"Old Farmer" Listens j
To Holler Of Cricket;
What beautiful weather! I can vet I
in a chair on my piassa 'boat the I
sunset hoar and gase at the tints in ,
the western sky and just feast on the i
sublimity of nature. An October <
sunset is a gorgeous sight and from a 1
boy till now I have always got the full i
of its glorious delight by standin' or 1
sittin' in the open at the gloamin ?
hour and feel the thrill of nature. As i
I write, I think of the old song that
I heard when a boy: i
When the lights are dim and low." ;
"In the gloaming, O, my darting.
If you've got any poetry in your 1
anatomy.it will begin to bubble in 1
you if you will git out and gate at <
the sunset in these October days.
Try it. Take your wife by her hand
and stand out there and it will take
you back over the years a-teemin'.
Several frosts have come and went
sinee I writ you my last piece and
things has been movin' on wonderful
like. We have been dlggin' peanuts
and picldn' cotton. Pickin' out cot
ton aint my job and aint never been.
I am actually ashamed to tell the
most that I ever picked in one day for
it was so little compared to what the
other fellows picked. I reckon my
fingers warn't made to pick cotton
and play the banjo. And one thing is
dead shure, I am too old now to learn,
if I could. Yes, Sir,-when it comes to
picldn' cotton, I surrender and run
up the white flag of truce. Still my
fingers appear to be as nimble as they
were in the days of my boyhood.
I have been hearln' the jay birds
holler for several days. He will let
you know when the fall o'the year
is approachin' if you will just go out
in the woods. The whippoorwill has
gone into winter quarters and won't
come out till next spring. You will
hardly hear him agin tho I 'blieve
that I have now and then hearn one
bre?k out'n season. But oh! Man, the
dolorous cricket! Long in the late
afternoon he will start up his racket
and he'll make you feel so lonesome
that the shivers will run up and down
your spinal column. Did you ever
come up to the house and find your
wife and all the youngsters gone and
just drop down on the front or back
door steps and begin to ponder and
think when all at once you'd hear
that one cricket begin to set up his
sound that I can't describe? Well,
if you have then you know what lone
some feelin' he can put ever you. Did
you ever notice that only one hollers
at a time? It must be that when one
Kits tired that the other takes his
place. Git me away from the fall
' cricket. The shiverin'owl can git yer
to thinkin' 'bout haunts and Khosts.
But these here fellows that always
^been in a city dont know nuthin'
'bout sich things and the fact is they
aint never got close to nature, which
after all is the greatest study in life.
I 'blieve that it was a feller named
Pope that said:
"The proper study of mankind is
man."
Well bein' that he had so much
more sense than I's got of course I
can't dispute it, but, while he is
atudin' man he might watch the birds,
bugs and flowers, and that old crick
it la K?in' to make you notice him
some anyway, as well as the shiverin'
owl. But I'll bet my ole hat that
Henry Miller knows all 'bout insecks
and sich like. Don't year, HenryT
I read in the HERALD that "The
Birth of a Nation," was Koin' to be
showed on the 25th, 2
e welcome.
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BETHLEHEM NEWS
lb. Broadus Adkins has purchased
a new Ford runabout
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Hill and child
ren spent Sunday afternoon with Mr.
and Mrs. S. C. Godwin near Hickory
Chapel.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Gower and
children visited near Montgomerys
Mill Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Broadus Adkins was a visitor
in Gatesville Sunday.
Messrs. R. L. Wiggins and Joe
Chamblee and Mesdames Wiggins and
Chamblee and Miss Ruby Wiggins
were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. J. N.
Wiggins Sunday afternoon.
Messrs. Troy Hill, Robert Thomas
and Joe Vann were callers in the
home of Mrs. Roea Hill near Harrells
ville Saturday evening.
Mr. and lbs. C. F. Greene visited
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dilday near
Montgomerys Mill on Sunday after
noon. ?>
We are glad to report Mr. J. N.
Wiggins and Mrs. R. L. Simons and
Miss Ercell Simons much improved
from their recent illness.
Those who attended the "tacky"
party in the home of Mr. W. H.
Thomas near Tunis last Wednesday
evening were, Misses Ruth Thomas,
Rosa Lee Slaughter, Susie Hill and
Jessie Vann and Messrs. Robert
Thomas, Clyde Slaughter, Troy Hill,
Joe Vann, and Mr. and Mrs. O. J.
HilL
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Slaughter
and family from Hickory Chapel and
Mr. Russell Slaughter and family
from Ahoslde, spent Sunday after
noon with their mother, Mrs. Mollie
Slaughter.
The weather continues fine for
peanut digging and cotton picking,
but at the same time garden and po
tato crops are suffering for rain.
Plant some nitrogen-gathering
legumes for soil improvement and
livestock pasturage.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as Administrator
of the estate of the late Ella E. Rey
nolds, of Hertford County,North Car
olina, this is to notify all persons
holding claims against the said es
tate to present them to the under
signed on or before the 8th day of
October, 1924, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment.
This the 8th day of October, 1923.
ANDREW J. REYNOLDS,
10-12-23-6t. Administrator.
By Thad A. Eure, Attorney.
Notice of gal* Und.r Mortgage
By virtue of the power and author
ity given by ? certain Mortgage Ex
ecuted by Jno. Futrell and wife, Eva
Futrell, to S. P. Taylor, which is
recorded in the office of the Regis
ter of deeda for the County of Hert
ford, in book 64, page 406, the fol
lowing property will be sold at pub- ?
lie auction, vis:
A tract of land situate in Winton
Township, Hertford County, N. C.
adjoining the lands of the late J. L.
Anderson and the old Camp Mfg. Co.
Old Mill site, beginning at a pine on
the North side of path leading from
Winton to Camp Mfg. Co.'s Old Mill;
thence down said path an East course
to camp line; thence right angle to a
big pine, a line tree for the Ander
son land; thence a southeasterly
course along said Anderson line to
starting point, containing one acre
more or less, excepting the grave
yard, 16 X 36 feet.
PLACE OF SALE?Courthouse
Door.
TIME OF SALE?28th. day of Oc
tober, 1928.
TERMS OF SALE-r-Cash.
This September 24, 1928.
S. P. TAYLOR, Mortgagee.
Jno. E. Vann, Attorney 9-28-4t.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF
FIVE (S) VALUABLE TRACTS
OF TIMBER
We, the undersigned owners of the
five tracts of timber hereinafter de
scribed, will offer them for sale to the
highest bidder at the courthouse door
in Winton, N. C., at noon on the
20th Day of October, 1923
Terms and time for cutting to be
made known at the sale:
First Tract: Tract of timber
known as the Bartonsville timber,
containing 460 acres, more or less.
Second Tract: Tract of timber
known as the Barnes Timber, contain
ing 191 acres, more or less.
Third Tract. Tract of timber
known as the Catling Tract of timber,
containing 160 acres, more or less.
Fourth Tract: Tract of timber
known as the Lowe Timber, contain
ing 60 acres, more or less, and
Fifth Tract: Tract of timber
known as the Jenkins Timber, con
taining 25 acres, more or less.
This October 6th, 1923.
S. E. JORDAN,
W. M. JORDAN,
10-12-23-2t. J. R. JORDAN.
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