John E. Cooper 



Clement Samuel Brimley 

 December 18, 1863 —July 23, 1946 



the justly celebrated Sunny South, irrespective of time of the year 

 (December 31, 1880), I found a town with unpaved streets, ruts 

 hub-deep, frozen solid and covered with snow, and the temperature 

 down mighty close to zero. There were some board sidewalks, but 

 military tanks or caterpillar tractors would have been the only 

 suitable vehicles for negotiating those streets under the prevailing 

 conditions. 



"The hotel, later used as the Agriculture Building, was not equip- 

 ped with running water, and that in the pitcher in the bedroom I 

 occupied was frozen solid. We had to pull up the carpets and use 

 them for blankets to keep from freezing to death the first night, no 

 artificial heat being provided in the rooms. Bedford, even at the 



