Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-10-28
annual OUTING
A MEMORY NOW
A Visit to 'The Old Home
With Some Reflections on
THE Days of Yore."


tourt." He has "come back" and is
again at the same old grind, feeling
fine and young again, and already has
his eyes on October, 1911. The read
ers of this paper, (some of them at
least, will expect to see the usual
write-up, of this outing, but really,
he has been so busy with first one
thing and then another, that he hasn't
had time to do anything, as the wom-
EN- say. And then, some folks don't
like personal gossip, and won't care
cent if we pass the trip in silence.
However, "a few feeble remarksn=
scattering as we'll as feeble-may not
be amiss.
1t was an inexpressible pleasure to
meet once more the old friends of
other days, and to find them still the
same-young, prosperous and happy,
and their faces turned toward the
rising sun. Botetourt county general
ly is prosperous, and this community
in particular is i'm line. The canning
industry has transformed Botetourt.
Factories are established i'm every
community, and in many instances in
dividual farmers have put up small
outfits and are doing their own can
ming instead of selling their toma-
toes. Hundreds of bushels of tomatoes
are grown per acre of land, and sell
at from 20 to 80 cents a bushel, and
are worth about 60 cents a dozen
cans, wholesale. The business gives
light and pleasant employment to the
women and children. A pretty good
little outfit can be put up for about
$50 90 now, large enough to turn
about 80 cases, of 2 dozen each, per
day. In this same plant corn, beans
and other vegetables can be canned.
The tomato blight, so much dreaded,
has made its appearance in parts of
the county, and it is feared will Sc
riouSly affect the tomato industry of
the county. Efforts are being made by
entomologists to find out all about
this disease, and to discover means
TO prevent it.
The apple crop in Botetourt is fine
this year. l saw great pens full of
fine appels in the orchards. They are
being shipped and sold every day.
The gardens and fields were still
green with beans. One man sold last
week over 60 bushels in Roanoke, at
81. 90 per bushel, and about 20 BUSH
els the week before. The late fall has
been very favorable for the truckers,
and they have reaped rich harvest,
and were still busy when l left on
Monday. The boys gather their vege-
tables the day before, and leave home
for Roanoke, about II miles distant,
about IL O'Clock at night, and reach
Roanoke in time for the early morn
ing sales. 1t is a strenuous life-this
trucking business, but it pays. The
boys have good, fat bank accounts,
good horses, carriages and top bug
gies, and live in painted houses with
lightning rods on them, and wear
good clothes, and are contented and
happy. Years ago, in this same COM
munity, it took hard knocking to
make a poor living. But not so, now
The farms are in nice shape, and
some fine fields of corn were seen.
ter and very little as good as is
grown in Tazewell. / believe we car
beat Botetourt or Roanoke either
making fine corn, both as to quality
and quantity. However, these coun
ties suffered severely from drought
l.. ho =.
consequence. Some of the boys ar,
still ''pullin' fodder and cuttin
tops" as we used to do, years ago
but not many. They are learning that
it is easier and cheaper to go over
field once than three or four times
and that corn stalks are valuable
When / was boy we cut tops an
pulled fodder, no matter how sma
the corn, and then cut the stalk dow
and burned them out of the way. w
are learning better now.
had the pleasure of spending a
evening in the home of Mrs. l..
Morgan, who lives on a fine far
about miles from Roanoke. ST.
WIFI hSi huSudhu' WHO was OOul
CarOlinian, came to Roanoke from h,
home in Texas many years ago. l r.
member her husband whom / used I
meet occasionally when / was a boy
He was stern, solemn looking maj
of strong character and dignifit
bearing and kind withal. One of b
daughters is the wife of Rev. DIR.
M. McManaway, my old chum al
boyhood friend and schoolmate, no
at Waynesville, N. C. His visits
Tazewell are pleasantly recalled.
son of Mrs. Morgan was the efficie
superintendent of the Richmond Per
tentiary, whose death recently W
widely lamented. One daughter
AZ Ms.. Nal.,a. s..kc l;s.Ia..