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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, March 15, 1963
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Published Every Fridey at 510 Pollock Street
New Bern, N. C., by the Sole Owner
J. GASKiLL McDaniel
Editor and Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $2.50. Six Months $1.25
Entered as second-class mail at New Bern April 4, 1958,
under the aci ot March 3, 1879.
PRESERVING THE PAST
Those who complain that New Bern can’t go for
ward while looking backward aren’t completely cor
rect in their contention. Admittedly, it is wise to look
to the future, but a city that fails to capitalire on its
heritage isn’t necessarily progressive.
“History can be sold at a fair profit,’’ says Henry
Belk, the distinguished and widely read editor of the
Goldsboro News-Argus, “and after you have sold it
you can sell it over and over again. More remains after
it is sold than was there before it was sold. What
other salable item can this be truthfully said about?
“Sunk in its “value of humility,’’ North Carolina
has been idle in this field while in neighboring Vir
ginia, history for sale has been one of the main in
dustries for the past 50 years.
“Absorbed in the struggle for progress. North
Carolina paid too little attention to its past, made too
little effort to preserve tangible evidence of days gone
by.
“Now gradually the State, is coming to realize
the past’s value, culturally and financially. Gradually
comes the realization that every dollar invested in
Virginia’s Colonial Williamsburg has been returned
threefold to merchants and motel keepers.’’
Henry Belks’ observation, mind you, comes from
a veteran newspaperman who lives in a town that
lacks historic landmarks as we have in New Bern.
Knowing his community accomplishments through the
years, we can visualize what he would be doing to
glorify Goldsboro’s past if the Wayne city could point
to a heritage comparable to New Bern’s.
The National Association of Travel Organizations,
as far back as 1958, said the American traveler spends
over $25 billions a year. Any community which can
attract a few dozen tourists a day throughout the year
can generate the same financim benefit that would
come if it obtained a small factory.
Knoxville, near the Great Smokies National Park,
calls tourism “the biggest and most profitable busi
ness in town.’’ The Knoxville Tourist Bureau convinc
ed nearby farmers that the tourist business benefitted
them too by showing that Knoxville tourists in a year
eat 521,000 dozen eggs, 2,523,000 quarts of milk and
ice cream, 2,909,000 pounds of meat, and 1,557,000
pounds of potatoes.
Remember these figures when you are offered
an opportunity to attend the dinner meeting of the
New Bern Historical Society and its friends at the
Hotel Governor Tryon on the evening of March 20.
If all goes well, contributions from public spirited
citizens will within the next few days make it possible
to burn the mortgage on the Attmore-Oliver Home.
As John R. Taylor, president of the Society says,
it will be “one of the nicest fires’’ the organization has
ever had. Main speaker at the dinner meeting is to be
one of the outstanding archaeologists in the country,
Stanley South of the North Carolina Department of
Archives and History.
Preservation of the Attmore-Oliver House as a
valuable tourist attraction has been accomplished with
out the expenditure of so much as a dime from the
pockets of tax payers. Liquidation of the $15,000
mortgage on the property will bring to $60,000 or
more the amount invested, and this sum has come sole
ly in contributions from individuals and business firms.
Don Diechman, Harrj' Vatz and Donald Paul com
prised the committee that formulated the plan to
eliminate the Attmore-Oliver debt, back in 1959. They
did their job well, but others too numerous to mention
have worked tirelessly in achieving this purpose.
As the New Bern Historical Society says, there
still remain several significant projects to be done
before members and friends can feel satisfied with
the task. These include restoration of the kitchen and
the carriage shed, and completion of the already ex
cellent Confederate Museum.
Defeatists who whine that everything New Bern
tries to promote is a failure can’t say that any longer.
Verily, the Wstorv lovers have made history them
selves.
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ELIZABETH MOORE
SALES OF THE ESTATE
OF MESSRS. BYRNE AND
CAMBRELING, DEC’D,
RETURNED DECEMBER,
1799
SOLD ON 16 day of July,
1798, the following Items:
Auger and Chizel, all spice,
Baze, Bandanas, Book Muslin,
Bible, Black Ware, Brass
Buckels, Bridle, Buttons,
Buckram, Bunch Twine, Bread
Tray, Bateman’s drops. Bar
Iron, British Oil, Butt Hinges,
Candlesticks, Chocalate,
Camphlre, Canvas, Crockery,
Camblet, Cloth In black, lig^t
blue, drab; Coating, Calimanco,
Cambrlck, Calico, Cups and
Glasses; Cubboard Locks;
Curry Combs; Green Durant,
Mulberry Durant; Ermine,
Flax, Fish Hooks, Flannel;
Feathers, Feathers Gloves,
Glmblets, Glass decanters,
Humhums, Hinges, Hymn
Books, Hats; Ink Stand; Jack
knives. Keyhole Laws, Knee
Buckels; Knives and Forks,
Lace, Lawn; Linen; Muslin
Handkerchiefs; Nails, Nutmeg;
Plated tips and Buckels; Paper,
Vest Pattern; Pewter Plates;
Pack Pine, Powder; Steelyards,
Shoes; Shot, Satin, Spoons,
Spades, Shambuck, Stockings,
Shaving Boxes; Scarlet Cloak,
Shovel Salt, Shawl; Silk Hand
kerchiefs, Saddle Buckels, Sad
dle Bag Locks; Spelling Books,
Sifters; Ribbon, Trilled Ribbon,
Toothbrushes; Tea Kettles;
Thumb Latches, Testaments;
Thread, Twist; Worsted Gloves;
One old Watch, WhipSaw, Watch
Chains, Watch keys. Worsted
ferreting; Watts' Books; and
Watch Chains; House to Francis
Nelson.
PURCHASERS AT THE
SALE: Joseph Arthur, John
Ackls, John Blanks, Reuben
Bell, Solomon Bowers, Samuel
G. Barron, Henry Butler, Henry
Bettner, Mrs. Bartlett, John
C. Bryan; Abner Gamble;
Abraham Comron; Nathaniel
Cowdery, John Clark, James
Carney, John Dewey, Frederick
Clements, James Cutting, Mrs.
Delastatia, William Dudley,
Joslah Davis, Walter Dunn,
John Daves, John Devereaux,
John Dawson; Jonathan Fellows;
Rodney Fulford, Joseph Fisher,
Mrs. Frehue, Richard Forbes,
David Forlaw, William Gatlin,
James Gatlin, Joel Henry, Wil
liam Hewitt, Robert Hunt;
Marten Holton, William Harris,
Peter Henryon, John Howard,
Elias Hawes, James Hays, Har
man King, Joseph King, James
Little, Isaac Llpsey, Francis
Lowthrop, William Lockhart,
James McMaIn, Archibald Mc-
Calop; John Morgan, P. Man
ning, Levi Moore, John Morgan,
Jeremiah Mastln, Francis
Nelson, Thomas Oliver; Wil
liam Parks, David Pierce, John
Rice, Benjamin Price, William
Smith, John Smallwood, John
Stanly, Benfamln Sparrow,
Thomas Steel, James Stewart,
John Sears, Wm. Truitt; Joseph
Shute, James Slover; Isaac
Taylor, Jrtm S. West, William
Wane, William Tlgnor; James
Wilson, Daniel West, David
Whorton, Joseph Wiggins.
********
The following typographical
errors should be corrected In
our item: NEW BERN WOMEN
MADE GIFT TO THE UN
IVERSITY:
1. February 15, Issue:
Change: "tlon of the Presby
terian Minister to New Bern
in 1812, and taught in the New
Bern Ac-;” TO “James Carney
died C. 1808, prior to the
erection of the Presbyterian
Church”.
2. February 22 Issue:
In second Paragraph Mary
i^avia sad,, a be Mary leaves.
Date of birth of C^taln John
Village Verses
AWAKENING
No poet ever fashioned a smartly worded rhyme
That had the glowing beauty of a field in green-up time;
Tiny shoots go reaching for the sun and air and rain.
They brighten up the furrows, and you know it’s Spring
again.
Seeds, touched by the hand of God, sprouting everywhere,
And covering up the bleakness of a land that once was bare;
A million, trillion miracles — arousing from their sleep.
And promising a harvest for those who sow and reap.
There’s never been a Winter yet that robbed us of our Spring,
Nature’s resurrection is a definite, certain thing;
No wonder folks who till the soil feel mighty close to God,
Whbn there’s so much creation that’s nestling in the sod.
Even when occasional snow checks every acre white
We never have to ponder, as your eyes survey the sight;
We know that in due season the snow and icO and sleet
Will vanish, and that green-up time is coming doubly sweet.
Poets only fashion words, in verse the best they can,
While marveling at the glory of God’s eternal plan;
And though they try it’s hopeless, endeavoring to explain
The splendor all around us, when Spring arrives again.
—JGMcD.
Daves should be 1743, not 1731.
Their son: was John Pugh
Daves.
Paragraph about Elizabeth
Bachelor: Chancellor Edward
E, Graham died 1835, not 1883.
Same paragraph beginning “On
June 30, 1830” should be
amended to read: “On June
30, 1830, the Edward Grahams’
daughter Elizabeth Bachelor
married John Pugh Daves, men
tioned In preceding paragraph,
3. Maiden name of John Jones’
wife was Susanna Saunders, not
Squanders.
4. Hannah Taylor’s maiden
name was Justice.
5. March 1 Issue:
Line left out near the
beginning of the paragraph about
Julia Stephens. Following the
words “Julia married Francis
(Frank) Hawks’ after this
should be inserted the words,
“The son of John Hawks, the
Architect of Tryon Palace.
6. At the end of the March 1
chapter, a period should follow
the words “Each of them”; the
four plus lines that follow should
be deleted.
Thanks very much. EM.
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