Easter has passed and with it the usual stream of sight-seers, fishers, and joy riders. How many paused to picture in their mind a risen Christ?
The Rev. Duval preached a fine sermon on the Resurrection Sunday at the Buck Horn M.E. church. A large congregation was present. Services are held at this church on the first and fourth Sunday afternoons of each month.
James Dickens and bride of a few weeks, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B.N. Dickens.
The quilting bees continue. One lady is reported as having helped quilt between 15 and 20 coverlets this season.
Arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Horton April 6, a little son, Charles Wayne. The mother and baby are doing well.
Mrs. R.S. Parker, who has been suffering with tonsilitis, has entered a hospital at Albemarle for removal of tonsils.
Among the sick are little Edward Cross and Mrs. Ruth Riddle.
Jerry Mims, known as Uncle Jerry, was laid to rest at Prince Chapel last Friday. He was a respectable darkey and supposed to be one of the oldest in the community. He is said to have been a nurse in their child-hood days for Mr. T.Y. Mimms and Mr. Buck Cross. Both have passed 80 years.
--"TIMID”
From the front page of the Chatham Record, Pittsboro, N.C., Thursday, April 15, 1926
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