The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-07-31
Open Forum
COLUMN
FOR THE VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE
Dear Mr.. Anderson:

eence I would be glad to express
a few thoughts to- your, readers
although / realize that some peo-
pie adnnonish us. to think in
terms Of the futureJ nor OF the
past. l have spent large part of
my life outside my native coun-
Ety. still it does. not follow events
and people with whom was IA
miliar in my childhood and ear
ly manhood days have all been
relegated to oblivion. My mind
persists in running back to people
and occurrences Of my earlier
days. My memory recalls one Will
! born Waters or Walters, an old
hunter and trapper who operated
extensively in the Pond Noun
tain and Whitetop sections and
! quite often dropped in at our
place in his travels from one
scene of operations to another. He
was said to be about one-half In
dian and was hard to please about
his meals. If his food was a little
under or over done or anything
else did not suit him he did not
hesitate to order it taken back
and he would tell the housewife
Just how he wanted it.
Someone wrote a history of him
but it never did come to my
knowledge until after I was
away from that county. I hope
yet to run onto this history.
Do any of the Post readers
know anything about him that
would add to my incomplete
knowledge?
Another character of whom l
have heard many stories related
to his eccentricities, was a preach
err named Sheffee. Who would re-
late something they might know
about Mr.. Sheffee? 1t occurs to
me that something of this nature
in the Post might be an inter-
esting feature for your splendid
paper.
And who recalls Mr.. Solomon
Cox who by his dress and the ap-
pearance of his teams presented
an excuse to be considered OF no
Importance. But who having a
number of stores in the county
drove his team to different
storehouse than he had been 60
ing to. The salesman considering
it poor prospect for a fat sale
was in no hurry to 'offer his SER
vices. Mr.. Cox walked over and
asked the price of coal oil. The
clerk thinking him a slim pros
pect for wholesale customer
named a price which Mr.. Cox
knew to be very low. He took
fat roll of currency from his poe
ket and the clerk thinking to rec
tify his blunder told Cox he was
Joking about the price and could
not sell it for the price he named.
The customer told him he
would sell at the price he named.
When the clerk realized the sit
uation he said, IF you have that
much money why don't you dress
better and drive a better team?"
The reply was. II do when l go
anyplace."
To extend the list of people
who have departed this life in
my time to the full limit of my
recollection would be apt to
make it too long for publication
but there are two more men
whose memory is almost sacred
to me, namely Ambrose Weaver,
with his beautiful life and pre-
cept and his earnest and sincere
preaching and my dear friend
D. M. GRAPHICAL who died in the
service of the M. E. Church.
And now Walter and Joe
Worth, greetings to you. Do you
remember when T. M. Calhoun
and l boarded at your fathers
and went to school to Cicero
GRAPHICAL and wife at Creston? 1t
was just before your father died.
One more thing I wish to re-
call to your mind is the Little
Laurel camp meeting and also
Riverside camp ground between
what is now Warrensville and
Lansing. Now Mr.. Editor if this
is too lengthy for publication
could it be trimmed a little but
still make sense?
Yours sincerely,
DAVID GRAPHICAL