The City Fathers are now giving a little attention to sidewalks for the first time in years.
Mrs. J.M. Downer is at home from Highsmith hospital and is improving, we are glad to hear.
Having crops torn up twice in a month looks like getting off to a bad start farming, but that is the experience of some Hoke county farmers this year.
The town of Raeford should supply drinking troughs on the streets so stock driven to town could be watered. This should have been done long ago.
Mr. Neill McKeithan has 18 acres in dewberries near Vass, and has been busy looking after the shipping of this fruit. He has shipped quite a quantity.
The water town tank has been painted inside and out recently, and the water tastes of paint. But it had to be done, as rust had about rendered the water unfit for use.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Morris and children, Mrs. Carl Morris, Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Maultsby and little son, Mr. L.M. Andrews spent last week on Black River fishing, and the way they slung ‘em was something fierce.
Rev. Watson M. Fairley, D.D., pastor of Raeford Presbyterian church, leaves today for New York, from where he sails Saturday for Cardiff, Wales, where the Pan Presbyterian Assembly or the Presbyterian council of the world meets. The sessions continue for two months, and Dr. Fairley is one of seven representatives from the Southern Presbyterian General Assembly.
These meetings are held every four years. He will return in August.
A little child of Mr. and Mrs. Washington Jackson died at their home May 30th of colitis. They live near Phillippi.
From page 6 of the Hoke County Journal, part of the News-Journal, Raeford, June 11, 1925
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