Smyrna times., 1952-11-13
Townsend

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The iron hitching bar and posts
at the old Lattomus Store have
been there since 1880. This hitch
ing outfit is somewhat bent but
still in use whenever team driver
comes to town. This happens
three or four times a week, as
some people still prefer the horse
to the automobile. It has proven
itself exceptionally strong as sew
eral times frightened horses have
pulled against it in trying to break
loose, but it withstood all pressure
and stands there today the symbol
of business in the horse and buggy
days and its bent form shows what
a rough treatment it has been un-
yielding to. There for 72 years
the hitching rack still gives a
sweet reminder of the old days
when fewer people gave the world
fewer things to worry over. This
quaint object still appears as at
tractive as it did in the old days.
Soon the holiday season will be
at hand and no doubt a lot of
young people as well as oldsters
will be glad when it is right at
hand. They make extra money by
gathering Christmas green and
sending them to the city markets.
Last year they sent seventy barrels
from the Blackbird and Green
spring district and predict that a
greater quantity will be shipped
from that locality, the coming sea-
son. The greens are said to be of
better quality and better looking
than for several years past.
Its much better to give a little
with a smile than to give a lot
with frown.
George Stuart of South Baston,
Va, was in town on Monday.
One of the hardest yet, best
things to remember is to forget |
your troubles.
In former days it would seem
that drink of water from the old
well that was located at the old
Lattomus Store, was enough to en-
tice people visiting here to return
soon and enjoy another experience
of quaffing the pure refreshing,
thirst quencher from the well. A
lot of people used to say that a
drink from the old well was enough
to instill a lingering for another
drink and they'd stay in the town
for a long time. Also in the old
days, fellow named Fortner from
New Castle used to come to Town
send just, he said, to get a drink
of water from the old well and |
whenever he left the pump, would
gladly exclaim, well, that was the
best drink of water in the whole
country" No doubt lot of other
people thought the same thing for
on Saturday night, a row of people
from ten to twenty feet long, was
noticed at the pump, and the row
of drinkers made a chief Saturday
night scene that also drew throng
of onlookers, too. The pump was
on the sidewalk at the Northwest
corner of the Lattomus Store. This
property is now owned by G. Lest
er Daniels.
Again the memories of the old
days are being revived by the
preparation being made by the
gunners with the hunting season
right close at hand. In former
days the city hunters would form a
crowd and the country fellows do
likewise, and after taking a sep
arate course until noon, the two
crowds would have it planned to
meet at a given place where a
cabin was located and there hold
q powwow with a big rabbit din
ner to top it off. Around the
stove in that cabin they would
exchange yarns and the yarn
swapping would go on until night
come on. These hunters often
tell and retell those glorious days
when father met son and the meet
ing was filed with human devotion