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It's getting about the time of the year to start looking
at seed catalogs, but our experience in the past has taught us
that looking is about as far as we should go. For every time
our wife plants a seed it always comes up in somebody else's
yard.
With people dashing around here hunting for houses like
they are, why tempt fate by planting anything? Last sum-
mer we had our garden plowed,
harrowed and ready for planting.
The house was sold the same day.
We've often thought that al
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Elkiit, N. C.
though the Chatham Manufac
turing Company did a great thing
for Elkin by bringing their Win
ston plant here, they sure have
kept us on the move.
However, for your benefit, we
are still anchored at the present.
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Aunt Frousy said, the last time
we saw her, that Uncle Culpepper
was always one to move around a
lot. She said she guessed he got
it from his Uncle Algernon Fogg.
Uncle Algernon was always on
the move—with the sheriff only
a few steps behind.
Uncle Algernon was always
getting into trouble. Once his
pastor went to him and told him
that if he would listen to his
conscience,' all would be well. But
TEE ELKIN TRIFUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
he found out that Uncle Algernon
and his conscience weren't on
speaking terms. That was his
trouble.
uncle Culpepper, always foot
loose, nearly sailed on the Titanic,
and no doubt he would have gone
down with the ship when she
sank in the North Atlantic if
something hadn't occurred at the
last moment to prevent him from
sailing. Aunt Frousy said he was
one embarrassed man when they
found him stowed away in a life
boat just before sailing time.
For the benefit of you children,
the Titanic was equipped with
only 12 lifeboats because its
builders said it couldn't sink. It
sank on its first trip with the
loss of over a thousand lives.
Moral: don't ever say so.and so
can never happen,
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HOMETOWN BOY MAKES
GOOD
When, back many more years
than we like to think about, we
trudged off to school for the first
time (gather around Grandpa,
children, while he recalls the days
of his youth) one of our school
mates was a good looking, neat
appearing youth whose clothes
were always neat and clean and
who possessed ears that always
had the appearance of having
been freshly scrubbed.
1 As one who was always having
trouble with the "gee string" of
our blouse, and who never wash
ed our ears in a manner satisfac
tory to our mother, we looked
upon this schoolmate with quite
a bit of disapproval and figured
then and there that he would
never amount to much.
The years rolled slowly by.
Then came the age of fifteen.
Somehow or other someone got it
into their head that our home
town should organize a commun
ity chorus. Our father, who sings
a mean bass and who can get his
chin down out of sight in his col
lar when he turns his attention
to a real low note, was mixed up
in it. Several dozen other citi
zens also had the fever, and sev
eral times each week they met at
the school house to make the
night resound to a mixture of
voices—some good, some bad,
while a good lady who professed
to be the singing director made
wild motions with a baton (in
form of a yardstick).
This hadn't gone on long until
someone had an inspiration that
turned out to be a nightmare for
us; for the schoolmate whose ears
were always clean; and for a
couple of other boys who were
sons of the Methodist preacher.
They roped us into a boys' quar
tette!
A concert was in the offing.
The mother of the boy with the
clean ears was our pianist and in
structor. And we practiced long
and hard on a song, the first lines
of which went like this;
"I saw a ship a-sailing
A-sailing on the sea,
And oh! It was all laden
With pretty things for thee."
Can't you imagine the agony
that was for boys who were much
more interested in damming the
branch or digging a cave?
Well, to make a long story
short, the concert was given, it
went off okey, even our quartette
coming in for some applause.
But then, because the commun
ity singers had exhausted their
hometown audience of white peo
ple, they arranged to present it
in the local colored Methodist
church for the colored people!
Can you imagine anything
more cruel? Both to the colored
people and to us? Can't you just
see us and the boy with the clean
ears and the preacher's sons
standing up there before an aud
ience of natural born singers,
quavering about a "little ship
upon the sea?"
But what we remember best
was the way the boy with the
clean ears took it in stride. He
seemed to be a natural born
actor.
More years passed and we went
our different ways. We to news
paper work after a try at college;
the boy with the clean ears to the
University of North Carolina, and
the preacher's sons to California,
where one has since departed this
life.
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For a number of years we lost
sight of the boy with the clean
ears. Then, just Monday we were
down at the Lyric theatre getting
the Lyric advertisement which
appears in this issue. We were
looking at the press sheets on a
movie which will be at the Lyric
next Wednesday, "Congo Maisie,"
starring Ann Sothera. Then our
eyes fell on this line, "With Shep
pard Strudwick."
If you see this picture, watch
for Sheppard Strudwick, for a
number of years a leading man
on the Broadway stage, and con
sidered, although turned down,
tor the part of Ashley Wilkes in
"Gone With the Wind," and now
working in a new "Dr. Kildare"
picture. -
He is the boy with the clean
ears.
| MOUNTAIN PARK
Rev. E. O. Jordon filled his ap
pointment at the Baptist church
here Saturday evening and Sun
day morning.
Mr. A. M. Linville, who is em
ployed in Lexington, spent the
week-end with his family here.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Thompson
and son, Jerry Bill, of Boone,
were the Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Thompson.
Misses Vetra and Irene Hanes
spent Saturday in Winston-Sa
lem.
The members of the Mountain
Park band, with their leader, Mr.
R. A. Mills, and several members
of the Mountain Park school fac
ulty, motored to Greensboro Sun
day to attend a band program at
the National theatre. They re
ported a most enjoyable trip.
Mrs. Gertrude Simpson and
son, Joe, were visitors in BiHn
Saturday.
Mrs. Will Shores returned home
Thursday from Elkin where she
has been a patient for some time
in the Hugh Chatham Memorial
hospital.
We are sorry to note that Mrs.
P. C. Sprinkle is on the sick list.
Mrs. Huston Cockerham is quite
ill at this time.
I STATE ROAD
We are glad to welcome to our
community Mr. and Mrs. Thur
mond Eldridge and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Gentry and fam
ily and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Sprinkle, all of Winston-Salem,
employed by the Chatham Man
ufacturing company.
Mr. and Mrs. John Alfred
Hanes and daughter, Anne, of
Kings Mountain, spent the week
end with Mrs. Hanes' father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Dicker son.
Eugene Wilkerson of Kannapo
lis, visited relatives and friends
here Sunday.
Bobby Hamby of Salisbury,
visited his grandmother, Mrs.
Emma Walters, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Irvin and
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