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Angie Fowler and Trey Cawthon
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Rodney and Frances Fowler of Vienna announce the
engagement of their daughter, Angie Nicole Fowler, to
James Thomas “Trey” Cawthon 111, son of Jim and Julie
Cawthon of Perry. The wedding will be at 3:30 p.m. on Oct.
14 at Perry United Methodist Church.
The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Reba Stubbs and
the late Ruphus “Buddy” Stubbs, Carlton Fowler and the
late Vera Fowler, all of Vienna. She is a 1998 graduate of
Dooly County High School and is a bookkeeper for Piggly
Wiggly.
The groom-to-be is the grandson of Clarence and Katherine
Little, Marie Bozeman, and the late Jake and Carolyn
Cawthon, all of Perry. He is a 2001 graduate of Perry High
School, and is a salesman for Guardian Building Products.
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Steve and Kathy
Gochenour of Warner Robins
announce the engagement of
their daughter, Jessica Kyle
Gochenour, to Steven Roger
Speir, son of Rodney Clifford
Speir and Susan M. Speir of
Crystal River, Fla.
The wedding will take
place on Oct. 7 at the home
of the bride’s parents at 103
Rolling Ridge Drive, Warner
Robins.
The bride-elect is the grand
daughter of Iris U. Sikes of
Macon, Hazel Rutherford
and James Rutherford of
Gray. She is attending Georgia Military College where she is
pursing a degree in early elementary education. She works
at Meadowdale Learning Center.
The groom-elect is the son of Clifford F. Speir and Nancy
C. Speir of Kissimmee, Fla., William S. Mort and Lillian
R Mort of Springhill, Fla. He is attending Middle Georgia
Technical College.
The tall and skinny on
sexy that comes up short
Men seem to be com
ing up short on sex
appeal these days.
Have you noticed how short
in stature the men are who
are widely proclaimed to be
the world’s sexiest men?
Blame it all on Tom Cruise.
It started with him. He’s
the one responsible for this
downward slide. I’ve encoun
tered Cruise a few times. The
first time I met him was at a
NASCAR
i
ble in the
area.
“What
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are all these women doing
here?” I asked someone.
“Oh, they’re here to see
Tom Cruise.”
That got my atten
tion. “Tom Cruise is here?
Where?”
At that point, someone
tapped on my shoulder and
I turned to see a guy I had
already greeted. He grinned,
lifted his hand and wiggled
his fingers in salute. I blink
ed hard.
“You’re Tom Cruise?” I
asked, astonishment refus
ing to retreat from my face.
“Why, you’re 50...” I stopped
short.
He laughed. “I know. Folks
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Jessica Kyle Gochenour
and Steven Roger Speir
are always expecting me to
be taller.”
Personally, I like tall men.
At least ones who are taller
and bigger than me. At five
foot two, I don’t think that’s
asking too much. I can you
this - I certainly don’t want
anyone over whom I tower or
who makes me feel anything
less than somewhat delicate.
Since Southern women are
so tough, feeling delicate is
important to many of us. We
want to have both - delicacy
and toughness.
Karen is a more than a bit
taken with country music
superstar Keith Urban. I
admit that he is very pret
ty, which is something you
would never want to call a
tall man. A big guy would
swat you for saying that.
“Do you know how lit
tle he is?” I asked one day
when she was rhapsodizing
about him and moaning over
Nicole Kidman who, appar
ently, likes little men. “He’s
no bigger than I am. In fact,
I think I could beat him in
arm wrestling.”
I know of which I speak.
One day when I was lunching
with a couple of girlfriends
in Nashville, both who work
in the music industry, Keith
came over to our table to
talk. I couldn’t believe how
small he is. He was wear
ing smaller-sized jeans than
I wore when I was 13. It’s
embarrassing to admit but
honest, nonetheless.
Then, there’s country star
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LIFESTYLE
Murder, mayhem and
some history lessons, too
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
It seems like only yes
terday that Billy Powell’s
“Pride of the Panthers” was
published.
That book, about his
beloved high school coach,
Eric Staples, and a bas
ketball team that kept on
winning, was so carefully
researched and rich with
detail, that you might have
expected him to rest on his
laurels for a while.
But, Billy Powell is a nat
ural storyteller, and there
were a lot more stories to
be told.
Just as “Pride of the
Panthers” was a real-life
story dear to the hearts of
his hometown friends in
Perry, “Echoes from the
Valley” is a collection of
historical sketches and sto
ries from his adopted Peach
County, with some rambles
across the county line into
Macon County.
It has a foreword by
Superior Court Judge
Bryant Culpepper, who says,
“This work will enlighten
us, inform us and inspire
our children. Hopefully it
will encourage us to not let
those who follow us wonder
who we were.”
There’s something here
for everybody - and some of
those echoes might well be
ghostly voices.
You can learn about the
early history of the area
that was to become Peach
County, and get an explana
tion of how a town came to
be called Fort Valley when
“there was never a fort or a
valley in this area.
You can read about the
legislative and political
effort to get Peach County
carved out of Houston and
Macon Counties, and about
the truly spectacular begin
nings of the Peach Blossom
Festival in the 19205.
But peaches are only
Annie Oakley - a blast from the past
When reading an
article about col
lectibles from
the era of Buffalo Bill
Cody’s Wild West Show,
I was reminded of one of
the most interesting par
ticipants. Born as Phoebe
Anne Moses in Darke
County, Ohio in 1860, she
was better known as Annie
Oakley. Chief Sitting Bull
was totally enamored by
the diminutive sharp shoot
ing lady and gave here the
name “little sure shot”.
Annie had a very rough
childhood and became an
expert hunter out of neces
sity. Her father died when
she was 6 and the family
went to live at the county
“poor farm”. Annie was
later hired out as an inden
tured servant to a very
emotionally and physically
abusive family whom she
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“Echoes from the
Valley”
By Billy Powell
Indigo Publishing
$19.95
part of the story. There are
also sections on the early
days of the railroad and
the early years of the Blue
Bird plant. Powell also gives
careful attention to the par
allel histories of white and
African-American schools
prior to integration, and
the schools that came after.
There’s a solid chapter on
the history of Fort Valley
State University and of
the Henry Alexander Hunt
High School, as well as brief
histories of many Peach
County churches.
Murder, he wrote
And, in between those
contributions to the histori
cal record, readers will also
find some terrible trag
edies, some murder and
mayhem, some homicides
that were solved and one
that hasn’t been.
Powell is a solid research
er, and readers with an
interest in crime and pun
ishment will learn all the
grim details, including some
that the newspapers of the
time wouldn’t print.
There’s the true story
of the murder of wealthy
landowner George Slappey,
described by the author as
“footloose, fancy-free, and
filthy rich,” with an unfor
tunate habit of forcing his
attention on other men’s
wives.
There’s the grisly tale of
a young woman who hit
her abusive husband over
the head with an axe and
then tried to cover her
crime by chopping him into
three pieces and dragging
the pieces to the railroad
track, where it would look
as if he’d been killed by an
oncoming train.
There’s the story of a
murder and mutilation in
would never refer to by
name but only called them
“the wolves”. They would
lock her in closets or throw
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found her way back to
the family. Her father had
taught her to shoot when
she was very small. She
began to shoot game to feed
the family and also sell the
extra to the Katzenberger
Brothers Grocery which
shipped the meat to hotels
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By Billy Powell
Foreward By Judge Bryant Culpepper
the Blue Bird parking lot,
and the brutal and still
unsolved murder of a young
woman 20 years ago at a
Fort Valley convenience
store - a story that Powell
has taken a special interest
in because of his conviction,
along with that of others,
that her killer may still be
“walking among us” and
still needs to be brought to
justice.
Powell also tells the sad
tale of Nimrod Jackson, a
railroad worker who was
buried alive when he fell
into an old well and could
not be rescued despite the
best efforts of the communi
ty. (This story has a touch
ingly-sweet ending)
Finally, Powell takesabrief
foray into Macon County
for one of Oglethorpe’s best
stories - that of the shoot
in Cincinnati. Annie began
to participate in local shoot
ing contests and word of
Annie’s superior marks
manship became quite well
known. In fact she won so
many turkey shoots that
she was banned from them
to give others an opportu
nity to win.
A professional sharp
shooter named Frank
Butler was passing through
Cincinnati and offered to
beat any of the locals at a
shooting contest.
He laughed when a tiny
teenage girl stepped up to
accept the challenge. Butler
laughed but was promptly
beaten (unlike the story
portrayed in the musical,
“Annie Get Your Gun”. )
Butler gave Annie tickets
to attend his show and a
romance was born.
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her out
barefoot
and coat
less in the
snow for
the most
minor
things
like fall
ing asleep
while sew
ing!
At age
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ing-murder of Judge George
W. Fish in 1871 - back when
public hangings still drew a
crowd.
Any one of the murders
and tragic events that Billy
Powell picked to write
about could have been the
subject for an entire book
- and the story of the brutal
murder of Denise Allison
deserves to be a script for
“Cold Case.”
While you may shudder
while reading these true
stories, it’s a sure thing
that you’ll keep on turning
the pages.
You can get your copy aSt
local bookstores, or wait
to get one autographed at
Powell’s book signing at the
Perry Library on Oct. 12
from 2-5 p.m., where? ha’-fl
also have copies of “Pride of
the Panthers” on sale.
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