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EATURESSECTIONFEATURESAND NEWSWareto school- He would fee riding a big, sort of gra^h-eolored horse, and riding at a hard gallop over ground that was difficult to walk over without falling.“ONE E\,EN1NG, two of the mine workers who had someiglnight work to do at the No. 2 mine, took Jimmy and me for a triD down into the mine.‘The shaft was over 2C0 feet straight down and may have been about 20 or more feet longand 10 feet wide with a divider in the center. When one cage (elevator) was at the top, the other was at the bottom. The men directed us onto a cage and walked on themselves. A small whistle tooted and down we went.“As we neared the bottom of the shaft, the two miners began to swear. The cage stopped, we stepped off with the two men fin' swearing and looking quite strange. They said to us that ‘blankety blanked so and so5 in the engine room had 'cut the rope* on us. That meant he had tried to frighten Jimmy and me by dropping the cage at a fast speed, much faster than normal. We were strangers to the trip and. didn't know the diner-enee but it shook up the miners as they said it was rather dangerous and risked breaking themachinery“What looked like a number of giant rat holes led in different directions from the bottom of the shaft and we were taken through a higher tunnel a short distance to the battery room where they - charged the batteries for the haulage motors which puHed the coal to the shaft It was large with a high celling and well lighted-U Uk“The men said we could ride the coal trip cars with them back to where they worked a half mile or so if we kept our heads down but we were far enough and fust waited until they finished the work. About ■four hours later, we were brought out of the mine. We found it ah interesting experience but had no desire to goback.“ONE EVENING, two of die miners at the hotel asked' to borrow my fine new 300-foot beam flashlight (the only beam flashlight in area at the time) as they had to walk to No. 2 and had no light“They promised to buy a new set of batteries for it when they returned. Two days later they paid for a new flashlight as they had gone to a place at No. 2 where home brew was sold, drank many bottles, became very drunk and somehow ruined the flashlight“I attended .the movie theater a number of times and they had a'serial with Gene Tbncey as the hero. One night the picture ended with Tuoney hanging from the top or a wooden tower by Ms hands. The film didn’t come through the next week and two weeks later when it did arrive, showing Gene Tuoney still hanging from the tower before his rescue. There was some audible comment about how strong he was to hold on lor two weeks in that position.“One night there was a live’ show featuring a troupe of colored song and dance performers..‘They put on a very enter-taming act and were well received.“T WAS ABLE to attend two n: three house parties and a ronple of beflings while at San Foy and one evening, a large lumber of young folks walked wo miles to Breece School to a jox social and then back. These were pleasant affairs.“In the early spring of 1926, denry Hall and family moved mt to Zanesville to operate a rooming house there. Jimmy and I and one or two others vere left in the empty San Toy Souse Hotel“As I recall, the water and electricity were left on and we fid not have to pay anything for She remainder of our stay until school was out However, we bad to arrange to get our meals at the other hotel which was a short distance down the street.PilPiis*asVS Av-'t:■•UTm$W...mm■ i-HvWOTy.'i;iff:-\ ■v ■I.''*’j*r- ,• .; *. 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A smaller school building nearby had been tom down when this photo was taken.That hotel, also a large frame bufldmg, was operated by theThome family.“There too we had very geod food and the lunch pails were well flUed- We -surely had. no complaints and were very well treated in San Toy. Of coarse there was trouble for anyone who went looking for it but we were interested in only our own affairs.“The Monroe Township- line went across San Toy on Alabama HOI and at one time the school board turned out the cMMren over the line and made them start to Chapel Hill School So for a while I really had a fall room at Chapel HilL Also lots of company on the two mile walk as the cMMren in those days had to walk the road to sehooL*T believe that a few months later, they went baek to school In San Toy.Buckley as he appeared whOe staying at the San Toy House* He taught school at Chapel Bili near the town.“DURING THE summer, a man named Johnny Carmichael and family took oyer the operation of the San Toy House. In September of 1926 they gave me my old room, No. 10, and I was teaching again at Chapel Hill. Jimmy Dfflehay was there again in the hotel and teaching atSanTovzc‘Johnny Carmichael was also employed as one of the. engineers at the mine. One time, as he was operating the cages, hoisting the small mine cars of coal, he started the hoist and was signaled to stop. He was told through the speaking tube that a man was caught between .the shaft and the cage and a car of coal. rmaHV the man told then to lower away slightly and he thought he could get free.“Johnny lowered the ‘cage slightly and the roan was kffletL Tha men below claimed that no signal to hoist away was given In the first place but Johnny said it was. The facts were never dear. Jwinnv told me one evening in the hotel office that he had never been more greatly troubled in his fife.Jimmy Dfflehay, Buckley's friend, who taught school at San Toy.“I MIGHT also mention a tragic death which occurred at the mine some years before. The incident was told to me by Dan TrusseH who worked there about the time. A man named John G. Collins was working at the mine and it seems that he had been delayed and was afraid that he would be late for work. It may have been dark at the time because he hurried up to the mine shaft and stepped for the cage. In his haste he stepped into the wrong side of the shaft as the cage was on the other side and he fell over 203 feet to Ms death. The date oahis tombstone in Portersvllle Zion Cemetery is 1923.“There were actually a number of moonshine stffls in the area at that time. One of my students at Chapel HSl showed me a number of ‘mash barrels’ in use around the hill just a few feet from the path I walked to school“In the late winter of 1926-1927 on Sunday evening, I wouldleave my car at the DanTrusseU bam at PortersviUeand walk down the path the twomfles to San Toy as the roadswere impassable. One weekendhad been mild and I had left myovercoat at the hotel when I went home. However, Sunday night as I walked toward SanToy, the wind began to Mowand got cold and I was soonmiserably cold. Over oy A ravine which came down into the hollow where the path was, I saw a bright fire blaze up. I lef£ the path and went over toget warm.“AS I NEARED the fire, a quiet voice said “What do you want?’ and I saw a man holding a long barreled double action .45 caliber revolver.“Just as quietly I told Mm who I was and that I wished to get warm. Tve heard of you* he said. ‘AH right’ Then I saw that the fire was under a still Not much was said but I recall that he mentioned that he usually chose better weather to make a run but this time he had(Coat’d on Page 6-B Sect)
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Zanesville Times Recorder
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Sun, May 12, 1968
Page 37
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