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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.
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.