Athens Weekly Review
Friday, May 17, 1901

OVER THE COUNTY

Dauphin School

We have over twenty this week. Our school entertainment is progressing nicely...Mrs. Bud William's baby who was sick with the whooping cough died last Friday night and was buried at the Smith graveyard Saturday.....There will be preaching here next Sunday by our pastor, Bro. Graham... Arch Hickman who has been to Galveston has come back..... Mr. Adams has a real sick child this week.... Beulah Tanner has been quite sick this week... Mrs. Jim Williams is reported no better. Will Brownlow has a very sick child... Miss Irene Jenkins is sick this week... Our school will be out the 25th of this month and we expect to have a grand time and everybody is invited. We are disappointed that you can't be with us, Mr. Editor....Crops are very good but we are needing rain.... We are glad to have Nellie Williams back in school this week after an absence of several weeks... Joe Overton is on the sick list this week... Tom Pierce is right sick.

SCHOOL PICNIC AT DAUPHIN.
10 a.m., May 25, 1901. Welcome Addres- W. A. Schrader.
Response- Elam Henderson
11 a.m. Entertainment by the school
No. 1 Pantomime by fourteen girls.
Recitations- Eula Meredith, Hattie Belle Holland, Grover Ballow, Clifford Williams
Essays- Florence Ballow, Rena Jenkins, Frazier Holland
Dialogue- Three little girls
No. 2. Recitations- Erbie Holland, Bertie Gentry, Lonny Tanner, Leather Easterwood, Eugene Holland
Essays- Genie McDanial (sic) Fon Gentry
Colloquium- Jake Sansing and Lessie Williams
Dialogue- Five girls
No. 3. Recitations- Lillie Williams, Sallie Ballow, Albert Tanner, Earl Sansing
Dialogue Ten girls
Recitations- Gussie May Allen, Leora Overton, Henry Meredith, Lillian Sansing
Essays- Beulah Taner, Nannie McDanial (sic)
Declamation- Rufe Easterwood
Colloquium, Fon Gentry, Miss Belle Allen
Noon. 12:30- Dinner on the ground
2 p.m. Address- Judge Paul Jones

A sermon to the children will probable to preached at 3:30 p. m. and an effort is being made to have music all during the day by singers. Everybody invited.


Pine Grove

Lonzo Hubbard was bitten by a rattle snake Tuesday.... Mr. Broom's children are chilling.... Mrs. Harris and Mr. Tom Frizzell are sick.... Buster Ware's family is sick... Cotton chopping is the order of the day now... Corn and cotton looks very well considering the dry weather... The oat crop is a failure in this part... Bro. Jefferson preached here last Sunday morning and night. He has been called to the care of the Baptist church at Centerville and released from Pine Grove church the second Sunday.... Pine Grove church has changed its conference days from the second to the third Sunday and Saturday before in each month... Miss Lockey Davis died last Saturday and was buried here last Sunday.... John Layton has been taking the school census this week. We have only thirty-six scholastic children.... Elmer Davis will teach here next term... J. T. Holloway and Edgar Dupree have bought new buggies since our last writing. Aunt Mary Miller is spending this week with her son, Mack Miller on Walnut Creek... A crowd from here attended the foot washing at Rome Sunday... Charlie Broom, Will Hubbard, Robert Layton and Horace Holloway went to Carroll Springs Sunday... Walter Hubbard and wife spent Saturday night and Sunday with Dr. Bristow of Sunset... George Miller and family visited their father, Mr. Hancock, Saturday and Sunday.... J. M. Fulton had a horse to leave this week... John Layton has also lost his beard.
SCHOOL GIRL

Fox

No preaching first Sunday. Bro. Lee was sick.... The people chipped in and built a school house at Beck's Chapel... The oat crop is dead... Corn crop needs rain... Cotton is not all up. Too dry.... It seems like it will be a hard matter to get a third man to serve as school trustee. Two have refused... Rumor has it that a regular dog shooter went down the road the other night. Brother Mann preached at Beck's Chapel last Sunday at 3 p. m. The congregation was good... Grandma Pennington is very sick. Is not expected to be with us long. She has cancer... I have just come in from D. A. Jackson's He has the finest crop of bull nettles I ever saw.
WFW

Pilgrim Rest

My last letter failed to get to the editor. It was mailed at the Pine Grove office and it seems a little strange that it got lost when the distance was so short. The editor informed me that he did not receive it at all. I guess it got misplaced some way. But I am going to try again... There has been nothing strange happened here since my last writing.

The farmers are not in good spirits now. They failed to get a good stand of corn but it is growing nicely. The bugs have injured it a great deal. They have ruined the oat patches so much that people have turned them into cotton patches. Cotton is late but looks well. Gardens are late but most of the people will have plenty of vegetables. So with the great blessings of last yera and prospects good for plenty of fruits of all kinds I think we will have plenty after all it the people will push on and not get too much discouraged... Health in general is good... Sol Davis is quite sick yet.... We are getting along nicely with our Sunday school. It is growing larger all the time. We are only a few in number but we hope to do a good work. Some of the pupils attend the all day services at Pine Grove last Sunday yet the number in attendance was larger than usual. The house was full of people and a few more were added to the Sunday school.... Bro. Reeves will preach for us next Saturday and Sunday. We like him very much. He is a good man and a successful preacher.`
will preach for us next Saturday and Sunday. We like him very much. He is a good man and a successful preacher.

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