sketch by Sherryl Guthrie Miller
"The J. L. C. & E. Railroad ran two trains daily from Jonesboro to Blytheville, and would meet in Monette morning and afternoon. Tuck was right there to get his Memphis Commercial Appeal from the news-butch.
Lots of older men would gather here to exchange news, talk about crops and gossip. Then Tuck like the other men would go to the post office to get their mail. There was always a Wallace working as postmaster or running the T. F. D. or mail car to Missouri. Once Tuck came home and told his wife that Mrs. Watson got her corset in from Sears, Roebuck & Company. "Now how do you know such a fact as that?" said Sack, "Well, I saw it, there is nothing in the world that looks like a corset in a box - but a corset in a box!" And they were long and had whalebone staves, I'd seen hers."
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