Brunswick Between Bookends By Al Arntsen MARCHING ON. By James Boyd. Published in 1927. No. of pages 426. Available at Southport Public Library. As an historical novel this one stands on its own merits. I found it quite absorbing, containing just the right mixture of rich de scriptive phrases and well-written dialogue. Though the locale is given as the Cape Fear country generally, one finds much in these pages to support the feeling that this might very well have happened right in or around Southport. Author Boyd, in well chosen words, brings before our eyes “the Cape Fear Plantations form ing merely a narrow strip of splendor which followed the rich land by the river from Wilming ton down to the sea’’. In contrast, outside this lay the swamp and forest where no one lived but a few poor farmers and the de spised “Crackers”. This second group were the outcasts who made their living by stealing and begging from the Planters. Against this background the writer brings into focus the ways in which the War Between the States affected the people of My room is just dreamy, and / did it myself!" ROL-LATEX INTERIOR LATEX Beautifies walls, ceilings. No paint EVERY 2nd CAN FREE & AT NO EXTRA COST Mffiuf tam Store 702 N. 3rd St. Wilmington, N. C. odor; quick dr) in 9. Soap an water clean-up. $6* GAL. Brunswick County and Wilming- | ton. Each of us know that his- i torically the Cape Fear section I stands out for its part in all phases of our country's past. This was not any less true during the Civil War years. Rather than making this a drama of major political decisions j and brilliant speeches by great i men, the author has chosen an- i other approach. He creates James Frazor, a poor farmer’s son as the hero of the tale. Life was a matter of bitter struggle and de- \ privation for the Fra26r family. 1 For Jim’s hard-working mother | the object of life seemed to be keeping their standards from sinking to the level of the i “Crackers”. As we are carried ' along by the story we find our- j selves seeing the Civil War through the eyes of these people. James Frazor, the central char acter, is a young boy whose ideas of life are simple and limited. Even happenings on the nearby plantations were as far removed from his drehms, and even his envy as the moori was from earth. Perversely, however, he fell in love with the Colonel’s daughter on the neighboring Plantation and this unusual love story is the one bright note in a book that is mainly quite somber. The boy, James, had always looked on the issues that were leading us into war as being quite simple and clearly defined. He didn’t under stand it all, but those Yankees did need to be made to see the right of it. He never felt though, that he would ever be directly in volved in any of it. It was soon apparent that the situation was getting closer and closer to home, especially when, as the book puts it, “Lincoln added the supreme touch to Yankee folly by calling on North Carolina for militia to put down what he called rebellion in the Southern States”. The Gov ernor of the State’s answer to this was to seige Fort Caswell and call for volunteers. Now the battle lines were drawn, and the: end of peace came rapidly. Our hero enlisted in the Cape ! Fear Rifles (very probably the counterpart of the well-known Brunswick Guard which were or ganized here in Southport). Fol lowing this, came the days of i endless marching, little food and j | confusing thoughts. We live with I i him through the agony of battle in which he lost many of his bud dies. He was held by the Yankees for a while, then sent home a tired, worn man. His return home i.o the beloved Cape Fear coin cides with the capture of Fort ! Fisher, leading the story . to a j climatic conclusion. The message of* the book’s human rather than partisan or PEACOCK FUNERAL HOME 24-Hr—AMBULANCE—24-Hr. SHALLOTTE, N. C. Day Phone PL 4-8253 Night Phone PL 4-2491 Foodtown Super Market and Shopping Center JUNCTION HI-WAY 17 and 211 G. W. KIRBY & SON SUPPLY, N. C. Desirable Residential Lots FOR SALE IN SOUTHPORT Low Down Payments! — Low Monthly Payments! Also 4-Unit Apartment House—Reasonably Priced JAMES C. BOWMAN SOUTHPORT, N. G. PHONE GL 7-5441—P.O. Box 417 political. It would be well worth anyones time to read it, but for those of us who live in Brunswick County it has the added attrac tion of being- a Novel with a “rig-ht at home” feeling. Garden Time Plans are being made to use a mechanical harvester for Musca dine grapes in Onslow County in September. Tests will be conducted in the Solly Ridge section of the coun try. If interested, you might keep this in mind and watch for furth er announcements. The production of Muscadine grapes—the Scuppernong variety still being one of the best of this family—has a good potential in eastern North Carolina. High quality varieties are excellent as fresh fruit, in jams and jellies and as unfermebted juice. There are hundreds of gift Shops and trading posts in west ern Carolina catering to hundreds of thousands of tourists eVery year. Why don’t you eastern neighbors join hands with your Western counterparts and make some processed Muscadine pro ducts available to the traveling public? Don’t overlook your East Coast tourists either, or your supermarkets. I will let you in on a little secret. There is a growing inter est on the West Coast in the production of Muscadine grapes. A column that I wrote about Muscadines some months ago got in the farm journal which has good western coverage. As a re sult I had a letter from a grape grower who requested informa tion on the production of Musca dine grapes. He said that he and his broth er had over a hundred acres of Vinifera (old World or “Cali fornia”) grapes but he had heard so much about the delightful Mus cadine that he wanted to try some and expand his acreage if the project proved to be success ful. Since that time—and get this— we have had a full-time staff member from the University of California who spent one semes ter of his sabbatical leave on our campus. His belief interests while here? The production and pro cessing of Muscadine grapes and an advanced course in statistics. His enthusiasm for the possibili ties he saw in the processing of Muscadines? Unbounded! If I have ever known a man more enthusiastic about a single crop, I can’t remember him. He spent a major portion of his time in the laboratory analyzing juices, ex tracted from a large number of Muscadine varieties, for sugars, solids, etc. Since his return to his station at Davis, he has been made chairman of the Division of Viti culture (grape-growing), a large and expanding industry in Cali fornia. We could, very profitably, spend more time in North Caro lina developing the opportunities we have, rather than worrying too much about what we have not. Boiling Spring Lakes Team Wins The lady bowlers of Boiling! Spring Lakes took a 3-1 victory from Watson’s Pharmacy to re tain their first place position in I the Summer Bowling League. The victory last Wednesday j night at the Bowling Center was led by Sylvia James with a three game series of 421. Second high score was a 394 by Joy Gregory. Margaret Hickman had a 360 and Dot Manis bowled a 339. Mrs. Gregory had the high game Of 168. Boiling Spring Lakes will have their next game tonight at the Bowling Center in Wilmington. Leading scorers for the losers were Lena Fisher with a 379, | Evelyn Gilbert with a 301 and ' Maiie Brown with a 280. Vir , ginia Walton is away on vacation. Read It In The State Port Pilot TRANSIT MIXED CONCRETE Smmiedkife Delivery To Any Point In Area CENTURY CORPORATION Long Beach, N. C. Phone GL 7-3801 P. O. Box 968 Southport, N. C. “Meet The Sails” ! Foxy Howard. Jr., is only 19 i years of age but has already been playing organized ball for almost k decade. He played on his first Li tie League team in Clarksdale. Mississippi, in 1952 as a pitcher. I in 1953-54-55 he was in Southport | playing on the Little League ■ Teams. When the Howard family i moved to Columbia in 1956 and | to Sumter in 1957 it was the | Little League and Pony League FOXY HOWARD in those cities as a pitcher and catcher. Back in Columbia in 1958, Foxy played American Jun ior iiaseball as a second baseman and catcher; then oh to Hamlet in 1959 and the Richmond County American Legion Jufridr team as a second sacker. Foxy returned to Southport with his family in the summer of 1959 and latched on to the Sails as a substitute second base man, seeing only limited duty dur ing that season. For the next three years he played on the Southport High School team, al ternating between shortstop and second base. In 1961 Foxy was the only Dolphin to get at least one hit in every game that the Southport High School team play ed. This year he has moved into the starting line-up for the Sails at second base. A good base runner, fast on his feet, and with | t en years of baseball knowledge i behind him. Foxy is the lead-off ; batter for the Sails. Currently ! batting .313 with ten hits, includ | ing four doubles, for 32 official times at bat, he has the fourth highest batting average on the Sails roster. Recently at Og den Foxy had a good day with two doubles, two walks and two outfield flies for six trips to the plate; and a bad day in the field when he had the first error he has made in a league game this year charged against him. Foxy will attend Wingate Col lege this winter but will be back in Southport- in time for the I Sails first game next season. Gape Fear League vv L Southport . 8 2 j Seagate . 6 2 Leland .. 6 3 Ransom Township . 5 4 Hampstead . 5 5 Riegel . 5 5 Shallotte . 2 8 Ogden . 1 9 Leading Sails Batters AB H Avg. j John Carr Davis .... 31 12 .387 ; Ronnie Hood . 24 9 .375 \ Jerry Spencer . 31 11 .355 1 Foxy Howard . 36 12 .333 _ Vastly increased use of fish : meal and oil for poultry and cattle feed has helped to de velop industrial fishing, and scores of boats go out only for this kind of raw ftsh material. ( AMBULANCE °u^nd Ph. ©L 7-6161 GILBERT’S FUNERAL SERVICE GILBERT’S MUTUAL BURIAL ASSOCIATION P.O. BOX 94 SOUTHPORT, N. 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