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Asheboro, N. C„ tlmfsdy, Jane 16, 1927
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Mrs. J.C. Kearns
Found Dead In Bed
At Home Of Her Daughter. Mrs.
Charleston Briles, In Ashe
boro, Wednesday.
Heart Dropsy Cause
Funeral At Mt. Shepherd Church
This Afternoon.
Mrs. Donna Lowe Kearns, wife of
Julius C. Kearns, of Caraway, Route
1, was found dea4 in bed at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Charleston
Briles, on West Dixon avenue, in
Asheboro, yesterday morning, death
having resulted during the night
from heart dropsy. Mrs. Kearns had
been in Asheboro several days oh a
visit with her daughter and only the
day before her death had been up
town shopping and was apparently in
her usual health, although she had
not been feeling well for some time.
Mrs. Kearns was a daughter of the
late James Lowe and Mrs. Mollie
Lowe, of High Point, having been
bom May 22, 1878. She was a most
estimable Christian woman and de
voted mother and numbered her
friends by the score. She was a faith
ful member of Back Creek Friends
church.
Surviving Mrs. Kearns, besides her
husband, are the following children:
Mrs. J. C. Meyers, Thomasville; Mrs.
Charleston Briles, Asheboro; Misses
Edith and Jessie Kearns, of High
Point; and Misses Pauline and Ruth
Kearns and Master Gilbert Kearns, at
home. She leaves also her mother,
Mrs. Mollie Stanton Lowe, of High
Point; one brother, George Lowe,
High Point; and four sistprs, Mrs. M.
B. Smith, Burlington; Mrs. D. H.
Parsons, High Point; Mrs. Lena Jar
rett, Elon College; and Miss Carrie
Lowe, High Point.
Funeral will be held this afternoon
at 3 o’clock from Mt. Shepherd M. E.
church and interment will be made in
the church cemetery.
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Example Of Workings OF
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Washington, D. C., June 11.—The
recent action of the American Woolen
Company in passing the dividend on
its preferred stock is a striking ex
ample of the wording of the Fordney
McCumber Republican tariff. For
twenty-eight years this company has
paid regularly a seven per cent divi
dend on its preferred stock. Under
the moderate rates of the Democratic
Un^epwood tariff, it was prosperous.
Even (hiring 1921, a post-war depres
sion year, its net profits were more
than $9,000,000. The Fordney-McCum
ber tariff increased the woolen tariff
in 1922 by About fifty per cent. But
the earnings began to shrink, and
during 1926, under Fordneyism, the
company faced a deficit of $4,000,000
and has finally failed to pay a divi
dend even on its preferred stock. Un
der Fordneyism, the entire textile in
dustry has suffered, although the
plight of the American Woolen Com
pany is probably worse than that of
any other of the large corporations.
Republicans Claim Credit
One Of Wilson’s Policies
Washington, D. C., June 11.—Under
Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L.
Mills. Mr. Mellon’s assistant, is guilty
of a gross misrepresentation in his
recent statement - on debt reduction.
Mr. Mills said that the “policy of debt
retirement” under Presidents Harding
and Coolidge “has resulted in reducing
our gross national debt from $24,484,
000,000 on June 30, 1919, to $18,873,
000,000 on May 31, 1927, or a reduc
tion of $6,611,000,000.” From June
30, 1919, when debt reduction began,
until March 4,1921, Woodrow Wilson
was President and a Democrat was
Secretary of the 'Treasury. During
that period, the national debt was re
duced $2,400,000,000, which is more
than one-third the total reduction and
greater than achieved by the Republi
can administration in any three-year
period. Furthermore, it was under
Woodrow Wilson and a Democratic
Secretary of the Treasury that the
debt reduction plan was adopted, and
the Republican administrations have
simply followed Democratic jttteedent.
,¥fet Mr. Mills seeks to hhVb the coun
try believe that the Harding and
Coolidge adpiihtttfhtion are due the
credit for all ti the reduction, which
fe es uj&tt hs his fake “milk issue”
raised in his gubernatorial race in
Mew YbVk last fall 6n which he - was
repudiated by the voters of that State
by to overwhelming majority.
TELLING THE TRUTH
(Calhoun Times)
A preacher came at a newspaper
wiAn in this way: "You editbrs do not
tell the truth: If you did you could
not live; your newspaper would be a
failure.” The editor relied: “You
y* right, and the minister who will
at all times and undef all circum
stances tell the truth about his mem
bers, alive or-dead^U not occupy
“i' pulpit more thah one Sunday and
i he will find it necessary to leave
—a in a’hurry. The press and the
pulpit go hand ip hand with white
'■<N%ash brushes and pleasant words,
magnifying Uttle virtues into big
ones. The pulpit, the pen and the
'f ,:gbpve stones are a saint-making tri
f iimvitete?’ And the great minister
went away looking very thoughtful
v while the editor turned to his work.
td told of the unsurpassing beauty
the bride while in fact she was as
: homely as a naud fence.
Committee Selects
“Master Farmers”
For The County
E. C. Byrd, of Ramseur, Route 1,
and B. S. Lawrence, of Seagrove*
are the two Randolph county farm
era who have been selected by a
committee appointed recently by
County Agent E. S. Millsaps, Jr.,
to select farmers to represent
Randolph in the “Master Farmers”
contest which the Progressive
Farmer is conducting in the State.
This farm paper and those in
charge of the State contest wanted
only one farmer selected from each
county. But when the committee
got together to select Randolph’s
“master farmer” it had a proposi
tion on its hands. There were so
many of them that it was a diffi
cult matter to select the best, so
the committee balked at naming
one and selected two. It will be
up to the State , committee to
choose between the two. Farms of
the two men selected will be visited
in a short while by the State com
mittee which will score the farms
according to a standard score card,
and then in contest with farmers in
several other counties, it will be
determined whether either Mr.
Byrd or Mr. Lawrence will be se
lected as one of the State’s “master
farmers.”
County Ministerial
Association To Meet
Principal Addresses To Be De
livered By Rev. G. W. Clay
And Rev. W. A. Elam.
The Randolph County Ministerial
Association will meet in the M. E.
church in Asheboro next Monday af
ternoon, June 20, at 2:30 o’clock. This
organization was formed one month
ago, and the meeting next Monday
afternoon will be its second meeting.
Rev. J. E. Pritchard, of Asheboro, is
president of the organization, Rev. W.
A. Elam, of Ramseur, is vice presi
dent, and Rev. C. L. Gregory, of
Asheboro, is the secretary-treasurer.
All ministers living in the county and
all ministers living out of the county
but serving churches in the county are
eligible for membership. The prin
cipal addresses next Monday will be
delivered by Rev. G. W. Clay, of
Farmer, on the subject, “The Prob
lems of the Country Church”, and by
Rev. W. A. Elam, of Ramseur, on the
subject, “The Problems of the Town.
Church.” Rev. Mr. Perm, of Sophia,
will conduct the devotions.
Daily Vacation Bible
School At M. P. Church
A Daily Vacation Bible school will
begin at the Asheboro Methodist
Protestant Church on next Monday
morning, June 20, at nine o’clock to
run for two weeks. This will be the
i first school to be put on by this
! church but it is hoped that it will do
a great deal of good.' There will be
| no minimum age limit but the maxi
j mum age limit will be sixteen years.
I Those who attend will receive instruc
tion in the Bible, missions, good citi
zenship, music, manual training for
boys and sewing for girls. Those who
i wish to attend are requested to come
| to the church Saturday morning of
this week at nine o’clock for registra
tion and to receive some instruction
concerning the nature of the work.
A new city ordinance in High Point
imposes a license tax on every chain
j store doing business in the city. The
! tax rate has been fixed at ?50 per
| year by the town council.
Mrs. L H. Laughlin
Died Last Friday
End Follows Short Illness—
Highly Respected Woman Of
R&ndleman. t ' .
Funeral Saturday P* M.
Randleman, June Martha
Frances Laughlin, 'wi» br Lee H.
Laughlin, died at her home in West
Randleman Friday looming after a
short illness. Shfc had been in declin
ing health fdlt Some time, but her con
dition had ht no time been considered
critical. Mrs. Laughlin was bom
May 1&, 1866. She was married to
Mr. Laughlin in 1889. She joined the
Randleman Christian church shortly
after her marriage and remained a
consistent member until death. “Aunt
Patsy,” as she was called by all who
knew her, was truly, loved by her
many friends. She, was loyal to her
church, her friends, and was always
ready to lend a helping hand in the
time of need and distress.
She leaves, besides her husband,
four children, Mrs. Troy Wall, Mrs.
Henry Stevenson,.. Mrs. Lena Davis
and Emmett Laughlin, all of Randle
man; two stepchildren, Mrs. Frank
Powell and Wister Laughlin; two sis
ters, Mrs. Joe Dicks and Mrs. J. A.
Lawhon, of Bandleman; and one
brother, G. P. Evans, of High Point
Funeral was held at the Randleman
Christian church Saturday afternoon
at 2:80 o'clock by the paster, Rev.
John M. Allred, assisted by Rev. J. W.
Parker. Interment was. made in tee
cemetery at Mount Lebanon. The
large number of people in attendance
attested the high esteem in which
Mrs. Laughlin was, held by those who
knew her.
Make Motion For
Change Of Venue
County Attorneys Ask That
Suit Brought In Guilford Be
Moved To Randolph.
Plaintiffs File Appeal
And It Will Be Several Days Be
fore Decision Is Made.
T. A. Bums, of the law firm Moser
and Bums, county attorneys, made
motion before Clerk of Court Mason
W. Gant, of Guilford county, in
Greensboro, Tuesday morning for
change of venue in the civil action
brought by the Interstate Construc
tion Company against the Randolph
board of county commissioners. The
motion was granted by the Guilford
clerk. However, Tom Gold, of High
Point, one of the attorneys for the
plaintiff, appealed and the matter of
change will not be definitely settled
until the appeal is heard possibly
within the next two weeks.
It will be recalled that suit was
instituted in Guilford county some
weeks past by the Interstate Construc
tion Company, formerly of Randolph
county, but more recently of High
Point, against the board of commis
sioners of Randolph county, charging
that abrogation of a contract which
the company had made with the pre
vious board of commissioners had
caused the plaintiff a loss of more
than four thousand dollars. The In
terstate Construction Company had
been doing considerable road work in
the county during the term of office
of the board of commissioners which
retired from office December 1st,
last year.
JACKSON CREEK NEWS
Mr. S. D. Surratt has accepted a job
with the road force of Randolph coun
ty.
Messrs. J. C. Ridge and Numa
Ridge made a business trip to Ashe
boro last Monday.
The little daughter of R. J. Woods,
who has been on the sick list, does
not improve much.
Mr. Numa E. Ridge, of Fredericks
burg, Va., is spending a few days with
homefolks. He was forced to leave
his job on account of sickness, but he
is very much improved, and able to
get out again.
The repairing of Mt. Tabor church
is very nearly completed. The second
Sunday in July is home coming day
there, and the Sunday school conven
tion will be held there the same day.
Everybody is invited to attend.
Misses Mabel Ridge and Annie
Johnson left last Sunday to enter
school at Cullowhee, N. C.
Mr. Liss Ridge, Mr. Morer and wife,
I and Miss Jones motored home recent
: ly with Miss Mabel Ridge from Wil
i mington where she had been spending
a few days with her brother and
friends.
Father Of Asheboro Man
Died In Greensboro
Spencer M. Lambert, aged 75 years,
died in a Greensboro hospital Tuesday
morning after an illness of two days.
Funeral was held yesterday from
Bethlehem church near Climax, and
interment made in the church ceme
tery.
Surviving Mr. Lambert are two
daughters, Mrs. J. H. Allred, of Sum
merfield, Route 1, and Mrs. W. H.
Moore, of Hemp; three sons, George
Lambert, of Asheboro, Robert Lam
i bert, of Summerfield, and Ernest Lam
bert, of Greensboro; and one stepson,
J Jesse Pool, of Elkin.
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Compliments Randolph Man
On Owning Beautiful Home
Editor Courier:
Last Saturday on my way to a sale
at the old home place of A. C. Farlow,
I noticed a nice place on the left of
the road just about one mile from
Sophia. This is the most beautiful
house 1 have seen in a long time. I
iaakld a friend with me who the nice
house belonged to, and he said it was
■the home of J. M. Lyndon. It is one
of the most beautifully designed bun
galows I have ever seen in the coun
try. It has around it a nice hedge
and shrubbery. I just thought of my
old friend J. M. and that if all the
country people would fix up their
homes as good as this what a nice
place the country would be to live in.—
An old friend of J. M. and an old sub
scriber to The Courier.
High Point, June 13.
Children’s fit# Service
f An interesting Children’s Day pro
gram has been arranged for Pleasant
Hill Methodist Church for Sunday,
June 19th. The morning service Will
be devoted entirely to exercises by the
children, including songs and recita
tions. In the afternoon the Charles
Gates chorus, of Lexington, composed
of thirty or mere male voices, will
furnish special music which promises
to be very entertaining. The public
i$ cordially invited to attend.
LIMITED INDORSEMENT
, (Ohio State Journal)
We want to do the right thing at
any cost, but until further advices we
shall assume that the President's ur
gent request that we editors indorse
his foreign policy, whatever ii may be
at any given moment, in all its
ramifications, does not make it incum
bent upon us to believe a Russian Red
is really there every time Secretary
Kellogg -thinks he sees one.
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Pension Vouchers
Have Arrived For
Confederate Vets.
Pension Cbeidts totaling $7,490 have
been received'by Clerk of Court W. A.
Lovett for distribution among Con
federate veterans and widows of vet
erans in Randolph county. Persons
entitled to receive these checks are
urged to get them as early as pos
sible.
The pensions are to be allotted to
37 soldierS, trho are in fourth class
and who get $100 each, making a to
tal of $3,700. Four have died since
the previous biennial pension checks j
were sent to the Clerk. These were
T. W. Andrews, James M. Brown, Joe j
Dan Hackney and John Hancock.
Seventy-three widows will receive |
pension checks. Two are in first class i
and will receive $120 each, making a
total of $240. Seventy-one are in |
fourth class and will receive $50 each, ^
or a total of $3,550. Seven widows of
[ Confederate Veterans have died or
moved away from the county since
January 1st.
Texans Are Tracing
Ancestry In Randolph
Mr. And Mrs. Reed Were In
County Looking Up Old
Records Of Family.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Reed and
daughter, of Waco, Texas, were in
Asheboro the latter part of last week
looking up ancestry, and the home of
Mrs. Reed’s parents and grandpar
ents. Mrs. Reed’s father, Mr. Nathan
Craven, left Randolph county at the
age of 17 and went West. Mrs. Reed
has no knowledge of her father’s old
home, other than what he had told
her in his earlier days. Upon arriv
ing in Asheboro they went to the
Clerk’s office where they looked over
the records, and finally they met with
Mr. Dawson Cqx, who lives on the
old Craven plantation about four
miles from Moffitt’s Mill. They vis
ited the old home place and also Mrs.
Reed’s grandfather’s place, Samuel
Craven, which adjoins the Dawson
Cox place. They visited the Holly
Springs cemetery and saw the graves
of Mrs. Reed’s grandmother, Martha
Cox Craven^ and great grandparents,
Joshua and Rachel Duskin Cox.
Mr. and Mrs. Reed and daughter
were very much interested in the
Deep River cemetery which was
known as tha Soap Stone cemetery
because it ha^-a wall of soap stone
around it, noitHJjif which now remains.
This cemetery is about one mile from
the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. Mrs.
Reed is anxious to know if any one
in the county knows anything of the
ancestors of Samuel Craven, whose
will was probated in 1846, or of
Thomas' Craven whose will was pro
bated in 1817, or Steven Lewis whose
will was probated in 1792.
Mr. and Mrs. Reed and daughter,
after spending Sunday in Asheboro,
left on Monday for Chautauqua, N.
Y., where their daughter will teach
this summer. Any information sent
in to The Courier will be forwarded
to Mrs. Reed.
Dr. J. W. Wellons
Called By Death
Venerable Minister Died Satur
day Morning: At The Age
Of 101 Years.
Minister 75 Years
Dr. James W Wellons, for 75 years
a minister of the Christian denomina
tion, and for several years chaplain of
the Masonic and Eastern Star Home,
Greensboro, where he spent his later
years, died Saturday morning. He
was 101 years old on his last birthday,
January 1, at which time he showed
marvelous strength mentally and
physically by delivering a sermon, as
had been his custom on his birthday in
recent years, talking for more than
three quarters of an hour.
Born In Virginia
Dr. Wellons, who was born Jan
uary 1, 1826, in Sussex county, Vir
ginia, spent almost his entire life in
the work of the church and had been
an ordained minister for nearly three
quarters Of a century. His early an
cestors came from Wales, on the
western coast of England. His father,
Hartwell Wellons, and his mother,
Polly Stephenson Wellons, settled at
Smithfield, Va., as farmers. At the
age of 11 years he joined the Chris
tian church, becoming a member of
Bafrett’s congregation in eastern
Virginia. In 1854 he officially joined
the North Carolina and Virginia 'Con
ference, although as a yOuth he had
assisted in ministerial work. .
Two years later, in 1866, Dr. wel
lons Whs Ordained as pafetor of Hank’s
Chapel, Chatham county, this state,
and for thfcny yeans served this and
other churches in the section. It is
sliid of hfeh that ait OnO time he
served 16 churches -at a total salary
of only $80 a year, fib was for many
yObn pastor of the Christian church
at Frsnkllhton.
According tb Dr. Wellons’ own rec
ords, more than 7,000 persons pro
fessed faith ih Christ under his min
istry. He himself always held an
open mind, ready and willing to ac
cept hew methods and modern meas
ures.
Dr. Wellons was reared in a day
when schools wen few, and his aca
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C. Of C. To Hold
Banquet Tuesday
In Dining Hall Of M. E. Church
Building—Ladies Of Church
To Serve Supper.
Dr. Daniel To Speak
Members, Their Wives And
Friends Are Invited.
The Asheboro Chamber of Com
merce will hold a banquet in the din
! ing hall of the new Methodist Epis
I copal church building Tuesday even
ing, June 21, at 8 o'clock, the ladies of
i the church to have charge of pre
paring and serving the supper. All
[ members of the chamber of commerce,
their wives and many invited friends
I are expected to be present on this
j occasion. Dr. D. W. Daniel, director
I of the department t>f arts and science
at Clemson College, will be the speak
er of the evening. Special music will
be rendered.
This banquet will be easily one of
the outstanding events of the season
in Asheboro. It is one of the periodic
get-together meetings of the mem
bers of Asheboro’s chamber of com
merce, an organization which is ever
on the-job working for the betterment
and growth of the town in many dif
ferent fields of endeavor.
Mr. Daniel, who has been selected
to deliver the address on the occasion,
is easily one of the outstanding ora
tors of the country. He is not a
stranger to many people in Asheboro
who have heard him on different oc
casions, nor is he a stranger in the
State. His services are in unusual
demand especially in the South for
occasions similar to that which will be
held here Tuesday night. His ad
dresses are usually impelling calls to
civic conscience and to general civic
cooperation. His speeches are gar
nished with the flavor of irresistible 1
humor, gleaming with the grace of ]
brilliant, magnetic presentation; but
above all and best of all the substance .
of his addresses provide a ringing,
convincing exposition of individual re- ;
sponsibility in its relation to com
munity obligation. i
Asheboro people, while they will de
light to get together in an united ef
fort on behalf of the town, will per
haps enjoy Dr. Daniel’s address best
of all.
News Of The Week
In Brief Paragraphs
Short Mention Of Thd Most Im
portant Happenings In State
And Nation.
According to crop statistician Frank
Parker, North Carolina’s wheat crop
this year is about 75 per cent normal.
Average yield predicted is 11 bushels
per acre.
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The new 30-foot concrete highway
between High Point and Greensboro
was formally dedicated with appro
priate ceremonies Tuesday.
Robert F. Sink, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred O. Sink, of Lexington, is one of
the graduates from West Point Mili
tary Academy this spring. He has
been commissioned Second Lieutenant,
and after a three months leave of ab
sence will be assigned to a post.
The Baptists will hold a State-wide
Sunday school conference in Raleigh,
beginning the evening of June 17th,
the first this denomination has held
in North Carolina in 25 years.
A man has a right to beat his wife,
according to a recent decision handed
down by a court in Paris, France. The
strange part of it, however, is that a
more recent law recognizes wife beat
ing as a just cause for divorce in
France,
Davidson county is to have a tuber
culosis clinic beginning June 20th.
Dr. G. C. Gambrell, county health of
ficer, will be in charge of the work.
Dr. Clifford A. Owens, pastor of
the First Baptist church, Lexington,
for four and a half years, has resign*
ed. Dr. Owens came to Lexington
from Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Annie Duke, for several years
a member of the faculty of the Lex
ington city schools, has been selected
as principal ef the Junior Orphans
Home school, according to announce
ment made by Supt. W. M. Shuford,
of the Orphans home.
High Foint is soon to issue a mil
lion dollars in bonds, $600,000 for
water improvements and $40,000 for
sewers. High Point has a floating in
debtedness of two million dollars.
Col. Albert L. Cox, of Raleigh, de
livered the principal address Satur
day at the opening of the lake and
dance pavilion at Mt. Vernon Springs,
in Chatham county .
J. F. L. Tussey, widely known for
mer merchant of Lexington, was found
dead in bed Monday morning.
The paymaster of the Conley Con
struction Company waa held up and
robbed Saturday afternoon near Yel
low Creek, in Graham county, the
robbers taking $6,500.
A German nayon manufacturing
corporation -has announced it will
build a large $7,000,000 plant at John
son City, Tenn., which will employ 4,
000 persons.
Dr. G. H. Sumner
r Will Be Randolph
Co. Health Officer
Dr G. H. Sumner was last Thurs
day afternoon at a meeting of the
county board of health elected
Health Officer for Randolph coun
ty to assume his duties August 1st.
Dr. Sumner is well known to Ran
[ dolph county people, having been
bom and reared in • Franklinville
and later having practiced his pro
fession in Asheboro in association
with Memorial hospital. Several
months ago Dr. Sumner was elect
ed Health Officer for Surry county,
which position he now holds. It is
understood that he will resign this
position in order to accept the
offer made Thursday by the Ran
dolph health board. Dr. Sumner’s
election came as a result of the
decision made Monday of last week
by the board of commissioners and
board of education to discontinue
the services of a whole time Wel
fare Officer and to acquire the ser
vices of a whole time Health Offi
cer instead. Welfare work will fall
upon the shoulders of the county
superintendent of education as was
the case prior to the employment
of a whole time Welfare Officer.
E. Lynn Hancock
. Dies From Wound
End Came Last Thursday After
noon In a Hospital In High
Point.
E. Lynn Hancock, 48, Randleman
man who shot himself in the head
Tuesday evening of last week at his
home and who was taken to a hospital
in High Point for treatment, died
Thursday afternoon about four o’clock.
The bullet, fired from an old model 32
! caliber pistol, entered his right tem
ple and lodged in his head.
Surviving Mr. Hancock are his wid
ow, Mrs. Bertie Hancock, a son, Char
lie, and a daughter, Elizabeth, all of
Randleman.
Funeral was held Saturday after
noon at Bethany church near Worth
ville.
M. P. CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
9:45 A. M. Sunday school, Mr. W.
L. Ward, Supt.
11:00 A. M. and 8:00 P. M., preach
ing by the pastor. At the eleven
o’clock service there will be given an
opportunity for people to unite with
the church.
7:00 P. M. Christian Endeavor, Sen
ior, Intermediate and Junior.
The revival services which have
been in progress for the past ten days
! have been very helpful and have been
j very well attended by the church peo
| pie. Dr. T. M. Johnson rendered a
very fine service until Saturday of
last week when he was taken ill. Sat
urday evening and Sunday evening
our singer, Rev. E. L. Ballard, of
High Point, preached very helpful
sermons. On Monday of this week,
Rev. S. W. Taylor, of Burlington,
came and preached a forceful sermon
at the union service at the M. E.
Church on Tuesday morning.
Revival At Sophia
Revival services will begin at
Sophia Congregational church third
Sunday, June 19th. The pastor will
be assisted by Rev. C. C. Hamilton,
of Chickamauga, Ga. Mr. Hamilton
is a good evangelist. The services will
last for ten days.
More than 500 members of the Poe
family gathered at the old Poe place
between Gulf and Cumnock Saturday
for the third annual reunion of the
family. Dr. Clarence Poe, of Raleigh,
was the chief speaker.
Eli Carson York
Dies In Ramseur
Was WUely Known And Highly
Respected Citizen Of The
Community.
Was Buried Monday
Eli Carson York, aged 80 years,
died at the home of his son, W. O.
York, in Ramseur, Sunday morning
following an illness of 18 months. Mr.
York was well known and highly re
spected in the Ramseur community in
which he had lived the greater part
of his life. He was regarded as one
of Ramseur’s best citizens.
Mr. York was born Dec. 25, 1846,
and was a son of the late Leander and
Liza Ward York. On April 26, 1867,
he was married to Miss Mary E. Wi
ley, who died March 17, 1902. To
this union were bom two daughters
and two sons: A. H. York, who died
May 20, 1916; and W. 0. York, Mrs.
R. M. Pugh and Mrs. P. P. York, all
of Ramseur, who survive. He leaves
also one sister, Mrs. W. O. Craven,
of Ramseur, Route 1.
Funeral services were held Mondaj
afternoon from Pleasant Ridge Chris
tian church by Rev. John Allred, and
the body laid to rest in the church
cemetery.
Pallbearers were G. H. Hodgin, D
R. Hodgin, George Craven, Carl Crav
en, Luther Craven and S. D. York
Flowers were borne by Misses Milli<
Trogdon, Vemie Williams, Evelyr
Williams, Lucy Wylie, Callie Cole
Ruth Covington and Mrs. E. C. York
Mrs. Ollie York and Mrs. J. C. Ellis.
Revival Services
Largely Attel led
Strong Messages Have Beea
Brought By Ministers In The
Various Churches. f
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May End This Week
Generally Felt Meetings Hare
Been Worth While.
The simultaneous revival meetings
in Asheboro which began a week age
last Sunday have been well attended!
by the church people and by some wh*
were not church people. The union
services at the local M. E. church at
8:30 each morning have been largely
attended and have been very helpfiiL
The visiting ministers have taka,
turns at preaching and have brought
strong messages which have been
greatly enjoyed. On Saturday after
noon an outdoor meeting was held be
tween the two railway stations. The
sermon was preached by Rev. J. EL
Pritchard of the Methodist Protestant
church.
Sunday afternoon there were twe
largely attended meetings, one for
women at the Baptist church, the
speaker being Mrs. Cox, who is doing;
the preaching at the Friends chuidL
The other meeting was for men and
was held at the Methodist Protestant
church, the sermon being preached by
Rev. Mr. Price, who is doing the
preaching at the Baptist church. The
series of meetings will run through
the middle of this week, if not longer^
While there has not been any large
number of professions yet, the Chris
tians have been greatly strengthened
and helped and it is generally felt
that the meetings have been very
much worth while.
Rev. T. M. Johnson, D. D., who had
been doing the preaching at the M.
P. church had to give up the work on
account of illness but was succeeded
by Rev. S. W. Taylor, of Burlington,
who is a strong preacher.
Short History Of
The American Flaff
Tuesday Was 150th Anniversary
Of Stars And Stripes—Or
igin Of The Flag.
The American flag was 150 yeas
old Tuesday, June 14, which was
“Flag Day.” It was noticeable t)u&
the only flag displayed on that day
in Asheboro except the usual flag at
! the postoffice was unfurled to the
breeze by W. D. Stedman & So*.
Probably only few people in town
realized the significance of the day.
The American flag was once solid
red, another American flag was great
and white, and still another was red
and yellow. American flags haw
borne rattlesnakes, pine trees aiWI
mottoes in Latin, mottoes which only
a few citizens would be able to in
terpret. Betsy Ross is credited with
making the first American flag with
its stars and stripes, a flag which
Congress officially adopted on Jim*
14, 1777. *
It is a pretty story that "has bed*
handed down to school children how
the first flag was made at the re
quest of General George Washington
and few people know some history df
the flag before that date which k
something like this:
From about 1705 on, Dutch mer
chantmen had been seen in New
York harbor flying their flag of 3
red and white stripes, with, a red
cross in a white field in the upper
left corner.
In 1776 there was flown in Vir
ginia a flag of 13 red and white
stripes. From the lower right to
the upper left hand corners' wrig
gled a rattlesnake. In the whit*,
stripe next to the bottom was the
command, "Don’t Tread on He.”
When George Washington went te
Boston to take command of the
Colonial forces, he was accompanied
by Philadelphia troops who carried.»
flag of 13 blue and white stripes.
In January, 1779, Washington saw
raised over his headquarters in Cam
bridge, Mass., a flag of 13 red and
white stripes. In place of the blue
field and the white stars, however,
were the crosses of St. George and
St. Andrew of England.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Carter are suc
ceeding well in their enterprise- at the
Cross Roads. The filling station and
other things look like they might m
time become a town. This'little place
is between Trinity and Thomasville.
Miss Kate Craven is at liome here.
She has had as her gusts, her nephew^
the two sons of Prof. George Pegrsre
of Columbia University, New York.
Eddie Leach and family, of West
Trinity, have moved to High Point.
Mrs. Weeks, well known in Una
county, is again occupying her ot*
rooms at the hotel. Mrs Weeks 1
been making her home in Norfolk, V
with her son.
Mr. Fulp, who lives at! the
farm, was' paralyzed a few d
and is in quite a critical, eond
Miss Ida Ingram, who 1
“Lansdowne,” is about the
health. 8he has
some time
Miss Hazel McDowell spenl
time recently with friends in W
Salem.
Ned Fegram, of Durham, %
relatives here the latter
President and'Mrs. Coolidge
Washington Monday night to
their summer vacation in the
Game Lodge :in.far western
South Dakota.
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