Clay County AlArchives News.....Boy fined $5 for Kissing a Girl in Ashland August 14, 1901
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Our Mountain Home August 14, 1901
Under the head of "Trip Notes," W. B. C. writes interestingly of Clay County in 
a recent issue of the Alabama Baptist. Following are some extracts from his 
letter: 
"Ashland is the county seat of Clay County. It seems to be quite an old town, 
beautifully located. It has a college of which it is very proud. If anybody 
wants to write a chapter on Little Colleges, they could do no better than to 
wander around in Clay County and hear from the people themselves what the two 
colleges at Lineville and Ashland have done for their children." In a little 
while Ashland will have finished the best house of worship in the county. They 
have a strong membership" capable of doing almost anything they undertake. 
"Everywhere I went farmers were extremely busy, so much so that it was a great 
sacrifice for the few who did attend the meetings to be present. But at Ashland 
they began to pour in from the country by the hundreds. I was surprised. Upon 
further inquiry I found that a case was to be tried in the court which excited 
all this interest. A boy took a girl to ride, and before the ride was concluded 
he kissed her, which of course was purely an accident, but it got out and the 
girl or her father, or some of her kin, or maybe all of them, determined to make 
the boy feel the weight of the aw for criminal carelessness, so he was sued at 
Ashland. The news had gone abroad in the newspapers, suppose, and that was the 
reason why all the farmers could leave their business and come to town. Many of 
them brought their families and spent the livelong day, and not until the 
verdict was rendered late in the afternoon was there any disposition to break up 
and go home. The poor boy was fined five dollars and costs. From all I could 
gather he had the sympathy of the people of the whole county. So, you see it 
costs something to kiss girls in Clay County. If this becomes a rule, I fear the 
girls will get no more buggy rides."

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