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' I IS • iris ' A'lexindfeV, soiine ‘ibf
lan
ijt^0Mild^red On* of Best\ Edu
cated Mm In 1%i8 Sec^
^*9 of State .y u
Sis i^aa 'if BCientitte'i^fariSlng,
itnd has been 'suatessful.
: Though he has occupied sev-
■ cral Important positions, Jim
Linney Is said to have always
appeared far greater than - his
work. Though diffident and even
ted-
si A
Mr, and MiSJW.' T. iehftsdn,^
^ f’ 81 'and' tfl, Buried At
Antioch Church
MCOhitihls, * somewhat •‘droll,” In tlie provin-
icr.^^ught fopvard'bynher,^! struck those
ir Pterguson- correspondent ^ camesto know him as having
Ifertaps the best educated man ^^at was almost miracul-,
western North Carolina, mer-‘ 3„ enclydopedlc fund of
- j " *" anyone will be-1 jg^^nlng. Even his enemies have
dtow. mwt persons will hasten to 1 33 perhaps the
. ®f®'i beat teacher^ they have known,
igh well educated persons Id .and; though he was somewhat
mountain counties—relative-' school room,
^peaking, at least—to make it, ,^^3^ students are vgry
Hcult to select the superlaMve.; this day
-haps James Claiborne tin-1 ^31,3^ intellect
*ey, pmtmaster a| Hlddoalte, 133 teaching a .class of trlgonoine-
M ta^Q place . .
DELLAPLANE NEWS
■roaring RIVEm! Route 2,
May 9.—A crowd'estimated at
around 990 filled the church;
the grounds, and' .every ayallatble
space at the funeral of Uncle
Toni and Aunt Eldna JOhnson, As
they were kaswn. - ,at Anttoch
Mohday afternoon.' Revs. J.
W.
the
, ^ fPe
fLS a, glrllW'itlikSttdteBii'hrith her
mother and ^ step-father In 1S8S.
The-' ancestors • of* ♦ ‘ Mrs. t*^*Lfenby
^ve*'lived- ih"thl8 nelghhoAoM*
!ieo ■ yeain,; ahd ' the ’lliib^latie'
line of descent liascoccupled *o«^'
ly three different hoUsSs In that
time. 1 ■
' Oak Forest 'church' has '^iiad
but, four clerks in .Its .sevehty-
flye'^yeaiii, and three . ot ,th?m
were of the same family. ' uncle
'Toauny*; Poster, as he was call-
te eonstUate Uiet
\v. [charoh, was elerk from its esi
S’Ska-M®*-... ,
1 iHrs.tiiVrank ; fitsltey' '%hsc'’k(!l^
been able te sit i«p eiace .ifttORf
o,,ww
ing her teg sererali weeks «so
cording 'touber tatlber.' -..iVo-'^ 1J
, Mn. Hugh rkinyoun andr b»W^
and little daoghter;^ Merle)., are
WiUng heat mother; In li^nstoo-
'Salem. n They make 1^ thei r u Ihtome'
here wtth-Mr8;,.W. J.sKiByotm.
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UhbssJrt' I'-iodrs;!
N.
T. Jar-) llshment until his death, abd
C ibld take Place among- their '37 felMatlon from the law
nks. And. oddly enough, Mr. teaching calculus. ;>stronomy,
^aney, always chary of his' other advanced subject
tealses. Is among those who first' j,g ^3^ studied, he alwaj's
recognised the intellectual Pow-1^3^ a fondness. Albeit amuslng-
era of Mr. McGhinnts. Ly k^owri to slip up in the spell-
> Jim Linney, as he is known,! “resurrection" and “re
Is the eldest son of the late Wells i
ilnney and Sue Smith Linney. a
nephew of R. Z. Linney, and a
Moore, Levi McCann, .. — .
nc ,*•.? yig. and J,B- Ray were In charge,)^ ldhrt®r, of a ^t(^y Uter.
. For :pe-',;ji|,g 'apeakars fluted out \ tljiat (teh, H./AeblllgityDS^, jiys cli
lect, such Toin and Atet Edna ^relfro?“ *’®®i.
unljine In beiig persons about 19U. MWtAT; Fostbfi
whjom no one^'h^ ever bdenfsoii'iof tli« -ifs kjlerk |oi
heard to utiter^an adverse ^m-j 15 ; years ..folJdwlBif ito^Tfath^'i
'•'Rarlingtob, ^May 8—^More .thatt
f 8,500 Ih bpilttses 'haye'been paid'
^tweenj j January i ^'and l*April X
to ..employes, of, the ■ E. j ;M., HoV}
Platd mills 'hefe- In s connection
with the 50th
gran-dson of Joseph Baxter. M'hen
he was 16 he had not attended
Mhool, having been kept at work
•n‘ the farm. Though his mother
lad made an effort to teach
him at nigh , he has said that he
•onid not work his way through
tong division and that he hardly
knew a verb from a noun. With
a good teacher and the continued
help of his motiier. who was an
•xcellent instructor in English, (
le equalled the most advanced
•tudents in the scliool before the {
•nd of the year. So p'aenomenal
was the rapidity with which he
ing of “resurrecti
■spector,'' it has been said of Jim
i Linney ‘•There are no lengths, or
breadths, or heights of intellectu
al attainments to which that man
; could not have gone.”
I Mr. Linney has essayed writ
ing in a more aloof sense, as
well as in the capacity of editor
and reporter; and some authori
ties have declared, “Say what
you will of Rom Linney, of Frank
Linney. or of any of the rest, the
finest orator the Linney family
ever produced was the one called
Jim. ' His “Aycock speech" was
because
the
hi.s i
teamed, probably
mind, had reached
•—Af the teens, tbat within the
length of time he might have
been expecte! to have finished
the third or foiirlli grade, lie was
■eady for college, au I was also
a good school teacher, _
Col. W. H. H. Cowies. of WH
kesboro. obtained f r .)im Lin-
his most famous. With the pro
crastination of which he was fre-
quentiy guilty, he did not pre
pare his speecli until he was on
turning it over in his
I the stage;
nraturity 1while R. N. Hackett intro-
idneed Aycock and while .\ycock
, spoke. When .Aycock sat down,
he arose and delivered a spon-
luncous address, during the first
half of wliich he was “ont of bis
head" with sheer fright. Such an
o'.atioii liad not liefore lieen
witnessed at Taylorsville. Col.
■ey an appointmei t at West j.-i^^.vr.s (father of Ur. R. L.
Point; hut because his nncle, |University)
Bom Linney. was so unaltera''lv ( (,,,-ward "'.vitli tiWs stream-
*ppos('(i to Jim’s hecomi ig a
Odet. he finally relini(iiished tile
HKPointment, and it was given to
Another .Alexander youth.
•’ *Jim Iiinney sent himself
IBM '“rinity Colle'gc. wiiili' i' was
/■till located at tlie IttM;- vi'bige
alf Trinity, in Randolph county.
iHe was a scliool mate tlicie of
•r. Gilbert T. Rowe, and of many
iither Tarheel celehrities. whom
equalled in scholarship, j ,,.,3 alwa.vs affiliated
«liongh he has -been tiehiiid them j party, and
i'lg down his face.-” “Dick"
Hackett declared that it was the
.greatest speech he ever heard.
I But young Linney fled from the
*‘Lbuilding and was running out of
tow'n when Aycock overtook him
in a carriage, fn expressing his
gratitude, the “Educational Gov-
enor." loo. said, “It was the host
sp'.'ecii I ever heard.”
l iitil recent years Jim I.inney
with the
has been
r.
Jaine. He was particularly dis-|a eonsistent supporter of “Farm-
Ingulshed in English and mat he-;
matics; earned' from his room
xiate the derisively-intended epi
thet “as Logical as Bishop Kil-
go”; and completed his course at'
r B.,li" Doughton. He was a
delegate to the convention that
iioriiiiiated Buxton for Congres.s
and received a liandsomc vote for
elector at large, though the c.ei-
veulion. from f'levelund to Kor-
Trinity in 1843. Mr. Linney lat
er attended the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, at Louis- 3 Linney in tlie Demoi'ratic
ville. Kentucky. Though an alum-',anks. I'otii :ii McDowell and in
BUS of two colleges, he, like Mr. irp^ell Jim Idnney odite.l the
McGhinnts. does not have the in- Democratic orgau of the count.v,
determinable string of degrees, | espoused the cause of .Mr.
•ften so meaningless. | Newland against the late E.
Mr. Linney taiigiii sc'ionl for ' ,;i;„ ;j)urn. and of Dick
arouir' a quiirler of a century, Hackett against Mr. Blackburn,
having hecn principal of numer-; Mr. HacacU, according to llom-
Olis smaller city schools in North |,,r Smith of Bloiintville, Tenn..
Carolina, Virginia ami Georgia. 1 others, continued to say
He also taught in TcMiiessee ati‘l -(),3t Linney’s A.vcock speech was
Arkansas. In l!io:i. .soon utter his finest he ever heard, and
first marriage, he was principal 1 that "Jim Linney is the best ora-
ef the old Moravian Kails Acad 1 t^r in the State."
«my. in Wilkes. .U a mm-’i later 1 Linney has been twice
i^ate. he held the chair of tnatlie- .nan-jed. Oddly enough, both con-
.s'-rls were
ment. They' had 'never compro
mised with evil, even in their
close friends and relativesbut
their rectitude was so seasoned
with kindness and sympathetic
understanding that everyone who
had ever known them was their
friend. Like Philemon and Bau
cis, Uncle Tom and Aunt Edna
•died the same day; they lived
fifty years together and “in'
death they were not divided.”
Singularly appropriate in their
case was the scripture quoted by
.Mr. Moore, “Precious in the
sight of the Lord is the death of
his saints.”
Mrs. Johnson was 76 years of
age, while Mr. Johnson was 81
years of age. They died within a
few hours of each other.
The pastor. Rev. J. W. Moore,
of Gilreath, preached at Antioch
Saturday and Sunday, using as a
text for his good sermon Sunday,
Revelations, XX, 6; “Blessed and
hold is he that hath part in the
first resurrection: on such the
second death hath no power.”
He said he used in his talk on
j Saturday, I Corinthians, XI. 4;
I “But if any man seem to be con-
i tentioiie, we have ^ no such ciis-
! tom, neither the j churches of
' God.”
The conclitioii of; of Mrs. N. T.
Jarvis remains about the same.
-C. B. and Susjatuia .Mathis,
children of .Mr. anil Mrs. Charles
Mathis, of the j Plum Ridge
neighborhood, s i e n t Friday
night and part of Saturday in the
home of -'Ir. J, L. jMastin.
Miss Myrtle Church, of Trap-
hill. attended chuj-ch at Antioch
Sunday. She was h-isitiiig .Misses
Betty Call and Martha Ann Fos
ter and attending the Wilkesboro
commencement.
-Mr. and Mrs. Resen Johnson,
of Ronda. were among those
here Monday for the funeral of
their aunt and uncle, Mr.'and
.Mrs. W. T. Johnson.
'Miss Betty Call attended the
commencement at Traphill last
bratlon
.• I
anniversary' cele-
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M
of the prgahization
1., ... :i, -;il II
^ i 1- Ki'Ki.- s.-
b99l^^' m'/ioCrrAim.'/ .I'i fkjj u f '' '
er June lsL Fav;B0W and save.
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W.B!SOMERSrSiieri«
f'l (piliiirl hur fitVi'iV, feeitif
-. IL" fc'iD }.'
yt:
f'l
Twd Brand New Ford
syih. cried nut at the paradox of 1 week and .visited .Miss Myrtle
f
A utomobiles at Greatly
Reduced Prices
Church, one of the graduates.
.Mrs. D. S. Lane, of North Wll-
ke.shoro. visiled her sister, Mrs.
\. T. Jarvi.s, Thursday of last
week.
Mr. Charles Johnson, of Wil-
kesboro. Route 2, was in this
section on business last Thurs
day afternoon.
■Mrs. Frank Johnson and the
new baby, born week before last,
are getting along nicely. Mrs.
«atics at a boarding school at 1 3,.,.(3 „.(-re teachers. His first
Ehadwick Station. He ':rictic('d ^.[(g Laura Martin Mc-
law a few years, mainly in Gcor ('.iiioch. of the Dellaplane eom-
xia: and about 1904 he edited , educated at the “Old
and at the private
Ki'-ld" school.s
.school of Major J. H. Foote and
his daughter, Mrs. Lily Foote
LeGrandc, and a teacher of piano
and ealisthentics (a ter.n of the
■ighties and nineties for physical
education) in the Cove Creek
.Academy, in Watauga: in the
Cedar Run -Academy, at Vasliti;
atid in the Booneville .Academy,
j l.alcr he married Miss Belle Col-
iIm's. of Georgia, an alumnae of
jt'io rniversily of Georgia and a
j renowned beatify.
I Though, like many gifted per
sons, James Claiborne Linney
has never made what the world
calls a signal success and is com-
JoUnsun is the former .Miss Lula
Cothren.
It has been said that a distin
guishing characteristic of expart-
iate Wilkes people was that,
whether or not they spoke in
complimentary terms of their na
tive health, tliey all with one ac
cord longed constantly to return
to the “State of Wilkes,” and
considered it a goal that was a
combination of paradise, elysium,
and Valhalla. Some who have
staid at home are as much at
tached to the couniy, as the great
length of time 'some in Antioch
township have lived in the same
house or community liears wit
ness. Living in a house fifty
years i.s considered a matter
worth remark, hut Mr., L. M.
Jarvis has probably lived in the
house in which he was born for
nearly sixty years. Misses, Ida and
Lon Park.s, in their seventies,
had lived in the same,house ail
their lives until the family “man*
advance
merchandise, cars are bound to ad-
i
vancejtoo. This is your opportuni-
i . ' ^
at ground-floor prices.
nity
See or write at oncCj
North Wilkesboro, N. C*
paratively obscure, he belongs sion" burned two years ago, ajn^l
among the escteric ranks of high-'they now live in a cottage bulltgl
land scholars. no the same chimneys. There ar^l]
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