NFL results from Monday night … Pittsburgh Steelers 29 – Chicago Bears 27 … Bears scored 21 points in 4th quarter…
Anyone remember watching a 6-man football game? Several teams in the county played 6-man for several years … If my memory is correct, one or more won state championships … Fun to watch…
Expect sunny skies with a high temp near 77 degrees today … Mostly clear tonight with a low around 46. Wednesday, another beautiful day … forecast is for sunny skies … with a high near 78 … Next real good chance of rainfall is Thursday night … 70% chance…
40 degrees at 5:30 a.m. today (Tuesday)…
Remember when cut & sew operations provided most of the jobs in the county? Mostly female jobs … Operations in Elizabethtown, Bladenboro, and Clarkton … maybe more … Hard work … production type jobs…
About that same time just about every neighborhood had a small country store … bread, soft drinks and gasoline were primary products sold … Soft drink trucks across the entire county … Seldom if ever see a Pepsi or Coke truck any place except convenience stores, grocery stores or on the highway … Those were the days…
A bag of feed (hog, chicken, other animals) was more than a feed bag … The bag it came in was colorful, and many were later made into shirts … etc.
We’ve come a long way … but the road ahead is not without more ‘bumps’ … Ds or Rs…
“You can’t leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution…”
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” Emma Goldman
“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” Will Rogers
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