Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-21
Grits and Gravel
(By T. MOSES JONES.)


And the wolf is at the door.
With his claws he's making scratches
On the panel, very thin,
He now is on the outside
Striving nard TO get within.
The cupboard is quite empty
It does not hide one bone
The once-filled iarder, empty,
The biscuits hard rs stone:
The wocd-box once was piled right
high
But now its gotten lower,
The flour sack has broke it's back
And fell right on the floor.
The sugar dish has nothing left
But only holds the spoon,
The oatmeal box which once was full
Will be so empty soon;
The pepper stand, when it was new,
Was said to be half p's,
The salt stand, too, is getting low,
Pound here tbs a disease.
B4t why I'm telling all of this,
To those outside of Vance,
Is if you like this junk one bit,
To know that you do read this stuff,
Though you pillow or maui or grub
And hit Old Nose right on the nose
With Daily Dispatch sub.
And l am sure most of you will
take the above lines for a joke, for
when I write the truth, it is usually
taken for joke. And when I write
joke, it is usually taken for tire
truth. A year or SO ago one of the
boys working in the market acct
dentally chopped down and cut one of
his fingers. That incident gave me
an idea, so I wrote something like
this. "It sure was bad one of the
boys III the market getting all his fir
gers nut five on one hand cut Oil y
A &c: tain lady read it and told one
of her sons that it sure was bad
aho't the boy getting his fingers cut
eff.
/: looks as though t'lGre Is an in
surance agent waitiny ( I me al the
air port G. cry time + start to Hen
derson. On the edge of town last
time, George Parham took me out 20
buds Tavern. Walking on down the
road a bit, was overtaken by George
Edward Daniel in his brand new
sameple Chevrolet, who let me ride
on 20 your town.
George Edward married Miss Sue
Johnson Watkins about five years
ago. She, as you know, is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Sallie j. Watkins of Hen
derson. can well remember when
George Edward was a little tow-head-
ed boy, and used to wear his hair
long just like the pictures of Buster
Brown. He has been selling auto
mobiles for couple of years for the
Blalock Chevrolet Co. but is planning
to be an agent here at Oxford for the
Provident Life and Accident Co., to
begin work with them in about a
week sss sss sgs.ss.
And George Edward is the one and
only brother of the former Miss An
toinette Daniel who married J. T.
(Jimmie) Buchanan whom you at
Henderson know well. Mrs. Buchanan
returned home from Granville Hos
pital several days ago and we hope
she will soon be well. It was on Eas-
ter Monday of 1927, when was down
at the San, that Jimmie and his girl
came down to see me. That was be-
fore they. were married. She brought
me a whole homemade chocolate
cake and basket of Easter eggs. But
l know Jimmie had lots rather that
I had pay him my grocery bill than
to be writing all this about him.
Not to speak of M. G. (MoyeD
Buchanan who works in the meat
market division of Buchanan's Gro
IL
your way, and to show you that
am very human as you are, I have
misplaced the information I had
found out about her, who was before
her marriage, the name of her par
ents, and SO so forth.
And | know real good one on Ray
Buchanan, but will you please remem-
Der that do not tell everything
know, as you have been led to be-
lieve. And Ray, You need not worry
the least bit for my mouth is sealed,
shut, and closed.
Bud Cothran and w. H. Greenway
were conversating in Henderson yes
terday, including crop control, poll
ties, and many other topic of CONVEX
sation. Bud said that Bennie Hunt
always WO4C a OCAI cIOOhC q AOOS Wv
large so he would have a plenty of
letting out power when he. went on
fish fry If half of the folks were
as frank as w. H., the world would
be lots letter off. There really is no
need of conceit, and have learned
that w. H believes in telling the
truth even though it hurts, when any
one pops him a point-blank question.
Harvey Jeffries reports a very nice
Easter which be spent at Sanford as
the guest Of A. C. Townsend. By now
I suppose Harvey has packed all the
little Easter Dummies in moth balls to
put away and save until next season.
1t is reported that Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Satterwhite enjoyed the sun
rise service Easter over at Duke.
They almost had a family reunion
Monday at the home of her brother.
o. A. Euckett, when Mrs. Satterwhite,
and her sister, Mrs. Zeb Patterson,
met there. Also were Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl Satterwhite present. Ii Jim
Puckett of Vance, and Lonnie of Ra-
leigh Road (Granville), and Mrs. Sam
Frazier had been there, it wouldn't
have left many of them absent.
And here is another of those COS
ling letters that I promised to read
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