Days Gone By

Days Gone By: Dec. 26, 2019

The Meeker Herald

125 years ago

Travelers who pass up or down the road leading to Oak Ridge Park say that upon reaching Jim Burch’s place they are ordered to dismount and follow the genial Jimmy into the house and there imbibe copiously of a decoction known in the tar-heel state as North Carolina meadow dew. Mr. Bloomfield informs The Herald scribe that when he was so treated the other day he couldn’t comprehend…