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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, March 20, 1959
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Published Every Friday at 111 King Street,
New Bern, N. C., by the Sole Owner
j. GASKiLL McDaniel
-Editor and Publisher
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HERE AT LAST
Spring arrives officially tomorrow. That’s what the cal
endar says, but most New Bernians won’t be fully convinced
for several weeks.
Flowers blooming in New Bern gardens are less cynical
than humans, and so are birds—already twittering about
romance and nesting time. Here’s hoping their optimism isn’t
premature.
Nothing quite compares with the miracle of Spring, and
it is peculiarly appropriate that Nature’s new lease on life co
incides with the resurrection date that Christians observe.
Chrits, risen from the dead, isn’t hard to believe when
you can see all about you the tiny seeds emerge from their own
tombs as blossoms that look upward to God.
No gardener can fashion such a seed. Content we must
be to lend a helping hand to Creation, and watch with admira
tion the wondrous splendor of green-up time.
For the young, Spring brings the golden days. For those
oldsters who are still young at heart, it brings memories that
are no less lovely because they are tinged with wistfulness.
Advancing age has few compensations, but certainly our
memories grow sweeter with the years. Envious though we
might be of little girls playing hop-scotch, or little boys heading
for a vacant lot -with bat and ball, our running and skipping
exists now only in retrospect.
Far be it from us to deny that being young in Spring
is better than being old. In fact, being young anytime is better
than the dismal realization that Father Time is riding on your
back.
However, if you’ve got to be old and ancient—it’s nice to
know that Winter’s snow and sleet doesn't last forever. Like
the gnarled and twisted tree that manages to come up with a
new array of green leaves, we too can make the best of our
situation. \
If you don’t feel better in Spring, you aren’t just old.
You’re dead to all that’s marvelous and magic in Nature’s
great awakening.
TODAY IT'S NEWS
A couple of cows roaming New Bern streets would have
been a common-place occurrence 40 or .50 years ago. Last Fri
day, an incident of this sort caused high excitement and landed
in the State press.
Which just goes to show you that it isn’t the remarkable
achievement, but the unusual episode that is most likely to
attract the attention of mortals young and old.
For example, the same youngsters who ran as fast as theiir
legs would carry them to get a look at the aforementioned cows,
don’t notice a jet plane winging over, or a squadron of jet
planes.
By contrast, an airplane a generation or so ago was an
amazing thing to behold. Kids would yell with joy the mo
ment one of the slow-moving crates was spotted. Cows, or
even a run-away horse, couldn’t possibly compete with a fly
ing machine in the good old days.
Actually, the accepted wonders of modern civilization
don’t give a child, or a grown-up, much to get excited about
now. In the current era there’s no chance for a juvenile to
experience thrills comparable with the spine-tingling advent
of the first automobile, the first talking picture, the first radio,
and finally the first television.
Nowadays, a boy or girl can’t possibly imagine the thrill
of hearing your favorite movie stars speak and sing after
watching them perform silently for years. Many New Bernians
drove to Raleigh and Durham, just to get an advance sample
of A1 Jolson’s performance in one of the pioneer -talkies—
“The Jazz Singer.”
As for early radio, very few folks had a set in our town.
Those who did would call up friends on a good night, and
invite them to come on over. “We’re getting Pittsburgh so you
can understand a little of it,” the set owner would say.
Today a boy doesn’t even have the thrill of graduating
to his first pair of long pants. He starts out in long pants, after
diapers, which is a tragedy in itself.
Historical
Gleanings
—By—
FRANCES B. CLAYPOOLE
and
ELIZABETH MOORE
ABSTRACTS OF LAND TRANS
FER, BEAUFORT COUNTY, N. C.
1734, December 3, Daniel and
Thomas Simmons sell to John
Physioc a tract of land, 260 acres,
in upper fork of Bear River, patent
ed by Cornelius Bell, 6 December
1720. Francis Delamar and Benja
min Rice, witnesses. B2.
' 1736, December 17. Solomon
Witherington sells to John Martin
a tract of 150 acres on the South
side of Bay River, part of 1200
acres patented by Neal O’Neal.
Francis Delamar and Benjamin
Rice, witnesses. B2.
1738, March 20, William Carruth-
ers, gives to his sister, Rocksolana
Martin, late widow, tract of 200
acres on the North side of Lower
Broad Creek, near the mopth of
Neuse river, where she now lives,
near Green’s Creek, patented by
said William Carruthers, 30 June
1738. Sarah Martin and Jacob Hoov
er, witnesses. B2.
1739, October 15. This comes to
acquaint you with my misfortune
of losing my vessel and cargo, tak
en by the French. There are three
plantations I desire you will sell
if opportunity permits. Another in
Vandermores Creek on Bay River,
which my father was buried on. An
other I bought of Joseph Pledger
up at the head of Bay River, called
Poplar Neck. If you see Mr. Boyd
he can tell you about the last. Rob
ert Turner. P. Rr. B2.
1739, October 10, William Car
ruthers sells to William Phipps, a
tract of 50 acres on the head of
Pasteur Creek that is betwixt the
said Carruthers and John Martin.
James and Adam Mackelroy, Rob
ert Martip and Robert Spring, wit
nesses. B2.
1739, December 10. Francis Link-
field sells to James Perkins 180
acres on the North side of Bay Riv
er, beginning pine of head of Oys
ter Creek. Josias Jones, James
Jones and Thomas Abbott. B2.
1740, March 25. Nathaniel Draper
sells to Joseph Willis a tract of 100
acres on the South side of Bay Riv
er, west side of-Trent Creek. Ben
jamin Rice, James Willis and Josiah
Hart. B2.
1741, August 10. John Llnkfield
sells to William Daws, a tract of
160 acres on the South side of Bear
River. Nathaniel Draper and John
Furgeson, wit. B2.
1741, March 3, William Carruth
ers sells to John Physioc a tract of
100 acres on the South side of
Bear River. Robert Verham and
William Carruthers, Jr., witnesses.
B2.
1744, November 23. William Car-
Village Verses
BACHELORS BEWARE!
Spring is the time when a man get to wishing
For a nice shady nook that offers good fishing;
He’ll delve in the closet, and pull out his gear,
A pretty good sign that Spring’s really here.
With a line that’s been tested, and plenty of bait,
He’ll whistle a tune, as he walks out the gate;
And wise, very wise, is the bass or the trout
That’s wary enough to not be about.
Women go fishing, as well, in the Spring,
Hoping their line is quite the right thing;
They don’t cast for fish, to fry in a pan.
The bait that they fashion is meant for a man,
And some hapless male, a so-called deep thinker,
Will soon be their victim—hook, line and sinker.
—JGMcD.
THERE IS NO SECRET TO OUR
LONG YEARS OF SUCCESS.
WE PIONEERED, THEN KEPT PACE
WITH THE TIMES.
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ruthers sells to John Bryan a tract
of 96 acres on the North side of
Bear River. John Dove and William
Caton. B2.
1744, March 7, William Carruth
ers sells to John Dover a tract of
land 75 acres on the North side of
Bear River. John Bryan and Wil
liam Caton, witnesses. B2.
1744, March Term court. William
Carruthers sells to William Caton
a tract of 300 acres on North side
of Bear River. John Dove and John
Bryan, witnesses. B2.
1745, November 19, Samuel Stil-
well sells to William Carraway 640
acres on bay side next to Bear Riv
er called Gales Bay. Patented 1
May, 1714, Christopher Gale, Chief
Justice of the Colony, who gave
land to daughter Elizabeth Gale
Clayton, who gave it to her daugh
ter Sarah Clayton, who married the
said Samuel Stilwell, deed of Chris
topher Gale’s gift was 15 April
1720. Edward Howcott and James
Calef, witnesses. B2.
1745. Richard Bassett sells to
John Smith 150 acres on the South
side of Pamplico River on the head
of Mouse Harbor Bay. Henry Ever
ett and ’Thpjmas Campen, witnesses.
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1748, September IS, , Thomas
Campen sells to Thomas Capps 100
acres on South side of PampHco
River at Oyster Creek, commonly
called the Pine Hammock. Richard
Purser and Robert Purser, Henry
Everrit, witnesses. B2.
1748, April 11, Joseph Willis
sells to Thomas Willis, 100 acres on
the South side of Bay River on the
West side of Trent Creek, begin
ning on Deep Branch, patented 10
February 1739 by Nathaniel Drap
er. William Morris and Nathaniel
Draper, witnesses. B2.
1749, January 7, Charles Howard
sells to James Whitiny 120 acres
on the North side of Neuse River
and on the East side of Brown’s
Creek 29 June 1738. William Car
ruthers and William Gooding. B3.
1752, September 2. Robert Har-
foot sells to James Ellison 648 acres
on the North side of Bear River
at the mouth of a creek aboye King
Southal’s Cabin, at head of Vandi-
more Creek patented by Maurice
Moore. Whitsenson Baker, Joseph
Latchwell and William Price, wit
nesses. B3.
1756, March 9. Josiah Jones sells
to James Jones 300 acres on North
side of Bay River in fork of Bear
Creek, near Willima Carruthers’
corner. Thomas Campen, John
Mayo, Jr., and Joseph Campen, wit
nesses. B3.
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apt to follow your lead than the
way you point.
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