Today's News

        As I allowed myself to become caught up in the flow of patriotism, enthusiasm for the moment and, actually, something else yet to be identified during the past two days of remarkable national significance for Americans as a people, I couldn’t help recalling oddly similar, but different feelings when I first read Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens. Author Dickens began Book One, Recalled To Life, Chapter One, The Period with words so profoundly appropriate for today that I reprint them below for those who may have never read them.

 Mathematically, it is virtually impossible to prove any of the theories that for every $100 you spend locally, X amount of dollars stay at home. Different surveys have provided different results, so all that can be said is that it makes sense for the folks in any community to spend their money with their local merchants if they want their community to survive and the business community to grow.

     Past the purely monetary considerations, there are other reasons to shop at home with your business neighbors.

This editorial appeared in The Arkansas Leader, the newspaper in Jacksonville, Arkansas. It was written by Garrick Feldman, owner and publisher and is being reprinted with his permission. Tobacco companies are organized and will fight any serious attempt to increase taxes on their products, as they will also do as we consider raising tobacco taxes in Mississippi.

Here I am once again trying to fill a gap that has been broken once again.  My dear friend Johnnie Bell has been diagnosed with cancer and has had surgery and will be having chemo in the near future.  She will be unable to write community news so I will attempt to write once again at least for awhile.

Betty Smith and Loretta Easley visited recently with Mary Etta Hill and Ola Messer.  They are both up and around the  house and love phone calls and company.