Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-02
Grits and Gravel
(By T. MOSES JONES.)

And to our Henderson postmaster,
John r. league, l am again pleading
with him with tears in my eyes TO
please have an inspection made to
find out the trouble with the papers
addressed to Rougemont, N. G. The
folks on that route who live up In the
corner of Granville eeyond Berea get
two copies of the Dispatch every other
day. When their papers expire, they
will not give me their renewals If
this is not Strengthened out. And the
renewals to the subs | have already
gotten are my meat and bread; my
coffee and sugar; my ice and tea; MY
coat and pants; my shirt and tie; my
shoes and Sox; my soap and towel;
my wood and coal; my water and
lights; in fact, just about all the needs
of our family are dependent on those
renewals. That is why l. means SO
much to me. no harm is meant
Dropped in at Wester's Market &
Grocery to speak to. Ray Buchanan,
and there l saw Will Wester. He look
ed so very surprised when he saw me
that I was almost afraid his eyes were
going to pop out of his head. Now he
did not say these words, but am pref
ty nearly sure that this is what he
thought, "Old Nose, I thought you
were dead and rotted, and that your.
bones were bleaching on the desert
sands"
He Travelled some years ago for the
now retired Southern Grocery Co. He
sold goods to Mr.. Garrett, whom I
worked for five years. I was taken
:0Iy OF a
months and some folks thought I had
really died. Will Wester was still in
that class, so no wonder he looked so
surprised at seeing me walking
| around.
, Anyway, he let me talk to Ray
Buchanan for a few minutes. And al
so there were Roy Bradford and Al
bert Faulkner working in there. Roy
is a cousin of T. (Tankersley) Brad
| ford whose insurance company has
just promoted and transferred him
from Oxford to Durham; also cousin
of Clifton and Bonnie Bradford. And
Clifton is the young business man of
Oxford who married one of our fine
city school teachers, Miss Gertrude
Gordon, year or so ago.
And in the Yellow Front store near
the post office was John Day. He
worked over here in Halls Drug Store
for several years before going with
those stores He worked at Raeford
and also Raleigh, and I didn't know
what had become of him until | found
him over there in Henderson. Johns
daddy and brother come to our town
often. Mr.. Day is a great fox hunter,
so they say, and loves his dogs. They
live in this county.
Also saw w. T. Woody, of Towns
vile, in town. He told me he was 60
ing to give me a notice of the Woody
family reunion soon, to be announced
from this column. I can just hear the
operator smacking his lips.
Speaking of the operator, T made
very rash promise recently. l promis
ed them both something to repay
them in a small way for so often tan
TALKING them by mentioning so much
fried chicken, ham, cake, and pickle
in this column. One of them is espe-
cially fond of chicken, while the other
is inclined unto ham. Now there are
a ecu, lie of other young fellows who
work up there. They nave other parts
of the work which is as important
AS the type-setting.
know I would never have the
patience to sit still all day long and
set this junk and every other kind Of
reading material into type. No, [ just
couldn't do it. The man who does is
certainly filled with patience. Now
those fellows are we'll fed and are not
in the soup line. / am asking for my
sake, not theirs, that someone bring
them in a nice box of good country
sunshine and vitality in the shape of
piece of cake, chicken, or ham. And
if any of you like your Old Nose, you
will have to like the four asove-men-
toned young men.
Don't know when I had ever seer
J. A. Lewis before last Monday, as
then I saw him walking along UP
town. We moved TO Oxford when
was a child and Mr.. Lewis and family
lived right next door. Every time any
of us would be sick; cousin Matte"
would bring us something real nice
to eat or come and sit awhile to see
how we were getting on. When he
would take Joe Frank and Sallie
down to ride on the merry-go-round,
he would invite some of us to ride in
his pretty carriage which was pulled
by gentle pony.
We children used to play together.
have shows and plays, and were "eat
ing our greasy bread" but didn't
realize it. Cousin Annie Crews lived
with them while she taught at the
graded school. That was in the old
wooden shack before we had these
fine brick buildings The Lewis family
moved to Littleton and we were sorry
to see them go, as there have never
been any better neighbors than they
we're.
When we went down to Littleton to
visit Aunt Eula and Uncle Rhodes, we
would always get invited over to eat
a neal with the Lewis family. And
after that they moved to Henderson,
but have see. tut little Of the family
since then.
d. B., son of J. 3. Gillian, of Louis
burg, was over to our town recently
If haven't yet told you, I am tell
ing you now that Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Parham have finally named the
twins Rosa Lee and Rebecca May.