Newspapers / The Laurinburg Exchange (Laurinburg, … / July 29, 1915, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Laurinburg Exchange (Laurinburg, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
If VOLUME XXXIII -NUMBER 30. LAURINBURG, N. C, THURSDAY. JULY 29, 1915. $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE LAURINBURG REFUSES TO JOIN PROPOSED LEAGUE THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE MEMORIAL LIBRARY GIVEN i ST. JOHN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL By Harry M. North. The Fact That Albemarle is Situated as it is Causes Laurinbtirg to Say No to Proposition to Form an Eastern Carolina League of Amatutrs in Baseball JVlatter Still Pending. Thinking that Albemarle, lo cated a3 it i?, in the Piedmont section of North Carolina, and therefore ?.o badly situated as would operate to the financial hurt of the proposition to form a league for baseball in this Section, Laurinburg thought it best to decline the proposition to come ir on such a deal. Albemarle is a good town, per haps a3 good an any in the pro posed league and would put out a good team, and the writer knows that no town in the proposed league would be more kind and considerate of the teams visiting them than would Albemarle. Still baseball i.-? an expensive luxury at the best, and Albe marle located a3 it is with refer ence to the other towns, wTould make the venture a heavy losing proposition without doubt to all the teams except Albemarle. With Albemarle it, would be easy, because the Albemarle team could com'3 here at the same expense that we could go there, and when they came to this territory they would find all the other teams in the league close around them, in fact, they could live in Laurin burg the whole week and play afternoon games with every other team in the league, but if one of the teams from this sec tion goes to Albemarle, they must travel at least 7G to 100 miles and have a night in Wades br.ro or CrmloUe, which make? the proposition a losing me for sure, hence Laurinburg's No. Kauri n burg has ro objection to the good tovvn of Albemarle and only regrets that it is not so situated to make it easy and at least an expense paying proposi tion to give them games. It would cost a team from Laurinburg at least fifty to sixty dollars to go and come from Al bemarle, and ten to fifteen to get to any other town in the proposed league, and we could not there more than three day3 at tho most, whereas Albemarle could come to this territory and if the schedule permitted us to play there three days, could play two weeks, and on tho same trip. The same thing applies to every other; team in the proposed league. Laurinburg wants to play ball, wants to play for the amatuerj championship in Eastern Caro lina, but can not figure that it would be a sensible or gocd busi ness proposition to join in on the proposed move, and said "No" to the question if we would join. We have one of the best towns in the league, both for attendance and support of the team, and if a proper schedule of towns and games could be arranged would go in with a whoop, but with an advanced view of certain disaster financially, the promoters felt it their duty to decline, especially since the financial end is really the big end and the most im portant part of the whole trans action. Ball teams have to be paid, and the manager who does not figure on the pay end and where the pay is coming from reckons unwisely. Since the ;.l,ov? was written it is reported i.e. that Raeford has also declined to enter the- pro posed league, which leaves out two of the good towns Laurin burg expects to have good base ball, and if it make3 a record that is better than any of the other towns in the list, will con tend with the winners of the v - western championship for State championship. the A BASE BALL GAME AND LIFE! A game of ball is a representa- j do it, and it is unfair t0 cut tion in miniature of life. The j bases even if the umpire is not traits of character manihested , looking. Baseball Next Week. Local fans will welcome the announcement that Laurinburg will begin playing ball again next week. Games have been ar ranged for as follows : With Rae ford here Thursday and Friday, August 5th and 6th ; at Raeford, Wednesday and Saturday, Au gust 4th and 7th. Games are also being arranged with Red Spring3 here Tuesday, August 3d, and at Red Springs there show themselves in the business and the social world. The courteous, all-round player will hold positions of trust among men, but the kicker will nurse a grouce because others never give him what he thinks should come to him. He who takes the visi tors' bats and hides their balls in his sweater will later on take his Finally we will look at the game from the side of the fielder. The pitcher stands on a mourd in the center of things, and the sun seems to shine brighter where he is; but we can not all be pitchers. Some of us must take less prominent positions in life. roMing wheel-barrows, dig ging ditches and planting corn. Sunday School Rally Day Held at St. Johns Sunday Large Crowds Attended Excellent Music Addresses Delivered by E. H. Gibson, L. M. Blue, L. M. Peele and W. H. Weatherspoon Meeting to Begin. employer's money if he gets a j A political campaign will not be chance. But the man who owns j successful in the hands of a field- that he was put out when there i er caught napping and who is no one . else to prove it will after awhile sacrifice all he has to satisfy his creditors. Note the game of life from the standpoint of the batter. A long BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. Children of Mrs. Fannie Cooley Surprise Her With Birthday Dinner, At. the hospitable Cooley home in Spring Hill township, close by the historic Spring Hill church, Tuesday last, the children, grand children, sons-in-law and a few other close relatives and friends assembled and gave to the good mother in that home a surprise dropped the ball, and lay the ' birthday dinner. blame on the mitt, when he j The occasion was in celebration should have beaten it before the, of her 70th birthday, and was fum bles the ball. You have seen a player beat his mitt after he had the 2d. Albemarle has asked for i hit to the out-field is brilliant and i bail came his way or else have ; given within a stone's throw of games on August 9th and 10th, and thes will probably be play- I 11 r i l .. . cans lor mucn appiause, then it may be caught on but the ed, and if so, they will bo on the wing by the time you have raced local grounds. INTERf ERREQ WITH FUNERAL, ! yourself down to the third. It is ! i i i a gei-ricn-quicK. scneme arm is always full of risk. The man who contents himself with a short, sure base hit will be the one to carry on-a safe business, and will probably put his money in North Carolina state bonds at a small but certain rate of inter est. A bunt toward third is a quick, military stroke, praised if successful, hissed if it fails. The Then! her birth place. It Drunken Negro Insists On Riding the Coffin Other Court Nsws. Lawrence Malloy, col., was in the Recorder's court Tuesday, facing a charge of being drunk and disorderly on the public highway. He was declared guilty Tho cimAlo font fW h w d The man who bought a gold-brick and d. did not constitute the full ; m December was the same one measure of his devilment, as the! who blt at the first curve handed evidence disclosed. It came out 1 him the new Pitcher w h wac r.,ir ail ricrbf and ! And so you tell me that you p.u the public highway near the Richmond cotton mill, and while j tiie oninvinf hie drwr.lr n f nnorol i S U. IM, UUt 1 ItfOiewuei U-ci- came along the same road he was when the ame W8S at the cnais traveling, and as soon as he spied 1 and tnree chances were put up the procession he climbed on the ! t0 y'u of hlttln the bal1 'ou wagon and insisted that he be ! struek out most gloriously, and allowed to keep his seat, which !then gabled at the umpire tor h w 0r.to,i hnniri QtririA ; deciding against you. bee have not been successful bscanse laid the blame on himself. too he will bemean the rough plete surprise to her and i ,. . li : .ii.. 1 J u ground lor causing Film tOl"" quieuy pianueu uy stumble. Is it not strange how many people attribute their fail ure to the poor tools with which the? have to work ? A was a corn- had the daughters, Mesdame W. G. Shaw, Gibson, N. C, July' 26th. Dear Editor: We had a great Sunday School Rally Day service at St. John's church. The church was fU'ed, and all our people were delighted with the excellent music and ihe magnificent addresses by Judge E. H. Gibson, Hon. L. M. Blue, Prof. L. M. Peele, and also Hon. VV. H. Weatherspoon. All these men are deeply interested in Sunday School work. St. John's worthy Sunday School superintendent, Mr. C. W. Wright, had hA.i pastor to an nounce that he had purposed to set aside $100 to endow St. John'3 Sunday School Library. The library will hereafter be known as the Alamelia Wright Sunday E. F. Murray, W. N. Pender and i School Library, as the gift is t maae in memory wife who passed n 1 oi ms Gear away a few Misses Maggie and Effie Cooley. soend-! Tne party assembled at the home thrift is a man who tries to throw ! at noon, and after an hour's so-: montns ago to her blessea reward tho k,'! hofrr h& vatrVm if I cial chat and ul asantries dinner ' T he Sunday School The third baseman has my sym-1 was announced. It had been work '.hs planned to serve the dinner on the lawn, but the dry weather and the consequent dust made this impractical and the delight- served in the ev v wiiere ror'id has not toted fair witnf mbf ;be . shown Yes, but I remember t pa thy; men get excited when they play toward the third; they lose their heads and throw wild. The baseman must chase up the hnll ftrH rtrrv rhp hlamfi for al- tul repast was lowing a man to go in home. He i dining room, will be the foreman of an impor- j After a word of prayer and ton t work after awhile and will j thanksgiving by Rev. R. V. Gas have the criticism of those above j ton, pastor of Montpelierand An .sr,,r fhp hplnw him. Rut tioch churches, a most elaborate good team the n a . l the coffin, and when an attempt I sracelul Matter with bis eye on was made to dislodge him he ! the grand-stand and his ear open tilled the air with curses and ' for their shouts watch him fal1 abuse of those would interfere i to make cod as a p.ayer. ...im ujm j him again as he takes his place "Bully ' Joe" was the name of amon the worId of men' another defendant, and as his t name indicated he proved to be 'iqt-q rr(rA too m vvnTtr Back ud m(f"ntxt to you in the life of the bity. Co-operation in busi ness rather than competition be tween man ar d man is the secret of the best community life. joe uttTe In "trouble. and tempting dinner was served. the ! The dinner consisted of just those articles of food that delight the inner man, prepared by the deft and loving hands of those devoted girls, and it was indeed a feast fit for the kings. After the dinner the cool some bad negro. His charge was false pretense and was constitu ted in that, he went to another negro wrho held a suit of clothes that belonged to a fiiend of his, and upon a pretense that he had been srnt for the clothes, got them and disposed of them. "Bully" joined the good roads movement for eight months. For the larceny of $13.40 from the Gibson meat market, Gibson, which he sneakingly appropriated to his own use while the proprie tor was out of the market, Wad dell Kirkman went up, for six months. Jess Spencer, another defend ant, was charged with larceny by trick and will take a vacation of four months. Jess had bargain ed to pawn a suit to a friend of his for $3.75. Everything was agreeable and the two met, Jess with the clothes and his friend with the cash. Jess hanned the coat to his friend, whereupon the I made around you. Do you see friend gave up the $3.75. All of j the poor fellow yonder tie was left on a base when the side was out. It happens to him nearly every time. Somebody will fail See J laee and watch him pose for the praise of the crowd instead of putting his mind to the task. You who are waiting for a base on balls will also wait for a rich kinsman to die and leave you an inheritance; the chances are against you. Let us notice what the game has for the base runner. Would you hire a man to work for you who failed to run when three strikes were called on him ? If he gave up heart so easily he would not serve you very well. Playing off bases is like specula tion, success emboldens, but fail ure is disastrous. No one else feels so helpless and can be bought so cheap as the man who is touched out while standing off a base. Those North Carolina men who go up to New York oc casionally and are swindled out of all they have know just how it feels. Scoring on a forced run is like getting an unearned benefit from your property because of developments other men have Colored Youth Draws Elsven Months for Breaking and Stealing. Joe Little, a colored youth, faced Judge Gibson in the Re corder Court the past week. He not only faced the Judge, but also faced an accusation that he had unlawfully entered, via a back window7, the Sanitary Market, and took therefrom a pistol and a small sum of money which had been left in the cash register. The pistol matter was so closely dear to her heart, hence the is not only a beautiful one, but a most appropriate one. Now, the interest only will ue used to purchase books for parents, teachers and scholars. Friends of sister Wright will add to the collection. This library in years to come will be one of the most attractive features of St. John's Sunday School. Brother Charlie Wright is to be most nighly commended for this wise, generous gift in behalf of the Sunday School cause. The good women of St. John's church brought out a most de licious dinner and that in abun-" dance. We believe all our people Sunday porches invited the guests, andjwere helped, and th tJiPrP was another short spa on ! School work will move forward. of pleasure spent in social inter course. Although weighted with the burden of 70 years, Mrs. Cooley is a woman of wonderful strength and activity. Thorough- A meeting was begun at St. John's this week. Cottage prayermeetings are being held. There will be services at the church next Sunday afternoon, and two services a day ?11 next ly in love with her home, which jweek. Kev. tf. rowson will is evidenced strongly in the factassist in the meeting. Mr. Crow, that she now lives where as ajson is an excellent faster. : preacher and evangelist. dicament. a sudden Jess changed his mind, snatched the coat and made an ankle excursion away from the trading ground hence his pre- in business for him and leave him in the lurch. It does not matter so much if you do not get around, but some one must. May be you can help them. I remem ber reading in an ancient base ball guide that it is one's duty to I go round at every risk short of a certainty of being put ouf. Yet there aire a lot of men in busi ness who think that they can In the abs2nc3 of Rav. James Long, pastor of tLe First Baptist church, who was conducting a protracted meeting at Spring Hill church, Mr. Roy McMillan, of Riverton, occupied ihe pulpit j at the First Baptist church Sun day morning and delighted the large congregation that heard j SCOre without going around. But him. they will have to cut the bases to proven that Joe could not escape and received a sentence of eleven months on the road3. The usual tale that I got it from a "tall yaller nigger that I did not know" found no lodge ment in the ears of Judge Gib son. This was Joe's method of mvwinrr liimoolf - innnPPnt.. He f-rj-XSYftll . . had been traced well by Chief , ed"Pon her' Hubbard and the missing pistol had been found in the possession of Frank McKay, who explained his connection with the matter by telling that Joe had left it with him to keep until called for and this putting the matter squarely up to Joe He "got it from a tall yaller nigger at the mineral spring early Sunday morning." He didn't know who the "tall yaller" was, had never seen him before, nor since. Thinking that perhaps Judge child she played. She is happy, and has a right to be, for in the home and c'ose about her lives the seven boys and girls who are left to oless her old age, none of whom she can look upon without a feeling O. W. Dowd. LAUREL KILL ITEMS. Laurel Hill, July 27. Mrs. Alice Causey an j family are spending some time near of pride and happiness, and the j Asheboro with relatives. thought of a mother's joy and reward in upright and honorable children. That she may cele brate many such occasions was evidedced by the happy congrat ulations and good wishes shower- There was present every mem ber of the family except one daughter. Miss Effie, who was away on a camping party. Those present were the sons-in-law, Messrs. E. F. Mur ray, W. N. Peden and Dr. W. G. Shaw. Mesdames. W. G. Shaw, E. F. Murray and W. N. Peden ; Misses Maggie Cool ey, Messrs. Robert E. and J. L. Cooley, Jr. The grand-children were : Mary McLaurin Peden, James Howard Peden and Mar garet Shaw Peden ; Mary Eliza All improvements are welcome. Gibson had made a mistake m j Shaw, VV. Lr. b haw, Jr.; Johnson Mr Duncan McPherson and reaching his conclusions Joe j Murray In Murray Fannie fri3ndt of South Carolina, visited asked that a jury of his country- ( f , MurraVi Qnrles Archibald Mr. McPherson's mother. men pass on the question, and heuIurrrv an( pairley Murray, Mary McPherson, Sunday. ' Mr. John Smith is reported to be suffering with a case of ty phoid fever. We hope he will soon recover. Prof. O. C. Williamson, the principal of the Laurel Hill school, was here last week in the inter est of the school. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Campbell, of Cartersville, S. C, are visiting relatives in this section. Mr. Luther Peterson has re turned from the Charlotte hospi tal, where he went for treatment. Mr. T. K. Farmer and family spent Sunday in Red Springs. Mr. John O'Brien, Laurel Hill's postmaster, is enlarging the bus iness that houses the postoffice. Mrs. now occupies an upper berth at jr. the county boarding house where he will summer and spend a por tion of the winter waiting for the "big cote." Officers in Anson county cap tured two liquor v factories in one week recently. Others present were : Mrs. Ef fie McLauchlm, sister of Mrs. Cooley, Miss Mary McLauchlin, Mrs. W. G. Buie, Mrs. Howard Peden, Mrs. A. A. McMillen, Rev. R. V. Gaston, Miss Mary Buie, Master John McNair Buie, Harry Rodgers and Mac Cameron. Rev. D. B. Parker and family spent Saturday night in the Ghio section. . ; Mr. Graham Cornelius, who has held a clerkship with Mr, J. W. Mason, has resigned his position and left for his home at Mooresville yesterday. 5 'A. - it i I i f ' ! r if
The Laurinburg Exchange (Laurinburg, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 29, 1915, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75