Coalville Times | 1901-12-27 | Page 3 | In [Illegible]

In TsnliaMsa Hnniilnln. The residents of the East Tennessee mountains celebrate Christmas day with a barber ue. An ox or steer la prepared for roasting, the Intel lor Is filled with chickens, ducks, wild tur-keys tur-keys anil birds, nnd tho wholo Is suspended sus-pended over a hum) wood llro which Is built In some convenient outdoor locality. lo-cality. The guests come from adjacent counties In gnat wagons covered with cornstalks, from beneath which black Jugs aro drawn and their contents sampled. There are side-issues In the shape of small Mrcs at which the boys roust tho fat coona captured In their coon hunta, and there la t fiddler who no sooner starts up "The Arkanaaw Traveler" Trav-eler" than old and young begin to dance. Ire croam there la none and bon-bona bon-bona are unknown, but cider and gingerbread gin-gerbread abound. Often girls, escorted by their admirers, will walk seven miles to attend.