The School board this week made an appropriation to the
Normal Industrial negro school of $3,700 to help carry on the good work this
school for colored people is doing.
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Mrs. A.M. Richardson elected teacher of the fifth grade at
Elm street school and Miss Agnes McAdams the sixth grade, at a meeting of the
school board this week. Supt. Marr says he now has an able corps of teachers.
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Col. P.C. McIntire is indeed very fortunate in having in his
employ a former member of the “Oh Boy!” company, Charles Gardner. A motion
picture of the play is to be shown at the Rose Monday and Tuesday.
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Winston-Salem officers found the stolen car of W.O. Oliver
in the woods near that city. Patrolman Wade and Mr. Oliver went over on the
motorcycle and brought the car here.
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Deputy Sheriff J.E. Wagner captured another still last week,
this time on the Bud White farm, four miles east of the city.
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A new lumber plant is being talked about and many there be
who would welcome this competition.
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The old Colonial will soon be moved either to Main or
Willbrook or it may be torn down to make room for the furniture exposition
building.
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Hedrick—Edward Franklin, 10 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Hedrick, died Tuesday at the home of his parents in Mechanicsville.
Interment Wednesday at Mechanicsville.
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The Parker Paper and Twine Co. has sold its paper box
department in the Reidsville Paper Box Co.
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Eugene White and Worth Ivey have returned from overseas.
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Carl Wright has sold his interest in the motor service
company and will go in business for himself.
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W.C. Beavans, accompanied by D.C. Leonard of Lincolnton,
left Sunday night for the northern markets.
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Charles Embler, superintendent of the Southern Chair Co.,
had the misfortune to break his right arm while cranking a Ford last Tuesday
morning, but is getting along nicely now.
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The annual picnic of the Sunday school of the First Baptist
church was held at Hayworth’s springs yesterday.
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W.L. Stamey and wife Sunday afternoon returned from Wilmington
and Wrightsville where they attended the Press Association and visited
relatives.
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Mrs. W.L. Smith Sunday returned from Wilmington and
Wrightsville where she visited relatives.
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Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Rawley, Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Farriss, Mr. and
Mrs. C.M. Brown returned this week from Wrightsville where they attended the
Press association.
A.E. Tate was indisposed the past week.
J. Ed Kirkman is improving satisfactorily from a broken arm.
Mrs. Guy Wells is still seriously ill with typhoid fever at
the hospital.
J. Vassie Wilson, who has typhoid fever, is improving very
slowly.
All those not lately successfully vaccinated will have to be
to enter school Sept. 1. Please bear this in mind.
Clean up all the back lots and privies if you expect to do
your part in abating sickness.
Wednesday evening Aug. 13th the singing class
from the Oxford Orphanage will give an entertainment in the auditorium.
Col. H.C. Lewis, Maj. T.J. Wood and Col. Jim B. Little are attending
the Confederate Veterans reunion at Rocky Mount this week.
J.H. Shaw is now county coroner, succeeding Geo. L.
Stansbury, resigned.
Mason W. Gant is now county judge of the Juvenile court,
while D.H. Parsons fills the same position for High Point.
The White Oak team defeated the High Pointers in a good game
of ball at Greensboro Tuesday, score 5 to 2, and in the game here yesterday we
lost again to them, score 8 to 2.
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