The times-news., 1935-12-17

in the past few months. The peo-
pie are healthy and happy, and
not family or individual of the
colony has been on the relief rolls.
All of them are great hunters and
good shots, and nearly every cart
ridge or shell fired adds a squir-
rel, rabbit or bird to the family
larder. Coon hunting is particular
ly attractive to Roscoe Warren, in
charge of the mountain properties
of the Chimney Rock company.
When the writer and Preacher j.
R. Owen of the French Broad Ave
nue. Baptist church in Asheville,
arrived at Mr.. Warren's hospitable
mountain home at dark, they were
accorded a warm welcome, but ad-
lvised that Mr.. Warren and his bro
ther had gone to Bat Cave In the
afternoon and would coon-hunt
back home, and if they treed a
coon they would not be home till
morning unless they got the coon
earlier. "And," Mrs. Warren con-
tinued, "you know we expected
you up here last Sunday to help
US organize a Sunday school, and
they went out Saturday night and
got two coons and you missed
something good" Mute evidence
of this statement was the two coon
. skins carefully stretched and nail,
ed to the wall on one end of the
: cabin. A bounteous supper was
provided. The two fine. bows built
great log fire in the big fire.
place, and the satisfaction. con,
tentment and hospitality of g
mountain home was evident. Al
daybreak next morning. 5ust as
. the call to breakfast, was being
sounded, Mrs. Warren, looking out
of the open door saw big. black
hound with long flapping ears
trotting up the pathway through q
thick fog and said there's the dog
coming, the men are close behind, .
and in a couple of minutes the two
men emerged from the fog and
came into the big room before the
bright warm fire. They had treed
coon in a rock cliff, slept in the
leaves all night, and failed to gel
the coon, and told us what we haC
missed in not being there to helI
eat the two fine coons the Sunday
before.
There are 43 people in the nine
families, with 25 children. There
has been but Is months of schoo
on the mountain in 20 years. Thi'
situation came to the attention ot
! the Rev. H. l.. Hampton, Baptis
! minister who was unit chairman
OF adult work for Rutherford
, county. He visited the colony, as
certained all of the conditions
, and brought the matter up to th'
, attention of the school authorl
: ties, and through the efforts of 0
S ]. Holler of Rutherford county
: member of the state school board
: and ]. ]. Tarlton, county superln
: tendent of schools for Rutherfor'
f county, an additional school teach
+ er for Rutherford county was au
= thorized, and Mr.. Hampton aske'
to take the work, which he did.
The children are strong AM
/, healthy, and eager to learn, Mr.
, Hampton states, mentioning a bo.
eight years old who did not know
| letter, who then, within fiv'
| weeks, had vocabulary of Owe
| 40 words which he could recog
| nize anywhere, and spell eacl
/ word; while girl of 18 who coult
H read as well as the usual seventl
II or eighth grade pupil, could no
add, subtract, multiply or divide
h had within a few weeks learned
/ the fundamentals of arithmetic
and was making rapid progress. a.
II indeed, were all the children.
II The school is housed at presen
in an old log house formerly use,
as a home, where Mrs. Rosco
Warren was born, and furnishe,
\ free by DR.. L. B. Moorse for thi
/ school work. The seats are al
/ homemade. The log ioists of tn,
i room just clear the head of Mr.
/ Hampton when standing by al
|! inch and half, he being six fee
i two and a half inches tall. Mr.
/ Hampton is native of -Ruther
! ford. county, and has two sons, on,
J. IN T., Jr.;. six feet 'sixsand hal
n inches tall, student at Collowhe
g Normal school, and Hugh, "Red,
; six feet four and half inches,
- student at Rutherford high schoo
: and star basketball player.
: Arrangements are being mad
't to build a new school house mex
n year after school closes in May, t
~ be in readiness when the 1913
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