Miss Blanche McNeill came home from Raleigh Tuesday for a few days.
Mr. J.R. McQueen is in Savannah for a few days on business.
Mrs. A.S. Newcomb left Sunday night for a month’s visit to relatives and friends in the north.
Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter and Miss Thompson of Durham were called home on account of the serious illness of their sister.
Mrs. Daniel McNeill and daughters, Mrs. J.R. McQueen and Miss Pearl McNeill are spending some time at Blowing Rock.
Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Hoke who have been attending summer school at Chapel Hill are at home for a few weeks before resuming their duties as teachers.
Mr. and Mrs. O.H. Stutts returned last week from their vacation in Boston, Washington and Atlantic City. They report a splendid time.
Mr. W.M. Gallant, traveling salesman for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, was a business visitor in town Friday.
Miss Phoebe Gardner of Hoffman spent part of last week with her grandparents here.
Mrs. M.T. Driggers and little son, Sidney, returned to Hamlet Saturday after spending most of the week in town.
Mrs. S.H. Garner of Carthage is visiting Mr. and Mrs. S.J. Gardner this week.
Rev. J.A. Wood will preach in the Union church at Lakeview next Sunday evening, the 14th, at 8 o’clock. Subject, “The Final Judgment.” Everybody is invited to come, and we extend a cordial welcome to the visitors of our town.
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CAMERON
The orphans from Goldsboro gave a concert here last week. This institution is supported by the Odd Fellows.
W.D. Gaster of Fayetteville was in town a night of last week, registered at the Greenwood Inn.
Miss Vera McLean returned Monday from Wrightsville Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Parker and children left Monday for Garner in response to a telegram conveying the sad intelligence of the death of Mrs. Parker’s mother.
Mrs. E.T. Muse and daughter, Miss Edna of Ridgeland, S.C., are visiting Mrs. Janie Muse and family.
The family of S.F. Fowler, superintendent of the Regal Hosiery Mills, have come to Cameron for a month’s trial at the town; if pleased socially and morally, they will remain. They are stopping at the Doss Hotel for the present.
Mr. William McDonald of Waxhaw is here on a visit to relatives.
The community club will meet at the Cameron graded school building next Friday, August 12th, at 6 p.m. All are requested to come with well filled baskets and enjoy a picnic dinner on the grounds, after which there will be a community sing led by Mr. Picquet.
Messrs. John Gaddy and T.C. McLaurin are home from Durham for a few days.
Mrs. D.J. Pierce returned with her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Pierce, by motor to Charlotte on Monday, where she will remain for a week’s visit.
Miss Annie Borst spent the weekend with Mr. And Mrs. H.A. Borst of Vass.
Dewey Phillips is home from the Sanitorium at Charlotte, where he went for treatment.
Mrs. L.H. Joyner, Mrs. J.D. McLean and Miss Burdette Joyner report to their home folks a delightful time at Hiddenite.
Mr. H.T. Petty still remains extremely ill.
Mr. Marvin Thomas and Mrs. Georgia Matthews motored over to Raleigh last week.
Mr. W.E. Olive was one of the 20,000 Tar Heels that visited the Quarry at Raleigh last Sunday.
Cameron young men and Cameron old me played a game of ball last week. Result: 6 to 7, or something like that, in favor of the young unmarried.
Mrs. J.W. Cameron and little daughters, Virginia and Johnsie, returned last week from a visit to relatives at Siler City.
Dr. John McLean with Mrs. McLean and children, of Godwin, came up last week for a visit to the doctor’s mother, Mrs. Margaret McLean on Route 2.
Misses Thompson and Metcalf, young ladies from western North Carolina, have arrived to work in the Regal Hosiery Mill.
Mr. Atlas Phillips sent the Cameron correspondent an exceptionally fine watermelon and cantaloupe last week with the message that he didn’t send them because he loved me so well, but because he was lending to God. May he be rewarded with melons and all other good things heaped up and running over.
Rev. L.H. Joyner and sons, Belton and Horace, Messrs. J.D. McLean and W.H. Olive are keeping bachelor’s hall, their “wimen” folks being away at various summer resorts. There may be another lonely heart that isn’t “baching,” it may be aching.
Mrs. Addie Graham was given a pleasant surprise upon August 3rd, the day being her birthday. Returning from her work at noon she found that some good fairy had prepared and spread a delightful dinner of substantials and delicacies. There proved to be a trio of fairies instead of one, to wit: Mesdames J.J. Irvin, I.E. Goodwin and Miss Ila Norman.
That was a noble tribute paid to the South in Monday’s News and Observer by Dr. John Roach Stratton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City, who preached Sunday in the First Baptist Church in Charlotte. Read this extract from his sermon: “The South is the only section of our country today where old standards of virtue and Christian soundness are widely prevalent, and the South is the only place containing the leaven of virtue and soundness that will save this nation. Here only is the wholesome home life with its cleanliness, its natural social graces, its domestic virtues and its reverence for Christianity.
Mr. John McDonald passed away at his home in East Cameron on Thursday, August 4th. Funeral services from Cameron Presbyterian Church, conducted by Rev. M.D. McNeill; interment in the Cameron cemetery by the side of his wife, who passed on several years ago. Mr. McDonald was in his 85th year, was a Confederate soldier, having served first under Capt. Kelly, afterwards with Capt. E. McN. Blue in Ransome’s Brigade. He was a man of high intellectual attainments and a fine historian. Some years after the Civil War he was a member of the firm of McNeill and McKay, operators of turpentine in Richmond County. After the firm moved south, Mr. McDonald with his wife, who was Miss Ann McKenzie of Rockingham, returned to his native county where he lived until his death. Surviving him are four daughters, Miss Sallie McDonald and Mrs. Mamie Hunter, who lived with him at the home place; Mrs. James Gilchrist of Lilesville, and Miss Annie McDonald, trained nurse, at Carrboro. Three sons, J.B. McDonald of Duke, John of Marsville, and D.K. of Cameron.
Last week I was the grateful recipient of some very fine peaches sent by Mrs. Beulah on Route 2, who grew the peaches from seed. She has several trees and shipped quite a lot this year.
Miss Annie Borst is in Sanford this week, the guest of Mrs. Rufus Poindexter.
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JACKSON SPRINGS
The prospects for a good school year look very encouraging. Prof. McColl is receiving a number of inquiries about our excellent high school. He has a very strong faculty of teachers to assist him in preparing the boys and girls for their life work and college. Miss Patty Marks of Albemarle, a graduate of Meredith College, will be Lady Principal again this year. Miss Clara Stanton of Clio, S.C., a graduate of Flora McDonald College, will be an able assistant. She will coach the girls in basketball, of which she has had experience in the Elm City schools. A.C. Harrington of Taylorsville will teach the 6th and 7th grades work, and will coach in all branches of athletics that they may see fit to play. Mr. Harrington is also qualified as a band leader. Misses Mary Graham, Nell Wilson and Bessie Cameron will teach the other grammar grades. The latter is excelled by few as a primary teacher, and has taught the past few years here. Miss Wilson, who will teach the second and third grades, and Miss Graham, the fourth and fifth grade work, respectively, have had excellent training and come here with considerable experience. Miss Helen Martin will teach home economics again this year. A music teacher is to be supplied.
About 60 young people of the young men’s and ladies’ classes of the Presbyterian Sunday School, with Prof. W.C. McColl, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Ross and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Evans picnicked at Lakeview Friday evening. All report a good time, and came back with but one regret—that was they left a table filled with watermelon rinds with no place to put them. Morals at this famous bathing place are very good. An officer is always on duty and stays on the job better than the city cop walking his beat. No disorderly conduct is tolerated and quiet always prevails.
Miss Kate Ray passed away at her home here on Tuesday, August 2nd, after an illness of several months. Her death had been expected for several weeks. She had been very active during her life in the community, and will be missed very much. She was 84 years old and had been a consistent member of the Presbyterian church since her girlhood days. She was one of the oldest women in the county to register and vote when given a chance to swell the Democratic majority last fall. Funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. R.G. Matheson, from the home, and burial took place in the new cemetery. A large concourse of friends and relatives assembled to pay their last respects to the deceased. She leaves one sister, Miss Annie Ray, and several nieces and nephews to mourn her loss.
The street leading from the triangle of the highway and Troy road to near the cemetery has been clayed. This was done by people living on this street, and it is hoped others will improve their streets.
Mr. W.H. Carpenter, a prosperous farmer residing near here, had the misfortune to lose, by lightning, several bales of seed cotton stored in a house on a field, on Wednesday. He had hauled four bales to the tin that day and was going to have it all ginned. Mr. Carpenter does not depend on his cotton for a money crop, but very often makes two bales per acre on a poor ridge that he developed and improved several years ago when he left the railroad shop.
A young alligator that McCoy Dilling brought home with him from Florida has escaped his imprisonment and made its way to a nearby branch.
D.S. Poole and family, of Raeford, were among those from a distance to attend the funeral of Miss Kate Ray.
Miss Bessie Reynolds has gone to Cameron after spending a few days with friends here. She will teach again at Star this year.
Mesdames R.B. Norris Jr., John Dilling and little Francis Dilling, of Charlotte, are spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dilling.
Mrs. P.J. Clark of Fernwood, Miss., and Mrs. Osteen and children, of Albany, Ga., are here on an extended visit to Mrs. E.W. Bruton.
From The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Friday, August 12, 1921.
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