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Memorial Day. Soon after the close of the civil war a custom of strewing the graven of dead soldiers with flow ers was started. This custom enu nated and had it’s birth in our dear Southland, by our mothers who had been bereft by the stroke of cruel war. God bless them for showing their devoted love for the fallen heroes of our dear South land. The custom is a beautiful one. It has now come to be ob served as a time in each year, for paying tribute to the memory of loved ones who are sleeping the sleep that knows no waking. Yes, the tendereßt manifestations of love and remembrance comes from the women . Many are still living who have mourned the loss of a father, a husband, a brot.ier, a son, or a sweetheart, who in the flush of youth and manhood went forth to fight for the cause they believed m and loved. Y T ea, more, to die for. The Old Sage knows something of that furious struggle. Just entering manhood in Jan. 1861,he,with thousands of others, answered the call to arms to fight for our love for home, but alas, the days of blood-shed ended and the youngest of us who survived that unequal struggle are now re garded as cld men, which is true. As the tree falls so shall it lay. So one by one the honored old Vets answer the last roll call, and lights are out. Our ranks are rapidly thinning and those of us who, by reason of strength have even a few years before us, know that each day adds to the burd ens of increasing age, that we can’t mark time to the tap of drum as we did in defending the South, but alas, such is war. O, ]iqw many heartaches and sleepless nights out old dads ands mothers, wives and daughters, and sweet hearts loot when their dear ones were engaged in the fiercest of battles. When the mails would bring reports of the killed and mortally wounded, then there would be weeping homes and sad hearts for the loss ot loved oues. The writer might go on and pic ture the heart rendering scenes that occured in the army of North ern Virginia but my heart fails, mine eyes are flooded with tears, my hand is nervous and I hope for no more war. J. C. Banks. Racket from Rackley. Miss Sweetie Findley spent last Sunday with Mrs. R. L. Wrenn. Prof. J. B. Wilson visited home folks near Graymont last week end. J. J. Wrenn was attending to business at Oak Park Tuesday of this week. 11. L. Wrenn and wife spent Sat urday night plesantlv at the home of J. M. Findley. J. J. and R. L. Wrenn were at tending to business in Lyons Fri day of this week. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. McCullough 6pent Sunday with the family of J. W. McCullough. S. J. McCullough was among those attending to business in Lyons Saturday last. •Misses Fannie and Lottie Mc- Cullough were guests at the home of J. J. Wrenn Sunday. Ice cream suppers are getting to be quite popular now days and they are very enjoyable too. Little Miss Myrtle Faircloth of Collins is spending sometime with her aunt Mrs. J. M. Wrenn. J. M. Findley spent several days last week in Jacksonville with his brother who is still very sick. J. M. and J. J. Wrenn and daughter, Mis 9 Ruth, were in Oak Park Saturday afternoon of last week. A good many of our folks at tended the picnic ot Kinfield Fri day of last week and say it was all right. J. J. and W. J. Wrenn and M isses Elsie and Ruth Wrenn vis ited relatives near Collins several days last week. Mrs. Pitts is still very sick and they are having to sit up with her everv night. Friends call in and assist them, it’s no more than your duty. Tins section was visited by a good rain Wednesday afternoon. Crops were badly needing it bur i they are growing fa=t now and so is general green. It was real funny to see a cer tain little girl run so Sunday afternoon. Say boy next time you will have to get you a motor cycle if yon don’t want to be left. Pine Apple. Work for “Our Town ” The Neodeha (Kan.) Register says every town has its advant ages and'should make the most of them . Every town is fitted for some one enterprise mere than another, : and as soon as it discovers what ■ that is it should take hold of the matter aud push it for all • there is in it. One man cannot make a town. The news paper cannot do it. But one man on a newspaper with the help of the wide-awake men of the place, all pulling together, can make a wide difference in the place. Every man who succeeds in a town is a help to it. Tlie more money he makes, if he spends it, the better for the community. The larger business he builds up, the more he advertises, more attention is called to the town. A man cannot build up an honor able business in a town without helping the country. The inter est of one is the interest of all. The rivalry that sometimes exists between towns in the same county is short-sighted policy. On the same subject the Ster ling (Kan.) Bulletin says: “No town will become a busi ness center so long as its business men rely cn a few merchants to make the effort to bring trade to town. Too often the men in a few lines of trade are the only ones that reach out for custom. Other merchants wait until these men have induced the people to come to town and content themselves j with trade that naturally drifts to ! their place. A public-spirited man should ask himself if he is doing his part in attracting people to town to trade. The Hennessee (Okla.) Clipper in an article headed, “How to Keep a Town from Improving.” eays: “In the first place, by every thing you need in s line other place. If you have a flour m’ll, solid off for all your flour. It sounds bet ter to have it come from a dis tance, even if the quality be in ferior. If you have a brick yard, send off for your brick ; it makas a man feel important to ship a few car loads of brick, no matter if he should have to pay more for them than he would at home factories ” He suggests sending away for printing, and all groceries that can be bought in bulk, etc. All of which will prevent the home merchants from squandering ! money in builning up their own town. —Hustler. Cross Road Dots. Miss Pearl Grant visited Natalie Boyd Sunday. Mr. D. A. Taylor made a trip to Vidalia Saturday. Floyd Moore called on Miss Inez Boyd last Saturday evening. Sherwood Boyd and father went to Lyons Saturday morning. Mr and Mrs. Billie Holton vis ited W. D. Grant last Sunday. C. R. Beasley and F. W. Grant made a flying trip to Vidalia last Saturday. y * A. L. Beasley and Sam Evans called to see Misses Zeda and Cin thy Moore Sunday. Misses Emma and Anna Smith visited Miss Pearl Grant Sunday and reported a tine time. Well, I guess everybody is fin ished chopping cotton by now but we are all needing rain on our fine crops. The Sunday School at Center was enjoyed by a large crowd Sun day. Those who attended from here were Misses Pearl Grant,Nat alie Boyd, Inez Boyd, Sherwood Boyd Floyd Moore and many oth ers we can’t name. Two Little Pets. Egypt at the present time is the most promising country in the whole northern Africa. It has piogressed excellently under Eng lish rule. Fire Insurance. Insure your property with Bruce McLeod, representing a number of strong English and American Companies. He issues policies on desirable country dwellings and barns, and on system gins. Office in New Lyons Hotel. THE LYO ;S pilCniicloo. fLNE 16, lull. 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