Miss Mildred Harrington has been awarded the first prize of $100 in the News and Observer’s short story contest and her story, “A Gentleman’s Son,” was published in the Raleigh paper on September 30. It was cleverly done. The Greensboro News points out that Miss Harrington has been selling stories to the northern magazines, and declares that the constant seepage of promising youngsters is the worst sort of bad business for the state. The Sunday features sketches by Miss Harrington in the News have been highly entertaining. Of the dozen or more North Carolinas she wrote about in her first sketches, we know more than half. All found no opening in North Carolina. There is an effort being made to reward literary talent in this state, but the ambitious will probably find it to their interest to go north for many years to come.
--Hickory Record
From page 4 of The Reidsville Review, Oct. 15, 1923
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