Congratulations to Connie Melton. Her name was drawn on WJLE birthday club on Monday. She won roses from DeKalb Florist.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Thelma Jones Earman. She passed away Sept. 23 in Harrisburg, Va. She was a DeKalb County native, but had lived in Virginia for a long time. She is survived locally by three sisters, Jeanett Redmon, Rebecca Ervin and Jewell Wiser. Funeral services and burial were in Virginia.
Betty Cantrell visited Haley and Louise House Friday.
Rebecca Ervin visited her sister, Jeanett Redmon Saturday.
Bro. Jonathon Buck preached Sunday morning and night at New Home Baptist Church.
Kevin, Callie and Asher Herman visited Clara Mae Hawkins Sunday evening.
I had two interesting visitors last Wednesday. They were Betty Byford and Wilma Jean Jones from Warren County. Wilma Jean was my neighbor in 1946 and 1947, when I was first married. She was a small girl then and I was glad when she would visit me.
We would go to Bratcher Cross Roads Church with her grandmother. We reminiscenced about all the good neighbors we had there. It was so sad as most of them have passed on now. It’s the younger generation there now.
Others visiting me were Ralph Vaughn and Gavin O’Hara Jr., JoAnn Pittman and Rebecca Ervin.
Several from Mt. Herman Baptist Church went to Hunter Funeral Home on Monday to Justin Waggoner’s funeral in Sparta.
Sunday dinner guest of Lu Autry Malone were Larry and Wanda Tramel, of Crossville, Randy, Natasha and Ellie Vaughn of Alexandria, Rita Robinson of Liberty, Jeff and Jalene Vanatta ofof Snow Hill.
Stan Melton of Chicago spent a few days with hhis mother, Corrine Melton. He helped her celebrate her birthday. He took her to the White Possum Grill for dinner. Jorden Melton and Saprena Hale joined them.
Jerry Snow, of Nashville, visited his mother Martha Snow Monday.
I have written before about how much I enjoy my telephone.  Lena Rhody called me the other day, and we had a wonderful conversation while reminiscing about the good old days.
We talked at least an hour covering everything from her daddy’s annual Easter services and egg hunts at the old Round Top school house to her recent birthday.  Lena’s daddy, Mr. Jim Robinson, was a special person and Gospel preacher.
Lena said that her children gave her a riding lawn mower for her birthday.  She is really blessed to be able to work in the yard and has a great attitude about life. 
While we were reminiscing, I reminded her how much my late husband, J.D. Vaughn, enjoyed working with her husband, the late Austin Rhody, who was manager of DeKalb Farmers Co-op.  In the early years of the Co-op, J.D. was on the board.
Lena told me that she does alterations of clothes, and that reminded me about something back in 1940.  There was a government program to help folks in DeKalb County with getting mattresses.  The material was provided, but you had to make your own mattress.
There were locations around the county where folks would go to make their mattress.  Lena and I laughed about making a mattress at the old Snow Hill School house.  I can almost see it now.
Also, while we talked about Snow Hill School, I remembered attending with some of the Rhody children, including my friend, Mary Rhody Snow.
Well, it was the highlight of my day getting to laugh and reminisce during my conversation with Lena.