a business visitor in Dunn this week. M. K. Caldwell and Rowland I«itnb, ol Lumberton, were Dunn business visitors yesterday. A. Feldman expects to leave Sat urday night for Virginia Beach, where he will spend a few days. Mr*. R. 0. Taylor, Sr., and two children, Mary and Harry, are vis iting in Wilmington for • few days. Mr*. Hooper, of Fayetteville, a trained nurse, arrived last night to accept a ]>osition with the l)unn hospital. Wright J. Prevail, of Lumber ton, and F.. G. Siphcr, of Fayette ville. were Dunn visitors Tuesday aftrenoon. Mia* Maxine Lewis returned this week from Marion, S. C.t where she had been visiting her aunt, Mrs. F. L. Herring. Mrs. J. D. Lewis, of Lakeland, Fla., arrived vesterday to spend several days here with Mr. and "Mrs. D. R. Lewi*. The editor of The Dispatch is in debted to J C. Wood, who lives on R. 5 from Dunn, for a supply of the finest beets seen here this sea ion. Mias Rosa Owen*, of Porta mouth, Va., and Mias Abbie Ow ens, ot Mallow], Vs., are guest* at the home of Mr. and Mr*. W. C. Bell. S. M. Tew and daughter, little Miss Isabel Tew, who live on R. 6 from Dunn, boarded the train here this afternoon for Rocky Mount, where they will visit relatives. There lias been a decided drop in die local chicken market. Early in the spring the market on. fry-sites went as high, as 60 cents the pound, though die price at present ranges from 25 to 35 cent*. Miaa Carrie Hodges, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Hodges, Wednesday underwent an operation at the Pittman hospital, hayetteville. Her condition is re ported as favorable. Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Brown and daughter. Miss Besaie Brown, of Franklin Springs, ('.a., are visit ing at the home of Mr and Mrs. Brown's son-in-law and daughter. Chief of Police and Mrs. B A. ‘Rowland. judge Henry A. Grady, of Clin ton, passed through Dunn yester day afternoon en $oute home from Raleigh, where according to The Greensboro Daily News, he pre sided at a meeting of mem hen of the Kn Klux Klan on Wednesday afternoon. . W. Bruce Malice, entomologist in charge of the local government boll weevil station, attended a big "boll weevil meeting" in Maxton Wednesday. A large crowd of fanners and business men attended the meeting Mr. Mabec was one of several speakers. J. M. Page, who lives in Dismal township, Sampson county, was a Dunn visitor yesterday. Mr. Page and the other nine members of his family had a dose call last Sunday night when his home wj& struck by lightning. While the home was right badly damaged, none of the ten people inside the dwelling when <1 wa# struck suffered injury. G. A. Cardwell, agricultural and industrial agent of the Atlantic Coast l.ine Railroad Company, spent yesterday here with W. Brace Mabee, entomologist in charge of Ibc government boD weevil field station. After making a tour of the Dunn district, hfr. Cardwell exdf |M warn .. » •• k^Ulg |RV VICUU impressed with the condition of tlfc crops in general. I Ashley Young, )0-year-old sdp of Mrs. Annye Harper Young, iV fast recovering from an operation which he underwent about three weeks ago at the Pittman hospital, Fayetteville. The operation was performed on his right leg, and was made necessary a* the result of an infection spreading from a Hcratch on the foot received while swimming in a lake. Norman F. Lewis has accented the position of manager of the local branch of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company. He succeeds E. J. Hudson, whose resignation be comes effective August 1. Mr. Hud son resigned in order to devote all his time to his electrical bus iness. Mr. Lewis has been em ployed in the office since it was moved to Broad street from the Durham It Southern depot. He will continue the office in its pres ent quarters, and will continue all < f the Services inaugurated by Mr. I ludson. Mr*. Annye Harper Young is making some noted improvements in her residence, Cumberland street and Wilson avenue. Three rooms ate being added to die building and two of the old rooms are being en larged. Her purpose is to provide two private ejcartmls of four room* each. When the Improve ments have been completed the building will contain fourteen rooms, six of which will be occu «by Mr*. Young and family. two apartments will be for rent. These wll have both front and rear entrance mid wll be equipped with private balk » Mr. and Mr*. R. G. Taylor, Jr., arc visiting relatives in Gastonia. Miss Evelyn Bridget spent the week-end with friend* in Chapel Hill. Mrs. David Peanall, of South ern Pines, is visiting Mr. and' Mrs. R. M. Pearsall. Henry Norfleet M Portsmouth, Vs., i* the guest today of Mr. and Mrs. GranvaUe Tilghman. Born: To Mr. and Mrs. John C. Phillip* at Preacott, Arisen*, July 7th, a son, James Stephen. , I-awrcnce Jcmigan left this week for Atlanta, Ga., to enter the L\ S. Veteran* Bureau hospital for treat ment. E. P. Davit, president of the Commercial bonk, will return this week from a trip to Kincastle, Vo. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Fope and Mr. and Mr*. Alfred Blaylnck have returned from a trip to Wrigbts villv Batch. Mr*. Cha*. Pearl, of Augusta,Ca., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. EHi* Cold Mein. Mrs. Pearl is Mr. Gold Mein’s sister. , Mr*. Dwight'Suggs and children left Thursday for Greensboro and Salisbury, where they will spend several days. Mr. and Mrs. Z. V. Snipe* and family and Miss Emily Newberry have returned from a trip to WrightsviDc Beach. Mrs. T. J. Walker and children, of Hattiesburg, Mis*., ire the guesti of Mrs. Walker’s sister, Mrs. Mattie Washburn. Mrs. J. G .Goddard and daugh trr Kfiaa Pannia kaua -*- » from a visit to relatives at Will iamston and Robersonviile. Mrs. R. F. Crofton, of Weldon. and Mrs. G. A. McDonald, of Washington, D. C., are the guests of Mr. and.Mrs. D. L Brooks. Misses Blanche and Emily Gran tham have gone to Asheville, where they will spend some time visiting at 4fae home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Woodall. Misses Elizabeth and Fannie Bonner Pope, of Robersonviile. and Miss Mary King Ellison, of WiUiamston, are the guests of Mrs. J G. Godard. The Sanitaiy Pressing Club, of >vhich V. H. Massengill is propri etor, has recently purchased s new Ford trade for use in coOcrting and delivering clothing. Mrs. S. E. Brodie, of Spring field. S. C., returned home Dim morning after spending several days here with her son, W. R. Bm die, manager of the A. & P. store. Un. E. B. Culbreth and aon, E. j R., Jr., left Thursday for Rates hnrg, S. C., where they will qiend •evseul weeks. While away they will visit Atlanta and other Georgia □ties. Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Baughman and children, of Wagener, 5. C.. returned home this morning after spending a week in Dunn the ruesta of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Prof. B. D. Bunn, principal of the Dunn high school, arrived Wed nesday evening from Mt. Gilead, where he and Mn. Bunn are spend ing the summer months, and will be here for a short time. He ex pects to return to Dunn to make bis home about August 15. PUBLIC AIDING LIBRARY Books Recently Donated tv _ Public Library Ry David Clifford — Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy, by Mar shall; The Son of Tartan, by Ed gar Rice Burroughs; The Doctor, oy Ralph Conner; Tho Man No body Knew, by Holwurthy llall; The CaU of the Wild, by Tack Ten don ; Michael, Brother o( Jerry, by Jack London; The House of a Thousand Candle*, hv Meredith Nicholson; Seventeen,' by Booth Tarkington. By Mrs. Pridgen — The Dawn, by Hleaoor Porter. By Miss Meta Harper Dear Enemy, by lean Webster. By Mra. Baldwin— Prisoner* of Hope, by Mary Johnston; The Cloister and the Hearth, by Chas. Reade. By Nat. Townsend, Jr.— Helen Ford J>y Horatio Alger; Tom, the Bootblack, by Horatio Alger; The Pony Rider Boys in Texas, by Pat chin. These aliovc donations are ap preciated by the library. All dona tion* «i the future will be acknowl edged through The Dispatch. / 1 — ■ ■ . President Harding himself ap pear* to be enjoying some of the normalcy he predicted. According to press reports he arrived at Ju neau, Alaska. “ in a fog ” AUIKTVIUZ NEWS <n/D. W. Hall.) July 25 —Mr. G. E. rlill is on the nek Kit. Prof, and Mr*. W. M Autry and pert of their children, of Waynes boro, Mil*., came up not long ago on an extended visit to relative* in this community. Mr .and Mrs. Autry formerly resided in this sec tion, but moved to Mississippi a few years ago, where Mr. Autry bas a position superintending a tur pentine farm. He says that busi ness down there is good. A protracted meeting was recent ly held at Long Branch hy the pas tor. Rev. J S" Johnson, of Cedar Creek. Mr. and Mr*. Roacoe Bainc, of Cumbreland, spent a short while re cently visiting Mr and Mrs. W J. Capps in this vicinity. Messrs. W. J. Capps, J. P. House ind Mr R. Baine made a trip to Fayetteville Saturday of the iiast week A protracted meeting was held at Clement church in this vicinity the past week. Hoeing Sunday, the 22nd. Rev. J. S. Harrell, of Sun bury. Gates county, did most of the preaching, assisted by the pastor. Rev. W M. Page, of Buie's Creek, »nd on the last day or two before doaing. Rev. Mr. Womble assisted in the meeting. - Dr. E. Tate Sessoms, one of Sampson county's young physi cians, who has been residing at Autryville the past few years and practicing in the surrounding com munity. left not long since for New York city, to take a post-graduate course in medicine in the New York Post - Graduate Medical i School and Hospital We had a card from him a few days ago He says he is getting along fine. Mr. Ransom Starling, who re sides at the home of his sister, Mr*. Gilliard Gainey, just across the Cumberland-Sampson line in Cumberland, erected a storehouse | there some months ago, and has I been selling goods there the past | few months. . • FORD PRODUCTION SHOWS INCREASE Tot Detroit, Mich., July 24.— A to tal of 1,050,185 automotive prod ucts were hulk by the various di visions of the Ford Motor Com pany during the first six months 01 the present year, according to fig ure* just compiled. > 11k output for the half year was as follow*: Ford cars and trucks, domestic snd foreign, 941,245; Canada. 46, 871; Fordson tractors, 58,557, and Uncnln cart, 3,512. • A new monthly record for pro - ‘ ---tr A POSITIVE BOLL WEEVIL RUED Y / t )* Plant Your Stnbbla Land In— FAll KSBKflATMS -‘ur— $1.00 rat nt now Subject to AAtnat Without No£oo It io now the right time for pUatfag— got jrour aood whOo they are cheap at GENERAL UIHirY WAREHOUSE IN DUNN B. O. TOWNSEND Your Hones9 Teeth | I Can't Be Repaired I Wb«n pmr hone’s teeth go had be au V food property—so he bobs k. The ase ■ the teeth with tbo bulls unbroken, and the < . ^B sufficiently ground. The digestive Juices on the grams, and they pass through the bod ed and wasted. 15% of the oats fed k of S-,1 • . ; this way. ■ .Food your boa i-',; ■ ration. The taina just dbose jf|'S , || • ■ | • .. CAhOUWA x rlrj .faction was established by the fa i mtstic assembly plants in June, wkh , a total of 175,(HO Ford can and tracks .exceeding fa output of May 1 by nearly 5,000. < N'cw production merits have been * set up ahnost daily face January, i but there hasn’t been s time when . manufacture even approximated the demand. J With production iwersaring in an endeavor to meet the demand, h is expected that the company will fin ish the year with a total approxi mating 1JOOUOOO Ford cars and trades for domestic me alone. This is the opinion expressed by officials m view of the present pros perous conditions, the number of orders, and the outlook lor ew better times prevailing during the coming months. In bringing up production, efforts all along have been devoted to buEding better. Ac a result many improvement* have been made, and though Fold cars and tracks are today at the lowest price level in the history of the company, they ere of higher quality sod present a greater value to the purchaser fan ever before. The demand for Ford trucks and light delivery cars is particularly optimistic, since it reflects the atti tude of business men, as well as fanners, toward expansion and greater efficiency. Salas of Ford tracks are more fan double those of last year, which infantas fa ex tent of the general prosperity. For months Ford dealers have had no stocks on hand, buyers ab sorbing fa cars and tracks as rap idly as fay are tuned out of as =111.11! embJy plant*. With th»t condition ontinniaf, pcndnrtiun it certain to main at capacity to aid dealer* in itakbif deliveries a* quickly as pos ibta. . GETT Too C THE “| * get pc hope of l . and the probabitil M. A. AM. I. V. *. m. i. a MR, G Do - . “ --

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