the rev. renn's genteel pounding
1887-01-05 - The Dispatch
- “Our foreman dont mean anything by being small he is happy now it is a girl and ways 12 lbs.”
- W. E. Renn’s grocery will take wood or any kind of country produce as payment
- Ad for Renn’s grocery featuring a respectably god-awful pun [TODO: clip this]
- “Xmas” already a common abbreviation
- Lula, dau. of former townsman Maj. B. F. Bullock
- Great guy Alex W. Rowland was in town spending the day with kinsman Isham J. Cheatham
- Little infant girl died of malaria
- Miss Lizzie Cheatham is in Franklinton visiting misses Sue and Kate Cheatham
- Eustice Womble (visiting his cousins, the Misses Clegg)
- “Rev. J. J. Renn was given a genteel pounding on the evening of the 26th by his flock.” ….