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OLD DAYS WERE
NONE TOO GOOD
Writer Recalls Incidents Of
Country Life In Warren
Quarter Century Ago
CALLED GOOD OLD DAYS
By BIGNALL JONES
Our experiences nearly a quarter
of a century ago at Heck's Hill in j
Sandy Creek Township, Warren
county, were typical of that period, j
I suppose, but fcr some reason or j
another I have been thinking of
r>fton rtiirinp the past
U1CJI4 ^ UitV/ V4VV*? v? w- ?g ,
few months.
A natural tendency is to lose!
sight of proportions and in think-f
ing about the evils of the day tol
forget the progress that has bean
made. But when I think of things!
as they then existed in a good sec-l
tion of the State, I can not helpl
but feel that our condition is bet-1
ter, financially, morally and physi-l
cally. We have had problems beforel
and managed to handle them. To- j
day we are much better equipped j
to handle those that arise and nol
doubt with the end of the present!
depression we shall enter an area!
brighter than we have before en-1
jcyed. I
My father had managed to make!;
a comfortable sum of money for J]
those days while he was in the I
telephone business in Wilson, but J j
succeeded in losing all he had injj
truck farming in Whitakers and [,
went back to live in the country r
where he tried sawmilling and j (
farmine. We had no money, but | j
were like our neighbors in that re- j
spect. y
I have never in my life seen a (
person with more energy than my f
mother. I was born when she was ;
quite young and at that time she
was in her early thirties. I can hear ,
her now, "Brodie, Bignall, get hold j
of that bed," and as we little fel- <
lows tugged at one end she would j
grab the other and swing it around. |
Lots of times we would have had <
breakfast and mother would have ]
the house cleaned up long summer |
morning when the 6 o'clock whistle j
would blow at Henderson. She (
would work hard all day and then j
often go to a neighborhood party
or dance in the evening. j
Our school was located about a ;
mile and one-half frcm our home. ]
It ran for four months in the year j
and was presided over by one teach_
er who taught from the first
through the seventh grade. Our
teacher was Miss Bessie Blacknall,
who is now an Episcopal Missionary
from this parish to Alaska. I
don't know whether or not teaching
us little heathens had anything
to do with her deciding to become
a missionary.
We walked to school. Duke was
six, delicate and spoiled on that
account. The weather was cold quite
often. When Duke's feet got cold
he would cry and sit down in the
path. This usually occurred about
one-half mile from home. The re
maining mile Brodie and George
Pritchard, a neighborhood boy,
would carry him on their backs.
It was almost a daily schedule.
It was generally quite late in the
fall before father would buy us any
shoes. I expect he had to sell his
cotton. He would buy each of us
one pair. When they were worn out,
we went barefooted. Our trousers
were straight in the prevailing style
of the day with two cr three buttons
down the side. They were made
from some of my father's old suits.
Charlie Rowland was our hero.
He was quite an athlete. We knew
he was good because he was even
stronger than Brodie who was our
youthful standard of measurement.
He was at that time about seven
or eight years of age. I remember
one recess as we were playing
"Double Cat" with a string ball,
that the ball was knocked over his
head. He turned, ran back, jumped
into the air and grabbed the ball
for a put-out. That made quite an
impression on me. I have seen professionals
do it several times since.
The last time I heard anything
about Charlie, a few years ago, he
was catching for Rocky Mount club
and had been recently sold to
Philadelphia. There must have been
Vietfor ho 11 nlavprc than Charlie for
I have not seen his name in any
big game line-ups.
Charles Blacknali was ingenius.
One day he came to school with a
mitt that he had made from some
old cloth and some cotton. That
was the only mitt or glove in school
at that time, but later somebody
got a 25_cent mitt from town that
was the envy of the entire school.
Many of the girls wore poke-bonnets.
We put a wasp nest in one.
I have forgotten the consequences.
Dave Eva?iS had a fice dog that
would track you. We thought that
was fine. Somebody would hold the
dcg and Dave would walk through
the woods about quaiter of mile.
In a few minutes the dog would
come racing up on his trail.
We had hardly any books. One of
the most pleasant recollections of
that period was when father would
get down his Bible and read us
about David and Goliath. We came
Into possession of an Alger book and
laxner reaa xnax xo us. wiy iitsxi
book, that I can remember, was
"Frank in the Wcods:" by Castle- J
Warrenton, N. C.
man, I think. I remember that book
quite well to this day.
We had no well but used water
from a spring about quarter of a
mile from the house, one of the
finest that I have ever seen. One
day, I can remember for sufficient
icasons, I was sent to the spring
for water. I liked to bring water up
with a gallon lard bucket in each
hand. Fcr some reason one was not
available and father told me to take
a water bucket. It was too heavy
I said. Hi; suggestion that I only
fill it half-full failed to meet with
my approval and I went down the
path feeling that I was being greatly
imposed upon. After pitying mj-n
4-v.? ?r?Tr f/-v tho crvrinp\ I
S61I ail Hie w <xj ii\j w*v -?OJ ?
was mad as a hornet. I would fill
the bucke: to the top and start
home. It would be heavy before I
could reach the top of a little hill
nearby and I would get mad and
decide that I just would not carry
it any more, so would pour it out.
I was afraid to disobey my father,
so in a few minutes I would go
back to the spring and fill the
bucket again. This procedure was
gone through several times. The last
time I filled the bucket I looked up
and saw my father stand by me
with a switch in his hand. He didn't
lecture me, but with one cut of that
switch told me to take that water
home. He whipped me from there
every step of the way home. When
[ got there the bucket was half-full
as he at first suggested, the rest
[ had spilled in my hurry.
I am glad that he whipped me.
[ feel tha; it was what he should
aave done Maybe that is the reason
that it makes me sick to this
Say to heaj- a parent tell a child
;o do some thing and have absolutey
no attention paid until about
lalf dozer, threats of a whipping
vhich are often then not carried
>ut. No wonder when they are
jrown they have no respect for constituted
authority.
Some days mother and father
ivould hitch Jim to the buggy arid
ide eight miles to Henderson where
some times father would sell eggs
ind attend to other business. Sometimes
they would return with five:ents
worth of hoar-hcund candy
for the children. One day he came
back from Warrenton with a graphaphone,
one of the first in the
icunty. We were pretty big in oiufeelings
then.
One day mother came back from
Henderson highly incensed because
is they drove into town some little
ocys yelled, "High there, country
tacks."
Mrs. Plummer Jones lived about
three miles from us. We called her
"Cousin Mattie." One summer day
we heard a Hallo in the yard and
rushed out to see her sitting in a
buggy to which was hitched a huge
ox. That's the way she came calling.
A few years later she inherited
quite a bit of property and moved
to Wake Forest where she now
lives. Thus summer I told her about
the ox episode. She said she remembered
it perfectly; that the
horses were in the field working
and that she had no idea of tak
mg one ot them out. I believe that
she woulc. do it to this day. That's
Cousin Mattie's spirit.
That was not so long ago. We
had a good time. But?
The rea ds were then almost impassible.
The schools were pitiful.
The houses were unpainted.
No attention was paid to lawns.
There were few good books to be
obtained.
The mere pretentious form of interior
decorations consisted of a few
cheap paintings and a prominently
displayed, "God Bless Our Home."
No steam heat. No running water.
No radio. No hardwood floors. No
automobiles. No telephones. No
bathtubs.
They were the "good old days"
during which the young folks listened
to the older people tell about
"the gooc: old days" of their own
childhood
But I will take mine now, thank
you!
JUST A FEW WORDS
Good bye 1931, we bid you
A fond adieu,
And can truthfully say
That only a few
Have profited by you.
We welcome 1932
And hope that more than
a few
Will profit by you.
?M. M. Drake.
Recent purchases of pure bred
Jersey bulls by Wayne County farmers
brings the total in the county to
18 registered breeding animals.
Robeson County farmers are beginning
to reclean and treat tobacco
seed for planting next season.
The farm agent has already cleaned
195 pounds of seed.
CARD OF THANKS
We use this method to thank our
friends and neighbors for their
many deeds of kindness and sym.
pathy they rendered during the illness
and death of our loved. May
God richly bless each and every
cne.
W. A. HILLIARD
and Family.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends
for the many kindnesses shown us
in connection with the sudden death
of our little boy.
MR. AND MRS. H. G. MOSELEY.
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If any man shall add unto
thesei things, God shall add unto
I him the plagues that are writx
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man shall take away from the
words of the book cf this prophecy.
God shall take away his
part out of the book of life
?Revelation 22:18 19.
Religion is essentially a matter
of individual conscience. What a
man believes is to him eternal
truth He may not take in all truth
but so much as is essential to his
need: The little shepherd lad of
Bethlehem playing upon his harp
in the solitude felt the divine presence,
and when the bear came out
of the wilderness his heart did net
fail and when Goliath dared Israel
he was not afraid. The measure of
truth needed to meet these emergencies
had come into David in his
communing with God.
In a world of doubt and indifference
Elijah singled-handed withstood
all the priests of Baal, for his
God was stronger than all the royal
power of Ahab and Gezebel. The
Athenians with their well trained
minds unlocked the sacred places
of beauty and eloquences> but Paul
had taken in enough truth to tell
them that they knew not God. The
birds that sing and the flowers
n-iot hinnm have that measure of
i'ilu v m*vvu<k mm i w ?--? ??v
truth that make them cheerful.
The Bible has nothing in common
with the learning to which men
apply themselves or with the authqrity
to which they bow. Organized
society rejected its central
figure as it rejected the prophets
before Him. As it had no part in
the making It can have no right to
amend. What is written in the
Bible was written despite the most
earnest opposition of those who
hacl assumed the wisdom to guide
ancl the authority to govern. Much
of the Book is hard to understand.
The infidel and the skeptic have
; often expended upon it the most
ardous labor of trained scholarship
without benefit to themselves and'
without shaking the faith of them
that believe.
The inspired word brushes away,
all distinction of knowledge and
wisdom and must be spiritually
discerned. The great Teacher said,
that to receive the kingdom one
must become as a little child. The
wisdom of the world must give'
place to implicit faith in Him who
male the earth and the sea and all
that in them is. We ought to obey
God rather than men.
The Pharisees added to the law
of Moses the counsel of their own'
teachers. They built up a great body
of doctrine more moral than spirit-1
ual. Tithing mint and cummin'
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Vol. IV. Januar
A. Jones, Editor
Pa, said little Peter,
what becomes of a
football player when Mpr
!iis eyesight begins
to fall?
They make a referee O
out of him! growled L* Wj
his dad.
, Now \
.Jolly Tom says that
love first starts when chance to
you'd rather waltz
I with a girl than fox these WIT
j trot with her. ^ a ^
I Kiit: Gee, but that Business
j date last night was
fresh. them ess*
wny aiant you
slap his face9 we mak
Kit: I did. and take avai]ahlp
my advice, never avai,aD1e.
' slap a guy when he's
i chewing tobacco, _ _
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knocks once and f OT 1 ll
then the instalment
collectori does the 19
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they neglected the weighter mat. ,
ters of the law. There Is still dan
ger that men add thus to the
Book. The churches are concerned '
with present day problems. The (
greatest care should be exercised (
that nothing be required that is
not clearly taught in the Bible as
essential to salvation. ,
And we should be equally careful J
not to take away from what is
written in the Bible. A generation '
otr two ago there was more preach- j
ing than now on heaven and hill. ,
This may be due to a better present
interpretation of the Bible, or may
be adding to the Bible mere human
opinion that no man -is good
enough for such a heaven as has 1
been preached and that no man has
done evil enough to deserve eternal
punishment.
We don't know yery much in detail
about the world to come but '
any man can see that the Bible
teaches that life and death are
stern realities. We may not see the
difference between the good and
the bad as God sees it and as God
emphasized it in the gut 01 nis
Son. Not believing what is written
in the Bible of future rewards and
punishments look dangerously like
taking away from the words of the
book of this prophecy.
Our modern life is very wilful
and very self-sufficient. We are not
accustomed to look to the past for
guidance nor to depend on a power
outside ourselves. Nor do we have
our father's view ctf the realities of
life. They subdued the wilderness
and did away with its perils. They
harnessed the powers of nature so
that we know little of real hard,
ship. It is harder for us to feel the
threat of impending doom. It may
be that our moral fibre is softening.
The old Saints were thoroughly
in earnest. They remembered Lot's
wife and lost no time in looking
back or speculating on the reasonableness
of their fear. They were
fleeing for their lives and they kept
running. This intense earnestness
often developed noble Christian
character.
If scientists object to the Bible
as a few of them do. I reply that
it is not a matter to be determined
in the sphere of scientific demon,
stration. In all (reason, is it not supposable
that our Maker would give
us a rule of conduct and law by
which we are judged. Our common
sense and our God given consciousness
of the eternities tell us
He would do this. We dare not add
t.n rvr take from the Book He has I
given.
Renew Your Subscription.
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Areola Items
Christmas passed quietly but
leasantly. The weather has been
leal and the health ci our people
plendid. Quite a number of visits
have been in our town, among
lem are Mr. and Mrs. Nat Brumlitt
and children of Oxford; Mrs
.'erbeirt Tharrington and daughter
f Chester, S. C.; Mr. and Mrs.
. H. Veagey and son of Greens,
arc, Mr. Benj. H. Johnson of Balmore;
Mr. and Mrs. D. I. Capps,
Ir. and Mrs. T. A. Cooper, Mrs.
r. .D. Modlin, Mr. Geo. Capps and
liss Geneva Hairper of Rocky
[ount; Dr. and Mrs. S. P. Burt
nd Miss Lucy Burt of Louisburg;
dr. and Mrs. J. T. Coley of Brinkeyville,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarenct
Bkillman and sons of Raleigh. Mrs
Leyta King Miss Sadie King
Messrs. Harvey, William and Pal
ner King of Liberia Miss Irem
Davis of Grove Hill, Mr. and Mrs
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naroia oKiumau auu uaugum-i
Miss Annie Sue Howell, Mr. an<
Mrs. Raymond Harris of Warren
ton; Mr. W. M. Duke of Heaths
/ille, Mrs. Lee Grissom of ."Epsom
Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Capps o
Reeky Mount; Mr. and Mrs. J. C
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. bavi
:f Creek and Mr. and Mrs. Fred
erick Williams and children of Ine
and Miss Emma Duke of Raleigh.
Rev. N. G. Harrison filled his ap
poinfcment here Sunday evenini
and preached an able sermon. Mi
and Mrs. Matthey Person, Mrs
Mollie Leonard and Mr. ar.d Mrs
Cooper of Serepta church, Center
ville, were visiters to hear him.
Miss Lottie Neal returned horn
horn Park View hospital Saturda;
where she has recently undergom
an operation for appendicitis.
Miss Louise Price leaves nex
week to enter Rex hospital Raleigl
for training.
Miss Rebecca Davis of Louisburi
College and Miss Lucille Davis o
Louisburg graded school are spend
ing the holidays at their home heri
Mir. and Mrs. J. D. Odom wer.
run into Saturday night on thei
wav hnmp from Rnckv Mount am
forced into a ditch. The other ca
was driven by negroes from Vir
ginia. Not much damage was don
and no one was hurt.
Miss Lucille Davis entertained i
number of her little friends witl
a candy stew Monday. Gamei
were played and all had a merr
frme.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Willians ^
spent; Christmas in Richmond with
Mrs. Kennedy.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Byerley aid j
son of Raleigh are visiting Mr. E. ,
P. Bobbitt.
I Mrs. C. B. Hendrick and E. W. i
i Hayes Jr. went to Farmville Tues- ]
{day. They were accompanied ba;k |
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Lucy Read, who are spending tie <
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Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Newell and
i children spent Saturday in toe <
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of Warrenton.
Mr. Hendrick Gilmore of U. M. (
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Mr cinri Mrs. Charlie Alford of
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Mr. Jack Coleman of U. S. Navy
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Mr. and Mrs. Arrington Davis
z and baby of Henderson are guests
of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Read this
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7 Mrs. Claiborne and children cf
?' South Hill are spending the Christmas
holidays at the home of her
(< parents, Mr. and Mrs. ?T. H. Jeff::ess.
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Mr. Chas. L. Read oi Richmond
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Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Read. '
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the children a Christmas tree with ^B
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