Miss Carrie Gorman is confined to her home on account of illness.
Miss Margie Troutman, who has a position at the Gibson Mill office, is enjoying a week’s vacation.
Marriage licenses were issued Friday to Clyde A. Troutman of Rockwell and Miss Marry Stallings of Concord.
The Laura Harris Circle will meet on Monday evening at 8 o’clock with Mrs. A.F. Goodman at her home on North Spring street.
The condition of Mrs. W.H. Scarboro is reported as being improved today. Mrs. Scarboro has been confined to her home on Ann Street for several weeks.
Frank C. Carroll has resigned his position with Wilson & Company, and accepted a similar one with Jacob Dold Company. He will begin his new duties on Monday, July 21st.
Mrs. Phroney White, wife of John White, died at their home on the Beatty Ford Street at 1:45 o’clock Friday afternoon. She was about 68 years of age. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Pentuff form the McGill Street Baptist Church this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, and interment was made in Oakwood cemetery.
Mrs. M.R. Pounds and daughter, Susie Kate, have returned from a month’s visit to schoolmates of Mrs. Pounds. They spent two weeks in Wilmington as guests of Mrs. J.T. Barker, after which they went to Dover, where they visited Mrs. B.H. Thompson. There they joined a camping party on a 10-days’ trip to historic Fort Macon.
Sixty dollars in fines, besides costs, were collected in police court Friday afternoon in nine cases. Three of them were for larceny, two assaults with deadly weapon, one assault on a female, one speeding, and one false pretenses. George Carey, alias George Clark, was bound over to Superior Court on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. His game, it is alleged, was working the American Red Cross in various cities for whatever money he needed. the local chapter was among those imposed upon.
Actual work of grading the Concord-Mt. Pleasant highway has been started. Workmen are busy at several places long the line, working on the culverts and grading, in Mt. Pleasant, at a point about two miles this side of Mt. Pleasant, and at a point near St. Johns Church. It is understood that the contractor has a steam shovel which will be started on the work as soon as it can be transported from the railroad to the places it is needed. This has been delayed until arrangements can be made to carry the heavy machine over the streams along the route.
From page 8 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, July 12, 1924
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