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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10

mountains are in your blood, but
make her the sort Of girl your pub
lie expects from William Randall
Latham. I need a good yarn for
my new list, so send it on. And
mind you, no calico-clad bit Of
Wide-eyed femininity. Send me a
girl who knows her way around or
else!'
There was more to the letter, but
Bill didn't read it very carefully. He
was mad through and through. The
idea of that man daring to tell
him what to write! And after he
and Eve had discussed his new
heroine, Fauna! He was through
being told. What if the publisher
had helped him to build up a repu-
tatlon? Did that mean that he
must go OF indefinitely repeating
himself? Did that mean that he
wasn't at liberty to try for a little
versatility in his work? He flung
the letter down upon the table and
muttered. I'll show him."
Joel looked up.
Did you say something's" he
asked,
NO" said Bill. Just thinking
out loud
Joel laid aside a letter from the
mills which he had been reading
and picked up another one.
Here's a letter from Aunt SAL
lie he said. He opened it and be.
gan to read. Then suddenly he ex-
claimed, Good Lord"
whats the matter?" Bill asked.
Has n of u neighbors had
quints?"
mo! It's Rita"
What! What in heck are YOU
talking about?
Rita! She didn't marry that
man after all. And she's left home.
Grandma Linwood telephoned Aunt
Sallie, and said"
Let me have tSat letter." said
Bill. He made a grab for it. He read
in a sort Of holding-his- breath at.
titude, and then ne said: well, III
be-
Go on, read the rest of it aloud"
said Joel.
Bill did so.
and so it would seem that
Rita has run off to get away from
unpleasant publicity just as Bill
did. Her grandmother was as mad
as a hornet when she telephoned
me. It seems that Don didn't get
the California job aftel all, and
that may be the reason Rita has
changed her mind again. l reckon
it's just as well that she did, since
l can't picture her married to a
jobless man. Her grandmother says
she is hiding out with some of her
countless cousins"
Ito Be Continued)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10
33E; vELE>\h!EEpp d; !

contrary. Only you mustn't
be trying to DO things that sweep
me back into that one happy Pc
Rod I referred to- She released
the brake. "Goodby, Bill. Come
down and see us soon-you and
JOEL
Bill lifted one or Ewes hands, laid
it against mis- cheek for a moment,
and then got out of the car. He
stood beside the road and watched
Eve melt off among the trees just
as he had watched the mountain
GERS up at the schoolhouse.
Joel came back into the cabin
soon after Bill had taken his place
at the typewriter. He had a hand
full of mail.
Il stopped at the mailbox on my
way up" he said. Here's a letter
from your publisher"
Thanks, said Bill, taking it.
Eve was here
She vas said Joel. Say, I'm
sorry l missed her"
She sad tell you she was sorry
she missed you" Bill went or. I'VE
went up 10 the schoolhouse for a
Saturday afternoon entertainment.
You should have been along
What sort of entertainment? ?"
oh. a little like those we used
to have OF Fridays down home.
You Recommendations, songs, all
that sort Of thing ELL tore open
his letter. I'll tell you more about
1t When we are having u supper"
"Okay.." said Joel, He dropped
down upon the edge of his bunk
and began to look over his own
mail.
Bill settled back to see what his
publisher had to say,
Dear Latham" the man wrote,
You're nuts. And don't bother to
tell me that's %inelegant language
TOR a publisher 70 use. l know it
without being told. . But l still
say you're nuts. When your letter
came telling me you were going to
write a different sort of story, l
thought What the heck. Then
when l read further and learned
that you were deserving Park ave-
rue for mountain paths l thought
other things-which the postal au-
thorltles won't permit ME to put
down in black and white. Now, lis
ten; I'm glad you're having a vaca-
ton, but bear thise in mind-I've
helped you to build up a reputation
as a writer who creates women
people like to read about, and l ex-
pect you to stick to your last. Don't
talk to me of innocent mountain
maidens, but sit down and send me
a story about a gal who has what
1t takes-pardoning my slang! Let
her sojourn in the mountains if the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10
U.N.C.Golfers
Are To Play
Some Of Best

Chapel Hill, March 1O.-North
Cardinals varsity golfers will face
this season one Of the most attrac-
tive and hardest schedules ever un-
dertaken by a links team at the
university.
The schedule, which was released
today by Assistant Athletic Direc-
tor George E. (Bo) Shepard call for
matches with four crack eastern pow
ers, Pennsylvania, Boston College,
Navy, and Franklin and Marshal,
and one strong mid-Western outfit,
Ohio State. A tentative match has
also been arranged with Fordhan
here April Is.
Excepting the Navy meet, all d
the intersectional contests will be
played on the Tar Heels home course
at Hillandale near Durham.
Carolina will also take part in the
annual Southern Conference meet
at Hot Springs, Va, on May $40.
Chuck Erickson, varsity backfield
coach, is the golf coach.
The schedule follows:
March 28-Ohio State at Chapel
Hill.
April 4-Davidson at Greensboro
(Sedgefield).
April T. Hampden-Sydney at
Chapel Hill.
April ll-PennsylVanja at Chapel
Hill.
April 14-Virginia at Chapel Hill.
April l5-Boston College at Chapel
Hill.
April l6-Fordham at Chapel Hill
(~tentatiVe).
April l9-NaVy al Annapolis.
April 2l-FrankIjn and Marshal!
at Chapel Hill.
April 29-Duke at Chapel Hill.
May 8-V. VI. I. at Hot Springs, va
May 9-l0-Southern Conference
meet at Hot Springs, Va.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10

\ heavy docket faced Mayor Hen
ry +. Powell al today session OF city
court.
". y. MoScr was guilty al being
drunk and destroying tour blankets.
the property ul ,Lc Ity of TENDER
son. Tie was taxed with the costs,
and required To pay $40 To the CITY
of Henderson for The damaged UiJu-
kCts.
Mike Barton, Negro. pleaded gull
~ To- possessing non-taN pad Wnls-
Key for the purpose OF sale, and was
gwen SIN months on the roads.
Cad ~IlargroNo, Negro, pleaded
guilty To beng drunk. and was gwen
30 days, suspended upon payment
of the costs.
Fred CurlIles and George Carlllc>
were guilty of a>Saultng and beating
{. l.. LAVENDER with their fists. Each
was given 90 days. suspended upon
payment of $40 and costs. George
Carlilcs was required 10 pay an adj
ditlonal Sc to Lavender Tor hospital
bills.
George Wortham. il. George Car
lilies and Fred CarlilcS e charged
with assault and beating each other.
Workman was not guilty. The Carlles
were given 60 days on the roads
each, suspended upon payment OF
the costs.
Robert Jones. Negro, was guilty
of being d~-sorderly, and was given
60 days, suspended upon payment
of the costs.
Joe Harris, Negro, was charged
with assalting Frank Clark with a
deadly weapon, but the prosecuting
witness withdrew the charge upon
payment of the costs.
John Henry Speed, Negro, plead
ed guilty TO being drunk and dis
orderly, and was given 60 days,
suspended upon payment of the costs,
and showing good behavior for the
next two years
George Mason, Negro. charged
with trespaSSing. Was not guilty
Nathaniel G.. Wimbish. Negro. was
guilty of being drunk, and was given
80 days, suspended upon payment
of the costs
William Croker, Negro. pleaded
guilty to a charge Of public drunk
enneSs. and was given 80 days, sus-
pended upon payment Of the costs.
Willard Robertson faced the court
charged with being drunk. He plead
ed guilty, and was given 80 days.
suspended upon payment of the costs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10
Clements. Lowry
Divide Duties In
Recorders Court

Recorder Il. +. Clements and Re
corder PROTEIN c. p. Lowry divided
the dutle, ii toIay'S session OF coun-
y court.
Mr.. CIytcc Lambert was guilty
oil being drunk. and prayer for
Judgment was continued upon pay
mcnt Of the costs.
Lonzo Ford. Negro, vas charged
with allowing his auto TO be driven
by an unlicensed driver, and he
pleaded guilty to torcibIc trespaSS-
ing. Prayer for judgment was con-
t.nued upon payment Of the costs.
Willie Burton, Negro, charged with
larceny. was remanded TO juvenile
court.
{. b. Wright, Negro. was guilty
of drunken driving, and was given
90 days, suspended upon payment
of a fine of $50 and costs of court.
Recorder PROTEIN Lowry presided
over two cases. the defendants be-
.ng workers on a farm of Recorder
Clements.
James Marlborough and Albert
Marlborough. both Negroes. were
charged with larceny. They were
declared not guilty.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10
STATE NOW TOPS
IN YAM GROWING

Raleigh, March l0.-North Caro-
lima now holds the rank of Number
One sweet potato producing state in
the nation, w. T. Wesson, junior
statistician Of the State Department
Of Agriculture, said today.
Farmers achieved first place in
sweet potato production despite the
TACT that the 1910 crop Of 100000
bushels was the smallest since 1896
and more than 81 percent undct
the 1899 crop Of 8,674, 600 he added.
The 1910 acreage was reduced by
four percent compared with 1899
while the per acre yield last year
Of So bushels Vas l6 bushels under
1897
He explained that "normally. So
percent Of the States potato crop is
used on the farm, 33 percent is sold
and the remaining u percent is used
for other purposes
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10
Four Families
Win Honors

College Station, Raleigh, March 10.
-Four Of the SIX Master Farm
Families to be selected in North
Carolina by The Progressive Farm
er magazine and the n. c. State
College Extension Service have been
chosen, it was announced today. The
two families yet 10 be named will be
selected from the mountain and
southwestern sections Of the State.
The four families already picked
to receive the Master" award are
those Of: George SockWell OF Gull
ford county, Bill Hooks Of Columbus
county, P. f. Burch of Surry County,
and W. H. Blalock Of Wilson county.
Master Farm Families" are select
ed periodically-about every three
years-in each Of the states in which
The Progressive Farmer is circulate
ed. DR.. Clarence Poe OF Raleigh,
editor Of the farm magazine, enlists
the support of the Extension SERVICE
in the states in selecting the families.
When two quarrel the winner is
he who first silent.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10
New Slot"
Bill Offered
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel
By t,,.sHN Nv rklII.

Btlela, March IU-Joe Calcul.
and The "sIo, machine" gang h...
leJcnSl5Iy been driven from Inc
-Jcheteer.ns ilcld N North Carol#a..
but there are plenty Of people Mo-
see the DILL introduced in the Hot
by Mccktenburgcr Ed Tonissen tEy
Eeqaest) an effort by this type n
sneak back into their protItaal,
l.eId through the back door.
As USUAL, the bill is i|nnocen.y
enough Wordcd. 1t levieS a tax ron
certain games of skill. according q.
Is title. DU' is result il. eHatt ~.
would be to puddle the slot machine
tudt.on again.
The bill would license certain five
bal. pm ball machines .or devices.
not vending automatically anythina
value or having payout slot or
device, upon payment by the oWnc..
operator or @leasSor Of annual oe-
cupatlonal license tax if 500 to-
every county in which licensee doe,
business or conducts such operations.
aad obtaining from the Commits
,leneF Of Revenue Of $50 statewide
license tor each machine operated.
Such machines would be required to
contain a nOn-transferable identify
.n2 serial number.
Counts les W0uld also be
authorized to levy additional taxes.
So far there doesn't seem any
possibility that the bill can pass.
although almost anything can hap
pen IN the dying days of d General
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10
CHAPTER TWFNTY-SEVEN

on HORSEBACK, in wagons, in
buSgles and on foot. the mountain
eers departed after the schoolhouse
entertainment. Down trails, and up
trails; up narrow roads. and down
narrow roads. Melting away among
the trees; leaving the schoolhouse
and its clearing strangely silent.
Eve turned to Bill. How did you
enjoy it, she asked. Il hope you
got some ideas-or at least caught
the feeling of what it all meant to
those people,"
i DID enjoy it." said Bill. I'm
mensely, And I think have a bet
ter understanding of the noun
taineers." He smiled. Maybe III
soon be as understanding and SYM
pathetic as you seem to feel Joel
is"
Eve didn't bother to reply to this.
She locked up the schoolhouse,
called to Jed and his three sisters,
who We're waiting to be taken
home, and went back to the car.
Jed said Eve, you and the
girls We're wonderful. I'm proud Of
you"
THANK you, ma'am!" said the
four Proudly offspring.
And that poem of yours, Jed, %
Bill said. I'd like to have you
teach it to me, How about it?'
I'll try to-" Jed said. But hits
a moughty long 'un"
Bill! grinned. Il think maybe |
could memorlze it, he said, IF |
tried real hard"
Mr.. Latham's probably good at
memorizing." Eve said.
They left Jed, "enetia, Alicia and
Patricia at the edge of the cleared
land close to the Proudly cabin, and
then drove on to the cabin on Sing
er's Dome.
Joel had not yet returned. Sew
eral honkings of the automobile
horn brought no response.
Tell him I'm sorry l missed
him. Eve said, Don't think I'm
not interested in Joel's work and
plans, just because I'm trying to
help you with your mountain
story
mo, l won't think that" said
Bill. Il haven't forgotten your con-
Germ over my treatment of my cou-
sin. Nor have I forgotten the kiss
up near ~Larseeny's home"
I'd rather not talk about that
said Eve.> Only, l would feel ra-
Their badly if I thought you had
forgotten 1t so quickly"
81 hope said Bill, that the fact
that remind you of someone else
isn't going to keep you from liking
me a little"
"Oh,. no." said Eve. Quite to the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10
AUTO FIRE

A taxi belonging to Loughlin City
Taxi was damaged by fire on South
William street Sunday afternoon
around 2 o'clock, according to Fire
Chief Cooper G.. Ellis. A leaking
gas line was given as cause of the
blaze by the chief.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10
LIME ARRIVES.

Two car of ground agricultural
limestone Wee received in the coun-
ty to-day for distribution to farmers
lander the AAA grant-of-aid pro.
gram. One of the cars is being dis
tributed from Henderson and the
other from M~iddleburg.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10

According to Communist law no
priest or one who employs others
for profit or lives on %unearned in
come may vote.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10

The 1914 edition of the State
Manual, the year book published
every two years showing the state
government serup, Geographic sket-
ches of officials and members of the
legislature, is greatly enlarged this
time. Il includes much information
not heretofore embodied IN the pub
licatton- 4 further personal touch
was made N printing the names of
the governor and the members Of tn.
genera assembly on their individ-
ual copies, Manuals were distribute
ed 10 legislators Saturday. Other
folks viii get theirs this week. Edit
ed for years by the late Henry Lon
don, the manual this year is pro
duced by the office of the secretary
of state,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10

Governmental red tape is often
oothersOme, but in some instances 1t
IS d protection to the public treasury.
The little matte of how the 5000
due a senator 81 nd be divided be-
tween Dr. Long, who died some
weeks ago, and Senator Travis, who
succeeded him, required a special act
of the legislature. Under terms of
that act the widow of Dr.. Long gets
the pay up to the time Senator
Travis qualified for the seat. and the
new senator gets the rest.
Senator Lumpkin thinks that au-
tOmobile drivers ought to show some
more respect for cemeteries. He has
a bill pending cutting down normal
speed of cars while passing GENE
teries in towns of more than $4,000
people.
With a full calendar session Sat
Uaday morning, and another sche-
duled for Monday afternoon, the leg
lslature failed to observe its usual
slack business weekend.
Two years ago there was a lot said
in the public prints about the social
ed fair trade sometimes called
unfair trade") bill which would
have prohibited the use Of loss lead
ers" to attract customers. Former
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-10

When two quarrel the winner is
he who first silent.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28

Henry 3 yd, l8l9-l892, married in
l846, Susan Davis, who died soon,
leaving no chlluren. At hat time,
William II. Boya bought and moved
to BelNIutIe, building The present
house. This place is twelve miles
northeast OF Henderson, on the
DreWry-TOWnsVIlle road.
Around 1863, David Mitchell
bought three tracts Of land, all to-
gether $40 acres, which started Bel
Nidere. In 1910, he sid this as $50
acres to John Rust Eaton Of Blooms
bury, an adjoining plantation. In
l848, a son, James W. Eaton. sold
"~Belvadier", as the deed spells it, to
William H. Boyd. This place was
mostly between Big and Little Nut
bush Creeks, but later William H.
Boyd added several hundred acres
on the north, across Little Nutbush
Creek.
William H. Boyd married, sec nd,
1856, Sallie Virginia Daniel of Tran
guilty, which place is eight miles
northwest of Oxford, North Caro-
lima. AT that time there was a lane
about a half of a mile long, in front
of BelVidere. and my mother said
that when the bride, who was her
Aunt, rode into the place. there were
sixteen white calves grazing in this
lane. Also there was 2 row Of svca-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28

OF NINE OAKS

There is 4 tradition that Lord Keel
ing was q member OF Parliament,
and because OF his outspokcn Pro-
testant sympathics, he had TO flee to
Virginia. A descendant, George
Keeling married Agnes Bullock, a
daughter of Richard Bullock, in Ham
" County, Va, and he doubtless
came to Granville County in 1853
with tie Bullock family.
He settled at Nine Oaks, two
miles west Of WILLIAMSBURG. The
last Of the nine oaks died a few
years ago.
He died soon after settling at this
place, leaving three daughters ana
a son, John. who never married, HIS
widow married in 1851, Judge John
Williams of Montpelier. In ITO, a
daughter. Frances Keeling married
Bromficld Ridley. who built the
present house as a present to ms
bride. The location may not be the
same as George Keeling lived though.
BrOmfield Ridley was very rlch, fau
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28
ROBERT JENKINS AND HENRY ii.
BURWELL, OF BUENA VISTA

This place is a mile north OF WIZ
llamsboro. | have not traced It's olo
history so do not know who built II.
D. Y. Cooper Of our city, VINO mas
owned it for the past few years put
lately sold it, tells me that the back
of it is built of logs, that each room
has a separate chimney, and each OIL
the four rooms upstairs has a sepa-
rate stairway.
A Mr.. Jenkins lived there around
1900, next his son, Robert enkinS
Robert Jenkins had a tobacco factory
making Plug tobacco, had fifteen
children. He married first MISS
Norwood, married second Miss Llzz'e
Hicks, who was a fine school teacher.
and an accomplished musician. VI
the ten children by the last marriage
William Hicks jenkins married MISS
Lou" (LeWis) Jenkins, who died a
few weeks ago in our city. The last
two were parents of Colonel James
Jenkins.
About 1350-60. Robert Jenkins solo
Buena Vista Good View to Harry
BurWell, who was a son of Spo'ls,
wood Burwell of Spring Grove, ana
had married Susan HargroVe OF HID
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28
SNEEO MANSION HOUSE
AT

According to a chart Of the puNch-
asers OF the lots when WILLIAMSBURG
was laid out IN 1887, the Sneeds got
two lots across the lane in front Of
ST. ,hn Episcopal Church. Here
they built the house that is now
there. Up 10 the Civil War perloo,
WILLIAMSBURG was the center OF all
society, sports and such, and to this
'TaVern", the Judges, Attorneys, and
prominent men came for relaxation
after their duties at the County seat
of oxford. which place is about
twelve miles westward. This caused
the expression court adj -urned to
Sneed Mansion House,
Also the finest race track in North
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28
PATRICIA HAMILTON.
OF

In 1850, Joseph Davenport bought
several tracts of land from l. I'd
Granville around this location. and
it looks like he lived at this plare
and built the present house. This iS
as near as | can answer the question
| am often asked, Who built B,rn-
side?
In 1853, he sold this tract. Gil
acres, to Charles kinnon, and from
there the records are clear.
In 1886, son John kinnon sid this
GIL acres to Ninckler Jones. who
lived across the creek. Later. Vinck-
Ter Jones gave this to a son. John
Jones. In 1920, John Jones of Ala,rv
County Tennessee, sold this as then
1889 acres, to DR.. Thomas Hunt, a
of Mcnucan Hunt. who was the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28

spent three weeks at Montpelier, re-
cuperating, during the Revolutionary
War period.
My mother said the old house was
very beautiful, but it burned about
1895, and soon afterwards a new
house was built.
Montpelier was sold, after 1869 to
Richard Austin Bullock, and his emil
dren live there now.
Judge John Williams had a law
school at Montpelier. In those days,
young e lived IN an older ones
home, read law books, wrote papers,
went with him to court and such, and
when the older n decided the
younger one knew enough, after an
examination, the older one gave the
younger a certificate, on which the
younger would go off and hang up
his shingle". The same course APP
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28
STEPHEN SAMPSON ROYSTER,
OF LAGRANGE

There are many Registers in Vlr-
ginia and around this section, but
I've never tried to trace their con
nectionS. William Register of GooCh-
land County, Virginia married Prud-
ence Watkins, the youngest child Of
Thomas Watkins of Chicahomony'
They had eleven children-the oldest,
David Register Of Goochland County,
Virginia married Elizabeth Sampson,
having eight children. The fifth,
Stephen Sampson Royster, 1o-10-107o,
came to WILLIAMSBURG about 1870 to
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28

first State Treasurer Of North Caro-
ina. Dr.. Hunt repaired the house,
aoding the ~ircscoIng. In 1924. DR..
Hunt sold this place as 1000 acres 10
Patrick Hamilton. There Is a book
calico "Iatrick Hamilton OF Burn
side, which tells much about him.
He was State Senator, and filled
other positions.
After Patrick HamiltOu's death in
1880, the place became the property
f his son, Robert Hamilton. Since
that time it has changed owners
about ten tirses, and now is the pro-
perry of R. &. CroWder, of Raleigh.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28
&c County Had Famous Old Homes Century Ago

piled to Doctors those days.
Judge Williams, the Burlons and
Chei Justice Leonard Henderson are
buried al Montpelier.
There IS an old smokc-house At
this place that has the shingles
put on with pegs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28

much land, and gave Ridley Park
TO oxford.
a daughter married James Ham
lltOn, a brother Of Patrick Hamilton
of Burnside, they living mere. Mn
Oaks later became the property OF
Smith Cooper. 1t now belongs to MS
great e. granddaughter, Miss Ethel
lima.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28

Mecklenburg, County Virginia.
rich, was q Senator for many years,
and a grandson was the Governor
of North Carolina. Governor Burke
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28

Carolina around that time, was at
WILLIAMSBURG, says one writer. This
wa back of Sneed Mansion House,
about where the Colored School is
w. There are many records of the
horses, and races held there. Later
this house was the home of Mr..
Haithcock. Now it is the home Of
Mr.. Wilson, who runs a store across
the street.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-28

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