{"id":19664,"date":"2015-05-21T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=19664"},"modified":"2015-05-25T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T15:20:24","slug":"stapleton-report-august-1930-the-summer-has-been-unusually-hot-and-dry-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=19664","title":{"rendered":"STAPLETON REPORT &#8211; August 1930 &#8220;The summer has been unusually hot and dry &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Pine Mountain Settlement School<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #9f9f9f;\" title=\"Dr. IDA STAPLETON &amp; Rev. ROBERT STAPLETON\" href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=3473\">Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton<br \/>\n<\/a>Line Fork 1927 \u2013 1947<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>STAPLETON REPORT &#8211;\u00a0August 1930<br \/>\n&#8220;The summer has been unusually hot and dry &#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>GALLERY<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19664 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=20944'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_30_08_001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=20945'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_30_08_002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=20946'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_30_08_003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=20947'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_30_08_004-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=20948'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_30_08_005-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=20949'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_30_08_006-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=20950'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/lf_stap_30_08_007-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>TRANSCRIPTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gilly P O<\/p>\n<p>August \u201830<\/p>\n<p>Dear friends:-<\/p>\n<p>The summer has been unusually hot and dry \u2013 yet nothing like it has been in the Blue Grass region and other places.\u00a0 Most of the people have enough to eat, yet there are many pitiable cases of widows and children who haven\u2019t even a garden patch but who search the woods for medical roots that are bought at the local store for a mere pittance.\u00a0 Old Sally who calls me Doc with a great appearance of affection came over from Clover Fork ten miles away with her sick daughter-in-law and said, \u201cI tell you Doc I tried my best and only got eighty cents worth in two weeks.\u201d\u00a0 Her daughter Judy just can\u2019t do anything \u201cshe is so puny\u201d but mind her three year old baby boy.\u00a0 The three live in a little stable near her son\u2019s hut.\u00a0 She did live in a mean shack farther up the fork near another son but they had quarrelled so she moved her bed and what few belongings they had down to Arch\u2019s on his mule.\u00a0 Judy did come herself a few days before as the baby had a swelling on his jaw &#8211; he had mashed it by running against a snag.\u00a0 It was rash of her to come as she fainted away twice before she got back home.\u00a0 But both she and the baby got better.\u00a0 I had given her some quilt pieces and she had quite a presentable quilt lining it with grain sacks she had opened up and washed in the Branch.\u00a0 Cindy the other daughter whose husband had been arrested for desertion of his family has her husband with her again as he is out on bond to support her and their children.\u00a0 He must have found some work as she has not been to the Cabin for help for some time.\u00a0 The children were all sick with anemia so we kept them on cod liver oil besides the corn meal for some months.<\/p>\n<p>Another \u201cpoor\u201d from Clover Fork came also.\u00a0 Tildy and her sister Hattie who tho but sixteen never \u201chad her health\u201d.\u00a0 Tildy had such a threadbare dress on I asked her if she had no other.\u00a0 She said yes, but it is worse than this one.\u00a0 Fortunately I had two dresses to pass on for Hattie was quite as shabby.\u00a0 Both were barefooted and had walked ten miles.\u00a0 Tildy is expecting her second baby in a month.\u00a0 I had taken her some baby things for which she was very grateful.\u00a0 She just wanted to see the doctor to see if she was all right.\u00a0 She had such a bad cough could I give her anything to relieve it.\u00a0 This I was able to do.\u00a0 But since she and her husband were young I just couldn\u2019t give her the poke of meal for which she had taken me to one side to beg in a whisper.\u00a0 I know her husband doesn\u2019t try much for a job but just hangs round his father\u2019s place where they live sharing what the father gets for he has some corn growing, a garden and a coal bank.<\/p>\n<p>One Sunday there came a \u201cpore\u201d looking individual in blue glasses, clean but worn overalls held up by a cord around his waist.\u00a0 Would he come in and join the Bible class then in session.\u00a0 After the lesson he explained he had come to ask the doctor to go to Beech Fork to see his wife who had been \u201csick in the bed\u201d three months.\u00a0 They had had a doctor from Cornettsville but they had to pay him eight dollars for such a visit.\u00a0 This had been paid by the relatives clubbing together but they could not do it again.\u00a0 He \u2013 \u201cKin\u201d was her second husband and had married her to be taken care of himself.\u00a0 As he had no one he had undertaken to work for her and her eight children.\u00a0 Now there were four more.\u00a0 \u201cShe was all worn out. Old age\u201d he reckoned.\u00a0\u00a0 With great faith the doctor is trying to make over that poor woman \u2013 suffering from nervous exhaustion.\u00a0 Since she had already been given divers medicines I am trying to build up her health by means of a fruit and milk diet.\u00a0 The first three days was to clean out and clean up then three days of blackberry juice \u2013 the children picked the berries tho it was getting toward the end of the season for them, then came three days of only apples after which tomatoes were added and milk.\u00a0 Then I made another visit and really found a little brighter eyes, tho nothing but skin and bones otherwise.\u00a0 The patient was lying on a cot at the side of the lumber shack in which they live protected a bit by the sun by an old patchwork quilt.\u00a0 Such a mess of people around \u2013 her mother and two sisters who had come to see the doctor on their own account, three half-grown daughters who did the work and wait on their mother.\u00a0 Five younger children \u2013 shy enough to keep their distance \u2013 a married daughter with her, her plump attractive baby, a married son\u2019s fifteen year old wife with her tiny baby and one or two other neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>I fairly had to shoo them out of the room when attending the sick one.\u00a0 Her mother remarked, \u201cshe is the peartest on her feet of any one to be so skinny I ever seed.\u201d\u00a0 I tried to give them a little spiritual food along with the cod liver oil that was added to the treatment, reciting the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Psalm followed by a prayer for them all.\u00a0 They are so simple in their vocabulary that even when they can read they can\u2019t understand the simplest lesson leaf we might hand them to read.\u00a0 But almost none of this group can read at all. \u201cKin\u201d short for McKinley has a steady\u00a0 job with the lumber company working on the railroad track at a dollar a day but only working five days a week.\u00a0 Out of his wages he must pay two dollars a month for his shack, two dollars for his coal the company provides and two dollars for the doctor of the camp who will not attend the family.\u00a0 How the twelve live on that possible fourteen dollars a month, who can tell?\u00a0 But they just do.<\/p>\n<p>Hattie C has just returned from St Joseph\u2019s Infirmary in Louisville where she has been for an operation.\u00a0 She was much improved and full of praises for the kind treatment of nurses, sisters and doctors.\u00a0 She had been ailing for a year and was quite discouraged.\u00a0 Her mother is the mid-wife on Leatherwood.\u00a0 Aunt Polly as she is called.\u00a0 She told me she had been helping her neighbor[s] in that way for seventeen years, having one hundred and sixty-one babies to her credit only four of which had been lost in the borning or were born dead.\u00a0 She was just home from her last case to which a doctor had been called and she said, \u201cHe killed the baby with his forceps but I reckon he saved the mother\u2019s life.\u201d\u00a0 She had raised her own large family and now has a little orphan grandson to care for also.\u00a0 She means to send him away to school when he is big enough, meaning an orphans-home where he will be well cared for.\u00a0 Nearby lives one of her sons whose wife came to the fence as I passed and entreated me to do something for her as she had a bad digestion and none of the doctor\u2019s medicines ever helped her except as she was taking them so I must needs explain to her a diet and gave her a promise to see her again when I go over there this time next week to see Mrs \u201cKin\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At another house I am told of a little seven year old double niece \u2013 a child and a sister and husband\u2019s brother living with old grandparents who are willing to give her up to a good home; will I not try to find a place for her?\u00a0 So I pass along with greetings from other houses and won\u2019t I stop by and rest awhile?<\/p>\n<p>Neely brings her four \u201cyoung-uns\u201d up Sunday morning all freshly \u201cstripped\u201d and fairly well scrubbed.\u00a0 Myrtle had run a sliver into the sole of her foot and that had to be dug out and the place treated.\u00a0 Denny had been sick a few days.\u00a0 One day Mary, one of the four came to the Cabin saying, \u201cMammy wants you tofind a diaper for Denny.\u00a0 He\u2019s got the \u201cdiree\u201d and she wants some sody too.\u201d\u00a0 We sing \u201cJesus Loves Me This I Know\u201d and learn a little prayer then I try to tell them the story of a good mother and how her children must trust her.\u00a0 Mary pipes up and says \u201cMyrtle just lays me out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monday was quite a day at home.\u00a0 Widow Mary Ann and little Elsie came to ask for a poke of meal.\u00a0 Her daughter Dessie was working but she had to buy herself a pair of shoes.\u00a0 They day after she bought them a girl about her size ran off with them and she had to work another week for a second pair; even tho her mother and four brothers and sisters had no bread.\u00a0 She wanted some thread to tie a quilt she had been piecing having lined it with good bits of old overalls.\u00a0 Her old mother needed some stockings and would send me a chicken she had long since promised, could I send her a pair.<\/p>\n<p>Florence came from over the ridge behind the Cabin and she said if she could get some clothes for Carlos and Hansel they could stay with their grandparents and go to school.\u00a0 She also and the little ones needed some clothes so I drew on the stores and helped her out for a while.\u00a0 Her husband is in prison and is also likely to stay there as he killed a neighbor in a drunken fight.\u00a0 So when released from this sentence he has to face that charge.<\/p>\n<p>Some little time later Hannah came.\u00a0 She hadn\u2019t been here since the Cabin was rebuilt so I needs must show her round.\u00a0 She remembers all the other workers who lived in the former cabin.\u00a0 She needed some quilt pieces and would like to hear some songs on the organ.\u00a0 Her son Edgar had been arrested with a companion Holcomb for disturbing the peace when drunk.\u00a0 The sheriff had taken his gun and was holding Holcomb by the wrist.\u00a0 He asked to be let loose and this being refused he drew his knife and at once slashed the officer across the abdomen.\u00a0 It was dark but before he fell the officer shot off his pistols.\u00a0 Holcomb escaped only to be taken later at his home with a battered shoulder received when he fell or from the shots.\u00a0 It is now said that the sheriff will recover but for two days it was thought that he would die as a result of the wound.\u00a0 Edgar did not get away as the second officer held him and he even aided in caring for the wounded officer.\u00a0 He will be held nine days for drunkenness and then as a witness in the case of the stabbing.\u00a0 Hannah is a long time widow also, having barely scratched a living for her four children.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny came also to see if Mr S would help him by getting a keg of blasting powder which he needed in getting coal from his coal bank.\u00a0 The loan is to be returned in coal later.<\/p>\n<p>Another day Pearly came from her home over the ridge with young Nancy who had slipped off from home to go to Pine Mt school.\u00a0 I talked with her parents about it and her mother was willing but I did not expect her to come before school began the latter part of this month.\u00a0 However she seemed so eager to work we decided to take her on to Pine Mt the next day to see Mr Hadley.\u00a0 He also was prepossessed in her favor and made a place for her altho some others had been refused.\u00a0 The next day she asked to go home and when it was suggested how it would be impossible to let her go alone she said she would write for her things to be sent to her.\u00a0 She then told Miss Gaines at Laurel House that Mr Hadley had said she could go and left for home.<\/p>\n<p>Alas for our hopes.\u00a0 Poor girl, she does not realize what an opportunity she is missing.\u00a0 In spite of her likely appearance the truth is not in her, and so we have our disappointments.<\/p>\n<p>Over on Turkey Fork we visited a family of five children, all above eight years who have never been to school, always too far away.\u00a0 The mother knew how to read yet had never taught her children.\u00a0 They had lived in the same place for twenty-seven years and have quite a sizeable apple orchard.<\/p>\n<p>Over the ridge and down a very steep trail we came to another farm.\u00a0 Six boys and \u201cnary a girl\u201d till Buddy got married.\u00a0 He had been at the Cabin some time ago.\u00a0 For his medicine and advice the doctor had asked him to get twenty-five cents.\u00a0 He now hastened to assure me that he had never used the medicine or advice except to stop using so much \u201cbaccar\u201d thus inferring since he had not used any he need not pay the quarter.\u00a0 His mother tho insisted on getting us some dinner.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t let her fry us any potatoes insisting that a glass of buttermilk would be quite enough but on the table we found corn bread, beans and applesauce.\u00a0 Mr S sang some songs for the boys after which I read from John\u2019s Gospel and then we had a hymn and prayer.\u00a0 As soon as I began to read the two big boys left the porch but returned before we finished the services.\u00a0 Such barren lives: How we do wish to be able to show them the satisfaction and joy of a Jesus who could be such a friend to them as He is to us.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely yours<\/p>\n<p>Stapletons<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BACK TO:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=8315\">GUIDE TO DR. 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