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"A BETTER COUNTY THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES’ TRENTON, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1950 NUMBER 24 Armistice Day Is To Be Harvest Festival Day In Kinst’n Everyone Invited Plans are moving along toward completion for the Kinston Har vest Festival, which is to be held on Armistice Day, November 11th. Everything points at this time to one of the biggest and most enjoyable days in the his tory of the World’s Foremost Tobacco Center. The whole day is to be an expression of thanks from the people of Kinston to their neighbors who sell and buy in the community during the rest of the year. ■M&i The Harvest Day program will %get underway at 9 in the mom pnb when the Old Knott Ware house, which will house the many industrial, agricultural and edu cational exhibits,, will be opened to the public. At 10 o’clock the day’s program gets officially un der way with Radio Stage Show which is to feature the Bailey Brothers string band of Raleigh Radio Station WPTF. Following the string band stage show there will be a band con , cert at 10:45. Guests will be rec ognized after this concert and following this the featured speak er of the day, Carl Goerch, editor of the State magazine, will de liver an address. Following Goerch's speech a parade will be held through the downtown section of Kinston . which is to feature a consider able number of floats, bands and marching units. After the pa rade, lunch will be served by the Lenoir County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs. This lunch will be the only part of the day that Is not provided FREE. A nomlnaly charge will be made for this mid-day meal but the rest of the program will be en tirely free to everyone, officials of the festival have declared. After lunch at 1:30 there will be a show and sale of purebred Hereford cattle at the New Car olina Warehouse. At 2:30 the annual 4-H Club achievement program and awards will be presented at the Old Knott Warehouse. Following the 4-H Club pro gram, at 3 p. m. another stage show will be given free in the same warehouse. At 7:30 a band concert will be held in the same place and at 8 p. m. a beauty pageant with girls from Lenoir and seven sur rounding counties will be held and immediately after the beau ty pageant a round and square dance will begin and last until midnight. Any girl between 15 and 23 years of age whose home is in a community of less than 2,500 people In Jones, Onslow, Duplin, Wayne, Greene, Pitt, Craven and is eligible to en and invitations John Larkins Is ‘Campus Sweetheart* For Salem Coeds v Much to ftie embarassment of the “glamor boy” set In Winston Salem, the coeds at Salem Col lege have selected State Senator John D. i Larkins Jf. as their “Campus Sweetheart” for the 1950-51 school term. Larkins has sent a telegram to the girls, in cluding his daughter, Polly, in which he asks that every one of his supporters be given a big kiss and he has expressed regret that he has not been able to attend to this personally. Larkin was one of 65 young men entered in this contest and he has' not been able to deter mine whether his good looks, his ever present smile or the political ability of his daughter were re sponsible for his winning this election in a sphere usually clos ed to professional politicians. Larkins has under study a “gla mor school” in which, for a nom inal tuition fee, he will pass on some of his ability to win friends and influence voters even in a most conservative girls’ school. Mountain Laurel is one of the 10 North Carolina plants most poisonous to livestock, according to animal husbandry specialists at State College. have been extended to all soc ial and civic organizations in these counties to enter a girl. First prize will be $100, second prize $50 and third prize will be $25. All entries must be received before midnight November 8th Three More Days Left of Jones County’s Annual Fair: Attend One Or All Everything is rolling along to ward the most successful of the four Jones County Agricultural Fairs that have been sponsored In Trenton by the Clen New ton Post of the American Legion. Still three of the biggest and best days of the fair remain for the people of Jones and surrounding counties to enjoy. Today (Thursday) is Farm ma chinery Day at the fair. Farm equipment dealers in Jones ant}, neighboring counties are putting on a show to let the farm folks know what the various types of equipment will do and how to best take care of this equip ment. Thursday night the Vet erans Farm Training Classes in Jones County Schools are putting on a fire works show which they are not only managing but are also paying for from their own funds. On Friday all school children in Jones and surround ing counties are to be admitted free-throughout the day. During the afternoon the annual 4-H Club poultry Club show sale will be held and a flock of special events have been lined up for participation by the school-aged boys and girls. Friday night a two hour concert is to be given at the fair grounds by the Cherry Point Marine Air Station band. On Saturday the fair will come to an end with the annual beauty contest in which 18 Jones Coun ty girls will parade before jud ges for the honor of being chosen Miss Jones County of 1950. Unit ed States Senator Clyde R. Hoey has accepted an invitation from Pair Director John D. Larkins Jr. and will have the honor of crowning the winner of this con test. Purebred Swine To Be On Sale Friday At Kinston Show On Friday of this week hog growers in this part of the coun try will have an opportunity to attend a Purebred Hog Sale which is being put on at 1 p. m. in the New Carolina Warehouse in Kinston under the sponsor ship of the Lenoir County Live stock Development Association. Twenty one registered animals from severel different breeds will be on sale at the show, of ficials have announced. Lenoir County Livestock Specialist Ray mond Upchurch has pointed out that this is a golden opportunity for swine producers to add some fine blood to their herds. Animals to be on sale include Spotted Poland China, Duroc, Po land China, Hampshire and Tam worth breeds. Pew homes In Lenoir. Counts ‘ or North Carolina have a greater as* aura of history about them than “Burns Place” which now stands 5 crumbling from lack of appre ciation, paint and repairs just east of the Wayne County line in the western edge of Lenoir County. The men who built and lived in this once fine old home have helped write a considerable portion of the history of Lenoir County, North Carolina and the United States. Today, like a great majority of East Carolina’s his torical landmarks It stands, ab used and unnoticed by the hun dreds who pass it daily on the two highways that intersect In its front yard, which is located at what was once called Cedar Lane and is today perhaps best known as Hussey’s Store. The men whose children built “Burns Place” were among the first white men to settle in this part of North Carolina. In the 1770’s Bryan Whitfield who was bom at White Hall settled at what came to be called “Rock ford”, which is several miles down the river from his birthplace. "This first Bryan Whitfield oper ated a ferry and general store at “Rockford” and was a most suc cessful man for his day. Prior to the Revolutionary War this Bryan Whitfield saved the pie of an Englishman named Benjamin Bums, who was flee ing from some of King George's militia. In gratitude, Bums gave Whitfield a great plantation along the Neuse River of several thousand acres. James Bryan the manor house, plantatioll to re^ plase the family home at “Rock ford” which had burned he named the house, “Burns fjplace” In memory of the man who Jwd given his. father the huge tract of land, bosses Hattie and .Janie Whitfield. .' that: When Whitfield 1 for this - Bryan who live at 703 North Queen Street In Kin ston still have In their posses sion this deed which gave their family the Burns land. Hand-flutedcolumns from the original home at ‘“Rockford” and handcarved mantels were part of this “Bums Place” when it was completed in 1835—115 years ago. The first Bryan Whitfield was born February 19, 1754 and reached his majority at the be ginning of the Revolutionary war. He served with the Conti nental Army with great distinc tion, was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons, vot ed in favor of a bill to build the Dismal Swamp Canal which had been surveyed by George Wash ington and served on the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina from 1805 through 1808. He died June 23, 1817. His son, General James Bryan .Whitfield was the builder of “Burns Place”. He was born at Rockford May 23, 1809. He was a general in the State Militia. From General Whitfield the plantation passed to Colonel Na than Bryan Whitfield, who was bom at "Burns Place” December 21, 1835. Colonel Whitfield serv ed with great valor in the Eighth North Carolina Regiment in the War Between The States and dur ing a long and most useful life time he became one of Lenoir County’s most honored and re spected citizens. At the age of 23 he served his first term in the North Carolina General Assembly, another at the age of 24 and later at the age of 56 in 1891 he served his county in the State Legislature. He served as chairman of the county board of commissioners, was for 24 years a magistrate and for 11 years a judge in the Inferior Courts of the county. He was also one of the founders of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church In j ■ This is "Burns Place’', one of Lenoir Coun ty’s most historic homes. It is located on the , Kinston Seven Springs road at what is today; called Hussey’s Store”. In spite of the poo* state of1 repair that the Old home has been permitted to fall into, it stiii presents a com-' mantling countenance to the hurried travelers who fly by today at a mile a minute with no appreciation for it or the men and women who lived in it and helped write a goodly por tion of the county, state and nation’s history. (Photo by Jack'Rider) the Moss Hill Community. Colonel Whitfield died March 21,1914 and today the only child ren from his family of six who re living are the Misses Whitfield of Kinston. Prom the Colonel his plantation passed to his son Dr. William Cobb Whitfield and from him it went to his children who had moved to Florida. These two children having lost contact with their family ties in North Caro lina sold the plantation to Al ton Mewbom who owns it today. During the War Between the States when the Battle of White Hall was fought “Burns Place” was converted into a “Yankee hospital. The Whitfields had ta ken refuge in Richmond ounty while Colonel Whitfield was awav with the Confederate Army. The huge but sturdy old dining room table of the home was used as an operating table. This table is still in the home of the Misses Whitfield today. Another family heirloom still with the Whitfield sisters is a giant sized buffet which was converted into a feed trough for Yankee horses while the home was being used as a hospital. After the Yankees had gone an epidemic of typhoid fever hit the Whitfield family and the people working around the place and it was found that this epi demic was caused by the pollu tion of the plantation well by am putated arms and legs that had been thrown there by the make shift operators of the war-time hospital. The Confederate Ram Neuse was built in “The Grove” which was part of this plantation. Much history has been written in this house and much more has been written by the men who once called it home. No one with any sense of historical apprecia tion can pass it today without feeling a small lump over its present condition.
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