Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-10-20
BoTETOURT Is FLoURIsHING.
The Senior Editor Returns From An
nual Trip to Old Home.

The Senior editor of this paper has
returned from a two weeks visit of
BUSINESS and pleasure combined to
the old home ncighborhood in Botc-
tourt county. He had great trip.
Everywhere were evidences of unprec-
edented prosperity. Business, road
building, schools and churches-cv-
erything is on healthy boom. In
he old home neighborhood, near Hol-
Inns, the boys were busy gathering
and ship"ino apples, sowing wheat,
hauling tan-bark, adding to and paint
ing their new school buildings, and
all of them nlanning new moves for
the future. AS to politics, they are
not troubling themselves. They all
seem satisfied that President Wilson
will be reelected and said, "he is
good enough, let well enough alone"
They all expressed themselves as
hapnv in the great prosperity which
their community, along with the en-
tire United States, is now enjoying,
and can see no reason for risking II
change at this time, but every reason
why they should not.
Roanoke n Busy City.
There is something doing in the
Magic City all the time. In nassing
through ran up against three great
revivals-Baptist, Presbyterian, and
United Brethren. A great religious
wave seemed spreading over the city.
The Shriners from all over the State
and visiting Shriners from other
states, invaded the city on Saturday,
the 14th, and literally "took the town"
which was virtually turned over to
The boys. Buffalo Bill was there on
the preceding Saturday. The parade
held the town for more than an hour.
After leaving Roanoke for Norfolk, q
car or two of the train CARRYING the
show was wrecked. killing % horses
and soaring the Indians on the train
out of their wits.
l had the pleasure or meeting JOS.
Stras, Judge Stuart. Col. Browning,
J. Ran Henry, Millard Stultz, Lane
Whitley, all former Tazewell citizens.
Professor Meadow and his wife, well
known music teachers, Prof. Coulter,
the young and enthusiastic President
of the National Business College, and
other leading citizens of the citv
President Coulter took me through his
large school building and l saw the
students and teachers at work, and Il
fine body-hundreds of them they
seemed to be. said to one man,
Roanoke is coming ety." He re-
piled, you're wrong. Roanoke has
already come. We will be, some day,
the largest city in the State"
Uncle 81 Years Old.
On Sunday, in company with rel
ative, A. S. Leslie. visited an old
uncle, the onlv living brother of my
fathers, who lives six miles south of
Roanoke. He is in his Oath year and
is hale and hearty. His mind is as
clear as it ever was. But for an af-
Fiction of total blindness he would be
quite active. had not seen him for
years, and was pleased to find him
cheerful and happy.
The extreme ares of this old veter
an and also of his family, is remark
able and unusual. "Uncle Jim" is 9l.
or nearly so. My father is 81, aunt
Lizzie is 81. These three are all that's
left of famil of 12-7 boys and s
girls, only one of whom died under
70 years of aoe. These facts may
not be of public interest, but are re-
corded here for those who may be
interested in such gossip"
Should ] live to make my 1917
Annual" and l expect to, I will have
more to say of "the best people on
earth," particularly and of the land
where the skies are always bright,
and the sun forever Shines" j. A. l..