Col. Alex McMillan of Dunderrach was a special guest of Gen. W.A. Smith at Ansonville on Wednesday of last week when the U.D.C. of Mecklenburg, Union and Anson met at his home to do him honor, and to feast, sing and speak.
A Hoke County farmer had at one time three colored men at work for him whose names were June, July and August.
It was a Georgia farmer who named his 14th son Onetoomany.
The peaches are large enough to show up on the trees, and they are thick.
The championship base ball games between high school teams start this week.
We are told a few farmers in Hoke still hold some cotton. They are not hard run.
Miss Mae Lee Scull of Fayetteville spent the week-end with Mrs. Wm. L. Poole.
Mr. Ryan McBryde is representing Bethel church in the presbytery in St. Pauls this week.
Mr. Edward Wallace of Charlotte spent the week-end with his friend, Mr. Harry Blue.
Miss Alberta Fuller was in Highsmith hospital for treatment the first of this week.
Mrs. Nannie McGill and children, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Neill McGill, have returned to their home in Monroe.
Nearly a whole business block in Dunn was destroyed by fire last week. The fire started at 10:30 at night, and an old colored man sleeping upstairs in the building was burned to death.
We sympathize with Mrs. A.C. Bethune in the death of her father, Rev. Scott Thompson of Doughton, Surry county, who died suddenly last Thursday. Mr. Thompson was a local Methodist preacher who had taught school in Surry for 40 years.
From the Hoke County Journal, Raeford, N.C., April 23, 1925, D. Scott Poole, Editor
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