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"The Columbus County Paper Everybody Reads It" "The Columbus County Paper Everybody Needs h'' Twenty-Fourth Year FOR THE COUNTY OF COLUMBUS AND HER PEOPLE Two Dollars Per Year VOL- XIX, WHITEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY MAY 1, 1924 NO. TWENTY-TWO fl Mr Ifth I " TORNADOES SWEEP CAROLINAS Mr. Russ Reelected i mm i r a tv t-ti a ii rr ixr- iTuI at Cerro Gordo School AllU LLAVL 1 ivfVIL U LA 1 11 Sixty-One Known to be Dead in South Carolina as Result of Yesterday's Tornadoes Several Killed in North Carolina. Notes About the School and Faculty; Tobacco Growers Have Plenty of Plants; Many Visitors Here and There was it-rday appears to have been a day of tornadoes in Both North and Carolina and in South Carolina a trail of death and destruction eft in the wake of the winds of destruction. t Horrell Hill, 20 miles from Columbia, S. C, sixteen persons were filled and property damage was great when two cyclones met there. At his place 75 children were trapped under the fallen walls of a school n o u 5 e and three of them were killed. From Florence, S. C, comes reports of the killing of fifteen persons, irle injury of fifty more and great property damage. Anderson, S. C-, reports the death of eight persons and property loss extending over a mil di ...rs. Several were killed around TimmOnsville, S. C, death list 0f sistv-one is made up from various sections of the state. Ni Carolina reports three deahs near Durham and many injured. Rockv Mt., gives property loss at over a million dollars and many injured. Many Road Sentences this Term of Court Number of Cases Disposed of; Un derstood that Clarendon Cutting Affray May Be Continued to Next Term of Court Superior court convened Monday morning for a two weeks mixed term and with Judge Calvert presiding. A great deal of interest has been man ifested throughout the week and at tendance has been good despite the fact that this is a, very busy season for the farmers. It was reported today at noon that the cases against the Cribbs and Richardson's, growing out of a cut ting affray at Clarendon some time ago, would probably be continued to I a later term of court on account of I new developments. A number of Cerro Gordo. April 29. On last Friday night the school committee men of the Cerro Gordo high and graded school met in the Truckers' Bank & Trust company's building in for the purpose of employing a prin cipal for the school for the 1924 and '25 term. A number of the pa trons of the school were present at this meeting'. Professor C. C. Russ was again selected and he has signi fied his wllingness to accept. Pro fessor Russ will work with the com mitteemen and the committeemen will likewise work with him in se lecting and employing a , corps of cases have been tried and convictions teachers for the next term. While j secured without the judge having an announcement has not been made ! Passed sentence at the time this is BERRY PEOPLE ARE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 1924 STRAWBERRY CROP Chadbourn People Predicting Seven or Eight Hundred Car Loads of Berries from This Territory. Conway played the local ball team on the grounds here Tuesday even ing with a alrge turnout of local fans to add zest to a really interest ing with a large turnout of local Shipping Season Short Around Clarendon Duff Won Premium For Early Ber ries; Good Acreage In Irish Po tatoes; Sweet Potatoes a Good Crop; Attending Court Clarendon, April 29 A large per : nr of the popualtion of Clarendon am! urrounding country is attending- criminal court in Whiteville this week as witnesses and spectat or- 1 w very-. rrwywiuMMi t we ay-snt 1 up for hearing before the higher court from Magistrates courts tit; re, will probably be tried this week. The first case, wherein Pearl Rest, a colored school teacher, is charged with an assault with intent ket, but the first to be hauled with a Ford. Mr. John B. Cox. of Guide, candi date for county commissioner, wa? here one afternoon last week greet ing his many friends. From what we can gather from the growers the strawberry crop will be short and the shipping season will not cover more than two or three weeks. The weevils are claiming heavy toll on some of the farms. The prospect, however, is for a very fine quality of fruit. A few crates have been moving for the past week and car lot shipments will be going for ward ' within next' few days." There is quite a little acreage planted in Irish potatoes in this sec tion this spring, and the crop is looking proseprous. Bugs are giv ing some of the growers a great deal of trouble, it is said. One of the most profitable crops it is thought by many that some of the recent faculty members will re turn..for next season and it is also believed that one or two of the teachers of last season are not very desirous of returning. The corre spondent has no wish to put any personal feelings about any matter in this or any other news letter to thi- paper. Neither do we wish to , assume a dictatorial position as to whom the committeemen and the professor should employ, at the same time, perhaps, it will be noth ing amiss for us to say that it is a mighty good plan to consider "Home" and its surroundings first. I do not doubt that many teachers accepted employment out of the county last season that could have done well at teaching in their home county and home towns. We are glad to say that one or two of the fJwrce -jrrrts taxrght in the local" sctiool last session and the patrons of the school, large numbers of them are liberal with their favorable comment regarding the work. to kill Connor Bullock, the story of t which lias already been published in growing in this section is sweet po this column. The other case is also j tatoes, which can be produced at for assault with intent to kill, and is j small cost, and every year the de thc famous school closing fight case ; mand is becoming greater, at good in which Daniel and Clarence Todd j prices. Several carloads were ship came near being stabbed to death. 1 ped from this county the past win There are four defendants in this j ter and spring at an average price of cast held for the present term of about $1 per bushel, court. The outcome of both cases Road conditions have improved are heing watched with much in- greatly during the past few days terest by the public. since dry weather has set in, and Misses Jessie Best and Constance several of the road overseers are Harielson. who have been teaching . making some much needed repairs on in the Fair Bluff high school the past their sections. If others would fol i'Tin. returned to Clarendon the lat- low their example they would find part of last week, the school that their sections would be in much having closed Wednesday. better condition than if they wait Mr and Mrs. L. F. Grainger mo- until next winter to have the work t ver to Laurinburg last Sun- done. J. D. Frink. "''' t" visit Mr. and Mrs. W . rv. Todd. Miss Sueola Gore and Mr. Ernest blackman, of Vineland, Chadbourn. April 30 The first of the 1924 car lot shipments of bei ries from this point to the north ern markets moved out from the yard here Saturday evening and this car was followed by another one j gave the local team a score of 11-3 luesday and one will go tomorrow, against Conway. Fair Bluff, which Thursday. .has always been looked upon as hav- Tuesday the berries were bringing j ing the best ball team of any town $5 to $5.50 per crate. Today the j in the county, will play the locals market advanced to six dollars per j here Thursday evening and a snap crate and predictions are that the j py game is looked for. The home price will mount steadily through I boys have some really first class men this week and next week. The gen- on their team and interest in the eral opinion among buyers and par- national game has been revived this I ties interested irt berries is that the vear hv tW vorm-n k-,,. Wesley Graham, escape from chain price will be good this year. The Wilkins who has been studvinn- art 7 O v being written. Following is a list of convictions in which judgments have been pronounced: gang. two months additional on roads. L. J. Duncan, f. and a., 18 months on roads. Lewis Smith, having liquor. $50 and costs. Elbert Watts, retiling, $20 and costs. Pearl Best, assault, costs. Clemon Bowen. assault with deadly weapon, eight months on roads. Vill Floyd, assault, six months on roads. C. F. Monroe, having liquor, three months on roads. Denial was made in a public state ment issued in Winston-Salem April 22 by "Walter T. Frock," state "Cam paign manager of W. G. McAdoo for president of certain statements that Governor Neff of Texas was credited with making to the effect that the Planting cotton in this section is Democrats of North Carolina had about finished up at this time. For 'oted against the candidacy of Mr. the past two or three years the acre- McAdoo in the recent party conven age planted to cotton in this com- ion held in Raleigh. munity has been very greatly re- duced. This season, however, an in-i While the words "athlete" and crease is reported. One good and "football" have been acceptted by Well-informed farmer tells your re- : the French academy, the highest dfc: porter that he is of the belief that tionary authority in the world, it the acreage is increased fully 20 j has refused to admitt the word per cent. , j "baseball." The Rev. F. T. Wooten. pastor of i the Cerro Gordo Baptist church, j goes to show that Columbus is not preached two very interesting and j the only county in which a lady is well attended sermons in the local desirous of nolitical honors i - - THE WOMEN SHOULD TAKE PART IN CAMPAIGN church on last Sunday morning and in the evening at eight o'clock. The Rev. R. G. L. Edwards, pastor of the Methodist church here, preached a splendid sermon to a good sized con gregation in the evening. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Nance will rejoice to learn that Mrs. Nance is improving from a re cent illness. The tobacco growers in this sec tion are very busy along now trans planting one of their most import ant crops. While in some sections there is reported a scarcity of plant': P is said that the planters hereabouts are not suffering from want of plants although they are small and have not reached the growth that they would have at thi time of the ""ng the Sunday visitors to Claren- !n. Mis- Kva Grainger returned Sun l;tV from a few days visit with her '"an.lparents in Laurinburg. Mr. Hosea A. Garrell, who has """ light sick at his home on rural "Hi , is reported as improving. W e r e Mrs. Maud Park Urges That They Draw Up Planks For The Party Platforms Buffalo, April 25. Addressing the National League of Women vot ers at its fifth annual convention here last night, Mrs. Maud Wood Park, its president, said that de- Miss Hudley, a member of the fa-1 year under more favorable weptfcei r'-'instilantine- tobacco is moving ;""u- ether slow on account of the j tails of the league's immediate pro--.ocity of plants. Only a few farm- gram must he regulated-by the fact , ; hav.. had plants large enough j tnat & national election was impend and the crop will be two or urged upQR women the 1,1 ' eeks late. , . . u i i importance of taking part m the le- 'i-t.mg is becoming a very pop- ' . . , i .n , nf e-itimate activities of their parties pastime with a good many ot t-lu"ltUe ' ' ''"ing people hereabout, as well Planks covering the issues most. im of the older ones. From the portant to women should be prepared " ' 1 ome of the fish seen it would j and presented to the platform com '" that they were rather "small I mittee of the political parties and to and should be given more time the candidates. -M,w "In all the efforts of the league," M' Duff McPherson, of Rt. 1,1 Mrs. Park said, K has had the ad--in won the premium for early j vantage of the opportunity afforded ' this vear Last vear he car-! by the enf ranchisement at one time . mis veai, Last year nt cti , j 9n nnn nofi women r;-" m the first-crate to Whiteville 01 appi v ' ! -ohl for $15.00, with an addi i)o: and Ii) :, c; -I M 'n:i' 10 offered by the chamber 1 "inmerce. we believe, for the ' crate. Lewis Motor Co., of Ta- 'dfered ten gallons of gasoline two quarts cylinder oil as a pre 11 for the first crate of berries i('fl to Tabor with a Ford motor. McPherson captured this prize 'dd his berries at $10.00. His !l"t thn first on the Tabor mar- In the nature of the case, this op portunity will last only a few years and it can never come again. Only for a few years shall we have the possible advantage of an enormous number of new voters, untrarameled by carelessly made political affili ations, which with no bad political tendencies to undo and therefore, free to form good political habits from the start. culty of the Hallsb( ro school during the recent term, departed for her home in Rocky Mount, Va., Monday morning of this week after having been a guest pf Miss Grace Emily Williamson for the past week-end. Miss Williamson was the efficient ! music teacher in the Hallsboro and Fair Bluff schools during the session just recently closed. Mrs. Bert Stephens and children, of near Orrum, Robeson county, spent the day last Sunday with rela tives and friends in this community. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Avant and family, Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Turling ton and family, Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Walker and family, Mrs. W. W. Avant and Mr. P. K. Avant motored to Bolton last Sunday and there en joyed a birthday celebration of their sister and daughter, Mrs. W. T. Home, at that place. Mrs. W. W. Snow and two chil dren, little Miss Marjorie Francis Snow and, W. W. Snow, Jr., ac companied their husband and father to their home in Fort Bragg on last Sunday after having spent a week with Mrs. Snow's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Boswell. A copy of a recent issue of the Bladen Journal is in the hands of your correspondent and in that live paper it is seen that a lady down at Bladenboro, one of the largest towns in our sister county, is seeking the r.ffiVp nf Register of Deeds. That quality ot the truit tnat nas hereto- and science in California for the fore bepn offered has been rather past three years. It is understood poor. This is accounted for by a , that a regular town team will be frost early during blooming season, open to challenges from all the near- Practically all the berries offered so by towns at the close of the berry far this year were nipped by this season. frost and they have been rather spot- Tomato growers have put out a con tec- siderable acreage in plants during Many well informed buyers and the past few days. It is said that the growers are predicting that there plants were unusually fine ones and will be 7 to 8 hundred cars of berries that they are already beginning to handled out through this territory grow and flourish. It is understood this season. Last year the shipping that more than twenty acres are be amounted to 550 cars. The terri- ing planted in the immediate neigh tory includes all of Columbus county borhood of Chadbourn. Most of the and a portion of Horry county, S. C, crop will be shipped to northern mar around Loris, a few miles from Ta- kets and wherever there is a good bor. demand. The balance will be han- 1 nP WeeVllS Sail! LU Uli IJlSUIlI r art hr Kir a I vn .r- . Iut. in small numbers a'nd a difference of j which is expected to be in operation opinion appears to exist whether or i the last of June. not they will accomplish any damage. Indications are that a great deal One big grower stated today that he Df cotton has been planted in this did not think the damage from wee- section this year and many groW- ils would amount to anything worth j ers are reporting that they already considering. Growers and buyers have good stands. The gin here has are alike in saying that the pros- not operated for the past two or pects for a big crop are better than . , ... . three years and prospects are for its they have bee at any time within ten ; years. Good fruits is expected to running again this tall, provided, make up the offerings from now on ; tne tarmers are able to combat the and it is believed that the price will boll weevil and make a crop. be good, although not so high as It is said that Messrs. Paul and R. last year. E. L. Brown will have their can Musical Recital ning factory in operation about the The musical recital of the Chad- first of June. This will be in time bourn high school will take place Fri- to take care of a considerable amount day night of this week and a treat of late strawberries and will insure is promised lovers of music who may everything being in readiness for attend. The closing exercises of the other products, such as tomatoes, school will take place about May 12th cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers pep and a splendid program is being ar- per, grapes, etc. The canning fac ranged and will be announced in de- tory is expected aid to truckers in tail in next week's paper. It is un- this territory and there is no ap derstood that Dr. Sykes of Cooker parent reason why it should not also college will deliver the annual ad- become a big addition to the business dress on May 12th. life of Chadbourn. He Felt Frisky cond .tions. Mr. A. E. Powell of Whiteville, was in town one day recently. Miss Heanie Stone, who taught in the Smith school near Clarkton dur ing the past school year spent a day or two the first of this week in Clarkton. Mrs. D E. Welch and children, Martha Jane and Geouge, are at Mrs. D. E. Welch and children, Martha Jane and George, are at home after a visit with relatives near Columbia, S. C. Mr. H. G. Avant and little son, H. G., Jr., made a trio to Bladenboro, Clarkton and the Council sections of Bladen county one afternoon last week. Mrs. Martha Jones left last Satur day for Garland, Sampson county, where she is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. J Jones, the for mer being the Atlantic Coast Line agent at that place. And now that the school here has j closed the correspondent is attached to the belief that 'ere long she will be able to report a wedding or so in which some of th former faculty members figures. One of the lo cal barbers remarked recently, "its worth double price to shave "Pete" since the close of school and the department of one or two of the teachers." When asked for an ex- Babid Dog Bites Young Negro Girl Stanly News-Herald. "I am feeling like celebrating," said Rev. Q. C. Davis to the News Herald one day last week. "I have just received the receipted bill for the payment of the last quai-ter in college for my lart child. With the exception of one year," he continued, "I have had a child in college con stantly for the past 25 years, and you can imagine how I feel on hav ing made the last and final pay mpnl T havp a mind." he went on to say "to take thirty or forty cents, hand Saturday from a dog owned go t) ?. cale or a-mre plae and .ct nnllv blow it in and have a big Ludlum, a colored man, lives near Animal Not at First Supposed to Be Mad; Girl Receiving Pasteur Treat ment; Several Dogs Bitten On The Sweet Farm Ruth Lennon, ten years old negro girl, is having the pasteur treatment administered by the county health of ficials for bites she received on the by J. L Ludlum and which was later discovered to be mad. time. The fifth annual re-union of th Methodist Orphanage Alumni Asso- the Sweet Farm, thre miles west of Whiteville. The Lennon girl lives e . , . , . on tnis tarm ana Saturday sne was attackpd hv thp (ccr which hit hpr nn ciation came to a cose April 21 after hand Later on thp rfay a meeting of three days at the ov- bk & number of and phanage in Raleigh. Fifty-two mem-1 bers of the association were present.!.... , . . I killed some chickens. -The colored man owning the chickens killed the Neal Brady has obtained his re lease from the Birmingham club of the Southern league and has signed to pitch for the Ludlow team of the Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio league. dog and subsequent investigations led to the discovery that it was rabid. Manager Shollenberger has finally signed a first sacker of his Moline Mississippi Valley league team. The newcomer is George M. Henshaw. He planation as to the "howcome it" the has played for the last three years shaver replied "He's so long-faced." ' with industrial teams. O. J. Peterson, of Clinton, who a few days ago made announcement of his candidacy for the position of Commissioner of Labor and Printing, was moved by the announcement of candidacy of Commissioner Shipman as made Wednesday to declare that, "There are other men big enough to hold Mr. Shipman 's job."
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