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j tie peo
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j to. have too iniiy'ftiB&;:3NmTI:flp.ii00v.to.
' -V Va. minMl manv TelktioM WhV not ifrUOTC thft
"-tt heat .,.v k' ' ..'V.' '
'aid luck doesn't nut the same way all the time; keep a stiff
; lip and fight on eventually you u-win. , , t ,
Znn an editor, feels kindly duopsed to those who think his
nper is worth mow than they pay ror it. - ;
lie ia Duplin Ctounty at much as possible; it won't hurt yon
lebody you know makes legitimate prom raw jour uujib.
, , , .; , ..J ' '
' --,'. iw wnrtii ianTthimr. must he a 'personal experience,
a doesn't mean that you can't get any good out of attending
1a cobwebs torn in the corner, it's sign that the room has
i cleaned up. - ; : ' J'
'or what will happen if the faijners grow some more big
1C33I
As We See l938
''Bear Bolert: ' '. : '
' I am enclosing one of 1-r. I
Hwrai iinrinff the month of
le there were always interested in Lis letters
law she might like this. . - '.
I want to have all of his last article pIithed by some pa
per, and I am trying to select the right ones, that wl be reaJy
interested in them.;,, , ,; y ; ; ;;
. '.u; yty ess. inssEEAia). ,
1 Iinwood Avenue, Poughkeepsie, H, Y., Jan. 7, 13S8.
The lato John 1. VitzgeraM.-mentS'on the farm; The women
!T , . - tare overworked. A reasonable a-
- 3f we may imagine Jesus ox na-i mown m muite, v
' .V ZTiriT w- vrv .Tirilto save labor would more tlen
HLrRLil UIUU1UK W ' 1 . . ,
wi.Wnrton. we may a'jo imagine, pay lor ltseir
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him coming to Euralville. He lov-
ti f nld and nillsiaes oi uai-
iWV He would love the rural
communities today.
u vnnU u much to commend
-a mritnii tn nondemn in Eural
ville life, He would see many of
the evils that he saw in uauiee
and Jerusalem long ago, He would
see greed and avarice, h would
a AnnrpRsion and extortion. He
v -rr- . .
would see in some cases mew m
PoviTfid over with a thin veneer
of hvnocrisy.,V, c -
, We may be sure ' that Jesus
would not keep silent He could
not ignorethe difference between
right and wrong., He would be im
pelled to praise all that helps the
nnrnrmnit "onward and upward,
he would rebuke all thai holds it
or pulls it downward. He woum
i kt Euralville as the represen
tative of the kingdom of Qod. He
would rejoice all things he deemed
in harmony witn tnai singuom.
' At Euralville Jesus would speak
to . rural people. He : . would tell
them about their own failings, te
hnVn tbnir own ? sins. He would
not emphasise the iniquities' of
in the saw? rf plys so
doctor's' bills and hostta bis. andre
tru .. - . . .
i3 a t- ' t, s . 1 1
pec;'3arll' "-i:dtEef.
- .1.. . A . . .l.Y. ...
cr LX v.e Sfone ume i y t.
t"ted in certain fa;.li,c t
principle's that tLay are net
L-o'u s .3V.t ty xabunn&ue
. at . STI1. I
wiris ox .ocmne.' aius wouw
delU tl i great teacher who so
often CI 'ulod the traditions
Of tie e" s and urged the peo
ple to 'je for themselves'"
The t .arch has tin aims.
They use 1 prions means to accom-
. f . mm. .i --!Yt
t:n tao-i ai.i 3. iaey tire wu
irj to do its own p'Cilar and
t'J-ly sreciX-ci woik. They use
ts to teach moral
.as truth, but they have
no desire t s coH-jete wiih the the
atre in s: rins ilys. They some
times bii j lecturers, but they
are not tx competition with the
tians. He would not please the
'. umruxm riiwii numtiii hnaxA tiothine but ,com'
fs-om merchants: "Business is bad where is all the money;
Sing this depression; are we in for another oig aepres
rle have money and are holding on to it!" and. hundreds
-a;ons were asked by mercnanis au arouno. ' , ,
: L "uired at several post offices end learned that the money
i iiness was holding up. ,- In fact ome post office in Duplin
1 tlat in three months period -over $28,000 went out in
r .nil it n it. TMi&turt. At this rate it would amount
ZZQ is. 12 months. Fifteen post offices serve Duplin wunty .jhg jews when speaking to Chris-
tach P. 0. averaged sending out the same amouns w uiu uic
ve it would total a million and half dollars going out of
jity in money orders. This figure, however, is far too high.
,e offices wouldnot average so high and the 'PeJIi5M,17Te,
s daring the fall when people had more money, but the picture
mf us that there was plenty of money in our county during toe
- n.Mw i vr.Aiiint.i Hid not ro after the business properly.
Th mwrt of our tax collector this month shows that Duplin not be his way,
y citizens paid more current taxes during 1937 than la any .jwotiH'iei'.not onlyhat
t,ear. This report looks good to us. we are vmjmx b
ur commissioners and tax collector are putting forth muoh
. 1 reaping results. ' 1 - - 'T
1 3 kas gotten off to a good start. Everybody is busy with
. ..- r, mnRt. instances their books show them
t : er circumstnaees than they were m January Wii R"jobstacles they must overcome. Eu-
? to develop more' strongly a spirit oi wyay w
i give our home merchants the benefit of the doubt when we are
'. through catalogues and making out orders. As a rule u
i wilt consider every anSle of this shopping problem, tiie chances
a by ordering from Catalogues, money order and C. 0. D. costs,
i. ,and many other risks you will findjthat it
er to apend your money at home When you are looking thru
. caal&eidfindan article yuu want, take the catalog to your
- J8 merchant show him the price and the chances are he wiU meet
...e lower price offered, if it is lower, and you get what you want
" :,t as cheap and keep your money at home. -; . - '
' if we wfll all look at it in this manner and be fair to ourselves
" roommunity merchant, January 1938 Will find more xes
i cur county than did January 1938. eBusiness houses outside
' County'pay no taxes to keep our county going. They art.
M iim or me furthe than getting that old dollar from
uket books. Our home town meronani is our m
We may be sure that Jesus would
not ignore tnese ooncuaons.
Euralville has ' a large consoli-
longer walk miles to a one room um. tace in a great while the
i?Li Yw.nT.iA minister r.ay g-ive a book review;
TCUWl. JUVB w. 'J x - - i, L v. !..
nnrfnllw TU)V taxes to SUfUOrtt uu 1 V c
their expensive schools. Attend
ance is not nearly what we might
expect Some farmers keep their
children at nome to pioc coon
or prepare the tobacco for the
market. The state has a very
yague oompulsory education law,
but it is not enforced. In tome
counties it amounts to almost no
thing. Sickness also cuts into the
work of the schools, Jesus would
no doubt champion the cause of
the child. He would ask that some
way be found to prevent the epi
demic that fall upon Euralville
himpclf to the sermon. T7he u he
thisks he can help the religious
life of his people by a book review,
he reviev. I a bock. He is old
fashioned enough, however, to be
lieve that as a rule the sermon
is what pople want and need at
church.
EoralvUle has had many preac
ers to cove and go. Some-have re
mained under protest until they
could eet call to the citiesrThe
present tdnister has dedicated
his life W the rural church. He
expects to live and die in its ser-
on arte another everr year.' He. vice. Like Goldsmith's "village
would rebuke the parents . who preacher way he never change or
keep little children out of school wish to change his place. Long at
to work, whether it be done from Euralville onay he "allure to a bri
avajice, laiiness, or lack of vision, j ghter woId and lead the way".
'pTh : iritis nam their slums, i Jesus must go on to other com-
their housing1 problems. The rural' munities $hat need him. He has
communities have tneir Housing
problems also. Even many houses
of large farmers are uncomionao.
xum may uc wic tij v p.. - -
preach in his name, but it would
Euralville is, he would also see
what Euralville might become. He
would see what the people desired
to be. He would appreciate "the
battles they are fighting and " the
He nays taxes and is interested in our oommunwy ano ouai
i as you and I are. ,lf we will all spend our money at hiomoour
bs will grow, our stores will be larger, and we will all profit in-
. 11 - '."'V.',li'-;?T
;cuy.
They Marry In Old Duplin
ralville indeed is fighting itt way
onward and upward. It is a hard
fight. The progressive spirit is
gaining the ascendancy, but the
conservative spirit is strong. The
reactionary spirit is far from dead.
There are those I, who still fight
the battles of the Civil War. Somel
resent the fact that the negro u
not still in slavery. They are not
willing for. the past dead to bury
its dead. t . ,
The drink habit claims a heavy
tolL It wrecks many a young life.
The curse has been handed down
from generation to generation.
Prohibition did not remove it, nor
enough '
ween. Comfort is unknown,
Southern tenant is as a rule very
profilio and, lie - tenant's house
it smalt there is not the privacy
an decency there ought to be.
Sometimes the small windows have
no window panes. Guano sacks
and old panto are sometimes where
the glass ought to be. How the
flies do swarm in the summer. Ho
wonder there-, is sickness. Jesus
would surely observe all these
things. He would put the blame
where it belongs. He would I re
buke the landowner for hu stupid
ity, he would rebuke the tenant
in some eases for his laziness and
lack of selk respect '
Jesus was a great economist as
i well as moralist He saw clearly
that economic values are bound up
with moral and spiritual vales.
Kany of his parables deal with the
uses and abuses of money. The
credit system is much used around
Euralville.: The fanners begin in
the spring to buy their (arm sup-
sown tne seeo ana can trust .
to yield harvest He can trust
his leaven to leaven the lump. He
departs "perhaps to "preach and
teach in &e cities"; but sweet in
deed musA always be his memories
of Euralv'e and his efforst there
tn biiiM the kingdom, of -God in
The' the minds and hearts of the Eural
ville people.
T
riVT,T. TJta: iiredit ' They pay or-are
it I am not prepared to say what, L- afte,
dHIU WDU1U BUT HUUUL UUS UUliLi-Ul it . . 1
- : . . ' i . . . ..iinn kii uuor iodbcoo ana ooLLon.
of liquor. I am sure he would tell
the people not to trust overmuch
in man-made laws. I can see him
swine to the home of the drunk
ard, breaking bread with him. In'
- The f prices charged by the
"time"' merchant are : sometimes
extortionate. The merchant is not
altogether to blame. Sometimes
"riie records silenUy tell their which makes 143 colored wed-
-r of the' activities of Cupid
; ring the year. A few days dur-
the year found the little fel
"".t nodding, and he failed to re
' tor a marriage a day. He seems
have taken a month's vaca
' n, and most of us do that, so
j complain.
..'ith the possibility of 365 days,
find S38 weddings. But from
'i list the records show that
; c t these couples had one or
forties from ' outside the
'j. That leaves us with 289
i weddings. ' However we
no way of checking the Dup
inges which were perfora
te the oounty. So we mar
. 5 v t'., , t',;
whites lead for the k year
"I cor pies at against 155
colored. - However ' the
1 3 outside ' marriages
dings in the county as s against
128 white couples. leaving, our
the season's high for December
with 51 marriages, we find thatj about graft The grafter .did,
July and October tied for high
place. It is interesting to note
that these are the two months of
definite income for the farmers..
February and August are the two
of f months with 20 each. . -
, The applications for , licenses
come in spurts. Usually ' during
the last days of the month there
is an increase in the number of
marriages.:; Holidays also attract
young couples with ; Christmas
high, and Thanksgiving second.
some aSesI can see the drunk- tomer aim, to , get aU he
ard in his presence resolviwr to " W ht?" te
become a sober man. We do not
read that the guest in the home
of Zacchaeus said one word to the
however, in that presence read an
invitation to come up higher. .The
guest in the home of the Eural
ville drunkard Would not talk the
ories about licensed or unlicensed
liquor. He would impart life to the
drunkard.- - ' i ' -- " " '
Euralville has its feuds. There
are no McCoys or Hatfields there.
Some families do not like ! other
families. They do not " go after
one another with guns. The weap
on they use most is the ton?ue,
They do much backoinng around
New LIclhods in
Church Kccdsd
Say3 Gj
T .w th n yt -Tip-ht'KaralviUe. Jesus waj a radical. He
m fhWI tm snnlimitioni toe n.went ' to vtherroot of evils. : He
M Vavlsi RTftixrn anil Tsvi1-ivtik Tiki I would seek to remove bitterness
mitKrani) fUimi-i TBUUiMim au& strife br iinparting to -v the
Letsie Mae Eoearuuuu oolored. The i tm&bU the spirit of love and for-
other 1838 license was issued to
a white couple, H. C, Grady and
colored having only 12,Thehua Henderson. .
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giveness. He would also talk to the
people in a -"come let us reason
together spirit". He - would point
out to them the folly of nursw
old greiveanoes and perpetuate
old feuds. He would show ' tl: 2
the wisdom of working torctlci
for the common good
The prophet of Eazareth wa?
can. wnile some mercnants are
greedy' and extortionate, others
would 1 like to be more generousj
than their customers will allow
them to be. "The man who lives
there did own the farm, but now
it belongs to the Supply Company"
is a tale we" often hear around
Euralville.' Jesus would look e"
these facts straflt in tie face. He
would try to improve cond.tions.
Se would try to m&e tne mer
chant less avaricious and t': cus
tomer more honest and tlrlty.
" It is Sunday. Jesus 'objcrves
that some merchants at r.:"!vi"c
keep their stores o; t fil t j. Hi
was not h stdt r ' 'W .:vr.
He dealt in 1 ",s 1 '.. "j
er t&an s:veI1 r ' 1. "A C " 'j
Day's Jorr.ry." .L,.l V
mean tofi yi XLe fcut .
TheCalLath was 1 's f t 11.51.
not man for t-e 1 n St.-
true, still tirc'y. J 1 pi
motive ra-er uaa t-.e ri, 1.1
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1 r father, c:
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8031 . t the sr'A T ' ' ' ' 1
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a bran of r . j t - ' , '
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-sent of Lis i, ''7. 2) Ai: ;
rison's Creek, . ' Iover ( -
, t.t--. t 1.0 f T.:
wue wan iuuui 1 v
1 i
' were: Isaac, Jedcu.., Jstoob, irK -, 1 1 . - '
over County. (3) Cr " i TZCrii 3 C ' : T,
"chased land on Sand II l-v trt:a IL. . i. '-, a v
in 17C5, and was living tip 1 ' 1 1: e y?ej 1 ... 1
his family. (4) JQIf C 11 . ' ' L a Clt ef fcv. ?
; in the hands of Captain I --.est.. 'r'?, ,
aavriuMi 17S7. Ko furtler rc '..1. ( ) --
mnrripd Anna Evers in T "'in Ccf 7, J 17, 1
ther record. (6) ELZZAlX.il " '-
rell (later Eurrell), a prominerzt Cr."ov Ct
JAKX3 CAEXICGiJ, lived for a sl-xt f re i
. He moved to Greenville District, Eouia Cr
-, is found among the public kcot'j f.o d '
v Ho record of his family. (8) JII-.: i 1 t "
Duplin County for several years piior U 1. j.
: MTMn.ninAtiM he was liviuz in Crc:,v3 I
olina. end from thence he moved to Tails Ceor a,
' soon after the year 1800. Es wife was Jane , u-mm ?
, lin County and their children .were as follows: (a) Jase Car- -.'
risen, born 1785, married Barney Meadows and lived in J.
County. ' (b) Eebecca Garrison, marned Burton and hved to,
ttm coimtv. Georeia. (cV Eev. levi Gamson, a Kethodist nua-
ister, located in Anderson County, South Carolina, and ream a ,
a large family there. Hit wife was Kiss Meadow, of
1 North Carolina. Two of. their tons were minister. (d)r:
James Caleb- Sinikon,; married Katie Morgan and reared a ,
- laree family in Banks County, (e) Eev. David Garrison, a Me
' , thodist minister, Uved and died in Banks County, leaving a large
family, (f) Christopher Garrison, Jr., married Ketnah Leadowt
. and reared three sons, (g) Thomas Gamson marned aMwar-
ed a family, (h) Capiat: Garrison, moved West (9) EIEAES -GAEISSOH,
lived at Garrison spring, - Duplin County. He filed
. . ifimi m.rm f hu firxt wita cannot be eivt
' n. Ei second wife was Johnnie Middleton whom he married
: October 18, 1788. .By hit Will, J782, he directed t en
' .i.5i4 t.,mI VnTiTnim. if a son. The other childern,
tot marriage, were at follows:-(a) llary (PoUy) Garrison,
' married in 1818., (b) David Garrison, no lurtner i
' .m. 1 1 onii itimMn (Dunlin County,
tSko. daughter of Mary n(Brosard) and Earnet Brock. t
J She was was born August 28, 1774, and died January 3, 1840. x,
at follows: (aaj tpnraim wuiw, "" r :
daughter of William Carr, and their children were : Lucy Am, t
' Sed John Carr Mallard, .on of Barbara (Carr) and John h
Manard; Mary Jane, married Gabriel SL '
Ses) and William Boney ; and Margaret IsabeUa. bb) lTanut
Garrison, Uving in Telfair County, Georgia, in 1812., (cc),E1k-
-( SSStSS married Amos P. dd 7Sf " ,
4 nson, married MerreU Williams, living in lee County, Georgia.
JrK David B. Garrison, died at twenty-four years of ; , ,
m (ff) James Garrison,. married. Mary Catherine y.i.aams,
Sed in Hew Hanover County, ((g?) Penelope H. Caxnson mar-
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In one kl bis most inspiring ser
mons in trecent 1 months, . Eev.
Frank L Goodman at the local
Presbyterian Church - Sunday
morning itold his congregation
that the 'Christian people today
needed new.' methods or a revival
of old methods of Christian, wor
ship-. :. .." ;
: He read the lesson from Gelat
ions 6th tlapter. 1st through the
10th versa. Taking at hit subject
"At ye sow, so shall ye also reap
a tatUt;3 qoiuuo jo xoi pajp n
mong the older 1 generation or
family heads at the cause of the
present d:y indifference towards
the church. -1
In oldea-day. the family prac
ticed usinj the family altar, par
ents took their young to Sunday
School, clarch end prayer meet
ing. The fimily circle was the
strong m. ,od that held the peo
ple in the church. . "",
Wb are not sufferine from a
breakdown of faith, ' he said, just
merely a .breakdown of method,
method of worsuip. using tne con
struction of a bridge as the figure
of speech:le said first you must
picture in rour ,mind tie bridge,
you tZzzt make plans on paper but
ulIsds yos have a method of con
strue. n f a put tiat mev-iia in
to r ac: a you will . have no
ti' t. I I so with the church,
Ui.1 17 . have a method, and put
tic 1 1 1 into praotice you will
have tlurch, ....
Tw'. y e are facir react
versus ac' re rel'dous. .'e do not
have r, .iuos hrrwri-'
we . e not interested in re-
" !;ae- .atobealrr ''-1""5
1 t" e -clio, e-1 V e C. t-
l.Vo.l' f 7T""-'.'0 CJft H't p "0
I.. s t j 1 va ia C: .'.lxi'.y ml
m ' 1 1 '1 it.: 1 tri ac'"jns
tl rt 1j i a tf r ii j r;:t
t r u ( . 1 i J -e s t3 s
""ll'j" I iir -" " ' i.l'
" Y
unoorn . ' I
tyth'et.I I
,- He wa. ;
. uvea m ew vv o.
' ried James Williams and tneir cnuoren wcre "1"i"",l ,t37 ? -
Civil War ; Mary . Ann, carried George Ehodes; Ca&erine, . .
' married James Bhode".; Margaret, marneu ' ' r
T. . . t I- .., ,4,. mra.i tii tVpTS! PllS" -p , 1
W""1! , , x . Tamp.
... ti.m Ann mdvnn ui ....
;v mi in -mmucu tuna wo",.. - , ; ,-rf
' married Julia Albertson; David J., marned -- , ,
Whitehead and MyrUe Smith, (hh) Sarah Carnson, married ; ,
. Ait thirteen months after tie carnage. ,
I' (ii) Thomas.Garrison, Jr, died at .sixteen years of ee. (J) 4,
- Catterine Garrison, married John DcAson and their ch-ren .
were: Eezekiah Dobson, married and ared two sons Jo Ili h- , j
ard and Thomas Morgan ; iWson;. ionn. y.rL wri
in i-.no invu war: iuobih , . . -
liams, and left a large jamiiy .rZ c ': '' I
k';.. '.. .L.it ..i i. a ior fan-.Jv: Penelope U -.'-aae. ,
Dobson. married Calvin Bradahaw and left a la-e f -jnuj ; V. 1 ,
SiSv Mary KoUingsworth and kit a large . .
family. ' ' .l : .'v : "wT'r
thMdns; ' '"; 7.
Concluding hit sermon le said
that prosperity causes us to drit
front the church. It i. the hard
problems in any kind of livirg
that bring out tne oesi in u. u.
we are put to it to majce a nv-.
ing we will develop a mttl od of
our own wberety we can earn a
livlihood. Co with. tie church. E
we would be C: tiar s we mut
develop metlc'si ty ' v-H'i we
must Lve as did our forefathers.
Christ It not so much interested
in the kind of method we use just ;,y
so we use' an elective metl.!. f ,
, . What will tie harvest be, lie as
ked. "As ye sow,' so shalTye also .
reap".
Who Ilr ovrr?
1. ,Tm matry cr
teenf' . liatlel
. 2. VI ' l W8S fe i .
Tra'.t At pa.-. IT- , ?.
3. I.:;w t!J is Hlcrt H' TacW I -son,
A:-,ltant Z"nipy-C:r-rUJ 'j ,
4. r '- 5i f - r:-!5ulliera LJar. i .
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peed TV wo Seed,
eared i -
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re that we
1 livJi. .
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Ask for
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in tie i Viatel .'..- i
5. Ejw does' the pi"!nt ;'em''f;s.
l!o7:ut ia Cer.prl I 'ot com-.i' '.
:s wizth prerkus rci.Jj t
6. lues tie rr-t government i
cf P ' - "ia rcitsont a .majority, V
7. . . v irp.ry Chinese live. ,i ;
8. L'rv rra 'i- torri'rry have
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