Congratulations to Louise Jones, whose name was drawn on WJLE birthday club on July 24 for a free meal from Kilgore’s Restaurant.
Anita and Cloie Braswell took a short vacation to Nashville last week. Beth, Thomas and Michel Braswell joined them for some fun.
Billie Simpson, Anita and Cloie Braswell visited Michelle Walker Saturday.
Congratulations to Jorden and Nicole Cripps. They celebrated their third anniversary Saturday. Their name was drawn on WJLE Radio for two dinners at Center Hill Restaurant and they were guest of Faye Adkins Sunday morning for breakfast.
Guests of Betty Wilson recently were Betty Byford, Ralph and June Vaughn, Rebecca Ervin, JoAnn Pittman, JoDean Redmon, Hayden Ervin and Don Hawkins, Faye Adkins and Dianne Evans.
Hello, Werdna Mose in Dixon. I enjoy your phone calls and letters.
Get-well wishes are extended to Sarge Bowman. He has shingles and been pretty sick.
Revival service came to a close Saturday night at Mt. Herman Baptist Church with Bro. Bobby Thomason doing some good preaching each night with good Crowder.
Bro. Chuck and Earlene Olsen and Marie Walls attended funeral service of Beecher Howell Sunday in Parkville. His wife is the former Emily Walls, a DeKalb County native. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack.
Joyce Wright of Murfreesboro and Peggy Agiee visited Lu Autry Malone last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ferrell of Woodbury visited Louise Jones and they all went fishing at Center Hill Lake.
My son, Ralph, does my grocery shopping these days so I don’t have to think about comparing prices or clipping coupons. Years ago, the peddler was our means of buying groceries. He drove up in front of our house on New Home Road about the same time each week.
Unlike the computers used today in adding up the bill, the peddler usually took a brown paper sack and scribbled the prices on it. I was a keen shopper and always doubled checked his arithmetic. I don’t recall him ever making a mistake.
While thinking this week about grocery shopping during the years gone by.  I also remembered back in the 1950s when I worked at the Smithville Shirt Factory. I usually ate my lunch at Mr. Tom Cantrell’s store on Main Street.
Depending on what I ate, the price of my lunch was about 20 cents. I could get a bologna sandwich on crackers for five cents.  Then, there was a RC Cola for a nickel. I would always get a Moon Pie for five cents and then a banana for another nickel; making my entire lunch cost 20 cents.
The first time that I ate lunch at Mr. Cantrell’s store, I didn’t know the size of his bologna sandwiches, so I said for him to give me a dime’s worth. It was too much. I learned my lesson and from then on, I would ask for a nickel’s worth of bologna on crackers.
I made 50 cents an hour working at the Shirt Factory. So a 20-cent lunch was not too expensive.