Fouls feuding in my backyard
Clashes among species,'Red Baron(s)'in air
'Doofus ' licking chops, tastes of defeated
Peace now in the 'Valley ', others don't care

Everything has 'flare -ups; then ceases
Like 'The Preacher' said,' All has a season '
Troubles a-plenty, number increases
Share the blessings, Christ be the reason.

• Individuals who receive at least $100 per week in unemployment insurance compensation for each week covered by FEMA's Lost Wages Assistance program; and
• Individuals who have self-certified that they are unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

I really enjoyed Mr. Watson's article about E.L Dohoney. He grew up on the same farm in Milltown that Laura and I now own. I also grew up on that farm . The Dohoney family cemetery where his parents and several siblings are buried is located there. --Regards, Wally Burress

For those of you who don't know Texas well, Paris, Texas is in far north central Texas, about half way between Texarkana and Gainesville on US 82 and just a few miles south of the Oklahoma border. It's a good spot with good people.

There are lots of Kentuckians in Texas. At least a third of the volunteers at the Alamo were from Kentucky. Another third or so were from Tennessee. It was the place to be.

I was curious if anyone might know anything about a "hanging tree" on Dillon Street in Columbia. I was told as a child that one was located at the corner of Clinton and Dillon Street; but I also heard a few years ago that there was one located just up the road (when going toward town) on the left when going toward town.

I've asked some of the great historians from the area, but no one could confirm either of those two locations. --Melissa

Probably a lot of Kentuckians down here already know this, but I've lived here over 25 years and this is the first I've realized it. Yesterday I saw a small snake and I thought that really looks like a baby Copperhead. And I thought to myself a Copperhead would be bigger by now since it's fall. After a brief research, I realize this is when Copperheads give birth - September.

So just a heads-up to anyone that didn't know, like me, watch for those little venomous Copperheads! Great for the ecosystem but not so good for the yard. That's the first baby Copperhead I've seen since I've lived here. I've seen adults but never baby.

I enjoyed the photo and information submitted by Ann Curtis.

W. Leslie Chapman was the minister of the Columbia Methodist Church from 1955-1958. He presided over the wedding of my parents, Horace (Harry) Beard and Beatrice (Coomer) Beard on October 14, 1955. He then conducted my consecration of infant baptism on May 18, 1958.

This photo (in article) of Brother Chapman is on the pastoral wall at Columbia United Methodist Church. --Doug

Dark spreads out around
filled with evening mysteries
day never reveals.

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