Our friend Francis FENTRESS he who presides with so much satisfaction over the affairs of the Chancery Court Clerk and Master’s office, is entitled to the credit of having produced the first open bole of cotton of the season. On his farm, two miles southeast of this place, on last Saturday, 24th, cotton was opening finely. This is a little ahead of anything we have heard of in Hardeman. Who can beat it?

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 31 Aug. 1867, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.