The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-02-11
ANOTHER letter
OF "reminiscences
toN HUTCHINSON WRITES INTER.
EsTINoLY OF OLD TIMES
IN LOUISA.

A few days ago DR.. Wroten received
well-written letter from Mr.. Lor
Hutchison. of Huntington so full OF in
teresting reminiscence that the re-
cipient OF the epistle considers IL wor-
thy OF place in. the NEWS. Lon was
an old Masonic Academy boy. bright
intelligent lad. The surviving boys
and girlsr who were his schoolmates
viii read his letter with great pleasure
DR.. @, w. Wroten.
Louisa, KY.
Ny Dear Old Teacher:
In glancing through copy OF one OF
the dailies that | happened to run
across, In the items from Louisa.
read that "Dr. @. w. Wroten. who has
been III for some time is improving.S
This item called up flood OF mem
ories, and decided to write you let
ter. Let me say In the begiriAing.
trust you have fully recovered. and
that you have many years OF life yet
before you, although you must be well
UP in years noY, as | recentlJ parsed
the 5sth mile post myself.
was called To Louisa hurriediy a
wear or 20 ago. but found time before
the train left to run up to the old .Ja-
sonic Academy TO see II could find
my fathers mark" my idea being 20
adopt that as mine when ! take the
Chapter. have filled the chairs IN the
Blue Lodge. and am a Past Master
The old school house seemed famil-
inr. although II a9rearcd verg mach
smaller than wheh | p4t In 50 many
happy hours there. Let's see. ! can re-
call John Ferguson, Frank Golden, Jim
Johnston, John and Milt Hager, Fred
Gallup, John Swetnam, Bill Caperton.
Baz Hayes, Jim ard Harry Johns, John
Clayton, Jonas Whit, Frank Wallace,
Crooks Mcclure. Lindsey Wellman,
"Granhy" Hale. Penn, John and Lace
Marcum, John Bromley. Mart and
Charley Yates. George Goble, Lewis
tie. Fred wellman, Albert Murray,
Fred Moore, Gene Wallace, Joe Bus
sey. Taylor Vinsen, Andrew Loar. Fred
and VIII Sullivan. John Diamond, Alex
and Jim Lackey, Jerry Diamond, Henry
Ferguson. Jimmie, Amick, Sam, Frank
and Al Savage. Millard Jared. Dora
Holt, John Justice and "Granny's Jim
mie" -Frazier, on one side. as well as
Ada, Ida and Liza Rice. Launa and
Laura Jones. Maggie Mckenzie, Laura
Ferguson, Hannah Moore, Lizzie Yates,
Katie Freeze, Sue Webb, Ida, Ella and
Becky Wellman, Mary Short. Rose and
Trim Swetnam, Mary Lackey, Clara
Prichard. Eugenla Hatcher. Becky
Bromley, Katie Burns, EN-. and Vic
Wellman. Puss and LII. Goble. Josie
L.ayne, Elias Johns. Maggie Savage,
Melissa Wellman, Mary and Vic Vim
son, Kate Sullivan, and others on the
girls side.
| wonder IL any OF the boys ever
think over the old times. A history OF
your scholars would no doubt make in
teresting and varied reading. recall
studious times, all right. as well as the
wonderful stories Miss Mary Mont
gomery used to read us; the spirited
games OF Prisoners Base. Town Ball.
"Cat" and later Base Ball. Then there
were the excursions to Mil creek for
cedar for decorative purposes, the an
nual fishing trips TO Two Mile" and
the wonderful strings OF three inch and
less "sun pearches" we would bring
home; the skating on Lick creek and
the Sunday afternoon trips to the hills
for mountain tea"
Then the songs we used to sing
Come where the Heather Bloometh,"
''The Moon liz beaming DER the Lake"
THE Marseilaise" and Johnny Smok-
er," Then there was the Exhibitor
at the end OF the school year. My first
appearance. believe. was as Col. Tom
Thumb, with Mary Belle Bowe, as La
vinia warrenl Do you remember the
time when Penn. Marcum was thrilling
the audience with "Lochiers Warning"
and forgot his lines and had to go of
the stage? i can see now the SAP
IENTIA OMNIBUS PRAESTAT'' done
in evergreen by the gifted Henry Stew
art, which graced the walls for months
after the exhibition. Do you remem-
ber the ever So often blowing the SCOT
out OF the stove pipe with powder,
which called for the services OF two
of the larger boys to hold the top lid
down? And the wonderful experiments
in Chemistry you used to perform be-
fore the class with every scholar In
school paying attention) Happy. hap
py days. Every foot of the old town
from Green McHenry's wharf to the
Fort Hill, and from Grandma Jones to
Wallace's is dear to me. Pawpaws
were never so plentiful and luscious
as those that grew on Virginia Point,
and who ever saw such ''punkins" as
grew in the field below John Pigg's big
barn? The old loafing places, Sam
Berry Justices shoe shop. Bill Troy's
paint shop, 'Nard Hollis brick yard,a
Bob Clears Cabinet shop stand out.
remember Bobs old fiddle and his sug-
gestive rendering OF the unfortunate
Dog" Then there were the games Of
hand ball, as played by George John
son, Marion Stone and others, at the
rear OF the Jail ttS
can remember Dick Wilson's "belch
ing" Tip Moore's pigeon -toed walk.
and Doc. Shannon's "suttin and sure"
also recall the time the "Eclampus
Vitus" were holding occasional ses-
sions, and the admission made by old
Grandpap Holt. can name most of
the men OF the town, beginning with