Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1951-03-24
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BY PERCY GREENE

me eternally curious, until after a
lapse of several years, when | had
reached the age where it might
be thought proper that | pose
question to my elders (kids don't
think like that today | got up
enough courage one day to ask
Uncle James what did he use all |
Of them metal rods for which were
piled up under the house, in answer
to which he told me that those
were the rods he used when he
used to go out hunting for hidden
treasure; but right there his in
formation stopped and although
| raised the question several times
later, | never could get him to tell
te about any hidden treasure he
found while out on the treasure
hunting expeditions. During this
time Uncle James was just about
the biggest ice dealer in town with
a number of employees and ice
wagons serving the whole of north
Jackson, and the treasure he found
in the ice business enabled him to
acquire some valuable property
while adding a thriving grocery
store to the ice business. 1t oc-
CURED to me to be somewhat
strange that while was indulging
my fish and beer my thoughts ran
back to my Uncle James and his
treasure hunting rods but
on second thought, despite the con-
versations going on around me, |
figured 1t out to be the result of +.
them stories that I've been read
ing in the newspapers here of late
about Negro farmers right here
in the Old Magnolia State, and in
other states in the south, whose
yearly earnings run into the thou
sands, some of whom, only a few
years ago were just ordinary share
troopers burdened down with all
the disabilities of that kind of
life. What | imagined happened
is that these folks, like was evil
dent in what happened to my
Uncle James, quit dreaming of I
luck, and starting to think about
taking advantage of the first op-
portunity to do some real work
towards the attainment of their
londest dreams. i. Wake up, Amt
Haggar's Chilluns, Wake Up.
VISITORS TO OUR OFFICE
!. during the past few days in
cluded President Otis of Alcorn
College, who incidentally didn't
look anything at all like a man
who had just recovered from a
major operation, and / am sure
his many friends will be happy
to know that he is really okay.
WHERE I'LL BE FRIDAY
NIGHT : If any of you Kats
and Kids wanta find me Friday
night, you find me out at the
Jackson College Gym, where the
jackson College Alumni Associa-
ton is putting on its first real en-
tertainment for the Teachers
Meeting. It's a DANCE, and the
Music will be furnished by ROY
BROWN, and his famous Band (.
and incidentally, if any you Alumni
and your friends need a good
breakfast Friday morning you'll
find it fixed for you by the Asso-
citation in Johnson Hall out at the
college.
SEEN ALONG THE OLE AVE
NUE. :. this week was seventeen
I'D year old Johnny Lee, of
Laurel, who was just a few days
ago flown in from Korea where
he was wounded during some of
the worst fighting during the
winter. He was a volunteer.
Who's got anything to say about
our patriotism.
It'd BITS OF NEWS Rev.
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st Rentonia last sunday Dan
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