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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday. May 29. 1964
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
Published Every Friday at 1616 Neuse Boulevard
New Bern, N. C., by the Sole Owner
J. GASKiLL McDaniel
Editor ond Publishor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
On# Yoor $2.50. Six Months
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Second Class Postage Paid at New Bern, N. C.
DAY OF RECKONING
Tomorrow, if you took the trouble to register, you
will have an opportunity to express yourself at your
neighborhood polling place. If you didn’t bother to
register, you’ll have no right to complain about the
officials you’ll live under for several years.
Here and now, The Mirror serves notice on any
and all citizens of New Bern and Craven county who
forfeited their voting privilege. Don’t squawk to us,
or around us. in days to come, when you aren’t in
agreement with the actions of elected public servants.
You had your chance.
It’s a disgrace that a minority of the citizens en
titled to register and vote in New Bern and Craven
county will decide for the maiority before sundown
tomorrow. Ironically, the most important ballots in
Saturday’s Primary aren’t going to be the ones cast
but the ones that could not legally be cast.
Although we hardly deserve it, America has been
blessed more abundantly than any other nation on the
face of the earth. By way of aooreciation, we have
taken our heritage for granted. Like the spoiled child
who is pampered by doting parents, we are too busy
reaching for what we don’t have to be thankful for
what we’ve already got.
If you lived in the average foreign land — and
it would be poetic iustice if some of us were sub
jected to the experience for awhile — you would
soon view things differently. In Italy, for example,
you would discover that something like 80 percent of
the citizens exercise their voting rights.
We hear a lot about the threat of Communism in
America, and The Mirror does not minimize that threat.
Far more deadlv. however, is the anathy of millions
of citizens who have no voice in government because
of self strangulation.
What good is a democracy, if we fail to live up
to its ideals and share its responsibilities?
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ASKEW'S
CLEANERS AND LAUNDRY
MAIN OFFICE — 1109 POLLOCK ST.
BRANCH OFFICE — 502 WATSON AVE.
Historical
Gleanings
—By—
ELIZABETH MOORE
The
Rachel
Villoge Verses
Petition of
Blount
To the Worshipful, the Just
ices of the Court of Pleas
and Quarter Sessions for the
County of Craven.
The Petition of Rachel Blount
and Frederick Blount respect
fully showeth that your petition
er Rachel, formerly Rachel
Bryan, was lawfully married
with James Bryan, formerly of
your County. That the said
James Bryan died interstate
sometime about the month of
January 1806, seized and pos
sessed at the time of his death
of a considerable real estate in
your County of Craven, viz:
About si:deen or seventeen
himdred acres lying on the North
side of Neuse River and us
ually known by the name of the
SANDHILLS, a lot of land or
ground in the Town of New
Bern on Pollock Street, to
gether with a house and Im
provements thereon, which was
the residence of the said James
at the time of his death. The
said James was also seized
and possessed in fee, but in
common with the heirs of JOHN
BRYAN, deceased, of a tract
of land lying on Slade’s Creek,
and supposed to contain six hun
dred and forty acres. It is fur
ther shown that at the March
Term, 1806, of your Worship
ful Court, administration on the
estate of the said James Bryan
was duly granted to your peti
tioner Rachel, who in the month
of October, 1807, intermarried
with your petitioner Frederick.
It is also shown unto your
Worships that the said James
Bryan, left living at his death
three children, who were Ms
heirs: JOHN BRYAN, JAMES
BRYAN and ELIZABETH
BRYAN, and that the said Eliza
beth died an Infant and inter
state, about the month of June
1810. The said John and James
Bryan are Infants whose guar
dian is John Cobb, Esq. Your
petitioner further shows that
as yet the dower of your peti
tioner Rachel Blount in the lands
of her first husband, the afore
said James Bryan has not been
laid off or allotte’s to her.
To the end therefore that the
same maybe done, may it please
your WorsMpful Court to grant
process against the said John
Bryan and James Bryan, that
they may appear by their
guardian at the next ter m of your
WorsMpful Court, then the three
show cause, if any they have,
why the dower of your petition
er Rachel should not be now
laid off and allotted to her
and your petitioner in duty bound
will every pray. By J. R. Don
nell, Attorney.
North Carolina, Craven
County, 1816.
In obedience to the annexed
writ, I, I Thomas H. Daves,
PERSONAL MATTER
Friend or enemy.
It’s all the same,
No one is privileged
To dish out blame
And to criticize
The way you vote—
This is a truth
We all should note.
Like one’s faith.
You pick your own.
The choice is yours.
And yours alone.
So vote as you please.
And we will too;
May we still be friends
When the day is through.
-^GMcD.
Sheriff of the County of Craven
on the 9 day of March 1816,
and in the 40th year of the inden-
pendence of the State aforesaid
attended by James Carney, John
P. Daves, Rufus Wiley, Thomas
Wadsworth, Francis LaMotte,
Daniel Shackelford, John S.
Green, David A. Murdock, Syl
vester Brown, John Morris,
John R. Good and Benjamin C.
Good, freeholders, unconnected
with Mrs. Rachel Blount, widow
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