By J.D. Frink
Clarendon, Feb. 5—Mr. W.M. Stephens left for Baltimore last Sunday afternoon to buy his spring stock for his large store here.
Mr. W.M. Hinson returned from Charlotte Sunday afternoon where he went to see is father, Mr. D.J. Hinson, who underwent an operation at the New Sanatorium in the above named city a few weeks ago. He reports the condition of his father as unfavorable.
All the members of Clarendon Local Cotton and Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative Association are requested to meet at the high school building Saturday afternoon, Feb. 9, at 3 o’clock. It is very important that every member attend this meeting.
You just as well make your arrangements for 40 more days of winter weather. The ground hog could see his shadow all day long last Saturday, so he went back in his hole for six weeks.
Mr. J.B. Long, who has been confined to his room for the past few weeks with a severe case of measles, is again able to be out.
If Whiteville wants the next county fair, it’s up to her business men to get busy at once. Unless more interest is shown within the next few days, another town that is very anxious for the next fair will probably be selected.
Judge McPherson’s court last Saturday was attended by a large number of Clarendon folks, the attraction being a case arising from the school marm of the colored school here, trying to walk over some of the white children, and getting in a fight with one of the small white boys, and later committing an assault upon him with intent to kill. After hearing the evidence of part of the state witnesses, the judge sent the case up to the April term of Columbus County Superior Court, and required the defendant to furnish bond in the sum of $200 for her appearance to answer the charge.
We decline with thanks our friend Boswell’s invitation to take a trip over the road from Cerro Gordo to Page’s Mill so long as the condition is as bad as he represents it to be. We have been given credit with covering daily some very bad sections of roads, but his road simply “takes the cake.” We would suggest that he turn the road over or pull it up and set it out somewhere else, as the fellow did his potato sprouts when they became grassy.
What has become of the “little boy” that looks after the Tabor-Whiteville highway. If “he is under the hay-stack fast asleep,” we hope “little boy Blue” will blow his horn and remind him that this beautiful highway is going to the bad very rapidly in certain places, and is in great need of attention.
From the front page of The Whiteville News Reporter, “For the County of Columbus and Her People,” Thursday, Feb. 7, 1924
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