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From Janet Kavadellas
 Who taught the 2nd and 3rd grades at Cliffside School in 1951-52?
Answer: “I started 1st grade in '52. I think the 2nd grade teacher that year was Miss Mabry and the 3rd grade teacher was Miss Wells. Miss (or Mrs.) Edwards could have still been there, but I'm not sure what grade she taught, 1st or 2nd.” —Janice Swing
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From Anonymous
I have always wondered about the fish in the fountain in front of the mill office. Each time I was near the fountain, I would stand grasping the iron fencing around the pond, watching the water from the fountain splashing into the pond, and the huge goldfish swimming lazily around. I always wondered what they ate and who made sure they did not starve, and how they lived in the icy water in the winter. |
From Reno Bailey
Is there anyone who kept accurate records that could tell us when the bypass around downtown Cliffside was begun, and when it was finished?
Answer: “The bypass was started sometime in 1967. Don't know when it was finished, probably 1968 or '69.” —Horton Landreth |
From JoAnn Huskey
Back in the 1940s, Grover Compton had a little black and white Boston Bull dog, and Lafar Ruppe had a big white dog of some kind named Sally. Had the ban on dogs in Cliffside been lifted by then, was it being tested, or just not being enforced?
Grover had a koi (or goldfish) pond in his front yard (the side away from the road and toward the bleachery). In addition to the pond, his house had latticework and many more amenities than the other houses, as well as a large side garden plot. There was a huge pecan tree in his back yard near the road that was so productive that pecans practically carpeted the ground. Since pecan trees are not normally native to the area, someone apparently planted it. Since it was already a huge tree in the 1940s, it was not a new planting. I wonder who planted it. I am wondering how this much nicer house came to be nestled among the “regular” houses on South Main. Did someone “of substance” once live there, or did Mr. Compton have a job with the mill that entitled him to disobey the dog ban and have a nicer house? Did he have some special relationship with the Haynes family?
(Footnote: When Mr. Compton decided to move to the “country,” he advised the Hill family who lived next door, and they “put in” for the house. It then became the home of George Barney Hill and his family. When the tracks for the railroad were extended down S. Main Street, the house was torn down, the pecan tree cut down, and the yard fenced in.)
Aunt Beula Ruppe, in her later years, said that her father (Ed Atkinson) took in a boy to stay with them for a while after the boy's father killed his mother down next to the river. The killing near the bridge mentioned on this Web site took place in 1930. Grandpa Atkinson lived in Cliffside only from about 1906 through 1910 or '11, so the one she mentioned would have happened during that time, unless Beula was confused about the details. Was there an earlier murder in Cliffside?
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