Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-08-27

familiarity with negro dialect-a diff
cult language to speak intelligently.
Mrs. Cooke is, was told, native OF
Georgia.
The entire occasion was ENJOYABLE.
| was present on Sunday in the Sun
day School, and of coursse made a few
occasional remarks.
REV. ROBT. =. DOGAN.
On the next Sunday morning, which
was last Sunday, | had the pleasure
OF meeting and hearing Mr.. Robt. j.
Do@&n. He was born and reared in the
Cove" and is now pastor of Fulton
Baptist Church, i'll Baltimore. "Bob"
has umbcr Of relatives in the com
munity who are justly proud of him.
and the work he is doing. He is truly
self made" man. He is, in appear
ance, much like his father-tall, dark.
and inclined to be handsome, but has
the quiet, gentle ways of his mother.
knew both Of them years ago when
Bob" was little raw-boned, bare
footed kid. He is grey now, but not
old. Many storms have beat and bro
ken against him and over him, but
he has outwcathcred them all, and
is stronger as the years go by. May
he live foreverl
THE MOUNTAIN SQUIRE.
Another "log cabin" boy is James
III. Layma. He is now the Magistrate
OF that section, and the general ar
bitter of the troubles and difficulties
OF his neighbors, and the superinten-
dent of the Sunday school, for the
past 80 or 40 years, and the school
has prospered and is now in Il growing
condition. "Jim" 'grew up with the
country" From being the proud owner
Of a Barlow knife and few fox and
coon dogs to begin with, he accumu-
lated nice lot of land, and his rentals
would afford him and his good wife
comfortable living now for the rest
of their days. He began his manhood
life as saw mill and lumber man.
During the day he would run his
mill to beat the band, and at night,
when conditions favored, would run
foxes, coons and 'possums, according
TO the season of the year. On Sunday
he would go TO church and Sunday
school, and so he has prospered. He is
now the Mountain Squire. He no
longer lives in "log cabin" nor runs
foxes at night. His home is built at
the foot of the mountain. The hum of
the saw and the cry of the hounds
have long since hushed into n great
silence. But I'll bet you something that
jim can still hear the hum of that saw
and the cry of the pack breaking over
the sides of Old Tinker, and through
the big, deep woods. | heard them
very, very distinctly on this trip, as
we talked and reminisced one night
under the. kindly, constant shadows
OF the old mountain-cchoes of the
/ past. Much of "Jim's" success as a
business man and Sunday school work
cr, too, is due to the beneficent in
fiuence of his wife. jim calls her "ma."
We used to call her Little Liza away
back yonder when we were young.
She is still his inspiration. He has a
number of fine daughters and one
son, all doing well.
Wish l had time and space to speak
of all the dear old friends-Tom Board.
IL. b. Lollis, Hunt Riley, and his bro
ther Jim, Ernest, Grover and Charles
Riley, the neighborhood merchant,
"Bud" jenkins, the Pollards, Mr.. and
Mrs. Nero Padgett, and all of them
friends of my youth, not to omit my
sister and her husband, Mr.. and Mrs.
David Riley, with whom l make my
home.
AUTOMOBILES IN THE COVE.
| came out of the Cove in an auto
mobile, owned by my friend, Mack
Dogan, brother of "Bob," the preach
er. Yes, sir, the people of this COM
munity are prosperous. Mack brought
his brother Robert, esquire" Layman,
Miss Ethel Riley, and myself in his
nice car, to Hollins station to meet
the train for Roanoke. "The Cove"
now has good roads, telephones, a
nice church, and are now arranging
for new graded school. Perhaps |
ought not to omit to mention n good
meeting at the church last Sunday
night at which Mr.. Dogan made a good
speech and the writer "a few feeble
remarks" on the Sunday School ques-
ton.
THE TOLL GATES AND CROPS.
Roanoke and Botetourt have suffered
for lack of moisture the past summer.
The crop of fruits and vegetables do
not sem to have suffered. They are
abundant.
| looked into the toll gate question
just little to find out how the ex-
pertinent was working out. The sup
ervisors of the county had meeting
on the 17th., and found that the re-
ceipts from the three toll gates for
the month of July amounted to thir-
teen hundred and some odd dollars.
They spent during the month about
seventeen hundred dollars on the
roads. They are using Tarvia, and
this is costly Tho lnnnnrc nrn M III