Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-06-12
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BY PERCY GREENE

BY PERCY GREENE
PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: was setting down eatint
ny fish and drinking my beer ane
S the evening mellowed into the
hight when Aine Haggar's Chillur
rather in the favorite places w
and down the Ole Avenue, watch
ID as they began to come togathel
sround the tables to rest from Their
shopping strolls while indulging as
was doing except for now anC
then an occasional order of friec
,hicken Setting there looking
md listening my mind lead me of
INTO thinking about what some OF
the things that folks've been say.
,ng in the newspaper since them
Judges got togather and expressed
theyselves different from what
most folks thought they would do
and | decided then and there to
listen and see if the members OF
the tribe of Haggar was being
disturbed much by what some folks
in them hig places been saying
bout them and it wasn't what
Senator Stennis said some where
the other day bout the morals that
Aine Haggar's Chillun got, or aint
got, although us is been readin dc
same Bible and serving de same
God ever since some of them Afri-
can Kings first sold some us tC
come over here to work with some
of de folks that they had let outta
them jails in England to come over
here because they'd been 'kused OF
being to lazy to work and pay their
honest debts While | set there
eating my fish and drinking my
beer and listening at what was
being said | couldn't hear nothing
being said that | could hang
hat-on, so-to-speak, til some fellow
who said he had to drive his truck
bout thirty miles back in the
country and get up early Sunday
morning to go to the 'vival meeting
move to bring the conversation to
close which he did by say
ing, Looka hyar, U'alls, l show
amt worrin none bout what nobody
says bout us folks cause US Cullud
Folks is Citing more lack dem
Why-folks eber-day
SOMETHING THAT MADE NE
LAFF: B. F. Brooks, commenting
on the Elks meeting starting up at
Greenville Sunday, telling me that
he felt like offering a prize of 500
to anybody in the United States
who could name an organization
being run "worse" than the Mis-
sissippi Elks Association.
SADNESS IN THE NEWS:
Miriam Wright, Old Time Parish
Streeter, who used to sing in the
Choir up at Christ Temple Church
in the days when just to go and
hear that choir sing was something
to look forward to was found dead
in bed at his home up in Detroit
where he has been living for the
past few years and Mrs.
Annie Ross, wife of George Ross,
hail and hearty all the week who
died suddenly Monday night at
their home in Virden's Addition.
THEY'RE GETTING READY:
The Grand Lodge of Knights of
Pyuthians will hold it's annual
meeting down at Laurel next
month and I've just got word from
Brother R. A. Bright and Brother
j. Liner that a goodtime will be
had by everybody who attends the
meeting.
FAILY REUNION: | just got
word that big home coming and
family reunion will soon be held at
Chaple Hill Baptist Church at Mar
tinsville. 1t will be gathering of
the Robinson family. The call is
being made by Rev. J. P. Robin
son, who makes his home in Elk
hart, Indiana, and members of the
Robinson family are hereby mott
fled to get ready.
TICE TO HOUSEWIFE
CONTESTANTS: All contestants
for the title of the Most Popular
Housewife, the number one event
of the Home Service Fair and
Kitchen Karnival, June II, 10, 10,
at the College Park Auditorium
will make their semi-final reports
Tuesday night at the office of the
Jackson Advocate, 406h N. Parish
Street, eight o'clock, the leaders
picture to 60 on the front page of
the paper next week, the final re-
port to name the winner will be
Saturday night at the College Park
Auditorium.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: The
virtue that requires to be ever
guarded is scarcely worth the senti-
nel."- Oliver Goldsmith.