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V FINEST SCHOOL IN WESTERN N. C. WILL BE AT WENTWORTH Auditorium wjP seat about 1,800 people. Many new ideas wil| be added PLAN TEACHERdlOME FOR TEACHING STAFF (By Associated Press) Wentworth, April, 1.—More than a half a dozen schools will be pro vided for tinder one roof when the New School building now well under way is completed in tft fall. People in surrounding country are very proud of this school and well they may, for it is stated on authority of some of the states big school men, it Will be one of the best country schools in the state. Esti mated cost when completed is placed at $100,000. The price, however, does not give one the information he needs to ap preciate the new features this school wiH contain. To begin with, it will have an au ditorium with a seating capacity of 1,500. . The stage will be large enough to carry 150 in case that number is ever needed in a school performance; the arch 30 feet wide and 18 feet high from the stage floor , with drop curtain and other eqdtpment essential behind the foot lights will face the assemblage. The auditorium will be on the second floor but assemblage from three en trances. i The main building is 185 feet in ' length and 115 feet wide. On the ground floor will be ehower baths and toilets for the boys on the left as one enters the main door and on the right the same conveniences for the girls. „ _ __ On this same floor there is to be .a large playroom, 60 by 70 feet, which is to be used when the weath er is bad or grounds too wet for outdoor play. One department on this floor is for the Agricultural class, consisting of a class room, 28 by 40, and yet another as large for machinery or other devices needed in demonstration in connection with class work. There are six other dlassrooms on this floor,one of which can well be used as an up-to-date city kin dergarten. The design of the build ing and three large entrances,' large * windows, and hall extending thru the entire building, makes all class rooms on a par. What may be considered the main floor, because you enter from tho side facing the road and at once ap proach the large auditorium. Offices are provided for the school board, Superintendent and principal, teachers rest rooms and other con veniences. Maybe it is in the girls depart ment on this floor wit htheir sewing room, fitting room, . kitchen fining room and their bed order of a modern home, whero things can be taught to the girls to make of them competent house keepers while gaining a knowledge of the science of Home Economics The bedroom is new idea primarily intended for class equipment but for use in case of sickness. Provision is made for a library which should be come one of the best school librar ies in the county. . The building stands about juu iv*» off the road, located half wny fr0tn the Court House and County Home and only, a stones throw from the County Playgrounds. The County Board of Education _i erecting a first class resl _ on a nearby knoH to the house „nd board the teachers. tUs. spot is distant from the school 800 or <00 feet. Whether it will h rooms as now planned or 25 FIVE BODIES FOUND VINEYARD SOUND (By Associated Press) Supposed to be crtw of ship that spoilt yesterday Vineyard Haven. Mass., April, /. -»-Flve bodies were recovered by fishermen from Vineyard Sound. They are believed to be those of members of crew of a vessel which coast guards raw sink 'yesterday. The bodies had life preservers, bea: , ing the name John Dwight, * New | York. A craft of that name has been engaged recently in Salvaging car goes of wrecked vessels and coast | guards assumed she hgd been in a | collision. Four more bodies were recovered later.. The vessel carrietf a cargo of bottled ale believed intended for New York. --—O- ■ FORCES EXPRESS CO. TO JOINT AGR EEMENT <Bv Associated t*re*'*<» I Washington, April, 7.—American Railway Express Company under an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is required to establish a joint service with the Southeastern Express Company and to provide reasonable thro routing for ship ments in conjunction with that com pany to and from all points in the United States. Many Southern cities and shipping associations joined the proceedings before the commission in which this decision resulted. WAKE FOREST GETS THIRD VICTORY IN TOW YORK COURTS Bequest pending for 20 years three times attacked i v (Bv Associated Press) ~ Bqhfrhs. April MmA time New York courts have ruled that Wake Forest College is entit led to a bequest of a quarter of a million dollars now grown to $1,350 000 in the will of the late Jabez Bovwick, wealthy .oil man the at torney for the institution was in formed by bis associate, in the Met ropolis. Bostwick died 20 years ago. must be settled, the only thing left in doubt and then construction will gar forward at once. When this school building is turn ed oyer by the contractors to the -Board of Education with all the finishing touches on it, and the Star Spangled Banner hoisted to the top of the flag pole, not one of the 100 counties of the Old North State can in truth say to Rockingham county, “We have you beat.” Today as the writer stood on top of the unfinished building with car penters and masons all about him, Pilot mountain could be seen in the distance, but much nearer was seen smoke from a Norfolk AWestern train, Winston Salem bound. Mayo dan, Ridgeway, Va-, North Spray Woolen Mills, and that part of Leaks ville out T. W. Dunn’s way could be seen. Also, the school build ing at Bachelors Hall, Virginia. i ' If we are to judge men as Christ suggested, by their fruit, who is there then that can say ought against the School Board who are lifting education to this lofty plain, breaking the bonds of ignorance that once blighted many children raised on this fair soil. Cursed be the man who stands on the side of ignorance to the injury of any mans chna. On invitation of Arcnueci W. Hopper and Mr. J. R. Purdue of the J. M. Hopper Contraction Co., a visit waa made to Wentworth s New Consolidated Schools’ Building Friday afternoon and this story is our testimony to the progress of ed ucation in this section of the state, excelled nowhere in the country. BIRTHDAY DINNERS &MONG SURPRISES GREETING PASS ENGER5 ON BIG LINERS CHIEF STEWARD HOLLAND New York, April, 7.—When Miss Agnes Mahonty, a passenger aboard the President Harding of the United States Lines, bound for Bremen from New York on a recent voyage, went to the dining salon for break fast one morning, a few days out, she was surprised to find her table a bower of flowers. As she sat down she found at her place a double, printed card, bound with ribbon, which bore her name and address. Opening it, she read: “Many Happy Returns of the Day to You, Miss Agnes Mahoney, and Through the Years of Life We Wish to You Health—Happiness— Prosperity.” A moment later Chief Steward Leonard Holland approached ° the table, and said that in honor of her birthday, he was arranging for a special dinner party that evening, and asked what menu she desired, and what particular fellow passen ger she wished for guests. Miss Mahoney, completely “taken off her feet” for the moment by the surprise, admitttd it was her birth day, and that she would be delight ed to be hostess at a dinner party. She declared, however, that she had ot told a person on board the Pres ident Harding that it was an anni versary, had even forgotten about it herself. And incidentally, she was interested in knowing what the special menu would cost, as well as how Holland had learned it was her birthday. ‘ The dinntr will ' cost nothing,” said the Chief Steward. “This is a courtesy extended by tt" TTnited States Lines to those passengers who, while aboard their vessels, cel tbrate a birthday, wedding or other popularly recogniztd anniversary. “If the surprise pleases you, the efforts of the line to aid you in OF PRESIDENT HARDING celebrating your anniversary are satisfactory, the line and this vessel and its officers are honored,” he declared. “As for the manner in which I learned that it was your birthday, that is a little secret that we may never divulge, but very simplt mat ter at that, as you may some day 'find out.” Miss Mahoney had her dinner party and a dance following it. which not only delighted her, but her guests and the entire list of first cabin passengers. She did not ler.rn, though, how the Chief Steward ■found out about her birthday, but fehe may now, if this story conies to "her attention. The Chief Steward’s of all United States liners have under their di rection the entertainment, as far as the dining salons are concerned, of passengers. It is their duty, as far as thty possibly can, to arranges without request, dinners of the kind mentioned, as well as those for which a special request is made. There dinners, luncheons and even after-dance suppers, are prepared and served without cost to the pas senger whatsoever, being included in the service which the vessels of the United States Lines offer its passengers. For these dinners special menus are always prepared showing not only the food to be served, but the list of gutsts and the name of the host or hostess. . The birthday celebrations are made possible as a surprise to the passenger through the medium of the ship’s manifest. On this are list ed the names of all passengers and thtir birth dates as given on their passports, and from this list the Chief Stewards find out in whose honor to arrange birth anniversary dinner*. FIDELIS CLASS, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH The Fidelis Class of the Leaks ville Baptist Sunday school seems to he putting on new life. The walls of their class room are decorated with the F.idelis pennant in the class colors—old gold and black—the class motto for the year, The Stan dard of Excellence, and the framed certificate of registration. THe members are wearing the_class pins in old gold and black enamel. At the business session last Sunday the following original _ iacrostic was read by the Secretary, Miss Ethel Jones: Mrs. E. E. Emerson returned yes. terday from Roanoke, Va., where she spent Easter with her mother Mrs. Kemp. BRAZIL HAS A POLITICAL REVOLT (By Associated Press) Beunos Aires, April, 7.—Brazilian Revolutionaries have been obliged to raise the serge of the town of Uruguaana losing 40 killed and many wounded in the operation says a dispatch to the Lanacion from Pasodelirbes. State forces according to their leaders lost three killed and ten wounded. N. Y. OFFICER SHOOTS A FELLOW OFFICER ’ (Bv Associated Press) l New York, April, 7.—Patrolman Paul Degardo shot and seriously wounded a fellow policeman Frank Carlson, who is alleged to have sto len a taxicab. Carlson was sent to . -dtal under arrest. HERRIN CASES ARE ALL THROWN OUT <Vy Associated , I’re v) Marion, III., April, 7.--All of the untried criminal indictments grow ing out of the Herrin riot were nolle prosffed following the acquittal by •> jury last night of six defendants charged with murder in connection with the outbreak. RUM RUNNERS DROP BOAT CAPTAIN IN SEA ii>,\ yprk, April, 7.-—Two 1u.11 rjiinev. captured in the motor launch Defi off tire Jersey Coast dropped Captain 'Ryan of the Coast Guard Cutter Manhattan over oard ar the cutter docked here and made tlit:r c.'.cape. Ryan was taking cap t‘v('a ..shore when a member of the Manhattan’s crew fell overboard. He ordered two prisoners to lower him over the side of the boat by his feet that he might reach the rnk iig man, and they released the'* grip and fled. CAPT. RICHARD DERBY FALLS TO DEATH (Tty Associated Press) Dayton, April, 7.—Captain Rich ard Derby was killed when his plane fell 1300 feet near McCook Field. WEEKS ASKED DROP MRS. RANDLE MATTER (By Associated Press) i Washington, April. 7.—Secre tary Weeks declined the request from Mrs. Edwin Randle that he cancel his order directing investiga tion into the controversy between her husband Captain and Colonel Congor both of the 20 Infantry at San Antonio. -O— EVANS RESTORED TO IMPERIAL PALACE (By Associated Press) Atlanta, April, 7.—Imperial Wiz ard Evans was restored to the con trol of the Ku Klux Kla i and Im perial Palace and restrained from interfering with Emperor Simmons in a decision of Judge Thomas ti» Fulton county Superior court.. -O Mr. J. W. Land is confined to his room at the home of his sister Mrs. C. W. Seay on Bridge street. Mr. Land had the misfortune to fall from a building. METHODIST CHURCH LEAKSVILLE 9:45—-Sunday school, F. M. Flinn Superintendent. 11:00 A. M. Preaching by Rev. J. H West, Presiding Elder. On account of the illness of the pastor Rev. W. L. Sherrill he will not be able to fill his appointment, but has fortunate ly been able to secure Miss Mary Ann Abel, Spray girls work director who will speak at the eLaksville Y. M. C. A. Sunday evening at 7:45. -O Wednesday evening Mr. W. B. Weacer entertained a few friends in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Walton Johnson. Mrs. Johnson will be re membered here as Miss Kittie Poole. Mr. and Mrs. Walton Johnson left Thursday for Portsmouth, Va., where they will make their future home. Miss Mabel Beeker entertained the Girl’s Auxiliary Friday, April 6. There were 16 members and two vis itors present. Only four members absent. --O Nashville, April, 6.—A stick of dynamite inttnded for sewer exca vation work exploded wrecking some buildings and damaging'many others and ricking the entire suburb of W. Nashville. Two or three persons are reported killed and a number injur ed. LOOK FOR FACES SCRATCHED IN A DEATH STRUGGLE Police contend women hack ed to death resisted by fierce fight ONE WOMAN KILLED WAS TWICE MARRIED 'By Associated Press) New. York, April 7.—Men with scratched laces are icing sought by polite as the murderers of the two young women found hacked to death on a unfrequented load near Staten Island shore yesterday. Scratches as a particular identifica tion were mentioned by police who said they found evidence of frantic struggle for life by two women Mrs. Irene Blandino of Jersey City and Miss Bessie McMahon of Utica. The theory that a blackhand may be in volved was advanced after the po lice learned Mrs. Blandino’s first husband, Frank Bongirani had been killed by a man who had lived with her before she met Bongirani. -O Mr. Lee Murphy who has been away from here for the past two years, spent this week in Spray, re turning tonight for Charlottesville Virginia where he is employed. Judge P. T. Haizlip today made his formal announcement thpt he would again seek re-eltction to the position he has held as township Recorder for the past four years. Elder H. F. Hutchens placed his name today in the race for town ship Recorder thru his announce ment appearing in tht Gazette. Mr. Dan Lashley authorized the statement that he was not accan didate for Judge of the Recorders Court and would not be in the race. University students will be leav ing tonight and Sunday for Chapel Hill, some making the trip by par others on the train. -O CHURCH NOTICES Fir. t Sunday after Easter, Church of the Epiphany, Leaksville. 10:00 A. M. Church School. No ser vices. ST. LUKES CHURCH, SPRAY 9:45 A. M. Sunday School. 11:00 A. M. Holy Communion, Eas ter music. Address by Miss Vaughon Missionary from China. 7:30 P. M. Evening Service. Special music and address by Miss Louisa Vaughon. Miss Vaughon will continue her Bibl^ messages in connection with the special services at Spray Epis copal Church tonight, 7:30. -o PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES Spray—Preaching at 11:: 00 A. M. Spray—Preaching at 7:30 P. M. Riverview—P’ching at 7.30 P. M. Leaksville—P’ching at 11:00 A. M. Bethel—Preaching at 3:00 P. M. Pratts—Sunday school services at 3:00 P. M.. A congregation meeting has been called by the pastor of the Leaks ville Presbyterian church to be held in the church at 11:00 A. M. to morrow, Sunday. Some of the things to be brought before the congrega tion are: The organization of a Church at Bethel, the work in new Leaksville and making plans for the new year. J- S. Cook. -O COOLIDGE PREDICTS HARDINGS REELECTION . Washington, April, 6.—Respond ing to inquiries as to his attitude toward 1924, campaign Vice Presi dent Coo'lidge predicted Hardings re nomination and re-election would be demanded by the people because of record of his administration He declined to discuss his own attitude for re-nomination as Hardings run ning mate.
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