Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-10-14

Just here my stenographer and 9TH
ers take leave, and from here on will
have lot of places like this, which
will show my errors having been COW
cred over with the very little and use
full x. And to those who do not al
ready know, you will now find out
that x is used for more things than
the unknown quantity, and for spell
ing box, X-ray, and to denote ten.
About two weeks ago, after l had
maybe dozen issues of GRANVILLE
NEWS and was about to discontinue
issuance of same on account of the
time it took collecting said news and
copying same. Well, just about that
time somebody told me something
that gave me courage to keep on a
while longer. Dutch O'Brien, from
down between Dexter and Dabney.
who does not get the Dispatch, told
me they were printing whole column
or more each week of that same Gran
vile News IN the Gold Leaf, which
kept him in knowledge of lots of folks
he formerly knew, but did not know
what had become of.
So that made me determine to try
to keep up an occasional bit of news
just for the sake of Dutch, but truly
hope it does not get me "in Dutch"
And if there ever were one thing
that / could not properly do, that is
to write UP personals, for I always
seem to be gifted in writing them up
the wrong way, or of giving them
comic tinge. And if wrote a persona,
about Dutch which should perhaps
go something like this:
Dutch O'Brien, of the Dexter COM
munity. was an Oxford visitor Thurs
day" I would most likely write it in
the whereabouts of the neighborhood
of this language:
dutch OBrien, prosperous farm
er who lives between Dexter and Dab
ney, over and across the boundary line
of Vance, spent the day in our town
Friday. He drove. his V-8 pickup,
loaded with tobacco and arrived in
town just after midnight Wednesday
in time to secure floor space for a
first sale.
By mid afternoon the others of the
family had met with Mr.. O'Brien, and
all joined hands and heads in an or ~
of shopping, fitting out the whole fam
lily lin complete outfit of winter
ensemble. After their short but pleas
ant stay in town they returned homo
just in time to water and feed the
mules, milk the COW, feed the pigs,
and tuck the chickens very cozily in
bed upon their roosts.
MI. O'Brien and your correspondent
are friends of long standing, having
been acquaintance from early youth
on until. His first, child and oldest
son was born Shortly after I started
substituting on Route for my father.
Now said first-born son is happily
married, to the youngest Cor there
abouts). daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben Matthews, of Vance county. Not
knowing the others of Mr.. O'Brien's
children, cannot make personal men
ton of each of them.
Dutch is q man of extreme fine per-
son .lity, although he is not as high
as he is tall, but is rather short. In
fact, he is almost as short as the little
fellow who once lived in Oxford, that
was frequently said of him, HE is so
short that he almost drags the
ground"
In finality, let me state that if I
steadily wrote those kinds of per-
sonals, that my newspaper career
would die a-befning. But speaking of
Dutch I planned a picture of him in
this column months ago, with. cor
responding poem, but the cost of the
picture for this column was not in
Guided into the yearly expense budget
OF the dispatch, so no pictures for
OLD NOSE.