always abreast with
THE CHANGING TIME
IN RANDOLPH COUNTY
THE COURIER LEADS
\
THE COURIER AND
ASHEBORO MARCH
IN STEP—AHEAD
BOTH ARE LEADERS
TRI-WEEKLY*
VOLUME LXI_
Est. As The Regulator
February a,. 1876
Oldeat Paper Published In Randolph County
PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN
ASHEBORO, N. C„ TUESDAY7MARCH 30, 1~937.
Changed To The Courier
September 13. 1879
PUBLISHED TUESDAY, THURSDAY AN
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
DAY
NUMBER 25
Angus D. MacLean
Is Favorite For N.C.
Supreme Court Job
Governor Has Made No An
nouncement As To When
He Plans Appointment
Many Qualifications
Legislative Experience That
Will Fit Him For Position
Of Dignity And Honor
While Governor Hoey is not yet
ready to even discuss his plana
concerning the increase of the
state Supreme court from five to
seven justices, when he gets ready,
friends of AngU3 D. MacLean are
prepared to present his name.
Many friends of this man who hails
from Washington, N. C. are stand
ing ready to press the cause of
their favorite when the time is
ripe.
MacLean, who moved to Raleigh
about a year ago to take the senior
position in the law firm of Pou,
1’ou and Emanuel, now occupies in
that organization the place of the
late James H. Pou, for 40 years
one of the state's most eminent
barristers. Prior to leaving Wash
ington, N. C., MacLean had been
as-sociatcd with the late Judge
Stephen C. Bragaw and other pro
minent attorneys of the east. In
the national capital he became soon
known as the best assistant solicit
or general and later the best as
sistant attorney general in that
city. He resigned to come back to
North Carolina.
He has had legislative exper
ience in both branches, first in the
lower house which he led into ac
cepting the MacLean act that gave
the state an eight months school
term without ad valorem taxa
tion, and second in the senate of
19.33. The legislative reports have
much of his work in them. He
supported Governor Hoey with
great ability and backed President
Roosevelt nobly in his leadership.
He is a perfect fit politically and
professionally.
MacLean will reach 60 this year,
but at that he will be in years the
youngest man on the bench, Chief
""JtSfice Stacy excepted. The Ra
leigh lawyer’s uncle, the late
Justice George H. Brown, served on
the supreme court bench from 1903
to 1921, two full terms of eight
years each, then as an emergency
judge after retirement until his
death. Governor A. W. MacLean
was a first cousin of A. D. Mac
Lean.
Distinguished Men
For Summer Term
K. B. House, dean of administra
tion of the University of North
Carolina, has announced the addi
tion of several outstanding visiting
professors to the department of
education for the summer term.
Dr. William A. Sutton, superin
tendent of Atlanta city schools,
will be major instructor in the
special course for school superin
tendents. He will be assisted by six
city and county superintendents of
North Carolina. Professor Arthur
Clevenger of the University of
Illinois, will be the leader of the
secondary work during the first
sessions. During the second ses
sion, Dr. L. R. Johnston, principal
of Hawthorne high school, Haw
thorne, N. J., will be in charge of
secondary work.
Professor Harold V. Baker, prin
cipal of Daniel Webster school in
New Rochelle, N. Y„ will be :n
charge of elementary education for
both summer sessions. Dr. Stuart
Noble of Tulane university, will
lead the discussion of the history
of public education.
LIBERTY GIRL ONE
OF BAPTIST OFFICERS
Miss Maxine Gamer of Libeity
is listed among the officers of the
Baptist student union council at
Woman’s College of the University
of North Carolina for the coming
year. Miss Gamer’s title is Forest
Avenue Sunday school president.
An animal may have several
common names in one locality, but
it ha3 but one scientific name
throughout the entire world.
Small Boy Injured In Unusual
Manner Easter Monday P. M.
An unusual accident which re
sulted in a rather serious injury
to Joe Trogdon, four-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Erman Trogdon,
occurred Monday afternoon. The
little boy had been playing at a
neighbor’s house and, as his father
was preparing to leave, told the
child to go home. Mr. Trogdon
then backed his truck out of ths
driveway, and started home be
fore he knew what had happened.
no one actually saw tho
is thought that the
Raleigh Victory Dinner
Again Topic Discussion
Dry Now Turns
Against Unions
* — -rranniimiM.iii
Edward Page Gaston, above, was
a crusading dry before prohibition
repeal, but now, he has revealed,
is national commander of the
“Patriot Guard of America.” The
guards, he said, are being organiz
ed in Washington, and will launch
an immediate drive against “law
less labor unions." He hopes to
recruit polo players, yachtsmen and
other society leaders.
Hoey Denounces
Sit-Down Strikes
North Carolina Governor
Gives Radio Address Over
State Hookup Saturday
Strikes Unlawful
Urges Tar Heel People To
Respect Rights Of Others
And To Obey The Law
Speaking over a state-wide radio
hooa-up irom Kaleigh Saturday
night, Governor Hoey denounced
sit-down strikes as unlawful and
called on all the people of North
Carolina to obey the law and re
spect the rights oi others.
Though no major strike troubles
have occurred in North Carolina
m several months, the Committee
for Industrial Organization recent
ly announced it planned to organize
textile workers in the state. The
governor discussed sit down strikes
after praising the new child labor
and maximum hours in industries
laws.
"While discussing this matter,”
he said, “I wish to express the hppe
that any differences between the
employers and employes in this
state will be peacefully adjusted
and that any serious disruption of
business conditions or of the rela
tionship existing between all of
our people will be averted.
“It might not be amiss to re
state the rights and obligations of
all classes of our citizenship. Un
der the law, labor has a right to
bargain collectively, to petition, to
strike if it so elects, to picket
peacefully. Labor likewise has the
right to bargain individually, the
right to work and the right not to
be interfered with in that right to
work.
“The right to quit work and the
right to work are both sacred and
every citizen has the right to exer
cise his choice without fear, with
out molestation, and without inti
midation.
“Sit down strikes are unlawful
and cannot be tolerated in North
Carolina. We are a people believ
ing in law and order, and no man
or set of men has the right to
take charge of the property of
others and hold it adversely against
the will of the owner. Men would
have no more right to sit down
in a mill and refuse to vacate than
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child, instead of going home as he
was told to do, tried to climb on
the back of the truck and fell as
it was backed out of the drive
way, One wheel passed over the
leg and hip, breaking the pelvis
bone. He was taken to the Ran
dolph hospital where he passed a
very comfortable night and day.
While the injuries wiH require
considerable time to heal, it is
j not thought that the child is in a
critical condition nor that he will
I sustain permanent injury.
I
Senator C. Glass
. Attacks Speaker
Does Not Call Secretary Ickes
By Name, But His Mean
ing Is Quite Clear
Bitter Reference
* In Bitter Speech
Virginia Senator Discusses
Supreme Court Issue When
He Attacks Sec. Ickes
The widely discussed Victory
Dinners—the first and second—
have been the topic for discussion
by politicians in the state and at
the national capital as well. Senat
or Carter Glass, of Virginia, took
his text on the speech of Secretary
of the Interior Harold L. Ickes at
the second Victory Dinner in
Raleigh on March 12th. This re
ference is said to have been the
bitterest passages of a very bitter
SDcech made by Senator Glass on
the Supreme court on Monday
evening.
Senator Glass did not mention
Mr. Ickes by name, but there was
little room for doubt left from the
Senator’s descriptive powers.
The portion of the Glass speech
dealing with Secretary Ickes with-1
out mentioning him by name fol
lows:
“There has been some talk about
‘organized propaganda’ against this
unabashed proposition to pack the
Supreme Court for a specified pur
pose! Propaganda was first organ
ized in behalf of the scheme right
here in Washington and has pro
ceeded with unabated fury from
the White House fireside to nearly
every rostrum in the country. Po
litical janizaries, paid by the fed
eral treasury to perform services
here and charged with no official
responsibility for determining
questions affecting the nation’s
judiciary, are parading the states
in a desperate eKs&Jto&taemi.
the public against the Supreme
Court of the United States. One of
these visionary incendiaries spoke
recently in a Southern state and
exceeded all bounds of rational
criticism in his vituperation of the
eminent men who have served with
great distinction on the Supreme
bench. He i3 said to have been ap
plauded by the audience of his
partisans, which caused me to won
der if they could have known the
type of person to whose unrestrain
ed abuse of the Supreme court and
the great justices who constitute
its membership they approvingly
listened. Did they know that he re
cently reproached the south for
providing separate public schools
for the races; that he urged repeal
of every statute and ordinance of
segregation; that he practically
committed the administration at
Washington to a new force bill for
the south, declaring that not since
Lincoln’s day has it better been
realized than now the necessity of
laws to strictly enforce the three
post-Civil War amendments to the
Constitution which kept the south
in agony for years and retarded it3
progress for well nigh half a cen
tury? This infuriated propagandist
for degrading the Supreme Court
practically proposes another tragic
era of reconstruction for the south.
Should men of his mind have part
in picking thq six proposed judi
cial sycophants very likely they
would be glad to see reversed those
decisions of the court that saved
the civilization of the south and
in spite of the menace of passion
ate partisanship, with their violent
threats to ‘reorganize’ the court,
prohibited the seizure and confis
cation, without pay of the estates
of private citizens. It was the Su
preme court of the United States
that validated the suffrage laws of
the south which saved the section
from anarchy and ruin in a period
the unspeakable outrages of which
nearly ail the nation recalls with
shame.”
Coins Protected
By Milling Edges
The practice of milling the edges
of coins was begun in England in
the latter part of the 17th cen
tury, when coin-clipping became so
commonplace that the entire Eng
lish financial system had to be re
vised.
Nearly all the good coinage in
circulation was in gold, the coins
having smooth edges. Clippers
Would take a sharp file to these
coins, filing off only a few grains
of gold dust from each coin, tak
ing so little that the change in
weight could be detected only with
a delicate balance, but their profits
were enormous.
As a result, Charles Montagu,
the new treasurer, adopted, the
idea of milled ridges which now
appear around the edges of prac
tically all coins.
sffiaSSt
Superior Court
Opened Criminal
Docket Tuesday
Court House Crowded With
^Spectators And Interested
Parties For Opening
Judge Pless Presides
Grand Jury Selection Made
Quickly; Hasty Murder
Cass Probably For Trial
The court house was crowded
this morning as the week’s term of
criminal court was opened. J. W.
Pless, Jr., is the presiding judge
at this term, the opening of which
had been scheduled for March 20,
but which had been postponed be
cause of Easter Monday.
The selection of a grand jury,
usually a lengthy process, was ac
complishf d more expeditiously than
usual. Judge Pless then, in an im
pressive manner, charged the jury,
bidding them to be mindful of the
importance of their position and
the care which they must exercise
in their decisions.
The first cases to come before
the court were those involving the
payment of costs. Next in line for
consideration were trials for, per
sons now in jail.
Far outshadowing all other cases
in the interest of people of the
county and especially of Asheboro
is that of Arthur Hasty, charged
with the shooting and killing of
Babe Yow March 18. Being a jail
case this should come up eafjy. in
the term.
Another killing case in which
interest has been shown is that of
Will Cottingham, Asheboro colored
man, who is charged with the
murder of another negro in a brawl
last autumn. For the rest the
calendar contains the customary
assortment of offenses against the
law.
Accurate Census
Of Jobless Aske<|
North Carolina Congressman
Supports Commerce Dept’s
North Carolina’s Representative
Kerr is among the backers of a
proposed census of the country’s
unemployed which the U. S. com
merce department is advocating.
The census would cost about $15,
000,000 and would provide mush
needed figures for measuring relief
needs.
“It is now anybody’s guess as to
how many unemployed there are,
and the value of a census would be
inestimable, particularly if con
tinuing checks were made to det
ermine how the number fluctuat
ed,” said Representative Kerr.
Under the commerce department
plan, the census would be kept up
to date by “sample” counts in vari
ous segments of industry after the
canvass had been made.
Officials said the census would
require 20,000 to 25,000 workers
and could be completed in two to
three months.
They expressed opposition to
any plan for using relief workers
to make the count, asserting the
detailed study could best be made
by persons chosen especially for
the work by the Census Bureau.
Plans for the census, officials
said, envision the use of forms
which would supply new informa
tion on the prevalence of unem
ployment by age groups, sexes, re
gions and industries.
In addition, it was said, the type
of work the now jobless could best
do would be determined and the
number of “unemployables” de
finitely fixed.
Sit-Down Strike
Banned In Canada
As the sit-down strike continues
to be a constant menace to in
dustry in the .United States, our
sister nation, Canada, has taken a
decisive against it. Ernest La
pointe, Canadian Justice Minister,
has declared that all powers and
rights of the Dominion will be used
to prevent the sit-down strike from
gaining foothold in Canada.
He said that legitimate means
of redressing grievances already
existed in Canada and the sit
down strike would not be permitt
ed to obtain a foothold.
The sit-down strike, said the
minister, was where employees,
having legally entered a factory or
other premises for the purpose of
working, remained there illegally
and forcefully, in definace of the
owners. It was calculated to bring
about contempt for authority and
tended to cause riots and disorder.
Honest Counterfeiters
In 1890 a gang of Mexican count
erfeiters flooded the southwestern
states with home-made American
silver dollars. They were speedily
caught by reason of the fact that
their bogus .yaioney contained more
silver than the real thing.
MODEL STRANGLED IN TRIPLE SLAYING
MayorBunchAndTownBoard
ToFormally Open Golf Course
Mayor Walter A. Bunch will
formally open the Asheboro
Municipal Golf Course promptly
at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon
by driving the first ball of No.
1 tee, Frank McCrary, secretary
of the golf commission, announc
ed this morning.
' The remainder of the town
board — W. J. Armfield, Jr.,
Frank Redding, John Neely, Dr.
snell, , and Francis
in driving from the first tee.
The six members of the town
Summary Accomplishments
Of State’s 1937 Legislature
■ i
State-Wide Drive |
Against Syphilis
Legislature Has Appropriated
$25,000 For Stamping
Out This Disease
Begins July 1
Persons Arrested For Crimes,
Delinquents, To Be
Thoroughly Examined
Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, stare
health officer, is organizing all the
data he can. on cases of syphilis in
preparation for a state-wide anti
syphilis drive this summer. The
legislature has appropriated for
this purpose $25,000, which will be
available for use on July 1.
“We will try to get the hearty
cooperation .of the public, make
them realize the necessity of the
campaign. If we can make those
with the disease report it early, we
can cure them,” he emphasized.
The legislature has earmarked
$10,000 yearly for the administra
tion of drugs and $15,000 to set up
clinics throughout the state. Cer
tain federal social security funds
are expected to swell these sums,
but are so far an “unknown
quantity,” Dr. Reynolds said.
Strenuous efforts will be made
“to get to the sources,” he said. All
information secured from patients
will be held “strictly inviolate.”
Another phase will be rigid pro
secution of delinquents. Under a
state law it is mandatory on
patients, doctors and others involv
ed to report cases.
Persons arrested for various
crimes throughout the state will
Undergo examinations, Dr. Rey
nolds added. This will prove a tre
mendous asset in expediting the
drive, he said. As high as 66 per
cent of persons examined in cer- j
tain state courts have been found
infected.
“Some 9,000 prisoners go
through prison yearly and these
i will all be checked,” Dr. Reynolds
said.
“Senator Pittman’s bill making
it mandatory on all domestic ser- j
vants to take physical examina
tions will also be a great aid,” Dr. j
Reynolds added. “North Carolina
is one of the first states to institute
this bill”
board, or a foursome composed
of these city commissioners,
will be the first group to play
the course.
The golf commission is anxious
to have a large crowd attend the
opening ceremonies, as they will
be colorful and interesting to the
general public as well as to
golfers. The attractive new
course will be open to inspection
by everyone, and there will be
—ample opportunity for golfers
to try out the course.
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Of The 16 Recommendations
Made By Hoey, 13 Won,
2 Lost And A Draw
A summing up of the accom
plishments of the 1937 legislature
reveals that Governor Hoey was
successful in having put through
the majority of the items on his
legislative program. Of a total of
16 recommendations, the governor
won 13 points, lost 2, and drew
one.
The general assembly went con
trary to his desires in refusing to
reapportion its membership, and
in turning down the state-wide
liquor referendum in favor of
county option. The draw came in
the matter of fairs—the assembly
balked on the idea of a North Caro
lina World’s Fair, but authorized
participation, without state aid, in
the New York Fair and the Golden
Gate Exposition of 1939.
Following is a detailed account
of the action taken on each of the
governor’s recommendations:
1. A state-wide referendum an
liquor.
The house refused to listen and
Voted, instead, for local option. The
governor had said “You will never
build a great state or a great
county upon profits derived from
the sale of liquor.”
2. Immediate compliance with
all phases of the Federal Social
Security Act.
A $12,000,000 social security pro
gram-assistance to needy aged
and dependent children, and the
blind—was passed. The Governor
said: “Adoption of the whole social
security program . . . the most for
ward and advanced step this gen
eration shall take and the most hu
mane enactment of any legislative
body in all the history of the na
tion.”
3. Passage of a tobacco compact
bill.
Hardly had the session started,
when such a measure was rushed
through (to quote the Governor’s
inaugural speech) “so that North
Carolina may lead the way in to
bacco compacts. . . early enough to
limit the spring plantings.” But
hope for control collapsed when
Georgia and South Carolina failed
to enact such legislation,
4. Free textbooks for all elemen
tary pvblic schools.
Heartily in favor of such recom
mendations, the assembly enacted
the measure into law, recalling as
it did that “the consummate task
confronting the people of North
Carolina is proper education of all
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Her body lying under the' bed
on which her beautiful daughter,
Veronica, lay dead, Mrs. Mary
Gedeon was found murdered in a
triple killing at their New York
apartment. Frank Byrns, a roomer,
was the third victim.
A triple slaying confronted New
York police with the discovery of
the nude bodies of beautiful, blond
Veronica Gedeon, left, 20-year-old
professional model, and the clothed
bodies of her mother, Mrs. .Mary
Gedeon, and Frank Byrns, a room
er, in their .midtown .apartment.
Miss Gedeon and her mother ap
parently had been strangled.
Byrns’ brain had been punctured by
a sharp instrument inserted
through the ear.
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Varied News Items
From Franklinville
Miss Lois Groce Wins Third
Place In Sword Drill At
Regional Meeting
Juniors Entertained
Many Easter Visitors; Miss
Rachel Burrow Gives Party
Saturday Evening
Franklinville, March 29.—Misses
Maxine Frazier, Mittie McLeod,
Mwy ■'■Evelyn Jordan and- Lois
Grose were representatives at the
B. T. U. regional meeting at
Burlington March 19 and 20. Miss
Grose represented the Randolph
association in the sword drill con
test and was accorded third place.
These young ladies represented the
intermediate union of the Frank
linville B. T. U.
Roy Parham has moved from
the comer of Depot and Main
street into an apartment at the
home of Tom Nance in west Frank
linville.
T. L. Ross has moved from the
H. C. Cox farm to the J. O. Henson
home place, and has accepted a
position in Randolph Mill No. 2.
Mrs. Lottie Husband entertained
the junior class of Franklinville
high school at her home Friday
evening. Several games and con
tests were played. Miss Maxine
York and Worth Coward winning
prizes.
Ice cream and cakes were served
to the following guests: Misses
Aileen Brown, Jean McCorquodale,
Mary Cox, Maxine York, Frances
Pruett and Fay Mitchell, Joe Moon,
Orland Trogdon, Worth Coward,
David Jordan, Clinton Burrougli,
Odell Kinney, Bill Grime3 and
Fart Thomas. Easter baskets were
given as favors.
Miss Rachel Burroughs gave a
party at lu-r home Saturday even
ing. Those enjoying this occasion
' t*e: Missis Margaret Trogdon,
V?.v:an Wrenn, Geneva Benner,
Pith IngjI i, Frances Phillips,
Fvelyn Carter, Irene Ragsdale,
L»ab Burrovghs and Gean Ash
t-nrn, HaroV Parrish, Si Pell,
vT;,!ter P.ai’-.am, Clinton Bur rough
and Fred Wilson.
Ernest J. Heinly, inspector o'
textiles, froit. Philadelphia, Pa.
•aill be hir: tor a few weeks with
the Randolph Mills in regard to a
U. S Govi.rum.ent order for goods.
Mrs. Mattie Buie and children,
Miss Katherine and Mack and
Mrs. Fannie Russell spent the
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Methodist Protestant Women
Of Eighth District Meet Sat.
The eighth district meeting of
women’s work of the Methodist
Protestant church will be held at
the Asheboro church on Saturday
afternoon, April 3rd, at 2:00
o’clock. Mrs. Ray McCain, district
chairman, has issued invitations to
the women of all churches in the
eighth district whether there are
organizations or not.
Outstanding on the afternoon
program will be a round-table dis
cussion led by Mrs. C. T. Luck of
the Flag Springs church. This
period will deal especially with
problems in rural churches. Other
discussions will include organiza
tion, the program of the church
Highway Deaths
Total Sixteen;
Others Succumb
Easter Holidays Prove Bad
Time For Mortality Along
The State’s Highways
In Western Carolina
Lexington School Girl Killed
Stepping From School Bus;
Auto-Truck Crash
Highway deaths over the Easter
week-end mounted to a total of 16
according to count made Monday
night from headquarters in
Raleigh.
Six persons died yesterday as a
result of automobile accidents,
with 15 persons suffering injuries
varying in degree of seriousness.
All the deaths reported yesterday
as a result of highway accidents
were listed in western North Caro
lina. In Morganton, Bayne Baker,
20, and Lou Ellen Ward, 17, were
the second and third victims of an
automobile-truck crash Erid^'
which already had taken the life of
Pansy Grady, 17.
Near Lexington, Joan Brinkley,
seven-year-old Welcome school girl
alighted from a school bus and
was killed by a speeding car
which dragged her 141 feet before
dropping her mangled body. The
car continued on another 100 feet
before its driver, John Pulliam of
Walkertown, could bring it to a
stop.
Raymond Brucham died during
the day in a Winston-Salem hos
pital of injuries he received in the
early morning when his automobile
overturned near the city. His com
panion, Woodrow Caudle, was
among the three persons hurt yes
terday.
In another accident caused by a
car overturning, Hoke Harrison
was fatally injured near Salisbury
and a third accident involving an
overturned car caused serious in
juries to Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Frad
kin of New Jersey, whose car turn
ed turtle near Washington.
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Former Resident
Dies From Si
Mrs. Nathan Wilson Walker,
widow of the late acting dean of
the school of education at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, died in
a Durham hospital Monday night,
a few hours after she had suffered
a paralytic stroke.
Mrs. Walker had gone shopping
in the afternoon with a neighbor
when she was stricken. She was
given first aid by a local physician
and was then rushed to Durham,
where she failed to rally.
Mrs. Walker was bofer her mar
riage Miss Eva Pritchard of Scot
land Neck, a daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Pritchard.
Since 1905, when her husband join
ed the University faculty, she had
lived in Chapel Hill.
Surviving Mrs. Walker are two
sons, Thomas H. Walker of the
staff of The News and Observer in
Raleigh and John Walker, a student
at the University in Raleigh, and
two daughters, Mrs. David Stowe
of Raleigh and Mrs. L. M. John*
son, Jr., of Greensboro.
Mrs. Walker came to Asheboro
some thirty years ago, as a bride
with her husband who was head of
the local school at that time. She,
therefore, has some friends in the
town and county who will learn of
her death with regret.
Rotarians Meet
In Siler City
Several members of the Ashe
boro Rotary club attended an in
ter-city meeting in Siler City Mon
day evening. Cleveland Thayer pre
sided at the meeting and the invo
cation was delivered by Dr. C. G.
Smith.
Tom Sykes, of the High Point
club, made the principal address.
The session was a joint one of the
Liberty, Sanford, Siler City, and
Asheboro clubs, and there was also
a small delegation from High Point
present.
I and the exchange of ideas.
Among those who will speak are
Mrs. J. T. Pugh, secretary of Lit
erature; Miss Esther Ross, secre
tary of education; Mrs. Win. C.
Hammer, state president, whb will
bring latest news from the home
and foreign mission fields. ..yj
While all Methodist Protestant.
women in the district are urged to.-;
attend the meeting, visitors will toe 1
welcome. The program will
quite informal and has been de
signed especially with a view tow.
exchanging ideas for furthering^
the work of the women in . thfgj