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BECKLEY TOSTFrom Day To DayT.F. Reaches $626;Plum Creek Schoolft if Eugene ft. ScottWe mentioned the other day that the Mt. View Junior High School and the Montcoal-Stickoy school planned to play I a benefit baske ball game for the Toy Fund on Tuesday. Comes a letter frm I Mt, View's Principal Lawson Barrett which is self-explanatory’:“Enclosed find check for $23.15 from the pupils of the Mt. View School to help with *he Toy Fund. It was a pleasure to have the boys play ball for such a worthycause.Dough I as Mo re McGuigan of Sophia, grandson of Lt. and Mrs. S. C Bollard, $2.The Captain James Allen Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs Emily K. Johnson, treas., $5.Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Jeffries. $2.Ann Rose Memorial Gass, First BantLst Church. Mrs. R. E. Hicks, treas., $5.Mrs. Margaret Neal of the Day Nite Garage. $5.Dr Thomas U. Vermillion. $5.morale.-—aThe Fund is moving right along onj lections up to about $100 a day from here on out, everything is going to be fine and dandy for the underpriviledged youngsters come Dec. 23.— - 0--ilows:eL-eeei..7l-htWell, that makes us feel mighty good. And n 'w John Lubich, one of our young Berkley men who coaches at Mt. View’, is going to take his seventh grade team down to Montreal Friday at noon for an-o*her benefit game with Principal Quentin Barrett's team. What a f.ne gesture from the folks down Coal River way! 0--Yesterday’s contributions came to $77.15, pushing the total to $626 55. Won’t you help put it over $700 today?Here's the list of newr contributors, allof them veteran T.F. helpers: jMr and Mrs. Joe L Smith, $20Bethlehem Chap-Vr No. 71, O E.S., Mrs. Dora C Front, treas , $5TtentoveRoy J. Lucas, $5, and a fine letter off i nnaiencouragment, which always bo sts one's f(1\hadwhipia;recschedule, and if we can just get the col- thewet\\J oil dra Jto ’owA few davs ag Shirley Donnellv, who. ■ * • . IT'occupies the .space to our right, wrote a j ^ column about the fine stamp collectionJortheoprof Mrs. Lucy Ford Hicklin of Mount Hope.This remind* d Berkley Is John Q lincy Hutchinson that Mrs. Hicklin was one of j ^ his pupils 55 years ago when he taughtmothe Plum Crick Public Seh ol on* Paint ! SCf L Creek, Fayette County. He wrote to Mrs. I I Hicklin, and she replied with an interest- G | ing letter, enclosing thi-rewi h a souvenir which Mr. Hutchinson had presented on t | the final day of school to his pupils. It 0---datwo3JfMsinhalThere is much talk of schools being crowded today—but that ylt; ar, 1900-1901 —Mr. Hutchinson’s Plum Creek Seho 1 had48 pupils enrolled. He taught all eightgrades in one room. Two of those pupils | ]became doctors, another became a bank j 935 cashier, and others did equally well Need- 1 aft less to say, many of them have since passed on.«Mrs. Hicklin and four of her hr thers, thlt;John R . Joseph C.. Ltcj T . a*.: s geon Ford were all in that class. They attare grandchildren of Capt. William D. j tvv Thurmond, leader of the famed Partisan ! ‘ , Rangers in the War Between the States. a We take the liberty of publishing a pari | m of Mrs. ILcklin’s in teres* ing letter; it foJ- kiit hetheVv 1,B.no 0-“Was surprised and pleased to get yourhrVI*1rv- i letter. We all remember you distinctly, and a very pleasant memory it is, although 55 years have c me and gone. | th “We knew you were a very successful law; er in Becklev, and I would see some- ,j,. thing in the Post-Herald about you, or i jit one of your family occasionally, and one ! i time, a few years back, your picture came p( out in the paper. One of my brothers remarked that he w old like to know your secret of staying young.“You asked me to tell you of the family.As you saw in Mr. Donnelly’s article. Johnny died in 1923 Lacy has three children, all married. His wife died several0ar»hi.e-years ago and he lives in a. large house there in Philippi all alone. Joe and Spur-I geon—somehow I always group them to- ; ^ gather as they were s much like twins— ,X(are both tall, six feef, three or four indies.1 s j My mother moved from Plum Orchard a * | few years after you were there, and after my father s and grandfather’s d alius, she built a nice home in Oak Hill. So the boys finished high school there and then went to the Medical College of Virginia. Right after finishing there, they wa nt into W 1 ; A ar 1 a •• ’ - Pei aut :n 1918.g- ; After the war they loca ed in Hunting! n,e- in 1919, and have been very successful h 1 doctors there ever since. 1 jr, I “1 have no children and have lived alone j \ of most of the time since my husband’s ] tL*£I death m 1941 That is the reason I tookia UP hobby of stamp collecting—it af* I fords me a lot of pleasure belonging to a stamp exchange club and have contactediI1tclt;*-»*n-tv y n.many interesting people. . 0~—A to the souvenir .Mrs. Hicklin en- ! j dost d, it is a handsome little booklet c**n- j 1 taming he names of the 46 pupils in ’ Mr, Hutchinson's Plum Creek School 55 1 *cla11sndalofitho, together with some fittingverses. Here are the names of those 48pupils: 'John R Ford, J- oph C. Ford, James F Pt'a ers, Silas Hall, Warner Lively, Hoten Lively, Lacy T. Ford, SpurgeonFord, John D. Powers, Luther Lively, Jeff T. t • J. Ezra Fisher, Lucy Ford, Ida Lively, Agnes Painter, Sallie Hall, Telia R-fese, Deemie Fisher, Ada M.lt;I *I Brooks, Venie Tyree, Ellon Hall, Lottiee i Reese, Nona Davis, Icy Tyree.ar Milton M. Tyree, A. Richard Tyne*, Willie D. Brooks, Raymond Bailey, Chares * Thompson, Charles L. Davis, Ashley Tv-IT’-ree, Fred W. Powers, Lee Brooks, George ius j Lively, Vesper E. Reese, Maggie Thomp-j son, Eftie Brooks, Emily Taylor, OcmPainter, Della Ree.se, Lena J I)%'i*s Win-il I me Thompson, Nora Lively, Anna Painter, e j Ida Reese, Rosa Davis, Mary Thompson, i and Maodie C. Brooks.
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Beckley, West Virginia, US
Thu, Dec 08, 1955
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