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PAGE TWO Grits and Gravel (By T. MOSES JONES.) ' • -r' > ■ ' <?.: : ' ; ... '../■ • ' * > : —- CHARLOTTE ANA PUCKETT. In at Rose’s Five & Dime Friday afternoon, and Harvey Jeffries asked Miss Allen Wilkerson to fix me up a nice Easter basket, as I wanted one to take to a very young lady, the one whose picture you see above. So Miss All,en composed and compiled a beau tiful basket with Easter bunnies, eggs and chickens, and then encased the whole affair in cellophane. Several days before, I had been invited to come out to the Cutting Supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. (Oscar) Puckett, Oscar being a special friend of mine. So about three o'clock, I gathered up said basket, found one of- the Cur rin Brothers and his son about to leave for Kinton’s fork, rode with them that far; got a transfer on the Mountain Creek Bus Line (By Air) and then rode the other miles, of the seven and one-half miles distance with Harvey Greenway and Dick Jones. And those two men shorely did talk ugly about me to my back, for some one told me next day what they said, and this was it, “Just think about the supper that old T. Moses is going to eat tonight, and then think of the thousands of Chinese children who are starving to death," Those same men let me out at the mail box and I walked the quarter mile up to the house. There stood the house in a shiny coat of white paint with ifcrand-new lightning rods and also new screen doors and windows. It had all been fixed up since I was out there late last summer down at the barns to a weenie roast. In the kitchen I found Mrs. Fackett (Mis Annie May Riggan). Mrs. Fred Puckett, and Mrs. Alvis Puckett and children, Harold Lee and Annie Gray. Fred married Miss Sarah Owen, and the Jones Twins and myself got up real early before breakfast one morn ing, just a week before last Christ mas, and went around to Preacher Poe’s house to their wedding, as Mr. Poe was leaving early that day to go over to Raleigh to bring his two daughters, Misses Rachel and Lillian, home for the holidays. So I gave Charlotte her basket, an.l Earl Puckett showed me the way to the woods where the men were at work. Besides Oscar and Alvis and Fred, and James, there were several neighbors: Maynard Howard, Otho Humpries, Charlie Adcock, Thomas Wynne, and George Daniel, and half a dozen hands the neighbors had sent to help. Although I am getting old, and have long been grey, it was the first cutting I had ever attended. To hear fifteen axes chopping at one time was almost like hearing a clock tick, only a bit louder. In the very top of one of the talles* trees they cut down, I found what I took to be a last year’s buzzard nest. They did not chop or saw into a bee tree, but that would have been funny to have gotten a lot of chopping done, plus finding a tub full of honey. They wound up on an atrociously large white oak, and I counted ninety seven rings on the stump, judging the tree to have keen that many years old, or I stand corrected if I am wrong I neglected to say that I sat around on stumps and logs while they did the cutting, chopping, and sawing. With thoughts of something good to. eat running away with our minds,* we “wended our way" back to the house. I did not get to taste any of the peach pickle nor the stand of pre serves, but the following are what I did eat some of each: baked hen with dressing and gravy; creamed potatoes and potato salad; hot buttered bis cuits and coffee; stew beef and some of the best Brunswick stew; pear pickle and navy beans. I can’t remem ber the rest, but the dessert was pine apple cake and peaches. And Char lotte had put her Easter basket right in the middle of the table for decora tions. When the last table full had finish ed eating, we men folks sat in the parlor and talked and had some music. Then we disbanded for the night, Oscar taking me home. He is a NORTHMQOR b-MM, STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY || . mggfflß $1.45 Quart |a^.^^£co^Br younger brother of Jim f-’uckett, whom you Vance county folks know. Now for some week-end visits: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Frazier of Vance coun ty spent the week-end with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Critcher of near Oxford. - Buel Glover of Dabney was intro duced to me Saturday by Gene Par rott. Although I have known some of the Dal ney Glovers, I hud never before mot this particular one. Miss Foy Clark of North Granville was a recent Oxford visitoi. Mr. and Mrs. Garland Cur v in and little daughter, Janet, have return** to Wilmington after visiting his moth er, Mrs. W. T. Cumin. Garland said it ’ was “Springtime in the Rockies" down at Wilmington, with the flow ers in full bloom, and summei just around the corner. Had not seen bim in about fifteen years, at which time he was a tall, stringy youth. But h* has since broadened out with should ers of a giant. Garland was in a very bad ca.* wreck last August, but ha • recovered with the exception of a stiff elbow. Miss Sallie Wood, of Goldsboro, is guest of her sister, Miss Hallie Wood. Miss Annie Crews of Raleigh spent Sunday with Mrs. D. G. Brummitt. Miss Annie is a sister of Gene Crews who is now with a wholesale drug firm of Baltimore. Both of them fo> merly lived here and have many friends and relatives in this com munity. The week-end was spent by Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Privett of Route 2, Ki - trell, at the home of Mr. and Mrs Lestc. IT - r : f Route 3, Oxford. Met the young couple in town Satui da\ night. . . , Mrs. J. C. Hayes was again in town Saturday to see that new grand-baby, which she says had grown almost be yond recognition during the past twi weeks, since she had seem him last. Mrs. Hayes said that what she wanted most now was to get her hands on > fishing pole and some bait and go fishing Curtis TiUottson, Jr., eleven month', old grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. W Dean of Stovall, is recovering from a recent serious illness. J. E. Ivey of Henderson was ove* this way Saturday for the first time in several months. If I mistake not, he lived at my grandpa Rev. William Stephen Hester’s when he was a tod dling baby. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Broome, of Whit- Plains have returned home after visit ing at the home of Mr. gnd Mrs. Sam Parrott near Wilton. Mr. Broome wr; formerly principal of the Wilton high school for several years. With this I close. T. MOSES JONES. ALL PUTON ON BULLDOG NINE Spring Sports Got Under way With Enthusiastic Program Announced “Every position is wide open, re gardless of the number of lettermen," was Bing Miller’s comment when he called out his candidates for Hender son high school baseball team this afternoon. The spring athletic program for the school is an ambitious one and in cludes golf, under the tutelage of Tommy Jenkins with S. M. Crowder as director, tennis under Bob Harri son and soft ball for girls under the supervision of Miss Ruby Temple. The boys are a little short on the amount of cash to carry the ball club through the season, but Coach Miller planned to start, homing that suffi cient amount could be raised during the season to carry it to its end. EPSOM HAS THRE .GAMES THIS WEEK ) Play Knightdale Today; Ra leigh Team Wednesday ; Wake Forest Friday Epsom school baseball team has a busy week, playing three con tests . This afternoon, the nine played host to Knightdale at Epsom, and to morrow the team will journey to Ra leigh to meet Methodist Orphanage, and will return to the home diamond Friday with Wake Forest high as the opposition. Epsom opened its season last Thursday with a 5-2 verdict over Wake Forest. Officer PecJt Indisposed Police Sergeant J. D. Peck is con fined to his home with an infected foot. Officer Peck was forced to re linquish his duties yesterday morn ing, £ue to the ailing member of his anatomy. I Leggett's Department Store """ 111 : ~ ’ INTS For SPRING Sale of Fine Powder pufßMmsK “ LINGERIE l Nfifrl wm An exquisite sheer print with • m - JR/ y§fe\ Mr l\\j. a crisp permanent finish that Oil ***** ***** ** A fcfrAlr# launders perfectly. Silk "V* Usually sold at 45, Special. Pajama® ' Printed Linen® jAn event every woman will welcome. A special purchase ul sanforized linejis in bold prints, two ne satin and silk crepe gowns, slips, pajamas in solid iree color effects. 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