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Aiktbwo, N. C. Thursday, December 19, 1929
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Pension Vouchers
Have Arrived For
Confederate Vets
Fifty-Nine Widows Of Veterans,
20 Veterans And 2 Body
Servants On Rolls.
Checks Total $7,300
Two Widows Have Died Since
Previous Distribution, But
All Vets Are Living.
Christmas cheer in the form of pen
sion vouchers is being distributed this
week to Confederate veterans and
their widows from the office of R. F.
. South, Clerk Superior Court, Ran
dolph county. These checks were re
ceived at the Clerk’s office from the
State Auditor at Raleigh on Saturday.
There are only twenty veterans of
the Confederacy on the pension rolls
in Randolph county. Each of these
veterans gets $182.50 this distribu
tion, or a total of $3,750.00. There
arft two negro body servants of vet
erans who draw $100.00 each, or a to
tal of $200. There are 55 widows of
veterans in the county, who are rated
in Class B and receive each $50.00 each
semi-annual distribution, or a total of
$2,750.00. Four class A widows re
ceive $150.00 each, or a total of
$600.00. The total of the pension
vouchers distributed from the Clerk’s
office amounts to $7,300.00. Two
checks for widows will have to be re
turned to the State Auditor on ac
count of death, No Confederate vet
eran on* the pension rolls has died in
Randolph since the previous distribu
tion in July.
In sending the pension vouchers to
the Clerk’s office, tha State Auditor
calls attention to the ract that the ap
propriation for pensions was not suf
ficient for placing on the rolls for
this distribution those veterans and
their widows who were approved for
pensions during the year by the coun
ty pension boards; nor were the in
creases allowed by these boards made.
It is the plan to include these new
pensioners in the first semi-annual
distribution in 1930.
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Legion Auxiliary Is
Mindful Of Veterans
At Oteen Hospital
The American Legion Auxiliary of
ing the past week > a box has been
packed for six soldiers at Oteen. This
box contained such practical articles
as 3 shirts, ties, onting pajamas, and
two checks of $3.00 each. In addition
to this, 17 children of ex-service men
have been gladdened with toys, candy
and fruits. The members of the Aux
iliary are all interested in this splen
did work, and justly proud of their
achievements.
CHRISTMAS TREE AT THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Monday night at 7:30 the children
of the Presbyterian Sunday school
will present an attractive Christmas
program. A Christmas tree will be
interesting to the children and Santa
himself has promised to be present.
THOMASVILLE GIRL AWAKES
- AFTER MONTHS OF SLEEP
Miss Juanita Everhart, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Everhart, of
Thomasville, after a sleep of four and
a half inonths in a Morganton hospit
al, has awakened at last and is receiv
ing nourishment. During her sleep
she was fed by artificial means. Hopes
are entertained for her recovery from
the mysterious malady with which
she is afflicted.
Organise Junior Council
Four-H club members of Edge
combe county have organized a Jun
ior Council. The first meeting was
held recently when they listened in on
the National Four-H radio program.
Good Egg Average
From a flock of 154 white leghorn
hens, T. A. Woody, of Marshall,
rente 4, in Madison county, gathered
29,361 eggs, or an average of 190
y per hen. "Beat this if you can,”
i County Agent Earle Brintnall.
Take A Christmas
Shopping Tour Thru
Stores!
Stores In Asheboro
Take this
of The Courier
Ur. W. S. Rankin Tells Local Folks
Advantages Of Community Hospital
The proposal to erect in Asheboro a
$100,000 community hospital was giv
en a decided boost Tuesday night when
Dr. W. S. Rankin, of Charlotte, di
dector of the Duke Endowment, spoke
to a representative audience of citizens
of the city. This was Dr. Rankin’s
second appearance in a year in Ashe
boro in the interest of the project.
Following his talk about a year ago, a
hospital committee was formed and
since has been busy working on the
proposition.
Dr. Rankin was introduced Tuesday
,night by Mr. D. B. McCrary, chairman
of the hospital committee, who stated
.the purpose of the meeting and ex
plained the proposition which is for
the voters of the city to decide. Dr.
Rankin told in an earnest and straight
forward way, without arty oratorical
embellishments, about the Duke Foun
dation, its origin, purposes and aims.
He explained that the greater part
of a trust fund of $80,000,000 set
aside by the late James B. Duke is be
ing used in North and South Carolina
for hospitalization purposes. Mr.
Duke, after years of careful consider
ation, arrived at the conclusion that
the need of hospitals was paramount
in these two # states, and believed he
could use his immense fortune in no
better way than in assisting cities and
counties in erecting and maintaining
hospitals.
Two questions confront Asheboro
people in this matter of a community
hospital, Dr. Rankin stated. These
are the money question and the moral
question. The coat,1 he pointed out,
will be negligible. A bond issue of
$25,000 for Asheboro, he stated, would
hot call for an increase in the tax
rate. He had been informed that the
increase in property valuation in the
city would take care of the $3,500 an
nually needed to retire the bonds. The
county had agreed to put up approxi
mately $3,600 a year for maintenance
A Prominent Former
Citizen Of Randolph
Is Dead At Denton
Paralysis Following 111 Health
For Some Time Fatal To J.
Frank Cameron, 76.
J. Frank Cameron, 76, died at his
home at Denton at 9 o’clock Monday
morning from the effects of a stroke
at paralysis following failing health
for several months. Funeral waaheld
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
Piney Grove church, in Randolph
county.
Mr. Cameron was native of Concord
township, Randolph county, where he
lived a great part of his life, engaged
in farming, real estate and the lumber
and sawmill business. During his
residence in Randolph, he was one of
the leading citizens of his community
and county, taking an active interest
in civic and political affairs. Though
he never held office in Randolph, he
was one of his party’s leaders in the
county. Upon his removal to David
son county several years ago, he con
tinued his business interests and also
his interest in politics and civic mat
ters, having served his adopted county
as a member of the board of county
commissioners.
Mr. Cameron leaves his wiaow,
who was Miss Lizzie Nance, of Ran
dolph county; and the following sons
and daughters: John Cameron and
Mrs. Ben Morgan, Caraway; Ross
Cameron, Cid; Charles - Cameron,
Thompson, Ga.; Mrs. H. P. Gilchrist,
Thompson, Ala.; Clyde Cameron, Lex
ington; Wesley Cameron, Thomasville;
Byrd Cameron, Denton; and R. F.
Cameron, High Point
88-Year-Old Veteran
Visitor Here Monday
Mr. A. J. Rush, who claims to be
one of The Courier’s oldest subscrib
ers, beta* 88 years of age, was a vis
itor in Our office Monday and paid
his subscription for the fifty-third
time. He began taking The Courier
when it was established in 1878 and
has never failed to renew his subscrip
tion. Mr. Rush is one of the few.vCon
, federate veterans of the county and
as the years go by he says his mem
ory of earlier days, especially “during
war times,” grows more vivid while
happenings of more recent years do
not seem so fresh. Fortune has smil
ed more favorably upon Mr. Rush
'than on many who followed the Con
federate flag, but he has never lost
interest in his comrades whose path
has been more uneven.
Card Of Thanks
We wish to express' oar thanks
to
,all our neighbors, friends and relatives
for their kind attention in the death of
oar sbn and brother; and we thank
those for the beautiful floral offer
ings. To each of you we feel very
grateful and pray God's richest bles
sings upon alLr*-Jfr. and Mrs. a A.
Pugh and'
committee in meeting Monday ruled
Democratic primaries next year. His
failure to support the head of the
ticket to the 1928 election was reason
for ruling. Alabama’s governor, a
candidate to succeed himself in the
next primaries was ruled out for toe
" Senator Heflin
announced
the gen
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of charity beds, while the Duke Foun
dation would put up a dollar a day for
each day a charity bed in the proposed
hospital is occupied.
Sire Hospital Needed
The Duke Foundation and the hos
pital committee had found that a hos
pital of 40 beds, fully equipped and
costing $100,000 would serve the
needs of Asheboro and Randolph coun
ty for some years to come. It is pro
posed to finance this hospital with a
i bond issue of $25,000, supplemented by
private subscriptions for a like
amount, and further supplemented
with a donation of $50,000 from the
Duke Foundation. In other words,
the people of Asheboro are being of
fered a $100,000 plant for $25,000, or
a fourth of its value.
Dr. Rankin stated that research by
the federal government had found
that rural sections and small cities and
towns were woefully deficient in hoB
pital facilities. In the large centers
of population hospital facilities are
generally adequate, but in the more
sparsely settled communities these fa
cilities are lacking. Consequently,
eventually the larger cities get the
best medical talent and the best med
ical services, for the best physician
cannot function to full efficiency with
out hospital facilities. A good hos
pital in any Community, Dr. Rankin
stated, would increase the efficiency
of local physicians by at least 25 per
cent
Moral Obligation
Dr. Rankin told his audience that
goverment figures had disclosed that
,50 .per cent of all hospital patients
pay their hospital bills in full; 20 per
cent pay part; and 30 per cent are
not able to pay anything. In addition
to furnishing adequate hospital facili
ties for those who can pay, the pur
pose of a community hospital is to
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Mrs. C. G. Frazier, 74,
Died Friday At The
Home Of Daughter
For Many Years Resident Of
Asheboro—Was Quiet, Unas
suming Christian Woman.
Mrs. C. G. Frazier, 74 years of age,
who for many years lived in Asheboro,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
M. R. Cox, at Staley, Friday of last
week,- She contracted & heavy cold,
during the Thanksgiving holidays but
had apparently improved until early
last week when she suddenly develop
ed pneumonia, and having been frail
for many years, could not withstand
the disease. Mr. Frazier died four
years ago and soon afterwards Mrs.
Frazier broke up housekeeping in
Asheboro and decided to Jive with her
children. She has spent most of the
time with her daughters in Greensboro
and Staley since leaving Asheboro.
Mrs. Frazier was a quiet, conse
crated Christian woman who was in
terested in the success and accomp
lishments of her family, friends,
church and community. She was a
true and devoted wife and mother and
was ever mindful of the comfort and
welfare of those with whom she came
in contact. The death of her son,
Clyde, in France, while in the world
war cast a gloom over the mother’s
heart, but she felt she had contributed
to a great cause. She was a faith
ful member of the Baptist church and
when physically able was a regular
attendant upon the services.
She is survived by the following
sons and daughters: Mrs. M. R. Cox,
Staley; Mrs. F. D. Whitehead. Greens
boro; Miss Grace Frazier, Charlotte;
Rev. I. P. Frazier, Statesville; M. E.
Frazier, Greensboro; C. G. Frazier, Jr.,
Asheboro; and J. E. Frazier, Brevard;
two brothers—G. P. Barker, Climax;
and A. S. Barker, Randleman; and 10
grandchildren.
The funeral was conducted at the
residence of Mrs. Cox, at Staley, by
Dr. O. G. Tillman, pastor of Concord
Baptist church, and Rev. T. F. An
drews, of Staley, after which the body
was taken to Green Hill cemetery,
Greensboro, for burial.
To Give Pageant At
Presbyterian Church
Sunday At 5 O’Clock
Sunday morning: at eleven o’clock,
Rev. Wade C. Smith will speak at the
Presbyterian church. At this service
Mr. Smith will illustrate his sermon
cm the board using the "Little Jetts.”
Twelve years ago Mr. Smith created
the Little Jetts. Today through the
columns of the Sunday School Times
and other publications, they are' well
known throughout the United States,
Canada and in many-foreign coun
tries.
Sunday afternoon the annual Christ
mas Vesper Service of the chuJfeh will
be held at five o’clock. At this time
a very beautiful pageant, "The Light
of the World," wiff be presented. By
combining music, evergreens, cos
tumes and candle light the true mean
ing of Christmas will be portrayed in
an impressive way. A cordial invita
tion is extended the public to attend
both of these services.
SPECIAL SONG SERVICE AT
LOCAL FRIENDS CHURCH
A special song service will be held
at the Asheboro Friends church on
Sunday night, Dec. 22, beginning at
7 o'clock, offering a most diversified
entertainment of songs under the di
rection of Rev. John Permar. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
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Saturday Is ? Last *
Registration Day
Hospital Election
Saturday, Dec. 21, is the last day
for registration for the Bond elec
tion to be held ft* Aeheboro on
Tuesday, Dec. Slat. This election
is to decide whether the voters will
authorize the iaspfhg of $25,000 in
bonds as part construction cost of
a proposed $100,000 community
hospital. The hospital committee
states that if At totem will au
thorize this bond Issue, an addition
al $25,000 wifi be Secured by pri
vate subscripting This will make
a total of $50,00$,, Then, the Duke
ps to match this
| the $100,000
Detraction of a
|rital. The coun
imissioners has
■ to the effect
U furnish $3,600
Mice of the char
itution, and the
inrposes the giv
ly lor each char
ging every year,
i in this election,
and there are
left. Already
re have register
modern 40-bed 1
ty board of c
adopted a resold
that the county
a year for main!1
ity beds in the h
Duke Foundatioi
ing of a dollar a
ity bed occupied
If you want to v<
you must regist<
only a few day
more than 800 va
ed for the electh
Mrs. AdelaidltRichardson
Mrs. Adelaide Rwardson, aged 60
years, 6 months and 6 days, died Dec.
14 at her home in Randleman. Funeral
was held from Rode Springs church
Monday afternoon, |Dee. 16, in the
southern part of fhie county, where
she resided before fcoving to Randle
man several years ago. She united
with the church whin 17 years old and
when she moved to Randleman, joined
the Baptist church jthere. She leaves
the following childSen: Miss Gwen
Richardson, Mrs. Ira Brown and Mrs.
Leslie Cranford, all of Randleman.
Mrs. C. W. Hinshaw
Mrs. Fannie Gillette Hinshaw, wife
of C. W. Hinshaw, prominent Ran
dolph county farmer of near Worth
ville, died Sunday night after an ill
ness of a few weeks with paralysis.
Funeral was held from Bethany M. P.
church Wednesday afternoon by Rev.
D. I. Garner, pastor, assisted by Rev.
T. A. Williams, at Randleman.
Surviving are the_ husband, 4lour
daughters, Mr*. Love, of Char
lotte'; Mrs?jrDr*Snre, or Tampa,
Fla.; Miss Inez Hinshaw, of Winston
Salem, and Miss Nora Hinshaw, who
ltVes at home; two sons, Fred H. Hin
shaw, of the United States navy, sta
tioned in California; Jesse Hinshaw,
at home; two sisters, Mrs. Eliza Mc
Vicker, of Charlotte, and Mrs. Armeta
West, of Lexington; and three grand
children.
For the past 25 years Mrs. Hinshaw
has been a devoted member of
Bethlehem Methodist Protestant
church.
Mrs. Alpheus Auman
Mrs. Alpheus Auman, aged about
45 years, died last Friday following a
few days’ illness. S|ie was apparently
in good health until on Saturday prior
to her death when she was stricken,
with a complication of troubles, where
upon she was taken to the High Point
hospital, underwent an operation and
treatment, but of no avail. Mra Au
man had a large circle of friends and
acquaintances who admired her for
her gentle, jovial disposition, her en
ergy and good sense. Many will as
sociate her with the splendid exhibits
at the county fair, as she always took
pride in decorating a farm booth and
has been a prize winner for several
years. She was the daughter of Mr.
Martin, of Star. In young womanhood
she was married to Mr. Alpheus Au
man, of Seagrove, R. F. D., one of the
county’s prosperous farmers. To this
union there 1 are ten • children, the
youngest of whom is two years of age.
The funeral and burial service was
conducted at Pleasant Hill church
Saturday, a large assemblage being
present for the last rites.
School Consolidation
Prooosal For Union
Township Defeated
Loses By Margin Of Only Four
Votes Out Of Registration
150—Election Tuesday.
The proposal to consolidate Pisgah,
Welch, High Pine and parts of two
other school districts in Union town
ship and to vote a special tax of 26
cents on the ?l60 valuation was voted
down Tuesday. Of the 150 voters
registered for the special election, 73
voted for the proposal, 75 failed to
vote and were counted against the pro
posal and two went out to the polls
and cast their votes in the negative.
In the three districts, there are two
one-teacher schools and one two-teach
er school, this being Welch. Both
High Pine and Pisgah are one-teacher
schools. The board of education, if
it follows its present policy* will not
build new school houses in these three
districts, though they are badly need
ed. The status of the districts in the
future will be probably as at present,
though a special election proposing
consolidation of the greater part of
this territory with Ulah has bepn con
sidered by patrons living in parts of
Union township.
Card Of Hunks
We wish to express our sincere
thanks to our many friends who were
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Mr*. Vanda Ward, Of Ether, May
Have Been The Victim Of Foul Play
Vanda Ward, world war veteran of
Ether, is held in Montgomery county
jail at Troy without privilege of bond,
following a coroner’s inquest yester
day afternoon over the body of his
wife, exhumed from a grave in Dover
church cemetery near Star. The body
had been buried since December 5th,
following the woman’s death on the
4th. A telephone communication with
Sheriff C. C. Howell of Montgomery
county this morning elicited the infor
mation that the coroner’s jury found
evidences of foul play, indicating that
the woman had been choked to death
and her body later badly burned with
fire.
1 Mrs. Ward’s death on the morning
of Dec. 4th was first thought to have
been due to suicide. She did not arise
that morning with her husband, and
after he had been out of the room
about five minutes engaged in doing
chores about the house, fire was dis
covered in the room which he and his
Christmas Services
At The First M. E.
Church Next Sunday
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Throughout the day next i Sunday
the services at the First M. E. church
will be in keeping with the Christmas
season. At 11:00 a. m. the pastor will
preach a Christmas sermon, the sub
ject being: “The King in the Cradle.”
Christmas music will be rendered by
the choir.
In place of the regular 7:00 p. m.
service there will be a Christmas
Vesper service at 5:00 p. m. The pro
gram is as follows:
Organ Prelude—Christmas Chimes.
Invocation Song—"O little Town
of Bethlehem”, Redner, by the choir.
Hymn No. 115—“While Shepherds
Watched Their Flocks”, Brady, by the
congregation.
Prayer.
Anthem—“The People That Walked
in Darkness”, Stults.
Psalm No. 24.
Offertory—“And There Were Shep
herds”, Ashford.
Incidental Solo—Mrs. H. L. Ingram
and Violin Obligato.
Double Quintet—“The Brightest an<^
Best”, Stults.
Scripture Lesson.
Hymn No. Ill—“Hark, the Herald
Angels Sing”, Wesley.
Sermonet—"Christmas”, by the
Pastor.
Anthem—“It Came .Upon a, Mid
.night Clear”, Stults.
Recessional Hymn by the Choir—
“Silent Night”, Mohr. ,
On Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock,
“When Santa Listens In”, a cantata,
will be presented by the Sunday
school. This promises to be good.
Following this cantata a Christmas
treat will be given the children of the
Sunday school.
The public is cordially invited to all
of these services.
Distillery Is Found
In A Peculiar Place
Randolph county officers captured
a 70 gallon distilling outfit Tuesday in
a most unusual place near the Sawyer
Mine. Instead of being near a stream
of water, as is the usual and neces
sary thing, the still was located in a
mining hole 200 yards or more from
any branch. No whiskey or beer
was found, although the place bore
evidences of having been worked a
short time before the arrival of the
officers.
SCHOOLS CLOSE FRIDAY
FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
The Asheboro city schools will close
tomorrow, Friday, for a Christmas va
cation of one week. They will reopen
on Monday, December 30, and there
will be no holiday for New Year.
Deaths Increase
Deaths attributed to automobile
accidents in North Carolina totalled
577 during the calendar year 1928, an
increase of 74 over the 503 of the pre
ceding year, the United States de
partment of commerce announces.
ANNOUNCEMENT
There will be a Christmas program
at Neighbor’s Grove Wesleyan Meth
odist church December 22nd. In the
morning there will be Sunday school
and the Christmas treat will be given
out. At 7:30 o’clock the program will
be given. It will consist of songs,
recitations and dialogues by the chil
dren. Come and enjoy this with us.
There will be preaching at the Wes
leyan Methodist church at High Pine,
December 22n<j.. Let all remember
and come. A cordial, welcome will be
given all.
—REV. E. D. PACKER, Pastor.
Raitdleman Trims Farmer
Randleman basketball team defeat
ed Farmer on the latter’s cotirt Friday
by a score of 14 to 11. The game
was featured by the superb playing
of Fox, center for Randleman, and
the excellent passing of C. Thornburg
and Johnson for Farmer.
Sam Miller To Speak In
Baptist Church Sunday
Sam Miller, an Asheboro boy, who
is at present attending Wake Forest
College, and who is one of the inter
collegiate debaters of that institution,
will speak at the preaching service
of the Baptist Church, next Sunday
morning. All are invited to hear
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wife occupied. He is said to have
rushed back into the room only to find
his wife burned almost to death.
Neighbors, aroused by the smoke from
the flames, came in. The body of
Mrs. Ward was found wrapped in two
quilts and covered with a feather bed.
All bore evidences of having been sat
urated with kerosene. The flames were
extinguished.
The suicide theory was adhered to
until the woman’s relatives became
suspicious of the circumstances sur
rounding her death and started an in
vestigation which led to the coroner’s
inquest yesterday afternoon. Evidence
tended to show that the man and wo
man had quarreled from time to time,
and Sheriff Howell gave information
that the couple’s children heard their
parents quarreling during the night
preceding her death. Bits of evidence
were pieced together until authorities
found sufficient evidence to order t)ie
body of the dead woman exhumed and
an inquest held.
No Epidemic Scarlet
Fever Is Prevalent
In Town Of Liberty
A friend of The Courier writing
from Liberty states that a wrong im
pression has been created relative the
scarlet fever situation in Liberty
township. Attention was called to the
article in this newspaper last week
concerning the disease. In fairness to
all concerned, this article on scarlet
fever was prepared for this
newspaper during November, but was
unavoidably crowded out until Decem
ber. The statements contained there
in relative Scarlet Fever were with
reference to prevalence of the disease
in October, when 22 cases were re
ported from various parts of the
county to the County Health Board.
No statement was contained in the
article that there was an epidemic in
the county anywhere, but that care
should be taken to prevent spread of
the disease. This newspaper is cer
tain that the Health Officer had no
intention or desire to create the im
pression that Scarlet Fever was ram
pant in Liberty, or that there was
more danger from the disease there
than in other places where cases had
developed. In all fairness, the great
er number of cases reported from
Liberty were from Liberty township
and riot from within the town itself.
The health article in question stated
Oldest Confederate
Veteran In County
Pays Asheboro Visit
An interesting visitor in Asheboro
Thursday morning was J. W. Howell,
of Randleman, who is perhaps the old
est Confederate veteran in Randolph
county, being 92 years old. While
“Uncle Jimmie” as he is affectionate
ly known in the county is now in ex
cellent health, he has suffered a very
severe illness in the past year which
kept him in bed seven months, but the
dauntless spirit of this man has help
ed him to get on his feet again and at
tend personally to his business af
fairs. While in town Thursday the
old gentleman was in a reminiscent
mood and related the incident of see
ding the first man fall at Bethel on
June 10, 1861, during the War Be
tween the States. Before the out
break of the war “Uncle Jimmie” be
longed to a military company at Fay
etteville before joining the Randolph
forces. His memory is clear, and his
mind alert, making him an interesting
conversationalist. His home is at Ran
dleman, where he has reared nine of
his eleven children.
Methodist Protestant Church
9:46 A. M. Sunday school, Mr. J. D.
Ross, Supt. Classes for people of all
ages; capable teachers, warm rooms,
a hearty welcome.
11:00 A. M. Christmas sermon by
the pastor. Christmas hymns will be
sung.
5:00 P. M. “His Natal Day”, a
Christmas cantata by the choir. This
will take the place of the evening ser
vice and will consume almost the en
tire hour. If time permits, there will
be a brief address by the pastor. 6:00
P. M; Intermediate and Jrfnior Christ
ian Endeavor.
The public is most cordially invited
to all the services.
HOOVER TREATS THIS STATE
TO UNPLEASANT SURPRISE
Once again the Hoover administra
tion has treated North Carolina to an
unpleasant surprise. Once it was con
sidered certain that Stuart W. Cra
mer. of Charlotte, who wrought
mightily for the Hoover ticket jn 1928,
Would be appointed a member of the
President’s .cabinet. But, when! the
slate was named Cramer was jiot on
it. Recently, North Carolinians have
entertained the hope that A. J. Man
well, of Raleigh, would be named
member of the interstate Commerce
Commission, a position which he is
eminently qualified to. fill. But on
Tuesday, President Hoover announced
the appointment of Robert M. Jones, a
Tennessee Republican, to this place,
and again North Carolina is left out
in the cold.
Dolph Pritchard 111
The many friends of Mr. Dolph
Pritchard will regret to learn that he
is seriously ill at his home in Grey
stone Terrace. Mr. Pritchard is con
nected with the Home Building, Ine.,
and is well known in the town.
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Rally To Farm Board
Big Agricultural Organizations
Fed That They Have Friend
In This Board.
(By David F. St CUur)
Washington, December 16.—The ag
ricultural interests of the country ap
pear to have won a major point in the
struggle they have been making for
years in Washington to force the in
trenched industries to grant them
their rights in legislation. The big
farmers’ organizations with headquar
ters here, such as the Farm Bureau
Federation, the National Grange, and
the Farmers’ Union emphatically ex
pressed themselves as without faith
in tjie new Federal Farm- Board creat
ed at the Tecent extra session of con
gress. They looked upon the board
as nothing more than a gesture to
quiet the agitation among the farm
ers till some other nostrum could be
concocted. The fact that Alexander
Legge, head of the Harvester Trust,
was appointed on the board as its
chairman, showed the intention of big
business to continue its loaded dice
game with the farmers, it was con
cluded.
But the determined fight of the
coalition of Democrats and insurgent
Republicans in the senate to frame
and pass a tariff bill raising agricul
tural rates and decreasing industrial
rates showed the Federal Farm Board
that to justify its existence it must do
something more for the farmers than
making a' pretense of serving them.
Chairman Legge who had been one of
the giants of big business turned his
talents and his energies to organizing
a grain corporation among the farm
ers that will put at least half of the
grain gamblers of this country out of
a job. This move has of course raised
a great hue and cry among the grain
gamblers that the government of thte
United States has entered business in
competition with them and is depriv
ing them of their rights of citizens of
the country.
The board announced that it would
also support the organisation of a
strong cooperative cotton corporation
cotton commission merchants in the
South on the shelf and put the money
that is now going into their pockets
into the pockets of those who grow the
cotton. The board has started out to
eliminate in the market of farm
products the vast army of middle men
who have pocketed most of the profits
the farmers must have to prosper. If
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M. P. Church Choir
To Present Cantata
Sunday At 5 O’clock
The choir of the Methodist Protest
ant church will present a Christmas
cantata, “His Natal Day,” at a Vesper
service Sunday afternoon at 5:00
o’clock. To this service the public is
invited. The cantata sets forth the
Christmas story in a very tuneful mu
sical score combining in a rather
charming manner chorus work, inter
spersed with solos, duets and quar
tets. A violin accompaniment in
places will vary the music. An offer
ing will be taken.
The personnel of the choir is: So
pranos, Mrs. W. Frank Redding, Jr.,
Mrs. L. D. Burkhead, Miss Esther
Ross, Midk Ellen Preknell, Mrs.
George Burkhead, Miss Virginia Lowe,
Mrs. Lester Rich, Miss Lollie Jones,
Miss Exie Callicutt; Altoes, Mrs. G.
P. Pritchard. Mrs. A. B. Copenhaver,
Mrs. T. F. Bulla, Miss Mabel Cox;
Tenors, Robert Lloyd, Wess Brown;
Basses. W. L. Ward. Rufus Routh, W.
F. Redding, A. B. Copenhaver, Frank
Phillips; Pianist, Mrs. W. M. Ridge;
Violinist, Miss Clarice Cook; Director,
Mrs. Hal Walker.
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Brady And Poole
Mr. Herbert L. Brady and Miss Dol
lie Poole, both of Coleridge, were
married at the home of T. A. Cox, of
ficiating justice of the peace, Decem
ber 14th. Mr. Brady is the son of A.
H. Brady. The bride is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Poole. The
young couple will make their home in
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