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                                                                                     June 6, 2014 Coats Museum News
Eight–year-old Jewel Grimes, a pretty blond-headed girl who lived near Coats, was going to get an artificial leg. The civic clubs of the county raised the $112 she needed to match county funds. The Dunn Rotary and Lions Club of Dunn added money to what other clubs had raised. Jewel had written that she had a hard time going to school on crutches and she also wanted to play with her twin sister Judy.
Joyce Grimes (Dunn Dispatch March 25, 1949) wrote that friends would be happy to know that Mr. G.V. Langdon was recovering from a serious operation. Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Grimes of Durham were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Grimes. Mr. and Mrs. Tiden Walker were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Nichols. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Grimes and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Grimes of Siler City visited Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stewart. Mrs. Zeb Williams was very ill at her home. Mr. and Mrs. Theron Miller were nearing completion of home on the Coats Erwin Highway.
Back in Coats, Miss Lillian Wilson, a student at UNC was visiting her sister, Mrs. Marvin (Della) Johnson who was a teacher at Coats. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Akerman had left for a visit to Florida. Mrs. A. F. Grimes Grimes was very ill at her home. Across the ocean in Darmstadt, Georgia, Private Joseph A. Lee had successfully completed and graduated from the Administrative Clerks School. Private Lee received honors for getting one of the highest efficiency scores in hi9s class. He held a job as Personnel Clerk for Engineers. Before entering service in 1948, Lee was employed by City Market of Coats. The Engineers were proud of Lee because of his ability to play baseball. He had played with the Cape Fear League  before entering service. Charles Ennis of Coats was playing on the Engineers team.  Pvt. Samuel Dorman and Pvt. Worth Allen were also in Berlin with Ennis and Lee while back in Harnett County, Stedman Ray and Frank Elliott had served on the Sam P. Cannady trial (Dunn Dispatch Mara. 28, 1949).
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Penny, Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Talmon H. Penny had returned to Coats after visiting with Lt. Col. And Mrs. K.R. Williams of Atlanta, Georgia and Mr. and Mrs. Pat Jones in Jackson, Mississippi (Dunn Dispatch Mar.30, 1949).
It appeared that the winter of 1949 was filled with people on the go. Mrs. W.R. Adams and daughter had visited Mr. and Mrs. T.O. Beasley while Mr. David Peacock had visited Mrs. George Peacock who was ill at Rex Hospital. Writing about illnesses, friends of Mrs. Everett Suggs were elated that she was improving in her health. Mrs. Hodges Cobb had returned to her work at Duke Hospital after spending two weeks with Mrs. Mattie Coats. Mrs. Fletcher Vann and Mrs. Francis Strickland of Wilson had visited Coats to visit Mrs. Ora Parrish.
Sgt. and Mrs. Levin Beasley spent last weekend with relatives in Raleigh. Annie Ruth Penny was ill in the Dunn Hospital. Recall that she was one of the pretty girls in the recent Miss Coats of 1949 contest. Don Stewart had celebrated his third birthday with his grandmother, Mrs. J.W. McArtan of Dunn. Mrs. Sallie Parrish had returned home from Black Mountain after visiting her son Carson Honeycutt in Black Mountain. Coats folks were still sad that Maylon Denning continued to be very ill. Mrs. A. F. Grimes was also ver sick and had been for a long time. Her friends in the Coats Baptist Church sponsored a love gift for her. Doug Roycroft, a student at UNC, had spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Roycroft of Coats while Arlene Turlington , a student at Peace College, had spent time with her parent Mayor and Mrs. Charles Turlington (Dunn Dispatch April 1, 1949).
E.H. Ingold, Thurman Bowden, John M. Ferrell, Ralph Young, and D.C. Johnson were summoned for Civil Court jury and the next week, Clyde Byrd, Hubert Blackman, Maylon Byrd, and Willie Strickland were summoned. A road petition for an all weather from Bailey’s Crossroads to Percy Dupree’s service station was wanted. It would provide an outlet to the Coats Benson and the Smithfield Road (Dunn Dispatch April 4, 1949).
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson, and Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Ennis motored to Wilmington where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Johnson and the azalea gardens. Do you know if there was an Azalea Festival in 1949? I do know that Dr. and Mrs. Manley Mason were the weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Parrish. Possibly Emma Lou shared with the Masons that her friend Jerry Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lee, had had his tonsils removed at Pitman Hospital. The Parrish family had lots of company in April. Mrs. H.S. Hood of Goldsboro and Mrs. Lorena Daughtry of Clinton were also guests of the Parrish family.
Across the railroad, Mrs. J.R. Butler entertained Mr. and Mrs. Lee Johnson and sons, Billy and Albert, from Mt. Gilead; Mrs. Keck Boone and daughters, Betty and May Lou, from Chapel Hill; and Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Foster, Sr. and Jr. from Louisburg. Do you think Mrs. Butler had enough rooms to accommodate all those guests? The Butler home was across the highway from the community building which was being completed. Her first husband, the late Dr. H.T. Roberts, had purchased the house from Sears and Roebuck catalogue for under $3,000.
One thing for sure is that there were many shops uptown for the ladies to visit. L.M. Johnson Meat Market, Ryals Grocery, Byrd’s Grocery, E.H. Honeycutt Produce and Market, Keene Grocery and City Market were offering the best in meats and produce. There was a movie theater for all to attend. Snacks could have been purchased from Clarence Grimes’s Snack Shack. A walk uptown to Coats Mercantile, Stephens Hardware, or Coats Motor Company could have entertained the men. Possibly they went to Howard Barnes’s store to check out his radio selection and other the Philco products. There may have been a television for sale. Pope’s Department Store was a nice shopping place for the entire family. If the guests had wanted something to eat, maybe they visited the Coats Café or Luke’s for as tasty meal.
Lots of the children in town loved to play on the sawdust piles. Did the kids sneak away from home and go the Robertson and Benner Sawmill or did they head to the opposite end of town and slide down the sawdust at the P.F. Pope Sawmill. Wonder if they were ever warned of the danger of sliding on sawdust piles?
Thank you goes to H.L. Sorrell for his donations to the Coats Museum Endowment to honor the memory of Dyan Lee Denning, Dorsey Daniel and Wesley Pleasant.