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THURS., AUG. 19,1982
BOILING SPRINGS, NC
Rolling Toward Fall
Honors For
Lemons Here
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Boiling Springs First
Baptist Church will honor
Billy Lemons, organist,
Sunday evening at 7:30
p.m. in the church sanc
tuary. Lemons will present
a concert of organ music
during the regular worship
service with a reception in
his honor, sponsored by the
Women’s Missionary
Union, following in the
church fellowship hall.
The public is invited to
both the concert and recep
tion.
Lemons served as in
terim organist from March
to April, 1965, at the
church, and in August of
this year became the chur
ch’s organist.
The son of Bemus T. and
the late Mozelle Wilson
Lemons, he is married to
Sarah Blanton Lemons.
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Cher^kef ® 5 is soon coming. Another sure
Misty mornings and lower sign of the season, the opening of public school i!
emperatures over Cleveland County this past week are scheduled to begin in Cleveland nmct week.
Funeral For
Davis Child
A Clannish Group: McBrayer
Gather For Reunion
It was a goodly place,
David McBrayer must
lave decided in 1805, to set-
le with his wife, Delila, in
the small valley of the San
dy Run Creek north of the
Cherokee Nation.
The couple built a log
cabin, raised 12 children,
and eventually were buried
facing east on a gentle hill
overlooking, a century
later, the present-day town
of Boiling Springs.
About 225 descendents of
David and Delila gathered
north of town last Sunday
week at a family reunion
held at the couple’s original
farmhouse. Descendents of
other McBrayer lines also
attended.
McBrayers from as far
away as Kansas,
Okalhoma, and Indiana
renewed acquaintances,
filled out lineage forms,
and poured overed tables of
family memorabilia..
Featured guest was Carl
McBrayer of Midwest City,
Okla., who played Scottish
tunes on the bagpipes and
dressed in a kilt outfit
made from the red, cream,
and green McBrayer fami
ly tartan.
McBrayer told of the
family’s heritage in
Scotland, particularly in
the area of Dumfries, a
border town where the
McBrayers were
heretitary provosts for cen
turies. He also told of the
McBrayer family im
migration to America and
the family movement
southward and westward.
David McBrayer, ac
cording to family tradition,
was born mid-Atlantic in
the boat sailing to
America.
“I reminded them that
God used the death of
David’s child in the Bible to
speak to us about heaven,”
said Dr. J. M. Ezell, pastor
of Bethel Baptist, after the
funeral Tuesday of Melea
Ann Davis, infant daughter
of Rickey and Beth Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. Garland
Davis of Boiling Springs
are the child’s grand
parents.
Melea died Saturday at
Cleveland Memorial
Hospital. Graveside ser
vices were conducted at
Cleveland Memorial Park
by Dr. Ezell and the Rev
Francis Dobbins.
In his services Dr. Ezell
recalled the Biblical verse
that “except you come as a
little child, you shall not
enter the Kingdom of
Heaven.”
Charges After
Car Crash
Wilt Reduces Numbers Here
Boiling Springs police
charged a 23-year- old man
with exceeding the posted
speed limit after his 1977
Trans-Am ran off
Homestead Road and over
turned early Sunday morn
ing.
No one was seriously
hurt in the single-vehicle
crash.
The driver, the sole occu
pant, suffered “a cracked
nose,” according to police,
who expressed surprise at
the light injury. The roof of
the car was crushed nearly
flat on the driver’s side.
According to police, the
car left the road on the
right-hand side, came back
across the pavement, and
overturned down a bank on
the left-hand side.
“Sweet as
memory, the
mimosas
steep the
bedroom. ”
— Rilke, a
German poet
The Mimosa Tree
trick of an adult’s aging
memory. There are in fact
fewer mimosas with their
summertime masses of
pink and white flowers —
their numbers have faded
due to a devastating
disease known as mimosa
wilt.
If you can remember a
tree from your childhood,
chances are it’s a mimosa.
The spread of low-hanging
branches, each small
enough in circumference
for a child’s hand to grasp,
make this flowering native
of the pea family the first
tree many of us climbed.
But if there seem fewer
of the trees now, it’s no
“It (the wilt) was here in
the ’50s, because I can
remember trees that died
of it,” recalls Mike Har-
relson, a biology professor
at Gardner-Webb College.
The soil-borne disease
causes a sudden wilting of
the mimosa’s foliage. The
leaves turn yellow and drop
from the branches; a cut
branch will show a brown
discoloration in the first
quarter-inch of the wood.
Although there is no
prevention of mimosa wilt,
some areas of Boiling Spr
ings apparently are not yet
affected. Particularly fine
specimens of mimosas
bloomed this summer
along Flint Hills Road.
“It’s very interesting
that even with the wilt,
there are wild mimosas in
the Boiling Springs area,”
Harrelson says. I’ve seen
miniosas off College Farm
RoaS where I know no one
planted them. Of course the
seeds were dropped by
birds.”
A wilt-resistent variety
named the Union mimosa
has been developed by the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture station at Tif-
ton, Ga. Two earlier
varieties named Charlotte
and Tifton were thought to
resistent but were not.
There are varieties only
wilt-resistent, Harrelson
cautions; there are no wilt-
proof hybrids.
The mimosa, also known
as the silk tree, gains its se
cond name because of its
delicate, silky flowers. The
showey masses of pink and
white flowers are now turn
ing to seed in the Piedmont
area, producing long, curv
ed pods.
The mimosa is a very
rapid grower, and can
lengthen six to eight feet in
one year. Its foliage is suf
ficiently delicate to allow
sunlight to pass so grass
can grow underneath it.
The mimosa
known as the