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JIM: 100 years ago - News from around the county, and beyond Those inventive Hill Bros. of Gradyville: Armstrong Hill already had an invention for our - and New Orleans' - times: A floodproof house. Coal found at Hatcher. Acton gentleman treated mad dog bite with proven protocol of treatment: Healing by madstone. The fight at Decoration Day services at Bear Wallow. Mr. Kimble's spectacular cliff jumper mule. Judge Jones' settlement of defunct CV bank. Rev. Rowe issues statement on young widows. N.M. Tutt's high bid on Bank of Columbia stock. All this and the contemporaneously relevant advice, given then, good for today: "Do not go to church with a quid of tobacco in your mouth. Some one might reflect upon your rearing." -CM By "Jim" The community newsletters of a century ago always presented interesting reading. The most frequent topics were the weather; crops (planted, harvested, withered from heat, or washed away); and visitations (who had visited whom and for how long). Singings, revivals, and social affairs drew their fair share of mentions, as did the general health of the community (who was mending, who was fading fast, and who had crossed the river). And then, there was everything else, and the June 7, 1911 edition of the News offered a gracious plenty of that. Gradyville Miss Nora Sherrell was home for the summer from Columbia, where she was attending the L.W.T.S.Mr. Strong Hill had come up with an ingenious plan to protect his home from flood and wind. His domicile was quite close to Big Creek, and as he couldn't " secure any land convenient that would be suitable to move his dwelling on," had decided to bury a boiler that weighed several tons. The idea was to attach his dwelling place to said boiler "by some means of rods and bolts" and thus secure the house "from any kind of floods or winds that might come." Mr. W.M. Wilmore, the Gradyville correspondent, added that Mr. Hill was a natural mechanic and could do most anything he undertook. Hatcher (Taylor County) Walter Ellis, while drilling a well for Harden Nance down on Wilson's Creek, had hit a coal strata over eight feet deep, some sixty feet below the surface. There were plans to have the coal analyzed and if it were of good quality, a company organized to develop a mine. Added the writer, "There is a turnpike from Campbellsville to that point, and as fuel is becoming scarce, the mine will prove a boom." Miss Elizabeth Turner was home from Dover, Tennessee for a few days. Miss Turner, a former L.W.T.S. student, held a lucrative bookkeeping position for mercantile firm in the Volunteer state. (Dover is near the Cumberland River, a few miles southwest of Fort Campbell.) A Mr. Watson, merchant of Acton had been bitten by a mad dog. "He had a mad stone mad stone applied and feels that he will be relieved." Absher Mr. Lee Farris was having "a large barn pattern drawn here." Several of the younger set had attended the decoration services at Carmel. Bear Wallow (There was no Bear Wallow newsletter in this edition of the News, but a front page note informed readers that after the decoration services there the previous week, "there was a general fight, so we are informed, there being several on each side, in which Loren Burton was knocked down and badly beaten.") French Valley (Russell County, within the Sacred Triangle) (A paraphrase simply can't do this one justice!) "Mr. E.D. Kimble had a mule colt to jump over a bluff 18 or 20 feet high, striking solid rock. He had taken the mule to Porter Grider's near Montpelier and put on pasture and when he started home, the mule started too, but finding he couldn't jump the fence, started for the bluff, gave a spring and hit the bottom running. Mr. Kimble says the mule was a little sore the next day [but] otherwise not injured." Cane Valley J.W. Judd was erecting a new residence for himself; J.C. Sublett had purchased a lot from Robert Groves and was putting up a nice cottage; and Vester Murrell had the previous week sold his household goods and lit out for Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Murrell's departure notwithstanding, the correspondent noted that Cane Valley was growing. (A brief front page article noted that "Judge W.W. Jones, assignee of the Cane Valley defunct bank," was ready to "make a final settlement with all the depositors, paying them every cent that is due," stockholders excepted. The stockholders would receive their deposits at a later date, "and possibly something on their stock." The bank had opened in 1907 and closed in 1910; it reopened in 1919.) Rowes X Roads (Russell County) (The long time Rowes X Road correspondent was kindly but blunt-spoken Rev. Thomas Hadley, a lad of some sixty-five summers in 1911. This entry was in response to a letter published in the News some weeks earlier from "O.B.V." of Somerset, formerly of near the Esto community, Russell County.) "You spoke of the good old times you and the boys had at Moors [Moores] schoolhouse when you was a boy. I will tell you that if you was to put Sam Collins in a brush heap to catch the ball for you now, you would have to burn the brush pile first, for Sam is bigger around than he is up and down." Rev. Rowe also offered this; whether it were sagacious advice or dire warning -- or both -- is lost in the veils of time: "Boys look out for the young widow." Columbia The biggest news out of Columbia proper was the sale of the late L.D. Potts' fifteen shares in the Bank of Columbia. The shares, sold at public auction, were first auctioned off separately, "the whole number being knocked off to Walker Bryant at $3,000." They were then auctioned as a lot, and Mr. N.M. Tutt carried the day with a high bid of $3,650. (The shares carried a face value of $100 per share.) Etc. And finally, these pearls of great wisdom for young men, not from a community newsletter but from the front page of the News: Young men who do not wear suspenders do not look as nice in dress as those who do. (And in the next "breath," this offering: "Never judge a man by the clothes he wears. Many true hearts, men who make an honest living, wear hickory shirts.") Do not go to church, sit upon the end of a bench and pose as though you were waiting for your Kodak. It brings about remarks. Do not go to church with a quid of tobacco in your mouth. Some one might reflect upon your rearing. In passing a lady upon the streets, wait until she speaks. If she does, lift your hat. Her speaking indicates that you are a gentleman. Fearlessly compiled with or without offense to friend or foe - in the great tradiiton of Marse Henry, Hunter S. Thompson, and Andrew Jackson Norfleet This story was posted on 2011-06-05 10:30:03
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