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LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919
LENOIR, N. C.
A PREACHER ON SLOW TIME
Sm Ootber Interesting Episode
in Mountain Life
-By CoL Fred A, Olds-
ing their guns and pistols at the
teacher age. It was plainly stated
that the -men who do this sort of
thing are the sons or grandsons of
deserters, of whom there were a
I rood many in that rssrion during
K the civil war, as it was a sort of no-
man s land. Anyway, some of the
shooters were eaptured and sent to
prison.
It is declared to be difficult to get
teachers in the mountains, this being
a big problem in all parts of the
State and causing- many a county su
perintendent to sit up at night and
groan. It used to be the case that
teachers would take four months in
the mountain schools, which begin
The gentle reader has been told of
the fact that in some parts of moun
tain North Carolina the folks kept
three kinds of time slow, common
and fast At one point on the writer's
tramp we ran into a glorious result
ef this tangle. One of the very pret
tiest mountains girls was to marry a
gentleman from elsewhere; the house
wass went and psrnishprl. marta lnvp-
1t and fraerant with the brilliant i the first of August generally, and
flowers of that dear high world. The I tnen nilte down the State and teach
preacher, who lived some miles away, another four months, but under the
had been chartered for the occasion , nw school law this is thoroughly
and booked to aDDear at a certain : blocked, for six months school is re
minute. All the outfit gathered, the
family, the friends and people who
go whether they know you or not if
there is a wedding, or perhaps even
a guneral. When the psychological
moment arrived the preacher was
conspicuous by his absence. The
quired.
1 From Crossnore, where a hand
some main building of brick is under
construction, well placed upon a hill,
the road led by one of the finest
farms in all tha tregion, and about
this farm theie is a story which the
folks did not have rice to throw at reader can verify if he pleases by
the happy couple, but flowers in
stead; a delightful exchange, by the
way. Thirty minutes passed, each
seeming an hour at least, and then
the groom and bride-to-be climbed
into an auto, which, with gladsome
honks, took to its heels and fled to
the nearest railroad station. There
a good "Squire" was on hand and
tied the knot with neatness and dis
patch. Thirty minutes more passed
and then there came into view on the
one street of the village the preach
er, dressed in a Prince Albert coat
as long as a lady's old-fashioned rid
ing skirt and an antiquated high hat,
commonly called a "beaver" atop of
his head. With legs and arms flap
ping like a wheat reaper he drew up,
almost fell from his mule and started
to rush into the house. He almost
died when he was informed he was
an hour late. Poor thing! He was
running on slow time and missed ten
dollars by exactly sixty minutes. He
did not sleep any that night but sat
in th eporc hand groaned, ref using to
be comforted, an dnow has left the
neighborhood and migrated into Ten
nessee. Before he departed he told
th folks he had set up his watch and
was running on fast time.
Saying good-bye to our good
Scotch friend, Mr. Alexander McRae,
high up on old Grandfather moun
tain, the writer tramped merrily
away to Linville Falls, stopping at
Pineola long enough to make some
talk with Uncle Jimmy Stuart, who,
in civil war days, "fout" in the 58th
North Carolina regiment. Pineola is
the southern end of the narrow gauge
railroad into Tennessee, and at it are
the Kelsey nurseries, which used to
be very attractive. From Pineola
we went to Crossnore, wehre there is
an excellent rresoytenan school in
tharg of Dr. and Mrs. Sloop, this
good lady being a doctor also. The
folks round about call them "mis
onary doctors." Children were as
thick as huckleberries at the school
and seemed to come out of the
ground like lizards. In that school
diatrict there ar el 83 children be
tween the school ages and 144 were
resent, an uncommonly fine record.
The teachers from various parts of
the State have a pleasant building all
their own, known as the teacherage,
an dthere they served lunch daintily
prepared by their dietitian. As soon
a we had consumed all of it, this
W tof work being thoroughly done,
tories were told to the children, who
all looked the picture of health.
There are some people with odd
jwtions in the mountains, as else
arliere, and some drunken fellows "of
the baser sort," as St. Paul would
ay, have amused themselves by fir-
reference to the official county rec
ords. A soldier of the Revolution,
returning home after the victory at
King's Mountain, saw this farm land,
in the valley of the Linville river,
and was so delighted that he took it
up in other words, got a State
grant for it, raising the money by
selling his -horse and rifle. Thus he
entered or took up 640 acres, one
mile, or splendid land, at 12 H cents
an acre. Some years passed and a
man who had run away from Ken
tucky with another man's wife en
tered the neighborhood, having lost
his way, and turned up at this very
place. He, too, was charmed with
it and struck a bargain with the
owner by which he traded the stolen
wife for C- - farm. All these facts
are duly set out in the papers in the
transfer of the land. Those were
surely easy times. It is not record
ed what the lady in the case thought
of the transaction, but she surely
stuck to husband No. 3, if he can be
given that title, and they located
nearby. What became of husband
No. 1 does not appear.
Not a great many years ago
preachers and magistrates were not
extremely plentiful in some parts of
the mountains, and into that region,
for summer evangelistic work, went
a dozen or more students of a theo
logical college in this State. A good
many people would rather have a
preacher, or a near-preacher, than a
squire perform the marriage cere
money in their cases, so the students,
not licensed at all, fired away and
performed the ceremony a number of
times. Then the legislature had to
step in and put through an act mak
ing these marriages, really no mar
riages at all, lawful and binding. And
this was not fifty years ago, either.
The road passed by Altamont, once
the grand home of Col. John B. Pal
mer, 58th regiment, N. C. State
troops, C. S. A. Its grove was one
of the finest in the State, with great
trees and blue grass, the Linville
river running directly through the
rich valley. During the war Col.
Palmer and his regiment were al
ways at the front, but the deserters,
known as buffalos, bushwhackers,
etc., burned his house while he was
in service. His regiment was the
only one in the Confederate service
which was allowed after surrender,
which occurred near Greensboro, to
take its rifles and equipment home,
the Federal general who received the
surrender saying those weapons
would be needed. One of these ri
fles, a long Enfield, English-made, is
now in the Hall of History in Ral
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with the 58th from first to last.
When the members of this regi
ment were discharged the only pay
they received was one dollar each in
Mexican money. After paying the
one dollar around enough money was
left to divide one dollar among each
seven men. Since all the money was
in one-dollar silver pieces the men
got together in bunches and drew
straws for the dollar. Maj. Harper
has the dollar which was given him.
Several years ago he had it engraved,
showing the date on which he en
tered the service and the date of
his discharge. Editor.
Altamont was sold years after the
war to a retired naval officer, who
built the present home and outfitted
it with superb mahogany furniture
hauled on wagons from Morganton,
installing also objects of art which
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91 R J. Reynold
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can get. nve aces out or a iamiiy aecK! so, wnen you nit pziL i& ni
Prince Albert; coming and going, and get up half an hour
earlier just to start stoking your vive or rolline cierarettea. 1 1T"- :Lr
fisted smokejoy as you puff out of a
jimmy pipe packed with Prince Albert I
That's because P. A. has the quality t
You can't fool your teste, apparatus any more than you
can get five aces out of a family deck! So, when you hit
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you know you ve got the big prize on the end of your line 1
i Prince Albert's quality alone puts it in a class of its own,
but when you figure that P. A. is made by our exclusive
patented process that cuts out bite and parch well' you
feel like getting a flock of dictionaries to find enough words
to express your happy days sentiments I
Toppy ted bagt, tidy nd tint, handtome pound and half-pound tin
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he had gathered in cruises all about
in the world. He hauled the lumber
from Morganton for his dwelline.
Now the house is in other hands, and
the place is but poorly kept com-
parea ot its lormer grandeur.
Next on the journey came Lin
ville Falls, easily one. of the most de
lightful places in all the mountain
region, though known to but few
outsiders. As the writer approached
his good friend, the hotel keeper
there, Mr. Stokes Penland, ran up
with a two-hand welcome. He ia a
cousin of the late Gov. Vance and
has a wonderful knowledge of the
moutnams.
THEN AND NOW
(Yorkville Enquirer)
Discussion in front of the People's
Bank and Trust Company the other
morning ran to the high coat of liv
ing, and there was a little cussing
and discussion. "Of icourse it costs
like everything to live now, but it
does not cost near as much as it did
during the war between the States,"
was the argument of a Confederate
veteran who was among the party.
He took from his pocket a list of
some prices that were in effect then.
Here is the list as he read it to his
nme audience: Corn, J5.85 per
bushel; meal, 3.66 per bushel J ba
con, i per pound; porlc, 60 cents
per pound; lard, 81 per pound;
wheat, $5.60 per bushel; flour $27
Ser barrel;, sweet potatoes, $4 per
uahel ; Iritish potatoes, : $2.60 per
bushel; onions, $6 per bushel; salt,
$4.40 per pound; sugar, $1.75 per
pound; molasses, $8.50 per gallon;
rice, 40 cents per pound; coffee,
$3.60 per pound, and tea, $10. per
pound. , ,
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