The Leighton News from Leighton, Alabama • 4

A Few Remarks Jeffrey's Mill. Hit. G. E. MARTIN WRITES.

DR. L. E. RAY Answers Mr. DeLano Admits "Hell in Texas" but Claims to Have It "Cornered.

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DeLano. Although I have 110 1 iced that the editor says be has on hand more material than he has space for, I will contribute a little more, as I presume he would rather have too much than too little. Good morning "Alex," glad to see you feeling so well after your long silence. That old "bazoo" of yours must have a bell muzzle, to scatter all over the state of Texas the way it did. Fire it again and perhaps you can stir up another correspondent for The News.

The one you shot before certainly was a curiosity and if they have any more like him let's get 'em. Mr. NeSmith gets back with an other letter in which he claims to analyze my former contribution, and show just what is in it. and uses a few more of his choice com parisons. For example: fast as a sow drinks slop" and "the little dog that barks at the moon This little dog is probably one of the hound pup3 he wrote of before.

After carefully reading his letter I find he analyzes only the poem which I sent. Now if he will read my letter he will find that I said the soldier expressed his feelingsr did not say he expressed mine; because be did not. He says I pouted out my vials of wrath at Tf xas. My friend, I have nothing against Texas at all. I- am only trying to prove to you that she and ner people nave their laiiings as well as the rest of ns.

I thank you the chronicgrnmbler's shoes don't fit me. Better finish wearing them out yourself or throw them away. ith the close of your letter I can find no fault. It is good and expresses a good sentiment. It is all God's country and the grandest country on the face of the earth.

in spite of its faults. If we hunt for faults we can find them any where in Texas as well as Alaba ma. In our best friends as well as our enemies, and if we will only admit it we can fijd plenty of them in ourselves, ior none of us are perfect. So let us bury the hatch et and took for the good thines awhile. 1 his argument has been quite interesting while it lasted, but it is worn out or about so.

venditor is certainly right in his cash-in-advance system. If people would only learn to pay as they go they would' be so much Better on. 1 lie cash system pays in other things as welt as in the newspaper business. The credit system has killed many a good man and ruined many others. Thanking the correspondents for their many kind wishes I will close.

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Jim and Sherman Lowery attend ed the all-day singing near Littleville the third Sunday. Chas. Jeffreys and son Fred at tended the Union picnic at Town Creek the 2 ist. Misses Eva and Ida Utley spent a few moments last Sunday with this scribe. Mr.

and Mrs. Charnel Redon were the guests of Walter Kerby last Saturday and Sunday. Miss Emma Wright spent last Sunday very pleasantly with her friend, Miss Oler Campbell. It seems as though the young people are not taking any interest at all in the singings, as they don't attend very often. 5 What has become of the corre spondents, at Mehama and Little-1 ville? Write oftener.

Mrs. Alf Brown and mother, of Leighton, are spending a few weeks with friends at Cleaver. Mr. Edie Jeffreys, the machine agent of Littleville, spent Satur day night at the home of the writer. Several of the young people here will attend the singing at Bethlehem the fifth Sunday.

Mrs. Moine jenreys nas been on. the sick list. Miss Virgie Lowery attended services at the King Bridge school house last Sunday. Aitha Jeffreys.

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Cascasweet mother must give her, then she'll be bright as the day. It is sold here by II. P. Knmpe. kcialis Corn is looking well and well worked up: cotton is beginning to grow some, though it is very small for the time of the year; don't think there can be more than half crop of cottton made in this country this year.

We were sorry to hear of Mr. Joe Campbell losing a fine mule; that is about as much as loosing cotton crop nowadays. The Farmers' Union held their county meeting at Town Creek on Friday and Saturday oi last week. L. C.

Jeffreys, at Leighton, visited his father, J. W. Jeffreys, last Sunday. Mr. lAex.

Pipes says be would be glad if the boys who get his fish hooks on the creek last Satur day would please bring them back. I. W. Teffreys is preparing to have his eyes treated for cataract, We wish for him a grand success, 1 as he is most blind. I will say to L.

Campbell, that I don't know whether or not the kind editor would like to convert The News into cultural paper thought an 'agri- it looks very nice to mention the condition of the crops. Mrs. Nancy Patterson was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Pipes, last Saturday night and Sunday. Thos.

Jeffreys made a flying trip to Landersvitle last Sunda'y Mrs. Hughie King is very ill with Dr. Etheredge in attendance The doctor is very busy nowadays visiting the sick. He is sure the right man in the right place. B.

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John Crowder is very ill today (Monday). He is threatened with typhoid fever. Mr. fcditor: i send you Ji 25 on subscription. I don't know how we stand.

Your cash in advance system is all right. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Suggs and family, of Mount Hope, Route No 2, visited this scribe Saturday last and returned home Sun lay. Mr.

Sugg says cotton in his neigh borhood is shorter than it is down here. R. W. Crowder. Do not Neglect the Children.

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There will be a meeting of Camp Fred A. Ashford, U. C. at Town Creek, on the first Saturday, iu Jnly, next, at 2 o'clock p.m. Let all the members be present in person or by proxey Those who are in arrears in annual dues will please come or send pre pared to pay same.

'J. L. Lyndon, Commander W. T. McMahon, Adjutant.

A Fortunate Texan. Mr. E. W. Good toe, of 107 St.

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in St. past ing over the back issues of my papers I notice that some of your scribes are puffed up with glee like pelicans over DeLano' bursting his eass-bae over in Ohio. He must owe old Alabama a great debt of some kind, or else is up there to reduce his omnebopoint by such occasional explosions, as he gets too fat down there pullin' mullin weeds and chopping sassa- in two weeks I'll go you the che-. roots he had his pockets chuck full of sassafras roots when he weighed the last time. The poor prodigal! and to think those scribes are looking up to him with out-stretched hands as a good Samaritan brother and him in Ohio? Do they think the further you get from Alabama the brighter the mind? Why not look to Texas for relief? Why go to a man, altho' a mathematical genius, of generations, who admits bv his absence that he can do bet- But whatever he knows about Alabama he is certainly holding down the dunces' 'bench and slinging unlimited ignorance of his self-supposed knowledge of Texas, and must be trying to unload a surplus of many years, at a high rate of interest.

But I will give him credit for every thing that's true. He admits that "we have got hell cornered in Texas." That's a chromo on our state government, for she is the only state yet able to put it in one corner, instead of turning the cut-throats and rape fiends aloose to pilfer the whole state. About us "lacking in civilization," how about those poor fellows Bro. Howell writes of there in jail? How about that mobbing in Birmingham last week? You speak of our "peons and greasers." What do you mob back there? Did you ever read or hear of a greaser committing rape, or being: mobbed? not me, and I have lived in Texas thirty-three years. They are very inoffensive people, and pay spot cash for every thing they buy, and one of them can pull more mullin in a day than any black and tan you are fertilizing to educate.

Yes, Texas has her "borders ust like any other state, but her worst ones are on paper, put there by the. ignorance due the four teenth century. My dear sir, don't worry yourself about our border on old Mexico. All our school children knew of the old "Santafe 'Trail" that the people of your country and Kansas and all those Northern states, and the United States kept up, and of the billions of and millions of cattle that passed over it; and I can touch men in a few hours, now living in Texas making immense fortunes in the late discovered gold fields of Mexico. Write the President of tjie New Orient R.

R. how miles and miles of his road is built million of dollars he contributed to the road. "Peons or greasers, you may call them, but they are odorless and harmless. That "poem," yes it was a good rhime. I remember the author came to our town while we lived at Fort Griffin.

His skin was white but he took up board with one of his old friends from Alabama (a colored gentleman.) The next thing he was bathed with a wet rope given a coat of tar, snook op in a barrel of feathers, and when he got out he was looking for "Border State." He didn't have time to stop this side of the "Rio Grand" and invented the place he wrote of to tear the tar and feath ers off him. As you say "it came high" and when you find that place you can see tar and feathers on all the briars. Yes, I will back op NeSmith hail in fact it was a small affair. it I had any iceburgs yet; and as to Bro. Howell's hail back there (poor old fellow) I've never seen hail scythe-blades yet in this country, but I guess you all need them in your mullin fields.

We have a twister now and then but have never run across one myself. If one ever does run up against me tno I guess I will not be very long in reversing it, judging from your compliment. I appreciate your sympathies as to my ignorance of Webster. You see us people in Texas have a vocabulary of our own had always heard Webster was a "Big One" and I knew Texas was a big one and I just supposed Texas was the Webster State, and as I couldn't find any guano" didn't think it was in Webster. I am glad you learned so much when you were a boy in school, but am sorry to see your memory failing so fast.

Mayby your geography didn't have Texas in it. You see they had to trim it down several times before they could get it in a geography. You are right; I never went to school but very little. I wouldn't begin to work at such a huge example i. the one.

you sent your Bro. D. H. the catch to. I would have been sure to hamstring a mule or two trying to unsaddle that example, but if you can jump out a tew thousand or a hundred thousand bales of spot cotton I will buy it B.

M. and give you all you skin me out of. A few of the scribes claim they are having trouble locating me. might say they will find me in The Leighton News if they are wide awake. If they want any refer ence I shall be glad to give it, for the asking.

en, Alt Uradtord, there was some need of your having a leather hat-band as horns grow on most all yearlings and you might have been in iminent danger. I would sure like to see you mix up in badger fight. You must have been a greaser "sure nuff" or else aw fully lazy as you were kept on the move most all the time. You must be some kin to "Alex" thesnooser. As the editor is howling for space I will close.

Yours truly, C. E. Martin. Mount Stanley. Messrs.

E. P. Allison, Enoch Wines. R. P.

McDanH. and the writer went to Sheffield Friday night to try the skating rink, but like the boy who said he would never enter the water again until be learned to swim, we won go again until we learu to skate. we sharpened our pencil to record the fa5t that we need rain "mighty bad," but in the mean lime the wtsiied-ior ram has come and crops are greatly revived. A Urge number of our people attended the County Union meet ing at Town Creek last week and report a good time. Miss Maggie Lee came in from school recently.

Every since that time Mr. -has been wearing a sweet smile. Rev. L. WaJdrep will preach at Mt.

Stanley' every third Sunday at it o'clock. Everybody invited to attend. Union boys and ladies will hold another ice cream supper Mt. Stanley in the near future. Mr.

J. B. Cotton and wife spent Sunday with relatives at Brick. Mrs. Brum ley died Sunday June 23, alter an illness ol severs months.

She was a member the Missionary Baptist chnrch and always lived an exemplary Christian life. To the bereaved children we extend our heartfelt sympathy. M. C. Cotto.h.

jUt 1st Intoihrm tag) Littleville. Farmers ate glad to see such nice weather for they can kill a little grass. Corn and cotton are growing nicely now. We had a nice rain a few days ago which was badly needed. Most of our farmers have their crops hoed out and sided up.

I heard that Mr. Luther Lowery was married Wednesday, the 19th. Cousin, I wish you well and am glad to have a good looking new cousin. We had a nice singing at the Phagon school house Sunday. A large crowd and plenty of dinner and some nice singing and good behavior.

The leaders were Prof. W. C. Mitchell, J. S.

Lowery, J. M. Lowery, Henry Taylor, Russell McCarver, and several others, and the singing was certainly enjoyed. There was a surprise wedding in our town Tuesday, the 1 ith. Lon- nie Honey and Miss Deller Kee nom were happily married and left oh the north-bound train for Tuscumbia, where they will make their home.

Both quite young Honey is about twenty and his wife fourteen. A nice little singing was enjoyed Sunday night at Mr. Robt. Kee- nom's. Mr.

Eddie Gray has returned home. He has been attending school at Columbia, Tenn. Glad to have him with us again. Ed is a hustling young man. Sorry to hear that Miss Mary Utley is dead.

Miss Mary was nice, good, kind Christian lady I wish the world was full of such precious ladies as she. W. J. Martin and family stayed all night Saturday night at- the writer's home. J.

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