Sunday, May 28, 2023

Reidsville Local News, May 28, 1923

Local News

Estelle, the beloved wife of E.D. Foster, died from uremic poisoning Saturday afternoon. She was in her 24th year and is survived by her husband; also her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Wootten, and three sisters. She was married about three years ago. Mrs. Foster was a good Christian woman and had a wide circle of friends who sincerely mourn her untimely end and whose tender sympathies go out to the stricken young husband in his great loss. Funeral services were conducted from the resident of W.T. Wootten on North Scales street Sunday afternoon by Rev. M.F. Moores and interment followed in Greenville cemetery. The funeral and burial were attended by a large number of friends and relatives and the floral offerings were unusually large and beautiful.

Mrs. C.A. Penn and children came home from New York Saturday and will spend the summer here.

There will be a meeting of the Library Association Wednesday at 4 o’clock with Miss Emma M. Kinney. The association will give a high class musicale at the Franklin Street school on Friday night, June 1st, for the benefit of the children’s fund. Four artists from the Mt. Vernon Methodist church of Danvile, Va., are giving their services in helping the library to finance the need for more books for children. Messrs. Brower, organist and pianist; Samuel Sours, tenor, and Richard Penn, violinist, with Miss Margaret Womack, accompanist. Each one is an artist in his line. A real treat is in store for all who hear them.

Mr. and Mrs. James N. Simpson of Summerfield, N.C., announce the marriage of their daughter, Goldia Price, to Leland L. Noakes of Logansport, Ind., May 26, 1923.

V.C. Taylor of the State College at West Raleigh [N.C. State University today], has been engaged as agricultural teacher at the new consolidated schools near Wentworth. Mr. Taylor has assumed his duties.

An evidence of Brother Brown’s powerful exhortations is the fact that an agitated old sinner lost his set of false teeth at one of the services recently. The police now have the trophy on exhibition.

Regular meetings of Carolina Council No. 9 Jr. O.U.A.M. will be resumed Thursday night of this week. All new members who have been notified of their election should be present this Thursday night for enrollment.

Mr. and Mrs. T.S. Wray will attend the commencement exercises at the A. & E. College, Raleigh, tomorrow, where their son Thomas graduates this session. The latter has completed a special course in textiles and chemistry.

Married by Squire E.F. Hall the past week Homer Reece and Hazel Bullis of Greensboro; W.O. Chatmon and Margaret Smith of Reidsville; Vick Carr and Eliza Weddle of Martinsville, Va.; J.H. Brown and Pearl Frazier of Rocky Mount, Va.

Mr. Harry A. Stirling, second year student at Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Va., has accepted work for the summer months in connection with the work of the Episcopal Church at Leaksville and Spray with residents at Leaksville. –Gazette.

A new local of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Marketing Association has been formed at Double Springs school house in Wentworth township, composed of 25 enthusiastic members. The officers are R.D. Carter, president; W.T. Smith, vice president; H.E. McCollum, secretary; executive committee W.D. Madison, H.P. Dye and R.E. McCollum.

Advices received here from Yanceyville confirmed the report that several cases of smallpox have developed there and that the state board of health of North Carolina has taken prompt measures to prevent any further infection by wholesale vaccinations. There are about 12 cases of the malady in and about Yanceyville, only a few of them being severe cases. In several instances more than one member of the family has the malady and it is not true that the 12 cases are widely scattered. It is reported that fully 400 persons have been vaccinated during the past several days. During the past few days there have been no new cases and the belief is expressed that the epidemic is waning.

From page 5 of The Reidsville Review, May 28, 1923

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