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VISmNG A. C. L. TOWNS BY For a change, -I broke my usual habit of visltationby Ford express by taking a trip up the Atlantic Coast Line by rail. It is cheap., riafcg—TT cents to Wilson from Dnhh.»Bat schedules must be greatly Improved before one can really profit to any great extent by the cheap fares un- > 4 less he is on a straight-ahead journey. .Wilson Getting Out of Dumps. ' It was evident that business affairs at WMson have' greatly improved in the last 14 months. As you know, the business life of Wilson is dominated by the tobacco industry, and the hard years had flattened the old town. But She “New .Deal" come-back of tobacco has manifestly restored much of the old confidence in the city’s future. It still boasts of being the greatest leaf tobacco market in the world. Looking OverOId Scenes in Enfield. After 38 years I returned to Enfield after a residence 'there as a teacher. It was hard to find many people there that I knew in4"those other days. It was a nice town, with' quite a number of fine old homes back in thoift days, but the town had become stagnant and the sons had departed for greener pastures and many of those homes contained only the aging husbands and wives whose broods had hied away to other parts. Consequently the whole community at that time contained only about 45 children of school age. The most of the mature people of two-score years ago hav& de parted—Attorney Alsop, Mr. *T)erinis, Mr. Britt, Mr. Collins, the ^Flipping, Dr. Harrison, Dr. Whitakfir,^Fletcher Parker, etc. But Mr. Meyer, *the mer chant from whom we bought our groceries, and his principal salesman of that time, our nexbdqqr, neighbor in those younger days, Mr. H. C." Al ston, survive and seem hale and hearty. Joe Meyer, big and genial elder son of Mr. Meyers, vitas one’ of my younger pupils. It was a pleas ure to talk to Joe. He evidently has the interest of his town at he^it, and is far from approving the she' nigans of recent years, among which 1 a em phatically disapproves of th'; losing down of the town’s power pi—t and the loss thereby of the big pi- lit the plant was making, which being ap plied to payment of bonds was keep ing the town free of defaulting and would, as he thinks, have gradually brought about a condition in which the town’s expenses, after the pay ment of the debt," would have been paid by the profits from the plant. I looked' up Mrs. Dennis, wife of my old friend - and. mother , of my school boy Ralph Dennist who by the way was expected to come in., for a visit from his Florida home. Mrs. Dennis is about ninety now, but sur prisingly strong. i naa a long euat wnu jmll. av. u. Parker, father of Judge iR. |H. Parker, and met his charming wife of-later j, years and the baby boy. The sixteen year old son is spending the summer with an uncle in Panama and, of course, having a glorioiis time. I found Mac Johnson, one of the lads of my Rebeson days, who is an Enfield attorney and has served Hali fax county in the legislature two terms, declining to be a candidate again. He is a son of that former staunch citizen of old Robeson, Mr. W. S. Johnson of the St. Paul section. Some of the fellows, were off at the state convention and I missed making a number of desirable new acquaint ance. I found Harvey Durham, who was reared just over there in Johnston and whom Mr. W. !R. Denning says ho remembers from the days when he wielded the hoe in his father’s cotton patch on up through his apprentice ship in the Benson 'bank. He is now cashier of Enfield’s strong bank and the only man I found upon a visit to the prayer meeting at the elegant brick Baptist church which has replaced the little wooden structure of the nineties. But it was a woman’s program. There was not a soul at the church who was ever seen in it when I was a member of it. Mr. Kent, mine host at the hotel, seemed no stranger and I discovered ... that he had been a resident of San - ford during my earlier years at near by Pittsboro. • - - Tarrying Briefly a* I f took the often expressed abjura tion to "go to Ha»fSax”#^ didn’t tarv ry long. It was a ; pleasure to chat with Mr. E. L. Jravis and to-meet my old Sampson hoyhopd '• friends ftrufe and Horace Boykin, and Mrs. Bruce Boykin, by the way one of the Maxtbn McArns. To my surprise I found that Bruce had struck it rich the last ten years and had salted away quit* a number of thousands of dollars, large ly in General Motor stocks. When hs bought that new -Chevrolet, he way have had the realization that some of thp profits, of the bargain would come back to him in dividends. v* . 'The pleasure of chatting wilh- Bruce evtended ^y Ms kindly, offer to take me to Weldon, whica trip realty wound up at Roanoke Rapids, where . I spent the night and journeyed baek to Weldon the next day. Elsewhere I have told about some of the Roanoke Rapids people. Soviet’s go back to Weldon and howdy Raleigh Daniels, one of the Wake Forest hoys of my day, but now, like some others of us, getting along” in years. Raleigh s brother Walter ». Daniels- was long one of the leading lawyers of the state, and solicitor, I believe, of his district for a number of years. His sister Is the Wife'of Dr. Wallace Rid dick, formerly president of State Col lege. The only* tfigbt"I ever spent in ▼ Capital, Surplus, Profits & Reserves In Excess Of $600,000.00 * V ■ T %? •-* • ■ From This Date All Deposits in All the Units !of Thii _ Bank Will Be Insured in Full Up to $5,000.00 for Any Depositor. ▼ Smitbfield, Dunn,: Clinton, Benson, Lonisbarg Kins* ton, New Bern, Morehead City, Roseboro, Beaufort. . j.&Wj Vf' i” ?' j ' -f' •; .• r I j{ , -i:.;-; ,> . jjj * * - > ; *' ■ ■ *r-' , ■' . . .J . ; - ij " , ' '■*' f •• * was wifh the big and .hearty WW> *' 1* ho* ‘ thd distinguished Re^ »• "♦ Sniifman, K-Dr, nationally and inter nationally known as a Sunday sphdol Went.J»at ;rWiiy ,^^day bn the Old Roanoke andjashr . but if there was a single fisfc i£ : the Roanke^ou can never prove it by me. ne.. • • . • .; . * 4 Just about everybody I -wanted to. see on my recent visit <*as out of town 7eon. to dinner and I Had to leave at 1:30. I had a pleasant chat with Merchant Willfey, a man of good sense and a prosperous business man. •» did 'finally get to meet for a-moment young Grady and his new assistant at the Roanoke News Office. And. a $1.57 ticket brings me baek the more ^ than hundred-mile trip to Dunn. . Cheap enough, but railroad travel does pot have the flexibility of scooting about in the old Ford. - • The teacher heard a child crying, and rushed out to; the playground to ^ find out the cause of the dtettfirbance. **Wbat is* tha trouble?” she asked little Jimmie, who' stood calmly by ing an orange/ '■ * . ** “Billy took Fred's orange,” explain- ? ■ ed Jimmie. * * ■ , , - . “And where is the Orange?” asked the teacher: „ *•'. , - “Oh, rve.;got that,” replied Jimmie. “You see, I Am 'the lawyer.”—Chris tian Science Monitor. * , ' Raleigh To Lose RevenuoDepartment. Jl If you Hear any^ otherwise unaccountable. noise attribute Ra ieighites* ; over. ^ the § hiiminent loss of the Federal Revenue Pepartment The reipoval of Collector Robertson and his, force of sixty' assistants fiom Raleigh to fereOnsboro ; was |?eporfe<i ^d^s^|43nerning as assured. Greensboro's great with its abuttdant ^ hhiiCcubied space and in the more central loca tion of Greensboro, is the mag net that is pulling the depart ment away from its long-time home in the federal building at Raleigh. It is stated that, the Raleigh collector collects more money for Uncle Sam than any nt^er in the country. Raleigh, like Rachel, ‘ will be difficult to comfort Greensboro is al ready gloating over the fore ordained move of the impor Vant federal agency to that city. —
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