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pHE GLEANER IORAHAM. N. C.. JULY 21,1927 ??+?+++++????++++ |j local news. J It J ? I J+++++++*++++++++++++J-++++ I ?Mr. Sam T. Johnston has been ?.warded the contract .for building I the new plant for the Creamery Co. ?is Burlington. I ?The additions to Oneida Cotton I Mills have been completed and the I oo'ing an(* rearranging of machine I jj commenced Monday. I I -An alumnae, party will be held I at Eli Whitney high shcool Friday I evening from 8 to 11. Active and I lionorary alumnae and teachers are I invited. I ?Miss Mary Tome Hughes is I filling the place of librarian at the I Graliam Graded schools while Miss I fliua Jo Holt is away attending I gmurner school. I ?The tobacco market will open I g Burlington on Tuesday Sept. I 20th- Big preparations are under I .ay for taking care of the weed dur I inn the sales season. ' ?Last Saturday the game be tween Siler City and Travora was won by Travora 1 to 0. Next Sat urday afternoon Travora will play Stalev. Game called at 4 o'clock. ?Rev. T. F. Pardue of Reids rille, evangelist, who is conducting i series of meetings in Bunlington, addressed the Men's Federation at 8:30 Sunday morning at the court house. N ?Wm. deR. Scott returned Tues day from Atlanta where be has been under treatment in a hospital. His was a trouble with one of his legs. He appears to have been very much benefited and is able to walk some. ?The Pender store in Burlington was broken into last Thursday night and the safe hataled away.. It was found blown open at a spot near Glen Raven mills. It contained about 180 in cash bssides a number of checks. So far no arrests have been made. ?A movement is on foot to revive interest in the Graham Boy Scout Troop. Grahatn Kiwanis Club is behind the movement and it is hoped the troop will get well on its feet again. There are many boys in Graham to whom Boy Scout prin ciples and instruction would mean much. ?A brother of Rev. P. T. Klapp, near Elon - College, Robert Lee Klapp of Washington, D. C., died suddenly last Thursday, aged 63 years. The body was brought to the home of the living brother and buried at Apple's. Chapel, in Guil ford county, near where deceased was born and reared. ?Silas Terry of this place is held in Greensboro for an assault on a man named Howard Hunt in that city a few days ago. Terry knocked Hunt down with his fist and stamped him. Hunt's injuries were such as to render it necessary to carry him to a hospital. At a hearing of the matter it turned out that Hunt was the aggressor. Terry was dis charged upon payment of the costs and Hunt was fined *$10 and given a suspended sentenced. rersooal. Missei Lala Browning and Mabel Walker have returned from summer school at Chapel Hill. Miss Helen Baker of Burlington is spending the week here with Miss Cora Emmaline Henderson. Mrs. W. E. Harrop has returned from a visit to her old home at A b ingdon, W. Va., accompanied by her mother, Mrs. McConnell. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Tarpley and their two daughters spent the week-end here at the homes of Mrs. Tarpley's brothers. Mess. Robt. B. and Allen D. Tate. Mrs. Ralph Strayhorn of Durham spent last Friday and Saturday here at the home of her father, Mr. W. L. Cooper, returning from a visit to her sister, Mrs. E. C. Turner, at Jefferson. Her two young daugh ters, Mary Jane and Louise, who had been here visiting Miss Mary Coop er, returned home with her. Track Death of Child The little 15-months old eon. Boyd Kinney, of Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Jones, was crashed to death undei * wagon bed aboat noon Satardaj at their home jnst beyond the sontb ft limits of the town. The chile M followed hia father to the barr lot where a gov w&s tied and it ii aoppoeed some movement of tj)e poa caused the bed to fall and the chile ?as trapped.* The father did no snow the child had followed him J he child was missed and its lifelesi form found beneath the bed. Tin httle one was carried to Big Meado* ?nurch, C he thaw county, Snnday foi hariaL + PERSONAL X * + Mr. Wm. I. Ward spent last Sun day in Durham. Mr. Curtis Write spent Sunday at Roaring Qap. Mr. Thoe. R. Harden is spending ( today in Greensboro. Misses Martha and Fannie Jonee spent last Thursday in Danville. Hon. S. M. Gattis of Hillsboro was here Wednesday on legal business. Maj. J. J. Henderson spent Tues day afternoon in Smithfield on busi ness. Mrs. John L. Murray left Sunday for a two weeks' stay at Moore's Springs. Mrs. H. M. Moser went to Chapel Hill Sunday to visit her son, Wm. M. Moser. Mrv and Mrs. Heenan Hughes spent last Thursday and Friday at Moore's Springs. Mr. Sam T. Johnston spent Tues day at Hoffman and Wednesday in Raleigh on business. jonn jj. i_,ee, Jr.,-went to Wake Forest last Saturday to spend a few days with relatives and friends. Mrs. W. C. Humble left Friday \*ith her two children to visit her parents at Elizabethtown. Misses Nina Jo Holt and Ruth Wicker left yesterday for N. C. C. W. to attend summer school. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Cook and chil dren will go to Bynum Saturday for a visit to relatives and return Sun day. Misses Clara and Margaret Walker and Dolly Watson left last Friday for Moore's Springs to spend a few days. Mies Cora Emmaline Henderson returned Sunday from a week's visit to Mr. and Mrs, L> H. Kernodle in Danville. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Kernodle and Maj. and Mrs. J. J. Henderson spent Sunday afternoon and evening in Reidsville. Miss Lottie Denny of New Ro chelle, N. Y., is here on a visit to her aunts, Mrs. McBride Holt and Miss Ada Denny. Misses Lavona Black and Adele Cheek left Monday for High Point to attend the M. P. Church Young People's Conference. Dr. Herbert Long, Mrs. Wm. I. Ward and Miss Elizabeth Long spent last Sunday among the Sand hills peach orchards. Dr. and Mrs. Will S. Long spent Sunday in Durham. Their daugh ter, Alia. Fred Morris, and children returned home with them. Mr. Phil S. Dixon and family left Sunday for an auto trip through Virginia and to Washington. They will be gone about a week. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lowder of Bamlet are visiting the letter's pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Green A. Nich olson on Burlington Route 4. Miss Sadie WinBton of Raleigh spent a short while here Wednes day. She will teach at Alexander Wilson school the coming year. Rev. and Mrs. -D. R. Williams are attending the Young People's Conference being held at tne M. P. College at High Point this week. Miss Elizabeth Proctor of Lnm berton arrived here this afternoon on a visit to her grandmother, Mrs. J. D. Kernodte, and other relatives. Mrs. Frank Hunsucker and chil dren, Frank, Jr., and Sarah Coe, of High Point are here visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Goley. Miss Elizabeth Harden and Miss Tucker Jeter, attending N. C. C. W. summer school, spent the week end here at the home of the former. Miss Sue Noell spent from Thurs day till Monday here visiting Mrs. McBride Holt. She left for Margan ton where she has accepted a posi i lion. Mr. H. \V. Scott, acoorapanied by bis youDg son Billy, left yesterday for Morehead City to spend a day or two. While there he will visit the "boys" at Camp Olenn. Mr. and Mrs. Jobn B. Stratford and little daughter, Coya Harden, I left Monday for Swansboro and i other points in the eastern part of - the State to spend about two weeks. Mrs. Jacob A. Long, who has spent the past several months away with her children, returned the lat 1 ter part of last week and has opened ' up her home for the remainder of (r (he sutproer. t Mr. gnd Mrs. Heresy Woodard and children of Suffolk, Va., came , the latter part of last week. Mr. , Woodard has returned home, but r Mrs Woodard and the children will r spend some time here with bet mother, Mrs. Jacob A. Long. Two Deaths at County Home , On Saturday tiro old ladiea diad at the county home: Mrs. Spa Norwood, 77 years old, after a long illneee. The reuaine were carried to Chatham for burial. Mrs. Alioe Kirby died suddenly, aged 78. The remains were buried in the Hope cemetery Fined $500. John Moon, from near Cane Creek, waa before the General County court Monday charged with making wine and reaiating officer. For the two offeneea he waa sen tenced to 6 and 2 moa. on the roads of Alamance county and fined $500. The road sentences were suspended upon his paying the fine and costs. Two South Alamance Citizens Carried to Johns Hopkins. Dr. R. G. McPherson, who had been at Rainey Hospital for a day or two on account of a kidney trou ble, was carried to Johns Hopkins. Baltimore, Wednesday night for fur ther examination and treatment Mr. John C. Griffin, who had been in a hospital in High Point for some two weeks, was carried to Johns Hopkins the first of the week. He is reported to be suffering from a cancerous affection. Graham Folks Visit Morehead City. Quite a large delegation of Graham folks spent the week-end at More head, some going by automobile and some on the week-end excursion. Among them were the following: Messrs. Joseph S. Holt, Z. '1'. Hadley, Eugene and Kuhl Holt and HermanFlanigan. Mrs. George Roberson and daugh ters, Misses Louise and Kathleen; Mrs. Pearl Evans and son, Henry, and daughter, Mrs. Walter Martin; and Mrs. Don Andrews. Wm T. Clark Dies Near Snow Camp. Mr. William Taylor Clark, prom inent and leading citizen and pros perous farmer of the Snow Camp section, died at his home at 2 o'clock last Friday morning, aged 76 years. Surviving him are his widow; two daughters, Mrs. S. J. Lindley and Mrs. Paul Lindley; three brothers, A. J. Clark, John G. Clark and J. 0. Clark; all of Snow Camp section. The burial war at Sauth Fork church Saturday morning at 11 o'clock. Funeral services were con ducted by Rev. Ed. Harris. Edgar Pattoa Passes at Harden Park. This afternoon at 2 o'clock Edgar Patton was brought up from the swimming pool at Harden Park dead. He went in only a minute or two before and did not rise. Mr. Patton was one of a Sunday school picnic party from Cross Roads church spending the day at the park. He was a substantial farmer and highly esteemed citisen of Cross Roads community. He was near 50 years of age and ia survived by his widow and a large family of chil dren. The body was brought here to Qreen & McClure's funeral parlors to be prepared for burial, but defin ite arrangement for the funeral has not been made. Sam M. Thornton's Barn Struck by Lightning and Burned with Con tents. Last Thursday afternoon during the rain and electric storm the barn of Mr. Sam M. Thornton, 4 or 3 miles south of Mebane, was struck by lightning and set on fire and was burned with contents. Oue horae was lost in the fire. The barn wr( well filled with feed. There was $300.00 insuranoe on the barn and none on contents. The fire was rep >rted to the office of The Farmers' Mutual Fire Ins. Co. here late Thursday afternoon and the loss was sljusted and promptly paid Friday morniug. Mr. Thornton is an industrous farmer of moderate means and the loss is a heary one to bim. Alamance Farmers' Tour?Going to Stale Convention ? Snow Camp String Band to Attend. The Annual Farmers' Tour this year will be in the nature of a round-up at the 8tale Farmers' Con vention on Jnly 20, 27 and 28. Al amance day will be on the 27th. Over 500 people are expected from this County to attend the Conven tion. The Snow Camp 8lring Band is practicing for this occasion, and promises plenty of music of the good old fashioned kind. Other bands bave been tried at previous Farmers' Conventions. The verdict of the officials fix* fieen that none excel the hand from Ala am tnce. The Convention is for the whole . family. We expect to see you at State College on the 26th. W. KERB SCOTT, Coonty Agent Almaace Mnsipal Entertainer* at 1 State College My 27th. Dr. Will 8. Long's aggregston of Alsmsnco Musical Entertainers will be a feature on Alamance day, Wednesday, -Inly 21th, at State Col lege. They will bare a place on the p)atform. We venture to say (hat no feature of the day will attract more attention nor be enjoyed more. It is sn unique combination that gets inspiring music from com mon-place instruments. We trust Alamance will turn out big on that day. _ Alamance Day At Farmer* Conven tion. '? Next Wednesday, July 27th, ff Alamance day at the Farmers' Con vention, which meets at State Col lege July 26, 27 and 28. Mr. Chas. F. Gates of Mebane is its president. On Alamance day 500 farmers and farm women are expected to be pres ent. A loving cup is to be given the county having the largest regis tered attendance, and Alamance ex pects to gel the cup, hence a large attendance is urged. County Agent Scott wants at least 500 Alamance people there. The Snow Camp string band will be on hand to make music for the convention. Morehead to Murphy by DayHgbt. Last Friday D. 'T. Koughton of Old Fort dashed from one end of the state to the other over No. 10 by daylight. He started from Morehead City at 4:05 in the morning and reached the Georgia line 12 miles beyond Murphy at 6:58 in the even ing. The distance registered was 587 4-10 miles. He is said not to nave exceeded the state speed limit. He passed through Graham about 9:40 a. m. The feat was due to the State's good roads, which are work ing wonders for the old North State. Geo. S. Rogers Dies st Home Sooth of Graham After a protracted illness George Somera Rogers dysd at his home, about three miles south of Graham, about 9 o'clock Saturday morning, July 16th, 1927. He was born Oct. 5, 1850, and was nearly 77 years of age at his death. His passing marked the death of one of the out standing men of the community. Mr. Rogers had lived in the home in which he died since be was about two years of age. Els was born at the ancestral horn* some two#miiea away. The home, in which be lived and died, was built in ante-bellum days by Milton Holt who sold it to Mr. Rogers' father, William McCoy Rogers, and emigrated with his fam ily to Arkansas. He was the grand son of William Rogers, a Revolu tionary patriot, and Mary McCoy. Like his forebears, Mr. Rogers tilled the soil for a livelihood. He did not gain wealth, but by frugality and the dint of hard work made a good living, educated bis children, laid something up for the proverbifcl "rainy day" and left the heritage). Of a good name for his children. Though of robust physique, Mr. Rogers was too young to do tervjoe in the Civil War, but whep. the dg?k days of reconstruction came, the "days that tried men's souls," he had grown to manhood and did not shirk. As an alleged member 'of the Ku Klux Klan Mr. Rogers was one 01 tne sixty-seven Aiimuct men arrested by Kirk's militia and marched afoot to Yanceyville and later to Raleigh for trial. He was one of several men hanged by the neck at Company 8houe (now Bur lington), at tne spot where the High School building now stands, in an effort to extort a oonfeasion. The effort was futile, but Mr. Rogers suffered from the pangs of the tor* tare to his dying dsy. The spirit that prompted resistance to British tyranny waa a heritage that cues down to Mr. Rogrs. Mr. Rogers was a member and-owe of the founders of Bethany Presby terian ohurob, and a ruling elder in the obuicb. The funeral was conducted from the home at 3 o'clock Sunday after noon in the presence of a large num ber of relatives, neighbors and friends by Rev, W. E. Hsrrop, after which the interment was in Linwood cemetery. The following were act ive pall bearers: Thos. R. Foust of Greensboro and R. V. Griffin, H. M Holt. W. R Harden, Jas. A, Foust sod A. Lacy Holt of Graham, In 1877 he wag united in marri age with Mia* Annie Palmer of Randolph county. She died about five years ago. Surviving lb* de ceased are one daughter, Mrs. R D. Patterson of Liberty, snd three anna and their children, Ben M. Rogers and Sarah Palmer, George C., Nau McCoy anJ Joseph Ben of ; Graham, G. O. Rogers aqd Rlhena snd George (4 Whitevule, and W. M. Rogers, not married. He is also survived by three sisters, Mrs. Ellen Wagoner of Gilisooville. Mrs.Woods 1 Patton of Mebane and Miss Nan ' Rogers who lived with him, Pastures form the foundation of a, sqcceaaful livestock industry. Former Sheriff MeAdamtDced Former Sheriff L. B. McAdame died at hie home in Burlington leet Thursday night. He was past 80 years oi age and had been in declin ing health for the past two years. The funeral was held from the home Saturday morning at 11 o'elock and the interment was in Pine Hill cam etery. Hia wife, who was Hias Har riet Barnwell, had been dead nearly two years. He ia euwhred by the following sons and daughters: Will and Clar ence McAdame, of Atlanta, Ge.; lira. Praaa Hanelsoa, of Beynee Store; Mrs. C. L. Sboffner, Miaa May McAdame awl Charles McAdame, of Borlingtoa, Sam T., of Mebane and John M., of High Paint. Mr. McAdame, called "Doe" by hia intimate friends, was born in Pleasant Grove township. Ha waa a farmer. In 1888 he was elected on the Dasnocentie ticket to the office of Sheriff and held office for six Cera. When he went out of office! located permanently in Burling ton and engaged in merchandising. Sheriff McAdame made an efficient officer and waa attentive to business. In manner he was quiet and renew ed, never offensive in anything ha did. He made miv friends throughout the eoaaiy who will re gret to hew of his death. W. AT. Anderson, former resident of. Burlington, died at Bath, and the remains ware buried in Providence cemetery lest Thursday afternoon. Ha was 86 years old ana is suivivnd by hia widow and seven children. Make the second application of fertilisers to eottoa Just after the cotton baa Mean chopped. ConunlMkmer's Sale of Real Estate. Pursuant to an order of the Superior Court of Alamance county, made in special pro ceeding therein pending, enti tled "W. E. Thompson, ad ministrator of Aarop Torian, deceased, against Buth Torian, widow; Lewis Torian and oth ers, heirs at law of the said Aaron Torian," whereto all the heirs at law |of the said Aaron Torian, deceased, are duly con stituted parties, the under signed Commissioner will offer for sale to the highest bidder, upon the terms hereinafter stated, on SATURDAY. JULY 30th, 1927, AT lSMO O'CLOCK, SOON, the following described proper ty, to-wit: Two certain tracts or parcels of land in Albright's township, Alamance County, State of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of Isaac Holt and others, bounded as follows: Tract No. 1. Beginning at Isaac Holt's corner; thence with his line N 28 deg W 12 chs to a stone; thence 9 50 deg W 21.50 chs to a stone on the north side of the branch in a field; thence N 54^ degs W 6.90 chs to stone; thence 3 68 degs W 18.80 chs to a live poet oak; thence 8 2 degs W 6.50 chs to a stake old corner; thence with old line 8 60 degs Ell chs to white oak. old'corner; thence with old line N 61 degs E 88.90 chs to the beginning, containing fifty and one-half acres, more or less. This is the same tract of land conveyed to Aaron Torian by Ispac Holt by deed dated 10th day of July, 1885, and recorded in office of Register of Deeds for Alamance county in Deed Book 9, page 539. Tract No. 2. Adjoining the lands of Isaac Holt, Wm. Holt and others and bounded as fol lows, to-wit: Beginning at a stone, said Torian corner; thence N 22 degs W 18.80 chs to an old stone corner; thence! N 60* degs E 1.84 cba ijo'.#;. stone; thence S 22 degsX 18.90^, cbs to * stone; thence 8 66* degs W 1.84 chs to the begin ning, containing two and one half acres, more or less. This is the same tract of land con veyed to Aaron Toiran by Isaac Holt by deed recorded in office of Register of Deeds of Ala mance county in Deed Book i No. 22, page 326. The purchaser will be reqair ed to pay one-half of the pur chase price on day of sale and the balance six months after date of confirmation of sale, de ferred payment to bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum and title will be re served until purchase price is fully paid. This 21st day of June, 1927. W. I. WARD, Commissioner. Thirty-two percent of the agri cultural graduates of State Col lege are actively engaged in farm ing. ft V> cBusy smoker* of today select Camel as their favorite smoke - PtBSBNT*DAY nnp11, A* fartaat wwbtl of all time, cUa Mr ri^^mmjuj Mint^ Amt dm? Aoan Cemeia foe dm Camel la made to pleaee and daUgfct the modem, expert aaepd anobr. It (p rolled "of tfaa choicer* tobaccoa grown. b^MMkUUf Mended (at ddUnaae and fragrance ia dm ha amuLJa'^mdiy rattaa. For dmt exalted ranee ol tain, aat&niun, no other ' amoks taa compare with dda one. Ctmei!" MOTHER? Fletcher's Castoria is a harmless Substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups* prepared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation Wind Colic f Flatulency To Sweeten Stomach Diarrhea Regulate Bowels 9M* in the assimilation of Pood, promoting Cheerfulness. Rat; and Natural Sleep without Opiates Tssraidfa^asa. always lonfc far the danatnre of (4d6it
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