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anipmmir— NORTH CAROLINA LAWSCHOu. Hough Boarded House Now Serves Ernest Walker store House For His Farm-Produced Some Notable Attorneys i was The following ppt'd from the Ashe many years ' l ll0 Kate Davidson I by \\ th the story was . ‘once noted law lc'Uri .,rint was too dim 1 : ’ i The story, along rfprodiK1" 6 it: f^CHER SCHOOL I oF DANCING Announces L,n«>r Classes Tap Ballet- Acrobatic • At The Lk Mt. Country Club vr 9:00 EVERY Bps-;'AY MORNING. Mountain Country Club ////// Uninviting m" lh Hiperts \VE SPECIALIZE IN (hildren-s HAIRCUTS JR HAIRCUTS STILL 75c p A L A 0 E UrBER shop *■ Uprry — Phone 5461 dpFN [ MIL 6 P.M. SATURDAY 7:30 P.M. with the original head, wording and all, follows.) Up the North Fork of the Swan nanoa river where the city water main crosses the stream to reach the intake a mile further up a small rough boarded house serve Krnest Walker as a store house for his farm. Weather beaten for sixty odd years by the winds and rains sweeping down from the ov erhanging masses of the Craggy and Potato Top. it attracts scant attention from visitors. Vet not always was the little house an appendage to a farm, or did it serve as now to form a sup port for a chicken coop. Once, and up to the time of the Civil war, it was one of the buildings of a law school so noted that young men from all parts of Western North Carolina journeyed there for instruction. Not by rail, for there was no railway west of Salisbury, and not always by means so easy even as a rough stage ride because the roads up the mountain to the Swannanoa gap were not always travelable by wheeled vehicles. Some rode horseback, and some came on foot, it is said. The School. The school was that of Judge John L. Hailey, and its only rival was the Yadkin school of Chief Justice Pearson, of the state su preme court, father of Hon. Rich mond Pearson of this city. Judge Hailey was a judge of the Superior FASTEST KNOWN RELIEF FOR GAS ON STOMACH BELL-ANS TABLETS—25^ ALL DRUGGISTS U/u. GcuffisU' 5bUiUuf Room 12 Miles West of Black Mountain on Hwy. 70 Sow Open 7 Days a Week FROM 7 A.M. TO 9 P.M. Specializing in ,LL GOOD THINGS TO EAT BLACK MOUNTAIN INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL INSURANCE and BONDS Representing Leading Stock Companies GREENE BUILDING BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C. years, in fact ' t'me he had 1 ^'vannanoa, leav lr,nS the war. He »squ°tank county; ■ Attracted by the thp y ■,;(;tl0T' he built ?r,n 1 Fork fome and opened his 17 1850 was ho: August 1 mountain a home time in school. from'-, i!";k "f students establ: -hiiicm fiime «f the to t ' id, due structor si6 tq.Uallties «* its in on>i r..;.,„ioro pnn"-,him’ Grn' Pil at a h>'er time, 2™if PU' ..™ : his da,- '• :u,d ir perha,,': over n,or‘‘ ‘"fluencc on. . ... ■ , 0 than anj Judge Pearson.” vide vT" Ul" students from Ashe attend..,! this little col «’< •£•» virgin mom vj 11,. Johnson, of Ashe John | t' M,;s- ”■ C. Waddell Ha yburton Hardy. a,.,| 1°'» W“shi"8tor ’loniiinental Joke. DeH“'|lf>l'i l[a"ly' l( was who per ' 1 a monumental joke on ar . Asheville in 1860 !! hreekinridge and Lane were Pectin for presi dent and vice-president. With able assistance he caused the report tc he spread that on a certain night undulate Lane would address the people of Asheville on the square, Inc teport was not “on the square” ,.''ca!lst' hane was not in this sec or 'east within speaking dis tanee. Wash, Hardy was how per and on the appointed night 1,1 drove up ;n a carriage a? though coming from out of town, attended by an escort of horsemen! t - confederates, who announced o d assembled on 1,1 square that the distinguished 'fate man. Lane, had arrived. Dis niised to represent Lane as much m possible, Hardy mounted the and intending to make a speech, nit was recognized by Isaac Saw n'r, father of Captain James P. sawyer, who called out in a loud uni disrespectful manner that the ipeaker was Wash. Hardy The ■rowd, instead of accept ng the oke, grew very angry and the oker had much trouble in escap ng a beating. There were many others of note rom other parts of the state who >ecame important factors in its ourts and political history, but ime lias to a considerable extent aused their names to pass out of nirid here. •equol in Asheville. The school of the little house iad its sequel in Asheville. Judge lenry moved here at the close of he war and continued his instruc ion until 18f>9. As stated by Doc or P. A. Sondley he lived in a ouse in what is now Aston park, his being reached by a street .'hich came from Haywood road nd extended along the present isheland avenue for several hun red feet and then crossed about he site of the Meriwether hospital n and through the present park, ^hen the street was extended outh from Patton avenue and it. ross-over to French Broad closed, . was named Bailey street in hon r of the judge. A comparatively 3W years ago this name was re laced by that of the avenue, udge Bailey had died here June i), 1877. W5CS HEARS REPORTS ON CONFERENCE Ot the meeting of the W. S. C. S. l ues,lay evening in the Fellow uup room of the Methodist church Mrs. George Moray, Mrs. Charles 01 tune, Miss Lila Corbett, and ‘ • 1 had McDonald gave inter esting reports of various sessions of the Woman’s Society of Chris tian Service conference at Juna luska held in June. Mrs. R. E. Mumpower told of the activities of a rural worker at Sue Bennett college in Kentucky, where she is a hostess during the school year. Miss < aroline Hall was in charge of the program. Ret reshments were served by •Mrs. H. A. Kerlee and Mrs. M. C. Dickens, members of Circle 2. Mrs. John Baumgarner, presi dent of the Wesleyan Service Guild, was a guest. Judge Bailey was one of the tinest men North Carolina ever produced,” said Judge ,1. H. Merri mon, “And it was an honor to the city to have a street named for him.” I he Asheville school was per haps even more of a success than when it was located in the little house on the farm. Among the men of note well known here who were its students were General Davidson, Melvin Carter, Judge .1. H. Merrimon, Calvin McLeod, lather of Norman and Lawrence McLeod, Captain Elbert Weaver, father of Congressman Weaver, Rink Welch, Judge W. B. Martin, for thirty years a judge at Nor folk, Va., Judge W. L. Norwood, of Waynesville, Washington King, professor of mathematics in the state university who is a national authority in certain branches, Gen eral Martin who won fame at the battle of Cherubusco in the Mexi can war and at Drewry’s Bluff in the Civil war. "No brighter group of young men could be or was formed here at the time than this,” said an Asheville man to whom this list of names was shown. Judge Bailey’s son, William II. Bailey became at torney general of this state and was later prominent in Texas. As recalled by General David son the Asheville school house was a long one story building which stood a little north of the Y. W. C. A. on Biltmore avenue. It was hardly more pretentious than the little house under the shadow of Craggy. "Possibly fine school buildings are not entirely essen tial to a good education,” remark ed a man who viewed the former school house. 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