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OCTOBER 16, 1930. WOMAN’S CLUB NOTES The Woman’s Club of Pittsboro tprtained the Bonlee club at their f-vnera'i Meeting Tuesday, Oct. 8, 4,1 .) p. m. Mrs. J. W. Hunt, presi *} 1 1 welcomed the visitors in her , "t e-racious manner. Dr. H. H. iV' "of Durham, Head of the \,oerican Society for the Control *,■ c a ncer in North Carolina, gave most interesting lecture about his 1 , k The Club Women pledged their warty cooperation to aid him in ’• ocking this dreadful disease. After ■V pleasant recess, Mrs. Hunt called *• club to order. The Club Hymn was sung, after which the collect ■was read. Mrs. D. B. Nooe, Secretary of t j,J Health and Civic Department reports that Mrs. Mann and Mrs. C , V es entertained the Department, \ 7th. This Department will spon or a “Clean-up Week” this Fall. George Brewer was appointed committee of one to urge resi dents to plant tulip bulbs. Plans v re completed for the baby clinic Co be held Oct. 9th. Mrs. Robert Dixon gave the report for the Music Department. Ipv COATS COATS COATS COATS OF ALL KINDS - Sport Coats, Dress Coats, Good Coats, In- expensive Coats. Anything you want. If m&W,W we no * ave Pittsboro Store, just fp|pP speak to Miss Cordie Harmon. She will ar range for you to have it in a very short time. H NEW DRESSES " ||U| Just received a lot of new Dresses, Sport ■? iS Dresses, Dressy Dresses. ***• And you will find Bags, Gloves, Hose, and mm any kind of Costume Jewelry to match any -m costume you may buy. Be sure to come in whether you buy or not. (j CAVINESS SHOP PITTSBORO —^ __ ———■ —9 H jS LEE COUNTY FAIR' I OCTOBER 21 to 24 I Come to the fair and make our store your store. Let S us take care of your packages, use our phones. We m have plenty of rest rooms for both men and ladies. S Tell your friends to meet you at our store. M Ladies' silk hosiery, service weights, service chiffons, M and the new very sheer chiffons, dull finish, also stouts , || for large ladies, priced || 1 SI.OO to $1.95 I 4 Ladies’ new Fall footwear NATURAL-BRIDGE Arch I Oxfords and Pumsp, priced || 1 $5.00 to $6.00 I 8 All sizes and wides—the very best shoes you have ever ■ seen for the price. , |K 1 “WALK-OVER” Oxfords and pumps, both ladies' and I \ men's new Fall and Winter styles and colors, priced I I $7.50 to $11.50 8 i If you are hard to fit and want a comfortable, good- 9 looking, stylish pair of Oxfords, or Pumps, something gs different, come it. It will be a pleasure to show you. || I STROUD * HUBBARD I 8 THE SHOE AND HOSIERY STORE I 1 SANFORD, N. C. I Mrs. Hatch reports that the Lit erary Department met with Mrs. Roscoe Farrell, Sept. 31st. Mrs. E. A. Farrell read a most interesting paper. Other plans were discussed. Mrs. Hunt thanked the member ship and attendance committee for the work they have done. Mrs7 Shannonhouse, chairman of Ways and Means, reported that she is making plans for a bridge tourna ment. Mrs. Hunt urged all club mem bers to buy T. B. Christmas seals as the Health-Civics Department is sponsoring the sale. Mrs. Hatch, District Chairman, urged all members to attend the District Meeting at Wendell October, 28th. The club voted to invite the clubs the District to hold the 1931 convention in Pittsboro. The following program was ren dered. Solo, From the Land of the Sky Blue Waters; Rose of Picardy,—Mrs. W. B. Chapin, accompanied by Mrs. J. W. Hunt. Reading, She Powders Her Nose— Miss Elizabeth Blair Instrumental Solo, Mrs. V. R. THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C. Johnson. Vocal Duet, Moonlight and Roses —Misses Mary Dell j/Bynum and Bessie Chapin. Mrs. Moffit and Mrs. Johnson dis cussed the work 'of their club. Light refreshments were served by the entertainment committee. • WOMEN’S PRESBYTERIAL •Group No. 1 of Orange Presby terial met at Salem church, Lee county, on Tuesday Oct. 7th, from 10 A. M. until 3 P. M. There were 127 women present and an inter esting and helpful program was presented. Group No. 1 is composed of (Chatham and Lee county. The following attended from Pittsboro: Mesdames M. A. Barber, Walter Johnson, R. H. Hayes, R. A. Glenn, William Gatum, Jonas Barclay. MRS. JONAS BARCLAY, Chairman. JUST AN ITEM The pastor would urge every member to be in attendance at Brown’s Chapel for preaching serv ice Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. I# THEN AND THERE I HISTORY TOLD AS IT WOULD BE WRITTEN TODAY L By ERVIN S. COBB § Gracious Lady Lauds American Enemies | One of the richest contributions to the War of the Revolution, on the personal side, w&s the dairy kept by the Baroness Riedesel. Th.s charming lady was the wife of Major Riedesel, who commanded a force of Brunswick mercenaries fighting with the British. She accompanied her husband to America and after the birth of her third child in Canada she set out to follow him into tie hostile territory to the south ward—an undertaking which in the autumn of 1777 required no small courage. She took her babies with her, too. The little family caravan presently overtook Cornwallis’ invading column, which was made up of British regulars, red Indians and German hirelings, who, in accord ance with the custom of the time, had been sold like so many heads of cattle by the petty kings who ruled them to fight against a nation with which these poor farmed out serfs had no quarrel. In all, the army numbered 7,003. From the standpoint of the enemy it was a most disastrous campaign. Corn wallis hoped to effect a union with the m~in British force, which was to move from New York city toward the upper Hudson valley, and thus isolate New England from the colonies below. But Lord Howe, the British command;r-in-chief who claimed later that he had had no instructions binding him to co-operate with Cornwallis, marched southward instead, and captured Philadelphia. Aside from its mi.itary significance, the fighting near Saratoga Springs had great interest on another count. For. leading one wing of the American army was that brilliant young general, Benedict Arnold, who subsequent'y was to become infamous as a traitor, when the jealousy of his superior had denied him proper credit for his genius in the two engagements at Stillwater. After' becoming prisoners-cf-war along with Cornwallis’ decimated command, the were sent first to Ecstcn, then to Cambridge and finally to Virginia. Every where the baroness was admired among her captors by reason of her vivacity and charm. Eventually an exchange was effected and she spent the bitter winter of 1-780 in New York, where she was immensely popular with the officers of the British garrison and with those resident families who favored the cause of the crown against the Revolutionists. Her journal and letters, translated into English by William L. Stone, show us sights and sidelights which most historians either overlooked or neglected. To read her is to see a dramatic chapter out of our War for Independance through the eye* of a frank and honest chronicler. BY ALL accounts —and tliese ac counts come from various sources—the .Baroness Riedesel was a lady of enormous per sonal charm, rare intelligence and tre mendous vitality. That she must have possessed courage of the very high est order is proven by her own journal of her experiences following the first Rattle of Saratoga. This does no mean that even Indirectly she exploit ed accounts of the bravery, shown in her fiction in the face of danger and terrific discomforts. For she did no such thing. It does mean that in nil that she wrote of that disastrous with drawal there was reflected a spirit of fortitude on her part which is uninis ; takable aiuT at the same time admir able. And how charmingly frank she was! She was a partisan, naturally, of the side upon which her husband served, hut she did not hesitate to criticize the conduct of the commander of the beaten British forces nor yet to laud the generosity and kindliness of Gen eral Schuyler, the gallant American into whose hands, as prisoners-of-war. eventually she and her children and her servants fell. By her admissions a comparison between the two leaders is established jn which her chivalrous foe bears off all the honors. A Gay General. It is these disclosures which give es pecial interest to her writings. But the -memoirs have another value. Through her eyes we get a realistic picture of wartime conditions in America during the earlier years of the Revolution —and more especially of the conditions prevalent in the flight of the discomfited Britishers across a strip »f New York state iin mediately following the engagement near Stillwater on the west bank of the Hudson river, about 24 miles north of Saratoga Springs. I think her most significant entry in the opening stage of her narrative ap peared after she had weathered the first night of the retreat, riding over miserable roads in a carriage, with her babies. It had to do with the Indians who, under promise of spoils and scalps, had been recruited by the Brit ish to war upon the revolting Col onists. That the English government approved the employment of the abo rigines against the Americans re mained a black blot on the Crown But the Indians must have been most uncertain allies, for the baroness wrote this: “We spent the whole day in a pour ing rain ready to march at a moment’s warning. The savages had lost their courage and they were seen in all di rections going home. The slightest re verse of fortune discouraged them, es pecially if there was nothing to plun der . . . “I was wet through and through by the frequent rains, and was obliged to remain in this condition the entire night, as I had no place whatever where I could change my linen. I flierefore seated myself before a good fire and undressed my children; after which we laid ourselves down togeth er upon some straw. I asked General Phillips why he did not continue our retreat while there was yet time, as my husband had pledged himself to cover it, and bring the army through? “ ‘Poor woman,’ answered he, ‘I am amafced at you! Completely wel through, have you still the courage t< wish to go further in this weather! Would that you were only our com manding general! He halts because he is tired, and intends to spend the night here and give us a supper.’ In this latter achievement, especially General Burgoyne was >very fond of indulging. He spent half the nights in singing and drinking and amusing himself with the wife of a.commis sary, who was his mistress, and who. as well as he, loved champagne. x Under Fire. “On the tenth—General Burgoyne in order to cover our retreat, caused the beautiful houses and mills at Sar atoga, belonging to General Schuyler, to be burned. . . . The greatest misery and the utmost disorder pre vailed in the army. The commissaries had forgotten to distribute provisions among the troops. More than thirty officers came to me wbo could endure hunger no longer ... I called to me Adjutant General Patterson, who happened at that moment to be pass ing by, and said to him passionately: ‘Come and see for yourself-these offi cers who have been wounded in the common cause and who now are in want of everything, because they do not receive that which is due them. It is, therefore, your duty to make a rep resentation of this to the general.’ The result was that a quarter of an hour afterward, General Burgoyne came to me himself and thanked me very pa thetically for having reminded him of his duty.” Nevertheless, the vacillating Corn wallis delayed until the Americans overtook and encompassed the loiter ing force, and precipitated a skirmish ing attack and later a bombardment. The baroness continues: “My husband sent me a message telling me to betake myself forthwith into a house which was not far from where we had halted. I seated my self in the calash, with my children, and had scarcely driven up to the house when I saw on the opposite side of the Hudson rfver five or six men with guns, which were aimed at us. Almost involuntarily I threw the chil dren on the bottom of the calash and myself over them. At the same in stant the churis fired and shattered the arm of a poor English soldier be hind us, who was already wounded and was also on the point of retreat ing into the house. A Cellar Refuge. “Immediately after our arrival a frightful cannonade began, principally directed against the house in which we had sought shelter, probably be cause the enemy believed, from seeing so many people flocking around it, that all the generals made it their head quarters. Alas! it harbored none but wounded soldiers or women! We were finally obliged to take refuge in a cel lar, in which I laid myself down in a corner not far from the door. My children laid down upon the earth with their heads in my lap and in this man ner we passed the entire night.” As a .matter of fact, the refugees were 'destined to spend six days and nights underground, undergoing perils and hardships which multiplied with the passing hours. On the next morning, for instance, rhe cannonade was renewed by the Revolutionists. Says the baroness: “Many persons who had no right to come in, threw themselves against the door. My children were already un der the cellar steps and we would all have been crushed if God had not giv en me strength to place myself before the door and with extended arms pre vent all from coming in; otherwise ev ery one of us would have been severe ly Injured. Eleven cannon balls went through the house and we could plain ly hear them rolling over our heads. One poor soldier, whose leg they were about to amputate, having been laid upon a table for this purpose, had the other leg taken off by another can non hall in the very middle of the op eration. His comrades all ran off, and when they again came back they found him in one corner of the room, where he had rolled in his anguish, senreely breathing. . . . “As a great scarcity of water con tinued, we at last found a soldier’s wife who had the courage to bring water from the river, for no one else would undertake it, as the enemy shot at the head of every man who ap proached the river. This woman, however, they never molested; and they told us afterward, that they spared her on account of her sex. Nursing the Wounded. “The wife of Major Harnage, a Madame Reynels, the wife of a lieu tenant, the wife of the commissary and myself, were the only ladies who were with the army. We sat together one day in our cellar bewailiDg our fate, when one came in, upon which they all began whispering, looking at the same time exceedingly sad. I noticed this, and also that they cast silent glances toward me. This awakened in my mind the dreadful thought that my husband had been killed. I shrieked aloud but they assured me that this was not so, at the same time Intimating to me by signs that it was the lieutenant —the husband of onr companion—who had met with mis fortune. A moment after she was called out. Her husband was not yet dead, but a cannon ball had taken off his arm close to the shoulder. Dur ing the whole night we heard his moans, which resounded fearfully through the vaulted cellars. The poor man died toward morning. “I attempted to divert my mind from my troubles by constantly busying my self with the wounded. Often, also, I shared my noonday meal with them. One day a Canadian officer came into onr cellar, who could scarcely stand up. We at last got v it out of him that he was almost dead with hunger. I considered myself very fortunate to have it in my power to offer him my mess. This gave him renewed strength ~ and gained for me his friendship. Afterwards, upon our return to Can ada, I learned to know his family. One of the greatest annoyances was the stench of the wounds when they began to suppurate. “One day I undertook the care of Major Plumpfield, through both of whose cheeks a small musket ball had passed, shattering his teeth and graz ing his tongue. He could hold noth ing whatever in his mouth. The mat ter from the wound almost choked him and he was unable to take any other nourishment except a little broth or something liquid. We had Rhine wine. I gave him a bottle of it in hopes that the acidity of the wine would cleanse his wound. He kept some continually in his mouth, and that alone acted so beneficially that he became cured, and I again acquired one more friend. American Hospitality. On October 17 the terms of the capi tulation of the British force were con summated. Until now, the surrender had been delayed by Cornwallis, al though his situation was hopeless and he already had pledged himself to de liver up his beleaguered command to the Americans. The concluding portion of Madame Riedesel’s journal deals graphically with her reception by the winners. She continues after this fashion: “At last my husband sent to me a groom with a message that I should come to him with our children. I therefore again seated myself in my dear calash; and, in the passage through the American camp I observed with great satisfaction that no one cast at us scornful glances. On the contrary, they all greeted me, even showing compassion on their counte nances at seeing a mother with her little children in such a situation. I. confess that I feared to come into the enemy’s camp, as the thing was so en tirely new to me. “When I approached the tents, a no ble looking man came toward me, took the children out of the wagon, em braced and kissed them, and then with tears in his eyes helped me also to alight. You tremble,’ said he to me; ‘fear nothing.’ “No,” replied I, “for you are so kind and have been so ten der toward my children, that it has inspired me with courage.” He then led me to the tent of General Gates. The man who had received me so kindly came up and said to me: “'lt may be embarrassing to you to dine with all these gentlemen; come now wit»h your children into my tent, where I will give you, it is true, a fru gal meal but one that will be accom panied by the best of wishes.’ ‘You are certainly,’ answered I, ‘a husband and a father, since you showed me so much kindness.’. “I then learned that he was the American General Schuyler. He en tertained me with excellent smoked tongue, beefsteaks, potatoes, good but ter and bread. Never have I,eaten a better meal. As soon as we had fin ished dinner he invited me to take up my residence at his house, which was situated in Albany. “Two days later we arrived at Al bany, where we had so often longed to be. But we came not, as we sup posed we should, as victors! We were, nevertheless, received in the most friendly manner by the good General Schuyler, and by his wife and daugh ters, who snowed us the most marked courtesy, as also, General Burgoyne, although he had —without any neces sity, it was said —caused their mag nificently built houses to be burned. But they treated Us as people who knew how to forget their own losses in the misfortunes of others. Even General Burgoyne was deeply moved at their magnanimity and said to Gen eral Schuyler, ‘ls it to me who have done you so much injury, that you show so much kindness!’ ‘That is the fate of war,’ replied the brave man, ‘let us say no more about it.’ ” (© by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) .... " English Lavender Although lavender is a subtropical plant, it is grown with great success In certain sections of England for the production of oil of lavender, for sale in a fresh state as bunched lavender, and also dried for sachets. It is said to be at its best at about three or four years of age. The yield of the oil varies consid erably with the age of the plants, and also with the weather, so that the output per aere likewise varies from season to season. Under the best conditions an acre of lavender may yield from fifteen to twenty pounds of oil. - Real Success “Have you recently made money in the stock exchange?” « “No,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “Then you have not been success ful.” “I feel entirely successful. I have managed by avoiding risk to hold on to the money I had previously made.” —Washington Star. } PAGE THREE
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