Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-10-20
GrztS and
Gravel .
BY T. MOSES JONES

To the Odd Fellows Lodge last night
and there waited thre men to begin a
series of riding the goat" We had
a good crowd out and had enough men
to get through the degree work in
very creditable manner. That was the
initiatory degree, and they now have
the first, second, and third degrees
left for future nights. When joined,
some fifteen or SO years ago, it was
in the very hottest weather of sum-
mer time, and the folks just would
not attend very much, so it took me
nearly three months to get through
the four nights work.
Lately I have been seeing a short,
stumpy, rosy complicated fellow
around town right much. Sometimes
on. the street corner, sometimes in
the warehouse, and sometimes riding
in car and holding big cigar in
his mouth which seemed to almost
over-balance his head. And only yes
terday did I get the nerve to walk
right up to him and ask his name
Said he was Lucius T. Boyd of Dab
ney, son of the late Thomas Boyd. His
wife was the former Miss Ola Filing
ton, daughter of the late Thomas FL
lington
Their son, Melvin, attends the Dab
ney high school, and their daughter,
Frances, is in that same grammar
school, Said he knew my brother,
Joe, as they attend Masonic meetings
sometimes together. j. B. Owen Of
Dabney was also with Mr.. Boyd. He
walked off and left while was giving
Mr.. Boyd the third degree, so I
did not find out much about him.
Mr.. Boyd said his wife thought L.
was an old man with whiskers almost
down to my knees. Now if anyone
really wants one of my pictures. I
have several penny pictures made ten
years ago which would be good for
keeping rats out of the corn crib. AND
It is soon time to be putting in the
new crop Of corn
At the Blackwell reunion several
months ago I saw Miss Nettie Hart,
who lives at Blackstone, va. Yester-
day she was in our town for the day
having been out to spend the night
with her sister, Mrs. Ivey Day. Her
mother lives over in Virginia and is a
sister of the Blackwell brothers, be-
Mrs. Daisy Boyd Hart, wife of the
late Broadus Hart, was also here
with Miss Nettie. She spent the
night with her brother, Fred Boyd,
near Oxford. Her son Erwin Hart
brought them over.
And from Delhi, Ontario, Canada,
come Forest Longmire and his family,
who have not been down on visit for
two years. Forest is a son of the late
N. G. Longmire, and went to Canada
to live eight years ago. He and Old
Nose were in school at the old wooden
College street school years ago. It
used to make me mad with him be-
cause he had very light hair and did
not have to shave off his whiskers as
often as did I.
Forests sister, Miss Hettie, was q
mighty smart girl in school. He says
she now is Mrs. w. ]. Mangum and
lives near Louisburg, being the moth
er of eleven children. They plan to
visit them before returning to Canada,
and also to go back by Washington, D.
c., to visit Eugene MCGEE, a brother
of Mrs. Longmire, who was formerly
Miss Eunice MCGEE.
Forest is q big tobacco grower at
Delhi, and says that his this years
crop is better than any of his others,
but that the Canadian crop as Al
whole is an average crop this season.
Their warehouses are to ops,r around
November /.
And for this time ] will close.
T. MOSES JONES.