Hayes Wilcox Bound Over to Superior Court for Assault of Gordon Britt, Aug. 2, 1926

Wilcox Bound Over

Haynes Wilcox was bound over to Superior court by Justice of the Peace Rexford Stephens Thursday afternoon on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Bond in the case was reduced from $1,000 to $500.

Wilcox was arrested Wednesday afternoon for an alleged assault upon Gordon Britt of Britt’s township after an altercation between the two men about Wilcox’s wife.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 2, 1926

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County Commissioners Reconsider Firing Home Demonstration Agent, Aug. 2, 1926

Action on Demonstration Work Is Deferred. . . County Commissioners Want More Co-operation from State—May Reach Decision Late This Afternoon. . . Women Besiege County Commissioners

Action on the matter of re-installing home demonstration work in Robeson was deferred by the county commissioners meeting in regular session here this morning, and the commissioners adjourned for dinner with the proposition under consideration, with little prospect of their reaching a final decision before late in the afternoon. Women appearing before them this morning gave them evidence enough of how much the work means to the county, and the only hold-up is occasioned by the fact that the county commissioners want more co-operation from the State.

Fifty women, representing every home demonstration club in the county, appeared before the commissioners with a deluge of talks, songs and yells. Mrs. Smith, a State club worker, made one of the feature talks, but short talks were also made by a representative from each of the clubs in the county. Club boys and girls, assisted by the women, made the walls of the Robeson county court house ring with their songs and yells.

Home demonstration work in this county was discontinued by the county commissioners at their last regular meeting, to be effective August 1. Since that time vigorous protests against this action of the commissioners has been registered by women throughout the county.

Editor’s Note: The increased cooperation the commissioners are asking the state for about money. The Cooperative Extension Service was established by the federal government (by an act of Congress). The federal government pays a portion, the state pays a portion, and each county that has an agent pays a portion of his or her salary. It was not unusual for counties to ask that the state government pick up a larger percentage of an agent’s salary, but I’m not aware of it ever being done. The reaction described above, the Home Demonstration Club women and the youth groups appearing before county commissioners, was a common and often effective way of keeping county agents.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 2, 1926

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Grady Hayes, Ab Herring Escape Death After Car Plunges 25 Feet into Mill Pond, Aug. 2, 1926

2 Injured When Car Goes Into Mill Pond. . . Grady Hayes and Ab Herring of Marietta Community Have Miraculous Escape from Death When Ford Coupe Takes 25-Foot Plunge Into Page’s Mill Pond, Near Lake View

Lake View, S.C., Aug. 1—Grady Hayes and Ab Herring, both of the Marietta community, had a miraculous escape from death at a late hour Saturday night when the Ford coupe in which they were riding took a 25-foot plunge into Page’s Mill pond, near this place.

Investigation of the cause of the wreck revealed today that the two men were rounding a sharp curve in the road coming into Lake View and that their car was going at such a rate of speed that it was unable to take the curve. One wheel went off the edge of the embankment and remained off it for a distance of several feet before striking a piece of the bridge across Page’s Mill pond and taking the 25-foot plunge over several cypress knees into the midst of the mill race. The car was buried on its nose in the mud and was almost a complete wreck. Hayes and Herring were found by people passing by and given medical attrition, after which they were taken to their homes. Injuries to neither were not of a serious nature, consisting mostly of bruises and scratches. The car remained in the ill pond all day today, and man people who came there to see the wreck marveled at the narrow escape from death the two men had.

The car was said to belong to Hayes and was driven by Herring at the time of the wreck.

Editor’s Note: A mill race is a channel or current of water that directs flow to and from a water wheel to power a mill.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 2, 1926

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RR Detective Searches Home, Declines to Charge Walter Hunt with Theft of 3 Cups, 3 Saucers, Aug. 2, 1926

3 Cups and 3 Saucers All the Booty Found. . . A.C.L. Officials Will Not Prosecute Walter Hunt, Indian, Because of Small Value Placed on Goods Found in His Possession—Other Things at Home of One of Alleged Wives

A.C.L. Detective Meggs of Richmond, Va., assisted by county officials, searched the premises of Walter Hunt, Indian, of Saddletree township Saturday morning for thing alleged to have been stolen by Hunt while he was cook on an A.C.L. Pullman out of Richmond, the search ending in the recovery of three cups and three saucers belonging to the A.C.L. railway. Because of the small value placed on the goods found and the red tape necessary to get Hunt back into Virginia for trial, officials dropped charges against the Indian. A few things belonging to the railroad were also found in the home of one of Hunt’s alleged wives, a colored woman living in Richmond, Va., a few days ago, but the value of all the things recovered was not enough to charge Hunt with felony.

Hunt was bound over in recorder’s court a few weeks ago on a charge of bigamy, two wives—a colored woman from Richmond and an Indian woman of Robeson county—both testifying against him. When the case came up in Superior court, the Richmond wife was taken suddenly ill and left for her home. Hunt was therefore released because of a lack of evidence.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Aug. 2, 1926

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Jake Page Kills Rattlesnake, Pilot Snakes While Harvesting Oats on Oliver Farm, Aug. 2, 1926

Kills Rattlesnake and Two Pilots

Jake Page, colored, of Marietta, killed a rattlesnake and two pilots while taking up a stack of oats on the farm of Mr. D.J. Oliver a few days ago.

The rattler had three rattles and a button.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Aug. 2, 1926

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Chicken Attends Church, Shares Opinion with Preacher, Aug. 1, 1926

Bold Chicken Beards Methodist Preacher in Pulpit

A small Plymouth Rock chicken proudly walked into a church in the county yesterday afternoon, strutted across to the altar and on up to the preacher, and stood there looking at the minister with a “Peep, peep” noise while the minister urged the congregation to life in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Finally, after the minister had asked that the chicken not be disturbed, it waslked out of the pulpit, went back under the seats and disappeared into nobody knows where. After the services some of the people approached the preacher, who happened to be a Methodist, to ask about the whereabouts of the lost fowl.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Aug. 2, 1926

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Mary Patterson, 76, Dies of Heart Trouble July 31, 1926

Mrs. Mary C. Patterson Passes at Home Here. . . Succumbs to Heart Trouble After Extended Illness—Funeral Here Yesterday Morning and Interment at Tar Heel. . . Member of One of Pioneer Families of Bladen County

Mrs. Mary C. Patterson passed away here at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lennon, early Saturday morning at the advanced age of 76. She had been ill with heart trouble for some time, her illness becoming critical several days ago, and her death was not unexpected. Mrs. Patterson was preceded to the grave by her husband, Captain Daniel Patterson, in 1904, and she had been living with her daughters here since that time.

Funeral services were conducted at the home yesterday morning at 10:30 by Dr. G. E. Moorehouse, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and interment was made in the family plot at Beth Car church, Tar Heel.

A large crowd of people was present at the home as Dr. Moorehouse conducted the final rites, and a number went from her to Tar Heel where interment was made. Floral offerings were many and beautiful.

Active pallbearers were Messrs. Lac McKenzie, Earl Thompson, Lawrence Parker, O.O. Dukes, T.W. Bullock, J.S. McNeill and W.K. Bethune. Honorary pallbearers were Messrs. C.B. Skipper, J.D. Norment, J.R. Poole, H.E. Stacy, Amos King, R.H. Crichton, J.A. Thompson, A.T. McLean, N.E. Davis and Drs. John Knox, T.C. Johnson, H.T. Pope and E.R. Hardin.

Mrs. Mary Catherine Patterson, daughter of William Lord and Rachel Willliams Gilmore, was born August 1st 1850, her death occurring on the day before here 76th birthday. A descendant of one of the pioneer families of the upper Cape Fear, Mrs. Patterson was born and bred at the old plantation home in Bladen county, the land having been ceded by royal grant. She was a sister of the late J.F. Gilmore of Fayetteville.

Mrs. Patterson was the widow of Captain Danial Patterson, who at the beginning of the Civil War organized Company H, 36th Regiment, and served until he was taken prisoner at Fort Fisher. After marriage, deceased lived for many years in lower Bladen county and then the family moved back to the neighborhood of her birth, living there until three years ago when Mrs. Patterson purchased a home on North Elm street in Lumberton, where she lived until her death with her daughters, Mrs. George Lennon and Misses Theresa and Emmie Patterson.

Mrs. Patterson was a staunch Presbyterian and a consecrated member of Beth Car church in Bladen county, one of the oldest churches in this section of the State.

Mrs. Patterson was a school in Lumberton at the close of the Civil War.

Deceased was a woman of modest and retiring nature, of keen intelligence and unusual intellectual attainments.

Deceased is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Georg W. Lennon and Misses Emmie and Theresa Patterson, the later of whom is assistant clerk of the court of Robeson county; by one son, Mr. Alton Patterson, who lives at the home place in Bladen county; and by one sister, Miss Ophelia Gilmour of St. Pauls.

Miss Ophelia Gilmore of St. Pauls, sister of the deceased, and Mrs. J.F. Gilmore of Fayetteville, sister-in-law, were with Mrs. Patterson for a week before her death and left this morning for their homes. Among the many other out-of-town people here for the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. I.J. Williams (Mrs. Williams being a cousin of the deceased), Mr. and Mrs. Sam Johnson and daughter, little Miss Barber, and son, Percival, and Mr. Norment Shaw, all of Rex, and Mrs. Emmett Davis, who lives near Tar Heel.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Aug. 2, 1926

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