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MEMORIAL
SERVICES
A memorial service in honor of
those who gave their lives in defense
of their country, and who were mem
bers of the First Baptist church or
congregation, win be held in the
church -next Sunday morning at 11
o'clock. The pastor, Rev. E. E,
Bomar, will be assisted by Rev. J. L.
Brookshire. Rev. W. A. Morris and
Rev. T. CI Kins'. The preachers all
had sons in the service. Brief ad
dresses will be made by Rev. J. L.
Brookshire and Pastor Bomar. All
soldiers sailors and marines, whether
in service or discharged, are asked to
be present, in uniform if possible,
and to sit in a body. They will be
in charge of Capt. Wiltshire Griffith
and Corporal Roy Bennett. The
families and colored friends of the
deceased will be specially cared for.
The public is cordially invited. The
services, tho uplifting, will not be
long.
The names of the honored dead
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Lieutenant Hubert M. Smith, Fire
man Geo. H. Dukes,-U. S. N.; Ser
geant Robert Wilcox, Private Louis
Durham, S. A. T. C.
MILITRAY ACADEMY
INCORPORATED
x The Carolina Military-Naval
Academy has been incorporated under
the laws of North Carolina, with an
authorized capital stock of $100,000.
The principal office of the corpora
tion is at Hendersonville, but author
ity is given to open other offices at
such places as the company may
desire to open.
The company is authorized by its
charter to conduct a high-grade in
stitution for the education, develop
ment and entertainment of the youth
of the country, male and female or
both; to establish, and maintain for
the accomplishment of the purpose
of the corporation, dwellings tents,
boohs, halls, barracks and such other
buildings and structures as may be
needed in the conduct of the busi
ness of the corporation.
The company is also authorized to
buy, build and operate farms, mills
and to make, repair and operate
wagons, trucks, cars, and any other
kind of vehicles necessary in the con
duct of the company's business. Afejo
to purchase all necessary supplies for
the operation and maintenance of
the business the company may carry
on under the terms of its charter.
Authority is also given the com
pany, to buy and sell military and
naval equipment of every sort neces
sary to the ample establishment and
operation of the military and naval
features of the business to be con
ducted by the corporation.
This corporation will take over the
Highland Lake property in the Flat
Rock section, which was recently
. bought by the Georgia military
academy people, and will operate a
military and naval school there
along lines similar to those under
which the Georgia Military Academy
is operated.
The company is now advertising
extensively that the institution will
open June 1. Col. J. C. Woodward,
of the Georgia military, school has
recently been here making plans for
the opening of its new institution,
at Highland Lake; and, while here,
stated that all preparations for the
opening of the school would go
forward with the utmost, dispatch,
and that he looked forward to a very
successful season this year.
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TOMS ORCHARD COM
PANY INCORPORATED
Among the recent charters issued
by the Secretary of State is that to
the Toms Orchard Company. This
charter has been recorded in Judge
Pace's office in the court house, and
recites that the objects for which
the corporation is formed are: To
own, operate and develop apple
orchards, and make other kinds of
orchards, and to raise, deal in and
dispose of all kinds of fruits,, either
at wholesale or retail, to buy, hold
and acquire real estate and personal
property of all kinds, and to dispose
of same; to buy, hold and acquire
mortgages, stocks, and securities of
every kind, and to collect same; to
loan and reinvest the funds of the
corporation, to buy, own, hold and
collect notes and securities of all
kinds; to do a general farming busi
ness, and raise, buy and sell livestock
of all kinds; to build own and operate
cold storage plants; and to- operate
stores and commissaries.
The stock holders in this corpora
tion are Charles French Toms,
Charles French Toms, .Jr., and E. P.
Toms. . , -
It is understood that the business
to which the corporation will give
most attention, will be the orchard in-
oustry. - The company will take over
the Essewah orchard 'on the mountain
just West of this city.. The orchard
contains about 8,000 apple, trees of
the choicest varieties, in good bearing
cpndition, and is "one of. the best
orchards , In: this section". "
,v." The company contemplates , still
' further development of this orchard,
.and' 'the -development ' of other
.orchards in this section, and will also
engage in .some of the other lines of
business mentioned in its charter, r
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AMERICAN AND BRITISH
TROOPS REPULSE ENEMY
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REAL JUDGE
Judge Pace is now a judge in real
ity. He has been made, by act of
Assembly, Judge of the Henderson
County Juvenile court. Social work
ers and others interested in the wel
fare of the youth of the State, are
insisting that every county see that
juvenile courts are established as
Eroyided in the act passed by the last
legislature. They point out that a
juvenile court has been needed In
every town and county where little
boys have been indicted, tried and
sentenced for offenses committeed
often through ignorance, and ut-
thoughtedness, but more often
through the lack of proper home
training and the right kind of in
fluences. It is further pointed' out
that to send such boys to the chain
gang or penitentiary, means to makeN
of a youthful offender a hardened
criminal, in many cases. The purpose
of the juvenile courts is to under
take to get such boys on the right
track and to make useful citizens of
them. This step is taken at a rather
late date, because it has been seen
for a long time that to thrust little
boys into prison with old and hard
ened offenders was an act more befit
ting the "Dark Ages" than the present
Christianized and enlightened period,
and that nothing could be accomplish
ed thereby, except to make hardened
criminals out of little boys, who, if
they could have had the proper care
and training that the juvenile court
proposes to provide, would, in a ma
jority of cases, make good citizens.
The act passed by the recent session
of the Legislature is explained by the
Charlotte Observer as follows:
"The law now in existence permits
all county and city agencies to come
together and co-relate the social wel
fare work under the authority and
supervision of a county superintend
ent of public welfare. This official
is to be elected jointly by the county
commissioners and his salary fixed
and paid by them. To work with him
in advisory capacity only, three per
sons are to be appointed in the
county by the State board of charities
and public welfare to serve as county
board, without pay, and without oth
er authority than that given to them
by the county and city officials. The
clerk of the supreme court, is, by the
act of the Legislature, establishing
such courts all over the State, judg
of the county juvenile court, with
Jurisdiction over all children under 16
years of age who are delinquent,
neglected or dependent upon others
than their natural guardians for sup
port. He has no jurisdiction over the
city children and the city must pro
vide a court of its own or make an
arrangement to have all the work
done by the county court. The county
superintendent of public welfare is
the chief probation officer and chief
school attendance officer and all ad
ditional attendance or probation offi
cers will serve under his direction.
This is for the purpose of letting the
city and county unite in employing
one high-grade trained man to take
charge of the work."
PRIZE OFFERED
The following letter has been re
ceived by the county chairman of
the woman's Liberty Loan committee:
"My dear Chairman:
"You can offer the children in the
grammar schools of your county, a
prize for the best essay written on
'The Reasons and Need of the Vic
tory Loan.' The children are not to
receive any help on these essays and
I would suggest that you have some
one speak to them on the subject
before they attempt to write the
"The best essay is to be selected
from each school -and read at an ap
pointed place, with three judges to
decide on the merits of each.
"I wilj endeavor to give a Ger
man helmet for a prize, but if this
is not possible, a Victory Loan
medal. ,
"Yours for the Victory Loan,
"OLINA BLOUNT LONG,
"State Chairman,
"National Woman's Liberty Loan
Committee."
F. E. CURTIS HOME BURNS
Fire broke out Saturday afternoon
in the handsome home of F. E. Cur
tis at the corner of Fourth avenue
West and Justice street. The fire had
made considerable headway before it
was discovered, but as soon as the
alarm was given the fire department
took prompt action. The roof and
upper story of the main part of the
house were practically destroyed,
and some damage was done by water
in the lower part of the building. The
extent of the blaze may be- gathered
from the fact that pieces of burning
wood were found more than a block
away. The firemen, laid two lines of
hose and did most effective work, as
a result of which the flames were con
fined almost entirely to the .upper
part of the main building. Carpenters
are now at work constructing - a
temporary roof to prevent further
damage. ,
MISS M ANDERS ENTERTAINS
.Miss Ethel Manders entertained a
number of friends at her home on
last Tuesday evening. Music, games
and delicious 'refreshments were en
joyed by the following guests: Misses
Wilie'Carmichael, Jessie and Gert
Shipman, Dilla Candler. Ethel Pope,
Jessie Bowen, Helen 'Grant, Marvin
Prt ron. Kossr Jahn i : hop, Bill
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THE CABLES
Postmaster General Burleson is
sued an order Wednesday of this
week returning the American cable
systems to their owners, effective at
midnight, May 2.
The postmaster general's order is
sued at the direction of President
Wilson follows:
"The marine cable systems of the
United States and every part thereof,
including all equipment and appur
tenances thereto whatsoever, and all
material and supplies, the possession,
control, supervision and operation of
which was assumed by the President
by his proclamation of the second day
of November, 1919, to be exercised
by and through the postmaster gen-1
eral, Albert S. Burleson, are hereby
returned, to their respective owners,
managers, boards of directors and re
ceivers to take effect on mindinght,
May 2, 1919.
"Representatives of the postmaster
general now operating said properties
will take immediate steps to carry
this order into effect."
IF-
The regular annual city election
for this town, will be held next Tues
day, provided anybody is sufficiently
interested to go out and vote. The
election will be held in the city hall,
and the polls will be opened at 8
a. m.
CONFERENCE OF MASONS
Wednesday's Greensboro Daily
News contains the f ollowir.g Washing
ton special:
"Senator Simmons has applied to
the State Department for passports
for Henry A. Grady, of Clinton,
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
Masons of North Carolina, to visit
England, Scotland, France and Bel
gium. Mr. Grady, it is understood,
wishes to sail for Europe on June 10
to attend meetings of high officials
of the Masonic order who have been
called together by the Duke of Con
naught, Grand Master of the Masons
of England. One of the objects of
the meeting is to bring into closer
contact and affiliation the Masons of,
France."
French Masonry differs in some im
portant particulars from American
and British Masonry. Since the war
brought these nations into alliance, it
has been strongly urged by many Ma
sons that the Masonic bodies of
France be brought into affiliation with
those of this country and Britain.
"REDS" FAIL IN HUNGARY
Bela Kun's soviet government has
been overthrown at Budapest. The
fall of the "reds" was marked by
rioting and pillaging throughout the
city.
Hungarian , troops have not made
an attempt to cherk the Roumanian
offensive, which is admitted as
temporarily successful. The situa
tion throughout Hungary is. reported
to be serious.
WAGES RAISED FOR MANY
Wage increases averaging about $15
a month for approximately 69,000
employes of the American Railway
Express Company have been an
nounced by Director General Hines.
The increase represents an advance
of $25 a month above the wage scale
in effect January 1, 1918.
The director general also raised
the wages of 2,000 sleeping and
parlor car employes $25 a month.
IS IT FAIR?
(University News Letter.)
The railroad wage commission has
recommended that the wages of all
railroad employes receiving less than
$250 a month (and that, too, for
twelve months in every year) , should
be increased . Such increase was
ordered by the director of railroads.
In Illinois the average monthly
wage of fifteen miners, as shown by
the payroll at the mine, was $217.78;
the average monthly salary of the
fifteen public school atechers in the
same town was $55.
The average yearly salary paid
public school teachers in the United
States in 1918 was $630.64; an'
Australian alien, a miner, earned
more than $2,700 during 1918.
Why this discrimination against our
public school teachers?
Size of a Dollar
Ever since the war began in 1914
the size of our dollar has been dim
inishing until now it takes from two
to two and one-half dollars to buy
as much of life's necessities as one
dollar would buy five years ago.
While the teacher has been given, in
some cases, an increase of 10, 20 or
25 per cent in salary, the cost of
board, clothes, transportation, etc.,
has increased from 75 to 100 per
cent
Consequently any teacher with
good Bense and decent training is
looking for some other work to do.
In fact it is estimated that 120,000
untrained, inexperienced teachers
were turned loose on our schools this
past year. . ' -. . . f .
- ; v '' , Looking Ahead
' Nor will this condition grow better
unless we decide to pay our teachers
a decent living wage. - On the con
trary the situation will grow worse
and we shall have a- flood of inex
perienced, untrained, tramp teachers
hearing lessons in our public schools
and keeping school in our districts.
This 19 not fair to our boys and
jrlrls. ;Ve vmt immediately plan to
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VICTORY LOAN
Henderson county's quota of the
Victory Bond issue is $135,000. A
meeting was held last week to organ
ize, a campaign to put the county
over the top; and Tuesday of this
week several teams canvassed the
city.- They report a gratifying in
terest in the project; in the majority
of instances, they say, subscriptions
aref limited only by the financial
ability of the subscribers. It had been
planned to canvass the county Wed
nesday, but on account of weather
(conditions, the date had to be post
pones
' This city and county have sur
prised themselves in their subscrip
tions , to previous issues. The
amounts invested by our people in
these securities, and. the amounts
given to various causes connected
with the war, make a total which far
surpasses any estimates which local
business men had formed of the
financial ability of pur people. This
is the last "drive." Regarded simply
as an investment, the Victory Bonds
are extraordinarily attractive. You
will make no mistake in going to the
limit of your ability.
KEDRON LODGE
A special Communication of Ked
ron Lodge, No. 387 A. F. & A. M.,
is called for Tuesday night. May 6.
at 8:30 o'clock.
Work in the First Degree.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
comed.
P. S. RAMSEY, Master.
VICTORY LOAN TERMS
Terms of payment in the new Vic
tory Liberty loan have been an
nounced by Secretary of the Treas
ury Glass. The terms are the most
liberal offered by the government and
call for the payment of ten per cent
on 'or before May 10, another ten
per cent on or before July 15, and
four subsequent instalments of 20
per cent each on or before August
12, September 9, October 7 and No
vember 11. Accrued interest on de
ferred payments will be due with the
last payment. Payment in full can
be made on May 20, if desired.
Terms of the fourth Liberty
Loan permitted deferred payments
only over four months. In that loan
anve oamts suDscriDea ior nunureus
of millions of dollars and allowed the
public to pay for them over a period
or ten months. Under the same
ratio the public may expect a year
to pay for Victory Bonds.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has
subscribed $5,000 for the Victory
Liberty Loan, claiming for the navy
the credit for "firing the first gun"
in the drive. He urged men in the
service to continue their excellent
record of former loans.
H. C. PERKINS
H. C. Perkins, who resided here for
quite a while about ten years ago,
and was well known by our people,
died suddenly at his home in Greens
boro, early one morning last wee!;.
Speaking of Mr. Perkins, the Greens
boro Record says he was one of the
active men a man who was seventy
six years old and didn't look to be
fifty". It further says Mr. Perkins
lived a life of usefulness, and his
sudden death was a startling an
nouncement to the people of Greens
boro. WILSON'S SHIP WILL CARRY
YANKS
The United States transport George
Washington will return to the United
Stntps with tronns. after renairs have
been made to her machinery. Here
after the transport will run on an al
ternate schedule with the Leviathan
,and Mount Vernon, so that one of
these steamers will always be at
Brest, ready for the return oi pres
ident Wilson when he desires.
WHEAT DIRECTOR NAMED
.TnliiiR H. Barnes, nresident of the
lalai-nl frraiti nArnnrflt.inri. has heen
appointed wheat director of the Uni
ted States by nresident wuson, it
was announced at the office of the
food administration in New York
city.
Mr. Barnes will direct the hand
ling of the' entire 1919 wheat crop
and will administer the $1,000,000,
000 fund appropriated by Congress
to take care of. the crop under the
government guaranteed price.
MAY CALL NATIONAL STRIKE
Four million ballots on the ques
tion of three successive nation-wide
strikes - on behalf of Thomas J.
Mooney, - convicted for complication
in the San Francisco bomb plot, will
be sent to "union members through
out the country, according to Edwin
D. Nolan, secretary of the interna
tional workers' defense league.
The ballot will propose a series of
three five-day strikes, beginning on
July 4. . - '
FQR MAIMED SOLDIERS
Announcement is made by the War
Risk Bureau that that organization
is furnishing artificial limbs for men
disabled during the war with Ger
many. The announcement states that
up to this time, more than five hun
dred artificial limbs have Teen fur
nished, -and the total number - of
amnutations amomr the American
forces in' France was less than four
thous,!- V t-"ording to the bureau's
star-' "-9 were no m
PLAIN WORDS
FROM ARCHIE
The New York Tribune in a recent Fairly definite plans have been out-
issue, contains a very interesting ac- lined for the launching of the league
count of Capt. Archie Roosevelt who of nations. The Hun delegates have
is now exposing the extraordinary arrived at Versailles and have been
failure of our responsible officials to received with frigid courtesy. "Italy's
make any adequate preparation for delegates are absent, having returned
the war. The Tribune article begins to Italy on account of President Wil
as follows: son's attitude in regard to the Fiume
Kjayid.ui Arciuuaia nooseven, son
of the late Theodore Roosevelt, has
taken up the fight for American pre
paredness that his greater father re
linquished only when death came.
"Lest the bitter lessons of the late
war be lost, he has written for
"Every-body's Magazine" the story
of the unprepared state in which even
the regular army entered the conflict.
The first instalment of the story,
which is titled "Lest We Forget," ap
pears in the current , issue.
"Captain Roosevelt writes, as he
explains, to put on record into how
demoralized a state from a military
point of view the nation had been
brought by pacifists, and how many
lives were uselessly sacrificed in this
war by "those bloody priests of in
efficiency," Even Regulars Lacked Science
"He charged that even the regulars
went to France at the outbreak of war
utterly ignorant, officers and men
alike, of the rudiments of modern
battle science. Not only this, but also
without even the most necessary of
fensive and defensive equipment to
meet the troops of Germany. Prac
tically all of this equipment, he says,
had to be borrowed from France or
Britain.
"It took a month, he says, after
the 1st division landed in France be
fore the men could be sufficiently out
fitted by the allies even to begin
training. It took four months before
what the people at home called "our
splendid equipped and trained regu
lars" were able to go into the
trenches for training. Even then they
were sent in with three Frenchmen
for every American."
Wood's Good Work
Capt. Roosevelt's article contains
the following tribute to Leonard
Wood:
"General Leonard Wood was the
only man in the United States able
to combine deeds with words. He not
only spoke for preparedness, but be
cause of his position he was able to
start a system of summary military
training camps for boys in high
schools and colleges this in spite of
the active hostility of our then paci
fist government. The situation was
such that permision to hold the
camps could not well be denied him.
However, no financial aid was given
him. The students themselves had to
pay the expense of running the camps,
and the vast and far-reaching suc
cess of those camps has been General
Wood's only reward. At a time when
we needed great men, when all petty
jealousies should have been buried,
when there should have been no
thought, but for the welfare of the
nation, General Wood was punished
punished for his efficiency and fore
sightedness." Speaking of the lack of equipment
in training camps, Capt. Roosevelt
saya:
"liut modern material was entirely
lacking. The automatic rifle (where
the recoil is taken up by the body of
the man) and the machine gun
(where the recoil is taken up by a
fixed tripod) were unknown, not only
to the student officers, but to nearly
all the officers of the regular army.
The Lewis automatic rifle, three years
successfully used by the British and
Belgian armies in actual warfare, had
been, after several highly successful
trials, condemned by our War De
partment; hence its advantages were
known only by a few who had seen
the trials. I was with General Wood
when these trials were given in 1916.
The Benet-Mercier, too heavy to be
carried by a "doughboy," yet not
placed on fixed rests, had the dis
advantage of being neither an auto
matic rifle nor a machine gun.
New Weapons Unfamiliar
"It was here that the inefficiency
of the regular army when dealing
with present war conditions became
glaringly evident. The men training
there to become officers of the new
national army had no training with
grenades, hand or rifle. The Stokes
mortar and the steel helmet were ut
terly unknown to them. There were
no airplanes, no gas masks nor poison
gas drill, and an entirely inadequate
equipment for artillery or cavalry
training.
"Only after the Plattsburg olhcers'
camp had been opened did the army
discover the absurdity of our bayonet
training and adopt the splendid Brit
ish system. And regular officers were
forced to teach and learn out of a
book at the same time. , The results,
as I found out when I was assigned
to troops, though startling, were not
entirely satisfactory.
Many a weary hour have we wast
ed -on wigwag and semaphore signal
ling, only to find out later that the
European armies had long since
abandoned these methods as imprac
tical and substituted the blinker
lights, T. P. S. (ground wireless),
and wireless. Not until long after I
had landed in France did I ever hear
of those methods, to say nothing of
learning how to handle them."
INTERNED GERMANS TO BE
DEPORTED FROM AUSTRALIA
' The ' commonwealth of Australia
plans to deport interned Germans be
ginning late in May, It was announced
Tuesday. . The intetns will have the
right of appearing before special
magistrates and showing cause why
tv?y do not wish tojbe returned to
AT THE PEACE
CONFERENCE
matter.
One instalment (containing 40,
000 words) of the proposed peace
treaty has been cabled to Washing
ton. 6
Belgium is making a last despair
ing appeal to her allies to recognize
her needs and claims.
Two questions in regard to the
treaty are still undetermined. One
is whether Germany will sign; the
other is whether the allies can sign
without Italy.
COMMENCEMENT AT
FRUITLAND INSTITUTE
Commencement exercises are be
ing held this week at Fruitland In
stitute. Following is the program:
Sunday, April 27, Baccalaureate
sermon by Rev. H. H. McMillan.
Wednesday, April 30, 8:30 p. m.,
Girls' Society Evening.
Thursday, May 1, 11 a. m.,
Declamation contest; 2:30 p. m.,
Class Day; 4 p. m., Art exhibit; 8:30
p. m., Oratorical contest.
Friday, May 2, 9:30 a. m., Alumni
meeting; 11:30 a. m., Literary ad
dress by Rev. F. K. Poole, Wake
Forest College; awards, presentation
of diplomas, announcements.
Following is a list of the graduat
ing class:
Ruth Collins, Annie Creasman,
Clara Gilliam, M. Johnson, Ruth Liv
ingstone, Essie Martin, Edith Miller,
Edwin Parham, Monroe Redden,
Sallie Robinson, Nellie Slattery,
Lettie Townsend.
THE MOST IMPORTANT LOAN
Our future esteem in the eyes of
the nations of the worlds depends
upon our performance now.
The American citizen is standing
up for the world's inspection. Our
rapid fire ability to do things astound
ed the world.
America entered the fiqrht t save
civilization. She exsfceded all ex
pectations. Blood was shed and lives
were given willingly. The people
gladly furnished funds from their sav
ings that the war might be financed.
Peace was accomplished sooner than
expected and America made a great
stride in prominence.
A great part of that army we
placed on the battlefield is still in
France. Navy transports are rapidly
bringing the soldiers home, but the
task is an enormous one. The Uni
ted States government has business
contracts for war materials that it
must take care of.
The rapid fire action that played
such an important part in crushing
Germany was made possible by the
ready response of the nation in the
Liberty Loan drives. Everybody
realized that things had to be done
quicklv.
Shells are no longer killing our
soldiers. The enemy's guns have
been silenced. That is why the Vic
tory Liberty Loan is probably the
most important of all loans. It is
a "peace loan" to pay the cost of
peace, and calls for the greatest re
sponse. It is a test for the American citi
zen. It will prove whether or not
he realizes the importance of the
government meeting its obligations
and maintaining its position of
esteem.
It is a final call for us to show
the world the true spirit of America.
W. H. BURGESS
W. H. Burgess, who conducted a
store at the corner of Seventh avenue
and Justice street, died yesterday
afternoon at his home in the western
part of the city. Mr. Burgess came
here from South Carolina a year or
more ago, and purchased the mer
cantile business of S. J. Harris, and
had been carrying on business at the
Hams' stand ever since. The de
ceased was afflicted with tubercular
trouble, and had been confined to his
bed about five weeks. He is survived
by his wife and three children. In
terment will take place at the old
home of the deceased in South Caro
lina. MARINES LOST 5,199 OF 8,000
Of the 8,000 officers and men com
posing the marine brierade when it
and other units entered the fighting
near unateau-Thierry last June 5, to
stop the German thrust at Paris, 126
officers and 5,073 men were either
killed or wounded before the brigade
was relieved at the end of a month.
While in this action the marines took
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Wood and captured the important
town of Bouresches.
WOMAN'S CLUB
The Woman's Club has elected of
ficers as follows:
Mrs. Rosa T. Wheelright, president;
Mrs. L. M. Colt vice president; Miss
Catharine Carson, recording secre
tary; Mrs. W. P. Whitmire. corres
ponding secretary; Mrs. R. E. Ward,
treasurer; Mrs. F. A. Ewbank, parlia
mentarian. ( . . v
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