Rome Community News, Aug. 10, 1933 Henderson Co., TX

Athens Weekly Review
August 10, 1933

Special Correspondence

Rome, August 8 -

Even tho the weather has been rather hot and sultry here of the past week, crops are maturing rapidly, but signs which have been seen upon the cotton indicates that some type of insect is working on it. The young corn looks as if it might produce a fairly good yield as the last rains have helped it greatly.
"Uncle" Levi Trammell has shown the people of this community how to be prepared for the cold rainy days of winter for he canned a large beef Monday of last week. Prof. Bailey of Cayuga came and directed the canning of it.
Charlie Boyd, the local committeeman of the cotton reduction program, was quite busy completing the measuring of the farmers acreage here last week, prior to plowing up the amount which they had previously signed up to destroy. The growers were anxious to receive their checks for it.
Mrs. A. R. Trammell of this place proved several weeks ago that all good markswomen do not enter gun matches and compete for national honors. For while her husband was away from home she heard a great disturbance among her chickens, having been previously bothered with hawks, she rushed to the back yard with a shotgun. Then she saw a large hawk dart swiftly downward attempting to catch one of her choice fryers which had sought refuge with other fowls among some weeds, but failed and winged upward and lighted in a dead tree some seventy yards away. She raised the trusty old relic which was loaded with buckshot, fired and down fell the chicken thief with a fluttering of wings. And when her husband came home, he measured it and found that the hawk's body had wings covered five and one-half foot boxing plank. Not so bad Mrs. Trammell.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Anding of Becks Chapel visited with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Fuller during the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. James Knight of Willow Springs were visiting here one day last week.
Hubert Boyd, P. J. and Byron Trammell left Friday of last week with the Howitzer Company for Palacios, where the company will attend the annual encampment of the National guard.
John Gage of Malakoff visited Albert Carrigan Friday and Saturday of last week.
The Primitive Baptists closed a three day meeting here Sunday evening. Several elders from other places took part in the services.
Bud Anding of Beck"s Chape had business here Tuesday.
Thomas McEvoy who is working on the new dam which is being built for the Koon Kreek Klub, said Tuesday that the Lacy Company would probably finish the dam within nine more days.
Jackson Hines of Willow Springs was here Tuesday.

Submitted by Laura Gregory Calvin
January 2004

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