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The first cooking stove I ever heard of, ray father bought, 

 and was describing its excellences to Uncle Tommy, and among 

 its other advantages he said : " Why, Tommy, it will save half 

 the fuel ;" when Uncle Tommy replied : " Well, Billy, why not 

 get two of them, and save all the fuel ?" 



One of the first cotton factories was established at Pendleton 

 and run with great success and profit for many years, and up to 

 his death, by Major B. F. Sloan, and is still in operation by 

 the Sittons. 



Pendleton had her agricultural society, fair grounds and 

 race track, and some of her exhibitions Avould put to blush 

 many fairs of the present day. 



Pendleton had four flourishing churches, two hotels ; and 

 who of her old citizens do not remember the long ball-room 

 in the old Tom Cherry Hotel, and the beautiful young girls 

 who once skimmed like swallows over those well-waxed floors, 

 and the stately matrons, who, as chaperones, patronized with 

 their presence these delightful occasions, and gave dignity and 

 respectability to the ball-room ? The old debating society, 

 held in the old Farmers' Hall, and ever graced by a full at- 

 tendance of the fair sex? The magnificent coaches and the 

 elegant spans of horses that whirled up the dust in the streets 

 of the old town ? What old citizen's heart is not made to 

 throb at the recollection of thrilling notes from the stage horn, 

 borne over the hills to notify them of its coming? How the 

 people would gather around the hotels and the postofiice as the 

 great rocking, ponderous vehicle came rolling and swaying 

 over the rocks, drawn by four or six horses, dashing in at a 

 gallop into the center of the old town, wdth its passengers and 

 mail. And with what easjer excitement the citizens sought 

 to welcome friends and visitors, and receive the tardy news. 



