Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-06-20
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COUNTRYSIDE
BY PHILLIPS HARRISON


The chief diversions these
days are fishing and buckle
berrying. 1t would be hard to
determine which is the most
popular. Could be fishing
though as Mr.. J. B. Floyd, over
at Cerro Gordo says he went
down to Lumber river some
days ago and had to stand in
line in order to get a place
10 drop his line in. Too, the
fish market man at Cerro
Gordo says his business is
slow. 1 advised going into the
bait business.
Tobacco barning, combining
small grain, and, potato dig
ging as well as sweet potato
setting seems to be the main
jobs on the farm. One farmer
commenting on the price of
white potatoes said its a
good thing l didn't plant any,
they would be selling for fifty
cents a hundred" Cucumbers
seem to be coming along. Mr..
Jesse Batten over on Route l,
Chadbourn, had a nice early
picking.
Mr.. and Mrs. Valery Strick-
land and children, Mrs. Volley
Strickland also Mr.. and Mrs.
Beamon Strickland and chill
dren, vacationed in Florida re-
Gently. Some of the localities
visited were Orlando. st. Au-
gustinc, and Plant City.
MIR. Stephen Driggers of Fork.
8. c. is patient at Mullins
Hospital. Mr.. DriggerS is l02
years old and has been active
until recently he has been in
declining health. He has four
living children, urteen
grandchildren and forty-five
great grandchildren. Mrs.
Curtis Hathaway of Route 3,
Whiteville, is one of the grand
daughters and spent June 10
IL visiting with him in Null
Inns.
Mr. Keith Blount of Route
!, LoriS, left for Fullerton.
Calf. on June l6. Mr.. Blount
will visit his sister. Mrs.
Reese Cause who is the form
CT Miss Catherine Blount. Mr..
Blount also says he intends to
Go some looking around" in
view Of locating in California.
Mrs. Lloyd Williams and
children of Wilmington are
spending some time in the
Clarendon area visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Doris
Leonard also Mr.. Williams
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. G. F.
Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Faux
and children OF Lumbcrton re-
Gently spent some time with
Mrs. Faulk'S parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Hathaway of the Will
liams Township School section.
Thanks to Mr.. Gree Harrcl-
son for string OF nice catfish,
Lots of fellows report Black
River an indifferent place to
fish, however Gree must know
the secret. I'm still eating cat
fish.
Mr.. Fernie Beck who lives
on Route /. Chadbourn, has
been quite i'll lately. Al pres
ent he is improving which We
all hope will continue.
The Bluff" road between
Mt. Sinai Church and Rock
wells Mill was the scene OF
much activity last week. An
asphalt plant was being in
stalled there to process asphalt
for the hard surfaCing to be
done on the Whiteville road
and other smaller jobs in that
general area. With all the boil
ers, tanks, pipe and other ma
chinery being moved in it
looked for all the world as if
a crew Of wildcat oil well drill
lers was moving in.
The latest flash is that a
local fisherman has sores on
his left arm from measuring
his catch for Dragging purposes
in talking about his fishing
proves.
Just a mite dusty last week
on country roads. Human ma
ture being what il is | caught
myself saying to some one
You know I'd like to slide
on these clay roads for a dav
or So Which reminds me of
the colorcd soldier in the Aleu-
tan Islands about twelve wears
ago, II was cold and showing
mat day and a group Of color
ed engineers had built them
a fire and was gathered around
talking about what they were
going 10 do when they return
ed Statcsidc One fellow came
out with this-'wcll I'm going
home to Carolina and even if
It's in July I'm going to shut
all the doors and build me a
big fire and just sit there and
sweat and sweat"