Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-08-27
TWO WEEKS spent
in OLD BOTfTOURT
Annual Vacation Most Enjoy
able One Yet-Mrs. Senator
Kern-Autos Show Pros
perity-Other Notes.

After about two weeks vacation
spent at the old home, "where the
skies arc always bright and the sun
forever shines" am back at the old
grind, ION the job" for another years
run. l had great timc-renlly the
best, ] think, of any preceding can
nual." y number of readers of this
paper will expect, and enjoy, little
gossip about this trip, so here it is.
THE NEW LEBANON ASSOCIA-
TION.
On the way out | attended meet
ing of the New Lebanon Association.
which met in Bluefield, where heard
fine sermon from Rev. Mr.. Stinson,
a good address from Lieutenant Gov
ernor Ellyson, in advocacy Of minis
terial education. Mr.. Ellyson has been
the secretary Of the Education Board
of the Baptist denomination of Vir-
ginia ever since / could remember.
He has helped through College u large
number of young minister's, many of
whom are occupying prominent pull
pits in this and other states. He is,
perhaps, the best known Baptist lay
man in the State. He is no longer.
young but not less vigorous than in
years gone by, and feels fully COM
potent physically as otherwise, to fill
the office of Governor of the State.
to which he aspires. If the Baptist
people of the State had the deciding
voet he'd get what he asks for be-
yond question, and large number of
folks say he will get it anyway.
The sessions of the Association
were held in the First Baptist church,
of which Rev. Mr.. Mabec is pastor.
The building is nice new structure,
with all the modern improvements and
accessories necessary, and Mr.. Mabee,
q believe that's the proper way to
spell his name-may-be it is and may
be it is not)-is a scholarly, energetic
man of fine presence and many good
qualities of head and heart, but ! am
giving perhaps too much of my limit
ed space to this part OF my trip.
On Saturday | went out of Roanoke
with my old friend, MIR. Ernest Riley.
on his onc-horse Wagon. He has some
100 acres of good land in "The Cove,".
and does Il large trucking business,
besides grain and stock farming. The
farmers of the Cove, as have stated
IN other communications, have pros
pered wonderfully within the past ten
years, growing fruits and vegetables
for the Roanoke market The boys
say they won't make as much money
this year as in a number of previous
years, for the reason that everything
is so abundant this year as to reduce
prices. With the exception of apples
there are enormous crops of every
thing. The corn crop will be shorter
than usual, owing to quite drought
during July. But they are prosperous
al the same.
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS.
When l reached the community on
Saturday evening l found an ice
cream supper and speechmaking, etc.,
In full swing at the church, the object
of which was to raise funds for re-
pairs, painting, etc. Prof. j. A. Turner,
of Hollins, was one of the speakers
He talks sense" all the time and
every time. He is a business man.
Besides other duties he grows fine
uiiN oeiiSi iesSSSS anu iISO
grain. He has, it is said, the finest
herd of Holstein dairy cows in the
State. In all the FarmerS' Institutes
he is prominent and helpful, and takes
leading part in church work. Being
an ardent and intelligent Baptist he
is helpful to his pastor, Rev. DR..
Taylor, who breaches once month in
the Cove.
MRS. SENATOR KERN.
Besides Mr.. Turner's address, Mrs.
Kern, wife of Senator John w. Kern,
also made an intelligent address. Sen
ator Kern has, as the readers of this
paper will recall, summer home in
this community, and Mrs. Kern gives
much help to the little church. l heard
her distinguished husband speak in
Fincastle during the Bryan-Kern cam
paign in which both of them went
down in defeat, and after hearing
Mrs. Kern l was led to think that she
might have turned the tide had she
been given a part in that campaign.
Somebody remarked, "She can beat
the Senator speakin'"
Mrs. Lucien II. Cooke, wife of the
we'll known lawyer, of Roanoke, made
an address which clearly indicated her