from the May 23, 1908 DOTHAN EAGLE

"When the family lived on Sandy Creek, north of Headland, where Joe Baker, Sr., ran a country store, loaned money, owned farms and furnished farmers. In his early youth, he began to cultivate an expressionless expression, and no man ever lived who could look in Buck's face and tell what the leading thought was. There have been men who would have given hundreds, yes, thousands of dollars to have been able to read Buck's face but the trick was never done satisfactorily. For when you think you are on to one expression, he can pull another that means something else, or it may mean nothing, and you never know. He hit Dothan that way and Dothan helped to educate him along some lines, but he showed Dothan a trick or two."