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MEW BERM-CRAVEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY The N£W BERN niBLIlHID WIIKLY IN THI HIAIIT OF •'MM NORTH VOLUME 10 NEW BERN. N. C.. FRIDAY. JUNE 93 10A7 MTT1UrR1i*P 19 John R, Taylor is not only one of New Bern’s most enthusiastic w^kers, but happens to be rather well read.BelngUterary minded, he should appreciate •mowing that many a famous writer of the past likewise en joy^ the role of pedestrian. A bit of research on our P"t reveals that WllUam Wordswortti walked an esti mated 175,000 miles during his lifetime. Thomas Carlyle and Washington Irving often took long hikes together. They pre ferred the countryside, as did Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Tay lor Coleridge and Christopher Morley. Just as Taylor does, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Steven son, Charles Lamb and Lelg^ Hunt were quite satisfied to ramble on city streets. And it is hardly a secret that North Carolina’s own O. Henry liked to roam New York aty, or as he nicknamed it, Bagdad-On-The Hudson. Walking in strange places has interesting aspects, but for our part we are happiest strolling along New Bern’s familiar thorouidifares. Live long enough in the place of your birth, and every street becomes Memory Lane. • * e * * * The late John Holland (we dubbed him Mr.Sunshine)never lacked originality. When he was courUng Jane, dau^ter of the Rev. Euclid H. McWhorter, she agreed to matrimony providing her father approved of the match. Jane was teaching school at the Academy Green here, and imagine her surprise when she came in from recess to see scrawled on the blackboard in John’s easy to recognize hand writing — “YOUR FATHER SAID YES!’’ — Incidentally, the honeymoon lasted, throu^ good times and bad, as long as John lived. A local Industry not to be overlooked is the Cutler Man ufacturing Company, iterating rl^t smack in the mid^eofthe lobby at New Bern’s Federal Building. At least, we call it an industry. Day in and day out, Dora Cutler, who presides over the concession stand there, makes use of every spare mo ment to fashion colorful rugs for her friends. Dora will never see the brl^t hues herself, or any of the other things in God’s wonderful world that people with vision take for granted, but she laughs often and smiles constantly. She and the Mirror’s editor have had a make believe feud going on for more mornings than either of us could possi bly remember, and no matter what our horoscope says, the first order of business each day is an exchange of insults between the two of us. Bystanders who don’t know what we are up to frequently listen incredulously to the un complimentary remarks. You’ve never had a tongue lash ing until Dora whittles you down to size, and heaven help us if, in our case, she decides to do it for real. * . e * * * Happiest creatures in town, during summer months, are the hundreds of dogs th'-t be long to local kids of school age. For nine months of the year, (Continued on Page 8} WAY BACK WHEN—If you’ve reached 60, or will arrive at tliat milestone a few years hence, you’il recali the pictures of outstanding basebali players that used to come with each pack of Raleigh ciga rettes. Here, from the distant past, is one of those photographs, and the gentleman is none other than John Cowell, one of Pamlico County’s best loved citi zens. Cowell threw his arm away at Kansas City be fore he reached the Maiors, but his ereat huriing in the Minors had aiready made him a famous diamond f gure Playing for Wilson when Jim Thorpe was star ring at Rocky Mount, he won one unforgettable game innings. For Sumter he struck out 64 men in his first four contests, and fanned 21 in a no-hitter at Orangeburg. At 80 he is still keenly intereste’d in the national pastime, and imdevstandahlv viroud of his grandson. John Cowell, III, who pitched Pamlico High into the State semi-finals this year, and will be around next season.
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