Copied from the History of Lawrence and Jefferson Davis County, by Eddie Mikell, all rights reserved. Now available on CD and hard copy. E-mail mikell@virginia.edu for purchasing information. You can also bid for this cd on e-bay! May 21, 1891 Hooker Notes Farming is very dull now. The cold and worms are killing the cotton. Though fishing is all the go, J. H. Johnston and R. F. Rester started to the river for a fish late Saturday eve (the 9th), but not with any intention of fishing on Sunday. However, should any chance to got on a hook, it would be no harm to take him off to keep him from drowning. Capt. Jno. S. Neal is out this week spending the week with G. W. Johnson, the known fisherman, but the same luck failed to catch em. Mr. W. L. Stringer, one of the most and in face, the only genteel young man of Crooked Creek (so says a girl), will open a school Monday morning at Midway. We hope he will make a success. The literary society is progressing very rapidly, had a number of visitors from Silver Creek, and Mr. J. H. Arrington, one of our ablest speakers, spoke with so much force some fo the girls had to pat his girl to get her over the shock. But he got the roses, all the same more than he could pack home. Come again, Silver Creek girls. Some of our boys, Messrs Sgringer and Buckley, visited Pleasant Hill church, we know not for what, but say they had a fine time with the girls. We know they got "left" though, as they don't want to go again. J. T. Dale from Columbia High School is visiting relatives and friends this week. J. E. Culpepper's hat is just as pretty as ever, but somewhat sunwarped on account of last week's rain. But we want more rain, if it cost Culpepper his hat. - Whizzer, May 11th, 1891