By Chas. Macauley
A little rose is dust my dear
The elfin wind is gone
That sang a song of silver words
And cooled our hearts with dawn.
And what is left to hope, my dear
Or what is left to say?
The rose, the little wind and you
Have gone so far away.
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Now why do I print that little poem of Grace Hazard Conklin? Don’t know. Do you?
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Like the London Times, “Thunderer” the editorial in the Citizen, scared all the dogs out of Bennett street and at last we can sleep o’nights. But I’ll bet it did not scare anyone into buying a license for the little pe(s)ts.
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The cross word puzzle has really come to town. The News and Observer awards to Mrs. V.E. Marsh a dictionary, her puzzle having been adjusted the second best for the week.
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In the same copy of the Observer (Sunday) we note a contribution, “The Jackson-Dickinson Duel” by our fellow citizen Mr. Thomas P. Ivy.
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The crowning glory of our springtime, the Dogwood in bloom now graces our town. The far flung ranks of the peach trees afford a wonderful spectacle in their dress of old rose and pink, but the ethereal beauty of the dogwood has an appeal that the fruit tree lacks Wraith like amid the glistening emerald green of the pines the white blossoms loom like fairy castle set in the forest. A walk through the recently opened Orchard road and under the green and white canopy of Weymouth road with the blue haze of the Carthage hills in the distance and the charming vistas of symmetrical snowy white trees in the open glades is an exquisite pleasure.
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A dispatch from Lenoir in Caldwell County informs us that the Grandfather Mountain and Jonas Ridge country are covered with a three-inch blanket of snow and Saturday and Sunday a hail storm prevailed killing the peach crop and leaving but little hope for the apples.
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Snow in the mountains affects the temperature in the Sandhills and the Straw hats blew out of sight.
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Clean up week is past and gone and most of our citizens railed to the support of the Mayor in his effort to make a spotless town. When all is said and done we do live in a clean town, a handsome town and despite a few neverbesatisfied, a good town.
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The wild month of March is past and gone leaving us with a new record of so many hot and so many warm days that it is so far easier to count the rainy ones. Showers before daybreak on the 1st and the 19th. Rain before daybreak and during the afternoon of the 5th, and rain nearly all day on the 27th gave us a month more like May than the usual March.
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‘Tis easy to criticize an opinion and to overcloud an issue with a flow of ink like the cuttle fish but not so easy to controvert facts, and it is a fact that a large proportion of the “Juveniles” have never been taken out of the library. It is a fact that all the histories and state reports were removed from their shelves to make room for the “Juveniles.” It is a fact that these histories and reports are now practically buried in the dark alcove. It is a fact that all the formidable list printed in last weeks’ Citizen the only work of any practical help to the student seeking data on the Revolutionary history of North Carolina is a volume of the “Lewis” history written by the late R.D.W. Connor and it is a fact that not one volume in that list was purchased by the library. Most of them, including the state reports were donated through personal solicitation of the writer and $25 or $50 expended for the purchase of works relating to the state in which we live would have proved a most valuable supplement to this branch of our library and provided something more interesting to our patrons than the much discussed “Juveniles.” The more we display relating to the state of North Carolina, be it fiction, history, biography, essay or poetry, the more we shall be appreciated and the more we will honor the State of our adoption.
From the front page of The Sandhill Citizen, Friday, April 3rd, 1925
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