Congratulations to Paul Close. His name was drawn on WJLE birthday club on Aug. 27 for a dinner from Kilgore’s Restaurant.

It was Caden Close ‘s birthday also. I hope they both have many more.

Mark and Hillary Gould and children of South Carolina spent the weekend with her parents, Kenneth and Peggy Cantrell. They attended New Home Baptist Church.

Doris and Arson Linn were guest for breakfast Sunday morning with Faye Adkins. Arson attended church with Faye.

Corenia Verna Miller of Michigan is out of the hospital. She had Pneumonia. She called me and said she was home.

Get-well wishes are sent to Frances Foster. She is a patient in DeKalb Community Hospital.

Phil and Susan George are at home now from Texas. His condition is very well.

Hunter, Nicole, Ryder and Cooper Stanfield and Ashli Chew visited Mark and Kim Violet and Spencer Stanfield.

Recent visitors of Betty Wilson were Billy and Lou Ann Vaughn, Ralph and June Vaughn, Faye Adkins, Betty Byford, JoAnn Pittman and Rebecca Ervin.

Adam and Davin Lawson, and Barbara Lawson visited Sue Arnold.

Sue Arnold attended revival services at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Friday night.

Bro. Chris McMillen preached a good sermon at New Baptist Church last Sunday morning.

Wayne and Joan Ferrell visited his mother Louise Jones and Teresa. They and their family camped out at Center Hill Lake during the holiday and fished.

Johnnie and Valeria Mears visited Mabel Pack Saturday evening.

Mark Violet went on a dove hunt at Blue Springs Monday. There were a large crowd and all had a good time.

I enjoyed Billy and Lou Ann Vaughn from Murfreesboro visiting with me recently. We laughed about when Lou Ann and Billy were first married about 50 years ago. She was a city girl from California and was a little surprised at the way we lived in Tennessee back then.

Billy had failed to tell her that the toilet was outdoors with no running water. She was amazed how we got a bucket of water from our hand-dug well; the way a person took a bath with a wash basin and cloth. She must have asked a hundred questions about how we lived and worked.

During our talking the other day, we recalled how Billy’s mother took a trip to see them in Arizona. Mrs. Vaughn had never flown on an airplane. Lou Ann also told about her grandmother and the first time she rode on an airplane.

According to Lou Ann, her grandmother boarded the airplane, took her seat and immediately put a scarf over her head. She was asked why. The grandmother said since she was riding in an airplane that she wanted to make sure the wind did not blow her hair out of place during the trip.

That reminded me about the first time I rode on an escalator. I was almost scared to death and could hardly wait until I could step off. I don’t remember what I was thinking. But I must have somehow thought that I would get stuck and would be unable to climb from the moving steps.

Well, a person doesn’t know what a person does not know.