Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-25
CrftS and
Gravel

BY T. MOSES JONES

FALL
The last petal of a rose,
1 saw it fall upon the ground,
1t might have been an earthquake
To an ants small. tiny mound;
1t might have looked enormous
To an insect buzzing near,
But to me it gave message
And 1 almost shed tear.
The leaves are falling very fast
Down from off the trees,
And all around they hit the ground,
Blown by gentle breeze:
These signs and many others,
They tell me, one and all,
That summertime has gone away,
And now it's surely fall.
And soon will come the winter
With hail and snow and sleet,
Warm inside and cold outside,
With chilly hands and feet:
But we must all keep cheerful
And whistle long, and sing,
Sure as winter follows fall
After winter comes the spring.
If it were not for j. w Overton,
don't know what would become of
this column. 1t was his daughter,
Miss Rubie Il misspelled her name
before and put it Ruby who brought
me that nice caramel and pineapple
cake from the association dinner. And
the other day Cousin Lizzie Hester
told me that she made that pineapple
cake tn at the lady brought me. Cousin
Lizzie was then staying with Cousin
Pattie Crews (Mrs H. =. Crews) near
Watkins.
And now Mr.. Overton tells me he
found an eight pound watermelon out
in an old field where some one had
eaten a melon and left the seeds, one
of which had come up and bore this
melon without being worked.
But the most interesting thing Mr..
Overton has ever supplied and con-
tributed to this column is the follow
ing certificate of consent of man TO
the marriage of his son to a certain
young lady The document was writ
ten by hand in 1921 and is still very
legible. Am here asking the operator
and the proof-reader please do not
correct these errors, as this is exactly
as it was spelled:
"Mecklenburg Co. Va, february 9th
1921. to the Clerk of halifax Court I
do hereby sertify that am wiling to
the marriage Contract made between
my son James Newton, Junr., and
Polly lad of the County of halifax.
Pleas to grant him lisons to marry.
William Newton"
Witnesses
James Newton, Senr.
John Preyer.
Note the February with the little I,
Halifax with small h, and one time
spelled with one /, the other with two;
Junr. for our present Jr., for Junior;
sertify for certify; lad most probably
was meant for Laid; pleas for please;
| Lisons for license. The only indistinct
word was Preyer, who may have been
meant for Pryor, or most likely Tor
Puryear.
/ did not ask Mr.. Overton, and he
may not have known If I had, but !
am guessin that James Newton, Jr.,
was a nephew of James Newton, Sr.,
who witnessed the writing. Mr.. Over
ton says that the James Newton, Jr-,
and the Miss Polly Lad were his
great-great-grandparents, and were al
so his wife's grandparents.
And with this close. Mrs. Matte
Critcher (Mrs. Norman) Barker tells
me that the ladies of the Dexter Bap-
fist church asked that put this an
nouncement in this column. A HOME
COMING DAY will be held at the Dex
ter Baptist church next Sunday, DC
tober 80. All former pastors and for
mer members are invited to attend
I am hoping to get a complete pro-
gram in a day or so, and if I do, you
may expect to find right here. For
this time close.
T. MOSES JONES.
| The new upswepr couture being
| = 80 L.