Reid's Branch Community News
Athens Weekly Review
Thursday June 4, 1964
Gardens Are Thriving After 3.7 Inches Rain
By J. W. Lewis
June 2--Another month, several fine rains and all crops and
gardens going to town this week. Everyone seems to be happy.
Reids Branch came up with three and
seven tenths inches of rain during the week and it all came down
soft and easy with very little run off. Our good neighbor, Mr.
Harold Barron, sent the writer word
Wednesday that beginning Thursday we would get good rains most
all over Texas and they came and how he knew in advance is still
a mystery. We just wonder if
the Old Fiddler's Reunion or the wedding set off the wonderful
showers that came to us.
V. M. Herrington and Miss Josephine McRae motored to Rock Hill
east of Brownsboro Friday evening and were married by the Rev.
John Barkley, former pastor of the
Black Jack church. There are no better people in all the country
and we all wish them much happiness. We have had this information
for quite a while but could not release
it to the Review. Anyway it happened and they have the
congratulations of the country.
Over the week end our home entertained some fine people from Dayton,
Texas, a first cousin of mine, Mrs. Viola Jackson, whom I had not
seen in thirty years, and her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brister. They liked
our country very much and expect to come to see us again soon.
Mrs. Jackson is eighty-two years of
age and once lived near Ash and Flat Creek, also at Kerns.
Mrs. L. L. Leopard of Tri-Cities has been visiting a daughter
here, Mrs. J. D. Lewis, and since school has closed her little
granddaughter, Sandy Lewis, expects to spend
a lot of days down Tri-Cities way.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Hicks with their two little grandsons, David
and Gary Hicks, were visiting in our home Sunday afternoon. David
has some watermelons planted down
here and said he came to check on them. Said he had two already
sold. Just planting them, David, is not all that goes into a
melon crop.
We were advised early Monday that C. M. (Charley) Gist, age 87,
passed away at the home of his son, Harry, in Covington,
Louisiana, Sunday. Mr. Gist was a long time
resident of Henderson County and his fine farm was just out of
Athens on the Corsicana highway. Mr. and Mrs. Gist had been
living in Del Ray Beach, Florida, for the last
few years but were visiting in Covington at the time of his
death. Burial was at Covington. They were very fine people and
their many friends and relatives will regret hearing
this sad news. Mrs. Gist was the former Miss Belle Dewberry of
this vicinty.
The Rev. and Mrs. Bill Harrison of Fort Worth came down Thursday
and joined Mr. and Mrs. Barney Jack Hicks for a week end at
Galveston. They were given a good camp-out
site, but twice Friday night they had to get up and move 'camp'
on account of high water.
When the writer was growing up on the farm I remember that when
we worked a horse and mule and turned the animal loose in the lot
for feed and water they would most all times walk around and find
a soft plot of sand and then they would lie down to wollow and I
was told that each time the boy turned completely over he was
worth a hundred dollars. Well the other afternoon these two chuck
wagon mules that belong to the Athens Riding Club were here and
down one went and he turned over nine times before stopping and
how he lied. I know he wasn't worth nine dollars. (Not to me)
The C. A. Lott family attended the Lott reunion that was held
near Dallas Sunday. They report a very pleasant day.
Mr. and Mrs. Joyce Lewis and daughter Miss Jolene, and Mrs. Bill
Paine of LaRue, Mrs. W. K. Carson of Baxter and Mrs. Tom B.
Wofford of Athens attended Region Six convention of the American
Hemerocallis Society in Waco Saturday. A fine attendance is
reported.
Miss Edith Mcrae has returned to her home at Black Jack after
working at Arlington the past several months. She will spend the
summer at home and says the old home looks mighty good.
All remember that this Sunday is Memorial Day at Black Jack Mt.
Zion Baptist Church and come and be with this fine bunch of
folks.
We have fire in the living room this morning and, really, it
feels good, but old summer time is on the way no doubt.
Mrs. Joyce Lewis and daughters, Jolene and JoAnna, left this
morning for College Station to attend the 4-H State Roundup. They
will return Thursday.
We have all the little Democrats with us and they are all good
and glad to get to sleep at paw-paws. They like berry pie, too.
Cross roads and Pickens Spur, keep those nice newsy letters
coming! We all welcome you into our correspondents' corner.
NOTE: The obituary for Mr. Gist says that he
passed away in Del Ray, Florida. As noted on obituary I did not
locate a death certificate for him. (LGR)
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