Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-07-25

COUNTRYSIDE
By PHILLIPS HARRISON
BY PHILLIPS HARRISON

BY PHILLIPS HARRISON
Rainy days come in handy
sometimes. However, last
Thursday was little too ham
dy. Especially in those areas
that caught the hail. 1 was
fortunate in being at a tobacco
barn that was being filled
when the heavy downpour
started and so was eligible to
take shelter inside with the
others. Well, it seems that
there is always a way provided
for the poor wayfarers in the
world.
Thanks to Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Ward of Route l, Ash,
for delicious shrimp dinner
recently. Those folks over in
Brunswick are really all right!
This year they have some nice
crops too.
1t seems that the Cherry
Grove section takes first hon.
orS with snake stories this
week. II is reported over there
that a fellow named King tan
gled with a nine foot King
Snake. Wesley King killed the
snake around a tobacco barn
recently, after a number of
young chickens had turned up
missing. When asked why he
did not skin the snake so as to
have an interesting souvenir,
King Said-"Man, / was too
nervous"
Friday the thirteenth was
really bad luck for Mr.. Crom
Buffkin on Route ,, Tabor
City, this year. On the morning
of July l3, tobacco barn was
destroyed by fire on his farm.
AS yet the cause of the fire is
unknown.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Boswell
formerly of Route l, LoriS, are
now making their home in
Washington. D. c. Mr.. Boswell
is employed by the Ray Con-
struction Company.
Mrs. Bonnie Atkinson and
children of Hampton, S. c. re-
Gently spent a Weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert Wright on
Route /. Tabor City.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Turner
OF Greensboro have b en-
spending some time with rcla-
tiveS and friends on Route !.
Fair Bluff. Mr.. and Mrs. Turn
er moved TO Greensboro last
fall or early winter from the
Fair Bluff area. 1t is always
nice to see our old friends back
on a visit. Mr.. Turner says he
likes his new home very well
but he cannot get accustomed
to the different ways Of farm
ing.
Mrs. Sally Strickland Of
Route /, Cerro Gordo, was OK
peCtcd home last week from
the State Sanatorium at Nc
Cain. Mrs. Strickland has been
a patient there for the last
three months.
Mr.. Fred Duncan is mighty
busy these days out on Route
3. Tabor City. Ten weeks ago
Mr.. Duncan bought six hun
drcd twenty-five White Rock
pullets and SiXty-four rooStCrS
at a day old. Last week he said
he had six hundred seven pull
lets living. ! was so Interested
/ forgot to ask about the rooSt-
ers. Anyway he plans to raise
eggs for a hatchery he has a
contract with. Seems to me he
has a mighty good batting az
erage so far.
Fishing is still a major topic
in any gathering of SportSmon
and lot of "fiShy" stories are
told. Then there are the boys
who really catch them. From
the look of Mr.. Clarence Buff
fkin's deep freeze | am sure nc
IL one Of the fellows who
brings home the bacon-or RAJ
Their the fish. Mr.. BuffkinI
makes his home on Route 2.
Tabor City.
A lot of road work is going
on at present in both Horny
and Columbus. Roads | never
hoped to see hard surfaced are
being paved right along. Well
it couldn't happen to a better
neighborhood if the officials
looked all over the world! for
one am proud 10 see the good