Milford chronicle., 1925-01-23
MISS STIDHAM In FLORIDA
NY dear Colonel

! We arrived in the duorishing cit
! of Greensboro, North Carolina, Mon
day afternoon, January 18th; haV
ing made much better time after get
ting started on a good road. We lef
South Hill, Virginia, Sunday morn
ing, after waiting there from Thurs
day noon for the new wheel and thu
weather to improve.
I think we all hated to leavt
South Hill, as it was raining; but
everybody else of the many tourists
were Drawing the elements and baC
roads in Virginia, so we started
and sorry we were. Why? Well i
was a wonderfully good hotel al
South Hill, Va, for a town Of nc
greater size, and we were having g
good time there; everybody was
nice to us. Miss Ida and I went to q
concert in the new high school on
Friday evening and played bridge all
of Saturday afternoon; on Saturday
night it was as good as vaudeville
entertainment to sit in the lobby of
the hotel and listen to the tourists;
from all over the United States,
from Ohio, Massachusetts,, Connecti-
cut, New York, Maryland, Virginia
and one lone traveller from Holly
wood, California. To hear their COM
plants, comments, advice and ques-
tions, was a cause for much amuse-
ment. Each traveller had notice
able difference in dialect, or manner
of speaking-but to get back to our
departure from South Hill, Va.
We had scarcely gotten out of the
town when the rain again poured
down in torrents, and four miles
further along we discovered that the
foot brakes had gone bad; which
necessitated a stop at little village
called Boydton, about 90 miles from
our starting point. It being Sunday
no work could be done; so, the less
we saw about that Sunday afternoon
and evening, the better for our mem
ory. Suffice to say, we had gooo
rest and hustled away Monday NOR
ning-I say "hustled," but it was not
for long. as five miles out the road
became more t"slippery bumps" and
inallv a bog; muddy ruts almost to
he hubs, where an old colOred man
apparently was on guard with a
shovel to dig out those who failed 10
10 as he told them, which was. Keep
yo' wheel oVah heah in dat rut' slam
mt" By keeping ISLAM out" we got
through without being pulled out.
These Virginia roads are like the
~, IL, Missouri said of their roads
when they are dry, they are best
,ou ever seed" We finally got
through to Oxford, North Carolina
md on to Durham, the home town Oh
old Bull Durham" tobacco which Is
citv of $4,000 inhabitants who are
,rogressive. The traveller need not
70 fold that tobacco is the heart and |
oul Of its business and It's man
it is like Marcus HOOK
Jenna, you know its product py the
mells. ,,.,,. 41o
argest IN the world, are located
ere and afford employment for
thousands of people; but the helds
n the approach to Durham for
oanv miles disclose tobacco and cot
nm as the main and almost only
ource of agricultural effort.
Tuesday, January 18th.
We awoke with hurrah for the
unsbine. the first we had seen since
fonning at South Hill, Va, last
and we are still on North
good roads, largely built
~ Mr. TTnhan. who Delawareans
1ill recall as the first Highway En-
ineer to build concrete roads IN
Delaware.
We made a run Of 1S1 miles this
1orning and afternoon. The gong
yas fine. We went through Sails
1rv. N. c., where a former towns
nan in Milford, Delaware lives, Mr..
Irthur REYNOLDS; but we had Iost
n nuch time before and we had hf-
v miles more of paved roads before
ye passed out of North Carolina,
hat we did not remain to renew old
1t was near noon at
he time and we did not want to ap-
ear in the roll of looking up free
neal for just a hOwdy-do to even r
so we hustled along 10
charlotte, another charming city
7ith many historical points OF inter-
st. It has $4,000 population.
Here we changed our route and
tarted for Lancaster, South caro-
ina. Just before reaching that town.
ye came to a new bridge in course
f construction and for a distance Of
oh SO many fractions of a mile
be earth was the brightest red clay
nd mud ever saw; it was up to
be hubs and axles of the car. The
uilders had three mules and three
olored men to pull the car to the
ridge. On the opposite end there
7ere four more mules and each with
driver, to pull the auto through the
anne kind of clay and mud to the
nd of it.
I regret very much that I failed to
ct a Kodac picture of this scene.
North Carolina is very proud Of
er many miles of fine roads and at
MS bridge section we met a North
arolinean who shook his head and
lughed, but wanted us to remem-
er that this was South Carolina
lud. Some day and before many
ears elapse, South Carolina is go
lg to be like other states in her
)ads. They are getting busy now.
From here we went to Camden,
outh Carolina, which is beautiful
,wn, located on a high point in the
cart of the needle pine" district,
hich is a resort of many million
Tres during the winter season. 1t
as at Camden, where the terrible
Iss of life happened at school en-
about a year ago.
We arrived at Columbus, South
arolina, about o'clock. 1t is here