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Horn, this morning it the Dum hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernes Pope, a son. Mis* Evelyn Bridget bu rttume frnm a work end trip to a bouse part; at Raefnrd. Mis* Isabel Young has return** from Atlanta, Ga.. where she »pcn several weeks with relatives. IJoyd Wade, Jr., Irft Monday nigh ior Hendersonville to speed twi weks with relatives. Miss Elizabeth and Christina Thompson are visiting relatives ir Goldsboro this week. John B. Young, who lives on R 5 from Dunn, was .•>mong the visi tors in town Saturday Etnpie llall, of Cooper, hn» ac crpted a jiosition as salesman in \V. I>. Holland's grocery store. Cornelias Harnett Chapter D. A. K., will meet with Mrs. J. U Hatcher Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. W. M. Posle of Aulamler, is visiting her slaters, Mrs. Annto Par ker anal Mm. T. L. Bridgets, on S King Avet.ua. A. Feldman left yesterday a. nt. for the Northern markets to pur chase fall goods for the Feldman department store. Missess Blanche and Emily Gran tham returned home Saturday from Asheville, where they s|>eni a month visiting relatives. Rev. G. T. Adana, pastor of thu Method 1st church, has returned from Morehead City where he spent two weeks on a vacation. R. G. Taylor left Sunday for New York, where he will sficnd several day* buying fall goods for hi* department store. Miss Elizabeth Dunn has return ed to her home in Kinston after spending a few day* here visiting llisa Elizabeth Thompsonn. Mr. and Mr* J. W. • Thornton and their guest, Mr*. J. M Millard and Children, of Littleton, spent Snndav with Prof, and Mr*. J. C Kelly in Cameron Mrs. M. G. Drown and two chil dren left Sunday ior their home in nirmmgham, Ala., after spending a month here visiting at the home of Mrs. Brown's parents, Mr. and Mr. R. S. Pearce. Mrs. Ewan! Brock and little son. Jack, of Bridgeport, Conn., who have been visiting Mrs. Brack's aistar, Mrs. J. Lloyd Wade, left lset night lor Hendersonville, whan they will visit other reitaives. Mr. and Mrs. 11 A. Parker and Mr. and Mr*. Ralph Wade spent ihe week-end at Myrtle Beach vis ing at the home of Mr. Parker's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. anti Mrs. C. A. Roach. Mrs F. C. Herring and little daughter, Marion Petree, of Mar ion, S. C\. are visiting at the home o£ Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Lewis. Mr Herring will arrive in a few days to take Mrs. Herring ami (laughter to their new home in Akron, Ohio L. U. Bizacll, who recently re. signed as superintendent of the lo cal wateT department, left Saturday niglit for Zcbulon, where he has ac cepted a position as superintendent of both the water and light depart ments of the town. P. A. Jav, Jack Jordan, H. L. Godwin, Jr., Joe B.. Sid, Cleve and Rudolph Wilson. Carlyle Rowland, Ben Cooper and Gib Cook returned home Friday night from u trip to Wrightsville Beach and l.ake Wac camaw. They report a delightful outing. Rev. George Cothrcll, of Sher man, Texas, preached last Sunday morning and evening at the local Christian church, Mr. Cuthrell was pastor of this church some fifteen years ago, and is pleasantly remem lend by many of the older citizens of Ih, inwn An all day rally was held la*l Sunday at Pleasant Walk A. M. P-. church, colored, the purpose of the rally being to raise funds for com pleting the ehnrch building. D. H. flood delivered ao address in the afternoon. Hi* subject was, “ In dividual Responsibility for the Suc cess of the Church." N. B. Bass, superintendent of streets, ha* naked The Dispatch to urge the importance of an citizens co-operating with hi* department in keeping the town clean. Owing to scarcity of labor, it is important that all trash and nibbish possible be placed in garbage cam go that it can be ronoved with more rapid, ity, he says. W. H- Capps, who fives in John ston county, was recently boutW over to t|>* Pederal court by t*. S Commissioner R. Lee on the chargt of j*o»se»*mg and selling whiskey He made bond in the sum of $200 McKinley Stewart, who was a)* Sven a hearing before ’Squire l«ei aturday <0* the charge of manu facturing whiskey, was foimd no guilty. Re*. A. B- Harvsll of Potentate Va., was h*»« Friday an raeto t Claytoe to attaud At funeral of M brothor-i rv-J»w, Hardy Homo, wh dlad at Mi horn* la CRayton grids, Tba wfll k Auguat afth at I# •'•U* a. a*. Ai rolattvos are tavllsd to attend. ) Miss Josephine Thomas went yes I terday to Maxtim to visit relatives The ladies of die Christiai L chinch if ill hold a while sale ttv m Thursday in September for tlx i 'xMielit of tlte organ fund. I'lace o <clc will I* announced later i ____________ 1 Williford • Pop* .; ML«s Cludvs Pope, daughter o Rev. anil Mr*. Willie 1 'ope, wa r married Saturday evening to Their dor Williford, »on of Mr. :uul Mrs I Jesse R. Willi font. The ceremony l was performed in some town noil1 of Dunn, the happy young rouph , continuing on their wav to l-llts , burgh, Pennsylvania, where tlk liridegioom will return to a position ho resigned several months ngi when lie came South to visit his parents. The bride was attending the l}al con Camp Meeting with her parents '• •'eii xlic and Mr. WiUifotd ilccid ol to marry. There was some par. cntal nbjcclioii which prompted them to seek some other town for • hr performance of the ceremony. 1 lie father of the bridegroom v. ;:s notified Sunday tlvnt tlie young folks were mairi ed and was rctjucstcd In faward his sons baggage. Mr. Will'ford was not informed, hov. ever, where the ceremony was per formed. Hie message came from Selma and it is presumed that the marriage was solemnized there or at Smitlificlil The hride is one of the most pop ular and accomplished young women of the Dunn District. Her husl«nd i» an cvcellcnt young mao who has many friends in and around Dunn. ; lunarea* ut Uolurt For Mill Pond Fuh At one o'ckick Tuesday. accord mg to Mr. Fleet Scssoms, wlio with Rev. T. H. King, was od (ho ground, $2tXl hj.d been |iaid out for lish caught when Sheriff MoLaml mill jiond was drained. The fish were mostly chuhs and jacks, and were whoppers. Mr. Sessoms said hr j raw them sell as high a* $.lfiO each, but they were too high for the Clin, ion gentlemen, who can buy a mcs< from Mosscttc for thirty cents. Those chubs were of the breed Ros coe Butler expects to raise in his big pond, and he is not missing it »o far when he says that he will a $1000 worth of fish every three years, if they should sell as did these XlcLamb jacks and chubs There was actually ooe fish, we are told, that weighed sixteen pounds. —Sampson ~ Telegraph Office Mowed The local office of the Postal Tele graph Company wax moved Friday afternoon from the building occu pied liy F. C. Shkan, Rroad street, into the store of B. Lewi*, on the same street. The office, of which N. F. Lewis is manager, is located in the front of the Lewis store. PVIYIVtv nr nnn CATU.I U,VUU BALES THIS YEAR Local Cotton Yard Ha* Him Pot In First CUm Condition How much cotton will lie sold and pooled in Dunn from the crop of 19Z3> This is a question that local hosi uess men are studying and (Halt ing. A total of 18,000 bales were sold on the 0(«en market lure last year, while several thousand hales were |xioted hy mcmliers of the 0> operative Marketing Association Conservative estimates place the number of Iwles expected this year at 25.000. Anticipating one of the Lest jeers in the history of the local market. W. T. Royal, public cotton weigher, has pul the Lucknow cotton yards m good condition for bundling the crop. A coat of clinkers and find ers have been hauled on the yard and a new weighing platform'ha* been built. Two bales of cotton wet sold here last week, As was st:it- l in Friday's Dispatch, F.lliot Spears, negro tenant who farms for Anli ur Pot*ct of Dunn, brought ir. the first bole on Wednesday of last week. Saturday the second bnlo for the season was brought to market by Jason M. Lee, who live* 5 mile* east of Dunn. The cotton graded middling and was aold to the folm son Cotton Co. for 25 cents the pound. The first bale sold on the local market last year brought 2fl cents the pound. Cotton is opening rapidly in many fields and by the end of the wedt it it expected that several boles will he marketed daily. Cumberland FuMr DU. F.yettevile, Aug. Z4,—Funeral aervice* for Thoroa. R Dullard well-known farmer and cilteen ol I Fayettevile, who died in RaleigF Wednewlay night, were conducted from the Hay Street Method™ , chnrch yeeterday afternoon at l o’clock Mr. Bullard wa» ntuch Hk ed for Me genial and hearty nature He w»» a eure»»ful fanner and be ' fore hi. health failed atway. took at active intere* in outdoor eport*. he j in* an enlhwtaetlr devotee of’fm OFFICER ADAMS I ; HAS 'BEST’ DAY Captured Four Big Still* And ArreeUd Eight Men , 1 La*t Friday '( Four large whiskey stills were i captured and eight men caught in i the net nf operating them were ar ncsted Friday |,y |>. Adams. lo i\i) pn>1iil>ition agent. Mr. Adams •jmsideres this one or the "lH»t •lays work" he has accomplished since lie has been serving in the ca oarity of special prohibition agent, ami r*it otu: of the operators «•* c*;»ed the officer. 1 >vr> of the stills were found set JU- clow* together in (Wow county. 1 ho four men engage,] i,, o|Kmtin>; the two stills and placed under ar re-t were: K. A. and T. (i Home. Henry Williams and T. M. Urynnt. The -tills were made of copper and had u capacity of 40 gallons each. "he other two stills were found in Dii|din county and these were together, with four men engaged in ujierating them. The men arrested ' it the**' stills were : I .lb. Jake, l.ewisi sml John Kdwanls. 'Iliese were!1 made nf two 00-gnllon steel drums. Ilcsidcs the Milts ami rruTi, sp. |in exit unirlv 10 gallon- of whisker,1 and .WO gallons of lieer were can- ' hired. 1 own Jail Had Many Week-End Visitor* <! A wave of law and order viola •kiu followed Hose upon Hie heels: ;>f ilu rinse less wave*’ mentioned in h ruby's IN .patch, and aa a < isMiJi (lit local jail house was filled ' In il' rapacity d n mg die week-end. 1 !/«'•*) I'fiicers unde nine arivkts Saturrtnj night and eight «,f tint! ntmilicr were lucked tip in default ] of horiil. I he .htxsIs followed the iiuupi. > ration of a "clean up- drive by lo* «e.l officers, and the drive i» ir. be rontinued. according to Chief of i Police II. A. Rowland Tlic charge* 1 against llm-c ar’cst. d inrluiksl that ' of possessing whiskey for the ptir pose of sale, fights and immoral conduct. “WHAT PtM) iVtfbl.D HA* E,: TO HAPPEN" The Senior II V. P. U. of Spt' g' ‘ Branch rlm.-vh. Dunn, Route 1, p o I: suits the playlet, “What C.HI Would Mav m Ifap)<n." on Sat-! urday es.tvny Scjrtcnibcr 1, at 8 < o clock. A i o.-ioal invitation is cx- | j tended to I - public in gmeral. No | j admission f.e. AP’ TNVtTATION • - M The Junnior It. Y. i‘. U. * of Spring Branch Church requests the lionor of jour presence at the marriage of her 1 daughter R. Y 1*. U. Spirit to Mr. Our B. Y. P. U. ' on Saturday evening, Setitendicr the first one llkiusnnd, nine hundred anil ; twenty three at eight o’clock Spring ItrancJi Baptist Clturrit Dimn. North Carolina Route One ", AMERICANS LIKE BOTTLED DRINKS Every Year TWjr Iwjly row Billion BottU* Of Soft Drink* History omits the description ol many of ihe interesting; thing* «tmu; Mcthusalch. among them his liquid capacity. Hut, say* the Department of Agriculture, if he had been given die tusk of (listwsing 0f all the ‘‘pop" consumed in this country last year, lie would have had to start fit birth and down eight bottles every minute of hi* 996 year span of life. Each year, the department's stn. riitii-K declare, thirsty America emp ties four trillion bottles of soft drinl s. exclusive of such beverages is near beers made of cereals. 'Hie stiarkling flood comes from ten hrmsaml bottling establishments ind |murs accross 110,000 counter. Tlic enormous thirst quenching 111 lust r>- is a relatively new develop ment, a eomniercbdiriiq} 0f the dis coveries of the chemist, and one that lecessitates watchful care by the Iqianmem chemists to prevent iractnre of the pure lossd and drug aws. The M|Hqi’' of today, a depart - ilent paper says, is not the same »• hat clear liquid formerly sold only >t hall games, fairs and carnivals, •rminiscciii of over-ripe bananas, iml with little delectation for the ':i late. Hnd not great change oc urred in the industry it if banQv suaihlc that it could have reached ts present proportions Emit juices are sometimes found •t ihe Ileverages, it is said, bnt die liemist has supplied many substi utc* which has a marvelous sinin ntioo of nature’s flavor* and per imic* Superior Court Will Convene Next Monday A ivtrk’n tmu of Harnett county hqxrnor court for the trial of critn rial ra*e* m-jU convene next Mon '»y- sHK. 3, with lodge Frank i Daniel*, of GohUtM.ro, presiding Hii* nil lie followed by a week’* cnn of court for the trial of civil trailers. Judge J^aniels will pre idc over Harnett'*'courts for the text six month. Two mttrdrr ca* * aiijiear on the docket for tria1 t the criminal term. IAVE ’EM REPAIRED. LOOK in your closets foyhose shoes that need repairiM- Repair ed shock hold Abe comfort found onhr in sdbrn shoes. 8e« that the VeeU of the chil dren’s shoes are straight and solid before Karting them to school. Aients wanted. The Franklin Flf-Em-Quick Elec tric Shoe Slop. S. R. Holmes, propr., Duhn. N. C. Phone 480. 8 14 tfc Going To Keep House? Those Acntemplating furnishing a home me cordially invited to inspect our line of Furniture. BUTLER BROS. DUNN, N.C. -:---# ! money TO LOANjON GOOD FARM land*, 6-7-10 a(N SO year* at and one-half Aer cant Into re *L Loan* eleacd/rilhln SO day*. J. 0. Wart, AttonLy, Da^n. mTC. S Slit. FOR SALE-COMPLETE 70 SAW gin outfit, Including prraj, eondea aor, pulley* Jfctto and ihafUng. Bargain. CM ar turm*. E. V. Galnoy, Do*, K. C. A mg. 7 Ste. FOR SALE raaidanco COLD| WHEW! NO ’ WOOD, NO coal and the 6-f (rone nut. Iaaura j againat ghl* comity by placing i your order for your winter’* ! ■apply of WJted to be delivered a* j you noad R, at the right price. | Write or *e* Daniel R. Lae, Real* I, Dunn, M. C / th FOR RENT,—THE EXFRESS OF- I flee buflcWHPowaaRon given I September }Wi. See P. T. M*w*a Kill. V *1 dta. , - - — ._ :Hn BATHING SUITS] We have a big aaaortmeat of a bathing Mite and we will cloee: them oat at a big redqptfoq. | All woof ha ** ■ roee, trimmed | to 44. 1 AU wool ' rued >vith Black tri rimed with white, j full ai*A 34 to 46. \ KM ■ Black 4a , navy, Ana quality, all wool j%i By, aiae ap to 44. 34.44 Black, nanr and green, all woof jereejLlalEee ap to 44. Fifth \ Avenue Shop | i ■MMaMaam i A«k your grocer, for— Y UNC4J6 REMUS Sett/Rising Flour Tbe best flour money can buy* Juat Received C Freak 118 S. I Three Cents A Week Does The Family Washing This is a very small amount for a large family washing, ysft ft is possible to have the family washing done with the Automatic Electric Washer for only three cents worth of electricity. Would you not value an Electric Washer that conserved your Time, Saved Money, Removed Labor and Eliminated Worry—one that washed clothes without injury, from the smallest handkerchief to the largest blanket—every washday, week after week, year after ye ar. / ■ , PHONE '
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