Slim Pickens and locals mix at post office and church
Slim Pickens attended church and joked about space in town life. Sile Kilden resumes mail service after a dispute with the postmaster. Poke Eazley returns to using general delivery. Luke Mathewsla reflects on clumsy moments and cleanliness. Ellick Helwanger warns on safety after initial success. Cricket Hicks criticizes a hog near the post office wears a false bell. Slim Pickens contemplates visiting Tobe Moseley but restrains after spotting Mrs. Henstep. The Magic Lantern show at Wild Onion drew a large crowd Saturday.
Hayes Healing Honey with Grove Open-Trate Salve Offer
A bundled cough remedy combines Hayes Healing Honey with Grove Open-Trate Salve for chest and throat use on children. The carton includes both products and costs 35 cents, with directions to ask a druggist for Hayes Healing Honey.
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Hayes
Grove
Night gathering spurs tales of cows and engagements
The town recounts a late night scene with Isaac Helwanger’s wife avoiding the pace of modern life. Clair Hancock encounters a cow on the road as he returns home with corn. Fletcher Henstep leads a local Improvement Association meeting. The Excelsior Fiddling Band treed a possum while roaming the creek bottom. Miss Hostet ter Hocks is reportedly engaged to an unknown correspondent from afar. She deflects questions about publication while hinting a girl should not know too much about her future husband.
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Clair Hancock
Hostetter Hocks
Fertilization Proves Profitable for North Town Lands
J. F. Newberry of Selfs says fertilization is no longer an experiment. After several years of using commercial fertilizer, he reports fields treated this year yielded twice as much as unfertilized plots and cotton matured about two weeks earlier, aiding boll weevil control.
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J. F. Newberry
Selfs
Mr. Newberry
Honey Grove
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Tobe Moseley
Mrs. Fletch Henstep
Wild Onion
Gillett Grain & Seed CO
Cora Robie
Pikeville, Ky
Isaac Helwanger
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