Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Bluff City News

Jeanie and I just returned from visiting her folks in southeast Missouri. We found it very dry in that area. People were having to water their gardens and the farmers were getting worried about this year's crop. Those farmers do it in a big way.

There are fields as far as the eye can see with farmers driving their huge air-conditioned tractors to and fro and crop-dusting airplanes flying overhead. It seems that more corn is being planted this year than in the past.

The area we went to is just on the edge of these big farm fields in the edge of the Ozark Mountains, where the land changes from being perfectly flat to steep and hilly in only a short distance. The hilly area in mostly small farms and is covered

with hardwood timber.

The weather was very cool while we were there. I wish I could have bottled up some of that cool air and saved it for later use. Some areas were getting rainfall as we left.

Funeral services were held last week for Thelma Gosvenor from Camden with burial at Bluff City Cemetery.

Bill Carman left Sunday on a flight to Indianapolis, Ind., on company business. Too bad he can't leave from the Terrapin Neck air strip.

At this writing Olen Loe is still in St. Michael's Hospital in Texarkana. He had surgery a few days ago and later developed pneumonia.

Margie Knight's brother is in the Camden hospital and was not doing very well at last report.

We had planned to bring back some of those good Arkansas strawberries from the Bald Knob area, but it was raining and the peddlers were not out.

Billy Joe Meador from Texas was visiting in the community. He is easy to spot since he usually drives up here in one of his custom built cars.

By the time you read this, you will know how the election turned out. I noticed that in 1916, Bluff City had a W.W.W.W.W.W. Club. That caught my eye and when I read a little further, I found that the letters stood for "We will win with Woodrow Wilson". The article said there was only one person in Bluff City who intended to vote against Wilson, but it didn't say who it was.

Linda Carman provided a multi-purpose cake for the potluck lunch last Sunday. Three couples were celebrating anniversaries and one person had a birthday, so we made one cake work for all. That same idea could work for holidays. I always thought there should be a special holiday each year when we could honor any person we desired to honor, even ourselves. Maybe we could call it American Hero Day.

A thought for this week: "Work eight hours; sleep eight hours; but not the same eight hours."