Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-06-21
PLEASANT DAY IN
THOMPSON VALLEY
Sunday School Meeting And
Gossip About The Good
People Living There.

A few sticks" of gossip about
my trip to Thompson Valley ard Lib
erty may be of interest, for certainly
it was an interesting trip to the
writer.
l spent Saturday night in the hos
pitable and comfortable home of Mr..
and Mrs. A. j. Larimer, in lower
Thompson Valley. Mr.. and Mrs.
Larimer have a good farm and nice
dwelling and many conveniences, and
what would appear to thousands of
people. many of the luxures of life.
Fine fruit, berries, vegetables, and
one of the finest springs of water in
all the land, are all In evidence here.
Mrs. Larimer has the valuable help
and companionship of her daughter,
Miss Myrtle. who's good sense and
fine taste has done much to make the
home attractive and pleasant. She is
the only one of the children left at
the old home. Charles and Sam are
here in town, married daughter
lives east. and two children are in
heaven, the other home. The evening
was pleasant, restful and reminis-
cent Andy told me great many
things didn't know, about people
and times of the bygone days. What
he doesn't know about Thompson
Valley and her people, is scarcely
worth bothering about. He came to
Tazewell from Washington county
years ago, young man, with but
little stock in trade except energy
and grit. and one of the wisest things
he did was to got married as soon as
possible to the best woman he could
find. Together they began to carve
out destiny and build a home for
them selves, and they have succeeded.
Andy says it was "a hard pull, but,
then, every man thinks he has had
hard pull. Some have it harder and
heavier than others, but Andy is not
much the worse from the wear and
tear of the corrosive years. He was
always lean and lank and hungry
looking anyway-a quick, nervous
temperament and has stood the
storm well, as has also his good wife,
whose only sign of age is The boar
frost of the years sprinkled uuon her
hair. Her life. too, has been an ac-
tive and eventful one, and she has
contributed. perhaps. the larger share
to the success which has come to the
home.
Sunday morning was one of the
fairest and finest this old world ever
saw. Every prospect was pleasing
only the roads were vile. From Lari-
mer's to Glenwood, a distance of
about two miles, the road is little else
than ditch, and that full of rocks.
l wondered why on earth the people
who use these roads constantly don't
take little time and throw the rocks
out! This much could be done, and be
a great help.
At Glenwood l found church about
full of people, to whom l made ga
few feeble remarks" on the SUNDAY
School question. Mr.. Hall is super
intendent-an earnest, faithful man.
He has the help of j. S. Buchanan.
Rev. j. R. Pickett, who led the
music, j. N. Young, Stevenson and
number of other good folks. They,
like most of the schools, need to get
together in more compact organiza-
tion.
This is one of Mr.. Kings preach
ing places, and the people speak of
him in high terms. 1t was at his in
vitation that was there ON this day.
He, with nearly all the other pastors
everywhere, is beginning to- see as
they never saw before, that the Sun
day School work is the chief work of
the church-that to it the church
must look for its strength in the fu-
ture. 1.-The Sunday School of today
will be the church of tomorrow.
After "the speakin" went home
with John A.. Higginbotham. Were
you ever there, hungry reader? No?
Well, l envy you the pleasure of your
visit, particularly if it is on Sunday,
and 1.-THE big pot is put in the little
one," as on this occasion. Mr.. and
Mrs. Larimer went along, too, and
we had great time. The Higgin-
botham home is remarkable one.
John and his three sisters, all un.
married, live together--the youngest
Of the four. John said, is So. years
old. He did not say which one, and
1 didn't ask, of course. Happy and
contented they all seem to be. They
were born and reared nearby, ina
large log house just at foot of Clinch
Mountain. Their father and the en-
tire family are spoken of in the high
eat terms. Inst xuhu aithar of 81. a1I