Mooresville Enterprise, 17th
Esq. C.V. Voils, R.L. Smith and others who last week departed for White Lake in Bladen county to spend a brief season fishing and recuperating, returned home first of the week. Esq. Voils says he had never seen so much water in all his life. Water, water everywhere.
Greif fields of tobacco, corn and cotton were under water and in some of the cotton fields small canoes were being rowed about. This condition, he said, applied in practically all the lowlands. In the hills and where there was any sort of rolling lands, crops were just a shade better, although one could hardly distinguish the crop from the grass. The party went down by Fayetteville and returned by way of Elizabethtown and Rockingham. From Rockingham this way the crops look better, but farther east Mr. Voils says the farmers are up against a drowned crop. White Lake, which has neither inlet or outlet, is 18 inches above high-water mark. It rained them out and they returned home where sunshine and shadows are mingled.
From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, July 30, 1924
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