The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-07-15
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In browsing through souvenirs re-
Gently l ran across an old photo
graph that brought back memories
of yesteryears. 1t was a picture of
a group of Durant Methodists that
toured the Methodist orphanage in
Jackson on a Sunday years ago.
They all wore badges and had ban
ners on he cars with "Durant" in
bold letters. In the party were the
following persons and many others
unnamed who nave passed on to
better world. Among those still
around were c. G.. Mansfield. Mrs.
Arthur Meredith, now of Grenada,
Cliff Mayfield, Mrs. v. l.. Willis,
Robert Payne Neblett, manager of
the Jackson Municipal airport, the
Rev. and Mrs. r. p. Neblett of
Shelby, Joe Ogletree, v. L. Willis,
Martha Ann Tate, Mrs. w. B. Nicols
of Jackson, Mrs. j. r. Brown, w. A.
Brown Of Jackson, Janice Guess
Dickerson, of Jackson, about whom
I wrote last week, Walter Odom,
Miss Rhyme, Doris Willis Win
born of Vicksburg, Ruth Elmore
Pova1l of Lexington. Edith Rhyme,
Mr. Brooks, Mrs. John Racine, Mrs.
r. G. Elmore, Bob Deckard, Mrs.
Zouella Bacon, Mrs. c. r. Bennett
of Canton, Miss Lottie Norquist OF
Clarksdale. G. r. Bennett Of Can
ton, Roy Welsh, J. S. Kealhofer,
Mrs. B. w. Moore, J. r. Brown, Jr.,
W. H. Petty of Tchula. and Jesse
Yawn.
The reason / wasn't among the
crowds was that my son, Joe F.
Guess, had fallen off the top of a
box car where he had been play
ing and hit himself in the stomach.
AS a result I had to take him to
get x-rayed to see if he had crack
ed anything. He was all bent in the
middle. Joe was by to see me not
so long ago. His son Joe, Jr., had
Just busted his lip on something,
and as a result they had to take
stitch or two in his lip. So he said,
<'Mom. ! don't see how you ever
lived through rearing u.s." and men,
toned his falling from the box car.
All of that reminds me of the
time I was president of the Sunday
School class. It was not long after
the new church was built and we
needed so many things for the
room. In order to raise some money
we set up a hamburger stand at
HUMPHREYS stock farm one day soon
when they had a cattle sale, and
sold food and drinks. We cleared
500 that day, but could never have
gotten through the day had it not
been for Artie Hall, who helped to
make and serve the hamburgers and
hot dogs. Can't remember another
soul that helped.
Sometime about this time the
women and men of that same Sun
day school class decided to bet who
could get the most members. Who
ever lost had to give the winning
side banquet and of course the
poor old women lost. AS it was our
lot to entertain, it fell my lot to
make the welcome address. I was
not accustomed to making speeches,
SO Mrs. r. P. Neblett wrote my
speech for me and l memorized it.
Even so, l was SO nervous l felt as
though I couldn't go through with
1T, but hit upon bright idea when
! went by the drug store on my way
to church.
l told the druggist to give me
n lnt e., Il .
allied me. He wanted to know what
allied me. l said case of jitters SO
he fixed me up shot of ammonia
and sent me on my way rejoicing.
l got through with it all right but
l don't know how, for ammonia or
not, / was really scared to death.
Monday, week ago, landed in
Durant at 8 a. m. The printer left me
sitting there high and dry and now
/ want to tell you that l did get
TO Lexington that same day and on
my rounds while in Durant. When
l first got there l went straight to
Howell and Heggie, ran into Mrs.
w. H. Heggie as she was going to
work looking very smart
in a plaid Bingham dress with one
of those skirts bearing swing .
While enjoying not-too-cold Coca
Cola saw Jim Daniels, Murray Ste
vens, Mrs Joe Hughes, of Farmers
vile, Louisiana, and Mrs. Charles
Durham and infant son, little Char
les who is almost as big as his dad
dy and is only seven months old.
Eph Cresswell, a popular young
attorney, was visiting with his sis
ter Mrs. Dock Winborn DIR.
J. w. Howell was putting out the
pills to the customers as fast as
they came in . The stores
were closed for the day so couldn't
do much business Stopped
in at Tommie's cafe, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Odom and Paul, Jr., of Stur-
gis who spent the weekend here
were having breakfast Went
by the Ritz. Annie Ward was not