Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-06-05
SIDE-,IGRTS ON
A HUSTLINC TOWN
McTeer Saunders Visits Ohio
Town, Where He Finds Things
Hustling and Busy.
Portsmouth. O.. Juno .

Eultor the NeWS:-l will try 10
write you u few lines from this busy
town on the Ohio. We came from
Graham last Saturday on No. Is. and
l tell you it was something fierce.
The heat being intense, windows had
to be open, and the coal dust came
in. The white people seemed to have
changed color to black. We came thro
one little shower of rain up above
Williamson, which gave some relief.
The drought here has been about the
worst ever known at this season of
the year-the dust has been terri
BILE here until yesterday about noon
pretty good sized rain fell, vet
Notwithstanding the long dr.y spell
there are some fine gardens to be
seen here. l notice that along the
river many farmers were cutting rye
and plowing and discing the lanl for
a crop of something else. This is
a fast country and beautiful one
too-a great farming and gardening
section, with good markets for ev-
erything. Portsmouth is hustlinr
town, and you see but little effect of
the high and destructive water of the
Ohio and Sciota las year. B. &. O.
and N. &. w. shops and yards, brick
factories, shoe factories, and steel
mills, breweries, lumber yards, etc,
all in operation. Now in order that
an idea may be had of some of the
business done here: The Portsmouth
Street Railway and Light Co. calcu.
lated they handled on last Saturday
decoration day, 10000 pepole. The
cars are run twenty-five hours
day, and it seems that everybody
rides on them. New Boston, Scio-
toville, Millbrook, Park, Tracy park.
Highland Park, Highland School,
Hill Top Green, Lawn and Gene
terry, are some of the places you will
see from the cars. Mill Brool, Park
on last Spuday night had the ap-
pearance of great show. They had
band of some 20 pieces, boating,
bowling alleys, pool tables, soft and
hard drinks of all kinds, and base
ball, too. People were there in cv-
cry kind of conveyance knokn to the
human family, and there were not
only hundreds but thousands.
The people are kind and polite and
good, sensible, neighbors, and are
full of business. 1t cannot be other
wise, when we consider that on the
Kentucky side there is the C. G. o.
Railroad, on the other side the b. &
o. and N. & w. railways, with some
little river business to help along.
My folks, Mr.. and Mrs. C. w.
Joyce, live on the street car line.
Mr.. Joyce is conductor on the street
car line. He goes on duty at 30 p.
M, and is off at 80 n. m. YOU go
anywhere for sc.
Well, the C. V. News cam, ycstcr-
day, and it was so homelike to read
it. Most every one here have boxes
in their porches, where the mail is
delivered by carriers.
Frank, (my sony and 1 will sart
home today about noon on 16 ov-
er the N. & w. We have just spent
short while here, but l am anx-
ious to get home. want to see if it
has rained up there on the just and
the unjust. l have heard that it has
not, and feel bad about it. A few
words and l will quit. have met a
very few Virginians her; was at the
home of Mr.W. E. Dunn, who is
conductor on the N. &. W.; his wife
was Miss Bessie Frye, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. f. T. Frye, of Gra-
ham. was at Mr.. Geo. Anderson's
home. He is son of Captain C. w.
Anderson, of Graham and another
N. & w. conductor. His wife is an
Ohio lady. They have beautiful and
well FURNISHED homes on Hutchins
street. Since we have been here at
the home of our daughter and SON
in-law many of their neighbors and
friends came in see us and we think
we are beginning to think we are
somebody, but am only reminded of
the saying "a Sphet is not with
out honor save m his own country"
etc. Met. Saunders.