The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-24

people SlOul0 receive HOHOEdDle ueHliOH
by the Daughters for the heroic part they
took in Americas early history, that, if
Pocahontas hadn't saved John Smith at
jamestown brave colOred woman would
have done so I; that five 4StalWart Negroes
would have taken Cornwalliss sword at
Yorktown in 1871, if he hadn't given it
to Lafayette; and that an active colored
man brought John Stark cold water from
n sparkling Bennington spring under the
burning heat of an August sun. Uncle
Rastus further says that the colored peo-
pie will never be satisfied until several
black stars are added TO the flag. l as
sured him that such an addition would
make the national ensign more in keeping
with the Newberry and run-a-muck con
gress situations. am more strongly
attached to the colored people, as l study
my family genealOgy more closely. The
mirthful and lamented Arthur w. Childs
wrote from st. Petersburg, Fla. that he
had met Miss Eta Childs, colOred and per
suasive, there, who was connected with
several missions. some of them entirely
personal. and. after bleeding for her cause
far beyond his financial ability, a COM
pariSon of her genealogical notes with
his own strongly convinced him that our
family sprung from the African race.
=. S.-NIanda has just come and sung
for me that great national anthem,
Where've You Been? which married men,
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In brief larry at Aberdeen, and by
courtesy of Rev. Euclid McWhorter of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, /
was given opportunity to inspect the at
tractive Page Memorial church, the gift
of a notable family, at cost of upward
of $4,000 to the local Methodist society.
1t is a brick edifice of unique and at
tractive architecture. handsome stained
windows, amphitheatre design, with
heavy polished mahogany Sittings, spa
ciOus pulpit platform, banked by the
choir loft. accommodating 20 mixed
voices, large Estey pipe organ, of finish
and tone, standing prominently above.
The pastor told me a representative of
the Estey firm was soon expected to at
tach an automatic blower to the fine in
strument. The vestibule opens to spa
ciOuS classroom and on the right of the
music is tablet in memory of Allison
Martin Page, who left college at 20 to at
tach himself to the marine corps and was
killed at Belleau Wood. June -, 1918.
At u he was active in this (MoOre)
county for delegate support of Champ
Clark for president. The large and prOmi-
nenJ Page family owns chain of banks
and trust companies in this. Richmond
Lee and Hoke counties. Robert y: Long
represented the district in congress and
| Walter Hines Page. President Wilson 5
ambassador to st. James, rests in Il
newly made grave not far from the
church, and l have passed the attra ctive
home in which he died. The church
membership numbers 300 and the Page
family make % of it, vigorous body for
a community of 1000. MethodiSts are
! legion in the old North State and their
! democracy keeps pace with religious fer
/ vOr; % per cent of all the white people
are unvaryIng in church attendance. and
at an Easter service in the local Presby-
terrain church 800 drove their cars FIVE "a
10 miles each way to a reception room
accommodating 200. New England sum
mer slackers might profit by such rever-
| entail Outpourings.
At Southern Pines are many home
bound from Florida. Mr.. and Mrs. Al
! bert w. Rockwell were at the New JEFF
ferSon, and Mr.. and Mrs. George \. Rob
! erts0n and Mr.. and Mrs Orrin c. Rob
| crtson of Hinsdale tarried at the South
| land week. | met pleasantly Miss
| Helen s. Barnard, sister of Mrs. +. II
| davenport OF the west village. and Will
liam Wells. In speaking of his Einton
block fire loss he said the local depart
ment turned so much water into the build
ing that his umbrella and bathing suit
were swept into the Connecticut and he
couldn't go up and inspect his belongings
until the summer drOuth arrived. Here
| am Hospitality meeting DR. \. a and
Mrs. Mcdonald, his estimable wife who,
in girlhood was Maude Carleton. daugh.
ter of Conductor Carleton who lived in
the present Henry {. Stowell home She
was associated with all the young peO-
pies activities of the First Universalist
church.
Moore county is noted for its great
peach harvests and the young fruit prom
lses a fine yield in late June, as orchards
four miles in length skirt the roadways.
| Webster Powell, who has been stopping
with his mother at Holly Inn, recently
bought a new 10,0O0-tree orchard near
here. The AmeS hill colony will recall
the mother and son, Mrs. Powell being
married there some 20 years ago by Rev.
ii. II. Shaw of the Marlboro church.
Considerable too low-priced cotton is
| being shipped from here, but the turpcn-
tine flow has largely ceased. No little
colOred mOonshine, however. is running
past and snakes are working overtime to
accommodate prescription issues upon the
local pharmacy, the snake-bite being the
necessary requirement. Two monstrouS
moccasins got upon the path of the tour
! ing car on the Charlotte road yesterday
and suffered collapse Down the road
further l sighted n giant. He appeared
like 3O-footer, but a hospitable friend
| had given me a generous swig of aged
peach brandy and | may have. in a
cloudy vision, miscalculated the reptile's
| length, which, like 50 many marriage an
niversaries, seemed long.
The roadways, constructed of rock
| clay, a substance much like gravel, are
/ fine hereabout
R. S. CHILDS.
(His y mark.)
/ North Carolina, April 10.