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depressing. There are such awful reckless car loads of both negroes and whites sporting about out in our neck of the woods these days that for the first time in my life I find myself afraid of being here alone - especially at nights. Byram says they are all a strange lot - none of them the negroes we have known in the past - most of them drive real cars and dress fine. We think they must be boot leggers and looters of some sort. Last Saturday night Francis was visiting over at Wanchala and there was such a lot of the set racing past or else sporting around on the Lake shore that Byram's have stood on end almost the whole night. Toward daylight some of them fell arguing among themselves just at edge of our yard - B - was close enough to catch what the fuss was about - it was over a woman. Finally one man said to the other "shut up." "I'm through with your old whore - take her and go with her." Your C.C Rolf report makes a big supplement to the column that came out in Tampa Times last Friday. He has been passing bad checks all along a route from Evancella to a town in Southern Alabama where he is under arrest - there was one case of forgery. The checks counted up to about seventy thousand. Byram was telling Floyd Johnson today about the 5 years in Atlanta Penitentiary. Floyd said the thing had been known in Arrow Park for a good while but the time was told as 3 years instead of 5 (Early [unclear]) Byram came home last night and reported death of "Hettie" yesterday afternoon in hospital at Tampa & The poor Reader family! The blows rain fast and