HISTORICAL
By REV. E. H. DAVIS
In his very Interesting message
last Sunday at the Methodist
Church the Pastor, Ur. Phillips,
made reference to the Retd fam
ily once prominent in the history
of the church in this county. The
name is Reid ? not Read ?r Reade
or Reed ? the same borne by
David S. Reid former Governor of
this State ? himself one of them.
Rev. James Reid never a D. D.
was known all through this sec
tion in my early days as Uncle
Jimmy. He was born in 1795 in
Caswell County, joined the Con-'
federacy 1815 and for more than
50 years was an active member of
the same. This family has the
unusual distinction of being rep
resented in the Conference by
three generations of preachers at
same time ? Uncle Jimmy, his son
Dr. Numa Fletcher Reid and his
grandson, Dr. Frank L. Reid, part
of whose name our townsman.
Mr. F. Reid Pleasants,' now bears.
Though a popular preacher Un
cle Jimmy was never the preach
er that either bis son or his
grandson came to be. Especially
was this true of his flifted son,
Numa F. Reid, who in the pulpit
or on the platform was the com
manding figure of his day in this
State. The Masonic Lodge in
High Point where I was received
into the brotherhood bore the
name Numa F. Reid lodge ? and
ftill bears it. Uncle Jimmy mar
ried a second time, the bride be
ing a widow Kelly who had a
farm in Sandy Creek township
this county and there he made
his home. In his last days he
went into politics being aided and
abeted t'hereto by his friend Chas.
H. Thomas, a kinsman of Edwin
Malone and myself. He accepted
the nomination on the Republi
can State ticket for Supt. of Pub
He Instruction in 1872 and was
elected with the rest of to tickct
headed by Tod R. Caldwell for
Governor over t'he Democratic
State ticket headed by A. S. Mer
rimon. State and County elec
tions were then held in August in
North Carolinu, only National
? lections in November. Before
Uncle Jimmy could qualify after
heing elected he died in Greens
boro at the home of Dr. N. H. D.
Wilson jind was buried from the
Methodist Church in Loulsburg ?
the first funeral service I remem
ber attending. The interment
was on a knoll not far from the
river back of the Egerton place
at the end of Nash Street. Just
why buried there I do not' know,
but that he was I do know. Re
garding Uncle Jimmy's political
ally Mr. Thomas ? he and Geo. W.
Stanton of Wilson were the Re
publican candidates for the Sen
ate from this District the same
year, their Democratic opponents
being John W. Dunham of Wil
son and William K. Davis of
Franklin. Mr. Davis' home at
that time is now the home of Mrs.
John O. Wilson whose near kins
man he was. Uncle Jimmy was
elected and died ? Mr. Thomas
was defeated and moved to Ten
nessee with his family. Regard
ing Uncle Jimmy's preaching. Dr.
Charles F. Deems at one time pas
tor of the Church of the Strang
ers in New York said that he
could recite columns of Webster's
Unbrldged Dictinary and bring
tears to his ? Deems eyes ? . I re
member hearing my father say
'Aat it was said of him by some
that he could raise a shout in a
meeting any time by pronounc
ing the word Mesopotamia.
Mrs. Charlie Clark of Zebulon
whose father was Tucker and
mother Best, showed me a picture
a few years ago of Uncle Jimmy.
1 am sure it Is the only one in
existence around here, it may be
anywhere. Her father's people
owned and lived on the farm ad
joining the Reid place. She aaid
to me Miat that old house with
which she was familiar was a
treasury house of antiques in
cluding furniture, bedding, cur
tains and carpets. All of it in
cluding the house was destroyed
by fire a number of years ago.
GRIFFIN-TURNAGK
Mlna Ora Lee Turnage, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Q. Tur
nage, of Loulsburg, Route 4, to
Jasper Newton Orlffln, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Griffin. Sr.,
of Spring Hope, Route 2, Janu
ary 4, 1940. At home, Spring
Hope. Route 2.
KD WARDS-TURN AGK
Miss Sallle Lou Turnage, I
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. fxmnle
Turnage of Franklin County, to
Carl Edwards, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rls Edwards of Spring
Hope. December 23, 1939, At
home, Roanoke Rapids.
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Anti-Lynching Bill
Gets Approval Of
House Again
Washington, Jan. 10. ? The
House today approved one of its
perennial election-year favorites,
the anti-lynching bill, and sent
it to the Senate where an unyield
ing Southern filibuster was set to
kill it*.
The vote of 251 to 132 follow
ed a disoussion in which Repre
sentative Rankin, Democrat, Mis
sissippi asserted that the measure
was "nothing but the renewal of
a vicious attack on the white
people of the Southern states,"
coming not from the Republicans,
he said, but from the Democrats.
All Southern efforts to amend
tihe measure were crushed, under
a massive voting combination of
Republicans and Democrats from
the North and West. The same
fate met an effort by Representa
tive Hoffman, Republican, Michi
gan, inveterate foe of the C. I. O.
to at/tach provisions intended to
restrict picketing.
The single change accepted was
offered by the author of the meas
ure, Representative Gavagan,
Democrat, New York, who repres
ents the district of which New
York City's teeming Negro sec
tion, Harlem, is a part. He pro
posed the elimination of language
making the bill inapplicable to
any violence resulting from a la
bor disturbance. Gavagan explain
ed that the provision was unneces
sary because the bill could not
possibly be interpreted as apply
ing to labor situations.
The bill ? denounced by South
erners as impractical, unenforce
able and unconstitutional and up
held by its supporters in the an
tonyms of these words ? seeks to
eliminate lynchlngs by Imposing
penalties on peace officers neglig
ent in protecting their prisoners
from lyncb-mobs and by making
the municipal and counties liable
for damages.
The principal interest and the
most extended discussion center
ed upon an amendment by Repre
sentative Colmer, Democrat, Mis
sissippi which he called the "gang
ster amendment." This would
have made the penalties apply
to gang murders.
Asserting that last year there
were three lynehings in the en
tire United States and 272 murd
ers in New York City, Colmer ask
ed "Why should we worry with
a mere detail, a mere bagatelle?"
Proponents of the measure re
plied that the proposal was in
tended to load the bill with so
many amendments that ib will
sink.
IN MEMORY
On December 30. 1938 God
planted a tiny bud in tfie home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. Morris Murphy,
to flourish and make their homo
brighter.
Then on December 22, 1939
Qod in his great wisdom sent an
angel to transplant this bud to
Heaven ,
Little William was ' ill nine
weeks before he passed away,
bearing his suffering the very best
It seems. All was done that hum
an hands could do. Weep nob dear
parents, we know 'tis sad but
Little William Is resting ylth the
Heavenly Father. He needed an
other little angel to help make
his kingdom more complete.
He leaves to mourn his loss a
father and monther, three grand
parents, and lol? of relatives.
Funeral services were held at
White Level Baptist Church, and
conducted by Rev. John Edwards.
Its body was laid to rest in the
church cemetery.
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STATE SENATOR TO BE
SPEAKER
li. V. llullentine To Address OH
Men ut Kocky Mount Meeting
Oil men of Franklin and seven
other nearby counties will bear
State Senator L. Y. Ballentine. of
Wake County, in an address be
fore tbe District Meeting of the
North Carolina Petroleum Indus
tries Committee at Rocky Mount,
Thursday, January 25.
During the past two regular
sessions of the General Assembly,
Senator Ballentine was a leader
in the fight for better roads In
committee rooms and on the floor
of the Senate. As a farmer, with
particular interest in rural roads,
Ballentine has been unyielding in
his opposition to diversion of
highway taxes for any purpose
other than for highways.
The Rocky Mount' meeting,
which will be held at the Ricks
Hotel, includes tbe counties of
Franklin, Wilson, Northampton,
Halifax, Edgecombe, Nash, Vance
and Warren. In addition to oil
company agents, distributors and
service station operators, mem
bers of allied organizations in
terested In highway transporta
tion will attend and participate in
the program.
A 10:30 at m. meeting for the
purpose of general discussion of
the problems of taxation, diver
sion of highway funds and other
legislative matters affecting high
way users, will be followed by a
luncheon at which Mr. Rallentine
will speak.
The Rocky Mount meeting Is
the seventh of a series of 10 dis
trict meetings being held through
out the State during January and
February by the North Carolina
Petroleum Industries Committee. I
O. Y. Kirkpatrick, of Char
lotte, is chairman, and S. Gilmer
Sparger, of Raleigh, is secretary
of the North Carolina Petroleum
Industries Committee which is
composed of thousands of oil
men and service station operators
from every county in the State.
WISCONSIN WANTS TO
COOPERATE
Governor Julius P. Hell of Wis
consin came South the other day,
expressing a determination to
patch up differences between his
state and those of the Cotton Belt.
The Wisconsin executive said
he was making a tour of capitals
of the Southern states, that he
wanted "to work this thing out."
The governor was referring to re
cent reprisals takeu in Southern
states against Wisconsin butter,
cheese, beer, machinery and other
products.
The reprisals came as a result
of Wisconsin's failure to pay heed
to repeated pleas of the cotton
growing states for the removal of
prohibitive taxes on margarine,
the second largest outlet for sou
thern cottonseed oil.
The National Cotton Council,
speaking for the nation's raw cot
ton interests, repeatedly has warn
ed Wisconsin of what might be
expected if the dairying state per
sisted in boycotting cottonseed oil
food products.
No statp can exist without trad
ing its merchandise and produce
for that of others. This can be ac
complished only by the removal
of trade barriers which prevent
the distribution wlOhln one state's
bounds the products of others.
The cotton states have proved
effectively that they can erect
trade barriers equally as disas
trous to ot-hers which have been
thrown up against them. Such
barriers are not, however, desir
ed by the southern states.
Governor Hell's cooperation is
greatly desired by the cotton in
terests. Surely the South and WiB
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