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COMMUNITY NEWS	The Prater's Creek Gazette 12th Issue Winter 2006 Page #2

Six Mile Social Club To Hold Wreath Making Party

The ladies of the Six Mile Social Club will be holding a wreath making party this afternoon at Goldie Johnson’s house out on Terrapin Crossing Road. The club will meet at 2 PM to begin making wreathes. Hard cider will be served and Hattie Holcombe will play her dulcimer. Mrs. Johnson promises that “ a rip roarin’ Christmas sangin’” will follow.

vote box gif Record Turnout In November Election

Mayor Allen Jones easily won his fourth re-election in a landslide this past November and Prater’s Creek saw a record mid-term election turnout. People who had never voted before in their life showed up that morning at the Prater’s Creek Baptist Church precinct because of the hot button marriage issue. In an overwhelming 187-0 vote, the amendment to ban marrying your cousin was answered “NO” by townspeople.

Gazette To Sponsor Valentine's Dinner And Fundraiser

The staff here at the Prater’s Creek Gazette has come up with a perfect solution for one couple out there. Where the lady is always disappointed with her boyfriend or husband’s romantic inclinations on Valentine’s Day and the man never knows what to do on February 14^th. One lucky couple’s name will be drawn on Feb. 1 and will win the ultimate romantic evening. Johnny May Young, the best cook in town, will host a romantic dinner for the winning couple consisting of her prize winning hog jowls, biscuits covered with molasses, and washed down by a demijohn of spirits. The couple will be serenaded by The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show. Raffle tickets are $2 and can be purchased at Livwright’s General Store, the Six Mile Café, and B&B BBQ. All money raised from the raffle will go to the Home for Homeless Homing Pigeons.

Volunteer Fire Dept. To Hold Tripe Dinner

The Prater’s Creek Volunteer Fire Department will hold a tripe dinner this Friday night at the fire station on Stewart Gin Road. Plates will be $6 for adults and $4 for children under twelve.

All proceeds will be going towards the purchase of a new fire truck. When asked how much money has been raised for the truck so far, Chief Flint McCalister said “Well, we had a good bit raised but we spent it all on a bass boat, er I mean a fire rescue boat”.

Chief McCalister also said his band, Flint and The Flat Tops would perform after the dinner.

On This Day In Prater's Creek History

On this date in Prater’s Creek history in 1947, the beautiful and legendary actress Donna Reed, who starred in the recently released It’s A Wonderful Life, attended The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show’s New Year’s Eve party and sang “Auld Lang Syne’ with Grandpa as he played the accordion. Reed grew up on a farm in Iowa and loved to visit the band on their SC farm. Rumor has it that Reed begged Grandpa to marry him but he didn’t want to move to Hollywood.

Local Music Group Says It Has Better

Energy Alternative Than Even Hydrogen

Jed Buckingham photo There has been a lot of exciting news out of the science world on a new type of fuel to replace fossil fuels. Hydrogen fuel has been proven to be a clean energy source in repeated experiments and tests. But it will be years before technology is able to put hydrogen into our everyday use. Well, local band, The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show thinks they have come up with a viable alternative that is readily available today: methane. “Well, we’s having us a cornbread, pinto bean, and collard greens supper out at the farm” bass player Dalvin explained. “And after supper we’s sittin’ round the radio listening to the Grand Old Opry, and well you know what happens when four grown men eat three or four plates of beans and greens. Well, it ran us out of the house. Uncle Carl got to thinking, and he went out in the barn and started working on this contraption.” “This contraption”, referred to by Dalvin, is a methane gas converter made from old parts off of an old Briggs and Stratton lawn mower engine and some baling wire. Popular Mechanics magazine heard about it and came down to Prater’s Creek to see it for themselves. “It’s amazing, just amazing!” gushed magazine editor Bill Rylander. This new “contraption” has been predicted to replace the internal combustion engine and it is environmentally friendly. “And Uncle Carl showed us a similar machine than runs off of distilled spirits!” Mr. Rylander said Uncle Carl and his “contraption” would be featured in the May edition of the magazine. Cousin Ray told me that “Uncle Carl’s invention will make it so we don’t have to depend on them A-Rabs for fuel. We don’t need to go over yonder to get greens and beans!”

Local Man Dies In Outhouse Explosion

“Big” John Cooper was killed in an early morning accident yesterday. He had been over at The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show’s house at a pinto bean and cornbread supper earlier in the evening his wife told The Gazette. “He woke up in the middle of the night saying his stomach hurt.” the newly widowed Mrs. Cooper tearfully explained. “He took the Sears and Roebuck catalog out to the outhouse, and he was smoking a cigarette, and blew his self all up.”

Designer Furniture Comes To Prater's Creek

Jenny Heart, a local woman known for her beauty and fine taste in clothes (she never wears plaids with stripes) and who is also the owner of Jenny’s Dress Shoppe, has struck gold with an idea she had while thumbing through the Sears and Roebuck catalog. “ I’s a seein’ how Martha Stewart and Cindy Crawford were now designing furniture" Miss Heart said, “and I thought that the common woman needed some nice, affordable furniture”. Miss Heart came up with the “Front Porch” line of furniture. “Oh, we got couches to go on your front porch and old TVs that can be used to keep old newspapers in.” Miss Heart has been delivering the furniture to the many folks who have ordered from her catalog,. Some as far away as Copper Hill TN. Better Homes and Gardens called the furniture “noveau redneck”.