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A Man Of Many Interests I(r. Morris Daniels of Stonewall became a con servationist and ecologist before it was the “fashionable thing to do.” 15 1947 or 1948, Morris Daniels started his Canada Gi$se population, now totaling 23 geese, with one pdf. Knowledgeable about the Cdnada Goose, Daniels said that the goose may live 30—70 years: his oldest is now 14 years old. The aeese. for the m<>«* part, mate f.r life Mow ’ er should an accident befall one of the pair, the surviving one will take another mate. Daniels said that he once had a pair that was nesting; the goose was sitting on the nest containing the eggs while the gander stood “lookout duty”. The gander was attacked by a blue heron, an enemy of the Canada goose, which “punctured” the goose in the side and ran him away. The goose needed a gander to help with “child-rearing duties” so she took another mate. However, said Daniels, the first gander somehow sur vived and was hand fed by Daniels until he was back on his webbed feet. Although, commented Morris, he always had a limp. The three geese “hung around” together and there didn’t seem to be any acceptance problems between the old gander and the new. Daniels continued the story saying that he was out working in his shop late one night and the injured gander came, grabbed his pants leg and pulled. Daniels said that he didn’t know what the gander wanted but that the gander died several days later. Daniels’ geese can fly free. He said that his geese visit Jackie Cowell’s flock in Stonewall and Cowell’s geese visit his. Daniels and his wife counted 117 geese in their yard one morning. Daniels commented that he has Reduced Farm For Sale 97 acres. Reduced three times. $91,500. In two tracts with 10,497 pounds of tobacco. Excellent and well drained land. Beaufort County. Cox's Crossroad. Darden Realty 758-1983 Nights & weekends 756-4041 raised 50-60 geese since he started. The pairs lay 4-7 eggs each year; last year said Morris, eleven eggs hatched but 6 or 7 have died. The eggs hatch in about 28 days and both parents are responsible for the care of the young. The young stay with their parents until they are about 2 years old. At about 3 years of age, the geese find mates. Remembering another incident, Daniels said that the goose took the three eggs which had hatched to get some grass for their first meal while the gander stayed behind with the one egg which didn’t hatch. Soon the remaining egg did hatch and father and offspring joined the rest of the family. They eat the com which Daniels scatters for them but, he explained, they are mostly grass eaters. The Canada Goose will crossbreed with a domestic goose. Daniels said that sometimes he will see a goose with marked like a Canada goose but having a white neck. Daniels is understandably concerned about the goose hunters in Pamlico County. Most of the Canada geese in this county, he said, are owned by someone although they are allowed to fly free. Daniels has visions of repopulating the county with geese to the extent that a hunter wouldn’t have to worry too much about shooting someone’s goose. “If,” he commented, “people would leave our geese alone, we could have an open season in about 5 years.” He con tinued by saying that the geese have “got to get out now” referring to the over crowding taking place. There is competition for nesting places close to home grounds since many of the younger geese are now V ... .„v»TO >aaHbjt . We’ve Got the Answer For Heating Your Home! Squire Stoue BETTER BURNING BETTER HEATING' EASIER TO USE PAMLICO WOOD STOVES Boyboro, N«C« 745-4337 Morris Daniels and friends. Morris Daniels with a few samples of his woodcarvings. seeking out their own nests. Daniels said that the geese have to have a nesting place with a pond and plenty of '“grasses " for feeding and owner-protected places are becoming scarce. Daniels said that tne area has “been a ‘land of plenty’ ” and that people need to take from it, referring mainly to hunting and fishing, only what is needed. He understands that a farmer may have to kill deer or raccoons which are damaging his crops but he doesn’t believe that it is necessary to kill to the point of causing a species to become extinct in an area. Besides his interest in raising geese, Daniels also has a pony, Jour sheep, numerous chickens, and hunting dogs. CARVING A HOBBY Carving is also a hobby with, you guessed it, the Canada goose a specialty. Daniels said that he began carving when he worked for the railroad and has been carving for 12-14 years. Juniper and white and red cedar are favorite woods. He feels that some of his talent in carving may have come from his father who, Morris Daniels has been told, carved Hardison’s Minnesott Seafood Restaurant Specials For Sunday, February 22 Fish Filets and Oysters 3.75 6oz. Strip Steak with baked potato 3.95 Baked Ham with 'atsin sauce 3.25 Barbeque FriedOhicken 2.76 The above are served with 2 vegetables, beverage and dessert ★ We cook our chic famous Hen r, T*,n one used by t Chicken People, boxes - 8 4 p; in the > the some of the “gingerbread’ trim embellishing the 100 year old home. Daniels said that he couldn’t be sure of this since he never knew his father who died when Morris was only three months old. “OLD MCDONALD’S FARM” School children sometimes visit the Danielses to see the geese and the other animals. Once Daniels took a hen and her three-day old bitties to a kindergarten class at An derson School. He later received “Thank you” drawings from the class. Morris Daniels said that the children passed the tiny bitties around but that not one bitty was hurt. history buff Daniels also spends time reading and researching history about the geese and the coastal area. Daniels said that young people should spend more time with older people <because their elders have a lot to teach them. The mute swan is so-called because it is said never to use its voice in captivity. Soldiers in ancient Rome ate garlic in the belief that it gave them courage in battle. Reels boro (Cont'd from Page.0ne) In the early years of Reelsboro, most of the people mad? their living from farming, fishing or lumber. Mrs. Buck said that many of the Reelsboro residents were very well educated and included lawyers, school teachers and ministers. TRANSPORTATION ■ ; .1 In John Reel’s time, sailing boats, both passenger and freight, would stop at Lee Landing on Broad Creek and bring supplies. The boats would leave loaded with com, cotton and other produce from the area. About 1902, the railroad came through and began buying up right-of-ways. When the tracks were laid, the Reel store lay between the railroad and the highway. The tram hail passenger cars and freight cars. The depot became the gathering place for the local townspeople. However, soon after the use of cars became more com monplace, about 1920, the train, now used less for tran sportation, stopped running passenger cars. And, even tually, trucks began carrying much of the farm produce that used to be shipped by freight train. The number of, freight trains was also reduced. By 1976, all the trains were stopped and crossing signs were removed. SCHOOLS :; Reelsboro had its own school for several years. The first. school, located in the area of the present Hudson; Manufacturing building, was for all grades and had on© classroom upstairs and one downstairs. Later a wooden building was built at the comer of Savannah Road and Lee landing Road; that one burned in 1918. Mrs. Buck, who said she started school in 1921, attended school a church for two years until a new school could be built. The new brick school was built on the site of the one which had burned. , , _ , , About 1926, school consolidation began and the Reelsboro 7th grade class was sent to the Alliance school. Mrs. Buck commented that this was the beginning of Reelsboro losing its school. In 1927, the post office in Reelsboro closed another blow to the community - another part of its iidentity lost. FAMILIES George Reel was the father of John Benton Reel and Lucy Reel Barrow. Lucy Barrow gave the land on which the Reelsboro Methodist Church now stands. In a small cemetery behind the Methodist Church, Reuben Barrow is buried. Reuben was the father of Henry Barrow (husband to Lucy Reel Barrow). Reuben Barrow came to the area from Greene County about 1870 because a daughter married Nathaniel Greene Brinson Grantsboro. He brought 5 children with him. He was a school teacher, could speak 4 languages and had been Clerk of Court in Lenoir County. Most of the families who originally settled in Reelsboro are still represented; they include the Holtons, Pipkins, Moores, Caseys, Bennetts, Lanes, Lees, Reels, Brinsons and Barringers. UTILITIES Electricity came to the area about 1925. In the early 1900’s, Jqe Reel of Arapahoe installed telephone equipment at his Arapahoe store for private use; he wanted to be able to keep in touch with his father, John Reel, in Reelsboro and ran a line to Reel’s Store. Later, George Reel, brother to Joe and son to John, took over Joe’s phone equipment and installed it in his home in Bayboro. Eventually this service branched out to other the county and was sold to Carolina Telephone in the 1920’s. T A lead poultice was once believed to cure a sea serpent bite. 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