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Hardwood Bark, 1929

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  • THE HARMfcDOD BARK —!■ t.2M i * iyitj' 5SAS Old view of Colleton mill, taken about 1912, before it was rebuilt. Paul Bunyan or Will Rogers? D. R. Thurman, Norfolk, Va., sales representative, sends us a copy of a letter from Stephen White, son of S. J. White, of the White Furniture Company, Mebane, N. C, a Ritter customer. It gives the reactions of an adventurous college boy who is working in a logging camp. Here is the letter: My dear Mother and Dad:—Look on the map and you'll see I am at work just four or five miles from Pis- gah. We are going to move to a place which will make walking over the mountain to the highway 1 5 miles instead of 10 as at present; in other words, to visit you at Montreat will mean 30 miles of mountain climbing. We live in home-made private cars, which are fine. We have all Modern conveniences; running water (which runs all the time) ; hot and cold baths (sun and creek) ; cold showers (which occur frequently, drenching one while at work) ; lights, sun and lamp (which you can see every time you clean the chimney) ; railroads (I live directly over one, the coaches of which consist of flat cars loaded with logs) : automobilee, all kinds and makes, just 35 miles away; mirror; a sheet on each bed; spring (?); mattress (?): yes, a pillow case (the bed linen is changed X times). There are three double deckers (2 men per), 12 men to a private car. Don't let anyone fool you about what we have to eat. We have plenty: Breakfast—coffee with cream and sugar, hot biscuits, each the size of a loaf of bread (and I usually eat three) ; fruit of some kind, molasses, bread, butter, oatmeal, jelly. For dinner we also have vegetables, and corn bread (about 4"x4"x2"). I eat 288 cubic inches of corn bread daily. Today we had lemonade. No meat, except fat back and nobody eats that. I have never eaten so much in my young life. They have to feed us, because we work the mules all the time. Something scared the horses last night. The foreman rushed down to see the trouble and he said: "I didn't see nothin' that could—er skeered 'em thar hosses; they wuz all fanattic like." Have been using an axe all this week, making a road way to each log to be skidded down. Hands are a little sore, even through gloves (some eight or ten blisters). I like the men very much. They are fine. It is true that when you go to see a girl up here twice they expect you to marry, so I tell 'em I am not a ladies' man. Write me often. Lots of love. Stephen." **> Nantahala <** E. B. McCollum and Jess Brooks spent the Fourth "down South". . . Among those who were away for the holiday were Homer Williams, at Johnson City, Tenn., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crowder and children, Charlie Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wilson, at Andrews. . . Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cole and Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Tittle and children went on a motor trip Sunday, July 7 and visited at the home of Mr. Arthur C. Storie, formerly of our company. . . J. W. (Doc) Stanley and Mark Culbertson, engineer of No. 35 caught a nice bunch of rainbow trout on the Fourth. . . . Evan Danielson and family motored to Hazel Creek and Fontana for a week end visit. . . Engines 25 and Two both have had their water tanks painted by Mr. Tittle, No. 25 a coat of orange and No. Two yellow. . . . Mr. F. W. Tittle has a new Kodak No. la and expects to take some good pictures for Hardwood Bark readers. The Tale of a Turtle There have been some queer "goings on" in Franklin, the town of our superintendent, Mr. E. B. McCollum, eighteen miles from the mill. When chief of police Henry not long ago saw a car careening down Main street, he came to the conclusion that it was just another one of "them durned drunks" and proceeded to arrest the guilty. When the car finally came to a stop, the chief discovered only a mud turtle for a driver. The car belonged to Georgia tourists who had placed some turtles (caught on a trip) in a sack. Evidently there was a hole in the sack, for the turtle that caused all the trouble was calmly seated on the starter and naturally, the car, which had been left in low gear, "began" to go. **• New River <-** Mrs. Oscar C. Colley is at this time visiting friends and relatives in Virginia. . . Miss Ruby Sutherland, daughter of J. P. Sutherland, is visiting relatives in New River. . . Within a few months we will have a new concrete road through New River. Contractors are now at work and are rushing the completion of the hard surface on The Cincinnati Air Line Highway. Mr. Neal Gilbert, woods superintendent, recently installed a Clyde engine machine in New River woods and it is being operated daily with satisfactory results. ... A new high-line or hill side. lumber yard is being' built at New River, and when Twelve
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