Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Oak Grove News

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us when we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. After all this is the day the Lord has made and let's rejoice and be glad in it.

My birthday is August 20. I am happy to be alive and doing as well as I am.

Our Aunt Ellen Jenkins Sanders passed away Friday night in San Francisco, Calif. Her funeral was Monday. She lived a good life. She was over a hundred years old. She lived with her daughter Costella. Her son, Joe P. Sanders, helped to see after her. She never had to go to a nursing home. Thank God to have children like them.

Aaron Gulley is in Medical Park Hospital in Hope. He has been in ICU, but his wife said last night they have moved him to a room.

Our annual homecoming will be held the second Sunday in August at New Salem AME Church. Elder Bernis Blake of Hot Springs will be the speaker for morning services.

I had lunch at the Senior Citizens Center Monday. It was very nice. While I was there news came that Tom and Artie Mae's son killed himself. He married Sonny Martin's daughter. Her mother lives in Willisville. She was at the Center when the news came.

I went to the dentist and my teeth are giving me some trouble.

We are inviting all choirs over to New Salem the second Sunday evening. We are having singing that afternoon.