NEWS FROM LONG AGO OCTOBER 5, 1900 FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. 2, NUMBER 29 (CONTINUED) LOCAL AND PERSONALS (Continued): Lee Black invites the public to call and inspect his goods and prices. His stock is complete in every department and he is in the race for low prices. He is constantly receiving new goods of latest styles and designs and he bought with no other intention than that of selling them. To convince you he means business, give him a call – and he will do the rest. - J. E. Hardin of Spay office and our youngest patron was in town Tuesday and had us mark him up a dollars worth. Mr. Hardin is a mere beardless boy, the son of a widow woman, and yet he takes his home papers and keeps full up with the times and topics of the day. He sold a bale of cotton while here and realized from it more than $50.00. - We were much pleased to have a call last Saturday evening from Dr. J. W. Robinson of Bywy. Dr. Robinson is one of the most genial of men and to know him is to esteem him. He has a fine farm and a good practice besides mercantile interests on Bywy, and other interests. To show what kind of stuff the Winston Co. people who wear copperas britches are made out of we clip the following from the Journal. “Quite a number of people came in from the country to hear Hon. Luther Manship’s lecture and all seemed to enjoy it. The parties responsible for Mr. Manship’s lecture came out safely in the undertaking. The door receipts even at 15 and 25 cents, netted near $60.00, just about the expenses.” The genial and jovial J. F. Watson, Esq. of Reform was a distinguished visitor to Ackerman Monday. The mildew and blight of hard times may corrode and tarnish the souls of other men but it only serves the generous nature of Mr. Watson and he fished out of his pocket a greenback dollar that glistened and glittered as it if had been set with a million golden facets. May your current of prosperity flow unobstructedly on lighting up with its pure radiance the rose-embowered pathway that lies before you. We regret to chronicle the death of Gladys, the little daughter of Mr. N. A. and Mrs. Lucy Cramer, which occurred on last Monday after a brief illness with congestion. Little Gladys was a bright child, about two years and three months of age, just old enough for the cords of a father’s and mother’s affection to have intertwined themselves around the tendrils of the heart of their dear one, the jewel and joy of their in most souls, and to have the golden cord so ruthlessly broken causes a pang of sorrow to mother, father, sister, and grandmother, that enlists the sympathy of all for the stricken ones in this their saddest hour and most sorrowful affliction. The RECORD extends its most sincere sympathy to the grief-laden family and bids them look up to the loving Father who alone can give true consolation and who only can heal the broken hearts. A revival is now in progress at the Methodist church. The preaching is being don by Rev. Mr. O’Brien. `
