Wliat’s Interesting In Your Area?
We’ll Gladly Pay $25.00 to Find Out
GS say that you live in Asheboro. and let's also
retend that you have a friend visiting you from
t. Louis. Missouri.
He wants to spend a little time in visiting places
of interest in Randolph County.
Where would you take him? What would you
show him?
Ever since we started publishing The State we
have endeavored to feature places of interest in all
parts of North Carolina. We realize, of course, that
we have missed many of these, and we also are
aware of the fact that someone locally has a much
wider knowledge along this line than we possibly
could obtain as the result of a casual visit.
In order to further publicize North Carolina's
scenic, educational, historical, agricultural, culinary
and unusual attractions, we hope that people will
send in articles of approximately 1.200 words de¬
scribing the places of interest in their respective
counties. We ll pay $25.00 for each article published.
Manuscripts which we cannot use will be returned.
In each instance we'll select the one which we think
best covers the subject.
Don’t confine yourself to purely historical things.
For instance, if you were to write up Carteret
County, you’d probably include a visit to the dog¬
racing track, to Tony Seamon's restaurant or to the
yacht basis. Tell us also about good places to eat and
means of recreation.
Our first article has to do with Beaufort Countv
and gives you an idea of the kind of material we
want. John Braga w is the author. How about doing
the same thing for your county?
THINGS OF INTEREST IN BEAUFORT COUNTY
WHEN the letter came from
Harold Harris saying he
would make us the long-
looked-for visit, the fact that he
could not bring along Toni, his
lovely wife, was the only drawback
to our pleasure. But Harold, on the
staff of the Chemical Bank and
Trust Company in New York was
making a hurried business trip
south and must travel light.
"But during my brief stay. I
want to see as many of your places
of interest in Beaufort County as
you can show me." his letter said.
Well, with so little time allowed
us. it was obvious that we could
hit the high spots only. A family
council was held and the subject
was thoroughly discussed. Here is
what we agreed upon:
First, we will take him to East
Main Street here in Washington
where the North Carolina Histori¬
cal Commission just the other day
erected and we accepted and un¬
veiled a marker to show the birth¬
place of one of Washington’s great
men. The tablet reads:
JOSEPHUS
DANIELS
Secretary of the Navv
1913-1921
Ambassador to Mexico.
Editor. Author.
In the house which stood within
By JOHN G. BRAGA IV
a few feet of this marker, the dis¬
tinguished statesman was born on
May 18. 1862. The house is still
standing but has been moved to
another location.
While we are in this end of town
we will run on down a couple of
blocks and point out to Harold the
house where Norman Cordon was
born. Harold and Toni, likely as
not. heard Norman when he sang
in The Barber of Seville, in Aida.
as Mephisto in Faust, or in some
other of his many roles when
he was with the Metropolitan
Opera Company. He has come back
now to his own state to further the
cause of music through the Music
Extension Service of the Universi¬
ty of North Carolina.
Then uptown to Gladden Street,
between Second and Third, where
we will see the house in which was
born another youngster — now a
grown man. distinguished and well
known throughout the country. He
is moderator of the famous Town
Hall Meeting of the Air George
Denny. Jr., and he reaches the ears
of several millions of Americans
every week in what is admitted to
be one of the great educational en¬
terprises of the day.
We must hurry along. Harold
will be interested in seeing the de
Mi lie home on Bridge Street at
the corner of Second. Here Thomas
A. De Mi He. who came from New
York to enter business, erected
about 1840 what was perhaps the
first brick dwelling in the town.
"Washington will be a city some
day. so I shall build it as we build
in New York," said Mr. de Mille.
and that is why the imposing resi¬
dence has a basement, a first, sec¬
ond and third floor - something
rarely seen in this part of the
country. In this house lived three
generations of the de Mille family,
and from it went out not so very
many years ago William and Cecil
de Mille (or De Mille. if you pre¬
fer» to make their names known
far and wide in the theatrical and
motion-picture world.
On the next corner the Main
Street corner we shall show
Harold the fine colonial house in
which lived for many years another
of Washington's great sons — John
H. Small, for 22 years a member of
the national Congress and father
of the great Inland Waterway
which goes in part through our
county.
Around the corner, two blocks
west, and we will tell our visitor
that in the house over there Lind¬
say C. Warren makes his home
THE STATE, DiXimuer 18. 1948
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