Old Acquaintance
Located In City
Round-About Exchange Of
Information Discloses The ,
Presence Here Of Schoon- |
er Weil-Known In Child
hood
Ted Robinson, Jr., associate edi
tor of Time magazine, a winter
resident of Southport, stuck his
h%ad in the door of the office j
Monday but, quickly withdrew it
Without explanation. Shortly
thereafter, however, the following
letter was found in the mall box
of our Rovin' Reporter:
"Dear Bill:
"I had a question to ask you
today, but I refrained from drop
ping in when I saw through the
window how busy you were. Now
it occurs to me that, if the an- j
swer to the question is right, you!
might find a small personal story j
in the thing. So I'm writing it;
down.
"When I was a small boy I ?
spent a great deal of my time
in Provincetown, Massachusetts. I
In Provincetown, I spent as much j
time as I could?when I was
allowed to or when I could get]
away with it?playing aboard a'
certain fishing schooner when
she was anchored in the harbor, j
We used to row out and spend,
the day on her, playing pirate
and so on. Her owner and skipper, |
Captain Herman Mayo, died about
20 or more years ago. He was
a good friend of my family's and
of mine. The ship was sold, and
sailed away, and we all felt very
melancholy.
"Now I have just heard from
a childhood playmate, who has
just learned where I am and
who informs me that the schoon
er foundered in a storm and
sank years ago. and now lies
where she went down?right here
off Southport.
"She was called The Little
Jennie. Do you know anything
about it? I thought I might go
out sometime and drow an
empty bottle in sentimental tri
bute ?
Regards,
Ted Robinson, Jr."
Since Mr. Robinson used a
roundabout way of asking the |
above question we are using a j
roundabout way of answering it ?
here goes:
"Dear Ted: To the best of my j
knowledge and belief the Little
Jennie's wreck lies alongside the!
Jim Arnold fish house at South-1
port. The fisherman who bought!
her from Captain Mayo did not
make a howling success. They
brought her down here and either
emptied to many bottles or did
not fish enough. A couple of
our friends attached her for debt
and she just laid there and rott
ed. I think you can still see her
ribs if you walk around there.
Regards; Bill".
Fertilizer Plants
In Busy Season
Next Few Months Will Be
Time Of Unusual Activity
For Plants
The'several fertilizer companies j
in Brunswick are now preparing
for their busy season. The first
of the year always finds them
in the rush of mixing, bagging
and storing fertilizers in pre- j
paration for the spring planting.
Northwest township has four i
big plants, Armour and Company,
Virginia Carolina Chemical Com
pany, Smith-Douglas Fertilizer j
Company and F. S. Royster. TheI
first three are located at Navassa'
and the F. S. Royster company
is three miles further up the
Cape Fear.
Several hundred men are em
ployed by the four plants. The
Gulf States Cresoting Company,
with its huge plant and .yards
at Navassa, also gives employ
ment to' a great many men, as
does the Wilmington Pine Com
pany. which is largely owned by
Felton Garner of Southport.
Rovin' Reporter
during the coming year.
If we were listing nice eating
places in Brunswick county we
would certainly include Mack's
Cafe and the Sawdust Trail at
Southport; the F. L. Lewis place
at the Brunswick River bridge;
Ocean View Tavern at Holden
Beach; the Gladys Mintz Cafe at
Grissettown; Shallotte Soda Shop
and Cafe at Shallotte; The Lewis
Cafe at Bolivia and several oth
ers. In addition to the above
there are quite a number of plac
es we know of and some that we
probably do not know of, at var
ious places in the county. The
tourists and travelers in Bruns
wick can now get good meals a
great deaT easier than they could
a few years ago.
Although they realize that a
crab processing plant will be very
helpful and they are wholeheart
edly in favor of it, a great many
residents of the Holden Beach
community have approached us,
expressing concern about the loc
ation. This location is west of the
ferry and the present proposed
site of a bridge that is contem
plated by the highway commis
sion. The Lockwoods Folly Inlet,
through which the boats must
pass going to and from their
work, is east of the ferry. The
operation of a crab processing
plant west of the ferry means
that great numbers of small
boats will have to go through the
drawbridge when it is built. The
bridge will have to be open for
boats longer than the highway
commission will agree to have it
closed to car and pedestrain traf
fic. A result, some think, will be
if the highway commission builds
the bridge they will insist on
having it west of the crab pro
cessing plant, so that the boats
passing to and from the inlet will
not be demanding that the bridge
be kept open for them more than
a reasonable amount of time.
From a letter received this
week from K. Clyde Council, a
member of the Department of
Conservation and Development
and also on the State Parks
Commission, it appears that the
Park Commission is still actively
interested in obtaining Fort Cas
well. Mr. Council stated that neg
oitations were being carried on
with the War Assets Administr
ation regarding the property.
Mr. Council stated that the maj
ority of the Board members were
definitely for obtaining Fort Cas
well. Some members are rather
"Luke warm", but the majority
is definitely for it and Mr. Coun- j
cil still hopes the place can be
acquired in a satisfactory way. ;
A pleasing letter was received
this week from James L. Yates j
of Durham. Mr. Yates has been |
spending the past six weeks at
the Ocean View Tavern at Hoi-j
den Beach. In part he writes:,
"I have been in twenty-eight stat-j
es and t have never found a
place to rest and really relax'
than Holden Beach. No heavy
traffic, trains of factory whist
les, I grew to really love the
place and the fine Brunswick peo- j
pie whom I met. Among these
were Dr. and Mrs. Holden, Mr.
and Mrs. Cooke, Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Grady, Luther Holden, Mr. j
Ward and Vnany others. Not the I
least of the pleasures of the stay;
was th8 excellent food served by,
Teddy and Gorey at the Ocean
View Tavern. I wish to thank
these folks and also the boys at
the ferry for their excellent ser
vice."
In past years Captain B. L.
Raymond of Palm Beach, Fla.,
has been a frequent visitor to
Southport aboard his sport fish
ing cruiser, the Lev-Lou. He
writes us that the Lev-Lou sails
again, now as a 65-footer, pow- j
ered by twin diesel engines. He
is offering vacations effoat and1
says that his boat is ideal for
small groups to live aboard. From
past experiences with this fine
sport fishing skipper, we expect
to see the new Lev-Lou at South
port for a short time at least,
during the coming year.
A big car was noted taking on
gas at the McKinley Hewett fill
ing station in Shallotte several
days ago a tag with only the
initials "W.I.P." aroused interest.
Inquiry revealed that the unnum
bered car was owned by Walter
lies Percival, an official of the
State of Connecticut. Mr. Percival,
who was accompanied by Mrs. |
Percival, courteously explained |
that as a State official he was!
given a large tag with his initials i
instead of the customery num- i
bers. The "W.I.P." tagged car and |
Mr. and Mrs. Percival are now:
at 134 El Vedado Lane, Palm |
Beach, Florida. Perhaps when the i
couple return to Connecticutt the
paper will be able to learn more
of the system of initialling the J
cars of State officials in the j
east.
Sometime, maybe soon, we are
likely to find we have something
in the paper about no frost hav
ing fallen yet in Brunswick
county, and before the paper gets
out to its readers the county will
be black in the wake of a frost.
Despite this possibility, we just'
have to write, quoting Boyd Ro
binson,- D., C. Boyd, Sonny Boyd
and Martin Misenhimmer, of
Shallotte Point. They advise us
that last week they found several
stalks of corn, all decked out in
new tassels and silks, on the
farm of LeRoy Mintz, at Shal
lotte.
Not quoting: anybody, just go-1
ing by our eyesight, we saw a
beautiful little field of egg plants
and along side of it another field
of bell peppers, on the farm of
E. Danford, near Bolivia this
week. We ate some of the pep- j
pers, and without asking the
leave of Mr. Danford, we cut a
green limb from one of the egg!
plants, with two egg plants still,
on it, and sent it off to Raleigh
where they had killing frost sev-'
eral weeks ago.
Thompson McRackan, who lives
across Walden Creek on the Rivet
Road, is getting more interested
in hogs and cattle. He has a fine
herd of hogs and has recently >
purchased a big young register
ed Hereford bull. His farm em
braces some six hundred acres of
fine farming land, much of it
naturally adapted to grazing. Fol
lowing the pattern of many other
Brunswick farmers Mr. McRack
an thinks that the livestock pos
sibilities have never been fully
developed.
A few days ago we met up
with D. Shwartz, young Castle
Hayne blub grower who is in
terested in this section. Three oi'i
four years ago Mr. Shwartz
bought the Wallace Moore farm
of several hundred acres at Wald
en Creek on the River Road.
Since buying the place he has
been too busy with his bulb
growing to pay much attention
to it. Now he tells us he is think
ing of doing something out there.
The farm has a considerable
frontage on the road on which
grading is now being done and
with a contract for paving al
ready let.
When he came here last week
to appraise Fort Caswell for the
WAA Glenn Gibson must have
had a prior tip-off about us from
somebody. To better introduce
himself he brought with him the
model of a new fishing box that
he is having patented. It is a
convenient and ingenious con
traption that will carry a great
number of plugs without their
becoming all tangled up with
themselves and the rest of the
outfit carried by fishermen.
The more we hear of it the bet
ter we like the plans of the
North Carolina Wildlife Com
, mission to grow bicolor plants
i here in Brunswick county. The
, decision to plant here is founded
*?n the fact that we have no late
(frosts in the spring or early ones
|:in the fall. They have been buy
ing the plants in Georgia but can |
and will grow them here. Distri
buted to land owners all over the
state, they will be one of the
best advertisements of the cli
mate that the lower North Caro
lina coast could have.
In the death of Robert C. St.
George Brunswick county ex-ser
vice men lost their greatest
friend, certainly the man who
helped them most when they
needed help. For a quarter of a
century he always stood ready
to give advice and help to men
men who had been in the service.
He did this without pay and at
least many of them came to
recognize that he was a real;
friend to them. When a County'
Veterans Service office was esta
blished and a paid worker put in
Mr. St George continued his in
dividual service. When the Ser
vice Office was abolished two
weeks ago the veterans had no
one to whom they could turn so
much as Robert St. George.
Although they have never met
each other it is apparent that
Mrs. R. H. Holden of Shallotte
and Holden Beach and Mrs. F.
Moflycheck of SoUthport have'
much In common. They are both '
ardent fishermen. Mrs. Molly- i
check usually prefers to go after1
the big fellows. Mrs. Holden gets
a thrill out of fishing for spots (
and what have you at the yacht
basin dock at Holden Beach, i
When she is at the beach, and
that is about every afternoon and
all of the week-end, she fishes)
until after dark. When bait is not
handy for sportsmen going out
from the Ocean View Tavern for j
rockfish, she is usually a source
of supply with her string of
small fish. J
Miss Maggie Andrews of Shal
lotte is in the State, Hospital,
Butner, and will be there for a
year or more. This week Mrs.
James Chadwick of Shallotte is
sending Miss Andrews a Christ
mas present jn the form of a
year's subscription to the State'
Port Pilot. Mrs. Chadwick says'
she hopes that others will re-'
member Miss Andrewt^.
mas with a card or i
gift. Inciiiently, it ?044 ,
a bad idea for other
people to follow Mrs
example and send a
scription to The pi\0,
Christmas present to fnta^"
relatives who are ?*?
home.
Will swap- tools. (
pras, furniture, mi*
laneous articles, etc!
What Have \oiij
Write "SWAP" c,
State Port Pilot
Southport.N.Ci
C. W. Davis Co.
WHOLESALE GROCER
210-15 N. Water St.
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Distributors ot Quality Foods
Sine? 1932
Catering to the retail grocer,
hotels, cafeterias, restaurants,
hospital institutions and baker
ies. We also eater especially
to dredges, boats, and outgoing
ships. We carry a full line of
No. 10 canned vegetables, No.
10 canned fruits and Juices of
all kinds. Mayonnaise, salad
dressing, mustard pickles and
sauce??. Also dried fruits. Lay
er raisins, package raisins,
bulk raisins, citron, fruit cake
mix.Mince meat, pail jelly and
pie fillings that are ready pre
pared. Toilpt tissue, wrapping
paper, tabl napkins, paper
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paper. We V? factory repre
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models. Get ouch with us
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also carry a full line of soda
fountain supplies. We also car
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candy bars We Cater Especial
ly to New Grocery Stores on
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Give You Prices. So You Can
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is filled with merchandise that will help give
the answer to some of your more perplexing
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?COMING?
"CHRISTMAS EVE"
I GEO. RAFT - GEO. BRENT
JOAN BLONDELL
"It Doesn't Mailer What Vim k\n
As Long As You Are Sini-pre"
OH I IDES IT?
That'? wh?t i plumbing iilnm,
told me one d?y?tri ? B|.
people hot ?id th,
thing that it i( ,|nM ,
proverb.
* But sincerity ii rot tnouak.
M it Jonet tinctrely til;?.,j
it v?ei e doie of medicini i?,
wis taking from the bottle in >h? riv.
NI
cin? cabinet. It turned out to t? m,
and ih? died.
Sinearity it a fin? ?King?ore of the rob'*!f 0f
tuel?but it didn't save Miss Jon?.
Nor will sincerity save your ioul if you believe
wrong thing.
If you rett your faith in religious ceremonies ye,
are loit. If you think the pearly gates of hi,.,,
will swing open for you because you are a 500:
moral man, or because of the good deeds you hot
done, you.may be sincere at the day it long btt
you will ctrtainly be lott.
A person cen be saved only by coming at a reed)
helpless sinner to the Lord Jesus Christ and accept,
ing His pardon?a pardon made possible becici
Christ died on the cross the death we deserved it
di*. Christ alone can save us. "Neither is there sal
vation in any other," cried the apcstle Peter, for
there is none other name under heaven given amenj
men whereby we must be saved."
It does matter what you believe. Anchor your lath
in the Lord Jesus Christ with all the sincerity el
your heart, and Ha will give you peace with 5:!
and everlasting life.
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(Near Holden Beach)
YOU ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND
Sunday School?9 -30 A. M.
Bible Study?Saturday?7:30 P. M.
Preachlnz 1st and 3rd Sunday, P. M.
Dolls
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Effanbee, and Horsemrfn.
50c To $7.98
Electric Trains
American Flyer and Marx Electric Trains.
Complete with Transformer, track and
switches.
From $9.98 To $26.95
Mechanical Trains From $3.98
Toy Pianos
Every little finger likes a
keyboard. Ivory and wal
nut.
$3.49
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s-plane and other models. Has
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T ricycles
Tubular frame, adjusta
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ball bearing
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Toy Fire t rue k
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ladder that cranks UP
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Other trucks SI-00
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4Everything To Decorate Trees"
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SHALLOTTE, N. G.
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heart