Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-10-25
BACK ON THE JOB
AFTER TWO WEEKS
Returned From Visit in Rich
mond And Former Home
in Botetourt County.
Editorial Correspondence.


fine trip and the time of my life-a
memorable visit in all respects. A
little gossip" about 1t may be of
interest TO the readers of this journal.
My objective point was. first, Rich
mond-to see the boy who is mt school
there, and to look in upon the State
Fair. | found the boy in good shape,
or rather he found me first, ns he was
at the cur steps when l landed, hav
ing in some way hoodooed the man at
the gate, and grabbed me and my
grips, glad to see his dad, as his dad
was glad to SEQ him. A boys home
folks are good to look upon after he
has been away at school just long
enough for the homesick feeling to
grip him, and think / arrived Just
in time to save the boys life, $50 to
speak," He is having fine time at
Richmond College except, as he says,
they do not" feed quite often enough. :"
He misses, as do all boys and girls at
school. his mammy's sideboard and
the cake and preserves in the dining
room. and the basket of apples al
ways at hand. The boy or girl, from
eight to twenty years of age who
isn't always hungry, does not live in
these parts, and 80, good deal of
nv time was taken up in visiting pie
counters and fruit stands, Clipping
tho porter" as one of the boys put
it. AS walked through the grounds
with the boy. recalled that was
Just about his age when entered
school there, ever so many years ago,
and actually almost came to the
conclusion that was getting old.
Things have changed. Richmond Col
lege then was in the suburbs, sur
rounded by old fields and aullies.
Now, it is in the city, surrounded by
splendid houses and monuments, and
evidences of wealth and progress. AS
is well known, the college will move
west. some half dozen miles, where
great school buildings will be erected
on plat of 800 acres of land, Mt a
cost of nearly two million dollars.
The work has already begun and the
session of 191415 expects to open in
the new buildings. Then the boys
will put on airs sure enough, and
we old fellows of the old college
wont know where we are at when we
go there, and will need some one to
pilot us around. The Womans' Col
lege, of Richmond. one of the oldest
in the South, will also move to this
same site. and the two colleges will
be run under one management. No
less than one thousand students are
expected under the new order within
five years. i just recall, that this
boy, now at school there, is the re-
preventative of the sixth generation
of the family tv attend this old school.
beginning with his grand father in
the sos and hope the succession
may continue.
THE STATE FAIR.
Henry Stuart says that this session
of the State Fair was the greatest
yet. 1t looked great to me. The rae
ing was fine; the amusements numer-
Gus but not new, the fakir in evil
dence, red lemonade, peanut stands,
cane racks, balloons and all. What
would Fair be without these?
The exhibits of cattle, sheep
swine. horses, poultry, goats, etc.
were full and fine. What interested
me most was the exhibits in the agri-
cultural building. They were highly
creditable to the counties making
them. and to the State at large. The
counties each had separate booths.
nicely decorated and fixed up. Mr..
Roincr had, also general state ex-
hibit, collected as best he could from
different counties. in which / was
lplease1 to see what sent from our
Fair here. The oats grown in Burke s
Garden we're the finest l saw, and my
, sweet corn was the largest / saw In
thez entire exhibit. Old Virginia is
doing some fine farming. The eastern
: counties, where only broomsedge,
> sasafras bushes, persimmons and rab-
, bits are supposed to be the chief pro-
..uct, had the finest corn, vegetables
and grasses on exhibition you ever
[ saw. 1t was good to look upon. saw
no agricultural exhibit from any
countywest of Roanoke. with one or
two exceptions. The Southwest grows
cattle, and there her ambition seems
to end. A noticeable feature of the
agricultural exhibits was that many
of them seemed to be in charge of
ladies-farmers wives and daughters.
This fact accounts for much of the
artistic beauty of arrangement of the
II exhibits. And it showed further that
:. the people generally take an interest
and pride in showing the products OF
the farm. They are proud of the
= farm. Farm life is no longer tht
. drud it used to be. Improved
:, methods farm machinery. and scien