03-19-01

I really didn’t intend to scare so many people with the large beast story that Loy Vaughn told me last week; but getting back to the story Loy told about his youth. The hairy best kept going through the woods killing chickens and animals and scaring everybody which caused the neighborhood farmers to organize a posse in order to bring peace and tranquility into the Vaughn Town settlement. The monster made a strange sound that was never heard by anyone.

After hearing all the excitement that was generated through the neighborhood and after all of the panic created to the farmers’ wives, it seems that when the truth came out, the local boys had invented an apparatus that was made up of a large hollow log, that they stretched animal hides over the log and letting it stretch over and tighten it to resemble a hairy monster.

The boys would get under the hollowed out log and walk through the woods making the noise and creating a weird sound of a resin down string that was tightened to make the unheard of noise as they went through the woods.

I am sure there is more to the story, and Loy said he was going to come into the hardware store and find him a nail keg and sit down and tell us some more history of this area.. I didn’t have time to tell Loy that nails don’t come in nail kegs any more, but I’m sure if he shows up, he will find a place to settle down and bring us up to date on more events that happened in the past.

One other interesting thing that Loy told us, was about when he was ten or twelve years old, his parents and the rest of his family would come into Aubrey to see the movie that was shown on the vacant lot just east of where the hardware store is now located.

It seems that his mother would let them all ride in the back of their old Model A pickup into Aubrey on Saturday nights to view the movie. It was on one such occasion that while they prepared to make the trip for the entertainment, they loaded several cane bottom chairs into the pickup, so they would have a place to sit down while they watched the movie. And when they arrived in Aubrey, the legs of the cane bottom chairs had slipped into the holes in the Model A bed floor. And as they drove down the road the legs hit the wheels and the wheels ground the legs down so that they weren’t very comfortable for watching the movie. He had to answer to his mother for the foolish activity of allowing the chair legs to fall into the holes and not being aware of the damage that was done.

I have some interesting news that was printed in the Rockhill news along with the Liberty news that occurred during 1920 and will try to share this next week.

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