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Fishing the belt from the outhouse
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åTim and Ronda Young and Barbara Lawson were lunch guests of Sue Arnold on Sunday after church.
John, Linda, Colby and Cara Kilgore spent the weekend in the mountains. They were missed at New Home Baptist Church.
Bro. Mike Clayborn preached at New Home Baptist Church on Father’s Day. It was good to see his son Matthew with him.
Brandon Rackley celebrated his birthday Sunday with his family. They had a big lunch at his granny JoAnn Pittman’s house.
Charles Ayers is staying with his daughter and family David and Tina Pedigo since coming from NHC. Get-well wishes are extended to him.
Billy and Mary Jane Hooper visited Johnnie Ruth Hunt Sunday. Johnnie Ruth Hunt spent Sunday night with Sue Cook.
Recent visitors of Betty Wilson were Faye Adkins Dianne Evans, Evelyn Bogle, Rebecca Ervin and JoAnn Pittman.
Those enjoying a Father’s Day lunch celebration on Saturday at the home of Effie Lee Ellis were Larry and Wanda Tramel of Crossville, Natasha and Ellie Vaughn of Alexandria, Jonathan and Renee and Lydia Willoughby, John Lee Willoughby, Katie and L.C. Tramel, Quentin Cook, and Janice and Mike Ward.
Barbara Self celebrated a birthday June 17. She also had cataract surgery that day at DeKalb Community Hospital.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Oleda Magness in her passing.
Visitors of Lu Autry Malone were Joyce Wright, Madaline and Jayeline Weems of Murfreesboro, Ellie Vaughn of Alexandria, Wanda Tramel of Crossville spent a few days. Joyce Wright, Ellie Vaughn, Jayelene Weems and Jaylene Vanatta went to the flea market in Knoxville.
I would like to wish a belated happy birthday to my brother-in-law, Billy Vaughn, of Murfreesboro. Family and friends surprised him recently with a party at Murfreesboro First Baptist Church where he and Lou Ann are members.
It is hard for me to believe that Billy is now 75 years old. It seems like only yesterday when he attended the old Watkins School on Short Mountain Road and once lived with us. Billy’s mama and daddy, Floyd and Della Vaughn, lived at Blumntown and decided to move to Dibrell in Warren County.
They allowed Billy to live with us to finish the school year since we lived on Jacob’s Pillar Road. Billy was a lot of help to me since Ralph was a small child at the time.
I remember that during that time Billy got into a little trouble at school. The regular teacher was out sick, and as usual, the students tried to make a little trouble for the substitute.
The regular teacher always kept a belt in plain view in the classroom to remind the students to be on their best behavior. Well, on this particular day, some of the boys decided to pull a prank. They sneaked the belt from the nail holding it on the wall behind the teacher’s desk and went to the outdoor toilet.
While he was not the ringleader, Billy was in the group. They laughed while throwing the belt down into the toilet. Why they thought that it was funny, I will never know.
Anyway, when the regular teacher returned, she quickly saw that her belt was missing from the wall. She gave them a chance to tell the truth, but none of the students would tell. After promising to spank each one unless the guilty person came forward, she learned the truth.
She made the guilty boys go to the toilet and use a coat hanger to fish the belt out, wash it clean and then return for a spanking that I am sure Billy and each boy will remember for the rest of their lives.
Again, I would like to wish Billy a happy 75th birthday and pray that the Lord gives him many more years.