Tabor City tribune., 1956-10-17
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PHILLIPS HARRELSON

Some years ago q young man
from this area finished minist
crlal school and after his ord
ination returned here to await
a call to a church. Soon he was
called TO church in an eX-
tremenly backward section OF
the state. Being single man
all the ladies kept a vigilant
eye out for any signs of a pos
Sible matrimonial venture. SO
one Sunday after services
when the congregation was
shaking hands with the prea-
cher he was approached by
proud mother and her comcly
daughter who was employed in
a neighboring city. AS he stood
holding the young lady's hand
and chatting with the mother
imagine his embarrassment
when an old lady in the rear
said in a loud voice-"Well he
shore loves TO shake hanos
with her anyhow"
A fellow here on the potato
market the other day gave the
local boys run for their mon
ey. The gentleman happened to
sbe a resident of coastal
county along the central part
of the state. When asked what
the yield on his potato acreage
was he replicd-"Pretty good.
One hundred bushels of Spuds
and twenty-five bushels of
oysters per acre. Ii just costs
more for a hand TO pick up the
oysters" When the discussion
got around to politics he said
THE worst trouble we have
is setting up our precincts. at
high tide VIC only have fifteen
precincts and at low tide we
have twenty-one." Quite a
county!
The detCrgcntS and modern
washing machines sent the
drudgery of home soap making
to the bench as il we'll may
stay. However the women of a
generation ago were we'll ac-
quainted with the chore. So it
was a surprise TO come across
a lady recently who was busy
boiling up a pot of laundry
soap. She was using a medium
size wash pot. believe she
said she had two cans of I've
in the ingredients Remember
ing the fact that my mother
and auntS saved up grease
drippingS over a period of time
for the base l asked what she
was using. She said some pork
had gotten rusty and Snc was
using that. That soap sure does
move the dirt. Those old lad
les didn't have any "waSh day
grey" in their white clothes
nor in dirty little boys either.
1t wouldn't float but string
tied TO bush at the old mill
hole and a hunk OF soap on
the other end would clean up
a whole pasSel of Grimy boys
at days end. OF course il no
swimming hole was handy
there was always the wash
tub.
Saw the first load of cane
on the road the other day and
| have been looking for a cane
grinder and syrup cooker ever
since. That used to be another
big day with me. Along carly
frost time the cane had 10 be
cut and hauled to a mill. There
a mule was hitched to the polc
and would start his roun\s.
while one person fed the stalks
another would get the pans
ready for the syrup cooking.
1t seems my statement con-
cerning Mrs. Buck Clewis and
his experience with a bear was
in error. The true happening ]
was told was that Mr.. Clewis
mistook the bear for a large
black sow. Believing he could
handle the animal he jumped
astride il and was taken for a
fast ride through dense under
growth that badly bruised and
cut Mr.. ClewiS. Anyway one
can readily imagine there
would be plenty of fast action
in such situation. To be safe
! think will confine my ef-
forts TO small pigs.
"Tater Day" is past and
many congratulations to Mac
Gore. He sure earned the titlc
of MASTEp DEDECTDrhIJ