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THE HYDE COUNTY HERALD
lEWS OF THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN THE FOREMOST HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA
NO. 28
SWAN QUARTER, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1941
Single Copy 5o
^ER SAYS FARMERS OF
JNTRY MUST SHARE [N
GENERAL RISE IN PRICES
district Represnetative T^ells Congress
'armer Must Not Be Overlooked in All
^ise in Prices if National Unity Prevails
tig This Crisis
tative Herbert Bonnei : fei.se. We just cannot expect the
DISCIPLES HAVE
SPECIAL MEETINGS
IN HYDE NEXT WK.
Rev. J. W. West to Be Special
I Speaker; Pictures to Be
I Shown
HALL SAYS CASH IN HYDE INTERESTED
ON THESE TOURISTS SECURING A
HOME AGENT
i good licks for the far-
! of his few speeches on
the House of Congress,
lis remarks may be of
■est to our readers, we
m here;
March 4, 1941.
ire and the National
Defense
lan and Ladies and Gen-
of the Committee;
1st heard that the Bureau
ture Economics reports
I Carolina farmers suf-
er cent decline in the to
rn products during the
amounting to a little
twenty million dollars,
ed with the year 1939,
lue-cured tobacco grow-
le heavy burden of the
Total cash income from
les from the year 1940
I per cent as compared
r 1939. This is a heavy
farmer to farm and barely make
a living if the farmer can leave the
farm and make twice as much
money in industrial work as he
can make on the farm.
This seems to me to be funda
mental and today I am thinking
of a program of national defense
that incluudes the tobacco farmer,
the peanut grower, cotton and ail
the vegetable cash crops that must
be brought abreast with those who
are today receiving the financial
benefits and first fruits of national
defense.
Yesterday I listened with inter
est to the speech of the Great
Chairman of this Appropriations
Committee and with particular at
tention to his enumeration of sur
plus Agriclture prodcts in storage.
At this moment I am greatly con
cerned over the price condition of
the potato crop. In 1940 North
Carolina potato growers received
One of Two Counties in
Northeastern N. C.
• Without Home Agent
The Rev. J. W. West, well known
Disciple preacher, will holdl ser
vices in many of the Christian
chuurches of Hyde County, begin
ning next Monday evening and con
tinuing through Wednesday, ac
cording to the Rev. Z. N. Deshields
of the Engelhard Christian churuch.
The Rev. Mr. West has spent the
last fifty years preaching among
the mountain peoplle of Virginia,
West Virginia and Kentucky. He
wil be ablle to give inspiring tallks
on montain evangelism. He will
have pictures to show his audience
through a projecting machine.
The meetings begin at the Fair-
fielld Christian church, Monday
evening at 7:30 o’clock. They will
be continued at Engelhard Tues- G. LESLIE HALL of Norfolk, is Q].ggjj0 a^e the only counties in
day morning at 8:30 before the well throughout Tidewa'ter North northeastern district of North
itudent body of the high school and
at the Engelhard Christian church
Tuesday evening- at_ 7:30. Special
services will be held at Swan
Qarter Wednesday evening at 7:30.
According to the Rev. Z. N.
Deshields, the .meetings will be
ery entertaining and worthwhile.
The public is cordially invited to
attend them.
HYDE OYSTERMEN FEAR
FEATURES OF PROPOSED
I OYSTER FARMING BILL
Many civic minded citizens and j
farm leaders met at the Swan /-v , , -.1 I
Quarter Agriculture building last DySlGmidl 3.110 BUSinGSSmGIl AlomiiGd St tllG
Friday and discssed the possibility |
of securing a Home Demonstra-1
tion agent for Hyde County. Many i
of leading people and organiza-1
tions of the county have expressed 1
themselves as eager to obtain such j
help.
I Some new appropriations will be
made by the State for new home
1 demonstration agents the first of
July, according to County Agent
I J. P. Wpodard. If Hyde will meet^
the county’s part of such an appro
priation, it is said that the county
j will have a good chance of getting
one of the new agents. Hyde and
Prospect That Northern Firms Would Hog
All the Good Oyster Ground, and Hold a
Mass Meeting to Offer a Protest; Modifica
tions Sought in Bill
PLANS ARE BEING
MADE FOR FIRST
HYDE HOMECOM’G
have a
Two Thousand Guests to Be
Invited-By Committee
To May Events
With May less than two months
off, the committee in charge of .the
First Annal Home-Coming for
Carolina and Virginia because of Carolina that does not
the large and popular optical firm demonstration agent.
which bears his name. He is also: According to County Agent County, which iLto'be held
well-known as an after - dinner Woodard, the services rendered by; jg j,ygy mak-
speaker and pep-talker. The other the ho.me agent is very helpful to; plans for the aff^r.
night, he addressed Ahoskie Rot- a county. have the job of; Names of invited guests, includ-' Conservation
arians, and he told them plenty, working v«th farm women and former natives, and their kin, the object oi aiumg me m-
—things that ought to appeal to demonstration pjubs; they help relatives of residents of the ' dustry would permit the State to
our folks in the Southern Albe- farm women with tWr caiming, ^nd also many distinguish-! grant two hundred acres of oys
marie. He showed them a new crop they carry out cooking schools, g-uests, are being compiled. Two ' tgr ground within the
they help with home beautification InvitationR will be mailed. . J.
Hyde County oystermen, fisher
men and businessmen, become
alarmed that a proposed piece of
oyster legislation, would permit
Northern oyster firms to obtain
huge grants of sound bottom from
the State, for a period of twenty
years and thus gain control of its
best oyster grounds and throw
many of their people out of work,
met in the Town Hall at Engelhard
last Saturday evening and dis-'
cussed the situation with Represen
tative George Thos. Davis.
The proposed law is sponsored by
the Governor and department of
and Development,
the disastrously low price of .60
he North Carolina far- ] per bushel for their splendid qual-
ustain during the year [ ity potatoes. Yields of early po-
the national income hid i tatoes are generally light, and the
iver three billion dollars i returns to the growers were fa-
industry, generally, in j below they cost of production. In
olina and the United ! fact, about all the growers did was
1 the best year in many | to pay fertilizer and seed bills, with
since 1930. I desire, ; little remaining to live on for the
|to express my views' rest of the year. Their returns
ict to national defense were about two-thirds of parity.
Iture in the world crisis. The prices early in the season were
ieration of the Agricul- ^ fair, but the decline in price was
ropriations Bills I sin-. drastic, in fact so low that the
that members bf Con-1 Surplus Marketing Administration
constantly bear in mind bad to step in and purchase 330
on of agriculture with | carloads of potatoes in order to
the world cr'sis. We ■ save the market from complete de-
forget that with all the ' moralization. If it had not been
ditures for national de- ! for this help, there is no telling
farmers of this country ! how low prices would have gone,
the front lines and the j Now that the late 1940 potato
of American defense, g^gg jg harvested, we find that it
analysis this war may jg j-hg fjfth largest crop on record,
lost on the farms ^of the that there was carried over on
ites. The humble and j January 1, 118,555,000 bushels of
rmer, who homeward i potatoes, which is 17 per cent
veary way at nightfull, higher than the carry-over a year
:e of this nation’s great-1 ago. Prices are only 62 per cent
bundation of all of its gj parity.
terprises and the sup-
industrial millions,
daily of the millions be-
for planes, tanks, guns,
munitions of war. I
people of my district
vote for these expen-
I am serving notice on
d the country that the
America are not going
nt for the price of the
the farm to remain sta
le the products of the
this country are con-
easing in value,
onal Defense program
ed States has already
movement of me;i
untry to the towns and
u appeal for industrial
i already taken thou-
rnibands into the fac-
is estimated that the
cri.ment will spend, in
? the year 1941 the
irti of over eighteen
s. This is perhaps the
of money ever spent
ed States in any one
xistence and this sum
pnde what wil! be spent
itain under the Lease-
fter it is enacted into
estimated that Britain
from ten to twelve
rs this year for A.m-
ials.
I am raising is, “.4re
rt in this country to
these large expend!
American farmer” I
urse, that we already
rpluses in many agri-
and that it is most
port in the midst of a
At the same time, I
e should remember if
he national income of
fates this year from
'illion dollars to eight-
dollars we will make
|ake not to permit the
ve some real financial
in this increased in-
s war lasts for three
|r years every surplus
roduct in the United
[ecome extremely vital,
o have a crop failure
disaster in 1942, the
e immediate not only
al economy, but like-
national defense. It
that this Is the time
ational effort should
to put the price of
of the farmers on a
y. We must not de-
any circumstances a
ram of national de-
In a desperate effort to make a
living, the growers in all early
states, except New Jersey and Ne
braska, have indicated that they in
tend to plant about 270,000 acres
of potatoes, which is about 6,000
acres above the acreage planted
last year. In ^iew of the larger
carry-over of late potatoes, and an
indicated supply of new potatoes,
fuully as large as that of a year
ago, what hope is there for the po
tato growers unless provisions are
made whereby direct assistance
will be given to him.
I recommend that the direct pur
chase of potatoes from growers be
continued, and that other means,
such as the diversion of low grades
of livestock feed, (as is being done
in some of the western states) be
FUNERAL OF BOBBY NIXON
Wednesday afternoon, February
”6th, the Stumpy Point Methodist
•hurch was filled to overflowing
vith sorrowing friends who had
ome from far and near to attend
:he funeral of their little fn'end,
Bobby Nixon, son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. R. Nixon, of Elizabeth City, N.
G., who had met such a tragic
death.
Services were conducted by the
Rev. V. A. Lewis, assisted by the
Rev. M. W. Maness, of Manteo.
The choir, composed of Mrs. Car-
son Meekins, Mrs. Tom Wise, Mrs.
Lee Midgett, Mr. Calvin Payne and
Mr. Ranzy Hooper, sang ‘Tn the
Hour of Trial,” “Jewels,” “Have
Thine Own Way Lord,” and at the
^rave “Safe in the Arms of Jesus.”
Mrs. Robert Elliott, organist, of
Tilizaheth City was at the piano.
There was a profusion of beau
tiful flowers, 'vldch attested to
the popularity of the little fellow,
the casket being covered with a
pciM of East :T 'vies, white carna
tions, baby-brealn ard fern. Those
who assisted with the fliower.s were,
Mrs. Lit Me Ains. Mrs. Garland
Meekins, Mrs. Dewey Wise, Mrs.
Leslie Wise, Mrs. Warren Meekins,
M'S. Shirley Midgett, Miss^ l.o?.'.
Catherine Hooper. Joyce Meekins,
Mildred Midgett, Nita Midgett,
Myra Best. Phyib's Wise. Myrtle
Payne, Erline Twiford, Theressa
Payne, Norma Carolyn Twitord,
Ramona Payne, Winnie P.iyne
of 150,000 tourists who heretofore wun iwme oeauuncation j.].)Qugand invitations will be mailed., limitr at the rate of one dollar an
have been spending their money in prograrns; they help mothers wo A ^he following is a tentative pro-! for the first ten years, and
Europe. Listen to what he said, as out aieis tor tne lamiiy, t ey a ^-grked out by two dollars an acre for the next ten
reported i„ Roy P.Aerts “‘=“kX^aS Lmtpou“ „ , „o,, or d''™ 1* "ll,'"’'"’;' f T
papers: ' tViino-o witii the heme ■ ^^y ' "cai ciiins or- to grant five thousand acre tracts
It is estimated that 150,000 tour- nmo-rpva nf a ennntv is ffunized at high school buildings, j^, the open waters of Pamlico
ists have annually visited Europe, ^j-gatlv^adflnced by the work of a May 8, 6 p.m. At Engelhard, ggund (outside of the two mile
The War has automatically cut this L^g ^g.ent Said Mr Woodard Governor J. M. Broughton hmit) at the rate of fifty cents aa
off, adding that number to Amer- J^iTnydrexpecto to k^ep up wRh n m^'^At Engelhard ^
ican Tourists who will “see Amer- the progress in the home that other school
- a: jj. u., Hvde County, elementary school yg^rs and two dollars an acre for
The rental
ica first”. Secretary Ickes estima- counties are making it will be ivTuoiVd TT’esVi-rtsi R r Si'TYimnns ’ —
tes the annual necessary that the county make an master,’ director! advance It
group to be approximately $400,- appropriation for a home demon- money to bo paid in advance, it
000.000. stration agent.”
There are approximately 30,000
motorists in the U.S.A. all poten- qpmh MPE? QOMP
tial visitors to Virginia and North a ,m a cif
Carolina.
advertising, and
' ® M?v"^’l0 a. m. to 4-30 n. m. At by the State^^and
Swan Quarter, Hyde County physi- ties could no
NORfH CARoTiNA SHAD tTDm,“y present at
NORTH CAROLINA SHAD „ v sneakers 1 n m meeting thought the present set up
The .rtlrt. .RC
Stumpy Point, Mr'’. Curtis Albert
son. Mrs. Annie Riddick, Mrs Ray
Forbes, Mrs. Wdlie Sawy'->-, of
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Active PaPbea.-ers were, Dick
Best, Jasner Hicjicr Phil Meekins,
D maid Midgett, Roy MidgjtL Wil
lie Wise, Jr., and McCoy Hooner.
Honorary pallbearers were; Cal
vin Hooper, Alph Hooper, Bea
man Hooper, Horace Ho'Oper, Gar
land Meekins, Maynard Meekins,
Q roads, advertismg, and following article about Mrs. May 9, 6 p. m. At Sladesville, g® ^ ^ tne same w'»c
Southern hospitality wfil will bring ^^^g ^^h dinner, “Home-Coming’ address, Jg^ might be worse,
them to Virginia and North Caro- Gloucester, Mass., ought to bv Hon. .Tosephus Daniels Ambas- ™ Spencer; well-known
^"wHY ADVERTISE’ Heaven be of interest to our North Cano- sa^r to Mexico, mhers to speak ^ merchant, “I thought
• ^ .ADVpTISE?- Heaven fishermen. Better send the ^May 9, ^15 p. m. At Swan ^nge j gihle for our oys-
is a wonderful Place. so were are ^g Quarter, Hyde County Musical JPf ^o get in worse condi-
told—flowing with milk and honey . .Festival. Speaking. ^er business b
-but think of the “selling agen- Franklin D. Roosevelt has I Mav 10. 6:30 a. ,m. T^P to Owa- tion tha'ij: ^
cies” necessary to publicize it! Lit- figgn presented with a consignment coke Island to leave Swan Quarter, vincea
terally hundreds of thousands of gj figfi hy the city of Gloucester, 6:30 and leave Ocracoke at 3 '
religious organizations, with mil- Jiass. ‘ P'
lions upon millions of dollars in-
made available to growers Meekins, Carson Meekins,
North Carolina and other southern I g Meekins, Lit Meekins,
states should the outlook for pota- U^,p^ Leg
toes continue to be as bad as it| Bob Mid-
was a year ago. Much help wilL gg^^ Ralph O’Neal,
be needed as prices at New York, p^y^,g^ Lorn
City for U. S. No. 1 wtatoes are Ogwev, Wise. George Wise,
averaging around $1.20 per hun- p^^j„g
dred which compares with $2.00 at g^^ Elizabeth
this t'me a year ago
When we remember that the so-
Mrs. C. H.
called Insh potato is the basis food ,
of the Geiroan Army I am com Stevens, Mrs.
vinced that with proper support
and coordination of effort that this BranOey McCoy, Mrs. Mollie
Gove-mment should find opportun-
ity for voder and gr, Mrs. Shei-ril Hooper and daugh-
consumohon of the great potato. Marietta, Mrs. George Scott,
cron that will soon be^in to move ^ p g^^^.
m the American market. , . I yer Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Twiford
Mr. Chairman. T am not making ^ i nr,... w w
r „„i«„i,i„ Mrs. Walter Riddick, Mrs. R. M
y . .. Tj ■ The proposed law works for the
T.,, large Operator some It is
... .. H seems that Mrs. Roosevelt has pointed out by men who raise oys-
vested in properties—supporting thoughts of “learning to cook.” Cental, ^d Hon. Herbert ^ living that fifteen acres
“advanced agents” and “publicity Premier Benito Mussolini suggest- G. Bonner, First District Congress- much ovster grounds one man
representatives” and propoganda ed it, the idea being that she use man, invited to (Make res- titivate properly, and that it
beyond my ability to estimate. The her “beautiful hands for co^oking”, ®^^Hons at ILgh Schoolprincipa s utterly impossible fior
strongest “selling” organization rather than writing articles. Quarter, Friday, May cultivate
in the world !-Hell seems to be a The President’s wife said at a Fairfield two hundred acres or five thorn
very popular ob.iective, notwith- recent press conference that she May lu, CdU p. m. ggres. Only the big oyster
•tadfnE it, d»wWcks judging by aought lb. id.. g«,d j.nd^.ad.-Ly «™»
the roads provided- wide jL-hence the Brigadier-General Samuel T. An- renting and cultivating such
smooth and certainly of a type Mavor Svllvester F Whalen sell. Others to speak. ^ farmers misht
anis Meekins and Reta Hoope-.' of ’Tf^^a^lWing notifying Mrs. Roosevelt of the May 11, 11:00 a m. Gommunity ' The ^ to caSi
tists! Yet think of the alluring 'e+tgr- iservices at one church in each of be depnvea oi
publicity, attractively displayed in ,^ following communities; I ^figXenXwd \ave valuable
every conceivable manner to mer- forwarding to you a consign- Garter, S'adesville Ponzer, Fair- f j;®™ taken from them;
chandise its attractions! The devil Gloucester fish. iheld, Engelhard, Lake ^ndmg and Isbmg g
IS no slacker, and he s ever on his ^ ..^figre ^as an article iii the Bos- Ocracoke. Local mimsters coop- "^DDe
tiptoes to meet cornpetion. ' papers a day or so ago that a*, •g i out the income from these people,
Virginia and Carolina have Mussolini made a suggestion that May 11, -7:45 n. m._ At .Hnwl-i mi ^ for a
everything to attract the millions^ yg^ j-gsume cooking, and following hard school auditonum. county- , percentage of Hyde County’s
of m.otorists and other tourists — ffi^t suggestion we in Gloucester wide' services. A distinguished , denend on oystering and
decendants who owe theirallegiance think it a good idea if you would person being selected by county
to this section, and scattered accept this gift of our famous sea- ministers to address the assembly.
throughout the country. BUT PUB- food product. As you undoubtedly ;
LI CITY IS NEEDED TO COMPEl, know, there is no food product that
THEM TO COME IN!...It costs is so easy to cook as fish.”
money as well as time and ability Even so, Gloucester is taking no
in co-operative organizations to“go chances, and “just in case,” Ala-
into” the “highways and hedges dina Menicocci, a Gloucester fisher-
and compel them to come in,” but man and Navy cook during the
Florida is doing it (sunshine and World War, sent along a fei.v of
suckers!); California is doing it! bi^^ choicest recipes for preparing -g.uaranteeing” jobs
persons who pay “Stiff fees”
JAN.-FEB. BIRTHS IN HYDE final touch is an invitation to Pre- to take their courses.
THREE TIMES THE DEATHS niicr Mussolini from the Mhite McNutt said that although Con
House to drop in to dinner some gress “has v
City, N. C.
Tiiose who attended the funeral
oystering
fishing for a living directly or in
directly.
Northern ovstermen are ready to
“STIFF FEES” FOR COURSES snend their money for North (laro-
CONSIDERED UNREASONABLE ' lina oysters. For years they have
(bought them. Todav the law for-
Federal Security Administrator j bids oyster plants to be ^'bipped out
ivienicocci, a uioucesiei n«n«x - interested | of the stote. Now these men want
and Navy cook during the ^gg^^onal training for'defense to buv them again-this time they
this statement selfishly and in no,
Elliott and Mrs. Curtis Albertson,
sense criticizing the gro^ ’"t ! of Elizabeth City. Mrs. Allen Os-
tr.al centers of my country I ^ ' fig^pg ^nd daughter, Bettv .lean,
only saving that in order to have daughter,
national unity and in order for this ^
country to move fonvard as one Norfolk,
man that we have al got to move ^
together, and that the nnees of „ va
farm products have got to go up.
HYDE COUNTY RFCORDS
TO BE AUDITED SOON
ward Hardison and daughters,
Sana and Anna, of Ransonville, N.
C. Mr. and Mrs. Harry .larvis of
Belhaven.Mrs. Jack Caskill of Hert
ford, John Peterson, Manteo, Wil-
The Hvde County Board of bur Payne of Ixouisburg Colley,
County Commissioners, at their and Russel Nixon of High Point
resrular monthly meeting Monday, College.
nassnd a resolution calling for an At the conclusion of the services,
audit of all the offices of the coun- the little boy was laid to rest in
i-v from Jnlv 1, 1939 through the Stumpy Point cemetery.
Tune 30. 1941. The resolution fur- “Bobby” as he was affectionate-
'her stated that the services of Iv known hv hundreds of friends in
Bundy and Moran, rert-ified public Elizabeth City. Manteo and Stumpy
accountants of Elizabeth City, Ffint, where he had visited ouite
jobs to beware of unlicensed com-'wnt the ground, too. The waters
' of Virginia and Maryland are be
coming polluted apd unfit for grow
ing ovsters. Thus they want to
to grow
come to North Carolina
oted money for this Them. ^ fg^mpfi
According to statistics just re- night. " • , type of training and tens of thous-| ^ ^,g"’^g®p!!ggjy^g"[p.fitop sun-
leased by the Hyde County Health I ands of young being I
Department, there were almost „ trained without expense to them' ' ,
three times as many births in the WOODARD ADVISES FARMERS through public schools and the "i^" •
county during December and Jan- ^
uary as there were deaths. i
The Health Department figures
nle believe that he has been mis
informed. Tie does not under-
ON PLANTING LESPADAZA _ in increasing .•XitorsairReproX:
County Agent, J. P.
numbers are reaching my office
Woodard, unlicensed schools are spring-
tative Davis: “I nm sure the Gov
ernor has been misinformed.”
TTtrdo County people have great
fa'th ip Governor Broughton for
iiiicBock: IV . . . . whom ttioy voted so strongly last
X i 1 J, J.I, "i ,,oT.;of:po Rnr pflrtnre m'rnoses the train them for important jobs in They believe that he has a
there was a total of 12 births and varieties, ror pasture purposes, me r . , »
showed there were 14 birth and 7 said this week that he would ad- many parts of the coun
deaths in December of which seven vise evei-y farmer m the county, exploit the unemployed, par-
of the births and two of the deaths who is planting lespadaza for hay, youth, by offering to
were negroes. During January, to use the Kobe or Tennessee 76
and none of the birt 3 tv ere colored. ^ Wo^dard explained that Private vocational institutions, the , him. But they will seek some
I many farmers in the county are Puhhc should beware of unlicensed j modifications of the law now pro-
ADVERTISING IN HERALD ' planting the Korean because the schools, Mr. McNutt said. “These I posed.
PAYS SAYS D. L. BERRY gggfi cost less. He explained that unlicensed schools advertise wide-
> this is unwise because test carried ly, often guaranteeing jobs at high MRS. i
A short paragraph was run in out in the county lats year proved wages. They charge stiff fees, have
this newspaper last week telling of that the Kobe and Tennessee 76 inadequate equipment, no super\’i-
the Berry Company installing a 5c varieties gave about twice as much sion, and are wholly money making
to $1 counter in its store as an ; gro\yth as the Korean. ^ \ entures.’.’
added improvement and service to j ' Poconuc! who are interested in
their customers. “The story,” savs | Capt. R. B. Burrus lelft Monday t-camir,,, abnii'd see the nearest of-
D. L. Berry, “brought good results.' for Norf.ok where he will attend ,of tfig state employment ser-
Everyhody that came in said they fp business matters. vVe o-c "-rite to the State vocation-
saw it in The Herald.” The Berry I — „i „,,,„.,Lr,pal department, Mr.
Company is a regular advertiser: Mr. and Mrs. Macon Spencer of "Ti.''..'-'-
in this newspaper. I Wa.shington, N. C., spent the week '
M. COX GIVEN
SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY
'! end here 'with friends.
- . . lijr. "pd Tr-a. .T..bp M. Berry. ,tr.,
Mr. and Mrs. Sanderllin C'lrawan ■'pept '-no tvppV op-l he.rg poth M'-s.
tragic death by accidental drown-'who made friends eaMly and was of ivorfolk, is visiting Mr and Berry’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
ing, while on a visit with his par- loved by all.
wo’ild he secured to carry nut the often, was only four and a half i ents to Stumpy Point. He will be
audit. Thq motion wos made hv J. years old, when he met such a | greatly missed, as he was a child
F. Berry and- seconded by J. S.
Ma^qn.
Mrs. G. \V. Carawan this week. • ■ Lee.-
Mrs. J. M. Cox of Middlletown
was honored at a surprise birthday
partv at her home last Friday af-
ternoinn at 3 o’clock by her friends
'■p the community in which she
lives.
Games and contests were enjoy
ed by all those attending the party.
Mrs. H. C. McKinney and Mrs.
H. J. Gibbs won the prizes that
were offered. Delicious refresh
ments were served.
Mrs. Cox received many lovely
gifts'. ■