Clarendon, Oct. 22—For the past several days we have noticed a large quantity of lumber piled near Mr. R.R. Hinson’s house on his big farm on the rural route one, and nearly every day we saw the lumber piles growing larger. For the life of us we could not figure out what Raeford was going to do with so much lumber, until one day last week we observed that a large force of carpenters and framed up a very large buildings. Form its dimensions we decided that he had a hunch that there was another flood coming, so we stopped with the intention of making reservations for ourself, family and John Henry. However, upon inquiry we learned that it wasn’t really an ark, but a barn, where in will be housed grain, forage, live stock, buggies, wagons, farming implements, motor trucks and automobiles. So, learning its real purpose, we proposed to his brother, Squire Hinson, who was assisting in the carpenter work, that soon as the building is completed, we invite everybody in the surrounding country with mules, horses, cows, trucks and automobiles to bring them all over and house them in his barn for a week or until it was fully christened This proposition was unanimously agreed to by all present, except Raeford, and he held his peace, and this house party will come off immediately after the completion of his barn.
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--The Mill Branch Primitive Baptist association will be held at Mill Branch Baptist church, about five miles southeast of here Friday, Saturday and Sunday next week. Extensive preparations are being made by the members of the local church and a large attendance from different parts of the country is expected.
--Miss Mamie Brown of Chadbourn spent the week-end with friends in Clarendon.
--Born to Mr. and Mrs. S.V. Powell on Monday, Oct. 20th, a boy.
--A series of revival services are being held at Sweet Home Baptist church this week, by Rev. S.A. Hatley and P.B. Coats.
--Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Elliott and Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Frink attended the Quarterly conference at Cerro Gordo last Saturday.
--Remember the Columbus County Fair next week in Whiteville. It promises to be the biggest and best ever.
--Haying and fertilizing strawberries is the order among the farmers.
--Rev. Mr. McLamb, pastor, will begin a revival meeting at Bethel Methodist church next Sunday morning.
--Go to the Fair next week and see the great progress your county is making along educational, industrial and agricultural lines. Don’t get in on your mind that we are not going to have a tip-top fair this year because of the short crops. There will be some excellent farm exhibits, nevertheless, notwithstanding.
--Six applicants for membership in the Mount Sinai Baptist church were immersed in the Rockwell mill-race last Sunday morning.
--Despite the fact that three weeks ago there was the most water on the ground in the memory of our oldest inhabitant, we are now in the midst of the dryest spell since last May. The roads in some places are rather difficult to drive over on account of the deep sand.
From the front page of The News Reporter, Whiteville, N.C., Oct. 23, 1924
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