Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-08-14
THE EDITOR VISITS THE MAGIC
CITY AND SCENES OF BOYHOOD.
Tazewell People Make Good-Farm-
ers Go To Mill Mountain.
HOllins. Va. Aug. 10.

Hollins, Va, Aug. 10.
have not grown away from love
of the sights and scenes of the city
The people, going and coming in cv-
cry direction-all sorts and sizes and
nationalities, the street cars, automo-
biles, fine buildings, brass bands.
show windows-all this panorama
catches my eye and pleases me more
and more each time see them. And
take it that this is one PROOF that
| am still young, for | love to minrlc
with the people, eat popcorn, pea
nuts and candy, ride on the street
cars, go to the movies and all these
When fellow reaches the point
that he doesn't care snap for these
busy, moving city scenes, then he il
"gone'er." He's old, and just as
well check in. | have never vet rea-
ched the point where | cared to sing
the song our fathers used to sing,
Farewell vain world, Pm going
home" and | always had suspicion
that the good old folks who used 80
sing it didn't mean it exactly, for
certainly this is mighty attractive
world we live in. The country, with
its delights-God bless it! The city.
with its sights-God bless it, tool
Somebody has said that the Lord
made the country and man made the
city. / don't dispute it but | know
that the making of both was II
mighty good job. A speaker at the
banquet the other night, of the Far
mers' Institute, said something like
this: eve are all dependent upon
each other-linked together. Sup
pose n wall, unscalable, was built
around Roanoke, high and strong
enough to shut out entirely the
whole country-how long could Roa-
noke live? What would Roanoke do,
and what would the country do 2"
Some fellow bawled out "We'd build
another town." And so they would.
| have greatly enjoyed a day or two
in Roanoke, attending the Farmers
Institute, and otherwise having
good time.
Roanoke is wonderful city.
knew it when there was only one
store, depot, postoflice, and an
old-fashioned frame hotel standing
where the splendid Ponce de Leon
now stands. That hasn't been long
ago, for l am still young man, in
the prime of life. Wonderful growth
has the city made! Roanoke, Bote-
tourt and other counties, and the
N. q w. built Roanoke city, and now
the city is paying an enormous divi-
dend to these counties on the invest
ment, buying and paying good prices
for everything these good country
people can raise on their farms. If
you want proof just make a trip
through the Roanoke market on Sat
urday morning, or any other NOR
ning, as to that, and you will be
astonished to see how old Mother
Earth is giving up herself that others
may live-giving of her very heart
and life's best blood that her child.
rem may be nourished. She bares her
great breasts and smiles down upon
her nursing children, like as a mother
holds her baby in loving embrace,
and says, Nurse, darling, your good,
nice milk" The only trouble is that
she is so badly treated and abused
by some of these "suckers"-but. NV
pencil is running away with me. |
am getting off the track. I intended
only to say that enjoyed my two
days stay in Roanoke, the Magic
City-the Gateway of the Great
Southwest. When not in the Casino
listening to some brother tell how to
raise good corn, big cattle, alfalfa
ETC., walked around and just look
ed. Maybe Cooked a little country
fed" and don't care if l did. The
countryman is the big man these
days, and my badge, Roanoke Vir-
ginia, State Farmers Institute" was
respected, although 1 am not entitled
to be classed as farmer. say, when
not in the Institute, walked around
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