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Thursday, July 27, 2023

Lincoln County Happenings, July 27, 1923

Lincoln County Items of Late Happenings. . . Store Is Robbed—Merchants Take Wednesday Afternoons for Holidays—Nonstop Laying Hen

Lincoln Co. News, July 20

Mrs. J.C. Martin of North Brook, who was a Lincolnton visitor Monday, reported that the tent meeting which closed last week at Toluca was very successful. Evangelist Dawkins reported 130 conversions during the meeting.

Mrs. Frank Love has as guests her mother and sister, Mrs. John Dover and Miss Katherine Dover of Shelby and Mrs. Shelby Smith and little daughter, Jane, of Jacksonville, Fla.

The condition of Senator W.A. Graham Jr., patient at Charlotte sanitorium, is reported today as unchanged. He has been reported in a rather serious condition for the past several days.

Robert S. Abernethy Jr. has sufficiently recovered from a recent operation for appendicitis at the Lincoln hospital to return to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.S. Abernethy, where he is recuperating nicely.

Mr. G.T. Wise of Lincolnton R-1, one of our diversified farmers, was a Lincolnton visitor Tuesday. He coaxed from the soil cotton, corn, hay, wheat. His wheat panned out fine, getting 315 bushesl from 16 acres. He sowed the blue stem.

The store of Howard and Prim, located one mile west of Catawba River in Lincoln county, was robbed of about $25 worth of goods last Tuesday night. A crowbar was used to open the door. The only clue is a lead pencil lost at the scene by one of the robbers. Sardine cans were found on the ground in the woods across the river in Mecklenburg, and it is supposed the cans were from the store.

Mr. W.A. Mauney, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Kings Mountain, who is 82 years of age, spent Monday and Tuesday here with his son Mr. D. Hunter Mauney, and was present for the opening of the new court house. Mr. Mauney had a peculiar interest in the proceedings. His father, the late David Mauney, sold a bill of lumber used in erecting the court house torn away for the present building. Mr. W.A. Mauney hauled the lumber to Lincolnton from the Mauney mill located then between Cherryville and Waco.

Mr. J.P. Gates of Long Shoals has a Plymouth Rock hen that breaks the record for nonstop laying. This prized dominecker began last January 15, and has laid an egg every day until July 15th. On the 17th this hen decided to take a rest by staying on the nest; she is on a setting spree, and begs for some of her eggs back that she may hatch out some biddies for Lincoln county fair. Mr. Gates has a fortune ahead selling settings of eggs from his Plymouth Rock.

The stores and business houses of Lincolnton close their doors Wednesday afternoons during July and August. This plan is mainly for the purpose of giving clerks and proprietors an opportunity for alittle outing each week. Store hours are very long, especially on Saturday, when the storekeepers are on the go all day and far into the night. The closing each Wednesday afternoon will afford a little time also for gardening or other diversions, such as fishing, etc., and the patrons will no doubt be glad to cooperate with the new arrangement by doing their trading Wednesday morning.

From the front page of the Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Friday, July 27, 1923

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