Tar Drops From Franklin Times, Aug. 2, 1919

From The Franklin Times, Louisburg, N.C., Aug. 2, 1919

Tar Drops

Cotton sold in Louisburg yesterday for 33 ¾ cents a pound.

Mr. Lee Strickland has taken a position with Hudson’s Garage.

Quite a nice shower of rain fell in this section on Tuesday evening.

Mr. T.W. Wheless loss two nice milk cows Tuesday afternoon by lightning.

Rev. E. Lucnen Malone filled the pulpit at St. Paul’s Episcopal church Sunday.

Mr. Peyton J. Brown is acting as Night Policeman while Mr. E.C. Perry is taking his vacation.

A lot of new metal filing cases for the vault in the Clerk of Court’s office arrived yesterday and are being put into place.

Mrs. Hall, mother of Mrs. McDuffy, died at the home of her daughter on Kenmore Avenue from an attack of typhoid fever, yesterday morning.

Mr. A.W. Perry Jr. has moved his stock of general merchandise to one of the rooms in the Strickland building on Nash Street, formerly occupied by G.W. Ford & Son. The building vacated by Mr. Perry is being turned into a sales stable for G.W. Ford & Son.