Mary Jane Hooper, Sue Cook and Johnnie Ruth Hunt went to see the Pow Wow at Mt. Juliet, Saturday. They enjoyed the day.
Guest for lunch on Sunday of Johnnie Ruth Hunt were Billy and Mary Jane Hooper and Sue Cook.
I am glad to report that Jeanette Redmon is home after spending a week in Centennial Hospital in Nashville. Rebecca Ervin spent Saturday night and Sunday with her.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Barbara Colvert in her unexpected death.
Recent visitors of Betty Wilson were Ralph and June Vaughn, of Murfreesboro, Jean Wallace, Diane Evans and JoAnn Pittman.
Congratulations to Cloie Braswell, her name was drawn on WJLE birthday club Oct. 10. She won a dinner at Kilgore’s Restaurant.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Nell Cantrell in her death. I remember her being very friendly when she was a clerk at Wright’s and Fuston’s 10¢ stores.
Mr. and Mrs. John Kilgore and children were missed at New Home Church Sunday. They were on vacation in Florida.
Lou Autry Malone celebrated a birthday on Oct. 15. The following went with her to Crossville on Saturday to the Cumberland Playhouse to watch a good play: Jaylene Vanatta, Wanda Tramel, Joyce Wright, Judie Johnson, Debra Malone and Krysten Malone. They ate lunch at Gondola’s. Then on Sunday after church they celebrated with a birthday lunch in the fellowship hall of Memorial Baptist Church. Jimmy and Joyce Wright, Rawlin and Jessie Vanatta, Bro. Jr., Sue Ellis, Natalie Weems and children, Eric and Malorie Carter, Nathan and Gail Wright, Hannah Wright, Betty6 Hoover, David, Katie Beth, Randy, Natasha and Ellie Vaughn, Ludean Wright, Jorden Melton, Suprena Hale, and Jeff and Jaylene Vanatta brought food and ate with her.
Richard Mears visited Mabel and Robin Pack, Friday.
DeKalb County schools were recently on "fall break” which reminded me about when I was in school in the 1930s.  We only had school for a few months unlike the number of days required now. 
While I always enjoyed school my brother W.B. Cantrell, was happier to be working in the fields or anything other than being in the school house.  I remember one fall when W.B. and I were attending Snow Hill School.  Mr. Winfred Knowles was our teacher.
Some of our classmates got the itch.  Mama was afraid that we would also get the itch, so she pulled us out from school.  Of course, W.B. was happy, but I was sad.  We had only gone to school for a few weeks, which meant that we missed out on completing the grade that year.
One of our neighbors had children who contacted the itch.  Since none of us in the neighborhood had transportation, I remember that they got the mailman to stop at the drug store in Smithville and purchase medicine for the itch. 
The mailman back then delivered the mail but did more.  He was a source of news and a great volunteer for picking up odds and ends in town when a family needed something in an emergency.
I remember Mama talking about when she was in school and children getting head lice.  She said that my Uncle Bud White was sitting behind a student one day and saw lice crawling on the boy’s head.  Uncle Bud flipped the lice from that boy with some of them landing on another student, who then had the problem.
Also, when Mama and her brothers were going to school at Hannah’s Branch near Dale Ridge, my pappy, Willie Bell White, and some neighbors wanted the children to have some extra schooling.  So they cut firewood and sold it to raise enough money to pay the teachers.
No doubt about it, the times have certainly changed since back then.