A part of the City of Washington will be without electrical power for about three hours Sunday morning, August 30, so that city workers can do some needed chores to the system. Time set is for 6:30 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. Most of the outage will be east and south of The Square. You can read the exact locations for the outage in an advertisement elsewhere in this issue of The News-Reporter. . . . So get out your cereal and milk and be ready. You may have to go to one of the outlying restaurants for that morning cup of coffee.

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Ed Pope III had an interesting experience last week. He was escorting the fourth grade students of Jennifer Holton on a tour of the F&M Bank. The students were very interested and were asking all kinds of questions. One student wanted to know if they made money there in the bank. This prompted Ed to ask if anybody knew where money is made. After a few moments of silence, one boy said, "China." . . . I guess he knew about so many things being made in China and maybe his parents are among those who will not buy anything made in China, so why not China? . . . A sign of the times.

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Downtown merchants are having an "End of Summer Sale" this week. Be sure to check them out. They've got some real bargains and you don't have to get in your car and go but just a few miles to take advantage of hometown sales.

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The Wilkes Coyote Club's coyote hunting tournament last weekend was a successful hunt, according to

Jeff Murphy, organizer. There were 10 three-man teams and they killed 11 coyotes. Tucker Hardy's team won the tournament. Jeff says people don't realize how many coyotes are in the city limits of Washington. A more complete report will be in next week's News-Reporter.

. Joe Berry and friends were visiting The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta and then went on to the World of Coke. Joe noticed a lifesize metal cut-out of a policeman drinking a Coke. He remembered that there had been one just like it at the old Washington-Wilkes High School on North Alexander Avenue when he was a student there. Since then he has been wondering what happened to the sign. He thinks that it would probably be valuable after all these years with so many Coke collectors around. Anybody know what happened to it? Or maybe you remember seeing it there. Call and tell me -- 706-678-2636.

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New W-WCHS head football coach and athletic director Lee Hutto and his Tigers were featured in a nice segment of the six o'clock news on Channel 12 last week. The Tigers begin regular season play Friday night, August 28, in Banks County. The first home game is September 11 with Social Circle and there are six straight home games. . . . Check out our colorful 2009 football supplement in this week's News-Reporter.

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Jean Newsome Casey of Cedartown sent me a 112-year-old book of piano music that the late Miss Clifford Shank had given to her about 20 years ago. It's in remarkably good condition and has 260 pages of all kinds of beautiful piano or organ music. Apparently it was one of a series of monthly publication, distributed by Trifet's Monthly Budget of Music and sold for $1.00. This collection is titled "Trifet's Melodious Harmonies," and the title page says it is "A collection of 350 gems of music, edited and arranged for the piano or organ by

Charles D. Blake." The copyright date is 1894 and the publisher says, "This collection contains the cream extracted from the best compositions of old and modern masters, the whole having been compiled and arranged especially for this book in an attractive manner." Jean says that she has been trying to throw it away for several years, so she is giving it to me and I get to throw it away. No way! It's a treasure and I will enjoy it.

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Ten-year-old Sylvia Walker of Rayle will be a guest on "Mornings with Lorri and Larry," a FamilyNet television program, and Sirius Radio 161 on Thursday, September 3, 7-9 a.m., Eastern Time. The hosts will interview Sylvia about her singing. She has performed at many community events, clubs and businesses in Wilkes, Oglethorpe, and Clarke counties, has been a finalist in several talent shows, and is often guest singer at several churches. She is the daughter of Ed and Selena Walker of Rayle.

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Ninety-four-year-old Mabel Johnson was the soloist for the special music at the First Baptist Church Sunday evening. It was beautiful. She sang "His Eye Is on the Sparrow." . . . First Baptist will have its annual "Offerings of Praise" program Sunday night, August 30. The program is planned by Patricia Burton and will include church members providing special songs, instrumental and drama selections, poems, and a special surprise ensemble group. The program will begin at 6 p.m.

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When Kenneth M. Cliatt emailed a request for an online subscription to The News-Reporter, he included this note: "My absolute favorite aunt (I had 12) lived in Rayle and I have very fond memories of visiting there. Her name is Emmie Carlyon and she is Tom Wells' grandmother." . . . Her daughter is

Martha Carlyon Wells who makes her home at Harper's Family Care Home here.

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Tim Zello, owner of Washington Antiques in downtown Washington, brought me a most interesting booklet which his wife, Connie Zello, Clerk of the Wilkes County Probate Court, found among some old papers at the courthouse. It is

General George C. Marshall's Report on the Winning of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. It has an added section featuring the contributions made by Wilkes County toward the winning of the war. On the cover is the signature of E.L. Smith in his beautiful script handwriting. Mr. Edgar was Ordinary (now called Probate Judge) for Wilkes County during those war years and many before and after the war. The book was distributed in 1945 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Blanchard-Echols Post No. 5899 of Washington, Ga. Eugene Blanchard and Wesley Echols of Tignall were killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. General Marshall's report shows that the "Price of Victory" in terms of human life was 201,367 killed; 570,783 wounded; 114,205 taken as prisoners; and 56,867 missing. . . . The booklet has a section on the contributions towards World War II by Wilkes County by the late

Marion Colley Boyd. I'll tell you about this section and the names of Wilkes Countians who participated in the war in next week's column.

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We've got some early deadlines coming up for The News-Reporter. In observance of Labor Day on Monday, September 7, The News- Reporter and Radio Shack will be closed that day. The following deadlines will apply: Friday, September 4, 5 p.m., all classified and legal advertisements, and society news. Community correspondents are asked to slide their news under the door Monday (Labor Day) by 11 a.m. All other news and retail

advertising have a deadline of Tuesday,

September 8, 12 noon. These

In deadlines are for the paper to be published on September 10.

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P st Oak Farm at Rayle, with Tim Miller a owner nd manager, now is man ging< BOLD> T e Vi on up the road a few miles. Tim will have the usual muscadines and scuppernongs which The Vineyard usually provides this time of the year, plus fresh vegetables and flowers -- and who knows what else.

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Sonny Johnson at Tyrone didn't get much rain last week. He measured .058 -- half of one-tenth of an inch. That's not much. . . . Norris didn't get any either.