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JIM: Life in the Shire, late November and early December, 1915 By JIM Several community newsletters graced the pages of the December 8, 1915 Adair County News, recording for posterity the comings and goings, birthings and buryings, socials and sicknesses, and sundry other aspects of the tides of life in the shire a century ago. The Neatsburg correspondent reported that Miss Sarah Grant was freshly returned home after visiting relatives at Eunice. Several from Neatsburg had journeyed to near Frazer to attend the social put on by Mr. Harmon in honor of Miss Bess Cabbell and of course, all spoke of the fine time they had. Mrs. Viola Neat was quite sick, and on November 27th, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Whit Grear was blessed by the advent of a son, Clarence Russell. Down Dirigo way, a lot of folks had enjoyed the entertainment put on Thanksgiving night at Bird school house and several of the younger people went to the spelling bee at Greenbriar school on Wednesday night. Hogs were selling at near $6.00/cwt; and James Campbell, described as "the only Mexican soldier now living in this county," was showing signs of improvement after being quite ill for a number of days. In the Eunice section, folks were on the go. Some had attended the sale at Joe Tucker's; others had slipped the county line into Casey to attend the J.B. Thomas sale; and another group recently had gone to Dunnville to attend the social at Ras Combest's. Others had made day or overnight visits more locally, and Frank Neat was on the mend. Despite questionable weather (too warm, in the opinion of some), hog killing was the order of the day at Gradyville. Two of the hogs butchered by C.O. Moss tipped the scales at nearly eight hundred pounds net and rendered out two hundred and fifty pounds of lard. The Frank Dulin family had pulled up stakes and headed west to their farm in Metcalfe County, but the population was held steady by the arrival of the George Dudley family, late of the Pickett community, and the Charles Morrison family had moved to the Strong Hill property on Water Street. At McGaha, farmers were busily gathering corn and finding the yield quite good. William Harmon's family was on the sick list but Hazel Powell was up and about for the first time in a week or thereabout and Bud Rooks "improves very slowly." A pall had been cast on the neighborhood with the passing of Mrs. Lilburn Breeding, nee Wannie Lou Grimsley, three months short of her 20th birthday. The correspondent described her as a member of the U.B. church and a good Christian woman. Her father, Rev. I.M. Grimsley, and brother, Rucker, were called home from Tennessee on account of her illness "but reached here too late." The population of Knifley was a-boom with three late November arrivals: a son, Stanley, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Arnold; another, Willie Mat, at the J.L. Feese home; and a third, Paul, at L.R. and Nettie Chelf's. Millard Young was receiving spokes; several local swine had given their lives for the greater good; and S.H. Knifley's Thanksgiving night social was "largely attended." In and around Rugby, a Bro. Purdue had preached a real pulpit-thumper of a Sunday sermon. Eli Rosson was down with malaria, Mrs, Flora Rosson and Mrs. Frances Rupe continued in bad health, and T.J Rosson was a little better. Crit Janes and family had moved to near Toria, and Lawrence Harvey has traversed the miles to transact business in Columbia on a recent Saturday. Over Breeding way, everybody who was anybody had been visiting somebody. Said the scribe for that community, "A lively bustle of socialbility in our village is making things move around." That included an entertainment by Miss Corda Fudge for seven of her closest friends. On a less pleasant note, the home of the John Froedge was destroyed by fire. No one was injured but the structure and nearly everything in it was lost, including "a beautiful $180 piano, which he had purchased in Louisville about two months ago." Perhaps the most exciting event in the county occurred at the Breeding school house the previous week: "The balloon ascension, at the school house Wednesday afternoon, was an interesting and beautiful sight to the many children who had never before witnessed an ascension." In other news, the J.H. Janeses had sold their place and moved to Horse Cave; Misses Annie Lee Branham and Mary Ellen Smith had successfully defended their championship titles as the best spellers in the Breeding school; and the birth of Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Branham's son, Alfred R., swelled the population by one. The correspondent stated that "the largest crowd ever packed into the Breeding school house, gathered Thursday [likely Thanksgiving] evening to witness the exercises given by the school here" and went on slather glory upon the teacher, Miss Laura Smythe, upon whom praise was also heaped for her church and Sunday school work. So much was going on in Cane Valley it took two newsletters to cover all the happenings. In an intimate gathering, Mr. Owen Stone and Miss Lindia Penick were joined hearts and hands on December 1st; W.E. Hancock, who some days earlier "was thrown from his horse and considerably bruised up," was showing signs of improvement; and several Valleyians had attended the entertainment held Thanksgiving eve at Smith's Chapel. The event, put on by the teacher, Miss Mattie Young and her pupils, was quite the success. Bramlette Beard and family had returned to the Cane Valley section to settle after engaging for two years in the hotel business in McKinney, Texas. And finally, "The band boys are stepping high. They are on the top round of the ladder. When you want to hear some nice band music, come to Cane Valley on Monday nights, when Prof. Sullivan, of Columbia, is with them, and you will be delighted. News from Columbia was skase, might skase. A blind horse belonging to Cortes Miller had plunged off the Water Street bridge and thus ended its earthly existence. A one-sentence blurb, one of but a small handful of references to Christmas in the entire edition, stated simply, "The show windows of the business houses about town are now attracting the attention of the Christmas shoppers." The ladies of the First Baptist Church planned to hold a bazaar on Saturday the 11th at Russell & Eubanks, the millinery shop in the Russell & Co. building. It was to feature "all kinds of handwork, as well as many useful articles and edibles." Up on the Lindsey Wilson hill, plans were underway to vastly improve campus operations with the installation of the school's own electric plant, and students on the Primary Department (grades 1-7) Honor Roll included four daughters of News editor C.S. Harris as well as first grader Miss Alta Barbee. This story was posted on 2015-12-06 16:02:50
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