Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-12
Crits and Gravel
nv T. MOSES JONES.)

/ Yancey. VINO was Witness In
L. = xs-rurder trial. 1 vert to the
ne ro1I-a and the court room was
c. ,d and the door was full. l climb
ladder by the door that IT,,
{" Is had left, took one peep inside
f' +ben left On back to the offic,,
az, - Dispatch for a minute to hand
q ,,.sral subs to come over to Gran
~ Mr. Finch made my poor heart
VIZ, ,ia5 when he told rue that his
aid she did not know the folks
VIZ, bare. bat had read one of NV
'0 sav Ralph Walters poking his head
- q freight car. He is an old Ok
~ '7 bov Went on down to speak to
SINGER Sewing Machine Abbotts
~, also formerly lived here. They
,4 their best to sell me a machine
told them my own brother had
49, secured our county territory from
r. company and was working here.
Nd there l met Mrs. Ralph Wal
who owns and runs The Great.
...,olqarated Mitchell Millinery Manu-
...-nring Co, Inc, And what do yol
-.,on she had in her store? A room
IN If ladies' hats. She was formerly
-. E1nice Mitchell of Nash county
III said she met Ralph at the first
.n.s.iderts Ball held in Henderson
.,rr or five years ago.
Tren I told her about when Ralph
49, started to school and wore long
- curls for a year or two. His moth
and several brothers now live il.
Tsshineton d. c., cut lived owe here
.sr years
nav from their sewing machines.
AMI believe they would live six
months.
Right there on the street 1 saw
csr.s Eugene HI Faucette, also an
cher former resident of our county.
sban never forget the time he lost
: whole quart of sweet milk by telling
~ he would give it to me if 1 would
rink II in minute, which 1 did.
Edward Parham from Route 5 was
eso down there and wondered what
vas dong there.
Hadn't seen Tom Stokes since he
~sal 10 work over here for the Gas
company. before they disconnected
-ra pipe line to Oxford. He looked his
rsrv same self.
VII Parham IS another man who
r,oss JUS. like he did the first time
av4~ saw him. His son, George, mar
I'D Miss Mittie Lee Blackwell ard
-ssv live at Lexington, KY, but were
-.gst in the midst of the great flood
2, Louisville a year ago.
Waved my hand at Hook Knott rs
Dassad his window, and on down to
Tuners Market where l saw an oil
friend. Rov Daniel a brother of Miss
Ruby Daniel who is a missionary in
Bucharest, Roumania. Roy introduced
IL 10 Mrs. Mollie Turner who was il
the market Although l was older than
n. her son and myself were playmates
:. school here when we were boys.
Years ago l was at Norfolk for
s.ort while and worked at the Pen
is-'s No. l Store for the great length
Il time of two whole weeks. Tat store
( the daddy of all the Fender stores.
BIZ. what I started out to tell was that
all me time I was in Virginia, I dill
not meet but two or three folks who
told me they were native Virginians.
Nearly every one I met had migrated
trom North Carolina So it seems to
ne that a great many folks now liv-
ing in Henderson and Vance county
crossed over the border from Granville
The same is true of Willie Murray.
He said Mrs Murray's parents, Mr.
and Mrs ]. H. Cakes, were getting
an fine. I was out to their family re-
union one Sunday last summer. The
crowd was right large but the dinner
vas too much for the crowd as there
was some left. After DR.. and Mrs.
Julian Elliott had finished and were
,eady to leave, on account of DR.. e.
l.9tt.had a call to make, the OakeSeS
asked him to stay just a little while
longer TO see that I was not taken
with the acute indigestion or appen-
d.citis from eating too much. But that
flied chicken and caramel cake ana
those tomato sandwiches, and water
melon r:nd pickle, and so forth almost
Ike to have got the best of me.
Yes. Willie Murray used to live over
lele in Oxford.
don't know what we are going 10
u VIII harvey Jcl1I1C IAAN
II, Manager of Roses Five ana
Dine He is a fine young fellow and
saoye does tend to his work. But
Just as soon as he finishes with MS
Gays work and eats supper, he runs
light over to Henderon. 1t must De
that he just can't wait until morning
to get his Henderson paper and mas
to go over at night to read the news
Mrs. Lula Currin and daughter
Miss Evelyn, of Creedmoor, were over
to our town today Mrs. Currin miss
ed coming over for several weeks on
account of having been sick, but Is
well again.
Mrs NJ A Nicholson has returned
nom Raleigh where she visited ner
daughter, Mrs. Richard Hopkins
Ar. and Mrs. S. H. Parham OF Fu-
quay have moved into the home with
Ms Rosa P. Averett at Providence
MIS- Averett is an aunt of Mr.. Far
ham
Some years ago a mans home was
burned one night. The joke was TOTO
vi The reporter who wrote up aDOul
me fire, that in the write-up he LETT
we man in the bath tub. So in THIS
MHte-up I have left myself over At
henderson, but 1 must get Dack
-ome Walking on in the rain 10 the