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, Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Our Fancy Swimming Pool

by Clydene Overbey By golly, we had a swimming pool when I was a kid. Yep, we were up there jiving with the best of them. On hot days Mama would draw water from the well and fill a big wash tub. The tub was placed under the shady walnut trees in the front yard. Some people had fancy ones shaped like our modern bathtubs, but we only had the tubs Mama used for washing clothes. We could play in or out of the water splashing around like ducks. Speaking of ducks we had two white ones. They loved our swimming pool too, if they ever got a chance to get in it. In very hot weather another tub of water was placed in the sun and by the end of the day the water was heated just right for a bath. We were not supposed to play in it. When we carried it inside to the back room for baths we usually had to skim the bugs off the top. Younger people might turn their nose up at this, but you dont know what you missed. Those old wash tubs were used for so many different things. On special occasions they were filled with crushed ice from the ice house and Cokes were placed in the ice. Wow! Those were the coldest Cokes I ever drank. Yummy! Any time Mama got a new one the old one was put to use also. Water was put in them to water the cow and horse. Sometimes the top was cut out for a shallow one to feed and water the chickens. One with leaks was used to sow tomato seeds in the spring. Water was added to keep the dirt moist while they grew. Chicken manure was mixed in the garden dirt and placed in the tub. No potting soil and Miracle Grow then. Around the first of June the tomato plants were planted in the black dirt Daddy had plowed up in the garden. Later tender plants were covThe bookstore at UAFS is part of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, which is a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble that operates more than 650 college and university bookstores around the nation. For more information about the UAFS event, call Baker or any of the bookstore staff at 479-788-7322. ered with the tubs in the garden if a late freeze was expected. I can distinctly remember putting my hands up to my elbows in that dirt, chicken manure and all, and playing in it after the plants were removed. Mud pies? Prooo-bablee, did I taste the pies? I really dont remember! We were allowed to be kids in the 50s and we didnt stay inside all the time. Even in the winter I remember being out more than in. Occasionally some women would use a leaky one to plant flowers in, but that didnt happen a lot. Those tubs were too useful for them to get rusted out for just a flower pot. At least thats what my daddy said and Mama agreed with him. We made use of everything in as many ways as we could. I have an old wash tub hanging on a nail out on the smoke house. People have tried to buy it from me to plant flowers in. No way! That tub is going to hang right there as long as I have anything to do with it. So many sweet memories can be conjured up by just looking fondly on that old tub. Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:19-21)

NEW OZARK ROTARY OFFICERS are (L-R): Leslie Davis, treasurer; Rex Heffington, president; Chris Brockett, vice president/president elect, and Toby Hogan, sergeant-atarms. Not pictured: Kristie Moore, secretary.

Tax holiday at UAFS

Textbook shoppers can cut their book costs during the 48-hour Arkansas tax-free holiday on the first weekend of August at the Lions Bookstore at the University of Arkansas/Fort Smith. The Lions Bookstore will participate in the annual event that exempts textbooks, most school supplies and clothing from the Arkansas sales tax (now 9.75 percent) on Aug. 3 and 4, according to Amy Baker of Fort Smith, manager of the bookstore in the SmithPendergraft Campus Center. Baker said the Lions Bookstore will be open 7 a.m.7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3, and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. In addition, all Web orders placed between 12:01 a.m. Aug. 3 and 11:59 p.m. Aug. 4 will be free of sales tax charges. If a student decides to rent a textbook or buy one of the available digital books, Baker said, there is a savings of up to 50 percent off the new book price, and then, when you factor in the no sales tax, this really adds up to some huge savings for students and parents. We have new, used, rental and digital textbooks available. In addition to UAFS students wanting to save money, there are other groups who might want to come to campus, alumni and Christmas shoppers, according to out in my yard and watched the fireworks. Tony and Alanna Contreras and I went to St. Marys to watch the Altus Fireworks on Friday, July 5. Loretta Frazier (Mom) and Fay Campbell (Grandma) saw Arvil and Wanda Anglin shopping on Saturday. Arvil and Wanda said they are doing well. Arvils mother, Addie (Campbell) Anglin, was my grandfathers, Sammie Campbell, sister. There has been a lot of progression of the building of the Jethro Fire Station. The walls are now up. Gail Bennett, along with her daughter, Christina Bennett, and fianc, Sam Bolinger, came by the house Sunday morning. Christina and Sam are getting married on Aug. 10 at 4 p.m. at Astounding Grace Church in Hindsville. Gails husband, Gene, is a great-grandson of Thomas and Maude (Campbell) Smith. Maude was a halfsister to my grandpa, Sammie Campbell. Ben Carr has been in the hospital since Thursday due to an infection. Pray that he gets well soon! We canned potatoes at Grandma Fay and Aunt Rose Campbells house on Sunday. Lana Derexson and Brayden Graham visited with Grandma Fay and Aunt Rose Campbell on Sunday. The Oak Ridge Cemetery decoration will be Sunday, July 21. Remember to mark your calendars! Those that had ordered my book, The Sprouting Seed: The Campbell and Mayner Families from Kentucky, in either May or June should be receiving the book very soon. Baker. For those who will be attending UAFS in the coming year, or those who just want to show UAFS school spirit, this is a wonderful time to get the items you want at a great price. We have a great selection of UAFS logo items for people of all ages, she said. Baker said the bookstore has a wide selection of school supplies and UAFS logo apparel items that qualify for the sales tax exemption. This is the third year for Arkansas to offer a tax-free holiday, which was approved in the 2011 legislative session. A list of what qualifies, including clothing items under $100 per item, can be found at the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration website, www.dfa.arkansas.gov. Once on the site, go to Sales and Use Tax on the left, and then click on 2013 Sales Tax Holiday. Viewers can click on either an itemized list or frequently asked questions about the event.

APPRECIATION PIN Bill Murray (R), outgoing president of the Ozark Rotary Club, received an appreciation pin last Tuesday from incoming president Rex Heffington.

Jethro News
By Kendall Frazier I hope everyone had a wonderful, happy Independence Day. Please contact me for any news that you may have for this column. You can write me at 15618 Camp Newell Road, Ozark, AR 72949; e-mail Kfrazier_72949@yahoo.com, or contact me on Facebook. I received a letter from Aunt Helen Ellison. She had seen that I mentioned a Wilbourn in one of my previous columns and wanted to know if Julia (Wilbourn) Nixon was related to her. Indeed, they are related. I completed some family group sheets and pedigrees of the WilburnWilbourn family for her. We recently lost one of our former pastors of the Jethro Pentecostal Church. Reverend Henson Dunn passed away on Sunday, June 30. Please keep Sister Dunn and their family in your thoughts and prayers! My grandfather, Elbert Pug Frazier, would have been 75 years old on July 1. Linda Graham stopped by my house on Tuesday, July 3. Then I went to her house. We compared our genealogy and realized that we were related again through the Ritchie side of the family. Lindas greatgreat-grandmother, Seatta (Ritchie) Tucker, was the daughter of Hiram and Euphemia Pharbia (Patrick) Ritchie. Hiram was a brother of Isom Solomon Ritchie, my great-great-great-great-grandfather. My brother, Duane Frazier, and sister-in-law, Terri Frazier, celebrated their birthdays last week, Duane on July 4 and Terri on July 5. Those attending lunch at the home of Fay and Rose Campbell on Thursday, July 4, were Fay, Rose, Leroy, Trina, Jerome, Tatum and Talon Campbell; Mike, Loretta, Duane, Terri, Austin, Bethany, Isaac and Kendall Frazier; Tony and Alanna Contreras. My parents, Mike and Loretta Frazier, Tony Contreras, and I went to Centerville to visit with my grandparents, Darrell and Wanda Barnes, on Thursday, July 4. Duane, Terri, Austin, Bethany and Isaac Frazier, and Alanna Contreras went to watch the Ozark Fireworks show on Thursday, July 4. The Easom family had a great fireworks show. I stood

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