--Miss Rosa White who has been quite ill for several months, was removed Wednesday to the Presbyterian Hospital for treatment.
--Marriages licenses have been issued by the register of deeds to Miss Mary M. Polk and James R. Ridenhour; Miss Myrtle L. Griffin and Clyde Holman Jordan; and Miss Evelyn Douglas and S.L. Boyce.
--J.M. Matthews, superintendent of schools in Mecklenburg county, has gone to Raleigh to confer with Dr. E.C. Brooks and the State Board of Education about school matters in this county.
--The Cook-Drum Motor Company has amended its charter, changing its present name to the “Southern Auto and Wagon Works.” The company, of which I.M. Cook is president, has been in business for some time at 12 East Seventh Street.
--Prof. W.W. Rankin of the chair of mathematics of Agnes Scott College, is here to spend a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rankin Sr., of the county, before going to Thomasville, where he will spend a large part of the Summer with Mrs. Rankin and their little son at the home of Mrs. Rankin’s parents.
--The sum of $1,224.70 has been raised by the Newcomers Club and the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Newcomers for support of the Travelers Aid organization, according to announcement by H.L. Morrill, president of the Newcomers Club. The funds in sight will run the organization until August, it is estimated.
--U.S. Secret Service Agent Henry E. Thomas has been instrumental in sending nearly a dozen defendants to jail in recent weeks in his territory—North and South Carolina and Florida—on charges of counterfeiting. Out of a total of 14 which he has investigated and prosecuted in the past six months, all but one entered a plea of guilty to the charge of counterfeiting.
--W.D. Knowles, who has been manager of the C.D. Kenny Store in Montgomery, Ala., for the past nine years, has returned to Charlotte to become manager of the C.D. Kenny store here at 28 South Tryon Street. Mr. Knowles is a native of Charlotte and was in the grocery business here some years before he went to Montgomery to take charge of the Kenny store there.
--Kope Elias, farm demonstration agent of the county, has returned form Memphis, where he accompanied Mrs. John C. Kilgo, his mother-in-law, to visit Bishop Kilgo, who has been critically ill in a Memphis hospital. Mr. Elias reported Bishop Kilgo as much improved that he will probably be able to come home shortly. Mrs. Kilgo returned to Charlotte with Mr. Elias. Luther Kilgo, a son of Bishop Kilgo, is with him in Memphis.
--The closing exercises of the Thompson Orphanage will be held at 6 o’clock Thursday afternoon on the campus of the orphanage on East Fourth and Cecil streets. There will be a program of songs, recitations and other features and the annual award of prizes and distinctions. Rev. E.A. Penick Jr., bishop coadjutor-elect of the Episcopal diocese of North Carolina, will deliver the prizes and make a brief address. The public is invited to attend the exercises.
--The fourth day of taking evidence in the case of J.E. Paris and others, cavatores in the matter of the will of the late Mrs. Rachel Morris of Matthews, against B.D. Funderburk, propounder of the will, was begun in civil court before Judge T.B. Finley Thursday morning. Witnesses for the propunder of the will have been on the stand Wednesday and Thursday. The case is not expected to reach the jury before Saturday morning.
--Real estate deeds filed in the clerk of court’s office include the following: Stanton Field and Pauline Gilligan Field to J.P. Robinson for $100 and other considerations a lot on East Fourth and Davidson streets. E.S. Delaney and Ethel Rodman DeLaney to E.L. Pennell, for $100 and other considerations, a lot in Pineville. E.S. Delaney and Ethel Rodman Delancy (to) J.S. Squires, for $100 and other considerations, a lot in Pineville. The Securities Realty & Insurance Company to T.T. Cole, for $100 and other considerations, several lots in Dilworth. (Yes, last name was spelled DeLaney, Delaney and Delancy in one sentence. No, I don’t know which one is correct.)
--The girls of both teams of the business women’s gymnasium classes of the Y.W.C.A. will have a picnic at Lakewood Friday night at which time they will vote on the names of members of the classes to attend the Summer conference at Blue Ridge. A demonstration was given in February and a county fair the first of this month to raise money to send these girls, and much interest in being felt in the decision as to who the fortunate girls will be. All members of the business women’s classes are asked to leave the Square on the 6 o’clock car for Lakewood.
From The Charlotte News, June 1, 1922
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