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Time to send this
holiday wish lot a
Christmas of dazzling
delights.
Like so many people who are so
very busy at this time of year,
here’s one who is in the same boat.
However, enough time has been
snitched to send out the above
Christmas greeting to all.
And in connection with the
celebration of Christmas the
following appropriate poem was
clipped from the current issue of
The Eastern Star News:
We’ve Come a Long Way
Since That First
Christmas Day
We’ve come a long way since
that first Christmas night
When led by Star so wondrous
ly bright
The Wise Men journeyed to
find the place
That cradled the Christ Child’s
beautiful face.
But like “lost sheep” we have
wandered away
From God and His Son who was
born Christmas Day,
And instead of depending on
God’s guiding hand
Ingenious man has assumed full
command.
Like the “Prodigal Son” who
seeks to be free
From the heavenly Father and
His holy decree
Weakening his spirit and dis
torting his goal,
And unless we return to Our
Father again
We will never have Peace and
Good Will among men.
And the freedom man sought
will make him a slave
For only through God is man
strong, free and brave.
So let us return to Our Father
and pray
That Christ is reborn in our
hearts Christmas Day.
What was, no doubt, one of the
most delightful of the season’s
activities was the Eastern Star
Christmas party Monday night at
the Masonic Temple. A very in
teresting program was presented
by Mrs. Margaret Smithson and
Mrs. Louise Ervin. Os course
Charilie Overman led in singing a
group of Chirstmas carols and, oh
yes, as usual, there was plenty of
“eats” on a table. Hawk Crummey
December 16, 1976
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How Can I Spread Peace On Earth?
By Elder Lee Reay
Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints
How can I spread peace on earth? I can start by making peace with
myself... accepting myself for what I am... shortcomings and ell. I can
settle with myself somewhere between my ambitions and my
limitations. I will try to create within myself a tranquility of conscience
... a calm quietness ... a sense of harmony ... with the hope that it will
inspire the same in others. . ?
At least, there will be one less angry combative person in the world.
This I can do within myself. ...
Each of us is responsible for what he is. Each is his own worst enemy,
if he allows it to be so. Each of us could well look in the mirror and ask,
“Who is my enemy? Who is keeping me from achieving my greatest
potential? Who is it that keeps me ignorant and poor and unsuccessful?”
There is only one answer ... I am the one. I am the only one who can
keep me from receiving God’s blessings, by not earning them. I am the
only one who can make me a drug addict or an alcoholic or a criminal.
Even Satan himself cannot force me to do wrong against my will. If I
do it, it’s because I choose to do it. So I will try to be more careful in my
choices.
With the world so large and so many wrongs to be righted, I am
sometimes tempted to say, ‘‘What can I do alone?” Cannon Farr penned
the answer two decades ago:
“I am only ONE, but I am ONE.
I can’t do everything, but I can dosome things.
What I can do, that I ought to do,
And what I ought to do, the grace of God, I will do.”
I can love my fellow man more, and show it more. I will look for op
portunities to offer a helping hand... an open friendly hand. I can extend
my hand of friendship to more people. I can let them know, more often,
that I appreciate their presence and the contribution it makes to my own
life.
We take too much for granted. We expect good performance and say
nothing when we get it. But we are quick to criticize poor service. I can
try to balance it out by saying and doing more in appreciation of good
effort. v .
We cannot contribute equally to solving life’s major problems. But we
can each do it for ourselves to the limit of the tools we are blessed with.
And I shall try to do it , with God’s help. I will ask for his assistance in the
world of St. Francis of Assisi: '
“Lord make me an instrument of Thy Peace... Where is hatred, let me
sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there
is sadness, joy.
Oh Devine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as
to console; to be understood as to understand; to beloved, as to love; For
it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. ”
added considerably to the fun in
the role of Santa Claus and Louise
and Bill Goodwin, in nighties,
playing the role of two youngsters
awaiting for the arrival of Santa
Clause.
According to the calendar,
winter made its debut this week.
I for SeaoQ 1
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St is our fervent prayer that §
love, hope and peace till your heart* f
£ and minds as the New Year
unfolds. May peace be with you always.
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However, a fellow needed not to
stick his nose far out the door
Tuesday morning to know it was
real winter weather. And like Miss
Lena Jones might say, its time to
pull out the red flannels—and
they’d feel mighty good unless it
turns, a lot warmer.
Spend More Iredell History Traced
Continued From. P*ge 1
reimbursement for fojnriei.
The cost of transporting"
children to and from school
amounted to $40,128,800 state
wide. Here it totaled $79,693.27.
Another major expenditure paid
for operation of school facilities.
School officials-spent a state-wide
total of $28,349,872 for janitors’
wages and supplies, heating fuel,
water,. light, power and
telephones. Here it amounted to
$64,070.
State funds were also used for
additional instructional services,
the major portion of which paid for
the kindergarten program. Other
instructional services included
physical education, school
psychologists and other teacher
support personnel in the school
system. A total state-wide ex
penditure of $46,546,658 was ex
pended for other instructional
services. In Edenton-Chowan
School it totaled $98,873.01.
The smallest expenditure from
the fund, a total of $8,863,621 paid
for general control of the schools.
That item -included salaries of
superintendents and assistant
superintendents and general office
expenses. A total of $36,191.04 was
spoil for this item in local schools.
The audit report of the State.
Public School Fund included only
state contributions to the
operation of North Carolina’s
public schools. It does not include
federal or local tax money which a
local school unit may use to
supplement the state contribution.
Progress Noted
Continued From Page 1
that Wilbur Pierce was being re
appointed to the 'board of
Albemarle Regional Planning &
Development Commission and he
was appointing himself to the
ARPDC Executive Committee.
At the request of Alton Clark
January 16-23 was designated as
Jaycee Week in Edenton. •
Later the council went into
executive session to discuss
personnel matters.
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V > James Iredell, die formidable
Justice of the U. S. Supreme
Court, was 12 years short of tint
honor and had been a judge m
North Carolina only a year when
he bought a house overlooking on
the west tbs loW-lying lots in
tended originally for a market
place '
• What sort of house it was, and
why, in a region of prevailing
southwest winds, he wanted the
one north of the snuff factory and
the tanyard, we do not know. It
was attractive enough, though, for
him to pay twice what Dr.
Dickinson had paid the year
before for the Cupola House and
its wharf.
It is not known when the first
Iredell child was bom or when she
died. The pext, born in 1784, lived
only two days. Then, between 1785
and 1792, three more were born.
The oldest, Annie Isabella, was
only 13 when her father died,
James, 10, and Helen seven. They
were all just the right age to at
tend the Edenton Academy when
it opened in 1801, right across the
street.
The house was probably altered
to its present form within the next
15 years, with a whole new section
facing the street. James, after
attending college, returned to
Edenton to practice law, and
probably brought his bride,
Frances Tredwell, to this house in
1815. Annie Isabella died the nekt
year.
Helen became insane before
her mother’s death; there are still
signs in an upstairs room of bars
necessary for her safety. She may,
in fact, already have been sent to a
New England hospital for the
mentally ill before Mrs. Iredell
died in 1826. By 1827 James also
had left Edenton and was
Governor of North Carolina.
Before the spring of 1829 the
house was rented by Mrs. Priscilla
Armistead Thorp, the youngest
Sister of John and Starkey Ar
mistead of Plymouth, who had
named one of their small ships in
her honor. Now the widow of a sea
captain, Joel Thorp of New Haven,
Conn., "she-moved to Edenton in
order to send her two younger
children to the Edenton Academy.
The oldest Annistead, had gone to
sea like his father and was ex
pected soon to return from his first
voyage. Instead, he was drowned
just off the coast. The last member
of the household was Mrs. Thorp’s
orphaned niece, Susan Armistead.
A year later the paper reported,
after the academy examinations,
that George Thorp, still a very
small boy, had stood first in
scholarship and behavior in the
Second Class. His older sister,
Sarah, had been a model of
behavior but had stood only
seventh in the Fourth Class. Both
were studying reading, writing,
spelling and defining, grammar,
geography, arithmetic, and
history. *
Sarah’s troubles may have come
from composition and .Latin, or
from concentrating os Susan’s
approaching marriage $o a young
lawyer, Augustus MoiTe. Sarah
herself was to make fer last ap
pearance in local records us the
bride, in 1849, of Rev. John M.
Saunders, pastor of the Edenton
Methodist Church. Her moth*
died in the winter of 1851, but the
family stayed at the Iredell House
until 1852.
Before the year was over, Rev.
Samuel Iredell Johnston moved
his large family from St. Paul’s
rectory, which was in great need
of repair. So it was in his own sod
home, on a visit to these cousins,
that Gov. Iredell died in 1853.
Dr. Johnston had been rector of
St. Paul’s since 1837, an active
pastor and the organizer of the 1
first ministerial convocation in the j
Episcopal diocese of North 1
Carolina. He even undertook such !
difficult projects as organizing a I
schoof and enlarging the church j
(and fortunately failed).
An assistant, Rev. Francis f
Hilliard, married a Johnston
daughter, Maria; and a son,
James, married Kate Warren,
whose brother, Dr. Edward
Warren, married James’ sister
Elizabeth. Another son, Gabriel,
followed Dr. Johnston into the
ministry, and Hilliard succeeded
him in 1865 as rector of St.'Paul’s.
Mrs. Johnston was still at the
Iredell House in 1867 when Helen ’
Iredell died.
Five years later the house was
sold to James McCoy, who
enlarged the grounds to their
present extent. He soldlt is 1892 to
W. T. Gordon, after whose death in
1948 the house was saved from
demolition by the local chapter of
the D.A.R. Since 1953 it was
belonged to the State of North
Carolina.
Schedules
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mission office is urging unem- I
ployed workers who file for I
benefits to submit their claims 1
early to avoid delayed payment. :
“Our office will close December
23 and 24 and we’re trying to ■
reschedule persons who normally
file claims on those days- to file
December 26, 21 et»22. -
“We’ll also close on December
31 and persons scheduled to file on
that day can sign claims between
December 27-30,” she added.
She said the Empoyment
Security Commission will
maintain a workforce in its central
office in Raleigh December 23 to
process unemployment claims so
benefits can be mailed December |
24
In Edenton* approximately 70 I
claims will be rescheduled. 1 \
State-wide, the number of ''
claimants normally scheduled to
file on the three , holidays is
estimated at 20,000.