Congratulations to Nell Beshearse. Her name was drawn on WJLE birthday club on Aug. 15. She won roses from DeKalb Florist.
Faye Adkins visited Ilena Griffith and Cordie Davis on Tuesday.
Debbie Gaither, Daysah Gaither and a friend of Panama City, Fla., spent a week with Queda Ferrell, recently.
Ronnie, Linda and Charma Hawkins visited Clara May Hawkins, Sunday afternoon. Ronnie was celebrating his birthday.
We were glad to have Bro. Jonathen Buck and his wife with us Sunday at New Home Baptist Church. He preached for us on Sunday morning and Sunday night.
Visitors of Barbara Self were Donna Sue Lawson and Barbara Burton.
Barbara Self and Barbara and Harold Burton ate at Kilgore’s Resturant, Thursday evening.
Barbara Self and Peggy Caldwell went shopping in Cookville on Friday. They ate at Steak and Shake.
Visitors of Lu Autry Malone were Joyce Wright of Murfreesboro and Wanda Tramel of Crossville. They spent Friday night and were Sunday dinner guest with Randy, Natasha and Ellie Vaughn of Alexandria, Larry and Wanda Tramel of Crossville and Jeff and Jalene Vanatta.
“Hello,” to my friend Elvedia Hoover in Clarksville. I enjoy her phone calls. She gets the Smithville Review and enjoys it.
Belated happy birthday wishes go to Dean Edge. She celebrated Aug. 15. She got a lot of cards, phone calls, gifts and visits. She appreciated everything. Her sister, Nell, of McMinnville and her niece, Kala Crow of Va. visited her earlier.
Jewell Wiser of McMinnville visited Rebecca Ervin, Monday.
You will remember that a few weeks ago I wrote about my nephew, Keith Cantrell from Oklahoma, visiting me.  I have been thinking about Keith when he was a little boy.  He’s now 57 so this was a long time ago.
Whenever my brother, W.B. Cantrell and his family would visit in the summer, they would stay with Mama and Roscoe Ervin.  Mama once had a mean, old rooster that would threaten to attack a person if you got close to him.
Keith was told to stay clear of the fighting rooster.  One day, Keith was playing and the rooster came up behind him.  Keith looked around and became scared.  He ran into the house and told Mama.
She said that Keith should get his BB gun and shoot the rooster, which he did; not to kill him but to frighten the rooster away from the back yard.
There’s something else that I now remember.  Keith could not talk plain, when he was a little boy, and finally had to have speech therapy.  Anyway, one day I was visiting with Keith’s mother, Irene, when they were in Tennessee.
Keith came in the house and said something that I could not understand.  It sounded like he was saying, "Chi chi….I…I...wee…hooo…thummm."
I asked Irene what Keith was saying. Keith had said that he had been in the back yard wetting on Grandma’s chickens. 
I think it was Art Linkletter who said that kids say the funniest things.