Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-17
CHERRY GROVE.

We note that Uncle Fuller touches
on the road question and our County
Courts negligence in such matters.
We agree with you, Uncle, but wait a
little; perchance against our County
Court gets through with the county
farm business and pays off all her COM
mittee and sub committees, there won't
be enough money left in the treasury
to buy a stone crusher; if there is we
think there should be one bought and
put to work, for these clay roads do
get in a deplorable condition during
the winter season, and this method of
throwing dirt in them only increases
the depth of the mud in winter. We
will not nor can not have good roads
until these hills are graded and then
paved with crushed stone to u Sufficient
depth to insure a solid surface in wet
and wiutry weather. There is nothing
that enhances the value of farms and
farming land more than access to good
roads leading to market or rail- Dad
shipping points. The present road tax
which we have been paying has enabled
some OF our most judicious road COM
missions to save up a handsome little
sum for their respective districts. Now
by increasing the road tax and with
the aid of u good stone crusher and the
money properly expended, with the
amount of labor that is annually
thrown away on the public roads, we
could soon have the main and most
public roads in our county graded and
paved. The stone is plentiful all along
most all the roads in the county and
most of the land owners would be glad
to get shut of it by having it placed on
the road in a proper ann We
earnestly hope our County Court will
fairly and honestly consider the road
interest of our county. AS to our pau
pers asylum the better class of our citi.
zens will be proud when this institution
is removed beyond the limits of the old
Seventeenth District; but we fail to see
wherein so much land is needed for
such a place, from the fact that an in
mate OF such a place is proof of in
ability to do much labor and q man
that acts in the capacity of keeper and
does his duty has about all he can do.
Therefore we consider that twenty five
acres of land is all that Is necessary to
establish a pauper's asylum on; Just
ground enough for gardens and build
ing and then let the county employ a
man and feed him as it does its inmates
and let him stay at his post and look
after his charge, instead offarming, for
he can not well do both. We congratu.
late the patrons of Cherry Grove school
and also j. S. Howard, the director of
this end of the district, in the selection
of Prof. j. Q. Hartman as our teacher
for the coming session. Prof. Hart
man is one of our very best teachers
and is thoroughly abreast of the times
and is a progressive man and has al.
ways been a success in the school room:
now with the cooperation of the pa.
trons success is bound to crown this
winters school. +. X. Tadlock and
family and John Brumley, of Hascue,
Greene County, and the scribe, were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Good, of
Locust Mount, on the 9Th and the scribe
certainly en- joyed the splendid dinner
which adored the table. Miss Mary
Tadlock is very much indisposed at
this time, but we hope she will soon
recover. Mrs. ]. Bowser, who has
been on the sick list for quite awhile,
is reported be worse again. Andy Nc
Gee says they are putting up q tele.
scope from Jonesboro to Fall Branch.
Miss Matte Dunn is a constant reader
of the Luke Observer. Miss Virgie
Howard called on the scribe last Wed
nesday. Carter Dukes, a native of
Tennessee, but for years a citizen of
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among the people of this section. He
is a music teacher, is noted as a vocal
and instrumental musician. The scribe
went to J%onesboro the 9th and we no.
ticed some fine fields of corn along the
road. Meadow and spring oats harvest
is on hand; grass is a little short but
oats is fair. Mrs. j. s.. Howard was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. NJ. Hartman
the 18th. The shrill whistle of the
steam thresher is heard in our land and
is a welcome guest, for the old wheat
crop is exhausted and our people
were getting anxious about biscuits.
We are having a fine growing season
and corn has got a hump on itself. Mrs.
John Bolin, of this place, accompanied
by Miss Mamie Bolin, of Fall Branch,
were guests at the home of the scribe
Friday. Come again, ladies. we enjoy
your social loquacity. M. NJ. Hartman
attended the funeral sermon of j. c..
Powell at Milburntown Sunday and
also spent a few days visiting relatives
at that place. Gentry Hartman, OF
Christie, and Wayne Smithpeter,
Arthur and Newton Ferguson called
on the scribe Sunday evening. KEN.