George W. Huntley, a reliable merchant of Beaufort, N.C., writes to this newspaper about the sad plight of an indigent family living about seven miles from Beaufort. Reasy Phillips, an aged widow, has a daughter who is subject to attack of coma from which she seldom rallies within a week. Mrs. Phillips also has a worthless, half-witted son who depends upon the labors of his mother and sister.
On Tuesday morning, Nov. 4, Mrs. Phillips went to the river with a clam rake and her daughter put on overalls and got a job hauling hay on a nearby farm. The son laid in bed until the women were at work and then got up, cooked a breakfast and left a fire which burned their shack to the ground.
“I am wondering if there isn’t some reader of your paper who would feel like contributing something toward putting a roof over the heads of this indigent widow and her afflicted daughter?” writes Mr. Huntley. “We are doing what we can to give them immediate relief, but they live in a poor section and arming has been a failure in the county this year.”
This newspaper will accept and acknowledge receipt of any contributions readers of this newspaper may care to make. The editor is personally acquainted with Mr. Huntley and can vouch for the reliability of any statement he makes.
From page 4 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Nov. 14, 1924
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