Athens Weekly Review
June 29, 1933

Cross Roads
Special Correspondence

Cross Roads, June 29- "Uncle" Dick and "Uncle" John Shelton attended the negro nineteenth celebration south of Cross Roads. It was a big day for the colored people. They had two lunch and cold drink stands and a ball game in the afternoon and a speech by "Uncle" Andrew Thompson (colored) . He said before they were free a young buck negro was worth from one to three thousand dollars. He gave his people good advice and said "you are not free yet".
Last week my son, I. B. took the writer and "Uncle" John Shelton fishing on Coon Creek and the first bite we got was was from the other side of the creek. A man asked if we had a permit from A. S. Ford to fish and I said yes. I said to the man "when you turn me in tell Ford to pay off". The sign was not right and of course our luck was bad and the big one I hung got away.
Judge McLain of Lockland had business at Cross Roads Saturday.
Cross Roads school board met Saturday.
Charlie Boyd of Rome was in Cross Roads Saturday.
Ervin Boyd of Cross Roads has bought Willie McCullouch's town lot in Cross Roads and will build a store house and a residence and stop paying rent.
W. F. Wathen gave "Uncle" Dick the price for the Review. Many thanks.
If Cross Roads ever needed a rain it is at this writing; the gardens are already burning up and the corn crop is damaged bad and the pea crop will be very short.
Several of Cross Roads people will attend court in Athens today.
It looks to the writer if the government wants to help the farmers it would be best to take five million bales of cotton off the market.
"Your gold and silver cankerethand the rest of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure to gather for the last days.'- James 5: 3.
Submitted by Laura Gregory Calvin laura9102@yahoo.com
January 2004