The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-01-16
ASHWOOD.
| Place Famous For ATistOcratic
Homes, Big Farms and Mealy
Potatoes.

Spires and domes, the minarets OF
the Athenaum, and the buildings u
the United States Arsenal have SEEM
ingly Just been passed when the
brakeman sings out AshWood, ana
the train s,Ops six miles west OF Co
Iumbia. There is one store ana
pleasant cottage, and extending
every way broad fields, with just a
gentle roll. Oak groves partly md
ing monarial like hOmes-big barns
and white cabins shining on the
green. Near and afar Jerseys graz
ing, mules Iomping, and lambs bleat-
ing.
At the post Office are gathered rep
reseutLtive meniof Tennessee; that Is
at once apparent, by their splendid
physique and gracious, cOurtly man
ueIe: id the hUr g nitchI d around
show aristOcratic breeding. The gen
LIemen receive their big daily allow
ance of mail and while the most inn
pOrtant letters are quickly brought
to scrutiny, conversation goes on as
to Observation-Disclosures ID. &. and
even TO the antipOdes, and then the
telephone comes into play. Ashwood
is the Station, telephone and post
office of men famous in war and
peace. A few of the nOtables gath
cred at the post office, were General
l.. +. Polk, Col. q. w. Polk, and Ma
iOr William Polk-then came Col. ii.
u. Yeatman, with polished greeting.
The professions were represented by
the Rev, G., +. Williams, Presbyte.
ran, the Rev. r. NJ. Kennedy, also
Presby terrain, and DIR. j. K. Dixon,
NJ. ID. and while all have grand es
tates with histories back of them, the
champion pOtatoe growers of the
south, CIawson d Stephens, COM
manded marked attention, as did
also John J. Stephenson, whose an
cestors cleared the way for this love
ly region, which is equal to the beau
full suburbs at Washington or Balti-
more.
The Ashwood store ut the Station,
is that OF Charles J. Davis, one OF the
best equipped young business men III
the country. His stock represents
everything in general and averages
Sc. 900 in value. He was born near
Williamsport, Maury County, and AT
aixteen was taken to Texas, where he
remained nine years, ana then re-
turned to his native heath, locating
ut Ashwood four years ago. Mr.;
Davis is the railway, passenger and
freight agent, the Express Agent, the
postmasler and telephone operator.
| He is also an extensive dealer in pro-
duce, and last season shipped 22G Cal
! loads of potatoes (MurphIes) twenty
ears of wheat and twenty of corn, and
an immense amount of vegetables,
poultry aud egg fruit.
Near Ashwood, formerly known as
Polk Station, is good school, Epis-
copaI and NJ thOdist churches, and
a mile from AshwOod, on the Mt.
Pleasant pike, is Old AshwOod, where
in days IF yOre great men met.
A smoky blacksmith shop, at cor
ner of pike and lane, where dusky
darkies show their worries, and a store
a little further on surrounded by the
| garden fields of tennessee, are all the
"biz" of ye ancient village. The
store mentj joined has lately changed
owners; s. ID Duke having succeeded
III. Lazarus, of Columbia. The new
proprietor was born near Hampshire
and has been duke in trading and
prince at farming. His brother Nj
! A. Duke is first-class clerk and was
with Mr.. Lazarus four years. The
brothers will in company try and
see how many potatoes they can raise
on eighty acres which they have rent
ed near by. They have had fifty bar
rels to the acre without much trou-
| BILE.
| Not far from the Duke store are the
| imperial like farms and estates of J.
w. 8. Ridley, John NJ. Gray, of Nash
Vile, and e. w. Napier, Of which
more anon, from ABBOTsFoRD.