Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-08
Crits and Gravel
(By T. MOSES JONES'

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am listening with one ear and trying
to write with the other Mrs. Kear-
new is another one of those Hender-
SON ladies who married and came over
to Oxford to live Her Husband is
Rural Mail Carrier of Route No. 2.
They have two grown daughters,
Misses Ruth and Belle. Both were
educated at E. C. T. c., Greenville.
Miss Ruth is now in training at Rex
Hospital, Raleigh. Miss Belle is
teaching at the Belvoir high school
near Greenville. Their two younger
brothers attend the grammar school
here at Oxford.
The other day Police Strickland
passed by show window filled with
turnip salad Said he, II could eat
half as much salad as is in that win
dow"
Mrs. S. ]. Peasants of Angler is
visiting relatives here.
j. M. Currin of Route let his hand
get caught in some machinery betting
and tore the skin loose and the doc
tor had to take nearly dozen stitch
es. His hand is doing as well as
possible, so it seems.
Haven't seen Herbert Daniel of
Route in town since that day seve-
raj weeks ago he gave me a sub. Hope
his Dispatch is arriving daily o. k.
Melford Burns and Thomas Frazier
went out to the Test Farm this after
noon to learn how to spray their
plant beds to kill blue mold, should
it make an appearance. I told them
I hoped the little moles would not
hurt their plants.
Asked Mrs. Joe Badgett about her
son, Edwin. She said Edwin and his
cousin, James Morris, are both doing
fine at st. Louis at the College of
Chiropractic, where they are stu
dents. She had just heard from Ed
win and he had recently received a
perfect and a near perfect mark on
a couple of exams.
Mrs. Sam Phillips old man recently
gave me a sub for his wife. Today
Mrs. Phillips brought the children to
town. / asked her if she was getting
enough reading matter at present,
and she said that the paper was COM
ing so fast she could hardly keep
up with it.
I can just imagine Mrs. Dick Willz-
ms makes up biscuits with one hand
and holds the paper to read in the
other, mlkS the COW with one hand
and reads with the other and churns
with one hand and reads with the
other.
c. NJ Hester has two sons what
always take the other for the other,
and the other for the other. They
sho do favor, yet they are not alike.
Little Patricia Pittard fell
Right down and hurt her knee:
She brought her cat named Pity Pat
To town for me to see;,
Ernest Offers has colt
That went to bite the corn,
But bit him on the hand instead,
Early one last week morn;
Mrs. J. C. Hayes, she has been sick
But is up and out again;
Mrs. c. w. Dixon sent me word
That she had set hen.
And if those fifteen eggs do hatch,
tHow sweet those thoughts do be-.
Someone will eat some chicken, fried,
II might be you or me.
Today found a letter on the side
walk a certain lady had written TO
took it to the Post Office and mailed
it, This afternoon 1 saw her uptown
and told her that 1 found and mailed
her letter. Then she said she had
sent her cook uptown with a five dol
lar bill to get some groceries and 20
mail the letter, and the cook returned
and reported she had lost the letter
The lady said she told the cook she
had rather it had been the money
that had gotten lost. SO as the letter
was that important, 1 was glad 1 had
found it..
- Baby Burns has left Granville Hos
pital and gone to the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Burns.
The little boy weighed two pounds at
birth nearly two months ago, but has
by now nearly doubled his weight and
is getting on fine.
l don't think it exactly fair to tell
all kinds of things on every enc else
and never tell anything on myself.
SO here is one of the best jokes that
ever happened on me. Last fall seve-
raj folks left packages in at Halls
Drug Store for me, including some
pear marmalaLk from Mrs. Will
A~AAAAAAtt, SoAlC CdHncU SCOuS from
Mrs. G. I. West, some sausage from
MRS. Wheeler, Gums Mother) and
one or two others. Since Christmas
there had been jar of something in
the corner for about MONTH No one
seemed to claim it and one of the
clerks thought it was mine, and at
their suggestion, took it home.
In about two days Herman Curl,
one of the clerks, began inquiring
about his jar of damson preserves
that his grandmother had brought
him. Then he was told that 1 mad
kidnapped it. AS we had opened it
and made right good Roadway at de-
stroying its contents; Mrs. Jones
Mother sent us another jar full to
take its place.
Mrs. Bob TTyler Of Danville, va,
played right bad joke on a lady in
the ten cent store recently though
very unintentionally. Mrs. Hyler was
visiting her Mother, Mrs. A. A. Camp
bell, at Bullock. They came over to
town shopping. She gave her purse
to her mother to hold. In a Short
while she walked up behind her
mother and took the purse from I'M