Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-08-21
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By PERCY GREENE

settin up under the house running
my cotton oil mill of spools linked
together with cord and propelled
by an old discarded. sewing ma
chine that my grandma gave me,
used to hear the Ole Folks settin
on the front porch talkin and I'd
often hear my father coming in
late in the afternoon from one of
his jobs where he had the reputa-
ton of being one of the towns
best carpenters and job foremen,
Join in the conversation, and it
wouldn't be long before he'd start
tellin my mother about the talk
that went on among Aine Haggar's
Chillun on his various jobs
He'd always say before he ended
his part of the talkin that never
did last too long, that he got sick
of listening some time at folks
talkin a-lotta-who-sh John, he'd
always say it as though it was
on eword AS l most always
do when Pm settin down eating
my fish and drinking my beer lis
tening to the members of the tribe,
| thought about how my father
youse to talk about folks talkin
a-lotta- who shot-John, a saying
which | must confess, whose mean
ing never did occur to me while
| was setting under the house play
ing oil mill and which really didn't
dawn upon me until l had gotten
far past what you would cal, gittin-
grown, as the Ole Folks used to
say *. and if you don't happen
to know the meaning, it means,
folks going around doing the most
talkin who don't know what they're
talkin bout AS l started off
to say while l was settin down
drinking my beer and eating my
fish there was fellow over in the
corner who ha dcome mellowed by
his potion of the juice of the weed
from China who was talkin as
loud as he could in order to make
everybody stop to listen to him
although it was readily obvious
that he didn't know what he was
talkin bout Seeing that there
was nobody paying much attention
to him he grabbed an ole man by
the arm as he entered the door to
detain hi min order to make his
point, but the ole man turned on
him and sail, Look Brother, l
heard you while | was standing
out in front that's what's
wrong with Aine Haggar's Chillun
now we got too many folks
lack you Talkin a-lotta-who-
shot-John.
SOMETHING THAT MADE NE
LAFF: walk up on oltta Parish
Streeters gathered around my
friend Bob whose been living up
in Detroit for the past few years
who is back on a visit but amt
ashamed to tell it lack it is
Just as l walked up somebody
asked was it depression up in
Detroit and this is the way he de-
Scribed it Yes, Man, its so
many of them guys who bought
them big caddy's out of a job that
you can see the mnow walking up
and down the streets with their
pockets full of salt and pepper
ready to eat-up one another
HEARD ALONG THE OLE
AVE: That the big funeral the
other day for Charlie Boy the
slain night club operator, which
included more than 60 cars, may
not be the last thing heard of him,
that more may be heard when a
certain well-known private detec-
tive completes his investigation.
OVERHEARD IN PASSING: I |
had just finished reading in the
papers where that man that Gre
ates the styles for women over in
Paris has decreed that the stylish
women from here-on-out is going
to be flat-breasted, and while l
was walking down the Ole Avenue
two girls passed showing rather
prominently the Old Style when
one said, Child, don't known what
I'm gonna do with these things
now, much as l paid for 'em. J.. W. /
LOOK AT THAT NEW FRONT: |
The next time you're strolling up
and down the Ole Avenue be sure
hat you stop and look at that |
new front of Knox-Wells Appli-
ance Company which is proof again
that they're the up-and-coming
young business men of Farihs |
Street.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "All
government, indeed ehevry human
benefit and enjoyment, every vir-
Tue and prudent act, is founded |
on compromise and barter. Ed
nund Burke.
years. Last year the Wardmen CO.
starred with Eddie Fisher and /
louis Armstrong and their show
stopping performances won a star
ing role for them again this
rear. They also figured promin-
.ntly in establishing an all-time
record at the Fair last