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THIS WEEK
BBy
Earl
“Tige”
Pickle
Diary of a Country Columnist
In the Big City
FRIDAY: Up about the time the
local coffee club convenes at the
case, accompanied by the boss, and
off for a week-end visit to Birming
ham, Ala., the Magic City, where we
were guests of the boss’s big brother,
Mr. Will D. Fleming, who is presi
dent and treasurer of the Birming
ham Printing Company, Alabama’s
most outstanding printing plant . . ~
Arrived at 10:30 and were taken in
tow by Orville Lawson, young sales
manager of the company, also an
amateur aviator, part-time instructor
at Binmingham-lSouthern College and
editor of a national fraternity mag
azine. Viewed the plant, which cov
ers a block about the size of the
one in which Mr. Frederick God
win’s store is located, with all its
complicated machinery, scores of
busy employees and met the assist
ant treasurer, who is a red-headed
female who we learned was about to
disburse a weekly payroll of about
$3,000, which caused us, beczaise of
her red hair and her healthy payroll,
to try to attach ourself, but which
got us exactly nowhere . . . Then
downtown to lunch at a hotel where
our boss and the big brother got into
a discussion about what’s wrong with
the world, a discussion which came
to naught, ending exactly where it
had started, which caused Mr. Law
son and us to remark, “This is where
we came in,” so we adjourned back
to the office and later visited the
modern newspaper plant of the
Birmingham News, where we met
Vincent Townsend, the city editor,
who, incidentally, is a brother-in-law
to our very good friend, Mrs. N. B.
Solomon. Saw the whirring, noisy
lightning-like presses, jangling tele
phones, heard the short wave
police radio which is connected right
behind Mr. Townsend’s desk, which
gives him a break on every important
happening in the police department.
(By the way, his desk is equipped
with three telephones and some time
all of them ring at once, which is
pretty apt to make a city editor just
as nervous, tough and hard-boiled as
the movies have him pictured. We
didn’t find Mr. Townsend this way
at all, however; he is an extremely
nice, polite person who took most an
hour of his valuable time to show
us through his plant, a trip which we
enjoyed immensely, but we still don’t
have any desire to be a big city news
paperman.) Met Bob Luckie, hand
some young chap who does a column
about like ours, only a little worse,
because he afflicts his readers daily
while we confine our afflictions to
once per week . . . Later to Mr. W.
D.’s beautiful home located high on
the side of a mountain in the Holly
wood section, which was at first a
little too tony for a columnist who
is just a natural-born corn-fed coun
try boy. but pretty soon we got ac
climated and were “puttin’ on airs”
and talking so big a stranger would
have thought we were Ralph McGill
or some other newspaperman who
knew all the answers . . . Then to an
enjoyable dinner and the Fleming
boys somehow drifted back to that
World situation again, while Mrs. F.,
a most gracious hostess, and we
talked of flowers, movies, people, and
things in general. We almost forgot
to mention the other member of the
family. “Toy” Fleming, a pretty lit
tle female Chihuahua dog, who, like
the rich man in the Bible, fares
sumptuously every day.) . . . Then to
bed.
SATURDAY: Up at 6:30 a. m. to
catch the sunrise as it came over
old rugged Shade’s mountain, a sight
which is a beautiful thing to behold
and enough to throw a poet into per
petual raptures. . . Then downtown
to meet Vinson Sutlive, another Ear
ly county boy who is making good in
the big city, who conducted us on
a sight-seeing trip of the business
section ... To lunch again and then
off for a visit to the industrial plants,
which are both huge and many . . .
Listened to our host extol the vir
tues and accomplishments of Birm
ingham until we finally had to do a
little bragging of our own, and we
told him about Early county raising
more peanuts than any other county
in the South and of our modern
ginnery plants, and of a number of
other things which a fellow always
likes to boast of when he is away
from home ... To the airport to
watch the huge airliners come in and
depart. By friendship and pull of
our friends, we had a choice seat in
the radio tower where the operator
was directing the planes as they
landed and took off, a treat we en
joyed very much because it remind
ed us of those scenes you see in the
movies . . . Then for a brief and final
roundup of the city, a visit to Vul
can, Birmingham’s famous iron man,
erected high on the mountain in Vul
can Park. A brief tour of the resi
dential section, then home and to
bed. . .
SUNDAY: Conservation in the
morning and home in the afternoon.
MONDAY: Back at the office —
tired, happy, headachy and work
TO CHECK
k IN 7dAY$
piled up this high. Ain’t life won
derful?
Here is something we swiped from
Orville Lawson’s fraternity publica
tion. Orville admits it isn’t origi
nal (so will we):
Recipe for Old Age
The horse and mule live for thirty
years
And know nothing of wine and beers.
The goat and sheep at twenty die
And never taste of Scotch and rye.
A cow drinks water by the ton
And at eighteen is mostly done.
The dog at fifteen cashes in
Without the aid of rum or gin.
The cat in milk and water soaks
And then in twelve short years it
croaks.
The modest, sober, bone-dry hen
Lays eggs for nogs, then dies at ten.
All the animals are strictly dry;
They sinless live and quicky die.
But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men
Survive for three Score years and ten.
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FOR SALE Several each, six
months and year old saddle colts,
brood mares with mule colts, Shet
land ponies with colts, and Jennies
with Jack colts. Farm located 5
miles south of Dawson. L. R. FER
RELL, Albany, Ga. 25-3 t
STRAYED— One black horse mule,
branded O over T on left hip;
weight 1000 lbs. Reward. R. C.
SINGLETARY.
FOR SALE— Upright piano, good
condition, for sale at a bargain. See
MRS. M. BERMAN, Blakely, Ga. 2t
FOR SALE— Fifty acres of land
on Howard’s Landing Road. Make
offer. V. H. SUTLIVE, 641 Prince
ton ave., Birmingham, Ala. 25-2 t
FARM FOR SALE— 322 acres of
land lying just north of Mayhaw
Court Ground in Miller county, on
public road leading from Blakely to
Donalsonville. 160 acres in cultiva
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fences in good repair, good soil.
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CITATION
GEORGIA, Early County:
To whom it may concern:
Mrs. Lollie Mabel Hightower hav
ing in due form applied to me for
permanent letters of administration
upon the estate of Ralph K. High
tower, deceased; this is to notify the
next of kin and creditors of the said
Ralph K. Hightower, deceased, that
said application will be heard before
me at the regular October term,
1941, of the Court of Ordinary of
said county.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature, this first day of September,
1941.
D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary.
CITATION
GEORGIA, Early County:
To all whom it may concern:
Mrs. Lollie Mabel Hightower hav
ing in due form applied to me for
a year’s support for herself and her
three minor children but of the es
tate of Ralph K. Hightower, de
ceased, and the appraisers appointed
to set the same apart having made
and filed their return, this is to notify
the next of kin and creditors of the
said Ralph K. Hightower, deceased,
that said application will be heard
before me at the regular October
Term, 1941, of the Court of Ordinary
of Early County, Georgia. Witness
my hand and official signature, this
September 10 th, 1941.
. D. C. MORGAN, Ordinary.
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