Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Bluff City

I've noticed some more llamas near Bluff City. These were spotted at the White Oak Stables on Highway 24.

Betty Tomlin, Helen May and Shirley Green visited Vernell Loe one day last week. They enjoyed a lunch together.

Happy birthday wishes go to Millard McBride, Elloene McBride, and Patricia Farr.

The first Sunday in May is the traditional time for Bluff City homecoming. Everyone gathers on the grounds of Baptist Church for the noon meal and there are cemetery meetings held in the afternoon for those interested in the Bluff City and Ebenezer Cemeteries. The crowds are not as large as they once were, but it's good to get together occasionally to remember old times and see old friends once more. So get out that favorite recipe, hunt up your lawn chairs, and get set for homecoming day in Bluff City.

I guess this is a good time to remember some of our past history. It's amazing how time flies by.

Twenty-one years ago this month, Don Wood was teaching a singing school in Bluff City at the Church of Christ. That was also the year that Gerald Carter passed away.

Twenty years ago this month, Aubrey Barlow passed away. He was well known for leading singing in this area. He lived across Caney Creek on the way to Terrapin Neck in a large white house. We also lost Pearl Conner in April of 1979. It was also the year that the big tornado hit Camden. It formed near White Oak Lake just after passing over Bluff City late one Sunday afternoon. I can remember picking up hailstones as large as baseballs in Bluff City from that storm. This storm traveled from the northwest to the southeast, which is not the usual path of a tornado.

If you ever have a sty in your eye, you might try an old remedy someone told me about. They say if you rub your eye with a black cat's tail, the sty will be gone the next day.

Here is an item reported in the newspaper 82 years ago on May 10, 1917: a large ton and + motor truck passed through Prescott enroute to Bluff City to be used by the firm of Upton and Harvey to haul freight from the railroad to Bluff City.

Mark Twain once said, "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint."