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Dear Buys; ' It has been suj^osbed that I v;rito you soncthing of Lavmdalc at tho tirio I was (,Tov/ing up, ii/hich is quite a few years a£^’o. There arc sone of the younger. foUcs in our villa£;o that I do not knovryet very v/ell,‘but nost of then are rather eas3^ to place by the resei.iblance to their Mothers and Fathers, \;ith r;hon I used to 7/ork ?jid associate vdth. There are entire tribes of such' foj:iiiies as Richards, IVallaces, 'i7eases,B3-antons, Boui.ians, Southards, and a nui'iber of other old fa;lilies that hr.ve a distinct far.iily resenblance, Durin^j vjhat you vjould tera the old daj^’S, I believe v/e had nore actual fun here than the youn^jer set that are now /jrovdn^, up that have access to auto- r.iobiles, iMovin^; picture shows, and other riodern entertaini-ients of today, I :?c.vier.iber quite ;/ell the first auvin^ picture show I ever saw. It was a "shirt-tail" outfit, travel- lin£i throu/;h the country, and showing' in different toTjns. The picture was a renl, wild and wooly, fast- shootings and hard-ridin{^ V/i:stern picture, which was shoY/n in the old liasonic Hall Building on top of the hill. Hi.r-y tiaes during’ the picture the entire aud ience v/ould ju:‘.ip on top of their seats and holler like the very "de vil" and I think if they could have gotten hold of the villain in the picture, we v/ ould have had a first-class lynchin^j in our fair little tovjn* I-i those days the Cvrvjai'y Slox*o v'id not close until we natives were ready for bed, which was around to 9:30 each ni£;ht. It v;an a ni^^htly {i’athorinc place for such fello-ivs as HIU- Boyles, who had a regular seat reserved on the end of the counter, Joe ris'd Ab Bowinan, Stick KLliott, and a fevj cf the othe r old timers. All of them had some wild tales to tell, and they were usually on the other fellov/. I vdll never forget Joe Bowman’s laugh. It was tho Idjid that starts away down in t he belly and seemed to turn over and over and never get out. It was one of those kinds of laughs’ the balance of the fellows took up and every body would feel better after indulging. Stick and Hill v/ere usually the ring leaders in this nightly gathering, and Hill had the groat reputation of asking particularly the newly married men rather personal questions, ^#iich perhaps it is well not to go into details about in this publication, and this reminds me of the night Hill and i\lice were married. Some one found out exactly where they were going to spend their first married night, and a real cow bell was chained under their bed, and in such manner it could not be taken off except by the use of a hack sav/. All the neighbors for miles around gathered together that night and put on a real celebration, by beating pans, shooting guns, and just about tearing up the house until the early morning hours. After that Hill was just a little more discreet in prying into private family affairs. Some of my friends brought home with them for Christms a gallon jug of store bought liquor. Being afraid to hide bhis out around their ovm hone, they gave it to Stick Elliott to take care of it for them. A day or so before .Christmas, Stick was called upon to produce the liquor he -was keeping, and he delivered a practically empty jug. His explanation for the absence of the liquor was that he had just been "supping" some of it each do^r and there were reallj' some disappointed boys on this account. (Continued on next page)
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