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Wk ' £==a News that interests. Advertising that pays. MANAGEMENT ZZZZZ^ ♦> EMPLOYEES • «\ ;t i TheyAd vertise. Let’s patronize. ■■<Vi <£AtM HIGH AND STRIVE TO hlTTHE MARK^ St*!* W.2.N0T2I. SPRAY, N.CT THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1923. $1.50 Per Year. Single Copy 5c. IXltAL FUST OF AM If TO STAGE BIG I Membership Campaign To Begin Next Sunday At V Midnight Has Inde terminate End ff-.. ing. f PRIZES TO BE GIVEN At the very unusual hour of 12 o’clock, Sunday night, the James Hudnall Post of The American Le igion will start a membership drive. The closing date is to be announced | later. j The Hudnall Post is one of the! very livest in the state. They are continuously putting worthy things across, as, for instance, at an early date they are bringing a very ex cellent picture, entertaining and car rying a wonderful moral, to our town. Every “buddie” should enjoy this fellowship. This membership drive is to be in the form of a contest, and the follow ing prizes are to be given: 1st. prize, one pair Florsheim shoes; 2nd. prize, one John B. Stet son hat; 3rd. prize, one belt with Legion Buckle. New member counts 2000 points and renewal counts 1000 points. Names must be sent in daily to Adjutant Chas. Maness. Buddie! Pay your 1923 dues, if you haven’t already done so, before the opening of this campaign, other wise the names which you send in during the contest cannot count to ward winning prize. Professor Kerchies met with the Legion Tuesday night, and agreed to lend his service in preparing one of the very latest minstrels which will be given music festival week. The Characters in this minstrel will be all local talent and members of the American Legion, Sunday School Convention Workers from all Sunday Schools of all denominations in Spray, Leaks ville and vicinity will gather for a township Sunday School Convention in the First Christian church, Spray, on Sunday and Monday, March 25th and 26th. Sessions of the convention will be held afternoon and evening of the two days. Afternoon sessions will be from 3 to 5 o’clock and the evening sessions from 7:30 to 9:00 o’clock. Taking part on the program will be Mr. D. W. Sims, Raleigh, Gener al Superintendent of the North Caro lina Sunday School Association. Mr. Sims has attended previous conven tions in Leaksville and Spray, and in other parts of the county and is well and favorably known by the Sunday School workers. He is noted for his spicey and humorous speeches which are full of practical sugges gestions for Sunday School workers. Miss Daisy Magee, Raleigh, Chil dren's Division Superintendent of the North Carolina Sunday School Association, will also be present and take a prominent part on the pro gram. Miss Magee is said to be one of the most noted Children’s Division Worgers in the country. While the meeting is planned primarily for Superintendents, teach ers and officers, all who are interest ed in Sunday School are invited to attend all sessions. A special in vitation is given to members of men’s and women’s organized classes. It is expected by those in charge of the meeting that every Sunday School in the township will have representatives at the convention. LOCAL ROTARIANS REPORT A GREAT TIME AT DISTRICT MEETING AT CHARLES • TON. H»t« Report at Luncheon Today The five Rotarians -who journeyed to Charleston, S. C., last Monday , evening returned this morning' and reported a wonderful time. They made short reports of the meetings to the local club at luncheon today *t the Colonade. Carroll Hone and other distiguished speakers were on the program an the two days ses sion was a joy from first to last. There was a wonderful spirit of fel lowship prevailing. ERICAN LEGION MEMBERSHIP DRIVE SEARES MAY BE IN CUSTODY OF POLICE IN VIRGINIA CITY Boy Answering Description Of Mrs. Purcell’s Slayer y Is Held in Rich mond. DETECTED WHILE HE PAWNED EAR RINGS Hilton Seares, who fatally shot Mrs. Purcell, wife of a prominent far mer who resides near Wentworth, is thought to be in the hands of Richmond police. According to news received by the Greensboro Daily News, “A well-dressed bright-eyed youth, giving the name of Willie Hall, 17 and hailing from Roanoke Rapids, N. C., was held here today as a fugi tive from Rockingham county, N. C. The police said that he corresponded to the description of a youth giving the name of Hilton Seares, who is wanted for the murder of Mrs. D. E. Purcell, at Reidsville, N. C., March 6. He was taken into custody while in the act of pawning a pair of old fashioned opal ear rings at a local shop. He denied that he had any knowledge of the murder, the motive for which ws robbery, according to a circular sent out by Sheriff J. F. Smith, of Rockingham county. MATTHEWS—DUNN On March 14th, at 8:30 o’clock p. m. Miss Elizabeth Matthews be came the bride of Mr. B. Benson Dunn. The ceremony was perform ed by Rev. P. H. Gwynn at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Matthews at Stoneville. The entire lower'floor of the house was beautifully decorated, using the color scheme of yellow and green. In the parlor an improvised altar banked with trailing cedar, ferns and jon quils formed an attractive setting ‘Wrthrtffasr party. Before the ceremony Mrs. Claudia O’Brien, in her charming manner, sang “I Love You Truly”, accompan ied by Miss Grace Haizlip who play ed the wedding march. As the strains of Mendelssohn’s wedding march sounded the bridal party slow ly descended the winding stairway. Little Miss Catherine Matthews, sister of the bride, and little Miss Ruby Clifton, niece of the bride, entered first, carrying baskets of jonquils. Little Miss Loraine Mat thews, niece of the bride, in a dainty frock of pink satins entered next, carrying the ring in a lily. Follow ing the little ring bearer came the bride, becomingly attired in navy blue poiret twill with gray acces sories. She was met at the foot of the stairway by the groom who con ducted her to the altar. The bride carried a beautiful shower bouquet of brides roses and lilies of the val ley. After the wedding a reception was given the bridal party and guests. During the reception, which lasted about thirty to forty minutes, the | bride and groom were the recepients | of congratulations and best wishes from their many friends and rela ! tives. | The grifts were beautiful and i numerous, attesting the popularity I of these fine young people. I The bride is a very popular and attractive young woman, sister of Dr. j W. W. Matthews, of Leaksville, and daughter of Mr. C. H. Matthews of Stoneville. She has been connected with the Boulevard Real Estate Co., of Leaksville for the past three years in a business capacity and has won a host of friends for herself. The groom is a son of Mr. J. W. Dunn of Virginia and is engaged in a successful business> in Leaksville, being the owner of the Dunn Tire & Battery Company. He belongs, like the bride, to one of the old and ex cellent families of this community. Immediately after the reception Mr. and Mrs. Dunn departed for Washington. Baltimore and other points. Even a billionaire can not boy a return ticket when he goes to hell. NEXT WEEK’S POSTER SERVICE Look Pleasant Please •r- ■" % ..4 " One frown can spoil a hundred smiles. The worker with a grouch should check it outside. The work er with a hot temper should leave it at the door to cool. * ' Left Do The Work Cheerfully ■'V '' ■, ^t ■x-'J wt. TWENTY YEARS CONTINUOUS SERVICE Mr. Rufus Nelson, Primitive Heights, Spray, N. C., Foreman Stock Room, American Warehouse “I believe in sticking to the job in hand,” said Mr. Rufus Nelson of Damon Street. Mr. Nelson who says he believes that he has more days actual work to his credit than any man on the payroll of the Company, was born in Guilford County in the year 1875. He lived on the farm until he reached the age of about 23. At this age he decided to seek his fortune in the city and accordingly moved to Greensboro. Mr. Nelson was employed by Mr. R. E. Wall who was foreman for the Southern Fin ishing and Warehouse Company of Greensboro, where he remained for two years. Mr. Wall, in the jnean time, was made general manager of the American Warehouse at Spray and remembering Mr. Nelson’s good work in Greensboro asked him to move to Spray and take charge of the Stock room. Mr. Nelson moved to Spray and began work for the Com pany on Jan. 1st 1901. He has been continuously on the job since, as fore man of the Stock room. Mr. Nelson said, “I have not lost as much as two weeks all told on ac count of sickness since I have been in Spray.” About the year 1899 Mr. Nelson decided that it was not well for a man to live alone, so he married Miss Lena Edwards, of Guilford College, near Greensboro. To this union was born six children, five of which now live. Mr. Nelson owns, his home and has moved only twice since he has been married. He moved from Greens boro to Spray, and into his new home after he had built it. “I believe that this company will give its employees a square deal,” says, Mr. Nelson, “They have always treated me all right.” NEW ENGINES AND CARS i BOUGHT BY SOUTHERN TO BE BUILT IN SOUTH Atlanta, Ga., March 19.—New cars and locomotives, 'costing more than $17,000,000.00, which have just been ordered by the Southern Rail way. System, will nearly all be built at points on the Southern’s lines. Fifty freight locomotives, 16 pas senger locomotives, 6 dining cars, 3,070 box cars, 2,865 hopper-bot tom coal cars, 2,000 gondola coal cars, and 200 stock cars are includ ed in' the order, all of them contract ed for delivery during the summer so as to be available for business in the fall. The locomotives are to be built at Richmond; Va., by the Anjerican Locomotive Co., 1,500 box cars and 1,365 coal cars at Memphis and St. Louis by the American Car and Foundry Co., 2,000 coal cars at Lenoir City, Tenn., by the Lenoir Car Works, 170 box cars at Mt. Vernon, 111., by the Mt. Vernon Car Manu facturing Co., and 200 stock cars at Anniston, Ala., by the Kilby Car and Foundry Co. The remaining box and coal cars will be built by the Standard Steel Car Co., at its Baltimore and Middletown plants, and the dining cars by the Pullman Co. at Chicago. All of this euipment will be of the latest desiyn and suited to meet the requirements of traffic in the South. The freight locomotives will be of the Mikado type and the passenger locomotives of the Pacific type. The box cars will be 36 feet in length and of 40-ton capacity, similar to the 6,000 new box cars recently placed in service by the Southern. The stock cars will be 40 feet in length and the coal cars of 50-ton capacity. With these new oars and locomo tives in service, the Southern will be enabled to “Serve the South” even more adequately than in the past and its. faith in the continued growth of business in the territory it serves is indicated in a most sub stantial manner by this large outlay! for additional equipment. . CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN We are planning to have a "Can Bald,” beginning: March 26th. All boys and girls under the ages of 14 years will have a chance to earn tickets that the “Y” will give for hauling in cans. -We want to rid the community "of all empty ca^s and are planning to puythfr -school chil dren to do this. , Watch for a full announcement of ■ <" ' KV \ A':;. l q*- ' q- ■ COMMUNITY MUSIC __ There will be music in the air at Draper on next Friday night, March 22nd, when the local band and orchestra will render a most inter esting program at the Y. M. C. A. The members of these organiza tions have shown much interest in their music 'and deserve credit for the advancement which they have made. The concert will begin promptly at 7:30 P. M. and will be free to every body. The members of the wind instru ment classes of Spray met at the Music Room last Thursday after noon and organized a Juvenile Bandj of twenty-three members. The in-! strumentation is as follows: I E flat Claironet, 3 B flat Clarionets, 11 j Cornets, 3 Altos, 2 Trombones, 1 j Baritone, 1 Tuba and 2 Drums. These young people all have the | right spirit and with punctuality, re- j gular attendance at rehearsals, and j systematic practice at home we pre- j diet an organization which will be j the pride of the community. The Variety Players played the following selections at the King’s Memorial Church last Sunday. I’ll wear a White Flower for you Mother Dear. Voluntary by Geibel. Come Unto Him by Gunrod. Gloria by Seyfried. This music was greatly appreci- j ated by the friendly spirited congre gation. We wish to thank Rev. Hughesj for his kind words of thanks and praise in behalf of this music render ed and the great art of music which we strive to teach and cultivate through other talents. That music is of God is proven in these lines: Music was not born on earth, To Heaven itself she thanks her birth, There the angels bright and fair Each and all musicians are. > LYCEUM Oar lost number of the season will be given Friday night at 8:00 o'clock. Mrs.Mae Shamway Endjferly, a noted Harpist, will entertain us at this time. Mrs. Enderby also has great dramatic ability and delights all with her ability as an imperson ator. , Don’t miss it. :tL “I’ss "k stylish nigger Chas.JHpirston to Jpcki Alabama Minstrel, Th, Friday 1 is” says inney in the irsday and ■ • .-.1 A safiMI > * & at iSpEifP®* H swtea HIGH SCHOOL BOYS PRESENT MINSTREL THURSDAY NIGHT Baseball SeasojJfopens Sat urday March 24, When Stoneville High Plays at Leaks ville. OTHER SCHOOL NEWS : Under the direction of Miss South srland and Mr. Moore, the boys of the Leaksville High School are pre paring to give an Alabama Minstrel at the Leaksville Graded School Au ditorium, Thursday, March 22, and at the Spray Graded School Audi torium, Friday March 23. The proceeds from the minstrel will go to the High School athletic Association. The base ball team is j sorely in need of some new uniforms,j and the boys hope to be able to pur chase the necessary equipment with the proceeds of the minstrel. Cast of characters. Dick Allen Jack Butler Dan. Carter Mr. Brown Sam Dooley Billy Eno Dan Tobey Chas. Hairston Jack Finey Theodore Poole Dan Manns Chas. Perkins Longa Kazie James Crouch Lawrence Wilson Zephrean HiH Prof. Moore Edwin Millner James Marshall Thomas Whichard Lawrence Barksdale John Baughn George Clark Joseph Bondurant Alton Robertson Gordon Black There will be a number of new song hits during the minstrel such as “Steppin’ Around” “If I was what I ain’t Instead of What I Is” “Mud Pie Days” “Swanee River Blues” “I Have Had Fifty Seven Varieties of Sweet Hearts” “Cleopatra,” and others. The program will begin at 8:00 o’clock. Base Ball Season Opens Saturday March 24. Next Saturday, March 24, the Leaksville High School Base Ball Team will cross bats with the strong team representing the Stoneville High School. The game will be played at the Tri-City League Park at three o’clock. Owing to unfavorable weather, the local boys have not had very much j practice, but they hope to be able to give a good account of themselves in the first game of the season. Although coach Moore has not yet fully decided just what men he will use in the game Saturday, the line up will likely be as follows: 1. b. Krantz, 2. b. Whichard, 3. b. Smith, s. s. Price, 1. f. Z. Hill, c. f. Barksdale, r. f. R. Hill, or C. Robert son, C. W. Whichard, p. R. Hill or Robertson. GIRLS COMMUNITY CLUB Thursday night, March 22nd, the Girls Club has invited the girls and women from the Rhode Island Mill to look over the headquarters and re main for a short business meeting. The hour is seven to eight and the entire group is invited to stay to see the gymnasium class in operation. Whether you are a member of the Club or not makes no difference. We want to see and meet every one of you. me two songs selected tor the Easter Carols are “Christ Arose” and “In the Cross of Christ I Glory.” Copies of these two songs may be had free at the Club and every girl 13 asked to get her copy so as to memor ize the two songs. They will be sung on Sunday night, Easter, after the church service. The girls are re quested to meet at the Girls Club as soon after preaching services as pos sible. A truck will be provided for them and the carols will be sung at several places in Leaksville and Spray. Anyone wishing the girls to sing in their particular vicinity is re quested to communicate with Miss Abel. Tuesday night the Loyal Sons and Daughters of the First Christian Church entertained for Mr. Frank Kick at the Girls Club Headquarters. Mr. Kick has been a member of this Sunday School Class since he has been in town and this party is the nature of a farewell party for him. This week he leaves for his home in Akron Ohio. The final shipment of the gym nasium suits has come at last. The girls are eager to get in them since more than two thirds of the class have been equipped. If you have ordered a suit you are requested to call at the Club Rooms and be fitted as soon as possible. April 7th is the Leaksville-Spray Products Evening at the Club. Sam ples of articles manufactured in the community will be exhibited as well as samples of all types of handwork done by the girl members. ... -,.v * ■; . ,, 1 Of .course right will always prevail ' —when there is no opposition. r f :,v. PROFESSOR HAROL UNIVERSITY BRIN LEGION AUXILIARY WAS ORGANIZED AT MEETING MONDAY This Is Unit Auxiliary To Work in Conjunction With The Hudnall Post OFFICERS ELECTED The American Legion Auxiliary was organized Monday night at a meeting held in the Girls Community Club headquarters. This will be a Unit Auxiliary to work in conjunc tion with the Hudnall Post and the meeting Monday night was the out growth of a meeting held at the Y. M. C. A. several weeks ago. Over twenty charter members signed ap plications on the occasion of the first meeting. The following officers were elected: Mrs. J. B. Ray, President; Miss Elizabeth Simpson, Vice Presi dent; Miss Annie Millner, Secretary; Mrs. C. C. Rowe, Treasurer. In addition to these officers a com mittee was appointed to assist the local Post in making arrangements for the big picture called “A Man Without a Country” which will be brought here by the Legion on April 19th. This committee consists of Mrs. George Saunders, Mrs. Maness and Miss Mary Ann Abel. All girls and women who are wives, mothers, sisters or daughters of a man belonging to the American Leigon are eligible to join the Auxi liary. It is hoped the Legion Auxi liary will grow and flourish for there is much need for this organization here where the American Legion is in such fine condition. Mr. Luther Hodges is head of the local post and Mr. Maness is Adjutant. PINNING DOWN ON UPKEEP “The world is getting on. The latest bit of encouragement is the discovery that the “Guess” can be taken out of the cost in upkeep ol automobiles”. Heretofore the autc owner has had the idea that the up keep of a car in dollars and cents was a very hazy thing except when the bills came in. It might strike him hard or it might strike him easy If he got off for a small outlay it was chalked up to good luck or he praised the particular make of car that he had. “Now a Leaksville-Spray company has figured out and put into opera tion a plan by which it agrees to keep up its cars over a period of a year for the cost of a loaf of bread a day. That is getting down to business. If that becomes general the auto owner will know just where he stands. Owners who have bought cars and then discovered that after the purchase outlay, the drain for upkeep has been too great for their pocketbook, need not make that er ror again, they will have the facts. Such a plan might force automobile manufacturers to standarize their products to a point nigh perfection If their cars run unequally in point of wear resistance, then the guess comes back to them in increased expense for repairs. They couldn’t afford to take chances with uneven production. !) MEYER OF STATE I GS GRAND MESSAGE ! His Institutes on Play And Recreation Have Arous ed New Interest in The Tri-Cities HIS PERSONALITY IS REALLY WONDERFUL Perhaps no more winning person ality has ever visited our town than the golden haired man who has just left us. Certainly no one is more ■ welcome back with us than Harold W. Meyer. He came from the Uni versity of North Carolina to hold an $ institute on Play and Recreation, and those who missed any one of the four speeches he made missed a rare treat. Mr. Meyer is Professor of Socio logy at the University but conducts ["£ throughout the state institutes on play and recreation and teaches this same subject by mail for the Exten sion Bureau of the University. Wednesday night he spoke at the Girls Club, Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon at the same place. Friday night he spoke to a very large audience at Draper. In all his talks ! he makes play the needed thing it 1 really is in the lives of us all and he teaches the games, many of which he I has himself written, in such an en : thusiastic manner as to make them '/?% \ delightful. j By courtesy of Mr. Holmes he | taught the school children games and [relay races and when he had finish | ed all the children and teachers want j ed to keep him with them for further instruction. Those who met Mr. Meyer will welcome him back at any time for we feel he has given the play and recreation movement a new life and interest in the tri-cities. COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT Saving Plan of Groat Interest. Tonight will be the regular meet- ' ^ ing of the Council and Dr. Taylor who arrived in town this afternoon, will speak on a subject that will ^ be interest to every member. He ; % will talk on “Dealing With Men”. Following his talk it is hoped that the members will have time for a discussion of their problems along this line. The Savings Plan will be brought Up for consideration and action tonight and there is great interest in its possibilities. Some companies, ; notably among them being the j Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, : have made great success out of the Savings Plans and the employees have been very grateful for the plan offered. ! The Arrow reporters held an ex cellent meeting Monday evening at the Central Y. M. C. A. Music by Miss Gloria Hailey and Mr. Wallace Whichard was enjoyed Mr. W. J. Squires entertained them with two vocal solos. Refreshments Were, served and while the reporters discussed the Arrow and ways of making it better. “If I was what I ain’t instead of what I is” is a fine, snappy song hit sung by Dan Foley in the Ala bama Minstrel. 1 THE SHORT BLANKET Everyone knows the story of Mrs. McGinnis, the old Irish lady, whose blanket was too short to cover her feet. She worried about it a good deal. Finally she told her neighbor, Mrs. Flaherty, over the back fence, “Oi fixed that ould bidcover yist’day.” “Phwat did yez do?” “Faith, and Oi cut some o’ the top off and sewed it on the bottom.” " A business or industry is a lot like that blanket. It has just so much money to do business on, and when you take money out of one pocket and put it in another there isn’t any more money. ,,s . .1 The blanket is still the same length. There are ways of adding to the total amount of money in the business. One of them is to save on production costs. Everybody, if he will, can time, material and energy in doing his party job. All it needs is a little study, thought ning. ' 4 ; ’ . ' ; • • *; v . j •• •- 4 ' .>" ’ ' . -if - ’ • •!,> But it’s worth it, because you help to enlarge the blanket instead of cutting a piece from one end and sewing it on the other. . / . , , ^ Copyrighted by Babson Institute, Mass. v:> Hills, .Vtk .V.-'
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