J.V. Snipes Shares Niagara, N.C. News in Pilot, July 16, 1926

Niagara

By J.V. Snipes

Master Jack Weatherly is spending a week or two on a visit to relatives in Greensboro.

Little Mary Alice Weatherly is visiting her cousin, Mary Lucy Kelly in Jonesboro.

Colon Caddell and wife of Cognac visited friends in these parts the past week.

Mrs. Evie L. Burns and two sons, Emory and Lacy, of Pittsboro, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.V. Snipes Sunday.

George McDermott went to Carthage on business Monday.

H.S. Stanyan has returned from a hurried trip up in the state of Pennsylvania.

C.W. Marston and W.R. Wilson left the first of the week for a tour into the New England states possibility to Canada. They plan to take in the exposition at Philadelphia while enroute to the north.

W.F. Smith, after spending his 10-day vacation with relatives in these parts, has returned to Raleigh, where he is manager of one of the stores there.

From page 2 of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., July 16, 1926

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Emma Page Wilder Shares News from Aberdeen, July 18, 1926

Aberdeen

By Emma Page Wilder

On Tuesday, June 29, Miss Clara Martin Page, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Page, was married to Dr. Edward Harrison of Littleton, N.C. The wedding was performed at her home in Aberdeen and was throughout one of simplicity and dignity. An altar was formed at the end of the living room by palms and ferns, against which were banked white phlox and gladiola. At the sound of the wedding march, played by Miss Mary Page Wilder, the bride came down the steps and was met at the foot of the stairs by her father; the groom entered with his brother, John Harrison. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. V. McRae, the pastor of the Aberdeen Methodist church. The bride wore a dress of white satin, trimmed with metal embroidery and pearls, with Duchess lace.

Mrs. Harrison received her A.B. degree at Randolph Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, Va., and did some graduate work at Columbia University. Dr. Harrison attended Duke University, where he received his bachelor’s degree, and studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia.

The out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Page Jr., of Asheville; Miss Inez Richrdson of Arkansas; Miss Elizabeth Lyne, Raleigh; John and Blake Harrison of Littleton; Mr. and Mrs. Ames of Raleigh; and Miss Elizabeth Morris, Oxford.

Mrs. Will Blue has announced the opening of an art class to be held in her studio, where oils, pastels, and china painting will be taught. The number of her pupils is limited. Aberdeen has needed a teacher of drawing and painting, and Mrs. Blue is to be thanked on filling this need.

Miss Jane McGraw spent last Friday afternoon and night at Fort Brage, where she went to the R.O.T.C. Game.

Edgar Bowman spent a few days last week at Roaring Gap. A large part of his time he spent playing golf.

The Aberdeen Boy Scouts went on a hike last Wednesday to Cook’s mill pond. William Purdy, the scout master, and about 24 scouts enjoyed swimming and cooking their supper. They returned home about bedtime, after an evening full of fun. John Blue, Edwin McKeithen, and William Carter are the patrol leaders, and they took the tenderfoots in hand. For some of them it was their first Scouting outing.

Miss Effie Leland and John Leland of Charleston, S.C., are visiting their sister, Mrs. Edwin McKeithen. Miss Leland is planning to go to Converse College this fall and is working up an extra credit in French with the help of Elizabeth Gaston. John Leland is planning to go to the University of Virginia this fall.

Miss Allene Mackay of Bennettsville, S.C. is visiting Miss Emma Page Wilder. Miss Mackay has visited in Aberdeen several times before.

Bill Wren of Siler City has been visiting his uncle, Max Folley. He returned home on Wednesday.

Last Tuesday Mrs. Tom Wilder, Allene MacKay and Emma Page Wilder took Alice Wilder to Blowing Rock to camp, where she will be most of the summer. The other members of the party stayed in Blowing Rock a day and returned home on Thursday by way of Charlotte, where they stopped for a few hours.

Miss Marty Page and Mrs. Jones have gone to the Piedmont section of Virginia in their car, hoping to escape the Moore County heat.

Mrs. Childrey of Sanford, Florida, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Ada Weaver, for the summer.

Miss Frances Pleasants has been visiting her aunt in Charlotte.

The Canning factory which has been closed since last season is ready to begin operation again. Mr. Washam will be in charge.

Mr. and Mrs. Talbot Johnson spent last week at Roaring Gap.

Mrs. Frank Mizzell of Tampa, Fla., is spending the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. McN. Johnson.

C.L. Read, the presiding elder of the Aberdeen district, preached in the Methodist church last Sunday morning. Mr. Reed was some years ago the pastor here and has many friends in Aberdeen. [Read or Reed? Was spelled both ways in newspaper.]

Mrs. H.E. Bowman and Billy Bowman left last Saturday for Beckley, W. Va., to visit at the home of Judge Hatcher. Mrs. Hatcher is Dr. Bowman’s sister. They motored with Jim McKeithen, who is also visiting in West Virginia, and with Mary McKeithen and Christine Allred, who are visiting a school friend in Pulaski, Va.

Miss Wheeler of Los Angeles, California, has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. martin, at the home of Mrs. Frank Page. Miss Wheeler is visiting other relatives in North Carolina, and after a stay in Washington will go to her old home in New York state on the Canadia border before returning to Los Angeles.

Mr. and Mrs. Reid Page announce the birth of a son, Reid Allison Page Jr.

Mrs. Bowman entertained at a swimming party at Johnson’s bridge. A delicious supper was served out under the trees. The guests were Mary Page Wilder, Flora May McKeithen, Beatrice Treyz, Emma Page Wilder, Margaret McKeithen, Neil McKeithen, Harold McKeithen, Jim McKeithen, Henry blue and Edgar Bowman.

Miss Beatrice Treyz of New York City has been visiting Miss Mary Page Wilder.

Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols announce the birth of a son, John Prayson Nichols Jr. on July 7 at Greensboro, N.C.

Harold McKeithen has returned from Boston, where he has been studying at Harvard Law school.

From page 3 of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., July 16, 1926

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Oscar Coffin Moves to Chapel Hill, July 18, 1926

Coffins Move In

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Coffin, their son Edwin, and Mrs. Coffin’s mother took possession Tuesday of the house on Park Place recently left by the Gerald Johnsons. The next morning Mr. Coffin when back to Roanoke Rapids, where he is serving temporarily as editor and manager of the Herald. He expects to be at Northwestern University, near Chicago, for a while this summer, observing methods pursued in the school of Journalism there.

--Chapel Hill Weekly

From the front page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., July 16, 1926

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Mrs. Bilyeu, Former Miss Margaret Ray, Has Died, July 18, 1926

A Beautiful Tribute Paid. . . Death of Mrs. H.P. Bilyeu Recalls Loyalty Evidenced During Dark Days at Elise

Hemp, July 15—The news of the death of Mrs. H.P. Bilyeu, who was before her marriage some years ago Miss Margaret Ray, daughter of the late D.S. Ray and Mrs. Lura Pleasants Ray of Carthage, was received by the people of this vicinity with deepest regret.

We think back to the year 1916 when she came to us as a teacher of English in Elise High School in the fall after her graduation at Flora McDonald College, she was but a slip of a girl, and beautiful in the glory of her youth.

She assumed her duties like a veteran, and it may be said that “she served with vigor” as the war came on and the shortage of money curtailed the staff of teachers so this made the work of the teachers employed, hard, almost double.

At times it seemed that the school would have to close its doors and it is largely due to the services rendered by “Miss Ray” and the beloved lady principal, Miss Isabelle MacLeod, who came to us with Miss Ray and still toils, that the school was held together through those trying years of war, flu and general upheaval.

During the first and second epidemics of influenza, she have herself unsparingly almost recklessly to the sick in the school, the town and country until finally in the last epidemic she was stricken sorely herself.

In 1918 she was married to H.P. Bilyeu of Pinehurst, where they lived for a couple of years. They moved from there to Greensboro, where they have resided since.

In 1918 she was married to H.P. Bilyeu of PInehurst, where they have resided since.

Mrs. Bilyeu leaves a husband and two children, Master H.P. Bilyeu Jr. and little Margaret Ray Bilyeu of Greensboro, a mother, Mrs. Lura Ray, and three sisters, Misses Elizabet and Rebecca Ray of Cameron, and Mrs. O.F. Taylor Cheraw, S.C., and two[three?] brothers, E.L. Ray of Asheboro; Norfleet P Ray of Pinehurst, and Dan S. Ray of Vass, and a host of friends whose lives will ever be encircled by having loved her, and her influence of dauntless courage, as her sweet spirit remains with them to bless them.

Surely God could not have plucked from earth for himself a lovelier, sweeter flower.

From the front page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., July 16, 1926

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83 Banks in Florida and Georgia Have Closed Doors This Week, June 16, 1926

13 More Banks Have Closed Doors. . . Total Closed in Florida and Georgia During Week is Now 83

Atlanta, Ga., July 16 (AP)—Thirteen additional banks have closed their doors in Georgia and one in Florida since yesterday, the closing brought the total number that have suspended operations this week to 83 in the two states.

The state banking department in making the announcement attributed the closings to the bankruptcy proceedings of the Bankers Trust Company, which serves as fiscal agent for a string of 120 banks in the two states.

Editor's Note: Why your relative might have mistrusted banks. This was happening before the Great Depression and before bank accounts were insured up to $250,000.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, June 16, 1926

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Clyde Broughton In Jail for Murder of William Teachy, July 14, 1926

Lenoir County Man Held on Murder Charge. . . Clyde Broughton Charged with Having Caused the Death of William Teachy. . . Coroner’s Jury to Order Broughton Held Without Bond

Clyde Broughton, young white man whose home is in the seven Springs section of Lenor county, is being held in the Wayne County jail in default of bond in connection with the death of William Teachey, another young white man, who died in the Goldsboro Hospital Sunday morning as the result of a skull fracture which he received when struck on the head last Thursday night at a store on the Goldsboro-Seven Springs highway.

Broughton was the man whom Teachey told officers struck him with the bottle, this statement being made shortly after they had found him following the affair. On the strength of this antemortem statement and other evidence which authorities have but which they have not disclosed, he was ordered held by the coroner’s jury which held an inquest over the body.

It is said that the affair was the result of an argument and an affray which occurred at the store in question and is a section which has been noted for its blockading and bootlegging activities.

The body of the dead man was carried to his former home on Sunday and was interred near that place later. He was held in high esteem in his home community, and his untimely death is generally regretted by a large circle of friends.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Wednesday morning, July 14, 1926

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Nellie Freeman Goes on Trial for Slashing Throat of Husband, July 14, 1926

Charlotte Woman Goes on Trial for Life. . . Fate of Nellie Freeman Will Soon Rest in Hands of Jury Hearing the Case. . . Young Bride Who in a Fit of Jealousy Slashed the Throat of Her Husband, Sits in Charlotte Court Room a Dejected Figure, While Witnesses Tell of Her Tragic Deed—Dead Man’s Mother Star Witness

Charlotte, July 14—Nellie Freeman, charged with slaying her husband, Alton Freeman, by slashing his throat with a razor, went on trial for her life here today.

The entire morning session as devoted to selection of a jury, after which relatives and friends of the dead man were place on the witness stand.

Eight witnesses testified for the state during the afternoon session and repeated the lurid story of the crime while the youthful prisoner sat between attorneys and her mother and listened in apparent nonchalance.

Mrs. Nannine Freeman, mother of the victim, was the first to take the witness stand. She recited details of the married life of her son and described the killing in a strong, straightforward tone. The witness said that on the night her son died she went to his room and found him packing his clothes. She said she asked him if he was “mad at Nellie.”

“Mama, I told you the first time she cussed me I was going to leave her,” the witness quoted her son as saying.

Turning to the events of her son’s death, Mrs. Freeman said she heard him walking rapidly and then he whirled around. Blood was running from his mouth, she testified. She said she got both of her hands to his jaw and asked him if his wife had hit him in the mouth.

“No, mama, she cut me,” she said her son replied.

“With what?” she said she asked him.

“With a razor,” she testified he said.

“I held him until he went down,” she continued. “He was dead in less than 10 minutes.”

Mrs. Freeman stated that Hellie came in about 30 minutes later with Luther, her husband’s brother, holding her. Nellie said that Luther need not hold her, that she would not run off, the witness aid. “Nellie just sat there, never shed a tear, and send she wanted to be punished,” Mrs. Freeman told the court.

Chief Fesperman of the rural police force declared he found the dead man . . . slashed from ear to ear. Testimony will be resumed tomorrow.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Thursday morning, July 15, 1926

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