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By Elizabeth Dinwiddle
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Ashley and
Mr. and Mr.-. J. O. Williams left
Monday to spend several month* in
Inverness, Fla.
Mrs. Herman Holdway is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Dunn.
Jr., in Wilkesbi>ro for a few day*.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Singleton
and daughters of Cullowhee spent
the week-end with her parents.
Mr and Mrs. Blanc Gilliam.
Mrs. N L. Perkins is expected
to arrive at Dreams End, her home
in Ridgecrest sometime this week.
She has had an extended visit
with her daughter, Mrs. Bob Cole
and family in Baton Rouge, La.,
and with her son, Lt. S. L Perkins,
aviator, and family at Madison,
Wis. She also visited friends in
Chicago and Fort Lauderdale
Beach, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Ragan ar
rived last Friday night from San
Francisco to visit her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Oscat Norton. They will
leave in a few days to visit his
mother. Mr Fred Matthews, n
Colonial Heights, \a Mr. Ragan
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has just received his discharge
from the navy.
Howard Moore of Eliyson Field,
Pensacola, Fla., spent the week
end with hi- father, W. L. Moon
in Old Fort
Mr. and Mrs. Alv - Osteen and
family, David Park and Mi-- An
na Rue Osteen visited Mr. and
Mr-. Claude Kilpatrick in Hen
dersonville last Sunday.
Mis- Joyce Wells of Teachers
College, Cullowhee, spent the week
end with her parents. Mr. and
Mrs. \V. F. Wells. She had as
her guest- Miss Mary Frances
Huntley of Rockingham and Miss
I.inda Sue Walker >f Mill Spring-.
N. C., also students at Teacher
College.
Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Steinberg
left Oak Knoll Sunday noon to
return by plane to their home in
Chicago after a week’s visit here
a- guests of Mrs. Mary E. Ale
shire and daughter. Ruth Cory.
Mr. Steinberg is the art editor of
the Chicago Evening American,
also a free lance artist of note,
painting in various media. Mrs.
Steinberg, soprano, sang at Swan
nanoa VA hospital for the patient
a~ she ha- done on previous visits.
Mr. Steinberg painted three fine
watercolors of local scenes in the
Swannanoa Valley.
Mrs. James B. Chandler, Jr., vis
ited her husband in Columbia. S.
C., over the week-end. James is
stationed at Fort Jackson and is
awaiting assignmtnt.
Mr. and Mrs. Odell Timmerman
and son, James, have moved to
Hyman, S. C., to make their home.
W. Bingham Gragg attended the
western district meeting of the
North Carolina Photographers As
-ociation at Lincolnton Sunday,
Jan. 24.
Mr. and Mis. Cordie Bartlett and
children spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ramsey and
family in Morganton. The Ram
seys celebrated their 20th wedding
anniversary.
Earl Whitson. FN. of Eliyson
Field, Pensacola, Fla., -pent the
week-end with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E W. Whitson, Route 1,
Old Fort.
Mrs. A. L. Stephens anil Ed have
returned home after spending
three weeks with Carl Stephen?
and family in Brevard.
Miss Doris Higginbotham of
Teachers College, Cullowhee, -pent
the week-end with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Higginbotham
She had as her guest Miss Bar
bara Nichols of Pilot Mountain
N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Svlvestei
had as week-end guest- Mrs. Syl
vester's brother, R. B. Davis, anc
Mrs. Davis of Queenstown, Md
En route home they stopped to vis
it a daughter of the Sylvester's
Mrs. Howard Edgerton, and fam
ily of Elon College, N. C.
Mrs. Frank Melton has returnei
from a visit with her sister, Mrs
Jane Hoffmann of Jacksonville
Fla., and her father, J. A. Kirb;
of Fort Pierce.
Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Guess re
turned last Saturday from a fou
weeks’ visi* with their son-in-lav
and daughter and granddaughter
Captain and Mrs. Robert Borg
man and Mary Alice of Edgewood
Md. The Borgmans returned horn
with them for a week’s visit. < ap
< tain Borgman will atttnd a \ et
< t-rinarian s meeting in Raleigh thi
< week.
J Mrs. Albert J. Terrell and chil
< dren, Ann and Albert, are spend
< ing several weeks with her sis
J ter, Mrs. S. Terry Withers, i:
j Tazewell, Va.
I Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Rondel an
j son, David, of Mansfield, Ohic
■ spent several days last week wit
his brother, M. E. Rondel, and fam
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Swannanoa, N. C.
If more convenient, write or phone Harrison Funeral Home.
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jly. They were en route to Flor
ida for a vacation.
Mr and Mrs. J. F. Osteen, Mr.
and Mrs. James Osteen and Gay,
M -ses Yvonne and I.ula Belle Os
teen visited J. F. Osteen’s broth
er, Edgar Osteen, in Flat Rock
la--. Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Atkins and
children, Skippy and Bruce, of
Hickory and Mrs. Atkins’ moth
er, Mr-. Fred Matthews of colonial
Height.-. Va., visited Mr Atkins'
parents, Mr. a* i Mrs. P - Atkin.
la-’. Monday.
Mrs. L. A. Oates has returned
to her home here after an extend
ed visit with relatives in Chicago,
111.
Mrs. H. Miller wa- a Sundae
dinner guest of the Halls at hair
lawn Lodge
Mr-. Charles Mcrtle, who ha
been visiting in Conneaut, Ohio,
and Columbus. Tex., has g-me to
Sarasota, Fla., to spend the re
mainder of the winter. She ex
pects to return to her home here
in April.
Mrs. L. A. Hiltz left Monday
to -pend several weeks with her
sister. Mrs. Helen Berry, in Wash
ington. I). C.
Fred B. Pence CS3, has com
pleted a six months’ tour of duty
in the Far East aboard the car
rier U. S. S. Kearsarge <C. V. A.
33) operating with the Seventh
Fleet, and returned to the States
Monday. He phoned his parents,
Mr and Mr-. 1. L. Pence, on ar
rival in California. The Carrier
will be in drydock in San Fran
cisco for six month- for over
haul. Fred has four months of
hi- enlistment to serve before be
ing eligable for discharge.
More History
Jan. 1, 1954.
Dear Kditor:
I will continue my history along
..Id route 10 to Swannanoa town
ship, beginning at the old John
Stepp Stage house. Elisha Ker
lee lived near the air port. His
house had a large chimney in each
end and a breezeway in the cen
ter. George Morgan was next
where Redford Lance now lives.
Fleet Watkins lived where the W.
S’. C. San. stands. Dr. Cliff lived
on the hill back of Morgan Mfg.
Co. Dr. Cliff was a small man
and had the temper of a bull dog
Once he was fighting with John
Patton. Mr. Patton was a large
man. He had Cliff down. Cliff
said, ‘ Mr. Patton, let me up till
I get my wind and I will fight you
again."
The Jim Merida place was next
later known as the Jim Hampton
place just below Lythe Ford. It
was where the bridge is now on
No. 70, near Grove Stone Sand
Co. There was once a gruesome
murder committed there. During
stage coach days a man by the
name of Cunmmings Cunningham,
as near as 1 can remember the
name, was killed and robbed, cut
open, filled with rocks, and sunk
in the once beautiful Swannanoa
river. There was a public camp
ing ground there. Two weeks lat
er he was found by a fisherman
and identified by Mrs. N. E. Stepp,
who ran the old Stepp boarding
house. This man had formerly
boarded at her boarding house.
She had done some mending of his
clothes before this tragedy. My
Battle Ax Sue gives me the dick
ens for getting the cart before the
horse. 1 have had some mighty
■ good coon dogs that would start on
the back track, but as soon as
they got the right end, alas poor
coon. I would soon hear the deep
mellow chopping tree bark. Mr.
Coon soon made his exodus. Next
, day, his hide was tacked on
• Champ Burnett’s house to beauti
, fy, or more to insulate, as hides
were only 50c per doz. then.
1 will now veer up the Swan
- nanoa river to the old John Stepp
- place. An old negro respected by
all good citizens, John is still liv
- ing near Montreat. He was bom
. in the late 40’s. Next above was
. Bill Cobe Stepp' farm. Next was
! Royal League, founded about 1900
by the Royal League of Chicago,
j We now go back down No. 70 to
the State Test Farm then owned
by Alec Porter, and changing
hands many times. Prof. Clapp
was superintendent for 22 years.
There now stand, a modern gov
ernment hospital, Moore General
We are now about to enter the
zone or firing field on the plotting
board of Cooper Station now
known as Swannanoa township
Cooper Station was a flag stop or
the Southern, now called Swan
nanoa.
Now slant to the Lakey Gap
road. My brother Mason, G. A
Burgin, left out the Henry Good
son home on Camp Branch. Al!
due respect to brother Burgin. As
we get older we forget. My wife
Sue reminds me I left out Dr
Cliff's office on the bank of tht
railroad, also the pest houses neai
the air port one for each race. Wt
had smallpox during the gay 90’.
and everybody was afraid of the
vaccination. Dr. Cliff’s office was
constructed of poplar logs.
My tangent is now pointing tc
the Lytle Cove where lived George
Fortune, Jim Byrd, Adams, and
Mac Slagle. A part of this farm
is now owned by Sandy Watkins
Uncle Mac Slagle said to Son Jim
“Lf you had read as many law
books as you have novels you
would be the smartest lawryer in
the world.”
His wife said, “Mac if you hat!
saved a stick of wr.od for evert
time you have sawed that old fid
dle you would have the biggest
pile of wood in the world.” Many
a side of leather has been worn
out from the plaintive strains of
his fiddle sawing out “Turkey in
the Straw” and “Sourwood Moun
tain.” Fred Moser, now 84 year
old, lives in the Lytle Cove. Darner
Dillingham, George Chandler and
Pete Mashborr lived there. Dave
Shopper’s Special
Again, we’re in the midst of the
season of Rood cheer, tight time
schedules and topsy turvy budg
ets It’s all wonderfully hectic, the
planning, shopping, gift-wrap
ping, note writing, etc , etc.,—but
isn't it a pity these pre-holiday
days don’t stretch to thirty hours
or so’ Alas, they do not, so every
hour of the standard twenty-four
needs to do double duty
Mealtime continues to recur
three times a day w thout fail, and
must be met with menus that are
substantial, quick to fix, and kind
to the pocketbook Here's help
‘Quick Sain on Savory' with but
tered Rice Knspies is perfect for
a shopping day suppei
Quick Salmon Sa'ory
1 1-pound can red salmon
1 '4 cup finely cut celery
1 4 cup chopped green pepper
2 tablespoons grated onions
3 tablespoons butte r or mar
garine
3 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1 2 cups milk
3 cups Rice Krispies
3 tablespoons melted butter or
margarine
Remove bores and skin from
salmon; separate pieces. Cook cel
ery, green pepper and onions in
h-ated butter until s-.ft. Stir in
flour and salt Add milk gradually,
stirring constantly; cook until
thickened, stirring occasionally.
Cold in salmon; heat thoroughly.
Mix Rice Krispies with melted
butter. Serve salmon mixture on
heated platter and surround with
buttered Rice Krispies.
Yield: 6 servings.
and Hamilton Harrison were born
in east Tennessee about 1876.
They had a store at Beach, N. C.
Later they moved to South Main
St. in Asheville, went into the
mercantile business. Then moved
to Swannanoa in 1892. Dave was
postmaster there for 13 years.
Politics moved him out by Joe
Patton successor. .
We now go back to the old stage
road to the Alexander Inn where
stands the guarded old white oak
by the spring.
Now come to Bill Porter's place.
John Clark and Bill McKee places
west of Moore Genera! near Grove
mont, some of Pattons. Bob Dav
idsons and Lark Buchannan’s.
In 1905 there was a bad train
wreck on the Southern just we^
of Flat Creek trestle. Pete Ruch
was pulling No. 12. I think Capt.
Murphy was conductor. The en
gine No. 613 was Asheville bound.
There was a mix up in orders. My
battle axe was a witness to Mr.
Ruch’s will. He recovered later
Many more were injured and two
negro men were scalded to death.
There were people, mail and ex
press scattered for V* mile. At
this time I was helping Uncle
Sam to exterminate the old help
ing the old emergency ration
called hard tac.
Ham Harrison lives on the rocky
knob near the Swannanoa bridge
crossing to Cooper Station. C. P.
Whitson had a tomato farm where
Beacon Factory now stands. Mrs.
Annie Young lived up the track.
Also John Patton, Jim Slagle,
Mrs. Nancy Fortune, Smiths,
Sherrels, Wilsons, Bart. Dr. Wil
son, Sr. was the only active doc
tor this side of Asheville. George
Hines and William Wilson had the
first stores with ginsing, poplar
squares, tan bark and cross ties,
then bought the commodities of
life. Dave Harrison came in 1898
after it was called Swannanoa.
Many a poor child would have been
hungry and bare foot if it had
not been for Dave.
West of Swannanoa was the old
White place and the Mt. Mitchell
Lumber company, later owned by
Lynn Reighard. Burt Caton was
bookkeeper. I rue the day I beat
Ralph Kelley out of the hand of
Sue Morgan. She has burned a
pile of stove wood as high as
Buckner’s Knob now called the
Pinnacle near Craggy Gardens.
Now up Bee Tree way are many
Pattons, Alexanders, Fortunes,
Bartletts, Shopes, Davidsons,
Graggs, Coggins. Some of them
were scalped by the Indians. Old
legends have it some are buried
near Charley Alexander's place.
Farm School road, now Warren
Wilson college. The old water
wheel flour mill that sat below
Orleans was owned by Bart For
tune, later sold to Oliver Mims,
then to Mr. Luniner, then to Joe
Conley. The National "Anna club-’
meets annually, the Burnett and
Shope reunion, the Bee Tree pic
nic in September. Apologies to
the citizens of Bee Tree and all
I have left out. 1 am out of paper,
my coon dog reminds me it’s
breakfast time.
Respectfully,
F. Bascomb Burnett.
MRS. MORAY ENTERTAINS
BIBLE CLASS
The Edna Keith Bible class of
the Methodist church met Thurs
day night, Jan. 21, at "The Ma
ples” home of Mrs. George Moray
with the president, Mrs. J. M.
Goodman, presiding. Mrs. Moray
opened the meeting with the de
votional. Following the business
session games were played and
songs sung by the group. De
lightful refreshments were served.
Those present were: Mrs. R. D.
Rogers, Mrs. J. T. Simpson, Mrs.
Goodman, Miss Ruby Hall. Miss
Caroline Hall, Miss Bernice Hall,
Miss Lila Corbett, teacher of the
class, and Mrs. Moray.
Edneyville Wins
Double Victory
Edneyville won both ffimef from
Black Mountain here Friday < v- -
nsng. The visiting girls 'tuck
Eugene Byrd's lassies with a 50
to 43 loss, while Coach Buffalo
Humphries’ boys w'ere defeated. <
to 56.
Leather wood and Tyson, the
scoring twins, racked up IT and
18 points respectively 8' '.hey kept
the Iocs Is in the running all the
way in the opening game. But the
Edneyville girls, always near the
top of the heap in their county,
were too strong. The winner- were
leading 28-24 at the half.
A difference in score books
caused a delay in the announce
ment of the winner of the fina.
game. After Edneyville had left
the gym believing they had won
57-56, a tally of individual score?
showed a different results. Mon
day it was announced that the or
mIU, Mim wipuiij
ON YOUTH MEETING
The Presbyterian Women of the
Church started their new church
year with a meeting on Tuesday
afternoon, Jan. It*, at the home
(1f Mrs A. K Knoefel, Sr. The
president, Mrs. Don Wright, pre
' ded at the busine-s session. Miss
Ctarahelle Moles gave an excellent
jginal score would stand with Kd
neyville the winner by the above
margin.
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