Ewing News

August 25, 2021

Betty Fifer

My granddaughter told me about a different way to eat watermelon and I said it can’t be good, but I’m always trying different things when it comes to food. She told me to put plain ole yellow mustard on top of watermelon, which I like to sprinle sale on it, so I tried the mustard on watermelon and guess what- it’s good. The taste of mustard almost disappeared and was bery mild which make me realize different parts of the country eat different ways. Out east in New York, they serve Boston Baked Beans with their breakfast and in the South they serve grits with breakfast. Out east they don[‘t eat carp fish and not much crfish, cause their bottom feeders or they say they eat trash out of the bottom of the rivers. 

My brother, B.K. and Shirley Turner went to his LaGrange Class of 57 reunion at the Saints Avenue Cafe in Canton Aug. 21. They met for lunch and visited. I wish our LaGrange Class of 56 would get together. We are getting to be a smaller group every year. In October. my husband Don’s reunion is being planned for the LEwistown School, Oct. 2 at the Caldwell building in Canton. 

We had a good crowd at church Sunday and afterwards went to Donnie and Sharon’s for lunch, great as usual. School starts Monday and most of the ones I’ve talked to are glad. So remember to watch for stopped busses.

Sympathy goes to the family of Joan Powers, who passed away this week, her maiden name is well known in the area. 

You have heard me mention all the shirt tail kin I have in the county, well my cousin Ann Turner was married to Joan’s brother, Joe Abell.

See you next week. The answer to last week’s question about the county was Canton. It was the town with the first train tracks. The tracks were installed early 1860s, but before a train could travel on the tracks, the government took the tracks and moved them for the Civil War. Railroad tracks were started first time before 1850, second attempt 1852, third attempt 1860, but stopped by the war department that demanded all the tracks up and down the Mississippi River. They did pay for them and later laid the tracks again and the trains ran that time. This information was found at the Lewis County Historical Society.