Stories from Wednesday, October 1, 2008

4th Graders visit the Cherokee RR Depot (10/01/08)
Roosevelt Elementary School teachers took their 4th Grade classes on a field trip to the Historic Cherokee Depot recently. While there, the three groups listened to former railroad worker Randy Smith talk about "the old days" on the railroad and also had an opportunity to ask questions. Jim Adamson also presented an interesting slide show on the history of the railroad here in Cherokee, and the students also toured the general waiting room and ticket office area. Photos by Dan Whitney...

Times Gone By (10/01/08)
The Times reporter Saturday went down to the Joe Groves farm in Pilot where Elsworth Carr was having a job of threshing done with the Caswell traction thresher. When we arrived the thresher had just pulled into a fourth setting, three good sized straw stacks revealing that the machine had been hard at work and with good results. ...