^W W^ I firings Citizen
VOLUME XXXI. NUMBER 21
HVE PROGRAM
IN INTEREST OF
LOCAL NEEDY
Over $75.00 Raised From Communi
ty Entertainmien j To Supply Needs
Of Those Lacking In The Commu
nity.
The community Christmas program
given in the college auditorium Fri
day evening proved to be an evening
of enjoyment for all those present.
The program was as follows:
Part 1,
Three Christmas Carols (English,
French, Bohemian), high school girls.
“The Beau of Bath,” presented by
high school students; characters:
. Beau Bath—Ervin
Rosamond—Elizabeth
son—Thomas Ussery,
Part 2.
Carolers.
-Solo, “Mandalay,”
ton Barnes.
String quartette.
Solo, “Home”—Miss
McConnaughey,
McInnis, Jep-
Speaks—Wil-
Hoskins.
AMixerf Quartette—selections.
^T^sl-sep in the Deep,” Petrie—Mr.
i’Ralph Sanders.
Solo, “It Caime Upon the Midnight
Clear,” Harker—Miss Caldwell.
Quartette: Mothers Machree—Ball;
Sleep o’ Dream—Francis.
Solo—-Selected—Miss Mandeville.
Those sponsoring this entertain
ment want to thank all those help-
. ing in this program and appreciate
the genuine interest and cooperation
shown by the citizens of Red Springs.
Something over $75.00 was made,
one-fourth of which will go to the
help of boys in this community and
three-fourths for the needy.
This is the first time that an at
tempt has been made in Red Springs
to raise money for the needy in this
manner and sponsors of this pro
gram are delighted at the results.
SCHOOLS READY
TO STOP FRIDAY
RED SPRINGS. N C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1929.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
PENDER STORE
COMING TO RED
SPRINGS SOON
SER VICE A T F. M. C.
VERY IMPRESSIVE
A Link In National Chair! Will Be
Opened In This Town Early In
January; To Occupy Carolina Bank
Building.
Spirit of Chrislmas Pervades Audi
torium for Impressive Program.
Children To Begin Christmas Holi
day Period to Last Until January
Second.
The Red Springs school children
are spending their last few days in
''school this week before the Christ-
jnas holidays begin tomorrow.
8 After that day they are free to
cast aside their text books and get
the Yuletide spirit until January 2.
Th holiday period is the first ex
tended one the children will have
had since the summer vacation per
iod which ended September 9th.
By way of a Christmas gift to the
teachers in the school the school
board members have decided to pay
Does your heart good to read these greetings, doesn t it. And
just to win another smile from you—here’s hoping jolly ol
Santa empties his whole bag of gifts under your tree. Yes,
makes it a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas! }
THE RED SPRINGS CITIZEN
the teachers half of their present
month’s salaries Friday, instead of
waiting until after the first of
year, when the month ends, so
teachers can have the money
Confederate Widow
Dies In Bladen County
\Funeral Held For
Mrs. Jack Geddie
Christmas.
the
the
for
Clarence Stanton Red
Springs Champ Guesser
Wins Spurs In The Form Of Pair
Of Overalls For Ability As Esti
mator For The Sewing Circle;
Miss Bell, Second.
Should you chance to meet a big
pair of new overalls on the street
in the next day or so and should
you look closer you will see neatly
enclosed within said overalls one
Clarence Stanton, the occasion being
in/celebration of Mr. Stanton’s lucky
wuess on the number of yards of
[thread required to sew up a pair of
fe Overalls.
For several weeks past
a large
pair of Lee overalls have hung in
front of Graham Company’s store
with an invitation to come inside
and guess at the number of yards
of thread required to sew the over
alls together. To the lady and man
making the nearest correct guess the
Lee Overall Company gave a new
pair of overalls. Mr. Stanton
guessed 825 yards and Miss Lillian
Bell, Home Economics teachers at
the Philadelphus school, 836. It
Mrs. Martha Davis .Mother of Mr.
Hoyle Davis of Red Springs, Suc
cumbs jo Pneumonia.
Mrs. Martha Davis, widow of the
late J. R. Davis, died at her home
at Rosindale, Bladen County, early
Sunday night following an attack of
pneumonia. Mrs. Davis, who was in
her 79th year, had been in failing
health for several months but only
recently developed pneumonia from
which she died.
Mrs. Davis was the widow of a
gallant Confederate soldier, ana her
passing marks another milestone in
the passing of the Old South. She
was well known in Red Springs
where she frequently visited her
sons, the late Bizzell Davis, and Mr.
Hoyle Davis, chief engineer of the
Flora Macdonald College heating
plant.
Besides her son here ,the deceased
is survived by four daughters, Mrs.
Elihu Mears, of Elizabethtown, Mrs.
T. J. Flowers and Mrs. Cleveland
Davis of Council, -and Mrs. Pearl
Funeral services for Mrs Jack
Geddie of Fayetteville were conduct
ed at Flea Hill Methodist church
near Fayetteville by Rev. G .Scott
Turner, pastor of the Baptist church
at Lumber Bridge and a former
pastor of the deceased, Sunday after
noon at 3:30. The burial followed
immediately in the cemetery there.
The deceased died Saturday morn
ing at 2:30 in Fayetteville after a
month’s illness of paralysis. She
was only 49 years of age.
-Surviving are her husband and
five children, Katie Lou, Myrtle, Eva
Del, lula, Helen, -and one son, John.
The deceased was an aunt of Miss
Mary Lou Beard of Red Springs.
Miss Eugene Smith
Dies At Mt. Tabor
Miss Eugene Smith of Mt. Tabor
died at her home Wednesday after
several months illness.
about 70 years of age.
She was
The funeral
Simmons of Cedar Creek.
Interment, was made Monday
at
White Oak, her old home, the ser-
vices being conducts® by Rev.
Mr.
Biggs, pastor of the White Oak Bap
tist church ,of which the deceased
was a life-long member.
Red Springs will soon have another
chain grocery store offering formid
able opposition to the A. and P.
store which has been here for sev
eral years. The new store will be
situated in the building at the corner
of Main Street and Third Avenue,
formerly occupied by the Carolina
Bank and Trust Company and known
as the Carolina Bank building. The
local store will be a link in the na
tional chain of grocery stores oper
ated under the name of Pender and
can be easily distinguished by its
distinctive yellow front.
It has been known for sometime
that the Pender stores contemplated
opening a store here but only re
cently were they able to secure a
lease on a suitable location. 'The
location selected is ideal for a store
of this nature, being a corner store
around which a large portion of the
town’s population goes every day on
their way to and from the post office
and on the hill toward the college.
The people of the town are as
sured by the Pender management
of the same courteous treatment here
as received in the other Pender
stores, a system of management
which has made and retained thous
ands of customers wherever a Pender
Store has been opened. The local
store will be ready for business
about January 15.
Chirstmas Operetta
At Philadelphus
ACTION DELA YED
ON PA viNG ROAD
TO LU^BERTON
1
Commissioners Make Several Changes
In Road Forcej/L. M. Powell
Superintendent; | Hope To
Red Springs Parkton End of
Line. 1
New
Pave
Belt
from
Action on paving highway 70
McNeill’s bridge, -. 3 miles this side
of Lumberton, to Red Springs was
delayed by the qounty commission
ers who met in special session last
Wednesday, until the matter can be
taken up with the State Highway
commission and it 1 ! can be ascertained
how much money is available for
Robeson’s road work. The commis
sioners had previously asked that the
Parkton-Red Springs road be paved,
and it is the desire of the board to
put through the wiork on both of the
roads at the same time. Large dele-
gations appeared before the
sioners requesting! that the
paved. )
Lovely in its simplicity and rich
with harmony of girlish voices was
the White Gift service and Christ
mas concert given in the college -au
ditorium Sunday evening. Standing
before lighted tapers that cast a soft
glow in the darkened auditorium, the
girls sang the carols that have kept
men’s hearts ringing with the true
spirit of Christmas throughout the
centuries
Choruses, solos and instrumental
selections -..jade up the program that
was attended by an overflowing audi
ence.-
The songs were all beautiful be
cause of their simple construction
and of their theme. From the slow
measured chant of “On to Bethle
hem,” to the full-throated harmony
of “Silent Night,” the girls passed
from one selection to another, each
of which was in keeping with the
spirit of the Christmas celebration.
Miss Elizabeth Caldwell, who
sang in a rich, full contralto, gave
an exquisite solo part in the cantata
“On To Bethlehem.”
“0 Holy Night” by Miss Louise
Mandeville was sung in high but full
tones that showed the best qualities
of her voice. Miss Mandeville’s solos
in the choral numbers were also ex
cellent.
Mrs Bartram Robeson rendered a
violin solo which was exquisitely
given and was an outstanding num
ber on the program.
The ever wonderful strains of “Si
lent Night” brought the program to
a close.
Promptly at 8 o’clock Thursday
night, Dec. 19th, there will be a
Christmas operetta, “The Cross-patch
Fairies,” given by the primary grades
of Philadelphus school, in the school
auditorium. An admission of 10 and
20 cents will be charged. iThe cast
of characters follows:
Sister Sue, who liked to tell
Christmas stories — Flora Smith;
Carol, a little girl who liked to be
a Crosspatoh—Jewel Hasty; Jimmy
—Preston Prevatt, Timmy—Harold
Hasty, Dolly—Sam Harold, Polly—
Betty Graham, cousins who come to
spend Christmas with Carol; the
Crosspatch Fairies, who cause all
the trouble—Ruth Prevatt, Ruth
Williams, Hilda Odum., Flora Gil
christ, Louise Townsend, Reba Mc
Millan; the Sunny Smile Fairies,
who make things right—same as the
Cross-patch Fairies; Santa Claus—
James Hasty; Mrs. Santa Claus—
Janie Hamer McInnis; Captain Splint
ers, of the Toyland brigade-—Harold
Hasty; Jack and Jill—Claude Mc
Neill and Dorthy Stanton; Little Bo
Peep—Catherine Gilchrist; Little
Miss Muffet—Euphia Baker; Mistress
Mary—Lillian McNeill; Bobby Shaf-
Bruce Williamson Shot
At Panther's Ford
Bruce Williamson, colored, of Buie
is in the Baker Sanatorium at Lum-
berton undergoing treatment for an
injury received at 10 o’clock Sunday
night when a pistol bullet was fired
through his elbow. It was found
necessary’ to amputate the arm above
the elbow. The shooting, alleged to
have been done by White Townsend,
colored, took place near Panther’s
Ford church, near here.
Indian Fatally Shot
Near Moss Neck
commis-
road be
The Highway commission will be
requested by the county to take over
was conducted at Mt. Tabor church the part of the county belt line from
Wednesday at 3 o’clock by her pas- Rowland to Faininont. This stretch
tor, Rlev N. A. McInnis, and burial
followed immediately in the Smith
burying ground near Mt. Tabor.
Surviving is one brother, Austin
Smith with whom she lived.
Rowland to Fainhiont. This stretch
toe-—Hugh Brown McCall;
Boy Blue—Billy Chasen;
Merry Elves—Sara Harold,
Hasty, Ruth Prevatt, Reba
lan.
Carol, in a dream, visits
Little
Santa’s
Jewel
MoMil-
picture
book-land and is taught how to be
happy and thankful instead of being
cross and ill-natured.
Everyone is invited to attend this
entertainment.
««
The Saturday Night
Kid” Here Christmas
Comas Locklear, Indian, was fa
tally shot through the head Sunday
between 1 and 2 p. m., near Moss
Neck and died in a Lumberton hos
pital Sunday night, following an op
eration for removal of the bullet.
Curtis Locklear, Indian, was ar
rested by Rural Policeman Melton
Ivey, who happened to be in the sec
tion at the time of the shooting and.
reached the scene soon after it oc
curred. He i^ now held in the Robe
son county jail 1 on a charge of mur
der.
Coroner D, W. Biggs summoned a
jury and completed investigations
Tuesday. The shooting took place ,
in the yard, near the well of Comas' *
Locklear. According to The Robe-
sonian, both men were said to have
been drinking. A pistol bullet was
fired into the right side of the fare-'
head, passing through the brain and
lodging on the left side of the head.
The Indian was paralyzed by the in
jury and never recovered. The ac
cused man lives in the Burnt Swamp
section.
N. C. AUTO TAGS
NOW ON SALE
Raleigh, Dec. ’6.—The sale of 1930
automobile license tags in North
Carolina started Monday. The plates
are available at the central offices
of the motor vehicle division of the
state department of revenue here
and at 46 branch offices in various
parts of the state. On and after
Clara Bow is to be seen in her
third all-talking success, #The Sat
urday Night Kid,” in a role that is
ideally suited for her -best talents!
In a characterization that gives her
full scope for her remarkable powers
as an emotional leader in the “talk
ies,” she will be seen at the Red
Springs Theatre on Christmas Day.
Clara will be seen as the indepen
dent, plucky, slangy .ambitious, lov
able little shop girl who has to bat
tle the competition of her own sister
in order to get her man finally.
Jean Arthur plays the kid sister and
James Hall plays the handsome lover.
is 12 or 14 miles! in length.
Notes in the; sum of $140,000,
bearing interest jof 6 per cent, with!
a premium of ‘$165, were sold by
the county, money from which will
be used to partially refund $151,-
000 highway blonds maturing Jan
uary 1. /
Mr. L. M. Powell of Parkton has
been appointed] road superintendent
of the county teirm of office to begin
January 1. Mr) Powell is a son of
Mr. and Mbs. (’J. T. Powell of Red
Springs. He wias born and reared in
the county. For 5 years ha was
superintendent iof the farm of Mr.
J. G. Hughes of Parkton and for the
January 1 car
owners without li-
censes will be subject to
tion. No time
prosecu-
extension can be
granted this year due to action by
the last general assembly prohibiting
Joint Hostesses At
Bridge Tuesday P. M.
Mrs. W. R Graham and Mrs. D. R.
flail were joint hostesses Tuesday
evening when they gave a delight
ful bridge party to a number of
their friends at the home of Mrs.
Graham. The attractive home of Mrs.
Graham was effectively decorated in
Christmas decorations and the color
note, red and green, was further
carried out in the tallies and re
freshments.
Bridge was played at three tables
and at the close of several progres
sions, Miss Johnsie Graham and
Miss Laura Hedrick cut for high
score prize, which Miss Hedrick
Christmas Program At
Presbyterian Church
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
put the ga
ATTENDS PRESS DINNER
past five years!
he has himself been
re-
was
instead.
measured 11
and were 30
John-
Ruby
Singleton, W. R. Graham, D. R. Hall,
A. L. Boatwright and Misses Johnsie
Graham, Gladys Clark and Flora Mc
Kinnon.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Moody an
nounce the arrival of a son, Clyde
Gray, Sunday, Dec. 15th.
ing a delicious
served.
Guests included
required 828 yards to
ment together.
The overalls, which
feet around the waist
Mrs. Knox Singleton was hostess
'•'last Saturday evening at a lovely
Abridge party. Bridge was played at
Wife tables. At the cloise of the even-
Mesdames Roy
Mabs: Is it easier to lean; golf or
motoring?”
Babs: One’s just as difficult as
the other. In golf you hit nothing,
and in motoring you hit everything.
The latter will save the
won. Mrs. A. L. Boatwright
ceived the consolation.
A delectable salad' course
served by the hostesses.
The guests included Misses
A. L. Boatwright, Roy Singleton
Harold Kay, Knox Singleton, W. C.
McNeill and Thad McLeod.
Mr. R .L. Eastham left this morn
ing for Raleigh, where he will at
tend a dinner given tonight to the
North Carolina Press Association by
Governor and Mrs. Gardner.
salad course
sie Graham, Laura Hedrick,
Doub, Flora McKinnon, Mesdames
county at leaist $20,000 per year, it
is estimated. \ The Robeson chain
gang now hai 100 prisoners,- and it
feet long, attracted considerable at
tention while hanging in front of the
store building occupied by the Gra
ham Company. Mr. Graham says the
guesses ran from 45 yards to 2400
yards.
Mrs. Knox Singleton
Hostess At Bridge
There will be no preaching ser
vice at the Presbyterian church Sun
day night, the hour being given over
to the Sunday school. Christmas
carols will be sung by several of
the Sunday school classes and the
church choir will assist them by ren
dering several selections. The violin
quartette will also delight the con
gregation with a number. These
services are held annually by the
Sunday school and are enjoyed by
the young and old who always de
light in hearing the strains of these
old familiar Yuletide songs. There
will be a collection taken for the
benefit of christian education and
ministerial relief
operating a farm. His salary was
fixed Wednesday at $175 per month,
and he is to Burnish his own auto
mobile. Mr. Powell appeared before
the -board, and matters pertaining
to the commissioners’ taking over the
roads January-1 were discussed. It
is proposed to dispense with the 11
supervisors nqw in the county and
employ in their stead 6 patrolmen.
All hired labor will be cut off in
the name of (economy, and trusties
from the chalin gang will be used
is believed some of them can be
used to advantage under the super
vision of the patrol-mien. Further de
tails relating to the ways and means
of maintaining and operating the
roads will be discussed at a meeting
the commissioners are to hold on
Tuesday, Dec 17.
M-r. G. L. Townsend was retained
as superintendent of the county
home. Miss Sophronia Parnell was
named nurse in the place of Miss
Linnie Walters. The salary of the
nurse was cut from $125 to $100.