Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-04-10
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
AND BAD ROADS
A VISIT TO TIP TOP SUNDAY
SCHOOL-HOME OF MR.. SNUFF.
BUSINESS INDUSTRIES, BAD
AND GOOD ROADS.

day morning. The ''better half" of
the family went along as far as to
Witten's Mill, where she spent the
day" with an old friend and acauaint-
ance, Mrs. Frank Howard. / dropped
her there, and proceeded on my jour-
ney to the quiet little town of Tiptop.
/ gave notice on Saturday before that
l would be on hand, and wished to
meet the Sunday school folks, and
tell them a few things about t h e
county work and the county conven-
tion, which meets here in June.
found "a few of the faithful" to-
gether, presided over by Mr.. w. H.
Snuff, who is doing the best he can
under somewhat adverse conditions.
There are two church buildings at
in the Masonic hall, where the Chris
tian church people hold service. There
is only one Sunday school, both de-
nominations working together. "We
all hold Sunday school together" l
was told, but call" of them were not
present on this occasion. There
ought to be a larger school at Tiptop.
With such man as Mr.. Snuff for
superintendent there ought to be q
large and enthusiastic school. One
reason why there is not larger and
better school at Tiptop, and many
other places, as well, is that the Sun
day school work is not considered
"man's job" by the men of the COM
munity. The old idea, that women
and children are the only proper mem
bers of Sunday school still prevails,
and the men, young and old, stay
away, when the fact is, the work is
peculiarly and eminently mans
job; and the biggest and most impor-
tant job any man can have outside of
the ministry. The good folks of Tip
top and community, if they choose to
if they will put their minds and
hearts in the work. They should not
be willing that the "biggest thing
in the world" should be the smallest
and weakest they have among them.
Mr.. Snuff is doing good work in
the community. The colored people
have good church here, too, and it
is said to be in a prosperous condi-
ton.
There are three good stores at Tip
top, viz: Dillon & Co., with b. w.
Dillon general manager; r. P. Har-
man & Co., with j. Graf Gillespie
general manager, and Isom Witten,
a colored man has store here also.
All these houses are reported as do
ing a satisfactory business.
Here also is the Tiptop Brick Com
pany., successor to the Radford Brick
Co., of which Mr.. w. II. Snuff is
general manager. About two years
ago the Radford Brick Co. sold out to
new company, composed of Messrs.
Hoge Mason, Joe Hoge and Mr.. Scott,
of Bluefield, and w. H. Snuff. Mr..
Snuff was made general manager.
Creek Coal and Coke Co., at Cooper,
w. Va. Under the new management
the business has gone one smoothly
and satisfactorily to all parties. The
capacity of the plant is about 10000
brick per day. Last year the output
was five million brick. The property
consists of thirty acres of land,
nice dwelling, barns, atc., and all con-
veniences. About thirty men are en-
ployed at the plant.
Sunday though it was, I walked
around and took casual look at the
plant. There are piles and stacks of
bricks-about a million on the ground
now, and the kilns full. The weather
since Christmas has been unfavorable
to building, and sales have not been
numerous, says Mr.. Snuff; but he has
orders for about five or six hundred
thousand brick booked now, and with
the return of good weather and the
opening of spring, business is expect
ed to boom.
The Home of Mr.. Snuff.
/ accepted Mr.. Shuff's kind invi-
tation to dinner, and both "Napole-
on" and myself Jared sumptuously.
/ promised Mrs. Snuff to comply
with her insistent request mot to
say one word about the dinner, and
/ won't. 1t was fine, delicately and
tastily served-but must keep my
promise not even to mention it. Mr..
and Mrs. Snuff have a lovely home,
where culture, good cheer and old
fashioned hospitality and religion
are household articles. Mrs. Snuff
was Miss Reed before marriage.
Salem, Va, is her birthplace Her
mother was Campbell, one of the
well known old families of Roanoke
county. Mr.. Snuff enjoys the dis
tinction of having been born in the
Staunton, Va, which bumptious lit
tie city can boast of being the birth
men. They have only one child, a
y ASitOWt hOW
in Bluefeld.
1 drove out of this toploftical
town.. which is 2780 feet above sea
vel,just as the people were gather
ing to hear Rev. Spring preach.
wanted to stay and hear him, but
had to hurry home to feed the chick
ems and milk the cow, and stop on
the way at Mr.. Howard's to pick up
the cold LADY,, would give me just
time enough. On the return, / had
the pleasure of shaking hands with
the genial Tom Smoot, whose good
wife has had hard time of it with
a stubborn sickness since January,
but is now able to sit up, and with
Ed Howard, who was hitching his
gray horse to Tom Smoot's fence,
and Henry Bowen, who drove up
just then in his splendid car, with
his wife and big Sunday school
with him, on his way to visit some
where, and to enjoy a drive over the
splendid roads in that section. ]