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. April 7, 1892 Items are certainly scarce this week. Dr. G. B. Lenoir was in town yesterday. Some of folks are catching lots of fish. Mr. S. Waltman of Grange was a visitor to our town yesterday. Mr. Virgil Griffith of Silver Creek was in town yesterday on business. Mr. Geo. Hoskins of Brookhaven is visiting relatives and friends in our town. Mr. A. Cohn of Brookhaven is visiting relatives and friends in our town. Mrs. T. H. Butler visited the family of Mr. I. A. Hickman in our town this week. The County Farmers' Alliance meets next Tuesday. See notice in another column. Rev. R. W. Hall preached to attentive congregations in the Baptist church last Saturday and Sunday. Messrs. L. Cohn & Bros. had over one hundred bales of cotton in the New Orleans fire, but they were insured. The Board of Supervisors were in session last Monday. Their proceedings will appear in our next issue. The gist mill is in full operation just across the branch from Mr. Gray's shop. The sound of the steam whistle. Spring has come in earnest, and the sweet twitter of the bird is heard from every bush. We hereby desire to inform the public that we don't mean to say anything more about Spring. Mr. J. L. Gray, who has been operating a blacksmith shop in our town for over a year, leaves this week to take charge of a shop at Hamilton's mill near Wesson. He will be superceded here by his son Early. We regret to lose Mr. Gray from our midst, and trust he will brighten us with frequent visits. The insinuation that we did not get an April fool is not well taken, and the author of the report is hereby challenged to fight a duel with baseball bats at a distance of thirty feet tomorrow at 3 a. m. The same individual is the one who stated the yarn about us being a pauper, and we want a chance to get even. Nothing but his life-blood will satisfy us. We can stand being call a pauper by this burlesque on humanity, a cross between an Apachee Indian and a window-shutter - but when it comes to saying that we did not get an April fool, then we get mad, and when we get mad we are terrible! Those who have seen us mad will never forget the sight!