Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-03-24
WASHINGTON COLLEGE.

This valley for some weeks mast ho.
been flooded by unprecedented bi%h
water for this season of the wear: con
siderable damage has been done tolands
FENCES, etc, along the meanderinrs oi
this Hominy branch. Little Limestona
creek and Onion Brach have been con.
ally as high, and the damages are n1ro.
p~ortionate. Farm work is at a standstill
n the prospect of sowing a spring on
crop is gloomy. The most Of our sick are
convalescent. On the 18th, Laura. the
elgnt year old child of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. +.
iNn9erson, uled; funeral services were
held in College Chapel the 18th. Rev
J.T. Cooter officiating: the remains woro
inferred in Salem Cemetery. At the re-.
quest OF the Hon. John Alison. of Nash
VIE, the writer, assisted by S. II. Gold.
as artlst, nave made n drawing of the
oid double log building that was erected
mere in 1880 and was used as SaIem
Church and Martin Academy until Isoe
ana as Salem Church unfit IS25. NJ
Alison will use this drawing in connec
tion with a paper he is preparing for the
centennial. Mr.. Gold has also made a
urawlng OF the frame structure that was
erected mere IN the year 1903 and was
Ise9 as washington College till 1882. O.
L. Hensley, of Jonesboro, will photo
graph these drawings in connection with
seven other views that he has taken of
INC buildings here; anyone desiring to
see tnese photographs can find them in
MI. Hensley's gallery in Jonesboro. The
school work here is progressing after
the usual order, which means good dis.
ciipllne n hard work; the members ~
the senior class have handed to the
iaculty papers written on subjects given
them some time since; their efforts are
said 10 be highly commendabIe. All
mno atteIa the commencement exercises
here next May will hear sometime en-
PERTAINING from the Senior class. Presi.
dent D.. t. Cooter has gone East in the
interest OF school work here; probably
VIII nc return before the 10th of NAV.
we nave some good REASONS for hoping
that In the near future this more than p
century old institution will be blessed
with an adequate and highly deservine
endowment, to better enable those who
are SO arduously laboring to carry for
Waru inc self sacrificing and useful work
mat IS being done here; our faith. cou-
Pleu WIN the grand efforts that are be-
ing made by those who are here so man
fully striving to build up and sustain n
higher grade Of culture than is USUALLY
taught in the colleges of the South, and
mat the many prayers that for more
than a century and are today being Of
fered by good Christian men and
women in behalf Of this work will be
answered at the proper time. The friends
OF VIM: Buckner and Il. j. Upton will
be glad to learn that Gov. TAYLOR has
given them good paying jobs, but to date
me Q mas failed to do so; it seems
INA me G~ubernatorial pie is growing
;Eoau.lluily less, while the hungry ones
increase. Come home, boys, and we will
make garden. John s. Ford informs ms
that he is in possession of a pair of hand
pattern mill burs; they are about twelve
in diameter. As to whom these
rocks formerly belonged Mr.. Ford does
not know, he found them under the floor
OF an old barn. Say Mr.. Ford, you should
turn those over to Jake Leah for the
ihistorlcal society. OBSERVER