Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
BLUESTONE and
SUNDAY-SCHOOLS
Pleasant Day Spent at Spring
Vile in Interest of the Coun-
ty Association.

The editor and his daughter had
the pleasure of spending last Sunday
with the good folks of Springville. on
the banks of the historic Bluestone
river. The editor went down to make
n few feeble remarks" to the
saints and sinners at Springville
about the Sunday School Association.
F., and his girl went along to be in good
company, and both of us had n great
time-after we got there. The going
was what hurt. The rains of Satur-
day night and Sunday morning made
the roads heavy and sticky. making
Mt least two miles out of every one of
the distance. However, like going to
heaven, it may be tough going but
all right after you get there--so with
Sprngville The hearty welcome
these good people gave the visitors.
the patience with which they listened
to the feeble remarks" made, and
all this. more than compensated for
the trials of the journey. The return
trip was pleasant. The roads had
dried, the air was cool. The road
was shaded by large trees and deep
woods. or else bordered by bluegrass
and growing crops, all of which was
interesting, and n delight to the eyes
and the soul of lover of nature and
the open.
SPRINGVILLE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
The Springville Sunday School is
certainly one of the very best country
schools in al this section. Prof. G.
p. McMullin is the intelligent and
jealous superintedent. He has large
class of men, perhaps the largest
adult Bible class in the county. On
this occasion there were 81 pupils in |
the school, notwithstanding the roads
were muddy, and many of the pupils
walked from one to two and half |
miles to get there.
Mr. McMullin has corps of good
helpers and teachers--the Deatons,
Carriers, McMulins, Wallaces, Win
gos and others, arc numerous in that
section, and all of them seem to find
pleasure in not only sending their
children. but going themselves with
the children to Sunday School every
Sunday morning. This same thing is
true in every well regulated, up to
date community. and this very thing
the County Sunday School Association
nffnnyrNfd In h,Itt nl,
school in every community. Specially
attractive and pleasing is the music
feature in this school. Mr.. Wallace
has the gift of song, and he has
gathered number of bright young
people, and some not so young, and
these he leads in cheerful, bright
songs, which adds greatly to the in
terest of the school. Pity all the men
and women and pupils generally do
not join in and sing Just this side of
Springville we passed Harman' 8
Chapel, where Mr.. Charles Harman
has Sunday School and is doing
well. it is said. These, and nearly
every other school in the county will
be represented at the Cedar Bluff con-
vention.
A visitor to the Bluestone for the
first time is agreeably surprised at
the fertility and beauty of the valley.
There are nice houses. neatly painted,
shady lanes, broad meadows, and
green bluegrass pastures, splendid
fields of corn and wheat. The drought
told heavily there. as elsewhere on
the meadows and oat crops. Several
fine fields of wheat, and one or two
meadows, were apparently little in
jured. The people are all prosperous
and happy, and the visitor, whoever
he be, finds cordial welcome and hos
pitable entertainment in this beau
tiful, isolated valley of the Blue
stone. This brief notice cannot be
closed and leave unexpressed the ap-
probation of the visitors of the splen-
did hospitality of MIR. and Mrs. Nc
Mullin. Paris married, the last time,
Bette Shawver, splendid young
woman, daughter of the late VIM. l..
Shawver, of Clear Fork. They have
five interesting, beautiful little girls,
and with these, and comfortable sur
roundings, they have an ideal home.