Faye Adkins attented a baby shower on Saturday for Nelson and Jennifer Davis, a good attendance with lot’s of nice useful gifts. It was held at the community complex.
Arysn Linn came from Goodlettsville on Friday to spend the night with her great grandma Faye Adkins. They visited Christian Cripps on Saturday before she had to go home.
Mark Violet visited his children in Lawrenceburg recently.
Billy Tiner is currently at Walter State training to become a police officer. Our thoughts and prayers are with him during his eight-week course.
Anita and Chloe Braswell were supper guests of Billie Simson Friday evening.
Ryan and Lindsy Winfree and Katie Roehner were guests of Douglas, Barbara Ann  and Hayden Ervin Sunday night.
Brenda Spencer has returned home after having surgery in River Park Hospital. She stayed several days in the hospital. She is missed at New Home Baptist Church. Hope she will be able to return soon.
Dot Rogers visited Pat, Austin and Kobe Walls Sunday afternoon.
Dot Rodgers attended Lotie Fisks funeral at High’s Funeral Home in McMinnville on Thursday.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Mr. John Carpenter in his passing.
Belated happy birthday wishes to Betty Jo Cantrell, her birthday was on Friday. Her daughter, Dianne Smith of Watertown, came to see her on Sunday and prepared her and Charles a good lunch in honor of her birthday.
Marie Walls and her brother and wife Dean and Connie Neely of Shelbyville attended their nephew funeral Gulliam Rector in Springfield. Dean and Connie spent the night with Marie on their way home.
Visitors of Lou Autry Malone were Joyce Wright and Madelene Williams of Murfreesboro. Wanda Tramel of Crossville spent the night Friday night. Visiting Sunday were Rita Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Jordon Melton and Clarence Trapp.
My son, Ralph, took me this week for a checkup with my ear, nose, and throat doctor in Cookeville. While we were driving near Center Hill Lake, I could not help but see the large icicles hanging from the bluffs. There were so many, but of course the weather has been extremely cold.
The sight of those icicles reminded me about when as a little girl our family lived in the Wright Hollow near Dale Ridge.  My brother, W.B., and I liked to get icicles, break off a small piece and put it in our mouth to melt.
One day Mama saw what we were doing and scolded us, saying that we would take a cold and get pneumonia. She swore that it would be the death of us. Later that week, we got a large snowfall. We begged Mama to make us snow cream. Again, she claimed that we would take a cold and that we’d surely take pneumonia and die.  
We went straight to Daddy and begged him to let us have some snow cream. He then talked Mama into making it, with her fussing with every breath. W.B. and I slipped and fed a little of it to our sister, Ruby, who was about two years old at the time.  
Mama snatched her up and said that we would be the death of the baby. Sure enough, Ruby was sick the next day and running a high temperature.
Dr. Robinson from Temperance Hall was in the neighborhood doctoring a neighbor for appendicitis.  Daddy ran and asked the doctor to stop by when he left.  It wasn’t long before he rode his horse to our house, took his satchel and mixed up some medicine for Ruby.
Mama told him about the snow cream and how W.B. and I had made Ruby sick by feeding her some of it. Dr. Robinson calmed Mama and reminded her that babies get sick sometimes for no apparent reason.  He did not think it had anything to do with eating snow cream.
If I remember, Dr. Robinson charged a dollar for that house call. I wish that my doctor’s visit in Cookeville could have been for only a dollar.