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PAGE TWO Meet Some Raleigh Citizens Raleigh, both as the county-seat of Wake and as "capital of the State, lias a host of folk (who are worth knowing. Many of them have been abund antly publicized. You know such gentlemen as Ehringhaus, Maxwell, Stacy and the other four jus tices of the supreme court. For The Voice to echo their "fame would advantage neither you nor them ' t0 any great extent. But there are scores of worthy men, not so well known, whom I shall seek to intro “ duee to our leaders in the -next few issues* and others whom I shall casually or incidentally men tion as a reminder that they are still in the land of the living and playing the game of life, r > Twi» Patriarchs. For instance, on recent visits t° Raleigh, I h^e hail the pleasure of chatting with the -tKvo. patriarchs, Captain S..A. Ashe and Major Olds. The younger generation can hardly" conceive of the long period of activity of the former. Go ‘way hack to the sixties and see the gallant young Annapolis (cadet playing his part in the War Between the States. COme on up twenty years and find him one/ of the leading journalists of the State. Cotoe up to the Wilson regime and see the veteran ghen as a re ward in his old age the clerkship of the Federal Court. See him outlive his chief and by the grace of the Republican administrations still hold on -to the job. outliving both Harding and Coolidge and pass-, ing again into a Democratic- administration after living through the Hoover regime. And' at 93, 1 find him at his desk, ready to talk or ready to write. But i must not forget to remind you of the achieve ment of a magnum opus of his old age—his History cf North Carolina in ttwo great volumes'. The names and exploits of the men of North Caro lina for almost a century are imbedded in his sub consciousness and may he drawn to the surface most unexpectedly. Thus, the other day, I caught the origin of the once quite notable Sttrudwlck family in North Carolina. The Strudwlcks, according to •our informant, were London merchants. One son married an actress and thus put himself out of caste. The owner of the famous “Stag Park” plantation between Butgaw and Rocky Point owed the London merchant a considerable sum. The son who had married distastefully to the family was sent over to take charge of the “Stag-Park" plantation. He came with a lot. of merchandise, or got the remnants' of his father’s debtor. Unfamiliar with the conditions of a slave-holding community, the story was told that he sold his goods to the slaves on credit. gathered, also, 'that the grandfather of Captain Ashe through, tbis neighborhood residence of the young Struct wick found his wife—niece of Mr. or j$r$. Strudwick who had come down from Hillsbyro or elsewhere to visit her uncle’s family. She was a Shepperd (sic), and gave the middle name Sliep perd to Captain Ashe's father. Wtm. S. Ashe. Rocky Point was in those early days the center of one of the aristocratic communities of the State. Lilllng iton Hall. for instance, was just across the North Kast Cajpe Fear from. Rocky Point. When Captain Ashe’s memory becomes quickened one might' listen to interesting traditions for hours and write pages, and that I am about to do, though ojnjy' a casual mention, more or less, was intended. ,That I give here to Colonel Olds. He came into a as I ate a snack and joined me at the table, ilje is eighty, years young; completley enlisted in building up the Hall of History and in escorting the ' school children of the state to various points of in terest. I have just read how Colonel Olds, 50 years ago, had constructed a Gargantuan kite, wit?! which be amused himself and the kite. Bob Gray tells of ft, and was presumably one of the kids glorying in helping work the windlass that let out and dsew^rtr the cord of the monster affair. It isa^wenflerwith kites and the hurled cydinders^thM thte principles Were not discovered earllodpr^ " And here1 I would (mention meeting Colonel J. R. Young, also an octogenarian. Long he was insur ance commissioner and one of the best the State ever had. He tohl me that he had riof been well for some weeks. I However, that he is better was evi dent from the fact that he was on the streets. But> the Raleigh'citizen who has come in for most praise recently is Mrs. Barbee, whom I have never ■ ihet, but -who .must be a wonderful woman and teacher, continuing, as she is. her work as' class room instructor at the age of- eighty Long ihay She wave. Great praise has i>een extended the memory of Dr. White, long pastor of the First Presbyterian church. I did not know Dr. White, but for years I have 1been impressed with the independence and Strength of his character and ministry through' re port' of his work. But let’s meet some of the younger (men of the Capital City, j ( . , Purrington. Wjhen I ** ±Z^°Z g e n t a en..J year ago I soon bec^ne cor vinced that he is a young man who does his own thinking. He described hihiself the other day^ “Tory ” Mr. Purrington is a nai ve o Veck He received bis bachelor’s degree at theTtoi ve^ty-fn 1921. taught a year or two in Greensboro „„d returned to the University for two of law. -He came to Raleigh as secretary of the organn Nation campaigns for Governor Morrison’s Term inal and Water Transportation sqhetene. For six 3-ears following, he was associated with General Cox in the practice of law. For the last three years ha. has been going it alone. And h* 1 cotch one in his office. ■ - ‘ ^ , W. Brantley Womble.—The original North Carolina habitat of the Wambles is western' Wake and Chat ham county. Bran'tley was reared in lyestflft W$ke, a few miles from New ili^l. ?e hgs been a lawyer for thirteen years, haying' secured li.isr law training at the State University! He wag chosen one of Wake’s three representatives the l?^ legi^ty1^ in a race in which snore than a score pf yamMetes was enlisted. As. a member of the $ouse (fi.iuince committee he was pronounced V? ChniCWn as one. of the hardest-working ney; meters, pf a legislature he had ever seem—and Governor Hough ton has been seeing them a long time. Mr. Wom^e is much pleased with the sgcposslnl operation of the sales tax, for which ho readily assvunes his share of the responsibility. He has little lave foe the, Hinsdale select commodity tax. Brantley will be a candidate to succeed himself and will: not hedge on the sales tax, despite the feet that Mr. Leonard’s brigade will be gunning for him ahd others of his ilk. Henry G. Spieling.—LeVs county .court house and look over the personnel therein. I begin with the dean of W>ake officialdom^—IIenvy G. Hold ing—who is serving his 12th 2-year term, as auditor. ‘‘Mr. Holding,” I said, “you were a farmer when I was a student at Wake Forest—‘Where did you learn to audit or haven’t you learned?”' "Well,” he .said, . “I knew donble-entry bookkeeping and when one bal ances a book by that ok! scheme, it is balanced. They have had $25,000 audits, but they haven’t got me yet-” ' ; If Willis Holding, father of Henry G., did not have his own picture taken with his six stalwart sons, he should have had. An Al>e Lincoln in stature and with a similar beard, Willis Holding owned a farm in what is now the corporate limits of the toWn of Wake Forest. No daughter, but. six sons—‘count them : Newton, Henry G., W. W.. Thos, E., Otho, and Solomon—were reared, in the °ld 'homestead— a regular old country home. All, siy pf them were allowed to graduate at the college, several of them taking the master’s degree. Hut they had to work on that farm and help the father 'make ends meet. Monday and Tuesday of commencement weeks, Mir. Henry says, they worked all day or till the, exercises began and after the day program—Wednesday and Thursday, particularly if one of them was graduat ing. they ■anight have off for commencement. When I write about'the Holdings. I am on familiar ground. I attended W. W’s. school at Harrell’s store in lower Sampson. He was an A. M. grad uate. Big school there now, but I bet you there is no W. W. Holding. Solomon was a school mate there. I spent my first night at Wake Forest in the Holding home. The Holding association made me a Euzelian instead of a philotmathesian, epntrarv to the'Sampson county tradition. Mr. Holding was a widower. There were six of us lie-males In the home without a woman at all1—’the father and four - of the stalwart sons. Newton was already a promi nent Raleigh lawyer, practicing with his uncle, W. H. Pace, one of Hie big-uns. Henry was married and on a farm over on the Neuse. ah are aeaq now except Auditor Henry, and? Hr, Solomon, tile baby, who lives at Wake Forest. TosrfjS son, R. P, Holding, is the well known. Smith field banker. Henry’s son, Oleni R., is a promising Raleigh lawyer-in fact Clem seems to have, already arrived. He has the stalwart- form o£ his' gra^d-’ father and father. iGyahum, Cie^s, tyjroither—well, lie M an. insurance adjuster at Charlotte, Salisbury or some Other depot. Mr. Holding's daughter, Hr,?. MjcSwain. lives with him. and Mrs. Homing. While in the Auditor's office, Me. -Holding’s two, right-hand men—Messrs. T; B, Yancey, and Slone Ad&nu$Hboth with. hin^ foy. about twelve years. Treasurer J, Milton Mangum—Mr. Ma ngum is a na tive of Granville COunty, a son of 6, G. Mangum and kin to the upper Wake county Mangums, famous through Priestly for the invention of trio Mangum terrace. He Served thirteen years as a deputy In tihe treasurer’s office before becoming treasurer him ^ self. He is serving his fourth term and the fact tliat he heat three opponents in the last .primary i,y more than ®wo to one—t?1® whole bunch of thenj. : rathe? assures him a clear-'field the coming rampaig„ At least there ha s fceen n o .declared opposition.* ‘ Sheriff Numa F. Turner.—Eight years ago P Turner was a Panther Branch farmer in lower Wake Deciding that he would?'like to lie Sheriff Turner, ’ lie went out and corraled the number of votes net** gary to .giro him that title. A clever fellow and a fine officer Sheriff Turner is, as is imlioat^nTTtke fact that he? has woo his majority in four primaries. Another race looms and opposition is in the offing, bn* the fellow 'tyMfc <$$&&£**£ Turner win knoj that he has been in a race. - The sheriff’s right-han,] j man in the .office is Mr. C-. L. Haynes. lie has ton j feld deputies, and, all of thpm, I believe, have heen 1 with him since his occupation 6f the office mor,, than j seven years ago. f . B. Lloyd Ttlloy, Clerk of Two or three times .] mmy Tilley, rwfc^'«%«ty ;’*§»** the veteran J clerk, VitruvidsRoyeter, came over fto Pittsboro ] when Chatham juries were to be drawn for Wake 1 cases. I was not surprised on Mr. Royster’s death ; tba£ Mr*. Tilley was. Mr. Royster’s sue- j cessor. He had served as. deputy clerk for twelve ] ye^rs an^ was thus thoroughly 'prepared to fill the j responsible position of clerk of the Wake court!, ^hich is no mean task. He has not yet had to seek the votes of the people and it will not surprise me If he deesn’t have to. dp so this year. Who has the grit to rup againgt a man so thoroughly equipped for1 the job and as Xet *h%r:M served Only a portion Pl a term? If he is in Vtake, he hasn’t yet an- ' bounced his purpose, l^r. Tipey is a native of Dur ham county. ; Register Hunter Ellington.—Hunter Ellington, serv ing his second term ak" Register of deeds, was txh-n <j and reared right , there in Raleigh. He hart been a j clerk or deputy in the office before he was elected j register of deeds. He is facing his third test before j the people, (but what he did for twa opponents two j years ago will probably give paution, for he beat both of theta by more than two to one. Mr. Elling ton has in Mr. W. F. Booker and E. T. Beddingfield and a number of fine ladies5' most ca; ::Me assist ance. ' “ j Supfc. J. C. Lockhart.—Here is a gentle. m\ of long. -i and successful career, in the educational realm—long ;| for a man iof his middle-age.^’H© Is a native of i Orange county. He graduated; at tbe. University. ami j has since attended summer sessions, at Columbia University. After graduation, Lockhart launch ed straightway into, teaching, serving as principal at Apex, Punn, &nd TjVjabeloai. Fyom the latter position he came to the super intendency of the Wake cimnty schools in'1918, g,ud there seems likely ‘to remain. ' His administration covers all the schools of the county except those < of Raleigh, which operate under a special charter. wi,U be well known educa tor, ](r. Daniels, as superintendent. Qjdr. Lockhart has a particularly capable and ac J COXumodating trio Qf office, assistapts in Misses If<«- 1 belle Haynes and Jan|p Blue, and Mrs Mary Hold- -j ford Abbott- They- have grown up with Mr. .Lork hartinthe office and are,, it evident mightiy con venient persons to have. aro,nnd; where so. much work b to he (done. _ Mrs. Biekett—-But let’s run up to the -third story and kpeak tt> IVErs, Bicketlt,* coiinty .welfare officer. She needs no introdaietioh—Shfc Is simply Mrs. Bickett. Her ha!me is a household word -hot only in.lVake, hot largely’ throughout: the State/ ' ! Theodore K. Fomtew, lawyer;—T. K. Fountain was i ft toddler of-a- year down at Falkland, ritt county, when the new century was born. It was his fatin’1' \ ter whom ttye, townr of Fountamwas, named. linin' tended - State College one. year and Washington and Lee Unforersity three years, graduating in law at the latter institution, -to.1922. After. receiving his ,1‘ cense in 1922, he attended Harvard University the ^ session of 1922^23, where he took a special course in law. He opened his. law of£iee.-in Raleigh in ,,1C summer ot !923. •’ 1 - Mr. Fountain, in addition. to, feeing a lawyer. a big-tijne farmer, at least fey proxy. Be i* 1" ch11^1' of about 2,000 acres, 1,000 in cultivation, in th1' counties of Pitt, Edgecombe, Green. Gaftes, awl tVil ®>n. The largest of the tracts is the - “King farm between Fanmyiljle, and F0!m*tei«r~> -which contains about 70*) acres. Cotton, tplmxfto^yeanuts. and- «lP other, field crops are grown unde? Mr. Fountains Supervision. Accordingly, you, may not 1** sun*11^ if you occasionally find hiagji absent from 1 i> it 'il" office. But he Witt npt always -tfee at one of tho^ farms, for heg had * just return# the. other <luy wh**® I saw him, from New ‘Orleans, where he ■'i,,’ut at the Mardi Qrais; — Theodore Ettnfitaih isL a second - cousin of R T. He is a likable gentleman and a capable la".' cer.
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