Copied from the History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County, by Eddie Mikell, all rights reserved. E-mail mikell@virginia.edu for purchasing information on Lawrence County and Jefferson Davis County publications available on CD and hard copy. Now available on e-bay! July 6, 1893 Picnic Next Tuesday. Little Oatis Cannon is ill this week. E. Worley can now be heard chanting lullaby songs during his waking moments. It's a fine boy. Mr. H. M. Batten of Hooker sent us last Tuesday a large sweet potato ot his year's crop. THE PRESS With this issue the Press enters upon its sixth volume. Five long years have we labored, in season and out of season to give the people of Monticello and Lawrence county a paper they would not be ashamed of. That they are not ashamed of it, is fully demonstrated by the fact that the year just closed has been the most prosperous one within our history. Had this not been the case we would have doubtless been forced to have suspended publication and sought, other fields, on account of the disastrious conflagration that visited our town a few months ago. In order to get in shape again it was necessary to expende several hundred dollars, but we have been flattered with many kind expressions on the improved appearance of the paper, and altogether, we have more commodions apartments and a better outfit in every way. We have no excuses to make, nor apologies to offer, because we feel that we have given the people as good a paper as their support demanded. Favor us with an increased patronage and other improvements will be forthcoming.