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^PAGEJ^ Regatta Recalls Relation- around the table of Mrs. John ship of Many Years Ago Walker. or Mrs. Cowan, or Mis. Owen D. Holmes, and many oth(Continued From Page 1) ers, and partake of the delicious tality, generosity and a patron of viands they knew so well how learning in his state. to set forth and preside over. "The south Atlantic and North the-v were cooks in those Western railroad has run its en- days, taught by adepts in the gine over and across and around art of tickling the palate, and , the memory of this man, whom not hampered by the rules of . our sons are. I hope, learning to Mrs. Parloa, or any other pro. know and honor, as they walk fessor of the culinary art. They beneat hthe trees and through just simply did it, and that was the academic groves of the ITni- all there was about it. Then, versity at Chapel Hill. after the feast, came the even"From the earliest times, ing drive, and then the dancing. Southport has been a resort for Duke Walker was the fiddler, purposes of pleasure and comfort This venerable colored gentleman and health. Hut there are resorts enjoyed a high reputation, first, and resorts, pleasure seekers and as the major domo of Major pleasure seekers, various in their Walker, and. second, as the fidpurposes and their tastes. Of the dler at all impromptu social old sort (blessed he their memo- gatherings. But, alas (for the ries, and peace to their ashes) degeneracy of human nature) their purpose was easy, not with- having spent long and useful out dignity, but certainly with lite as above enumerated, he fingenuine friendship, and a genial ally accepted a position as "boss" hospitality. They came to South- of the First National Bank, of I port about June 1st. which was Wilmington, and went out with as late as it was deemed safe to that institution, stay at their winter homes, for' "Thus Smithville remained unmosquitoes and malaria arrived til the tocsin of war sounded in in those days by the almanac. On 1861. An ideal resort, having c the 10th of October frost was its characteristics varied ffrorn due, and as they did not rise time to time by its military asvery early, they took it on trust pect. For Smithville was never that frost had come as in duty altogether Smithville was never bound on that day. So they fold- altogether Smithville. It was Ft ed their tents and departed, leav- Johnson from early Colonial times. , ing the Smith vidians in tears, for and long before Smithville was the residents of Smithville were thought of. Indeed, it was selvery fond of these summer gues- dom that any of the pleasure and ts. whose business it was to sit health seekers spoke of Smithin the shade, where the summer ville at all. They were going to ltwuWM " Atlanfio Wmi-. Ihu "V,ivt" nhvflvs. At tile Fort II ing over summer seas, could per- were the troops of the United meate through them with a deli- State's army, with their gay cious coolness. At 11 o'clock bv young officers, always popular the watch it was in order to take at the south. And the south in a toddy and bless the Ixml for like manner was ever popular ; His goodness. This was before with til. g..y y. office:*. At the days when the devil was dis- no ir.T post did they find covered at the liottom of the more i - au'eft1.' women. At none cup: at any rate, they took their were they more easily compelled toddy, and lived long and happily to surrender to the overwhelming thereafter. power of Cupid's darts. In fact, The ladies were the dispensers the bond of friendship and affect generous hospitality, and hap- tion between many of the offipy were they who could gather cers and our people did become X 1 )! ' r j || Welcome to Soi I II AND TO "if 1 The People's Unite 1! Friendly co-operation between t I Ill Soutliport anil Members Of The Carol I! )( of W rightsville, has characterized ever I I * ) t mm * r I )! the 1937 Yachting Regatta a success. <? s * || bring about a better understanding be )( ) ( || ton anil Soutliport citizens so that, tor; I! ) ( K work for the development of this Lo I! )! i J j( country. )! # )l ) ( j( We wish to be of every possible ? I $ )( visitors here this week, and we cordial H * [ feel free to call upon lis for any servic I [ MM1 ??3Sg>l I rj| People's United If i Individual Deposits Insured tip to $t Federal Deposit Insurance Co B fciommtunnntitMitinnticMmtmnciutKoiiKi T " i~ so firmly bound that, after four I years of a bloody war, they were not forgotten. "One hesitates to ring down the curtain and hide forever the peaceful life of these people at the favorite and only resort in the Cape Fear section. For, be it remembered, this was in the days of slavery, which assumed in these days and in this place a rather patriarchal character. None of the evils of slavery, so much talked of and written about in the northern and anti-savery points were known to exist; and it seems now that about the only obstacle to entire ireeaom was the patrollers, who were a ter-' ror to wandering negroes away from home after 9 o'clock at night. But even this did not amount to much deprivation of liberty, because any of them could get a pass merely by asking for it. Many of the families residing in the town for the summer kept from ten to fifteen servants, whose principal occupaI tion must have been to get out ! of each other's way. "Not many who prosper in these doys know the routine of daily life at that time. Every member of the family and every guest had his own special servant. The .?iofAi.tunn nttonrlinc this QF rangement was that your special servant was apt to be out to hear the,i band play, or see the procession pass by, just when he was wanted, but if everything went on with due regularity he waked you in the morning at the proper time, not too early, brushed your clothes and arranged them neatly on a chair at your Ix'd side, took your shoes away to be polished, and, after a brief absence, returned with the water for your bath. After you had finished your toilet, he offered you a mint julep sent up by your host, which puts you in a happy mood for enjoying your breakfast. "After this meal is over, you repair to the shady veranda, where pipes are served already ! Si SI f Si f i k ithport II: ai f Pi id Bank p , yi h; !lf' he Citizens of si inn Yacht Club, )'K ) W r y effort Its make jf e: May this event I t C( ) \ ir stween Wilming- it u X di X w <) f ;ether, they may jt ft S f ill i ( al vver Cape Fear j| 11 lo J St ' a< j ( n< !( S3 issistance to our n ai X S' ly invite them to ji u i j & ff\ p( ) ( w e. i i oi >> t i n< )! w i i el X of 'Bank S i! f i( i x X >( i >< i X ====== X X X ),000.00 bv The x Xi X X rporation. j j x ii X X X al) v. HE STATE PORT PILOT, Boom of Southern War Veterai ^ <* aJir ' B'%M WAR-SCARRED Bill Holcomlje 0! Cedartown, Ga., credits th< growth of Southern Industry foi putting him back on the comebacl trail today after he bad spent hope less years in a United Statei veteran's hospital. Gassed at Verdun during the "World War, Holcombe spent sev era'l years in the government hos pital. His shattered health inter fered with his efforts to eke out f living and his responsibilities were Increased when a daughter, Nellie May, nicknamed "Little Star," was born. . The slight compensation from the government wasn't enough However. Cedartown began tc thrive?Industry came to the South -Then he learned that the National Oil Products Company of Harrison N. J., had bought a plant in his home town as a base for Southern operations. The new plant was neai the Goodyear Rubber Company plant, both far from a restaurant or refreshment stand. "There ought to be some kind ot restaurant for the workers out near those plants," Bill mused one day. The next day he drew his meagre savings from the bank, and was ready to begin on his day-dream conceived restaurant. He named it "Little Star" after his pretty, seven year old daughter, and was ready for busiuess. Bill serves hamburgers and hot dogs as well as a complete line of groceries and beverages. Mrs. Holcombe does the cooking, but Bill illed, and ready to be lighted rom a blazing coal from the itchen fire. But in a town . here most of the pilots of the 'ape Fear river had their homes : was not expected that absoite quiet would long prevail, nd even the summer residents nd members in good standing f the Lazy Club, could not rest the excitement which naturlly pertains to the business of doting. A wilite spot about the ze of a man's hand will appear 1 the offing, discernible only to le practiced eye of a pilot. Tito ry of "a ship off the bar" would rouse the town to life, energy nd activity. In less time than ou could think, from two to a alf dozen boats would put off oni the shore, the steersman always in his place, the oarsmen ulling off their coats, others earing away to set the maintil aiul jib. and before they had ot 100 rods from the shore all ould be settled in their places >r the chase, which might be ve to ten miles long. Then the icitement of the race would ervade all classes of people, ev1 women and children alike. .nu so it was an we time, tor immerce was then entirely lastwisc, and transacted by sailig vessels. It was not uncomlon for ten or twenty vessels > appear off the bar in a single iy, and often twenty or thirty ould hoist their white sails and 0 to sea on a single tide. So is always and everywhere. An itense interest and excitement ttached to all transactions up1 the mighty ocean. Wherever i pursuit or their avocations piits race over smooth waters or ;ormy seas, there is daring and inger, which requires a fierce itivity and constant watchfulsss, attracting the attention and ,'mpathy of all observers. "But it is impossible to elabate these matters of social life, id the history of Smithville a reater length. It would require le imagination and the pen of Dickens to describe the curious ;ople, both men and women, ho have spent their lives in d Smithville, and who have me to their rest. Smithville is i more. When the trump of ar sounded she yielded up the jost and quietly departed out this troublesome world. Old inithville is a dream and a preslt impossibility. Her ways of )ing things and her manner of Fe could no more be revived )w than could the institution ' slavery. And never, on this Stevens Real C. ED. TAYL< Ow Auto Insurance Fire Insurance Tornado Insurance Establisi Southpoi SO'JTHPORT, N. C. Industry Aids . n, Gassed at Verdun V, IMS-' i has a way with hamburgers, too. But pretty Nellie May has scored more of a hit among the men than her father's hamburgers. After school she takes orders, acts as a hostess and sometimes sings and dances for her favorites. She has aspirations for the stage, she confessed. "Business is fine," Said Bill. "My dream is coming true, thanks to Little Star. We are hoping to save up so Little Star can go to college. After she becomes a famous actress, we?ma and I?are going to quit work." continent or any other can titer ever be such a place. The strug gle for life and political libert; and money, and social position i fierce There is strife and bick ery and new social and politics ambitions, which cannot be sat isfied. The bottom sail has go on top, anil don't know what b do with itself. None of thcs troubles existed in old Smith ville, where everybody occupie< the position intended for him, o her, from the foundation of thi world, and were satisfied will it. "Farewell, ye happy valley for this present writer is goinf to the new Southport, on tin Cape Fear and Cincinnati rail road. Train starts at 9 o'clocl sharp. "We pass over about twenty years of time, which are of n< consequence to our story. It i! true that during those twenty years a few things happened such as the killing off of a feu hundred thousand of our best cit izens, and the manufacture 01 a few hundred thousand widow! and orphans, but these accident! are recorded with more or les: truth in the pages of history, ant they are not related intimately with health or pleasure resorts or even with commercial trans actions, or the founding of new cities. "When the Hon. Pomprj Smash, who used to furnish mc with the mint juleps befort breakfast, was elected to the legislature, it seemed a little qucei at first, but on being remindec by a distinguished politician thai it was merely a question of getting used to it, I reflected anc kept silent. The New Southport "The new Southport date.' from the time when that high ly respected and faithful public servant, Henry Bacon, under the direction of Colonel Craighili cast in the last stone which, finished the great engineering work of filling up the new inlet. "That made Southport a harbor of great excellence, with deep water inside the harbor, and sufficient, after a little dragging, on the bar. Then Southport, with, pardonable elatior concluded that if she was not a commercial city, then she ought to be one, and immediately proceeded to publish her claims tc the world. After some years of delay she succeeded in getting her new name of Southport printed upon the marine charts of the United States, and also Estate Agency )R & J. BERG ners Rent Collections Property Handled On Commission hed 1889 rt, N. G. in the postoffice register. This ne was a great point gained, and jjj soon it-became known through- ^ out the civilized world that she C0! had existence, and that Dr. Nan- m? sen. if he wished to do so, could tie communicate with his iNOrwegian wi friends at Southport and send f?] : greeting to them from the Arctic he circle. mi News of this kind circulates ? rapidly, and soon it became known that a new pla'ce had been discovered in which all the ju money had not been gobbled up 3 by the gold standard capitalists, Bj and they proceeded to promote S the building of new railroads to 5 the new port, so that, if the g names and prospectuses of the 5 new roads were published, the W world itself could not contain S the books which would be writ- Ej ten. 1 jjj "Southport is a place that S North Carolina should be proud g of. It is the only finished and jO prominent harbor in the state. It 3 is being fortified by the United t fi States for defence, with the j K most powerful guns known to j jjj j modern science. (I B "If there is ever a naval en-j g counter with tlie ships of a for- jtj eign power in North Carolina, it j 3 will be off the Cape Fear bar, j 3 and North Carolina should all! Q come down to see where the I a ia "oilirr to P-Pt whiDDed ! H > "V "" ^ r? T5 - * ? IIH These batteries are going:'to be113 manned by the soldiers of the Iju United States, and the brilliant;IS uniforms will be seen upon our J IE: streets as in the olden lime. Are IS the beautiful Cape Fear girls It) going to let these young officers j 3 suffer for want of thier bright > 13 smiles and fascinating ways? We I IS think not, but we will wait and i IS ! see. M "Undoubtedly there will be a IB ^ i I I LUM .1 : MAK i G [ Lumberton w ,! world to show ai f also led the Bore Here are official the Federal-State r ^ MARKET \ LIJMBERTON Fairmont r \ What do thes is a stronger mar expansion of the 1 tion and the upwa 1 berton market tha i A growing mi higher prices for e | sand lug to the fit i BUY. LUM - - . . . . 3 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST n H w city at Southport some time tween the two place., the future. The situation is ways to be intimate a-, > beautiful to be ignored. Its 'y* mmercial position will com- _ X md business. New produc- I y ins of the mines and forests "We have some corn >.t. I? t 11 be brought to Southport Henderson county ti,i p shipment. As a city, it will which I believe win \ a younger brother to Wil- bushels to the acre i :'HS ngton, and the relation be-: Agent G. D. White "J ;{jEfagiB^jHJ5js/H/Breraf2iafaraiara/HjafHi?raargpfiv^^TO A.H.Yopp Piano Co, (Established 1915) if Pianos, Victrolas, Radios I And Records I Musical instruments and Supplies l|| 209 Princess St. Phone 3131 "Coin-Operated Electric I Phonographs" Wilmington, North Carolina i| ^H| IBERTON ES THE GREATEST I A INS I as the only large tobacco market in the [l increase in cities ia?t )ca i. uuiiiuciumi ? ; ler Belt markets in average price gains. figures taken from the reports issued by fj? Crop Reporting Bureau at Raleigh. Hi 1936 AVERAGE B 1936 AVERAGE GAIN OVER 1935 Ht $22.19 $2.32 1 $22.23 $1.05 I ;e figures prove . . . Just this. Lumberton HI ket. It means that the rapid growth and Lumberton market has increased compeli- HC ird trend of prices is greater on the Luni- Hi n on any other market in the Border Belt. irket it always a high market . . . paying Hi very leaf on the stalk from the commonest SBJ lest wrapper. Hj m AND SELL I BERTON
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