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Rev. T.A.
FREEMAN and family are now located in the Presbyterian Manse on Pine Street. Rev. Mr.
FREEMAN recently accepted the call as pastor of the Presbyterian church here, coming from Jewell Ridge.
Dr. Will PAINTER and Dr. Walter WITTEN met at Harley's Wednesday and in the course of the
conversation the talk drifted to the old days when the practice of medicine was a hazardous undertaking. They recalled some of the hardships of those days when horses were the means of transportation. Dr.
PAINTER recalled a call he attempted to make in Thompson Valley one zero night when the only road was over the mountain from this town. He was fighting his way up the mountain, when he met Dr. Henry
CROCKETT coming down, bareheaded, having lost his hat in a wind storm. Dr.
CROCKETT persuaded Dr. PAINTER to give up the call for that night and return to town which he did. It was not an unusual thing for a doctor to have to answer a call to poor Valley after midnight when the snow was feet deep and the mercury below zero, and the surviving M.D's of those days are puzzled to know how they ever lived through it. Dr.
WITTEN got a call to Baptist Valley one night and when he reached the point he had to be thawed off his horse before he could get in the house. The family doctor in those pioneer days was not only a hero, but an institution to himself.
The Fort Maiden Spring Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, met with Mrs.
H.E. HARMAN on Tuesday afternoon. The meeting was mostly taken up with business. Reports of the year's work from officers and committee chairman were given. Miss Margaret
HARMAN, regent, announced dates of the State conference in Williamsburg and the National congress in Washington. Delegates for both of these meetings were elected. Programs on "Americanism vs. Communism" will be continued by the
Chapter.
Mrs. Will Ed PEERY, ill for several days, is better.
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