Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-05
Crits and Gravel
(By T. MOSES JONES'

If not at the top of this column.
then somewhere within the four walls
of this edition, you will find the pic
ture of g. beautiful young lady, Mrs
Sally Bell Westmoreland of Goldsboro,
who is president of the North Caro-
lima Rebekah State Assembly She
will preside at the State convention
to be held in Oxford May 15-16-17
Exclusive of her church and her
home, nothing comes ahead of her in
terest in the work of the Rebekah
lodge, and the welfare of the chill
dren at the Odd Fellows Home there
at GoldSboro For a number of years
her outstanding work in the Lodge
and for The Home made it an newt
able event that she was chosen a year
ago at Wilmington as president of the
State Assembly. So, instead Of it be-
ing thrust down upon her, she rose
up 20 it.
Sister Westmoreland attend our dis
trict Rebekah convention here at Ok
ford some weeks ago, and we soon
found that her zeal and enthusiasm
in this great work is very contagious.
Now to tell you about that Big Bad
Mans from Henderson that | met this
morning | was me2ndering laZily up
and down the street, around and a.
round, as is my usual custom, when
f. p Tuck, the Oxford agent of the
Life and Casualty Company walked
up and said, "This is t. Moses" And
when I looked up [ saw a great big
hand reaching out towards me. I did
not shake that hand i5ut that hand
literally shook me. l was indeed glad
to meet w. H. Stone who is District
superintendent of his company.
Said he was a great-nephew of DR..
CD. Fl. W. Hester and that his grand
mother, Mrs Walter H Edwards, read
the piece I wrote some time ago
about DIR. Hester. TIe also said that
DIR. Hester was a Brother to the moth
er of the late Walter H. Edwards
who was the Grandfather of Mr.
Stone He and Mr. Tuck were in
hurry to go out to sell somebody
policy, so they soon left. Upon leaving,
I said, I'm glad 1 met you, Mr..
Rock"
When I went to that great trouble
to study up and find out enough about
DR.. c. J. H. w. Hester for that little
write-up about him, | did all that in
hopes that someone would read it and
write me a letter and tell me more
about him. And that would have given
the readers of this column something
of real interest But as yet it seems
1 almost failed in that respect, so the
following is the only response 1 have
received from it:
Reidsville, N. c.
April 90, 1888
Dear Sir:
Your letter of some days ago re-
ceived in which you enclosed an ar
ticle about my Great Uncle, DR.. Hes
ter ] thank you very much for the
information in this article. l shall pre-
serve it.
Yours very truly,
F. Eugene Hester.
Now if some of you Vance county
folks who really have known about
DR.. Hester do not write me some nice
letters to print in this column, than
shall consider that all that trouble
amounted to just about 100000. Among
all his great-nephews and nieces,
grandchildren and all or his deScen-
dants, it looks as though one of them
could do that much for me.
And to Miss Gladys Ferinson who
wrote to name the gosling and re-
quested my picture be printed in the
paper, let me state that I am very
superstitious about my picture being
put in the paper Miss Gladys if you
will send me your picture to put in
this column so that we can show the
world what kind of fine young ladies
live in the Kittrell Community, then
your Old Uncle Nose will send you a
very expensive and already framed
penny picture of himself. It will be
Al for keeping rats from the corn
crib or crows from the field, yes, it
will beat Cro-tox or Rough-on-rats.
Mrs. J. B. Ellis rode in town for a
while yesterday and attended the
cooking school. She drew one of the
prizes, a beautiful electric lamp. AS
her community does not have Rural
Electrfication, she said she was go
ing to give it to her baby girl, Miss