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JIM/A reverie: James Garnett reflects on corncob pipes A reverie: James Garnett reflects on corncob pipes, Chicken Bristle, and Democrats.Things of great import - corncob pipes, the geography of Center, the location of Chicken Bristle, and a definition of a good 'Dimicrat.' The stellar cast: Adair County's James Garnett, Jr.; and Metcalfe County's Eugene Newman (Savoyard). Click on headline for complete story by JIM In 1919, Columbia native James Garnett, Jr., penned a letter to accompany the gift of a corn cob pipe to a friend. The composer of this missive was the son of Judge James Garnett and in recent years had served a four-year term as Attorney General of Kentucky. By the time he wrote the letter, he was practicing law in Louisville. Mr. Garnett's epistle first saw print in the Louisville Times and later appeared in the Adair County News toward the end of 1919. Metcalfe County native Eugene Newman, mentioned therein, achieved a fair amount of journalistic fame as an editor as well as from his articles and word sketches written under the nom de plume Savoyard. The first two paragraphs of Mr. Garnett's letter, transcribed verbatim from the News, read as follows: "In the good old days when wood was fuel and cobs were pipes, Eugene Newman was the recognized Emperor of Chicken Bristle, which village is located equidistant between Glasgow, Munfordville, and Greensburg, and is sometimes called Frederick or Lafayette, but is known to the Post-office Department as 'Center.' Joseph Philpott was the proprietor of the Good Samaritan Tavern, which was the political center for that section of the State. In those days it was a mark of distinction to be called a Democrat who never scratched a ticket, and our ancestors were very proud of their continued allegiance to the principles of the party of Jefferson. "When one of the old and most prominent citizens of that section died, Shelt Farris, a neighbor and lifelong friend, was called upon to say a few words at the funeral. Shelt was somewhat embarrassed, but realizing that it was his duty to speak in the most complimentary terms of his departed friend, and after looking upon the face of the dead neighbor, the tears trickled down his face, he turned to the assembled crowd and said: 'My friends, thar lays as good a Dimocrat as the rain ever wet and the sun ever dried.' Compiled by JIM, currently about and abroad by way of Russell County High, Lindsey Wilson College, and College Hill in Bowling Green, but eternally sprung from The Sacred Triangle, Ono, Esto, and Sano. This story was posted on 2013-09-22 04:56:39
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