The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1916-12-27
From North Carolina.
baltimore, Dec, 16, 1916.

friends, if l have any, the compli-
ments of the season. Ten years ago 1
was in the hallowed precincts of the
"Old Kentucky Home;" but in that
time many changes have transpired.
In the first place the fierce spirit
with the glass and scythe has taken
his remorseless toll, and many vacan-
cies are in the ranks of people 1 once
knew. Among these may be men
toned John r. Johnson, G. H. Muir
rell, Mrs. James GARRETT, relict of
Judge Garnett, DR. U. l.. Taylor,
Ulysses Hurt, etc. Besides being call
ed TO the spirit land, OILERS have done
as did-folded their tents like the
Arab and silently stole away.
Carroll county, Mo-, is pretty well
peopled with Kentuckians and their
descendants, many from Adair county.
Among these may be mentioned Bran
White, my brother, George Franklin,
my neighbor, while Bob White, Oren
White and John White, also my BROTH
ers, have accumulated grub stake in
Carroll and departed for greener
fields and pastures new. Bran White
and George Franklin think Carroll
county good enough, and 1 say, "Me
too" Also in Carroll county are
found my esteemed friends, Tinker
Tom Taylor, Luther Wilmore, etc.
Mrs. M. E. Dohoney (nee Hurt lives
in New Mexico, and Mrs Bell Snow
Patterson in Oklahoma. Both Of
these estimable ladies were products
of Tabor region, and were my school,
mates in bygone days. Mrs Dohoney
was also my teacher; but doubtless is
not proud of her handiWork. Among
other KentuckianS who went to Mis-.
souri, to grow up with the country.
were W. S. Hurt and r. S. Snow.
They and their wives respectively,
Corinna Snow and Bell Conover, were
products of Kentucky. Kentuckians
are arestless set. All formerly abused
that state, and classed it in Poverty
Row Yet it is'a good state if it
would take the public roads out of the
creeks. build better highways and
quit expecting the L. & N. R..R.
Company to build a line through
Adair county. When you see Long
Bob Gonover take hold of his boot
straps and lift himself over the Co.
lumbia courthouse, about then that
corporation will extend branch line
through your region.
You people think too little of your
county and its possibilities. In North
Carolina, every man is Scion Single
and the same pride dwells in the bosom
Of native son of Missouri. Scion
Shingle boosted: 81 fit in the Revolu-
tion; likewise my grandfather driv a
baggage wagon" In North Carolina
they boast that the rest of the world
is in outer darkness so far as vital and
undefiled religion is concerned; and
that they did about all the fighting in
the Revolution and the Southern Con-
federacy. Also, that this state is the
home of oratorY, the abiding place of
the muse; and that if Liberty ever
wings its flight to other shores the
Genius of Freedom, exemplified by
the Old North State, will make it's
last stand in that sacred palladium
and weep over the shade of departed
grandeur. Kentucky is ridiculed for
giving every man a military title; but
here you can't throw rock without
hitting titled dignitary A singing
teacher, a saw mill man, horse doc
tor or piano tuner, are all professors;
while editors, correspondents, lawyers
and county officers are decorated with
titles of major, colonel and captain.
Allow me to assure Col. L. B. Hurt
that he does not outrank me; for am
Col. Corn Cracker in newspaperdom.
Allow me to further state that write
for papers of several states, and even
receive some very modest checks for
my contributions.
Missouri believes that Missouri will
first hear the trump of the Judgment
Archangel, and they are the saints
who will judge the earth. The people
there were surprised that 1 had seen
gang-plows, disc-Harrows, wheat
threshed by steam; or farm cultivat-
or of any description. They seemed
to think we still cut wheat with a
sickle, plowed with steers and bull
tongues, and cleaned wheat with the
obsolete grounding" Twas coaxed
to go and see steam thresher at work,
and told not to be frightened at the
sight of an automobile. 1 had ridden
in dozen or more Fords, Overlands
and Maxwells, and managed to pre-
serve my .intrepidity in the presence
of touring car. In fact one of my
boys had one.
Allow me to say voted fer Wilson,
as did majority of nearly $4,000 in
North Carolina. Col. Roosevelt car
'ried the East for Wilson, while the
matchleSs Nebraskian, w. J. Bryan,