By Mary Curtis

I was thumbing some old information I have collected and came across this article.

I enjoyed reading it and thought you might find it interesting as well. It is from The Little County Newspaper dated Jan. 31, 1909.

It’s no 16-page addition that expresses Big Men’s views, and it’s not filled with pictures nor telegraphic news.

It isn’t printed daily with an extra each hour, and the editor’s not bragging of his/her influence or power.

It may have its faults and errors, but all these I forgive, for it is printed in the county way back where I used to live.

It is only issued weekly, and it’s not made up for style, but when it comes every week, I gladly put the daily aside for a while.

I didn’t read in its pages what the wise and great ones say, but I see that Silas Jigger brought some wood to town today, and that Grandma Packs is better or that Billie Jones is dead, and it tells just what the person in his Sunday sermon said.

I can see again the faces of the friends I used to know, and that Uncle Nathan Smith predicts an early fall or snow.

It may be crude and homey, that little country sheet and the makeup of the pages may be rather obsolete, but It is damp when I unfold it and the print is sometimes blurred yet tis always more than welcomed and I read every word.

And no reading to a city man greater joy can give, than the little country weekly printed where he used to live.

After I left graduated from Prentiss High School and moved to New Orleans to go to Nursing School, my mother would always read interesting things to me over the phone that had been in The Prentiss Headlight.

I enjoyed keeping up with friends and the news from town. It made me a little homesick, but I so enjoyed staying abreast of the Prentiss news.

Hope this brings back good memories for you and I hope that you who are far away keep a subscription to our local paper so you can still feel part of this town that we call home.