My mother-in-law is Willie "Bill" Outlaw.,Mrs. Marvin Outlaw,she lived in the Eagle Lake community.She wrote a weekly for the Eagle Democrat. I would like to have some copies of her articles. If any one has any. Dorothy Outlaw my email is dorothyo@alltel.net Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "bjw" <jann_woodard@yahoo.com> To: <ARBRADLE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 4:02 PM Subject: [ARBRADLE] Tidbits from the Eagle Democrat > Apr 14, 1965: "Editor's Notes". > > Mrs. Sam Harris, our Oak Grove scribe, says she knew one of the fellows > who burned to death in that caboose explosion in Ashley County years and > years ago. This column discussed the occurence, and the subsequent > mysterious lights that appear in the area of the explosion, several weeks > ago. Mrs. Harris said she knew the fellow and his family when all resided > in the Stout Lumber Company Camp near Thornton in Calhoun County just > after World War I. Mrs. Harris, a keep student of folklore, points out > that there was a fear at the time that it was bad luck to wash clothes on > the Friday before or after Christmas. But the wife of the doomed man had > a baby and she needed to wash so she did it on Friday before Christmas on > Saturday. Mrs. Harris said this created quite a stir among the camp > residents. She says one elderly lady predicted: "Mark my word, there'll > be a death in that family in the next year." And, of course there was. > > [when I was growing up in Bradley Co., there was a story about a light > that appeared in a certain place in Ashley Co. Presumably because of a > death - I think] > > Logging camps had a unique place in the history of our area and it > appears now that it may be a segment of history soon forgotten. The late > Jim Hurley, Sr., liked to tell about getting on the log train and going > down to the camp with the payroll for workmen. And - Our current county > judge, James Earnest, was born at one of the camps. > > I got to thinking the other day about those Kaiser and Frazer automobiles > that created such a stir about 20 years. ago. They were the industrial > children of Henry J. Kaiser, who had made a mint building ships for the > USA during World War II. Lester Temple was the Warren dealer for Kaisers > and Frazers, and he showed them in his 203 building, where Norm's > Furniture City is now located. I remember that the Louis Ederingtons had > one of the first Kaisers, and the D. C. Harris' the first Frazers. The > cars never did really go over big - I remember that Harold Simmons had one > of the last of them; a beautiful blue two-door sedan. Their basic design > and lines were good, but somehow Kaiser never got the "bugs" worked out of > the manufacturing. One of my wife's schoolgirl friends in Pine Bluff, > used to ride around in her father's Frazer armed with a crowbar. It would > stick in low gear, on occasion, and this necessitated raising the hood and > banging away at a certain point until > the gears would shift again. A rather unlady-like practice, but > thoroughly efficient. > > We were riding around the other Sunday when we saw smoke and flames > coming up from Bert Green's woodshed. It burned, partially, and Bert was > out there cleaning up several days later when he found an old "token" from > the Bradley Commissary. For the youthful and unitiated: Bradley workmen, > in the old days, sometimes ran out of money before payday. They could go > to the foreman and get these "tokens" which could be spent at the company > store. The amount spent would then be held out of their wages, when > payday finally came around. > > Thinking of the Bradley Store makes me think of Roy Harley, who worked > there as a bookkeeper for years. Roy and the late Bob Fullerton were > talking about some person who owed the company some money, and Roy > ventured, "He's just as good as cash." Mr. Bob rejoined quickly, "There's > nothing as good as cash money." > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARBRADLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >