Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-21
PLEASANT HILL DOING THINGS
zone of the Folks" Tells About the Re-
cent Community Meeting.

Mighty fine dav we have been having.
DiG you ever see anything finer than
these warm, hazy, Indian Summer
days? When the frost is on the punk
in and the folders IN the shock.
When the 'tater in the cellar and the
fall work most all done jest seems like
1t fills mans soul with content. /
wonder how many folks there would be
Iivln' here, if they knew what a
Pleasant Hill this is to settle on? /
reckon God must have been feelln'
mighty fen when He made this part of
the world.
"Yes, remember. was going to
tell you some about the new Dispen-
sary up at the Academy. but you see
1t was this away. l started up there
just like / told you, and jest as wac
gettln' started met the Mayor and he
said, Amt you goin' up to the commu-
nifty meetin?' Well. you know plumb
forgot 1T. So. went to that neetin'
instead of to the DIspensary. and am
sure glad / went.
"You see the folks in Tennessee have
been realizin' for a long time that
Pleasant Hill Academy has been kept
a goin long time by outside friends
who wanted to give the mountain boys
snd girls a chance for an education,
and. some years, the money spent here
has been as much as SIX or seven
thousand dollars year, just to help
Tennessee mountain folks, and hardly
anything has been done by Tennessee
people.
"Well, the more the Pleasant Hill
folks thought about it the more they
wanted to do something to show their
appreciation Of the friends of the Insti-
tuition. And the upshot of all this is
that they called meetin and went to
work and organized club to work out
some scheme to do something worth
while. They elected the Principal
President of the Club, cause you see
he has the gift of talk. do believe
Prof. Wheeler had him scum a mile in
doing things, but this new man he's
some ideas in his head that If they
work out will help Pleasant Hill to
step 10 line and do some things HER
SELF.
They elected some committees, one
of them on Constitution and Bylaws.
cause they want things run straight
and sciefftfffc. And a committee on
membership, cause they amt goin' to
be satisfied until they have every
family in the community belongln' to
it. Then they elected committee on
improved agriculture, cause outside Of
raisn boys and girls IN the Academy
to be the finest possible, the main hope
of Pleasant Hill is her farming. Prof.
said he never saw the beat of corn and
potatoes we do raise here when we get
at it right. Then they had a commit
tee on publicity, SO that the world will
know that Pleasant Hill is not only a
Pleasant, but profitable place to live,
and the safest place anybody can send
their boys and girls to school.
Then. best Of all, they elected a
committee to study the needs of the
Academy and see what we folks of the
nelghborhood can do to prove our inter-
est IN, and love for. the Institution
thst has done so much for Tennessee
young people.
Interested! They sure were. And
l bet copper cent there is going to
be something doin'. Why there was
thirty Of the man folks of the town
out to that mectin' after hard day s
work, several of them bein' the young
men of the town.
"When they elected the committees
they put on the strongest men and wo-
men they could get. There was only
one thing about 1t that struck me as
queer. They put nary one of the
young men on committee. / was
talkin' to the Professor about it after.
wards and he said that was all right
for he hoped to organize the young men
into some special work inside the main
Club. tell you I'm plumb glad to see
things movln' along this way.
"Some young fellows that used to 60
to school here was a visitin' us the
other day and they said they was a
hearin some mighty fine things about
the school all around. And then near
ly every week new students are comm
in. 1t they keep on at this rate the
school will be as big as ever this win.
ter. | am sure within them good luck
and am ready to help any way l can.