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IS THIS AN EMERGENCY? OR WILL ORDINARY MEDICAL CARE DO? I saw where parents in Texas racked up charges of $7,700 just to get their child’s constipation treated. Could that happen in Arkansas? It could.

Today is Thursday. I visited with Charity Rolen at the Mountain Wave office. This is the first day of summer. Last Saturday I went to Harps. I visited with Mary and Kenny Davis there. I came home afterwards. I went to see Fanny Smith in Harrison. She is doing ok. We went to Wendy’s for lunch. We came home afterwards, and I went home that night.

Good morning. Hope you are well and keeping cool.

I have been working in the garden a lot this week. I have tilled, hauled in manure and retiled, raked out Bermuda grass stems, roots and pieces. I planted 20 tomato plants, five pepper plants and 10 cabbages in the garden. Planted 2 tomatoes in the raised bed by the dog pen. Have gotten the barrier and mulch on the tomatoes. There are always things to do in the garden.

Greetings from Snowball! Wait! This week I mean greetings from Santa Rosa Beach in Florida! My kids have been asking to come to the beach for several years, so here we are! My cousin Karla is an avid beachgoer and blew my mind with all the potential locations we should look into; I suggested she just come with us! There’s currently ten of us here!

strike, and those who were simply unemployed. In Searcy County most of the strikers’ activities amounted to vandalism, such as sabotaging locomotives or burning bridges. In January 1923 someone cut the brakes lines on a train engine sitting under watch in Leslie. Later that same month a band of men torched a bridge north of town, but local citizens put out the fire before any real damage was done. Hallie Ormond remembered his father guarding the bridge at Rumley, drawing his pay as a night watchman armed with a shotgun to ensure the bridge’s safety. The KKK viewed the railroad as an integral part of the county’s infrastructure, as an important employer, and as a necessity to the local economy. They deemed it their duty to protect it, turning their wrath upon the labor movement in general and the strikers and those who sympathized with them in particular.

The Searcy County Junior Premium Livestock Auction Corp. and the Searcy County Fair are two completely separate entities with two completely different Boards.

Sierra’s friend and Summer Walters are putting a new roof on their trailer house. I bet it’s hot on top of houses now.

June 26, 2024 Hello to each of you, hope you are doing well. Ray and I are doing okay. It rained a little shower of rain here this morning, but would have liked to had more. Just seemed like a sprinkle, but it has been cooler today.