Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Local Items and Personal Menton, Albemarle, April 26, 1923

Short Local Items and Personal Mention

The family of C.C. Whitley was called to Statesville on last Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Whitley’s aunt, Mrs. R.C. Stewart.

Visiting in the B.F. Ausband home Sunday were Mrs. T.B. Johnson and children, Mrs. Ralph Austin, and Mrs. Johnson Brown, all of Charlotte.

Mrs. N.J. Pennington received a crate of fine vegetables from her daughter, Mrs. T.R. Forrest of Florida. Onions 16 inches in circumference and large new Irish potatoes were in the lot.

Friends of Mr. T.S. Parker will be glad to learn of his improved health. He is now able to be at his place of business regularly.

Mrs. J.F. Hoffman and attractive daughters Alice and Josephine, of Gastonia, are visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. I.H. Underwood.

Mr. R.L. Furr of western Stanly is moving his family to Albemarle, having purchased the Homer Cotton house on Moss Springs road.

Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Cotton have sold their home to Mr. R.N. Furr of Oakboro. They expect to build a bungalow on Moss Springs road.

Mrs. S.T. Howell has returned from a visit to Concord. While there Mrs. Howell’s little daughter, Katherine, was quite sick with pneumonia.

Miss Ina Mabry and Mr. J.B. Ashe of Charlotte spent Sunday afternoon in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Mabry of Norwood.

Mr. and Mrs. Key Scales and sons, Fairley and Key Jr., spent the week-end in Monroe with Mrs. Scales’ mother.

Mr. Grady Rabe, clerk of the Hotel Albemarle, has received news of the death of his brother, Mr. W.R. Rabe, at Denver, Col., which followed a long illness.

Dr. and Mrs. F.P. Purvis and two children spent Saturday night in the home of Mrs. J.M. Brown in route to Henderson. Mrs. Purvis is remembered in Albemarle as Miss Belle Hicks.

Mrs. H.L. Coble, and two sons, Jack and Henry, and Miss Lochie Stover, of Greensboro, spent Sunday and Mr. and Mrs. T.P. Bumgardner. J.A. Little and son, D.L. Little, visited Mr. Little’s mother, Mrs. J.L. Little, in Union county last Sunday. Mrs. Little is very ill at this time, with small hope of her recovery.

Mrs. E.E. Snuggs was brought home Monday from the Charlotte Sanitorium. Her many friends will be glad to learn that her health is steadily improving. Mr. M.C. Thompson and son, Malcom, joined Mrs. Thompson and small daughter at the Hotel Albemarle for the week-end, and accompanied them to their home in Charlotte.

Mrs. P.W. Miller is able to leave Charlotte Sanitorium after a few weeks there, following an operation and treatment, and will spend a while with her daughter, Mrs. Jim Calloway, at Stanly Creek, before returning to her home on route 2.

Miss Josephine Copeland is spending a fortnight with relatives and friends at Columbia and Ehrhardt, S.C. She contemplates attending a convention of nurses at Charleston during her absence.

Z.V. Moss, superintendent of public welfare, went to Gastonia last Tuesday and carried Leonard Blalock, the 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Blalock of Palestine, to the North Carolina Orthopaedic hospital for treatment. The little boy is a cripple and has been for three years.

Friends of Wilson H. Cranford will be glad to learn that his condition is improving, following a serious operation which he underwent for appendicitis last week in Lincolnton. The sudden seriousness of Mr. Cranford’s attack made it impossible for him to reach his home in Charlotte for the operation.

Visitors in the Huckabee home for the week-end were Mr. and Mrs. Robbins Tilden of High Point; Mrs. Charles Tilden of Jamestown and Miss Bessie Harris of New London; James Rogers of Salisbury, and Misses Lois Howie and Elizabeth Robbins of Kannapolis, spent Sunday with Miss Bessie Huckabee.

Miss Lina Smith, who has been in China for the past six years training nurses for work there, is home on a short vacation. She has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Nelson Clayton, about four miles north of Albemarle. She is an interesting talker, and her wide experience has broadened her education.

Mr. D.S. Eudy of Mt. Pleasant Route 2, was a visitor at The Press office Tuesday, and listed as a new subscriber. Last month Mr. Eudy buried his bright boy of 11. A year before, his young daughter underwent an operation for appendicitis, and he feels that he has now a large share of affliction.

Mrs. J.F. Kirk of Salisbury visited in Albemarle Wednesday.

Miss Blanche Bailey spent the week-end in Charlotte.

Mr. and Mrs. S.J. Horton spent Friday night in Concord.

Mrs. John Frank Biles is visiting her parents in Morganton.

Mrs. F.E. Starnes is indisposed with a severe cold.

J.W. Efird and family are spending today in Charlotte.

J.A. Groves spent several days in Charlotte last week.

Mrs. R.L. Erwin is visiting Mrs. M.J. Harris.

Mr. O.O. Zachary spent Sunday in Troy.

Miss Lesca Freeman of Norwood was in the city Monday.

Miss Clara Skidmore and Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Turner spent Wednesday in Salisbury.

Mrs. Sam McCubbins and daughter spent the week-end with Mrs. Ida Bostian.

Mr. F.E. Starnes made a business trip to Pinehurst Wednesday.

Mrs. C.E. Parks of Concord is spending several days with Mrs. O.H. Phillips.

H.L. Horton and family spent Sunday in Lexington with the family of Mrs. John Cowles.

F.V. Watkins and family, and Mrs. J.N. Anderson and son Richard, spent Sunday in Biscoe.

Miss Bertha Lipe and R.M. Russell spent Sunday in Greensboro and Winston-Salem.

Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Horton are spending the week in Cheraw, S.C.

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin of Troy were in Albemarle Tuesday shopping.

Miss Stella Lowder and Ray Dry visited friends in Monroe and Wadesboro Sunday.

Miss Mary Crowell of Concord is spending a few days in the city.

Dr. Walt N. Johnson is conducting a week’s meeting at the First Baptist church.

Miss Ruth Bullard of Hope Mills is visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Barrier.

Mrs. Wilcox Brightwell is on a visit to her mother in Martinsville, Va.

Mrs. Hazel Morrow, who has been visiting in Marion, will arrive home today.

Mrs. Ira Plyler and son Bobbie spent the week-end with Mr. Plyler in Raleigh.

Miss Caroline Mann spent the week-end with Mrs. Frank Boyett.

Miss Bess Huckabee will spend the week-end in Kannapolis visiting Misses Pauline Harris and Lois Howie.

Mr. Erskine Smith, Miss Myrna Crowell and Mrs. Olga Tharpe spent Tuesday afternoon in Pinehurst.

Mr. and Mrs. Knopf and daughter Peggy of Rochester, N.Y., are visiting at Mr. D. Riff’s.

Mrs. J.T. Stover of Rutherford College is spending the week with her daughter, Mrs. T.P. Bumgardner. Mrs. W.B. Stover, who has been visiting in the Bumgardner home, left Monday to join her husband in Savannah.

Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Vanhoy and son Joe of Charlotte spent the week-end with Mrs. S.H. Milton.

Mrs. S. Wolf and little daughter Roberta have returned from a visit to Mrs. Wolf’s parents in Lake City, S.C.

Mrs. L.L. Ross of Mt. Gilead, Misses Pauline and Sadie Stanback, and Mrs. P.V. Godfrey of Mangum visited in Albemarle Friday.

From page 5 of the Albemarle Press, April 26, 1923

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