Monday, August 23, 2021

Local News Items From Dunn, N.C., Aug. 23, 1921

Local News Items

Miss Beulah Temple is in Rex Hospital, Raleigh, for a surgical operation. She was accompanied there Sunday morning by Dr. I.F. Hicks.

Many of Dunn’s baseball enthusiasts are in Four Oaks today to see the game between Dunn and Four Oaks. The two teams will meet again here Thursday.

Rev. John J. Langston, pastor of the Christian Church, returned today from Kentucky, where he has been for the past month conducting revival services.

The Farmers Warehouse at Benson will open for business Wednesday, September 7th, under the management of J.F. Motley, one of the best known tobacco men in this section of the State. Geo. L. Cannady, a local man, who has been active in the tobacco business for th epast 20 years, will be auctioneer.

Edgar Carlisle West, lawyer, is now Dunn postmaster. He succeeded Postmaster Eugene T. Lee yesterday morning following telegraphic instructions received from the Postoffice Department Saturday night. No definite appointment has been made, however. A permanent postmaster will be chosen through civil service examinations to be held later. Mr. Lee is still in the office checking his accounts and supplies. He expects to finish with the work this week.

Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Pope and their son, Edward Pope of Taylorsville, Ill.; Rev. and Mrs. Albert B. Harrell of Petersburg, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Pope of Clayton; Mrs. W.H. Stallings and her little son, W.H. Stallings Jr. of Fayetteville; and Ernest King of Raleigh are here to visit Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pope and attend the annual reunion of the children and grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Pope.

A racing matinee will be staged on the Harnett County Fair Ground Track Friday afternoon, September 2. Two races will be held—one trot and one pace. Each will be three heats. Walter Jernigan is managing the event. HIs horses and those of Andrew Hodges and Julius McLeod will be among the racers. This race will be to decide which of the local horses are best. The matter has been under discussion since the races on July 4, when no definite decision was made.

Ira B. Raynor and N.T. Ryals, road commissioners of Banner Township, Johnston County, are here today in conference with officials of the Chamber of Commerce relative to the project to rebuild the portion of the Peacock’s Cross highway lying between Beulah Church and Mingo at the edge of Harnett county. This road, of course, is wholly within Johnston county, but it is also one upon which the business of Dunn depends to a large extent. Funds for the construction were available last year, but at that time delay was occasioned by an inability to secure construction forces and machinery.

W. Ennis Warren, charged with attempt to assault Deputy sheriff R.F. Jernigan at the time the officer served a capias upon his last week, denies that he was the least bit under the influence of liquor at the time of the alleged affray. Mr. Warren contends that he is not a drinking man and that he has not partaken of the cheering fluid for many moons. He protests against the unfavorable publicity given him through the Dispatch and asks that we correct that part of the store which intimated that he was drinking. This we gladly do. Information given the Dispatch concerning the affair was gotten from interested officers. If any damage has been done, we are indeed regretful, although we acknowledge no blame.

From The Dunn Dispatch, August 23, 1921

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