The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-06-16
WITH AUNT BECKY.
Farmers Up With Work-Poii-
tics-Death of a Good Man
Other News and Notes.
Correspondence Ct The Robesonian

Correspondence CT The Robesonian
Ola Fork, June 8-We have
had heavy rains in the Fork,
and now it is vtrJ CO
again, with cotton almost at a
standstill. It's growth is so very
slow as to be almost imperceptible
but the corn crop seems to be do
ing very well.
The farmers are up with their
field work, and have had but lit
tie trouble, so far, with grass.
But we have neutrality-suspicious.
d mos. Unusual sprngtlIne, su..i
a continuance of cool, windy
weather, and but little appear
ance as yet of the good old
summer time" But politics is
beginning to bubble, and perhaps
the atmosphere will get warmed
up.
Happy Jack" | endorse your
hilarious sentiments for Sandy"
and Mr.. Mckenzie, and if yol
knew them as we'll and as favor
ably as Aunt Becky" you
would 'hooray" for them right
on till the election. They are all
right, Happy Jack. Mr.. McKen-
zie will retain the position which
he so deservedly and efficiently
occupies, and Sandy" will be
our next Congressman. But where
are our aspirants for legislative
honors? | see nor hear anything
of them. Col. E. F. McRae, our
farmer orator, and wide awake,
brainy young citizen of Raemont,
is the man for the State Senate,
but | don't know his sentiments
on the question, and he may
think am meddling where | have
no business; if so, l apologize
here and now. But l am al
ways interested in the welfare
of the county and State, and love
to see good. honorable men elect
ed to Office.
Some members of the G. A. r.
are still fussing about Lees stat
ne, protesting that it should be
given no room in Statuary Hall,
and furthermore that the u. S.
Government will next be grant
ing pensions tosour veterans. -
And what if it should? Our dear
old veterans have been working
for As years to help pay pensions,
not only to Federal soldiers, but
to all their kinspeople-''t to the
third and fourth generation Of
those who hate u.s.
We are enjoying vegetable!
and fruits these days, and nov
the subject of dinner is not 81
vexatious as formerly. We have
had nice, ripe peaches since Ma.
10th and now plums and buckle
berries are on hand.
A young neighbor came dow
the other afternoon to get som
plums to make jelly. went wit
her to the trees, which are O.
the bank OF a deep ditch, and tn
fruit had fallen therein, an
heaped up in tempting piles; SO
suggested that she should G
down ano gather some of then
which were ripper than those Q
the trees; but after due refe
ton her courage failed, and 81
declined to descend. then to-
her / would make the trip if 81
would help me pull out. She r
piled that she would if she coul
but, maybe l would pull her
too" We'll" said l, Il am g
ing in, and if | cart get out
can wait un.il the squire come
and / know he will get me Q
some way, Tor his upper W
depend on it, Sol scrambl
down and soon had her bucl
full of nice plums; then began
have some misgivings as to ]
exit, because it looked higher
the top than it did from it. f
she gave me one hand, / cau&
sturdy bush in the other, a
was soon out of the depths
right; which goes to prove
old adage, where there's a V
there's a way"
Through a recent letter fir
our daughter, Mrs. McLaurin,
Latta, S. c., we learned of
death of an old friend in that {
ton, Capt. VIM Page, which
cured on Wednesday, the 2
of May, in the 80th year Of
age. Capt. Page was no ordi
ry man, as his long lifeo use:
mss and influence attest, and
community at large will miss
sadly, to say nothing of his
merous family connection,
hosts of friends. The gre;
norton of hic Efa woo cnor+