Sheila's Potpourri
News from Huntington
Sheila Scogin

Etta Pinner celebrated another big day this month and had about 50 of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren with her for her party. Mrs. Pinner has lived in Rocky Hill all my life and of course her youngest son, the late Mack Pinner started first grade with us. We spent all our school life together before he passed away much too young. I think her only living children now are Dorothy Pinner Oates and Kenneth Pinner. Mrs. Pinner was 96 years young.

Another youngster who was born and grew up in Rocky Hill is Boots Morehead and he turned 80 recently with a huge party. The party which was held at the furniture store was enjoyed by many family members and friends. Just a few of the many who showed up with good wishes and had a good time were Rob and Linda Reynolds, James and Marvette Fuller, Buddy and Tommie Lowery, Mary Hubbard, Albert and Verlene Innerarity, Clayton and Helen Duren, Bob and Carole Pinner and Michelle and Isabelle Scott. Mother nursed with a lady whose favorite expression was "lye got a tale to tote to Jesus". As long as Boots has been in business on the corner of Main and Highway 69 and as many people as he knows, I can just imagine he has bushels of "tales to tote to Jesus".

Congratulations to Josh and Lori Denman. They welcomed L.J. Matthew Denman who was born January 24. Local grandparents are Lynn and Sundra Denman and great- grandmothers are Mildred Denman and Iva Dell Harris.

Trent Loper who owns Loper's Pharmacy here bought Robert and Connie Page's house which is near Salem, Baptist Church and he said he could have sold the house and land any number of times to the folks who are waiting to live in the country. He had to explain that he has barely gotten moved in. Since Beamon retired our night life has gone by the wayside. The nightlife we had before retirement was his having to get up at all hours of the night, to begin a trip in the big truck. When his head hits the pillow, his eyes go to sleep and he is awake just that quickly. Saturday morning I was awake at 2 a.m. and woke him to boogie off to Wal- Mart. As I've said before we do not go often but I stock up when we do make the trip. Going out our driveway, the yard was full of deer and I know that will not bode well for the garden Beamon is planning.

Usually we see one 18- wheeler on the way to Lufkin and possibly one on the Loop but Saturday morning's wee hours brought just one vehicle after the other to meet us. Going into the store behind us were lots of folks. What was mind boggling was a group of teens who surely were not more than 14 years old. Did not get a grocery cart so I wondered what they were doing there at 3 o'clock in the morning.

It is definitely a different world we exist in because there's no way back in our teen times we would have been out roaming around at 3 in the morning or evening if we had had 10 Wal- Mart stores. Christal and I were up lots of nights late but we had homework in front of us. We needed sleep to stay awake at work or school the next day. After we had the measles when I was a fourth grader, neither us ever missed another day of school before we graduated.

The entire time we were in the store people were constantly coming and going. I am definitely behind the times!