J.T. Butts-Miss Eva Deal Wed Oct. 17, 1925

Butts-Deal

Mr. John Tilman Butts and Miss Eva Deal of near Angier were quietly married Saturday afternoon, October 17th, by Rev. A.C. McCall, pastor of Neills Creek Baptist Church. Only relatives and intimate friends were present. Immediately after the ceremony the young couple left on a short bridal trip after which they will be at home to their many friends at their home near Lillington.

From the front page of the Harnett County News, Lillington, N.C., Thursday, October 22, 1925

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"Doc" Smith, Angier, Star in Fort Worth Baseball Club, Oct. 22, 1925

Pipe "Doc" Smith, Harnett Boy Late from Texas. . . And You’ll be Gazing on Another of the Old County’s Bright Particular Stars in Baseballdom

By Wade H. Lucas

Duke, Oct. 21—Down in the state, where the longhorns thrive and the six shooter was once the indispensable article of every man’s wearing apparel and the men often died with their boots on, a Harnett county boy the past summer “burned up” the sagebrush of the Lone Star state of Texas. This boy was “Doc” Smith, hailing from Angier, and who made a big record with Fort Worth baseball club in the Texas league.

Smith was traded last winter by Little Rock (Ark.) to the Texas city club, and proceeded right off the reel to make good in that torrid region. The Angier citizen is a catcher, and reports eking into this section bring news that “Doc” was a good one but his bid for fame came in the punch he packed with his big bat.

Smith was fourth in a list of nearly 200 hitters in the Texas wheel, his grand average being .363 for the season. He took part in 96 games for Fort Worth, a bald-headed person answering to the name of “Possum” Moore dividing the work with Smith.

As Fort Worth captured the pennant and subsequently won the championship of the South with Atlanta, the logical reasoning is that Smith and Moore formed a very capable couple. How many of the welcome “grands” Smith received for his year’s work the writer is unaware, but the thousands he got is a certainty as baseball players of ability do not play for nothing.

Smith, a country lad, got his start in baseball on the back lots of Harnett, later graduating into the Piedmont league. Reports have it that Smith will play winter baseball in Florida. He spent part of last winter in Harnett.

From the front page of the Harnett County News, Lillington, N.C., Thursday, October 22, 1925

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Local Notes from Polk County News, Tryon, Oct. 22, 1925

J.F. Morrow of Rutherfordton was in Tryon Wednesday on a business trip.

Miss Lorraine Stone is happy to be home again, and her friends share the feeling.

Mr. J. Foster Searles is making over the Rowell cottage as a studio for himself.

Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Morris visited Mrs. Morris’ parents in Asheville Sunday.

Mrs. Mary O. Kelley has returned from Chicago where the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Annie Oakley of Asheville, took place.

Mrs. Lillie Wilson has opened an exclusive tea room in connection with her apartment house in Tryon.

Mr. Romaine Stone is in Chicago on business connected with the Mountain Industries. His house is ready for occupancy.

Miss Elizabeth Law was thrown from a restive horse and suffers a broken arm. It will be some weeks before she can hope to recover.

Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Morris have just completed a cozy bungalow in the wooded park near the P.H. Morris residence, and are moving in this week.

A.J. Humphries of Campobello, S.C., was a pleasant business visitor at The News office Monday, and renewed his subscription for the coming year.

Mr. Stein, a well-known painter, has bought Mrs. LeCount’s house and will make his home in Tryon. He will be a welcome addition to the growing artist colony here.

Dr. Broughton of Raleigh, State rural supervisor of schools, visited the Stearns high school at Columbus, the Tryon schools, and the rural schools throughout the county last week.

Miss Lenore Goodwin is back after a delightful summer spent at Thorsby, Ala.

Miss Marguerite Weltner will leave Saturday for Buffalo, N.Y., after spending a year in and near Tryon.

Miss Gladys Gibbs of the Tryon school faculty spent last week end in Lenoir, the guest of Mrs. C.L. Hornaday.

Attorney and Mrs. Wm. C. White are returning from Deerfield, Minn., this week to take up residence in their winter home.

Mrs. R. Dennison returned this week form her summer in the east to join her family who have been here some time. She was detained until now owing to illness.

Miss Roselinor Camp, who has spent her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Camp at sandy springs plantation, left Fridy for Norman Park, Ga., where she will attend Norman Park College.

Mr. J.B. Warick, superintendent of construction of Lake Lanier, has construction of Lake Lanier, has recently moved into the cottage former occupied by Mrs. Burleson as a tea room, and is expecting Mrs. Warrick from New York Nov. 1.

Mrs. E.G. Holden visited Rutherfordton this week.

Dr. and Mrs. Vernon C. Cooley left last week for New York after a pleasant visit with Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Metcalf at their home near Columbus. They will later go on to their home in Chicago.

Mr. Willis Hudspeth, who is visiting his son, Attorney H.M. Hudspeth in Asheville, has rendered The News incalculable service this week on the linotype. Mr. Hudspeth returned to Asheville Tuesday.

Henry Reich, who with his wife and three children, has been visiting at the home of his father, H. Reich in the Valley, will leave Saturday for New York, leaving Mrs. Reich and the children to spend the winter.

Mrs. E. Pue Williams moved last Friday into her new home on Melrose avenue, which has been remodeled and newly furnished, and will continue her business as proprietor of a splendid boarding house for transit and tourist trade.

Mr. E.J. McManus, who was connected with the Tryon Development Company this summer in the capacity of engineer, left this week for Asheville, where he will be associated with Geo. Kershaw in his civil engineering offices there.

The Blue Ridge Weavers have taken the room formerly occupied by the tea room, waxed and polished the floor, and will employ it solely for the purpose of displaying their hand-hooked rugs, and hand-woven spreads. It has made an exceedingly attractive show room for this purpose.

From the front page of the Polk County News, Tryon, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 22, 1925

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Miss Wheatley Todd is Bride of Prof. Allen Meachum, Sept. 29, 1925

Beautiful Marriage at New Bern. . . Prof. and Mrs. Allen S. Meachum to Live in Warren, Ark.

By E.F. Rollins

New Bern, N.C., Sept. 29, 1925—A pretty wedding of interest throughout the Carolinas occurred at Trinity A.M.E. Zion Church Tuesday 9 p.m., Sept. 29, when Miss Wheatley J. Todd of New Bern became the bride of Prof. Allen S. Meachum of Warren, Ark. The vows were spoken before Rev. E.F. Rollins, pastor of St. Augustine A.M.E. Zion Church, Kinston, N.C.

The church was elaborately decorated with stately palms as a background for quantities of white lilies and roses. An arch was attractively decorated with Southern smilax and ferns, under which the bride and groom stood.

Preceding the solemnization of the marriage vow, Miss Ruby Jones sang “I Love You Truly.” The Live Wire Club, an organization gotten up by Miss Todd, rendered a bridal chorus from Lohengrin, followed by a solos, “Because”, by Miss Emma E. Foreman of Kinston, N.C.

To the strains of the wedding march from Mendelssohn played by Mrs. Esther Hazel-Powell, accompanied by Mr. Albert Spruill, violinist, the bridal party entered.

The ushers and honor guest entered first. Miss Sadie Green with Miss Ethel Leath, Miss Alvera Bryant with Miss Clara Williams.

Miss Maggie Lloyd of Washington, N.C., gowned in yellow chiffon embroidered in gold beads, with hat and slippers to match. Mr. William H. Bryant by her side. Next, Miss Rosa Lloyd of Washington, N.C., who was dressed in a girlish frock of blue crepe de chine with white lace trimmings and crystal beads, accompanied by Mr. Harris.

Followed by Miss Dosia Bell Lewis of Bladenboro, N.C., who was dressed in a lovely blue canton crepe, by her side was Prof. W.S. Todd, A.B., brother of the bride. The maids carried arm bouquets of maiden hair ferns and white roses.

Miss Adelaide Fisher of New Bern, N.C., maid of honor, wore a lovely pink satin crepe dress in circular effect trimmed in white fur, and carried an arm bouquet of pink roses and ferns. Following her came two little flower girls daintily dressed in pink and blue crepe de chine, trimmed in rosebuds, who scattered rose petals in the bride’s pathway.

Little Earl Davis was ring bearer. He wore a white suit and carried the ring in a white lily on a fern wreath. The bride entered n the arm of her father, Rev. J.W. Todd, who gave her in marriage. She was never more attractive than in her wedding gown of white crepe satin brocaded in designs of silver and her wedding veil of venetian lace held with orange blossoms. Her corsage was bride roses, orchids and valley lilies in shower effect. The little boy that bore the train of the bride was becomingly dressed in a white suit.

She was met at the altar by the bridegroom and his best man, Mr. Davis of New Bern, N.C.

As the bridal party left, Mendelssohn’s recessional march was rendered. Following the ceremony, a brilliant reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents on Jones Street. Several hundred guests were present.

Mrs. Meachum is the only daughter of the Rev. And Mrs. W.J. Dodd. She is a graduate of Eastern N.C. Academy of New Bern and Livingstone College. She is unusually popular, very attractive in manners, and a devout Christian.

The groom received his A.B. from Livingstone College. He possesses all the elements which speak for his greatness.

At 12:30, the evening of the 29th, the bride and groom boarded a west-bound train for Warren, Ark., their future home.

From page 2 of The Star of Zion, Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 22, 1925

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Rev. James Monroe Fullenwider, 80, Died Sept. 20, 1925

Aged Minister Dies

Rev. James Monroe Fullenwider of the Western North Carolina Conference died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Schenks, Godwin Street, Paterson, N.J., Sept. 20, 1925, aged 80 years, one month and 20 days.

He was born July 31, 1845, Lincolnton, N.C., and served many years in the gospel misty in the A.M.E. Zion church, mainly in the South during his latter years. He was an honored and highly respected member of the Western North Carolina Conference, but made his home in Paterson with his married daughter. He was a man of quiet and conservative habits, conscientious and pious, a good orthodox preacher, and faithful minister, and made a creditable success of his long ministrations. He is survived by a wife, three sons, one daughter, four grandchildren, one sister, and many friends in the circle of his acquaintance.

The funeral took place from the (Godwin) Summer Street A.M.E. Zion Church, Dr. J.A.S. Cole, pastor, delivering the eulogy, and was assisted by Dr. J. Harvey Anderson and Rev. Nixon. The attendance was good considering the misunderstanding in relation to the hour of the services. Interment in Laurel Grove Cemetery. The eulogy of Dr. Cole was impressive, and the remarks of Dr. Anderson also. Rev. Nixon offered a fervent and appropriate prayer.

From page 3 of The Star of Zion, Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 22, 1925

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Ed Smathers Gets 5 Years for Killing Bird Colvard, Oct. 21, 1925

Smathers Gets Five Years

Monday morning Judge T.D. Bryson, presiding at Jackson County Superior Court, sentenced Ed Smathers to a term of not less than five nor more than seven years in the state prison, following conviction of the jury last Saturday of the manslaughter for slaying Bird Colvard at Case’s saw-mill on Tuckasegee River last April.

Smathers entered a plea of self-defense, and both in the evidence and in counsel’s argument to the jury addressed the unwritten law, appealing to the jury to acquit hi on both grounds.

After about two hours’ deliberation, the jury returned its verdict of manslaughter.

Smathers, according to the evidence, was working on a logging job at the saw mill, of which Colvard was foreman, and was running a boarding house where a number of the saw-mill employees slept and boarded. Smathers alleged that Colvard made improper remarks to his wife, the night before the shooting, in the presence of Smathers, who, after Colvard had retired to his room, arose from bed and ordered Colvard from the house, and exacted a promise that he would leave that section. On going to the saw-mill the next morning, Smathers contended, he found Colvard, and when he asked him why he hadn’t left, Colvard arose and presented a shot-gun in his face, where upon Smathers shot. This was the evidence of both Smathers and Tolvin Ensley, who was the only eye-witness to the affair. The state contended that the range of the bullets, from the shoulder downward, was inconsistent with the verbal testimony as Colvard was about six inches taller than Smathers, and that Smathers must have shot while Colvard was sitting down at his workbench.

The jury took the state’s view and returned a verdict of guilty.

The state was represented by Solicitor Grover Davis, G. Lyle Jones of Asheville, W.R. Sherrill of Sylva and J.L. Jenkins of Robbinsville, while the defense was represented by Alley and Alley.

Both Smathers and Colvard were married men and have families.

Other Cases

Dock Messer, who plead guilty to transporting, was fined $100 on an appeal from the Recorders Court. Although it was his second conviction since the Galloway-Bryson Act was ratified, Judge Bryson stated that it was his opinion that the second offense was not sufficiently alleged in the bill of indictment.

Other cases disposed of were:

Paul Dillard, assault, continued, and capeas ad testificandum for Gus Allen and Cirs Passmore;

Dewey Bryson, assault, called and failed;

Jasper Gwen, C.C.W., called and failed;

Glenn Ashe, seduction, nol pros with ??;

Walter Hawkins, transporting, $50 and the costs;

Hubert Stanley, abandonment, instructed verdict of not guilty;

Perry Duncan, false pretense, not guilty;

Will Nicholson, violating bus law, instructed verdict of not guilty.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., Oct. 21, 1925

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Guy Wells, Sam Reece Sawed Way Out of Jail, Oct. 21, 1925

Two Prisoners Escape

Guy Wells and Sam Reece, two young white prisoners, sawed their way to freedom from the Jackson county jail Saturday night and have made good their escape at the time this is written.

Wells was under sentence to serve one year on the roads for breaking and entering Monteith and Davis’ store; and Reece was sentenced to 18 months for shooting Pierson Owen at a prayer meeting in Canada a few months ago.

From the front page of the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., Oct. 21, 1925

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