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Hardwood Bark, 1928

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  • BARK -t» **r Colleton -fc- We welcome Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Blocker to Colleton. Mr. Blocker has begun work here o nthe chains. He expects to learn tallying and lumber grading. . . . Mr. J. O. Weeks has finally succeeded in getting the logging equipment and crews to the new logging territory. He has been getting well organized since th; high water receded and is getting plenty of logs at present. . . . Mr. S. M. Wolfe, division superintendent, has just completed his monthly visit to Colleton, where he was kept busy trying to reduce costs and at the same time to improve valuation. The Colleton school began its session Friday, September fourteenth with an enrollment of twenty-one pupils. The teacher is Miss Mary Campbell, a graduate of Lander College. She and her pupils have entered into their work with the determination to mak» this the best school year ever conducted in Colleton. Don't Take Chances Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Troutman have returned from Concord, N. C, where they spent a few days with friends and relatives. . . . Miss Sallie O'Quine is spending several weeks with her aunt, Mrs. H. O. Wynne. . . . We are glad to learn that Mrs. Haywood Black has recovered after a long siege of sickness. . . . Dr. H. M. Carter is kept busy for the "flu" is a very unwelcome visitor of Colleton homes at the present time. ... A "little bit of sunshine" has entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. K. Strickland in the form of a baby girl named Genevieve. Lady to waiter in station restaurant: "Did you say I had twenty minutes to wait, or that it was twenty minutes to eight?" "Nayther. Oi said ye had twenty minutes to ate, an' that's all you did have—and yer train's jist gone." —Good Hardware. NEITHER DID WE "Where did the locomotive hit this man?" questioned the lawyer. "At the junction of the dorsal and cervical vertebrae," responded the doctor. The foreman of the jury then arose and remarked: "I know every crossroad in this here country, but I never heard of any such place." **■ Nantahala <** We recently moved our camp to Nantahala proper at White Oak Mt., a spot well remembered by older residents of Macon county as "loafer's glory"—a scene of many deer hunts and fishing exploits. This is about two and a half miles from the old set and about four miles out from Nantahala town. The clean-up of timber on Park Creek was completed the middle of October and we moved our woods operation on to Long Branch. We left Park Creek with regret. There was some good timbir there, and while we can expect more of the same brand, Park Creek will go down in Ritter history as the first branch of Nantahala logged by our company. We have atout half of a mile of railroad con- strucied up the new Long Branch territory and will have a spur of two more miles off the main track before we have finished construction up this branch. When we have finished Long Branch, Kimsey Creek will lure us next. However, the camp will be on its present site for about a year and a half. A bridge was recently completed at a point where Long Branch meets Nantahala proper. We think we have an ideal camp location. The thornberry trees lend a picturesque setting. Nantahala now has three locomotives, Number Two having been recently transported from Raleigh woods in West Virginia for hauling logs to the mill. Charles Crowder is engineer for Number Two and Dewey Bateman, recently top loaderman, is fireman. Mr. Crowder was promoted from fireman on one of the other engines. No. Two is a seventy-five ton Shay. He was formerly an engineer. Our other engineers here are Charlie Wilson and C. D. Culbertson. Our average production for the year has been ninrty-three per cent, of capacity. This we consider a very good average. . . . H. D. Franklin, of the store force, recently returned from a short visit. . . A fifteen day religious revival service has recently been held in our schoolhouse. Several of our families have been attending regularly. . . Arch Bateman, loaderman in the woods, was recently off duty because of an infection. Garrett Shield has been operating the loader. . . Lester Wald- roup was able to work. Prevent Forest Fires Jack Dempsey recently called at our store and office. He is a relative of the famous fistic expert. We also have a J. P. Morgan, who acted as our filer at the mill while Mr. D. H. Shafer was off because of a sprain. Mr. Shafer went to his home in Greensboro, N. C. . . . E. B. McCollum, whom we like always to call affectionately "Uncle Mac", recently joined a circle of brothers and sisters at a week end get- together at his old home in Greenville, Tenn. Homer Williams, machinist, visited in Tennessee at the same time. Charles Rhodes has been getting the machine shop crew ready for winter by running a flue from the stove through the roof, one side of which has been recovered. Several Nantahala residents are soon Dr. F. Angel in insert, and the Angel Hospital at Franklin, N. C where Nantahala employees have been cared for. Dr. Angel is an old friend of some of our company officials. Eleven
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