Mrs. L.S. McMillan had peas from her garden on the 15th.
North Carolina has a good number of stars in base ball now.
Raeford Power & Mfg. Co. have put new poles along Main Street. Safety first is their motto.
Fayetteville is building constantly and in a hurry. That will be a city yet, we do believe.
His friends here ae very sorry to hear of the serious illness of Mr. W.D. Gaster of Fayetteville.
The Montgomery Herald speaks of Mrs. Blankety Blank “of here.” A new way of saving Troy.
We notice an advertiser has spring chickens for sale for 50 cents per pound. Guess we can’t indulge.
Mr. J.H. Austin has moved his sawmill over Rockfish creek to a location near Mr. M.S. McDiarmid’s farm.
In these days of short skirts and abbreviated hair it takes a birth certificate to tell her exact age.—Moore County News
Frank Quick and Will Shaw, both colored, became involved in a difficulty Sunday afternoon, and Quick struck Shaw below the eye with a bottle and knocked him out for several counts. Liquor was the cause.
The best weather prognosticator in the summer time is the base ball page in the daily papers for in nine cases in ten, when a game is rained out in New York or Philadelphia, there will be showers in this section within three days.
Dock Leak, colored, with his wife and sister, turned his car over at Peddlar’s branch on the Fayetteville road Sunday afternoon and the sister was badly hurt. These people were returning from the burial of Leak’s brother killed in a car wreck between Fayetteville and Dunn Saturday.
We saw a man a few days ago whose business carries him over a good portion of the United States, and he said people are complaining of hard times every where he goes. This is due to two things: High cost of transportation, and high taxes every where the country over. People have had an idea that if their governments do things for them they would get these for nothing or for less, but they are learning that their tax-bought benefits are the most expensive of any they get in this life.
Mr. and Mrs. J.S. McFadyen of Fayetteville were in Raeford Monday night on a short call.
It appears to be a hard matter to get shade trees to live in Raeford. Those transplanted, and even those native to the soil, die.
Thee used to be three post offices in Montgomery named Why Not, Rise and Fly. We mailed bundles of papers to these offices for years.
Co. G defeated Laurinburg Independents 7 to 3 on Thursday of last week. Fay Morris and Alfred Cole contributed a home run each, and Arnett for Laurinburg parked one also.
Scotland county with what State aid she gets will build $150,000 worth of good roads this year, and that with the hard-surfaced roads they now have, will place pretty much the whole county on easy street.
From the Hoke County Journal, Raeford, N.C., April 23, 1925, D. Scott Poole, Editor
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