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August 20, 1977 Around Adair with Ed Waggener This actually ran under the heading "Columbia Developments" in the August 20, 1977 issue of the Daily Statesman. Dad saluted retiring postman Ed Wilkinson (with one of his very favorite lessons from Audrey Chelf Waggener), saluted outgoing writer Jackson Brower, who still checks in frequently some 40 years later, lamented the departure of summer writer Debbie Watson, and concluded with a report from noted Cane Valley varmintologist Dr. Billy K. Neat. --Pen By Ed Waggener Useful things can be healthy If there's one man who epitomies the old bit of advice my mother gave me, it's Ed Wilkinson. Mother always sid that you could get all the exercise you need by just working. Wilkinson, who completed 22 years of service with the Columbia Post Office in December, 1976, when he retired, was easily one of the walkingest men in Adair County. Wilkinson would walk 17 miles each day when he delivered the mail door-to-door, and he would go at a fast pace, too. He was the first city carrier in Columbia. While doing it, he carried a mail pouch which weighed up to 35 pounds. Wilkinson was presented with a plaque from the Post Department last Saturday, August 13, which was inscribed "To Ed. R. Wilkinson, 22 years of faithful service." Columbia Postmaster Don Monroe made the presentation. It was a splendid tribute to a man who did his job a great deal better than he would have had to. Good man, good writer leave It's been a little rough around the Daily Statesman this week. One of the finest writers we've ever had, Jackson Brower, had to leave the staff - we hope temporarily - because of health problems and, when he cures that up, to build a home on Barnett's Creek. Jackson is from Pennsylvania, but he's made himself into a native. He is a quiet, gentle man, but his writing conveys a powerful insight into what makes Kentucky - and particularly Adair County, the place it is. Too, summer writer Debbie Watson left to prepare to return to her final semester at Berea College on Thursday. Miss Watson could do everything around the paper. We're hoping that she doesn't let the call of education major lure her into teaching, away from the High Calling of journalism. Adair Varmintologist Expresses interesting observations Dr. Billy K. Neat, head varmintological expert for the Daily Statesman, has had some interesting observations this year, though, he says, they are nothing out of the ordinary. First, he reports a routine incident where the mighty big grasshopper owned by Jake Burton ate up a 17-pound ground hog it caught playing around Jake's place. "He carried the ground hog off into the woods and ate it up, hair, bones, and all," Dr. Neat said. Apparently, Neat said, the grasshopper was mad at the ground hog, because, he said, it is unnatural for any size grasshopper to eat ground hogs. "Jake's mighty big grasshopper usually eats apples and rosanears," Neat said, "but I know that thing is a fractious varmint, and the least little thing will make him a terror. I'd of given that grasshopper his ground, if I'd been that groundhog." Neat is still mad at rooster Neat says that he has all he can do taking care of things around Cane Valley and can't give Jake Burton any help, only advice. "Oh, Lord," Dr. Neat lamented, "I've got my hands full with that troublesome 60-pound banty rooster at my own place. The durn thing got mad while back and came stomping around the walk at the back of the house and he busted up the concrete. I don't know yet what it'll cost me." But Neat said that he may have the last laugh: If the banty doesn't shape up, he's gonna have him for dinner - "Even," he says, "if I have to call in the Campbellsville National Guard's cannon to bring him down." Good word on winter Neat did say that the winter won't be as bad as last year's. "We are going to have a dry, cold winter," Dr. Neat said. "Your katydids and animal life are showing signs of this. There will be snow, but it will be a dry snow." This story was posted on 2019-08-25 09:16:21
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