Friday, September 30, 2022

Lenoir County Mob Hunting Jim Miller, Sept. 30, 1922

Lenoir County Mob Hunting Negro. . . Continue Hunt for Fugitive. . . Several Hundred Kinston Men Are Now Searching for Jim Miller. . . No Mob Spirit. . . Not Believed That Any Attempt at Violence Will be Made If He Is Captured

Kinston, Sept. 30—A posse of several hundred men, directed by deputy sheriffs continued today to scour the countryside for Jim Miller, negro, who shot and killed John Sutton, age 43, prominent farmer near here last night. Although feeling against the negro is running high, there was no evidence of mob spirit among the searchers, officers stated, and it is not believed an attempt would be made on the negro’s life in the event of his capture.

Details of the crime are revolting. The murder was in cold blood, from all evidence that could be learned.

The father of Mr. Sutton, R.I. Sutton, who lives almost directly in front of his son in the country, was informed by a neighbor that someone was stealing corn again from John Sutton’s field, and the elder Mr. Sutton telephoned his son of the fact. As soon as he could do so, Mr. Sutton went in search of the thief, and finding him already gone, he called on a neighbor to furnish a Ford car and pursuit was taken up. Approaching the forks in the road near the county home, the pursuers could not accurately tell whether the negro was going into town by the iron bridge, and as a result they made vain search along the iron bridge route.

From the front page of The New Bern Sun-Journal, Sept. 30, 1922

Free Night Schools to Eradicate Adult Illiteracy in Carteret County, Sept. 30, 1922

To Organize Night School in Carteret County

Beaufort, Sept. 29—There is not as much adult illiteracy in Carteret county as there is in some of the counties of the State, still there is considerable and an effort is going to be made to eradicate most of it, if not all. Beginning probably in November, night schools will be held at several points in the county and an opportunity given to those who desire it to get at least the rudiments of an education. Not only will illiterates be taught but also those who have a little knowledge of reading may attend the schools. Miss Nelle Richardson, who is connected with the County Board of Education will pay especial attention to the anti-illiteracy campaign.

Some days ago Superintendent M.L. Wright sent out a letter to the school committeemen of the cunty in regard to the drive against illiteracy. He has heard from several of the committeemen who have expressed themselves as being interested in the work and willing to help. Requests that night schools be established at several points have been made and these will have attention. Mr. Wright’s letter reads as follows:

To the School Committeemen of Carteret County:

Gentlemen:

The State of North Carolina is making a desperate effort to blot out adult illiteracy. With this in view the state is furnishing an adult Illiteracy Teacher in this County for the coming year.

The director of this work will be Miss Nelle Richardson of Beaufort, N.C. She is well qualified.

You know the conditions of your community better than I do. If you have grown people in your district who cannot read and write an who would like to attend night school this fall or winter, we will be glad to come to your community and organize a school there. What does it cost? Why, nothing, for the state furnishes the teacher and all that we have to do is let her teach.

Now we know that there are places where this work is not needed. However, in those communities that need and want this night school we will offer the work. I want to seek your hearty cooperation with Miss Richardson in this work and if you desire her services, write to her or to me so that your district may get on the list for instruction.

Suppose you let us hear from you concerning this matter at once.

Yours truly,

M.L. Wright

From The New Bern Sun-Journal, Sept. 30, 1922

Adam Miller to be Extradited From New York City, Sept. 30, 1922

Charlotte Negro Is Arrested in New York

Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 30—Adam Miller, negro, sought since last December on charges of having attacked a white woman here, is under arrest in New York City, and his extradition will be asked, Sheriff Cochran announced today.

From the front page of The New Bern Sun-Journal, Sept. 30, 1922

Man Wanted for Murder 41 Years Ago Captured in Florida, Sept. 30, 1922

Lumberton Sheriff Goes for Prisoner

Lumberton, Sept. 30—Sheriff Lewis of Roberson county, who went to St. Augustine, Fla., to get Joseph C. Kemp, alias J.W. English, wanted in this county in connection with the killing of Daniel McNeill in Red Springs, 41 years ago, is expected to reach here tonight with the prisoner, it was stated at the sheriff’s office today. Kemp was arrested in St. Augustine last week.

From the front page of The New Bern Sun-Journal, Sept. 30, 1922

Will William Dunn Jr.'s Dream Come True? Sept. 30, 1922

Chance to Prove Value of Dreams

Do dreams come true?

This oft-asked question may find its answer this afternoon in the outcome of the football game between Wake Forest and the University of North Carolina at Goldsboro.

William Dunn Jr., prominent local citizen, stated this morning that he had a dream last night in which he was informed that the University would win. Furthermore, he states that he was told in his dream that the score would be 24 to 0.

Friends who were informed of the dream are watching the outcome of the contest today with great interest. If the dream is verified, Mr. Dunn probably will get a steady job dreaming for other folks.

From the front page of The New Bern Sun-Journal, Sept. 30, 1922

The Sun-Journal, New Bern, N.C., Sept. 30, 1922

Thursday, September 29, 2022

$1,000 Reward for John Sykes Jr., My Son's A Good Boy, Says Dad, Sept. 29, 1922

Bank’s Surplus Grows (In) Spite of Defalcation. . . Pinkerton Detective Agency Advertises Reward of $1,000 for Sykes’ Capture

A comparison of the statement of the First & Citizens National Bank of this city as of Sept. 15, 1922, compared with the bank’s statement as of June 30, 1922, shows an increase of more than $20,000 in its surplus profits and reserves in a little more than three months. The surplus and reserves of the First & Citizens National on June 30, 1922 were reported at $173,206.70. Surplus and reserves on Sept. 15, the latest examination, were reported as $193,992.19, an increase of $20,785.49. the facts are of peculiar interest in view of the recent shortage in the accounts of John D. Sykes Jr., a young collection clerk who absconded on Sept. 3 with funds, the exact amount of which never was made public. Sykes’ defalcation was said to have been about $25,000, but the exact figures were never given out, a fact which created a suspicion in some quarters that the shortage was greater than actually reported.

There is no word from the missing clerk. This week the Pinkerton National Detective Agency has posted a reward of $1,000 for the young man in every bank lobby and police station in the United States and Canada. The poster offering the reward carries two photographs of young Sykes and a description of him and the woman who is supposed to have accompanied him.

The faith of John D. Sykes Sr. in his boy remains unshaken. He believes that his son is the victim of evil influences and that the boy will make restitution when he comes to his senses. In a letter to a local newspaper, the father says:

“Everyone that knew J.D. loved him, because he was lovable. His soul was white and clean, he was honest and honorable—something, God knows what, influenced and overpowered him. Hundreds have voluntarily expressed this belief in him. They have come to me and told me this. They did not lie to me. They told me what their hearts and faith prompted them to. “Even this morning the President of the Carolina Banking & Trust Company, Mr. Pendleton, came to me and said my boy was an honest boy yet, that influence of associates caused him to make this terrible mistake. He was employed in the postal service under Dr. Pendleton, before the late war.

“Nearly everyone has seemed to try to lighten our burden with words of comfort, visits and their acts of kindness. We have been overwhelmed with a sense of the deepest gratitude for all these tokens of true friendship. Practically the whole community seem to be our dearest friends and helped to administer the balm of Gilead to our crushed and aching hearts. “We believe, we know, our boy will some day come to himself and in an honorable way make good.”

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 29, 1922

Van Ness Harwood Promoting Fig Orchards, Sept. 29, 1922

Wants Million Quarts ‘O Figs. . . New York Man Would Have Roanoke Islanders Quit Their Nets

A million dollars worth of figs sounds like a big lot to be produced on Roanoke Island, but Van Ness Harwood of 227 Broadway, New York, believes it can be done. Mr. Harwood isn’t asking anyone to undertake to produce these figs, but is making a start on them himself.

Mr. and Mrs. Harwood were in Elizabeth City this week on their return to New York, after having visited the fig orchard on Roanoke Island in which Mr. Harwood is interested. A 40-acre area jointly owned by the New York man and A.W. Drinkwater of Manteo has been successfully planted in something like 1,800 trees. By another year they will increase the number to 2,000.

The orchard of Harwood and Drinkwater will develop the possibilities of growing figs for commercial purposes in this section. If the results are successful, they will then endeavor to encourage the islanders to plant their own lands in trees. Mr. Harwood says he can handle all they can get for him. One outlet he has found provides for the disposal of a million quarts, considerably more than 30,000 bushels. The revenue from that amount of figs would beat Roanoke Island’s fishing income all hollow, for they now sell all the figs they can get at $1 to $1.25 a quart. Figs are growing in demand ever day, the country having only California and Texas to look to for its supply.

The orchard at Roanoke Island has done well considering that the trees are less than two years old. Three hundred of them bore fruit this year.

Most of the trees are native stock, such as have been producing good figs on Roanoke Island for many years, but experiments are being made with the Smyrna variety which is an ideal one for drying purposes.

In addition to the orchard of good land that has been planted out on the barren sand hills on the east side of the island. Mr. Harwood states that of all the information the Department of Agriculture hands out, it has less on figs than anything else. He says the Department has recommended that he try the Japanese persimmon down there, but he is of the opinion that figs will do better, altho he believes anything can be grown there.

He was first attracted to the island when the Wrights made their airplane flights at Kitty Hawk, where Mr. Harwood went to report the results for the New York World. At that time he was associate editor of the big Metropolitan newspaper and resigned after 25 years of newspaper work to enter the field of organization, publicity and research. Such a business he conducts under the name of Harwood Incorporated in New York City.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 29, 1922> Ocracoke does have a Fig Festival every August.

Miss Mahala Meekins to Marry in November, Sept. 29, 1922

Will Be a Bride in November

Miss Mahala Meekins

Miss Meekins is one of the most accomplished and popular girls in Elizabeth City’s younger social set. She is to be married Nov. 15, 1922 to Thomas Shelton McMullan Jr. of this city. Photo by Zoeller for this newspaper.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 29, 1922

Matthews Kills Falcon with His Boat Oar, Sept. 29, 1922

Falcon Killed in Pasquotank River

A falcon, believed to have been released from or to have escaped from some ship at sea, was killed by J.M. Matthews of Elizabeth City in Pasquotank River Tuesday evening of this week. Mr. Matthews was fishing near the Old Brick House when the bird plunged into a clump of bushes near his boat. The bird became entangled in the bushes and Mr. Matthews dealt it a vital blow with a boat oar just as it extricated itself. The bird, weighing less than five pounds, measured five feet seven inches from tip to tip. Except for its enormous spread of wings, it much resembled the common hawk, to which family the falcon belongs.

The falcon killed by Mr. Matthews had been banded with a brass band on which certain letters of the Greek alphabet and certain figures had been scratched with some sharp instruments.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 29, 1922

Wilborne Harrell's Pen and Ink Sketch of Rev. Myers, Sept. 29, 1922

Rev. Hiram Earl Myers, pastor of the City Road Methodist Church and President of the Elizabeth City Kiwanis Club, will hardly recognize himself in the above pen and ink sketch, but he will have to stand for it because every embryo artist has to begin on somebody. The sketch is by Wilborne Harrell, a Senior in the Elizabeth City High School. Young Mr. Harrell has developed remarkable ability as an illustrator, but has never tried portrait work. This newspaper has set him about the experiment of developing his talents by making pen and ink sketches of local celebrities. Parson Myers is the first sufferer. Others will follow. Now watch Wilborne Harrell improve in his work and develop the technique of a real artist.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 29, 1922

Trout and Bass Hatcheries Proposed for North Carolina, Sept. 29, 1922

Would Build Two Hatcheries. . . Expert Says State Should Artificially Propagate Both Trout and Bass

Rainbow and brook trout and black bass are three species of fish that may be successfully propagated artificially for restocking the streams of North Carolina, according to Prof. John N. Cobb, Director of the College of Fisheries of the University of Washington.

Prof. Cobb met with the North Carolina Fisheries Commission Board at its recent session in Morehead City and gave the Board the benefit of his own information and experience in the artificial propagation of game fish.

Prof. Cobb thinks the State should begin in a modest way with two small hatcheries, one in the western part of the state for the propagation of the two species of trout for inland lakes, ponds and mountain streams. He would locate the other hatchery in northeastern North Carolina, preferably in Currituck County, near the coast.

The Fisheries Commission Board, backed by the next General Assembly for an appropriation for State Fish Hatcheries. In the meantime, the Board is seeking all the information available on the subject, calling to its assistance men like Prof. Cobb who are familiar with the contemplated work.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 29, 1922. If you’d like to see locations of fish hatcheries in North Carolina today (September, 2022), go to: www.ncwildlife.org/Fishing/Hatcheries-Stocking.

Hugh Pendleton Suffered Stroke of Paralysis, Sept. 29, 1922

Stricken With Paralysis

Hugh D. Pendleton, ticket agent for the Norfolk Southern R.R. at Elizabeth City suffered a stroke of paralysis last Friday night, which has deprived him of the use of his lower limbs and left him in a helpless condition. There is some hope of his recovering.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 29, 1922

Dr. Chas. Williams Meeting Old Friends, Sept. 29, 1922

Dr. Williams in Shiloh

Dr. Chas. B. Williams of Macon, Ga., was in Shiloh Saturday meeting old friends. He is spending several days in Camden reviving memories of childhood. He is considered a great teacher all over the South, where he is known as Dr. Williams, but in Shiloh he is just plain “Charlie.”

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 29, 1922

The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Sept. 29, 1922

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Tenant Farmer Refuses to Let 16-Year-Old Daughter Marry Wealthy Older Man, Sept. 28, 1922

Charged With Attempt to Kidnap Sweetheart. . . Wealthy Wayne County Man Prevented by Force from Marrying Daughter of His Tenant

Goldsboro, Sept. 21—All precedent is being broken here in the trial of C.B. Aycock, wealthy Wayne County farmer, whose lands and estates are valued at $50,000, on a charge of attempting to kidnap Estelle Sorrell, aged 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sorrell, farm tenants, at Pikesville. Far from trying to force their daughter to marry a wealthy man, they beat her unmercifully, according to evidence brought out at the trial, because she wanted to.

Timidly, shyly, effectively, she told her story on the stand of her affection for Aycock and of how she had intended to marry him. Pistols, rifles and a code of signals have played an important part in the trial today.

Sorrell admits that with five neighbors, armed with pistols, he guarded and held his home throughout the night Joe Pete, Perry Smith, aged 35, and Kerby Sam, friends of Aycock, who came to the Sorrell home in Aycock’s Ford ostensibly to arrange a meeting.

Aycock had been ordered from Sorrell’s home on Estelle’s birthday, June 27. They then corresponded, using the mails and later a coffee pot in the field for a post office.

The girl said her parents' objections were that Aycock was too old and that he had cider.

From The Mount Airy News, Thursday, September 28, 1922

Grand Jury Refuses to Act on Bills of Indictment, Judge Ray Orders Revenue Officers Arrested, Sept. 28, 1922

Revenue Officers Under Heavy Bond

Shelby, Sept. 20—Solicitor R.L. Huffman yesterday drew three different bills of indictment charging Revenue Officer Houser and Deputies Hoyle, Wesson and Cabiness with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill Mrs. Miller when they held up and shot into a car near Casar a few weeks ago. But the grand jury refused to act upon either of the bills of indictment.

Judge J. Bis Ray, who is holding court here, later called the grand jury in and instructed the members that it was not their providence to try the case nor to determine what degree of crime had been committed, but to find a true bill as presented to them by the solicitor if there was any evidence to support the same, and upon their failing late yesterday afternoon just before court adjourned to return a true bill, Solicitor Huffman made a motion before the court that a warrant be issued for all the officers connected with the holding up of the car and the shooting of Mrs. Miller and that they be immediately brought before the court and placed under a bond of $5,000 each for their appearance here at the next term of court in October, when he could get a grand jury that would act upon the matter, and a warrant was promptly issued for their arrest.

Sheriff Logan returned late last night from Casar where he went to arrest Deputies Hoyle and Wesson and stated that they could not be found at home and that their families either refused to tell where they were or claimed that they did not know. No trace of either of them has yet been found. Revenue Officer Houser and Deputy Cabiness are expected to be in court tomorrow for their preliminary hearing and to arrange their bond.

From the front page of The Mount Airy News, Thursday, September 28, 1922

Surry County Schools to Open Oct 2nd, 1922

Schools of County Open Monday

The teachers of the county et at Dobson last Monday preparatory to the opening of the schools of Surry next Monday, Oct. 2nd. About 150 teachers were in attendance getting final instructions for their work from the county superintendent, Prof. E.S. Hendren. All the teachers are entering their work with much enthusiasm and the new superintendent is highly pleased with the way everyone is cooperating with him in his efforts to make the coming school term a most successful one.

At the same meeting a county Teachers Assembly was organized with a membership of about 200, and the following officers were elected: J.H. Allred, president, and Mrs. Henry Wolfe, secretary.

From The Mount Airy News, Thursday, September 28, 1922

Tobacco Farmers' Cars Stolen in Winston-Salem, Sept. 28, 1922

Three Automobiles at Twin City Stolen

Winston-Salem, Sept. 20—Three farmers, Arthur Chaple of Surry; R.S. Redding of Stokes; and J.O. Witcher of Guilford had their cars stolen here after they had unloaded from them their offerings of tobacco for the opening sales in the warehouses here. Thus far the police have been unable to find a trace of the missing machines. A number of license plates also were taken from farmer’s cars.

From the front page of The Mount Airy News, Thursday, September 28, 1922

The Mount Airy News, Sept. 28, 1922

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Mary Doan Victim of Amnesia and Then Apparent Heart Attack, Sept. 27, 1922

Former Guilford Girl Victim of Amnesia. . . Appears in Dazed State at Harper’s Ferry. . . Identified Through Article in Public Ledger

The following account of the death of Mary Doan, a member of the class of 1915, daughter of Joseph A. Doan, manufacturer of Franklin, Indiana, and a grand-daughter of Addison Cofcin, is copied from the Philadelphia Ledger of September 1.

After more than 24 hours of aimless wandering, bereft of her mental faculties, Miss Mary Doan, former Bryn Mawr College student, and of late instructor at Ellis College, Chestnut Hill, found a haven of refuge in the Charles Town Hospital, West Virginia, only to succumb early yesterday to heart disease.

Miss Doan disappeared from her apartment in Hamilton Court, Thirty nine and Chestnut streets, Friday afternoon. Where she passed that night and how she passed Saturday one of her friends know, but on Saturday kindly disposed resident noticed her seemingly in a dazed condition. A plight directed her to the home of night she was seen in Harpers Ferry Dr. Ranson. (That’s how it was written.) It needed only a cursory examination for Dr. Ranson to assure himself that it was a case of amnesia.

Thereupon the physician put the young woman in his machine and drove to the Charles Town Hospital in Charles Town, W.V., five miles distant. There for several minutes, Miss Doan, although unable to tell attendants her name and address, seemed to get better. She asked for a quiet room, saying she felt sure that the morning would find her improved.

Since she seemed to be in excellent health aside from mental trouble, physicians complied with her request and she spent the night in a private room, early the next morning, before the physician could elicit any further information, she died.

Physicians then examined her pocket-book and found her name on a bank-book of the Hamilton Trust Co. An entry on Friday showed that she had deposited $40. They were still puzzled as to her identity when a telephone call from Harpers Ferry referred them to an article in the Public Ledger. Obtaining a copy, they read a description of Miss Doan and an account of her disappearance.

Immediately the superintendent of the hospital wired Philadelphia detectives, informing them that the missing woman had been found. The detectives in turn notified Miss Doan’s sister, Mrs. Sidney Hutton of Browns Mills, N.J. Mr. Hutton thereupon went to Charles Town and took charge of the body.

Miss Doan was last seen Friday afternoon by the elevator boy who took her from her apartments on the sixth floor to the first. Later in the afternoon, her roommate, Miss Kathering (Katherine?) Lehman, returned to the apartment. She thought nothing of Miss Doan’s absence until 7 o’clock. Then she became worried and started to make inquiries. Friends having said they had not seen Miss Doan, Miss Lehman appealed to police to aid in the search.

All Friday night and Saturday the police tried to find the young teacher, and fliers were sent to all the hospitals. Finally, Miss Hutton, who had come to this city, decided to appeal to the Public Ledger, and all the facts she could give were published.

Miss Doan was a native of Hadley, Ind., where her father is a manufacturer. She came here to complete her education and took a post graduate course at Bryn Mawr College.

According to Miss Lehman, Miss Doan had been subject to heart attacks. Friends yesterday were, of course, unable to account for her appearance in Charles Town.

From the front page of The Guilfordian, Guilford College, N.C., Sept. 27, 1922

Guilford College Alumni News, Sept. 27, 1922

Alumni News

A large number of alumni, old students and friends of the college attended the opening reception on Saturday evening, September 16.

Among these were: Gladstone Hodgin, Hugh White, Murray White, Myrtle Cox, Frances Bulla, Lindley Tremain, Algie Newlin, Frank Coltrane, Hobart Patterson, Georgiana Bird, Mr. and Mrs. H.N. Willard, Shields Cameron, Robert Hawroth, Joe Ragsdale, Lucile Cardwell, Fred Morris, Addie Morris, Marie Clegg, Tecy Beaman, Dovie Haworth, Bryant Smith, John White, Rawleigh Tremain, David J. White, Gertrude Hobbs, Laura Worth, Ida Willis.

Mr. Suby Casey, ’20, a principal of the Summerfield high school. Mr. (Mrs.?) Casey, formerly Miss Florence Martin, ’21, is assistant in the same school.

Mr. Roger Kiser, ’19, is teaching in the department of history in the Greensboro High School.

Mrs. Hervie Willard, ’19, formerly Vivian Haworth, is teaching in the High Point school.

Miss Tecy Beaman, ’13, spent some time at the college recently with her sister, Marie Beaman, ’24. Miss Beaman will teach Latin and history in the Alamance school near Greensboro.

Mr. Edgar McBane, ’14, is teaching in the Pomona High School at Greensboro.

Miss Leah Stanley, ’18, is teaching modern languages in the Pineland School for Girls at Salemburg, N.C.

Mrs. Margaret Davies Winslow, ’09, with her three children is spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Davies.

Miss Grace Taylor, ’17, is teaching history in Salem Academy.

Mr. Sam Hodgin, ’95, has returned to North Carolina and is president of the Farquar Heating and Ventilating Co., of Greensboro, which he established there some time ago.

Gladstone Hodgin, ’22, is principal of the high school at Bethania.

Lyndon Williams, ’22, is principal of the Lewisville high school this year.

Miss Julia Ball, who was head of the music department at Guilford in 1919-20, died at her home in Keuka Park, N.Y., last August 24.

Rev. Clarence Macon, who was married to Miss Julia Anna Roemer of Hartford, Conn., August 24, 1922, is now pastor of a Friends’ church in Georgetown, Illinois.

From The Guilfordian, Guilford College, N.C., Sept. 27, 1922

Dunn Loses Valuable Citizen to Strange Malady, Sept. 27, 1922

Death Comes to Mack Holliday. . . Dunn’s Most Valuable Citizen Victim of Strange Malady

Dunn, Sept. 26—McDaniel Holliday is dead. Death came today at noon in a hospital in Wilmington to which he was carried last Wednesday night after unsuccessful attempts were made in a hospital at Wilson to relieve is suffering from a baffling ailment to his head which occasioned him great suffering.

His body will arrive here tonight by motor, accompanied by an escort of friends. The funeral will be conducted from the Christian church Thursday afternoon.

Mr. Holliday was stricken last Saturday night a week ago. It was not thought that he was seriously ill. Monday, accompanied by his wife, he went to a hospital in Wilson for treatment. Physicians there could not afford him relief. Wednesday, accompanied by Mrs. Holliday, Dr. Holt and Dr. Sexton, he was removed to Wilmington.

News came Thursday morning that he had been able to talk from his train to a waiting ambulance. This occasioned relief from the anxiety which had gripped his friends since the Wilson physicians pronounced his case serious. Later advices, however, added to the anxiety. Yesterday it was said that he had been unconscious most of the day and that hope for his recovery rested entirely with an operation expected to be performed by a Philadelphia specialist, who had been summoned to his bedside.

The operation was performed and all through last night friends here waited for encouraging reports. At 3 o’clock in the morning his condition was reported as unchanged. No further reports came until the news of his death reached here early this afternoon.

McD. Holliday was Dunn’s most valuable citizen. He came here as a young man 30 years ago, giving up a position as traveling salesman to accept a job with Eldredge Lee, who then was conducting a hardware store here. He had just married Miss Florence Harper, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. M.W. Harper. Later he engaged in the hardware business with M.H. Privett, selling his interest in that business about 1904. Then he aided in the organization of the Dunn Oil Mill Company and with J.D. Barnes conducted that business for a short while. Fifteen years ago, he and Mr. Barnes organized the Barnes and Holliday Company. He has been the head of that concern ever since, directing its activities to the point where it now stands at the head of eastern Carolina retail hardware houses.

Mr. Holliday was about 55 years old. He was a native of Pitt county ad came to Dunn at a time when the little town was most in need of such services as he could give. Throughout the 30 years of his residence here, he was one of the community’s leading spirits for all the things which tended to progress and goodness. A devout Christian gentleman, he was one of God’s noblemen. No man ever called to Mack Holliday for aid in a worthy cause without answer. His heart was a big as his purse. Where ever the pinch of want was felt, McD. Holliday was one of the first to bring succor.

Mr. Holliday was prominent in business circles of the entire South. He was once president of the Southern Retail Implement Dealers Association, president of the Hardware Association of the Carolinas, on the board of directors of most of the trade associations of North Carolina and the Southern States, a vice-president of the Harnett County Fair Association and of the Chamber of Commerce of Dunn.

Mr. Holliday is survived by his wife, one son, Harper McD. Holliday, and three daughters, Mrs. A.H. Swain, Miss Jessie Holliday and Miss Florence Holliday. All of these were at his bedside when the end came.

From the Raleigh News & Observer, Sept. 27, 1922

Alfred Holler Celebrates 100th Birthday, Sept. 27, 1922

Catawba Centenarian Observes Birthday

Hickory, Sept. 23—Alfred Holler, of Claremont, Catawba county, celebrated his 100th birthday anniversary at noon today with a picnic given by relatives. The centenarian is able to walk unaided and is enjoying remarkable health for his age. J.W. Sigmon, 72, of Hickory, a nephew, attended the party.

From the front page of the Raleigh News & Observer, Sept. 27, 1922

UNC Welcomes First Chinese Girl Student, Sept. 27, 1922

Chinese Girl at State University. . . First to Enter at Chapel Hill for Full College Year; Came From Shanghai

Chapel Hill, Sept. 26—The first Chinese girl to enter the University for a full college year arrived here today. She is Miss Tsz-Lien Yui, and she came to America from Shanghai only a few weeks ago. A North Carolina missionary, Miss Lelia Tuttle, who taught her in China, directed her here.

Miss Yui speaks perfect English—probably a great deal better brand of the language, if the truth be told, than most of the people who are born to it. She is going to be a special student in the School of Public Welfare this next year, but in1923 she expects to register as a junior and take a regular course leading to graduation.

“I was educated in the McTyeire School in Shanghai,” said Miss Yui today. “It is a missionary institution conducted by the Southern Methodists. Miss Tuttle told me about North Carolina. Before I came to Chapel Hill I went with her to her home in Lenoir. After landing in this country I had gone to Rochester, Minnesota, and Chicago, and at Lenoir, in the beautiful mountain county, I had a fine rest from my long trip.

A friend of Miss Yui’s, Miss Kyung Shein Sung, was in the University summer school, and they looked forward to being together here this year. But Miss Sung decided at the last minutes to go to Ohio Wesleyan so that Miss Yui is left as the sole representative in Chapel Hill of the women of China.

From the front page of the Raleigh News & Observer, Sept. 27, 1922

New Johnston County Courthouse Dedicated, Sept. 27, 1922

Johnston County’s Magnificent New Court House. . . Johnston Dedicates Sixth and Its Last Court House. . . Magnificent Structure Turned Over to Use of People of County. . . Colonel Abell Makes Presentation Address . . . Fine Building Will Last for Generations to Come; Judge Daniels Speaks

By Ben Dixon MacNeill

Smithfield, Sept. 26—Johnston county today dedicated its sixth courthouse since the county was set up 176 years ago and the first courthouse built at Clayton and after all these years has built a house that will probably remove all necessity for further building and dedication for some centuries to come. Johnston county has the finest courthouse in North Carolina.

This Greek temple fashioned of steel and stone and set down in the middle of this thriving county is a far cry from the log courthouse that was built in Clayton in 1747 and before which the citizens of that far gone time buried a witch one day. It is about as fine a building as it is possible for a people to build. It cost $425,000.

Folks Proud of It

Johnston has shrunk in size since 1747 when it covered more territory than a congressional district, but it has multiplied in the measure of its wealth and its population. Fifty thousand people call this courthouse their own and they are mighty proud of it, even that segment of the population that thought spending all that money was more or less foolish.

Dedication ceremonies reflected the simple dignity of the building itself and some of the oratory that was done in its honor took its color from the old Greeks whose artistry in building is reflected in evry line of this courthouse. Judge Frank Daniels, presiding over the term of court, received the building in the name of the people of the county from the hands of Colonel Ed. Abell, who spoke in behalf of the commissioners who built it.

Busy Picking Cotton

Johnston county is probably too busy picking out the biggest crop of cotton it has raised in years to attend dedications of even so fine a courthouse as has been built here, and by their labors living up to the picture of industry that was painted of them by more than one speaker who took the floor in celebratory speech. The crowd was nothing like the crowd that attended the county convention some weeks back, nor the crowd who attended the Thanksgiving services here Labor day.

Six hundred people can sit down comfortably in the auditorium of the building, and approximately that many were there when the ceremonies began at 11 o’clock. Not many country people came. Riding along the roads any where in the county the wayfarer saw the country folks, and saw them in the middle of the finest fields of cotton that are to be found in the State this year, and fields that give promise of making good Judge Stevens’ prediction that Johnston would lead the whole country in the value of its agricultural products. It was third last year.

Began in 1747

Johnston began building courthouses 176 years ago with the aforementioned log house near Clayton. That one lasted until 1760 when another was built on the spot where the new one stands. Another was built on the spot where the new one stands. Another was built in 1802, but it was not until 1841 that they built one of brick. This one served until 1882 and another was erected on the same lot. It got too small as the county grew, but with additions, it was used until last year. Years back judges who came here to hold court began to complain about the 1882 model, and various grand juries called its dilapidated condition to the attention of the commissioners. Nothing was done about it, and finally the grand jury got peevish and indicted the whole board. Then in 1920 the present board took the situation by the horns and, if a localism may be pardoned, they went the whole hog. Then the Slump

Along about that time the slump descended upon Eastern North Carolina and a lot of folks got excited about spending $425,000 for a new courthouse at a time when most folks in the county were hard pressed to pay ordinary taxes. It caused an upheaval, but the thing was done and couldn’t be undone. Today with record crops and good prices, and the boll weevil almost a stranger in the county, the Johstonians are beginning to see the wisdom of their commissioners and to brag about their courthouse.

This historical data was recited briefly by Colonel Abell, dean of the Johnston bar in his brief presentation speech. He paid the highest tribute to the five commissioners, D.B. Oliver, P.B. Chamblee, Horace Barbour, J.W. Creech and W.H. Upchurch, who took the decisive step that brought the structure into reality. It was a neat speech, brief, polated and well phrased, and the stranger within the gates of the county seat marvel not at all that Colonel Abell is the leader of the bar.

Preceding the beginning of the ceremonies, the Johnston county bar association held a brief meeting and by acclamation elected Judge Daniels an honorary member of the association. Like honors were conferred a moment later upon Judge W.S. O’B. Robinson of Goldsboro, who practices a lot over here. Both he and Judge Daniels made graceful acknowledgement of the honor paid them. Then the service was opened by Rev. J.A. Russell of Four Oaks, who led in prayer. Then came Colonel Abell’s brief speech.

Honor Judge Daniels

James A. Wellons, one of the leading member of the bar, then addressed the assemblage. He recounted the outline of Johnston’s history as a county, and then presented a roster of each member of the bar from the day of Johnston’s first lawyer down through a long list of distinguished names to the youngest member of the county’s present imposing array of legal talent, giving a brief sketch of each lawyer.

Then followed addresses in brief by local members of the bar, concluding with Judge Stevens, who has been clerk of the court for 32 years. He had more history up his sleeve, and no Johnstonian could but have been surprised at some of the facts that he related. First that a docket book used to last the county 10 years before it was used up, but now the records of the court will fill a book in 10 months.

Needed Court House

Johnston was beginning to need a courthouse to take care of its business. But that was not all. The county has doubled in population and trebled in wealth in a quarter of a century. That time ago there was not a bank in the county, and now there are a score. Now Johnston stands second in the value of its farm crops in the state and third in the nation. This year the county is going to the head of the list in the United States and Johnston has the greatest people on the face of the earth, he declared. The courthouse is but a reflection of the greatness of its people and a fitting monument to the worth of Johnston’s citizenship, he declared.

After the Judge, who along with Colonel Abell, claims to have lived 300 years in the county already, came Judge Robinson, W.C. Davis, J.C. Clifford and Clawson Williams, all bringing greetings from neighboring counties and congratulations upon the building of so fine a temple of justice. Judge Robinson spoke not only as a visitor. He had been made a member of the bar in Johnston. He was one of the folks.

Irishman that he is, Judge Robinson is a born orator, with an uncanny gift for apt drafting of poetical quotation. The day was a great day for him, and in this great courthouse he saw the emblems of the spirit that made America. He congratulated the people of the county on its completion and declared it a worthy monument to the splendid qualities of its citizenship.

Stole Judge’s Speech

Judge Daniels complained facetiously when it came his turn to accept the building that all the speakers who had gone before him had stolen away his entire speech and that he might have just grounds for a peremptory bench warrant for the entire bar, charging them with theft of all the fine things he had planned to say about the county and the building. He had begun the practice of law in Smithfield two score years ago, but a year after the preceding courthouse had been dedicated His interest in the county and his close association with it for more than a generation had left many gracious memories, and it was of these that he would speak. But before he came to that he talked of the meaning of the law and the necessity for getting back to the fundamental respect for it which is the basis of good citizenship.

This great courthouse was not built merely to gratify the pride of a great people, he declared. It is a monument to the law, an emblem of the principles upon which the republic is of the principles upon which the republic is founded. The services had profound admiration. He was glad they had sung Carolina, he was glad that the services had been opened with a prayer. He recalled with pride the material and the mental growth of the people of the county since the days he began to practice law here.

Perhaps the most interesting part of his address to the members of the bar was his intimate history of the bar since he became acquainted with it, his close association with many men whose names are great in the history of the county, the Pous, the Masseys, the Sanders family, the Waddells, and others who have served at the bar of Johnston county. His address was devoted mainly to this biographical sketch of the county’s notable men.

Addresses by Harry Barton, the Greensboro architect who drew the plans for the building, and J.W. Stout, the contractor who built it, preceded Judge Daniels. Afterward Judge Daniels, members of the bar, members of the board of Commissioners and county officers were guests of Mr. Stout at a barbecue served at Holt’s Lake, the county’s lake resort.

Is State’s Finest

Wake and Guilford counties may have slightly larger courthouses than this one dedicated here today, but neither of them have finer. It is built of Indiana sandstone and granite, four stories and a basement, and set in the middle of a quarter square in the center of the town. It was begun a year ago, and is not yet altogether complete.

The first floor is devoted to county offices, the second to the court chamber, judge and solicitor’s offices, grand jury room, etc. The third floor contains offices, and a dormitory for the jury, should it ever get tied up and have to sleep over a verdict. The fourth floor is given over to the jail, and most modern and completely equipped in the State. It would do a welfare officer’s heart good to see it.

Architecturally the building is Greek in design, with huge columns on the north and east entrances. The fourth floor is completely hidden from view from the street. The interior of the building is finished in solid oak, with tiled floors. Indiviudality is the note everywhere, even in the seats in the court room, which bear the J.C.C.H.” in monogram.

The 49,500 Johnston citizens who did not attend the dedication today will probably live to regret it. It will be a long time before there is another in the county, unless perhaps an earthquake should turn this one over. It can’t burn down, because it is fireproof. It is big enough and fine enough for the county seat, even if Smithfield should get as big as Winston-Salem, for London, for that matter.

From the front page of the Raleigh News & Observer, Sept. 27, 1922

PREVIOUS JOHNSTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE

News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., Sept. 27,. 1922

Monday, September 26, 2022

Farmers, Farm Agents, Farmers' Federation Study Ways to Make Farm Industries Profitable, Sept. 26, 1922

Plans to Develop Farm Industries Are Taking Shape. . . To Localize Crops to Meet Transportation and Soil Conditions

To develop the important farm industries of Buncombe County, localize crops according to soil and transportation conditions, and provide better markets, representative farmers of the County meeting yesterday morning with C.C. Proffitt, District Farm Agent, C.E. Miller, County Agent, and James G.K. McClure, president of the Farmers’ Federation appointed a committee of nine which will further plans outlined in the meeting.

Committee of three were recently appointed to represent the seven rural districts of the county ad the districts surrounding Asheville. The districts, or group centers, are Barnardsville, Weaverville, Leicester, Swannanoa, Avery’s Creek, Candler and Fairview.

These committees, with other farmers from the various sections, were in the meeting and from their number the committee of nine was appointed as follows: Wallace B. Davis, Banking; Cecil McElroy, Hogs and Sheep; Thomas Maney, Beef Industries; George Wallace, Dairying; Alf Daniels, Trucking; Ralph E. Lee, Poultry; C.c. Brown, County Board; and Walter Toms Wray, Chamber of Commerce.

The committee will meet with the Farmers’ Federation and Agents Proffitt and Miller the first of November, when definite plans will be completed and committees appointed to serve permanently in each branch of agricultural industry. Holding of this meeting before the first of November is made impossible because of the activities in which the members must be engaged during the next few weeks in arranging for the community fairs.

The committees finally appointed will under the present plan formulate policies of planting, harvesting and marketing in semi-annual meetings, with special meetings should the need arise. They will e subsidiary organizations, with the Farmers’ Federation the parent body.

County Agent Miller submitted an outline of the proposed scope of the work and this was adopted tentatively. His plan calls for the adoption of standard breeds of livestock, proven best for Buncombe by experiment and standardization of seeds.

Should the full extent of the plans be realized, eventually soil tests will be made and crops localized. That is, where soil test shows one particular section suited to growing of fruit above any other crop and another to growing of truck produce, these crops would be planted as the major ones of each particular section. Location would also govern the kind of crop to a certain extent.

Fruit, truck and poultry have already been proven profitable crops for this County and Western North Carolina, while the dairy industry in Buncombe County is on the verge of being revolutionized, in the opinion of Mr. Miller.

Fitting climax to the meeting was provided when County Commissioner C.C. Brown told the assembly the petition recently drawn and intended for circulation, asking the abolishment of the County Farm and Home Agent Departments, has been pigeon-holed by him and that no further action by that was termed the “disgruntled element” of the County would be forthcoming for the present.

From the front page of the Asheville Citizen, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1922

M.L. McNelis Dies of Eating Oysters After Drinking Whiskey, Says Coroner, Sept. 26, 1922

Eating Oysters After Taking Drink of Whiskey Causes Man’s Death

By Brock Barkley

Raleigh, Sept. 25—A meal of oysters closely following a drink of whiskey was assigned by the Wake County Coroner as the cause of the death this afternoon of M.L. McNelis, plumber of Winston-Salem and son of C. McNelis, a prominent real estate man of Charlotte.

McNelis with three other Twin City men, M.U. Brinkley, D.M. Allen and Paul Johnson, left Winston-Salem for Raleigh last Friday. The trip was sort of a “party” so that the tour was greatly delayed. Reaching Durham this afternoon, they preceded the supper of oysters with a drink of liquor.

On the outskirts of Raleigh an hour later, they stopped to brush off. McNelis, whom they thought had been sleeping on the way, was found to be dead when they tried to awaken him. None of the dead man’s companions were held by the Coroner.

This death is said to have been one of a series occurring here within the last 30 days to which whiskey was attributed as the cause.

From the front page of the Asheville Citizen, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1922

Thieves Robbing Wilmington Homes During the Day, Sept. 26, 1922

Thieves Ransack Many Homes in Wilmington

Wilmington, N.C., Sept. 25—Jewelry, clothes and money aggregating nearly $2,000 have been stolen from various homes in exclusive residential districts of Wilmington during the last three days, police officials admitted here tonight. A reward has been offered by the chief of police for the apprehension of the thieves.

According to the victims of these daylight robberies, the homes were entered between 2 and 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The heaviest loser was James E. Holton, superintendent of the streets, whose family jewelry valued at $1,500 was stolen Saturday.

From the Asheville Citizen, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1922

Asheville Band Concerts to be Dropped in Favor of Funding Boy Scouts, Sept. 26, 1922

Asheville May Be Deprives of Band Concerts in Parks During Summer of Next Year

Unless there is a special drive for funds, Asheville will be deprived of a band during the Summer of 1923, P.c. Blackman, president of the Asheville Band Association, stated yesterday, following a meeting of the organization in the office of the vice-president, Mayor Gallatin Roberts.

The board took this action on account of the budget committee of the Community Chest having declined to place the Municipal Band in its budget for the sum of $5,000, substituting therefore the Boy Scout movement, which will receive a donation of $6,000 from the chest.

After the rendition of concerts and furnishing music for the parade of the Confederate Veterans of North Carolina this week, the president announced, the services of the band will no longer be available for public occasions in the city unless the association later decides to make a special drive independent of the Community Chest movement.

“The members of the association,” he added, “feel very much discouraged at the treatment received by the Community Chest budget committee, as they had included the band in the Chest budget last season and to drop it at this time will place additional hardship on the association to furnish musical entertainment for the pleasure and education of the citizens of Asheville. We feel the band is of equal importance with the Boy Scout movement.”

Other officers of the association are E.H. Miller, secretary; Clarence W. Treadway, treasurer; and F.L. Conder, auditor. The board of directors are composed of the officers and Dr. W.J. Hunnicutt, Cameron McRay and H.E. Walter.

From the Asheville Citizen, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1922

Will Davis First Taxi Driver Arrested for Failing to File Federal Tax, Sept. 26, 1922

Collector Grissom Moves to Collect Federal Tax

Winston-Salem, N.C., Sept. 25—In accordance with orders from Collector of Revenue Grissom and Chief Field Deputy Pressley E. Brown, warrants are being sworn out here for the arrest of those who run motor cars for hire and who have failed to pay the Federal tax due June 30.

Through special dispensation 30 days grace was allowed these owners, putting the limit on July 31. One alleged offender, Will Davis, negro, already has been arrested and has been found over to the Federal Court in Greensboro under $200 bond. About 50 persons were liable to arrest for failure to pay this tax.

From the Asheville Citizen, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1922

Creditors Push Cape Fear Packing Company into Bankruptcy, Sept. 26, 1922

Wilmington, N.C., Sept. 25—An involuntary petition for bankruptcy has been filed in Federal District Court here against the Cape Fear Packing Company of this city by creditors of the concern. Judge Henry Conner of the Eastern District of North Carolina has fixed no date for the hearing on the petition.

The petition is signed by the following creditors: W.L. Griffith, Omaha, Neb.; R.G. Dunn and Supply Company, Atlanta; Southern Construction erf(?) and Freriches Company, St. Louis.

From the Asheville Citizen, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1922

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Blockaders Warn Airman Walters to 'Watch His Fly', Sept. 25, 1922

Blockaders Warn Airman Walters to “Watch His Fly”. . . Afraid He’ll Discover Their Places of Business—Equipped With Long-Range Rifles

Blockaders are opposed to aviators flying over their “places of business,” according to word received by Mr. J.E. Walters, local airman. These law violators are afraid that Mr. Walters will disclose to officers there whereabouts of their stills, it appears. Some tie ago Mr. Walters received an anonymous letter advising him not to “fly over our place.” The letter was unsigned, however, and Mr. Walters does not know where “our place” is.

Mr. Walters has learned recently that people living in one section of the county have made threats against him if he flies at a low altitude over that immediate section. Some went to far as to say that they had long-range rifles and would use them, according to word reaching Mr. Walters. While admitting that he has “spotted” numerous “plants,” Mr. Walters says he has never reported one to the officers.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

Still Captured in Juniper Bay, Sept. 25, 1922

Still Captured in Juniper Bay

A whiskey still made of a gasoline drum and other necessary appliances was captured in Juniper bay near Proctorville, Thursday afternoon. The still was equipped with three copper worms and was set up ready for operation. However, the owner was not present and no arrest was made. About 100 gallons of beer found at the still was poured out. Sheriff R.E. Lewis and Rural Policeman A.R. Pittman captured the still.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

East Lumberton Defeats Rockingham for Third Time, Sept. 25, 1922

East Lumberton Defeats Rockingham Team Third Time. . . Locals Take Fourth of Five-Game Series—Stone Had Visitors at His Mercy

East Lumberton, Sept. 25—East Lumberton took the fourth game in a five-game series from Rockingham Saturday. This makes three won and one lost for the Lumberton boys. Henderson of the McColl Interstate league pitched for Rockingham, while Stone of the Va. Sou. Texas, South Atlantic, etc., pitched for the locals. Stone had the visitors at his mercy at all times. Only three men got to first base, two on errors and one got a scratch hit.

Rockingham . . . 000 010

Lumberton . . . . 401 00X

Stone fanned 12 men while Henderson sent eight back to the bench.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

Mrs. J.M. McNeill, 28, Dies of Heart Trouble, Sept. 25, 1922

Mrs. J.M. McNeill of Red Springs Section

Mrs. J.M. McNeill, aged 28 years, of the Red Springs section, died early yesterday morning at the Baker sanatorium of heart trouble.

Deceased is survived by her husband and four children. The funeral was conducted this morning at 11 o’clock and interment made in the cemetery at Philadelphus Presbyterian church.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

Marietta Home Demonstration Club Selling Cakes at Curb Market Sept. 30, 1922

Marietta Club Will Run Cake Special at Curb Market in Lumberton September 30

Marietta club will run a cake special at the curb market Saturday, September 30th.

Those of us who have been so fortunate as to attend some of the Marietta dinners know that they are some of the best cake-makers in the world. These Marietta women of the Home Demonstration club will put on a special sale of home-made cake at the curb market next Saturday. They expect to have 20 good, big, rich, old-fashioned cakes. So don’t forget to buy your cakes for Sunday from the Marietta club at the curb market. They will be the best ever.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

Leave Town or Join the Chain Gang--Charlie Skipper Left Town, Sept. 25, 1922

Recorder’s Court

A young white man giving his name as Charlie Skipper, who said he had no home and no people, was before Assistant Recorder L.J. Britt Friday on the charge of being drunk and carrying a razor. He was found guilty of both and sentenced to 30 days on the roads, capias to issue Saturday at noon if found here. He was not found.

Leslie Bullard and Oscar Clark submitted to an affray and judgment was suspended in each case upon payment of cost.

Fans of Jack Duckery, both negroes, were found not guilty of ceny(??).

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

School Notes From The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

Barnesville’s New High School Building Is Well Planned. . . It Will Soon be Finished and Is One of Best—School Will Open October 2

Barnesville, Sept. 23—The new high school building at Barnesville will soon be completed. It will have nine class rooms, a music room, principal’s room, library and an auditorium.

This is one of the best-planned new high school buildings in this section of the country. The building will be heated by steam, the lighting is good, the seats are individual, the auditorium seats are folding. Each teacher will have a large desk with drawers. The building is located in a quiet, well-drained plot consisting of six acres of land.

School is expected to open October 2. The teachers will live at the dormitory. School books can be bought at the R.R. Barnes store.

The high school enrollment will be about 50 and the music department will be about 25.

Mrs. Morton arrived last week.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

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Barkers-Tenmile School Notes

Barkers-Tenmile school will open Monday of next week, October 2nd, at 9 a.m. Friday evening of this week, at 8 o’clock, a meeting of patrons of the school will be held, and at 8 o’clock Saturday evening, September 30, a faculty meeting will be held. Prof. D.B. Oliver, principal, is anxious to have patrons and members of the faculty attend these meetings.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

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Contract Let for Pembroke District School Building

Contract was let Thursday afternoon for the erection of a new brick school building in the Pembroke public school district. The contract was let to W.P. Tennent of Florence, S.C., for $17000. The building will be erected one mile east of Pembroke on the Wildcat highway, and work is to begin on the same at an early date.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

Proceeds from Orrum Play To Buy Library Books, Sept. 25, 1922

Play to be Given at Orrum Thursday Night

Orrum, sept. 23—A play, “The Adventures of Grandpa,” will be given at the Orrum high school Thursday night, September 28th, 8 o’clock. The public is cordially invited.

Admission is 35 and 50 cents, the proceeds to be used in buying books for the school library.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Sept. 25, 1922

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Weaver Wike, 16, Off to Hickory to Get a Job, Ends Up in Cleveland, Tenn., With a Bullet Hole in Leg, Sept. 24, 1922

Taylorsville News. . . Weaver Wike Meets With Accident at Cleveland, Tenn.

Taylorsville, Sept. 23—News was received here Tuesday by telegram from police officials of Cleveland, Tenn., that Weaver Wike, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Wike of Taylorsville, had met with a painful accident. The telegram which was signed by R.T. Stanfield, stated the boy had been shot in the leg. Young Wke left home here last Friday, telling his parents that he was going to Hickory to get work. Sheriff J.L. Boyd of Cleveland, Tenn., also wired the parents here Wednesday stating the boy had left the hospital feeling fine. “Weaver is being held by me as witness to testify in behalf of the state. Don’t worry, as he will receive the best treatment. Do not take any steps until you hear from me—a letter follows. J.L. Boyd, sheriff.”

Until today no particulars of the accident have been received, and Mr. Wike is awaiting information before investigating.

Fall shipments of Alexander county’s fruit crop were inaugurated here this week when four car loads were shipped to Charlotte for storage. The various growers here in this county are selling their applies to a local buyer of Lexington. A contract for 1,000 barrels through this dealer was effected with he fruit growers in the county. Some of the apples being shipped are Stamen-Winesap, Delicious, Magnabonia.

Ross Matheson, ex-soldier, who is to be Taylorsville’s new postmaster, received his appointment and commission from Washington Monday to that effect. Mr. Matheson served at one time as an assistant in the office and is generally familiar with the duties he has been assigned to.

From the Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, September 24, 1922

Mount Pleasant, Whitsett, Jamestown, Montecello and Deep River to Hold Community Fairs in October, 1922

Five Community Fairs During Next Month. .. People of the County Have Shown Keen Interest in Preparation for Fairs

Five community fairs will be held in the county this fall, according to E.B. Garrett, county farm demonstration agent. Programs and premium lists for the fairs have been issued, these lists reflecting keen interest by the people of the various communities and indications point to each fair being a success. The first fair will be held at Mount Pleasant, October 3, with others following at Whitsett on October 4; Jamestown, October 5; Monticello, October 6; and Deep River, October 7.

The program of all the fairs are similar. Assembly of citizens and formal opening with an educational address at 8:30 in the morning; judging in all departments at 10 o’clock in the morning; educational address at 1 o’clock in the afternoon and athletic contests starting at 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon.

The board of county commissioners and the people of the various communities have provided the money for the prizes, while money for prizes in the school department has been provided by the board of education.

Prizes will e awarded for the best showings in farm and field crops, horticultural products, poultry, livestock, canned fruits and vegetables, and for sewing by adults and younger folk.

The school department awards will be made for the best displays by elementary and high school students while in the health department Mrs. Dorothy Hayden, county health nurse, will weigh babies and pre-school children and give short talks on nutrition exhibits. A number of special prizes have been offered in the Jamestown district.

From The Greensboro Daily News, Sept. 24, 1922

Jim Kelly Killed in Paving Accident in Sanford, Sept. 24, 1922

Negro Employed at Sanford Killed by a Concrete Mixer

Sanford, Sept. 23—Jim Kelly, a negro in the employ of the Atlantic Bitulitis company which is paving the streets of this city, was killed Friday afternoon in front of the First Presbyterian church. He was going before the big concrete mixer laying plank upon which it was running when suddenly the support holding up the big scoop gave way and the scoop came down with a tremendous impact upon the negro’s head, killing him almost instantly.

From page 5 of The Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, Sept. 24, 1922

Poor Folk Escaping High Cost of Winter, Says Editor, Sept. 24, 1922

The Kinston correspondent quotes the consensus of comment of North Carolina coastwise salts that yachting to Florida has undergone a sea change, not to something rich, although more or less strange; from a diversion of millionaires and near-millionaires in deep-sea craft to a migration in slow, powdered cockleshells, often with crew of Pa, Jimmy and two or three women. From this time until late in autumn a regular procession of them passes out Beaufort inlet southward bound, and it is a common saying on the Bogue sound waterfronts that “these are poor folks escaping from the high cost of winter living in the north.” Many of them are, indeed, the Ford tourists of the waterways.

From the editorial page of The Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, Sept. 24, 1922

J.T. Pulley, Wake County Farmer, Taken to Franklin County and Beaten, Sept. 24, 1922

Unmasked Men Beat a Wake Planter and Get By With It. . . Authorities are Attempting to Make Arrest of Assailants of Joseph Pulley—Congress Adjourns a Little Too Soon For Dr. Campbell to File Another Protest

Raleigh, Sept. 23—No part of Wake’s official machinery could get any sort of clue on which to proceed against unmasked men who Thursday night took Joseph Turner Pulley, Wake county farmer, from his home and carried him into Franklin county, where he was mercilessly beaten.

The case was reported to Solicitor Herbert Norris yesterday evening, but Mr. Norris hadn’t a syllable on which to make a start. Neither did Mr. Harrison, the sheriff. Pulley expressed the opinion to other Raleigh people that the men who were unmasked did not belong to the Ku Klux Klan, but that faith is not generally shared.

Coming from Franklin, the men did not need their masks. There is a klucker language in Franklin which breaks out in spite of the strictest prohibitions. They do not call themselves klansmen over there; they are “boll weevils” and it is said that Pulley recalls the use of that word by the men who beat him. And they did a job of it. The fellow’s back was gashed in countless places, apparently every contact of the switches were used breaking the skin and bringing blood. The worst whipping ever inflicted by he county road boss didn’t match this piece of brutality.

The supposed sin of Pulley was “interfering with the church” which was the holy ground on which the pious hoodlums executed the higher law against Pulley. It is understood that the specific allegation against him was blockading and, of course monkey rum made near the church is objectionable. Pulley denies blockading as everybody expected him to do.

The farmer carried his pistol to the door when he was called; but he evidently lost his nerve before he could shoot any of the 10 men who carried him out. They took his weapon from him and after carrying him across the Franklin line, escorted him to the church where they laid on the lash.

Adjournment of Congress before Dr. Ike Campbell of Norwood could bring again before the lower house the contest with Farmer Bob Doughton, leaves the physician at a disadvantage not anticipated two weeks ago when announcement was made that for the first time the state Republican organization appeared to be solidly with Dr. Ike.

The organization received the word that Dr. Campbell was going to Washington on the hope of a reopening of the contest and fighting it out on the floor through minority report, all members, save one, being against favorable action. It was not seriously hoped to make Congress more hospitable to Dr. Campbell than the committee, had been, since Dr. Campbell had greatly disgusted the Republicans by making an appeal in the name of race prejudice. But the evidence which the physician had to offer was a keen hope of the organization which would have enjoyed an advantage in presenting for home consumption the facts on which Doctor Ike based his contest.

From page 3 of the Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, Sept. 24, 1922

Mrs. Crawford, 73, Proves She's Not Too Old for College, Sept. 24, 1922

Too Old at 65, They Said, Mrs. Crawford at 71 Still Goes to College to Show Them. . . She Lives Here. . . When Columbia University Discovered Her, She Became Nationally Known. . . Studies Keep Her Young

By Mrs. W.S. Dickson

“The fact that such a simple little thing is going to Columbia university should have made the stir it did in newspaper circles bewildered me,” was Mrs. Annie P. Crawford’s answer to a Daily News reporter when asked if she didn’t feel like the President of the United States at having become overnight such a nationally known personage.

Mrs. Crawford was a student at Columbia university this summer at the age of 71. Some of the Columbia authorities, on observing the date of her birth on the registration card, sent a member of their publicity department to interview her. She was told that the university was interested in the fact that had started to school again at her age and wanted to know the whys and wherefores of her coming. So Mrs. Crawford chatted blithely away to the woman, and had the best sort of a time. It was not until the question of her children’s names and their occupations was introduced that Mrs. Crawford had any suspicion whatever that she was being interviewed.

“Just what do you intend doing with this information?” Mrs. Crawford asked her visitor, and even then she was reassured that the college folks simply wanted the information. So, on the next Sunday morning, practically every paper in New York city carried the story of her being at Columbia with headlines in bold black type reading “71-Year Old Columbia Co-Ed Too Modest to Compare Flapper With Girl of 65” or “Lost her Job When Her Children Grew Up; Seeks New Interests,” and so on and so forth through the entire list of the New York papers, she was perhaps the most surprised person in the whole United States.

Mrs. Crawford is the wife of the late Rev. L.W. Crawford, who was for many years a beloved member of the western North Carolina conference, and is closely identified with the church and educational life of the state. She is a graduate of Greensboro college, later going to Vassar for two years. She taught for two years before her marriage, and after that her hands were filled with the task of raising to splendid manhood and womanhood her five sons and a daughter, the latter, Mrs. E.S. Wills of this city, with whom she makes her home.

For 15 years Mrs. Crawford was a member of the Woman’s Missionary council of the M.E. church, South, and the corresponding secretary of her own conference society, so that after her children were grown her time was pretty well taken up with this work, which was so dear to her heart. However, at the age of 65, she resigned, because, she said, “There was an unwritten law that when a woman reached that age, she was past her sphere of usefulness!”

Of course during all those years when she was leading such a busy life, there was not much time left for reading, and “It was at 65,” said Mrs. Crawford, “that it became necessary for me to find new interests, so I made up my mind to go to Columbia. And this was my fifth summer there, instead of my first, as the New York papers had it” each summer she has laid the basis for her winter reading and “Every year I come home loaded down with books that I feel I must read,” she continued, “but I don’t always get them all done.”

Mrs. Crawford has gone about her course of study in a most systematic manner. The first year she realized, she said, that she was deficient in European history, so she took a course in that; the next summer she took up the intellectual history of Europe, and so on until this summer she studied very seriously, taking Professor Montague’s course in radical, reactionary and conservate tendencies in present day morals, and lectures in comparative literature.

On being asked if she expected to go to Columbia again next summer Mrs. Crawford said, “No, I am planning next year to go to the University of California. I have always wanted that trip, and expect to have the dime of my life, combining that pleasure with the summer courses of study.” And she seems to think there is nothing at all unusual in a woman of her age having either the desire or the strength to go clear across the continent for a course of study!

Mrs. Crawford has a delightfully keen sense of humor, and the way she tells of the droves of interviewers that she had to dodge, and the manner in which, as she says, “I was intimidated into having my picture taken” is too funny for words. She had as many telephone calls a day as a debutante, and men waiting around every corner pleading for her to allow them to take her picture.

The way they finally got the photo that has been in papers all over the United States from Massachusetts to Texas, along with the story of her being a student, and has even appeared in the Berlin and London papers, was like this: “I came off my class in philosophy one morning, on the seventh floor of one of the buildings, and fund fur men waiting there, who told me they had been waiting four hours for me. “We want your picture, Mrs. Crawford, and we just must have it, was their plea. I had no idea of letting them take a picture of me,” Mrs. Crawford laughed, “but you should have heard their tales.” “We will get the very devil if you don’t let us have it,” one of them told her, and though she could see their point of view and knew that when they were sent out on an assignment they were expected to come back with it fulfilled, Mrs. Crawford said, “I had had all the publicity I felt that I could stand, so I remained obdurate.”

She had her lunch, went to her room, and after resting a while, started out again, when to her amazement she found, just outside her door, those same four men camping on her trail. They started all over again with their arguments, and finally told her that they would much prefer for her to pose for them, but if she insisted on not being obliging, they would have to take a snapshot, for have her picture they must and would have. “So if they were going to have the picture whether or not,” continued this delightful little lady in a whimsical manner, “woman-like, I wanted to look as well as possible. So you should have seen me filing down the stairs, followed by those four men carrying cameras. They insisted on having the picture taken in the grove on the campus, on a classic seat, with a book in my hand. That is how it all happened.” On being asked if there were any pleasant results from the publicity attendant upon all the pictures and newspaper stories, Mrs. Crawford said, “Oh, yes, I met some most interesting people on account of it; among them John Farrar, editor of the Bookman, whose autographed picture I have, with a caricature of his head in one corner, and signed with his mark. I was also invited to lunch with Christopher Morley, who referred in his lecture to the grandmother in the class, and perhaps the thing she appreciated most was whom I found a most delightful person.”

Perhaps the thing she appreciated most the present from Arthur Stillwell, builder of more railroads than any man in the United States and author himself of a number of books. One of the books he sent her was an autographed copy of his book on “Live and Grow Young,” with the notation on the fly-leaf “You have the right idea.”

She was also invited to join the Vassar club on a picnic, and has had letters from people all over the United States congratulating her on having kept her youth and vigorous mentality. Number of people of the older generation have written thanking her for having done just what they had wanted to do for many years, but had never had the courage to attempt on account of their age.

“I have avoided the middle-aged spread,” Mrs. Crawford said humorously on being asked what she did to retain her youth, “and have kept physically fit by religiously exercising for at least 10 minutes each morning when I first get up; by having plenty of fresh air; and by observing the simple rules of hygiene. And by reading and keeping abreast of the times. It is easy to keep young mentally.”

Mrs. Crawford’s latest experience in connection with the whole affair was amusing, and yet deeply pathetic. It came in the shape of a long letter written in German script, and, laughed Mrs. Crawford, “Inasmuch as I was like the Irishman when asked if he could read writing, replied that he couldn’t even read readin’, it was necessary for me to get an interpreter.” After several days of intense interest in wondering what it was all about, it came back from the interpreter, and proved to be from an old woman in Germany, who told in a piteous manner of the loss of her son; of the terrible condition of the country; of the depreciation of the German mark; and ended by asking Mrs. Crawford to send her a dollar!

From page 2 of the Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, Sept. 24, 1922

Cases Against Houser, Hoyle, Webb Transferred to Federal Court, Sept. 24, 1922

Cases Against Houser and Three Other Officers Transferred to Federal Court

Shelby Sept. 23—On order signed by Judge E.Y. Webb, of federal court of western North Carolina cases, against Evan Houser, Pearly Hoyle, J.A. Wesson and Carl Short, charging them with assault and intent to kill Mrs. I.B. Miller, in a raid on the car in which Mrs. Miller was riding with her husband at Casar three weeks ago, have been moved to federal court and will come up to October term. Papers were served on Clerk of Court George P. Webb today by United States Marshal E.S. Williams, who took all papers to the federal clerk and enjoined the state and county courts from taking any further action against defendants.

While the bench warrants against these officers charged violation of state laws, affidavits signed by Houser, Assistant District Attorney Charles A. Jonas, find defendant’s counsel, Odus M. Mull, alleged that Hoyle, Wesson and Short were possemen duly deputized by Prohibition Enforcement Officer E.L. Houser, what when Houser stepped on the running board of the automobile and arrested the driver, Mr. Thompson, that he was pushed or knocked off and that some officers in an effort to stop the car as it sped away fired at the car but not for the purpose of hitting anyone of the occupants. The affidavit further alleges that glass jars of whiskey were thrown from the car when the officers appeared.

Mrs. Miller, who has a bullet in her liver and part of the bullet in her jaw was sufficient recovered to be moved from the Rutherford hospital to her home in Caroleen.

From the Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, Sept. 24, 1922

Koontz, Henderson, Briggs Sentenced to Five Years, Sept. 24, 1922

Asheville Strikers to Serve Five Years . . . Koontz, Henderson and Briggs Withdraw Appeals and Accept Compromise of 5 Years

Asheville, Sept. 23—E.G. Koontz, E.R. Henderson and Frank Briggs, striking railway employes who were convicted of kidnapping Sam Harris, strikebreaker, and sentenced by Judge Henry P. Lane to serve seven years in the state prison, today withdrew appeal to the state Supreme court and accepted terms of five years each on the Buncombe county roads.

Upon recommendation of Judge Lane, whose illness prevents him from presiding over Superior court here, Judge George H. Brown substituting, ordered the sentence altered. The tree men will start serving their terms October 2, time being given to straighten out business affairs. Koontz and Henderson are out on $4,000 bond each.

The three men were identified as being in the party of five who on August 5 dragged Harris from a store in the depot section and carried him in a car to a secluded place outside the city and administered a severe whipping.

From the Greensboro Daily News, Sunday, Sept. 24, 1922

Friday, September 23, 2022

Editor Says Kinston Farmers Need to Produce More Milk, Sept. 23, 1922

More Milk Needed

The Kinston contingent that went west a short while ago in quest of information as to dairying and perhaps other things, came back fully imbued with the thought that dairying would pay in Lenoir County.

It would pay if carried on more largely because it evidently does pay when pursued on a limited scale. Our long growing season, making two crops a year profitable, our good markets for dairy products, and our mild climate are conditions that are most favorable for this purpose. Every growing child should have at least two pints of milk to drink a day in order to develop a strong, healthy body and mind. Each home should see that it is equipped for providing itself with this almost necessary supply. This being done, the surplus could readily be disposed of.

Already Kinston has become quite an ice cream manufacturing center. So much is required that it has become necessary to seek a supply outside of Lenoir County. This should not be the case. Lenoir County should at least furnish enough milk for Lenoir County purposes.

And in addition to present demands for milk, a creamery would afford a profitable market for much more than is now available. This is another enterprise that should be established here when there is a sufficient milk supply in sight to furnish it. It would mean profit to the creamery manufacturer, to the farmer who supplies the milk, and to the man who wants to build up his land by enriching it from the dairy barn.

There are a whole lot of things Lenoir County can do besides feed the boll weevil.

From the editorial page of The Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1922, H. Galt Braxton, Editor.

Davidson College Students 'Working Their Way Through', Sept. 23, 1922

Davidson Boasts of Large Number Students Working Way Through

Charlotte, Sept. 21—Eighty-five students from North Carolina enrolled in Davidson College, near here, have the honor of being among the large number of students at the institution who are working their way through school, according to figures given out today by Dr. W.J. Martin, president of Davidson.

The complete figures show that 85 students from North Carolina, 16 from South Carolina, 14 from Georgia, 8 from Florida, 8 from Virginia, 8 from Tennessee, and several from none other states, are working their way through Davidson, and this number out of the 500 students enrolled is regarded about the highest per cent of students working their way through school that any American college can boast of. Besides these a large per cent of the remainder of the student body are partially self-supporting.

At Davidson it is deemed a distinction and an honor to be working one’s way through the institution, a large number of the campus leaders are of this group, and in Dr. Martin’s words the “man who can do this on the Davidson campus rivals the football hero in popularity.” Also it is of interest to note that many of the same names found on the list of working students are also found on the scholarship honor roll, the role of “letter men,” the roster of student officials, and on the list of the debating team and the “Davidsonian” staff.

From the front page of The Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1922

Daring Petticoated Sailors 'Yachting to Florida', Sept. 23, 1922

Petticoated Sailors Are More Daring Than Norse Seamen of Old

Many yachts have passed the North Carolina capes in recent weeks, en route to Florida, most of them putting in the ports east of here for supplies or overnight refuge from the heavy water outside. “Banker” pilots and boatmen say North Atlantic and Great Lakes backlotters are becoming a race of Vikings. Some of them attempt feats the ancient Norse navigators would have quailed at, according to the “bankers.” Some of the craft that the voyageurs to Florida travel in are smaller than the ancient Scandinavians crossed the Atlantic in and the passage offers more dangers in some respects.

“Yachting to Florida,” the Tarheel salts observe, used to be a diversion for rich owners of the deep sea craft. Now numbers of powered cockleshells capable of making a few knots an hour make the trip. Occasionally a crew will e comprised by “the man of the house, little Jimmy, and two or three women.” Where these sleep at has not been “doped out” by the incredulous Carolina tars. Though statistics are not available, some veteran pilots declare “some of ‘em don’t come back, and some of ‘em don’t reach Jacksonville.”

From the front page of The Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1922

Archbells Reach Safety in Athens, Sept. 23, 1922

Tarheel and Wife Reach Athens from Smyrna; a Heroine, Mrs. Archbell

A number of Eastern Carolina tobacconists are confident the “J.E. Archbald” who was among the American refugees from Smyrna recently was Jehu Archbell, a native of Beaufort County who has been abroad many years as representative of American tobacco companies. Archbell is prominently connected in the Pamlico River section. He is still a young man, having one to the Near East in his early twenties. He is understood to have resided in European Turkey for a time. Archbell, it was said here today, married abroad. His wife, an Italian girl, assisted in the rescue of a number of Greeks and Armenians by helping to operate a launch in Smyrna harbor while foreign ships were taking refugees aboard, reports which told of the couple’s arrival at Athens said.

According to Charles Happer, of Hong Kong, a brother of the mayor of this city who was a visitor here some months ago, Archbell had become very successful in business and was contemplating setup up as an independent tobacco dealer in the Levantine producing region. Happer said he and Archbell had come in contact occasionally and that the latter was well-known in a number of eastern fields.

From the front page of The Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1922

State News Briefs, Sept. 23, 1922

State News

Homer Burnett Killed In Cave-In

Goldsboro, Sept. 19—Homer Burnett, a negro, was killed in Wayne County yesterday when a cave-in occurred in an excavation in which he was working. Burnett, a convict, was at work with other prisoners when the accident occurred. He had declined to accept a warning, appearing to be despondent. His home was in California.

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Arrest in “Klan Case”

Greensboro, Sept. 19—S.L. Jenkins, Winston-Salem merchant, is under arrest charged with immoral relations with Margaret Smith. The couple are alleged to be the “Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Webb” recently reported to have been kidnapped by alleged Ku Klux Klansmen at Taylorsville. Authorities allege that after many months’ association, Jenkins tired of the woman and “framed” the hold-up in which he was kidnapped and carried off in a car while the woman, badly frightened, was left in a road. Jenkins has a family.

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Heavy Fire Damage

High Point, Sept. 19—Fire last night destroyed the plant of P.A. Thomas Car Works, street car manufacturers. The damage was estimated at $250,000. The origin was not determined.

From The Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1922. The Perley A. Thomas Car Works, in business from 1918 to 1930, produced streetcars for Charlotte, Greenville and High Point, North Carolina, as well as Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, and New Orleans. Wikipedia has information about the company, including photos, online at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perley_A._Thomas_Car_Works.

Miss Mildred Watkins Has Died in Kuling, China, Sept. 23, 1922

Charlotte, Sept. 21—Miss Mildred Watkins died at Kuling, China, August 12, according to information reaching this city today. She went to China to become connected with an American school after her mother’s death here.

From the front page of The Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1922

Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Sept. 23, 1922

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Cows, Hogs May Defeat Destructive Boll Weevil, Sept. 22, 1922

Cows and Hogs May Defeat the Cotton Weevil. . . Farm Demonstration Service Asks Farmers to Plant Land to Pasturage. . . Will Establish Cream Routes in District. . . District Agent McLean Here to Help Edge Get Started—Thinks Cows Will Prove One of Most Valuable Investments Possible—Agent to Aid Fair

Every farmer in the Dunn District who has been devoting his land to cotton will be asked to plant 210 acres of it to grasses, acquire good cows and hogs, and lay the foundation for a diversification program that will make the boll weevil’s attack upon the community as nearly harmless as possible, according to District Farm Agent McLean, who was here yesterday to aid in starting the work of H.A. Edge, farm demonstration agent for Harnett county.

As soon as the farmers can be induced to plant the grasses and buy cows, the extension division of the State department of agriculture will arrange to establish cream routes through the surrounding country. Cream gathered on these routes will be shipped to Richmond, Raleigh and other creamery points until the supply is large enough to warrant the establishment of a creamery in Dunn.

Mr. McLean estimates that the cream alone more than will pay for the upkeep of the cows, and that the by-products in skim milk and manure will yield handsome profits for the farmers. Skim milk fed to hogs will make good meat profitably; the manure placed on land will grow corn to feed the hogs. It is his idea that the cows harvest the grass and convert it into profitable cream, milk and meat.

W.W. Shay, swine specialist attached to the extension service, will visit Dunn in the near future. He, (rest of paragraph obscured).

Mr. Edge is just beginning his work here. His headquarters necessarily must be at the county seat for the present, but he is arranging to spend much of his time in and around Dunn. While he is here, his office will be in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce, where he may be consulted on any farm project engaging the attention of Dunn District farmers.

Mr. Edge is arranging to aid in the exhibiting of farm products at the fair here next month. He hopes to carry a farm exhibit from here to the State Fair in Raleigh. From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Sept. 22, 1922

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39 Weevils on One Cotton Boll

Lumberton, Sept. 10?—Having destroyed all the young squares, the boll weevils have now turned their attention to the grown cotton bolls, according to those who are keeping a watch of the situation. One grown boll brought to town Friday by a farmer had 39 adult weevils on it.

From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Sept. 22, 1922

Casper Warren Explains Why He Is Leaving Law Practice for the Seminary, Sept. 22, 1922

Casper Warren Leaves Dunn to Enter Ministry. . . Young Lawyer Heeds Call of Pulpit and Abandons the Practice of Law. . . One of State’s Best Workers for Church. . . His Services Have Been Much in Demand as a Speaker and an Organizer of Church Auxillaries—Was Not Satisfied With Original Profession

Casper Warren has already won for himself a state-wide reputation as a Christian worker. Last year he was asked to speak at a conference of Sunday School superintendents held at Goldsboro.

Only last week he made an address at a conference of Sunday School workers held in Raleigh. His work was so well known that churches in Florida and Texas have sought his services as a Sunday School worker.

Many people in Dunn do not know that the Sunday School of the First Baptist church is considered the best in North Carolina. Under the leadership of Mr. Warrant, it attained the advanced or AA-1 standard. There are only six of these advanced standard schools in the Southern Baptist Convention, and only one other in North Carolina, and that a country school near Shelby, N.C.

Now, he goes to the Seminary at Louisville to become a preacher. In taking his departure he directed the following letter to his church, The first Baptist, here: To live is to choose. It is not a matter of choice whether one shall choose or not. The dawn of every new day brings us to the forks of the road where we must decide the things that go to make up our lives. Those who are contented in their pursuits do not have so much difficulty in making the proper decisions, but those how are not must sooner or later face squarely the cause of their unrest. The causes of such unrest differ with respect to the life of the individual.

My life has been all that any young man could hope for, yet for several years there has been a strange tug at my heart, with an apparent warning that we are out of place when we remain in a profession or position, that fails to call into play, in the highest possible way, the greatest number of our best faculties. In moments of prayer and medication and even amid the crowding cares of life, it has come unbidden and unwelcome to disturb and trouble. I couldn’t understand.

About 12 years ago in the old wooden church that many of you in memory hold so dear, my Sunday School Teacher remarked that he believed God would some day call one of us boys into full time service for Christ. Though only a lad of 12 or 13, an unseen finger seemed to point me ??? (word obscured). I couldn’t understand.

During my high school life, I was convinced that my lot would be found either in the profession of law or the ministry. Why two? Oh, the perplexities this question has caused me to endure. I couldn’t understand.

During the first three years of my college course, it was unusually noticeable that I, a law student should take such an interest in Y.M.C.A. and B.Y.P.U. work. I could not be satisfied to lie around on the Campus when these meetings were the option. I could not understand.

At my post in the army where the atmosphere was nil but religious, where ?? religious service was conducted by a Catholic chaplain, I was instrumental in organizing a Bible Class and procuring the service of a Baptist minister in a nearby town as preacher. A few weeks passed and he was called away. The task fell to me, by request of the boys, many of whom were among the so-called “rough and hard-boiled” class. The activities of our teacher’s church ceased and it was there a few weeks later that I first participated in organizing a B.Y.P.U. which led to the reopening of the church. I don’t know why I chose these things nor why the fellows chose me. I couldn’t understand.

How handicapped I was in my senior year at College to face each day the glaring question, “Shall it be law or the ministry?” Only God will ever know how ?? to see the close of that year. ?? that I could have stopped the whole of time and remained in college forever, was often my thought, but such a thought had no place in the infinite plan. Why should I feel this way? I couldn’t understand.

My highest ambition was to be a good lawyer, but until a few days ago I couldn’t understand why everything seemed to draw me from it, why my very nature seemed to be perverted. So alone with God I’ve settle it all and now I understand and Now I must pass on.

“I hear a voice you cannot hear

Which says I must not stay;

I see a hand you cannot see

Which beckons me away.”

Oh how it hurts to leave you, you who have been so dear and meant so much to me. Yes, “I’d stay in the garden with Him, but He bids me go.” How weak and unworthy I am but His Grace is sufficient. I can’t do much but:

“There’s surely somewhere a lowly place,

In earth’s harvest fields so wide,

Where I may labor thro’ life’s short day

For Jesus, the crucified.”

In view of the above facts I regretfully yet cheerfully tender my resignation as superintendent of our Sunday School, and if in your opinion I am worthy to enter upon further preparation to be your representative for Christ, I shall appreciate your letter of approval to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.

God bless you every one and may His guiding Spirit overshadow, protect and comfort you and when His will shall have been accomplished, may we meet within the eternal gates to share His Glory forever.

From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Sept. 22, 1922