TUG COMMUNITY NOTES
By
ROBERT SMITH - LORENE BLEVINS EVANS - JESSE LAMBERT
Bud Davidson preached at the church one Sunday each month. He was from Pocahontas, VA. Mr. Boyd and others preached, so there were services each Sunday.
Mr. Hesson was the check-in man at the mine. He lived in Barlow Hollow.
The church had a pump organ. It was played by Florence Sadler Smith.
At Christmas time Ezra Blevins would buy treats, put them in bags and give to kids at church.
Ezra Blevins operated a saw mill at the Westmorland Intersection.
The Grit newspaper and the Pittsburgh Press was sold here.
Ezra Blevins bought a Philco table model radio. Neighbors would come there at night to listen to Amos and Andy, Lum and Abner and Gang Busters.
Mr. and Mrs. Blevins had a wash house behind their house. They had three Ironsteed beds and a stove in it. They kept boarders. Joe and Vernie Baldwin were two of them. They were his half brothers.
Mrs. Blevins had a copper-clad cook stove with a oven big enough to hold a pan of 48 biscuits. They kept a cow, horse, hog, turkeys and chickens. He once got a goat to help keep the brush cleared. Mrs. Blevins did not want it as it would BUTT. He would not get rid of it until it chewed on his long-johns hanging on the clothes line.
Mr. Blevins bought a 1930 Chevrolet. They would drive it out of the hollow stradling the ruts.
Elliots Store in Pocahontas would come to Tug one day a week, take grocery orders and deliver them the next day in a big truck.
The creek ran beside the road. In places there was a footlog for the kids to cross over. This was the road they traveled to Little Creek School.
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E. L. Harris
1305 Dodge Drive NW
Warren, OH 44485
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