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^ Wilson and other (points last week the editor of t!ii< paper foun<i a number: of' yo«hg men whom yon t oulv “should lcnow” but are almost sure to know, g^uH1. of later, if you live long. It is most gratify. ^ indeed, to discover the great number 0f young men of apparent character who are beginning their ret,r? with educational foundations that one, in a thousand of the older generations could not have. at-. t,lill0j. On the other hand, it is equally gratifying ^ others who have not been so blessed with edu-. cntii'i-Oil opportunities during their youths coming jght along and proving to the world that it is still possible to attain the knowledge and literary skills without spending a score of^ years in the schools, from the primary grades up to the final requirements for a l’h. D. degree. Taffying the North, Carolina Greeks. An example of the latter kind is Silas Lucas, of TCiPiii. who, I believe, has never been to college a day but who has a mastery of the king’s English that is astonishing, judged by the recent example of an address prepared by him and delivered before the as semblage of several hiindreds of North Carolina Greeks in Wilson during the spring. Wilbur Royster w,<is there and again performed, the. admired feat of. addressing the Hellenes in their own language, but ho admitted to the assemblage that Silas Lucas, while not able to speak Greek, couldn’t be surpassed iu bis English laudits of the Greeks of old. I had Sir. Lucas to swing through a part of his peroration, and would Pericles have marveled at the eloquence of that tribute to Greeks as exemplars of freedom! Sir. Lucas has served as mayor of Wilson and is now the nominee for solicitor of the county court. I believe the N. C. Greeks have promised Mr. Lucas a visit to their fatherland at their coat, Wil bur Royster, I assume, had. to pony up the cash f#W the expense of his stay in Athens a number of years, ago. Meet Wilson’s Youthful Mayor. Meet WJison’s youthful mayor—Charles Blount Mcr. Lean. Note, that “Blount.” It signifies that he is a descendant of that distinguished pioneer citizen- of Wilson, George, W.’Bl©u»t, and a nephew of the late Henry Blount, North Carolina’s master, of fk>wery English. Possibly no other Nor tin Carolinian. bast., ever been able to. string adjectives together as was Henry Blount. i Here is a youngsterrof .just 3&!years who isf serving his fourth two-year term, as mayor of the' city of Wilson. He, is a lawyer and is .building, his legal ca* reer upon. the. solid, foundation, of-an. LL. R,; degree from Wake Forest College, which degree, he secured? in 1022. Wilson’s Mjowfc j Precocious. Youngster, In an, adjoining office to that of the .young mayop. is that of .Wilson's most precocious youngster, as. measured by the age of bis graduation, from the WR“ son High .School, Up to this .year Wade A. Gardner had the record of having graduated at the lowest iage of all graduates of WHson's rather famous- school1 system. At the age of lfi he., walked off; from, the T'nivcrsity at Chapel Rill with his A: R. degree and at 20 with his LL. R He and Mayor McLean.were play-mates as. kids and. are. now. close friends, J list around the, corner, of the. hajl in,,the, big bfthfr. btulding. from the offices of Messrs.. McLeap add Gardner is that of M. S> Revels,, who boasts ^ regu lar bachelors’ degree from Washington. and Lee-,Uni* ■varsity and a., course.in». lajv at .the N».. G. University, He has been practicing, six- years-atui is-upw-seryimifc as chairman of the. Wilsop. county electiopi board* .ii ■) “The Noblest Renan of Theh^ AU’’ You have met som®. of WHlsop’s youngsters; nosy »tep ih, and meet Col, John, *F, Brutonr* *&on. of a, Methodist minister, he. has- npt forgoti the preach ments of his father., A^potdiflS^* ^^'fa.U.^sa-w him. leading the anti-repeal forces of. Wilson*, county to victory. This veteran legal light, of. WhiSPn. SOthis sphophng. at the old Bingham,,sqhQQl ajt- Mfihan.C a.h4 ift at Chapel-'Hill. But.hfe«tas.a, teach**rh$f«re he became a lawyer-and,!as suah.,w<as,onp,.-of.th£ pioneer g$84§& school superintendents, of • the State,setting,., as., sn Pcriutendent.of th,e,,Wilsopi gsa,'Jed .sohpol ih 18§3 and HS84. T- -nnA ■ *- - loW at la 1884, he. turpnd. to the practice of. law; at I'ifeon, where, be, hap continued ever singe. That has i^ep.eyactli.flfty., y.ea?s. a^. He wears the titta.of .Colnpgl lpgitiwaiety. for hh "Us for a period cqlp^al of the, secopjJ. regiment °f Hie State, goaxd* apA a$- sneb-sv^a? associated with, ft number of other diltinglUshed sops of the Sfa.t* 1® the summer encampments. He married Mis* Hattie, Taft. Barnes,, a sister Qf this writer^;own.classmate, % Tart Ba£n^s«, stiH *• resident of Wilson.. aixTlong, * uromihent b»nW °r the city, i.'*- ««*W'*••* ■V He Boykins in Wilson. There are two distinct families of Boykins in Wil son—the scions of the old Virginia tree and those of the Sampson county tree. In tide-water Virginia one finds the town of Boykins and in old Sampson Boykin’s mill, Boykin’s bridge, and Boykin’s <3hapel. In French history; and ip the. American press I occa sionally find the French, name Bourquin or Bpiqnip, In, a survey of the. old , names, of my native com?, munity, of which Boykin, is one, I find two or. three.' French, Huguenpt-namps., I a^k myself if “Bpykin” is. a corruption of th,e Frepph. name. Boiquipp.. or of Boprqpin? If so, the Virginians and. the SanHPr. sonians fixed upon the, samesijnpnfleation,of the name. But the presence of the Boykins in, clpse asso? ciation with the Killetts and Ezzells suggests the pos sibility of the Boykins, with' an anglocised name, be ing another group of Huguenot extraction. Auditor W; J. Boykin a Virginian. Mr. W. J, Boykin, long, auditor of Wilson county, came, down from Richmond, Va. He tarried; in, Ox ford for three years, but came on to Wilson- in 1893, where he was.engaged, in the,, tobacco business for many years. He became, auditor in 1921. Meet him and you meet a most pleasant gentleman. Samwooian*.. David and Robert Boykin, young men when I was a boy, went up to Wilson nearly fifty years ago and prospered. Robert moved, to Hamlet a few years ago, but David is. there, now; taking his old age in ease and comfort. It is interesting to note that Lewis Killett had pre ceded, the Boykins to WMson. One of his sons, Ed, as hp was known in both Sampson and Wilson, served as mayor of the town a nunrhpr of years. Up there the accent got moved back to its original place and, it was Mayor Killetter—ett, not Kill-it. A. B. Carroll, of the, Alderman, stock,, is still a later Samp son comer to WMsop. He has conducted one of -Wil son’s most popular groceries for a number of years. And from Warsaw, over in Duplin, went Mr. John; son, a. brother of Riversj and Dr. Johnson of Golds boro, who became a prominent merchant in Wilson, buf is, now an invalid in Asheville. Wilson’s £upprb Jury Lawyer. Atlas Finch, or Mr. W. A. Finch, is generally rec ognized as Wilson’s mogt successful ijojurt room law yer. If.you gg| in trojible in Wilson if Atlas Finch caimpt g£t^jou opt you needp’t bother to try to get out^_take. your medicine hoyvevejr bitter it may be. Associated,, with Mr. Finch is Mr* Oliver G. Band, a native of Qoldsljoro, sometimes a resident of &'mithfieI4 and for the last six years an, associate of Mr. Finch. He got his degree at the University just in time to go to the war. Over there be partici pated in the great Meuse-Argopne _ offensive. Ho went off a seconcl-lieutenant, and., returned a first lieptenant. He is young;, enough to be heard from later. “Tp&e.” Conppr No Stranger. Thepe is little use in mentioning “Tobe” Connor. Npj-th Carpliniaqs .shpjild know Wilson’s, great legis lative leader if they kpow anybody. But people soon forget unless one's name is kepjt before them. He sigps hismame, “H, G. Connor’.’; it used to be Junior, for he has his distinguished father’s name. And (wbflt a heritage tppse, Connor men have in the mem ory of that great an^,. good man. Judge Henry G. Co^ftpr! George, iff,, ag. you should,know, on, the su preme court bench,, upon whi£h .his father sat with snpfr hpppr tp hjpnself and . to the State. jfy. Bt M. Hill is Mr. Connor’s associate, and has been since >19gl.. A fins fellpjy. he, too. The ^^y^q J^d Coaen^^ Kerr. AAmap who on’ his, fiyst candidacy came within apout 3,PO0 votes, of winning over Judge John Kerr fojjj thg congressional, seat the;, latter , has held for quite, a.number Of years should be worth knowing. Ou£..of a totaj' vote of ?8,000 Kferr’s majority was^ apout 3,000, and thgf means that a change oforily, say, 16Q0 would, have giv.en A. O, Htolmns the nomn nation,in the. Second concessional district. John Kerr’e -feenigl personality,fags. long carried him successfully to: his; ^ 14 *ao scwly be denied that InA: O.Dickensaimm bas arisen, in the, second" Who can match John in per sonality, not to speak: o? ability at alb r - .. . - Bnt think: of this, mgn of such splendid pljysique, genial personalty,. a^j. with a thorough; foundation der L. W." I&gjey in that exeeWent old Idttleton scbori and «*•<»»$?<?»*!** Xcdon*' I°1Wf B. degree;-thjs‘ Mptt and.fonb^d’tbat *He has a war experience also, ****** «*** in the Natttnjl Hu»wl (Ufetb^Upgaitfqylrttan ' War, - -s ^ One can hardly know Mr. Dickens and not be con vinced th^, he. hk« him,. Mr. Dickens .wask reared, o», county, farm. x** <;•'** In writing.a word ai?ou* ottMe^* Olive in the June 15 issue of The.Voi.qq, I^spdkei «fr*s the fact that the.younger generation of Grady's is be* - coming rather ubiquitous in North 'Carolina’s profes 8100^,1%^ Qq mmm don I located three of those Grady youngsters. B. A. andhis half-brother E. N. are Wilson lawyers. The former-has been practicing quite a while, but E. N. only about two years. He taught for eight years be- r fore studying law. I was particularly interested; in*1 E. N., as he has a double strain1 of the Grady blood-in * him, his mother, being a Grady as well as his father: ! And then I discover that he is a great-grandson of * the old singing master, Gibson Carr, who was the ,, mpn I ever .heard, .sing, sonap, ofc tK a&MH&r Sapkpy hyujfls- He is a first cousin, of Sepg£qj? Ppnl Grady, as. is B. A,, and-.op hismqteep’s side a nppbpW-r of E. G., Grady of,Wilipingtqn, a^od,. by thq same, tofy?n a first ,cousin of Bbftert Grady Johnspn, of Pern, • dei^, who will prove ar.sturdy c^nfiffiate, for ,thp speak- r ership of the nqxt house, thqugJi- Pender’e superf^ - ity of-State,hpqpps ipay hurt.his catidddajcy EL N. Gcady seems, abput the,.bgst: eq,i^igpd;.of thg-1 whole bunch to make a majck, in; thp world,. H$ studied two yparg ajt tbfi. Naval. Academy. Annapolis, also at the State.Haivepsify, and.< gpt his diploma from Atlantic Christian,. College at Wilson) and. then in ipppe rpeept years .took,,a, ,law cpjuzse at Wakub-Epr- r est Included, -in, his. educational advantages,, «iso, , was., some, postgraduate, worl^, iphtetpryauft edited? 1 tiop, a$ UniversiJa?. Th^, third, Grady- referred, .to is.thp.-yoj^hfpl ,edlfuft*: of.the, Boappjqe- Npra§ .ajt Wejdpn, IibpJfeye.he is tbg, first of | tfie, hajue..tp .braajr Wk,.' At Wilpop.,1:fpipndt an pJdrjtigKeai.tepiBr^A* M, Meiqtesh* wfio. w;as for., spypga^ teF»8r iegi«tp|!- <4t: deeds of that county and was engaged in neWsggp^g,- ; work at Carthflga^. Sanfor<E aad.-Wilsan..during his career. He is takijjgJ,it,efifiy7ho*,ap a justiee of the pease* .-r v'" ": ; aswdUM^9tete.,i».^itf§piiite9c wmik' Grady ofWeldiW* ¥rr%%^oq8i&f up;u? tb^ne^, begp, steady, aa^iipostetete^tewly -a^ th8„p8bltefttipa.,of^l^? Tiaw% &»€!« l*Mh fetbgsk ofck;! chuajchr pft»fi*i opgft#,, 0$, tefip Pfim^^ec a %$“ noadnatipft.in: thte .-State, Nprth(I<gfty<dij|i,tPfeas 4^ ciation- remeB^)p» thp, rpxaaa«aad%s^^; afl# nity of tteb fpEWeri edit«y -a# n&te3teSv m Former Senator Lunsford Roanoke Rapids. te. Ralei«kr but.ba baiu.left his law. firft,t^|r# i^bperu&bp*, *&#*** J* Crew on the job. W^en necessary the senior part* n$r ' comes, to,, young Crew’s aid. But that young SQion, of the Nprtbampton family of ..Crew’s seems prepared, to.'..manege almpst any ordinary matter, carrying, as. he dbtjs twodegrees from U. N. G., A. Br an& j,,D., the^l^Jttej; ong. of very few registered at-the • University, I b^Jeye. H§ also did; special research*' WQyk at Xgje ip lgi2?^Q. He is a genial ypuagster#: Fi^.: Schoefa; For years Bpanoke Quids’ school system has bee*-? n«)5t highly regarded in Nortl? Carolina. Its threes widte scjjpoja and one colored school train annuaHj* aiout 3,POO boys" and.,girls., Of course, you Teeall'tb*** R,<jsem%ry is now. an integral part of Roanoke Wg Mf. C. W. Dp vis is, the efficient, superintendent o? tftg. Rppnoke-Rosemgry schools. 3s has served Sm t^at ca|paeij:y for five, years and-had proved>hiefi*< npss for the task by serving previously as IdCpM school principal and* buginess manager. HeJ»d« formerly held a similar pesltibB jn the BurUngte*-* h}^. school. Jdr. Dayfs js a n§tive bf Ora;nge couptj apd, gradugted at the University in Blew Senator. I failed to meet ! Julian R. Allsbrooks, but did find his youthful part** net, la thg pfl&e at Roaneke Rapids—Mr. M. ft Bap ton. ‘ Mi’- iSpropks h«)s been practtctn^ law stape ijjftl (He gpt his. layr education; at-toevUUtveroHy-a# fapipe? wgHj ' Bte"wdn the nom&Mttoa foa seoatoer over Tft- Lougby a .majerity of-OOfir ^swg Bentwtm' a^ native ofi^Gates county; Is another superior advantages wMc^-th* -ronaaer fellows-haawi enjoyed Be* is * S A> of : -../-c
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