Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-06
Cr1t4 and
Gravel
BY F.. MOSES JONES


This is early Monday morning. We
are planning to bring Daddy Jones
home from the hospital about ten
o'clock this morning. His condition
has not improved, and he really seems
to be getting weaker all the time.
Brother Raymond from Virginia
came Saturday and is over home, and
Bill and Zee from Bullock were also
there for the weekend, and at the
hospital yesterday. AS it is not best
to have too many in sick person. 5
room, we did not go over in the
morning, but Mrs. Jones fixed dinner
for the others here at our house. and
in the afternoon we went over to the
hospital for a while.
Little Miss Jane Claiborne, of South
Hill, Va, has gone home, so her room
was empty. She was about twelve
years old and had received a number
of books and pretty things from her
friends at home the last time I went
in to see her.
Clifton Land is still improving. His
folks were there to see him, irclud-
ing his sister, Mrs. Millard Fakes, of
Smithfield. In fact Millard and al the
seven children were there, but not in
Clifton's room at the same time.
Millard is brother to Elvin who has
recently returned to his home a. De-
troit after a visit here. Also he is
brother of Clement, who has returned
from a trip to Canada and a broth
er of Freddie, who lives at Willow
Springs.
Johnnie Yancey, of Near Grassy
Creek church, was brought to the hos
pital in ambulance yesterday. I do
not know his condition except that
he is a very sick man. His son, Earlia
]. Yancey, who is in Canada curing
tobacco, was notified by telegram: yes
terday of his fathers condition. Rev
J. u league, of Henderson, is his
pastor.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Green and fam
lily, of Clayton, Route 2, are visiting
a. the home of her parents, Mr.. an!
Mrs. Louis w Parham, on O~fo">'
Route 4, Mr.. Green is an occasional
visitor during the summer, but fire.
quent visitor here during the tcDac-o
season. Mrs. Green was the formoi
Miss Lura Parham.
M. D. Wetmore, of Durham, was
an Oxford visitor Saturday. He was
a resident of our city some years ago
and a special friend of your Old Nose
when we were young men together.
Lum Wheeler, of Route 2, who lives
just beyond Bell Town, is planning
Wednesday. Lum is the young man
spoken of in, this column some time
ago, who helped work a crop last year
year and.then had the misfortune OF
losing his. oversight. Lum should be
placed up lid the same notch with the
Biblical Job in the line of patience,
for he has learned patience as we'll as
a lot of other things since losing his
eyesight.
Master Quinnon Ellis Wilson, whose
picture was in this column a couple
of months ago, celebrated his third
birthday one day last week, with 4
beautiful cake holding three candles
The cake was made by his Cousin
Jarvis Maddra, who is a real baker by
trade, and knows how to make cakes.
Quinellis looks like a real little man
walking around with his hands in his
pockets.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin T. Daniel tavc
returned from Kinston, whree they
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
j. M. Pruitt. Their children, Kathe-
rine and Nelson, also went with them
Miss Katherine went down there dur
ing the summer and stayed several
weeks without her mother or father
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Newton and
family have returned from Little
Rock, S. c., where they visited her
sister, Mrs. j. D. Dean. told e.
&. that 1 was going to put it Little
Rock. Arkansas, so that folks would
think they had really gone places.
Saturday Tommy Gill and Tommy
Jr.. invited us out to the Gill reunion
to be held the next day at their rome
I had to decline the kind invitation
with regrets on account of Daddy
Jcnes' condition. I thought a5ou
them yesterday, and how did Wish
that 1 could have been out there VIII
them!
b. f Frazier, I call him "Uncle
Ben," dropped in a few minutes yes
terday afternoon, after we had re
turned from the hospital. He tols
about the big time he had all the weei
out in the country. You remember
that we left him out there last Sun
day after attending the Blackwell re
union.
Sunday night he. spent at the hom'
of Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford Blackwell
Monday afternoon he spent with MI