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JiiL jJy vU JivVJi ISSUED WEEKLY VOL. 39 PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN one dollar:pek YEAU V Asheboro, N. C, Thursday, December, 24, 1914 No. 51 RANDOLPH MUST UTILIZE v T IS IN SIGHT HEARD IN THE COUNTY STATE AND GENERAL NEWS JAMES RUFFIN BULLA TWO VERDICTS AFFIRMED IT HAS THE EQUIPMENT ALL IT HELP A LOT OF ENERGETIC STATE IN THE 'UNION. (Bion H. Butler in News & Observer.) I have been looking over Randolph and it seems if the people of the United States could see this section of the country as it exists Randolph in the next ten pears would fill up with farmers and prosperous mill and factory hands to many times its pres ent population. Randolph is situated almost exactly in the center of North Carolina, midway between Virginia and South Carolina, midway between the sea and the mountains. It is in the first swell of the hills as the ocean gives away to the Appalachian divide, some of the rises in Randolph taking on the dignity of small mountains. The country is picturesque and inter esting. The valleys and hillsides are fertile. The water is of the first qual ity. The climate is ideal. The for rests include the stately trees that give dignity and charm. Two of the main railroad systems of the South traverse the county. These arc the Southern and the Norfolk Southern. In the southeast the Randolph and Cumberland gives an outlet to the Seaboard. In the west side it is but a short distance to the Southbound, which connects with the Coast Line and the Norfolk and Western. Ideal Location In its location Randolph county is quite ideal. In the center of the county is Asheboro, the county capi tal. Here and there in the county are smaller villages, all of them thriftv and progressive. Factories are numerous in all sections, including furniture, lumber, grist mills, knit ting mills, cotton mills, and other in stitutions to employ the people and afford a market for the farmer. Good schools are numerous. Good roads t..n.1 ihroue-hout the county. The towns have good stores, and wide awake business people, the com th is of the best. The i-ii.iitions and history of Randolph are romantic and interesting. The ohnr-u-tpr of the neoDle is of the highest type. UunHnlnh is one of the old coun ties, antedating the revolution, and the facts are that Randolph county came pretty close to starting the rev olution, for in the battles with the regulators about the first blood was shed in the first war with England. There practically commenced the dis agreement that enoea in me unman-ww-nt of North Carolina's British governor before any of the other colo nic-! hail driven on tneir iuicik" ar Mini Wllirh made North Carolina the first of all the colonies to be free from the British crown. Century and a Half Old While it is not quite a century and a half since Randolph county was created it is all of that and more . torritsirv was settled this k;.,. ikon a nnrt of Rowan and Guil ford counties. In that century and a half Randolph has not grown to be a very populous neighborhood, but it has done something inai gives i pie reasons to look for a mighty com .rl commenced the manufacture of cotton. A handsome t t,,r mill was built at Cedar taAf onnfVipr at Franklin ville a couple 'of years later, and another one at Ramseur five or six years later. From that day to this Randolph has continued to be one of the factory centers of the State, and the character of the product has di versified steadily. The Deep River is destined to al v;. a ho :i manufacturing neighbor hood, for along its entire length is a vast available source of power, while raw material for cotton mill, for wood working mill and for grist mill, seems likely to be as permanent an iuma. industry will be. What has made Randolph a manufacturing county on the modest scale we see now evident lv will make it a manufacturing ter ritory on a much more protentious scale as the industries of the country increase. Unlimited Possibilities North Carolina is a State of unlim ited possibilities, and to single out one county and point out its resources looks like picking the best sack of flour in a warehouse full of grain, Rut recognition of what the fates? have in store for Randolph works no prejudice to any other part of the State. After I had been looking over the county with some of the people here they wanted me to stay longer and go further. One time in Nevada I was looking through one of the mines that gave that State its reputation years aeo. We saw the rock as it came to the mill at Empire, and the brilliant color of the free eold in its i place in the veins. When my friends ! If it is allowed to take its mild course, wanted to show me heading after growing merely from its own necessi heading in the mine that I could secjty for expansion, the growth will be what it signified I told him fifteen slow. If the people become impatient minutes told the story as well as a I one of these days and decide to take year. The man who has to spend ' advantage of the unusual opportunity manv rinvB. in Pnnrln'nli ronntv to 1 fVmr ia nflvr to dormant at their doors learn what the county has in store j noi a close observer. 4. .. , ... ... I Agricultural and Manufacturing p . i , , - andolph commenced as a farming ! and grazing county. It followed along j b line until the mills commenced ?ow up. Since then it haa been! INVITE TO ITS FROM EVERY both agricultural and manufacturing. Eighty years ago Randolph was rais ing some three hundred thousand bushels of corn, and eighty thousand bushels of wheat, besides tsbacco, cotton and similar crops on a right liberal scale. It has provided for the needs of the people from the be ginning. The county continues to be one of the leading wheat and corn counties of the State. Its wheat crop now exceeds a quarter of a million bushels and its corn crop runs close to three-quarters of a million bushels, the county being one of the leading corn counties of the State. The cen sus of 1910 show that .Johnston and Robeson are the only two counties of the State making a bigger grain crop than Randolph. A Meat Making County Randolph naturally is found in the front rank of meat-making counties, her product in the census vear ex ceeding $312,000 worth of meat and animals sold for meat. Randolph is the sixth county in the State in the production of poultry products, pro viding over seven million eirgs a vow and over a quarter of r. million chick ens. It is a good county to go to at dinner time. The Randolph folks have things to eat. They do not raise their victuals in Iowa or Illinois. Randolph figures on about 20,000 hogs to turn off in sausage season. Only a few counties of the State can beat that. So you see the people of Ran dolph county live at home. "The Wagon With County Stuff" They not only live at homo, but they care for the people of the mill towns and for the people of the fac tory settlements of the surrounding counties, for years the Rnndolnh unty schooner wagon has fed the lankoe visitors at Southern Pines and Pinehurst, the wagon with coun try stuff being one of the features of these resorts. Thousands of chickens and thousands of dozens of eggs and pounds and pounds of butter and hams and pork and things of that kind bwee been going down the road since long before the roads were fit to no down Thousands of chickens have gone over the line into Stanley countv to the big army of workers at the Yadkin dams at Baden and at Whitney unti' there is not a hen in Randolph but has a suspicion if a Stanley county name is written on hotel registers of a Randolph county hotel. The cold fact is that the Baden dam builders have requistioned so many chickens that up in all this section of the State a chicken is rated just the same at the bank as tobacco used to be in Virginia or a gopher in Florida ginseng in the mountains. You can go over the list of things made on the Randolph f.rms and you find them all there. Wheat, oats, a few bushels of buckwheat, a thousand bushels of peanuts, Irish potatoes, seenty thousand bushels of sweet potatoes, twenty-five thousand gal lons of syrup, sixty-five thousand. bushels of apples, twenty thousand bushels of peaches, other small fruits' and grapes to fill the requirements, Even several tons of figs are includ ed in what Randolph makes to eat and sell. Considerable Cotton Randolph does not make the cotton for her mills, but she makes consid erable of it, and she J' as neighbors in the next counties that contribute a helping supply. She can make more cotton if it becomes desirable, and some day will. Just now the county is tolerably well occupied. It has to privide wheat and corn for a number of grist mills. It must provide the logs and the wood for sawmills, furniture' lactones and other wood worKing plants. It must care for various en terprises, and that does not leave the people time to provide all the cotton the mills can use. Randolph started as a farm county Three-quarters of a century ago, it began manufacturing cotton goods, and since then it has been advancing toward what it is destined to become, a manufacturing and agricultural. self-depending community. North Carolina is unusual among the indus trial centers of the world. It raises its raw material and then manufac tures it into finished product. It em ploys farm and factory in the same operation. It has a broader basis than almost any other section of country. Randolph raises its grain and makes flour. It raises its timber and makes wood products. It raises a part of its cotton and makes the textile goods. It makes the food for the operatives at the factories. Its' type of industrial organization is ec onomical in its operation, and because it is economical it is bound to broaden. Randolph is designed in such a way that it is bound to grow faster or slower as the people elect, but faster in SDite of anything that can happen, there is no end to the speed to which.1 their development win go, ior mere i no end to the limit of resources. More People Needed. Randolph now needs more settlers, ; (Continued on fourth page.) NEEDS L NEIGHBOR WHAT OUR TOWN CORRESPOND DENT HEARS AM) THINKS ITEMS Of INTEREST FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY I High Point is surpassed only bv Grand Rapids as a furniture center. ' Mr. J. V. Cranford, of Seagrovc R. 1 2, was a Saturday visitor in town. Asheboro would be a good place for a live real estate dealer. M. G.- W. Scott, manager of the Coca-Cola Bottling Works of Star, was in town one day last week. Mr. Isaiah Rich, i prominent citi- zen of Ra ndl em an R day last week. was here one It is hoped that Ashebor? will soon have a cotton mill and furniture fac tory. Why is it that some of our corre spondents write so much about them selves 7 N nit abucuuiu vjiuucu otiiuui ii suspend today for the holidays and will resume, Wednesday January 6th. If some of the female angels can't' nlav , ha nv h-t.tpr than thev ninv The Asheboro Graded School will th nMn JonM- orvinrr i lit. ... 'v. . ' i. p.' ..ii ' Tomorrow night many stocking awaiting the arrival of old Santa Clans. Br happy Christmas. You will if you do your shopping in a town that does things. There is always some thing doing in Asheboro. Our noted hustler says it's good to have Christmas spirit provided you don't order it from Richmond or Nor- f )t What about vour stationerv? The Courier is well prepared to do first class job work. It wants your busi- ness and will give you full count, good stock and work ot the artistic kind. Thp mprchiinta who advertise in The Courier will appreciate your pat- ronage. btudy ihe couriers adver- tising columns, and buy from its ad- vertisers. ti, : t0 ji. .u i of debt and have plenty of meat and bread at home than any time since the civil war. We wonder what The Bulletin think of this for prosperity? .. ,i.i- i i our correspondent believes, and hp ha thf hpnt. of rensono for so believing, that the ' Democrats have never made nronositiona of romnro- mise to the Republicans. It is all rot. Just watch and see how The Bulletin will jump. Our noted hustler says hunteis' ought not to be allowed to hunt on any farm within a radius of live miles of Ashnhoro. He savs the farmers are tired of having their cattle mis- taKen ior raDDiis; tneir noises snoi for quail; their hogs killed tor prairie chickens, and bullets whizzing about the farmhouse. Why is it that there is such a large I to rem0ve the horrible defenceless proportion of widows in towns and cursc 0f illiteracy from the State, cities? Their husbands are dead and i A improvement of keeping the the women are left with the children. fa k f th gt te departments the, The only thing they can do is to get, . , tj Buditing committee recom totown, letting the children go to f th t the wgole group of State school and they may get a chance .to n n 3 , 1 tutiong be. Edited by ex get an education and teach, or they j annua,iv, that the three depart ing get a position to earn a living. ts 0f state be audited yearly, that There is little or no chance for the.ni t treasurer ask for interest children where there is no chance to k t 0 it by the make a portion of the living. . 2? ,, tllyMt the insurance con:n.:. - It is reported that the Home Build- ing & Material Company will be in nr-.y brick quarters by January 1,1916. 'lliis company is incorporated and the. business is capitalized at $13.500.0:). , The company has been in business for. several years and has paid good div'- j dends annually. No lumber plant in Yorth Tnrolina has hpen more success-, of the business are, Arthur, Joe and Free Ross. This comnanV is under the able management and operat: of Mr. Arthur Ross assisted by his partners. They are all line gi-nt'e-men with whom to form business re lations. They will always do the thing that is' right. Another thing thing you will always find the i( : s boys enterprising and progress!'-" anil they are invariably in the ranks of the pushers for the betterment of thi.i town anil county. WHISKEY AND BOOKS GONE East Bend, Georgia, Gets A Pull Rc ligious Shock. The Rev. John W, Ham, former pas-1 tor of the Atlanta Baptist Tabcrnael went down to East Bend, Georgia, an.! held a revival one of the old lime af fairs and religion got into the souk of men. iney all stood up ami uiev brought gallons of Christmas likkei and piles of the Russell no re:. books and made a bonfire and poured the likker on and had a great conflag ration. All the booze for mile? around together with all the playing cards and the Russell literature is dostroyed nothing remaining in East Bend but ful, has done more for his home town , vise distribution ot the tood cargo oiiami saw i.raxion r;icn ior uie in. and community, and at the same time! the relief steamer Jan Block, and who, time, May 14, 1S44. I hud no ac laid by so large a surplus in propor- j returned today on the Transylvania. quamtanco there except Ja-ex. Lea. Hon to its canital stock. The owners llo'fri.im. he said, is one long broad ' and my cousin Daniel Bulla. 1 ha the Good Old Book and men happy in.' that tho State courts, by the alleged the belief that they have been saved. ' denial of his constitutional rights, lost The Christmas likker will not be there jurisdiction in his case prior to tin The egg nog will not be servod. rendering of the verdict and the pass Everything. ing of sentence. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TAK- IN (J PLACE THIS WEEK THROUGHOUT THE OUTER ENT SECTIONS OF 'MIK COUN TRYPOLITICAL AM) OTHER WISE. Johnston county leads the State in corn and pork production. Thirty per cent cf the Pitt county farms in IS) 10 were mortgaged. The. per cent is nearly twice the State av erage of mortgaged farms! North Carolina leads tho whole Uni ted states in the production of sweet Dotatoes. Our l!)i;i t-,-in was ft.000.- 000 bushels. The Isaac Bear Memorial School in Wilmington was erected entirely at the expense of his brother, Mr. Sam uel Bear, one of the leading Jew mer chants and citizens of the city. The shortage in home-raised food and feed supplies in Nash county in the census year was $1,850,000 and in Edgecombe, $1,700,000; or $:i,640,00O . P.. ' ' ? , . ,n both aunties. Wilmington dealers were convicted f conspiracy in Superior court ota concerted raise in the concerted raise in the price of milk. The cdse was carried to Supreme court d Clarence H. Summers and Mi PWba, Arey, of Sny. ried last Wednesday evening at the home if the bride's parents, Mr. an.' Mrs. D. L. Arey. Secretary of Agriculture Houston says that the farmers are not in need of government aid. He also re- ports tjhat the wheat crop of 1U14 is the greatest ever grown. . npn i,.,!... Pitt countv raises some 2-,000 bales- of cotton and 12,000,000,000 pounds of tobacco, worth around $15,000,000 a year. Greenville handles about twen-j ty million pounds of tobacco each sea-, son. The United States is a nation ofna,i0 we gaVe to our mother. We workers for monev. The last census report shows that a vast majority ot the men ana Doys, ami ncaiij v.iy third of the women and girls work for pay. Tii, ,;n ka iho cQflHoct of all Christ i miiiinna of homes across the water. From almost every family in Europe, nusoana, iamer, son or brother has gone to the war and is perhaps numbered with the leul or missing, Ir is renorted that the Norfolk- Southern Railroad will be extended from Charlotte to Atlanta in the lorn of a trunk line. The company will probably buy several small roads ;n j Georgia. In j.in tneie were ii lyuniivs, : North Carolina North Carolina whicti neid county Commencements. 1 hat number ought to reach 75 by the close of this school year. The lolks are eager to know more aooui me wuik. vi n s"-"""" and they have a ngni io Know uic ; truth. Spread the good news ot edu - ration to everv hamlet, home and i hoath in North Carolina and thus help sioner comply with the 1905 law that requires payment of certain moneys to the treasurer before a certain date. "A tragic misery, the like of which the world has never seen" was the term applied recently to conditions in Belgium bv Theodore Waters, secrc - tary of the Christian Herald, who u-enf to lli'lyiur.i last month to super - line of starving men, worn -n and chil-1 .Iron r umoring for a daily single ra-;io inn nf sonn and hread Attorney (.enoral Gregory made Ins .-.t ivport to Congress 1 hursday as fir head of the Dei::iinicnt fi JuMu He recommended several i"ren!m"n,--to existing laws and a --.m pi m-ii-.i . review of the work of the Depart ment for tho past year. His prin c;,;:il recommendation wa fir an anif.n. iinent to the commodities clause f the Inter-State Commerce Act designed to block the way of a. moi: carrier which seeks to trun.-i.o1'; products over its lines in which ii has any interest . whatsoever. AMnrnvs for 1 ,eo M Vl'linlc. linn. I sentence to die January 22 for th murder in Atlanta, Ga. in April, 1!)B5. of Mary Phagan, Thursday filed with the cierk of the United States district court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, asking the release of Era;.", from custody. The petition alleges that 1' rank s constit'ilional rights were violated and that he was coa- victed without due process ot law, in that he was not present in court when the verdict of guilty wus returned. It was further alleged that Frank did not have a fair and impartial trial and SKETCH OF LIFE OF WELL - KNOWN RANDOLPH MAN WRIT TEN BY HIMSELF PAPER WAS PRESERVED BY ATTORNEY BRICK CRAVEN, OF TRINITY. (The following article was written by the late James Rullin Bulla, who was for many years one of the lead ing lawyers of the slate, and who died in Trinity a short while after this was written. It was recently found among hs old papers, and will be read with intense interest by r.H'.ny who know him ami who also remember with pleasure his frequent "Old Time" reminiscencies that ver? published in The Courier during his life time.) My K:uiy Life I was born October 13, 1S23, Randolph county, 0:1 Back Creel:, northwest of Ashe' oro. My father's name was John Bulla and my motn er's name was Nancy Bulla. My fath er died December UJ, ls27. He was a hardworking man and made a good living, but it teak all his estate to set tie up, and all that was left to my mother was a little home and forty acres of thin land My mother in the next few years contrived to live and by industry and iconomy to support her five children, myself, my younger brother, Bolivar, :ind our three sisters. In a few years I began regular work on the farm, ami when nine years old made a crop of my own, and did the same thing every year after that as long as I stayed on the farm. When Bolivar got big enough to help, we made some good crops con ddering our thin lands, just about enough to do us. We raised hogs and always had plenty of meat, and our mother managed to send us to school whenever there was any school, and -.-very cent of it was paid for. Nobody was ever asked or allowed to give us anything. Bolivar and I would make i little money in harvest and mowing .ime, and when the crop was made ve would olten split rails lor the I leio-hhors. and nil th monev we .rave her every cent until we were j grown and got to leaching little schools, and then we kept out only mough to buy ourselves a few "Sun- lay clothes. When I was eighteen years old I Mother told me if I would help with " V.V.p, . ....ft.. 6 w.. -v. .school if I could pay for it myself, but she told me that 1 must never con tract any debts that I could not pay That was early in the spring of 1844 but before that I had gone to school short while to Hezekiah Andrews, j (Jod bless his memory, and he went home with me one day and told Moth er I had a clear head and would make a scholar if I had the chance. She could see no way to send me, for she hutl not a flolliir to sostrp. hilt fihp kont linking about it, and meanwhile sent ; me tQ K00(, neighborhood schools. , j t a, fal. enough t0 teat.h a ;iule gchoo) in 1842 an(, 184;?i The . ,.rst one (U(, not pay me very muc.h but the next one was a better one, and j j Kot eieven dollars a month, and at , tne enj of the ust sc,00i Mother got in the notion to let me go off to school on my "own hook." So I help ed with planting the corn crop ir 1834, and then left home for school up in the northwest corner of Ran dolph county, being taught by Brax ton Craven, and about whom many- good things were being said. I tied up my clothes in a large yel low handkerchief that had cost me ten cents. My clothes consisted of a calico coat, a calico vest, two shirts a pair of flax pants for Sunday, a I Dim' 01 COuOi.iiS DaiKa 101' CVC1V dUY. a ial(ve checked .lk handkerchief, and 0ne extra :jair of home made shoes, jjv connects binwhcs had on button j that I had iuii i:... :: ,.;, v:..- iter spoon handles. .... With this outht, I walked liltcen i miles to M r. Craven s school which j was then known as Union Institute. 1 and I arrived then.' and entered schooi seen Mr. Craven hut had nevi mm ocuno entering l 11 , told me to com? i j.lh(,., Lr;K.h (), 1...0liu :1 Ml. j y(il ,,,..; ..,,; ,.(,i,s .,,, t,,;t;,,n 1 brought f 'Ill h');;-, ' dollar, all the money I had h j world, and Mother hi'.d n it :i cer ; give inc. ('n mi-;. Lion1 11.4 -oy ooii', I clothes, I forgot my hat. it wa 'straw hat and cost forty cents.) I took my place among the student ,and got along very well. I studied and tried hard to do everything the 1 teacher told me t.) do, and I too!; a 'good stand in the school. I alti-itiv! I the .summer session for three years, land taught a little school in the win ter and used what I made to pay my debts and I paid every cent of them. I studied hard when away from school and I got a large imrt oi' my educa tion in that way.. In I s i; and 1M.-.. I did not go to school, but stayed at hom.- and worked the firm and let Bolivar p to s-'hoo!. In 18-1!) I won t to sthcul in Asheboro anil in 1850 1 taught school nearly all the year. In 1S51 1 went back to Union Institute which while I was there was changed to Normal College and later into Trinity College, and at that time the college had nvrc stu dents than it could accommodate and students were turned away at every session for lack of boarding places I taught s-hool in the early -ait o: con .": SAYS RAIL PV DAMAGES 1". N.')';LPH JU AY LA.-. !' JU iO ERROR IN ROM) M US'! ASSESS!..') BY Lv oi jvT : EITHER CASE. Ths S-.ipi-cn.e Court has handed 1'own opins.mi; aiKrnnr.g iho judgment in th.' last's of Dur.lap vs. I'.y. and Ridge vs. Ry., both f'-or'. Ka'vlohih county. These casts wers trie I by judge Ad ams at last July Court. In the Dunlap case the jury allow ed the plaintili eight tousand dollars damages and the Supreme Court holds that no error was committed. Dunlap was injured by falling into the ralway cut of the Norfolk South ern at Mt. Gilead on Aprl 26, 1913. He was a stranger in the town and knew nothing of the presence if tho cut which was 80 feet deep and ran across the main street of the town. He was injured at about nine o'clock at night, a dark drizzling rain, there were no ngnis nor any kind ot signals to warn travelers of the presenca of danger and no railings to prevent travelers tailing into the cut. The railroad had swung a small foot bridge across the cut but it was five or six feet out of line with the side walk; plaintiff walked off into the cut and fell thirty feet upon a pile of rocks, thereby breaking his jaws, fracturing his skull and otherwise injuring him. In the Ridge case the iurv allowed plaintiff $4750. The News & Observ er has the following to say of this case: "Unusual Personal Injury Suit" "Ridge vs. Norfolk Southern R. R. Co., is an action to recover damages for injuries sutained bv negligence of defendant. It appears that Ridge was a flagman learning the road; that the train had fifteen box cars; that he was ordered to cross the box cars to aid in the unloading at Cardenas; that as he was crossing one of the box cars, the roof was blown off by the wind, hurling him to the ground, the roof falling upon him. The railroad con tended that it was not negligence but the injury was the result of an ex tremely strong wind, and was the act of God. The jury gave a verdict for $4,750. Justice Walker, for the Supreme Court, quotes largely from the evi dence and gives a full summary of the authirities on the questions in volved. He states that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitor is applicable as the roof of only one hox cat was blown off and that the conductor and brake man were not blown off the roofs of other cars as they crossed. However it was not necessary for plaintiff to rely upon this doctrine as the evidence of negligence was sufficient to go to the jury and to sustain the refusal of the trial judge in not granting the motion for non suit. It appears that the car was an old one, that it had been ten days in Raleigh and not shown to have been inspected; that the boards were seen jumping up and down in the wind; etc.; that if the wind was blowing as hard as testified by the conductor that he had to crawl across the car holding to the walkway, it wa negligence for him to have ordered this inexperienced youth just '.taming the road, to go across the car in such a gale and further the conductor did not warn him of the loose boards jumping up and down in the wind, which the conductor must have seen. The opinion by Justice Walker is in teresting but unusually long. No er ror in the trial. A Chicago dealer advertises April storage eggs at 24 cents a dozen. Of couise he neglected to state the year of vintage. O'lt'ininfr his Httiti'dp toward tho si.g;v, I'lcsiuoiK n.M)ii lweuiiy toiu the University Commission on South ern Race Questions, made up of rep resentatives of eleven southern col-leg".-:, that "our object is to know the needs of tho negro and sympathet ically help him in ever way possible for his good and our good." lw52 and began studying law about the same time. For the next few years I studied law and taught school and was licensed to practice by the Supreme Court in 1854, and I stood a ;-.h1 exam iualion. I road the whole reqti'i-nl course by myself, and !!li- ' j var did the same, ind he was licensed I the y:ar after v as. Wo both began the practice f-f law :'at once an! i gave ii,.- rest of my life :ji. ii. ami 1 suppose it might be truth fully said that 1 was a refpectab'a ; lawyer. I practiced actively and with out a break t. , forty years until I :v naval ized Iho year 1S0J. My brother Bolivar died in tST2, and T aia yet living in 1!)0::, bi t have quit practice sun e 1 was paralysed, and ny wife and I have boon living with o;:r only living child. Mrs. Nannie A. Craven. I have ljod to bo over seventy-five years old, thanks to God. Boliva.' and I, when at home with mother mctl-,v as littV boys, did a great many things that boys don't do now. We bottomed chairs with splits. bfi'e flax. cva-Hed ".heat, mowed grass, split vails,, made boards, and I'd a grti't d.'a! of hard work that hoys so young do not do much of now. I have writti-n this short sketch of my life that young men who read it and want to hi anything in life, can so- that they1 can get an education an 1 have an opportunity if they try in earnest. Jan. .".0. 1002. J. R. BULTA. iSUPRF.
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