Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1951-03-01
CITIZENS REPAIR
CHURCH AND ROAD
AT FREEZING
SportSmen Stage Rooster Fights
Sunday, With Large Crowd and
Much Drinking Reported

! ed That the taxpayer roOflng,
with which the building was COW
! cred many years ago when it was
built for a school house, was so
broken and rotten that it was
leaking badly and damaging the
! building inside. Thereupon, a few
of the members. most able finan
| cially bought heavy shingles to
cover the house, and on Saturday
a hest of the members and public
| spirited citizens gathered a n 4
spent the day putting on h e
| shingles, and Saturday night
found the church with roof that
will last many years. Those whc
helped Saturday were, T. E. Van
over, Delbert SWindall, Ellie Mu1
Inns Arthur Stanley, Calvin Swir
dali, Roy Davis, Ivory Moore, Bill
Beverly, Holiday McFall, Willard
Mullins and Marvin Killen. Al
added feature to the day was thai
four women of the neighborhood
prepared ample food and refresh
ments for the workers and served
it at noon. They were Mrs. Grace
Beverly, Mrs. Minnie Davis, Mrs
Eva Stapleton and Mrs Opa
Phipps.
Also, on Saturday a force OF
men gathered on Pine Creek and
worked all day on the road, hau'
ing rock and beating into the
| ruts ditching the branches thai,
flow out of the hillside and into
,, the road in wet weather. Whe1
they finished, Pine Creek roac
was in the best shape it has beer
since it was constructed by the
. Ritter Lumber Co. more than 2G
years ago.
Lum Mullins, who has been Sc
riously i'll for two years and
whose end has been expected
] almost daily for the past month,
recently decided during his lucid
moments that he would like to be
baptised and thus be able to face
the hereafter with clear, con.
! science. He advised the family
that he wished Elder Roley Stan
ley to administer the baptismal
rites. Accordingly, the venerable
| elder was sent for and he arriv
ed Sunday afternoon with his fel
| low co-worker, Elder Claude
Rose, of the United Baptist
church, and held services at the
| Mullins home. Then four stalwart
| citizens carried the aged and
frail man in a chair to Pound Riv
er and into the water, and as
Elder Stanley repeated the sol
emn form of service, the men
| lowered Lum beneath the water
and then out Those who have
visited him since say that his
, mind now appears more clear
and that he appears to be in bet
ter condition physically.
Toby Phipps and Willie New
berry left Monday morning for
Washington D C where they
expect to be employed for some
time on a housing project.
After mentioning SO much OF
! credit to the country, we regret
to mention the bad. But it is nec-
essary in order to try to arouse
the people and the officials to a
sense of their duties. Sunday
| morning, cars from many widely
separated parts Of the country
started arriving at the mouth OF
Cutter Branch and then started
literally ploughing their way
through the mud up the branch
The reason for this influx was
that the grapevine telegraph had
carried word that a protracted
rooster fight" would be had on
the branch that day, And, accord
ing to ali reports, what fight il
wasl Probably more people attend
ed this sordid affair than attend
ed Pine Creek church and the
sa,a,ioax a la Nf,,ii;,. ha,S,o ao,u.