Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-03-10
FREE HILL.

The young ladies of Free Hill will
organize a debating club as soon as
they decide on one for the chair who
will keep silent while the others speak.
A sensible bachelor suggests a cooking
club. Two married men think a patch.
ing club more appropriate and much
more useful. We understand there is
more serious sickness in the family of
the widow Florence Devault. Our
string band consists of A. Dyer, violin.
ist; Herman Hale, b~anjoist and Emory
Shipley, harpist. 1t is said to be de,
lightful music, and they have been
getting many calls for music for public
occasions in Washington and Sullivan
counties. Growing grain is looking
fine and so is stock generally. Spring
work will open up pretty soon. Some
e~pizootic in horses. Much sod has been
turned this winter for early corr plant.
ing. Gardening will soon be the order
of every home. Our horse trader, VIM.
Carter, is learning our boys q thing or
two trading horses, Sunday sunshine
and storm and SHOWS come no more
the ground hog didn't see it they say.
How glad we feel. Goodby old Boreas
with your music; we won't have to
cuddle up so close now; kick of the
cover; drown out the fire and dream
no more of cold realities and frost.
Spring, glorious spring is here; and
now undershirts must go t0the close t..
What a contentment producer a ground
hog must be. Long live the ground
hnn An NWy $40 hn-n I-
joyment befofe we learned that ground
hogs are not infallible-and old a V
ings and signs not true, and so you see
the great advantage superstition is to
me. Call it ignorance if you wish but
it is poetic if not true that where
Ignorance is bliss It's folly to be wise, "
and that's me. John r. Spurgin, our
septinagenarian bachelor, still talks
hopefully of finding one to love and care
for him when he gets old. 1t is hoped
that Mr.. Spurgin will yet leave a mem.
orial of his philanthropy in erecting an
observatory on his great hill where the
pleasure seekers may resort to while
away a few leisure hours watching the
mogul engines on the Sos railroad,
wind the t%ortuous track for four miles
drawing trains of trade and travel
from and to the great coal fields of
Johnson City. Here, at Spurgin s rest,
we may behold the majestic eddies
of the Holston and look for the steam
boats which may never come further
than the ancient burg of Kingsport.
From this elevation may be seen Snl.
"Holston Institute" and two or
more school houses of the district.
Beneath is the celebrated swimming
hole known to all our boys as "Sarah's
Spring, where many, many a Sunday
has been desecrated by old and young.
And now we turn our scope down
along the cliff and see the ground hog
basking in the warm sunshine: and
perchance also the deadly viper as he
draws to his %devouring jaws the charm
ed bird, and just below may be seer
the peripatetic buzzard carrying a
purified morsel to his encayed young.
From here we can see the fishermen
their aquatic arts to take the
finny tribe, and sometimes even the
dynamite is heard dealing its
unlawful sudden destruction to the
piscatorial inhabitants of the deep.
Here on Spurgin's rest in the future
many a fair and unfair picpicer may
a pleasant outing when the
to wn folks about Spurgin's Depot tire
of the worry and confines of business
life. Yes, when prosperity comes to
and brings its pocketbook, may
realize all the fancies and perhaps
1t will be this side the horseless
age and when the Goddess saloon dis
appears. Prof. Boyd and Miss Alice
Wright called on Misses Mollie and
Annis Hale and their rlative Miss
and others and had a very pleas
ant evening with games, and social
conversation. The Professor is an apt
scholar and may yet learn to rite
Wright right, as anyone should.
DHALB.