October 10 Edition

"Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears." --- Samuel 7:22 KJV

Birthdays this week include: Wilma Rawls - Oct. 12, Regina Huddleston & Bill Perry - Oct. 15, Sandie Lynn - Oct. 16, Marshall Parker - Oct. 17, Delaina Ashcraft Splawn - Oct. 18.

For you out-of-towners, we caught some rain last Friday, just enough to settle the dust. We're still hurting for it here.

As of this writing, Clyde Moseley is in the Heart Hospital in Little Rock and in a bad way. Please keep him and Miss Bobbie in your thoughts and prayers.

Fall festivities are here: Macedonia Church will have its Fall this Saturday. Games start at 2pm, a silent auction starts at 3pm and will continue through the events, a cookie walk starting at 3:30pm and dinner will be at 5pm. Trunk or Treat will be at 6pm with a movie from 6:30 to 8pm.

West Saline Community Center is holding its annual Spook House in the school building on Saturday, October 31st from 7pm until midnight. Admission is a one time charge of $2. For the little kids who might not be quite ready for the unspeakable horrors therein, WSCC will have games and candy for them from 2pm to 4pm.

We're starting to wind down our tour of past schools in the New Edinburg area. Schools of Cleveland County tells us about another relic of the past, Gravestown School: "Gravestown School was in operation before the Civil War. The school was constructed of logs and was placed on a mound on the north side of Mt. Elba Cut-off Road just before the Ode Grice home. It had windows, but they may have been glass or they may have been shutters. The building was heated by a fireplace. It was the first Methodist church in the Hebron community and was just pas the Graves tanyard north of the Mt. Elba Cut-off road. Bob Tucker, who had lost a leg in the Civil War and married Elmyra Hall, taught there shortly after the war. One time while Mr. Tucker was teaching at the school, the kids were playing “fox and hounds” at recess. When he rang his hand-bell at the end of recess, as he commonly did, some of the boys playing were far enough into the woods they did not hear him. Jack Knowles, who did hear, returned to the school.  Mr. Tucker, after he learned what happened, took off running after the boys. Despite his peg-leg, he ran so fast that he caught the boys. They returned to the school together, and Mr. Tucker gave those boys a good whipping."

Go Eagles.