Searcy, AR

A couple of days ago I put the hospital news from March 18 1980 in my blog.

It was a regular part of the Searcy Daily News and highly read.

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Today I think it's fun to put up another feature.

This one is the society news column that was written by Helen Bauer for many years.

Lots of people laughed even then about how it was totally unimportant if a person went shopping in Little Rock or a kid came home from college to visit.

Reading through this brings back smiles and memories. I still know a lot of these people and we all considered them part of high-society if they were in this column.

Read back and enjoy old memories, Searcy folks! I was a little taken back by the mention of a Sherry party. I assume they meant Sherry Wine???

The sun is rising.

We look outside. There is something in the trap! Another possom?

Get up close. What's that faint "Meoww?"

We laughed and the "Meoww" get louder and more plaintive and more insistent.

So this is what she shouted.

I'M SORRY THAT I SAT ON THE TOP OF THIS TRAP AND GLOATED!

I'M SORRY THAT I LAUGHED AT THE OTHER ANIMALS CAUGHT IN THIS TRAP!!

I'M SORRY THAT I'VE BEEN CATCHING AND EATING BIRDS!!!

I'M SORRY THAT I WAS GREEDY AND TRIED TO GRAB THAT PUTRID SAUSAGE BEFORE THE POSSOM CAME AROUND!!!!

I'M SORRY THAT I LAID OUT ALL NIGHT AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHERE I WAS!!!!!

I'M SORRY THAT I TURNED UP MY NOSE AND WOULDN'T EAT THAT CHEAP DOLLAR STORE FOOD THAT YOU TRIED TO FEED ME!!!!!!

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OKAY! OKAY! OKAY! I'M SORRY THAT I KILLED AND ATE THAT SORRY RAVEN THAT BELONGS TO THAT HOME INSPECTOR IN WASHINGTON CHARLES BUELL....

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Now please let me out of this cage!

Privacy is such a big deal now and I have no real problems with it unless you have a relative in the hospital and the hospital denies that they have the patient because of "privacy" issues. My child or my parent (if they were still alive) could be hospitalized in another state and I'd be unable to get information about them unless the patient gave permission. If comatose, it's kinda hard to give permission.

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But let's go back a few years. Here in Searcy Arkansas there was a different rule. If you were in the hospital, the newspaper printed it! They also printed it when you were released. If you didn't want it printed, you had to request that they NOT print it.

I, being a forward thinker, never liked this. For one thing, if a friend was reported in the hospital, I felt guilty if I didn't go visit or send a card or flowers. And if I were in the hospital, I didn't need friendly visits; I needed peace and quiet. PLUS, you never look your best in a hospital situation so why have visitors!!

Why did I keep this newspaper all these years? Because it had big news in it, mainly the Junior High School being burned down. This paper was March 18, 1980.

There were two or three other things of interest in this paper which I may blog later but what grieved me was that in this paper, I was in the real estate ads. I was a brand new agent. And the sad part is that I was the only one in this paper who remains in real estate. Some are dead and others just never stuck with it.

Careers in real estate can be long and rewarding or short and unproductive and I guess I'm glad that my name still appears in the paper under real estate and that hospital news is not reported anymore.

One interesting side-note about hospital news is that budding sales agents could go calling on hospital patients. They were there because the hospital invited visiting and if you were in sales, it was good business to let those patients know you cared. One car dealer I know did a lot of hospital visiting!! And he had a great car business! Smart man.

When you feel adventurous now and dig into old drawers or cubby-holes you have a new goal!

Blog fodder!!

Goodness!! Look what I found!! I gotta show this to my Activerain friends.

So look what I found!

This old sheet out of a note pad was probably a give-away in 1948!! And look at the picture. The priority at that time may have been baseball instead of today's passion sport of football!

Of importance to me, however, is this. There is no 8th Street in Searcy Arkansas. It has somehow and somewhere been changed to some other name. There is definitely no Ramsey Printing and there is no phone number in the entire world now that would be Phone 170!!

Some cards come in the mail and they're so pretty and on such high quality paper that we just can't help but look at them and admire.

Here's one. Searcy Arkansas has a newly built nursing home. It is located at 2500 East Moore. For all you Searcy history lovers it is located on the old golf course and right at the Llama Drive entry into River Oaks Subdivision.

The open house is Thursday, Sept 10 from 2-6 pm. Here's the architectural rendering that is on the card. A drive-by indicates it is just this fine looking!

OMG! I'll bet they only sent these to Seniors. They're looking for business. OMG!!