Bro. Jonathan Willioughby was the guest speaker at New Home Baptist Church on Sunday morning and night. He did a good job. We appreciate the preachers helping us out as we look for a pastor.
Louise Jones celebrated a birthday on July 24. Wayne, Jane and Cory Ferrell and friend of Woodbury visited her bringing gifts on Sunday.
Johnnie Ruth Hunt and Sue Cook visited Billy and Mary Jane Hooper on Wednesday.
Visitors of Martha Snow on Saturday were Jerry Snow of Nashville and Paul and Gail Blair.
Recent visitors of Betty Wilson were Randy Vaughn of Alexandria, Betty Byford, Dianne Evans, Jo Dean Redmon, Rebecca Ervin and Louise Jones. Thanks to the ones that brought me good vegetables and other food. Treva Hawkins also visited me.
Charles Ayers was a patient in DeKalb Community Hospital.
Barbara Burton visited Barbara Self.
Recent visitors of Marie Walls were Earlene Olsen, Don and Linda Poss, Betty Sandlin and Eva Willoughby.
Visitors of Kim and Mark Violet and Spencer were Casey France, Hayden Ervin, Donna Mathis, Stephanie Rackley, and Angela Meadows.
Artie, Regena, and Nicklos Daw and Faye Adkins were supper guests on Sunday evening with Larry Daw, William, Noel, and Willie Dowling of Liberty. They were helping William celebrate his birthday.
Mabel Pack attended the Alexandria Fair with other seniors from Smithville on Thursday. They all had lunch together and enjoyed the day.  
I was musing this week about when I attended Capling School near Dale Ridge.  Two of my best friends were Vera Ellis and Frances Turner.  Miss Estelle Fleming was our teacher in the little one-room school house.
Each of us always wore a string around our neck, and during recess we would make designs with the strings.  I can almost see them now.  We made what was called "Jacob’s Ladder" and there were "Crow’s Feet.”  We made many others, but I just don’t remember them, now.
While I’m thinking about Frances, I remember how we all would pick blackberries to earn money.  One day Frances was crossing over a fence with her bucket of blackberries and fell.  The injuries led to her death.  She had planned to make enough money in order to attend a July Fourth celebration in Smithville.
Also, while I’m thinking about Capling School, my baby sister, Ruby Lee, would sometimes go to school with me and my brother, W. B. Cantrell.  Ruby was only four years-old.  She would sometimes get on the floor, crawl around and pinch the other students on the legs when they were not looking.
It seems that Ruby was always finding ways to get me in trouble.  But, what do you expect from a four-year-old?
Overall, those were happy days at Capling School.