We have been having plenty of rain here for the past week. The Birch Lick School is getting along nicely, about 70 in attendance.
Prof. Marsh of Berea passed through here last week. He has been attending the Institute at Manchester.
Frank Hays and Rev. J. D. Nutting passed through here today, going to Kirby Knob to lecture against the Mormons.
John C. Powell has gone to Livingston to see how he and his partner, John Farmer, are progressing in the goods business.
School at Pine is progressing nicely. G. C. Moore, of Welchburg, has about 75 pupils in school here. He is well liked.
Crops are looking tolerably well, though we need rain.
Miss Martha Lake has just returned from a pleasant visit at Clover Bottom
Miss Minnie Lake has returned from a visit to her brother, O. M. Payne in Disputanta.
Collingsworth ( Sand Gap) Corn crops are coming out in this part of the country. David Baker is teaching a singing school at Birch Lick this week. Miss Martha Sandlin and Mrs. J.M. Sandlin, of Dreyfus,Ky., are visiting friends and relatives near McKee this week. J.C. Powell has just returned from Livingston. E.P. Powell, Waco, is here this week visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. J.C.Powell of this place has just returned from a visit to her father,Lewis Sandlin, at Kingston. Hugh Burns of Oneida, in Clay County, made a trip to Jackson County on business.
Berea Deputy U.S. Marshall of Louisville, Deputy Collector Willard West of Lancaster, C.L. Hanson and Alfred Lucas raided a moonshine still in Jackson County Saturday night, and cut it up. John W. Cope, who is teaching near Kirby Knob, was in town Friday. His school house was burnt, as described in our correspondence department ( see Collingsworth, next)
Collngsworth (Sand Gap)
We had a heavy
rain here Sunday evening. John Powell and Miss Ollie Powell have just returned from a
visit to George Powell near Waco. John Griffin, one of the members of the Clay County
feud, was at this place today to get someone to move him from Clay. He says they killed
two of his brothers in the last fight, and have his grave dug. The Deputy Sheriff of this
county is having great trouble selling stock to pay school tax in district no. 20. About
half his district paid. The rest have been levied on by the tax collector, and sale set
for last Saturday. A number of men came to the sale with guns and pistols, and ordered the
sale to stop. The sale was continued , and on Tuseday night the school house was burned.
The good citizens of this county aim to see that law enforced in this case.
Still to come : Evergreen - A new store house, several sick.. Tyner - Severe storm, a smoke house burns, visiting friends and family. Wildie - Moonshining arrests. Berea, Rev. J.G. Parsons returns. Collingsworth (Sand Gap) - Mormons visit, typhoid fever. Clover Bottom- An apple cutting, small crops . .
Evergreen
Dr. Green is building a new store house.
Mrs. John Smith is recovering from a severe illness. All the farmers are much pleased over the recent rain.
Mrs. Louis Lake is improving very slowly, after a long sickness.
Mr. James Lunsford, of Wallaceton, preached at Cave Spring Sunday.
Mr. Fred Lunsford, of Wallaceton, is visiting friends and relatives of this place.
Miss Nannie Lake, who has been visiting her brother of Disputanta, visited her father last week.
All the teachers in this section of the county attended the institute at McKee, and enjoyed itto the finish.
School at Pine Grove is progressing very nicely. The attendance is very good, from 75 to 85 pupils. All the parents are interested in education. G.C. Moore is about the best teacher that has ever taught at Pine Grove.
Tyner
Daniel Moore, son of G.W. Moore, is very low now with some unknown disease.
G. Reynolds is now at his home in Tyner. Until lately, he has lived at McWhorter.
A severe storm passed through here last Thursday, damaging the corn considerably.
S.B. Combs left here Sunday for Sinking Valley, where he is teaching. He was up for the institute.
A speaking was advertised to be at Tyner on Aug. 9, but the speaker did not come, disappointing many.
We had a very interesting lecture in our school last week by Mr. F.C. Jones, and hope he may come again.
The instructor at the institute at McKee was Prof. Lewis of London. The institute was also attended by Prof. and Mrs. Marsh of Berea College.
On last Wednesday night, a smoke house belonging to Edward Anderson was burned. It was in use as a kitchen and contained all the kitchen furniture, about 27 gallons of canned berries, a nice side saddle and two sets of harness, making quite a sever loss.
Clover Bottom
The sick at this place are improving. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hays have a new baby.
Miss Belle Engle is visiting friends at this place. Last Tuesday night the school house in the Powell district was burnt.
Rev. Brandenburg of Burning Springs School passed through here last week. A teacher's association will be held at the Cave Spring school house the 26th.
A number of young people contemplate entering school at Berea for the Fall Term. Miss Mary Hatfield paid her friends at this place a flying visit Sunday.
The lectures given by Mr. McClintock were listened to by an eager audience. Miss Fannie Hatfield, of Madison County, is taking advantage of institute week, and is visiting relatives here.
Services in memory of the deceased wife of John A. Sane will be conducted by Rev. Merrill and others, at White Spring Church the last Sunday of this month.
Berea
Rev. J.G. Parsons returned Friday from Burning Springs, where he has been visiting the school. He reports it in good condition, and that Melvin A. Holcomb of McKee will be the principal next year. Mrs. Holcomb will assist in teaching.
Collingsworth (Sand Gap)
Mrs. J.K. Sparks of this place is very poorly. The Mormon preachers are visiting this place this week.
Mrs. Walker M. Farlin is very low with typhoid fever. Rev. J.G. Parsons of Berea passed through here Wednesday.
James Gentry passed through here yesterday with a nice drove of sheep. The people of this place are very busy preparing for the association to be held at Birch Lick beginning Sept. 1st.
Our school at Birch Lick is progressing nicely from 60 to 70 students in attendance. J.M. Gilbert, the teacher, is one of the best teachers in the county.
Clover Bottom
Miss Lillian, of Locust Branch, is visiting here. There will be a picnic at Cave Springs next Saturday.
Charles Parkey has gone to Ohio. He will return in a month or two. More young people than ever before are planning to attend Berea in the fall. Crops will be small in this place, because of the damage done by dry weather.
While out sawing shingle timber Thursday, Henry Click narrowly escaped a falling limb. The little daughter of Mrs. Wm. Jones, afflicted with disease of the spine, is improving slowly.
J.W. Cope was not to be defeated by having his school house burned, but is teaching in a dwelling house near where the schoolhouse stood.
The Misses Kimberlin gave the young people of this place an apple cutting Monday, and Mrs. Sheridan Baker one Wednesday evening.
Wildie
Deputy U.S. Marshal Short, with Deputy Sheriffs Wood and Griffin, went to
Jackson
County last week and arrested some parties charged with moonshining.
Tyner
Daniel Moore is still very low, and his recovery is
doubtful.
Last Saturday and Sunday was the regular church meeting time at Oak Grove.
George Miller and Miss Sudie Bullock were quietly married last Friday evening.
Misses Etta and Maggie Jones were guests of Miss Mattie Rader last Thursday.
M.A. Holcomb and Dr. Parsons passed through here last week
going to Burning Springs.
Jasper Anderson has been among his old friends and relatives near here for the past two
weeks.
Madison Combs has just returned from New York and Niagra Falls, and reports a very nice
trip.
Our school at Tyner is progressing nicely, and we are glad to say that we are having one
of the best schools in the county.
Mr. and Mrs. George Zion visited friends and relatives at this place last week. Mrs. John
Steele accompanied them home, where she expects to stay for a few weeks.
Submitted by Sarah Thompson - Granted permission by George Ferrell, Editor to re-post "Out Of The Past" as reprinted in The Jackson County Sun ( Formerly The Laurel County Sun )