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PAGE 4- HOGANSVILLE Ho NEWS - JAN. 17, 2002
Let's Celebrate Hog Killing Time
MInE HALE
PtmUSmWADW:RaStNG DmxnoR Paul Bulloch is plan- I had to build a fire around However, we did have a
ning his annual hog killing our wash pot, and draw a large meat box we kept in :|
JonNKwaDAaJ. on Saturday, February2nd couple of tubs of fresh ;" the crib for our cured ago
SSOCmVEI,BLISHEr4EDrrOR with festivities beginning water from our 30-foot meat. eso
ROBPaOV, RD)N about 8:30 a.m. at the Old well with a windlass. This Several days after hog abo
AXSlSTArEDmm South Farm Museum in washpot was usedto make killing there was a special Rig
JAYNE GOLDS'TON Woodland. This has been a homemade soap out of hog odor about the house, espe- 8tl:e
BUSINF&SMANAGER spring event every year scraps and Red Devil lye, cially the kitchen where b--.-
' and always draws a good much like Granny did on the after-work of hog
e (7o6) 31. x c06) -2 crowd. "Beverly Hillbillies." killing was going on. This
A 6rtmea uhlkatimt P.O. Box 426
Millard B. Grimes. Pt HogansxdUe, Georgia 30230 Most farm families We tried to fatten our would be preparing
considered hog killing day hog to where it weighed a sausage, curing meat, and
a big annual event. It was gross of S00 pounds the cleaning and cooking chit-
Teen Violence according to the size of the morning ofthekill. This terlings.
family as to the number of would insure us of an My grandfather con- (l
hogs that were killed, ample supply of meat for sidered chitterlings the i
Still Continuing We only had one hog, the family over the winter ':This feeling choice part of the hog. HeMwould tell me that I was- hrisl
one milkcow, andone mule months, evzdently didn't n't a true country boy if I olm,
on our 28 acre "one horse" Other than drawing
farm two miles north of water, this was about all of caFT oller didn't eat chitterlings, florid
In our life time, we often downtown Athens. my duties at hog killing because nobody I never did and hope I ' De
heard the old clichd,"Trouble Children attended Clarke time. I remember feeling liked ham any never have to eat what I Iines
just seems to follow him/her." County rural schools until for the young pig we called Wc
Well, that might hold true in they reached high school, a shoat when I was more than did.." would call "hog guts."
To those that would like b,.
the case of a Columbus Then they were transport- assigned to feed him dur- to experience an old fash- re:
teenager, ed by school bus into ing growing season. This ionedsouthernhogkillingrtaeI
About nine months ago, Athens on the University feeling evidently didn't and all the trimmings, Sp
on April 11, Hosiea Vontrell of Georgia campus where carry over, because made with loaf bread. Isn't make plans to come to in t
they attended a high school nobody liked ham any it strange how a person Woodland the firstlhel
Sparks, 18, was shot by a operated by the education more than I did. always seems to want Saturday in February forum P
security guard near a day- department at UGA for the After hog killing, we something they do not an experience of a life- d,
care center on the Aflac cam-
pus off Buena Vista Road. At was'still a major issued for rural children of Clarke would carry homemade have. time. Re
the time of the shooting, the most departments, the hum- County. biscuits and ham to school We did not have a It is always a happy g m
officer told police it appeared bers were downslightly. The We killed hogs during for lunch. Many times I "smokehouse" where we time where I can thinkVas'q
as though Sparks was reach- officers noted education as the first hard freeze of the would trade my ham bis- would salt ham, shoulders, about my young days and |Galat
ifig for a weapon. Spark& the main reason, season, usually around cuits to a schoolmate for a and other parts of the hog nobody makes me eat chit- Le
Thanksgiving. On this day pimento cheese sandwich to preserve them. terlings. ,.cm
however,
was
unarmed at the
According
to
the
docu-
time
S.
time of the shooting. The mentary, schools in large Th
security officer left the Afl_ac cities are utilizing a program Don't Let Discom'agement Rule
force and the company set- which helps children begin Mr
fled with Sparks for an undis- to deal with anger at an early ampl
closedamountofmoney.That age. It seems that education-
story made the headlines of al materials have been devel- One day the devil decid- aged. And when we do, it is her grandfather, Henry, and
the Columbus Ledger- oped and are being sold to
Enquirer at least four times, schools that help them edu- ed to go out of business, so just like opening the doorfor her aunt, Jane.
Once when the incident cute children at the elemen- heinvitedacastoftheworld's a number ofotherbad things Bridget Fonda could have
most evil characters to a spe- to grab us. given in to discouragement
occurred, then when the offi- tory level on how to not only
cer left the force, then the deal with anger, but under- cial yard sale. and humiliation, therefore
The tools he was selling THREE STORIES are never roaching her goal of
settlement and so on. Sunday, stand and suppress it better, included hate, envy, jealousy, toldthat I want to relay to being a successful actress. AM
Sparks was on the front page However, it was pointed
again, out in the documentary that greed, betrayal, deceit, you that will help strengthen *Finally, she was a house-
This time, it was Sparks most rural schools are not vengeance and malice. In the the point, wife with five children and a: fla"
center of the display was a *The son of Itallanimali- $50.00 a week part time job.Ot an
that was charged with shoot- using the program because well-worn wedge shaped tool grants, he rose tobecome the Her first goal in life was to,. :
ing another teen. Sparks and teen violence is not as preva
Shown Christopher Harris, lent in rural community that looked like ifti_hd been president of Ftitud Motor writeaylllladem n
used much more than the Company. Eight years into his up writing threebesf-seIler.
...... lk. ] tel
18, were both arrested at 5 schools, other tools, position, he was given an and then set out to become " [o
a.m. Saturday morning and "What is that thing in the office in a warehouse with a "And I1Fffn we performing c0mic. She vol, ,
charged with the murder in IMMEDIATELY follow- , -
the death of Anthony Lane, ing that program, another middle?" one of the charac- small desk and telephone in dO, it L$ jgt unteeredtoperformforchar- .=t
" " build" --: :ml
14. The pair were also documentary aired, and it ters who had been invited to it and was told to find a new gljOF ities, graauany mg upi ,
her courage on stage. ,..
charged with possession of a stated that rural communi- the event asked. "That is dis- job. He suddenly realized a nul4elr of other ,-,, -e
firearm during the commis- ties have also seen an couragement," the devil that he had hit rock bottom After four years of hard ;, r
sion of a crime, increase in teen violence, answered, and no one would help him bad [hngs to ]rab work and dedication toa,e 1
"And why is it priced so but himself. US." improving herself, Phyllis..[u_
Noting that last year, there much higher than the rest of Two weeks later, he left Diller became one of the big'"Ii.
ACCORDING TO the were three to four shootings
names in show business.
your tools?" the character the warehouse at Ford Motor
news, the youths were attend- in rural communities by asked. "Because," the devil Company to become the new Discouragement was nbt2e°st
ing a parD" at a residence on teens in Florida alone. The " vas a l
Old Town Drive but were program showed a 14 year- answered, "with that tool I president of Chrysler Motor She had difficulty remem- m the vocabulary-of Phyllis .
forced to move the party to old at a middle school that can pry open and get inside Company. He brought bering lines and endured Diller.
a person's mind that I could Chrysler back from bank- humiliation from a stern md wa
the parking lot of the aban- shot his teacher because he
doned Cubs Food Store on made him stop throwing not get near with any of my ruptcy through brilliant man- teacher. But she wanted to AS WE move forward intose che
Milgen Road when neighbors water balloons, a 16 year-old other tools. Once discourage- agementtactics.L Iacocca beeome an actress more than the New Year, let me encour gan.
called police and complained girl stabbed her mother to ment takes over, I can let all could have become discour- anything and knew thatif she age you not to let discour- rg
about the noise coming from death because she wanted to the other tools do theft work." aged and quit, but instead he did not risk the humiliation agement open the door fo !err
the party. According topelice kill her boyfriend and she A very good story that moved forward, never look- now, she would never reach other problems. Do as Lee]: !ne]
makes an excellent point. It ing back. her goal. Iacoca, Bridget Fondu anal, ent
reports, an argument had knew her mother would not is rather easy at times when *When she first stood on Today Bridget Fondu has Phyllis Diller did; step on our : er
occurred between two groups let her, etc. u
of young men attending the If we believe that we are things are not necessarily the stage, she felt over- sufully followed in the there and accomplish yourL
party. That argument appar- immune to teen violence in going our way to get discour- whelmingly self-conscious, footsteps of her father, Peter, goals, never looking back CrTy
and
ently continued inthe park- rural communities, we are
lot and resulted,in sadly mistaken.
ngg shot twice with\\;a Iame U
shot- Just a few years ago in og_.;
gun. Police said Lane ived Harris County, a teen was w, Ea
two shots from the gun, ce shot and killed in a premedi- " _ad Jtv
in the chest and once in 'the tated murder over a girl. Hardly a week goes by be the Lord, who daily load- to set up thislittle story I rea)eCes,
abdomen. We all know that we have that someone does not tell me eth us with benefits." Paul this past week. The great
Lane was transported by plenty of fisticuffs in our - they are reading these little told us in Ephesians 1:3, country and western singer,
a. friend to the emergency schools and at any time that articles.For the fact that folks "Blessed be the God and the Stuart Hamblin, was con-
room of St. Francis Hospital could spill over into someone actually take the time to read Father of our Lord Jesus verted to Christ in 1948. Mr.:
where he was pronounced, being shot and killed, these, I am deeply grateful. Christ, who hath blessed with Hamblin experienced such a
dead. I agree that schools I do believe the folks that have all spiritual blessings in heav- change In his life, that he
should help in the war against told me they read these are enly places in Christ." The returned to Hollywood to:
THE OTHER NIGHT I teen violence, but the docu- Christians and have some best life any person cottld live share Christ with all
was watching a doc0mentary mentarypointed out the obvi- regular church affiliation, or ever have, is the life of a movie star ds.
on youth and teen violence on ous.... "The only way to stamp Today, I would like to turn my Christi Don't get me One day Stuort
The Discovery Channel. out teen violence begins in attention to those who are pos- wrong, becoming a Christian have lived the life of a lost was talking with his
Police officers were asked our homes. Parents must siblyreaders, yet donotclaim does not mean that every- person and a saved person, John Wayne. He wa
about the continued increase make their children under- to be Christians nor do they thing is peaches and cream and I can without hesitation Wayne to accept Christ.
in teen violence. Most of them stand that there is a price to haveany regular church rela- and there will be no trials in or reservation say I would that urging, John Wayne
stated that whileteen violence pay for being violent." tionship, life. According to the Word much rather go through life replied, "Stu, it is great what
Allowmetobeginmysay- of God, the more a person facing the attacks of Satan has happened to you, but it
ing that I believe that God has lives for God, the more he will with God's blessing, than could never happen to a guy
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