Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-04-02

] Biltmore College there will be re-
ception at the Vanderbilt Hotel for
the honored guests and delegates.
Marvin Lowenthal will be the Sun
day. luncheon speaker and the Mems
/! Association will have charge of this
| event while. the members of the Tenn
| pie Sisterhood will act as hostesses.
his death, is now sixty-five, the only
one of his children yet living. She IS
Mrs. j. w. Wrenn, ST., of Oxford,
Route 3, and lives near Dickerson
Some of DR.. Hester's great-grand-
children are: Little Jimmie Wrenn,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dorsey Wrenn,
who live on our street: and just
across the street from Jimmie, lives
Bert and his little sister, Ann, chill
dlen of Mr. and Mrs. J.. w. Wrenn,
| Jr. another is Durward Hight, a
| grown young man, who works in
| Oxford; and yet others are little
| Misses Helen Wrenn and Gloria Hood
/ daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. F. L.
Hood of Roanoke, Va. The remain
| ing ones that / know are Marie,
Caroline, and Billy Hight.
| now have an "In Memoriam,"
which was loaned to me, yellow with
age, and worn in too where it was
folded. 1t was written by Rev. j. H.
Gilbreath, and a poem by ]. L. Mich
aux. Both were copied in the Cen
trial Protestant of April Ii. 1875.
Although 1 may have gotten some
| of the above story of Dr. Hester mix
| ed up or mis-stated, I did not write
it to bore the younger people, but
wrote it in hopes that it might prove
| bit of interest to few of the older
| folks ''si "A
Now for some This and That's
! Rode over to Henderson early this
morning with Bill Mitchiner who
runs the Economy Auto Supply Co.,
here. He went to call on his brother,
ID. G., who runs a likewise place
there. He brought me back in
short while, so I did not have any
time to see. what was going on in
your city. Barely spoke to those in
the Dispatch office.
| Buck King from the big city of
! Hester works for Bill. He may be
something of a thirty-second cousin
CT Wayne King, as Buck is some
what of a musician, himself. I think
Buck took music once upon a time
/ but now suppose he just plays "by
| hand" instead of by note. But he
! gets there just the same.
G. L. Tilley of Kittrell, Route 2. an
other reader of this paper, has re-
turned from Kecoughton, Va, where
he received treatment for nearly two
weeks in hospital. He surely seem
ed glad to be back home.
Willie Powell of Route is home
again from Granville hospital after a
recent operation. He was in town
today, but a bit slow.
G. G. Adcock recently left his ap-
pendix out at the hospital, but seems
, very thankful to be able to walk
slowly by leaning heavily on a cane.
Besides his sickness, to cause his
friends to bring him candy and flow
ers, he also enjoyed birthday while
at the hospital. G. c. says he does not
know what he has ever done to make
folks be so kind to him and he did
+, not before realize that he had so
many friends.
| Jean seems to he one of the pre-
! valllng names for the present avail
anche of babies. Mr. and Mrs. Willie
! Jones named their new daughter
| Doris Jean some weeks ago, after go
ing through a whole catalogue of
dozens of names.
r. F. Tucker of Kittrell, Route 2.
and H. G. Suit, of Oxford, Route 2,
wanted samples Of this paper, which
have already mai'od to them. And
will the censor who reads this, please
nf M H. - U
Goswick of Route 2. Iittrell, as he
said he may want For Sale ad be-
fore long
X. l.. Gud) Fakes left Imogene,
age 8, and r. L. Jr., age 6, in the
car while they did some shopping
Imogene said they had some little
baby chicks. r. L. Jr., said he liked
to swing at school.
John Cottrells son, Robert, really
writes with his left hand. Now
that's what I call left-handed man.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Hunt are the
proud parents of fine daughter who
just arrived at the Granville Hospital
Henry will surely have to practice up
on his singing lullaby songs and re-
fresh his memory on nursery rhymes.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. d. Finch of zebu-
ION spent loudy with their son. DR..
S. J. Finch. Another son, Elmer
came with them. Mr.. Finch seems to
enjoy coming to our town lot dur
ing the tobacco season.
Archie Wilkins, son of Lee, who is
the third oldest of the eight Wilkins
brothers, is now working at the
Ideal Service Station across from the
bus station. Archie went to the APP
paiachian State Teachers College at
Boone last term where he dissecti-
Gated cats in his anatonomical course.
At least that is what he told me in
a letter I received from him at that