Broken Rail Spills Eight Freight Cars April 3, 1925

Train Wrecked at Four Oaks. . . Broken Rail Causes Eight Freight Cars to Turn Over. . . Some Completely Wrecked

Four Oaks, April 3—This morning about 2 o’clock one of the rails in the railroad track broke near here, causing eight freight cars to be turned over. The cars were loaded with lime, lumber and pipes. Some of the cars were completely destroyed. The wreck train has been working all day trying to clear the tracks but only one track is cleared for trains. The workmen are working hard to fix the tracks as soon as possible.

The physics class of the high school here studied powers some time ago, but had not seen much of it, so Mr. Hatcher, the teacher, took them down to observe airbrakes, power and the force of the wreck train.

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Saturday morning, April 4, 1925

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E.M. Temple Seriously Hurt When Struck by Car, April 4, 1925

Man Knocked Down by Auto on Road. . . Mr. E.M. Temple Struck by Ford Near Four Oaks; Thought to be Seriously Hurt

Last night about 9 o’clock a serious accident occurred near Four Oaks when Mr. E.M. Temples, who was going toward Four Oaks, was knocked down by a Ford car. Coach W.L. Rice, with members of the local base ball team who were returning form the game in Dunn last night, witnessed the accident, and state that it seemed entirely uncalled for. They said the driver the car did not stop after the accident.

It is said that Mr. Temple was well out of the road when the car passed but the ball players thinking they heard the passing car strike something, stopped to investigate. They found Mr. Temples by the side of the road, and he appeared to be badly hurt, although they did not think the car ran over him. They immediately took him to Four Oaks for medical attention but were unable to learn the extent of the injuries sustained by Mr. Temple before they left. It is not known who was driving the car that struck Mr. Temple.

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Saturday morning, April 4, 1925. Victim’s last name was spelled Temples and Temple in newspaper.

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Correction in Recorder's Court Report, April 4, 1925

Correction in Recorder’s Court

Mr. C.S. West of Four Oaks, Route 4, was in the city Friday and called our attention to an error in the proceeding of the Recorder’s Court. In a larceny case the defendants were named W.D. and Clarence Faircloth. Mr. West stated that Clarence Faircloth was not connected with the case. We do not know how the mistake occurred. The record was published as copied from the docket book.

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Saturday morning, April 4, 1925

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Former Minister Sent to Roads for Transporting Liquor, April 4, 1925

Reverend Tom P. Jimison Found with Hooch in Bag

Reverend Tom P. Jimison, former Methodist minister of Spencer, and lately deposed from his former position as such by the Methodist conference, meeting in Greensboro last year, was arrested in Charlotte yesterday and sentenced to 60 days labor on the roads on the charge of transporting liquor.

Jimison passed the police of that city on beat and the odor of liquor attracted their attention. They followed the former preacher, searched his handbag, and found seven pints. Taken to city court, he received the above treatment and was sentenced. He took an appeal and bond was fixed at $250.

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Saturday morning, April 4, 1925

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Smithfield Putting On Banner Exposition This Week, April 4, 1925

Reports Indicate Banner Exposition. . . Merchants of Eastern Carolina Will Put on Style Show on Wednesday Night. . . Mrs. H.P. Stevens Chm’n

At the last meeting of the Women’s Division of the Eastern Carolina Exposition held in Smithfield on Friday afternoon, March 27th, representatives were present from every town in the county save one. The reports of plans made by the chairmen of the several committees foretell happenings of more than common interest during the Exposition, which will open its doors for the third year on April 13th.

Ample provisions have been made for providing meals for all who attend and for those who may wish to remain over nights. Captain H.L. Skinner has very generously offered the Banner Warehouse free to women’s clubs, schools and church organizations which may wish to serve meals. As many as three booths are still available and may be obtained upon application to Mrs. P.H. Kasey, Smithfield.

According to reports of committee chairmen on floats for women’s clubs and schools, quite a number are making plans to take part. The Baby Show promised to be an unusual event. The report of the committee on this will be published in detail later. That the Beauty Queens will claim their full share of attention is a foregone conclusion. Rather elaborate preparations are going on in their behalf. Watch for a full announcement of this feature of the Exposition.

Secretary Newell G. Bartlett announced that 2,500 chairs will be provided for those who may wish to secure seats to hear Rev. Wm. A. Sunday on Monday afternoon and night of the exposition. Tickets for these will be put on sale for a week at some public place in each town in Johnston county beginning April 1st. Any one who wished to do so may purchase. On April 8th all unsold tickets will be returned to Smithfield where they will be available to the general public.

Mrs. H.P. Stevens was named director of the Style Show, which the merchants of Eastern Carolina will stage on Wednesday night of the Exposition.

A committee was appointed to plan for the celebration of the third birthday of the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce on Thursday at a dinner attended by perhaps a thousand, when Senator Thos. Heflin of Alabama will speak.

The Chairman of the Children’s Historic Pageant committee stated that each town might use as many children as it wished in presenting its episode on Friday night of the Exposition. Those who have this in charge in each town are requested to send in to Miss Irene Myatt, Smithfield, as early as possible the number taking part and also the name and author of the musical selections used that the latter may be turned over to Victor’s Band of New York, which will furnish music for the entire pageant.

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Saturday morning, April 4, 1925

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Miss Micro is Jennie Atkinson, April 4, 1925

“Miss Micro”

Miss Jennie Atkinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Atkinson, who will represent the town of Micro in the Beauty Queen’s contest during the Exposition.

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Saturday morning, April 4, 1925

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1,400 Junior Members Met at Smithfield April 3, 1925

District Meeting of Juniors Held Here. . . Over 1,000 Members of Junior Order Represented in District Meet Here. . . Fried Fish Featured

Yesterday was the occasion of a big fraternal meeting in Smithfield, when the Junior Order of United American Mechanics held a District Meeting here. There were representatives from all the Councils save eight, and a grand total of 1,413 Juniors were represented.

The first meeting was held yesterday afternoon in the lodge of the local Council at 3 o’clock, with District Deputy Archie D. Odum presiding. The principal address of this meeting was made by M.W. Lincke, president of the State Vice Council. Mr. Lincke is the editor of The Nashville Graphic. His address was along the line of the good of the order, its fundamental purposes, and the things toward which it strives. The address was strong, say those who heard it, and full of interesting details relative to the Order. A short talk was made following this address by R.M. Gantt, State Councilor. His address also was fine and to the point and fully appreciated by local and visiting Juniors.

Following these addresses, miscellaneous business details were discussed and action taken. Announcements followed this, and then came adjournment to Holt Lake, where the local Council was host to the visitors at a fish fry. Guests proclaimed it the finest ever and thoroughly enjoyed the affair.

Upon leaving the Lake, the Juniors returned to the Count House. There the local and furnished several selections. Following this the evening program was entered into and the remaining business transacted. This meeting was open to everyone, and a good number of people who were not Juniors attended.

The councils which hold membership and compose this district are 102 Smithfield, 136 Kenley, 176 Spring Hope, 201 Nashville, 233 Rocky Cross, 236 Middlesex, 305 Glover, 337 Four Oaks, 367 Gum Pond, 374 Selma, 404 Princeton, 411 Bailey, 421 Magnolia, 423 Peachtree, 457 Little River, 413 Sandy Springs, 416 Momeyer, 458 Micro, 484 Powhatan, 498 Weaver Branch, and 532 Antioch.

The evening program was as follows:

Invocation, Rev. S.L. Morgan

Music, Band

Solo, Miss Frances White

Address of Welcome, J.D. Parker

Response, O.P. May of Nashville

Address, Hon. R.M. Gantt, State

Address, District Deputy A.D. Odum

Benediction, Rev. S.L. Morgan

Officers for the coming year are District Deputy A.D.O Odum; Vice-Council Alonzo Stancil of Selma, District Secretary O.P. May of ?tary, ?? M.A. Wallace of Smithfield, Financial Secretary George Hodge of Kenly, Treasurer M.C. Owen of Bailey, Chaplain M.W. Lincke of Nashville, Conductor Walter Parrish of Selma, Warden J.T. Vick of Nashville, Inside Sentinel Walter Eason of Selma, Outside Sentinel A.V. Gulley of Smithfield.

The District Council next year will be held with the Little River Council.

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Saturday morning, April 4, 1925

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High School Student Earl Codgill Killed When Car Flips, April 3, 1925

Earl Codgill Died on Dillsboro Road

The body of Earl Cogdill, a student of the Central High School and whose home is in Addie, was found in the road between Sylva and Dillsboro shortly after 9 o’clock last Friday night by Keiley E. ?? and Horace Kephart of Bryson City.

A short distance from where the body of young Cogdill was found, a Ford coupe was overturned in the ditch, at the bottom of a steep embankment, and a new Oldsmobile ??, the property of E. Ford King was off the road, but not turned over at a little distance to the Sylva side of where the body was found. In the Ford were three men who gave their names as Edward L. Smith, Charles Case, and W.O. Williams of Asheville. The Oldsmobile ws unoccupied. The three Asheville men stated that they were on their way to Nantahala on a fishing trip when they met the Oldsmobile coming toward Sylva and collided with it.

The Oldsmobile was left in front of the High School by Mr. King, while he was attending the debate, and it is presumed that some boys took it for a joy-ride, expecting to return it to where it was parked before Mr. King would come out of the building, and that yung Cogdill was riding either in the car or on the running board with some companions. The other boys, who were with the unfortunate young Cogdill, are said to have fled, immediately after the accident, and before the occupants of the Ford could extract themselves, and their identity has not yet been learned.

A coroner’s inquest was held, and the three Asheville men released a few hours after the tragedy was discovered.

The funeral of Earl Cogdill, the unfortunate victim of the boyish prank accent, was held Saturday by Rev. J.T. Carson, and interment was in the Old Field cemetery at Beta.

Young Cogdill, who was about 17 years of age, was a good student in the Central High School and had many friends among his classmates. He was well-connected, being a member of one of the prominent families of the county. His father has been dead for a number of years and his mother, Mrs. Letitia Cogdill, lives at Addie. The sympathy of all the people in this part of the county has been extended to the family.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Judge Orders Homer Brown and John Jones Freed, April 3, 1925

Brown and Jones Ordered Released

Homer Brown and John Jones, two Balsam men, were convicted at the February term of Superior court and ?? need to serve terms on the roads of Henderson county, have been ordered released by Judge Finley under the Calloway Bryson prohibition act.

Brown was convicted of retailing and Jones of manufacturing [moonshine]. The attorneys for both men tried to persuade Judge Finley to accept a fine in lieu of the road sentence, but his honor refused to allow them to pay the fine, and sentenced them to serve terms on the road. As soon as certified copies of the Galloway-Bryson act, applicable to this county, Polk, Graham, and Transylvania, and providing a minimum fine of $50 and a maximum of $100 for the first offense of violating the prohibition laws, was received here, brown and Jones began habeas corpus proceedings. A hearing was given by Judge Finley at Murphy, and he ordered them released, as the Galloway-Bryson Act was ratified a few days prior to the February term of Jackson county superior court, and the judgement pronounced by Judge Finley was therefore void. They have neither to pay fines or serve the road sentences.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Cullowhee Graded School Commencement Held, April 3, 1925

Cullowhee Graded School Closes

Cullowhee, Mar. 27—The Cullowhee Graded School, used the Cullowhee State Normal as a practice school, closed a few nights ago with a beautiful commencement exercise, and the practice teachers have gone home for a rest, prior to the beginning of Summer School. The practice school was the largest the past session in the history of Cullowhee, the total enrollment in the seven grades being 290. The average attendance for the seven grades being 193. The practice school has been the center of much and varied activity this year. Many projects have been worked out by the various grades, such as building miiaure houses, making furniture for the same, planting shrubs, fitting up a museum and library, and so on. Then, the school has been the meeting place for several group center meetings of Jackson County teachers, to say nothing of its serving as a training station for something like a score of Normal School seniors. Many of the leaders in public education in orth Carolina have visited Cullowhee this session, and their words of praise of the practice school have been gratifying to the Normal School authorities. Dr. Alexander, of the Teachers College, Columbia University, after spending a couple of days at Cullowhee recently, stated that he had visited more than 30 normal schools in the past nine months, but that not a single institution he had visited seemed to have a better practice school than Cullowhee. “In fact,” he said, “if I were on the lookout for teachers would could put over the job of demonstration teaching, I think I should hit for Cullowhee about the first place.”

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Sylva Concert Band Progressing Rapidly, April 3, 1925

Sylva Band Makes Progress

The Sylva Concert Band seems to be an assured fact. They are progressing very rapidly and all signs point to success.

Many of the members started without knowledge of a band instrument but can now play well.

We are hoping to hear some good open air concerts during this spring and summer, which will be of great pleasure to the whole community.

The advertising a good band gives to a community is worthy of considerable consideration.

The band practices every Tuesday and Friday nights, at the graded school house.

More members are wanted. Each member owns his own instrument. Arrangements have been made that one wishing to join the band may get his instrument on the installment plan.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Summer School Faculty at Cullowhee State Normal, April 3, 1925

Cullowhee Summer Faculty Complete

Cullowhee, Mar. 30—President Hunter announces that the faculty for the 1925 Summer School at Cullowhee State Normal is about complete. Among those of the present faculty who will be connected with the Summer School are the following: H.T. Hunter, President; W.N. Coard, Bursar; Professors C.H. Ali??, F.H. Brown, E.H. Stillwell, and W. Alexander; Misses Maudine Allen, Alice Benton, Eleanor Gladstone, Frances Lacy, Cleo Rainwater and Annie Ray; also Mrs. G.B. Arnold and Mrs. Lucy Posey. In addition to these regular members of the faculty, the following teachers from elsewhere have been engaged for either six or 12 weeks: Miss Nettie Brogden, professor of Elementary Schools of ?? County; Miss Helen E. Dillerd, teacher of English, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York; Miss Ethel Fielding, Head of the Voice and Public School Music Departments, Elon College; Miss Eloise Franks, franklin, N.C., director of several summer schools; Miss Maude M. Hall, formerly a teacher in Teachers college, Columbia University, now teacher of English, East Carolina Teachers College; Professor Lawrence L. Lohr, Assistant Supervisor of High Schools, State Department of Education, North Carolina; Prof. R.O. Edgerton, Principal fo the High School, Waynesville, N.C.; Miss Rosetta Rivers, Head of the Art Department, Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.; Professor W.E. Bird, dean of the Normal School, who has been at the University of North Carolina during the present session, pursuing graduate work in English and Education. Plans are being made also for certain short-unit courses dealing with specific problems in elementary education, to be given by a number of superintendents and others specially qualified in this field. Among those who have already been engaged for these short courses are Supt. A.W. Honeycutt, Hendersonville; Supt. L.B. Bean, Lincolnton; Supt. J.H. Rose, Greenville; Miss Susan Fulgham, Supervisor of Teacher Training, State Department of Education, Raleigh.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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It's Called Cullowhee State Normal School Now, April 3, 1925

Change Name of Cullowhee School

Cullowhee, March 26—Twenty years ago in 1905, the institution which had been founded by Professor R.L. Madison and for 15 years had been known as Cullowhee High School was, by legislative enactment, given the name of Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School. This was in line with the earlier names given most of our institutions: North Carolina College for Women at Greensboro was for a long time known as the Normal and Industrial School, while Wake Forest College was first called Wake Forest Manual Training and Industrial Institute. But, with the change of time, comes the change, not to say evolution, of educational institutions. Cullowhee has, in recent years, been devoting itself more and more to training of teachers, and has never had any strictly “industrial” training. Thus its name has been a misnomer, and it was altogether fitting that the recent legislature should give the institution a title in keeping with the work it is now doing. The Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School is no more, but in its stead we have the Cullowhee State Normal School.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Stop Dynamiting Streams, Says Editor, April 3, 1925

Saving at the Bung

The state is spending a large sum of money, though not as much as it should, to build fish hatcheries and improve the fishing in the streams of the state. So far as Jackson county is concerned, it is a waste of money until the practice of dynamiting the streams is stopped. At the rate we are going, the streams will be depopulated in a few years despite the efforts that are being made to restock them.

There should be a reward offered, sufficient in size to get results, for information to convict any person of exploding dynamite in any stream in the county.

From the editorial page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925; Dan Tompkins, editor.

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Sylva Debaters to Go to Chapel Hill for State Cup Competition, April 3, 1925

Sylva Debaters Win Over Waynesville

The Central High School debating team won over Waynesville High School at both Sylva and Waynesville in the preliminary elimination debating contest for the high schools of the state Friday night and will go to Chapel Hill in April for the finals

. Misses Sarah Sue Sherrill and Elizabeth Moody represented the Sylva school at Waynesville, and Misses Sue Allison and Neil Edwards composed the team that debated at home. These young ladies won the decision at both places, and all four will go to Chapel Hill for the final contest for the state cup. The victories of the Sylva debaters is most gratifying because Waynesville has held the state championship cup.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Rev. Gibbs to Lead Revival at Cullowhee, April 12, 1925

Revival at Cullowhee

Revival services will begin at the Cullowhee Methodist church Sunday, April 12.the pastor, Rev. A.W. Lynch, will be assisted by Rev. A.C. Gibbs of Canton. Mr. Gibbs is a successful pastor and evangelist, and the church is fortunate in securing his services. An invitation is extended to all to attend these services.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Shoal Creek News in The Journal, April 3, 1925

Shoal Creek

Mr. and Mrs. P.C. Shelton, Mr. R.F. Hall, Miss Clem Hall, Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Ferguson, Mr. Carl ??, Mr. J.K. Terrell and Mr. ?? Hall attended Quarterly Meetings at Olivet Sunday.

Mr. York Howell went to Waynesville Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Hughes went to Asheville Sunday, where they expect to make their home for a while.

Misses Anna (Dana?) Deakins and Bertha Buchanan left for their homes Saturday after spending a week with relatives and friends.

Messrs. James Hall and G.A. Kinsland made a trip to Conley’s Creek Sunday afternoon.

Miss Grace Hoyle and Mr. Carl Hoyle called at Mr. J.H. Hughes’ Sunday evening.

Misses Essie Anthony, Hettie Howell and Lorena Bradley were guests at Mrs. A.C. Hoyle’s Sunday.

Mr. H.G. Ferguson and his mother, Mrs. J.L. Ferguson, visited relatives in Waynesville last week.

Mrs. L.W. Cooper visited Mrs. W.H. Hoyle Friday.

Mrs. P.H. Ferguson and daughter Mary Belle spent Thursday with Mrs. J.K. Terrell.

Mr. Penn Keener is employed at Hazelwood.

Mrs. Ruth Gibson spent the week end at Mr. York Howell’s.

Messrs. J.E. Battle and Sevier Keener went to Lufty Sunday.

Miss Winnie Cooper called on Miss Etta Kinsland Tuesday.

Owing to the fine weather, our farmers are getting their land in good shape for early planting.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., April 3, 1925

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Land Owners Agreeing to Take Down Signs to Beautify Highway, April 2, 1925

Take Down Signs, Say Land Owners. . . They are Actively Cooperating in Movement to Beautify Highway. . . Durham Clubwomen Aid

The owners of land along the Chapel Hill-Durham highway are showing a keen interest in the plan to beautify the highway by the removal of advertising signs and are giving active aid to the improvement.

Jack Sparrow, who holds land on both sides of the road near the one-mile bridge, has told the joint committee of the Community club and the Daughters of the Confederacy that they may clear all of his land of signs. One big board, however, on the right hand side as one goes to Durham, will remain a little while until the owner can get it out of the way. Mr. Sparrow leased the space for this to a merchant but will not renew the lease.

All the owners out to the Durham county line have agreed to have the signs removed from their land, and in a few days they are going to have a meeting at the home of Mrs. Charles Martindale to talk over plans for planting trees.

The Daughters of the Confederacy and the Community Club have offered a prize of $10 to the owner who makes the greatest improvement in the appearance of roadside land, in the Orange county stretch, in the next year. The civics department of the Woman’s Club of Durham has offered a prize of $25 for the greatest improvement along the eight miles of the highway in Durham county. Many of the owners of land in Durham county have already made known their purpose to remove signs from their property.

The Chapel Hill committee that is in charge of the beautification movement is composed of Mrs. Bernard, Mrs. Booker, and Mrs. Coker for the U.D.C., and Mrs. Mangum and Mrs. Dey for the Community Club.

The Boy Scouts are to meet this week, and it will be proposed to them that they go out along the road and take down signs where the removal has been authorized by the land owners. Therefore it may be that the boys will be seen engaged in this enterprise within the next few days.

News came to Mrs. Bernard this week that the largest signboard along the road, the one at the junction of the state highway and the Durham county concrete road, about three miles this side of Durham, was to be ordered down by the State Highway Commission. This is because the sign obscures the view of one of these roads from the other and hence constitutes a danger to travelers.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, April 2, 1925

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P.T.A. to Discuss School Needs, Problems, April 2, 1925

P.T.A. Meeting. . . E.W. Knight Will Discuss the School Needs of Township

A talk by E.W. Knight about school conditions in this township will be the leading feature of the meeting of the Parent Teachers Association in the school auditorium next Monday evening, April 6, at 7:30.

Here are some of the facts that Mr. Knight will discuss:

In seven school districts less than half of the children of school age attend regularly.

There are seven small and ineffective one-teacher schools in Chapel Hill township with a term of only six months.

More than half the children in the Chapel Hill school come from outside the Chapel Hill school district.

There is great inequality in educational advantages in the school district; some children have access to school nine months in the year, others eight, others only six.

Mr. Knight will tell how the smaller schools are wasteful and should be consolidated; and he will emphasize the need of equalizing both the advantages and the burdens of public education in the township.

All citizens, whether they are parents of school children or not, are urged to attend the meeting.

From page 3 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, April 2, 1925. School attendance had been made compulsory in North Carolina but fewer than half of school-age children attended regularly.

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James Merritt Celebrates 79th Birthday, April 2, 1925

Mr. Merritt’s Birthday. . . Many Relatives and Friends Gather at Farm; Big Dinner Served

James Y. Merritt, Confederate veteran and one of the most celebrated citizens of Orange county, was 79 years old Sunday, and his kinsmen and friends gathered from far and wide to do him honor.

More than a hundred people came to dinner at the farm beyond Morgan’s creek, about 2 miles south of Chapel Hill. Out in the yard, in the sunlight, the tables were loaded down with all manner of good things to eat. The principal feature of the spread was a monster cake presented to Mr. Merritt by the Daughters of the Confederacy.

He has 10 children living and all of them were present except the one that is at college in Louisville. There wee guests from all over Orange and Chatham counties, from Mebane, Burlington and Graham, and from even as far away as Columbia, South Carolina.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, April 2, 1925

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Webb Store Sold to C.M. Sharp, H.G. Coleman, April 2, 1925

Webb Store Is Sold

The Webb store in Hillsboro, which has been in the Webb family since the Revolutionary War, has been sold and will be operated under the name of the Sharp-Coleman Company. C.M. Sharp and H.G. Coleman, who have been with the Webbs as salesmen, will conduct the business. The new concern is a corporation with a capitalization of $34,000.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, April 2, 1925

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Hear Glee Club Sing in Kansas City on Radio, April 2, 1925

Glee Club in Kansas City Heard Here by Radio

The University of North Carolina Glee Club, singing in Kansas City tonight (Thursday), will be heard in Chapel Hill by radio if the atmospheric conditions are not too unfavorable. The concert lasts from 9:30 to 10:30, Chapel Hill time. Parker Daggett has rigged up the receiving apparatus I Phillips Hall, and admission is free.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, April 2, 1925

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Pat Johns President of Newly Formed Student Government, April 2, 1925

Student Government Vote

At a meeting yesterday the boys of the high school voted to inaugurate student government. Pat Johns was elected president of the student body, Charles Teer vice president, and Esther Metzenthin secretary.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, April 2, 1925

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Miss Gray Representing Carolina Players in Dallas, Texas, Production, April 2, 1925

Miss Gray Chosen

Miss Frances M. Gray, as a result of a competition in acting, has been chosen to represent the Carolina Players at the guest performance of “Outward Bound” at the Little Theatre of Dallas, Texas, April 19.

From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, April 2, 1925

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In the Chapel Hill Neighborhood, April 2, 1925

Neighborhood Notes

Miss Alma Holland spent the last week-end with her aunt in Clayton.

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Robertson, Miss Hope Robertson, and James Lovejoy Robertson arrived Sunday by automobile from New York. They are at the Carolina Inn.

Miss Susie Williams of Durham spent Saturday with Miss Ada Viele.

Miss Laura Foard of South River is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. deB. MacNider.

Haywood Parker came down from Asheville and was the guest of the MacNiders a day or two this week.

Doctor and Mrs. A.A. Kluttz and Walter Creech spent the week-end in Goldsboro that Mrs. Kluttz might have a joint birthday celebration wither sister, Mrs. W.D. Creech.

Mrs. Spencer Love of Burlington has been the guest of Miss Cornelia Love for several days.

Mrs. O.B. Moore of Beaufort spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Webb.

Mrs. Sam Sowell of Nashville, N.C., spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. V.A. Hill.

Grover Beard was in Greensboro and Winston-Salem a day or two last week.

Mrs. Connor and Mrs. G.M. Braune went up Tuesday by automobile to Mocksville. Miss Laura Foard left Chapel Hill with them for a visit of several days to her sister, Mrs. W. deB. MacNider.

Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Winston of Bertie county came to town last week. Mr. Winston has gone back home, but Mrs. Winston is with Mrs. McIntosh for a while.

Mr. and Mrs. Kent Brown were in Charlotte for the week-end.

Miss Sarah Whiting, for 40 years professor of physics and astronomy at Wesley College, and her sister, Miss Elizabeth Whiting, have been visiting Chapel Hill. They are friends of the Wheelers, and Mrs. Wheeler entertained them Monday evening.

Mrs. M.W. Lorimer of Colorado is visiting her daughter, Mrs. R.R. Potter on Rosemary lane.

Mrs. A.A. Kluttz gave a tea, with dancing, for Miss Hope Robertson Tuesday afternoon.

Mrs. James Cheshire, formerly Miss Anne McGehee, has a second son, born last Sunday.

From page 3 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, April 2, 1925

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