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LAURINBURG,) N. C, THURSDAY. MARCH 26, 1914.
JOHN CHARLES M'NEILL
MEDALOTHERS TO BE GIVEN
County Schc oh Commencement One of Greatest Interest A Great
Time Expc:ted at Snead's Grove -Three McdaJs to be
Given No Liteiary Address Wnole Day
. Given to Various Contests.
The Program Committee has de
cided to have no literary address
ar the county commencement this
year, and thereby leave more
time for the boys and girls. They
have given the whole day to the
various contests of the students.
From present indications there
will be some close contests.
Public-spirited citizens have ar
ranged to give us medals annually
for excellence in the various lit
erary fields. The best evidence of
school spirit I have seen demon
strated in this county was when I
spoke of this move. I talked it
over with six distinguished men,
and every man offered to estab
lish a prize and give that prize a
name, so that the passing years
in giving history to the prize
would make it more coveted by
the pupils. As we have arranged
for but three of these contests
this year, but three medals have
yet been established.
Judge Neal, the man who has
"risen to the highest distinction of
any mm in the field of public
speaking in our county, that of
Superior Court Judge, showed
schoolboy enthusiasm when con
tests were mentioned. His life
having been one of contests be
fore the bar, he expressed himself
as glad to give a medal to the
best declaimer.
The essay medal for the high
school department, to 'od known
as the "John Charles McNeill
Essay Medal," is given by a
man who3e name alone would
be an inspiration to the boys.
But he mode3tly declined hav-
mg nn name mentioned in con- i
nection with the medal, say
ing he wanted to do honor to
our great writer as well as hold
that writer's achievements up
for the high school to emulate.
He added that he would give a
medal the boys would never be
ashamed of. So, boys, distin
guish yourselves in your efforts
for the first "John Charles Mc
Neill Medal."
The medal for the best essay
in the grammar grades will be
given annually by The Ex
change. Our new editor, alive
wire, vitally interested in every
thing which goes to the upbuild
ing of the people with whom he
has allied himself, was thankful
for the honor of presenting this
prize. His paper stands for pub
lic spirit and literary excellence ;
therefore this medal will be ap
propilate. The prizes to the various win
ners in athletics, in value not to
be worth less than one dollar,
will be presented by the business
men of the county.
In talking with the people over
the county. I find demonstra
- tions of fine school spirit in the
grown-up people as well as the
children. Every man is behind
his school, expecting to take one
of these medals back to his dis
trict. So I urge every man in the
county to lay aside his work for
one day, and with a good dinner
basket come to Snead's Grove on
Friday, April 3d, that he may be
counted among this band of men
who are going to "make old Scot
land county go forward by leaps
and bounds.
L. M. Peele,
County Superintendent.
Gibson, NJ C, March 23, 1914.
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McKenzia Case Heard By Supreme Court
Tuesday.
The case of Will T. McKenzie,
the young Scotland county citizen
who is under sentence of death
for the murder of his brother-in-law,
Peter D. Jones, was argued
(n appeal before the Supreme
Court Tuesday.
Our readers are familiar with
the case as tried in Robeson coun
ty and its results, an appeal to
the Supreme Court having been
taken. Messrs. T. J. Dunn and
E. H. Gibson, representing the
defendant, . and W. H. Weather-
spoon, representing the State, are!
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SCOTLAND HAS A GIRL
MEMBER OF CORN CLUB
Scotland Corn Club is Composed Of Thirty-Seven Boys and One
Girl Scotland Probably the Only County in the State
Who Has a Girl Member, Who is Miss
Emma Lee McMillan.
STAT& NEWS.
As a result of a mad-dog scare,
forty-one dogs were killed in
Monroe Saturday and Monday.
The twenty-fourth annual Ses
sion nf tViP Wnmpn's Missinnarv
the local attorneys who appeared j Union Qf North Carolina is in
in the matter atitaieign, wnne i aoo. n . tt,w07:i,q
while
Mr. R. C. Lawrence for the Stato
and Mr. L. R. Varsar for the de
fendant, both of Lumberton, attended.
Child Sick With Pneumonia.
Special to the Exchange.
Laurel Hill, N. C, March 23.
The people of Snead's Grove
and Laurel Hill church commu
nities are very sorry indeed to
learn of the illness of Master Na
than Norton, who is suffering
from an attack of pneumonia. Dr.
Wilcox, of Laurel Hill, is attend
ing him. We trust that the case
will qnly prove to be a slight
one. and extend much sympathy
to the parents. Mr. and Mrs. C.
D. Norton.
The Trinity College Alumnae
Association have inaugurated a
movement to secure $100,000 for
a woman's college at Trinity.
According to Mr. John Motley
Morehead, one of the State's
leading Republicans, politics is
dead in North Carolina for his
party.
Late reports from the straw
berry belt say that the crop was
badly damaged by the recent cold
weather, and that shipments will
not begin to move before May 1.
Harrison Collins, a white man
?i years of age. of Shelby is in
the county jail i awaiting trial on
in that city
GENERAL NEWS.
Jealousy drove Anthony Plav-
lac, a Baltimore tailor, to kill
himself and his wife Monday.
Fire at Bombay, India, Mon
day burned cotton valued at
?2, 500, 00)0.
Harry Thurston Peck, former
Columbia University professor,
died by his own hand Monday at
Stamford, Conn.
A kid-glove bandit boarded a
Southern train at Floville, Ga.,
Saturday, but was frightened and
escaped.
The 15,000 depositors who had
$2,700,000 in Seigel's private
banks in New York pre likely to
lose their entire savings.
Senator Borah says it is im
possible for women to obtain
votes by a constitutional amend
ment until the fifteenth amend
ment is repealed.
A new island 100 feet high and
Revival to Begin at Gibson Sunday.
To the Editor of The Exchange:
Please announce that Dr. L. L.
Nash, our Conference missionary
evangelist, will assist the pastor
in a revival meeting in the Gib
son Methodist church next Sun
day, 11 a. m. , March 29. Both
St. John and Gibson congrega
tions are requested to unite in a
great union service. We have
today installed chairs in our class
rooms and Sunday school audito
rium. We expect to be able to
seat all who come.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the revival services.
Come praying that we may have
a great meeting.
O. W. Dowd, Pastor.
Gibson, N. C, Mch. 23, 1914.
Mrs. John Grubb Loses an Eye Through
Operation.
For several weeks Mrs. John
Grubb, wife of Mr. John Grubb
of Laurinburg Rural Route No. 3,
has suffered greatly from a dis
eased eye. Several visit3 were
made to Charlotte where she was
undergoing treatment. The left
eye, the diseased one, continued
to grow worse and as a result the
right eye became affected and in
order to save one the other was
removed by operation last Friday
in a .Charlotte hospital. Mr.
Grubb accompanied Mrs. Grubb,
Thirty-seven boys and one girl
compose the Scotland County
Corn Club. Scotland possibly has
the only corn club girl in the
State in Miss Emma Lee McMil
lan. The club is composed of the
following : Miss Emma Lee Mc
Millan, and the following boys :
Dewey Woodard, William Mum-
ford, Fred Currie, Thomas Peele,
Dan Johnson, John M. Seals, Da
vid Stevens, Tom Gregory, Roger
Martin McGirt, Irvin Farmer,
Ozzie Wright, John McKinnon,
Ralph Calhoun, J. Carl Parker,
Leo Hasty. Gilbert A. Jones,
Earl Gibson, James Mclntyre,
Claud Gibson, John W. Jones,
William C. Webb, John C. Webb,
John Wesley McKenzie, Alston
Jones, Leonard Knight, Dan
Wright,.-Willie Monroe, Ernest'
McLean, Lacy McLean, Johnson
Matthews, Dan Watson, McNeill
Watson, Dewey Brown, Elmore
Gibson, Elbert Gibson, Grady
Norton and Montford Bilgmin.
Boys wishing to join will have
to hustle. It is corn planting
time, and any boy wishing to join
can send in his name to E. P.
Josey, Laurinburg, and he be
comes a member, provided he is
between the ages of ten and fif
teen years.
a, char-e of erisninslly assaultingWI in- circumference was .;.tcr ., CharLtie -f the povratij
A coop of chickens has been
received at the Lumberton post
office by parcel post.
"Smashing the Vice Trust", a
moving picture, was placed un
der the ban at Asheville last
week by a committee of censors.
The Pasquotank Hosiery Com
pany is a new organization at
Elizabeth City. The factory will
employ 100 hands, have a weekly
payroll of $2,500 and will make
300 dozen pairs of hose a day.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels
and Secretary of State Bryan will
be speakers at the progressiva
Democratic convention to be held
at Raleigh soon.
B. B. Thompson was placed in
jail at Wadesboro one day last
week charged with shooting Jas.
Flynn. Thompson claims that he j
shot in self-defense. .
For breaking up tombstones in
the Wadesboro cemetery Less
Frye was last week fined $50 by
the Recorder.
A man (or brute) named Dixon
of Cleveland county who had his
wife cutting timber while he
hauled wood, upon returning to
the woods for a load, it is said,
found that a tree had fallen on
his wife in his absence. Lifting
the tree off her body, he loaded
up anotner turn oi wooa ana
drove to his house, where he got
some planks and returning to the
woods brought the dead body
home.
The Anson Sanatorium, a new
institution at Wadesboro, costing
$23,000, has been completed.
The North Carolina Confeder
ate reunion will be held in Ral
eigh June 10th.
The State of North Carolina
will receive $160 ,000 as an inher
itance tax from the estate of Geo.
W. Vanderbilt at Biltmore.
Lem Leong, a Chinese boy of
High Point, is causing a great
deal of comment in that city.
Leong has been objected to as a
student of the city schools, and
the question of his right to at
tend has been put up to the
Superintendent of Public In
struction for a decision.
Miss Sallie Davis
Saturday night.
Among the items carried in
the Civil War claims bill reported
to the United States Senate Fri
day, was $1,800 to the trustees
of the Presbyterian church at
Lumber Bridge.
Dr. L. B. McBrayer, a noted
physician of Asheville, has ac
cepted the position of superin
tendent and medical adviser of
the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium
at Montrose.
A jury at Asheville who were
trying a deaf mute for murder
rendered a most peculiar verdict.
A pleaof insanity was offered bj
the defense and the jury returned
a verdict that the defendant was
sane, but not capable of answer
ing to a charge of murder.
Rufus L. Johnson, a dairyman
of Raleigh, plunged through the
glass front of his delivery wagon
Sunday when the wagon became
uncoupled. In his plunge through
the glass he was frightfully cut,
one piece of glass entering his
eye and pierced his brain, killing
him.
Just for the satisfaction of
knowing, Will Killian, a 14-year-old
boy of Maiden, Sunday after
noon touched the wires .of the
Southern Power Company's line
with' a pole, and the result was
that he found out that there was
enough juice running along the
wires to kill him.
Richard Dill, a 12-year-old boy
of Newbern, proved himself a
thoughtful, quick-witted hero in
saving little Edward Brock, his
10 - year - old companion, from
drowning the past week. Dill,
who is a Boy Scout, had read how
to save drowning persons and
when his companion plunged
backward into Trent river, re
membering the printed instruc
tions, grabbed a pole and plunged
it into the river where the young
companion had fallen. Luckily,
the young lad caught the pole
and was pulled to safety. An
effort is being made to get Dill a
Carnegie medal for heroism.
lionin group,
volcanic , erup-
cVeated in the
Japan, during a
tion.
A Suffolk, Va., grand jury has
returned a true bill of indictment
against Guy T. Horner, a mem
ber of the Legislature, charging j in
him with misappropriation ofj
funds.
A bill introduced in the Mis
sissippi Legislature to prohibit
moving pictures showing hugging
and kissing, wild west scenes,
gambliug, drinking, smoking
cigarettes and vulgar dancing,
was defeated by a vote of 24 to
4.
A German druggist who was
called the "Bluebeard of Ger
many", was beheaded Monday.
The crimes for which he suffered
death were the murders of his
rfather, his first wife and two of
his children. He was also con
victed of attempting to murder
his second and third wives and
several other persons.
Mexican Federal soldiers, who
attempted to pursue with rifle
bullets a defeated Constitutional
ist force escaping to the United
States and safety, met sharp re
sistance Monday from United
States Cavalry on border patrol
at McKee's Crossing, Texas.
When three horses heldJby the
American troopers had been shot
down, the Americans returned
the fire. The Mexicans withdrew
bearing with them several dead
and wounded.
Harry Davis, a crippled lad of
12 years, of Sewickley, Pa., had
a very great desire to see Presi
dent Wilson and prayed that he
might. His mother wrote the
President who immediately re
quested that Harry come. Mon
day the little fellow was carried
on a stretcher to the White House
and had his prayers answered,
for President. Wilson sat beside
him and chatted and petted him.
Before being carried away, the
youngster asked about Mrs. Wil
son and left flowers for her. The
President's eyes filled with tears
as the little man was carried
the nurses.
and returning spent Sunday there'
with her.
It will be a source of great
pleasure to the friends of both
Mr. and Mrs. Grubb to know
that the operation was successful
every way ana mat ivirs.
Grubb was able to return to her
home Monday night.
Right, Yuii Are.
Editor Trelyon BrowTne,thenew
editor of The Laurinburg Ex
change, having been asked how
he likes Laurinburg, answers:
"We want to say that we like it
fine, and expect to like it better
the longer we stay."
Editor Browne is bound to like
that town and the whole of Scot
land county, as well as the coun
ties surrounding Scotland. There
is no finer section of the South,
and so far a3 the paople are con
cerned, we wish there were 5,
000,000 like them in North Caro
lina. Lovely Laurinburg always
looks that way to us. Wilming
ton Star.
Miss Wnght Entertains in Honor of
Visitors.
Special to The E ichange.
- GitonrN.yC,, r&arch : 24, i14.
Miss Bernice Wright w?s at
home to a few of her fripnds on
last Friday evening, in honor of
Misses Mattie Hunsucker and
Louise Haynesworth, who were
her guests for the week-end.
The amusement of the evening
was rook. Hot chocolate and a
fruit course were served for re
freshments. Those who enjoyed her hospi
tality were: Misses Anna Gibson,
Eula Sizemore, Bertha Lever.
Louise Hay ns worth and Mattie
Hunsucker; Messrs. Frank Ad-
ams, Arcnie tsreeden, Douglas
Baxley, Arthur Mills, Alfred
Smith, Tom Pate, Jarvis Teague
and Whiteford Odom.
The evening passed rapidly
away ana was enjoyed to tne
fullest bv every one.
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Williams Jennings Bryan Truitt
of Elon College was awarded first
prize, $75, over seven competi
tors in the intercollegiate peace
contest at Greensboro Friday
night. Mr. Truitt spoke on the
subject: "The Need of a Reign of
Peace." Bryan and Peace seem
to be the thing.
Vice President Marshall has
accepted Charlotte's invitation to
be its guest and deliver an ad
dress on May 20th.
T?irp which orierinated in the
Duke office building, Durham,
Monday night, swept two of its
principal business blocks causing
a loss of approximately $2,000,-
000, about half of which is cov
ered with insurance. A bursting
water main caused considerable
dplav in the fire fighting. The
fire began before midnight Mon
dav and burned until 8 o'clock
Tuesday morning.
Rowland has sold bonds in the
sum of $30,000, the money to be
used in installing electric lights
and waterworks in that city.
Mason's Cross High School Wins Debate.
While the Laurinburg School
lost their High School debate
Friday night with both Lumber-
ton and Sanford, the Mason Cross
High School, one of the county's
brag rural schools, was burying
their opponents (the Roberdell
school) under an avalanche of ar
gument that brought to them a
decision of victory, both at home
and away from home.
A third school to form the tri
angle with Mason Cross and
Roberdell could not be secured,
and according to the rule of the
society, the two schools, instead
of three, must debate the ques
tionhence the contest between
these two instead of three
schools. The Mason Cross school
sent to Roberdell Messrs. Boyd
White and Clayton Wright. At
home Messrs. Jack and Guthrie
Gibson delivered the winning ar
guments. This victory for the
Mason Cross school gives them
the right to send these four
young men to Chapel Hill, where
a final contest will be held and
the winning team will be award
ed the Aycock Memorial Cup,
and here's hoping that the Mason.
Cross boys will bring the trophy
home with them. The contest at
Chapel Hill will be held April Sd.