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Monday, February 1, 2021

Local News Items From Dunn, N.C., Feb. 1, 1921

J.C. Barrington of Raleigh was here this week. Edward Lee of Raeford was here this week to visit his mother, Mrs. Eldredge Lee.

The home economics department of the Woman’s Club will meet in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce Thursday afternoon.

Secretary Riddle of the Chamber of Commerce has recently made some improvements in his offices that add much to the attractiveness of the quarters.

Bob Swain went to Wilson today to undergo an operation for the removal of a portion of his tonsils left from a former operation. Mrs. Swain accompanied him.

Otis P. Shell, chief engrossing clerk of the House of Representatives, returned Monday morning to Raleigh after spending Saturday and Sunday here with his family.

Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Townsend returned yesterday to Raleigh where Mr. Townsend is attending the legislature as member of the House of Representatives from Harnett county.

John W. Hodges has presented a set of park benches to the Woman’s club for use in Greenwood Cemetery. These were manufactured in Mr. Hodges’ plant here and are of a design he is making a specialty of now.

Elmon Jernigan has joined the army of Dunn citizens who have gone “back to the farm.” He and his family have moved into Sampson and expect to produce a fine crop of potatoes, cotton and other things this year.

The first meeting of the Dunn Community Singers will be held tonight in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce. Rev. A.R. McQueen and Rev. Eugene Olive will outline a program in this meeting to be followed through the season. All local singers and musicians are invited to attend the meeting.

Definite action toward bringing the age-old fight to a close was taken last night when Mrs. J.J. Wade and Miss Jessie Smith went as a committee from the Woman’s Club before the directors of the Chamber of Commerce and demanded that they be given aid in taking immediate possession of that portion of Lucknow Square now being used for the cotton yard. They were told to go ahead and take it and do what they might choose to do toward making it one of Dunn’s beauty spots.

Since Dunn first came to the realization that it could be made beautiful the good women of Dunn have been working to get possession of Lucknow Square—originally intended for a public park, but used as a public cotton mart and, in summer months, as a depository for all sorts of refuse. It is the one place in Dunn that first attracts the visitor’s eye. If the visitor happens to be one who is a lover of beauty, he is not very favorably impressed by the unsightliness of the public square.

Some of the cotton buyers, however, are opposed to the removal of the cotton yard. They hold that since cotton is the source whence springs most of the community wealth it should be given a place most convenient to buyer and seller. There is no doubt that Lucknow Square fills the bill in this respect. They hold, too, that the presence of so much cotton there is a good advertising feature since all who pass Dunn must see the hundreds of bales piled there waiting for shipment.

From The Dunn Dispatch, February 1, 1921

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