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Fantastical Order Was Source Of Fun Back In 'Old Days' D.Q.I.'s" Used Drug Store As A call had fire" Q. r was den Som lean! Sain He I do and port: wou flooi kets, roan towr and ous, was it up dress Headquarters to Don Gala Costumes ? tew of the older residents re .he order, but the "D. Q. Ts" just about been lost to pos terit r when Mr. Chas. Smallwood reco: ded the antics of the young of Williamston nearly sixty yeari ago in the following story: Dt ring the days after the "big on December 8, 1883, in Wil liamiton, and before Mr. S. R. Bigg: lost his new "two-story by a later blaze, there spreid through the country a fan tastical order known as the "D. the chief object *of which hilarity under cover of hid identity on Christmas day. thing similar to the New Or Mardi Gras preceeding All s day. w widespread was the order not know, but Williamston's yourg men took to it with a vim, many were the Ingenuous ayals of animals, birds, fowls. mytls, and even ghosts. They d use the drug store second midst the coffins and cas ta don their garbs, then the streets of the whole creating what fear or fun enjoymentj they could. The custom was quite ingenu and really edifying, and worthy of continuance, but the toys finally grew out of the habitj. and the colored folks took for a time, but they did not mongst the coffins and the caskets: po sir, on suggestion of permanent transformation for them BIG PUZZLE The 1942 tobacco marketing season is offering a big puzzle for fanners to solve. In past years there were automobiles to be bought. Gasoline took more dollars than many real ized, and then there were re frigerators and any number of other articles needed for the home and farm. Most of those items have been removed from the shopping list. So now far mers are puzzled as to what to do with their money. But the puzzle can be solved. There are bonds to be bought for helping win the sear and padding the little nest for the post-war shock. Then there are debts. Most everyone has some of them on his shoulders, and now is an opportune time to wipe 'em out And, too, there are many thousands of articles, use ful articles, still on the local merchants' shelves that can be bought and at prices little or no higher than they were last year. Peace Disturbers Forty Years Ago Forty years ago they carried a man to court for disturbing the peace with his singing. The ac tion prompts the question, "What would the old-timers do in this day and age to combat unneces sary horn tooting?" The case referred to was men tioned in an old issue of The En prise in September, 1902, as fol lows: One of the most unique cases in court teas that of L. C. Robert son for violation of town ordi nance against singing on streets. In the formulation of ordinances Smallwood Recalls Old Friendships of Remembering the characters long years ago in Williams! on, Mr. Chas. Smallwood was Im pressed by two especially, the fate Captain W. R. Fowden and the late Captain Tom Thompson. *fr. ol Smallwood writes now, as lows: There was no dearer a resident of Williamston than was Capfain W. R. Fowden, an importatior the time "the railroad came town." A good-natured, wi happy Englishman. The "bit never landed on his head nor heels, nor lingered at trying light. His were the ways we all sho court. An Irishman could h. ive learned humor from him. He 1 void of wealth, but happy in norance of it He numbered friends by the bounds of his quaintanceship. He kept busy making both ends meet, and meeting Od-out all troubles. Twould be a funny world, \ we all alike; but to be all alike, Captain Fowden was the fellow to follow. Cursed be the gold that damn at to ty, his to uld as ig his sc at the re the commissioners failed to mi ke proper distinction between m -re whistling and humming and b< is terous singing. The ordinance should have been directed agai ist the latter. Robertson had appe ti ed from Mayor's court and Juc ge Winston ruled "ordinance void " There should always be an or dinance against boisterous sir g mg as our town has been affli rt ed very much along that line, t ut I the Commissioners would do w >11 ! to employ a lawyer to put ill laws in a legal form. The pea :e j and quietness of the town should be maintained at any cost. I et' there be no loophole for distur j crs of the peace to escape. SMOKER In addition to shouldering burdensome responsibilities oc casioned by war and turmoil on a world-wide front, Prime Minister Winston Churchill finds time to smoke many de ars. It is estimated that the man has smoked ISO,MO clears, bat he has not been lackine for smokes. A close friend of the international fienre says pos sibly a million of all kinds of clears have been presented or offered to him by admirers all over the world. To smoke 154,MM clears say in a period of forty years, Mr. Churchill would have had to fire up ten of them every day, includine Sunday. my soul, And makes me hunger the more: Blessed is he who lives "up a tree" But can whistle the birds from the moor. Another Englishman was Wil liamston's Captain Tom Thomp son, who lived in constant expect ation of receiving a legacy from his "home country." How, when, or why, I never learned; nor did I ever learn that the rainbow's end had been reach ed. But so long as hopes remain, despair cannot enter. So here's hoping he hoped so long as he lived ;and dying, knew not his hopes were nil. It was he who was ever our gra cious host, when Dr. Hassell and I would stop by the County Home for a meal, when caught in that vicinity at noon-hour on long bug gy-drives, visiting the sick. In a filing catilnet at Marine Corps Headquarters rests an un claimed medal of honor awarded to Pvt. Michael Owens. It was awarded for heroism at Korea in 1871. Few Crazy People In County In 1840 ? A century ago there were only three crazy persons in all of Mar tin County. Today, the asylums for the insane are bulging and there are long waiting lists. Cer tainly, this county has not over run the asylums, but it is an ac cepted fact that far more people are crowding the "bug" houses now than was the case years ago, population figures considered People back in 1840 according to the United States census for that year had something else to do besides go crazy. They had work to do, while today so many of us are so busy doing nothing that there is little else left to do but go crazy. Thrown into hustle and bustle of today, no doubt the old-timers would weaken under the strain and go mad. It is a fairly well es tablished belief that thrown back into the days and times of a cen tury ago, many of us would go batty. Those forbears of a century ago had their troubles, to be sure, but the old census figures simply fail to reveal the trials and tribula tions plaguing us moderns. There were five deaf white and one deaf colored persons in the county in 1840, but as far as the records of that period show there were few maimed or crippled. There were about half a dozen white victims of blindness, the others knowing little or nothing about eyeglasses. Count the pairs of eyeglasses you meet going down the street to day. Quite a comparison, isn't it? Time marches on, leaving the peo ple behind, apparently. ?' The job of the Navy PT boats is defense of convoys and of the sea coast. PHONES Fountain 25 Dru^s 26 ?? HOME FRONT NEEDS Our Stock DRUGS ALWAYS COMPLETE Try Us! Sodas ? Toilet Articles SOUTHERN DAIRIES ICE CREAM ? 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