Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-11-19
CLEAR FORK IS
COMING TO FRONT
Making Two Blades Grow
Where Only One Grew Be
fore-Sunday Visiting.

I
pleasure OF spending last Sunday i'm
the Concord neighborhood, and TO
break bread with Phillip Baugh.
King Crockett was there, also Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Buchanan and sever.
al youngsters from the surrounding
community. Every body had great
time, OF course. Certainly, IL they
did not the cause was not due TO any
lack of effort on the part OF the hos
pitable host and n ostess. To feed
hungry gang such as MIR. and
Mrs. Baugh had for dinner-about
eight, all told, besides the family
is no small undertaking, but il was
spIendidly and bountifully done,
and baskets full of "fragements"
were left. Somehow going to church
on Sunday creates nm appetite, and n
fellow is always ready for dinner,
and a Sunday dinner i'm the country
is an event TO be chronicled In red
letters, and remembered forever after
wards. The best part OF such occa-
sions, however, is the good cheer,
social intercourse, ETC., which is
always n feature of these social gath
erings in the country.
Sunday visiting, as rule, should
not be encouraged. 1t entails hard
ships often upon the housewife who
should have one rest day at least,
during the week. While this is true,
particularly AS To the dwellers In
towns and cities, there are extenuat-
ing circumstances i'm the country.
Sunday Is about the only dny far
mers have TO spare from their work.
III they did not meet together on Sun
day they would see but little Of
each other They meet frequently at
each others homes after services at
church, and take the opportunity to
talk over their work, compare notes,
brag about their crops, and some OF
them have been known To- do a little
buying and selling on the Lord 's
dayton the sly, OF course, some
thing after this fashion: Two dea-
cons were riding home together from
church. One OF them said, deacon,
that Is good horse you're ridin'.
I'd like 10 have him. If IL wasn't
Sunday what would you take for
him?" "Well. " he replied, "if IL
wasn't Sunday, I'd take hundred
and fifty dollars. =" "If IL WASH {
Sunday I'd take him; I'll see you
tomorrow, good day"
Just how much culpabIlity at
taches to such Sunday traflicking Is
q question. And, them Sunday and
the country church Is an ideal time
and place for the women TO see each
other, for the boys 10 see and go
home with their sweethearts and
spend the afternoon. So, after all,
while visiting and eating big din
ners may not comport exactly with
the ideas entertained by some folks,
there are many extenuating cir
cumstances. One of the chief objec-
tions is that the family nearly al
ways stay away from church I'm or
der to prepare the company dinner.
This Is an evil that should be and
could be eliminated. However, be il
stated, that Mrs. Baugh attended
church Sunday, Notwithstanding her
Sunday company, and this was just
the thing to have done. Better cut
out the dinner at home. or at least
part OF 1t, than stay away from
church.
Concord is great place for meet.
ings. The people go to church twice
on nearly every Sunday. They have
a flouIishing Sunday School, com.
! posed chiefly OF the grown up and
, older people. Mr.. Baugh is superin.
! tendent and his work shows for 1t.
self. The people have q nice, com
? forablc church. The cemetery attach
ed needs attention badly. 1t looks
ragged and neglected. Let some goot
q women organize a Cemetery I'm
q provement Association, make tn,
men contribute n little money, ant
= fix 1t up.
Of Clear Fork is steadily improving
along all lines. Crops this year ar,
abundant. The farms show inteIli
gent cultivation. Will Buchanan
said that he had nearly a hundred
I bushels of old corn yet. PHILLIP
r Baugh has a fine lot of new corn In
I his cIib, and other splendid crop
{ OF corn I'm the community are re
I ported. The people are waking up
\ They are reading. One lick nov
{ counts as much as two heretofore
] because intelligentIy placed. Th,
S roads need work bade. Every Tim,
e a farmer passes these roads with /;
r load he is~uimposing lax upor
e himself far create, lhan he woul'
= have TO nav IL he were pavinQ hi