Sheriff Stone Wins Re-Election Bid

Six term Sheriff David Stone will serve at least four more years thanks to the voters of Prater’s Creek. Stone won a landslide victory over Ben Huckleberry of the Prohibitionist Party. Stone ran on a popular platform of amnesty toward moonshining, the same issue that has kept him in office all of these years. At an election night celebration at The Drovers farm, Sheriff Stone said “Ah, these bootleggers ain’t hurtin’ nobody, just keepin’ a tradition alive.” As Grandpa and the boys tore into “We Got Moonshine” off of their first CD, Sheriff Stone tipped up a jug of Grandpa’s finest and started dancing about the room.

The Drovers Play Slater-Marietta

Lion’s Club Christmas Dinner

The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show helped get the Christmas holidays kicked off when they performed at the Slater-Marietta Lion’s Club Christmas Dinner. After a great meal of country fried steak, macaroni pie, and a moving speech about selling brooms and light bulbs door to door, the band entertained the guests with traditional Christmas songs done bluegrass style, as well as songs off of their new CD "Dreamland". Homer said, "Those were about the nicest folks we ever played for. Real nice people. There ain’t many gigs that begin with The Pledge of Allegiance."

 The Prater’s Creek Volunteer Fire Department will be having a pancake supper on Friday, January 14 to help raise money to buy a fire truck. Chief Flint McCalister said plates would be three dollars and four dollars with link sausage. The chief said his band, Flint and The FlatTops, would also be performing.

According to legend, Andrew Jackson, seventh President, who was an American General at the time, called his cook over to tell him what to prepare. The cook had been drinking moonshine the night before and his eyes were as red as fire. Gen. Jackson told the cook to bring him some country ham with gravy as red as his eyes. Some men nearby heard the general and from then on, ham gravy became "Red-Eye Gravy"

Ingredients:

¼ inch thick center cut of country ham

4 tablespoons of strong black coffee

½ teaspoon of sugar

(1) Fry ham quickly in ungreased hot skillet for a couple of minutes on each side. Remove ham from pan and set aside.

(2) To the hot fat remaining, add the black coffee and sugar. Stir to dissolve sugar, cover and simmer for a couple of minutes.