Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-04-17
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
AT SHAWvER Mill
Party From Tazewell Travel in
Pullman to Big Meeting in
East Tazewell.

The convention is composed of about
eight schools, beginning with Con-
cord, taking in Burke's Garden and
extending to the county line below
Cove Creek.
John p. Gose, of Burke's Garden, is
President and =. G. Baugh, Secretary
of the convention. They were pres
ent and discharged the duties of their
Office well. The program was car
| ried out, every speaker being present
was unavoidably absent.
Revs. Bullard, Campbell, Platt,
Hicks and Brown, President of the
county association and the Secretary
of the county association, were pres
ent, and had places on the program.
The speeches were short and to the
pont. The we'll known, long winded
Sunday School speech was conspic-
uous by it's absence.
The Shawver Mills church, of which
Rev. Mr.. Billiard is pastor, has n
flourishing school. George Crabtree
is Superintendent. This has been n
strong country church for many years
Nearby is Kinzer's chapel, Method
ist church, Rev. Mr.. Hicks, pastor,
with Millard Kinzer as Superinten-
dent and general manager of the Sun
day School. Further down the Creek
is Cove Creek Sunday School, with
Mr.. JEFF Higginbotham, Superinten-
dent. Mr.. and Mrs. Il. l.. Shuttle
barger are active members of this
school, ut least Mrs. Shufflebarger is.
We don't know so we'll as to "Tom."
These schools were all represented,
also the Concord and Mt. Olivet schools
of which P. G. Baugh and Felix
Bourne, Jr., are Superintendents, re-
3pectively. No attempt will be made
here to report the speeches made.
good, and the Sunday School cause
in the community was given boost,
which will be felt in the future in
greater efficiency and larger atten-
dance. All these schools will be rep
resented in the annual meeting to be
held in June here.
The Shawver Mill people had pro-
vided nice lunch for all the visitors,
and the homes nearby took number
of the visitors home with them to
dinner. The writer had the pleasure
of breaking bread with his old friend,
Mlllard Kinzer, as did Mr.. Brown, Mr..
Hicks and number of young people
as we'll. Mr.. and Mrs. Kinzer's OPP
en-heartedness and genuine hospitaii-
ty, is known far and wide. In fact,
this can be truthfully said of the Clear
Fork people generally.
Regret was expressed by the pas
tor and others that n number of the
male members of his church were
forced to absen themselves from
the meeting They were busy and could
not be present, they thought. Howev-
er, the number of substantial men and
good women present, some coming
quite distance, was a most encour-
aging and hopeful indication. One
speaker said that the Sunday School
work is now recognized as a mans
job, no longer to be limited to women
and children. "It's a mans job" has
a good job for every man, and every
lover of home and church is taking
hold of The work.
One of the brightest and finest young
women in the school, Miss Ada Leffel,
was elected Superintendent of the
Cradle Roll and Home Departments,
and each school was urged TO take up
the work Of this department in their
communities.
The convention rushed through in
the afternoon SO as to give the wom-
en- and children opportunity to re-
hearse for an entertainment to be CIV
en- next day by society of the church
To Shaver Mill in a Pullman.
The journey to and from Shawver
Mill, was made in G.. R. Browns fine
car, veritable Pullman. The Taze-
well contingent, five in number, and
room for two more, made the trip at
leisure in 40 minutes, and could have
cut this time in half easily, but we had
time to spare. MIR. Brown is fine
driver or chaffeur, as they call it now.
He has an easy, splendid car and
as Al, both he and his car, by the en-
tire party. There are no Dry Town
Wittens Mills gaps left in the Clear
Fork road after you get over the
stretch between town and Mr.. Mar
tins. There would have been a gap
on the far eastern end but the thought
tulness and determination of the citi-
zens OF that community. When they
saw that the money was likely to give
out before the road was finished the
farmers and people generally pitched
IN with their teams and hands and
gave their labor free, and thus were
enabled to grade and put stone on
the road, and practically finish it up.
Who would have thought ten years
ago that it would ever be possible to
drive heavy automobile from Taze-
we'll to Cove Creek within less than 45
minutes, and that too without injury
to the car or its occupants? The
roads may have cost more than they
should have cost, but they are worth
every dollar of their cost.
The farms look good down "the
Creek" There is much plowing vet
to be. done for the spring crops, but
the dirt will roll in hurry so soon as
weather permits.
On the return trip we stopped to
spend few moments with our shut
in friend. w. D. Jones. He was more
htan glad to see his friends, but said
sorrowfully that he was not improv
ing as he expected. His condition is
not at all satisfactory.
THE SECRETARY.
DR.. Mcconnell to Preach Here Sunday.
DR.. j. P. Mcconnell, President of
the Radford Normal School will