The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-09-02
J. H. WICKER TELLS OF TRIP
HIMSELF AND BILLIE MAYES
Tate Spring, Tenn, Aug.
To The Herald and News,
Da,n M. E1;+or.

Dear Mr.. Editor:
will give you an account of Billie
Mayes and myself since we left New
berry on last Thursday, after getting
permission from my wife, and Billie
from his. We left Newberry for a
trip not knowing where to go. Our
first stop was at Greenville for din
ner, then Hendersonville for one day
and night, then to Asheville for one
day and night, then to Chimney Rock
for half day, then to Newport, Nor
ristown, to Hot Springs and then to
Tate Spring, and will leave here Fri
day for Knoxville, will stay there for
two days, and will then start home.
So far we had the incest time any
two boys ever had, the roads have
been good, especially after getting
into Greenville and Spartanburg, and
all the way through North Carolina
and Tennessee, all these have been
worked by bonds, and all you have
to do is to sit still and let her go
from rs to as fast as she can go:
Mr.. Aull, get busy on good roads,
nothing helps the county like good
roads. You ought to see the roads
up the mountains after having been
graded and worked. We have climb
ed long high mountains in high
gear. Tell McKardy if he has any
more autos as good as Bucks l will
sell all he has, she is a hummer.
Back to good roads, let me say
that any one who is against good
roads is fool, I mean all of this.
Now, back to Hendersonville. We
found it crowded, couldn't accomo-
date it's guests. We went to the
Carolina Terrace, but couldn't get in
after having telegraphed two days
ahead, then we tried at the Kentucky
Home, got in by sleeping at private
home. Here you get the best food in
the United States. Hendersonville is
overflowing. While at Hendersonville
we went to see Chimney Rock. At
ter landing the first man we saw,
was Mr. and Mrs. Dibble, you know
we were glad to see them, and they
were glad to see US. I would love to
describe this place to you if had
any sense, but this is beyond me. At
ter getting to the top of Chimney
Rock felt like hollering loud enough
for all of you to hear me, and say,
all you Jews, Gentiles, Isrealites,
Sinners, and Reprobates, work hard
and save your money, and come up
here and see a country what God
made, wonderful. Here we found
the incest crowd you most ever saw,
none too big or nice for us not to
butt-in; and, say, Billies must be a
mighty nice man for no crowd yet
has turned us down and when leav-
ing time comes they ask us to dine
or go with them, and ! know that
they enjoy our company and we
theirs.
Do you know that is a beautiful
country to live in, if we knew how to
live, so few know how. We ought
to work hard when we work, and
then take trip to the mountains for
10 days or more, to get away from
work, for rest and thought.
What 1 have said about Hender-
sonville could be said about Ashe-
vile as to being over-crowded. l
will skip our trip to Newport and
Morristown, for this is getting too
long, but 1 do want to say something
about Hot Springs. BY auto this is
the most strenuous trip in America.
We got lost on a good road and had
to double back, and had to make 9
miles in the night. Of this I don't
know what to say, for on one side
cliffs hundreds of feet high, on the
other side 100 feet straight down, and
it night. I asked Billie if he thought
the Lord would take care Of US.
Billie laughed but he was scared, the
road not over 8 feet wide. For 3
miles I stood upon the brakes, down,
down, down, as steep as any shed on