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Published Every Thursday in Black Mountain, N. C. GORDON H. GREENWOOD.Editor GEORGE W. DOUGHERTY.Mech. Supt. Co-Owners Entered as Second Class Matter September 13, 1945, at the Post Office at Black Mountain, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Day Phone ±101 — Night Phone 4503 BE SPOKE THE TRUTH . . . If the fountain of youth had been discovered in te center of town, it couldn’t have caused much ore excitement than did the article “A New York •’s Impression of Black Mountain” which appeared the News last week. At first a few people bought an extra copy of the iper. Then as the word spread, the demand in cased until the 2000 copies of the News were lapped up by a public hungry for “news from )me.” Monday and Tuesday, even after the drug ores had long since sold out, the phone was still nging and Lib Dinwiddie was kept busy telling iople that all the papers were gone. For this rea m we are republishing the letter this week on page We hope that you get your copy before the sup y is exhausted. Just what did Mrs. Eleanor Brown, who lives at > Hopping Avenue, Long Island, New York, say tat caused so much excitement and so much inter ;t? There is neither space nor reason to repeat • review all she said. But most important—she iund that Black Mountain had something that the sitors liked—not only liked, but made them want ' return again and again. She pointed out that we ere a friendly people. Most of us have known that it it is good to have an outsider say so. She was trilled by the assemblies, by the beauty of the ace, and by the views which we have the year •ound but take all too little time to really enjoy, le found that we were proud and independent, a laracteristic of all mountaineers dating back to te year 1. Yes, most of us liked what she found and what le said. But that she did is no surprise to those ? us who were born and reared in the mountains, i hose who have come looking for friendship and •iends have never been disappointed. So, when a stranger comes, looks us over, and as the intelligence to interpret what she sees, that’s aws. It couldn’t have been a better story if the _an had bitten the dog right out in front of the .ain sti eet tiaffic light at high noon on anv given ay. The News suggests that the mayor and town council ivance Mrs. Brown to the post of honoraiy colonel, -ctend to her the keys to the city, and pass a resolu on that no Yankee is to be shot within the town’s mits for 24 hours. Can any one think of a greater •lbute? )EN WALKER SAYS . . . From Page 1, This Sec. ;e children playing, drunker m fighting, young lovers court ? and newly-converted Christ is shouting. It has heard th< ssip of generations, it has seer re poverty, and sleek prosper ’■ I have known this tree clos< 50 years; I know that then a red, flint rock sealec ' in the fork; I am going t< v to relate a few of the thing: at I have seen around it. The first school that I evei ;nt to was only a few pace: )m this old tree. This was : sather-beaten building and hat sting proof on its roof that oni d better do everything that om i on the right time of the moon hen they were covering it the; n out of shingles, and befori ey could go to the woods anc /e more the moon had changed id Uncle Joe Cordell said tha e ones already laid would la; it, and the ones rived on thi w moon would curl up. Sun .ough, you could tell to th< urse where the moon had chang 1. The seats must have beer feet long and handmade. Then as a sloping board secured t( ,e top of the seat in front o: »u that served as a desk. Thi: id a slat nailed along the bot m so your books, etc., wouk not scoot off. There was a heavy apron on the front of the seat so that there would be no peep ing- under. There was a stage across the front of the building a foot or more high. The teacher sat and worked on this elevated place so she could see anything that went on in the room. It is just as well that the teachers wore long, flowing skirts and dresses in those days, or we might have unconsciously absorbed an extra course in anatomy. The . black hoard ran around the back , of tne stage, and I have spent many a pleasant afternoon draw I mg on this board. There was a , desk on the stage that was too . high for any practical purpose, but the teacher would put us be - h‘nti punishment. One dav . she Pot a boy in there and he [ reached up on it and got a hand ful ot feathery milkweed seed, ' and sent them fogging out over , the room. He got a good going , over with a stout switch. ft was school that I had ray first experience with ■ Minnie. My sisters tried to keep me looking neat according to the : standards of that day, and I us ■ oally wore stiffly starched percale blouses. One day as I sat day dreaming, Minnie, who sat direct ly behind me, gathered up the loose cloth in my blouse and pinned Luckadoo Reunion Held At Swannanoa Sunday The annual Luckadoo reunw was held Sunday, Aug. 2«, at th home of Mr. and Mrs. \V. B Mr Craw of Swannanoa. Mrs. Me< ra' is the former Miss Rebecca la- r adoo of Cl iff side, N. C. Approximately 85 people attend ed. The Rev. and Mrs. Charle Smith and family were truests a the event. The Rev. Mr. Smith i pastor of the Swannanoa Miss ionary Baptist church. (;TESTS OF GCESSES Mr. and Mrs. I). G. Guess a: Mary Lucille have had as truest this week, Mr. and Mrs. C. - Darnel and son, Randy, of Ma con, Ga., and. Mr .and Mr- Fre Dalcom and daughter, Helen, e Newport Richey, Fla. WITH THE SICK Peggy Williams has been con fined to her home with the mump for the past week. it tight with a safety pin. I a little while I bent forward t write on my desk and ripped th blouse from collar to tail, 1 turne around and shook my fist a Minnie, and told her I was good mind to knock the stuffin out of her. She said why did lay everything on her, and 1 -a:< “Because you are the only on on that seat mean enough to d a trick like that.” Well, she still playing tricks on me. One day a young fellow fror the headwaters of the creek can to school for the first time. W older boys gathered around hit to give him the “onceover." 11 resented such inspection an started sidling off. We follows and he got faster. We got fast* and he started running. We ra him to the creek and treed hir deer that was trapped, am! ha no way out. We grubbed him an led him bark to the schoolhou i and the teacher was about to ski us alive. We got up the most splendi children’s day programs, singint flag drills, and recitations. Sornt times the older pupils would gr up a play. On Friday afternoon the teacher would read to us, u we would play the phonograp that had been given to the schot by Mrs. Connelly, and had a hoi that looked like an overgrow morning glory. In those days the facts of lif were not told to young folks ur til they were old enough to marn We picked up this informatio any way we could. My chum an 1 were very apt at this pickini up. My father generally kept number of teamsters at our home and we got a lot of data fror them, which we augmented b detective work around the grown ups. We checked all this by hour of reading in such volumes a 1 he Home Medical Adviser whic was on nearly all family book shelves. It seemed to us that i was just too much for the young er boys to have to work an delve as we had done, so w organized a very popular clas in this field of learning. Every thing went well until one of oil students who knew the teache very weli squealed on us. No' this fellow did not mean to b a ‘'rat," he just thought it woul be all right for one part of th faculty to know what the res were doing. Well, she played hit along until she had enough evu ence to convict, and probabl gained a little knowledge hersel then she made a report to th school committee. There were tw men on this august board. On was the local blacksmith, and th finest artisan I have ever know) I he other was a scholar, magisi rate, Bible teacher, song leade and general reformer. Both wot mustaches, hut this last gentli man s mustache was a sure ban meter of his inward emotions. TV morning they came to the schoi the said mustache was tremblin and jerking like the quills on a enraged porcupine, we knew thi we was sunk. The boys were a summoned into the schoolhous This had been a segregated cla: and the girls were not implicate We was given a lecture that wi CUI'l our hair, perha, that is the reason mine still stam up, the kinks never did come 01 of it. Some of the lumberman children took a flying leap o, the rear windows, and was m seen in public for months. T1 reform school was the milde thing that could be seen in o, dark and dreary future. We suf ered through it, a whipping wou have been preferable, and so en ed a blooming class in sexology could go on and on about tl 01dPHi^BS mder iind “round tl Old Hickory Tree, but I will lea' them where they should be - locked in the memory of tho who knew and loved it. i Final Softball Games Of Season Will Be Monday Final softball games of the vmr will be played under the i" is here Monday evening. Und er direction of Manager Pete !><». -,.at the community all-stars will < r ift Coach Drow y Hardin’s Bea con nine in a twin bill. Starting time for the first game will he 7:30. i During the regular season Grove Stone had the best record. In the playoffs Clearwater heat Grove ■“ Stone and then walloped Youth 1 Center who had won over Ridgo 1 crest by forfeit. Ridgecrest Staff f then beat Grove Stone for third place. In the girls' division the Pres byterians had the best season’s record and also won the playoff by downing Friendship church. The batting averages for the year will he published in the News next week. BLACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL From Page 1. This Sec. ! served but a full schedule will | begin Wednesday. ; An important change will be in effect at the grammar school. ' Because of a lack of space, all fifth grade pupils will go to ' Ridgecrest where classes will be, held in four rooms of the library annex. The children will report 1 to the elementary school building along with the other pupils and then be taken to Ridgecrest. No ’ lunches will be served to this , group but milk will be on sale ' bailv. This arrangement makes it m- essary to eliminate all special teachers except Miss Moles who will teach Bihle. Miss Elizabeth Goforth will Bgain serve as full ■ time school nurse. , School officials have made it 1 clear that to he eligible to enter ' school this year, a child must be six years old on or before Oct. , 1, li»51. Those entering school should bring a birth certificate. Elementary school teachers: . first grade. Siis~ Bonnie Shuford, Mrs. ,1. G. Northcott, Mrs. Demp I". sey Whitaker, Mrs. Margaret Mall 1 once; second grade, Mrs. Marg I aret King, Sliss Lucille Fair, Mrs. Evelyn Mann, Mrs, W. W. , White; third grade. Mrs. Hessie Bennett, Mrs. William Hickey, B Miss Joy Edwards, Mrs. E. E. White: fourth grade, Miss Evelyn Caubie, Mrs. Roberta Hudgins, Miss Flora Rymer; fifth grade, j Mrs. Nell Stewart, Mrs. Verda r Woolard, Mrs. Elizabeth Stubbs, ’ Mrs. Mary Sue Sorrell; sixth grade, Miss Pauline Tipton, Miss Lena Allen, Mrs. John J. O’Con . nor, Mrs. Katherine Smith; sev enth grade, Miss Lou Lindsey, 5 Mrs. Billie Burgess, Mrs. Eunice s Beddingfield, Mrs. Margaret Bin , ford. N. C. Shuford, district principal, £ .‘.ill Ul» irm 111 I .MIUI k <.*1 Uic . high school. The faculty: Eugene j Byrd, history; Mrs. A. M. Mc , Coy, Math.; Tom Nesbitt, science; s Mrs. Allen Perley, 111, English; . Mrs. Mary Woody, commercial r subjects; Mrs. Headlee, English, r replacing Mrs. Trueblood; Mrs. v Rebecca Saunders, Latin and Eng e Hsh, replacing Mrs. W. H. Mc i Murray; G. C. Carson, agricult e ure; Miss Mavis Allman, home t economics, replacing Mrs. Mary n Walker; R. W. Seawright, science . and math; Ralph Humphries, coach y and physical education; eighth •, grade, Miss Ruth Gilbert, Mrs. e Ruth Cunningham, and J. C. Mc 0 Cormick replacing Mrs. Harry e Carland. ® VISITING PARENTS j M Sgt. and Mrs. W. D. Jenkins . and children, Larry and Linda, of p Randohih air force base, San An , tonio, 1 exas, arrived Aug. 18 for >_ a visit with Sgt. Jenkins’ parents, e Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Jenkins. Over ,1 the week end they visited the K Smoky mountains and other places n of interest. They left Sunday, Aug. t 2»' for Arlington Va., to visit j[ w ih M s. Jenkins’ parents, Mr. j. add Mrs. James Rice, ,.nd othe. 1S relatives. While there Sgt. Jenk j ins will visit his sisters Mrs. Ft g A. Kleifoth and Mrs. Charles h. ,s Blanks of Alexandria. Sgt. Jenk [s 'd-s "’dl be stationed at Topeka, it Kan., after Sept. 4. FtETl'RNs TO WASHINGTON ,t M'_ss Ruth Dougherty returned e Washington, D. C., last Friday .* after a week’s visit with her par ’ ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dough 1 erty. Mr. and Mrs. Wulter Dough d .a.*s.° Washington, are j here visiting this week. discharged ,e ®H1 Fortune returned home last ie Saturday after receiving his dis e charge from the navy in San — Diego, Calif. Bill spent eight >e months on the Korean coast while overseas. I Independents To h I Unbeaten Burnsvi||e y I’nrnell Carpenter and t, 1 "T'n Independents \v to Burnsville Sati.r.u, " -avel °Pt. to meet the Burnsvilk', | ■ n»ne which has not tas ai‘ season Ion#. ‘ ie*ea Looking for some stiff Petition, the Burnsville “ m longed Black Mounts Th" ',hal 'oas accepted. A K off"r ox pec ted to follow the te-7^ "SCS MECTS TI ES1UV The VVSCS of the Method church will meet Tuesday £ P *i 7:30 °’clock- Chaplain Jan . K; Rogers of Moore VA hospi «>1I be guest speaker CARD of thanks We wish to express our u precat.on to all our friends ^ neighbors for their many arts ? kindness and for the beautif, flowers extended at the death our father. 1 The Family of the Re H. T. Plemmons. Notice of Sale of At 12:0<> Noon. Monday, Septed Rlack Mountain, \. C., I will sc bidder for rash pursuant to :he la and the Town of Rlaek Mountain a tain whose owners are delinquent the year 1950. The list of lands taxes due by each delinquent ow vertising and sale to be added as OWNER AND LAND Anderson, Mrs. Sarah Louise, Lot Atkins, D. S„ Lots 85, 83, 84, 94, Atkins, Ross, Lot 94 _ Begley, Marcus F. & Ruby, Lot Retts, C. S„ IjOts 13, 12, 12% Retts, Mary Elizabeth, Lot 377 Blades, Emma D. cst.. Lots 132, 139, 140 _ Burgess, Prank, Lots 10, 11, 12 Burnette, Mrs. W. H. cst., Lots Byrd, C. E„ Lot 2 _ i Carter, 0. F., Lots 16, 142 i Clark, Winfred L. etal, Lot 86 . (Clevenger, C. W., Lots 29, 31, 33, Lots 105, 106, 109 , Cook, A. T„ Lots 363, 364, 365, 3 Cordell, Edward W„ Lot 119 .... Lots 96, 98 _ Craig, E. H„ I>ots 49A, 116 .. Creasman, W. H., Lot 145 — Davis, H. M„ est„ Lots 194, 195 Dotson, Jason M., Lots 343, 344, Dougherty, Mrs. Janet M., Lots : Duckworth, James H., Lot 93 . Dula, Mrs. Cora, Lots 87, 88C . Eckles, R. S„ Lots 11, 11L, 524 Lots 105, 107, 108 Lots 165, 157, 165, 1 Fortune, C. M„ Lots 97. 102 . I Gragg, W. B„ Lots 167, 180, 181 (Greene, Guy & Nell, Lot 131 . ( Gresham, W. B., Lots 145, 146, 14 143, 144 - < Griffith, J. N. & Minnie, Lot 13 j Hensley, M. M., Lots 347, 348 _ ] Higginbotham, F. P., Lot 42, ] Hipp, Elizabeth, Lot 150 ] Holman, Lillie M., Lot 255'4 — ] Howerton, C. C. est., Lot 102 ... 1 Hudgins, Bertha L. & O. E., Lot ] Hudson, Wm. F. & Kate, Lots 4: ] Hummer, Nora & Bill- Lots 24, ] Kerlee, H. A., Lot 3 - 1 Melton, David Calvin, Lot 47 .. ; Meyer, J. A. est., Lot 155- - » Morgan, Woodrow W., Lot 8 j Morris, Rlanche, Lot 349 - j Morris, Emory H., Lot 114 » Nanney, Mrs. Johnnie Clark, Lot } Parkinson, Edward L., Lot 299 j Parsons, E. C. & Roberta, Lots I Perley, Mrs. Martha T.t Lots 2 1 Redfern, R., Lots 322, 323 ] Russell, J. W., Lot 109 - j Russell, Reubin D., Lot 41 -- 5 Simmons, Abraham L., Lot 3% J Smith, W. C.. Lot 119 — < Stepp, Finley E. & Myrtle, Lot < Stepp, G. V., Lot fiO ------ S Stepp, Garland V., Lot U6A - < Stepp, G. V. & Alemlia, Lots 187 198, 150 - Lots 119> 120, 121 Stepp, G. V., 2.5 Acres ----- Stepp, G. W. est.. Lota ■ l0 Stevens, I. N., Lots '?o. > J g Summey, Rev. Mack, Lot 1-1 — 1 Taylor, Y. A., Lots 44’-, 44 q Tommyhawk Realty Co., -° s NViverette, R. R. & Minme, Lot Lots 100, 90, 91 V Watkins. J. Clyde, Lots 154 IE \ Wilson, Fred & Olive, Lots -2 \ Wilson, Mrs. Olive B., Lot 24
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