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Show I. 4i ll The S.ill Lake Tribune. November 1979 Ellie and Ike Recall 75 Happy Years ( ontinued gave us geese " Shortly after From Page l of a bunch Z-- built remembered the geese "They strayed off the next day and we never saw them again We al ways thought a peddl r " got them Pipe smoke curled around Ikes huge white handlebar mustadie as he reflet ted on the years ' I ve had a mustai he new a CoMins took gi ov t r andfather's faint I his Pkiaire a rugged ixpanse of hills and hollows He l alsed ( ow com, wheat sheep and pigs among other things He al o i ut , plenty of IiihIh r wl-.e- 1 went timberin the day after we were married, he reealls "Didnt believe in honey noons ' He was 13 when we met " she says "I was struck on him from the first " Still don t Popular corduroy Suits Flannel Shirts From Saturday Knit Shirts By versatile suit with slim fitting European styling. Pure cotton pinwale corduroy, s'zes blazer, flare leg slack in sand or antelope. 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Each child received a feather bed made by his mother, who had gotten another flock of geese and had plucked their soft, downy underfeathers school Stayed Put Ike and Ellie Collins have stayed put during their lives together Thev live in a small mobile home in Cove Cap, about 40 miles south of Huntington on the northern edge of the southern West Virginia coalfields. They live next to their son. Burl, who is in his 70s They were born right nearby. "Where we live now is in Wayne County, says the elder Collins. "We were bom just over the "We never had electricity or running water until we moved down off the hill," says Ike Collins. And I never owned an automobile or any other motor vehicle. But 1 drove plenty of teams of horses, and oxen and mules " hdl in Lineoln County Until eight years ago, Elbe and me lived up on In the past lew yeals, howevtr, Ike and Ellie have slowed down Ike Collins now spends a lot of time napping in a bedroom that contains a large picture of a hand- top of the hill, just a imiple of miles from here " At the liegnming of their marriage, Ike and Ellie Collins lived with his parents in a log cabin built by Collins grandfather My parents moved out after a few months," he says "They went over to Big Cre k to set up a store some, brown-haire- d young couple That was taken a few months after we were s married, says Elbe "We had gone to Huntington t) buy some furniture " Col-Ln- Story-Tellin- g And Old Art Grows Anew This was the magic books and newspapers and radio and television. People did not need the old storytellers to come around telling the old EDITOR'S NOTE upon a tlm, ttver One wero ttorytollort. Pooolo, rarhor than electronic media. But, times and customs have chanped. Yet, there are those who would like to revive the practice that thev consider an art form. Will they live happily ever after? By Timothy stones Oh, some people liked stones, especially children But there were only a few storytellers left to tell the Harper Associated Press Writer MADISON. Wis. Once upon a time, people told each other stones. Some of the stories taught lessons on should get along with each other, like Bible stories before there w as a Bible. 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Bailiwick. 12.99 Levl-For-Fe- et 11. 99 to 39.99 heard when they were little Of course, the children liked the stories And the parents found that they liked them, too Some of them found that they liked telling stories at night more than waU fling TV. Formed Some parents liked telling stories so much that they began telling them to each other They began forming a little groups to tell and listen to stones In New York adays, these fits now young storytellers are people like Igiura Simms, a young woman who See Page viv-ario- Z-- 8 ARtr 0P FOODS 14&O GO PCPWOOO Rp. . 9740311 vsjuvVscvx cwr -- r |