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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