The Goldsboro Herald Professional Building Phone >80 A publication devoted to the upbuild mg of Golds bo rt and Wayne County. Issued every Thursday. M- L. BLOCK and VUOKNE L. BOBEBTS Owners end PebUekare ■ugcne L. Roberts .....______ Edltoi IL L. Block----- Advertising Manages Subscription Rates: One Year.$109 Six Months ...SO Altered et the postoffice at Goldsboro. N. C_ as mail matter of the second class under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 HAPPY CHILD HEN Around 509 children were made happy Monday night when the Salvation Army had ftz Christmas tree. Many were given toys and , bad not known the ‘nanY 1"rfl many of us the season thal This _ as made possible by Adlutani “L.aest Lamar, Mrs. Lamar, and their cowork era. by those who gave toys to be repaired foi this purpose, by those who made contributions to the Army, by the Lions Chib which gave toys, by many friends, by merchants. But ws wish that 500 Goldsboro people could Ware seen those eager faces, those happy ex presslnns and then next year hundreds of ad dilional toys would be available for the fini work which the Salvation Army is doing in oui midst. All strength to this fine organisation in its -work among the needy of our section. Let's help them to help those who need help. LOOKING FORWARD With the approach of the New Year It will be a mighty fine thing If all of us will look forward to what is ahead for us—to 1938 and the yean beyond. It is well for us to plan Just how we will Im prove our lives during the month which arc ahead of us: Just how we can practice in oui Ryes more and more the principle laid dowr by the Apostle James and described as pare religion: namely, personal purity and practi cal helpfulness. We, of course, must look to material things lor we must live and must provide for our fam iHes; but alter all, the material things are no die greatest things in life. LIVING is the thing unit we need to practice living the ABUND ANT LIFE. Let us plan to begin the New Year with c determination to live fuller lives ourselves ant to enable others, through our helpfulness, tc live better and fuller lives. To do this we need to look backward as we.l as forward. All of us make mistakes—howevci reluctant we arc to admit them—and It Is wel that we profit from them. We often think tha it Is not so regretable to make mistakes; but thi ! ITy itnhle tffig is that we so often refuse t< Jggn) from When we have once mad< « mistake, lefts try not to make the same on< ^ yitiv. L l! we wlll ao \ „ _> that we will be bigger ourselves if we will try to make some one else hap py we will be happier ourselves. By practicing personal purity and practlca helpfulness we will find ourselves living the ABUNDANT life. And may die ABUNDANT LIFE be yours during the coming year, is our wish far you. OUH PLANS During the past year we have tried to tnak< the Herald a better paper than it wag during 1936. and we shall try during 1938 to make it < better paper than it was during 1937. Tou can help us do this—all ot you readers You can do this by letting us know of newi •vents in your community which should be ii the paper—and ii you haven't a corresponden lor the paper in your community. Just help ui get one—and by suggesting to as things yoi would like to see in the paper, improvement that could be made. During the past year we have made a nura her of improvements. You have doubtless noi ed some o: them. We have changed Sunday school lesson dit nations and we now have what some Bibli student-, have told us is the finest lesson pre •eolation they have seen. We have added a SHORT SHORT STOR1 each week, a story lust one column long whicl you may read In a few minutes. And ii yoi have not been reading thsse stories wo sug ge«t you siait this week to read them. Shor Short Store* are a comparatively new type o literature, but they are so popular that most o our leading magazines carry them. Wo have added a new Washington letle; which gives you the facts from the Naliona capital. We have added a column each week b-j Irvin S. Cobb, one of the country's greats* humorists and writers. If you haven't beer reading Cobb, we advise that you start thb We have added two local columns, one by L E. Warrick, a native of the county and on* who taught school for a long time. He Is often spoken of as the “Will Rogers" of this section; you'll enjoy him. Boggs Corbin, a newcomer to the paper, is doing a column. Bead it. Read all of these fea tares in addition to those which the paper has been carrying—Chips Off the Old Block, Ram bib' 'Bound; Items and Ideas, etc. And. too. we have added this fall the record of county court pt oceedings. of marriage li censee sold, and of land transfers. Many have told us they wanted these things and have ex pressed appreciation for their appearance. How' our plane Include improvements for the coming year lust as we have made them during the pa** yem. What we want you to do is to write in. or call at the office, and let us know hat what are the Improvements you would like to u« made. Ramblin' ’Round Christmas is past. The New Year Is at hand. It's a mighty good time to take an Inventory of ourselves, as well as of our businesses; to see where we've made mistakes, where we may improve during the coming year. Let’s do that, and we will have a happier year in 1338. The past a buBY one with me with you readers. We closed shop Friday at noon to give our force a little longer for Christmas: and I was glad to get away from the shop and be able to get In a little more rest and sleep. But I did not get the reet until after Christmas was gone, for bright and early—too early— Christmas morning Peggy was awake, about 5 o'clock, and she refused to go to sleep again: so all of us got up to see what Santa Claus had brought Gene and Peggy. Gene, of course, knew to look for Santa, but it was Peggy's first year to know anything about Christman—last year she was too nmol]. She is craiy about dolls, so she was delight ed with the doll she got Christmas. To her it makes but little difference what else she re ceived. Gene seemed more interested in fire works. the very thing I'm afraid of and would rather he would not have. They're dangerous. On Christmas day all of our family gathered in Mt. Olive, with my sister, Mrs. David Potts. ( By "all of the family" I mean my Mother and ! all brothers and sisters and their children. That's a custom we have had for several years. With the exception of two times I have always been with the family at Christmas time. Back In 1923 I was In the Seminary at Louis ville, Ky„ and we had only one day off, so 1 could not get home; then while In Bristol. Vir ginia, I was sick one Christmas and did not gel home until after the beginning of the new year. At Mt Olive we had a good dinner, spread in the yard; had a Christmas tree; and had a good time in general. Prior to our going to Mt. Clive we had gone up to Pikeville to have breakfast with the Hams and to share in their Christmas tree too All oi their family, with the exception of David Ham, was prcsont Mr. and Mis. Hoyle Efird of Gastonia, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Sherard, Jr, and our family of Goldsboro. We went bacli to Pikeville in the afternoon to be with Mrs, Roberts' folks again, and to help eat the fine turkey we had missed art noon. On the way from Pikeville to Mt. Olive li the morning I stopped over in Goldsboro lone eiyugh to ' tie the knot'' for Cooper Thomas and Miss Edna Gurley, a line couple of the Nahunta section oi this county. The marriagt took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. R Thomas, unde and aunt of the groom. Just c year ago I married a couple. Mr. Braxton iron near LaGrang# was the man. but I don't iu» now recall the bride's name. 1 That five-o'clock rising Christmas morning didn't sound like resting—and it wasn't—but made up for it Sunday morning. I had plannee to go to Sunday school, but when we awokt ! 1 and looked al the watch it was already Sun 1 day school time, so I kept on sleeping and dir ! not get out of bed until near 1 o'clock in fh< afternoon. In that way I made up for some o ’ the sleep lost in helping Gene and Peggy en | Joy Christinas. 1 On Sunday afternoon we drove out by mi 1 Brother Dick's home and he and Emogene. hb | wife, and my family took a drive to the south ern end of the county, going down the ok Seven Springs road to Seven Springs and ther back to Goldsboro by way of the route on Ihi east side of the river. .] After passing the Weil stock farm, the bomt ,' of George Move, the home of the Walkers. lh< . home of Mrs. Johnnie Moye. the home of MU ford Daly, of Royle Komegay. we drove to tb« ' Cliffs on the Meuse. I can recall that a lew v i years ago when 1 first visited the Cliffs it ap i peared thal but few peop’e ever vl.lted them . | but now many people go there each week, anc I. it is not unusual to see peveral cars there am [ Sunday you may drive down the-e. Three cart I j were there Sunday during the few minutes wt j were there. The Clllfs are well worth seeing— . I there where the sand S^nogc* TJ’Un tuts Into *h« [ | river and have been cut abruptly by the flow ing water. I've forgotten how high the Cliffs . are. .. Attar leaving the Clifts «f# drove on dowr I by John Ivey's home, down to the Springs, where five the Maxwells, and then on through I White Hall, where I lived when I did my first school teaching back in 1918. Things were ! quiet there and I did not see any of the many I people I know there. On across the river wc 1 passed the Hinson homes, passed through ths Ivey community and hit the Goldsboro-Kinston highway and headed back to town. We did drive down to tho old Dobbs Courthouse sight for Dick and Emogene had not seen the site of the county seat of old Dobbs County, from which, as I recall. Wayne. Leroir and part oi Greene were formed. We didn't tarry long in town, lor we drove back out to Dick's home and helped them eat a good supper which they had already pre pared. Chicken, backbone, ham. etc., etc. Since Sunday I'm back at the routine work ‘ and have had but Httlo time to do any ram i bling: but I'll be seeing many oi you during ,the year which It not far ahead of us. Hopewell Newt Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Holmes and son Gorden ol Pmey Grove spent Sunday at th* home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis. Mr. Perry Mozingo of Goldsboro spent Christmas Day with his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Moziruio and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Troy Holmes of Charlotte visited his mother, Mrs. George Holme* Miss Donnie and Dorm Holmes of Raleigh are spending the holi days with then parents Mr. and Mrs. G. L Farmer of Mt. Olive visited Mrs. J. W. Holmes Sunday. Angrier visited Mrs J. W ] Holmes Sunday, Mr. Zob Grady spent Christmas svith his sister, Mrs. G. L. Farmer of Mt Olivo. Those visiting Mr and Mrs. Fred Holmes Suncay weie. Mrs. Lou Herring and daughter, TbelniS. Mrs. Irma Herring and Iiene end Raymond of Ml Olive, Mr. end1 Mrs. Carl Herring of New York. Mr and Mrs. Ralph Price and son Othal, Mr. Mock Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Whitted and family, Mr. anil Mrs. Mack Herring. Miss Carrie Williams. and others whose names were not learned Mr. Andrew "Gump" Price of Zion spent Saturday night with Mr. Ttmrmnn Holmes Mr Othal Price of Rocky Mount called on Miss Hepsie Grady Holmes Sunday. Miss Sula Ilolmes Is spending a few day? with her sister. Mrs. Bula Price, of Ploey Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Bose Grady and children visited Mr. Grady's sister, Mrs G L. Farmer, of Mt. Olive Chintma? Day, Mr. and Mrs, Ben Harper and family scent the week-end at Pink Hill with relatives. Mi and Mrs O H. Griffin and family of Goldsboro spent the hoi iriavC at Mrs Griffin's parents, Mr and Mr?. A. T. Grady. Mis Tommie Blanton and chil dren of Williams M 11 section spent lhi- week end with her parents, Mr and Mrs. Alien Hines. Mr. Took Gorils of Zion and Mi.-: Mary Price of Broadhurst Bridge eommunltv visited Mr and Mrs I. , T BarwlcV Ch'istmas j Master James Holmes snoot Sun 1 dav nieht tv *h Norwood Grady. Mr and Mrs Oscar Berwick snd 1 family s-nept Christrrs: yver’nr with Mr and Mrs Mu V Morinco To our regre' the B O. Holmes’ filling station went up In flames Ft'day night. The origin of the fire j is unknown. Marriage license issued 1h>s week by W E Ormand. register of deeds White: -— Albert Dunbar, 30, Grantham township to Martha Laws, 24, Grantham township: Al ton Britt, 29. Johnston County to Elma Taylor 24. Grar.tham town ship: Harold Haskins, 24, Granville County to Etta Frances Aiken. 23, Granville County: William Coition Moulding and Columns Shingles and Laths Lumber and Woodwork A. T. Griffin Mfg. Co. Bed, 22, New Hope Township fa Lillie Mae Hinnant. 22, Crave* County; A. L. Mills, Jr., 27, Iredel County, to Louise Aycock, 22, Ns hunts; IL B. Martin, 28. Brogder Township, to Ruth Paxton Me, Caurin, 30, Brogden; Raymonc Monroe Durham. 2fi, Columbui County, to Rachel Kornegay, 28 Brogden Township; Royster Pitt man, 27. Pikeville Township tf Mary I.ee Bailey, 27. Wilson Coun. ty; Hallie Smith, 31, Grantham Township to Nellie Hill. 21. Samp, sir. County: Harvey Jordan 28 Fork Township to Minnie Woodard 22 Pork Township: Worth Wood ard Holland. 2 . Johnston Cour.tv to Ellen Peele, 21. Johnston Corin' _££HFer_ Thoma*. 2,*:-'Burk .'swamp: Milton Lane 26. New Hooc Township to Ruby Marwick. 2G New Hope: Alvfu Rrvan Cari-, 2B Clinton, to Ethel Mae Pate.' 27 Gold-.boro: Norwood Hitter, 21, Mt Olive. to Agnes Howell, 23 vi lie. Colored:—John Eddie Smith 28 Fork Township to Ruth Wooten hi Pork Township; Harrv Prrmnn 23 Brogden to Mary Bell White 21 HroFuen; Anderson Sutton 28 Na h. until to Bertha Dixon 20 Nahon W Ravinon Lee. 23 Granth-w Township to Julia WilU»m». '19 > Johnston County; EnnU Harris, 21, i Wilson County to LUlla Mae Lewis, i 25, Nahunta Township; Hubert Newsome, M. NahunU, to Nora i Pearl Yelverton. 22, Great Swamp; Cleo Sutton, 21, Indian Springs Township to Irene Davis, IB. Indian ; Spring*; Randolph Worrell, 21. s Uilsloll Townxhlp to LilliBn Cox, 21 Pork; J. B Lewlt 21, Saulston Township to Penrlie Cox, 19, Fork; Sr.m Outlaw. :i.i. Brogden. to Essie Moore 25. Brogden; Alvin Johnson. 29 Goldsboro Township to Ethel \1jv Hooker. 19, Goldsboro Town ! vb,p; Eddie Sears, 32. Pikeville Township 'o Sarah Hatcher 29, , Crd.Jc.hoiO Township; Conrad Artis. | 21. Go'dsboro. to Lucille Smith 2o, , ij Jos novo. WOOTtRS-BASS Mr. ami M~*. John 11. Bass an nounce the marriage of their <1.ilir;liter. Frances, to Mr. William Henry Wootens, on Tuesday. Do comber 14. Goldsboro. North Caro lina. WHITE COTTON KAOS WANTED 1 AT ONCB. BRING TO HERALD ! OFFICE. 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