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Captain Jake’s-A Remiaisceaca Off Old Edaatoa
(Editor’s Note: Captain
Jake’s Place A
Reminisence of the “Old
Edenton” -by Dr. Richard
Dillard, provides interesting
reading. It was printed by
The Independent in
Elizabeth City and is
undated. The booklet is
reprinted in serial form in
this newspaper in the public
interest.)
Blue Laws, Then
As Now
They had some blue
laws then as now, and drinks
could not be sold on Sunday
but “Captain Jake” with
characteristic ingenuity
opened a barrel of soda
crackers in his place, and
sold crackers for 25 cents
each and threw in a drink,
and it happened that on
Sunday mornings
everybody, not excepting
Polly, wanted a cracker.
Just inside the door of his
place on the counter was a
rock the exact size and shape
of a watermelon, this he had
painted in stripes to
resemble the rattle-snake
variety, the deception was
perfect, and the unwary
would always stop and
thump it to their sorrow.
“Capt. Jake” enjoyed this
proceeding very much. It
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was the only practical joke
he ever inrulged in.
About eleven o’clock in
the morning there usually
assembled somewhere in
the neighborhood of Dr.
Capehart’s office quite a
junta of the grandees and
wiseacres of the town, and
without any apparent
concert of action would
begin to move down
Cheapside towards the
wharf, some twirling ivory
headed canes, some with
long-stemed pipes,
punctuating their jokes with
frequent puffs of smoke like
the exhaust from a
locomotive, while others
arm and arm engaged in
earnest conversation. Let
memory hark back and the
whole scoie is rehearsed
White Assigned
Airborne Division
At Ft. Campbell
FT. CAMPBELL, Ky.—
Army Specialist Four
George E. White, son of
Mrs. Geraldine T. Nixon,
133 East Gale Street,
Edenton, N. C., was
assigned recently to the
101st Airborne Division at
Ft. Campbell, Ky.
The specialist, a field
wireman with Company C of
the division’s 426th Supply
and Service Battalion,
entered the Army in June
1965 and was last stationed
in Germany.
Spec. White is a 1965
graduate of Perquimans
Union High School in
Wiufall, N. C.
before us, and we- shall
follow them.
In their spectacular
transit they pass several
bar-rooms, the common
tipler was drinking there,
gulping down his “short”
from a dirty counter, while
through the latticed door
floated ribald songs and
roistering and jests but they
were not of these who
frequent such places and no
stop is made; down
Cheapside they go merrily,
now and then bowing their
high escape a bump
from the little wallets
of apples tied up in seine and
suspended over the sidewalk
in front of stores, the
advertisements of those old
fashioped merchants that
fine Northern apples were
for sale within. At Sweedy
Leary’s barber-shop they
pick up a recruit, some
curly-headed dandy, who
has just had his well
groomed hair perfumed
with St. Thomas bay-rum or
Oil of Bergamont pomade.
Those
“Good Old Days”
Now they stop a few
minutes in front of
a few minutes in front of
Aunt Hannah Watson’s cake
shop to have a chat with her.
Everybody knew “Aunt
Hannah,” a respectable old
colored woman who baked
the best ginger-cakes ever
eaten. Her wares were
displayed in a big wooden
tray in the window.
Sometimes you would see a
large ginger-cake cut in
the shape of a cantering
horse hung in front
tof her door as a lure to
the goodies she had inside:
Her cakes were so large and
thick and satisfying that the
boys called them “Fourth
Readers”, but none of our
gentlemen purchased these
as they moved on down
Cheapside. Our stage has
been set to a Southern
atmosphere, the morning is
hot, noisy carts rattle along
the street, the rill from the
old town pump has
overflowed with frequent
use into the gutter where
geese are wading and
dabbling in the little pools.
Over the euonymous
hedge, from the seclusion of
the Cupola House garden, is
wafted the sweet amalgam
of Crepe Myrtle, Mimosa
and Cape Jasmine
blossoms, the elegance of
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subtle aroma bora of these
truly characteristic and
much loved Southern
flowers. Old mulberry trees
gnarled and warty with age
wheel black patches of
shade upon the sidewalk,
while dappled shadows spill
down through the less dense
foliage of the elm trees, that
seem to stagger along the
street dizzy with the torrid
heat. The very dome of the
sky is gray and metallic as if
it were a big pewter chafing
dish-cover pressed down
over the earth to keep the
heat from escaping. The
faint blue of the distant
sound-shore seemed to
drowse along the horizon’s
edge. Out on the bay
wavelets are sparkling like
Undine displaying her
diamonds ? The sun strikes
silver spangles everywhere,
the air pulsates with the heat
of the midsummer day.
Our cavaliers halt and
beads of perspiration from
their foreheads, taking in
great draughts of the
delicious elements about
them.
Old John Broughton the
shoemaker loved a good
drink too, and as they pass
his door he watches them
from under his great shaggy
eyebrows and shakes his
head knowingly and returns
to his cobbling, for it did the
discernment of a Talleyrand
to divine the object of their
stroll at that hour of the day.
Now Water Street is passed,
and Aunt Emeline
Dempsey’s place too, where
the best people of the town
went to get their oyster
stews, and as they go' along
their feet beat tune to the
tempo of hope and
anticipation.
They arrive at the
rendevous—they are
impatient—t’would be
unkind to detain them, so all
unawares we shall take a
peep through a side
window—There they are,
each of them in his favorite
chair, some at back
gammon, some some in a
game of poker, “Capt.
Jake” had gathered from
everywhere all the
bestpossible . liquors to
please their fastidious
(Continued Next Week)
Young Roncbeis
Visit Form
On May 30 the Young
Fanners and Ranchers had
an interesting field trip to
Lester Copeland’s turkey
operation. Paul Copeland
had taken pictures and
prepared them into slides to
give a general idea of how
his operation worked.
He explained how the eggs
were fertilized by artifical
insemination. The eggs
were then put into the
incubator for about 23 days
and then into the hatchery
until they are hatched. They
are then put into houses
until they are large enough
to go into the fields.
The group toured these
different houses and fields.
His operation consist of
around 40 to 50 thousand
turkeys. After a tour of the
operation they enjoyed
several ways in which
turkey can be_ fixed,
including barbecued turkey,
turkey sausage, fried turkey
and turkey salad.
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awards. He in the past was
general manager for ’ his
own four-store chain of men
and ladies clothing.
Mitchell states that he is
looking forward to moving
his family to Edenton and is
excited with his association
with Jimbo’s Jumbos as
director of sales. He further
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viable marketing product
with established consumer
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of Jimbo’s Jumbos peanuts.
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Wood Pashes Educatiofl Reform
RALEIGH—A comprehen
sive education re
form package which
includes increasing teacher
salaries to the national
average within two years
and keeping them there was
advanced Monday by
George Wood, candidate for
the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination,'
At a Raleigh press
conference Wood said “It is
high time that we make a
fresh and bold commitment
to strengthening our schools
in every community in
North Carolina.”
In addition to the salary
hikes, Wood proposed
several other reforms.
Enriching teacher training
programs, deepending the
state-local government
educational partnership .and
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years ago.
appointing rather than
electing the State
Superintendent of Public
Instruction were other Wood
ideas.
“In North Carolina we pay
our foresters better wages
than we pay our school
teachers,” Wood noted. He
advocated increasing basic
state support to bring
teacher salaries “at least”
to the national average
which is currently $12,500.
Wood estimated that to
raise to this level
would require an additional
$l5O-million in state funds.
He suggested the increase
could “be achieved in two
stages, half in 1977 and half
in 1978”
“Our teachers are the
basic resource of our
schools, and they have not
Deen treated fairly,” Wood
said. “The quality of their
teaching and their
dedication to the task
depends on our support.”
If state money is used to
increase teacher salaries,
Wood said, the millions of
dollars in local tax funds
now going for teacher salary
supplements could be
utilized to attract better
qualified principals and
superintendents and to
reduce classroom teaching
loads.
In addition, the Camden
County candidate said,
state-supported institutions
of higher learning should
strengthen training and
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selection of its students of
education.
“I will support a request
for the funds to enable each
teacher-training campu| to
extend its assistance into
the public schools,” Wood, a
hng-time champion of
education, said.
. The appointment of the
State Superintendent of
Public Instruction by the
State Board of Education
rather than his public
election was another change
Wood endorsed as a means
of better administration of
public schools.
Wood’s program also
involved financial aid for
teachers who wish to take
in-service training.
“Our citizens view public
education as the most basic
and key service of
government,” Wood said,
“because it provides tlje
skills for making a living ; it
helps make well-rounded
citizens able to cope with the
world; and it holds the
promise of a higher
standard of living.”
Leary Receives
Advanced Degree
In Business
WILLIAMSBURG—
Joseph Clarence Leary, 111,
of Edenton, received a
master of business
administration degree from
the College of William and j
Mary at commencement 1
exercises held May 16 in
William and Mary Hall. The
commencement address
was given by David
Mathews, Secretary of
Health, Education and
Welfare.