; PACE S ? BIRTHDAY SUPPER A birthday supper was given for Mrs. Mary Wilson by her children to celebrate her 80th birthday. Those who attended were Mr.' and Mrs. J. C. Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Wilson and children, Mr. and Mrs. X. M. Benton and cons, Jonas and Galey. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Nelson. Mrs. Cignes Nelson, Mrs. Katie Wilson, of Little River, and son Jamie, and daughter, Gertrude, Mrs. Mamie Morse, of Longwood, Mr. and Mrs. L C. Eland and children, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Stewart and children. Mrs. George Stock. J Misses Emma. Gertie, Cassie and Elton Hewett. ot asm. Mrs. Wilson received many useful gifts. Six of her children were with her eight grandchil drer. and four of her great grandchildren. She has three other! children. She has three other children not with her and 9 grand | children. Cornelius Thomas Was One Of Brunswick's Pioneers " ^ (Continued from Page 1) the old Store Hill. It crossed the Pealanding Road, a few hundred feet from the old store site. One of the highway employees. R. O. Lewis, had the foresight to see that the crossing of the two loads would be a good place for a business. He bought r<0 acres, on one of the corners and put up a store. He says that lie started with SfiO.OO worth of goods. His business grew amazingly. He had to enlarge his' store. Another store was built: anil operated by R. Somersett. They have been very successful i on a small investment. A number of people riding the bus from Wilmington were un-' able to Inform the driver when they wanted to pet off as the place had no name. Two years ago the name Thomasboro was selected. It seemed a most appropriate name in as much as the property has been in the Thomas family for generations. Thontasboro is surrounded by some of the best farm land in the county. There were around 200 acres of land cleared near Themasboro last year. Farming is becoming more active each year Many farms have changed hands, and new blood is coming into the community. The present rate of development gives promise of this becoming a leading farm { development seen. When Highway No. 17 was hard surfaced. The Thomasboro site was just a spot of woods land; today there are two thriving places of business, another one is under construction; and other are contemplated. It has possibilities far beyond the present business activities. Thousands of dollars of trade is going Watch Thorn; I \ Within the next t begin construct store, across tb I | present locatior Business Is Imj % Store Is < - I MAKE IT A TRADE \ * I [c r| Hilton I Thomasbt I } other places for lack of more and, larger places of business. LONGWOOD NOW IS THE CENTER OF FARM COMMUNITY {Continued on Page S.1 that everything would be ironed out and operations resumed, many of the best families who had located at Longwood remained there. Long before it was fully realized that Longwood would probably never again become a lumber loading town the good people who had moved there for various activities in connection with the; lumbering turned their attention! to farming. i < Thousands of acres of land,' , from which the timber had been ; cut to be sawed into lumber at ; Whiteville, was remarkably rich j and fertile. Much of this cut-over I land was cleared up for cultivation and the erstwhile lumbermen 1 went to tilling the soil in earnest. J The result is that today Long- j i wood, the lumbering town of yds- 1 terday, is a fine little vilage of Jr prosperous people in a fertile; | farming communi t y. It i s | doubtful if many of the residents ! j of the Longwood of today, unless !, it is some of the business people < who depended on the weekly pay- , rolls, have any regrets over the ) transformation from lumbering to r farming. | r Longwood is now a fine com- j f munity of fine people, raising f fine crops of tobacco, corn and other farm products. The folks are keeping pace with, if not leading, many other sections of I Brunswick. MUI LET FISHING f IS NOW ENTERING j ITS rusv SEASON I {Continued from page 1) of pounds of fat mullets, with : many spots and other fish. 13;:t the work is rot completed.', v '. i th crew about equally cli-'v vi.lcd. a ttig of war begins at } each end of the net. Slowly, and : with many a groan and grunt. * the net and its precious cargo of shiny fish is drawn up on shore. Inside the great half eirele. 1 other men with split oak baskets v are gathering fish as fast as v they are dragged ashore. When f a basket becomes too heavy to 1 carry, its contents are emptied into the rapidly growing piles on! _ the sand beyond the reach of the 1 waves. |c Sell 'em or Salt' Em By some miracle, just as mysterious as the manner in ' which a turkey buzzard antici-1( pates the presence of carrion, it ( seems that the news of a set and ' the taking of a good size catch 1 of fish spread for many miles ' without any visible means of i crsnmunication. I' It is often a much discussed i ' fact uiiu before the laborers at!< a fishing camp brings the first i ji ! I isboro Grow I ; month we will ion of our new e road from our | I jroving . . Our Growing! , HABIT TO VITH US! Pierce oro, N. C. I i THE fish ashore a fleet of trucks wil be drawn up on shore back oi them, waiting to buy or bartei for the catch,, to transport it sometimes clear across the state retailing to eager consumers. One of the first question: asked after ' the bringing of s catch ashore is whether to set them or salt them away. If th< trucks offer a fair price the fisl are usually sold on the spol where they are brought ashore If the price offered is not satis factory the fishermen resort t< great piles of casks with a capa. city of a .hundred pounds each The fish are (dressed and packet away between ' thick layers o( salt, and the casks or kegs arc stored somewhere to undergo the first curing process. After a few weeks in the brine the easks are emptied of the fish and immediately repackec carefully and with more salt The casks arc then sealed tightly and salt mullets are ready foi Ihe wholesalers who buy anil dispose of them to the retailers The retailers, in turn, sell to he consumers. Eut. long before a eask o< salt mullets reaches the consumers. the fishermen who made fhr ,-ifteh will have strugged tlhrough tinny oceans of raging breakers >ringing other catches to land, To salt or sell 'em, as the ease na.v be. Inevitably, they will be iold, of course, but at the time if limiting the eateh the iinmediite question will have been. 'Shall we sell 'em or salt 'em?" EXPERT ANSWERS FARM QUESTIONS (Continued from page 1) ceding this mash continuously, nit it has an important place in he feeding schedule of most locks at some time during the ear. It should be used with early latched pullets to prevent a parial or complete molt: with late i.atched pullets to hasten produc?? ?i,? f,i|. with lavinsrhens IUII 111 tuv- i?". ? o keep up production until Ocobcr, and with breeding hens o hasten production in January, "hree pounds of the regular layng mash moistened with hot rater or milk for each 100 birds rill give excellent results. This ihould he fed about two o'clock n the afternoon. Question: Is there any fertilizing value n tobacco stalks that are plow d under in the fall? Answer: There is a certain amount ol jenefit to the soil, but the greatest benefit will come from the jontrol of insect pests. Stalks bat stand in the field after har/est furnish food and a winterng place for a large supply ol nsect pests to attack the tojacco the following season. Al! italks should be plowed under 01 ;ut immediately after harvest Ibis also applies to plant bed! ivhere the growing plants fur riish a breeding place for thcs< pests as do the suckers on stalk! left in the field. BEFTLES RAVAGE MANY PINE TREES IN BRUNSWICK (Continued From Page 1) damaged, or otherwise weakened Many infestations start from i single weakened tree. Co-operation among land-own era is necessary, as little gooc can be accomplished by cleaning one area if timber in adjacen areas serves as a source of in festation, Page warned. INTERESTING TRIP THRU BRUNSWICK ?CIT T* * i ft1 BY t.rMUi-isriivi/^i'' (Continued from page 1.) five miles farther to ride on th< bay, or seashore, and five mile: after before we came withii sight of a house, so that w< were obliged to ride gently foi fear of our horses. When wt got about fifteen miles over thi bay, my horse gave out, and ' was obliged to take one of th< negro's horses, leaving him be hind to take car& of mine. Whei we rode about two miles farther another of our companions' hor ses gave out, and in short twt more before we got to Asha's or Little river, which was th< next house. ; ^ V i .'iiii >ii < i j i .'.1?11' i Li i i'i > i n .i i i'i ?i Our Busi | Serve Our Our complete merchandise has the idea of supply! average farm fain GROCERIES, FERTILIZER Harre Cash PUROL LONGW( STATE PORT PILOT, SPIT I 1 "The next morning just as \ f were setting out from thence, o r tired horses came in, when \ . ordered them to be left there t . further orders: we left the bo behind to come after us as wi ' as they could. We reached Litl Charlotta (Shallotte) by dinn I time, which is about fifte 5 miles from Ash's, or Little rive i we dined there, and in the afte t \ noon crossed the ferry, whe , we intended to sleep that nigl after having crossed the ferry. .; "It is named so after o ' Lockwood, a Barbadian, wl 1, with several attempted to setl f it some time ago; but, bv t , cruel behavior to the Indiar , they drove him from thence, ai j it has not been settled above t , years. We left Loekwood's Fol ? about eight the next mornin I and by two reached the town . Brunswick, which is the chi . town in Cape Fear; but wi no more than two of the sat1 . horses which came with us o . 1 of South Carolina. We din - there that afternoon. Mr. Rog More hearing we were come, w ' so kind as to send fresh hors for us to come up to his houi which we did, and we we ij kindly received by him: he t ,; ing the chief gentleman in i , Cape Fear. His house is bu of brick, and exceeding pleasar ly situated about two miles fro the town, and about half a mi ) from the river: though there a creek comes up to the dor I between two beautiful meadov | about three miles length. He hi a prospect of the town of Bntn 1 wick, and of another heautif brick house, a building aboi half a mile from him. belongir i to Eleazer Allen. Esq., late spci ker of the common house of a j sembly in the province of Soul Carolina, There were several ve sels lying before the town i Brunswick, but I shall forbe: giving a description of thi place; yet on the 20th of Jut we left Mr. Rogers Moore's. a conipnnied by his brother, Natl aniei More, Esq., to a plantatic of his, up the north-west brant of Cape Fear river. The rivi is wonderfully pleasant, bein next to Savannah, the finest t all the continent, j "We reached the Forks, i they call it, that same nigh where the river divides into tv very beautiful branches, calk the Northeast and the Northwes .! passing by several pretty pla J tations on both sides. We lodgt ! that night at one Mr. .Tehu Davi and the next morning, proceed! !jup the northwest branch; wh< we got about two miles fro [' thence, we came to a beautif plantation, belonging to Capta ' | Gabriel, who is a great me ' I chant there, where were tv I ships, two sloops, and a briga ' i tine, loading with lumber for tl ' J West Indies. It is about twent two miles from the bar. Whi ' we came about four miles hig ' er up, we saw an opening < the north east side of us, whii is called Black river, on whii there is a great deal of ve . good meadow land, but there L not any one settled on it. "The next night we came ' another plantation belonging 1 Mr. Rogers More, called the Bli Banks, where he is going build another very large brii house. This bluff is at least r ? hundred feet high, and has beautiful prospect over a fii large meadow, on the opposi side of the river. The houses a all built on the south-west si< of the river, it being for t! most part high champaign Ian I The other side is very much su ject to overflow, but I cann learn they have lost but 01 3 ccrop. I am credibly inform' 1! they have very commonly fou 5! score bushels of corn on an ac r of their overflowed land. It vei ' rarely overflows but in the wii - tef time, when their crops a ' off. I must confess I saw tl : finest corn growing there, th: " I ever saw in my life, as lik< 1 j wise wheat and hemp. We lodj ed there that night at one Cap ' ain Gibb's, adjoining to M 1 More's plantation, where we mi ' with very good entertainmen ' The next morning we left h WJfrW****.Mll'Xto?|I; |'|?! i)Mhi.j.vh, J ness Is To j Customers | : stock of general been built up with ing very need of the lily. Gall on us for HARDWARE, OR SUPPLIES! ilson's Store DEALER )OD, N. C. THPORT, NORTH CAROLINA i i ve I house, and proceeded up the said ur [ river to a plantation belonging ve1 to Mr. John Davis, where we ill dined. The plantations on this ys: rivers are all very much alike ; ell as to the situation, but there are tie | many more improvements on er | some than on others. This house en!is built after the Dutch fashion, r; i and made to front both ways on r-; the river, and on the land. He re has. a beautiful avenue cut throu-j it, i gh the woods for above two I miles, which is a great addition i to the house. We left his house np about two in the afternoon, and i [J" the same evening reached Mr.! ,js Nathaniel More's plantation. ls which is reckoned forty miles 1(j from Brunswick. It is likewise a i>n: very pleasant place on a bluff ly upward of sixty feet high. I for-i rr bore mentioning any thing either of as to the goodness or the badef ness of the land m my passage th from South Carolina, it being in ile short, nothing but a sandy bank nt from deed, the town itself is Pel not much better at present; it or is that which has given this as place such a bad name on ac- j ps count of the land, and it being i le< the only road to South Carolina, rp from the northern part of the : p. continent, and as there are a ill great many travellers from New ilt York, New England, etc, who go ' it- to Charleston, having been ask- 1 I m cd what sort of land they have I !p in Cape Fear have not stuck to 1 Is say, that it is all a mere sand 1 >r, bank. But let those gentlemen i ps take a view of the rivers, and 1 as they will soon be convinced to i s- the contrary as well as myself, - { ill who, must confess, till then was t nt1 off their opinion, but now am 1 ig convinced by ocular demonstra- t 3-1 tion, for I have not so much as t s- seen one foot of bad land since 1 !h my leaving Brunswick. About i s- three days after my arrival at t nf Mr. More's. there came a sloop > ir of one hundred tons, and upward s it from South Carolina, to be laden ' ie with corn, which is sixty miles r r- at least from the bar. I never yet I n- heard of any man who was ever s nf fhnt river but J >n at uiu u? uu v. .?.. h they tell me, the higher you go i the better the land, and the riv- c g, cr grows wider. There are people \ m settled at least forty miles higher f up, but indeed the tide does not r is flow, at the most above twenty j it, miles higher. Two days after, I f ,-o was taken very ill of an ague s :d and fever, which continued on me r it, for near a month, in which time ! n- my companions left me, and re- t ?d turned to South Carolina. When j is' I began to recover my health a i ?d little, I mentioned to Mr. More I >n the great desire I had to see t m Waccamaw Lake. 1 ul "The next morning (we) set \ in out with an intent Jo take a t r- view of the north-east branch, t ro on which there is a great deal t n- of good land, hut not in my i 10 ?^?_____ fNew Store :k * A fresh, new s a has greatly added I X ?jj vcniences of this ct le )[ YOUR BI h- )( ,t1 * ? ** r * \rn a fit ot * ALVVAia /\i'I le K re )k U WR. t: | PUROL I :t | LONG wo j|| We Believ II Our Coi ?( j jj | Thomasboro is th ) i center of lower Bru x ness has been goo*. iK progressively better H We Carry A ( k Staple and Fa\ \ Auto Repair SI Mrs. L. R. S [ Purol 1 \ THOMASBC *******VKKKKV***4 opinion, for the generality, so good as on the northwest, but I think the river is much more beautiful. We lay that first night at Newtown, in a small hut, and the next day reached Rocky Point, which is the finest place in all Cape Fear. There are several very worthy gentlemen settled there, particularly Colonel! More. Captain Heme, John Swan, j Esq., and several others. We stayed there one night, and the next morning set out on horseback to take a view of the land backwards, imagining that there j might be only a skirt of good land on the river, but I am sure that I rode for above twenty miles back, through nothing i but black walnut, oak and hick-' ory.. We returned the same night to Rocky Point, and the next morning set out for a plantation belonging to Mr. John Davis, within six miles of Brunswick, where I was a second time taken ill. so that I thought I should have died, but by the providence of God, and the care of good Mrs. Davis. I recovered in i fortnight's time, so that I was able to set out on my journey to South Carolina. "I tool; leave of that worthy family on* the 10th off August, when she was so kind as to force me to take a bottle of shrub, and several other things with me. I reached Mr. Roger Ytnre's the same night, where I was again handsomely received, }ut lieing resovled to set out on i { ny journey the next morning, he j j generously offered me a horse j | .0 carry me to the house where j | i was obliged to leave mine on | he road, as likewise a servant, j :o attend me, which I refused. I ' left his house the next morn- I ng. being the 11th of August, I *__i* aavnn find ] tl fill 11 <111 IIWUI axil I DV>V., ? . cached Brunswick by eight. I 1 ict out from thence about nine, 1 ind about four miles from thence ! net my landlord of Lockwood ' i'olly, who was in hopes I would i itay at his house ail night. 1 Ybout two I arrived there with ' lifficulty, it being a very hot,! lay, and myself very faint and j vrak, when I called for a dram, j md to my great sorrow found j lot a drop of rum, sugar or lime j uice in the house, (a pretty j ilace to stay all night indeed), j io was obliged to make use of j ny own bottle of shrub, which j nade me resolve never to trust j he country again on a long11 ourncy. About five I ferried over j n order to proceed to Captain j -lorries'. But about half way be-1 j ween that and Charlotta (Shal- j otte) met him going to Bruns- j vick. About eight I reached lit- j j le Charlotte where I waited for j he ferry-boat till nine, in which | :imc I had like to have been | levoured by Mosquitoes; about! j : i r yrfy-w vvv-'r-K-irwv 'xfv* 111 ? i'ii i | j j New Stock |i ) I1! tock of goods that j j j o the trading con- )M * )U immunity. J j j ) ( J JSINESS HI ^RECIATED! b )i ! S( > ? )( ) i j | Jenrette jjj u: ai.hr jji! )(> 01), N. C. \\\ ii J ? I e In jjj mmunity jjj ie coming business JJ * inswick. Our busi- j j \ i j t 1 . . It will grow jj 11 r- )i si jood Line Of j j > icy Groceries i!) )lj lop in Annex! j j) I i;j pivey Store jj dealer !! )RO, N. G. || |l WEDNESDAY. AUGUST or J halff an hour after I arrived at' of that, not being Captain Hemes', and, thank God, uld Jill be lost in ^ V met with gooa entertainment. I break, and mounting ? slept very well all the nlgnt, and too some gingerbread : in the morning, about ten, set in my hand and pursue fl out on my journey to Little riv- r ;y. And by eleven .J* er and reached there about .oyns, or the end of three. I met with a very prat- eight I reached MUr ? ing fellow there, that diverted I met with plenty of r,. M me very much. I immediately and lime juice, and a ordered my horse to be got up. ture for my horse, buufl but to my great grief found him The next morning i ^ in a worse condition than when thence, and by noo,.,*B I left him. The negroes having Masters', or Winneaw rode him to that degree without the ferryboat being a saddle, that he had a swelling, could not get over till ,? in the middle of his back as big at night, after I had as my double fist, which hinder- i on wild turkey. The ed my proceeding on my journey j ing I set out from Sh-,H that night as I intended. But or the ferry on the by applying things to his back, and the same night it broke before morning, which, in; buth's. The next some measure eased him. At sev- out from thence and en the next morning I left his miles from the house house and by eight reached the a possum, which is Long Bay. When I was about little pig. It has a fals,',M half wav over the bay, I intend- that when they have ed to stop at the next spring if you fright them, the/l and take a tiff of punch, but by diately run into th<> toi some unfortunate accident, I closes up immediately. ;\| know not how, when I came Witton's by noon, and within sight of the spring, my possum dressed for bottle unluckily broke, and I lost same night I reached Mr fl every drop of my shrub. But by , in Goose creek, and examining my bags, I accidently night I arrived at found a bottle of cherry brandy, the 7th day of August, with some gingerbread and remained till the 2.",rd oft > cheese, which I believe good Mrs. ber, when I set sail for gfl More ordered to be put up un- an darrived safe in u/fl known to me. I drank two drams the 3rd of January, i School Clothes] ( 5 It may seem a bit early to talk about fall I I ( clothes, but school opens in less than two H | weeks, and there is much shopping to be done H before Little Johnie and Little Mary can stanl | the fall term. We have planned our stock fori this occasion and we invite you to visit our| store when making your back-to-school pur l S chases, | Shallotte Trading Co, I ! Jlnhsnn Kirhv. Prnt). | SHALLOTTE, N. C. I f^v-^y:yyyyt1ryw|yy]g|C|ry^v-y-'