Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Local News from Alamance Gleaner, May 22, 1919

From The Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., May 22, 1919

Local News

Jennie Ruffin, colored, died here Monday morning. She was past 50 years of age.

The numerous showers for several days past have greatly interfered with the planting of corn and other farm work. It rained and hailed both in the morning and afternoon of Saturday. The hail almost covered the ground. A good many leaves were knocked from the trees, and some say the young truck in their gardens was considerably bruised and cut. Again Tuesday afternoon there was considerable rain here.

Tuesday, May 20th, was a legal holiday, commemorating the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.

A civil term of Alamance Superior Court will convene next Monday and continue for two weeks. Judge C.C. Lyon will preside.

Miss Mabel Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Clarence Walker, was operated on for appendicitis at Alamance Hospital last Thursday. She is getting along very well.

Mr. Albert J. Thompson and family moved to Mebane last week. Mr. Thompson is in the drug business in Mebane. Their many friends regretted to see them go.

Work on Mr. Claud D. Moore’s bungalow on East Harden St., next to Mr. John M. Crawford’s, is progressing nicely. The foundation has been built and the frame is up and being weatherboarded.

The automobile show room being built by Mr. Phil S. Dixon between his store and the Opera House will be finished soon. The walls are up and the frame of the roof is ready for the covering.

Mrs. Walker, wife of Mr. Mark S. Walker, near Watson, Pleasant Grove township, died last Thursday. The burial was at Cross Roads Friday afternoon. Mrs. Walker was about 30 years of age and is survived by her husband and three small children.

We wish to extend our sincere thanks to our neighbors and friends who were so kind and helpful during the sickness and death of our daughter and sister, Bessie Eugenia Tinnin, and may God richly bless you in return. –John M. Tinnin and Family

The fact that an abundance of free ice water will be provided at the annual meeting of the New Providence Memorial Association Sunday, June 1st, should relieve the thoughts of the friends who may attend this meeting, should that day be as hot as was the first Sunday in June, 1918.

The teachers in Graham Graded School left the first of the week for their homes as follows: Miss Josephine Thomas, Lenoir; Miss Mary Weeks to visit her sister in Winston-Salem; Miss Dora Cook, Greensboro; Miss Estelle Brown, Hillsboro; Miss Gladys Heiffel, Liberty; Miss Mabel Moore, Saxapahaw.

A horse ran away with Dacy Foster Tuesday afternoon. He was working on a farm near town for Mr. T.C. Bradshaw. He was riding home on a rake. Near the cemetery the horse scared at an automobile and ran. The boy dropped the lines and caught the horse’s tail. When the horse turned at Mr. Bradshaw’s home on West Elm St., the boy was thrown violently against a tree and badly hurt his back.

Work on the big double store (the old Oneida store), recently purchased by the Green & McClure Furniture Co., is going ahead. The handsome plate glass fronts are being put in and the interior work is being pushed. The North room and the whole of the upstairs will be used for the Company’s furniture business and for the undertaking business of Williams, Green & McClure. The South room, next to Hayes Drug Co.’s store, will be nicely fitted up for a dry goods store and will have a very attractive glass front with ample show windows.

Among the Sick

Mrs. Allen D. Tate, who has been in Greensboro for treatment, is reported not so well.

Mrs. W.H. Braddy has been sick at the Alamance Hospital.

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