Miss Irene Long is confined to her home on East Depot street by illness.
Espy Cannon has accepted a position with the Yorke and Wadsworth Hardware Company.
The Rocky River Community Club will meet Thursday night at 8 o’clock in the schoolhouse.
Cotton on the local market today is quoted at 21 ½ cents per pound. Cotton seed is 45 cents.
J.B. Sherrill is confined to his home with an attack of la grippe. His condition today is reported as slightly improved.
On the 11th and 12th of October at New Zion Church will be held the communion meeting. All the brothers, sisters and friends are invited to be present.
The young people of Rocky River Church are requested to meet Tuesday night at 8 o’clock in the church for the purpose of re-organizing the Young Peoples’ Society.
According to the deed filed Saturday with the register of Deeds, D.F. Joyner has sold to W.R. Kiser a tract of land in the No. 11 township, the purchase price being given as $300.
Register of Deeds Elliott has issued marriage licenses to the following couples: Lewis Lyles and Miss Grace Van Pelt, both of Concord; Raymond Baskins and Miss Wilma Morgan, both of Kannapolis.
G.C. Whitley died Sunday morning at 1 o’clock at his home in No. 11 township. Funeral services were held this morning at 11 o’clock at Rocky River Church, and interment was made in Union cemetery. Mr. Whitley was about 55 years of age and is survived by his wife and several children.
Football for 1924 was ushered in Saturday. In this State Davidson and Elon played, the Presbyterians winning 14 to 0. No other games were played in the State. An 80-yard run by “Nick” Sapperfield, of this city, was the feature of the Davidson victory, the Concord boy slipping through the entire Elon team for the long run and touchdown.
Creeks and rivers in all parts of the county are funning high now as a result of the recent steady and heavy rains. Following the long drought the rains of 20 days have caused little difference in the creeks as the ground soaked up most of the water, but the rains of the past several days have not been absorbed and as a result they have flooded many creeks and rivers in the county.
From Charlotte come reports that everything is ready for the opening of the Made-In-Carolinas exposition. Final plans for the fourth annual exposition were completed Saturday and this morning and officers are ready now to receive the thousands of visitors who are expected during the week. As is always the case, hundreds of persons from this city plant to attend the exposition.
The Sunday School annex to Central Methodist Church is rapidly nearing completion. It is believed now that the building will e ready for occupancy during the next month and officers of the Sunday School of the Church, with the assistance of the pastor, Rev. W.A. Jenkins, are making plans now for proper use of the building. The children of the Sunday School are being classified again and teachers and principals for the various classes and departments already have been reported.
From page 6 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, September 22, 1924
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