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Issued Twice a Month VOLUME 2 (Ml 4* ’’X* — % V - PUNN, N. C., NOVjl 1934 Subscription Price $1.00 a Year - ' v X NUMBER 21' “The Best Lawyer in Four Counties.” If there is a more generous soul with respect to his professional competitors than Itimous T. Valentine, I haven’t discovered him. You all remember how, as campaign manager for Harold Cooley, he boosted him into Congress. Well, he is now lauding Cooley’s part ner, W. J. Bone, and grooming him to succeed Judge Barnhill. “But Judge Barnhill is a young man and will he on the job a;long time,” I interposed. “O, Judge Barnhill will be on the Supreme Court bench, glibly prophesied the genial itimous T. “Bone is the best lawyer in four counties,” Mr. Val entine continued. “He has more sense than almost anybody.” v Now, Itimous T., with "It” in his name twice and with the victory of Harold D. Cooley in the primaries over two strong men to his credit, certainly has as much right to tag a man as ”it” as anybody in the state, and he has tagged both Judge Barnhill and young W. J. Bone. ....... I told Attorney C. H. Leggett of Tarboro what Mr. Valentine had said about young Bone, .and he quickly agreed with Itimoug’s estimate of .the Nhshville law yer, as probably every reader does, with respect to Judge Barnhill’s being headed toward the Supreme Court bench. Not only is the Judge young, compara tively so— he was too ydifrig to go to school to me at Enfield when his two older brothers were iny pupils —but he is of that “lean, , hungry Cassius” type that doesn’t succumb easily. I bad met that morning the father of W. J. Bone, and had discovered that he is of the intellectual type, so I could rather easily accept Mr. Valentine’s gen erous estimate of W. J.’s. mental ability. Beside*,* there was W. J. Bone standing, before n^ ag clear? •cut a better stopand^ae^tf; there ,isshch started and bow to spell it—well, I’ll risk it, physi- : ognomally. as.you ever. saw,.. W. J. Bone graduated at Wake Forest with the LL. B. degree in 1921, taught two years, worked in the* clerk of court’s office two years, and began practice in 1925- He'has been recorder of the county court for the jast 18 months, voluntarily retiring in favor of Attorney Davenport,, whom I unfortunately failed to meet. So you see W. J.. Bone has already a large degree of experience in the ibusinesb of judging. But back to Itimous Valentine. He is a graduate of Guilford College, but took law at Wake Forest lie is; proudest of hi* war record. ■ He entered a buck private and returned as such. In addition to the two great offensives at Argonne Forest and Mi hiel, he went .through several others, but as neither he nor I could spell their names, I refrain from men tioning them, though one of them we guessed to be “Toul”. I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs.. Valen tine, and she-is simply fine. .. In addition to Mr. Bone, the, Cooley & Bonfe hrm embraces Mr. Bachelor,' another promising youngster, and as man of all-work Harold Cooley’s sister .Miss Cooley. Many Fourth District ..people became ac quainted with the whole bunch of whom I am writing during the primary campaign last spring, when they haunted the headquarter offices in ^Raleigh andthe byways and hedges of the. whole fourth district. . Two Bright Young School Men. It was our first aeQualntance with. Supt. Xc S, Inscoe of the Nash County schools, but the first im? pression whs most favorably. Jpscoeg are 'few in the State. They derive, from Franklin County,- of which eounty Mr. Inscoe ie-a native. The only other Iknow is the bright young Raleigh attorney- who was a. re* cent candidate for solicitor in the Wake-Franllin district. Supt. Inscoe had graduated at Wake For est and taught two years in Nash County when he entered an officers', training school for -the- World War. He attained the rank of second lieutenant, but didn’t get across. The day after he received hia dis charge from the army, Hie former county superin tendent of the Nash schools resigned and Mr. Inscoe was chosen his successor and , has held the job ever since. Another ^ne school man is Superintendent Abemethy of the Edgecombe schools. He is of the. old Rutherford College Abernethy sfock, a graduate of Wake Forest College, and a guceessfol, teacher for several years before hfe bec^ttjing'jjounty »eho<d «Wetrf ifitendenf-"-'‘•v-ir ■ - * -• •• • ’* • • «.-<*-v**^*-".. ••; ‘ .?« ' ■ • • • •-:%* •- • r ;- ~ • •*- ** v- ^ V". ■ '<>'■ •- •' • : “;• ■ hi', f HAROLD D. CfOOLEY Hie Fourth Distflefs Brilliant Young Congressman, Who Won in the -Recent Election by About 8 to 1. ! : Veteran Officers. At Greenville and other points we hav$ found offi cials grown gray in the county offices who are still going strong and had no opposition in either the pri mary or the general election. But I believe I have found none anywhere to beat the records of some of the Nash and Edgecombe officials. For instance^ Mr. A. T. Walston, clerk of the court for Edgecombe, was ^eiOctto&.tiis ye&ri but fritbofit Jopposltian ia either convention or primaries' during the morethan 2& years since he first became a candidate. That should stand as a record, but Clerk J. N. Sills of Nash runs it hard, and declares that he has never asked a man to rote for him. Mr, Sills was prac tically reared in the clerk’s office, his father haying served for fifteen yours as clerk .and he for years as deputy. On his father’s >death in 1913 the son was appointed clerk and has bad no opposition since. He has just been elected for his sixth consecutive term without opposition. Now set along .with those records that of Mr. J. B. Boddie, who has just been elected for his 14th two year term as register of deeds of Nash, and without opposition the last time, if, pot all the time. Sheriff C.JL. Johnston has just been elected to his ninth term as sheriff Qf Nash, but has served intermittently at his pleasure, serving eight years, then after an in termission six years, and has just, been ejected to his second term in his third period of service. The intermissions were largely filled as a member of the board of county commissioners, on which he has served a total of six years. Sheriff Johnston was born at Battleboro. He has lived since maturity on a farm near Whitaker’s. His is not one of the big farms of that section of the.State, but only an eight horse one, upon which he„ raises corn, cotton, tobacco, peanuts and Other crops—enough to carry him over any missing pay-day that • might occur" in the sher iffing job. Over at Tarboro, I find Miss M. B. Bonn as possibly the lady of the State’s dose* lady register of deeds who has served longest. She was clerk in the pffiee ‘ when her father died: after 15 years of service and was appointed to succeed, him and has Add the job ■more than ten years and is re-elected -for another term. ■ ■ . _ Comment upon the character of those gentlemen and Miss Bunn seems unnecessary—the people’s esti mate stands as remarkable tributes tp both their character and efficiency. Some Other NashvilleMen * S. L. Austin, senior member of the legal- firm of Austin and 'Ma?s, Is a native of Johnston county, but has’ been itf Nash almost since maturity* P« has served in the boose of representatives and asrecerder fpj a dozen years. Thjwigh him 1 learned that J. hailing, fromiClayton, an old collie mate of had,t«t a merchant away over on the Tenncssee-Kentucky line. Hubert E. Slays is the bright young junior part' ner of the firm. He is a Wake Forestgraduate of the class of 1932. Hr. Austin is a TJ. N, C. man. ' R. O. Burton is another of the genial members of the Nashville bar. He is a t)nke graduate but took his law at Wake Forest It was a pleasure to visit the office" of the Nash ville Graphic and see the. workshop of our Bunn £ youth, Jack Riley, who has been editor of the Graphic * for about a year. Jack was on the job. The shop force seem congenial And efficient workers. This is the paper that our old friend Mr. Lincke, one of the - State’s best men, ran for many years! It is now the " property of his daughter, who herself edited it till she took unto.herself & husband; Jack ie making' good as editor. He is one of Oscar Coffin’s output from the'tJ. N. .C. school of journalism. One of the Old-liners., About 44 years ago last ' September ayoungster en tered Wake Forest Coltege from Nash county by the name of J. L. Cornwell. He proved to be a clean-Out youth and a good student. I hadn’t seen him after my departure in 1892 from the old. college till;last . year when I. met him .in Raleigh .and, of course,^got bis subscription for .'tfie State’s yoice- I sought him first when I arrived at the Nash county, court house. He is county auditor, having held the job for quite a number of years,, and one of the most highly esteem ed men of Nash county, He was my only subspribt er in Nashville when I arrived, but with his renewal " registered, I proceeded to change that situation. ; Let ..^e assured that, if -thgr.fipvem’t £eay<p Cornwell, he has .been mean xoie. ./’SaKtrybads sterns like, and Two Ta^wro ftontisds. • •. ; • I had only four -hours iiLTarboro but had the good fortune to. make acquaintance with a number of its good citizens, among whom are the town’s oldest den tist and. another in prime of-physical perfection. /The former is Hr. Don Williams, who has practiced’ for nigh on to forty .six years.' Dr. Williams’ family are long-lived. His grandfather, who. was born in Con necticntt during the Revolutionary War, came to this state about 1800. Dr. Williams’ own father was a physician.: It is unusual to find a man whose grand father, lived during, the Revolutionary War, especi ally a man no older than Dr. Williams. ' The fine old gentleman graduated at the University of Maryland in 1889, and soon thereafterbegan his practice in Tarboro. The other is Dr. Thomas, a fine specimen of phy sical and. intellectual manhood, six feet and one inch tall, weight about 185. < Hr. Thomas, too, got his de gree from the, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, * a part of the University of Maryland, but he has tak en a dozen post graduate courses at various colleges. Recently, he stood an examination among 185 (I be lieve that is the number) other applicants for of ficial standing in the U. S. Naval reserve corps, and was one of the five who passed. He is now rated a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve Corps. Three Sanford Citizens. I have long wanted to tell yon of some of my San ford friends. I pick three for this item Judge T. McPherson is to the manner born and bred. Lee lies $n the -upper. ;border of the Highland Scotch „area, .which peached. to the Lord dranville Use, the old line between Moore and Chatham before the. foundation of Lee county- Judge McPherson is about as fine-looking a specimen as the editor of the Voice, but from big eyes, up he is a big man. He actually enjoys reading the Voice's economic articles. For several yaers Mr. MePhersop has been recorder of the Lee County court, and has made a good one. y Dr. Lynn MelveiMsoftbe strong Mclver lineage . Which has won - distinction- in the State. He is a genial gentleman and a popular and efficient physf- > dan. It will be worth yonr while to meet and know Dr. Lynn Mclver- < - D.-jd. Tdigue is one of'Lee .County's leading bar rister^ butr he began bis practice at Lflltogton, Hav nett County.<■ He is a native of ftandolph, which Is y f one .of the conn ticg-which -has.sent itp sond so broadly " k i so ' v— :'0t ■ ■ . - ■ ‘ •. - .
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