Sunday, October 15, 2023

Local News Briefs in the Reidsville Review, Oct. 15, 1923

Local News

Rain is badly needed. Farmers are unable to plough wheat land on account of the hardness of the ground.

The regular meeting of the Apple-Clark club will be held with Miss Annie Bennett on Tuesday, October 16th.

The regular monthly meeting of the Ann Andrews circle, which was to have been held the 19th inst. has been postponed until October 26th.

The American Legion and Auxiliary will be joint hosts to the Leaksville-Spray Post of American Legion Monday night, the 15th, at 8 p.m. at the Belvedere Hotel.

C.P. Howerton of near Ruffine called in to see us Saturday. He has leased a custom grist mill near Chatham, Va., for another year and will move his family there next week to reside.

The regular monthly meeting of the Rockingham County Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Marketing Association will be held at Wentworth Saturday morning, October 20th, at 10 o’clock—C.H. Dalton, president; W.F. Burton, secretary.

Rehearsals for “A Bachelor’s Honeymoon” are being held daily. The show promises to be a starting success. It will drive your blues away and keep you smiling for several days. We are expecting you to be there when the curtain rises. High school auditorium October 18 and 19.

The Garden club of Reidsville will meet Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Harris Nelson, Courtland Place. All members are requested to be there promptly, as matters of importance will be discussed and an interesting program on the fall planting of bullbs will be given.

The engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Alice Agnes King and Henry Moore was announced at a lovely bridge party at which Mrs. Ada King, mother of the bride-elect, was hostess Saturday afternoon at her home in Greensboro. The groom-elect is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Moore of North Elm street. He has lived in Greensboro for three years, being connected with the Southern Railway. Before going to Greensboro, he resided in Reidsville.

The funeral service of Mrs. E.H. DeGrotte, held at the residence Thursday afternoon, was attended by a large number of sorrowing friends and relatives. The floral offerings were very large and attractive. The following were the pallbearers: R.W. Hutcherson, W.M. Moir, Howard Morrison, J.E. Smith, John Meador and C.J. Wright. The flower bearers were Mrs. J. Will Burton, Mrs. J.E. Ellington, Mrs. J.C. Brown, Mrs. Belle Paschal, Mrs. Burley Strader, Mrs. F.M. King, Mrs. Gilmore Strader, Mrs. F.A. Johes, Mrs. W.S. Somers, Mrs. G.A. Clark, Mrs. R.W. Hutcherson, Mrs. Monroe Rascoe, Mrs. Turner Ingram, Mrs. L.P. Rippy, Mrs. H.W. White, Mrs. Robert Pritchett, Mrs. J.E. Price, Miss Flora Foote and Miss Irene Ellington.

George T. Pillow of Reidsville and Miss Lula B. Ridge of Union Ridge Thursday motored to Danville and were united in marriage by Rev. J. Clyde Holland at his home on North Main street. The couple were accompanied by George East.

“Aunt” Amanda Dillard, a well known and popular colored woman, died at her home on Harrison street Sunday morning. She is survived by three daughters and one son. “Aunt” Amanda was a cheerful old soul and had many friends among both races.

Announcement cards have been issued reading as follows: “Mrs. John W. Mitchell announces the marriage of her daughter Lady Erma to Mr. Clarence Wilton Toms on Saturday the 13th of October, 1923, Wentworth, N.C.

Baze Throckmorton and Nat Priddy, citizens of Danbury Route 1, were arrested at Mayodan recently on the charge of speeding. The officers are reported to have found a small quantity of whiskey in the car after making the arrest and the men and the car were held under bonds.

J.C. Stanley, a popular young Caswell county farmer, brought over a load of good tobacco today to the cooperative warehouse and was highly pleased with first advances. Mr. Stanley says the new top soil road No. 65 from Lawsonville via Cobb’s shop is almost completed and is a fine road. The thoroughfare shortens the distance to Yanceyville several miles.

No. 65, the new hard-surface road to Wentworth, has been completed and will be formally opened this week. Traffic is already heavy over this fine road as there is only one short detour between the two bridges just north of town. This road will carry a tremendous traffic. Work on the Leaksville road, which leads from No. 65 at Gunn’s store, is progressing very satisfactorily.

Leaksville-Spray-Draper now has an official membership in the Cherokee council of the Boy Scouts of America, the treasurer of the local council having already been authorized to pay the initial membership fee into the national council. It is hoped that the enthusiasm characterizing the successful organization of this district will ever maintain itself through the entire life of the scout organization here, and wee see no reason why this shouldn’t be indefinitely. --Spray Arrow

Judge Humphreys had his usual number of week-end offenders in recorder’s court today. Two negro employees of the railroad camp at the city cemetery pulled from a freight train yesterday proved a regular walking arsenal. They contributed $10 and costs to the court’s coffers. Daisy Knight, a dusky damsel, was assessed $10 and costs for disorderly conduct and abusing Ala Knight, her neighbor. Hubert Dixon, white, and Sam Watkins, colored, were taxed with the costs for engaging in an affray. The trouble started over the finding of a $2 bill, which both men claimed. His honor decided that it was Dixon’s money and Watkins was ordered to return it to him. This affray over the unlucky $2 bill emphasized the “hoo doo” power of that denomination of money. A few other cases of minor importance were disposed of.

From page 5 of The Reidsville Review, Oct. 15, 1923

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