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f uunf - - m. i ,..1t J? '-ilih Mf i i If i 1 VQT.nME XXVI. SUNDAY SCHOOL LEADERS MEET UVKK PLANS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE 10 be held in Warrenton Monday And Tuesday July 11th and 12th. Committees Appointed To Handle Program. t a meeting of Sunday School leaner held in Warrenton a few days .xo0 it was unanimously decided to hold the Warren County Sunday Alux'l Convention on Monday and fui'sUiy, July 11th and 12th. Ar ntrmv merits have been made for the Convention to be held in the Metho ,iist Church of Warrenton. Mr. D. W. Sims, General Superin tendent of the North Cai'olina Sunday School Association, was also present in this meeting- and made many help ful suggestions to the workers as to the best way to advertise and arrange the program for the convention. The following committees were named: Program Committee: Mr. PL A. Boyd, Superintendent of the Meth odist Sunday School, Warrenton, Chairman; Mrs. V. L. Pendleton of the Baptist Sunday School, Warren -ion; Mrs. M. C. McGuire, of the Epis copal Sunday School, Warrenton; and Mr. E. A. Skillman of the Pres byterian Sunday School, Warrenton. Committee on Entertainment, W. II. Dameron. C. A. Tucker, Dr. R, S. Booth. Many of the local. Sunday School workers will tae part on the program. Besides Mr. D. W. Sims, the other principal speaker at the convention wiil be Miss Flora Davis, Assistant Superintendent of the North Carolina Sunday School Association. Both Mr. Sims and Miss Davis know the Sunday School work and are recogniz ed as experts. There will be four sessions of the convention, Monday night, July 11th, and Tuesday morning, afternoon and night. All Sunday School workers of the county are urged to attend as the convention held under the aus pices of the North Carolina Sunday School Association are for workers of all denominations. The sessions- are free and open to all. Skillman-Hunter Areola, June 25. A beautiful rain ho v wedding took place in the M. E. church here, Wednesday June 2j2, at four o'clock, the contracting parties heing Mr. Clarence Elmer Skillman of Warrenton and Miss Lulla Wills Hunter of this place. Shortly before the ceremony which was performed by Rev. J. T. Draper, pastor of the bride, Miss Ethel Har rison of Brinkleyville sang "I love you truly." Lohengrin's wedding march rendered by Mrs. Katie Wills of Brinklyville announced the ap proach of the bridal party which en tered the church in the following or der: Messrs. Geo. Hunter, brother of the bride and Harold Skillman, broth er of the groom. The brides maids fame in as follows: Misses Maud King arui Ethel King of Areola, Dorothy Walters of Warrenton and Arnie Duke of Areola, Teressa Skill man and May Shearin of Vaughan, Misses Florence Skillman of War renton and Agnes Hunter of Areola, Misses Lucy Burt of Louisburg and Beaufort Hunter of Areola, Misses Lucy Pridgen of Creek and Lucy Boyd of Manson. Miss Mary Exum Best of Louis Wg maid of honor followed the maids. Four little flower girls came next daintily dressed in white organdie and carrying baskets of lovely flow rs. They were little' hisses Virginia Davis, Margaret Hunter, Mary Gladys Capps and Rebecca Cooper. Just after these the bride came u th middle aisle with her dame of honor, Mrs. T. . A. Cooper of Rocky Mount. The groom entered with his best man, Mr. Frank Skillman of New York met the bride at the alter. The bride is an accomplished young lady, a lovely christian character aii. has won many friends by her charm personality. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hunter of this Place. The Groom is a young man of sterling worth, cultured and highly teemed. When he returned from Fiance two years ago the bride who AVas attending Summer School drove out with his friends and loved ones to met him. They had never seen each ther. They were introduced and two years from the day and the hour they were happily married. MICKIE.SAYS Ifle owlv PaPE. 'Ws' Oar S THE 6fcteN CM& UN CL SAM PfllHS THE NEWSPAPER IS AN INSTI TUTION Laurinburg Exchange: WTe who labor from day to day and from week to week -to produce th 3 Exchange and send "t out every week with a presentable face, have aspira tions for it, and we even sometimes indulge in dreams. Idle dreams, they may be, but we can look forward to a day and a period when The Exchange keeping abreast of the times and counting the steady progress and up ward march of Laurinburg and Scot land County, will become a bigger and better ' journalistic enterprise. Our work is prosaic, our daily toil is measured largely by our wakin hours, and our existence inside two brick waVls filled with printing machinery, paper and ink, may to some seem a drab sort of thing. But to us it is a work of love and an opportunity . to serve, a great and good constituency. The Exchange is something more than a collection of printed material, and a finished product of a printed sheet. It's an institution. It is defi nitely committed to a policy of con structive publicity and suggestive leadership, whereby it hopes to serve and encourage these agencies and in stitutions of the community' which operate for the public good. We know that we want to see more than Laurinburg and Scotland County forge ahead in the fields of soul and mental culture and in material ad vancement. If we can help in this cause we shall be happy. Then, friends who read these line?, Exchange does not belong to us. It is yours and yours to serve. We who work here day after day to keep things going and see that the paper comes out every week have a per sonal interest in it, and its fortunes, but you, wherever you live, and e pecially if you live in Scotland coun ty, also have a personal interest iri this newspaper, whether you know it or not. It will welcome a chance to serve you or to serve a causehwhich you are vjtally I interested, if that cause i3 worthy and" uplifting; and if it is not such a cause you have no right to be interested in it. The Ex change is the friend of all benevolent things, from the noble soul impulse of the individual to the bigger and higher benevolence represented by churches and schools. It is likewise the implacable enemy of manevolent factors, wherever they may show their unwelcome faces in the body politic. Long since we chose to be the ally of those agencies and institutions that labor to uplift humanity and im prove the enviroment of the race. In the social economy there have been devised no agencies for the uplift of men and the elevation of tne race thai, are comparable to- the, moral forces of the school and church. In this county there is no benevolent activi ty, civil or religious, that -reaches the heart of the race as does the work of church and school. This newspaper then takes its humble station in line with these agencies that labor for the uplift, for the betterment and for the education of the people. To Speak at Sharon Mis:s Virgie Rodwell of the Louis ville Training School will speak at Sharon Church at Wise on Sunday afternoon July 3rd at 3:30. All are invited. Mi - yNces cows on-t p tjzzz- l Spend no monen , , -r CUARtfS. A WEEKLY NEWS APER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESWOF W A RRENTONATnTW ARftfcN COUNTY W. BRODIE JONES WRITES IN- ERESTING LETTER FROM ILLINOIS The letter written you from Louisville was drafted so hm-ripdb ! that I did not inmtinn tV r?r through Mammoth Cave. The jour- I ney would be worth many pages of ! description. T ha A -al j that . the cave was a -- v . v r t-y O Lliv Ulll a one chamber cavity, enormous and wonderful. "It was both the latter, but instead of one chamber it has five levels, the three lower ones filled with rivers caverns and weird formations; the two tipper stunningly pretty with their formation of crystails and rock carved by erosion. We bumped into Cave City, Ky.. ovei the worst of roads, or to be more exact, after battling with a stony and rugged paths through the mountains of Tennessee and it was practically all mountains. We decided to drive .over to the cave and reached that point, eight miles from Cave City, close to 2:30 Thursday. We looked over the grounds for an hour and toured the cave with a party : of twenty-five, starting at 3 :30. The grounds were not particularly attrac tive there were numbers of light 're- freshments stands and one or twe mediocre hotels. . The cave was a different story. The party wis given laterns and provided with a guide. For three hours and a',. half we pulled through narrow stone tunnels or along corridors seeming!: stamped from a mass of stone. Every ihing was rugged, sheer or sturdy, or rather a combination of the three words. The guide would stop and hurl an oil soaked rag one hundred or more feet up and explain the forma tion; or again he would toss it with uncanny preciseness down a hundred feel to some pool or formation worth the attention of the group; or still again send it a hundred yards down one passage to where another tun nel merged. We went down to the -fifth level and took a short boat trip over Echo River. The water was blue in its clearness, the channel was through THE TOWN WHICH OWNS TTSELF--THE CHARLESTON OF N. CAROLINA FRED A. OLDS It is quite proper to speak of a trip to Warrenton as a Pilgrimage to a Shrine of the Past," and yet the little town, which does not grow art all in population, is a sort of small world in itself; so self contained and meeting every need of its people. Not long ago the writer spoke of Warrenton as the "Town which Owns Itself." It has gone as far as any place in the United States irr this di rection. It owns cpllectiveIy, all its public utilities, including its railway. The last pilgrimage to Warrenton was made with Mr. John H. Bou shall of Raleigh in his automobile and along what is popularly called the Capital Highway, past Wake Foi-- est, Franklinton, Kittrell and Hen derson. It is not the highwa other davs. which Warrenton ot and Louisburg folks travelled and on which the big; old stage, drawn by four spahkink horses, made theii way to Raleigh, for that highway, far older than Raleigh itself, passed through Louisburg. The sand-clay highway in Wake was quite' good, but was better in Franklin; considerably better than in Vance and Warren. The state takes over the big - highways- now. The question is which route will be the permanent Capital Highway, now so called, tut "which it seems is to be officially known as the Bankhead Highway. Warrenton. wants it, -but fears it will pass another, way. -Will it go by Oxford? " - - A stop was made at Ridgeway, which is not now even a village. Once it was the plan to seat there a large colony of English folks. That was directly after the War Between the States. But-only :a few English folk came. A few of their descend ants yet remain in the -neighborhood-Dr. William J.. Hawkins, long tlu president of the Raleigh & Gaston railway, lived in a fine mansion at Ridgeway until he made Raleigh his home. Then his son, Marmaduke Hawkins lived there until hfs death last winter. Mr. "Marmaduke Hawkins was the heir of Weldon N. Edwards, vwho had f solid rock under which we sometimes passed-with bended backs. A chord rolled from the lips of the guide, only 4o float back to us as distinct as the original. We were 365 feet below the surface. The thought came that un questionably there were thousands of other such streams in their silent grandeur feeding moisture to the .worldand like so many lives doing I their work for the . welfare of man- kind unhonored and unsung. The one hundred years during which the cave had been open to the public Was attested by the countless signa tures which lined the miles of cor ridor, j - There were replicas of the archi tecture of the Greek and Roman; Images of animals in stone, pictures of flowers moulded into rock. There was the Path of Humility, Fat Man's Misery and other points which held attention. We tired before it1 was over and were glad to come into the warmth of the surface after the chill of the subterranean wonder. ; We found it raining outside and j went into the dining hall for a good meal, the first bought meal since Ringer's in Richmond. After supper we pushed on to Cave City and head- eel for Louisville. We had . driven hard the night before trying to get through the Cumberland mountains and pulled wearily into a farmer's .barn for the night. We were soon soundly pounding our ear. The roads be'gan to improve and the next afternoon we drove into Louisville early. We hurried over to the Y for agood bath and swim. The Y was most hospitable. The city of 300,000 struck us for its good streets, its metropolitan air, and the type of its citizenry. We were cordially treated at the office of the Courier-Journal, a paper famous in the United States for the dynamic force of its editorial policy ;hen ..under the direction of Marse (Continued on Page Five) no children and who virtually adopted him at the age of 9 years and left him a handsome fortune for those days. Mr. Edwards lived on his estate of 1600 acres at Poplar Mount, 8 miles from Warrenton, and this was also left to Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Edwards was a devoted friend of John Randolph of Roanoke, one of thej most gifted and accentric of the men of his day, and both were great friends of another eccentric yet prac tical man, Nathaniel Macon. "J. R. of R.," as the extremely tall Virgin ian often subscribed himself was a frequent visitor at Poplar Mount and also at Buck Springs, Nathaniel Ma con, x Buck Spring is now inhabited by a negro family and Poplar Mount by a gentleman who bought it from -Mr. Hawkins. All those old-time folks wentto Warrenton which was -one of the greatest social centres in all North 1 Carolina. President Buchanan was a visitor to Poplar , Mount; so was John M. Mason. Tha. lattei planted a maple tree there; Randolph sent a Norwegian pine to be set out, but President Buchanan sat under a tree and drank a mint julep in a long glass. The latter was on his way to the University of North Carolina. ' It is also of record that Aaron Burr spent a night at Warrenton, in the now gone Bellamy Hotel, ami that John C. Calhoun spoke there from the-Central hotel'- steps. Warrenton was surely on the map in those days: right through it going the great North and South highway. A. T. Stewart, who was known in his day as the merchant prince of New York, said that he sold finer goods in War renton than anywhere else except in New Orleans and Baltimore. It wis then in effect and is yet the Charles ton of North Carolina. Can one sav more ? Both Charlestonians and Warrentonians alike will reply "No.'' " Horace Greeley, the greatest editor the New York Tribune ever had, and later a nominee for the presidency of the United States, was married in the little Episcopal church at War renton to Miss Mary Cheney, a teach- (Continued On Page Six) Take Holiday July 4th The Stores and Business Houses of Warrenton will be closed on Independence Day, Monday, July 4th that both proprietors and clerks-may enjoy the day as an outing and visit the two games of baseball to take place on that date. v Allen-Broom - Hbokerton, N. C A wedding of rare beauty and loveliness and of much interest in the- State was sol emnized at the home of Rev. and Mrs. R.JL Broom at 12 o'clock Wednesday, June 22, when their daughter, Sue Council became the bride of Mr. J. Edward Allen of Warrenton, N. C. Rev. R. H. Broom," father of the bride, officiated. The house was beautifully decorat ed in ferns and cut flowers; the color scheme being white and green. While Miss Dora Belle Beck played to the strains of "Lohengrin's, Miss Edith Broom, sister of the bride, entered carrying white ' and pink roses. The bride, becomingly gowned in a suit of tan tricotine with hat and ac cessories to match, wearing a bouquet of valley lillies and brides roses, en tered with her brother Mr. Robert Broom and was met at the altar by the groom attended by his brother, Mr. Pryor Allen of Warenton. During the ceremony "To a Wild Rose" was softly rendered. Men delsshon wedding march was used as recessional. The beautiful ring ceremony was used. Mrs. Allen is a very popular and accomplished young woman and for the past four, years has been teaching in the graded school at Warrenton Mr. Allen is very prominent in the educational world and at this time is superintendent of Warren county schools. Out of town friends attending the wedding were: Mrs. Hodijah Meade, of Washington, D. C, Mrs. J. A. Sheets, Miss Ruth Sheets, Raleigh, N. C. Immediately rafter .the ceremony Mr. and Mrs! Allen left for Washing ton, New York and Canada. They will be at home at Warrenton, N C, after July 3rd. MISS BURWELL ENTERTAINS .Miss Mary Burwell delightfully en tertained last Thursday afternoon in honor of Miss Lucy Powell of Hen derson. Progressive Hearts was enjoyed for some time. In this fas cinating game Miss Ella Lewis of Stoveall proved the lucky winner and was presented with the prize. Delic ious refreshments were served. Those present were: Misses Lucy Powell, Ella Lewis, Tempe Boyd, Martha Price, Virginia Gibbs, Olivia Burwell, Dorothy Walters, Ella B. Jones, Lucy Boyd, Katherine Taylor, Lucy Palmer Scoggin and Lucy Wil liams. MICKIE SAYS: OU5 CAP. AUOWSD as uott ADvncnsmG- VJAo otsr got V4 am wes eo UG& UA.O-CD WXVc. A UOV AM4 4 BIG SING AT WISE The grand finale of the "Season of Sang," which has been in progress at Wise for two weeKs unaer xne direc tion of Miss Lucy C. Crisp, will take place on Friday evening, July 1st at 8Vclock. Everybody invited.. Corned and forget your trouble. Ice cream will be served after the program. 1 Number 26 HIGHWAY.COM- 42ISSI0NER M2 HON. JOHN SPRUNT HILL HEARS ROAD CLAIMS Factions Contending for Differ ent Routes Present Argument To Commissioner Hill. War renton on Main Line. Monday was a great day for War ren County folks who are interested in the State Hard-surface road. They gathered from all parts of the Coun ty, and Senator McCoin who "repre sented advocating the road which would pass Manson The spokesman for those advocat ing the Cokesbury-Warrenton-Macon route was Hon. Tasker Polk. Mr. Polk's advocacy of this route was based upon the unanswerable argu ment that it was a direct route serv ing a rural population; that it could be built at less cost; that it took nothing from the railroad route which they now have; that it served the county seat more acceptably from tha fact that it did not place Warrenton on a loop "or spur; that Wai-renton as the County seat and as the chief com mercial town of the County, the chief manufacturing town of the County, the chief fertilizer distributing point, the Wholesale distributing point for miles of territory for Groceries and Feed Stuffs, and a town that is known in all parts of the United States for its hospitality, its good citizenship, its historical reputation and achievement, deserved its wishes complied with. Those who advocate the Cokesbury-Warrenton-Macon route feel "That it is not in mortals to commani success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll DESERVE IT." The spokesman for the Manson-Norlina- Warrenton route was Mr. John Picot, Attorney, of Littleton. Mr. Picot thought that the Railroad route was the only practical route; that it could be built at less cost, that it would. .serve more people; that it would enable Littleton folks to get to Norlina to take the train for the North and that the other route b.y' Cokesbury would serve but few peo ple that he was informed and be lieved that there were not a dozen white families along this route. The meeting was in good temper and presided over by a Past Master in putting everybody on' "Hopeville Street," the Hon. John Sprunt Hill, patriot, statesman and diplomat. At ten minutes after two, after a patient hearing to all those who had any light to throw on the matter a recess was taken to three p. m., with the suggestion that the advocates of the two. routes get together. After returning, from dinner Com missioner Hill announced that though Warrenton was not on the through route as shown on the map at the Court House door that he had settled that point, and that Warrenton would be on any through route that would be established regardless of which route was decided. upon. That under presentconditions that he would not decide what route the road would take from Warrenton; that it would de pend upon the route of the National Highway now being proposed in Con gress. That Littleton would be on the road, and that the Littleton-Warrenton road would be he first con structed; that he could not say wheth er this Littleton-Warrenton road would pass through the towns of Vaughan ad Macon, because that wa contingent on the report of the En- i e-ineer in charge: that the road from o Henderson to Norlina would be rec ommended by. him to the State au thorities for Maintenance, and also the road from Norlina through War renton to Centerville in Franklin county; that the route from Warren ton Westward would be governed largely by the route of the National Highway it might go through Cokesbury , or it might go by Nor lina and it might go to Louisburg; but Norlina would not liave both roads. He requested the County Commis sioners to put the road from Varren Plains to Macon in good shape and that he would recommend that this road be also maintained by the State pending the construction of the Littleton-Warrenton road, which he thought should commence in six months. Mr. Hill said that the road which hi proposed to establish through Var- enton would mean a rreat deal to (Continued On Page Two)
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