News from Locust in Concord Tribune, May 1, 1926

County Correspondence: Locust

Mr. and Mrs. D.G. Turner spent Sunday with relatives in Concord.

Mrs. A.J. Furr is very sick at this writing from mumps.

Mrs. Ray Sossamon and children have moved back from Kannapolis to their farm on Route 2.

Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Little and Mr. and Mrs. M.D. Crayton made a recent visit to relatives in Rockingham.

Miss Hattie Greer of the Albemarle school faculty was the week-end guest of Miss Bessie Smith.

Misses Ora lee and Alma Honeycutt spent Sunday and Monday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Plowman near Plyler.

Farmers are planting but those who have not their land already broken can do but little as the ground is getting so hard and dry.

A small clew [clue] followed early Saturday morning led to the discovery of the things stolen the night before from a service station. They were hidden behind a log on the highway leading from Midland to Concord. Hoyle Tucker almost famished guarding the things until Sunday night when a man from Concord came and began loading them. He was covered by pistols and taken to Concord jail. Everything . . . was recovered.

In the play, “Clubbing a Husband,” to be given next Saturday night at Stanly Hall, Mrs. A.H. Temple is director. The cast of characters follows:

Mrs. Ashton, suffragette—Mrs. T.M. Hartsell

Maud, her mischievous daughter—Miss Jainie Green

Mrs. Newman, her sister—Miss Pauline Tucker

Mrs. Skylark—Mrs. Vada Jenkins

Mrs. Whitney—Agnes Tucker

Mrs. Reynolds—Bertha Teeter

Mrs. Hudson—Mrs. Mollie Osborne

Mrs. Ferris—Miss Violet Coley

Mrs. Ottoway (grandma)—Mrs. Joy Barbee

Irish Woman—Miss Florence Eudy

Colored cook—Miss Vera Smith

Dr. Jordan—Mrs. Simpson

The P.J. Honeycutt Co. of Albemarle will equip the stage.

Just as the above was mauled Mrs. R.W. Simpson was very painfully injured by a cow which threw her down and dragged her some distance, the chain having become wrapped around one ankle. The extent of her injuries is not known but seem rather severe.

From The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, May 1, 1926

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1926-05-01/ed-1/seq-3/ According to Grammarphobia, “clew” originally meant a ball of thread or yarn. The word “clue” is used to mean a piece of evidence that helps solve a problem or mystery in an intricate case.