Congratulations to my great-grandson, Drake Colten Vaughn and Amanda Reed. They were united in marriage June 9 at Elizabeth Chapel Baptist Church. Bro. Bill Robertson performed the ceremony in the presence of friends and family. They honeymooned in Florida.
Kenneth and Peggy Cantrell spent a few days visiting their daughter, Hilary and Mark Gould, and three children in South Carolina.
Louise Jones visited Wayne and Joan and Cory Ferrell in Woodbury Sunday. Louise went with them to visit Courtney and Tyler Frazee.
Visitors of Mabel Pack on Friday were Valerie Mears, Beth, and Sarah Hobbs. They all visited Pam Atnip later.
I read in the Nashville paper that a friend, Martha Pearl Wilson Hunt, 85, of Nashville, passed away. She was a DeKalb County native. We went to school together at Snow Hill. She was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Joyce Wright and Madeline Weems of Murfreesboro spent Saturday night with Lou Autry Malone.
Jewell Wiser of McMinnville visited Pam Page and Jeanette Redmon.
Belated happy anniversary to Kenneth and Dorla Moore. They celebrated 60 years of marriage on June 7.
Congratulations to Fay Adkins. She has a new grandson, Christian Cain Cripps. He was born on June 6 at Murfreesboro Hospital. He is the son of Justin and Nicole Cripps.
I got a call from Jimmy Ervin that I enjoyed very much. He reads my news and wanted to ask me some things about my writing. I enjoy calls and know people enjoy reading the Review.
Visitors of Betty Wilson were Ralph and June Vaughn of Murfreesboro, Stephanie and Brandon Rackley and Billy Tiner, Rebecca Ervin and JoAnn Pittman.
Get-well wishes go out to Gladys Curtis. She fell and broke some bones. She has been a patient in Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro.
Barbara Lawson and Sue Arnold visited Corrine Melton in Woodbury on Friday.
Marie McKensie and Barbara Burton visited Barbara Self.
“Hello”  to my good friend Elvedia Hoover in Clarksville. She gets the Smithville Review.
Marie Walls spent a few days with her son and family, Steve and Susan Walls and children. She went especially to attend her granddaughter’s wedding. Her granddaughter, Christina Walls, and Eric Shoemaker were married in Gulf Port, Miss. on June 9. They went to Gatlinburg on their honeymoon.
Rebecca and Linsey Ervin went shopping Monday in Cookeville.
I read in the Smithville Review a few months ago about the Short Mountain Distillery near the DeKalb/Cannon County line. While trying to imagine what the distillery is like and how it operates, I remembered how things were several years ago.
Many families made illegal moonshine in the hollows of DeKalb County; even folks that you would not expect. While I would never approve, I will admit that a few relatives of mine even turned their corn crops into whiskey.
I recall a story about a person in the New Home community, not a relative, who made moonshine. Obviously I won’t write names. He had a good operation going and hired his brother-in-law to help out. I guess they were always looking over their shoulders to keep an eye out for the revenuers.
On a particular day around noon, the owner went home to eat his dinner leaving the brother-in-law to watch the still and to keep the fire burning. As it turned out, the law showed up during that time and arrested the brother-in-law and destroyed the illegal operation.
I also remember a story about a lady who was in the woods one day looking for some stray chickens. She came upon a still, suspected it belonged to one of her relatives, and then made a beeline to his home. She told him that if the still was not destroyed or moved by the next day she would call the law.
He took her at her word. I suppose that many of my older readers have heard interesting stories about people making moonshine.