Ole U ‘Tellum Says
Lookin’ Backerd
Forney Messenger
3 February 1950
OLE U ‘TELLEM SAYS:
Lookin’ Backerd
‘Taint no use en er talkin, when a feller gets to the age where he’s running old man Methusaler a tight race sum feller is shore to come in and ‘ow if he remembers ’bout that. Tother day, when the weather wuz a little hot, we left the front door open and we wuz a bit feared somethin would come in kinder unexpekted, shor nuff nuff in come “Snooks” DAVIS. Weve noed “Snooks” ever since his daddy use to sell us all the steak the family culd eat for a dime, and just fer the askin’ he wuld thro in nuf liver to bait a whole passel of trot lines. Shore is different now, if you feel like your system craves liver you have to go to a hospital and have it shot into yer with a hyperdermick and after you have done that you don’t have enuff money left to buy enny liver to feed a cat and you have to do without the steak. But what I wuz goin to say wuz that “Snooks” had a whole mess of papers under his arm and I kinder wondered what he had in it, to my surprise it wuz a copy of the Forney Messenger printed Aug. 30th, 1923 – 27 years ago – the editors wuz Sallee & Scott and there wuz 32 pages uv it, it wuz a special edition. Spose we look over the frunt page and see what wuz going on in the ole town in them days.
The Baptist Association had just met at Heath and Mesdames Will COOLEY, Grover HUGHES, Jack KINCAID, V.V. BROOKS, M.S. FITZHUGH and Messrs. J.F. STANLEY, C.J. STARNES, R.L. ANTHONY, Jason SOWELL and L.R. FUTRELL wuz there from Forney.
Jolly crowd uv picknickers assembled at the home uv Miss Eva Lou WITTE then they went in one bunch to Criswell Grove where they spred a pick nick lunch. When the chiggers had had time to take notice uv them, they lit out fer Calvin OWENS home and frum the way they lit inter the watermelons youd a thot they hadn’t had nuthin to eat. They had a lot of fine music at the Owens home furnished by Jimmine HOLLINS and Jack CRISWELL with Ruth TUNE at the piano. The pick nick honored Miss Annice JACKSON of Rockwall, an those in the party wuz Misses Eva Lou WITTE, Linn CRAWFORD, Anna BROWNING, Cleo FARMER, Flora SOWELL, Annie Laura BOONE, Annice JACKSON, Kate and Ruth TUNE and Messers Jack CRISWELL, Clifford OWENS, James RHEA and Rex BOONE.
A car driven by Frank CRISWELL ran into a open branch on the Crandall road. Seems as if sum one had tuck the bridge out and said nuthin about it until Frank run inter it, he says he thinks when they take a bridge out they orter put somethin in the hole where it wuz. The car wuz a total reck but Frank was not hurt.
There is a big write up uv the Forney Sanitarium with a picture of the house, the staff wuz composed uv Dr. E.M. FOWLER, Dr. D.H. HUDGINS, Dr. L.B. SOWELL, Dr. W.M. BAILEY and Dr. P.C. SHANDS. Mrs. H.S. BOBO was superintendent, Dr. J.S. HAMILTON wuz doin the dental work.
Dr. J.L. CLEVELAND of the Presbyterian church had a church notice and promised “Something Different” would happen at the 9:45 service Sunday morning, that musta been his subjek.
The 1923 senior class wuz given a party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe HUGHES. They wuz served brick ice cream, cake and peaches and a derlitful time. Those present wuz Misses Ruth n’ Willie CHAPMAN, Lois JACOBS, Della Blanche CHENAULT, Ada Lou DOZIER, Nettie McMAHAN, Pat KINCAID, Francis JONES, Eva May DOZIER, Opal WALKER, and Mary Nell JENKINS of Italy. The young men wuz Ben BROOKS, Jacks CRAWFORD, Eldon BOONE, Carnes ENOS, Eugene and Marion DOZIER, Bob PRITCHETT, Dick MOORE, Amos DIETZ, R.D. DAVIS, Gordon YATES and Raymond LEE of Lometa.
There ain’t room for enny more this week if you want emmy more uv it speak to U. Tellem.
(Note: Ole U Tellum was Mr. Walter Adams.)
