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NUMBER 3t
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. Sixteen-Year-Old Union Township Girl
Is Victim of Attempted Criminal Assault
Miss Mary little, Daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Little of
High Pine, Attacked.
OCCURRED MONDAY A. M.
Her Assailant A Young White
Man and a Stranger in The
' Community.
Miss Mary Little, 16-year-old dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Little
who lire near High Pine church in
Union township, this county, was the
victim of an attempted criminal as
sanlt on the part of an unidentified
white man apparently about .twenty
years of age Monday morning oi this
week about 11 o’clock. The attempted
assault occurred at the ddge of a
field near a copse of woods not far
fr6m an abandoned house several
hundred yards from the Little resi
dence. Miss. Little had been to a field
to gather corn for dinner and was
' returning to the house singing and
carrying a load of roasting ears in
her arms when her assailant came
out froih the woods and attacked her.
She was knocked down and in the
scuffle which followed was badly
bruised and her.clothes practically
torn off her body. She screamed sev
eral times, but owing to the distance
to the house could not make herself
heard. She at length escaped from
her assailant and ran home. v
Only her mother and sisters were
at home at the time, her father being
employed at High Point and a brother,
John Little, being away from home
with a threshing crew. Some time af
ter their fright was over the brother
was sent for. Upon reaching home
he came to Asheboro and gave the
alarm. It was about 5 o’clock in the
V afternoon, however; before news of
the outrage reached the county offi
cers. Sheriff Cranford immediately
went to die scene and made efforts to
get bloodhounds. Mr. W. C. York’s
bloodhounds were at Eagle Springs
where they had Been taken earlier in
the afternoon in response to call from
the Moore county officers. They were
brought back to Asheboro about 11
o’clock Monday night and taken to the
scene of the assault at High Pine., It
had been 18 hours since the attempted
assault and the trail was so cold that
the hounds were unable to get track.
Soon after the hounds were brought
rain began to fill and it being im
i to make any headway efforts
doned. Officers continued
search yesterday, but were un
able to apprehend the criminal. Only
a'meagre description is available.
From all reports, Miss Little’s assail-1
ant is a stranger in the community,
she never having seen him before.
Hdwever, she states that she will be
able to identify him.
Aside from several bad bruises and
the shock caused by the assault, Miss
Little was not seriously injured.
While considerable indignation over
the outrage ja being expressed by the
people of the community, there is no
talk TJf^lynching should the criminal
be apprehended, all seeming to be wil- j
to let the law take care of the
The Little’s are hard work
ing, industrious citizens of the com
munity and are held in high esteeem
by the people of their community.
Liberty School Faculty
The faculty of liberty ldgh School
is now complete as follows: D. C.
Holt, principal; C. D. Kreigh, Markle,
Ind., and Misses Sallie Tomlinson,
of East Bend; Dorothy Lide, of Ma
rion, and Christine Gordon, of Mon
roe, high school; Misses Juanita
^Kearns, of Firmer, Carolyn McNairy,
of Greensboro, route 5, and Myrtle
Vickers, of Ambrose, Ga., upper
grammar grades; Misses Aline Crow
der, of Peachland; Doris Caldwell, of
Dillon, S. Q., and Annie Hankins, of
Roanoke, Va., intermediate grades;
and Misses Maude Tickle, of Gibson
ville; Anna C. Moore, of Rural Hall,
and Rosa Elliott, of Durham, primary
grades. Miss Thettte Smith, of
Hamlet, will have charge of the mu
sic department. ;
In the death of Min Hester Patter
son, of Julian, last week, the Randolph
county Sunday school association ios*
Jk most valuable and successful jeere
tary who had sewed for the past
three years. Miss Patterson was the
daughter of Mrs. S. L. Pattern, and
a sister of Miss Bessie Patterson,^ o*
Julian. She had taught successfully
and satisfactorily for six yean in the
Liberty graded school.
r,Kise Lollie Jones* of AshebOTOi who
was at the last animal convention
elected antotant secretary will s«rve
until the convention at Fanner Au
gust 18th and 19th. i ^
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STACEY W. BREWER NAMED
* secretary n7& railroad
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SPEND 40
FOR ROADS
A statement made last week by
Governor McLean estimated that
North Carolina would spend on high
way construction the next two years
from forty to forty-five millions of
dollars. “This is far in excess of
any amount that has been'expended
for any similar period in the past,”
the Governor said in the statement.
The Governor issued the statement as
an answer to “tnte efforts on the part
of a few persons in the State to cre
ate the impression that constructive
progress has been arrested" since he
became Chief Executive.
The Governor’s statement includes
figures given him by State Highway
Commissioner Frank Page upon re
quest of the Governor. According to
Mr. Page’s figlires, in the months of
April, May an<J June this year con
tracts were let for over a hundred
thousand dollars worth of roads more
than the same period last year. From
January 1st, 1924, to August 1st, 1924,
contracts were, awarded for road
construction amounting to $7,245,000,
and in the same period in 1925 con
tracts were awarded for $13,627,919
of road building.
ANDREW JACKSON DAVIDSON
DIED MONDAY, AGED 61 YRS.
Andrew Jackson Davidson, aged 61
years, died at the home of his niece,
Mrs. Walter Cox, near West Bend,
Monday. Mr. Davidson had been in
poor health for more than a year
from heart dropsy. The funeral ser
vices were conducted by Rev. W. L.
Gregory, pastor of the Friends church,
it West Bend M. E. church Tuesday
afternoon. The deceased is survived,
by one brother, Everett Davidson, of
3perdl '
COUNT OF AUTOMOBILES SHOWS
HEAVY TRAFFIC ON ROUTE 70
That traffic on ,Sfate Highway No.
70 is heavy is shown by a count of the
car8 on the highway Saturday, July
29th. Jlr. E. B. Leach, of Seagrove,
made acount of the cars passing over
this route by Seagrove on that date
anikfepert^ihat during the. day far1
« a. m, to 6 -p. nr., 1,10b automobi „
passed through Seagrove. This num
ber included only through traffic and
414 not take Into count the local traf
fic at Seagrove that day.
Route 70 is one of the most impor
tant highways in the State. Traffic
is growing daily on this route. The
improvement^ being made are making
it one of the best highways in the
State. When the highway is opened
between Randleman and Greensboro a
larger number Of people will use the
routed Work on the route below
Asheboro is progressing satisfactori
ly. It is stated that the forces em
ployed for hardsurfacing the road
from Asheboro to the county home
will come to town in about three
weeks. The hardsurfacing, it is said,
will be done on 75 first and then on
70, but whichever is done first will not
delay the other for the reason that
the grading has been done or will be
done by that time and only the con
crete will have to be poured. Those
who have traveled that part of 70
which has been (pled are enthusiastic
over this type of road and a great
deal of satisfaction is felt by the
people who use the road over this act
on the part of the highway commis
sion.
CONVENTION WILL
BE INTERESTING
Will Be One ofJVlost Largely At
tended Of Any Convention
Meets 18th pud 19th.
Officers of Randolph County Sun
day School Association are of the
opinion that one of the most interest
ing and helpful, as veil as one of the
most largely attended, Sunday School
meetings ever held in the county will
be the annual County Sunday School
Convention at Concord Methodist
Church, Concord, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, August IS and 1*
grams of the convention have been'
mailed to all pastors and Sunday
Sunday school superintendents in the
county, with special invitations to at
tend the convention themselves and
nfting that they try to get all
their Sunday school teachers and ofr
Hears to attend.
The Convention program includes
addresses and conferences on prac
tically all phases of the work of the
modern Sunday School. In arranging
the program the small Sunday school
was given much attention. During
the convention there will be question
-'•-t '".ft
concerning
No Legal Killing
Vivian Pierce, executive sec
retary of the league which is
campaigning to abolish the death
penalty in every state. National
* Headquarters are now open in
New York and many national
leaders have lined up in favor of
the move.
MRS. ROXANA C. RIDGE DIES
AT HOME IN GREENSBORO
Was Widow of Late W. J. Ridge
Had Large Number of Relatives
In Randolph County.
Mrp. Roxana Catherine Ridge, aged
61 years, who died at her home in
Greensboro last Friday morning fol
lowing an illness of three months, was
the widtfa of the late W. J. Ridge, a
brother of our townsman, J. S. Ridge,
and an aunt of Mrs. W. A. Coffin, of
Asheboro. Mrs. Ridge wae a native
of Montgomery county, a daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. John F. Burk
head. She was married in 1880 to
Mr. Ridge and for the past 35 years
has lived in Greensboro.
Mrs. Ridge was a consistent mem
ber of the West Market Street Meth
odist church, Greensboro, and inter
ested in all of its activities. -The,, fun
eral was conducted Saturday after
noon other late residence by Dr. S.
B. Turrentine, president of Greens
boro College, assisted by Rev. R. Mur
phy Williams.
Surviving are three children, Edney
Ridge, Mrs. Wister Stockard and Mrs.
Mabel Ridge Lay, all of Greensboro;
three sisters, Mrs. M. F. Ridge, of
Greensboro; Mrs- W. C. Lisk, of Mt.
Gilead; and Mrs, J. H. Johnson, of
Richmond, Va.j and one brother, W.
M. Burkhead, of Charlotte. -=r-tr
GOVERNOR McLEAN PAYS A
HIGH TRIBUTE TO MR. BRYAN
Governor Angus Wilton McLean
paid the following high tribute to the
memory of William Jennings Bryan;
“He was one of the greatest preach
ers of his time and I believe he will
go down in history chiefly for that..
I believe he was a great moral force.
I had great admiration foT him. While
I did not always agree with him on
political issues I admired the man. I
had known him personally for a long
time.”
Marries 4000 Couples
Kenneth F. Foscue, J. P., according
to reports from Kinston, has married
during the past 41 years more than
4,000 couples. He is now storting on
his fifth thousand. His average has
been about a hundred a year.
GOVERNMENT CITES 64
ERRORS IN OIL CASE
Takes Teapot Dome Oil Lease
Case To Higher Court—Says
Judge Erred Grossly.
The Government Saturday filed its
appeal in federal court in Wyoming in
the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve
case, citing 64 errors in conclusions
set forth by the judge in dismissing
the Government’s case in its suit for
aimullment of the lease held by the
Mammoth Oil Company, Harry F.
Sinclair president. Fifty of the er
rors involve the exclusion by the court
of testimony and exhibits offered by
the government and objected to by the
defence and the objefctions upheld by
the court, including the court’s refusal
to compel Albert B, Fall’s son-in-law
to testify.
The evidence, the occlusion of which
the petition for appeal asserts was
erroneous, relates to certain Liberty
bonds, which the government charges
found their way from Harry F. Sin
clair, president of the Mammoth Oil
company, to Fall, then secretary of
the interior, pursuant to collusion and
fraud alleged in the^granting of the
This testimony and these exhibits
have to do with the purchase by the
Continental Trading Company, Ltd.,
of Liberty bonds, which are shown
later to have been in the possession
of Fall or Everhart. The govern
ment’s contention was that certain
of the bonds passed into possession
of Sinclair and went from Simdair
to Fall or Everhart. Counsel for
Decide To Purchase Only Ford
and Dodge Trucks—Pass on
Other Matters.
The county hoard of education met
in the office £f the county superin
tendent of schools in the courthouse
Monday in regular session and after
transacting the routine of business ad
journed to meet Again August 20th to
consider the question of employing a
welfare officer for the county and
other matters that may come up for
consideration.
Among the details of school work
passed on Monday were as follows:
The committee for Coleridge school
was selected, ehjMisting of C. H. Cav
eness, J. M. Ellis and W. B. Moffitt..
Upon approval’of the Trinity school
committee, W. G. Savage, of New
Market township, will be permitted to
send his children to Trinity school.
It was ordered by the board that
either an addition will be built to
Payne's school house, in Liberty town
ship, or a truck-will be provided to
carry the children jn the higher grades
to another school it being left to the
choice, of the patrons as to which is
tain school, in Union township.
A local committee of the patrons of
the Liberty echoes were empowered to
buy electric fixtures for the new school
building. In connection with the old
Liberty school building, it was decided
that the job of repairing the building
will be let to the lowest bidder.
The board UQBtt on record as agree
ing to purchase in the future for
school trades only Dodges and Fords.
These will be purchased and put into
use as demand, arises for track ser
vice among the'schools of the county.
North rock and p’Brien, architects,
were employed to draw plans for the
$28,000 when completed,
TAKES IP
DETAILS
Heavy Court Docket
Asheboro police court last week had
the heaviest docket it has had in
possibly two or three .years. Most of
the cases, Vhiifh numbered two or
three a d*?»MjjjH&Soturday, were for
minor offences,
COUNTY GETS A
NEW MAIL ROUTE
Effective Sept. 7th Star Route
Will Give Service Prom
High Point to Asheboro.
. Asheboro will have a new star route
mail service carried by motor trucks
to High Point beginning September
7th. This is the announcement made
by the postoffice department, which
will receive bids until August 25th for
carrying the mail on the route. A
bond of $3,500 will be required.
This announcement will be hailed
with satisfaction by the people of
Asheboro and the patrons of the of
fices along the route to be traversed.
Some time ago a petition signed by
people ut this county and in High
Point was presented to the depart
ment asking for the establishment of
this star -route. The postoffice de
partment made an investigation of
i dinedinst died
rnsboro Sunday
illness of seven
[{cations of dis
daughter of
in. She was
inty and has
the merits of the proposed route and,
according to the announcement, is
convinced that the people of this
county are entitled to the service.
Since the taking off of two trains on
the Southern railway operating be
tween Asheboro and High Point,
Asheboro and the points along the
line have been handicapped in mail
service.
The new route wut: cover zs.t mnes.
It will follow from Asheboro to High
Point by Spero, Baridleman, and
Sophia. A trip each way will be made
daily, except Sunday, or twelve trips
a week. Box delivery and Collection
will not be required of the motor mail
driver.
Following is the schedule prescrib
ed in the announcement:
Leave Asheboro (daily except Sun
day) at 10:10 a. m. and 4:10 p. m. and
arrive in High Point 11:40 a. m. and
5:40 p. m.
Leave High Point (daily except
Sunday) at 8:80 a. jn. and 2:80 p. m.
and arrive' at Asheboro 10:00 a. m.
and 4 p. m. >
mbs. Clara m. cunedinst
DIED SUNDAY IN GUILFORD
S. Cline
id and
REPORT MADE ON
COLERIDGE ROAD
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Decide to Improve Old Route—
Again Turn Down Trinity
Road—Fix Tax Rate.
The board of commissioners, all
members being present, met in regu
lar monthly session in the courthouse
in Asheboro Monday. The commis
sioners ordered 'that notice be served
on the parties having*charge of the
construction of State Highway No.
75 east of Ramseur, requiring them to
at onee stop removing or interfering
with, or damaging the road from
Brown’s Cross Roads to Staley, and
that the demand be made on said
management that said road be placed
in as good condition as it was before
said road bed was removed. It was
further ordered that unless said order
be obeyed that the proper authorities
be authorized to apply to the judge of
the district for restraining order. A
copy of this order was sent by the
commissioners to the management of
said work.
On a question of motion to reopen
the discussion of the Trinity-Archdale
road, the motion was carried as fol
lows: affirmative, J. F. White, T. H.
Homaday and C. M. Loflin; negative,
G. Elwood Stanton and J. C. Yow.
Motion was. piade by T. H- Homaday
and seconded by G. Ehrbod Stanton
that the county pay one-third of the
entire cost of the road and the ad
joining property owners pay the other
two-thirds. This motion was lost by
a vote of three to two. J. F. White
and T. H. Homaday voted for the mo
tion and G. Elwood Stanton, J. C.
Yow and C. M. Loflin against it.
Upon certificate of Dr. T. L. Helms
and other citizens of Randleman it
was ordered that John Stalker, of
Randleman township, be committed to
thefc county home.
It was ordered by the board that
two trucks be sent to the Lassiter
road to help topsoil same commencing
at Tom’s Creek, the work to be done
as soon as possible.
The road supervisor was instructed
to go as soon as possible to look over
the road leading from the Daniel Bur
row place toward Franklinville for the
purpose of locating the best way for
intersecting Highway No. 76.
The commissioners voted to contin
ue the appropriation for farm dem
onstration work on the same basis as
heretofore. i
The board ordered (that $25 be giv
en as the county’s half on the Sawyer
Mine road to the Hoover Hull road.
Mr. J. L. Briles is the supervisor of
this work. V, •
The present tax supervisor was in
structed to complete the taxes and
turn same over to the sheriff for col
lection.
The road force was instructed to
go to the Newman Mill road in Level
Cross township for the purpose of
helping the citizens in topsoiling the
road.
The road supervisor was instructed
to go to D. C. Glasgow’s and look over
the road leading out from Highway
No. 62 to the Millboro road, leaving
E. L. York’s in Franklinville township.
The sheriff was instructed to adver
tise and sell land for delinquent taxes
on Sept. 1st, 1925.
It was ordered by the board that
the order heretofore made by the
board of county commissioners April
16, 1923, be rescinded as far as it af
fects the Randolph County Fair As
sociation and no further. This order,
it will be recalled, was passed to pro
hibit carnivals prohibited under the
state law from operating in the coun
ty.
The commissioners instructed the
clerk to the board to draw drafts in
favor of the county board of education
for funds for the construction of the
Gray’s Chapel consolidated school un
til further notice. ,
The commission appointed by the
commissioners in regular session July
6, 1925, to inspect the two routes pro
posed for the Coleridge road on July
10th reported to the board. These
two routes were, first by way of the
original Coleridge road and the sec
ond by way of the Bell Cox place.
. Only gne member of the . commis
sioners reported for this inspection
(Continued on page 4)
Draw Jury List For
September Term Court
The county commissioners in regu
lar session Monday drew the following
Jury list fir the week’s term of crim
inal court which convenes the first
Monday in September. The list of
jurors by townships follows: t
Asheboro: H. C. Luther, Willie
Hunt, W. C. Robbins, D. B. McCrary,
L. H. Wright.
Back Creek: R. K. Trotter.
. Brower: R. G. Maness, James
Brown.
Cedar Grove: G. C. Boling, J., M
Cooper, N. M. Lewallen, Frank Fos
ter, A. P. Nance. . „ .
Coleridge: E. F. Cox, H. A. Need
ham, H. F. Brown, L. B. Gardner.
Columbia: J. M. Kivett, M. W. Ed
wards, Mike Reitxel, W. M. porsett.
Franklinville: D. H. Allred, W. M.
Wright, D. C. Glasgow, George C.
Russell.
Grant: M. J. Brown. -
New Market: A. E. HiUterd,, J_D.
Fariow, A. C. Chriecoe, J. W. Newby,
Charles Brookshire.
Providence: M. C. Gamer, A. M.
PnK*i«m«n: w. E. Kennedy, H. T.
Wall, H. T. Veriot, A. A. Grow. _ .
Cancer Fame
J. E. Barnard, wealthy London
hatter, whose hobby is microscopic
lenses, has won great fame in
financing and making K possible
for Dr. Gye to at last isolate the
cancer germ—the first step toward
finding a cure. *
Neal Payne, Colored,
Attacks Mother-in-Law
Neal Pa^ne, colored man, is out
under $200 bond for appearance af
Superior court, on charge of assault
with deadly weapon on his mother-in
law, “Aunt” Dell Carr, aged about
85 yean. The assault occurred about
9 o’clock Sunday morning when, it is
understood, Payne and his mother-in
law got into an argument over whip
ping one of Payne’s children. In the
fight which followed, Payne is alleged
to have used his pocket knife, inflict
ing an ugly wound on “Aunt” Dell’s
neck. A physician was called imme
diately to dress the wound and stop
the flow of blood. Had the cut been
a little deeper, death would have en
sued.
Payne was arrested by Chief of
Police C. W. Steed and was held * in
jail without privilege of bond until the
extent of the aged negro’s wounds
could be ascertained. He was later
released under bond.
Death of Little Rebecca Lewallen
Rachel Rebecca, the four and a half
year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Mack Lewallen died at their home in
South Asheboro last Saturday follow
ing an illness of only three days.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. W. H. Willis at West Bend M.
E. church Sunday afternoon and inter
ment made in the church cemetery.
The parents, two brothers and two
sisters survive.
Heavy Auto Fatalities
The number of deaths caused by.
automobiles in 57 cities of the coun
try in which figures have been com
piled for the four weeks ending July
18th was 418. Automobile fatalities
from January 1st, this year, to July
18th numbered 2,511. From New
York, 501 deaths from automobiles
have been reported since the first of
the year.
New Exposition Building
High Point is to have another 10
story furniture exposition building. It
is stated that plans have been drawn'
for the construction of such a build
ing and have been submitted to the
contractor. It will be located on lot
adjoining the present exposition build
ing and will cost approximately $600,
00». Charles F. Finch, of Thomas
ville, is the financier back of the
project. It is planned to have the
building ready by mid-summer, 1926.
'
GRADED SCHOOL
OPENS SEPT. 8TH
Strong Faculty Has Been Select
ed—11 Teachers from Ashe
boro, 15 from County.
Tuesday, September 8th, is the date '
set for the opening of the Asheboro
graded school. This was the date de
cided upon at a recent meeting of the
school board. Mr. W. H, McMahan
will again be superintendent of the
schools. Of the faculty elected, 11
are from Asheboro, while in all 15
are from this county. The faculty of
the colored school has not been com
pleted. i ' .
Following is the faculty for the
graded school: :■ >
Misses Louise Brooks, Maude Fox,
Greensboro; Kate Bulla, Virginia
Steed, Ava Wolff, Ruth Hadley, Don
nie Lee Loflin, Bertha Presnell, Clar
abel Morris, Frances Barker, Massa
Lambeth, Mrs. Bessie Rice, Mrs. John
T. Moffitt, of Asheboro; Mrs. Annie
Spake, Shelby; Callie Vuncannftn,
Asheboro, Route 2;
Mechanic; Maude L
Mrs. Joseph Newlan
C. Boone, Perkin, S
P. Mobley, Foun
Misses Pauline Roberts, Bahama; Ru
Honeycutt, Clayton; . Skttth
C.; Adna Lamb, Guilford
issiter,
Erect;
Mr. S.
Daisy
C.;
NEGRO ASSAULTS
A WHITE WOMAN
Mrs. Sides, of Eagle Springs, Is
Victim of Attack—Negro |
Captured Tuesday. ^ $
Mr. C* S. Davis, of'Eagfe Springs,
was in Asheboro Tuesday and brought
news of the details of the criminal as
sault on Mrs. J. W.. Sides by a negro
by the name of John McMillan, which
occurred near the Sides home at Eagle
Springs Monday morning about 1#
o’clock. Mrb. Sides ^as confronted
by the negro while she was oit her |i
way to a spring to get a bucket ef •
water. The negro halted her with a
gun and after beating her in the face
with the gun threw her down and
committed the assault.
Mrs. Sides is a' woman about 5t
years old and is the mother of eight
children. The negro, identified as
John McMillan, had been off the
county roads only a few day after
serving a sentence imposed when he
was convicted of stealing a gun. Af
ter getting off the roads he worked a
day or so at the sandpits and Monday
morning had secured a job with the
Elberta Peach Company. He wee*:
from his work at the peach orchard t»
the Sides spring apparently for the
purpose of committing the crime.
Bloodhounds were taken from Ashe
boro to the scene Monday afternoon
and trailed the negro nearly to Pine
hurst. There information was that a
negro answering his description had
gotten into an automobile and headed
toward Raeford, McMillan’s Imiiwr
home. Reports state he was captar
ed in the woods near Raeford Tuesday.
Dr. Robert Loft'm Visits State
Dr. Robert Loftin, of Arkansas, is
this week visiting bis settee, lisa.
Duck Morgan, at Thomasvito, after
a long period of absence from the
State. He is a son of the late Wilfiua
Loftin, of Jackson Hill, and in bis
younger years taught school in David
son county. Later he studied wedi
cine and located in Arkansas. He at- \
tended old Trinity College, at Trinity,
this county.
REV. PAUL KENNFTT WILL
PREACH IN ASHEBORO SUNDAY, |
Rev. Paul Kennett will preach in
the Methodist Protestant church in
Asheboro Sunday morning at eleven
o’clock. Rev. Kennett is a member at
the faculty of the High Point College. ~‘s
He is a graduate of Westminister
Theological Seminary and is an able
preacher. He has numerous friends
and acquaintances who will be
to know of his engagement in Ashe
boro. *
Late J. D. Millikan Had
Relatives In Randolph
Was Born and Reared in, Trinity
Township—Moved West Many
Years Ago.
J. D. Millikan, who died recently i*
Parsons, Kansas, at the age of 6*
years, was bom and reared near old
Trinity College in this county. He
was the second son of Eleazer and
Jtuth Carter Millikan. He moved
West about forty years ago, living in
Carthage, Mo., for twenty ye&ars, af
ter which he moved to Parsons, Kans,
where he resided the last eighteem
years of his life, holding a position
with the Y. M. C). A. He had been*
back to North Carolina on visits_to
relatives and friends in this county
several times since he took up hi»
residence in the West.
Funeral services for the deceased
weTe held from the First M. E. church
of Parsons, Kans., of which he was a
member, anil the body taken to Car
thage, Mo., for-interment.
He is survived by one brother, X.
Ed Millikan, of Archdale, this county;
two daughters, Mrs. Gertrude
Rhoades, of Alhambra, Cal., and Ik
Atta Steatson, of Parsons, Kans.; and
one son, Ernest E.' Millikan, of Car
thage, Mo.; also ten grandchildren.
He was an uhcle of Mrs. Earle BullJk v
of Asheboro, Route No. 2.
BODY OF COMMONER BURIED
IN ARLINGTON CEMETERY
The body of William Jennings Bry
an was laid to rest Friday in Arling
ton national cemetery in Washington.
A simple white wooden marker, plac
ed at the head of the grave, notes that
there lies William Jennings Bryan,
colonel of infantry. As the
service was said, the troops,
only side arms, stood at rigid
until the bugle notes had died away.
There was no drumming of rifle fir*
to pay last honors to the dead.
Simple funeral services were^
in the auditorium of the New
Avenue Presbyterian church
the great commoner lay in
death dud had worshipped in life.
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