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Show ir :$ H MARY ll ii SUCCEEDS j? , :; on ;. : j MAIN STREET i j " ' J ' Cy LAURA MILLER . ' C . . . .:::.'!'...; , . j. ,. l. iiii'.i .Mili.r VH2RE MAIN STREET IS ONLY A CREEKEED 1'i.r ;'il!:s w lm mii-.idiT liiV nil Main Kln-.-l " 1 1. 1 1 lu 1 " IhiTi; limy lie u 1 . M i ic in I In; pliiuri' nf life v. li.-ri! IhiTi; ImiI i-vi-n n .Main Siivi-i. "The nnly r-iails in mil" county urn cnvklicl roads," wrih's (Hive Marsh. "We iln Mil live in u lown ut nil, nnil Uhmv is mil u sin-i-l nf iiny kind ulihin miles ill' us '.Main' nr ni Ihtw isi-." Yd "Sinini; ( hit l'ivck" of Kllnll county, Kriiliicky, boasts of a cmii-iniiiiliy cmii-iniiiiliy cluli, ii .ii in i lire, a 'i'.lnc I'.lrd dull" I'nr lii i In uirls, a boy scout trnup, nnil nn nrirult liral dub which Is cliiTUrlii: Clliiu'll tl) linlil U community com-munity lair nnil In cnuiidi.' In Hie im-iiinil im-iiinil ciiiinly fair. '1'lie secret lies iiart-ly iiart-ly In Ihis same (Hive .Marsli, IladelilTo colic;,'. imisli r nf n lis, partly 111 her cn-v. nrln-r, I'utli Weston, nnil partly In Hie desire of the mountain folk to (,'lnw line!; Into the world llHllln. 'J'lie con mi ii 1 1 1 1 y center, which mothers moth-ers all other projects, Is maniiKed by the two women together, with five men of the community elected by the people. Since Miss Marsh and Miss Woslon came lo Cnrr Creel; they have raised funds to build a seven-room Kchoollioiise, which Is In use not only for school purposes, hut for clubs mid other community Kiilherlnirs, for the monthly clnthliiB sale held by the cenler, and for the free lending library li-brary which occupies one of the rooms anil comprises now about 2,500 volumes. vol-umes. A three-room cottane lias also been built, In which Miss Marsh and Miss Weston live, and In which for the past year two orphan boys have nlso lived, working for their board mill attending school. A one-room office of-fice building is nearly finished, and a new building, "Singing Curr Creek Home," to serve as a dormitory for orphan children, Is about to be begun, the fund for Its construction being nearly completed. The center owns about twenty acres of land. The Community Com-munity club has made a trail across a mountain, so that the children In an Isolated section of the school district ran get to school without having to walk four miles around by the road. It 1ms also built two foot-bridges across the creek at needed points, to replace the shaky footlogs which got washed out with every heavy rain. So goes the story of marvelous accomplishment, ac-complishment, with the thread of personal per-sonal happiness all having to be read between the lines. |