The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-10-25
A PLEASANT DAY IN THE
COUNTRY


Sunday the editor and family, &C.
cOmpanied by Mr.. and Mrs. David
WelbOrn, spent a most delightful
day at the home of Mr.. Sanford
| Welborn on Route 2, ThomasviIle
At this home lives Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Welborn and two children, making
up most interesting family.
The dinner cooked and served by
Mrs. Ed Welborn was one of the
best the writer ever SAT- down to.
There was no room for Improvement
everything cooked and served to
the q Gems taste. 1t would not be
exec ly proper for us to enumerate
t }e many good things ON the table
OF. fair to our party to tell what we
put away" for dinner, but it was
enough to last over night, for there
was absolutely no room left for even
a late supper. However some were
bold enough to top the meal off an
hour or two after we made the great
drive on eats with fine apple cider.
After learning that Mrs. Welborn is
a daughter of that former splendid
Rockingham citizen, C. j. Matthews,
personal friend. of the Stamey
family when the late Rev. P. F. w.
Stamey was stationed at ReidSvilIe,
we were not surprised at the excel
lent cooking and the open hearted
hospitality displayed.
The Welborn farm is an ideal one,
our type of farm and just such a
place as would appeal to this news
paper pan :sp which to fin SUI
premt jbntek kment in the years TO
come, fAe~ from the turmoil of the
city and zile high powered drive for
business in the world of competi-
.tion. On just such a model farm
one. could be master of all he sur.
veyed. with. none to hinder or make
-afraid-only tho Great I Am to be
responsible to IN the large measure
of the term. If the sunshine and the
rains were favorable to the sower's
efforts bountiful crops would follow
if not no mortal man could be
blamed and the teachings of the
Holy Bible and the Christian faith
would not allow a murmur or one
word~of discord at the inevitable.
A pretty home situated on knoll,
surrounded by fertile fields and val
ieys, the crystal waters of the rest
less creek, the orchards alive with
juicy apples and pears, the pens
swarming with pigs and hogs, the
pastures with COWS, the barns and
grainaries bulging with feedstuffs,
the lots housing stacks of hay and
straw, the fields ready to give up
the yield of corn. other parts of the
farm, covered with the green of the
rye and clover, with the forthcom-
ing of the wheat and the oats from
the recent sowing, the usual supply
of the American pet, the chicken
and the priceless eggs of today but
why particularize further, already
we have digressed partly from our
subject.
Messrs Welborn, junior and senior.
are practical farmers and are max.
ing gOod-doing their bit for Ameri-
can ascendency by providing boun-
tiful crop of farm products.
There are ia acres of the farm
and about half of this is cultivated
and besides Mr.. Ed WeIborn has
rented rs acres from a nei9hbor
which he is sowing in wheat. He
does not depend on the slow going
but ever sure horse or mule but has
traction engine which he uses for
ploughing and other work On the
farm which takes the place of four
or five men and teams. He has
running water in his home and other
convenieDces and comforts in a
model country residence. We count
ed thirteen shoats and five big hogs
on the place, eighteen porkerS alto
gether. A mOderN tobacco casing
house has been erected and the to-
bacco can be handled for the mar.
ket at any time. The present home
of the Welborns was erected Is
years ago and the builders were Cum
Welch and Claud Welborn. 1t has
lately been repaired and painted and
looks good for another IS years.
Mr.. Sanford WeIborn is well and
favorably known by many High
Pointers There are two children,
Messrs. Ed WeIborn, who lives at
the old home place with his father,
and Gurney Welborn, who is in the
postoffice department at Charlotte.