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p ?OP V/ASH Hi~Ya Fellers - I Imov; all of you ,boys re- nernber Jean Schenck v}\i6 used, to live here - Well he^s taking over ny pri£,*e this month and I’m sure all cf you are going to get a big kick cut of his reminiscing - So settle back now, to.enjoy yourselves. Hello fellows;-. /... • . ' I have been asked to'^give you some bf my early^ experiences at Lawndale, but before I do‘that, I want to pay my respects and tribute to Jim Osborne and the staff who publish the Hoover Rail for you. This publication' is the best one of its kind that I have ever seen, sent out from cxiy community. It takes a lot cf time rjid the interest of a good many people to get out a paper like this each month, but the people'of Lawndale have always been that way in undertaking r,ny v;orthy cause, that would contribute to the v;elf:ij7e of their citizens. Be sure and shov/ the publishers of the Hoover Rail your appreciation of their' efforts by vsending them all the nows you can, and encouraging them in eyery possible way. They just couldn^t get out this interesting paper without your help, ■ I wish we cou-ld have gotten out a paper'like this .during the other war, as I re member I got mighty homesick, sometimes, for news at Lawndcile when I was in the Kavy, I wish I Inew each one of you-' fellov/s by your first names, but you have grovm up so fast since I stayed at Lawndale, that it is impossible for -me to get each one. of • you straight, but when I see; you, I can usually detect something’about your appearance that ^reminds me of your Dads, v\?hom I grew up with, and played such gajnes! with when we were" kids, as "Cross-cat"', "Eound-tov/n", and "Rollers'', all’of which were played with a ball that we would wind, ourselves, out of wrapping twine,- ; , .. . I; didn't have any hesitancy in sending you, some- message- through your paper on ' account of my spelling or English not being up to a-high stajidard, as J know we -all . got most of our education' from the. same Piedmont School, and having been,brought up together, we just‘naturally talk the s.?jne kind of language, . There is snov/ on the ground here today, and it reminds me of when Piedmont was a boarding scb’ool', and tlie day students xvould havp a big snow fight with the. boarding students. They were mostly from the Eastern part’ of the State,- where it didn’t snow niuch, so v;e-,Lawndale boys knev/ more about the gc’jne, and could give them a good lickin’ . I remember my first job in the mill was in the spinning room, I don’t know why • I had to start out'on a girl’s job, but I ran two sides of. spinning‘for several mon ths at 15(^ per side'per dry of 11 hours, I spent the big^st part of my weekly‘e'arn- ings buying, ice crerjn from Oak Canipe, when he used tq-make ice cream every Saturday out under-that big tree that used to stand near the front of the* stofe, (That tree> though, has been cut do’.vn now for several years.) I wou3.d, also, try to have- a little money l?.ft, over the week-end, to hire a horse' and buggy from "Pete" Brown or "Trick" Ca?rber, to ride- around in, I don’t remember that v/e ever had a horse and buggy, tho ugh Grandpa used to let us ride a lot in his outfit, as long as "Shelt"'v/ont along to drive, -I -remember when he got a new surrey once, that had lights on it, and it was fixed up just about ,^.s fancy as one of these modern ‘hears(js — I knov/ vie used to think we were really stepping out when we v/ent to ride in that.idutfit. You probably remember, or your Da.ds do, hov; many curves there used to be in the old Lawndale-to—Cleveland Mills Road, The Osbornes’ Who lived at Cleveland Mills then, had tv/o of the fastest horses in that section, named "Molly ajid Mandy", You could ' hear Jim Osborne let out a yell about the time they wouldhit the Maple Creek bridge, and it wouldn’t be but a very few minutes until you v/ould hear Jim and his outfit com ing across the old overhead bridge out at the river. The fastest trip I ever made (Continued on next page)
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