Negro Students Living in County May Not Attend Negro Schools in Durham, Nov. 2, 1924

County Students in City Schools. . . Hillside Park School Had 182 Children from Pearsontown District

Survey of the colored schools of the city by the school attendance officer has revealed the fact that 182 children have been attending the Hillside park school who live outside the city limits. Children were found to be attending there, also, who lived east of South street, which is the school boundary line for the colored schools. A large part of the 182 students should have been attending the Pearsontown school, it was stated by J.W. Beavers the school attendance officer.

Some of the number were high school students are rightfully were attending the city school. (??)

A number of the students have now gone back to the Pearsontown school, giving to the Hillside school some badly needed room. The overcrowded condition of this school has been the source of concern to the school officials. All of the class rooms were taxed to capacity and the wooden hut on the school grounds was also pressed into service. Ordinarily 30 or 35 students are cared for in one room, meaning that the students attending the Hillside school from the country represented five or six class rooms.

With the sending back of those students to the Pearsontown and other schools where they belonged, the congestion at Hillside school was relieved.

With the holp of Major Marion B. Fowler, business manager of the city schools, the condition has been remedied and the boundaries established.

From page 2 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924

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Pilots Arrested for Dropping Sales Circulars from Plane, Nov. 2, 1924

Warrants Out for Aviators’ Arrest. . . Circulars Scattered over City from Plane Cause of Trouble

Some means for distributing the aero grams in the city of Durham will have to be devised other than from an airplane. The operation of a plane over the city Saturday form which were thrown many circulars and the paper called the aero gram is a violation of the law and because of the act warrants have been sworn out by the police department against W.H. Filmore, pilot of the plane, Robert Porter and S.W. Guyes, the later manager of the United Dollar Stores, charging them with distributing circulars over the streets of the city.

A quantity of the circulars were thrown from the plane while it was circling over the city Saturday afternoon and some of them fell into the hands of the police. Hundreds of people witnessed the scattering of the circulars and many of them were picked up only to be thrown down on the street. Others fell upon the tops of the business houses of the city. The scattering of circulars on the city streets is in strict violation of a city ordinance.

Other warrants will be issued, also, according to police headquarters, with the manager of every store having an advertisement on the little paper or on circulars scattered during the afternoon and others being the recipients of the undesirable papers from the police.

The case against the three men against whom warrants have already been served is expected to come up for trial before recorder’s court Monday.

From page 10 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924

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Sexton Rhew Wins Countywide Spelling Bee, Nov. 2, 1924

Sexton Rhew Is Contest Winner. . . Bragtown Lad Representing West Durham School Misses Two Words

Sexton Rhew of Bragtown, a student at West Durham school, carried off first honors in Saturday’s county school spelling bee held during the morning in superior court room. Glenn school carried off second honors the girl entrant from that school winning in the spell-off after having tied with the representative from a third school on five words missed out of the 100 given them.

Young Rhew who daily rides to West Durham from Bragtown in one of the county’s trucks missed only two words out of the 100 assigned. This made him an easy winner over all the other contestants. Fifteen schools and 17 contestants were represented in the contest, East and West Durham each having two entrants. Marked interest was displayed in the contest by all participants, board of education officials and teachers from the various schools represented.

From page 10 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924

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Durham Library's Longer Winter Hours Begin, Nov. 2, 1924

Library Winter Hours Started

Effective Saturday and Durham public library began new hours which will be maintained throughout the winter months. Every night they will remain open until 9 o’clock. During the winter months the library is used more than during the summer months. The presence of many Trinity students here has to do with the increase in use of the library while scores of high school students make nightly use of the building.

From page 10 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924

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Durham's Newest Beauty Shop Opens Nov. 4, 1924

New Beauty Shop to Open Tuesday

Durham latest Beauty parlor, which will be known as “The Powder Puff Beauty Shop” has its formal opening next Tuesday, November 4. It is located on West Main street, over the Durham Men’s shop. All equipment used will e of the very latest and modern type. The management is in very competent hands, the woman in charge having had long experience in the art of such work.

From page 10 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924

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Marriage Licenses Issued Nov. 1, 1924

Cupid Had a Busy Day Here Saturday

Marriage licenses issued Saturday from the office of the register of deeds included:

Sidney D. Singleton, 37, of Greer, S.C., to Annie Thomas, 32, of Durham.

Robert G. Dunn, 22, of Duke to Myrtle Hulin, 22, of Durham.

Garland D.P. Glenn, 19, of Durham, to Bessie Holder, 19, also of Durham.

All three couples were white.

From page 2 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924

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Madame F.K. Watkins Has Died, Nov. 2, 1924

Colored Singer Is to be Buried Today

Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at St. Joseph’s A.M.E. Zion Church, Fayetteville street, the funeral service will be conducted over the remains of Madame F.K. Watkins, colored vocalist of this city, who died Thursday.

The active and honorary pall bearers are as follows: R.M. Shaw, Dr. C.H. Shepard, Prof. W.G. Pearson, Prof. J.A. Dyer, J.M. Avery, Dr. S.L. Warren, Jas. Bailey Sr., Dr. Clyde Donnell and F.L. McCoy, E.R. Merrick, James E. Best, Russell Parham, W. Gomez, W.J. Kennedy, Dr. W.C. Strudwick, C.E. Anthony, Dr. J.M. Ellis, Prof. E.D. Mickle, J.L. Pearson, R.L. McDougald, A.L. Goodloe and Dr. M. George Avant.

Flower bearers will be members of the Twentieth Century Club, of which the deceased was a life member.

From page 2 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924

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John Argborn Hartsell, 72, Has Died, Nov. 2, 1924

Mr. Hartsell Dead

John Argborn Hartsell, aged 72, died Friday night at his home on the Oxford-Creedmoor road after an illness of several months. He was a progressive farmer and was noted as a raiser of watermelons. He is survived by his widow.

Funeral services will be held from Correth Church Sunday at 2 o’clock with Rev. G.T. Tunstall officiating. Interment will be made in the church cemetery.

The pallbearers as announced are as follows: S.H. Usry, Joe Overton, A.H. Graham, D.F. Lanier, W.H. Long, B.S. Royster, C.R. Jordan and David Eakes.

From page 11 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924

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William Flowers Improving After Operation, Nov. 2, 1924

Durham Man Better After an Operation

A message received here Saturday by relatives was to the effect that the condition of William W. Flowers, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Flowers, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis in a New York hospital, was much improved. Prof. R.L. Flowers, who has been at his bedside, expects to return home in the course of a few days, it is said.

From page 2 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924

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Troops Called Out to Stop Fighting Between KKK and Knights of the Flaming Circle, Nov. 1, 1924

Troops Are Called Out to Stop Rioting in Ohio Town. . . Flaming Circle and Klan Clash in Bloody Fight. . . Niles Is Patrolled by State Troops to Prevent Further Outbreaks. . . Klan Dispersed. . . Visiting Klansmen Are Sent Out of the City by the Military. . . Mayor Out of Action. . . City’s Official Head Could Not Be Found and County Sheriff Took Entire Charge of the Situation; Governor Orders Out Troops After Receiving Word That Riot Was in Progress—Business Places Including Banks Close Up

By the Associated Press

Niles, Ohio, Nov. 1—State militia tonight patrolled the streets of Niles following a day of rioting between members of the Ku Klux Klan and Knights of the Flaming Circle. Quiet was rapidly returning tonight. Gun battles between flaming circle adherents and Ku Klux Klansmen had occurred near the meeting places of the rival factions. Pistol fights between speeding automobiles of klansmen and klan foes added to the casualty toll.

Several times shots were fired by the opposing factions into their rival camps. Many of these shots went wild as large number of men fell flat on the ground as firing started. Military control, however, was not established until after almost a dozen persons had been shot or badly mauled. Some are in hospitals in serious condition at Warren, the county seat of Trumbull county, five miles away.

As the big motor trucks rolled through the streets loaded with soldiers and machine guns mounted on their hoods and tops, shouts and cheers went up from the crowds which lined the streets. Sheriff John E. Thomas said this evening after a tour of the city that “everything is quiet and I don’t expect any more trouble.”

The sheriff with scores of special deputies had managed to keep the opposing forces from coming together en masse until the rival of state troops. His efforts in preserving order, however, did not prevent numerous sporadic clashes among detached units of the opposing forces, resulting in the casualties.

“I am tickled to death that it was no worse” was the only statement Sheriff Thomas would make tonight.

Colonel L.S. Connelly, of the 145th infantry, who was placed in command of all troops ordered to Niles by Governor Donahey, in a statement to the citizens of Niles said it was not his intention to impose unnecessary military regulations on them and urged all to co-operate with him in maintaining order.

Tonight practically all klansmen from other points had left the city or were rapidly leaving by back routes or avoiding entering the city. A special train carrying several hundred Klansmen from Kent and other cities arrived over the Erie railroad after military authorities had taken charge of the situation. They were not permitted to leave the train.

Many business places were closed tonight. All banks were closed though it is their custom to remain open on Saturday nights.

Throughout all today’s tense period, Mayor Harvey C. Kistler “probably is in the city somewhere attending to official duties.”

From the front page of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924. The Klan only accepted white people who were protestant native-born American citizens. . The Knights of the Flaming Circle were a militant Klan that accepted white people who were Catholic and immigrants.

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Xmas Ads 100 Years Ago, Nov. 2, 1924

Are you annoyed by displays of Christmas merchandise in late October and in November before Thanksgiving? Feel that spelling “Christmas” as “Xmas” takes the Christ out of the holiday? One hundred years ago, newspaper ads promoting Christmas items appeared, and nobody criticized the use of the word “Xmas” either. Here’s one example:

Make Sure of a Merry, Musical Xmas!

The Corley company’s Xmas Victrola Club Assures Delivery of Your Victrola in Time for Christmas on Terms Within Reach of Everybody.

To see the ad on page 9 of the Durham Herald, Sunday, Nov. 2, 1924, go to:

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