We are having dry, hot weather now. Wells are drying up and many of the smaller streams accord no running water. But notwithstanding the severe drouth, early planted crops are looking well.
The wheat and oat crops have been harvested and are considered fair.
J.P. Wilso is seriously ill at his home here. At this writing he is lying in a comatose state and his death is expected at any hour.
Miss Harries Morrison of Cabarrus had a recent stroke of paralysis and is not expected to recover.
Rev. W.A. Newell of Mt. Airy, while on a visit to relatives here, preached at Boger last Sunday to an appreciative audience.
Mrs. R.L. Rogers of Bishopville, S.C., who has been visiting relatives here, has returned home.
Mr. and Mrs. Deck Starnes chopped a five-acre field of cotton last Saturday, finishing in time for Mrs. Starnes to do her Sunday baking. Venus, if you can beat it, trot out your choppers.
E.C. Black was painfully injured last Monday when a team he was driving ran away.
The following names are those of Confederate soldiers who are buried in the Bethel Cemetery: Hiram Bost, J.A. Russell, Moses Measmer, Frank M. Hartsell, Allen Bost, William McKindley, White McKindley, David F. McKindley, T.A. Jerome, William Pervine, Monroe Hough, Julius Kluttz, James Hartsel, John L. Hartsell, Wiley Carriker, Richard Polk, James Polk, John Stancil, Tuck Moody, Wilson Swaringen, Adolphus Furr. If anyone knows of a Civil War veteran buried at Bethel whose name is not included in the above list, please send names to J.S Russell, Cabarrus, N.C., and the U.D.C. women will mark them.
--H.
From page 6 of The Concord Daily Tribune, June 19, 1926
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