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y -:i i. my wife, is the oldest I ■ her family. The next in II n,.r brother, Leo. Minnie r „.any grades ahead of him. £ v .’uId amuse himself by look J .-nugh his rending book as 'v "wended their way in the ifternoon to their home on Lr Fork. When Minnie, look j' v. r his shoulder, would tell *. ...it such and such a page ' very hard lesson, Lee would 'Vntly tear that page out. m pt this up evening after and by the time the tenn k "-.it, Lee didn’t have much If 0f his book but the backs. V nie says she uses! to go to t varly so she could dream of her Prince Charming. 1 '. hve nearly 40 years, and bled everything else under fun. before I learned that I i ever been anyone’s Prince iarming. Somehow 1 just don’t , «he part. Minnie kept her ..well, for when we were '... to school, she teased the , „ut of me. ; lot of folks have "griped” Col. Connelly bought up ■ of land on North Fork and j‘ to keep it posted, but Mrs. pr.nelly did more for the young f„]e of this community than id.else. Of course, there was j,;5in Della who gave us the st years of her life, hut Mrs. ■Vneliy made it possible for her "heip us more than she ord s; could have. I have told iu about the phonograph that f had so much fun with, and ,. J;lve the community a Christ ie tree each year with presents, and sweets for everyone, b aost prominent ladies of the eyhborhood would meet to di i. and mark these presents, and i::.Dimes there would be a good al of bickering. The regular ninty school term at that time ra four months. Mrs. Connelly * : our teachers for two added Deaths, and therefore, we had | much longer time in which to iu:-ue the elusive goddess of Earning. 1 have mentioned our ibrary which Mrs. Connelly gave is: it wasn’t very big, but the it lion was good. Dickens, Haw kerne, Seton, Longfellow, and it her great poets, Uncle Remus it as, humorous stories, and all ihe good fairy tales. I read all if these books, and some of them a ral times. I think this very if. a library had a great in 11 for good on North Fork. ink Cousin Della originated ihe idea of reading to the school in Friday afternoons, and, be Seve me, she was good at it. These Friday afternoons are Prong my fondest memories. Years later a young woman, mho was teaching her first school, ras reading to us. It was late ta and buckeyes were ripe. At boon recess some of the boys put * handful in the wood heater, *h;ch had had a fire in it that morning, but there was only hot tshes that evening. Well, we be came engrossed in what the kacher was reading and forgot ibout the buckeyes. About three 3 hock there was a terrific ex plosion, blowing the top of the Later off and spraying soot and l'hes all over the house. I don’t ^Ppose that woman knows yet L’'- what happened. Kveryone afraid to tell. ■Maybe I ought to explain about buckeyes—You see, it is a nut *r,a: is supposed to be partly 1 son. It has a very tough shell, Y There is a lot of moisture !“ the meat, and when it is put L'! "als, or hot ashes, it produces l ,iot of steam which the shell confined until it is highly impressed. When the pressure ,c ,mts greater than the shell Jan !and, you can imagine what happens. I seventh graders go a*my weather to rs would let to do this for months without sue cess. Minnie and I went back to the old school grounds a few Sundays ago, and the old beech tree is like the most of us; she is looking a little worse for wear, but you can still see some of our initials on her. 1 found the metal end of one of the desks and brought it home for a keepsake. Each year the senior classes of the consolidated schools pre sent a play. Some are good, some are indifferent. Then the differ ent classes present little plays all along through the term. Besides the high school band, the smaller chidren have rythmn bands that sound like fun. All this is fine; drama and music are very im portant subjects. We didn’t have the facilities that they have to day, hut we did the best we could with what we had. There used to be a day in late spring that was called Children’s Day. Strange, but you don’t hear of it anymore. We would practice a couple of months for this gala occasion. There would be gay and lilting songs about the spring of the year and the spring of Life. Singing was one of the few things that I could do, so I was in lots of the musical numbers. When the girls sang by them selves, the teacher used to let me drill them. We had one girl who would "flat”, and you couldn’t keep her from it. I wonder if she still does. There were many and varied recitations. This was not in my line, but I have many glamorous memories of our beau tiful girls in in their Sunday best, quaking befohe an audience as they recited long poems. Among the favorites were The Face on The Barroom Floor, Sail On, Sail On, and Riley’s Raggedy Man. And the girLs garnished bhese recitations with suitable gestures. We usually had flag drills. One year we had a very complicated one that was to be done entirely by girls. We lacked four girls of having enough to do the drill, and the teacher called for vol unteers among the boys. Now it —Turn to I’age 7, this Sec. Betty Marshall Elected Montreat College May Day Queen Miss Betty Marshall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lacy S. Marshall, Williamsville, Va., has been elected by the student body of Montreat college to reign as May Queen next spring. Miss Marshall, who is a senior, is also editor-in-chief of the stu dent publications. Representing the senior class . 1 -11 l „ Minn t o rn 1 vrn the court will be Miss Carolyn BLACK MOUNTAIN INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL INSURANCE and BONDS Representing Leading Stock Companies GREENE BUILDING BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C. The freshman representative is Kathryn Mull, Asheville, N. C. Miss Toni An, of Korea, a senior at Montreat Preparatory School for Girls, will serve as maid of honor. Othqr preparatory school re presentatives will be: Ann Harris, Hutherfordton, N. C., senior; Maria Spence, Montreat, junior; Barbara. Betts, Black Mountain, w p-> sophomore, and Shirley West, Newport News, Va., fresh man. All Club Women Invited To Tea By Pen Women All club women in Swannanoa, hospltal> Black Moun tam, Ridgecrest and Montreat are mv-jted to a tea to be given by the I en Women of the Swan r nanoa Valley at The Little Arts Club, 12% Wall street, Asheville, Saturday, Dec. 8, from 3 to 5 p. m. Hostesses will be Mrs. Thomas S. Sharp, Mrs. James Crawford, Mrs. John Payne Williams, and Mrs. Frank Howard Richardson. 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