Sunday, March 31, 2024
The Advance Limping Along Without Its 'Little Editor', March 31, 1924
Little Editor Ill
John Peele, little editor of The Advance, has been ill since Saturday at his home on South Water street. The editor in chief, or well-nigh any two members of the staff, might have been spared with less havoc to the shop routine, in the opinion of the boys in the shop.
Until the youngster begins to get well enough not to require constant nursing, The Advance will limp along as best it is able.
Perhaps Mr. and Mrs. Boss, as the boys in the shop call the editor and his better half, will learn the lesson this week that The Advance can ramble right along without them.
At any rate that is what The Advance is doing for the present and will continue to do until the little editor is better.
From the editorial page of The Elizabeth City Daily Advance, Monday, March 31, 1924; Herbert Peele, editor.
Enjoy Supper at the New Linden Tea Room, Opening March 31, 1924
With musical selections by Miss Catherine Spence and the pupils of Miss Linda Delon, everything is being put into shape for the opening at the Community Building tonight of the new tea room for the Linden.
Supper will be served from 6 to 9 this evening. A large crowd is expected to visit the Linden on the opening of the new tea room where they will view with pleasure the work of the committees who had charge of changing a dirty gymnasium into a clean and tidy tea room. Visitors at the Linden tonight are asked to use the Martin street entrance of the Community Building.
The Woman’s Club is moving into new quarters tonight after outgrowing the rooms under the Elks Club. Through the generosity of the Elks Club the Woman’s Club was able to open the Linden and put itself on a good financial basis. Several remarks of appreciation for the courtesies and favors extended by the Elks have been heard on every hand.
From the front page of the Elizabeth City Daily Advance, March 31, 1924
Auto Supply & Vulcanizing to Build New Brick Plant, March 31, 1924
Progressive Firm Is Building New Home. . . Auto Supply & Vulcanizing Co. Will Have a Brick Plant on Love Property
Foundation work is under way on the new brick building of the Auto Supply & Vulcanizing Company which is being erected on the Love lot on Poindexter street, just back of Mitchell’s Department store.
This new structure is to be a one-story brick building 97 by 100 feet and will cost in the neighborhood of $15,000, according to W.S. Riggs, member of the firm.
The Auto Supply & Vulcanizing Company has outgrown its present home on the corner of Matthews and Water street. R.K. Forbes and W.S. Riggs went in the vulcanizing business together eight years ago. Later they took on the sale of tires and accessories, and about a year ago the firm accepted the agency for Velie cars.
It is estimated that the new building will be ready for occupancy about the first of July. With enlarged quarters the firm will increase its supply of accessories and its sales force. An up-to-date filling station will also be installed and the enlarged quarters will provide better service generally for the automobile owners.
From the front page of the Elizabeth City Daily Advance, March 31, 1924
Funeral of Thomas Crank, 76, Held Sunday, March 30, 1924
Funeral Thomas Crank
The funeral of Thomas Crank Sr. was conducted Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at the home 215 Lawrence street by Dr. N.H.D. Wilson, assisted by Dr. S.H. Templeman and Rev. E.F. Sawyer. The First Methodist Choir sang his three favorite hymns and the pall bearers were his sons, Thos. Crank Jr., Trannie Crank, F.A. Crank, J.T. Crank, Keeney Crank, and Lloyd Crank, and Edgar Williams and Caleb White.
Mr. Crank died Saturday at 8:05 p.m. He had been in failing health for a long time and was quite ill for the last six years. He was 76 years old and a native of Dare County, though he had made his home in this city for the last 28 years and was in the fish business all of his life.
He is survived by his wife and eight children, one daughter, Mrs. Edgar Wiliams, and seven sons: Thos. Crank Jr., F.A. Crank, J.T. Crank, Trannie Crank, Keeney Crank, and Lloyd Crank, all of this city, and Levy Crank of the United States Army; and one brother, William Crank of Norfolk.
From the front page of the Elizabeth City Daily Advance, March 31, 1924
Easter Coats, Wraps, Hats on Sale at Land's in Hamlet, April 10, 1924
Easter Sale, Buster Brown and His Dog Tige to Appear April 16, 1924
From page 8 of The Rockingham Post-Dispatch, April 10, 1924
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Wilmington Detective E. Mack Godwin Shot, March 29, 1924
Detective Shot in Wilmington Battle
By the Associated Press
Wilmington, N.C., March 29—Detective E. Mack Godwin, of the local police force, was shot and it is feared, fatally wounded about 10 o’clock tonight during a gun battle with a negro desperado in the Brooklyn negro section of the city, who made his escape in the darkness.
Godwin was hit twice, one bullet entering the abdomen and the other striking his left hand. He was hurried to a hospital where it was said later his condition was critical.
The negro whose name has not been learned, earlier in the evening shot two negroes during a street quarrel, and Godwin led a party of officers to the scene to make the arrest. A police dragnet has been set.
From the front page of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924
Mrs. Carr to Wed Clark Howell April 5, 1924
Mrs. Carr to Wed Clark Howell Sr.
By the Associated Press
Concord, N.C., March 29—Formal announcement is made by Mrs. J.M. Cannon of the approaching marriage of her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Cannon Carr, widow of the late Julian S. Carr Jr. of Durham, N.C., editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution.
The wedding will take place in Concord, N.C., next Saturday evening, April 5th, at the home of Mrs. Cannon, only members of both families being present.
From the front page of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924
Cantrell-Washburn Wedding, March 30, 1924
Newspaper men were given a pleasing surprise this morning when Mrs. William O. Cantrell called up her employer, Secretary W.N. Everett, and said: “Mr. Everett, have you heard anything about me?”
“Not a –--- thing,” Mr. Everett replied without knowing his interrogator.
“I am married,” the voice said.
“God bless you,” Mr. Everett replied, giving the bride a week off.
She was Miss Fannie Washburn and the groom is the Associated Press day representative in Raleigh. The love affair has been of rapid development. They were married last night by Rev. Dr. T.W. O’Kelley of the First Baptist church, and only the fewest friends knew of it.
From the front page of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924
Mrs. Branch Dies of Tuberculosis; Three Children Sent to Orphanage, March 30, 1924
Mrs. Branch Dies Saturday Morning. . . After Long Fight with Tuberculosis, Good Woman Passes Away
Three little children, the oldest being 11 years of age, all bright and intelligent, are orphans today. Their mother died Saturday morning at 3 o’clock after fighting tuberculosis. Her fight was a brave and determined one, but her frail little body, worn out through her faithful and loving service to her children, could not successfully withstand the ravages of the dread disease. Her last thoughts were of her children and those who have been her friends in the time of need. “Tell the people of Durham that I appreciate their kindness to me,” was one of her last utterances before the cold hand of death was laid upon her.
Mrs. Effie Branch is the woman who passed to her reward Saturday morning at Sanatorium, N.C. She was entered into that institution several months ago to receive treatment. She entered with the determination to get well but before leaving she bade farewell to her little brood and left them to the tender care and love of the superintendent of the Wright Refuge wherein they had been inmates for many months. Prior to entering the sanatorium she lived on Rigsbee avenue. Friends saw to it that she received medical attention and the necessities of life and after which much hard work, admission into the state sanatorium was granted.
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock the little children, Adolph, aged 11; Dorothy, aged 6; and Constance, aged 4, will follow the remains of their mother to her last resting place on earth—the burying grounds is the county home. the funeral services will be held at the county home at that hour with Rev. E.A. Stanistreet of the First Baptist church, officiating.
Saturday afternoon W.E. Stanley, county welfare officer who has taken great interest in the case, together with K.U. Bryan, local undertaker, left Durham for Sanatorium, where they received the body of Mrs. Branch and brought it to Durham for burial.
A message was received by Mr. Stanley Saturday night to the effect that Mrs. Branch was dying and that she could not survive the night. Miss Alice Pirie, superintendent of the Wright Refuge, was immediately notified. As the message was received, Alford was sitting close by the telephone with a mouth harp in his hands, playing “Home, Sweet Home.” Little did he realize that to him, “Home, Sweet Home” was something past. Rather than strike sorrow to his heart and to the hearts of his two little sisters, the superintendent refrained from telling him the news. Saturday afternoon, he and his sisters were brought to the city where new clothes were bought for them in order that they might look fresh and neat when they attended their mother’s funeral. They did not know, however, the purpose of the visit to the city and their childish delight expressed when their clothes were purchased made the mission all the more sad. They will be notified of their mother’s death Sunday.
Apon the shoulders of Adolph will fall the responsibility of the future of his sisters. He already feels that responsibility, instilled into his life through the loving admonition of his mother, often repeated, to “take care of sisters while I’m away.” They will be provided for, however. Within a short time they will be entered into the Thomasville orphanage in conformation to the wish of their mother who begged always that the children not be separated. Their futures are bright for they are exceptionally bright children and the teaching of that sainted mother will stick to them to the end of their life’s journey.
From page 2 of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924. Son's name was spelled Adolph and Alford in story in newspaper.
Easter Hats and Easter Coats on Sale at Gilmer's, March 30, 1924
From page 2 of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924
Only L.B. Goley, W.S. Coble, James Harris Arrested for Drunkenness, March 29, 1924
Only Three Arrests Were Made Saturday
Only three arrests were made on Saturday by Durham police, the day proving to be the quietest Saturday the city has experienced in many months. Charges of drunkenness registered against the three men who are as follows: L.B. Goley, W.S. Coble, and James Harris.
From page 2 of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924
Rural Mail to be Delivered in Late Afternoon, March 30, 1924
Rural Schedules on Mail Changed. . . Carriers Traversing Country Districts to Leave Post Office at 2 p.m.
Tuesday marks the beginning of a new schedule for the rural mail carriers of the Durham post office. Orders have been received by J.K. Mason, postmaster, from the post office department in Washington to change the schedule so that the rural carriers will leave the city on their respective routes at 2 o’clock in the afternoon instead of 8 o’clock in the morning.
No reason was assigned by the order from the post office department for the change in the schedule and all that Postmaster Mason could say regarding it was that the order should be complied with. Several theories for the change in schedule of leaving the local post office have been advanced. One is the post office department is putting the new schedule into effect for trial to see whether or not it will give the patrons on the rural routes better service and more satisfaction. This will permit the residents of these routes to receive the mail coming into the city up until noon on the same day received by the post office. This may, it is thought by some, be the best plan, while others are of the opinion that it will prove to be very unsatisfactory to the farmers. In the past the mail has been in the homes of the farmers by noon or soon thereafter, whereas under the new schedule it will be in the late afternoon when many of them will receive their daily mail. This will be especially unsatisfactory to the farmers during the present season, it is thought, as they are busily engaged in preparing their fields for the crops. Most of the farmers prefer to get their mail around noon so that it might be read during the noon time meal and while resting from the labors in the field. With the mail coming in the afternoon, the farmers will have to read at night, whereas most of them retire early through the summer months in order that they might arise early the next morning to resume work in the fields.
There are eight rural routes leaving the Durham post office. They cover from 22 to 30 miles of territory. With the majority of the rural mail carriers using automobiles in carrying their mail, only a few hours’ time is needed in which to cover the route. Under the old system of horse-drawn vehicles, seven or eight hours were required.
From the front page of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924
L.L. Tilley Quite Ill with Ptomaine Poisoning, March 30, 1924
Local Lawyer Is Ill at Hospital
L.L. Tilley, Durham attorney, is a patient at Watts hospital, suffering from ptomaine poisoning, and while his condition is not grave Mr. Tilley is regarded as not being entirely out of danger. He has been at the hospital since last Thursday.
From page 2 of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924
Durham Cigar Store Has New Owners, March 30, 1924
Application Made for Incorporation
Application for papers of incorporation were forwarded to Raleigh Friday by the Durham Cigar Store company, Inc., it was learned yesterday. With the purchase of the George B. Whitted company, the cigar store goes back to its original name of Durham Cigar store.
The present owners of the store recently took the stock over from George Whitted. Charles H. Cagle is secretary-treasurer and general manager of the new company. The present site has been used as a cigar store for approximately 15 years.
From page 2 of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924
Mrs. George McDaniel, 54, Died March 29, 1924
McDaniel Funeral Sunday Afternoon. . . Mrs. George McDaniel Died Saturday Morning at Her Home in West Durham
Mrs. George McDaniel, aged 54, passed peacefully away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Eugene Riley, 338 Erwin avenue, West Durham, Saturday morning, at 8:05 o’clock, after an illness of more than five weeks.
She is survived by seven children, as follows: Mrs. E.B. Matthews, Mrs. Eugene Riley and Mrs. L.A. Neal of Durham; Mrs. M.A. Moore, Danville, Va.; Robert Delvichio McDaniel, Biltmore; Howard Rose McDaniel and Henry Rose McDaniel of Durham. All of her children were with her when the end came.
The funeral services will be held at the West Durham Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. She was a member of this church for 11 years. Revs. T.M. Green and M. Stubblefield will officiate.
The pall-bearers will be W.L. Pipkin, C.E. Pope, Buck Lloyd, Harper Lloyd, C. Hester and L.S. Demareus. The floral-bearers will be selected from her lady friends.
From page 2 of the Sunday Morning Herald, Durham, N.C., March 30, 1924
Friday, March 29, 2024
Millard Harris, 60, Kills Himself, March 29, 1924
Stabs Himself in Heart With Knife. . . Drives It Home with a Piece of Stove Wood to Make Death a Certainty
Rutherfordton, March 28—Mr. Millard Harris took his life Monday morning about 8:30 o’clock at Forest City by stabbing himself with a knife and taking a piece of stove-wood and driving the knife into his heart. He was dying when found. Ill health is the only known cause of the horrible act. No note or statement was left. He moved from the Munford Cove section last fall to Forest City. He occupied the Horn brick house near the Baptist church for some time, until he moved near the new school building.
Monday morning he told the children to go ahead to school and he would help Mrs. Harris with the week’s washing. Mrs. Harris says he has worried much since his sone was killed by a tree some three years ago. For the past two weeks his mind was slightly unbalanced. Physicians had urged Mrs. Harris to watch him closely. He was thought to be improving.
Mr. Harris is survived by his widow, three children, two boys and one girl, and two brothers, Messrs. W.G. Harris of the Munford Cove section and J.H. Harris of Sugar Hill. He was 60 years of age and was a deacon in the Cove Baptist church.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at the Cove Baptist church. A large crowd of sorrowing friends and relatives were present.
Mr. Harris was a devoted Christian and a most honorable citizen. He was born and reared in this country. He had been a good farmer and was well to do. Our sympathy is extended to the bereaved family.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Saturday, March 29, 1924
Emma Edwards Shares 25 Years of Success in Goldsboro's Woman's Club, March 29, 1924
History Woman’s Club as Submitted by the Publicity Chair. . . At the Silver Jubilee Dinner of the Woman’s Club Held in Their Club Rooms Thursday Night. . . Members and Friends were Entertained with a History of Their Activities Since Their Organization
By Emma R. Edwards
Bridging the years between the close of the 19th century and the present day are some 20-odd journals, staunchly bound and neatly inscribed with the proceedings of the organization which today is 25 years old. These record books are not, as one might think, helter-skelter jumbles of facts and whims reported to flighty, impractical women, but sound unerring documents which would do credit to a trained bookkeeper and accountant.
The journey through the years with the various recording secretaries of the club is both humorous and interesting. The beginning of many movements which have since grown great are here recorded. Only a brief commentary on the progress of the club can be attempted; a complete history would require a month to compile and an entire day to read.
At the call of Mrs. Henry Weil, a number of Goldsboro women met at the Messenger Opera House on March 23, 1899, to consider the organization of a Woman’s Club. The idea was met with prompt response, and a temporary organization (which was later made permanent) consisting of 68 charter members had for its first pilots the following officers:
President—Mrs. W.R. Hollowell,
Vice-President—Mrs. F.D. Swindell,
Recording Secretary—Mrs. W.S. O’B. Robinson,
Corresponding Secretary—Miss Anna Lewis.
Treasurer—Miss Irene Stanley.
A constitution, suggested by Mrs. R.R. Cotton of Bruce, pioneer in Woman’s Club work in North Carolina, was adopted, its composition being such that today it stands practically unchanged in its fundamental points. The object of the club was thus expressed:
“Its object shall be to form a recognized center for social and mental culture; to further the education of women for the responsibilities of life; to encourage movements for the betterment of society; to aid by its organized effort such worthy causes as may secure its sympathy; to foster a generous public spirt in the community.”
Meetings, which were always on Thursdays, were held for a while in the opera house, the old court house or at the homes of members. As the growth of the organization made it necessary, rooms were secured in the fall of 1899 over Mr. E.B. Dewey’s office, on West Walnut street, for a yearly rental of $20. This happens to be the same location where the club cafeteria was opened. In 1902, a Valentine Donation party was held and the club room was presented with rugs, pictures, curtains, and other furnishings. In 1907, more commodious quarters were secured in the present building, and many and varied are the stories which the walls of this room might tell. It remains for a later history to chronicle the next move of the organization into its own club house building on the lot which has been recently bought and paid for.
Goldsboro in the early days was little more than a village. The trains ran through Centre street, where was also the “waiting room.” Dust and flies together defied the laws of sanitation. Plumbing, telephones and electric lights were just coming into general use, and the club’s heating bill for one winter was 85 cents for a load of wood. An examination of early expense accounts reveals that the only item which has not advanced in price is the government postal card, which was used to summon members to meetings.
So much for the background. The women who set the club wheels in motion are very well known to you, though some are no longer alive to beam with pride upon this grown-up child which they tenderly nurtured. The women of the past generation were not clinging vines, neither were they stay-at-homes nor ignoramuses; they were women of a broad intelligent sympathy, a ready understanding, a love of home and the things that pertain thereto, and a flaming seal to give of their best to the community. Aggressive, almost to the point of being dictatorial, they dealt with a high hand, pointed out flaws and uncovered municipal scandal that men ignored.
The Woman’s Club will always be indebted to the Board of Aldermen and the newspapers of the city. Publicity has ever been a club tool and the Board of Aldermen have been most co-operative in providing ordinance or enforcing laws which were already enacted. The club women of an earlier day dabbled into everything. Now that theirs is the power to vote, is it true that the glamour of the goal has dimmed their perceptions and dampened their ardor?
From the beginning, the work of the club was conducted by departments or committees. There were five in number, and it is a significant fact that the five departments adopted later by the State Federation were suggested by the Goldsboro Club.
The Village Improvement Society is conspicuously the most outstanding department of the early club work. In one year, this group of women supervised the planning of 420 shade trees. They wanted the saloons closed; they wanted chickens kept off the streets; markets and grocery stores screened; garbage collected systematically; trash barrels and carts provided; streets sprinkled; clean jails; safe places of amusement; better heating and sanitary conditions in the schools; planting of grass plots and trees; in fact, everything which would create a higher type of community in which they might live and rear their families. Is it generally known that the Village Improvement Society had supervision of all the planting of trees, shrubs, and flowers of Herman Park and that each year the organization sponsored a Park Day celebration? Talks to school children were made on Civic Betterment, cleanup campaigns were pushed, sanitary inspectors were “jacked up,” and prolonged agitation led to the establishment of the city County-State Health Department. The attention paid to the demands of the women may be guessed from the following item which appeared in the Goldsboro Daily Argus on June 7, 1902:
“At length we are to have some passing showers. An energetic member of the Woman’s Club made such an earnest appeal to the Argus man this morning to change our weather forecast and say ‘rain’ that we are once got into communication with the clerk of the weather, and informed him the Woman’s Club of Goldsboro demanded rain, and that he might just as well send it at the opening of their campaign as after prolonged hesitation, for they know no such thing as fail, but always appreciate courteous and graceful concession of their demands.”
Not announcing itself so blatantly, yet functioning most efficiently was the Mental Culture Department which divided itself into two groups. The study section sought to improve the respective minds of its members, and exhaustive study courses were undertaken, embracing history, poetry, art, drama, science, geography, economics, and current events. The monumental work of the department, though, was the establishment of a circulating library, from which nucleus has grown today our splendid public library. Mrs. Sol Weil was its moving spirit, and her untiring zeal as chairman of the library committee secured in six years’ time over 1,000 bound volumes and many thousand magazines and periodicals. Twenty specially designated book cases with lock and key were filled with books and magazines and sent to outlying parts of Goldsboro, such as Greenleaf, Webbtown, and Factory Hill. As the years passed and the library grew in volume, these traveling cases were sent to the schools of Wayne county, and in turn to the surrounding counties of Lenoir, Sampson, Duplin, Ashe, Greene, Carteret, Caldwell and Perquimans. Each winter a book reception was held; the whole town was invited, and those who called brought with them a book or its equivalent in money. Thus the library grew. In 1903 it was opened to the public on Friday afternoons; the rush for books is described as significant of the thirst for knowledge. Thus demonstrating the need for a public library, the club asked the city fathers to appropriate a yearly sum for its upkeep, and in 1907, the Woman’s Club Library became the Goldsboro Public Library, soon moving to its present quarters in the city hall, where 6,000 volumes and 2,000 borrowers threaten to overflow the shelves and floor space.
The Child Study Department followed two lines of work—theoretical and practical. the study of authoritative books and articles on child nature, training, and problems was highly beneficial, while on the other hand, the club conducted a free kindergarten in Edmundsontown, held Mother’s Meetings, thus being a forerunner of the Parent-Teacher Association, and ?? mothers to have their children attend school. The sum of $150 was raised to establish a free kindergarten as a memorial to Miss Mary Carcow (??), a beloved school teacher, but this fund was donated, instead to the library fund.
The music department has always followed an informative and constructive line of work. The study of musical history, the works of masters, modern music and concerts of high order have always proved interesting to a small but cultured group. This group incurred and paid off a debt of $300 for the club piano, which was purchased in 1903.
The Domestic Science Department held demonstrations of foods, labor-saving devices, and household equipment. They sold cake pans, measuring spoons and egg beaters and with the proceeds published a cook book, the sale of which added materially to the club treasury. They advocated that manual training, cooking and sewing be made a part of the school curriculum. They organized a sewing class in the mill section, superintended the more substantial side of all club social functions and finally undertook the work of catering for other organizations. Perhaps the standard set in May, 1920, will never be equaled, for then, this group of women with their helpers served a banquet to 1,800 Shriners in the large tobacco warehouse in the city. Fried chicken was handled in barrels, and ice cream was served from tobacco trucks.
From year to year the Department flourished or languished, always managing somehow to keep alive. After frequent changes in name the club departments stood as follows: Civics, Education, Home Economics, Literature and Music. Each department brought to the city famous statesmen, men of society, musicians, or lecturers. Many noted men and women have visited Goldsboro through the invitations of the Woman’s Club, and all have brought a message of inspiration. Money raising attempts, such as bazaars and cake sales were also frequent, as the club treasury, with rising rents and increasing demands, was kept in a state of constant ebb and flow. Championship of any cause requires substantial evidence, and money was freely given. Of early items an example was a gift of $10 toward the establishment of a reform school for boys at Concord. Just recently $100 has been given to the Wayne County Memorial Community Building, which is now in course of construction.
Not until three years after the organization of the Goldsboro club, was an attempt made to group all such clubs within the state into a federation. In 1902 a meeting for this purpose was called in Winston-Salem, and Goldsboro sent its delegates to the meeting, and promptly joined the North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs, which last year celebrated its 21st birthday in the twin city, where it was founded. The Goldsboro Club invited the State Federation to meet in this city in the fall of 1904, but a diphtheria epidemic made it necessary to postpone the gathering until the Spring of 1905. In 1912 the clubs of the adjoining counties, comprising the eighth district met here for organization. On both occasions lavish hospitality was the order of the day—(line obscured) time with business sessions.
The Goldsboro club has always been prominent in State club circles. There has not been a single year in which some Goldsboro woman has not been signally honored by the conferring of some office or chairmanship in the State Federation; in view of this fact the following cocksure extract from an early report may be pardoned: “We seem to ourselves far ahead of the other clubs in work done. we are the banner club of the State Federation.”
During the past 10 years the club has grown in every direction—in membership, in breadth of outlook, in service rendered, and in department strength. It is now a ?? part of the community with ?? in almost every ?? During the war, club members allied under Red Cross and other ?? and gave freely of themselves and ??? Lectures of national ?? were brought to Goldsboro, the club gave a series of food conservation demonstrations, and $1,500, which represented the sum total of the civic finances, was invested in liberty bonds.
In the past five years many things have happened. In 1920, a $15,000 lot was purchased for the erection of a club building; $1,500 was contributed by generous citizens of Goldsboro, the club’s $1,500 was paid on the debt, leaving a balance due of $9,000 and interest. On top of this the club incurred two more debts—the building of a gasoline filling station and the equipping of a modern cafeteria, amounting to $10,000 additional. Nearly $7,000 have been literally “ground out” by the constant extension of club members. the club circles have labored under financial geniuses for chairmen, and cleverly planned Valentine parties have been made to meet the payments of interest and notes due on the lot, with Miss Mary Faison DeVane, chairman of the Building Fund committee, as Campaign General, ably reinforced by Messrs. Nathan O’Berry, Joe Rosenthal and Joe A. Parker.
The filling station and cafeteria debts have been cleared entirely and recent opportunity to dispose of a portion of the club lot at a profit wiped the slate clean and left enough to buy another lot, if anything more desirable than the first. The club now holds a clear title to two pieces of land valued at approximately $20,000 and is operating the cafeteria on a paying in small, but its ambitions are bounded only by the stars, and in not to very many years, the club hopes to begin the erection of a modern complete building with all accommodations for the conduct of club work.
What is 25 years? There are men and women here tonight who will join with their grandchildren in celebrating the 75th anniversary of this organization in 1974. On the record of its past achievements the club is not content to rest, but will continue to swell its ranks in the onward march for the glory of mankind and a Greater, Grander Goldsboro.
Emma R. Edwards, March 27, 1924
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Saturday, March 29, 1924
Dallas Freeman Upset His Cafe Was Robbed and That Police Didn't Come Immediately, March 29, 1924
$30 Gone, Police Too. . . Elizabeth City Restauranteur Minus and Police Are Not to be Found
Elizabeth City, March 28—Dallas Freeman, proprietor of the Coney Island Café, thinks it is high times when somebody can break into his restaurant, steal $30 from the cash drawer, and make away with it, without being molested by the police. Freeman says somebody entered his Matthews street eating house on Wednesday night, and got away with between $25 and $30.
The thieves made their entry from a livery stable, in which one corner of the café is built. Freeman says he called up the Chief of Police Gregory and P.G. Sawyer, Prosecuting Attorney, at 6 o’clock in the morning and couldn’t get either of them to come down to their offices. Mr. Freeman thinks it unnecessary to have police who chase their heads off after a pint of liquor and let a robber get away with money without trying to get him while the scent is hot.
From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Saturday, March 29, 1924
Still, 600 Gallons of Beer Seized in Fork Township, March 29, 1924
Whiskey Still Raided
With the aid of three revenue officers, Walter Grey, deputy sheriff, yesterday raided a 60 gallon whiskey still in Fork Township about 12 miles west of the city. The officers found 600 gallons of beer.
From page 7 of The Goldsboro News, Saturday, March 29, 1924
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Locke Cotton Mill Fire Quickly Extinguished, March 28, 1924
Fire at Locke Cotton Mill
About a dozen bales of cotton were damaged by fire which was discovered shortly after 6 o’clock this morning in the cotton warehouse of the Locke Cotton Mill. The origin of the fire is not known.
The mill whistle gave the first alarm and in a few minutes quite a crowd gathered at the mill property. The fire department made a quick run to the mill, and the blaze was extinguished in a few minutes.
The loss was covered by insurance.
From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, March 28, 1924
Residents Want Fish Laws Observed, March 28, 1924
Want Fish Law Observed
By the Associated Press
Kinston, March 28—Considerable trouble is being experienced by the state fisheries commission in regulating the trapping and seining in the streams in this part of the state, it was learned here today. According to J.K. Dixon of Trenton, the inhabitants of points further down the streams are complaining of the irregulation actions of those who make use of the upper stream’s game. It is the hope of the commission, I was said, that a closer co-operation between the officials and those who make use of the streams may be affected so that all may profit by the increased number of fishes that will result from the observance of the fish laws.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, March 28, 1924
1,000 Young Chicks Burn at Burr Clover Farm, March 27, 1924
Thousand Young Chicks Burned at Rock Hill
Rock Hill, S.C., March 27—One thousand chickens, ranging from a few days of age to several months, were burned last night on the Burr Clover farm of A.F. Ruff near Rock Hill, in a fire which destroyed the chicken houses there. Effort to check the blaze were futile. The loss is partially covered by insurance.
Mr. Ruff today placed an order by wire with a poultry farm in Kentucky to ship him 1,000 young chicks to replace those burned. They are to be shipped today.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, March 28, 1924
Private Getsinger, Asheville, Killed in Hawaii, March 28, 1924
Three Army Airmen Killed in Honolulu. . . One of the Dead, Private Getsinger, Was from Asheville—Two Officers Were Killed
By the Associated Press
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 28—Three army airmen were killed and two others injured, one seriously yesterday, in what army officers said was Hawaii’s worst aviation accident. First Lieutenants W.G. Moore of Nelsonville, Ohio, and Oscar Monthan, a native of England, and Private Getsinger, of Asheville, N.C., were killed; and two other privates were injured.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, March 28, 1924
Newson and McBride Purchase Love's Stock; Holding Big Sale, March 28, 1924
Big Sale of Bankrupt Stock of J.E. Love
On Saturday R.C. Newson and H.T. McBride, who have purchased the stock of J.E. Love, bankrupt, will place this stock on sale. You will find in this stock such well known brands as Society and Curlee clothing, and Florsheim, Dunlap and Emerson Shoes. They have about 800 suits and 126 overcoats, large quantities of shoes and shirts, ties, underwear (line obscured) and boys wear. See the big four-page ad in this paper today, and get ready for the sale, which will open Saturday morning at 7:30 o’clock.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, March 28, 1924
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Orange County's 26 Colored Schools Celebrating Commencement March 28, 1924
Colored Commencement . . . Schools of County Will Have Celebration Tomorrow
The colored people’s schools of Orange county, 26 in number, are going to have their county commencement exercises in the courthouse in Hillsboro tomorrow (Friday). Ceremonies will begin at 10 o’clock.
B.L. Bozeman, principal of the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill, will preside. The principal address will be delivered by B.F. Bullock, professor in the agricultural department at the A. & T. College in Greensboro. E.W. Knight, of the faculty of the University’s school of education, and J.S. Holmes are expected to speak.
The children of the various schools will compete in spelling, story-telling, singing and declaration. In the afternoon there will be a baseball game between the Chapel Hill and Hillsboro teams.
From page 4 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924
Chapel Hill Chaff, March 27, 1924
Chapel Hill Chaff
In his talk last week the eminent botanist from Chicago, Mr. Cowles, spoke of the distinction of North Carolina in being the only place in the world growing the plant known as the “Venus flytrap.” I am not so much interested int is since I had my windows screened. What I want is a plant that will serve as a mousetrap. I wish W.C. Coker would discover one; if it has to have a name taken from mythology I suggest it be called the Diana mousetrap, in honor of the celebrated huntress.
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I admired Mr. Coker’s judgment and enterprise in bringing Mr. Cowles here, but I am frank to say that I was not enthusiastic about our own botanist’s choice of decorations for the lecture room. A human skeleton occupied a prominent place a few feet from the speaker, with a pose loose-jointed and floppy, like James Kyser doing a clog dance. On the table near the ??? of a man lying on his back with a number of his inner sections visible. But Mr. Coker brought Mr. Cowles here on very short notice and of course did not have time to adorn the room with appropriate plants and flowers.
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There’s nothing quite like the sensation that an author has when he first sees his production in print. I had the pleasure of being present the other day when Roulhac Hamilton opened the April issue of the “American Boy” containing his prize-winning letter in the magazine’s competition among parents. The letters tell about the “American Boy” as a joy in the home. Mr. Hamilton took a $10 prize. I notice that he refers to himself in this letter as a “middle-aged college professor.” This is the only thing in his piece that I find to criticize. He is premature.
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A few months ago I put up some partitions in the printshop and provided, in them, doors that I thought would be adequate to every need. But I felt ashamed of myself as a designer when our health officer, Dr. Nathan, came in to see me last week. It was only with great difficulty, and after much drawing-in of important parts of him, that he could squeeze through into the office.
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One of the tragedies of the village these last few weeks has been the separating of the trio composed of Sara Curtis Kyser, Katrina Nash and Nell Booker. Nell has had whooping cough and has been isolated both by parental and municipal order. Katrina and Sarah play in the Nash yard, while Nell, 50 yards or so away on her own premises, looks longingly toward them and now and then calls or waves a greeting.
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I like to see people good to animals, especially dogs. Jack Sronce, the student who helps run the presses in the printshop, was sharing his ice-cream cone with a beautiful brown setter a day or two ago. He would lean over and let the setter have two or three licks at the ice-ream, then he would take a bite or two himself. This kept up until the cone was gone. This incident made me like Jack Sronce more than ever. It seemed to me to be the proper spirit to display toward a dog whom you claimed as your friend. I think I will tell Mr. Pollard, the Waverly man, about this. The Victor phonograph people have made a great deal of their pictures of a dog listening to a phonograph, and maybe Mr. Pollard will use this idea for his ice-cream.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924
Bingham Township Considers Site for New School, March 27, 1924
Binghamites Met To Talk of Site. . . Township’s Citizens Gather to Give Views to the School Board. . . Keen Interest Is Shown
Keen interest in the school needs of Bingham township brought between 75 and 100 citizens to White Cross Monday morning to advise the county school board upon a site for the new township school. the choice lay between a tract of 8 ½ acres already owned by the county and a tract half a mile further east offered by Lueco Lloyd.
During the proceedings F.J. Eubanks offered to donate four or five acres lying between the county’s land and the Chapel Hill-Saxapahaw-Graham highway. This would increase the school site to about 13 acres and give it a frontage on a main road.
On behalf of the land offered by Mr. Lloyd, it is urged that this being immediately at White Cross at the junction of main roads, is more accessible. But the advocates of the other site say they do not like the school to be placed so close to the eastern boundary of the township. This, they say, would be in disregard of the interests of the majority of the township’s population.
Undoubtedly the majority of those who were present Monday morning favored the site already owned by the county. Among those who spoke for it were Harmon McIver of the Bethlehem church neighborhood, G. Ed. Copeland, and C.H. Sykes.
It looked for a minute as if there were going to be a spirited dispute between he men holding opposite views about the sites, but Mr. Browning, chairman of the school board, turned the discussion into more quiet channels.
The main impression one got from the gathering was that the whole township was deeply interested in education and was determined to have a modern school. The money necessary for the building, about $15,000, is already assured from the State’s school loan fund. Mr. Browning had with him Monday his associates on the board, Mr. McDade and Mr. Efland. They said they would decide on the site at their next meeting, April 7th.
Several of the men at Monday’s gathering said that, although they felt themselves burdened by taxes, they wanted good schooling for their children and grandchildren and, to get it, were willing to be taxed still further. “It’s getting so it’s more profitable to sell your land than it is to pay taxes on it,” said Paul C. Lloyd, “but we need schools and I am willing to sell land if necessary to meet the taxes.”
E.W. Knight said that it was an encouraging sign that so many men in the township turned out to this meeting. It showed their real interest in the schools. He said that the idea was to lengthen the school term to at least 8 months.
A fine dinner was served by the women who came along with their husbands and fathers. The table was spread near a flag pole flying the Stars and Stripes.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924
Colllier Cobb's 62nd Birthday Thoroughly Celebrated, March 27, 1924
Collier Cobb’s Birthday
Collier Cobb, 62 years old last Friday, had three birthday parties. At the first, Mr. and Mrs. Prouty, G.K.G. Henry, and Mrs. Denny were the guests. The second party came about when Mr. Cobb found in his recitation room at college a big box containing a Lady Baltimore cake, and asked the givers, his class in geology, down to his home to help eat it. At the third celebration Mrs. Lucy Phillips Russell and Miss Cornelia Love were guests. Mr. Cobb got gifts and letters and telegrams from all over North America, Europe and Asia. South America and Australia did not contribute, but there were plenty of messages without theirs.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924
If Only My Son Would Get Sick, March 27, 1924
Jane Bayley Wants Mumps
Jane Pratt Bayley, who came here last week from Springfield, Ohio, wants the mumps—but not for herself. Here is how the matter stands: Jane is extremely fond of Chapel Hill. She has been yearning for it ever since she left. With her from Ohio came 7-year-old Eldon Bailey Jr. Joe Pratt has the mumps. Jane thinks it would be an excellent thing if Eldon would catch them from Joe, and have a long siege in quarantine, since this would prolong indefinitely her visit here.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924
Winslow Baby Coming Home Tomorrow, March 27, 1924
Nancy Jane Due Tomorrow
Nancy Jane Winslow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Winslow, is coming to Chapel Hill tomorrow from Watts Hospital, Durham, to make her home here. She was born on a snowy morning about two weeks ago. Mr. Winslow is connected with the Atwood and Nash architectural force in the Alumni Building. His associates in the droughting room were informed the day after Nancy Jane was born that she had blue eyes, but a few days later a revised report was sent in with the information that her eyes have turned brown. Mr. Winslow was charmed with the blue eyes, and is said to be equally charmed with the brown.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924
Robert Lloyd of Carrboro Dies, March 27, 1924
Death of Robert Lloyd
Robert Lloyd died in Carrboro last Thursday. After working all the morning he was stricken suddenly at the dinner table.
Rev. McDuffie conducted the funeral ceremony at Bethel church. Mr. Lloyd left a widow and seven children.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924
Mrs. Harry Tyler, Chowan College, Class of '76, Sends Check for Library Books, March 27, 1924
ALUMNAE NEWS
By Inez Matthews, Editor
Miss Eunice McDowell has received a very interesting letter from Mrs. Harry Tyler, a former graduate of Chowan.
Mrs. Tyler is the daughter of Rev. R.H. Land, who taught Latin, Language, and Literature here in 1883-84. She came here in September of ’74 and graduated in the class of ’76. Her many friends remember her as being very talented in music. She married Mr. Harry Tyler, a well known and prominent Baptist of Baltimore, Maryland, at which place she is now living.
Mrs. Tyler is very interested in the library campaign here. Her letter reads:
“I have so often thought of the happy days at Chowan, and especially of the good work being done there. I am so glad to send you a check, with which to buy books, and I am greatly interested in seeing my Alma Mater develop into a class A college. I believe with all my heart in Christian education, and I trust our southern high-grade schools and colleges will not employ teachers who do not believe in the Book of books. Take our Bibles from us and what have left to make life worth living?” We appreciate this letter so much, and also the check. Letters like this one give us much encouragement, and inspire us to work harder than ever for our goal.
From page 6 of The Chowanian, Murfreesboro, N.C., March 27, 1924
Chowan College Visitors, March 27, 1924
CAMPUS NEWS
Miss Lucy Piland of Winton visited Mary Brumsey Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Barrett of Como, Frances Elizabeth and Meredith Griffin of Suffolk, Va., called on Hazel Griffin last Sunday.
Misses Edith Oakley and Lyndal Denny spent the week-end in Potecasi with Jessie M. Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Draper and daughter, Jessie, visited Thelma Draper Sunday.
Misses Jessie Mae Brett and Sara Vick of Boykins, Va., were Sunday callers.
Miss Ella Mae Parker spent the week-end at her home in Mapleton.
Miss Bertha Peterson of E.C.T.C., Greenville, spent the week-end with Mary Henry Lewis.
From page 5 of The Chowanian, Murfreesboro, N.C., March 27, 1924
Chowanian Staff, March 27, 1924
STAFF
Camilla Manson—Editor
Thelma Peterson—Advertising Manager
Ruth Wilkins—Business Manager
Lucille Holloman—News Editor
Inez Matthews—Alumnae Editor
Eloise Meroney—Faculty Editor
REPORTERS
Athletics—Mary Nellie Holt
Student Government—Ella Mae Parker
Library—Ruth Wilkins
Faculty—Edna Lassiter, Edna Mills
Social—Christy Whitley
Jokes—Catherine Fleetwood
Religious—Estelle Carlton
Local—Meryl Britton
From page 4 of The Chowanian, Murfreesboro, N.C., March 27, 1924
Sophomore Class Represents Perfect Girl, March 27, 1924
A Perfect Girl
It seems to me a perfect girl would have eyes like Meryl Britton’s, teeth like Hazel Griffith’s, mouth and complexion like Marietta Bridger’s, hair like Edna Mills, and a figure like Myra Benthall’s. She would be as stylish as Janice Ballentine, as neat as Rosalie Tolar, could make a speech like Estelle Carleton, could play basket ball like Vida Bryant, and could cook like Iola Bryant. She would combine a disposition like Jessie Marie Parker’s, a mind and character like Thelma Draper’s, and with a sense of humor like Elizabeth Watson’s. But are the virtues enough for one girl? they are. Therefore the Sophomore Class is “all perfect” in itself.
From the front page of The Chowanian, Murfreesboro, N.C., March 27, 1924. The photo on the front page is the Sophomore Class.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
Captain and Two Officers Lost When Glyndon Went Down Off Cape Hatteras, March 25, 1924
Three Are Lost Off Cape Hatteras
New York, March 25—Radio advices last night indicated that the steamship Glyndon went down off Hatteras Saturday with the captain and two other officers. The crew was saved by a passing vessel.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Tuesday, March 25, 1924.
Woman's Club Lines Up Speakers for District Meeting, April 8, 1924
Edenton Women Getting Ready. . . Woman’s Clubs 14th District Meet There April 8th with Unusually Fine Group of Speakers
Edenton, March 25—The members of the Edenton Woman’s Club are busy making preparations for the 14th District meeting to be held in Edenton on April 8.
The people of the town are invited and urged to attend these meetings both morning and afternoon sessions of April 8. there will be a treat in store as several noted speakers will be here, including Mrs. Palmer Jerman, president of the N.C. Federation of Woman’s clubs; Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, superintendent of districts; Mrs. Thomas Bickett, widow of the late Governor; Mrs. Clarence Johnson, N.C. Superintendent of Public Welfare; and Mrs. J.T. Alderman.
This is the second meeting of the 14th district, so the women are anxious to make it a success, and to give the visitors a good time in Edenton.
As the club members are so few, they ask the people of the town to all join them and help give the guests a delightful luncheon at the Cupola House.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Tuesday, March 25, 1924.
George Kerr Held for Larceny of Gas Engine, Saw Outfit, March 25, 1924
One Case Tuesday
George Kerr was held for probable cause in the recorder’s court Tuesday morning on the charge of larceny of a gas engine and saw outfit from M.M. Hurdle, and required to give bond for appearance in Superior Court in the sum of $200.
This was the only case tried before the recorder Tuesday morning.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Tuesday, March 25, 1924.
Luncheon in Honor of Mrs. W.A. Devin, March 25, 1924
In Society
By Mrs. John Kilgore, Editor
Beautiful Luncheon
A beautiful luncheon in honor of Mrs. W.A. Devin was given Friday from 1 to 3:30 o’clock by Mrs. M. Leigh Sheep at her home on West Main street. A color scheme of silver and gold was followed throughout the home in lovely flowers and on the luncheon table with golden jonquils in a silver basket and yellow candles in silver holders. Little fluffy yellow chickens and ducks were the cunning favors and gave a suggestion of Easter that was also carried out by the dainty Easter place cards. A delicious four course luncheon was served. Those enjoying the affair with Mrs. Sheep and Mrs. Devin were Mesdames W.H. Vodrey, East Liverpool, Ohio, J.C.B. Ehringhaus, C.O. Robinson, W.B. Foreman, C.P. Brown, W.G. Gaither, W.A. Worth, Ethel Lamb, W.P. Duff and Miss Nan Burgess.
From the society page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Tuesday, March 25, 1924.
Mrs. Sanderlin Called to Williamston for Death of Her Brother, March 25, 1924
Called to Williamston by Death of Brother
Mrs. C.H. Sanderlin of Panama street left Monday for Williamston where she was called because of the sudden death Monday morning of her brother, James. H. Mizzell.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Tuesday, March 25, 1924.
Caleb Bradshaw Succeeds R. Rhem as Recorder of Sudan Temple, March 25, 1924
Succeeds Dr. Rhem
Rocky Mount, March 25—Caleb D. Bradshaw of New Bern was suddenly appointed recorder of Sudan Temple to succeed the late Dr. J.F. Rhem. From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Tuesday, March 25, 1924.
Dr. J.H. Highsmith to Speak at Shiloh, March 25, 1924
Dr. J.H. Highsmith to Speak at Shiloh
Shiloh, March 25—Dr. J.H. Highsmith, State Supervisor of High Schools, will deliver a public address in the auditorium of Shiloh High School on Thursday evening at 7:45. Those having previously heard Dr. Highsmith speak will understand the nature of the treat that is in store for those who attend.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Tuesday, March 25, 1924.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Alex Jones Appeals Manslaughter Conviction, March 24, 1924
Jones Appeals and Gives Bond. . . After Vain Plea to Save Client from State Prison, Counsel Decided to Take Case to Supreme Court
For nearly an hour Saturday afternoon able counsel pleaded before Judge W.A. Devin for the mercy of the court upon their client, Alex E. Jones of Newland, convicted by a Pasquotank jury Friday of manslaughter for the death of the defendant’s hand of Alfred Ferebee, colored, who had been an employe of the family for more than 20 years.
In their plea for mercy, counsel for the defense went so far as to ask that their client be not imprisoned at all, but that the court impose the minimum penalty prescribed by law, four months in the County jail, and permit the defendant to be hired out by the County Commissioners during his prison term.
“If I could consider no one by myself,” said Judge Devin, “I would accede to this request, but the duty devolves upon me to vindicate the majesty and the supremacy of the law.
“The jury has found the defendant guilty. It might have acquitted him, but it did not accept, at least not in whole, his version of the affair, and the fact remains that he did follow the dead man to a distance from his house and to the edge of his premises where he crushed the negro’s skull with one terrific blow.
“However, I am impressed by the tribute paid the defendant by his neighbors, present here in such large numbers and speaking through the defendant’s counsel, and in view of this tribute and in view of the fact that he has shown by all the witnesses in the case that he had the reputation in his community of being a man of good character, and in view further of the jury’s recommendation for mercy which I am disposed to be in accord with, it is the judgment of the court that the defendant be confined in the State Prison at Raleigh for a period of not less than two nor more than five years.
“Mr. Jones, I am very sorry to have to impose this sentence upon you, but I feel it is my duty to do so.”
Counsel for the defense immediately gave notice of an appeal and the defendant was required to give an appearance bond in sum of $5,000 and appeal bond of $100, which was promptly arranged, and he returned home with his family, pending the appeal.
The theory of the defense in the Jones case was that Alfred Ferebee turned back after he had almost crossed the bridge leading from the Jones lot to the State highway and with open knife came at Jones saying that he was going to leave but before doing so he was going to cut Jones open. The weakness of the defense lay in the fact that the knife was never found nor even seen by any witness other than Jones himself, though Mr. Jones did testify that while waiting for his money Alfred sat on the edge of the porch with his back toward her, apparently whittling. against the defendant and also to the jury’s mind probably was the significant fact that the club with which Alfred was hit seemed to have been carefully made away with, while the knife Ferebee was alleged to have had was never mentioned until Jones went on the stand, Jones telling Sheriff Reid when the sheriff arrested him that he had hit the negro because the latter was impudent in refusing to leave the Jones lot. Equally damaging to the defense was the fact, mentioned by Judge Devin in passing sentence, that Jones followed the negro to the edge of the lot.
The theory of the State was that Jones was chasing the negro with a club and that, seeing that he was going to be overtaken, “Alfred Ferebee turned just in time to receive the blow above the left eye instead of on the back of the head. The State contended that such a blow as was dealt the defendant, crushing in a triangular section of the cranium just above the left eye, could not have been delivered had the two men been face to face. The weakness of the State’s case lay in the fact that there was no eyewitness of the blow except Jones himself and that Mrs. Jones testified that “Abbie,” as she called Alfred Ferebee, fell nearer the house than he was at the last time she saw him before the blow was struck.
This weakness in the State’s case, together with the fact that the principal witness for the state was a negro who admitted that he had been active in financing the defense, led many who watched the jury closely throughout the trial to look for an acquittal or a hung jury. Following the jury’s verdict finding the defendant guilty of manslaughter, the sentence of the court was about in line with general expectation.
Mr. Jones admitted owing the negro $10 which, he said, Alfred had asked him to keep until Christmas. It was the theory of the State that after Mr. Jones had told Ferebee he need not work for him any more and to get off the place and stay off Alfred brought up the matter of the $10 Mr. Jones was keeping for him and that it was the negro’s instance that Mr. Jones pay him this amount that led the white man to go for the negro with a club. It was not the contention of the State nor did anyone who attended the trial have an idea that Mr. Jones deliberately intended to kill the negro.
Alex Jones is one of the most widely known and prominent farmers in the upper part of Pasquotank County. His home stands on the Newland brick road at the point where the State highway to South Mills joins that road, the Newland road bounding the Jones lot in front and the South Mills road bounding it on the right had side, as one faces the Newland road. Mrs. Jones is a sister of D.E. Wiliams of South Mills and of Mrs. W.L. Cohoon of Elizabeth City. D.E. Williams was one of the witnesses for the defense. Mrs. W.L. Cohoon sat beside her sister, Mrs. Jones, throughout the greater part of the trial, while between the two women sat their aged mother, Mrs. W.F. Williams, widow of the late Frank Williams. It is the old Williams home at which Mr. and Mrs. Jones reside, Mrs. Williams living with them. It was suggested in the course of the plea for mercy Saturday by W.L. Cohoon that Alfred Ferebee, who had long done the bidding of the Williams family, was resentful of the authority of the young son-in-law and so had in late years grown insolent and hard to manage, but that Mr. Jones had kept him in his employ largely for the sake of the aged mother-in-law.
Mrs. Williams did not go on the stand was said to be quite deaf. However, when some remark during the trial was made as to her age, she interrupted to say that she was a year younger.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones have been married 12 years and have five children. “It seems a pity,” said Judge Devin Saturday before passing sentence, “that these innocent must suffer along with the guilty,--probably even more than the guilty, but no way has been devised to prevent it.”
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Monday, March 24, 1924.
In Judge Devin's Court Saturday, March 22, 1924
County May Hire Mack Jennings Out
Mack Jennings, former Elizabeth City resident whose motion for a change of venue to Gates County was allowed by Judge Devin early in the week last week, came into court Saturday and through is counsel entered a plea of guilty, whereupon the defendant was sentenced to two years in the Pasquotank jail with leave to the County Commissioners to hire him out and pay his wife the sum of $15 a month, or in case any firm or individual wishes to hire him, the Clerk of Superior Court will permit such firm or individual to do so upon payment of costs by the defendant and upon the defendant giving bond in the sum of $500 for appearance at each term of Superior Court to show good behavior and for the payment of $40 a month to his wife.
J.G. Jennings, for operating an automobile with open cutout, was found not guilty on verdict directed by the court.
George Reid, who has been having a controversy with the city police and recorder’s court officials as to the payment of dog tax, was found not liable to this tax by a Pasquotank jury Friday.
In the case of Lemuel Griffin vs. J.G. Williams et al, judgment was granted in favor of the plaintiff by reason of the failure of the defendants to file an answer to the complaint and the note in controversy was ordered cancelled.
The Elizabeth City Water Company noted an appeal from Judge Devin’s decision denying the injunction asked for by the water company to prevent the issuing and sale of bonds on the part of the city or any other step on the part of the city looking to the establishment of publicly owned utilities and the case will now go to the State Supreme Court.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Monday, March 24, 1924.
Father and Son Plead Guilty to Liquor Charges, March 24, 1924
Quiet After Storm
The case in which Charlie and Calvin Patrick, father and son, were defendants, and which resulted in a mistrial last Wednesday, will not be tried again this week, both defendants having agreed to enter a plea of guilty.
Accordingly, the elder Patrick was fined $25 and costs for violation of the Turlington Act and $5 and costs in each of the other two charges against him, making a total of $35 and costs, while Calvin Patrick was let off with the costs in the two cases in which he was defendant.
The only case tried Monday was that against W.C. Jackson for violation of the parking ordinance, and in this the defendant was let off with the costs.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Monday, March 24, 1924.
The Turlington Act “defined the alcoholic content of beverages and made it illegal "to manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish, purchase, or possess intoxicating liquor," according to N.C.Pedia.org. For more information on this act, see www.ncpedia.org/turlington-act (accessed March 24, 1924).
Saturday, March 23, 2024
UNC President Says Radicals Don't Control College, March 23, 1924
President Chase Criticizes Present Day Speech Writers. . . University Head Declares Radicals Do Not Control American Colleges. . . Views Are Mistaken. . . No Particular Doctrine Is Forced on a Student at Universities, Declared Dr. Chase
By Robert W. Madry
Chapel Hill, March 22—Taking issue with the authors of many articles and speeches of late, who find themselves divided on what they call “radicalism and class privilege” in American colleges and universities, President Harry Woodburn Chase of the University of North Carolina says neither the radicals nor capitalists control these institutions. In a chapel address to University students Sunday he expressed some pertinent views regarding recent utterances by well known authors and speakers.
President Chase asserts that those who sponsor the view that colleges and universities are “hot beds of radicalism” are just as mistaken as are those on the other side who hold that “our educational system is in the hands of class greed and selfishness, based upon economic privilege.”
“Neither group has the slightest idea what a university is for,” he says. “It is not the business of a university to tyrannize over the minds of men, to take their minds and shut them up within he limits of a particular doctrine and a particular system that is forced on them. That, I think, is just the trouble; each group thinks that because the universities of the country are not doing this they are not doing their duty, and that they are in the hands of the enemy. Any university that is worth anything at all has an intellectual ideal, and that ideal has to do with truth, and with the opening of men’s minds to seek the truth. If the university does anything it ought so to discipline men’s minds, that they can go into the business of thinking for themselves.”
President Chase’s address in whole follows:
“You are familiar with the old saying that truth is might and will prevail. Now the question of just how truth is to be made to prevail is one that is exercising the minds of a great many people nowadays, and there are two very different theories about it. I can illustrate the first theory by a quotation from the German philosopher Fichte. Here is what he says: ‘To compel men to a state of right, to put them under the yoke of right by force, is not only the right but the sacred duty of every man who has the knowledge and power.’ Fichte was a Prussian, and he was stating an attitude that I suppose we would all agree is a typical Prussian attitude. His point is, as I understand it, that if you believe a thing is right or true, it is your business to use all the force at hand to see to it that other people come to your way of thinking about it; that you must conquer men’s minds with all the force of constituted authority, if that is necessary, and suppress everybody who has a different idea of right and truth from yours. It is the autocratic view of making truth prevail.
“I want to set over against this quotation from Fichte a statement from that great interpreter of democracy, Thomas Jefferson. I think it is one of the finest statements about intellectual freedom that has ever been made, and it is this: ‘I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.’ In other words, Jefferson says that Fichte is wrong, and that as he conceives it, democracy has no business tyrannizing over men’s thinking any more than it has tyrannizing over their lives. Jefferson was just as much interested in making truth prevail in the world as was Fichte, but his idea of how to go about it was altogether different. Here is what he says about it: ‘Truth will do well enough if left to shift for itself. It has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men. Truth is a proper and sufficient antagonist to error.’ I believe that Jefferson was right, and that he stated the American point of view, when he said that truth will prevail through her own intrinsic power, without any machinery of conquest and of suppression of tyranny, I think it is the business of the University to stand for that point of view.
“Now I want to test this point of view a little on the side of university life that has been giving some people a great deal of concern. A good many articles have been written lately, and a good many speeches have been made, that have taken as their text the assumption that the colleges and universities of this country are interesting statements, and I think it is very interesting to know what a real radical thinks about them. There has recently appeared a book called “The Goosestep” that was written by Upton Sinclair, and I suppose that everybody including Sinclair himself, would agree that he is a thorough-going radical. This book, which was written by a radical from a radical point of view, has as its central teaching that higher education in America has been ‘stolen by a bandit crew which is using it deliberately for its own ends.’ ‘Our higher education system,’ he says, ‘is today in the hands of its last organized enemy, which is class greed and selfishness, based on economic privilege.’ In other words, Upton Sinclair is preaching that the colleges and universities of the country are in the hands of what [Theodore] Roosevelt used to call ‘malefactors of great wealth,’ who are using them to send men out into society to perpetuate their own supremacy.
“You see, if you put these two views side by side, that both groups agree that higher education is in the hands of the enemy, but each side is convinced that the other fellow has got hold of it and is using it for various purposes of his own.
“The point is just this, that neither group has the slightest idea of what a university is for. It is not the business of a university to tyrannize over the minds of men, to take their minds and shut them up within the limits of a particular doctrine and a particular system that is forced on them. That, I think, is just the trouble; each group thinks that because the universities of the country are not doing this they are not doing their duty, and that they are in the hands of the enemy. Any university that is worth anything at all has an intellectual ideal, and that ideal has to do with truth, and with the opening of men’s minds to seek the truth. If the university does anything it ought so to discipline men’s minds that they can to into the business of thinking for themselves. It ought to teach them regard for facts and evidence, and it ought to lift them above the danger of mob-thinking. Mob-thinking is every bit as dangerous as is mob-action, and a man’s thoughts are just as subject to the mob spirit as is his conduct, if he has not developed such intellectual stability that he can weigh facts and seek truth for himself. The man whose mind has been trained to the point that he does not succumb to mob-thinking is not going to rush into radicalism because it makes an impulsive and sensational appeal to him; nor, on the other hand, is he going to fall into the equally dangerous assumption that everybody who does not agree with him in everything is a Bolshevist and a danger to American institutions. He is not going to try to explain everything that goes wrong as being due to the wicked designs of capitalists, nor is he going to see an emissary of Soviet Russia hiding behind every tree. Thinking on that level is mob-thinking, and it is fundamentally contrary to the kind of thinking that is needed if American institutions are to be perpetuated and built up, and if they are to undergo, without unnecessary shock and friction, that process of constant re-interpretation which the President of the United States has recently pointed out must go on to meet the needs of changed conditions in a democracy.
“And now to sum it all up, it is the business of a university to stand for truth, and for so opening men’s minds and enlarging their horizons that they are in a position to seek truth for themselves. The university has only one possible position to take in such a matter as this, and that is the position that was taken by Jefferson, when he said in that fine statement of his that I repeat once more, ‘I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man.’”
From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, March 23, 1924
Deputies Recover 35-Gallon Still, Wash Tub of Corn Whiskey, March 23, 1924
Negroes Leave Tub of Liquor in Mad Rush to Escape Local Deputies in Durham
Carrying a common wash tub full of newly-made corn whiskey down a steep hill in Durham township, near where Eno river crosses the Guess road, two ebony-hued gentlemen who have dedicated their lives to the vocation of suppling Durham “scofflaws” with the illegal cup that cheers, gently eased their precious burden to the ground to wipe the moisture from their brows. That end of the journey was in sight; they paused for a rest.
One of the negroes caught sight of a figure moving in the underbrush in the distance. He looked again, and his eyes dilated. For even though several hundred yards separated him from the on-coming figure, he recognized him as Deputy Will Hall. With a muttered imprecation he grabbed his companion’s arm. Both negroes looked intently into the distance and this time two figures were seen approaching, instantly recognizable as gentlemen not entirely sympathetic with liquor-making. For an instant the two negroes looked at each other, with fright widening their eyes. Then, simultaneously, they wheeled, upsetting the tub, and began a dash that Joie Ray or Charlie Paddock would not have sniffed it.
The two gentlemen who threw such a fright into the negroes were Deputies Belvin and Hall, quite genial fellows when seen on Main street. To those two negroes, who made their get-away, however, the deputies were as welcome as a ku klucker would be in the Vatican.
Continuing their journey, the deputies found the source of the negroes’ liquor, a new 35-gallon still, in which the last “charge” had been placed. The still was running in full blast. It was cut down and brought to the county jail.
From page 9 of the Durham Morning Herald, March 23, 1924
Willie Jones, 14, Guilty of Stealing Bike, March 23, 1924
Negro Youth Tried for Stealing Bike
Willie Jones, aged 14, colored, was given a hearing Saturday in juvenile court following his theft of a bicycle several days ago, the bicycle belonging to Hubert Terrell, white.
Willie evidently was born a merchant for he immediately sold the bike for the sum of $4. This resulted in his arrest and trial. He will now have to appear before the juvenile court judge each month to show that he is behaving. In addition to this, he was ordered to pay for the damage done to the wheel and to refund the money to the person to whom he sold the bike.
From page 9 of the Durham Morning Herald, March 23, 1924
In Recorder's Court Saturday, March 22, 1924
Old Cases Tried Saturday. . . Some Cases More Than Two Months Old Are Handled in Recorder’s Court
Recorder’s court Saturday was swamped with old cases which had been continued from as far back as the middle of January. One case, that of Gib Thompson, who was first called on January 22, was continued again Saturday until October 22. The day’s docket reads as follows:
Will Stanley, drunkenness, fined $5 and costs.
Thomas Williams, disorderly conduct, fined $5 and costs.
Susie McNeal, boisterous cursing, called and failed to appear.
J.B. Bock, boisterous cursing, fined $5 and costs.
J.B. Bock speeding and reckless driving, sentenced to 30 days on the roads. He appealed and bond was fixed at $100.
J.B. Bock, injury to property, judgment suspended upon payment of the costs of the court and $27.50 to the use of J.L. Knight, for the injury to his property. Bock appealed this case also, and bond was fixed at $50.
James Carrington, injury to property, judgment suspended upon payment of the costs and $3 to Gladys Watson for the injury done. In another case on the same count, Carrington was sentenced to serve 30 days on the roads.
J.A. Ferrell Jr., giving worthless check, judgment suspended upon payment of the costs of the court.
Mike Menkin, drunkenness, fined $5 and costs.
Fletcher Harris, assault and battery, called and failed [to appear].
Katie Hall, using room for immoral purposes. Not having paid the fine assessed on January 11 she was sentenced to serve 30 days in the workhouse.
Gib Thompson was tried Saturday on two old cases of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Judgment in the first case was suspended upon payment of the of the costs of the court and $25 to Olive Tilley. The other case was continued until October 22.
Lonnie Draughan, violating the sanitary law, judgment suspended.
Doris Long, called on an old case for speeding and reckless driving, failed to appear. she also failed to appear on a charge of violating the automobile laws.
Horace Myers, vagrancy, continued until March 25. This is the second time this case has been continued.
From page 9 of the Durham Morning Herald, March 23, 1924
Oxford High School Girls Basketball Team Eastern Division Champions, March 23, 1924
Division Champions of Eastern Carolina.
Reading from left to right: Elizabeth Bragg, Ruth Hudson, Wynoma Hudson, Mariana Duke, Rosa Parham, Eva Allen Williams, Mary Frances Longmire, Rosa Dickerson (captain), Charlotte Watkins, and Bill Livengood, coach.
From page 2 of the Durham Morning Herald, March 23, 1924
Annoying 'Pond" on Dacien Street Drained, March 23, 1924
Pond Drained by City Yesterday
As the first step in the completion of the paving of Dacien street, in the northwestern section of the city, the paving contractors on Saturday drained the “pond” formed by the excavation for the base of the street, which has been a source of inconvenience to residents of this district for the past several weeks.
From page 9 of the Durham Morning Herald, March 23, 1924
MIss Colclough Elected President of Southview Woman's Club, March 23, 1924
Southview Woman’s Club Met on Thursday Afternoon
The Southview woman’s club met on Tuesday at the home of Mrs. B.H. Aiken. The following officers were elected for the coming year: Miss Luna Colclough, president; Mrs. J.R. Penny, vice-president; and Mrs. B.H. Aiken, secretary.
These women are studying nutrition. A program is prepared before each meeting and a paper read by different ladies of the club.
From page 15 of the Durham Morning Herald, March 23, 1924
Mrs. Minnie Carden, 42, Has Died, March 23, 1924
Mrs. Carden Died Saturday Morning
Mrs. Minnie Carden, aged 42 years, died Saturday morning at her home in West Durham. She is survived by two daughters, Maybelle and Mary; one sister, Mrs. Bessie Avery of West Durham; two brothers, W.T. Walker of Orange county and A.L. Walker of Virginia.
Funeral services will be conducted from the home Sunday afternoon at 1:30, with Rev. J.S. Kennison, pastor of Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian church, officiating. Interment will be made in the burying ground at Little river church in Orange county.
From the Durham Morning Herald, March 23, 1924
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