Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 1, Ed. 1 Monday, January 1, 1945 Page: 3 of 6
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PLANTER'S LIFE (17U)
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the Swain party went on to
Belmore in the late after-
Swain and Randall made
their horses cut out capers in the
toad, just for the fun of it, and
now and then they would burst
Into drinking songs and old Eng-
Jiph ballads. After awhile they
^«eame weary of this horseplay
uid.rode along sedately, in a man-
ner that befitted men of standing
in the colony.
"We are getting near to Bel-
nioire," Randall said, pointing to
(jp long, low structure by the side
ot a creek. "There's your saw-
ipill, Ned."
"Sure enough," Swain said,
"and in another half mile we'll
come to the brickyard."
m He took more pride in these
'industries than he did in the long-
reaching acres of the tobacco
plantation. "I've never failed,
even in the worst of years," he
told Randall, "to make good
money out of the distillery, and
j)the brickyard, and the sawmill,
and the carpenter shop. Even
when everybody was losing money
on tobacco I was making a profit
on these workshops."
In the distillery he made peach
£brandy, and the carpenter shop
was devoted to cabinetmaking in
a rough way; it made kitchen
furniture.
Groups of workers, while and
black, appeared now and then at
the roadside. They were Swain's
^laborers, going home, their day's
work over. The male servants'
wore leather breeches, gray shirts,
cloth caps and leather coats. Most
of them were barefoot, but three
or four wore heavy, square-toed
ji shoes, without stockings. The Ne-
™ gro women had gowns of linsey-
woolsey that were raised up in
their knees and fastened by a
rope which ran around the waist.
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^ TT was not quite half-past six
W * when they trotted through the
gates of Belmore and up the circu-
lar graveled road to the mounting
block before the front door. There
they leaped oft their horses and
turned them over to Dave and
Mat.
The manor house at Belmore
was new; it had been built in
1710. In plan and architectural
features it belonged to the latest
type of Virginia plantation houses
as they were in the early decades
of the 18th century. It was
built of dark red brick. The front
steps led up to a terrace that ran
across the front of the house. A
striking feature of the facade was
the imposing door frame of white
marble.
The ground floor had only three
rooms—a long and wide living
room, a smaller reception room,
and a dining room. A hallway
that was 15 feet wide ran through
the house, from front to back. In
the hallway rose a curving flight
of stairs which ran gracefully
to the second floor. There were
six bedrooms on second floor of
the main house, but 110 bath-
rooms. The people of that era
bathed only on rare occasions,
and when they did bathe it was
in a wash tub brought into a bed-
room for that purpose.
The main building had two ells,
or wings—one on each side. In
one of the wings there was a huge
kitchen on the lower floor. Up-
stairs there were rooms for pome
of the house servants.
The walls of the chief rooms
were paneled in dark oak; the
bedrooms had wall paneling of
white pine or poplar. The hall
was so wide, the rooms so spa-
cious and the ceilings so high that
the house gave a visitor an im-
pression of airiness.
All over the house sconces for
candles were set in the walls. The
job of keeping the place lighted
took the whole time of one slave.
The black man molded the can-
dles, kept the sconces and candle-
sticks polished, and went around
every day to replace the burnt
candles with fresh ones.
In the kitchen the cooking waa
done at a huge fireplace, as in
New England. Stoves were un-
known. Outside, in the yard near
the kitchen, was a brick baking
oven. It was used chiefly to bake
bread and cakes.
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AFTER having been greeted
pleasantly by Mrs. Swain,
whom he had known several
years, Henry Randall was shown
to his room by a young Negro
girl, who brought him immediate-
ly t. pitcher of water and some
towels. He knew that dinner was
ready, and he hurried through his
ablutions.
Then, with his face washed, his
wig set straight, and the dust of
travel brushed off his coat, Henry
Randall descended leisurely the.
wide curving stairs. The family
and guests were assembled in the
large living room. Randall paid
his respects to all in turn, bowing
and taking their hands. First was
old Mis. Lightfoot, the mother of
Sarah Swain; then in order came
Mrs. Swain; Mr. and Mrs. Kirk-
land, who were house guests—
their home was in Maryland; and
the Swain grown-up children, Ed-
ward, Jr., who was 21, and
Frances (known as "Fanny") who
was a few years younger. The
smaller children were having
their dinner in .1 room of]' the
kitchen.
The dresses of the ladies were
all voluminous, spreading around
them in so many folds and frills
that the shape of the wearer had
to be a matter of inference rather
than of observation. These gar-
ments of silk were highly colored,
and the fabric;: had figured de-
.vigns 011 them The effect was
precisely the opposite of nuulilce
simplicity.
When dinner was announced
the party went into the dining
room with the pleasant gravity of
attendants at a cheerful ceremony.
(To Be Continued)
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CONGRATULATIONS
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Edwards
are the parents of a son born -it
12:;i2 p. nr. Friday at the Sweet-
water hospital. The father is in
the service.
Xmas Mail Reaches
Texas Doughboys
WITH THE 36TH "TEXAS"
DIVISION1 OF THE SEVENTH
ARMY, France — One of the
busiest men of the 142nd Infan-
try Regiment of the 3fith "Texas"
Division is its chief mail clerk,
Sergeant Thomas A. Hoffman,
who formerly worked for the
Union Utilities in Dallas, Texas,
lie handles the Xmas mail and
packages for more than three
thousand men in his unit. "Con-
sidering that each man gets a
full dozen presents you can see
that there's finite some work to
he done," says the sergeant.
"I have a six-by-six truck on
the road twenty-four hours a
day to carry the stuff for the
two regimental post offices. And
it takes twenty-five mail clerks
to distribute the load."
Sergeant Hoffman has been
handling the regiment's mail
through two invasions, in com-
bat in Italy and France. He is
proud of that. fact. "It's still
pleasant to see the packages
come rolling in, even after our
twenty months overseas," he
laughs.
Hut packages aren't al! that a
regimental post office handles.
With no place to spend money,
the doughboys have been send-
ing extra cash home in money
orders. That alone is quite a re-
sponsibility.
An infantry regiment moves
fast and often, and causes a mail
sergeant plenty of headaches, es-
pecially with the rush of Xmas
mail at its peak. His section has
to pack and unpack, set up for
distribution, and then pack up
to move again. If possible, the
mail section works at night —
blacked out, of course. A regi-
ment mailman is usually well
within artillery range of the
enemy. Hut artillery is all in a
days work to the man who gets
his kick from seeing his men
with high morale and that impor-
tant Xmas mail from home.
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3-Day Enumerator
School Planned
Government Takes
Poultry Supplies
Of 23 Counties
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
It may not be chicken every
Sunday from now on.
The War Food Administration
is making sure there is enough
fowl on military tables. They
have ordered 21! counties in Geor-
gia, Arkansas, Missouri and Ok-
lahoma to set aside all their poul-
try for the armed forces.
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Dog Bites Man
And It's News
BOSTON — (UP) This is just
a story of flog bites man — but
it's news all the same.
The man — Boston fireman
James YiCarron. The dog —an
incautious pup standing peril-
ously close to a subway live rail.
MeCarron leaped into the sub-
way pit to rescue the animal —
took a vigorous bite for his re-
ward. Neither man nor flog were
otherwise injured.
Camacho Authorized
To Send Troops To
Fighting Fronts
MEXICO CITY (UP) — The
Mexican senate has passed by
voice vote a bill authorizing
President Avila Camacho to send
Mexican troops to the fighting
fronts.
"No More Gas Until the Nazis
Surrender" — headline. That's
more reason to step on the gas—
at \V#r Bond Buying!
Domestic clouds are usually
accompanied by a lot of thunder.
Georgian
History's Greatest
Famine In 1951
ATLANTA —(UP) — The
next seven years had better be.
the fat years, if Georgia's agri-
culture commissioner Tom Und-
er has his biblical charts straight.'
Hinder Has predicted In titS'
w eekly market bulletin that the
greatest famine in history will,
strike the earth In 1951.
! Lieut.
Coleman
born
West
and Mrs. Sherman
arc parents of a son,
at 3 a. m., today in Key
Fla., where Mrs. Coleman
LABORERS
WANTED
Urgently Needed Now
TO HELP BUILD
NAVAL ORDNANCE
PLANT
lis residing while her husband is
I stationed in Cuba. The baby is
grandson of Mrs. Oma Cole-
man of Sweetwater. She plans
to visit her new grandson when
travel conditions permit. Lt.
Coleman is a Naval Air Corps
pilot.
Ickes Praises Fighting
Record of U. S. Japs
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
Secretary of Interior Ickes says
American soldiers of Japanese
ancestory have fashioned a mag-
| nificient record of service.
He has told them: "all good
Americans are proud of you,"
likes adds that their fighting
record demonstrates that Amer-
icanism is not a matter of race
or ancestry.
Homer Blankenship of the cen-
jsus bureau, Abilene, a local sup-
] ervisor for the Farm census to
! begin January S, was in town
Saturday to secure applications
for farm enumerators.
A three-day school of instruc-
tion for enumerators will be
held in Sweetwater beginning
fanuary 2. Applicants will be
paid -S-'i per day while attending.
Those qualifying will be appoint-
ed and assigned a district at the
conclusion of the school.
Facilities for holding the
school are arranged through
courtesy of the county agent and
Triple A county supervisor, M.
H. Templeton and Demp Kear-
ney.
AT
CAMDEN, ARKANSAS
WINSTON, HAGLIN,
AND S
BY
aSSOURI VALLEY
LLITT
(Prime CoJilractors)
GOOD PAY
4 FREE TRANSPORTATION TO THE JOB
Time and half for overtime. Food and lodg-
ing available on the job for workers at $1.20
per day. Excellent working conditions . . .
A Help build this plant so vitally needed by our
fighting forces.
Hiring on the Spot and Free Transportation
^ Furnished at
UNITED STATES
EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
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Blue Bonnel Hotel
Announcement
This is to announce tlint on
the grading period just end-
ed, the following milk plants
have met all requirements un-
der the liOCitl Milk Ordnance
and Code, adopted by the
City of Sweetwater in 19.10.
Vandervoort's Grade A
Pasteurized Milk
Home Dairy Grade A
Pasteurized Milk
Lakeview Grade A
Raw Milk
W. R. Ritfer
Sweetwater-Nolan Co.
Sanitarian
British Women Fight
With Men In Europe
SEW YORK — (UP) — The
London radio says Rritish men
and women are manning an anti-
aircraft battery side by side in
Kurope.
The broadcast says the crew
of one battery consists of Brit-
ain's famed ATS girls and regu-
lar soldiers. The station (heard
by CHS I says the battery is loca-
ted in northwest Europe and
girls are all veterans of the "the
hlitz and flying bombs."
The broadcast adds:
The broadcast adds:
"Some of the girls went by
air to open their camp, the oth-
ers followed by sea. Two of them
were married during their em-
barkation leave. Another was
recently decorated by the king
for bravery during a German
bombing attack."
ATC Hauled Over
Million Passengers
In '44 Globe Travel
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The army's air transport com-
mand transported 1,125,000 per-
sons to points on its planet-gird-
ling 100,000 miles of routes dur-
ing 1044.
The ATC is now the world's
largest airline — and also oper-
ates one of the biggest hotel
systems dn earth. Five-million
night accommodations and 15,-
OOt.'.OOO meals were provided in
hotels along ATC routes this
year. In addition, 2,000.000 flight
meals were served en route.
SWEETWATER, TEXAS
If you arc now engaged in an
activity tit your
highest skill, dn not apply.
All hiring done In neeoi-daii-
re with War Mnnpower Cow
mission Regulations.
VM
In
en under 21
inder IK must
and women
have minor's
release form signed hy par-
dots which can lie obtained al
Employment Office.
Sale ol Surplus Equipment
AT AVENGER FIELD
Sweetwater, Texas
SALE STARTS JANUARY 2,1945
Home made cabinets, all sizes,
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folding chairs, work benches,
metal waste baskets, woodep
shelving—all sizes, and wood-
en lockers.
MONTGOMERY WARDS
ANSWER TO THE ORDER
OF SEIZURE DY THE
PRESIDENT
The order of the President to effect the seizure of the property
and business of Montgomery Ward is a violation of the Constitution of
the United States, which the President has sworn to uphold and defend.
The Congress, which is the sole law-making authority under the Consti-
tution, has given the President no power to seize the now-war business
of Montgomery Ward.
The purpose of the President's order is to enforce, by an exercise of
arbitrary power, orders of the War Labor Board which the courts have
declared to be merely advisory and legally unenforceable. The courts
have held that anyone who refuses to comply with orders of the War La-
bor Board is not defying a command of the Government and that, since
the orders are merely advisory, no government official has the right to
impose punishments on those who do not comply.
The President's order does not arise from any failure on Wards
part to pay fair wage rates. Wards policy is, and has been, to pay
wages as high or higher than those paid by other employers in the
community for similar employment. Wards only objection to any of the
War Labor Board's wage recommendations has been in those instan-
ces where the Board has arbitraril y demanded that Wards substantial-
ly increase its rate above those of its competitors in the highly competi-
tive retail field.
The President has ordered the Army to restrict the liberties of
Wards employees by imposing upon them the closed shop in the form
of union maintenance. This is the final step in the coercion used by the
administrative agencies of the Government to force the closed shop
upon employers and employees throughout the nation. Wards has long
believed that when the public awakens to the extent of this coercion,
it will rise in indignation.
Wards defense of the freedom of its employees has not been
prompted by any feeling of anti-unionism. All employees at Wards are
free to join or not to join a union, as they wish. Wards fully recognizes
this privilege and has assured all employees that their opportunity
with the company will be the same whether they are union members or
not.
Wards can not in good citizenship accept or obey the commands of
those who have no legal power to give them and who are seeking to de-
prive Wards of its constitutional rights and liberties. Wards takes this
position in defense of the constitutional rights and liberties of every
citizen of the United States.
The issues are now before the courts, where Wards has sought for
two years to have them decided. Wards welcomes the opportunity to
present its case to the courts.
MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.
SEWEM. AVERY
Chairman
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