"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<th and 27th
nights in the Garrett Theatre and
'blieve me I's gwtne and all the fam
ily for I've wanted to see that thing
ever since I read it in Tom Dixon's
book and then I lent it to all my na
bors and all of us knows some 'bout
that thing and the "Lepard Spots."
The reason I aint see it before this
time is because it was always showed
in Norfolk or some other big place
but now 'Hoakie is bigger nuff to give
the folks a chance to see it at home.
What have I been a-tellin' of you?
Don't you see what we could have if
we'd Just make 'Hoekie what it's go
ing to be and that is bigger'n Suffolk.
Well when we git the courthouse and
jail there your're going to see that
place step along. It's going* and
don't you forgit it. e
I take off my ole slouch to John
Parker, for writin' that last piece for
the HERALD. He done just what
I've been tryin' to git folks to do all
long,?write some little sketches of
boyhood days and things that will
give the young folks a glimpse of the
back yonder days. There oughter be
at least two letters a week from dif
ferent ones in Hertford and adjoin'
counties in every issue of the HER
ALD. Don't be so cussed lasy, fellers,
git down to it and scratch a few
lines. It will be read with interest.
John write a letter and tell the boys
'bout how you wore hime knit socks.
Why I wore home knit socks jam by
till I was married and after I married
my old woman, she knit we a pair or
so, but things got so that I begun to
git store knit I know just as
good when my mothw knit my socks |
lad when ?he would curd the cotten
nto rolls and then spin it and then
louble the threads and twist and then
rind it in a skein and wash it out and
iry it and after sapper she would
liand the skein to me to hold over
Iwth hands while she would wind it
off into a knittin' ball. I can see my
telf as the skein would begin to git
iown sorter thin I would shut my
eyes so that I could not observe the
?low process of windin till maybe the
last thread was wound off. We boys
srore brogan shoes in the winter time
end went barefooted in the summer.
I remember,?it was in the fall of
the yar a little later then it is now,
possibly in November that my mother
went to town to see 'bout some cot
ton that she had had hauled and to
make some little fall purchases. The
day was long for mammy was gone
but we played and long in the even'
near 'bout night, we began to look
down the path that led to the big
gate for it was gittin' time for her
return and by and by we looked and
behold she was near 'bout to the
house and how we did run to meet
her and as we met the vehicle it stop
ped and the lady that lived with my
mother handed out a red top pair of
boots to my younger brothers and
callin' his name said there was a pair
of boots for him and then out came
another pair of red top boots and
callin' my name she handed them to
me, then calling my baby brother's
name she handed him a blue top pSir
of boots. All of 'em was coppeg
toed. Was there ever as proud boys
in the state? Yes, every boy who
had a happy mother who delighted in
making her children happy has had
the same sweet experience and their
minds dwell at times on those happy
memories of boyhood. Yes, our
young little hearts caused us a glor
ious jubilation. I know as I write
these lines that it made my mother's
heart gladder than it did ours jto see
us so happy, for I can pay her this
humble tribute that, "She was one of
the best mothers that ever lived," and
perhaps'her spirit is bending over me
now in her angelic joy, as I write of
the innocence of childhood.
But John, "Them days is gone for
ever."
OLD FARMER.
October IS, 1023.
HARRELLSVILLE NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Morris and lit
tle daughter, Doris, spent the week
end in Aulander visiting relatives
and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kowe and
children spent a few days last week
visiting relatives in Aulander.
Mrs. H. I. Britton returned to her
home in Norfolk last week after
spending some time with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Askew.
Mr. Clyde Askew of Powellsville
visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. O. Askew last Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. L. T. Holloman, Misses Annie
Laurie Sessoms and Miss Nell Deans
attended the Lyceum course in Win
ton Tuesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke Baker of
Suffolk were visitors in town last
Wednesday.
Messrs. S. E. Harrell and L. T.
Holloman were business visitors in
Ahoskie Wednesday.
Mrs. J. L. Smith and daughters,
Elizabeth and Evelyn, Mrs. Rena Hol
loman, Mrs. C. M. Callis and daugh
ter, Ethel, were in Colerain Friday,
shopping.
Mrs. J. A. Powell spent Friday in
Suffolk, shopping.
Mrs. R. C. Mason and little daugh
ter, Pauline, are spending two weeks
visiting relatives in Edenton and Co
lumbia^ N. C.
Mesdames H. H. Taylor, W. B.
Gilliam, and Hunter Sharp were in
Ahoskie Thursday.
Capt Oscar Croswell of Baltimore
is in town a few days on business.
Mr. E. M. Woo ten of .Ahoskie spent
Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
T. A. Powell.
Mr. C. F. Peele and Mr. W. T. Hol
loman of near Hickory Chapel called
on Mr. James Cotton Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. Joanna White, Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar Perry and daughter, Viola
Claire and Miss Anna Laura Baker of
Powellsville were callers in the home
of Mrs. White's nelee, Mrs. Mae Lowe
Sunday.
Mr. D. N. Evans spent Monday in
Wilson on business.
Mrs. Lucy Holloman and son, L. T.
Holloman spent Sunday in Mapleton
in the home of Mr. L. H. Holloman.
State Mission Day was observed in
the Baptist Sunday School here Hun
day morning.
Meodames H. H. Taylor and D. N.
Evans are spending a few days in
Norfolk this week.
We are glad to report* that Elsie
and Ruth Taylor, daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. M. R. Taylor, are better af
ter being confined to their home with
diphtheria and will soon be able to
return to school.
Miss Bessie Sumner of Evanstown
was a visitor in town Monday after
noon.
The people of Harrellsville and
vicinity are planning a Community
Fair to be held at the Harrellsville
School building all day Saturday,
October 20. Dinner will be sold in
the building. The programs for the
day will be in charge of the Better
ment Society of Harrellsville and
Christian Harbor. All visitors will
!>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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