CTHURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1931
VANCE NEWS-LEADER, HEXDersOX, N. C.
PAGE SEVEN
AYCOCK NEWS
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By DELIA PUCKETT
I Visiting Here
Miss Arelle Willis of Clarksville, Va.,
ferrived Monday June 15, to be the
Jioiise guest of Miss Mildred Stewart.
. Home From School
Misses Mary and Elma Currin,-
aaughters of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cur
rin of ne®j Middleburg have returned
home from Meredith College to spend
.their summer vacation.
Miss Mary Currin graduated from
Jileredithh College with high honors.
Miss Elma Currin will be a Senior
at Meredith next term.
Visits Here
Miss Mabel Patterson of Oxford, N.
C. spent last week with Misses Eliza-
Jieih Cottrel and Marie Puckett.
Visits Parents
Mr. and Mi's. A. E. Stewart of Dur
ham and M. H. Stewart of Greensboro
visited their parents Mr. and Mrs.
Hamilton Stewart this past week end.
Church Calendar—Revival Begins
The people of the Carey Com
munity are looking forward to the
first week in July, when an old friend
and pastor. Rev. George Tunstall of
High Point, N. 0. will help the pastor
cf the church. Rev. John P. Mitchi-
ner in holding a revival.
The services will begin on the first
Sunday afternoon in July and last
the entire week. The public is cor
dially invited to attend.
Sunday School
Sunday School met at 10:30
o'clock, at Carey's Baptist Church
Sunday July 14, 1931, with Supt. B. D.
Adcock in charge of the service.
Preaching services are held by the
Pastor Rev. John F. Mitchiner the
first Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock
and the third Sunday morning at
11:00 o'clock. The public is cordially
invited to attend these services.
B. Y. P. U. Sei’\’ice
The B. Y. P. U. Service of Carey’s
Baptist Church met Sunday June
14, at 7:00 o'clock for its usual ser
vice. The group •a.ptain in charge was
Miss Mattie Adcock, the topic for dis
cussion was “The Bethany Home.”
Arrangements were made for a Se
nior B. Y. P. U. Study Course to be
held this week. Miss Mary Currin
will conduct the cour^ . The book to
be studied is the “Senior B. Y. P. U.
Administration Book.”
The public is cordially invited to at-
end the Sunday night services of the
Union.
A Born Preacher
I Rev. Jesse C. Shull, of Virginia,
is related closely to 65 ministers,
mostly Presbyterians.
Misses Julia Harris, and Frances
Fleming spent last week as the guests
of Mrs. Bob Parish in Henderson.
Mrs. W. C. Rogers of Epsom spent
the week end here as the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. M. Hicks.
Misses Sadie Frazier, Grace Vaughan
and Fraflk Thomas jVaughan are
spending several days at South Bos
ton, Va., as the guests of their aunt.
Miss Olive Hicks of Dabney was the
guest of Miss Lucille Vaughan Sun
day.
EPSOM NEWS
COKESBURY NEWS
By 'VERGIE HICKS
The Vance County Sunday School
Convention will be held Thursday
June 25, at Cokesbury M. E. Church
with an all day service and dinner on
the grounds.
Last year it was held at Carey's
Baptist church ,and an ineresting
program and a bountiful dinner was
thoroughly enjoyed. This year’s
Convention promises to prove even
better, and a full attendance from
each church in the county is expected.
There will be a Prayer Meeting Ser
vice conducted by the Pastor, Rev. P.
D. Woodall at Cokesbury M. E. church
Wednesday P. M. June 17, at 6:45
o'clock. The public is cordially in
vited.
Mrs. J. H. Hicks has returned from
the Maria Parham hospital where she
v;nderwent an operation for appendi
citis recently.
Friends of Miss Grace Vaughan will
be glad to learn that she is able to be
out again, after an illne^ of several
weeks.
Miss Lucie Hicks was the guest of
Miss Lula Adcock last week.
Miss Kathleen Edwards spent sev
eral days last week 's.s the guest of
Miss Lelia Haye at Ridgeway.
Marriage Announcement
Mrs. James W. Hicks announces the
approaching marriage of her daugh
ter, Lucie Mary, to James Lee Rid-
ant of Warrenton, N. C. on June 19,
1931 at Boydton, Va.
Mrs. Alex Buchanan who has been
ill several weeks is reported to be im
proving saH^factorily, her many
friends will be glad to learn.
By MRS. W. A. HOYL
Miss Bessie Lee,Alston has returned
home from Alebemarle, where she
taught the pa.st year.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Macon attended
the Graduation Exercises of the Eas
tern Carolina Teachers College at
Greenville, N. C., their daughter Miss
Sue Brodie Macon, member of the
graduating class, returned home with
Lhem.
Mrs. Guy Winn and little daughter
Ruina have returned to their home
near Manson, after a visit with Mr.
and Mrs. W. G. Winn.
Miss Margaret Alston has returned
to her home after a visit to E. C. T. C.
her Alma Mata where she attended
the graduating exercises.
Miss Carrie Alston, who has been
visiting her sister, Mr. R. L. Bell of
Macon has returned to her home.
Mrs. Lottie Weldon and Miss Mar
garet Alston who have been attending
a session of the Grand Chapter of the
Orer of The Eatern Star, which was
recently held at Elizabeth City have
returned home. They were accom
panied by Mr, and Mrs. C. T. Hudson.
Miss Sue Edgerton is visiting Miss
Sue Brodie Macon.
Miss Gussie Poster has returned to
spend the summer with Mis.s Margaret
.Alston.
A surprise birthday dinner was given
Sunday at the home of Mrs. J. T. Wel
don, honoring her, by her children.
Miss Sadie Pace Wins Medal
In a recent county contest sponsored
by the Jambes Post of the American'
Legion of Franklin county in which
they offered for the best Essay writ- !
ten, a medal. The medal was presented j
to Miss Sadie Pace who was declared
the winner. The Post also gave a'
beautful Loving Cup to the Epsom
High School, this to remain the pro- I
EXPERTS TO DESCRIBE
WHAT IS GOING
ON IN THE WORLD
New York,—Do /ou know that a
miniature wireless robot operating in a
free balloon a mile or so in the sky
is one of the new'est devices employed
to give you your weather information?
Or that there are remote island uni
verses of stars incredible distances
away which seems to be rushing into
space at apparent velocities of 12,000
miles a second?
Or that meteors usually are cold
when they hit the ground and that
stories of fires started by meteorites
are like the one time report of Mark
Twain’s death, “greatly exaggerated?”
Or that metals sometimes contract
under heat and expand when cold as
shown by X-rays?
.Or that lightweight concrete, alum
inum building beams, glass walls and
composition furniture are here or on
the way?
In answering these and other ques
tions, The Associated Press plans to
present a series of stories on “What’s
Going on in the World Today,” the
latest developments and future pros
pects in many lines of scientific and
aesthetic endeavor . These stories will
be told by experts in thetir fields.
Scientists are continually at work
trying to learn more about the me
chanics of life, says Dr. Reginald G.
Harris, director of the biological labo
ratory at Cold Spring Harbor, New
York. E. A. Horton, professor of an
thropology at Harvard, relates recent
discoveries that carry man’s cultural
history further and further back into
the misty past.
H. L. Menchen, well-known critic and
editor, has something to say about the
possibilities of a better type of litera
ture appearing as a result of the de-
perty of the school for one year.
A regular meeting of Wellons Chap
ter No. 167 O. E. S. was held Pi'iday
night. Splendid reports were read on
the Grand Chapter Meeting.
The Children Day exercises will be
held at Liberty-V^nce Christian
Church the third Saturday in June.
Dinner will be served on the grounds
and a pageant will be given in the
afternoon.
Church Notices
Regular preaching services will be
held at the Christian Church the
third Sunday. Services will be con
ducted by the Pastor Rev. H. E.
Crutchfield.
Sunday School at 10 o’clock Sunday
A. M.
Christian Endeavor at 7:45 P. M.
presslcn, in a review of the current
literary scene in America.
Han-ey wiley Corbett, chairman of
the architectural commission of the
1933 Chicago World's Fair, will tell of
America's present day attitude toward
buildings as functional structures to
be used as long as they serve and to
be scrapped the moment they are out
of date.
Police officers go to school at North
western University to learn about
forensic ballistics—the science or art of
bullet and fireann identification.
Lieut. Co, Calvin Goddard, who was
called in on the St. Valentine Day mas-
acre in Chicago, will describe this new
and little known science.
Prof. c. V. P. Young, of Cornell Uni
versity, punctures some popular beliefs
concerning ventilation, while William
Braid White, an expert in acoustics will
tell what the sound engineer is doing
to increase pleasant noises and de
crease unpleasant ones.
Other stories will touch on the latest
radiology, sports, surgery, medicine,
entertainment, physics, radio, eviation,
seismology, art, astronomy, education,
paleoiitoloy, criminoly, geology, music,
government. Industry and other sub
jects.
This Is the first time that many
scientists have written popular re
views of their work for newspaper
distribution.
—Warsaw—Three fellows who rolled
a barrel of herring 250 miles from Gyd-
nla to Marshal PilsudAi’s doorstep
have been rewarded. They did It to
show they were husky enough to work.
The mrashal has promised to get them
Jobs.
—The first adhesive postage stamp*
used by the United States Govern
ment were authorized in 1847.
—About 10.000 tons of snuff are an
nually con-sumed in the United States.
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