Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-01-02
CastlewOod, Virqinia

Dear Herald: ] enclose 25c to renew
my sub. before the year ends. AS
wrote you once am Tennessean. This
is my third year at lis place, in the
hills OF old Virginia. ! like here fine,
but would like it better II had flying
machine, for the roads here are terrible,
especially in winter.
This is bluegrass region. The prin-
cipal crops are corn and wheat, while
most every farmer raises sugar cane,
pumpkins, broOmcorn, Irish potatoes,
few sweet potatoes and many kinds of
garden vegetables. Blackberries and
Strawberries grow wild in great quanti-
ties. The fruits are peaches, pears,
plums, grapes and apples. Apples can
be bought here now at 25c to SOC per
bushel. ] have some before me that
measure 12 inches around.
The farming is all done on the cone
shaped hills-some too steep to plow,
and are cultivated with hoes. Just
room between the hills for the dwell
ing houses, few outhouses, a garden,
branch and road. Occasionally there
is house on Hill and little field be-
tween the hills.
My husband Is Southern Methodist
minister, and member of Holston con-
ference. We vile in nice parsonage
by new church and at the base OF five
hills. One Of Mr.. Perkins nine churches
or preaching place gave us big pound
ing the day before Thanksgiving, and
the day before Christmas we had the
pleasure Of unpacking box of Christ
nfc IN
Christmas day at the parsonage enter
tanned my Sunday school class of IA
young men and young. ladies. Among
the things for dinner was big turkey
| forgot to tell that almost everybody
up here raises turkeys. One lady sold
more than 800 worth, and some of her
young turkeys weighed rs pounds and
she got i5c pound While within the
past three months many droves of 100
or more cattle have passed the parson-
age saw one drove Of 442 turkeys go
by before Thanksgiving, and one-half
mile beyond here they were Joined by
a drove Of about 400 more and driven on
six miles to Castlewood, from which
place they were shipped
But must go back to Christmas. The
day after Christmas from 10 a. m. to
p. m. entertained is little girls and IS
little boys Of former Sunday school
class / had invited. As they all stood
around the table our hearts rejoiced
and as we talked said was glad Jesus
said Suffer little children and forbid
them not to come unto me; for of such
IS the kingdom of heaven" As an as
'istant Sunday school superintendent
am doing my best to keep up Sunday
school all winter, but the old people, or
many of them, are not very spiritual
more interested, it seems, in raising
calves than children--and it's no small
Undertaking to attempt to keep up
Sunday school. II 1t were not for TIE
act that 1.-THE eternal God is thy refuge,
md underneath are the everlasting |
arms" to cheer us on am sure many
besides myself would long since have
allen by the wayside, under discour- |
lgement. But praise the Lord, all Gods |
are true.
How | do enjoy reading the letters in
he Herald. am personally acquainted |
With some of the correspondents and
lnOw many Of the Herald readers Why |
lon't more people write now that the
PAPER is enlarged?
Why don't w. w. w. of New Mexico
write oftener? What has become of I
Johnson Wassom of Texas? How is
'our mother, Mr.. Wassom7 Ask her il
he has forgotten her visit to Crab Or
hard, where she visited when the old
vidower called?
What has become of little JEFF Robin
on, who married Lula Baker? Where
re Edna, Effie and Ethel Cook, who
lsed to live at Hilham? Girls, write to
ne again. Miss Nora Matheney, where
vou and your fathers family?
Why do not people sign their own
lames to their letters so that we may
now each other? Let us do that after
lew Years. shall not sign my name
g did the other time, "A Preachers
Wife," but my right name, so people
Who know me will know that am still
mong the living, an old maid no longer
ut happy preachers wife,
Matte Baker Perkins