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^^OF»V®SWCOUBSt s llupfii tar, IL: BEASLEY’S FARM and HOME WEEKLY Volume 11. Charlotte, N; C., Thursday, August 28,1941. Number 35. TRAILER CAMP IS ON GOVERNMENT’S TROUBLED CARES Graphic Picture of How the Peo ple Live in the Great San Diego Aggregation FSA OWNS THE TRAILERS GENERAL APATHY IN FULL COMMAND— Country Is Indifferent and In State of Sumter's Malitia (AN EDITORIAL) In preparing his stories called “In side America” for the Christian Science Monitor, Richard L. S'trout has been out in California and visit ed the new trailer-owned project of the government at San Diego. It was a lovely Southern California day, he says. The stiff palm leaves clicked like porcupine quills. Board walks could be seen stretch ing across the sand, which was dredg ed up from San Diego Bay. A young woman on the porch be side me ironed industrially. Clothes were drying ofi the reels. The brand niew trailers, all perched on two auto mobile wheels and a support in front, gleamed with silver paint. A Navy training plane cleft the blue sky every now and then, and a Santa Fe switching engine tooted a little too noisily at the grade crossing right by the trailer camp. The woman took no notice of me. On the porch beside me a notice read— , “WASHER SERVICE ^‘lOc for 20 min. “To operate coin meter: Plug cord in wall socket. Deposit dime. Turn nob until it stops. Motor will now start.” S'o all I had to do was to put in a dime. It was no. temptation. I noticed however, a double set of cement wash- tubs, placed with the gorgeous pan orama of sunshine, blue sky, palms, flying boats and trailer camp to watch while you worked. Defense Emergency They were set there for the conven ience of trailer-wives. Trailor-wives ate not a new institution,, but the de fense emergency may make many communities more familiar with them. Take San Diego for instance. San Diego has one of the country’s biggest Naval depots, and other in dustries to match. But now it is ex periencing an additional population boom like other defense towns in this year of 1941. Big new industries are coming in and Consilidated Aircraft is expanding enormously. Rents Up Rents in San Diego rose 21 per cent between October ’39 and January ’41, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated last June. And that brings me to Mrs. Paul ine Kensinger and Mrs. Elvira Eddy. The former has two boys and the lat ter two girls. Both boys and both girls, plus Mrs.‘Kensinger and Mrs. Eddy were all in one medium-sized trailer at once when I ceremoniously asked “May I come in?” They said I might. For a while the trailer seemed rather completely full. Then, by a happy linspirjition, I supplied a quar ter for soida pop, which caused a rapid departure of children. All but the youngest Eddy girl, who came back shyly to ask if she could “save” her share. i. Well, to get back to what I was saying, San Diego is pretty crowded and the United States Government, as an experiment, has opened , the first Government-sponsored trailer community here with others to fol low. This is no ordinary trailer com munity. This is one where you get the 20-minute use of a washing ma chine for only a dime, and other things to match, and the view of all outdoors while you use them. Mrs. Elvira Eddy doesn’t own this trailer, her husband rents it from the U. S. Farm Security Administration for $7 a week (payable in advance, with electricity and water free. It is a mobile defense housing project, and the Government buys standard two- wheel trailers and rents them to specified families whose bread-win ner works in desginated defense in dustries. I explained my business to Mrs. Kensinger and Mrs. Eddy. ^They did not seem upset. So many odd things had happened to them since they set up living in a Government bus that the arrival of an out-of-town corre spondent seemed trivial. Did you ever live in a trailer? This one was brand new, and spic and span, and every surface gleamed with porcelain or wax or polish. The linoleum and varnish weren’t scratch ed. There were 146 of these gray and silver Affairs on one side of the pai;k. On the other side were com fortable “San Diego Defense Dormi tories” for single men at $5 per week, $3.50, if two men shared a room to gether. I couldn’t help contrasting this with the chaos at Childersburg, Ala., which I described in an earlier article where there was no govern ment advance planning and border town conditions consequently resulted. What a lot of difference a little ad vance planning makes! Consider The Trailer Outside, the trailer looked small. The funny thing was that when you get inside all your perspectives be gan to re-arrange themselves. It seemed to expand before my eyes. My hostess and Mrs. Kensinger were ^.young and merry. You could see she thought living in a govern ment trailer a bit of a lark. Every once and awhile, she said, she would catch her husband’s eye and they would laugh for no good reason. Where did the children sleep? In — MORE ON fAGE FOUR — In the summer of 1780 General Sumter, dogging the advance of the British from their posts in South Carolina, encamped some miles below Charlotte, near enough to Providence to draw supplies from that locality, al ready a rich farming community. He went into camp with several hundred men, but on the 25th of July, when planning an excur sion against the enemy, he could muster only a hundred men. He had to dispatch some of the hun dred about over the country to call in the others. General Joseph Graham says that “While he kept moving and they expected to meet the ene my, they kept with him; but when they came to the dull rou tine of camp duty, such as mount ing and relieving guards and en during privations, they became dissatisfied, and those in con venient distance went home, hav ing no camp equipment or uten sils but what each brought with him. * * * This was the first practical lesson to our comman ders of militia, showing that while they kept in motion and the men expected that something would be achieved, they contin ued with the army, but after a few days in camps they became discontendted and would scat ter.” This country is still militia minded. It was the malitiaman in W. J. Bryan that impelled him to oppose an organized army and declare that' a million men would spring to the defense of the country when needed. It is the malitia minds in congress which caused the house to vote by only one member to keep the present men m service. It is the malitia- mindedness of the Country which I ideal of democracy and will not realize the peril of a MORE ON PAGE TWO mad dog country now threaten ing the world because its armies are now engaged far beyond our own borders. It is militia-mind- edness that keeps the people ap athetic and vulnerable to the teachings of men who are plan ning for the next election and think by that time everything will be safe and sound and they can go in upon a wave of deeper apathy. Mr, Knudson, production man ager, said the other day: “No body can outproduce this coun-r try if we get the spirit to do this job. I don’t think we’ve got the spirit yet.” Arthur Krock, the very alert Washington corres pondent of the New York Times, sums up the several causes for the apathy of the country as it is now felt in Washington. “Fundamentally,” he says, “the American people abhor war. They have developed a way of life which requires peace to en joy. They will fight and not stop until they win, when their secur ity or other vital interests are at stake. But there are still tqo many people in the United States who question that this country is so directly interested in the European phases of the war as to cause it to enter the conflict as a “shooting” participant or to exert itself to the point of suf fering to guarantee the outcome. “Predicated upon this basic thesis is a somewhat more spe cific reason for the public’s ap parent lack of concern. The case of America’s stake in the Euro pean war obviously has not been presented to the people in the most effective manner. Too much stress has been put on aid to Britain and defense of the not Human lnterest\The Collar Begins to Snap Around the Mad Dog’s Neck Miss Beatrice Cobb, editor of the Morganton Herald, and Democratic National Committeewoman, says: I have a few pet aversion^. One of them is the word “editress”. It has always been distasteful to me, and anyone who comes in and asks “‘Are you the editress of this newspaper?” is certainly off to a bad start. It is then, if ever, that I lean hard on my dignity and am inclined to be only coolly polite. As a matter of fact the word is not even listed in Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, except in the footnotes, and there is just about as much sense in using it as there would be in saying “teacher-ess, driver-ess, doetor-ess,” etc. I am not a “feminist” in the strict sense of that word, and have never clamored for “women’s rights.” However, I do have a very strong conviction that women should rate simply* as people, with no dis crimination shown , for them or against them because of sex — that they should rise or fall by merit alone. State of Mecklenburg VERY OLD LADY DIES The death of any person who has gone beyond ninety years of life is a news event, Mrs. Mary Stokes Mun- roe, died at the home of her son. Dr. H. Stokes Munrbe, Tuesday night at the age of 93. She was a native of Virginia, and was the wife of a well known Presbyterian minister who died in 1919. Five children and a num ber of grand children survive her. PIPE LINE COMING Some time this winter gasoline and oil will be flowing into North Caro lina through a pipe line starting in the oil fields of Louisiana and Texas. The terminus of the line will be Greensboro, with outlets at Charlotte and other points along the way. A storage plant will be built at Paw Creek. This line is hastened by the shortage. on the Atlantic coast. It is being constructed by an organization composed of several of the largest oil companies. Date for opening the line is January first next. TOO MUCH EATIN’ IN GAWGY A Georgia editor remarks: “It pleases a great many folks for so many to come at a time and take meals with them, and take them to be friends. When a big crowd comes in on me. I take them to be my enemies, trying tx> eat up all I’ve got.” To which another Georgia editor replies: “A bunch of self-invited guests who swarm in and darn nigh eat a man out of house and home, especially in times like these when the price of groceries is higher than a cat’s back, may not be exactly ene mies, but to say the least they - are highly undesirable friends.” COUNTY SCHOOLS OPEN Mecklenburg bounty opened yes terday. The school principals met Tuesday with Supt. Lockart. There are 24 schools in the system and 300 teachers, and there will be about 13,- 000 pupils. TO SUSTAIN COTTON The American Cotton Manufactur ers’ Association met in Charlotte Tuesday and spent the time in de vising ways to bolster the whole cot- tion industry when the present pros perity ceases. It was agreed to raise a fund of about half a million dollars to be used later in research and pro motion of new uses for cotton. This will be done by k contribution of five cents a bale for each bale used b^ a manufacturer. Every branch of the cotton indus try is included in the program, the ginnfers, the warehousemen, the com- pressers, the farmers, the spinners, and the merchants. Through this cam paign, the Cotton-Textile Institute and the National Cotton Council will have a sum of money which is ex pected to lay the groundwork for great benefit to the industry when the present conditions in which the industry is working are over. While the industry is finding a greater de mand than it can fill for its products today, it is hoped that the results of the promotion and research program will soften the impact when the gov ernment demand is finished and will cushion any serious slack in demand which might take place. All the money will be spent on the domestic fields and the domestic market for the cotton growers as well as the spinners. This is the first time the spinners and the growers have been united in a program for the welfare of both and both groups are pleased at its success, Mr. Mc- ' Laurine said. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS At their meeting Monday the coun ty commissioners passed final reso lutions incident to the issuance of $44,000 in bonds to be used to finance building additions to certain city schools; decicled to close the courthouse in observance of Labor Day September 1; received notice that the water supply at the county home and industrial home has prove inadequate because of the dry weath er; approved a terracer contract with Ben A. Washam, and named a com mittee to look into the juvenile court. The well and spring which sup plies the county home and industrial home has gone dry because of ‘ the dry weather, it was learned, and the water for the institutions is being hauled from nearby supplies. The county home committee. Commission ers Edgar J. Price and Fred A. Ham ilton, were authorized to look into the matter, but it is believed that fall rains, expected in a week or so, will remedy the water shortage. The same petition of Mrs. Sara Ross Hunter which was presented last week to the city council was presented to the county commision- erg. The petition as drawn by Mrs. Houser’s attorney, Ed. T. Cansler, Jr., asks that Mrs. Houseir be rein stated as an employe of the juvenile court department from which depart ment she was dismissed several weeks ago. The city council named a com mittee to look into the matter and the county board did the same thing. The cimmittee is made up of Com missioners Arnie D. Cashion, J. Cald well McDonald, and Fred A. Hamil ton. The commissioners heard a report that there is a good chance that the sale of two Mecklenburg county pris on camps to the State Highway de partment will go through as plan ned, and the county board authorized Chairman S. Y. McAden to go to Raleigh to see about the matter with in the next few days. SUNDAY ON A WARSHIP On one side of the broad quarter deck of H. M. S. Prince of Wales stood rigid ranks of sea-hardened boys from Massachusetts and Kansas and Oregon. On the other side were sea-hardened, boys from Kent and Shropshire and Wales. A land-lubber could not have told them apart. B.e- tween their ranks sat President Roosevelt and Prime Mini s t e r Churchill, and no man who had never .^ecn at least theii’-'isi^^tar'es could have sworn which was the American. The commander read a Church of Eng land service familiar to American churchgoers and intoned a special prayer. As he closed his prayerbook a hundred throats swelled in a re frain sung by seafaring men from Brisbane to Bangor since any one of them could remember. 1 • DIDN’T WANT TO INTERFERE This story has arrived from the seaport of Bergen. A party of German soldiers in an automo bile, apparently in a state of hilarity, came driving at great speed through the streets of Bergen and down to the water front. But there, instead of halt ing or turning, they continued straight on and plunged to the bottom of the harbor. Shortly af terwards the Gestapo rounded up some Norwegians who had wit nessed the accident, questioning first of all a stalwart fish-wife on the quay. “You saw the sol diers coming, didn’t you ? And you saw they were headed for the watef?” “Yes,” admitted the woman. “Then wh|r didn’t you stop them?” “Me, stop them?” she replied, “why, I thought they were on their way to England.” The mighty poAyer of the British Empire and Russia, backed by the United States, is beginning to tighten the cord around Hitler and in time the collar will snap securely around the mad dog’s neck. Hitler has reached his peak and from now on, no matter what his boasts, no matter what apparent success he may have in Russia, no matter what the pre diction of his supporters in this country, no matter how the ap- peaseers and sneerers continue their talk to the American people, their friend Hitler w^ill go down. Like a game fish on the line he will flounder here, plunge there, and leap all about, without break ing the hold of the hook. Hitler is hooked. His days are numbered. When the crash cames Germany will be the most degraded and bewildered people the earth has ever seen. The Hitler move has been going on for fifteen years. While it has been able to terrorize and smash all the world around it, its teachings and philosophy have sown the seeds in the German population which will sprout into anarchy and ruin for them. Taught that lies and treachery and mur der of other people is the natural way of life they will come to be lieve, as they are fast coming to believe, that it is the way of life for a people among themselves. Their loyality to Hitler, a trump ed up .and artificial product based upon the belief in his invicibility, will blow away when the time of his failures appears. They will desert him. They will desert each other. One leader will sell other leaders, one neighbor will rob an other neighbor, and treachery and ingominy will be the common every day attitude. It cannot be otherwise. Learn ing in the schools has been abolish ed and lies and false adulation have been taught the youth. There is no press, no radio, no person or agency that dares tell the truth about anything. When Hit ler’s mammouth lies about other peoples begin to explode the re- purcussions will demoralize and disintegrate the whole fabric of German life and the terrors of hell at home will fall upon the gullible and vain people who have supposed that a maniac could lead them to conquer the world and enslave all mankind. “Hell hath no fury like a woman spurned.” Spurned by the whole world, exhibited as the colossal scoundrel and humbug*that he is, when the day comes—Germans are fond of talking about the day —Hitler will be spurned by his own people and cast out, not be cause they have repented of their own criminality, but because he has not made it good with them. The fury of ippressed people, now daring to show itself everywhere, the ultimate decay of his own fighting machine, the choking off of all his world supplies as they have never been choked before, will annihilate Hitler and the crowd of hoodlums in his train and they will help on the work by betraying and murdering each other. “He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it, and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.” In his design upon the decency of the world Hitler has dug a pit of obloquy for his own people and he himself will fall into it. “The stars fight against Sisera.” DEATH BREAKS IN UPON THE HAPPY ARDREY FAMILY Joy at Home Coming From the Legislature Followed by the Death of Mrs. Ardrey HORSE AND LAND TRADES CHURCHILL TELLS OF THE MEETING Deliverance Will Come to the Oppressed; Japan Must Stop; Hitler Shall Pass Away POHERY ART OF MOORE COUNTY Mrs. Graves Keeps Up the Work of Her Ancestors With Great Success DANGER OF LONELINESS The chief of police of a large city once told me, says Dorothy Dix, that loneliness was the greatest danger that confronted girls who go to a strange city seeking their fortunes. He said that most of the girls who go astray are not the victims of some unfortunate love affair; nor do they sell themselves for money. Their .un doing is just loneliness. They come from the country or little towns where they had families and friends, companionship every hour of the day. They belonged to the church choir and had dates with the boys they went to school with, and had gone to all the parties and festivals and had been interested in everybody and ev erybody was interested in them. Then when they came to the city, where nobody knew them or cared whether they lived or died; when nobody spoke to them outside of the office or store in which they worked; when there was no boy friend to take them anywhere; when there was nothing to do and nobody m talk to on the long, lonely evenings, why, they were easy prey for the vile women and men who traffic in girl flesh. POST OFFICE INDICTEHENTS The Federal grand jury in Ashe- vile returned bills if indictment on Tuesday against Col. Younts, ex postmaster of Charlotte, and Sidney Croft, Thomas L. Talbert, and Wil liam C. Aldred, employees, charging unlawful political activities in the campaigns of 1936, 1938, and 1940. More tJian sixty unlawful and speci fic acts were charged in the indict ment. District Attorney Caudle is- used capiases for the men and bonds were fixed at $2,000 for Mr. Younts and $1,000 each for the others. The district Attorney intimated that a special term of court might be call ed to try the cases, otherwise they will come up at the October term in Asheville. The indictment pictures Colonel Younts as the czar of Mecklenburg politics durijig his service as post- MORE ON POGE THREE HEHOLD THE MASTER-MAID Another specialist in advice to women tells how the girls going to the city for a new job should- be a conquerer, conquerer of her own faults, thus: A smart girl who has a new job in a strange city has a swell chance to cor rect faults in herself and to bene fit from past mistakes. If she doesn’t take advantage of the opportunity she won’t be any happier or more successful than she was in the old job among her old friends. If she wasn’t getting all she wanted out of life in the town or ctiy she just left, if she hadn’t advanced fast enough in her work to suit her, if she hadn’t all the friends she wanted, right now is the time to take stock of herself and decide to make some changes. Maybe she had a repu tation for being shy and stand offish. Well, nobody in her new home knows what her personal ity isjiike so she can make her self put on a friendly front, even though she is still shy and uncer- — MORE ON PAGE TWO — Prime Minister Churchill, describ ing Adolf Hitler as “surprised, start led and staggered” at the bloody cost of the German invasion of Russia, declared in a broadcast Sunday that Britain would join the United States in action against Japan, the Asiatic Axis partner, if the Japanese persist ed in aggression. In the speech, his first public ut terance since the historic conference with President Roosevelt in the At lantic two weeks ago, it was implied that Germany .was too involved upon the great plains of Russia to turn to another sphere of war. Churchill estimated that “perhaps a million and a half, perhaps two million” Germans had fallen in the nine-week campaign and said that the invaders were retaliating with liter ally “scores of thousands of excu- tions of Russian patriots. China Incident in JBlfth Year “But Europe is not the only conti nent to be tormented and devastated by aggressions,” he said. “For five long years Japanese military factions seeking to emulate the style of Hit ler and Mussolini, taking all their posturing as if it were a new Euro pean reV-elation, have been invading and harrying 500,000,000 inhabitants of China. “Japanese armies have been wan dering about that vast land in futile excursions, carrying with them car nage, ruin and corruption and calling it ‘the China incident.’ “Now they stretch grasping hands into the southern seas of China, they snatch Indo-China from the wretched Vichy J'rench, they menace by their movements Siam, menace Singapore, the British link with Australia, and menace the Philippine islands, under the protection of the United States. It is certain that this has got to stop. “Every effort will be made to se cure a peaceful settlement,” he add ed. “The United States are laboring with infinite patience to arrive at a fair and amicable settlement which will give Japan the utmost reassur ance for her legitimate interests,” he said, but if that fails, “we shall of course range ourselves unhesitating ly at the side of the United States.” Referring to a question “How near is the United States to war?” Church ill declared, “There is certainly one man who knows the answer to that question. “If Hitler has not yet declared war upon the United States it is surely not out of his love for American in stitutions. It certainly is not because he could not find a pretext. He has murdered half a dozen countries for far less.” Telling the world Tiow he and Pres ident Roosevelt met in a “‘quiet bay somewhere in the AWantic, where misty sunshine plays or.\ great ships,” the Prime Minister said the meeting was “symbolic—that is its prime im portance.” “One By Onie” Churchill interpreted the failure of Hitler to war on the United States as a continuation of his policy of de stroying nations “one by one.” That policy, the Prime Minister said, needs only one “final sticcessful application to make him master of the world.” “I am devoutly thankful that some MORE ON PAGE FOUR By MYRTLE ELLEN LaBARR Talk about your unusual occupa tions for women! Nell Graves not only has an ex tremely unusual occupation, but she is understood to be the only woman in the whole State engaged in that particular work. What is more she is an artisan of no mean talent in what is probably the oldest of the arts known to the human race. Mrs. Graves, a blue-eyed slip of a girl with curly black hair, is a pot ter. It was as natural as breathing for the daughter of J. B. Cole to become high priestess of that ancient art. Her brother, Waymon Cole, is a pot ter. Her father runs Cole’s Pottery, one of the State’s largest of such es tablishments. Tradition says that the Coles have been making genuine hand-made pottery to order for more than 400 years. It is said, too, that they were part of that famous guild of' potters that grew up in Stanfford- shire, England, several hundred years ago. So Mrs. Graves is the heiress of English artisans who introduced an old, old industry to the American colonies of Pennsylvania and North Carolina years before the War of the Revolution. Cole’s 'Pottery sprawls around the feet of tall pine trees not far from this village in upper Moore county. In the tallest of th^e pines a mock ing bird conducts his own particular broadcasting station, although it ap pears to be ignored by the men folks as they go about dipping blusing clay objects in the glazing solutions or toting laden saggers to the kilns for the next firing. In a corner of a large work room over by a window from which she can see the men folks at work and hear the dauntless mocking bird, Mrs. Graves keeps busy making little vases and bowls and teacups to glad den the hearts of art lovers from Miami to Hawaii, from Toronto to Hollywood. Just as the visitor approached the girl picked up from behind her wheel a ball of play clay and planted it smartly on the center of a cast iron disc. Her left toe took command of the foot treadle that turns the wheel, and the n;agic began. Right before the visitor’s eyes that clay lump be gan to swell out into a fat little pitcher. The young molder simply held a moist chip of wood in her right hand to facilitate the shaping operation and with her left hand deft ly turning clay in place. Then she grasped a fine wire in both hands and ran it quickly under the pitcher, loosening it from the disc. The ves sel was set aside on a board with its companions to dry. Then they would be ready for the kiln. Mrs. Graves estimates that she can make 200 little pieces or 100 big ones in a day. She is usually busy, too. In fact, the entire force of 15 per sons is pretty busy most of the time. Phil Graves, Nell’s big, sandy-haired husband, said that he had been work ing at the pottery seven years with out ever finding time for a vacation. The pottery did not seem to feel the pinch of the depression very much. Prices on some of the higher priced articles were cut but the demand for the colorful ware held up. The boys who fire the kilns will tell anybody ^ that they have not been having much ’ time to soldier on the job, and Mrs , ,.1MORE ON PAGE FOUR By H. E. C. (RED BUCK) BRYANT That a well-regulated and intelligent fai-mer can be happy even though too much rain and crab grass gets the better of him now and then is clearly indicated by the interesting diary of the late Captain William E Ardrey of Providence township, Mecklenburg county. ■ Captain Ardrey had good and bad days, ups and downs, as every tiller of the soil must have, but nothing ever caused him to whine or grouch. He went cheerfully on, summing up his progress or backsets at the end of every year, and seldom a January came that he did not see some silver lining in the clouds. He had deaths in his fam ily, and in his wide circle of friends but he had faith in a S'avior, and went right along. At the beginning of 1878 he said: “My estate about as in 1877. We are a happy family with four interesting children. We are endeavoing to raise them in the way they should go. Our pastor for the Pineville circuit is Rev. L. E. Stacy, and our presiding elder Rev. W. H Bobbit. Messrs Shir ley and Boyd are teachers of our school. We made good crops, and had good health in the early part of the year. I was renominated and re elected with Col. John L. Brown on the Democratic ticket for the legislature by 600 majority. We did not canvass. “Captain S. B. Alexander was elect ed to the State Senate. Loses the Gin House “The gin house belonging to Dr. Kell and me was burned, supposed to have caught from the engine—loss ?59]. I had beer, to Foi l Mill and was at Mr. Jim Warwick’s on the way back when I saw the fire. I had stopped to inquire about Mrs. Warwick who was sick. I rode Celum home very fast, but found the house burned to the ground and Dr. Kell with about a hun dred other persons collected there. After the fire buraed out I went home and found Mag (Mrs. Ardrey) greatly distressed, also George and Frank, but I took it philosophically and went to bed and slept well during the night.” Captain Ardrey must have been a David Harum when it came to horse swapping. He mentions many tades and purchases. “In April of 1878,” he said, “I swapped Fannie, our mare, to Mr. J W. Davis, much against the wil lof Mag, and I never made a trade I re gretted so much, I bought Celum from Brother Joe for $90 and in the fall loaned him to Lark Robinson and he let him run off, and then I traded him to Kirkpatrick for a mule.” December I: “Sold Dr. Kell my Kit mule for $100.” Land was cheap in those days, and small tracts changed hands frequent ly. Back to the Legislature “I sold Dr. Kell the A. Ardrey tract of 71 acres at $20 per acre,” said Cap tain Ardrey, “and bought the J. R. Cunningham place at $5 per acre, and put John Owens on it to farm it for me. S'old to Mr. John Taylor the Don aldson land, on the Walkup place, 24 acres for $400. I sold Mr. Donaldson^ my half of the D. C. Wolfe place for $500.” In January, 1879, Captain Ardrey left for Raleigh to attend a session of the legislature; he was very sad over the illness of his wife. He boarded a train at Charlotte at five in the morn ing of the 9th, and arrived in Raleigh at 2 P. M., accompanied by Congress- Walter Leak Steele, of Rockingham, and Mr. James A. Lockhart, of Anson county, then a member of the legisla ture. “The legislature,” the Ardrey diary says, “elected Governor Vance to the United States Senate and inaugurated Thomas J. Jarvis, Governor. ‘During my absence in Raleigh my business at home was carried on very well by Sammie Kerr, and the^ farm was in good condition. Sammie’ had my stock looking better than usual.” Back to Dear Old Spot That “Home Sweet Home,” even though it was in the country, was^very dear to Captain Ardrey his note^' clear ly show. While he liked the honor voted him by the people of the couiity who sent him to the legislature he was always glad to return to the old Ar drey place. March 14, 1879, he wrote: “Arrived at home—the dear old spot— the old home of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and now my dear wife and children! 0 how dear is the old mansion—the soil upon which it stands, is sacred and hallowed by memories of the past. All the sur roundings, the old oaks, the elms, the walnut, and all look prettier and dearer than ever before. How glad I am to be at home! I think I will try to stay here the remainder of my life. When I came Mag was standing in the piazza looking for me and the children came running to meet me. These are the attractions of home, and home would be dark and dreary without a wife and little ones. The days until the first of April were spent quietly at home. All peace and love. S'weet harmony reigned throughout. The children going to school, the farm work progressing nicely, the weather MORE ON PA BA TWO .
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