Congratulations to Judie Houk whose name was drawn on WJLE Birthday Club Thursday for a cake from Bumpers.
Get-well wishes to Ethel Arnold. She spent a few days in DeKalb Community Hospital.
Mary Jane Hooper, Sue Cook and Johnnie Ruth Hunt attended the Pow Wow at Long Hunter State Park Friday.
Ernest and Audean Pack visited Treba Hawkins Tuesday evening.
Faye Adkins was supper guest Wednesday evening with Regenia and Nicklos Daw.
Sue McCoig attended a baby shower Sunday afternoon for her niece Katie Sutton Minton at First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall in McMinnville.
Friends had a yard sale Saturday here in my yard. I enjoyed talking to friends that came inside to talk to me, especially Paulette Bain. She worked with home health and came here for years to see my late husband C.W. Wilson. She’s not well. I pray for her to be restored back to good health.
Recent visitors of Linda Ferrell were Lavona Gill, Eunice Byford and Misty Byford, Shirley Dyer and Jessica Cripps.
I celebrated a birthday on Oct. 21. I want to say thanks for the cards, phone calls, gifts and for all my friends.
Visitors were Faye Adkins, JoAnn Pittman, Rebecca Ervin, Randy, Cindy Vaughn, Angela Meadows, Queda Ferrell and Stephanie Rackley.
The Southern Missionary Baptist Church annual meeting was held at Elizabeth Chapel Baptist Church Tuesday evening Oct. 16 with a good attendance.
Jewell Wiser visited Rebecca Ervin Sunday evening. She and Ella Rich had just returned from a few days stay in Gatlinburg where she and some other women go there each year. They had a nice trip.
Wanda Tramel of Crossville spent Wednesday night with Lou Autry Malone. She went with Jaylene Vanatta to take Lou Autry to the doctor at Vanderbilt in Nashville on Thursday for a check-up.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Ruby Nell Drive in her passing away. She was a wonderful person.
I was talking to my son, Ralph, last week about his school days at Cross Roads. We laughed about him playing with marbles, wearing his Roy Rogers cap pistols, playing basketball and a game  called “Stink Base.”
I don’t think that "Stink Base" was one of the games played when I was in school. Ralph said that there were two teams. Someone would leave the base and the other team would send a player to run and catch him or her.
When a player was caught, that person was placed on the “Stink Base.” The team that lost all its members became the loser. While Ralph and I talked, he said that children seemed to have more fun back then than those with video games and such things today.
Cross Roads always had pretty good basketball teams, both girls and boys. Ralph could not remember many players except Sue Goodwin, Betty Nixon, Nonnie Wilkins, Reba Lattimore, Peggy and Faye Braswell, Helen Hale and Joann Ervin.
He remembered some of the boys including Harold Hale and his brother, Carl Ray; Doyle Hendrix and his brother, Tucker; Don Nixon; Orvil Goodwin; Toy and Troy Mullican, who were twin brothers; Lonnie Wilkins, Buford Mullican; Elmus Lattimore; and Mack Ervin.
I then told Ralph about some of my school days at Snow Hill where many fond memories were made. When either the Baptist or Methodist churches at Snow Hill had revival meetings in the daytime, school would turn out so we could attend. It was a special treat to leave school and go to the church meetings.
Schools would certainly not be allowed to do that today.