Dryest Since 1911…Tobacco Can’t Be Too High…Labor Scarcity
Teaching Co-operation…No Time for Sharp Criticism…Other News and Comment
Gaddysville (Fairmont, R. 1), July 16—Crops are suffering on
account of extreme drought and corn is almost a thing of the past. Tobacco is
holding up very well. The people say this is the driest dry since the summer of
1911. Out along Ashpole Swamp a very good rain fell, but a very slight sprinkle
here, this being the first since May 24th.
Tobacco prices are very satisfactory and planters have no
cause for grumbling at all. But there is no danger of getting more than it’s
worth, considering the cost of supplies and crop.
The labor situation is growing acute. Tobacco is put in the
barn now on any day help can be secured. Some planters bring up the family and
take two days for the work, while others with large families swap work and
bridge it across in one day. The latter plan is very satisfactory and it is
teaching a lesson of co-operation. Maybe it’s a blessing, after all.
The roads are extremely bad nowadays as the sand is deep and
dry. Little Fords make it through while big cars stay and the occupants walk
over the bad places.
Melons are very scarce and high-priced, and so poor codgers
like your correspondent have to go with mouth a-watering for melon. Sometimes
we wish we were a newspaper editor and folks would set us up to one.
Lots of the housewives are canning all they can, as fruit is
very plentiful and waiting to be conserved.
Mr. Editor, some of your correspondents just keep a-howling
for “Farmer’s wife” to offer another letter of criticism. In our estimation the
city lady is doing all in her power to do the best and the right way. So is the
rural lady, and now it’s even. All are trying to do their duty, and what’s the
use of some “jagging” the other about her part? Now is no time for sharp
criticism, when everybody’s at wits end
to win the war.
The Pleasant Hill Christian Endeavor Society is on the grow,
with Worth Burnes as leader. You are welcome on every Sunday night at dusk.
One time W.V. Branch got the “hoss run over him.” That’s
when he was elected teacher of the Pleasant Grove Garaca class last Sunday. You
will always find a welcome place in Branch’s class, but he declares he’s not
the man for a teacher.
The negroes will go a-fishing if the house was a-fire. Work
or no work, they go, and poor is their luck. They could make more in somebody’s
tobacco field.
You Lumberton boosters just forgot all about us when you
were on your recent trip and really lost the heart of the game by not visiting
the greatest tobacco-growing section in Robeson County. Ask anybody what kind
of tobacco is made on the S.C. line and they will tell you the best and largest
fields of the weed to be found anywhere. Don’t forget so easily. But really we
all sell at Fairmont, anyway.
The health of the community is very good and visitors are
too numerous to mention, so if you, Mr. Editor, have learned your maxim we’ll
quit, even if it’s the driest weather ever.
--W.V.B.
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