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ASHEBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935.
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NUMBER 19
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State and Nation
RECRUITING OP 300,000
men to start immediately
Washington, April 30.—President
Roosevelt turned over to the Civil
ian Conservation corps $190,000,
000 today 'to start men moving in
to new camps and mills to turning
out materials for them. It is de
signed to start the enrollment of
300,000 new men and to purchase
the equipment necessary to build
1,300 more camps to house them.
The allocation from the Four
billion-dollar works fund was made
about the same time that Secre
tary Ickes was telling reporters at
his regular press conference that
housing projects carried out under
the fund would not be subjected to
to the requirements of being com
pleted within the year.
OLD SOLDIER GIVES
BODY TO SCIENCE
Buffalo, N. Y., May 1.—Centenar
ians have ascribed their longevity
to many reasons but Emanuel Josef,
veteran of the civil war, confesses
he does not know a single reason
why he is alive today—his 100th
birthday. So in effort to help medi
cal science discover, if it can, why
some people live longer than others,
Josef said he had willed his body
to a medical society.
Asheboro Kiwanis
Club To Sponsor
Donkey Ball Game
At Lindley field, Monday after
noon, May 6, at 5 o’clock the Ashe
boro Kiwanis club will sponsor a
game of donkey baseball, the “Cubs”
versus the “Tigers.” In donkey base
ball, the batters hit the ball if they
can, then mount the specially trained
donkeys and head for the first base.
Sometimes they make it and some
times they don’t for the asses are
trained to balk, pitch and steal bas
es. Co-ordination between the play
er and his long eared steed is a
thing unheard of in donkey baseball
for the player usually plans one play
and his mount another.
This promises to be an after
noon of much merriment. If you
are afraid of side-splitting laughs,
don’t come, Pfocepda go to the un
derprivileged boy scouts.
R. W. Wood Chosen
New President Of
Asheboro Rotary
Charles McCrary, Retiring: Pres*
ident, Has Led Club Through
a Very Successful Year.
At a meeting, Friday, of the new
ly chosen Rotary board of directors,
Robert W. Wood was unanimously
chosen as president for the coming
year. His selection to this office fol
lows his years service as secretatry
of the club and his third year as a
member. Members of the club have
expressed themselves as being very
pleased to have him lead their group.
Jesse Gamer was made vice-president.
Mr. Wood succeeds Charles Mc
Crary under whose capable leader
ship the club has increased largely its
membership during the past year and
has become recognised as one of the
leading clubs in the entire district.
Members of the new board of di
rectors, selected at the meeting Fri
day, include R. W. Wood, Jesse P.
Gamer, Russell Parks* Elwood Riehm,
I. F. Craven, Tom Truesdale, and
Charles W. McCrary. Delegates chos
en to represent the club at. the dis
trict Rotary meeting, to be held in
Raleigh, next month, are R. W. Wood
and D. B. McCrary, with Cothran G.
Smith and John W. Clark as alter
nates.
Cleveland Thayer discussed the Ro
tarian, weekly magazine of the Ro
tary International, calling attention
especially to a series of articles on
. Mexico City, place of the next inter
national conference of the club.
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Evening Hour Uf
Church Services Is
Set Eight O’Clock
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For a number of years it has
been the custom in Asheboro to
change the hour of evening church
service on the first Sunday even
ing in May from 7:30. to. 8:00
o’clock. Announcements, from the
majority of the ministers of the
town indicate that this will be
done on Sunday evening, May 5th.
Earlier hours observed during
the winter seem inconvenient for
church-goers as the days, grow
longer and the ministers change
the hour by popular approval. Peo
ple are asked to note this change
and further cooperate in the go
to-church movement started in
Aaheboro on Easter Sunday. There
are a wide variety of churches in
town, offering interesting services
every Sunday to which members
; md visitors are welconie4.
Ihe ministers of, the tewp ssk
that the members of different
churches and. visitors note the
change . in hour hi the evening
worship hour and attend at that
Former J irolina Leader
AppointedToHeadBoard
Conducting Investigation
Former Governor Of North
Carolina At $10,000 Yearly
Will Conduct Probe.
Telephone & Telegraph;
Commission Announces
Announcement Of Appointment
Came At President Roose
velt’s Urgent Request.
Announcement came from Wash
ington on Tuesday of the appoint
ment of O. Max Gardner as special
counsel for the American Telephone
and Telegraph Co., at a salary of
$10,000 yearly. The appointment was
made by the Federal Communications
Commission, but it has become known
publically that the former governor
of North Carolina agreed to accept
the position at the personal request
of President Roosevelt.
The investigation is considered the
biggest ever undertaken and the $750,
000 appropriation made for its expens
es by Congress is the largest appro
priation of the kind in the history
of Congress.
The formal announcement by the
federal communications commission
referred to Governor Gardner “as an
outstanding lawyer with a wide grasp
of public questions.”
The following formal announcement
of the appointment of the former
governor, Mr. Gardner, as made by
chairman Anning S. Prall, of the Fed
eral Communications Commission,
runs:
“In behalf of the Federal Communi
cations Commission, I am pleased to
announce the appointment of O. Max
Gardner, former Governor of North
Carolina, and a distinguished attorney,
as chief of the legal staflf of the com
mission which will investigate the tel
ephone industry in compliance with
the resolution enacted by Congress
Roosevelt Lashes
His Critics In A
Nation Broadcast
Scores Those Who Profit By
Confusing People About The
Recovery Move.
Urges Co-operation
First Fireside Chat The Presi
dent Hm Hud With The Na
tion Since Last September.
In his fireside radio speech to the
American public, Sunday evening at
10 o’clock, President Roosevelt lashed
out at the New Deal critics who, he
said, sought profits by confusing the
people about recovery moves and
assured the nation that the threat
ening dangers of a great economic
calamity had passed.
Without mentioning by name either
of the New Deal’s two most vigorous
critics—Father Charles E. Coughlin
and Senator Huey P. Long—the Pres
ident said in his fireside chat that the
constructive rebuilding of America
was progressing steadily.
Warning that this tremendous task
could not be done in a day or a
year, and saying that the people
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Re-Vamped Day Liquor Bill
Gets Favorable Report From
Senate Judiciary Committee
Raleigh, April 30.—A senate judi
ciary committee gave a favorable re
port Tuesday night to the revised
Day liquor bill, approved by the
house, that would authorize the open
ing of state liquor stores if as many
as 51 counties vote for the control
plan in a referendum proposed for
June 8.
The vote in the committee was
six to fiye for the measure.
The members made no attempt to
amend the act, but senate liquor
control leaders have indicated an
effort would be made to reduce
sharply the number of counties re
quired to vote for the bill.
Plan For Rum Stores
Under the bill, liquor stores would
be operated only in the 51 or more
counties that vote in favor of con
trol.
Wet leaders in the senate today
were working toward the adoption
of straight local option amend
ments which would provide for coun
ty elections on call of the commis
sioners or a certain percentage of
the electorate, and which would au
thorize the state sale of liquor only
if, and when, as many as 20 counties
vote wet.
The committee tonight considered
Only the question of whether to re*
port the bill “without prejudice” or
"favorably” and decided on the lat
ter course.
Ale school teachers get their 20
per cent increase in salary the first
year and IBS per cent the second with
the seeae appropriations being adept
O. MAX GARDNER
ordering: such an inquiry,
j “Former Governor Gardner, who
I has been practicing law in Washing
j ton and in North Carolina since his re
|tirement from the post of Chief Exe
■ cutive of his native state, comes to the
| commission at great personal sacri
fice. It was only after we had en
treated him to accept the post that he
finally was persuaded to return to
public life for the duration of the
telephone investigation. His salary
; will be $10,000 per annum.
“The commission considers itself j
I fortunate in procuring a man of
Governor Gardner’s attainments for
this important work. It will be his
responsibility to direct all legal op
erations incident to this investiga
tion, which will invade the entre scope
and activity of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company, as
well as independent companies in the
telephone field. For this investiga
tion Congress has appropriated $750,
000.
Dick Stone Talks
To Kiwanis Club On
Picture Production
Attendance Contest Continues
With Every Member Present
At Meeting On Tuesday.
Dick Stone talked to the Kiwanis
club T&esday evening about his work
in sound engineering thus following
the club’s program of vocational talks
by different members on their particu
lar line of business.
He chose the engineering work in
producing pictures as his subject, de
scribing a studio and the elaborate
equipment necessary for making mov
ing pictures. He then explained some
what in detail how scenes are made
and put together and “edited” for the
general public. Some interesting ex
hibits of film and other equipment
were shown to illustrate his points.
E. V. Hobbs made a short but im
pressive talk in welcoming W. Clyde
Lucas, Hal C. Johnson and James R.
York as new members and initiated
them into Kiwanis.
Tom Wiles had his two sons, John
nie and Tommie, as guests at the
meeting.
The attendance contest has created
considerable interest and every mem
ber was present at this meeting.
Men get pearls from oysters; wom
en get diamonds from nuts.
ed by the senate as passed the house
and not their $22,000,000 which Sena
tor Weathers called a subterfuge
and an appropriation not worth the
paper it is written on in view of the
lack of revenue; and which Senator
Hill said was a fetish, worshiped by
people who know little about school
finance.
Only six senators voted for the
$22,000,000 amendment, Warren and
Williams, asking that their names
be withdrawn because of their in
ability to vote for the revenue bill
in view of its provisions and because
it might seem inconsistent to vote
appropriations and not back up with
a vote for sufficient revenue to main
tain them. The six voting were:
Browning, Burrus, Carson, Griffin,
Steel and Teague.
In support of the amendment,
Senator Burrus said that he hoped
that the senate would have nerve to
adopt it. When asked by Senator
Newman if he would support a re
venue bill to raise approximately
$30,000,000, most of it to go to the
public schools, the High Point man
replied that he would not if it con
tained a tax on the food of the
poor.
Senator Griffin urged the adoption
of the amendment on the ground that
the exemptionless sales tax would roll
up an unheard of surplus such that
the state had never seen. Teague, in
urging the $22,000/100, grant to the
schools, termed it a return to the
spirit of Aycock.
Ramseur Seniors
To Present Their
Play Friday Night
Wednesday Evening At 8 P. M.
The Senior Class Day Exercis
es Will Be Given.
Honor Pupils Listed
Dr. H. T. Stevens Will Deliver
The Commencement Sermon
On Sunday Night.
Ramseur, April 30.—Ramseur school
finals are in progress, the grammar
grades having given their program
two weeks ago and on Saturday night
the little folks delighted the large
audience too with their splendid pro
gram.
This week, on Friday night, may 3,
Mrs. N. F. Phillips will present Miss
Elizabeth Dolores Smith in her gradu
ation recital in piano. Miss Catherine
Cranford of Asheboro, will assist her
with readings.
On Saturday, May 4th, at 8 P. M.,
Mrs. Phillips will have the annual
music recital.
On Sunday night, May 5th, the
commencement sermon will be deliv
ered at the school auditorium by Dr.:
H. T. Stevens, Pastor of First Baptist
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Local Woman’s Chorus
Planning1 Program For
National Music Week
The Asheboro Woman’s Chorus is
planning a program to present at Siler
City on Monday evening. May 6th,
during the observance of national mu
sic week. Several weeks ago the mu
sic during the week and rehearsals
an’s Chorus to give a program of mu
sic durin gthe week and rehearsals
have been in progress with that in
mind ever since.
The Asheboro chorus will give the
: initial program of this week’s observ
ance with a concert on Monday even
ing. Varied musical numbers in three
and four parts will compose the pro
gram with some vocal solos by Mrs.
Murray Field and violin numbers by
David Stedman. Mrs. R. J. Hilker is
director of the chorus with Mrs. S. B.
Stedman, accompanist.
Memorial Service
And Hofne Coming
Plannajfl For May 5
Mrs. Leach Recovering From
Operation; Other News Items
Of Community Interest.
Seagrove, Rt. I, April 30.—The an
nual memorial service and home com
ing day at Why Not church will be
held Sunday, May 5. Rev. E. G. Cow
an, pastor, announces the program
as follows: Sunday school beginning
at 10 A. M., at close of Sunday
school, march to cemetery to decorate
the graves and a short service there.
Memorial sermon, to begin at 11:15
at church and closing with sacrament.
A cordial invitation is issued to all
interested to attend.
Mrs. J. D. Leach, who underwent
an operation in Randolph Hospital,
Inc., has returned to her home and is
improving satisfactorily.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lawrence and
little daughter, of High Point, spent
last w’eek here making repairs on
their residence.
Mrs. Nan Maness and three daught
ers, of Biscoe, and Mrs. L. A. Wright
of Star, visited Mrs. T. M. Lawrence
and Mrs. D. R. Graves, Sunday.
Clyde Graves, with a party from
Asheboro, recenty visilted Natural
Bridge and other places of interest
in Virginia.
Name Omitted
In the last weeks issue of the
Courier, in the news items from
Franklinville, there appeared a roster
of the senior class. One of the
names, that of Bertha Ingold, was
inadvertently omitted. The class con
sists of eighteen members, ten girls
and eight boys.
Tax Forclosure
Actions In County
Started By Attorney
Larry Hammond announces that
with this issue of the Courier, the
advertisements will start for the
Randolph County Tax forclosure
actions for the years 1930 and 1931.
Mr. Hammond is acting as attorney
for Randolph County in these ac
tions^ and urges everyone who has
not yet paid taxes for these years
o pay them immediately.
'hese actions were started in
the months of August and Septem
ber, 1934, and are now in the pro
cess of being carried through to
completion. After the present ad
vertisements are completed, a judg
ment of foreclosure will be ob
ained from the clerk of Su
perior Court in every action not
settled. The land will be adver
tised for sale, and sold to the high
est bidder at public auction at the
courthouse door. A simple deed
-will be made to the purchaser. All
atort gages, deeds of trust, and
judgments against the property are
null and void after this procedure,
and the purchaser receives titles to
the laud, free and dssr frost all
The Junior Class
Fetes The Seniors
At Franklinville
Soil Erosion Meeting: Held In
The Franklinville Auditorium
On Friday.
Beta Club Meets
The Baccalareaute Sermon To Be
Delivered Sunday Evening
At The School.
Franklinville, April 30.—There was i
a soil erosion meeting at Franklin
ville school auditorium, Tuesday night,
April 23. There was a representa
tive crowd from the proposed exten
sion of Deep River area, besides in
terested visitors from other sections.
Much interest was manifested in hav
ing the present district extended from
its Eastern boundary, down the riv
er to Buffalo Ford, taking care of
water shed and adding approximately
60,000 more acres of land. Dr. J. H.
Stallings, regional director, gave an
interesting account of the soil erosion
project, what it has accomplished and
the outlook for future work. Talks
were also made by J. S. Millsaps,
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Regular Highway
Patrolman Is Now
On Duty In Town
From now on Asheboro will have
a regular state highway patrolman.
He is Patrolman W. D. Kelly, of Car
thage, who needs no introduction to
the people of Asheboro and the sur
rounding territory, having worked
here intermittently for the past few
years. In addition to being well
known, Kelly can boast of having
many friends in this section, he be
ing rated one of the most popular
members of the “patter-roller” staff.
He is staying at the Ashlyn Hotel.
Some time ago, it was decided that
Asheboro needed a permanent patrol
man and Jake Sechrest was sent here.
He stayed until an accident caused
him to be replaced by I. E. Hunt, who
remained here until about a year ago.
Asheboro is on the main artery of the
peach traffic, on highway number 70,
in the summertime and needs a regu
lar man to handle the traffic prob
lems. Randolph is in division 2, of
the patrol, with the head office locat
ed in Greensboro, Lieutenant Croom
in command.
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Those Who Desire
Work Are Urged By
N. R. S. To Register
The National Re-employment Ser
vice—which is operated by the Gov
ernment as a free service—in an ef
fort to check the number of people
out of employment is reminding the
persons who have registered that they
re-register every 90 days in order to
keep their names in the active files,
also that it is important that the
office be informed when an applicant
finds a job for himself so that he
will not be referred to any opening in
the Reemployment Office during the
period which he has work.
A material increase in P. W. A.
activities throughout the state may be
expected in the near future and it is
important that skilled workmen, avail
able for transfer, keep their card up
to date. When released from a job
! he should notify the N. R. S. Office
that he is again available for trans
fer to other jobs. This may be done
by calling or by sending a card to
the local office stating that he is
again available for work.
At present the local Reemployment
Office has slightly more than 800 in
the active files.
Meeting To Discuss Vitally
Important County Affairs
Held Court House Monday
On Monday evening a meeting was
held in the court house in Asheboro
that is of vital importance to the
citizens of Asheboro of today as;
well as to future citizens. Three mem
bers of the board of county commis
sioners, E. M. Johnson, Clint Hay
worth and John Farlow met with L.
F. Ross and J. A. Martin, of the coun
ty board of education; T. F. Bulla,
superintendent of education in the
county, and with several representa
tive citizens and heads of civic or
ganizations of the town. The meet
ing was called for the discussion of
the government appropriations for
the building of school houses in Ran
dolph county. Dr. H. G. Baity, en
gineer for the PWA works of the
state, was also present at the meet
ing and explained many points of
interest to the citizens concerning
this matter.
Sometime ago the county commis
sioners applied to the government
for $231,000 PWA funds for the pur
pose of erecting some needed school
building throughout the county. Time
elapsed and nothing was heard from
the matter until within the past few
days when notice of the approval
of the plan came from the govern
ment.
Meanwhile, the county commission
ers, determined to find a way to
solve the school building needs of
Randolph county, applied for and ob
tained the loan of $80,000 per year
Attention Is Called To
Municipal Election Date
For Tuesday, May 7th
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Will Not Make Race
Representative Robert L. Dough
ton, of North Carolina, now a member
of the lT. S. Congress, has finally an
nounced his final decision not to par
ticipate in the on-coming race for gov
ernor of his home state. The an
nouncement was made Tuesday in the
public press of the country and re
ceived wide attention because of Mr.
Doughton’s prominence in congress as
chairman bf the powerful Ways and
Means committee.
Politicians and citizens of North
Carolina in general have been inter
ested for sometime in the rumors
concerning the Congressman’s deci
sion and wide approval has been ex
pressed at his plan to remain head of
this powerful committee which is not
only an honor for the man, but for
North Carolina as well.
Commencement On
At Seagrove School
With An Operetta
Well Rendered And Attended Is
Record Of Opening Of School
Finals Held Friday.
Dr. Taylor Preaches
Miss Mildred Auman Is Wed In
Simple Ceremony; Other Com
munity News Of Week.
Seagrove, Apr. 30.—The first pro
gram of the commencement of the
Seagrove school was an operetta, giv
en by the grammar grades on Fri
day evening This was well rendered
and enjoyed by a large crowd.
The next program will be a play,
“Eyes of Love,” given by the High
school, on Saturday evening, May 4,
at 8 o’clock. Miss Lena Russell is
director for this program.
Sunday the 5th at 8 o’clock P. M.
Dr. S. W. Taylor, pastor of the Ashe
boro M. P. Church, will deliver the
commencement sermon.
The last program will be on Tues
day evening, May 7, at 8 o’clock
1 when the senior class will give their
graduation exercise. The diplomas
will be presented to the seniors, also
the seventh grade diplomas will be
delivered at this time. There are
10 members of the senior class as
following: A. R. Auman, Jr., For
rester Auman, Alice Hunt, May Sue
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for a period of five years from the
staie Literary Fund, and have started
the erection of bindings in New Hope
and Union townships. The rate of in
terest, it is understood, is the same
on the two funds.
The commissioners are now facing
the problem of which fund to accept
—the Literary Fund per year or the
PWA loan of $231,000 immediately.
The PWA fund also carried a 30 per
cent outright grant, or gift, which
will a little more than take care
of the labor. There are two import
ant reasons for deliberations on the
part of the commissioners, according
to Superintendent Bulla. These are:
that the county is now’ in good finan
cial standing and the commissioners
hesitate to disrupt things that are
well under way and provided for; that
the wage scale is too high under the
PWA provisions.
Dr. Baity went thoroughly into the
problem with the commissioners, the
members of the board of education
and the other citizens present, since
he it is who must approve all PWA
projects. No definite action was tak
en by the commissioners but action
will probably be taken on Monday
since the time limit of ten days al
lowed by the government for giving
an answer is nearing a close. This
is a matter «f great concern to the
people of the county and many civic
minded men and women are awaiting
anxiously the judgment.of the.boards.
First Time City Election To Bf
Conducted Under New Legis
lative Municipal Act.
No Opposing Ticket
For Either Board
Three School Board Members
Will Be On Tuesday’s Ticket
For Re-Election Under Act
Attention of the citizens of Ashe*
boro is called to the fact that Tues
day, May 7th is the day for the
municipal election. While there it
only one ticket for the election thit
year, there has been considerable in
terest in the election which is, for th«
first time, held according- to the new
law. The newly enacted law in the
state legislature provides that candi
dates for positions on the city board
must file publically for these offices
rather than be nominated by a mass
meeting of citizens, as has heretofore
been the method of procedure.
The law further provides for 3
primary two weeks prior to the city
election provided more than two can
didates file for one office. This
part of the new provision was not
in force for the on-coming election
this time, however since only one
ticket filed—the present officers who
are: W. A. Bunch, for mayor; com
missioners, W. J. Armfield, Jr., J,
M. Neely, Dr. O. L. Presnell, W,
Frank Redding, J. Francis White, Jr,
Under Senate bill 49, which was
passed on April 13th, the members
of the local school board whose terms
expire will come up for re-election
by the vote of people. This is quite
an innovation since the members of
the Asheboro school board have beep,
elected by a self perpetuating method
since the days of white supremacy.
For sometime this matter has been
discussed as a needed change and dur
ing the present legislature, the matter
was consumated.
The members of the school board
who come up for vote are, Shelley
Frazier, Kemp Alexander and Mrs,
W. A. Underwood. They have no op
ponents, as is the case with the town
officers. Other members of the
school board whose terms do not ex
pire this year are: J. O. Redding;,
chairman, W. J. Scarboro, J. M. Cavi
ness, E. H. Morris, Mrs. J. S. Lewlf
and Calvin Frazier.
Since there is only one ticket the
people of Asheboro may be prone to
overlook the election or be carelesf
about voting but they are urged to
go to the court house and vote for
their officers who serve in these
important positions. Too long have
the people of the town been satis
fied to sit back while a small groujr
of civic minded citizens serve faith
fully and dispense to the best of their
ability the matters pertaining to the
town in which every citizen should
feel and display interest. Asheboro
has passed the stage where nothing"
of importance happens—there art
many problems for the city fathers'
and school board that make a great
deal of difference in the everyday
living and tax paying of the citizens
of the people of Asheboro. They
should, therefore, receive a heavy
complimentary vote on election day—
OIL STOVE IGNITES
The local fire company was called
out at 7 o’clock, Monday morning, tc>
the home of Bock Albright on West;
Wainman Avenue. An ignited oii
stove caused the fright. There watt
little dartiage done, according to Fir*.
Chief C. Rusii.
Tri-u>unty League In
Full Swing; McCrary
Wallops Ramseur, 21-8
On Wednesday afternoon base
hall fans enjoyed several thrilling
games . in the limits of the tru
county league bailiwick. Thy
largest scores resulted in tW
game between McCrary Mill team
and the Ramseur team. Thi*
score being McCrary, 21—Ram*
seur, 8. The Liberty-Randleman
game carried the next highest
score with Liberty making 20
and Randleman nothing. Thf
Bossong Mill team’s victory over
Hemp was close—one point, the
score standing at six and five.
While the season is still in the
early stages, the fans are far
from luke warm and the player*
all that is expected. Many busi
ness men, tired and otherwise,
trekked toward the meccas of
the meccas of these diamonds on
Wednesday afternoon to witness
three unusually good games.
Liberty, Hemp, Ramseur, Ran
dleman and the two Asheboro
teams form the league this season
with the scores for each team a#
follows: •
Liberty 20 • Randleman f
Bossong Mills 6 - Hemp
McCrary Mills 21 - Ramseur i
TRY-COUNTY LEAGUE
Club Standing
Team : Won Lost Pet*
Liberty ,• tW
Bossong Mills .... 2 1 Mt
Hemp 2 1 »22T
McCrary Mills . . ... 12 J»
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