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A^onjtiiow-. The dWateW Vetoed i« one-man paper.
-iEtecenttr-f> hare beer• thlailEfti^ ^hat ifllght h*ppen?|f
I gMTd b^^oA^'intapftctt&led tefore l should get .the
yiapbV so 'Ttiforougfajy established. • that., another -could
cdtiy"itf dn, pr would do ,11; I.savf, ,ho.TV eaisy Jt would
tie to 'pick tip the publication and locate it -at ran j
point I should choose and tunrit into a county paper,
5 and was -tempted-to do -iti^helDg confident that I
cohid m&kk aVmuitaor more money that way and at
the same time put the publicatipp- ih position,Jo tide
over lfcjr But the idea does
not appeal. I enjdy the tfork on The State’s Voice,
even if it--id very-taring, and realize that it is get
ting a better and better hold in'thh State every week.
•rvTbeceforef I am casting the file. Any day may see
me become incapacitated for the tWo-man job that I
am-doing. Yet l am going to risk having a iew more
years of real activity;' within5 vtbich time' The State’s
yolce. Should be ah ’acoepited institution in the State
•—one that any live- journalist -mmld be glad to epn
tinue. -But I am saying this to indicate to the public
that progress-has been-made. The paper has passed
jthtongh-4 year and a half oi the worst financial pe
riod of the century, and only some incapacity of its
publisher is the only tbiftg’now, apparently, in its
way to its becoming' a real state-wide institution.
‘Thirty- pr more, counties are now fairly well repre
sented.--on- its subscription list, with scattered sub
• scriptiona in thirty morfe.
: No special haste will be made In completing the
state-wi<fe circulation. Other publications haye ap
pfeit&rifi the field-since I launched The State’s-Voice
With: the expectation of -having a clear field. Others
will probably- enter the arena. But let them come;
Only a continuance of good health is all 1 ask in
harder to win through on a big scale.
—The State’s Voice is filling a unique niche. Ex
pressions : of appreciation multiply. The financing of
the publication becomes easier and easier. Our. ap
preciation of the support" of our subscribers becomes
greater and greater. I know nearly all of them and
they Impw me.. It is doubtful If any other editor
ever came so nearly knowing personally so large a
number of subscribers scattered so broadly over the
States .
- It is a pleasure to know such men and women and
to know whom we are writing for.
Good Crops in Sampson
' It was a privilege to cut across the tip-top of
Sampson and the lower tip of Johnston the other day
Into Waype. The crops were fine. Thursday last
we were down at Clinton. They are fine on the
DuniWCllnton highway. jAt Clinton we had the privi
lege of looking over the fine farm of S. H. Hobbs,
Senior." Every acre of it is fine—just about the
finest we have been in the State. His cotton and
tobacco areas have* been cut but com is growing ga
lore. He wonders what be #111 do with it, as he will
not'bo permitted to sell that grown’ on the acres va
cated by cotton and tobacco’.
Mr. Hobbs has had hiis production gauged on . a
production of 275 pounds of lint cotton to the acre,
jvhile he has made as high as two bales to the acre
and his crop this year should go well over a bale. He
.says that many’farmers, including himself, haye never
made reports of acreage. He “did not believe in the
practice," since it was his idea that the speculators
should know as littie about the crop prospects as pos
sible. But neglect to report, he thinks, is the chief
reason why the Acreage and production of many
counties did not cOBfOrm to the statistics in the gov
ermnent’s possession and why the allowances had to
be trimmed down in order to reduce the counties’
acreage add production to the scale of production de
sired. But .that process has fixed many farmers. Mr.
Hobbs, for instance, is getting rdntal payments upon
the 275-pound basis and a smaller acreage than he
actually lias cut off, while a bale per acre production
#111 mean that he must pay a 50 per cent tax on the
excess oter 275 pounds. He thinks he wilL have to
pay the government considerably more than he gets
for rentals, but is hot complaining at all.
I am going to tell you some day how far ahead Sam
Hobbs has been of the procession, and I mean not
only as a dirt farmer but As an agricultural states
man. _ .
i half.cen
% The BMitor of Tbe State^ J<*m haator a
Ww Hill. Moo#’* story of
tury f^t an interest,la HilU. . ..
the Ttaearor. nr* "soW*. &£
;t>nmi £*** ,?« !”,S WranMto
ie^V Bnt.ft w»3St«“»*’"**
• bid town. ~. '■«”?: ■!> '
prom the ngme, I rather eapeeted to find ft located.
mn ^ ^ t0
Keart^of a fine faWip* area.;•;•• ,
‘:?t I. was sum that ^.should Ukr am ilttle^town’.’aiia
|ha event proved m .anticipation correct. .There to
iometfain&rahont-thoee old .cenntyweat-towna: wjiose
histories reachbaekdota the eighteenth century1 that
..the newer tewns...fteeni;. unable to rapine* The at
mosphere different, fine and whdleso*ne..
1, BTo ■ railroad, probably considerably rew^ ^than a
thousand inhabitants; yet Snow Hill haf practical^
ell the‘advantages of the- modern city, and mah^
more than the citiea-of fifty yehrs ago had. The
.village would seem^ the ideal hotne of - the. small-.
Mowjl man, of which ilk the* writer is inescapably ©he.
When i gee our Dunn contemporaries speaking*^
this town* of 5,000 people as a kittle” jfeojrn, I almost
resent the idea. The little town ig one., In which
-everybody bnows everybody else and his business,
and most of the dogs. Show Hill is .apparently the
ideal little town, what • with its paved. streetsT^ta
Water and lights, and good highway. an(l;4egapt old
homes hnd solid citisenryj /' , r.^ -•
MRS. W. B. MURPHY " 7
Snow Hill, N. C.m 7
As the county-seat of Greene County, one of the
smaller counties of the State, it shows you its little
county court house right on main street. The county
has put on no airs and is still using its tiny old
court house, but necessity, due to the unsafety of the
building, will force Greene'to build another. But you
may bet that those sensible Greene county people will
not go wild and put hundreds of thousands of dollars
ing courthouse. - - •
..i Meeting the Citizens.
It did seem that a day would afford-an opportunity
to meet all the people on Main street, but it didn’t.
It is almost impossible not to spend An undue amount
of time with such interesting citizens ss -one meets
in the course of the day.
As I had already several good friends., at Snow Hill
whom it was delightful to chat with,.the day was all
too short to make- the rounds.. However, I-shall in
troduce you to such as I did really get acquainted
with.
)My Former Acquaintances.- > - -
I was hoping that Judge Frizzelle would be in
town, as he had no court the week.of the Fourth,
but therein I was disappointed. He and his family
were off on-vacation at some beach/ -
But right in the heart of town is-the elegant home
of Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Murphy, with his well equip
ped office hard by. Of course, ! was drawn thither
as if by a magnet. I never, hear or sSe' the name
of . Tom Murphy of Greensboro, Dr. W; B. of SnOw
Hill, or any of the rest of the children Of Dr: " W. B.
Murphy the elder without thinking of the first time
I ever saw the father—over a half-century ago." In
those days it was a long journey through the Sands
from lower Sampson to Clinton and my ~ parents*
friends in the lower area would frequently make' their
way to our home to spend the night and thus after
a sixTmile drive the next, morning have time to at-'
tend to their business at the county-seat and go back
home by nightfall. Such was the visit made by W.
B. Murphy, .fir., accomplished by one of his neighbors
—Mr. Wm. DeVane, I believe. Tom and I were in
school together fifty years, ago this coming, winter.
And later the recognition of the binding tie of the |
same Alderman strain made me feel closer to the
progeny of Dr. and his mother, the latter, who
furnishes the Alderinaii tie, still aUve and found well
and happy at .W. B’s, home at Snow-HiU—that is,• i
: jlftejr she and,Mrs. W.- Ik bad returned in mid-d,,.
|rom; Atlantic Beach with the children: / j
S&i: Mrs,W. JB. Murphy One of the State’. Most 3
. .3- , V>. Hl^ity Esteemed Ladfcs. •
“I>r.W; B. Murphy ia So wellkhown that ho
> offered;4 yod r«n«Bbeti the supertntendency of th*, ;
Caswell Ttataing School; last S°“« of us w«* \
ratter shrjSHsed^tlfet he" Should dtcHos it. But afte* ;
ftfiat Weette visit 1 no fonder surprised, qj
coiirSe, ibe tqtfbrfuttB?. to Serve had it* pull. Bnt
for. Murphy if wrrlhf'Wdtidertdliy^where he is. No
‘ ntan ckn setW to milch’ better<'piii,p6se than the fam. I
■ liy physician.^ Arid for Mftjtof evidences the kindly
sympathies of the old-time family physician.
it Voui^ haVe beeri a real ifocfirice to leave that
elegant' borne and the fine littie tSWn of Snow Bin to
si&tfldbr the fWponsihitttieg riow & ably borne by
Df. JVvM.' Begjstef. ’ Here Mfs.“ W. B. Murphy ig -
- qdeeh of the riSne fnd queen in the affections of the
' town, ‘county, and mnch 6t eastern North Carolina.
There are few North Tcirottria women better known
or more wifel^ sppreciatedt"than she.
'A Leader Among the'D&ughters of the Involution.
}:■ Itt D. A . IL Circles of North Carolina Mrs. Mur
ph/s naitaq is'a household word. She is regent of
the "Alexander McAllister Chapter with headquarters
at*Snow Mill huf'with a mieiflbershlp embracing sev
eral counties^ ’ Arid when one comes to that name
“Alexander McAllister,” be is brought right back
brire to the Cape Pear—to OW Bluff church in can
nori-shotr distance 6F fount. In fact, the monument
to Col. McAllister; the great Scotch Patriot of Rev©*
lntionary days, .-wftb Greeted directly through h$r ef
forts’. Perhaps many of our readers recall the great
day at old Bluff—in 1926, I believe—when thousands
were present Vt the unveiling of the monument and
Mrs. Murphy: unexpectedly became recipient of a
: silver platter ^bearing the engraved appreiation of
the “Descendants of Alexander McAUister“
And she is one of that- clan herself? She was Mary
Colvin of Moore’s Creek, Pender County, but Col
McAllister’s second wife was-a-Moore’s Creek Colvin,
and then one of the Moore's Creek Colvins married
a_ daughter of CoL McAllister.
It was she, too, who led in the erection of the
monument at Moore’s Creek Battle Ground to Mary
gloeumb, the heroine of that dark* February night’s
sixty-mile fide from: her home *near -Mount Clive to
the battle ground, where she had seen in a dream a
jnan wounded and in need of Attention. It was also
Mrs. Murphy’s privilege once io present to- the Na
tional organization of the D. ..A.- R.. -a gavel made
from a tree upon the battle ground and to recount
the story of Mary Slocum’s ride; In .expressing her
appreciation of "the gift of the gayel-and- of the story
of Mary Slocumb, thenorthern-born regent of the
National organization admitted that that. ride in
every respect surpassed the famous ride of Paul
Revier. .
Bought jas National Committeeman.
Mrs. Murphy is politically-minded .and is recognized
as one of the leader^ among the Democratic women
of the State.' She has inade no. bid for-the place on
the National Executive ’ Committee being, vacated by
Mrs. Palmer Jerman,but sbaJias received a number
of urgent-letters from political friends insisting upon
her becoming a" candidate. A great member she
would make. _ , ' . .
IbO Home Contain* a Number or
1 italuMe Antiques.
’It is pecutiifrly ifttifig that~Mrs. Murphy, leader in
the erection of the Mary Slocumb monument, should
have had the good fortune to .secure by purchase the
mantel from the tftcf Ezekiel Slocumb home. It is. ,
in use lit the Morphy home, and a beauty it is. There
were reaf^craftsmen in those old days. There are
also in thh’ home Colvin'’heiriooins, even a four-poster
brought over frtom Scotland when the Colvins settled
qn Moorg’s Creek’ 200 years ago^ ' and* other pieces
nearly as’ old. My people arid hers on Moore’s Creek
havd been neighbors'forN175 years^
Mrs. Murpihy’s’ 'iptrden is" another" pride of hers.
Many ornamental dahlias wlHfsoon be in bloom and
my remote Show Hill cousins would just as well he
on the lookout for a visit with the wife at the bloom*
ing time of thbsg dahlias. ;
A Sum-Enough Alderman. ,
The very neit 'visit I made after calling first at the
Murphy home wag at Supt. a/b. Alderman's office ia
the court house. There in foe. little town that day
were several of tis descendants1 of the "Moore’s Creek
Aldermans.''*Sro ; pnly A. B. and I and his children
were of the Moore's Creek^ brrincEi. Mrs. Murphy,
Senior, and Dr. W. B. and CMMren are descendants
another of thie three Alderman brothers, settlers
in the Duplin-Pender-Sampsbn area. Mrs. Murphy,
Senior, is a niece of Professor Frank Alderman, who
taught for near a half-century at Greensboro Coiled
and is the father (or is it grandfather?) of Mrs.
Barle Godbey, wife; of the editor of the Greeusboro .