wilma
Wallace, Louise Temple, and On, SO
MANY others that | would so mucn
like to see, and some of these days
T am going to drop in as if thun-
der bolt out of a clear sky, and look
all these boys and girls over and see
how many of them can remember
me as one of their former class
mates.
Some months ago, before coming
to Richland to establish my paper, l
met another of the home boys, VINO
iall of the younger fellows VIII re-
member-Carey King, who is now
general attorney for the Magnolia
Petroleum Co., and one Sunday al
ternoon, my brother Nathan, who
. also lives in Dallas. called up Rev;
, King at their home, and the dear ola
man is very feeble in mnid and body,
and thinks only in the past, and
: while he could not see us. he remem-
bered that one of us was blond and
the other a brunette and that we
were the -grandsons of one of his
members, Nathan Worley. We sat
: there for hours talking to Bro. King
| and his family and it really did him
good for us to call and see him. All
Of his children are with him, except
Carey and Ike who have married.
Then Nathan met Jimmie Nichols
j in Dallas some months ago while !
was there, but / never was able to
connect with him, but there ! found
the KershaW family-all Of them.