Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 4 · column 1 of 8 · from the scan, no model involved
DAPHNE HITCH 11NSON
\run<l«‘l V v*»|w|rr» *Maff I rili-r While thumbing through a stack of old magazines that a friend had purchased at an auction. Jack Carney of Woodville turned up a picture of “Bob Eastham,” a fighting cock owned by Carroll Menefee from Sperryville. The photograph of the “famous pit game winner” appeared in the March 1912 edition of the Southern Planter, the leading agricultural journal of the south at that time. Since the Southern Planter carried no story on the bird, just a caption underneath the picture. C. E. “Ned” Johnson of Sperryville. who is something of an expert on old timers and Rappahannock history, supplied details. Johnson was "just a small frv" when Carroll Menefee raised his “rather exotic chickens" behind the big house across the street from the old hotel in Sperryville. “How he got into it I don't know." said Johnson. “He hauled them around and showed them everywhere, maybe even in Madison Square Garden. “And Carroll brought back an arrav of silver cups,” Johnson added.
Johnson remembered two unusual breeds in particular that Menefee raised—the silver spangled Hamburg, a black chicken with feathers on their feet. “He wasn't into fighting them, just showing them." Johnson recalled.
Carroll Menefee's father was a merchant with a store in Sperryville. located first where Clyde “Mutt” Atkins’ old store was next to the bridge and then moved to where the Corner Store is now. "Carroll helped in the store some but that was a little quiet for him.” said Johnson. "He ended up with fhe Cincinatti Calendar Company, selling various kinds of advertising. Carroll worked only about six months of the year. He did real well.” Johnson remembered, adding that Menefee had "a nice gift of gab."
"He was certainly a
?
75.6%