The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-05-15
CURRENT COMMENT
BY Henry Willis

BY Henry Willis
UPRIGHT. CHRISTIAN GENTLE
MEN are all too few for the passing
of one to be felt with less than an
acute n of loss. So it is that the
death of an old friend OF so many
of us, w. r. King, Cruger, leaves a
widespread feeling of personal be-
reavement. A clean man, an honor
able man, his life and conduct has
been an influence for good, in the
community wherein he labored for
so many years and so hard to Ease
the financial burdens of his neigh
bors, At one time when Banks were
falling like ripe waInuts in a wind,
Cashier King stood at the counter
refusing to prefer any depositor
and thereby maintained the honor
of the bank of Cruger. 1t would have
been much easier for him to lock
the vault and call the Banking De-
partment to take charge. Later his
Bank closed with all the other Banks
and reopened under Department
control. Mr.. King was at the helm
Of the reorganizad Bank and spent
the remainder of his life in unceas-
ing labor to build a sound Bank.
Success was not far off when the
great heart Of him could stand the
strain no longer and in the night of
May 4th, 1947, ceased to beat. His
faithful and loving wife and inspi-
ration was Of the Downer Clan and
his tired body now rests at peace in
the Downer Cemetery near Emory.
COOKIE" is HALF SCOTTIE, half
whatever may be. She arrived from
nowhere one day at a kindly home
and made it plain she had adopted
it as her own. She knew how to be-
have like a lady, and did, gave no
one any trouble, SO was admitted to
the family heart and took up her
basement quarters. Surprisingly one
morning there were four little Scot
ties that Cookie introduced with evil
dent pride. One day, when they were
several weeks old, Cookie jumped
from apparent sleep at her mistress
SIS feet and asked to be let out of
the house. Quickly she came back
in : she could open the screen door
from the outside : and ran to the
top of the basement steps all a-sha-
Ike. She barked once and up came
the puppies in an excited bunch.
Wagging all over with eagerness she
led them outdoors. The puzzled
mistress looked about to find what
caused the excitement and for the
first time noticed a strange Scottie
motionless and almost hidden by
dropping branches of a privet' Inc
pups frolicked back and forth be-
fore him. He shifted each as it came
close, turned and trotted off. Cookie
led the puppies back to the base
ment and slept again at her mistress
SIS feet.
1T HAPPENS THAT WAY SOME
TIMES. The ink hadn't dried on The
note about the Robin nesting on Mrs.
c. A. Moore's porch before the mot
her bird was found dead by the
nest with a hole in her head. What
made it? Who knows. Anywayits too
bad.
A STILL EARLIER WILLS WI
DOW" call was reported by Mrs.
Jesse Byrd as coming from John
Stewart Watson's pasture, back OF
Adam Henrich's house, at early twi-
light time.
THE TELEPHONES CHEERFUL
RING carried an alarm for the first
few times. 1t is quite pleasing to
know that some, at least, OF the
very nice and skilled operators are
back on the board after the shall we
say unwelcome lay-off of the last
four weeks. There is no reason to
think they went "out" with any n