The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-01-21
plantation and things upset general

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| have been to Tilico River, saw
an old monument erected in memory
of the first English settlement west
of the Alegeheney mountains. This
is the land between the Tennessee anC
Ielico rivers. l was up the Iellct
to Hawkins mill, once a noted spot
for moonshine and it is in yer!
picturesque place surrounded witt
mountain scenery, high hills and ricf
land but very steep. saw one WON
an gathering corn and the land 81
steep her husband was hauling the
corn to the road with sled and mule
and throwing it into the wagon ane
thence home where the children will
no doubt, shell it and make food fol
the next year.
The Christmas season is on now
the moonshiners and prohibition of.
ficers being very busy. | have just
been looking into the court house
basement at fourteen demolished
stills taken lately by the officers
and many men of the vets are in
jail, some out on bond We can about
find what we are looking for, good OF
bad. in ranging over our old haunts
Some of the changes are where we
least expected, many of them being
for the better.
/ am visiting Mr.. Ben Sands, (clerk
and master of the Chancery Court
and he has been kind enough to allow
me to look through the files of 1882
in his office and one can be enter
tanned for days and weeks looking
over the doings of nearly one century
ago, now see how we have advanced
and compare conditions with then and
now and note the market values of
produce and articles sold, viz: Reed.
of Isaiah K. Johnson, one Negro
boy, (King) man worth $1,000
which am to account for in settle
ment of the estate of j. K. Johnston.
This 18th day of JAM, 1882.
Another transaction recorded later
in the same files: Reed. by Louticia
Jane Wright, 2 negro girls worth
$1,000; piano worth $500; household
furniture worth $50; 2 negros worth
$1,000, Emma and she negro baby;
one horse or mare worth 500; cow
and calf worth $40; flour, corn, etc.,
worth $50; negros, Bob, Al and
Lige for $1,000. The papers filed in
court at this time are similar to this.
am glad to see Announcements all
along the line. l see fine court
house, numerous churches, fine
school with perhaps 500 students. 8
miles south of Hiwassee College,
good roads and plenty of cars of var
ious types and shades and on the
whole, Tennessee is coming to the
front and fine place for a good
home. but for me and mine, give me
the West and in that West give me
the Yakima Valley and in that val
ley give me Hover.
12-3O-25.
The Christmas is over and the boys
and girls are being called to school.
We have had cold spell for the past
six days, the mercury fell to three
above zero and frozen up a few pipes
but no great damage. The holidays
have not been kept in riotous man.
ner. just as quietly as in the old days.
Very little complaint of drunkenness
or misbehavior of any kind. The holi-
day trade was very good so the mer-
chants say. The roads were very
muddy but have frozen over. I made
a trip few days ago in a Ford, with
a one legged man and an old man
too feeble and fixed up to wade in
the mud SO as usual. had the brunt
to bear and got out to hunt a man to
pull US out of the mud. went to q
cross road store and found a very
pleasant young fellow to put us on
the "pike" That is what we call the
gravelled road.
There is about the same amount
of effort to sell the tobacco crop here
as there is to sell the winter apples
in the Yakima valley. The news pa
pers state that the tobacco crop of
East Tennessee is to be three million
dollars, but this has been very poor
year, too dry. Prices range from IL
to "a cents per pound, according to
grade. Some sell thru the association
and others thru commission houses
Some sell as private individuals or tc
agents sent out by the manufacture
ing houses. The same modes are il