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, Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Play slated Friday at County Line

County Line High School will present the play, Born to Be Wild, Friday, 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Admission is free to all.

Gospel singing set

Ronnie Farmer and Friends will be singing gospel songs on KDYN/KLYR Radio Station on Sunday from 9 to 9:15 a.m. To request a song call 479847-0279.

Hometowns Are Really Forever

by Clydene Overbey It has been hard to write about Brenda since I lost her. Our growing up years were so good with neither of us having a care in the world. We walked to the stores in the area, Parks, Snows, and Keys, with bare legs and usually bare feet. Girls didnt wear pants. If we had a few cents, maybe even a nickel, we would sit on the porch at Keys and pour peanuts in our Coke. I didnt much like the taste of the salty peanuts messing up my Coke, but I wanted to be like everyone else. Often we only had enough money that one of us would buy the Coke and the other one would buy the peanuts. The Keys had built a bench of sorts on the porch. The store was high off the ground, but I dont remember anyone falling off except me. Of course I wasnt the only one, I suspect. People who were not familiar with us thought we were about to kill one another all the time. We did a lot of good natured brawling, which is the only word I can come up with for what we did. But before we were old enough to walk all over the place, our days were spent right there in Denning where we were raised. I lived at the end of a road where a fence and a few yards of dirt separated us from the railroad track. Brenda lived down a lane or across the pasture from me. If a car came down the road we knew it was coming to one of our places. As I look across the pasture of my home now I can see a big beautiful tree that reminds me of that big old persimmon tree at the end of the lane. We sat in that tree lots of mornings and planned our days. We ate, or should I say bit into, our first and last green persimmon there and then tricked our brothers into the same. Down the track a ways was a place we called, The Culvert. It was under the tracks, a big culvert that we walked through and played inside. Water spilled through when it rained and formed a pool that we played in. At the time I never even thought about the trains roaring by over our heads. My goodness it sure wouldnt appeal to me now. The pool was deep on the backend. At least it was deep for a bunch of kids. Paul pushed me in once and one of the bigger boys got me out. I remember Travis getting a leech stuck on his leg and needing to go to the doctor to take it off. I also was told that Brenda and I slipped away from Auntie and went through the back pasture to the Culvert. When she found us Brenda was saying petty wata and I was splashing around at the bank. I couldnt even talk yet, we were that young. Across the tracks and up on the next corner was the little Methodist Church where we grew up. I met Jesus and invited Him in to my heart there when I was 10 years old. I will never forget that day. Also up there was the post office and Keys store. We played in the nasty smelly toilet, of all places. That was a place of privacy for us. As I look back I am totally amazed that one or both of us didnt fall in. I dropped my penny in one day and Daddy took a shovel and dipped it out for me. A penny would buy lots of candy then. I washed it good and made sure I protected it after almost losing it. We waded the ditches, crawled under the house, made mud pies, climbed trees when no one was looking, built forts, and made our own fun with plain old kid know-how. Denning was my hometown and until I started school in 1950 it was our safe haven. I found out quickly that you can only go home in your memories. A tornado took away so many of my childhood hangouts. A whole hunk of my childhood ripped away in the matter of a few minutes. If not for my wonderful memories it would all have floated

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Bits from Batson

I hope everyone had a great week. I had breakfast at Catalpa last Wednesday. Besides it being delicious, I got to visit with Roy Melson, J.D. Callahan, J.D. Gathwright, Luther Mayes and wife, and Tony Harderson. A perfect start to a great day. Lauren Robinson and I visited later last Wednesday with Debbie Bartlett at Coal Hill. Larry Askins brought Carroll Sherrell some wood last Thursday. They spent part of the day unloading all the wood. Thanks, Larry, he greatly appreciated it. Randy and Jerry Atkins worked last Monday on Catalpa Store getting it ready to be open the rest of the week to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner as usual. Tresa Yarbrough, Barbara Sampley, Lauren Robinson and I were among the very few that were at the Oark School Board meeting last Thursday evening. It was great to see our new member, Skip Emmitt. Tresa and Lakyn Robinson spent part of last Friday at Fayetteville at a doctors appointment. Tresa, Garry and Ross Yarbrough, along with Craig and Logan Harderson, Lauren and I, had dinner late last Friday evening with Carroll Sherrell celebrating his birthday which was on Sunday. We all had a real great visit. Happy birthday, Dad, I hope you had a great one. Visitors last week at the DeLorn Coopers were Mike, Jennifer, Joel and Kelsey Cooper, Judy Criss, and Mary McGuire. Saturday Joel Cooper took his mother, Josephine Cooper, to the clinic in Clarksville for a flu shot. Mary McGuire took groceries out last Tuesday to her mother and father, Josephine and DeLorn Cooper. Guests at the DeLorn Coopers last Sunday were Joel *** KEEP OZARK LITTER-FREE

Cooper, Phillip Tedford and Wilma Lee. Thank you all that came to the surprise party for Cordell Harderson and Carroll Sherrell last Sunday at the Sherrellville Church. They had a real good time and really loved visiting with all of you. Also I want to thank the family, Craig and Tony Harderson and Randy Wyers, who played music for those who sang. Thank you to the singers, you know who you are and you did an awesome job. It was a really good turnout and we all had a great time. Violet Willis spent part of last weekend with her daughter, Tressa Keith, and granddaughter, Sherry Graham, and family in Missouri. Craig and Logan Harderson spent some good quality time with their uncle, Cordell Harderson, last Sunday morning. I hope you have a wonderful week.

Couple to wed Saturday

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jennings announce the engagement of their granddaughter, Sophie Elizabeth Jennings, to Brandon Scott Hall, both of Ozark. The bride-elect is the daughter of Randall Jennings of Altus, and Terri Pullen of Clarksville. Her maternal grandparents are Albert Pullen of Coal Hill and Lorrie Williams of Clarksville. The prospective groom is the son of Brian and Billie Hall of Ozark. His grandparents are Donny and Ann Hall of Cecil, and the late Lee Roy and Velda Rowland of Ozark. The wedding will be Oct. 19 at 5 p.m. at the Greenwood Community Center for family and close friends. A blanket invitation is extended to the reception following the wedding.

Fair Board has meeting

The North Franklin County Fair Board met Oct. 8 at 6 p.m. in the fair building. President Harold Dickerson called the meeting to order. Walkana Higgins, secretary, read the minutes of the last meeting and they were approved as read. Terry Dictson, treasurer, gave the financial report and it was approved. She reported that we had received the $1,000 grant from Walmart. We say a big thank you and our appreciation to Walmart. David Tencleve, fair manager, said the grant will help towards the air conditioner repair. away in the wind. Writing it down helps me remember. I am thankful for my raising in that wonderful place. We should not be ashamed of our hometowns. That was what made you who you are. If any of you have memories, or dare I hope, pictures of the Denning I remember so fondly, I would love it if you would share with me at justdee@windstream.net. Isaiah 40:28: Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. Rose Campbell reported on the rental and use of the building. We are busy, especially on the weekends. Gladys Young said she would be handing out lists of items that need to be brought to the Nov. 12th meeting at 6 p.m. for the annual Christmas supper. The extension office report was given by Kristen Melson. She reported that October is 4-H month. They will have the 4-H banquet on Oct. 28. There was a long discussion on things that would benefit the fair. If you have any ideas turn them in to Terry Dictson and they will be discussed at the November meeting. Those present were Harold and Grace Dickerson, Teresa McCain, Kristen Melson, Bob Rhodes, David Tencleve, Lonnie Mack and Ruth Tolbert, Terry Dictson, Robert Bramlett, Mary Ann Thompson, Walkana Higgins, Sarah Halmes, Jennifer Turner, Rose Campbell, Barbara Gipson, Crystal Haywood, Joe, Valerie, Annalyn and Lil Joe Burton III, and Jim and Gladys Young. Thanks to everyone who attended. We welcome new people. - - Gladys Young

Oct. 18: W.B. Almond, Paul F. Acord, Melanie Martin, Stephanie Opper, Jimmie Hancock, Gelene Wilkerson, Billy Jeffers, Carri Jeffers and Cathy Nauheimer. Oct. 19: Mary Evans, Donna Russell, J.E. Womack, Brenda Dickerson, Dwight Wyers, Dola Kirby, Artis Dee Henson, Ashley Mullins and Timothy Opper. Oct. 20: Constance Holloway, Juanita Lawless, Chella Chappell Corey and Judy Mobarak. Oct. 21: Karen Vickers, Shirley Turner, Michael Price, Ernestine Boen, Amy Eveld Bailey, Richard Stewart, Marie Evans, Charlotte Parrish, Gwin Ellison, William Charles Huggins, Gene Lawrence, Jo Ann Covert, Jason Michael Woods, Angela Stacy, Nathaniel King Whitson and the David and Jennifer Graham wedding anniversary. Oct. 22: Carolyn Holloway Ivey, Mrs. Oscar Childers,

Barbara Jobe, Kenneth Easom, Wendell Barton, Robert Hattenhauer, Michael McCormick, Charles Keaghey and Alva Shores. Oct. 23: Teresa Eveld, Susan Powell, Wayne Owens, Mary Alice Forbus, Jade Boen, Michele Zeiler, Lindsey Donn Penland-Hottinger, Kimberly Hottinger, Karen Mariah Ricketts, John Malarkey, Britney Coker, Lydia Bugg and the wedding anniversary of Nora and Herman Hamilton. Oct. 24: Shirley Schaffer, Lauren Bevil, Brandi Chancey, Fred James Cain, Raymond Ming, Jay Corkern, Mrs. Roy Smith, Joe Bowles, Barbara Blount and the wedding anniversary of Toby and Kim Hogan. (TO OUR READERS: Please report any names to be removed, added or corrected on this free listing, along with the dates, to: The Spectator, 207 W. Main, Ozark 72949, or 479-667-2136, or spectator@c enturytel.net.)

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Bridal Registry:
Shelby Armstrong & Caleb Martin
Wedding Date: Jan. 1, 2014 Shower Date: Nov. 17, First Baptist Church

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Baby Registry:
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Shower Date: Nov. 9

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Oct. 24th, 7 p.m.

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Tickets will be sold during the Square Gathering in downtown Ozark Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Look for our booth! On Sunday, tickets will be sold at the Ozark Walmart from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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