Five turkeys yielded Jim K. Hudson $30 when he brought them to market yesterday and sold them to Captain William D. Holland. One of the lot—Grand Gobbler of the Flock—brought $7.50 and convinced the good Sampson farmer that poultry raising is not an unprofitable department of his good farm. Jim K.’s smiling wife came to town with him. She confided that she had raised 75 turkeys this year. Disease got a few of them, but a larger number were (line obscured) at home and Christmas marketing.
Mr. Hudson is one of the most energetic farmers of the Dunn District. His home is on the Newton Grove Road about four miles from Dunn. He was full of news when he came in to see the Dispatch folk yesterday.
Some of it was bad. One instance was the stealing of his trusty double-barrel gun with which he was expecting to bag much game during the present hunting season. While he and Mrs. Hudson were in Fayetteville last Thursday, some one entered his home and took the gun from its rack in the hall. He is not entirely certain that some friend did not come to borrow the gun and finding everybody away just took it intending to return it in due time. If this is the case, he will thank the borrower to return it at once.
A good piece of news, however, was the improving health of his daughter, Mrs. George Barefoot, who has been in Pittman Hospital, Fayetteville, for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson and Mr. Barefoot were in Fayetteville to see her last week and found her condition to be much improved. They are expecting her to return home within a few days.
From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 1921
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