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All 1 UoltlUl (JIIL), III'.stalions, cinci hotels rovidod tickets for ye. The tickets will xj today and tomnr-is no admission c Pinnacle area and Room, and special Is were made with at Cud jo's for free for Middles boro peo-nesday.ose of Community is lo better aequ-tople with the tourist In our immediate ;ing Middlosboro bus* cooperate, Greene iat “it is advantage-ry business in the ire that everyone is ith the scenic and notions in the area, who ask questions laces to visit should •lligont answers.” persons not direr My rith a business re I til. dulist trade, special ie available at ihc f Commerce ofiicc e secured by callingCraig were ineomp.etc this { Ball and Ovens, Vcltjjs, Cap- session of alcoholic beverages! night, low 6f lo 70. Lillie changee day has been set le visits, and person-on duty at the Pin-djn's and Idnr.olr. induct guided tours.CreekCharged— Walter Napier of ek will Ikj tried Mun-bounty Judge MauriceOEATHSaig, Pathfnrkmorning. The body is at Cawood Funeral Homo in Middles boro.irat Finance and Susong Flor- in local option territory for ists. purpose of sale.rue ! in temperature Friday of SO to fr,with ahighJames North, Native of (Jail jorae11 answer charges of ace and public drank-was arrested Wednes-g by Deputy Sheriff m after Napier’s sis-ari signed a warrant csl. She stater! that caused a disturbance c on the left fork of 'ek.County, Is 100 Years Old TodayCirciPlay4 i-Ry JIM KORNEJl them minny balls in those days.Dally News Staff Writer We could pick them up by theTAEEWELL—A tired old man bucketfulls. he says, and wesits under a spreading tree and gazes across Powell Valley, remembering liow t)ie valley was ICO years ago.James North of Flat Woods, Tenn., today celebrates Ids 300th birthday. A man bent with old age. lie will have a birlhrfay party this afternoon with a small gathering of kin and neighbors.“On September 12. in 1837 I was born on Ihc Powell River, above Tazewell. My father was a farmer and that’s what I became. be says.I don't remember too much ■about my young days, he tells, but those days the Civil War was on.I remember one time some men on horses came to a neighbor's house. They asked for food but she told them she only had a Utile. A captain who was with ihc men promised to give her u card that would protect her from troops, if she would only feed these men.'’She ted them, don’t even remember what side they were on, and later the captain gave her Ihe card. I don’t know what it said on it, but the next time some troops on horses came lo her house asking for food, she showed them the card and they rode off without bothering her,North says that a Her the war lie and the jest of his friends used lo no to Cedar Fork where l tic re had boon a ha Hie and pUtfc up bullets, only we used \o callhad great fun with them.When he was a remembers gain Powell River on Thai was quiteyoung man lie g down (hr? a big raft, time bc-asj .mmmMi ........• ••••:JAMES NOKTilItKJ Year* Old Todaycause in those days we had to sdeer the rn ft by big oars. It look Us seven days and nights to get to Chattanooga.After farming n white NorthIn mod to coal minin Lr, 'T ooen-The cir Little Lc«i£White, cilymorning.The city 1 carnivals i7. TIIV7 .7.1 _« I I r» (Jill,ceks ago North nuide | T J•M 1 rip he h;is ivcr! J1IU2his If/e— to Hamilton. I Ced up I lie Sterling Mine, whsii is called Ihc Mu ruing now. II was then owned by the Southern Railroad. He remained a ronl miner for 22 years and :\\cn came bark lo fanning.Norlri has a brother, Johnny Norih who is 07 years old. Jin lives in Bod nos, Ky. lie n Iso hn.s a son. Tommy, who lives, about n mile away from North's1 home in Flat Woods, XrsrMij lives with his rknighier. Mrs, Carl Jones, who is “.3 ycais old.A few \\Ihe torlho niudc in }Ohio, ft was a nice trip. We went by car and stopper I afnng the way several limes and bought something to cat when we stupped.In Harm Hon. he visited cousin of his daughter's and stayed there about a week. i[ looks like a peaccable town. They sure have a lot of hav growing up there. Norlh remarked that he would like to return to Ohio fur a visit in Ihc fall.As for Jiving to 100, he said. I guess the Lord just wanlcrl to spare me/’ Allhougli old sil-o has robbed me so that T can’t see too well am', can't hear nonebio good, 1 ran manage h get around. I guess I'm good for a few noro years/’ Norlh sr.ys opttmisiically.show witlii The pei to Ihe dm false prctci he on canci organ i/at io tied by re ihc regisi I rlt;3 cementWhiti* adihindicated 1 tliken if r dm city or Na infor f-eivcil Ick authoritiesComA speddSrsborci (_ called for . r.ame a F ; fill nut th * Ccc'i\ Ow= Tuesday n Accord Er mat ion th' not expertb\Mnes rReliable mg iridic r Minton, wnub*Iran rin last tjiin. won! Ihe wv-an Mint on HWW Hr 11 era I efer Court Juc
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Middlesboro Daily News
Middlesboro, Kentucky, US
Thu, Sep 12, 1957
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