Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-12-11
BELCROSS, Camden Co.

Hurrah for Christmas and
Santa Claus
Mr.. Luther J. Upton IS spend
ing this week at Poplar Branch
Hog killings IS all the go now
and spare bones" are plentiful.
Mr.. A. Sawyer spent last
Monday in Norfolk Oh business
J. B. Ferebee, Esq, of Eiiza>
beth City, was here on business
last week.
Hiss Jones, of Shiloh, is visit,
ing Miss Ella Gilbert of Church
hill this week.
Mr.. Will Sawyer spent last
Sunday in Elizabeth City visit
ing his parents.
c S. Sawyer, Esq of Cams
den, spent last Tuesday in Nor>
folk on business.
Mr.. J. L. F. Sawyer shipped
the largest dressed hog We have
seen this season.
w. Buckner, route agent of
the Southern Express Co., gave
us a call last week.
Miss Annie Gilbert of Church.
hill, was tie guest of Miss
Beulah Trafton last Sunday.
Rev. T. G. Wood, who has
been visiting his mother in
Berkeley, has returned home.
The crops are all housed and
the farmers are preparing to
spend Christmas in various
ways.
Mrs. Blanche Ferebee is visit
ing her mother, Mrs. I. B. Bou>
shall at "Sleepy Hollow this
week.
Mrs. 7. 7. Berry and Miss
Geneva Sawyer, of Ivory Neck
spent Wednesday in Elizabeth
City shopping.
Miss Mamie Traitor is in
Norfolk, Va, Wis ting friends,
much to The sorrow of some
people we know.
Owing to the snow and incle-
ment weather last Sunday the
congregation at SaWyer's Creek
Church was small.
From what we have learned
the wedding bells will continue
to ring ior some time to come in
and around Belcross.
To day is pay day or what is
generally known as "hog killing
day among the employees of
the N. & S. r. K. CO.
The Belcross Theatrical Co.,
will in the near future give an
enter tainment for the benefit Of
Sawyer's Creek Baptist Church.
Camden Lodge, No. 50, I. O.
O. F., will have their annual
supper at their hall on Dec. %.
They anticipate a pleasant time.
We are glad to announce that
the Croatan Tribe of l. 0. r. NJ. u,
No. 7, will reorganize next Sat-
urday evening in the l. 0. 0. T..
hall. We wish them success.
Miss Bertha Harris, who has
been visiting Miss Kate B.
Harris, at Elizabeth City, has
returned home after spending a
pleasant time.
Miss Bette Berry, Of Shows
den, who has been visiting Mrs.
w. w. Garrett, of this place,
returned home Monday after
spending a pleasant visit.
Some of the members of the
"Belcross Coon and Postum
Club" went hunting Wednesday
night and bagged two 'coons,
three 'possums and one rabbit.
To be young in the cause we
think they do we'll.
G. w. Pearce, Esq, one of the
most prosperous and leading
business men of South Mills,
honored this office with a visit
last week which was very inter-
esting indeed. Among other
things that were talked about
was an interesting description
given about the dredging of the
Old Dismal Swamp Canal. Mr..
Pearce who is in a position to
know says the company who
have the contract to d epen and
widen the canal have at present
three dredges at work that has
capacity to cut when running to
their full power over a hundred
yards day, eighteen feet wide
and nineteen feet dee p; the canal
is to be sixty feet wide and
twenty feet deep, and he further
says there is no doubt but the
canal will be finished and in
working order in years time.
IA