Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-05-27
A Voice From kansas.
DEAR SPECTATOR

h vulGG TIUllI h1iIOGO.
DEAR SPECTATOR:
BY the number of your voiume IS,
and other data, and by my computa-
ton, you are six weeks my senior.
/ did not know of you, for some
wears, as did not live in your county,
but state.
In the year of 1921 newspapers were
not numerous as now, neither mali
facilities. Great improvements since
| then.
NV husband ] ohm ]. d. Brown and
my brother, Reuben D. Hill, were
old patrons of yours. MIR. Brown
prior to our marriage in 1916 and cor
tinued until death in 1854 We con-
tinued the paper until in the TWEEN
ties. We left our dear old Virginia
home, in the autumn of III and came
to this, then new country, Kansas,
bleak and bare, now much more de-
sirable place than then to live.
Times were hard with us, in making
a new home not having much OF this
worlds goods, we had to be economl-
cal, so we gave up our old weekly
visitor My son F. H. Taylor Brown
paid dues and discontinued it Now,
in this new century, Lay son j W.
Brown of Haverhill Kansas, has re-
newed the acquaintance and we
again read your columns.
You are rather new paper to US,
as we did not see you to read your
columns for so many years. Did not
know of the weekly and yearly events
and changes, only, as we heard OF
them by letters, from old friends
The names of the old timers are not IL
) your columns now; Stribling, Trout
Kinney, Cochran, Hendred, Frazer
' B. Crawford and others. One OF those
t mentioned N. K. Trout, was llf'
S long friend of my brother, r. l. Hill
e also friend Of mine.
Some of my old friends and scholar
a are living; but death has been IL
S heir families too. He is no respecte1
: of persons Passing away are al
u things earthly. 1, too, am passin
(. away, going down the hill of life tn
d shadows are long growing longer da
1. by day, soon my sun of life will sci
/ | pray in halo of glory, and in til
d dawn of my eternal life may l
"a where Jesus is. The foregoing wore
IN and lines, belong to human life, ut
&c to the life of newspaper. - Yt
dear Spectator havell lived many yea
a and may your life be long and usefu
~ Recommend and encourage the tn
a pure and good for city, county, stat
OF and country and may you shine brig
mt er and brighter as the years go by.
st Now something about my lett
NC writing:
'ur This is not my first for your c.
all umns. In the summer OF III L Wr(
my first to you. giving an account
our trip to a fourth of July celeb
icy ton in this country, Kansas, wi
we saw and tried to hear.
After ten years residence here
tod relatives in the east and fr
Washington, D. c.. l wrote you
series of letters which you KIN
10 published. This is my third Elf
''o' which, 1 presume will be my IL
9sts called forth by your notice OF NJ
Caroline S. Crawford's letter to y
ing She is an aged lady, l am her sen
by two years, was ixty-nine the
on of last February, 1910.
I am not strong physically but
ton mental faculties are as good as e'
re- 1 think, maybe more forgetful. an
och very thankful to my Heavenly Fati
was that he still gives me an active thl
ght ing knowing mind. which is
greatest earthly blessing one can p
ma ess. Mrs. Caroline S. Crawford,
old aid was in possession of both PHI
del al and mental faculties, was for
SAINT esident of STANTON, connee
With the MARY Baldwin Semina
With for years, now a. resident OF K
MIS-. Island Ind. If she were teacher
she have I been at intervals from
her SIMMER of 1888 until somewhere
ing the seventies. - In the year OF
was attending school in Ami
also county, Virginia, having a lear
e. Christian teacher, when my brotl
y. R. D. Hill engaged school for M
ser his neighborhood in Augusta coul
10Th Va. / accepted this school, tern
ing five months, taught 1T, and then
SPIN turned to my home in Amherst &C
ty, remained there few years, attt
crop ed school a short time and then
con- turned to my brothers and bee
teacher for his children and 9th
is Taught after marriage more than
aw. NV girlhood days. Had a good, {
at housekeeper who attended to
last domestic affairs.
Larry 1 taught in Virginia, also i'll
state, last school in the 'seventit
Some OF my OLD scholars anu LIN
ega- are living, but death has visited t.
too. He is no respecter OF per
ices all have to yield to his icy tc
and go to their eternal home.
olne l will give you some names OF
eye, first pupils: Dudley, Shirley, Fraz
;onu Hogsett, Riddle, Wills, all can
to mind just now and know OF
nieo two living, Mrs Mary Dryden,
W Hogsett OF Slower neighborhood
MI Miss Ann Riddle OF Churchville
i'ei later years, Hite, Dudley, Hill II
head, Ruebush, Allen, Within
nioi Cross, Taliaferro, Slower, Dryden
OF others, you see some of them in
Will city perhaps occasionally. One
not NAV soc often vOur n~eSent most