Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-10-03
THOMPSON VALLEY
HASBICS. PICNIC
Superintendent Lynch, With Able
Assistants, Gathers Crowd For
Rally Meeting Last Saturday.

hdly MttiInS LdSl OdtuIuay.
The Sunday School people of
The White church, Thompson
Valley had their annual picnic
last Saturday, and an enjoyable
occasion it was all the way
through. Mr.. D. w. Lynch is
the honored and efficient super
intendent, and is held in the
highest esteem by all the people.
He has the valuable assistance
of his wife and a number of
other consecrated women and
men of the community, as teach
ers and helpers in the good
work. The crowd in. attendance
was surprisingly large, consider
ing that the weather threatened
rain all the morning, and that
the day was Saturday always a
more or less inconvenient day
for picnics. Numbers of people
seem compelled to go to town on
Saturday if the plow stops,
whether they have any special
business or not. With many
people this is a habit of long
standing, and perhaps not bad
habit except when it keeps them
away from an important Sunday
School meeting. And so it was,
that on last Saturday a number
of the good, strong men of the
community, who no doubt would
rather have been at the picnic
to give encouragement to the
workers, were compelled to
come to town. Others were busy
cutting corn, and could not
come. But there was crowd
anyway. Nearly all the women,
and it seemed all the children,
and a number of the citizens
of the community, were present,
and all had good time. l will
speak of the picnic dinner only
to say that it was just what any
one would expect who knows
the people of the Valley. | was
not at all surprised by either the
quality or quantity, and certainly
no picnic dinner was ever finer
than was this. Stacks of apple
pies, cakes, of various sizes and
colors, old ham, beef and NUT
ton, and the finest of fried
chicken, pickles, and infnitum.
One good soul had a great tin
bucket full of beat pickles, and
of the finest variety.
The basis of all picnic dinners
is composed of about four main
things, viz: ham, fried chicken
and apple pies and beat pickles.
With these as a foundation
fine structure can be reared.
These are the concrete in the
bottom. Cake, custard, cheese,
mutton etc., are the ornamental,
yet very essential parts of the
structure above ground. But any
picnic without beat pickle, apple
pies and fried chicken would be
a strange picnic indeed. The
Thompson Valley people are
good builders of picnic dinners.
They lay a good foundation, and
then build upon it, layer after
layer, until the completed struc-
ture dazzles the eyes and makes
one hungry to look upon it. The
bountiful dinner was spread on
the ground. The different bask-
cts containing the material were
assembled, and the work of or
ganization-and destruction, be-
gun, and after it was all over
that dinner reminded one of a
brick building which had been
struck by a western tornado.
Elegantly prepared, and lavish
ly served, everybody had enough,
and there were more than twelve
baskets of fragments left over.
THE EXERCISES.
The exercises of the day con-
sisted of the singing of good
gospel hyms by the choir and
the congregation, with Mrs.
Lynch at the organ. After
which "a few feeble remarks"
were made by the secretary of
the County Sunday School AS
sociation, on the subject, "Why
the work of the Sunday Schools
commends itself to me-" follow
ed by an instructive address by
Rev. j. N. Harman, on "The
How, or Work of Organization, +"
and the people were kind
enough to say that the addresses