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Please return to Mr. PhH,;Budd *
a camera taken last Sunday out. of
a Nash roadster with Jersey license
in it.
Mr. R. H. Fitchett, Mrs. J. B,
Powers and Graham Powers spent- t
the week end with Mr. and Mrs.
Glad to welcome the teach
ers. Misses Bell and Strickland hack
to the B.Y.P.U. group No. li*,Y j
" Mrs. John Bell, Jr., was g§ for
Sunday night. Subject, “Religion
Spiritual and Personal.” Mrs. Bell
gave a good talk on the subject. All
on group responded. The president,
Mr. C. C. Thomas, also made good
talk. The BiY.P.U. seems to be
growing and great interest is being
taken by old as well as young.
Services at 7:30 each Sunday night.
A hearty welcome is extended to
everybody.
We are glad to hear that* Dr. J.
E. Cathell is improving fast and
will be at home in a week.
Dr. Cathell’s office will be at
Maddox Brothers’ store.
Miss Virginia Cathell, who is
teaching at the Methodist orphan
age, Raleigh, spent last week-end at
home. ;
Mrs. R. B. Sumner and children ;
of Kerr’s Creek, Va., spent last <
week with her sister, Mrs. H. D. ,
Strickland.
Miss Roberta Lambeth entertain- ]
ed at her home last Saturday ev- (
ening from 8 to 10:30 o’clock 20 of
her friends at her 13th birthday ]
party. The lawn of the yard was ]
lighted by Japanese lanterns. Many <
games were played and enjoyed. ]
Refreshments of cake, pickle, and
pineapple sherbert were served. Ro- i
berta received iflany nice and use- i
ful gifts. 1
The Epworth League met last <
Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock, ;
with the president, Miss Ruth s
Womble in the chair. Roll was l
called by the secretary, Miss Lois i
Ray. x
Miss Mamie Sockwell was leader i
for the evening and read the Bible i
lesson, subject of which was two a
educated men, Paul and Apallos. *
After which W. W. Stedman led in
prayer. ?
Then Misses Sockweli and Amey ‘
Womble took up the subject and t
discussed, whether educated men j
were Christians. 1
The president, Miss Ruth Womble i
appointed Miss Catherine Thomas i
to lead next Sunday evening and c
she also appointed Miss Emma Lee i
Mann leader for the “Juniors.” (
Then song, “Come Thou £
ty King,” was sung by all. t
‘ Miss Sockwell closed the meeting .
with a short prayer. 1
Many from Moncure (the J
singing at Ashbury church Sunday C
at 2:30 o’clock. A large -
present and enjoyed the by j i
the choir of that church, led by Mr. I
J. W. Johnson with Miss Williams 1
and Mrs. Johnson at the organ, j ’
They have a large choir and did ;£
some splendid singing. It was aj 1
disappointment that Mucks’ Chapel \ i
choir ana Grace Chapel choir were
not present as expected. Asbury :
choir was well prepared to do all IJ
the singing, except a few selections i •
given by members of Moncure 1
choir, such as a bass solo ..by Mr. i
S. W. Womble, two duets b.y Mrs. 1
H. D. Strickland and Mrs. W. W.
Steadman. * ; j
Mr. Rose of Asbury choir sang a
baratone solo. Mrs. Daisy Lam-! s
beth played the accompaniments to
these selections. There were two <
splendid quartettes sung by mem- <
bers trom both choirs, Messrs, JJojse,
T. B. Maddox, J. W. Johnson* S. W.
Womble and F, A. Badders. £
Odd Fellows Orphans of Golds- i
boro will give a concert at the 1
school auditorium the evening of (
October 11. There will be eleven -
orphans and two managers and al- A
so there will be an orchestra of six. 1
Everybody come and enjoy the ev
ening. ]
(Written for last week’s paper) «
The senior class of Moncure high
school elects officers for the year 1
1928. Robert Cotten was re-elected
president as he served as Junior
president last year. • A
Cleo Cotten was elected vice
.president. * +
Elma Ray, secretary and treas
urer. J
Ruth Womble was elected chair
man of the Chapel program com
mittee, assisted by Lucile Addison
and Dickens.
Misses. £lma Walden and Mar
garet Dickens leave one day this
week to enter Peace Institute, at
Raleigh for fall.term. < /
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Cpp:.. is. a one-way
’ strelt' and there abr” nn two'wap,
about it^—Cincinnati .Qynic.
H. W. Through Onslow
In Colonial Days
' (By F. L. Morris.)
In Colonial days the highway
through Onslow from Wilmington
to New. Bern was more than just
a country road. It was the high
way between two communities of
aristocracy, that of the Cape Fear
and that of the Neuse. Along it
passed the belles and beaus of Wil
mington and Brunswick on their
way to the Governor’s ball at the
opening of Tryon’s Palace, “the
finest building in America.” Along
it traveled Colonial officials on er
rands of state; among them our
own John Starkey, going north or
south to the meeting places of the
Assembly; wearing home-made
clothes and shoes and carrying the
Colonial treasury in home-made
saddlebags. And it was over this
route, changed only to pass the new
court house where Jacksonville now
is located, that came the messeng
ers with news from the north dur
ing the Revolution, their dispatch
es to be copied by Spicer and for
warded to Harbett at Wilmington.
A ferry over New River was es
tablished by the Carteret county
judges in 1726, Onslow being then
a part of Carteret. The ferry
keeper was to provide sufficient
“floats or boats” to convey horses
over. This ferry has long been
known as Sneed’s Ferry, being
named for one of its early keep
ers.
But the road probably had been
laid out earlier, and it is said to
have been an Indian trail. As shown
on a map published prior to the
Revolution, it entered the county
frcm the south, at Sage’s, which
was still an inn when George Wash
ington stopped there in 1791. At
the crossing of New River the map
shows Lewis’s Ferry on the west
side and Snead’s Ferry on
side opposite. Traffic must have
been considerable if both could ope
rate at the same time. A few mites
up the east side of the river the
road passes French’s ordinary. And
a few miles farther is “Foxes,”
while south of Starkey’s creek is
“Warburtcn.”
The crossing of Starkey’s Creek
"s still called “Warburton” and
“Wavburton Hill.” It is the site of
the new White Oak Township con
solidated school building. The War
burtons lived here, and tradition
has it that Mrs. Phoebe Warburton,
not having children of her own,
conducted a school in her home‘here
in which she trained the daughters
of the well-to-do in the cultural
arts necessary to equip them for
the formal social life of the period.
As an indication that her instruc
tion was held in high esteem, we
find Samuel Johnston directing by
will that his daughters “stay with j
Mrs. Phoebe Warburton as long as j
she lives and is willing to keep |
them, cr till they are married.”
One of his daughters became the
wife of James Iredell, afterwards
a United States Supreme Court Jus
tice; another was the fiancee of Jo
seph Hewes, singer of the Declara
tion of Independence, but died be
fore they were married; and his son
Samuel was the Revolutionary pat- j
riot and later Governor. How long
these girls lived with Mrs. Warbur
ton before joining their brother in
Edenton is not stated.
North of Starkey's creek is shown
Starkey’s Ordinary, and the road
leaves the county at the same phee
as the present route 30.
Another road branches from Ih s
after leaving Sage’s and runs north
on the west side of New River,pass
ing about where Richlands and
Trenton are now located, and ends
at Fort Barnwell. Names of places
along this road are not given, pro
bably for the reason that the mak
er of the survey for the map did
not’ travel the route. Also there
was a road crossing at Town Point,
with a ferry at that place. The
ferry at this place is not named,
but a ferry had been operated here
during the life of the town of
Johnston, 1746 to 1752.
Other places in Onslow mentioned
on maps published prior to the Rev
olution are “Wimble,” on the west
side of New River above Lewis’s
Ferry; “Dudley,” on White Oak
River above where Swansboro is
now located; “Higgins,” betewen
Bear Creek and Marsh Creek;
| “Hayward,” between Oliver creek
and Cedar Point and west of New
River on the sound we find “Ful
ler” and “Nixfon,” then Beasley’s
Creek and “Col. Moore” (in what is
now Pender county)* There are
many other houses indicated by
dots but not named. The inlets on
the coast \wefce the . same as now)
except that hetween' Brown’s Inje|
and. New 'Ru&r Inlet .was “Liffcle
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The NeW- Berni-to-Wilmington
GOLD DOLLARS |
UNDER BARN
Kinston, August 21—Jason Hicks,
farm tenant, today exhibited 37
gold dollars found under the floor
of an abandoned barn- in Jones
county yesterday. The coins were
minted many years The barn
was erected before the Civil War,
in the belief of residents of _ the
neighborhood, who conclude that
Hicks found the hidden wealth of
some family who placed it under
the barn floor during the '6os when
Federal troops overran the section.
It was forgotten, perhaps, or the
person who hid it died without re
trieving the money. The coins ap
peard to have been in a small box,
fragments of which, thoroughly
rotten, were found under a sill with
the gold.
Waist-Line and Hips
To Be Reinstated
Paris Fashion Pace-Makers Decree
Departure of Knees and Return
of Femininity
Paris, July 30 —Knees are to go
into eclipse next winter. Waist
lines will be worn and hips have
been reinstated.
This bulletin from the sanctums
of the dressmakers, where winter
fashions are being shown to buyers
from the United States and other
counties, may have an immediate
effect on the white bread and pas
try consumption of the world.
If women follow Paris—and they
have done so for centuries—rcurves
will be worn again without apol
ogy. Bread and potatoes fit right
in the be-more-feminine campaign
which includes everything connect
ed with the fashion trade from hair
goods to jewelry.
Short hair is threatened, if not
actually doomed, by the fashion
makers. Now that ruffles are back,
with all they stand for, almost any
thing may happen in the world of j
style. \ y
Not all the important dressmak-1
ers have shown their collections as!
yet. Some of the leaders are still |i
to come. But even if well known
houses contradict curves, the buy
ers have seen and liked them and
placed many orders for clothes
which are fitted to the waist-line.
Many of these models have cir
cular skirts and nearly all of them
reach several inches below the knee.
They give back to women that old
familiar “Fair Sex” look, of which
shingles, shins and trouser-skirts
have robbed them. Even designers
who have not gone the whole way
toward curves and the new silhou-
I ers have shown their collections as
| line styles.
The rediscovery of hips is the
most startling development of the "
style changes. The reducing par
lors and deluxe gymnasiums which
thrive in Paris already are worried,
by the threat to slenderness con
tained in the new curved line.
Part of the back-to-feminity
move is the partial eclipse of sport
I clothes for day-long wear and the
reinstatement of afternoon dresses.
highway was proposed by Governor
Tryon in 1766 to be part of a mail
route from Williamsburg, Va., to <
Charleston, S. C., and he gives the
distances between points at which 1
the mail is recommended to be re- <
eived and forwarded as follows:
.N w Bern to Trent bridge (now :
t'oJocksville), 13 miles; Trent
bridge to Mrs. Warburton’s, 13 1
miles; Mrs. Warburton’s to Sneed’s,
on Ne wßiver, 26 miles; Snead’s, 13
miles; Sage’s to Collins’s, 14 miles; ■
Collins’s to Wilmington, 15 miles.
This route was part of an inter
colony mail route from Philadel
phia to Charleston which was es
tablished a few years later. i
But this old road is ho longer the
main highway through the county.
It has seen the Indian runner, the
horseback rider, the ox-drawn cart,
and the carriage and four—and now
the automobile. The last conquer
ed it—it needed a new road, and
got it. And this new road, state
highway route 30, promptly leaves
the old on entering the county and
does not meet it again until near
the other edge.
Also gone are the old roadside
inns called ordinaries, or “orneries”.
Sage’s, French’s Starkey’s, and the
many others of these places of meat,
drink, and rest overnight for the
weary traveler and forage for his
beast are not longer needed. From
point in the county the trip to
■* New Bern or Wilmington and re
turn can i\qw he made in an after
‘ n #v and *!j e jthhough trip can be
made in as iryany hours as.it for
l merly required days. £ % f
THE RECORD
Although the day WhS Very warm
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and the fide long- arii! dusty, the
exercises attending *the unveiling of
the marker at Bentonville amply
repaid those who made the trip
I There were 15,000 present. Cars
seemed to be parked every where,
in double and triple rows up the
roads, one large pasture above the
speaker’s stand being filled with
cars.
The moving spirit cn this occas
ion was Mrs. J. H. Anderson, whose
untiring efforts made the program,
from begiriining to end a success.
She presented the marker to the
and it was accepted by Gov.
McLean. Then Col Fred Olds and
Gen. Bardon spoke on Junior Re
serves. Mr. Newsome of the His
torical commission also spoke.
Mrs. Anderson then presented Mrs.
Broadfoot and Mrs. Hinsdale, wives
of the deceased leaders of the Ju
nior Reserves on the memorable
days of March 19-21, 1865 at Ben
tonville.
Mrs. Webb, daughter of General
Hoke, was also introduced, as well
as Mrs. Harper McNeil, a deoend
ant cf the Harpers whose home was
used as a hospital for the wounded
after the battle.
Immediately after these intro
ductions a dinner was served at the
old Harper home to veterans and
others. This was indeed a royal
spread, everything from barbecue,
fried chicken, old ham, roast, cakes,
and custards of all kinds, to cold
drinks, ice water and bottled milk
were served.
On the way to the Hayes house
the cemetery was passed in which
a number of those killed in battle
were buried. A handsome monu
ment was erected there in 1894 in
memory of the Goldsboro Rifles. A
salute was fired over the graves of
these young heroes. The nine miles
of breastworks are in a splendid
state of preservation.
The following from Pittsboro
were present at Bentonville for the
unveiling: Mesdames. R. H. Hayes,
James Cordon, Victor R. Johnson,
G. W\ Blair, Miss Evelyn Alston,
Mrs. J. W. Hunt, Mrs. W. B. Chap
in, Mrs. McGee, Mrs. R. P. John
son.
Twenty Children Born to
A Couple At Tarboro
Tarboro ln this city are two
parents to whom have been born
20 children, and 15 of them are
now Jiving. They are Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Powell. They were married
here in 1902. Mri Powell is 44
years old and Mrs. Powell is 39. An
infant was horn to them a few days
ago. Mr. Powell is a tinner here
and is held in high esteem by all
who know him. His oldest son is
married and he has one son in the
United States Navy.
A slight scorch may frequent
ly be remedied if moistened and
hung in the sun to bleach.
NOTICE OF VALUABLE LAND
SALE.
Under and by virtue of an order!
of the clerk of the Superior court j
in the special proceedings therein
pending entitled “W. G. Fields vs.
Oscar Overby et als,” the under
signed will on Saturday the 22nd
day of October, 1927 offer for sale
at public auction, to the highest
bidder for cash, at the court house
door in Pittsboro, North Carolina,
the following described tract of
land, to-wit:
Beginning at the fork of the Fay
etteville and Pittsboro road; thence
with the Fayetteville road in a Sou
therly direction 80 chains to the
corner of the public school lot;
three chains; thence with said
school lot south 23 degrees east 3
1-2 chains; thence with said school
lot east three chains to the Fay
etteville road; thence with said road
in a Southernly direction 21 chains
to a stake; thence east £8 1-2 chains
to a stake; thence south 10 1-2
chains to a stump; thence we§t 45 I
chains to a sour wood; thence north
28 chains to a poplar on the bank
of branch; thence down said branch
as it meanders 13 chains; thence {
south 80 degrees west 3 1-2 chains;
thence south 70 degrees west 10
chains; thence north five degrees
west 5 1-2 chains to a pine on the
Pittsboro road; thence with said
road 33 1-2 chains to the first sta
tion, containing 100 acres, more or
less. The same being lot No. 2,
as shown in the commissioners re
port in a division by them made.
Terms of sale, cash.
Time of sale, 12 o’clock, noon.
Place of sale, Pittsboro, N. C.
W. P. HORTON,
A. C. RAY,
£ A > Commissioners.
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# MJ For Good Prices,
Mfh\U Brin£ Your
M . Y1 TOBACCO
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1/ I / /nl 1 tobacco to the Durham market. You \
I ' I / A I can expect to get good prices in Durham /
\yS I / I V/ks because the Durham market is one of
Ij '/ fc he biggest in the country and because
fir // 71 I \ the big tobacco manufacturing concerns
/ /A I / facturers have buyers on the Durham
/\ f market competing for your tobacco,
/ \/ which means that you get the best pos
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, Ij Good roads lead into Durham j
’' . I from all surrounding sections, the
' Durham warehouses are large, Vjk
tf 1 'j they offer you quick sales and ex- (
I tend many conveniences you will "
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M [ Durham Tobacco Market Opens Tuesday, Sept. 20th,
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