Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-26
Cr1tS and
Gravel .
BY T. MOSES JONES

AS I write this (Friday morning)
for Saturdays paper, I do not feel
this is "the morning after the day be-
FORE as Mrs. Jones and myself had
a very quiet Thanksgiving day here
at home by ourselves. The boys were
all three out at their grandparents
We read until our eyes hurt and
then ate a light lunch and were in
vited next door to my brother .Joe'ss
for supper, which we enjoyed. Then
came home and read some more And
forget to turn on the radio to hear the,
Presidents message.
And as write this a man with a
broken back, or something, comes by
to sell me a package of needles for a
dime. He is all laced up in some kind
Of support. I wonder if he really has
an injured spine, or if he is just a.
fake. There are lots of fakes in the
world running at large.
One fake Joined the Odd Fellows
lodge in California a year or so ago
and has ever since been going around
to various lodges in the United States
and begging. I suppose he has 'byi
now beat honest men out of hundreds
of dollars. I need money, but don't
need it quite that bad. And I am
selfish enough to hope that in. soma
way that I will this day receive a
dollar to take the place, of that dine.
I can never forget several years ago
when I was doing fairly well at my
business. that gs-ve an old person a
bit of money. I knew that it was
much needed, by them, and it was al
so appreciated. That was early in the
morning. BY night had done. one. Of
the best days work had ever done
in my whole life.
And as you have heard before, and
I may have said before:
mot what we give, but what we
share.
For the gift, without the giver, is
bare"
Yes, I think repeated that very
quotation not many weeks ago.
And if any of you read dale Har-
rison's New York" column yesterday,
/ think it, is the best one he has ever
written. Some day I hope to write
something that folks will read, and
something that will be OF least half
way worth reading.
Thanksgiving found many folks
away from home. Miss Mamie L.
Thomas and Charlie McGilvery, of
New Roselle, were at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. U. Thomas for
Thanksgiving
Calvin Vauhan, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Johnnie Vaughan, of north Gran
vile, started to school for the first
time this season. He did not want to
miss even that day from school.
Miss Myrtle Gresham, of e. G. T. c..
Greenville, spent the holiday with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gresham,
near oxford.
And I can just bet that Burley Cash
put on that brand new blue suit and
called on his very best girl. From the
looks of those packages he had in his
arms last time. he came to town, that
would be the natural thing for him
to have done.
The other day Cousin Annie Crews
was congratulating w. w. Devin on
his birthday. And then she told ME
this, that her father, Cousin Herb
Crews. used to tell on, Cousin Hewitt
Kicks: "The night before Cousin
Hewitt would be twenty-one the next
lay, he Dragged to his brothers that
he was going to sleep as long as he
wanted to next morning, because he
would be free. So next morning the
BOYS were called as usual by their
5ather. When the others had finish
ed milking and feeding the horses
and so forth, and came in to break
fast, their father asked where was
heir brother Hewitt. Then they ex-
| blamed that be was q, and was going
| 10 sleep late. And this is told as what
| happened. His father went and called
I'D the stairs. Hewitt, Hewitt, get up
! from there; you won't be twenty-one
/ until eleven o'clock"
] T. MOSES JONES.