Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-27
. CHURCH SOCIETIES
ANNOUNCEMENT

passport was sent two years ago, and
1t made him a month late reaching
Canada to cure tobacco. /;
The rain still fell. There were huge
mill wheels turned by water from
mountain streams. They were decora-
tons for several filling stations. :
tourist camp had their cabins FASH
Toned like Indian wigwams. We soon!
reached Swain county.
At several places the stream ran
differently from us-as we went up,
the stream ran down, and as we
went down, the stream ran up. For
some distance, it had been banked
high on both sides to keep from ovre:
flowing the fields.
Finally we reached Cherokee, the
village of more than $4,000 acres In
dian reservation. There we met Chief
Granddaughter, Chief of the Archers.
He wants to come to. the schools in
our section this winter and put on
exhibitions of shooting arrows, and
other forms of entertainment. He
gave me his autograph (by request)
also writing it in his own language,
which is pronounced like this in our
language - All wi-go-to gah. Thou
sands of articles made of wood, beads
and clay were on sale there, made
by the Indians.
We went upwards for about six
miles, and then went as nearly
straight up as possible for another
six miles. We reached the Tennessee
line where there was a park. I went
into Tennessee five times-I just
walked across the state line and back.
The wind was almost blowing a
gale. We could not see but q short
distance for the fog, SO had all our
trip for nothing, On pretty day we
could have gone six or seven miles
further up and seen across the noun,
tains for SO miles or more, so they
said. But we turned around and were
glad to get away as the weather
turned out so bad.
The whole National Park is said
to contain nearly half million acres
of land. Coming back down we stopped
in at the Kephart CCC camp near.
Smokemont We met Clyde B. Perry,
the mess sergeant, who sent for Ed
son Sturges for us. Edison is son
of Charles r. Sturges, of Middleburg
He has been at. the camp for nearly
three years, having worked himself
up to the office of park service clerk.
He is fine young fellow, and we.
were real glad to have gone by and
to have met him.
Charlie Thomas, of Henderson, is
also in that same camp, but we did
not get to meet Charlie. We saw sew
eral big pools of the state fish hatch
cry at the camp.
Several miles from there is another
big division of the State hatchery,
but we did not stop there. We got
back to the lake before supper time
and stopped at the post office and got
some more mail from home We had
travelled 119 miles to the Great Smoky
Mountains, only to see a cold, smoky
fog. But we enjoyed the trip just the
same.
Back to our Cherokee Inn where
Mrs. Medford had us another good
supper waiting. There was nothing on
the program at the auditorium for to-
night, so we walked around the
grounds until almost dark, and then
went inside. We found that Mrs.
Snipes had called on us while we
were gone
There are several Boy and Girl
Scout camps near here A crowd of
young boys from Alabama and Missis-
sippi are here. Several folks have
caught some good sized fish out Of
the lake. We haven't yet gone fishing.
We truly hope the sun will shine
out before we leave, or we will all
get mildewed, but we are enjoying our
stay UP here
hope a dozen or two folks from
Granville will have Dispatch renewal
saving for me when l get home. So
will say goodbye for this time
T. MOSES JONES.
Lake Junaluska, July %, 1888.
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