Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-22

In at Roses Five & Dime Friday
afternoon, and Harvey Jeffries asked
Miss Allen Wilkerson to fix me up a
nice Easter basket, as l wanted one
to take to very young lady, the one
whose picture you see above. SO MISS
Allen composed and compiled beau
tiful basket with Easter Dummies, eggs
and chickens and then encaSed tbs
whole affair in cellophane. Severa
DAYS before, | had been invited tC
come out to the Cutting Supper at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. o. A. (Oscar)
Pickett, Oscar being a special friend
of mine.
So about three o'clock, l gathered
up said basket, found one of the Cur
rim Brothers and his son about to
leave for Kinton's fork, rode witt
them that far; got a transfer on the
Mountain Creek Bus Line (By Air)
and then rode the other miles, of the
seven and one-half miles distance with
Harvey Greenway and Dick Jones
And those two men shorely did talk
ugly about me to my back, for some
one told me next day what they said,
and this was it. "Just think about the
supper that old 7. Moses is going to
eat tonight, and then think of tn :
thousands of Chinese children who are
starving to death"
Those same men let me out at the
mail box and 1 walked the quarter
mile up to the house. There stood the
house in a shiny coat of white paint
with ibrand-new lightning rods and
also new screen doors and windows
1t had all been fixed up since 1 was
out there late last summer down at
the barns to a weeni2 roast. In tho
kitchen 1 found Mrs. T'dckett -(Mis
Annie May Riggam. Mrs. Fred
Pickett, and Mrs. Avis Puckett and
children, Harold Lee and Annie Gray.
Fred married Miss Sarah Owen, and
real early before breakfast one morn
ing, just a week before last Christ
mas, and went around to Preacher
Poe's house to their wedding, as Mr..
Poe was leaving early that day to go
over to Raleigh to bring his two
daughters, Misses Rachel and Lillian,
home for the holidays.
So gave Charlotte her basket, and
Earl Pickett showed me the way to
the woods where the men were at
work Besides Oscar and Avis and
Fred, and James, there were several
neighbors: Maynard Howard, Ohio
Humpries, Charlie Adcock, Thomas
Wynne, and George Daniel, and half
a dozen hands the neighbors had sent
to help. Although 1 am getting old,
and have long been grey, it was tho
first cutting / had ever attended. To
hear fifteen axes chopping at one Tina
was almost like hearing a clock tick
only bit louder
In the very top of one of the tales
trees they cut down, l found what
took to be a last years buzzard nest
They did not chop or saw into a bee
tree, but that would have been funny
to have gotten a lot of chopping done.
plus finding a tub full of honey.
They wound up on an atrociously
large white oak, and 1 counted ninety
seven rings on the stump judging the
tree to have Iceen that many years
old, or stand corrected if l am wrong
l neglected to say that I sat around
on stumps and logs while they did the
cutting, chopping, and saving. Witt.
thoughts of something good to eas
running away with our minds, we
"wended our way" back to the house.
| did not get to taste any of the
peach pickle nor the stand of pre-
serves, but the following are what I
did eat some of each: baked hen with
dressing and gravy; creamed potatoes
and potato salad; hot buttered bis
cults and coffee; stew beef and some
of the best Brunswick stew; pear
pickle and navy beans. I can't remem-
Der the rest, but the dessert was pine
apple cake and peaches. And Char
iotte had put her Easter basket right
In the middle of the table for decora-
lions.
When the last table full had finish
ed eating, we men folks sat in the
parlor and talked and had some
music. Then we disbanded for the
night, Oscar taking mo homo To :, -