The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-07-01
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By Hazel Brannon


After spending three days al
a press convention on the Miss
issippi's famous Gulf Coast it il
hard to settle down to the ser
ious business Of finding enough
happenings to fill up a news
paper when everyone you ash
for news says, my goodness
nothing's happening. Every.
things so dead"
And when all the advertiser
say, Its just so hot people
don't want to buy anything
We would like to suggest
(helpfully) that if q merchants
waits until a customer comes
looking him up to buy something
he'll wait till a hot day in Dec
ember. Of course there have
been few and far between.
If you want to sell get custom.
ers into your store by advertis-
ing. So come along, Mr.. Merch,
ant, and let's advertise.
Personally we'd just as soon
close our office in June and open
next October. But in the mean.
time something MIGHT happen
that would need to get in the
paper. Then where would we be
- HHaZM EsH4# 49, W nUHHWN IL
Everyone who has a written
contribution to make to this
paper will find an aircondition-
ed box with so pounds Of ice
(from the Southern United Ice
Company in it. That's to keep
the contributions from melting.
Paid adv.
We've found out now why
newspaper folks who use only
two fingers or the typewriter
get more pleasure out Of their
work. They can carry on at al
times. even after sticking theil
fingers in an electric fan.
Don't 60 deep-sea fishing or
the Gulf Coast unless you have
plenty Of suntan oil on the ex.
posed anatomy. You'll spend
plenty of restless nights.
Catching your first fish is like
catching the first beau you ever
set your cap for. Once he's land
ed you lose the thrill.
The spade fish were really bit.
ing Saturday. They got the bait
off the hook before the line got
in the water. and away they'd
go. One man said to the writer
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if WI
could take money away from oul
customers as fast as these fist
take our baiti"
It was q case Of the fish out
smarting the fishermen.
At that we caught SIS in tn
space of a short time.
There's going to be a hot tim
N the old town tonight. =. tn
theme song Of DICTIONARIES wh'
will invade jackson starting
July 4 and lasting four days
5000 Legionnaries can't be wroni
tbs rumored, my friends, tina
old Art Kassel and his Kassels il
the Air will invade Durant OF
July q. tn be the biggest dane
these parts have e for thre'
years. Durant used to get bi,
dances, we hear. Looks like hap
py days are here again.
1t has been 161 years since tn
Continental Congress adopted tn
Declaration of independence
Few People know the celebration
was suggested by John Adams il
a letter to his wife written on tn
day the Declaration was signed
1t is a holiday in every stat
in the Union. In the east it j
celebrated with fireworks. In tn
south we reserve the firework
for Christmas. On July 4 we pic
ME.
Merely different ways of dc
ing things in different sections Q
the country.
Tom Hager, Intertype represen
tative from Tuscaloosa, Alabam;
suggested, after reading las
weeks Knock Knock, that tn
deacon who had not, arrived i
heaven the next morning afte
dying the night before had prot
ably been caught in one Of thes
Mississippi detours.