Last week I wrote about snow,
so this week I will write about
inud. It is the natural thing for
mud to follow snow. Private drives
and sideroads are a mess at pres
ent, we have been having some ;
trouble, but I will not bother you '
with the trivial inconveniences of
the present, but jump with both
feet into the magnificent super
mud of the “good old days.”
What about mud, can it be use
ful ? George Washington Carver
made mud from the clays of Ala
bama and painted pictures that
received world recognition. Then
mud in the hands of an expert
potter can be made into ceramics
of beauty and service. Nearly ev
ery child has joyously dabbled in
mild, making pies and crude fig
ures. I guess that mud is chil
dren’s first medium of art. Of
course mud is useful, but so much
for that, I was going to talk about
mud that one walks or drives in.
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ilud is tiresome, it is relentless,
t saps one’s strength.
I will always remember Nell
dcAfee and 1 dragging through
he winter slush years ago to the
dd church to help a few young
oiks rehearse a Christmas play,
’here was a preacher (some rela
ion to the Shooks 1 held a two
I'eeks' revival in the middle of
.inter, a group of boys and my
elf went every night, walking
hrough the mud. You should
lave seen the floor when the ser
es closed. (Minnie just now said
hat my subject was down to
larth at least). All this was
vhile I was a grass widower.
Vlinnie and I waded through the
stiff clay to the same church one
Saturday afternoon, I built a fire
n the old horizontal heater, we
.at and talked and decided to end
ill this loneliness.
But'let us go back to even more
indent sticky stuff. My first mar
iage was in 1923, the road from
Ridgecrest to Old Fort was under
instruction. Thad and Grace
Burnette went with us to Marion
to get “hitched”. We drove my
r Model, and went around by An
Irews Geyser and I began to think
we would not get back, but it is
said that those old Fords would
always bring you back. We con
sidered Marion a far country then
and thought if we went over there
ive could keep our marriage a se
■ret, so the bride could go on to
warding school, but some goof in
Hack Mountain subscribed to a
WcDowell paper and saw the no
ice and the news got around. We
night as well went to Asheville on
i good road. Of course I didn’t
mind the news getting out and my
wife having to quit school, a bride
it home is worth several in a
warding school.
My young nephew, Don Walker,
ind I started to West Virginia
>ne time in a 192fi Ford. Down
:ear Winston-Salem we started to
letour around a bridge that was
ieing built. We pulled up a very
teep hill, .iust before we reached
he crest the back wheels slid into
leep gullie leaving the transmis
lion sitting on the ground. We
vorked and worked, but a dry
itick in the worst kind. It came
rp a terrific summer storm, the
■ain came down in sheets. Finally
:hat hill got so slick that the car
did back to the bottom, and we
irove around another way.
The hill along where Jim Stone
ives on the North Fork road used
0 be known as the Pipe Clay hill.
Hie mud was of a bluish color,
irobably some kind of mineral in
t. The mud seemed to be bottom
ess and sticky as heavy wheat
lough, horses did well to pull a
oad the length of the wagon be
ore resting. Every teamster
Ireaded the Pipe Clay hill, stalling
ras common. The winter mud on ,
he North Fork used to be awful. j
’ve seen it push up in front of a !
Model's axle. One fellow up j
lere owned an old Maxwell, 1 j
m’t think he ever failed to go !
1 rough.
I thought we had glorious mud
re, but take heavy black loam, I
d a portion of lime to it, dampen
ill, and see what you get. This '
ncoction will not only stick to :
ur boots, but climb your legs
;e a rat on a rafter. Most of
e farmers in Back Creek valley j
>re rubber boots all winter and
ring.
I did carpenter work at Fort
agg one winter. It’s hard for
mountaineer to walk in that
nd, it drags him to death. Clay
d been put on the country roads
bond the sand, when a car would
ss at high speed after a hard
in the mud spray would com
etely seal the left windows and
indshield. We would have to
op and scrape off a peephole.
I remember putting on hip boots
ice to wade out into a South
arolina garden to get a collard
>r New Year’s dinner. It is im
erative to have collards and black
yed peas down there on this day.
"es, this subject seems to be end
?ss, mud is apparently universal,
'here is the figurative mud that
eople fling at each other, some
imes adhesive enough to blot the
haracter.
Well, as we used to say in the
ays of high wassail, “Here’s mud
l your eye.”
Mrs. Eugene Byrd entertained
he W. M. U. circle of our church
ist Friday night. Those present
rere: Mae Burnette, Nell McAfee,
Amanda Nanney, Louise Garrison,
dinnie Walker, Coleen Blanken
hip, Minnie Shook, Clara Hare,
By Miss Julia Stokes
Sundav morning at 11 o’clock
the Rev.' Stanley Bennet preached
on “Race Relations.” The chorus
under the direction of Allan Guy
sang “Lord Be Still.” Martha
Porch of the college was at the
organ.
The Youth Fellowship met m
the rec room of Assembly Inn at
4:45 p.m.
Some friends went to the Friend
ship church to see the film "Go
Ye Therefore,” which was given
at 7 p.m. Sunday. This is a pic
ture' made in Africa by the Rev.
Mr. Stegall of the Friendship
church.
Vespers was held in Gaither
Chapel with the Comradeship
group in charge of the program
at 7:15 p.m.
The young adults met in the
home of Miss Betsy Watling on
Mississippi road at 8 p.m. Sunday.
The prayer meetings are held
each Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the
sun parlor of the Assembly Inn
and at 7:15 in Gaither Chapel.
Montreat will unite with Black
Mountain in the services on Fri
day for the World Day of Prayer.
The services will be held at 12:05
in the State Street Methodist
church the Rev. Cecil Perry as
speaker, and at 7:30 p.m. in the
St. Tames Episcopal church with
the Rev. Bernard Trexler of Ashe
ville as speaker.
On Saturday, Feb. 18 at 4 p.m.
the Garden club will meet in the
sun parlor of the Assembly Inn.
Mrs. W. J. Gammon, president,
will preside. There will be many
points of interest discussed.
The monthly meeting of the Wo
men of the Church will be held in
the sun parlor of the Assembly
Inn on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 3:30
p.m. The president, Mrs. Collins
Lee, will preside. This is the
World Mission study day and will
be Family Life on the Mission
Field. The speaker will be Mrs.
Paul Moore, a missionary of the
French Cameroun, Africa.
A large crowd attended the sup
per and mission study held on Fri
day night in the home economic
room in Gaither Hall. Some 70
were present for the supper which
was a most delightful occasion.
The children and young people, as
well as the adults, had a most prof
itable meeting.
The play given by the college on
Judy Byrd and myself. Mrs. Hare
brought a challenging message,
and Jackie Byrd served refresh
ments.
pressed for tht ''‘' !j &,]iovvship of
The Wesfmm-^erian church.
..ie hirst I' -!d a retreat ir
Sumpter, S. 1 n
Sumpter, S. 1 ’ '‘/the week-end
Assembly h j a ia9t year
M ss Mary Min.am
Miss Mary Allege, Va
graduate of ,up. She i
the leader for for th.
the rpW.nus (liretio
church.
the religious
Marie Spence of King col
, Miss the week-end with he
SfrenST Dr «"d MrS‘ ThTa
parents their cottage on Vir
Spence, in
plMar and'Mrs. Francis Wyly wer
in‘Montreal for the week-end.
Monvrcnv xv/» —
Mrs Helen .Owens has returne
from New York City where sh
visited her daughter and family
Mr. and Mrs. Nat VVenuer and we
corned her newest cranddaughte
Susan Ellen, born on Jan. 26. Mr
Owens will drive Mrs. R. C. An
derson and Mrs. Anderson s cou.
in, Miss Kate Kelly of Ashevill
to Orlando, Fla. .They will stay
in Mrs. Anderson s home in Oi -
lando for a few months.
Dr. and Mrs. L. Nelson Beh
have returned from a weeks sta
in Florida.
Mrs. Charles Camp of Estiil,.b
C., is spending a few weeks ■wit
her sister and brother-in-law, D:
and Mrs. Will Ross in their hon e
on Alabama terrace.
Billv Solomon spent the week
end in the Solomon home on A
sembly drive. He returned to
Benn Lippen school on Sunday af
ternoon.
Miss Hadi Anders and Mi
Margaret Carstens had as then
guest for a few day's last wee
Miss Bessie Liberman of Mem
phis, Tenn.
Miss Virginia St. Clair has been
ill in Umatila, Fla., but is some
what improved now.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones Pharr of
Charlotte and three children spent
the week-end in Assembly Inn.
They have a summer cottage on
Mississippi road.
Mrs. Samuel Woods has returned
to the Grier cottage after visiting
her son and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Woods, Jr., in Franklin.
Va. She welcomed her new- grand
daughter, Amy Kirk, bom Jan. 19.
She visited her sister Elizabeth,
Mrs. Leland Edmunds, and family
in Newport News, Va., before re
turning home. The Edmunds’ old
est son, Leland, Jr., has won dis
tinction in science. He is a senior
in high school and has majored in
science. He was one of the 40
young scientists chosen to com
pete in the Westinghouse science
award which is a scholarship for
one of the colleges which has an
Will Be Shown
Many interesting programs
■ vo been presented at the youth
... ■: v in the American legion hall
p‘K-h Saturday night at 7:30. Those
who have attended have received
inspiration and enjoyment. One
of the most interesting programs
thll, far will be presented this
. ,,njng Saturday night when the
Bob Jones university film produc
tion. “Light of the orld is
shown.
This film is based on a sermon
which Or. Bob Jones Sr., has
preached to thousands for many
years. It is hailed as one of the
most inspired sermons the famous
evangelist has ever preached.
The film is filled with many in
teresting scones and exciting
dramatizations. It comes from the
best equipped film studio of any
Christian school in America. The
Universal Films studio at Bob
Jones university is one of the larg
est and best equipped 16mm film
producers in the country The im
pact of “The Light of the 4'orld
has been felt by thousands all
over the country.
Also on the program will be
featured some very special music
by the talented young couple, Paul
and Barbara Montgomery.
Everyone who comes this Satur
day night is sure to be blessed.
Remember, everyone is welcome.
ENKA PAYS DIVIDEND.
Directors of American Enka
Corporation today (January 2i)
declared the regular quarterly di
vidend of 40 cents per share on
the common stock, payable March
23, 1956 to stockholders of record
March 9, 1956.
outstanding science department.
Leland goes to Washington, D. A.,
the end of February to take this
examination and we hope for him
success in this undertaking. Le
land comes to Montreat in the
summers where he visits his
grandmother, Dr. Nettie Grier. He
is the son of the Rev. Leland Ed
munds who was at one time pastor
of the Black Mountain Presby
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