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PeTen LENOIB NEWS-TOPIC, JUNE 9, 1921 LENOIB, N. C OUR LETTER BOX LOWER CREEK A larpe crowd heard with interest Key. W. R. Bradshaw of Hickory last Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at Lower Creek church. It is always an inspiration to hear him, and we are looking for ward to the revival services which he is to hold at the First church in Lenoir this month. The body of Mr. Maurice Laxton was laid to rest at Lower Creek cem etery last Thursday morning1 in the presence of a host of sorrowing friends and relatives. Rev. J. M. Shaver conducted the services, aided by Mr. Joe Powell, who made very fitting and touching: remarks. Mr. Robert Powell, who accom panied Mrs. Laxton and the body of her husband from Colorado, is vis iting relatives in different sections. Mrs. Caison of Fanmville, the mother of Mrs. Laxton, and her son, Earl, came up for the funeral of Mr. Laxton and are still visiting relatives in this section. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Barlow enter tained at dinner last Sunday the fam ily of Mr. J. A. Bold;n and Mrs. Sal lie Carlton. Mr. Kelly Thompson was called to Morganton Sunday on account of the illness of relatives. ' ' Mr. J. R. Swanson, who is at Blowing Rock building for a few weeks, came home for the week end. Rev. R. L. Lsbell conducted bap tismal services at Tabernacle church last Sunday morning. Mr. J. A. Raby and family attend ed the funeral of Mr. Raby's nephew, George Green Raby, at Hickory Sun day afternoon. Young Mr. Raby was drowned in the Catawba river Friday-afternoon. NEW BERNE MAN HAS WORLD'S SMALLEST BIBLE J. 0. Lowder, operator of a shoot in? gallery in New Berne, and who has on display at his place a micro scopical wonder in the shape of a common, ordinary pin upon the head of which is engraved the Lord' Prayer, also has another remarkable piece of work or a similar order which will appeal to all lovers of the artistic and unusual, says the Sun Journal. This latter is a Bible so small in size that it resembles a postage stamp more than anything else, says the Sun-Journal. The Bible in question is one and one-half inches in length and seven-eighths of an inch in width. Its thickness measures just three-sixteenths of an inch from cover to cover, inclusive. The type page itself is nine-sixteenths of an inch in width and thirteen-sixteenths of an inch in length. The volume is illustrated with a number of Bible scenes and in a few instances it is possible to read certain words with the naked eye, though a magnifying glass of great intensity is necessary to clearly raed the text of the pages. TENNIS NEWS The Granite Falls tennis players, Revs. H. G. Allen and F. L. Conrad, defeated the Lenoir team, represent ed by Messrs. John Nelson and Victor Abernethy, last Thursday afternoon on a local court by a score of 6-1, 6-2 and 6-3. Granite Falls also took the game played at Granite Falls Sat urday afternoon by a score of 6-1 in favor of Lenoir, and the next two games in favor of Granite Falls by a score of 6-4 and 6-2. Messrs. Ed Crisp and Ira Tuttle represented Le noir at Granite Falls. The Lenoir players are wondering why it is that Granite Falls puts one over them in tennis, baseball and basketball, and they are determined to get up a team which can beat the IN MEMORIAM Maurice Wilson Laxton was born near Lenoir May 18, 1894, and died at Idaho Springs, CoL, May 26, 1921, aged 27 years and 8 days. He "remembered his Creator in the days of his youth," and at the age of 16 united with Lower Creek Baptist church, being a faithful member un til Dec. 7, 1919, when he was dis missed by letter to unite with the First Baptist church of Farmville, X. C, of which church he was a loyal member at the time of his death. On July 30, 1920, he was married to Miss Kate Caison of Farmville, who, with his mother, two brothers, James Laxton of Rufus and John Laxton' of Lenoir, and four sisters, Mesdames Ellen Sherrill, Gwyn Bar- Granite players. This will take some low and T. H. Swanson of Lenoir, VALMEAD The dry weather for the jiat sev eral days is hurting the vegetation right much. Rev. J. VV. Watts preached a very interesting sermon Sunday afternoon and night at Blair's Fork" church. Mr. and Mrs. James McMillon have gone to Watauga to visit Mrs. McMil lon's mother. Mrs. A. E. Munday returned from Hickory last Sundav after spending a week with her daughter, Mrs. Mil dred McLemore. She reports the Se hren singing in Hickory tine indeed and well attended. Mrs. Frances Corey of Watauga came down one day last week and nent several hours with her sister. Mrs. Ted Corley. Mr. Penn Sumpter' father, who lives several miles out in the country spent the night with his son here last wek. TEN THOUSAND COTTON MILL WORKERS ON STRIKE Approximately 10,000 employes of cotton mills at Charlotte, Concord, Kannapolis and Rock Hill went out on strike last week. Nearly thirty imills were closed. All Concord and Kannapolis mills are affected. According to the Charlotte Observ er the strike is being put into effect at the strongest union centers. Gas ton county mills, about 100 strong, have not been affected, this being due. it is said, to dissension in union ranks there. L'p to the present there has been no serious disturbance at any of the mills. At one mill in Charlotte a few of the strikers were arrested. J i . i . , goou practice wnicn can De naa now. It is about time for the tennis players to begin entering their names i for the tournament, and all those who wish to play in hte tournament will please give their names either to Miss May Puett or Mr. Victor Ab ernethy. The plans for the tourna ment will be worked out within the next few days, and every one who can play tetinis at all is urged to do so, and make it an interesting affair. It is not thought the tournament will be played before August The date will be announced later. There will be a meeting of the Tennis Club Friday afternoon (to morrow) at 5 o'clock on the Efird tennis court. Every member is re quested to be present, and all those who wish to join or take part in the tournament. In case it should rain the meeting will be held in the Cham ber of Commerce rooms at the same hour. CHRISTIANS BEING MASSACRED IN ARMENIA The Athens correspondent of the London Exchange Telegraph says that i is reported from Constanti nople that new frightful massacres of Christians have occurred at Samsun and Trebizond, on the Black Sea coast of Armenia. The streets are strewn with the bodies of Greeks, he adds. Many shops in the two cities have been ransacked, according to the reports reaching Athens. An American destroyer has arrived at Samsun to protect the Americans there, it is added. We CARD OF THANKS e wish to exnress nnr sin...... appreciation and thanks to our friends for their many acts of kind ness and sympathy shown and ex pressed for us during the sickness and death of our mother. Mrs. W. W. Scott. J. M. Harshaw. TREE PLANTED IN SOIL FROM EVERY STATE IN UNION Planting of a white oak tree in soil collected from every country associ ated with the United States in the world war and from every State in the union marked the commencement exercises at Farmingdale, N. Y., of the New York State Institute of Ap plied .Agriculture. More than a year was taken to collect the soil from the various countries, and as it arrived it was baked in order to insure productivity. FIXING TO RAISE TROUBLE (Statesville Landmark) Gov. Morrison wants every North Carolina family to have a garden, a few chickens and a cow. And this paper is making bold to ask the gov ernor, before he distributes his chick ens and gardens and cows, to see to it that a "pig-tight and bull-stront;" arrangement is made whereby the neighbors' chickens will be kept out of the garden and off the premises of the neighbors. Neighborhood rows without number have been promoted, and feelintr engendered that u-u mean enough to resort to murder and ; arson, by the habit of some neighbors, wantonly, willfully and with malice aforethought, rearing chickens on, other neighbors' gardens and lawns. ' If Gov. Morrison can think up some thing to stop that he will have won ! glory' enough for one administration. ' But if he proposes to distribute chick- i ens and wardens Dromiscuonslv -aith r j i .v.. and Her PennelJ of King's Creek, survive him. Maurice was a valuable mefciber of the famous "Wildcat division" of the American forces, and spent thirteen months in France, where the hard ship and exposure of active service drew heavily upon his constitution, and he returned to America greatly impaired in health. He spent several months in a hospital at Wilson, final ly undergoing a serious operation there in June, 1920. Later, under the advice of his physician and still endeavoring to regain his health, ac companied by his wife, he went to Colorado, spending some time at Holly, Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver, and Idaho Springs. Just in the bloom of young man hood, and in the dawn of a happy marriage, the future looked bright to him, and he made a brave fight for life, aided by his devoted young wife, who gave herself so completely to ministering to his needs; but "the Lord had need of him," and Maurice : passed into "the other room." Mr. Robert Powell of Longmont, Col., a relative of the deceased, ac companied Mrs. Laxton to North Carolina with the body, which was buried at Lower Creek church June 2nd in the presence of a large. con course of sorrowing relatives and friends, the funeral services being conducted by Kev. J. M. Shaver of Granite Falls. Maurice was an affectionate son, a devoted brother, a loving comipan ' ion and a faithful Christian. The i high esteem in which he was heid by those who knew him best was at ' tested by the large and beautiful floral offerings. ! Another one of "our bovs has fall I en." He served well "over there," aim wnne ne was permitted to die "over here" he gave his life no less truly for his country. As we give thanks for his life, and cherish his We Have Received nothing to keep them apart, then he ! memory. w? extend to the bereaved hxmg to raise more well, tronhl than he can quell with the State mi litia. The cow stables "on small lots may not become a nuisance, breed ers of flies and disease. But chickens and gardens without a separation that really separates won't do; and if the governor doesn't know that some of his friends should coax him into a corner and have a few words of plain speech with him. u"i sincere sympainy, and com mend them to Him who "doeth all things well." FIVE KILLED BY AERIAL BOMB Five mien were killed and ten nth. ers injured, one nrnhahlw fotolKr w the explosion last week nf a hLh o- A! 1 wi 'e uerueen, ma., army proving giuuuus uunng preparations f plane Dombing experiments. or air- A great lot of all kinds of Hats and Caps for Men. Young Men and Boys. We will sell them at a very reasonable price. OUR CLOTHING PRICES ARE ALSO VERY GREATLY REDUCED We have a nice selection of young men Suits, snappy styles, high grade, and at the lowest prices 4 You may notice our great bargains in Shoes, which will save you from $1.00 to $3.00 per pair COME AND GET YOUR WANTS HERE WHILE YOU CAN SAVE MONEY DAVIDSON DEPARTMENT STORE South Main St Lenoir, N. C If your have a house, lot, farm, horse, cow, or anything, for sale or rent, you will get quick results by using News-Topic Want Ads. Want Ads. Help Build Business B B B B B B B B B E B 5 0 c c c c C B B Hudson-Super Six Again Reduces Prices Second Reduction Eight Months in Prices of all Super-Six Models are again fall a reduction of $200 to $450 was made. 2nd a further reduction of $ 1 40 was made on new prices, f. o. b. factory are now as follows: lowered. Last Effective June all models. The Seven-passenger Phaeton Four-passenger Phaeton Cabriolet Coupe Sedan Touring Limousine Limousine $2250 2250 2850 3125 3250 3475 3850 CALD Essex Announces Lowed Prices Second Reduction In Eight Months 2SSZ5ESH25ZSE5ZSESZSZ525H525H5E5E525HSH5H9 Essex Motors advises that, effective June 2nd, the prices of all Essex motor cars are again lowered the second reduction last fall. This time the reduction is $150 on each model, making a total reduction of $350 in eight months. The new prices, f. o. b. factory, follow: Touring Roadster Cabriolet Sedan $1445 1445 1950 2300 MOTOR CO. J i LENOIR, NORTH CAROLINA I J
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