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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Local News From Reidsville Review, May 14, 1923

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Fine rains fell Sunday night and we are now in the midst of a tobacco planting season. A good proportion of the crop will be set out this week. The weather continues unreasonably cool.

A new Co-op local has just been organized at Lawsonville. J.W. Perkins is president; W.P. Vaughn vice-president, and J.H. Smith, secretary. Meetings are to be held during the summer on the first Friday of each month at 8:30 p.m. at the residence of J.W. Perkins.

The 31st annual commencement will begin at the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro on Saturday, June 2, and will continue through Tuesday, June 5. Every day of commencement will be fillwed with a series of events. June 2 is alumnae day, and a large number of former students are expected to return for the various reunions. The following classes will hold reunions this year: 1895, 18989, 1903, 1907, 1911, 1915 and 1919—the red and white classes.

The American Legion Auxiliary held a short business meeting Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Various matters were discussed, among them the joint meeting with the Legion on May 28th, when an attractive program will be arranged. The auxiliary decided to send a contribution of $10 to the library at Oteen. On May 30th, Memorial Day, the auxiliary and the legion will sell poppies, and on this day let every man, woman and child in Reidsville wear a poppy in memory of those who died in Flanders fields.

Notice, women of Rockingham county. The May meeting of the home bureau has been postponed until after the close of the Brown revival meeting. Time to be announced later.

The Isabel Craig Memorial Circle of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church will hold its regular monthly meeting in the ladies’ parlor of the church tonight (Monday) at 7:30 o’clock with Ms. Jack Powell as hostess. Every member is urged to be present. Margaret Womack chairman.

Will I. Mitchell, negro, aged 34, of Senora, Georgia, was instantly killed at Spray Saturday while digging a ditch on Harris street. The dirt and large rocks slipped off a large ledge of rock and entrapped him, crushing him. Mitchell was a new employe of the J.B. McCrary company of Atlanta, Georgia, who has contract for installing water and sewer system at Leaksville and had only been in Leaksville since last Sunday. Another negro in the same ditch was badly bruised, having his leg broken, name unknown.

From page 5 of the Reidsville Review, May 14, 1923

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