Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1953-08-01
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BY PERCY GREENE

NIGHT: Giving and taking IN mar
riage didn't mean much to Amt
Haggar's Chilluns back FOUNDER
befo '65 when ever a man and
woman met that had the mutual
feeling they jest hooked-up and
where there was Cabin at hand
started living togather, and went
on that way til they were separat-
ed by the trader or by the then
slightly more sure hand of death,
and since '65 a lotta Amt Haggar's
Chillun have been jes hooking-up
whenever and wherever man and
woman met, and caused of the
hangover from the days befo '65
as regards the morals of Chilluns
of the tribe, de-law has been let
ting the Chilluns of the tribe live
as common-law husbands and wiz
es, quit onenutther and hook-up
again without a divorce in cases
where they got piece of paper
in the first place, establishing a
practice of cuncubinage as wide
spread as in the days when before
the LORD got mad and burned-up
them two towns where so much
mess was going on and turned the
woman to a pillar of salt cause she
looked back at the fire All that
living togather in "Common-law"
and moving from one wife and
husband to another without get
ting a divorce was all right back
FOUNDER befo '65 because in them
days Amt Haggar's Chilluns wasn't
under the law, but nowadays be-
ing under the law, these common
law husbands and wives, and NOV
ing from one husband and wife to
another without getting a divorce
is causing more trouble, and cost
ing Amt Haggars Chilluns more
money, and giving the courts more
headaches, than any other single
hangover from the days befo '65
that's still afflicting Amt Haggar's
Chillun | was listening to the
mournful story of the wife whose
dead husband had left her with
five children, but who had been
living with her long enough to
do all-a-that, but hadn't got no
divorce from the wife befo her,
while l was eating ma fish and
drinking ma beer and whilst
| was setting there | figured that
it'd be a good time now to tell
all-you-all that's living Common
Law" that you'd better stop long
enough to git Strengthened out and
git the right kinda papers fixed up
before you die cause then it
amt gonna be nuthin but a mess
for them that's left behind ;.
ALONG THE OLE AVENUE:
L. B. Swiftly" Davis, of the Citi-
zens Funeral Home Tyler, Texas,
and Chairman of the Board, Texas
Church Ushers Convention, w. L.
Mcmillan, former dean of M. l.
College up at Holly Springs, now
Principal of Rollins High School,
Tyler, Texas, enroute to Washing
ton to attend the Church Ushers
National Convention.
WHAT GOES THERE: Up at
Cleveland where folks from all
over the state was attending the
Baptist State Convention last week
somebody told me that Prof. Bell
of the Cleveland Consolidated
School where the convention was
held got word from "HIS FOLKS"
not to make the welcome address
to the convention. | always thought
Brother Bell had the true religion.
BAD NEWS FROM KOREA:
Amid the good news of the signing
of the Armistice in Korea come
this bad news that Sam Wright,
local boy, son of Mrs. Rhea
Wright, of West Jackson, was
killed on July 18th. Accidently
shot by a fellow soldier who was
cleaning his gun.