Had a lady ask me the other day how long it would be before the City Council began charging a fee if a person lived within so many feet of a street light. Think she was sorta mad.

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Was reading Cal's Column in a 1947 issue of the Times and ran across the following about funny things that happened at funerals, which was written by the late editor, Calvin Gregory.

At one of the approximately 3,000 funerals conducted by my father, he arrived a little late for the services and was handed the obituary written by someone close to the family. The obituary didn't mention any survivors and my dad didn't remember ever seeing a woman around the house, so he took it she was dead. So he began to talk about the old man's last days on earth and that he had now bidden farewell to this earth and gone to join his wife who had rudely been torn from his embrace by the icy hand of death, when up from the crowd arose a man saying, “Brother Gregory, you are mistaken. Sister __________ is sitting yonder at the other end of the casket.”

At another funeral a man who had lost his wife said loudly, “I have heard men say it was bad to lose a wife, but I never thought it would be like this. I have never been so hard hit before, I would not have had this happen to me for $50.”

Then there was the old, old tale of the preacher who was holding a funeral of a man who had never been much good for anything. As the preacher spoke so highly of the man in the casket, the widow could not believe all she was hearing. So she said to one of her sons, “Johnny step up there to the casket and see if that's your pa.”

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Demps Breeding says there are more golfers on Due West Drive than any other street in Lafayette.

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Made a trip to Washington, D.C. over the weekend on a Boeing 727 jet, which only took 58 minutes from the time we left Nashville's Municipal Airport, which was a few minutes faster than when Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States and made the trip to Washington by horse and buggy.

But it was a great trip and the prettiest sight of the trip was Dale Hollow Lake from around five miles high and you could see the complete shore line.

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Well it finally happened, the wife saw a flying saucer (so she says). Returning from Nashville Friday evening she and the kids and my mother saw their first UFO around 9 p.m. between Hartsville and Lafayette. I'm not disputing their word, but I think it was “swamp gas” off big Goose Creek.

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Ed Casady was standing in front of Highland Furniture the other day, along with Ophie L. Casady, watching George Tucker and crew load some furniture on the company truck. Ed said the only reason they were all standing around was to see if George was going to deliver the furniture to someone, or just load it on the truck and drive around back of the store and unload it, making him and Ophie think they had made a sale. When the truck drove off Ed said he thought he would walk over to the welfare office and see if they had any extra food stamps. (I got the impression Ed thought business was a little slow).

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The act performed by Shelvy Linville Tuesday in helping catch a robber who had stolen $276 from the company where he works didn't get much praise from his dad. When he called the shop Tuesday around noon to tell Britton what had happened, the only thing Britton said was “you haven't got any *!!*??*! sense for taking a chance like that.”

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Had this comment made to me one day this week when a resident said “I'm sure the Macon County Bar Association would like to thank the City Council for removing the traffic lights around the square. It should help increase their business quite a bit with all the extra law suits which will result from the collisions around the square.”