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EDITQIRIAL5
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P, O, Box 48[]040, Unden, Alabama 36748
Writ Letters of Their Opinions
Send Your Letter to P. O. Box 480040. Linden Alabama 36748
Demopolis
man says
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Dear Mr. Goodlove Stntou ~.You thaw my stuff in a
pile of Wash. I want Justice. Now. I
I need your help. This Mr. wen too school and finish highe in
Johnny Crocker (Sr). I had being class. I Join the Army as an
trying to get on disability for along Elearicint, field wireman and a
time and SSI Benefit. I hired the military police.
smartest hwyer in Demopolis I serve my country (my life)
(Mrs.MonicaGrecu)andshohelp (God help). I have three sons- John
me and I thank her for her (deeds). Smith Jr, Kentrell Johson, Joh
But this is tbe Question I reported Gilbert. I have ~ report on the
my lump sums had beem stolen, cdme you're all have copies from
and allmy money hadbeen talking the Demopolis Dept and Sheriff
from Region Bank and I reported Dept. Know what you have kin sit
to Demopolis Police Depatlment and Think it may be one of your
and the Sheriff Dept. No own when I went to school they
,
taught me civic, history, Eng.g.g.g~,
and n,axlorn science.
De you all know what- The:Tee
Amendment I believe in tl~lst,
3rd, 25th
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P.S. Again I told you all
my check you know I got two @y
of each. You police got copy to~md
Sheriffto. :-
(All men should be equal- B~ck
or White. All blood ar Red.) :
I want mine. : :.
Sincerely your =~
Johlmy Crocker :
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Marengo County commissioners and vari-
ous town councils should already have a fist
of roads which need repairing and bridges
which are not quite as sturdy as they should
be.
The infrastructure plans of President
Donald Trump may provide our area money
we can use to make our roads and bridges
safer for motorists.
If our leaders can get together on the con-
cept that divided four lane highways are
safer than two lane highways and that indus-
try favors adequate transportation, then
maybe we can get some cohesiveness among
our councilors and commissioners.
Folks, the elected representatives and sen-
ators in Washington are politicians. That's
why we have to send somebody to talk to
them, face to face.
When you see a local politician which we
have elected, suggest to them that the four
lanes on Highway 43 will'be safer for our
motorists and will also facilitate the location
of industry with good paying wages.
Also, it will get the semi tractor trailer rigs
off our city streets and to their destinations
faster and safer.
Now is the fmae to take action. First of all,
the president is sponsoring an infrastructure
bill to do exactly what we have just outlined.
Second, our U. S. Senator Richard Shelby
will be chairman of the appropriations com-
mittee and he knows about our area and our
needs. As chairman, he can steer a few bil-
lion our way.
Third, we do not want to repeat mistakes
of the past when in 1950 Highway 80 was to
be four laned from Georgia to Mississippi,
and our illustrious state senator from
Demopolis owned a service station on the
old highway and did not want a motorist to
go by his place and not have the opportunity
to buy a co-cola.
That thinking still exists in some towns.
And Highway 80 still isn't finished
after almost 70 years.
Northeastem American media continues to
portray Hillary Clinton as an intellectual per-
son who can be president of the USA.
We don't think Lillie Langtree would hire
her. Most American voters didn't hire her.
Seize the moment, instant gratification, do
it now, and all the hype for fast paced action
does not work in the United States congress.
When our members of congress are given
the time to read and debate bills before it,
things move painfully slow for the television
news readers.
Things were designed this way by the
founding fathers.
When Nancy Pelosi noted the passage of
Obama Care she commented that now it is
passed, we can see what's in it.
Joe Biden thought he was whispering but
his microphone was still working when he
told his boss, "This is a big f. deal!"
Pelosi was speaker of the House of
Representatives. Biden was Vice President.
Both are good Democrats, at least as good as
they get.
Together they gutted our military, ignored
our highways, fostered and abetted criminal
aliens who robbed, raped, killed, and heaven
only knows what else.
The law of the land was ignored in their
plot to form a dictatorship with Bill Clinton
at the top.
You realize by now they had the
Department of Justice and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation working as their per-
sonal police force. The Department of
Defense was defenseless against their fund
cutting.
They were so close to creating this dicta-
torship that those who know cringe.
Folks, it was so close that Attorney
General Jeff Sessions was shocked and in
awe.
Watch for him to begin emerging like a
raging bull with arrests and indictments of
those corrupt officials coming in the thou-
sands.
However, he may need to move even
slower until federal judges who respect the
law are appointed.
DryBon~.com
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OLD TIMES BY THE LATE JOEL D. JONES
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FE3BRUARY 6. 1943
Preacher tried to scare young
people with his tales of Satan
(Continued from last week) comforts and where the fast tables were set: He was-
After the log rolling dinner, all went back to held~ great awe by the young people, a~l ~-"
work, and logs piled high before they knocked off entlyin greatreverence to the elders. He feared to be
to get ready for the "breakdown" that would be
danced until the m(xC.e~ reminded all daylight was
near. The fiddler was l~dy with bis fiddle and the
three gallion jug was hid where all codd find it, and
in the dining room, scuplx,nnong wine heavy
dashed with gin, served well with tea cakes and gin-
ger wafers, if a string on the fiddle broke, there was
no time lost, or someone would begin "Ronnd the
Rosy Bush ~" and the dance would conlinne.
There were other entertainments. I remember the
"infairs" proceeding the weddings, the social quilt-
ings, fish fries, the spelling matched and plays at the
end of schools and the Sunday School at the
Presbyterian Church. There were not enough
Presbyterians to make up the school, so the
Methodist and Baptist furnished the numbers and
the the Preshyterian the building.
If crops were good and the year pmsparous, at
~ as them came to some homes music hoxes,
parlor organs, plush bottom chairs, painted vases,
new bedsteads and new mg for the guest room.
Farm life was very real where distances were great.
The family doctor could not be reached on short
notice so every home had its
medicine chest and a big
cloth bound pack of family
remedies. In the chest were
asafetida, vermifuge, glo-
goric, laudanum, elomel,
quinine, mphim, castor oil,
Dovers' powders,
mutton suet, sodium salts,
mustard liniment and in the
closet a jug of red liquor.
However, there were limes
when a doctor had to come.
Fever, broken limbs, or diph-
theria usually meant a new
little place in the family bur-
ial lot. Tbe druggist was a
middle man between the Joel
family doctor and family
medicine chest. He meastm~ doses of ~
and other such medicine.
We must remember this was the day when
turkey tail fans, fide saddles, crazy quilts, the beaver
plait, paper lamp lighters, kerosene lamps, black
gum tooth brtts~, celluloid collars were used in
where todo and the majority ofthe others who fol-
lowed their manner of riving.
The mint impomnt man in tbe community, was
the preacher. He spent little time in his own home,
when the lord called him to these fields, be came
with or without invitation to spent the night and
many days in the home where there were more
called an indifferent, one who had probably not
received the "Divine Call" if be did not cany the
weight of the whole world on his shoulders. He ate
and prayed irreverantly and to great excess himself;
even now my spiritual attitudes now is bent and
confused and unretained because oftbe teachings of
lhis man who confounded all who would walk
uprightly and walk after righteomress in a com-
mon sense and simpie manner. From the preacher's
teachings I imagined an opinion of Satan. He taught
lhat the Devil was tall, with a long tail, bulging eyes
and sharp horns, and fire was blown from his nose
when be strode about the world conquering men
made from God's image, qho lost furnished the test
for his discouragement more lhan the Sermon on
the mount, and his theme was that to scare youths,
was more effective lhan the preaching of salvatioo
and the promise of reward for good deeds.
I well remember how he pictured heaven. He
made it such a real place, it was a real city, wilh no
touch of open country, long slreets paved with gold,
nothing but sunshine and joy. people played on
ha~s with a thousand strings, and stood at atten-:
dance while Gabriel blew his
horn.
No visit from this
preacher was complete until
he had mournfully
reviewed all duties that he
had saddened the neighbor-.
hood s'mce his last visit. He
was quite free to speculate:
upon the ullimate end of
those who still survived,
and quite as frank in giving:
his opinions as to which :
harbor that departed soul
had found its anchorage.
Family prayer always camo.
last. Two or three of the:.
The late
Desaker Jones longest chapters in the Old
Testament were read, the.
nuptial chapters of the last part of Daniel were his
favorites or if be chose John in bis old age and read
from Revelations.
I can look back and see lhat Preacher, as he
wrapped himself in his cloak of self-righteousness :
folded his arms in complete resignation to the loss
of a world in sin, and glorified Satan by stories ofhis:
mighty power.
This preacher died when I was quite ahoy, and I
have no doubt but that be is at rest, for I think be
preached what be thought was fight.
So long until next time.
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