The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 9

Pg 9 ThGaffnejUdgfrJ 1987 s1 ny I 1 When I Was Young 4 l. L. tia( Converse, Lewli Lionel Hodge, 66, of No. 7 High Converse, died at 7:15 Wednesday at Mary Black Hospital after a brief illness, a He was a Cherokee County native and a textile worker. Mr.

Hodge was a veteran of World War Two. He was a son of the late J. 1 1 i I by Floyd L. Baker and Bessie Owens Hodge of Cherokee County. Mill Survivors include his widow.

Mrs. Thelma Childers Hodge. Waal's Covered Up When I was a boy the area long the west side of North Limestone to the railroad, from Buford Street to Birnie Street, contained but one small build. one son, Ezell Hodge of Gaff, ney; two daughters, Miss Eloise Hodge of Converse and Agricultural Building was be ing constructed, dirt excavated from the foundation ditches was wet clay. The brick walls were built on the clay, and a number of years afterwards Mrs.

J. C. Gordon of West Palm Beach, one brother, Woodrow Hodge of Huntsville, two sisters Mrs. Susie Bright of Spartanburg and 1 1 CURIOSITY -A pipe in the middle of a lawn in Sucrumento, In examined Inside and out by a wide-eyed nnd very curious kitten. Mrs.

Ethel Custer of Peoria, 111. Funeral services will be con-ducted at 4 p. Saturday from Converse Baptist Church by the Rev. W. Thomas Phillips, Lloyd Stapleton, Jodie Wilson and C.

D. Roach. Interment will be in Oakland cemetery, Gaffney. Pallbearers will be L. S.

Neal, L. Bobby and Jonie Seals, Charles B. Moore and Garland, and Zannie and Leroy Childers. W. M.

Gordon Funeral Home ia in charge. ing. The entire area was bog. I recall seeing some men, barefooted and britches rolled up to their knees, cutting a drainage ditch from near Lime stone sidewalk diagonally across what is now the Cherokee Petroleum Company to the side ditch of West Smith Street A few inches below the surface the dirt thrown out alongside the ditch was wet clay. As the men dug water oozed from the side walls of the ditch and puddled in the ditch.

Occasion ally a crawfish or a small snake was shoveled out of the mud. When the ditch was of the right depth poles were laid in the bottom and the ditch was filled with dirt. This was what was called a blind ditch. It was made for the purpose of drain ing as much moisture as possible out of the soil. In the side ditch off Smith Street near the railroad was a flowing spring.

Waters from the spring and the blind ditch and seepage moisture along the bank flowed under a bridge across Smith Street, forming an open branch that meandered through the next two blocks and ran under a culvert under North Limestone Street and several blocks eastward, through what is now Victor Oil Company property, and under East Frederick Street, the rear walls began to sink and were shored up with eon crete pilasters. In the west side of the branch, that ran through the block from Smith to Meadow streets, the area was covered with rank growth high grass, bullrush, blackberry bushes, and along the branch small trees and bushes. It at one time had a rail fence around and was a cow pasture. In the branch, little boys had a fish pond, containing minnows and small perch. Where the old Board of Public Works build ings are was quick sand; long ipoles thrust into the quick sand disappeared quickly.

Venturesome boys would stick one foot in the quick Band with anther boy holding to him. Meadow Street was not put through from Limestone to Granard Street for many years because of the swampy terrain and the branch, which broadened at that point. The next block to Birnie Street was rather swampy. A small, brick making plant was located on the east side of the branch, but did not remain there very long possibly there to make brick for a special purpose. The sidewalk in that block, on the east side of Limestone Street was a wooden bridge, a dandy place to ride velocipedes.

Little boys' velocipedes rattled along that bridge many a day. Here, too, memories come flooding in. TIGHT FIT It's going to take sonve dbing to get this lft-inch cucumber into this regular size dill pickle jar. Staff photo. vv mm: a Tr llllilir 'iS? Fenlejr Amot Waelchel Fenley Amos Whelchel, age 56, of Route 4, Midway community, died Thursday night at 0 :30 o'clock at his residence after one year declining health.

Mr. Whelchel was a native of this county and the son of Joe W. and the late Bessie Spencer Whelchel. He was a farmer, a WWII veteran, and a member of the Midway Baptist Church. He was also a Mason of Granard Lodge.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Carolinas Campers Show To Be Held In Charlotte Lucy Camp Whelchel; two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Mae Be-lue of Pageland, Mrs. Geraldine Smith said mobile homes will not be shown at this campers' show. "This event is for the recreational vehicle and other types of equipment for the camping public," he said.

"Even tents will be displayed. There will also be many displays of the portable camping equipment, including refrigerators, stoves, light systems and other interesting items." Smith said an extensive newspaper, radio and TV advertis Wilson of Fayetteville, N. five sisters, Mrs. Dayne Jolly of Union, Mrs. Luther Clary CHARLOTTE, N.

Plans for a five-day Travel Trailer and Camper Show to be held Aug. 9-13 in the new Exhibition Hall of the Mecklenburg Fairgrounds were announced today by Doyle Smith, Executive Director of the Mobilehome Association of the Carolinas. The event will be a two-state show with upwards of 100 exhibitors participating. Recreational vehicles, pick-up trucks, conversion trucks along with other types of camping equipment will be displayed. The show also will be the first event staged in the Pair's new Exhibition Hall, which is now nearine comDletion and Of Cowpens, Mrs.

Mason Pat along the edge of Stump Town, broadened into a creek and gained the name Peoples' Creek, which flowed into Cherokee Creek. A. L. Peeler purchased the half block where Cherokee Petroleum is now located and constructed the first filling station at the corner of Limestone and Smith streets. When ing campaign in behalf of the show wit ill be conducted.

terson, Mrs. Henry Blanton, Mrs. Foye Home, all of Gaffney; three brothers, Rhett Whelchel of Cowpens, Homer and Joe S. Whelchel, both of Gaffney; five grandchildren. Services will be held Saturday at 4 p.

m. at the Midway Baptist Church, conducted by POPS FESTIVAL Bob Green, 19, a hairy hippy from Cleveland, Ohio, photographs some of the "straight" people during break in the International Pops Festival in Monterey, Calif. The low spot in Limestone Street between Birnie and Meadow was low near the center of the street and was a mudhole after rainB, causing animals pulling various kinds of vehicles to slip and slide, until poles were laid across the will be one of the largest of Revs. James. Morris Hill 'its, type in the Carolinas.

The oil storage tank was located on new Fairgrounds are on U. and r- the property water seeped into AUTHORIZED DEALERS CHRYSLER VXJ M0T0R8 CORPORATION in the chursch cemetery. the foundations and an electric 21, just north of the Charlotte City Limits and just off Interstate 85. Smith said that Charlotte was picked for the five-day Carolinas show because of the city's central location and also because of the new 'facility at the Fairgrounds. The Exhibition Hall, a steel structure, is 320 feet long and more than 100 feet wide about the size of a football playing field.

"With more and more leisure time, the American people are taking to recreational vehicles in a big way," Smith said. "We hope to make this Carolina's Travel Trailer and Camper Pallbearers: Rufus, Richard, Joe Mitt, Don, and George Whelchel, and Edward and Paul Patterson. The body will be at the residence after 4:30 today and will be placed in the church at 3 p. m. Saturday.

Shuford Hatcher Funeral Home is in charge. A majority of independent proprietors favor Senator Mag-nuson's Congressional bill to set up a small tax court to adjudge claims under $2,500, according to a poll by the National Federation of Independent Business. Today adequate drainage of the watershed, of which I have given a partial description, is a problem that confronts City Council. The boggy land can't absorb much rain. The branch has been confined in conduits that cannot hold any more water when they are full.

Drainage alongside the railroad, and from Granard Street, runs under the railroad opposite Sunset Diner confined in pipe to theculvert under Limestone Street. Evidently the pipe to the culvert under Limestone Street aren't big enough to take care of the water when the rain is heavy. You can't get by a quart of water in a quart cup. If you Iffine tJfa fio bdw to pump was installed to keep the water out. That half block was, and still i3, a bog.

Recently in company with J. D. Cudd, Loyd Lovelace and Comett Haas we found the spring that I played around, and perhaps drank out of, some eighty years ago. It brought back floods of memories. Comett Haas said that when a hole is dug to place a gas tank, or for any other purpose, water oozes into the hole quickly; also that the electric pump under the storage tank is still in use.

The next, two blocks northward are also boggy. When the building that is now called the fi (TO (M Cherokee County Needs fl (Eiirpta0 show an annual event." He said that Al Rich, national director of the Recreational Vehicle Institute, and officials of the Mobilehome Association of the Carolinas and N. C. and S. C.

State Travel officials are expected to attend the show here. "We expect to have the show open from 2 p.m. until 9 p.m. each day," Smith said. "As many as 20,000 visitors are expected.

There will be a nominal admission charge. Shows of this type in other sections of the country have attracted large crowds." L. A. Armstrong, president of the Mecklenburg Fair, said "Fair officials are extremely pleased that our new Exhibition Hall has been chosen as the place for this Carolinas' Travel Trailer and Camp- ers' Show." "Our new hall, which we expected to be completed early in August, is one of the finest of its kind in the Carolinas," Armstrong said. "For our annual fair October 2-9, the Hall will be used to display agricultural, handcraft and commercial exhibits.

We expect to make the new hall available for other shows throughout the year." J. C. BONNER As Senator try to put any more in the cup, it overflows. It appears that along the paved streets larger pipes are needed. To take care of the underground branch water and the surface water it appears that either larger pipe or additional pipe are needed.

It is my opinion that the culvert under Limestone Street is not large enough and that a parallel culvert is needed. At any rate, the problems will not easily be solved and cannot be without considerable cost to the city. The problems of the past are coming back to haunt us in the present. Results of a nationwide vote by the National Federation of He is qualified from experience as a businessman, fertilizer dealer, farm equipment dealer and Board of Director of Piedmont Federal. Best man to promote harmony in County government.

This is his first time to offer for Independent Business snow a majority of the country's independent proprietors oppose amendments to lower the voting age to 18. public office. He has no axe to grind and he is not out to get anyone! 3. He is a strong family man. Has a wife and three Newport 2-Door Hardtop A Chrysler COVERING AT SZvX (fSV NIGHT KKPS rLCc DEW FROM AcTrCTTlr1 VM FURNITURE I yS5 ANCHOR FURNITURE jr-dbFrSs AT YOU WISH N0T8EMCVFD has always been a great buy- Now ifs even more so! We need the room, so every Chrysler is priced to move out now! Come in and talk trade.

You'll like what you hear! boys. Active in church, serves as a director on Cherokee County Boys Club board. He is interested in youth and recreation for them. He can do more for Cherokee County. Has friends who are elected officials in Columbia and Washington.

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