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Concord's Local News Briefs, Oct. 25, 1924

Local Mention

Cotton on the local market today is quoted at 22 cents per pound; cotton seed at 52 ½ cents per bushel.

W.C. Walker and Wesley Walker of the State College at Raleigh are spending the week-end with their parents here.

The condition of J. Rufus Fisher of Crescent is still very critical and his death is expected at any time.

An important meeting of the Music Department of the Woman’s Club will be held Tuesday evening, October 28th, with Mrs. W.M. Linker.

Marriage license has been issued by Register of Deeds Elliott to Ben G. Barbee of China Grove and Miss Thelma Spears, Harrisburg, Route 1.

The condition of Ora Lee Jenkins, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. W.A. Jenkins, who has been ill for some time, is reported today as slightly improved. She is still unable to be out.

Mrs. Irvin Taylor and children, of Akron, Ohio, Mrs. Herbert Garrison of Pineville, N.C., and Miss Lucy Helms of Monroe are visiting at the home of ex-sheriff J.F. Honeycutt.

Results of the football games of interest in the South and East will be received by The Tribune tonight from the Associated Press and the results will be posted at The Times-Tribune office.

The condition of J.B. McAllister, clerk of court, is reported today as practically unchanged and he is unable to be at his office in the court house here. M.L. Widenhouse is in charge of Mr. McAllister’s office.

According to a deed filed Friday with the register of deeds A.B. Pounds has sold to the W.B. Ward Company a piece of property in Ward 4. The property is located near the passenger station of the Southern Railway company. The purchase price was not given.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Correll of Greensboro passed through Concord this morning en route to Charlotte for the auto races. They will return to Concord tonight and spend tonight and tomorrow here with Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Sherrill.

The Shenandoah, which is returning now to its hangar at Lakehurst, will not come through North Carolina on the return trip. On the way to Texas the air craft passed over the state on what is known as the southern air route but on the return trip the ship is traveling over Arkansas and adjoining states.

Rev. T.F. Higgins, the new pastor of Forest Hill Methodist Church, will not be in Concord tomorrow. Mr. Armstrong will preach in Charlotte at 11 a.m., returning to the Jackson Training School for a service at 3 p.m. He will conduct his final service at Forest Hill tomorrow night.

Hundreds of persons have passed through Concord today en route to Charlotte to see the auto races. In addition many Concord people left this morning for Charlotte. Bennett Hill in practice Friday made a new record for a board track, in Charlotte when he drove his auto faster than 126 miles an hour.

Mrs. W.D. Dorton is confined to her home on West Corbin Street by illness.

Harry Propst, who held a position with the Southern freight office in Hamlet, has resigned his position, and will leave tonight for New York where he will spend the winter with his mother. Mr. Propst will study voice while in New York.

The white teachers of the county schools are holding their first meeting of the year in the court house here this afternoon. The meeting will begin at 2 o’clock with Prof. J.B. Robertson presiding. Business matters pertaining to the work of the school for the present term will receive attention at the meeting.

From page 8 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Oct. 25, 1924

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