Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-09-29

pccehsiy ny Hlr. ~. ID. Wmto, OF TINS
town:
Portland Oregon, Aug 25.
Dear Old Friend:
1t hns been over month since |
received your last letter, and / will
now try to answer, though / am do
ing so under adverse conditions.
wrote to Jeff Ward some time ago,
as l had been owing him letter for
quite while, and my next letter
was to be to YOU when suddenly
without any warning my eyes went
on u strike. woke up one morning
I to find my eyes so bleared that l
could hardly see, especially the right
one, which l always considered tho
best one. can barely see the shadow
it, and with the left one is all can
do to follow the lines as ] write.
have no idea Of the cause us they do
not pain me in the least, no apparent
inflammation and except for appearing
little weak, you could not tell there
was anything the matter, and / am
hopping they will eventually clear up
as they are not quito So bad as ut
first, and | can see to read the pnp-
ers little. | went to an opticinn who
examined them and said there was
nothing wrong that he could find, us
both the outer and inner fluids were
perfectly clear, and he thought it
was from some arrangement in my
system, caused possibly from high
blood pressure or uric acid, which if
corrected they would clear up-but
do not think that l have either, but
am taking kidney pills for tho acid
and if that does not help, will have
test for blood pressure.
Well, life is just one d. thing
aftor another, and its no use to howl,
but l would much rather To have it
all called off at once, and ring down
the curtain i'll finale than to go stone
blind, and spend the remainder of my
life in darkness and helpless. That
is condition that to ME would be un-
bearablc.
l was sorry to hear of the death
of your only brother, for l know
how it made you feel, as l have cx-
perienced the same thing, still you
are more fortunate than I, as you
have one sister left, and am the last
leaf one tho branch Of my fathers
family, and the frost Of time will
soon wlther me and / will fall to
enrich my Mother Earth.
The announcement of Elizabeth's
marriage came yesterday, also in the
c. v. N. that came the day before. l
hope she got good man, and you
know they have my best wishes.
Your girls in marrying do the same
thing mine did, that is they go quiet
away from the old home, but never
the less they found the way back
every once in n while, but believe
the girls are more apt to do thnt
than the boys, after they marry cspec-
tally if they have little grand child
for old Granddad and those little
grand children sure do get next to
you.
Billy Wharton was z, July 25, is
overgrown for his age and is get
ting away from me little, does not
stick around so close as he used to,
except when he wants to work me
for nickel, or an ice cream cone or
candy, and he knows how, but Ben
ME was the one that stuck tighter
than shoe wax to me, and if he had
taken notion that he wanted Me-
ser and Franks big department store
he would have felt sure that "Grand-
, fardic" would buy it for him. Jack,
Sabra and Billy are here, but Mary
and Bennie are in northern Arizon-
and / do not know when will see
them again. They went there tho
middle of June. At that time Ben
thought he would get through wit
his work by the last Of September.
He had sub-contracted under man,
who was laying double track for the
Santa Fe r. r. and he thought he
had good show to make good mon
ey, as material and labor there, Mex
ican) was cheaper than here, and
Everything for the first two months
went fine-then the rains came, and
ono cloud BURST after another, like
the one that washed Liberty out in
1902, and did so much damage that
the contractor that Ben had subbed
from went dead broke, and the last
we heard from Mary was that the
railroad had men there checking up
his work, and auditing his accounts,
and they were wanting Ben to take
over the remainder of the work on
salary basis and per cent. Possb-
ly he may do that to get on his feet
again, and il he does no telling when
they will be back. In Mary's letter
she said that owing to the strike,
they ran out of material and provis-
ions for the men, and had to let
them all go, but few on the cement
work. The train men on that road
went on strike on account Of run
down, bad engines and tho trouble
with armed guards, and It was two
weeks before the trouble was patched
lup-and travel over the line is about
nothing on account Of the danger.
| You remember Mrs. Linkoua, the
girls aunt who used to live in Rad
ford, but now in Roanoke? Sho is
in very bad health and not expected
to live much longer, and my child
rens nearest living relative, and as
neither Of the girls can go to see her
at this time John wants to go. He
applied the frat Of this month for O
pass-as far as he can get, which
will only be to Omaha, about hall
way and then he will buy reduced
mileage fro mthsrs on, but up to this
time he has heard nothing from it
: and says that II he did have it, he