Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-11-02

the question Whetner Lofts
was named after a dog refuses
to be settled.
Philip Hemenway Chadbourn,
the man who sticks by the dog
story, writes from Green Valley
Farm at Hyattstown, Maryland
and sends a picture of the dog
to prove the story.
He says Perhaps l shall new
er comprehend the happy chain
Of circumstances that brought
the wonderful copy of your
splendid paper into my hands.
81 refer of course to the issue
OF July 9th last, when you did
our family the great honor of
printing the portrait of my VEN
Grated father on the front page
along with his blessed 'bulgine,
the first of the Wilmington,
Chadbourn and Conway Rail-
road.
81 appreciate your great
courtesy and il will be a genuine
pleasure to seek the means of
returning it.
I'm August took time out to
run way down to GAINESVILLE,
Georgia to visit dear Cousin
Charlie Chadbourn in the Bell
Minor Sanatarium of that city.
AS you no doubt know, he is
extremely feeble, being we'll up
in his ninetieS.
1T was my great pleasure to
give him my treasured copy of
the Loris Sentinel along with a
most welcome supply of 100
proof Bourbon. Dear old Cousin
Charlie said 4 love those sweet
nurses to death but you know
the last time Harmon brought
me a supply from Wilmington
he gave it to my nurses to dole
out to me and - well - there
must have been hole in those
bottles because. before you
could spell Chockowinnity On
c. it was all gone. so, you hide
it, Phil, back in the dark closet
so, perhaps, we can stop up
those leaks.
AT long last I came to the
reason for this delay in thank
ing you for the paper. | wanted
to send you the only copy in
existence of the famous dog
named Loris. I appreciate Cous-
in Charles point of view about
the origin of the name from that
romantic novel named Loris
which he and my Daddy read in
their twin box car quarters
while building the railroad.
THAT may be the true ex-
planation. But, not to be cap
tiouS. l would insert this sly il
not devastating observation: My
blessed mother, Jane Emerson
Cheney, had that big brute Of a
pet named Loris before she was
married to Daddy, and hence,
(if that is not too brash and as
sertion) before I was born. and
inevitably, before Daddy and
Cousin Charlie tried to assuage
the boredom Of the long eve
nings in their twin box car by
reading the novel Of the same
name.
81 will try to run the book
down in the Library Of Congress
and let you know the facts
about its publication etc.
"What kind of a hound dog
was Loris anyway? Looks sort
of like a Labrador to me. just
to have more fun with my pole
mic, why not run the picture in
the paper with my pretty Nam
ma?
ALAS, she is in Heaven new
giving a lot of angelic pointers
TO the other angels. Oh. if tn,
rising generation could only be
made to take to heart that great
commandment Honor thy faith
er and thy mother > That
along with the first are. OF
course. the foundations Of our
civilization.
"Just as soon as sell our
country place am going to
scoop up my family and all the
pennies, and Scoot right back 10
the Carolinas and look for SOM
small kind Of Investment OF
business which would keep ali
three of us. (The four older
children have flown the COOP
81 am looking into something
in Myrtle Beach now. My par
ents drove there in a horse and
buggy from Wilmington on their
honeymood when the roads were
foot deep in sand. That was
1898.
Permit me to enclose a
greenback so that you can send
me some copies of the July q
issue. I must send copies to all
members Of the family.