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S££M AMD MSARD AKOUMD TOV/M By - Mrs, F^ed Richards, WOODIE YOUNG and GUY WARLICK washing dishes after the Preacher had been to dinner . . . CADET G.W. CIAY coming out of Rogers Theatre with his pretty fiance- , . • PEOPLE buying nev/ corn meal to eat with their turnip greens .', , roED RHICIiARDS with swollen jaw v/here he had some teeth pulled, telling every one I socked him , , . IJRS. NANCY CAIDV/ELL, rushing in to the Tea Sunday Afternoon, all out of breath. She had been off visit ing and almost didn’t get back in time for it. , . CATIiERINE D5UT0N telling about loosing her purse vdth almost forty dollars in it . .BUD BOVJMAN pushing Tai Wallace’s ’'dope”car dovm a hill so it v/ould crank . • #RUTH VJRiiY and BLAl^CH EAPCIll of Charlotte having a nice visit • , . The COMPANY STORE getting its face lifted . . . BILL COBB and NORRIS COSINER leaving for parts unknovm. They’ve joined the Marines ... A large crowd at REV. CLAY'S last preach ing date before he goes to conference. V/e all hope he and his nice family will be allowed to stay hero . . . liRS KtXTHLEEN BEATTY WALL greeting old friends when she was here on a visit to her mother, lurs.LILY BEATTY. . . "GOOBER” Wease working feverishly in his new sandwich shop next door to Rogers Theater . . .HEITOY CLONINGER putting a fresh paint job on BURG and MAIvQE SOUTHAPJ)’S house, SEM AND HEARD AT THE' COTTON WAREHOUSE FIRE . . . VJhen Lawndale has a fire every body drops everything, including the baby, and goes, as is, iiMY LEE JENKINS, just out of the cotton patch, was there in overalls and shoes vjith'' the whole toe out of each . . . M/JCEE SOUTHi'iRDS dropped the wood she was stacking up and v/ent dressed in a faded print v;ith a large hole in the stoiiiach . , . CHARLES i'X)RNEY was running around like a chicken with its head cut off ... I was there fresh out of the laundry, with nary a button on the front of - my dress and not much under it, with the help of a large needle I borrowed from JEf'ffiL RICPIARDS, I managed to keep from disgracing myself* . . , POY SOUTHi'^RDS ESCORTED THE OFFICE FORCE, who cnme in a body to look, lament, then leave.. . .0PH-HUNT was clearing the track for his bus to go down the back alley (The hose was across the highway). JULIE lOVMlY and }SBS EVA 1L\UNEY came rushing up after it was almost out . . . INEZ LINGER- FELT, her little boy and MRS. C1X)ICLNGER came up. INEZ took a good look at her little boy’s face, mopped it vigorously vdth the tail of her dress. It didn’t do a bit of good . . , MRS. DOVIE RICHARDS kept wondering why it (the hose) didn’t s quirt a big-;er stream. . . You should of seen JOHNNIE ELMORE and his crew come mshing up with LiMJDx\LE’S fire engine, which is a cross between a cart and a baby buggy .’ . , It is rumored that PEiJ’X SQEEZY and JENNIE LOU V/AJJACE almost v/ore their furniture out, moving it in and out as the fire would get under control then blaze up again , . . Children, black and white, were dropped on all the chicken houses, hog pens and every available spot so as to talce in the show . , .Jewel RICHARDS told us about the time S/Jvl LEE’S store burned. She became so frightened when sparks began falling on her house that she carried a filled trunk all the v/ay to Joe SVJEEZYS house. Next day she had to get two men to carrj^'it back home. I guess JACK SOUTHilRDS REIvIElvIBERS that night also. He carried tv;o 50-lb, bags of flour, one under each arm, out of the store as fast as he could pick them up. Next day he nearly fainted when shown the work he had done.
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