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THE DUNN k
VOLUME IX. DUNN, NORTH CAROLINA, |u
L_JN OF THE
WOMAN’S CLUB AN
ENJOYABLE EVENT
To* PUco Loot Friday After
•teoo In the Local Fra
ternal Hall
Mors Than One Hundred
G uesLa Were Present
Many Toaate Worn Made And
{Wooded to By Local
Spaokw*—Mri. Fred Mc
Kay, President of Club, Prw
wW—btwtitk| Program
Waa Wall Rendered.
The get-together luncheon given
by the Woman’s club rriday after
noon stands out ss one of toe most
delightful event* In the history of
Dunn't^ocial Hfe. Th# lunaheon was
riven In the Pythian hall and every
<»*tail was carried out to the highest
degree of perfection end the occas
ion will long be remembered, and
ptliutl/ bo, by every one prrMot,
Tables In the shape of a cross were
provided with plate, for one-hundred
gueets and each plate srma taken. The
hall and tabic were artistically de
corated, the color scheme* being red.
whhe and blue, -suggest,ve oi George
Wcdliiwwnn'a U -it S A . 1
w-— —* • wwigj uriuri’
tion, which added to the ittiVthe
naM •*“ hall, included pin#. South
ern 8 nut ax and Pussy willow.
Tho in Vied (omU included mem
ber* of the club, mayor J. L. Wade,
Hon. H. L. Godwin, James Beat, rep
resenting the American 'Legion, P.
Grover Britt, representing the rhmn
Dispatch and Professor* W B. Snrpcs
•ad B. D. Bunn, superintendent and
principal of the Dunn schools, re
spectively. Officer* of the chib, mo
•Istsd by Mrs. J. L Wade, former
President of the club, composed the
receiving line and greeted the ruse*
ss follow*:
"“ft l» with pleasure and gratitude
that ere welcome yon slater club wo
rn*" and fellow townsman. We felt
that we could not Ha vs a successful
g»t-te-gather luncheon without rep
resentatives from these august organ
isations of men, as it is to them srr
come when wo wish to make better
tile beet towryander the son, for en
couragement, aid and money. They
come to os for inspiration. The streets
must be cleaned and beautified, s
hospital moat be built, an opera house
Is sorely needed and a hotel must
net be overlooked. These and other
minor undertakings conceived in the
minds of our city fsthere need to be
expected only by woman ’• Hiagie pow
er. Let uu be true to the treat impos
ed In us, forgetting the petty things
and united as one in the great things
of life—eun-enewned women, who
live above the fog in public life and
in their homes; the slaters, wives and
mothers that our Great Master would
have us be.”
The address of welcome was fallow,
sd by a parade of children, dressed to
reprerent old-time songs, while those
present enjoyed guessing what tong
they represented. The children thus
drereed In the order In which they
marched ware: little Misses Louis*
‘Pit ig« raid and Margaret Towns end,
renresemtinsr "Two Mute nt> In
Blm"; little Min Deri* Celtrane, np
naonting "America”; Gland Pm-rvll
KeKay, representing "Old Black
Joe"; little Min Helen Johnaoa, np
re(anting "Wearing •’ the Green”;
Bamari TUghman, representing
-Dtaie”; Lloyd Wade, Jr., and Helen
Jahdaoa, "Auld Lang Byne"; Jack
, Barney, “The Girt I left Behind Mo."
the bey* and girl* marched around
th* tab lee at which the goseta war*
seated., .
v Mis. MefCoy, praaidant of the
dab acted a* toa*t-nd*W*n. Inter
tpereed threaghoat Ibe lancheon were
toasts and response*- The least to tbs
team was given by Mr*. Anny* Teaag
a* follow* i
"Cone join in this teal*.
Fer ’tia the apet we ten moat- -
■Thia ride the gate* of Heaven.
New legend wouldn’t ny.
It happened thle way.
"One day whea the.cloada war* riven
Then cane down froaa the rides'
A land-el Me from Para din,
And te aa oar hoiae-tawn was gives.
'TortBe gelds stretched aroOnd ft.
Whan am anr foru-faUier* found ft
A Mt o’ tho wilds of God** making*
Thrir waaderiag* won o’or.
. They cenMa’t wish for as men.
Thaa this that waa their'*
Par tbs taking ' \
“h wna klml by tho htwoas,
OFFICER IS KILLED
AT FAYETTEVILLE
W. C. Callahan Shot to Daatk
WhlU Standing Guard
Our Liquor Cache
Fayetteville, Feb. 24_For tin
■Uth time within the put seven
yearn, an officer of Cumberland conn
ty wu shot and killed In the perfor
mance of his doty when W. C. Calla
han, special deputy waa fatally woun
ded by bootleggers near Victory lake
shortly after noon today, dying in
ths Hlghsmith hospital In this city
four hour* later. Callahan’s alaysr,'
who is not known to ths officers. Is
being sought by a sheriff’s posse, but
is still at large, though John Smtih,
a young white man of Gray's Creek
township .alleged to have been one
of the two men plyced under amet
by Callahan shortly before the shoot
ing, was recaptured, late this after
noon. It waa said at the 8hcrUTa office
tonight that the wounded officer* suf
fering wu such that he mads no
statement u to ths identity of ths
man who shot him.
The meagre details available as to
the actual manner of ths homicide
poem to show that Callahan, who lives
in Poarces Hill township near ths
scene of ths shooting, found a quan
tity of liquor hidden In the woods
■WI« Jjiwccticu WO IMC CUZ|C Of U.
While the officer woe standing guard
over the confiscated whiskey two snen
approached and were arrested by
Callahan, who thqn called taro young
men of the neighborhood named Rail
and Strickland, and requested them to
telephone Sheriff N. H. McOnrhy.
While Strickland and Hall were gene
ehols were heard, and whan they
reached the spot where they had left
the officer they found Callahan had
been ahot and the prieoaen had died.
Several Aota were fired, but only one
took effect, piercing Callahan's kid
nay*
the Fayetteville polios fordo.
Ha was not a regular deputy but
frequently acted a* a special deputy,
be la the tehth officer who has been
dhot in this county since 1916 and
the sixth whose life baa been taken.
The other* are deputies Frank Does,
killed by a negro; W. J. Moore, and
Raman Butler, slain by Georg* Hobbe
negro; Melvin Blue, killed by Tom
Clayton, and A1 Pate, murdered by
Marshall Williams, a blocks der. Tit*
four who have been wounded and.es
caped death are: W. 0. Patrick, seri
ously wounded by Clayton; Ransom
Pope, shot by George Hall; J. T
Kelly, wounded by an insane nun
who later took hia own life, and
Jones, who was fired on In a recent
raid on a liquor still.
It was warned by the tun.
They smiled on the perfection
And called It—Dunn.'’ *
- Following cum the ’.omit to the
Chamber of Commerce by Mrs W. 8.
Snipes, which wee as follow*
‘TJ.'’ the chamber of commerce of qg
city.* j
A body of men both wiee and witty, i
We ows a debt of gratitude prOfoaml
Por their endurance and renown.
“They atart great movements In our
town,
Which prove to be both safe and
sound.
Th«y on teg into many a drive.
And make thing* hum. live and thrive.
“With the Woman*, cinb they work'
hand la hand.
To make Dunn the hoaHhleat place
in dia land.
And atrte. to make old Lucknow
Square,
A thing af beauty, where now It’a
bare.
“Juat llaten to Mine thing* they tall;
Ttre long we’re to hare a big hotel.
And a hotpMal; with pertiap. a ela
tion MW,
All doe to there mea who puah thing*
thro*.
"So Join one now In drinking a taut
To the Chamber of Commerce, who
haa done the meet
To make our .tty, beloved Dunn,
The vary, beet town under the Mu"
Hon. H. L. Godwin reaponded is
• P******* manner do both af
tbaaa toaata. Mr. Qadwta paid glowing
tribute to the werV of the Woman’*
chib, which ha doth** m a woman’*
chamber 0# commerce, while Ire dn
Sued tha ehambor of romuwree ad
a man’* woman’* flub. He atm took
eooaaton ta commend th, qpirft
of re ope rad ea esbatng h.reren dm
1 Oama Chamber %f Commerce and
CCeadcatd an paga g.)
PROPOSE NEW COTTON
MUX FOR WHITRVHX1
White vllle, F»b. N.—Onr oim
hundred thousand dollars baa beet
, lubaeribed to tbo now cotton mil
project recently launched bora bj
the chamber of commerce. Choi. H
Boyd, experienced cotton mil) eeper
i intemlent of Lomberton,- ha* tarrootl
gated pomaibllltiea hero and prenown
ccd for operating a *ucc*aaful mill
aa axeellant. The oatabKabmont of the
n«w InJuKry will be largely inatru
munlal In bringing an extension ai
tfca linea of the Yadkin Power Com
pany hare.
BAD MAN ARRESTED
BUT LATER ESCAPED
WOlJUr^r Made Daring Gat
A-Way From Armed Of
fiewra low After Arrwat
Will Hardy, notonoue bod man,
wanted In Raleigh for beatlag np •
policeman and otfcar ralaeonduet, and
a 1*0 wanted In aeveral other placet,
wax arreeteo in Comberiaad county,
near Falcon, Thursday afternoon
However, Ho waa under arrest for a
abort time only, making a wild and
aoeceaaful Hath for liberty when wr
rounded by not If aa than four offi
ce ra.
When arretted he advised Officers
Hocks day. Holland, and Smith that
he was willing to accompany them,
bat aikcd to be allowed to r° lute
the house where he ni making hie
abode to change col thee Tbit he wii
allowed to do, and in a short time be
came out “all dressed up” and ready
to go. though not thr way the fear
officers would bass had him go. Just
at the officer* were preparing to take
him their way, Hardy taught tb*
refuge of a dense swamp near by
the home and faded into the thick
neat thereof. The astonished officers
had left the scene of action. Hardy
went back to the home of L H. Hol
land, whore ho hod boon lirlng and
eoourad the caah' for which ha had
■way se boldly Thursday afternoon
O(fleer Randall, who was a Dunk
visitor Friday, admitted to a Dispatch
reporter that ho didn’t know*just bow
Hardy succeeded in making hss escape
from four officers, all of whom were
well armed, but aid not deny that hr
did that very thing.
TRAIN HITS CAR
AT SIHTHFIELD
Infant Child of Baptist Minis
ter Hag Lag Amputated
la Craoh
Bmithfield, Feb. t3-—The infant
child of Rev. Fred T. Collins, pastor
of tha Smifftfleld Baptist church, was
curiously injured here yesterday
about four o’clock when the sedan
driven by Mr Collins, and two chil
dren, was demolished by an A. C. L
sh if ting engine at the crossing mar
the depot hors.
The child’s leg was severed at a
point jest above the ankle, but was
so badly crushed that amputation be
low the knee was necessary. Mrs. Col
lln.! was "bruined and suffered from
thr aback, ae did Mrs. Brin Beilins.
the maaloUr'i mother, and Mr. Cot
llna, who wi^> hia other ehQd, about
two yean (old, eaeaped practically
without Injury. *
It i* thought that the accident oc
curred when Mr. CoHIna, eeeing the
•htftcr, which wai approaching alow
ly. (tapped hie car oa ore track to
allow the train to pun oa the other.
The engineer aew the ear and thought
it eafe to ptloccod. Juet ao the engine
wae upon the crowing the ear leaped
forward directly la the path af the
locomotive, rendering the craeh on
avoidable.
Mr. CoOIaa wae carried about fifty
feet on the cowcatcher before the on
fine could he Mopped. The two wo
men wore thrown aeide by (ho font
of (he impact, and hia two-yanr- eU
child aoeapod Injury, being able U
get up itaolf.
The Injured won carried to tha
BmltMWM hoepltel when the Infant'i
condition « tonight pronounced at
very aorioua.
/ CAIDOr THANK*
Wo with to etrtond our heart-fell
Utanka Id our frlende and neigh bon
for the hr oynpathy and kladnam dur
Mg the (ieknoaa and da«& af eui
dear aan and Inther MrnM.
MM. AMD MM I- »- MUMUH
AMD fiAfifILT,
I WlUon, Fab. St.
coat a local j
daya age a lady
1 ahop and left a
jUeairad to
waa placed la a
a aide. Shortly
a farmer WlUon 1
Fayetteville, i
after telling hia
waa glvaa a be* in
he'deairad to mail g
aaaa knew Bathing
txaMaction picked
| tadning the
looking oa Ik
to the baabar.
Not until am
neat far the
I waa It naiaaed
! hack to WUaaa W(
I before lUagiatralo
whe diaiaUead tha
I___1J_a •
•artel arttet had
al affcasa.
“CAT AND
HIGH
Em
Tha
viciaitjr will
I Unity to tettnaaa
and maat thrilling
rod whan “Tha
coma* to tha
noaday
pot the
noeaaaary
a jrwM
both
merit* of •
jaat a* quickly
dean it to th«
■peaking thay am the hoard at ew*
aon and their verdict determine* the
■ueeom or fallam of a production.
“Tha Oat aad tha Cheery” stood
the acid teat aad M tha outset has
gone over Mg. Tha play abenads hi
mystery and la rtplsde with thrill*
aad arfaolaaomc ciimsdy. Worm into
It am threads of amedea aad pas
sion so thoroughly hamaa that It
aarar faOa to strike a rvsponstve
chord in tha hearts af the witnesses.
Themia Has tha aaemt of its phe
nomenal aoeesjB. This attraction has
woadorfnL pleased capacity hoaaaa
for weeks in ilia truly •anthem dries
of Now Orleans, Attest* aad Norfolk
who am profess M thoir praise.
“The Cat and tha Canary” will bo
presected haH by a sapsah east and
Manager Bari Bsi »d|»t is to ha «oa
gratolsted open procuring an attrac
tion that it only' pteyiiig the large
cities. Local pstroat should signify
*W_a_ *_ _n_.a__M Ll as_a _
a itnemi patronage
Tips Scales Al390
On Hi. Wadding Dmy
H. C Bridgere Tk—«Wt To Bd Blg
Whiteeills, Feb tt — Probably the
largest man ever wadded bars la Her
•as C. Bridgets, a1 Clark ton, who is
reputed to tip the stales at IN
petrnda, and who erne married hate
Wednesday to Miao Annie T. Baldwin,
alee of Clarhtoai. The wedding took
place In the office of Coanty Sapor
In ten dent H. M. Bowling, and the
ceremony was performed by Bar. F.
T. Wooten, who JauMyad over from
Chedboarn for Ike patpoae. Both- Mr.
and Mia. Brldgaro an widely known
In the county.
IT PATS TO ADVBBTlai. KVKN
PO* A WlPKi ASK MB. ABCMBBL
Washington, M. C, Pah. SS—
Washington bag fart had an aaaaosl
romance. W. J. AMfthaf tom fart eo
carad a wife hy arttogapai adrer
Ue eaten t, in ene rf the total >aymo.
He wit immediately flaaded hy ra
pilot ham all aacttona, and rieeetfy
thereafter forwarded to Mo eelerted
bride at bor home la Oorslaad, Ohio,
1 a tleket ta WeSkfngton, wheat Mm ar
1 Hoed Mrt eight They wan immedia
tely married by Sarttoe A. Maya, and
to* Mr tka 1mm «f tha grama at
Pi *o town. Mm la 4J and ha M. fee
DOC WALK* OVU 700
Mliu TO OLD HOME
| iDcnver, Feb. M—An
dog. (hipped from here by it* owner.
Frank Furrow, throe week* age, be
*t- Jesefh, Me., limped beck to the
Farrow heme today, having walked
the entire 700 mile* from the Mia
•eari eity. The owner of tho d<y In
St. Jeeeph to whom it wma eold by
-Farrow, reported that It dimppowred
a week ago.
Farrow who eaid tho Alrodalo had
become nnmenageeblo. aamrtod ho
wonld pay He board at a local kennel
the rest of it* life.
EYE CLINICS TO BE
ID IN HARNETT
Will Pwrwmh An Opport—fry
. For Otildraa to Hnvw Eyoo
Tooted Fro*
An eye clinic wHJ he held In Har
«ot« county, beginning March 8th, fee
tho benefit of all echool children in
the county who have defective eyen
The clinic will be held under the aue
pice* af the county board of edu
cation and the board of public wel
fare.
Dr. V. M. Hicks, aa aye tpmrialtt
from Saleigh. wyi have charge of
the clinic* and wfl] bo melted by
local phytecian*. A complete history
sf bark cum win bo made, including
throat. no*s and ear examination.
The examination will bo free, and
gleam* will be furrmbad all cbMroa
who ar« found to need them fur the
■mall sum of «l An children will
am UWM, UWM, rtflnUMi of
whether *> not they arc aMe to pay
for tho glasses.
A clinic of at toast two day* will
ho bold ia Dana and all tho »flirt1
children from lb* Do mi District wSl
b* announced soon. .
All parents and teacher* are wised
lo co-operate ia this important work
Dunn is to vote diortly on a pro
position to baild a municipal hospi
tal. The day will soon eome when
every county will support a hvtpilal
ioat aa it supports piVi ■ duels.—
Raleigh New* aad Observer.
FOURTH SERIES
QPENS MARCH THRU
*■
tt one takes ths tints to aba errs
back, ho ia struck by the number of
handsome home* beta* constructed ia
Dana at this time. The Homs Build
in* and Loan Association is erecting
ia the third ward alone, homes for
the following prop!*: Mis* Kothiyno
Alisa and H. A. Black on Waat Di
vine street; E. T. Lsekamy on Booth
Orange Avsnae, Eugene T. Parker
on Booth Layton Avenue; J. N. Creel,
■r. on South Fayetteville Avenue. Xu
addition to them Z. V. Snipes has re
cently finished a handsome homo on
West Pope street and the splendid
brifk home of I. W. PunUe 00 Want
Divio* Street la nearing completion.
Bach building activity In ana ward
of tho town tend* to give renewed
confidence in Ha future *
Boms oMb has very aptly remarked
that "TS» tag of tha birds la tha
■male af nest boil ding. The Industry
subset and tha walk af ante are la
tha building of holm* Tha children
ad mew noed homes and tha aeiaa
anas walk and buRd and own fat
tntap rsat in the time af VaOdiag
and rant always al*« "
Mara and more the number af peo
ple Increase who pay dor their homes
in the pafe and easy way thiengh tha
building and loan amoetatleas. Mara
and own are people realising that
ayatamatia saving la the fleet step to
wards ftnanrUI Independence, ft Is
aurprMng haw quickly a fund gewwa
when there la a definite amount
which must be added to, to stated In
tervals. A noted Annealer has re
market “that the aooutaalto Ion ad
the Asst thousand daUam in all Amt
la hard and attar that every thing la
Tha Hama BuOding and Lana Ae
aaalpttaa spans Asa fourth series af
•task on the first Atourday In Xtoab.
This aaeoelattae manna mu eh to tha
WBMtotirand a fasting af sand!
donee estate that Am poopla wn aan
Anna to trim advantage af tha egper
tprdty offered far a aplandM Invuat
• A
TUGHMAN CALLED
| IN CONSULTATION
Oa UrriUtUa af a MaaHto af
Um*. beaera. fain ft. Pa alar. ft. ft.
Harttat, P. a lahaen. aad V. P.
Petoeaea, aha obbed.Oaaa bat Wed
Mr- Tfl*uaaa, af tka Tftgb
ana Inabr Cenpaay. cane daaa la
Cliatoa Thoraday
with quite a
the
pa
bolldlnr af a !
to. Daaa at tld.0M par able.
b perfectly filar
with the territory waat af ( m
be haa I kb lap read ever
there far j
i
eat af Daaa. The
of flu baa have I
iha'bad immtm aad be b wfillaq, aa
far aa Me rtphte are r~ n.l. that
<»• *«a he uaad free by the paapaa
ad read. Dot aa tka laflnad <
piatod ahoeid have told*
iron, the tea ad lee af baa
waatd be af raise aaly b lb
faary weak af
arflae aaaid be and far <
I to *
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