Biumiimmmmiiimiiimmmmi miiiiiitinKuniiimiiiuiiiHmiiiuiiiiinmuiiitiiimmiimiiiiinmnimiuiiimniuimiiiiiimmiiuinimiiMmiy* Swannanoa News MRS. A. C. CAMPFIELD Route 1 Phone 7645 “THE COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE” .„m„,ii,iiiiiiiimiiii!imiilllll!llllll!lllll!llllllimill!lllimilllllllllllllllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIIF .. Teacher Requests Shoos In the correspondence of Eliza beth Weaver, a letter written in 1840, by a sister, Saphronia. re quests her father to make a pair of shoes and send them, supposed ly near Brevard, where she is teaching school. Prom the letter 1 would judge that Elizabeth has not been well and as a cure Saphronia advises her to "quit rubbing snuff and ride about a good deal,’’ which seems to be a most unusual meth i>d for recovering. April the 9th 1840. From M. S. Weaver. Dear bet I take the opportunity this eve ning to drop you a fiew lines to let you know about matters and things in general, the day we left home it rained on us from Ashe ville to Mr. Moors and you may guess we was pretty wet, but Mr. Moor was very kind and soon had us dryed. the next day we landed safe and Monday morning I went to the school house accompanied by Mr. Lee Gash. I soon set things bout and gave the children their lessons and went on finely that week, friday they moved to their new house and we just live in splendor myself and Mary Younge hase a large room upstairs that we keep in order you may know, and on Saturday Miss Maria Wood • IN SWANNANOA • Jarrett - Warlick Dry Cleaners ■fr 24 Hour Service SEND YOUR DRY CLEANING TO US. Phone 3747 — Black Mtn. WASH’N SHOP SELF SERVICE LAUNDRY West of the traffic light in Swannanoa. IWe Appreciate Your Business [Open—8:15 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday until 2 p.m. fin and her brother and Elizabeth Paton came to visit us and that knight we all went up to nir pat tons and next day to singing, that knight we all come down to un cle gashes, we had a fine knight to be shure. monday morning 1 had to leave them and go to my little flock, me and captain kil lian went down to the chappie 12 miles below uncle gashes to a yr meeting returned a Sunday we had a verry dry time I thought, this week there is a large meeting at Davidson’s river I expect to at tendmyself if it quits raining in time. I enjoy myself extremely well. I am very well satisfied with my employment, my school encreses every week. I had six teen or seventeen scholars today, the people are verry good to me indeed they go and cut wood for me that is the gentlemen. It ap pears to me they do everything they can to make me happy and I am just as happy as I can be in this world. I have just as mutch snuff as I want and everything else that is good. Aunt Margaret always has something prepared for us when we come home of an eve ning, our family is verry large at this time there is fuor boarders besides myself, two Mr. Youngs and two of alfred Gashes children, there is some of my children study ing geography and kneedle-work. 1 reckon you would like to know what aunt is doing since she has moved, she about to make a car pet, she verry faithful about tack ing rages together and nurses oc casionally and uncle Gash has been very faithful in cleaning off his yard and setting out shade , trees, has set out twenty locuses and a flower bush or two and is now building a negro house. tell mother not to spend no uneasiness about me for it is verry uncertain when I shall be at home. I do not know at this time but I my school will last longer than three months, tell pappa I would like for him to get me a pair of - shoes made and send them by lee "j for mine is no a count at all tell I him if he pleases to have it done I and 1 will think a power of him I for it. I aunt Margaret says for you to I get on a horse and come and see ' her and it will cure you and quit rubing snuff and ride about a good cal. I will now tell you about killian and Jane. I do not believe he has any intention of marrying her at this time, he has : never been there since I came i here. If I dare tell you some- t things I would but I dare not. Tell | aunt hannah some of her fortune I 'ias come to pass. Do turn a cup t ror me and write me what it is. t it is a petting late Mary Aounf is settin bv me a petting her les sons. 1 must quit writing I wan you to write to me all about ev erything. Uncle Davy, mary, am tone and tell me whether pheb has her colt or not and what is it whether Malayna has gone or no tell billy and torply 1 have no tome to write to them now, bu 1 will, tell Jesse to try and ge him a wife, give my love to al the family black and white, tel Sousa to take pood care of m; child, give my love to grand moth er. no more at present, but re mains yours truly. -—Saphronia Weaver. Free M ill Baptist Subject for the 11 a.m. sermoi next Sunday morning will be “Tin Light of the Cross.” The Rev Wayne Smith will speak on "Tin Greatest of All Gifts” at the eve ning service. Move From Buncombe Co. To Arkansaw 1870 From an old collection of letters an author could write a most fas cinating account of the life o Saphronia Weaver. Letters fron her to Elizabeth Weaver Gash dati from the 1830’s to 1880’s. Earliei letters tell of experiences as i school teacher and in 1870 of th< wagon trip to Arkansas. Man; letters describe early life in tha section. Saphronia was virtually a walking Chamber of Commerc< for the state of Arkansas. Beginning with this issue, a let ter written by Jas. J. McElroy husband of Saphronia Weaver tells of the wagon trip as the fam ily are making camp. Note th< changes time has wrought in thi toll gates and ferries. Extremel; interesting is the description give] to foreigners. Apparently thii was the first time they had seei foreigners, which seem to be Jap anese or Chinese, from the accoun given. This trek was made from Bun combe county. In the second letter below' a phronia writes to the home folk in March of 1871, describing thei arrival at Bellefonte, Ark. De scribing the singing around th camp fires is certainly remines cent of moving pictures and T'' plays so popular of the old west. Nov. 6th 1870 to B. S. and Lizz: Gash. Dier Brother and Sistei I thought as we was lying by ii camp 1 would write you a fiev lines to let you know we are stil alive. We are now in Illinois with in five miles of the Mississipp River. When we cross that w< will be in the Misouri. We havt been well all the time and Sa phonia says she never enjoyed her self so well in all her life. We have fine weather except a few days. It has rained on us. we traveled over three hundred miles by ourselves, we have got with a Mister Stone from White County, renn., and he seems to be very ■lever felow and his wife is mity unart woman. They are going to he same country, that we are and hem and us both wanted com any so we will travel together, have been mutch disnpointed in he country that we have come ■trough. Southern Ky. is so hillyl Business --- Professional --- Service DIRECTORY ?VE TEMPER - SAVE TROUBLE SAVE TIME - • WHERE TO EAT ANN’S CAFE Cherry St. — Black Mountain HOME COOKING We Fix Dinners To Go. PHONE 9220 VARSITY GRILL 108 W. State St. When you eat out, eat with us, and feel at home. HOME MADE PIE — large piece, 20c. All plate dinners — — 65c Coffee with meal-5c Open 6 AM. to 8 P.M. • AUTO SERVICE BURGESS ESSO SERVICENTER Road Service Dial 9427 — Black Mtn. • PLUMBING Philip S. Stevens PLUMBING & HEATING CONTRACTOR Phone 7380—Blue Ridge Rd. Black Mountain, N. C. B U R G I N Plumbing & Heating PHONE 5584 Black Mountain, N. C. e WATCH REPAIRING HUGGINS JEWELRY ☆Expert Watch Repairing ☆ Where your $ goes further SWANN.ANOA, N. C. Phone 8124 • ELECTRIC REPAIR Electric Appliance REPAIR SERVICE ANYTHING ELECTRICAL Phone 8304—109 Cherry St. Black Mountain, N. C. e AUTO REPAIRS GENERAL AUTO REPAIRS CASH GARAGE ☆ We Specialize in Brakes ☆ Opp. Monte Vista Hotel Black Mtn. Phone 5611 Let us worry about your printing. That’s our business. Call your home town printer The Black Mountain NEWS Dial 4101 » BULLDOZER SERVICE BULLDOZER & SHOVEL WORK PH ONE 8300 T. K. BROWN • AUTO SUPPLIES • Auto Supplies • Sporting Goods • Fishing Tackle Western Auto Associate Store 118 Broadway Black Mtn. Phone 5671 —— • RADIO & TV • Best Equipped • Best Stocked • Most Experienced GOFF RADIO* TV SERVICE OPPOSITE POST OFFICE PHONE 4301 For Guaranteed Used Television Sets ☆ CALL £ Harrison Furniture Co. Swannanoa, N. C. EXPERT TELEVISION SERVICE — CALL 7253 REED'S RADIO & T.V. 105 Scotland — Dial 7609 Guaranteed Service on Factory Authorized Service All Makes and Models CRISP RADIO & TV SHOP • Expert Repairing • Cragmont Rr. — Phone 8401 HARRIS TV SERVICE PHONES: Asheville 2-6874 Black Mtn. 7016 » BUILDING MATERIALS HUNT LUMBER CO. Swannanoa, N. C. Hwy. 70 — Buckeye Road Dial 3-1171 • Lumber • Building Materials GROVE STONE & SAND Swannanoa, N. C. Dial Black Mountain READY-MIXED CONCRETE Accurate • Economical • Speedy Reed & A bee EllTMORE, N. C. — PtitiM 3-4421 WRECKING SERVICE WRECKER SERVICE McMurray's Chevrolet COMPANY Black Mountain, N.C . Day Phone Nite Phone 3141 5431 PHOTOGRAPHERS Gragg’s Studio 100 Church — Tel. 5951 PORTRAITS, GROUPS, WED DINGS, OLD PHOTOGRAPHS COPIED & MADE NEW. ★ BABY PICTURES • INSURANCE VALLEY INSURANCE AGENCY 120 W. State St. Black Mountain, N. C. Phones e 3191 e 7111 BUILDING Residential — Commercial Additions — Remodeling R. C. BOWNESS High School Rd., Black Mtn. PHONE, 8210 • ELECTRICIANS UNIVERSAL APPLIANCES R. W. COOK Electrical Contractor Phone 3 0 8 2 Black Mountain, N. C. Scratch Pads CALL 4101 The Black Mountain News tnrou^n ami n . ami three feet th^'!p|;;nd'inclines to wash -of the fin nessee. on the Ohio ^v/AaT^ed ten and twelve P°i,nwanted Saphron a to write this pap'e'but she says he cant write on her knees, but says tell you that we have been passing through the world of change. Says some of the people their eyes covered their f’aC^ •■ - hanger to guest was piven a ooa ^ # favor cover with home a coat and refresh M r cove each person hanger. Social hour ments followed. Present as guests I vnette V B Whitt Mrs. l.ouise Carmich ael Mrs Robert York. Members present were Mrs. William Blame Mrs. Charles Hogsed Mrs. John Kellv Mrs. Howard Lewis, Mr.. S r! Neskaug, Mrs. Char es Pe - ter Mrs. Roy Russell, Mrs. Ar nold Buckner, Mrs. Maurice Jone., Mrs. Carr. Homecoming Last Sunday saw another mem orable occasion, the *nnaa]5*‘_ bration of homecoming church service, at the ian church. As always the long tables were laden with food, all so appetiringly prepared, that one has a hard decision to make in his selection of foods. Several former members, friends and guests were on hand. Mrs. V. J. Howell, who had been away for sometime due to illness was present Mr. and Mrs. York Fletcher, parents of Mrs. Arnold Buckner, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Asheville, Mrs. Fred Davidson, Arthur Radcliffe, and Miss Lela Jenkins. Believed to have the largest family of brothers and sis ters present was Mrs. W. B. Stone, whose brother, H. E. Young, and sisters, Miss Georgia Young, Mis. Duncan, Mrs. Praytor, and Mrs. Eckles, attended. Those who made arrangements were Mrs. Eugene Loven, Mrs. A. B. Whitt, and Miss Elizabeth Da vidson. Personals Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Tolley had as their guest John McCay from Washington, D. C. He was en route to Florida. Mrs. Bill Brown, who has been a hospital patient, is doing nicely at home this week. Mr. ami Mrs. Zeb Nichols were guests last week of the Harold Nichols family. James Bright, son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bright, has returned to Clemson college for his senior year. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Bennett spent Sunday visiting relatives in Glen wood. Swannanoa. and Mrs. Kthel Con nor. Kings Mountain, attended the Havis family reunion in Cleveland, Tenn., last week-end. bred Nichols, Jr., Cullowhee, ime time recently with his and friends. Briggs has not been very home this week. Cecil Harris has returned mderful trip to San where she visited a spent s parents s. w well at Mrs. following a w Dieeo. Calif.. brother, Hugh Bridge;. .1 It. Sibbett observed a birth da v Sept. 30. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin I lemmons observed their second wedding an niversary Sept. 28. Mrs Margaret Breedlove, Black Mountain, was a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Rob erts. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Robertson, and Mr. and Mrs. John Padgett visited last week-end in Ruther fordton with Mr. and Mrs. Forest Roper, and Miss Messie White, who is a cousin of Mrs. Robert son's and is active at 91 years of age. Harold Moore is improving at home following a seige of illness at which time he was hospitalized in Duke hospital, Durham. Jimmy Pruitt, Darlington, S. C., grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pruitt, is reported improving from a serious motorcycle accident. Mrs. Charles Stafford is a pa tient in St. Joseph’s hospital where she is taking treatment. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Register, Jr., of Durham, N. C., spent the week end with Mrs. Register’s parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Wayne Smith. Friends and relatives honored the Rev. Wayne Smith with a panied" by wa, ' ' ™*1Lt?..DubJin. I;:,' '■ **8* ' * hf'rp u ®t «n.i \i„- tfcb ■nrs jj‘V *'ere guests „f 'vj ( <»rant last week M,ss/nn Lindh r. nnd \f.. ,rV” fcrSKW f- • rlncc «♦ T\„ _ Of t* * >entl* C treasurer V V • ... Mrs. Nancy ty-u ■ **r v years old, held ‘kl r' -A ■ \UnrT-for Viw"! last Sunday Mr •">£ ?ols ? “''«>• ft Vf: 1048 when she Wpt. ■'•me t < -----J_ to Yn* * —A recent surv. v people save f„r . sho»s rainy day.- ln ^ PW years, however, m"C Pan f(J people save with positf^. < In mind, such as h,u b*<% and durable goods or o N! retirement. pr0vidir,g f., CLASSIFIEDS SELlTdv~~'— _ «ltl Black Swan dairy bai Ophite Swannan, VA HOSPITAL • Sandwiches * lea Cream arwj Milk Shakes BLACK MOUNTAIN INSURANCE COMPANY GENERAL INSURANCE and BONDS Representing Leading Stock Companies GREENE BUILDING BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C. FINER FARMS WINNERS! In the annual Finer Farms contest sponsored by C P & L Co. in its service area, these communities were judged "Carolina's Finest"—based on Soil and Water conservation practices. Whether or not your community won a cash price it most certainly was not a loser, because conservation practices pay their own way and earn a pro fit. So, to every individual or community entered in the contest, our hearty con gratulations. 1st Prize, $350, North Wendell, Wake Co., N. C., Joe Alphin, Chairman 2nd Prize, $250, Olive Chapel, Wake Co., N. C„ L. J. Clark, Chairman 3rd Prize, $150, Dawson, Halifax Co., N. C., L. G. Barnhill, Chairman 3rd Prize, $150, Holly Springs-Wilbon, Wake Co., N. C., Garland Powell, Chm. AND $50 "SUPERIOR RESULTS" AWARDS TO THESE COMMUNITIES: COMMUNITY COUNTY-STATE CHAIRMAN Brush Creek Mechanicsville Sandy Creek Lynches River Lake Swamp Mont Clare Red Oak Jordan Creek Jacks Creek Hannahs Creek Kellevtnwn Cane Creek Keener Bonlee Avery Creek Vancey N. C. Darlington. S. C. Vance. V C. Darlington. S. C. Darlington S. C. Darlington. S. C. Buncombe. N. C. Orange. N. C. Yancey N C. Johnston. N. C. Darlington. S. C. Buncombe N. C. Sampson, N. C. Chatham, N. C. Buncombe. N. C. John M. Randolph Mrs. W. E Dargan R. C. Daniel R. C. Scarborough Otto Davis R. G. Donald Jr. R. R. Thompson Vollie Tapp Bruce Bailey Hunter J Woodall A. L. Segars Carter Tweed James Floyd W. D. Wilson R. Fred Reeves muni ties. ^ Conservation Supervisors for best results with their com 1st Prize. $250. Wake County. North Carolina nd Prize. SI50. Darlington County. South Carolina ’ e. $100. Buncombe County. North Carolina ▼atlon Supervisors. lop-scoring communities, the following prises lo Soil Conser 2ndPriz*e WUs°n (Dawson Community) 3rd . Knot1 Worth Wendell Community) 4th Prize $75 r n D°Uand (Hollv SPrin<3* WUbon Community) $75' L °* Pa«* (OUv. Chapel Community) Carolina power & light company