Grits and Gravel
(By T. MOSES JONES.)
XI,o service at the Methodist Church
a little cut of the usual Sunday
, 'ht. The usual would have 'been a
j'A, sermon by our pastor, Rev. Q.
Dowd, but instead, a number of
,-, u ' forty-odd members of the Ep
worth League who attended the
Youth Rally at Durham Tuesday
■ gave an Echo of that meeting
... Durham. Our young folks are not
jtaal to get up in church and talk.
Cam- H- A. Hart has been able to
nnul ‘n to his home near Hester. Last
7- : la.i.v afternoon he was taken sick
while attending the funeral services
\v. J- Currin at Hester and was
taken to the home of his daughter,
\ ilr , Aillie Frazier, in Oxford.
yi, George W. McDonald of
p LlC h' Mount is nursing her aunt,
•ID-;.'Lena Gooch of Route 1. Both
[)( urge and his smile were up from
IL.vlty Mount for the week-end.
"i h. Baker has felt disinclined
for a day or so, but is up again. A
fine Jersey calf arrived at his home
recently °n George Washington’s
birthday, and also one at the home
0 f h. son, the .next day, Allan. So
naturally the calves were named
George and Martha.
Miss Leona Hinton has returned to
Durham after visiting at the home of
jlr. and Mrs. Robert Hinton and Mrs.
B. E. Parham.
Sidney Usry of Lexington and Miss
Boopeep Usi'y of Chase City, Va.,
were recent visitors here.
Mr. and Mrs. John Gooch of Hes
ter have 'returned from Goldsboro
where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard Hare.
Mrs. L. E. Breedlove and children,
Helen. Ruth, and Jimmie, spent the
week-end. (literally, Friday afternoon,
Saturday, and Sunday) at‘the home
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Phone 82 and Count The Minutes
j of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
I Watkins on Raleigh Road (Hender
son). Oxford also has a Raleigh
Road, upon which us Joneses live.
Don’t see Miss Eunice Watkins
I much these days. She spent the win
| ter over here at Oxford a year ago.
■ Have not seen Mr. Watkins since he
fell last September and broke his leg.
But hear that he is able to get around
some now.
Some years ago when he was mar
| ried to Miss Oveda Watkins, Lonnie
I Breedlove brought his ibride to our
I home where they lived for awhile.
Now, as the proprietor of the Ideal
| Bruit Store, he may rightly be called
I .he Fruit King of Granville County.
Accidentally (or incidentally) he vol
untarily became one of our first sub
scribers to the Henderson Daily Dis
patch, since your Old Mose acquired
a jelb with said paper last Friday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bullock and
children of Creedmoor visited Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Gooch of Hester
Sunday.
!Frank V/attsi r.f and
Creighton Seat of Mountain Creek
made music with the fiddle, bow, and
guitar last Saturday night at the
home of Fred Blackwell on Route 4.
And as Fred lives at the home of his
daddy, it was really at Mr. Bobs in
stead of Fred’s. They enjoyed sing
ing old-time songs.
I can imagine it was just about like
it was one night last fall when I was
there and we ate a corn-shucking
supper, and then packed the parlor
with folks, and played and sang.
Beat a ride over to Henderson early
Monday morning with one of the
Saunders men and a Mr. White. On
the corner in Henderson, Jack Collins
who used to barber over to Oxford
hollered, “Hello, T. Moses! I saw your
junk in the paper Saturday night.”
And it was not until then that I
really knew imy first column had ap
peared in black and white in your
paper.
There I saw Miss Annie Louis' Aver
ett, of the Carolina Power and Light
Company and she wanted to know
tvhat I was doing so far away from
home.
Then I saw a face of which I could
not recall the name. So he had to tell
fie it was Gentry Weaver who used to
five out at Cousin Ed Hunt’s near
Salem.
Lloyd Dorsey passed with several
hundred yards of plant bed cover un
der his arm, so I say, “I see you’ve
got your sheets, but I don’t see any
pillow cases.”
Robert Satterwhite, the Kandy
King, passed, but stopped to speak.
His salesmen sold me Baby Ruths,
and Mr. Goodbars, and chewing gum,
and so forth about five years ago
when I ran a 2x4 fruit emporium.
Richard Faucette also spoke to me.
Said he lived out on Raleigh Road
about three miles. Richard and
Tommie, three brothers, lived down
near Dexter when I was a boy.
In the window where it says, “Ray
W. Goodrich, Photography,” is a hand
painted photograph of Miss Sallie
Norwood, who now teaches at Farm
ville, N. C. It is truly a lovely pic
ture. Her brother, Leo, The Sales
man, comes over our way real often
on his job. Her little fat brother,
John, works for the ice cream com
pany. I don’t blame him though, for
if I were fleshy I would want a job
close to the cooling effects of ice
cream. But as skinny and boney as
I am, I really should have a jolb with
the Water Company, and hot water,
at that, so I could keep warm.
A lovelier girl than their sister,
Miss Lutie, I have never seen. Miss
Lutie died while in our grade at high
school here at Oxford some years ago.
Mrs. J. Y. Paris will remember her.
Upon leaving town for home, I was
overtaken by E. L. Raynor who works
over here for the Owen Motor Com
pany. Mr. Raynor married one of
the Mangum Twins, I asked him
why he didn’t move to Oxford and
Allie Hart move to Henderson, then
each would live where they worked,.
We met Joe Flicks with his Amoco
truck ful of gas.
At‘the edge of town Mr. Maynor
stopped to pick up another “air” pas
senger, whom he knew. Soon I told
Mr. Raynor I had just started to
work for the Henderson paper. The
young man said, “So you are T.
Moses Jones.” He was Fred Farris
of the Tanner Roofing Company. On
a job at A. D. Capeharte’s home in
Oxford, Mr. Farris lacked a bit of
material and went back after it. Their
cars were all busy at the time, and
it was, not yet bus time, so he, like
myself, bummed a ride. And as we
all in s.afety reached the Granville
zones, it was not the last of your
T. MOSES JONES.
Alcohol Agent
Slain By Two Men
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(Continued from Page one.i
Mills, N. C., where they began the.
pursuit of an auto they suspected of
hauling illegal liquor. They overtook
the car just after crossing the Vir
ginia line, Estes related, and the
fugitive machine was brought to a
stop.
Two men were in the car, the officer
said, and as he and Jackson approach
ed to investigate, five shots were
fired.
The car was driven away as Jack
son, shot through the head, fell mor
tally wounded.
BURY SLAIN, TAX AGENT
AT PLYMOUTH TODAY
Plymouth, March 9 1 .—(AP)—W. J.
Jackson, Jr., 45-year-old revenue of
ficer slain near Norfolk late last night
was a native of Plymouth and son of
the former Sheriff W. J. Jackson, late
of Washington county.
An undertaker planned to bring the
body here today for burial.
Mrs. Jackson was notified of her
husband’s death early this morning
Besides a widow, there are the fol
lowing relatives, a daughter, Lorraine,
15, a sister, Mrs. N. B. Cox, two broth
ers, Elmer and Charlie, all of Ply
mouth.
63 Men Set Aside
Before Completion
Os Full Jury List
(Continued from T*age One.)
liamsboro township. Both were from
the regular jury list serving at this
term of court.
The State then set aside the next
two men by accepting two of its
peremptory challenges, and the court
excused the fifth man because he had
formed an opinion. The sixth ma\
called was A. L. Vandyke, Kittrell
township farmer, who became the
third man to be accepted.
A. C. Simms, Henderson furniture
salesman,* was next called and said he
was opposed to capital punishment
which automatically let him off, and
J. D. Mustin, next called, was seated
as acceptable to both sides. He reside?
on Rowland street in Henaerson, an I
formerly was employed here by th<
State Highway prison department and
before that was a farmer.
A. D. Adcock, automobile mechanic
of Henderson, became the fifth juror,
followed consecutively by the nex'
two men called, who became the sixth
and seventh jurors. They were C. H.
Sneed, Williamsboro farmer, and M
T. Chandler, lifelong farmer of Dab
ney township. He was the last man
taken from the regular term jury.
The seventh man called in the spe
cial venire was W. E. Neathery, Mid
dleburg farmer, who was the eight!
man to be accepted by both sides.
Twenty-two men were called befo-. •
the ninth man was agreed upon, seat
ed and sworn. He was H. E. Elling
ton, janitor at the Henderson post o p
fice. Six more men were called am
G. W. Norwood, Dabney merchant wa
seated as the tenth juror, and the las
one to be accepted before the luncl
hour.
When the case was called two ne i
attorneys appeared at the defens'
table. They were J. C. Kittrell, fathe'
of T. S. Kittrell, who with A. A. Bun.
had been appointed by the court L
defend Fairbanks, and J. M. Peace
who has often appeared with M:
Bunn in criminal trials. Mr. Peaci
did all of the questioning for the de
sense of prospective jurors when th<Y
were called.
Solicitor E. R. Tyler is being ai
sisted in the prosecution by J. I
and J. H. Zollicoffer as private pru
secution. The solicitor did all of tht
questioning of prospective jurors du:
ing the forenoon session.
, The Fairbanks case was the fir~‘
to be called when court opened so
the day at 9:30 a. m. Judge R. Hur:
F'arker, presiding,- who is familia’
with the doubtful strength of the cou: j
house building to support tremendou.
throngs in the court room, ordered
hat aisles be cleared and that • spec
ators must find seats. It was difficuL
to enforce the order, however, an;':
many stood at the rear of the
room, and others at various points--
within the bar enclosure.
Everywhere in the court room was
a generous sprinkling of women, wh'
had jammed inside to get seats for the,,
procedure. They took a deep interea*
in the proceedings.
During the procedure of the early
morning, fingerprint experts of tin
State came into court, carrying the
ixe with which Good was killed, ann
various other exhibits that' are to be
used in prosecution testimony. It w’l
be impossible to display any of th>.'
menagerie of birds, monkeys and dog c
the Goods had in their traveling Ton
Thumb circus because all of this ha
been sent back to Texas in the truck
trailer in which they traveled aboi'J
ever the country giving their exhib
:ion in schools and elsewhere. Ths>
lad come to Henderson for a perfor
mance before Henderson high schoc
students on Monday morning afte
he tragedy the night before.
It is expected, however, that pic
ures of the birds may he exhibited
and fingerprints will be produced, i<
ic thought, by the State in its effor
4 build up a case against Fairbanks
A A. Bunn, of defense counsel, saiJ
Fairbanks would be their only witnes
so far as he knew. He had told hi
client that he wa§ the whole show ir
his own behalf, and it was up to him
The attorney intimated there mighJ
be a new angle to the case that ha?
not as yet been mentioned in publk
prints, and if this turn should develop
was considered likely to fdfnish on?
of the interesting, if not sensational
aspects.
Fairbanks confessed to officers tin
day after the slaying that he killed
HENDEfiSOJjr. (M.C.) DAILY DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1938 SIR
Good in an attack with the axe whe i
Good had turned upon him after the
two had an argument over Good’s al
leged treatment of a cockatoo, per
forming bird in his menagerie. Since
that time Fairbanks has been in ja:i
without bond, most of the time out of
Henderson, and part of the time in
Granville .county jail at Oxford and
later in the Nash county jail at Nash
ville. He waived examination at a pre
liminary hearing before Recorder R.
E. Clements in county cou.t on Ft'-
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Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, of New York, fought it out tooth and nail
with members of the Transit Commission at Albany, N. Y., when he
demanded that the body be abolished and control over New York City’s
transit problems be vested in the city’s Board of Estimate. He is shown
in a huddle with Senator Esquirol (left) and Assemblyman Robert Crews
(center) during the hearing. (Central Press)
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day alter the slaying.
Mrs. Good, who was critically wound
ed in the attack, lay unconscious in
Maria Parham hospital here for sev
eral weeks, and was only recently
discharged. She has been here all the
while, and is to be a prosecution wit
ness, though her memory has not re
turned, sufficiently for her to relate
incidents at the time of the fatal al
tercation.
Once testimony is begun, it is be
lieved all evidence can be completed
within the space of a working day of
the court. Seven attorneys appearing
in the case are eligible to speak, how
ever, and the court’s charge must be
given to the jury. It will likely be near
the end of the week when the cas?
is concluded.
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir ' Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 9. —During the pas +
three weeks, twenty skilled and spe
cially trained blind people have beer,
placed on a Works Progress Admin
istration project operating statewide,
to tune pianos in the public building?
of North Carolina, it is reported b;>
the North Carolina State Employment
Service.
Commissioner of Agriculture W
Kerr Scott has appealed to North Car
olina’s congressmen to help him get
“pork inspectors” appointed for the
State, to help hog growers get fair
prices for their products.
Looks like he went to the right
place—those congressmen know more
about “pork,’’ particularly of the “bar
rel’’ kind, than anybody else.
A Sampson county farmer, E. A.
Hobbs, is quoted as saying of a dis
tant relative, Sam H. HoLbs, who h t.s
been opposing crop control: “He wants
to run for the. Senate (State) and
he’s going to run on the Democratie
ticket with Republicans back of him.
That’s why he’s going all over the
county and other counties talking on
this bill.”
Sounds fine, but the fact is that
Sampson county doesn’t even have a
voice jn nominating a Democratic
candidate for the State Senate this
year, having had Jeff Johnston here
last session. Duplin and New Hanover
get the seats this time, soats this time,
so Sampson and Fender do not even
participate in the primary voting.
Speaking of the crop control strug
gle, E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive offi
cer at State College, has called atten
tion to the fact that the cotton and
obacco referenda are enirely separate
affairs, although they are to be held
PAGE THREE
on the same day, March 12. He waYns
cotton farmers not to depend on to
bacco growers to put control “over.”
Incidentally the Survey had expend
ed $124,975.68 of its $225,000 budget
through December 31, 1937. By far the
greater portion of this expenditure
covered personnel salaries; the only
other sizeable item covered automotive
transportation for field parties.
The North Carolina State Depart
ment of Vocational Rehabilitation re
ports that it has rehabilitated and
secured employment on a continuing
and self-supporting basis a total of
312 persons. Already employed, but
still being followed up are 105 cases
while 142 cases have been rehabilitated
but are waiting placement in employ
ment.
SANDHILL PEACHES
WILL BLOOM SOON
Pinehurst, March 9. —Spring in the
Sandhills... and fruit trees, dormant
during the winter months, put on their
colorful spring costumes, burst in+o
beautiful, fragrant iblossoms.
One of the loveliest of all flower
ing trees is the peach, with its soft
pink blossoms, for which this section
of the state is noted. Each year thous
ands of nature lovers travel from far
and wide to view hundreds of or
chards of pink blossoms, row after
row of evenly spaced, blooming trees.
This year, with an early spring, the
peaches are budding a few weeks ear
lier than usual, and will be at their
height this week and next week. They
remain in bloom for a very short pe
riod, and after next week, many of
the blossoms will be gone.
Another tree for which the Sand
hills is famous is the dogwood, which
will flower during the month of April.
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