Carolina Kid Reports News from Concord Route 7, June 12, 1926

County Correspondence: Route Seven

Mr. and Mrs. F.G. Russell of Route 7 spent Saturday night at Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Riddle in Concord.

Reports are coming into our community that C.P. Wilson, Miss Dora Elzy Bundy and Jack Bost will be the teachers at White Hall this year. If these reports are true all of our teachers from last year are returning except Miss Willie Russell. We hope that the above said teachers will have a very successful school season during 1926 and 1927.

We were all shocked to hear of the sudden death of Frank Maxwell of the Hartsell Mill. Mr. Maxwell had many friends in Concord and other cities. Many people will miss Mr. Maxwell on account of his helping hand to the Hartsell and Franklin mill hill. We expend to the bereaved family our deepest sympathy. The Jackson Training School sure has a stepping baseball nine this year. The pitching end is held down by Russell and Lisk. White Hobby does the receiving behind the plate. The game Saturday was between the school and the Harrisburg nine. The school won to the tune of 14 and 4. So far the school hasn’t lost but two games.

I want to ask that someone around White Hall will please set a date for the purpose of cleaning off the cemetery. It sure needs cleaning off bad. Someone around White Hall, set a date.

We have a place near our school that played a part in the history of our state. This place is a large rock near the Training School. The Ku Klux Klan had this rock as a meeting place after the war. This same rock is where a couple of the Cabarrus Black Boys met and later when up the road and destroyed Tryon’s powder. Make a visit to this historic rock You can’t miss it as it has two bronze tablets facing the highway. Visit White Hall and see this historic rock.

We read about cases of rabies in other counties. But people, one in our own town has died from that dreaded disease. I ask you, what are we going to do to stop it? Are we going to let our own people be bitten by dogs and develop rabies from it and die? We can and we must stop the spread of this dreaded disease. As long as a dog runs loose, we are going to have cases of rabies. I say, if necessary, make everyone in the country or city have their dogs vaccinated, or else make them keep the dogs tied. No matter at what cost, we can and must stop the spread of rabies. I ask, are we going to stop it in the city and not in the country? We must have protection, too.

--Carolina Kid

From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, June 11, 1926

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