Athens Weekly Review
Friday, May 17, 1901
OVER THE COUNTY
Dauphin School
We have over twenty this week. Our school entertainment is
progressing nicely...Mrs. Bud William's baby who was sick with
the whooping cough died last Friday night and was buried at the
Smith graveyard Saturday.....There will be preaching here next
Sunday by our pastor, Bro. Graham... Arch Hickman who has been to
Galveston has come back..... Mr. Adams has a real sick child this
week.... Beulah Tanner has been quite sick this week... Mrs. Jim
Williams is reported no better. Will Brownlow has a very sick
child... Miss Irene Jenkins is sick this week... Our school will
be out the 25th of this month and we expect to have a grand time
and everybody is invited. We are disappointed that you can't be
with us, Mr. Editor....Crops are very good but we are needing
rain.... We are glad to have Nellie Williams back in school this
week after an absence of several weeks... Joe Overton is on the
sick list this week... Tom Pierce is right sick.
SCHOOL PICNIC AT DAUPHIN.
10 a.m., May 25, 1901. Welcome Addres- W. A. Schrader.
Response- Elam Henderson
11 a.m. Entertainment by the school
No. 1 Pantomime by fourteen girls.
Recitations- Eula Meredith, Hattie Belle Holland, Grover Ballow,
Clifford Williams
Essays- Florence Ballow, Rena Jenkins, Frazier Holland
Dialogue- Three little girls
No. 2. Recitations- Erbie Holland, Bertie Gentry, Lonny Tanner,
Leather Easterwood, Eugene Holland
Essays- Genie McDanial (sic) Fon Gentry
Colloquium- Jake Sansing and Lessie Williams
Dialogue- Five girls
No. 3. Recitations- Lillie Williams, Sallie Ballow, Albert
Tanner, Earl Sansing
Dialogue Ten girls
Recitations- Gussie May Allen, Leora Overton, Henry Meredith,
Lillian Sansing
Essays- Beulah Taner, Nannie McDanial (sic)
Declamation- Rufe Easterwood
Colloquium, Fon Gentry, Miss Belle Allen
Noon. 12:30- Dinner on the ground
2 p.m. Address- Judge Paul Jones
A sermon to the children will probable to preached at 3:30 p. m.
and an effort is being made to have music all during the day by
singers. Everybody invited.
Pine Grove
Lonzo Hubbard was bitten by a rattle snake Tuesday.... Mr.
Broom's children are chilling.... Mrs. Harris and Mr. Tom
Frizzell are sick.... Buster Ware's family is sick... Cotton
chopping is the order of the day now... Corn and cotton looks
very well considering the dry weather... The oat crop is a
failure in this part... Bro. Jefferson preached here last Sunday
morning and night. He has been called to the care of the Baptist
church at Centerville and released from Pine Grove church the
second Sunday.... Pine Grove church has changed its conference
days from the second to the third Sunday and Saturday before in
each month... Miss Lockey Davis died last Saturday and was buried
here last Sunday.... John Layton has been taking the school
census this week. We have only thirty-six scholastic children....
Elmer Davis will teach here next term... J. T. Holloway and Edgar
Dupree have bought new buggies since our last writing. Aunt Mary
Miller is spending this week with her son, Mack Miller on Walnut
Creek... A crowd from here attended the foot washing at Rome
Sunday... Charlie Broom, Will Hubbard, Robert Layton and Horace
Holloway went to Carroll Springs Sunday... Walter Hubbard and
wife spent Saturday night and Sunday with Dr. Bristow of
Sunset... George Miller and family visited their father, Mr.
Hancock, Saturday and Sunday.... J. M. Fulton had a horse to
leave this week... John Layton has also lost his beard.
SCHOOL GIRL
Fox
No preaching first Sunday. Bro. Lee was sick.... The people
chipped in and built a school house at Beck's Chapel... The oat
crop is dead... Corn crop needs rain... Cotton is not all up. Too
dry.... It seems like it will be a hard matter to get a third man
to serve as school trustee. Two have refused... Rumor has it that
a regular dog shooter went down the road the other night. Brother
Mann preached at Beck's Chapel last Sunday at 3 p. m. The
congregation was good... Grandma Pennington is very sick. Is not
expected to be with us long. She has cancer... I have just come
in from D. A. Jackson's He has the finest crop of bull nettles I
ever saw.
WFW
Pilgrim Rest
My last letter failed to get to the editor. It was mailed at the
Pine Grove office and it seems a little strange that it got lost
when the distance was so short. The editor informed me that he
did not receive it at all. I guess it got misplaced some way. But
I am going to try again... There has been nothing strange
happened here since my last writing.
The farmers are not in good spirits now. They failed to get a
good stand of corn but it is growing nicely. The bugs have
injured it a great deal. They have ruined the oat patches so much
that people have turned them into cotton patches. Cotton is late
but looks well. Gardens are late but most of the people will have
plenty of vegetables. So with the great blessings of last yera
and prospects good for plenty of fruits of all kinds I think we
will have plenty after all it the people will push on and not get
too much discouraged... Health in general is good... Sol Davis is
quite sick yet.... We are getting along nicely with our Sunday
school. It is growing larger all the time. We are only a few in
number but we hope to do a good work. Some of the pupils attend
the all day services at Pine Grove last Sunday yet the number in
attendance was larger than usual. The house was full of people
and a few more were added to the Sunday school.... Bro. Reeves
will preach for us next Saturday and Sunday. We like him very
much. He is a good man and a successful preacher.`
will preach for us next Saturday and Sunday. We like him very
much. He is a good man and a successful preacher.
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