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Semora P.-T. A’s Have Chicken ip ; i I Day For Benefit of Library ^ . ■. _:_ m..........--- ---—...—— : Sizeable Sum Realized by Sale of Dressed Chickens. The chicken is an extra ordinarily useful bird, and renders such a variety of services to man kind as to be beyond our ability to recount them. The chicken has been known to pay off the mortgage on the plantation. It is a matter of record that the chicken has sent the boy or girl off to college and paid the expenses. The chicken has financed the family when the crop failed, has been a side partner to Santa Claus, has paid for an extension to the house, clothed the family, bought excur sion tickets to Niagara or the Pacific Coast, not to mention a multitude of other achievements. All these and more the modest and lowly hen has accomplished alone and single-handed. The latest of the laurels of the humble hen was announced at Semora last week when the Parent-Teacher association of that progressive school made it known that a bunch of self sacrificing chickens had vicari ously furnished to the Semora graded school a sizable addition to the library of the school. . Somebody in the P.-T. assodia — tkm was inspired to suggest one. day in the meeting that they have a chicken day for the purpose of raising money for the library, since it seemed hard to get hold of enough cash to buy books in any other way. The happy idea was heralded by the assembled P.-T.'s as the Q. E. I). of the problem that con fronted them, and each and every one of them immediately and forthwith began to make a mental inventory of the stock of chickens (Continued on Page, 8) MRS. R. L. DIXON. OF MILTON. VISITING IN DANVILLE, V*. Mrs R. L. Dixon is spending several weeks visiting in the home of her daughter. Mrs, Jf. H. Prit chett of 703 Main St., Danville, ■- ' • '4‘ r \ a. Friends wiitr~ have called on Mrs. Dixon in Danville say that she is looking much better. l ol lowing the long illness and death of her husband, the late R. L. Dixon of Milton, and the death of her brother. Robert Ferguson, of Milton, Mrs. Dixon was very much in need of rest and re cuperation. This she is enjoying to the fullest extent in the quiet-, ness of the charming home of Mr. and Mrs, Pritchett. Little Anne helps to furnish diversion and entertainment, and the neighbors come by in their cars and take Mrs. Dixon out on long enjoy able drives. She thinks she will be in Danville for a week or so longer and expects then to re turn to Milton. The neighbors in Milton all say they miss her very much. REAGAN-MISE On last Sunday Miss Elizabeth Reagan, the popular and attrac tive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Reagan of Yanceyville, and Mr L. B. Mise, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Mise of Yanceyville, motored to Hillsboro, accompafii ed by several friends, and were quietly married by Rev. Mr. Brad shaw at the Presbyterian manse. %r.idise has been living at his fath/s home, and farming with tjjjir and it is supposed that he Mrs. Mise will make their home with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. H|jt Mise P The Messenger extends con f gratulations and very best wtshes f to the happy couple. MRS. R. K. WEBSTER WILL VISIT MISS HARRISON W-- ' ————* ; _■. i Mrs. R. K. Webster with her i two small children expects to j visit her sister, Miss Dora Har rison, of Blanch, about February 15th. Mr, and Mrs. Webster have been livings in Washington City, where Mr. Webster was engaged I in the civil service work, since last August.. Mr. Webster has recently been transferred to At lanta, Ga., where he is now at work. Mrs. Webster will leave Washington about the middle of the month, and will stop by to see her people on her way to Atlanta to join Mr. Webster. NEW MANA6ER XT BELK STEYENS CO., REIOSVILLE Mr. J. Less King, of. York, S. C., Now In Charge. Mr. J. Less King, of York. S. C, took over the management of the Belle Stevens Co., of Reids ville on December 15th, Mr. V. C. Leonard, the former manager having been transferred to Rocky Mount, N C. The upointment of Mi, King to this responsible position bv the Belk Stevens Co., a department store organization composed of a lifge number of stores in the cities of the south, is in itself an evidence of the confidence which the chief officers of the organiza tion have in Mr. King. Such an appointment is all the commendation which the wide 'circle of the customers of the Belk-Stevens Co., of Reidsville, need ask, as to the integrity, hon or, and fair dealing of the new manager. i But it is said that in addition to the asset of his company’s endorsement, Mr. King has al ready won for ffilnseJf a large, place in the confidence. and esteem of the patrons of this store at Reidsville. He has proven himself to lie a courteous,'oblig ing and perfectly square man.. Mr. King’s contagious en thusiasm and energy are drawing to the Belk-Steven's Co., at Reidsville an increasing volume of trade, and it can be confident ly predicted that he will make a marked success of the business. BASKETBALL GAME * A very interesting and exciting basketball game was played be tween Semora and Cobb .Memori al teams, Friday afternoon. Janu ary 28th, at 3:00, at Bartlett | Yancey High court. It was a tic-up to the last moment and would have ended in a tie, if one of Semora’s guards, ,wha has had a very bad knee for quite a while, due to injuries re ceived in a recent game, had not fallen out. After Semora had call “time” Cobb then scored one. The referee failed to hear us, so we had to give them the score, the game ending at 24 to 22 in favor of Cobb. While our girls failed, our boys were very successful, winning the game at the score of 41 to 2. It was such a run away game, that it wasn't even interesting. Al though we are very proud of our boys. ■ \~ . California is producing 27.6 per cent of the nation’s crude petro leum. • •n. - &— .— ■ About 700 progressive farmers attended the eight meetings held in Gaston county recently in the interest of better balanced farm ing. The Gastonia Chamber of Commerce donated $25 towards MISS LEOHIE TERRELL DIES 111 HOME OF SISTER Had Taught School For 34 Years. ' Miss I.eonie Terrell, the sixth grade teacher at Prospect Hill Sch<x>l, although complaining some with her throat, taught her classes on Tuesday, January 18th, and at the end of the day decided that she was not well enough to continue the work. She was car ried to her home at Cedar Grove, where iht lived with her sister, Miss Minnie Terrell. Neither she nor her sister realized that she was very sick and did not call a doctor until it was too late. On Thursday morning morning about four o'clock she died suddenly, just what caused her death is not known. Miss Terrell has taught school in Orange and in Caswell county for more than thirty years, and was held in high esteem by those who knew her. On Thursday morning in the school auditorium at Prospect Hill a special service was held in her memory by the parents and teachers of the school. Miss Terrell vvas buried near CetJar Grove, Friday, January 21, and as a token of love, three beau tiful wreaths were placed on her grave from the school she taught —one by the pupils of her grade, one by the school, and one by the school commit tee. Miss Terrell was a beautiful Christian character, whose value to the state can not be estimated in dollars and cents. But it is thought by her faithful labors she enriched the lives of her country men more than Some others have who accumulated millions. \\ lulc she slept on Thursday morning the angels came for her, and bore her to her eternal man sions of the Celestial City. C. P. K. MOTOR CO. WILL OPEN HEW HOME, SAT. FEB. 5 All Steel Structure Faced With Tapestry Brick, Costing $75,000,00. On next Saturday, February 5th, the C. P. K. Motor Co., of Burlington, agents for Buick cars, J. W. Patterson, manager, will git to housekeeping in its new home oh the corner of Main and Fifth streets, and invites all its friends to call around at the first oppor r' \ tunity to give their new home the once over, and to have a chat. There are three floors to this handsome new home of the C. P. K. Motor Co., the first two of which have a street entrance. The shop is on the first, or ground floor, and contains the latest- and best shop equipment to be had. S All the work will be done by ma chinery. Valves will be no long er ground by hand, hut will be I ground entirely by machinery. Cars requiring attention are driven into the Tfhop'H’rom the street at the rear of the building. This arrangement makes a I cumbersome, inconvenient elevat or unnecessary. I he display room, storage room, and service j station are on the second floor. The show, or display room, is about 20x30, has broad plate glass windows, block tiled floor, high ceiling, and is up to date in every respect. The storage room will 1 hold 50 cars, and is a perfectly I safe place, since an automatic sprinkling system is on guard against danger of fire night and | day, I The offices are on the third floor a 1 the front, above the service station. The stock room, or room for parts, is also on the third floor. Whatever is needed for a Buick (Continuer! on Page 8) CAMPAIGN FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO MESSENGER IN FULL SWING Students of Sixteen Schools in Contest. Winning Girl or Boy Will Get Trip to Raleigh. WATCH THE PAPER NEXT WEEK The campaign for subscriptions to The Caswell Messenger is in full swing all over the county, and there is much enthusiasm be ing manifested by the students in a number of the schools. It is thought that by Monday of next week each one of the children in the schools participating will have caught the contagion and will put in such a week's work of. solicit ing subscribers to Caswell coun ty's home paper as the county never saw before. The students in the. graded and high school departments of the following schools are engaged in the contest: Pelham, Cobb Memorial, Anderson, Leasburg, Semora, Milton, Prospect Hill, Yanceyville, Purley, Providence, Trinity, and Camp Springs/ The colored schools participat ing are: Milton, Milton, Route t, Estelle, and Yanceyville. It can not be safely predicted which school will secure the most subscribers, tieither can wc yet form any idea as to what boy or girl will be the most successful in the contest. But it is known that both the Cobb Memorial school, with Miss Alice Taylor as Director, and the Yanceyville school, with Mr. Abell as Direc tor, bay? each of them set their heart on winning the prize. But the truth of the matter is that some boy or girl at Leas burg, Prospect Hill, Anderson, Semora, Milton, or Pelham may be the fortunate ones, since suc cess in the undertaking depends on individual initiative. Some boy or girl with a lot of energy is going to cover a whole jot of territory outside of the itn mediate vicinity of his and her school. An enterprising boy or girl is not going to sit down and wait for subscriptions to be brought to him or to her. A gentleman in talking about this contest said that he predict ed that a girl would win the prize. It may be that this will be the case, but it rs certain that there are several boys in the county who will be hard to beat. Of course, the Director has a lot to do with the amount of en thusiasm that is put into the con test by the students of the school. But it is thought that because of the liberal commissions that are to come to the schools for sub scriptions secured, and for the sake of enlarging the circle of the influence of Caswell's home coun ty paper the Directors will throw themselves into the campaign with great zest. Instead of awarding expensive prizes to the contestants The Messenger has adopted the plan of giving to each school engaged in the contest cash commissions. This plan insures to each school participating cash returns for all the efforts made. And it is thought that the schools will find better uses for the money than for useless prizes of a different nature. As has been said elsewhere "in this issue of the paper, renewals are being counted just the same as new subscriptions. The boys and girls are asked to request the subscribers to subscribe for a year ■ (Continued on Page 8) General Assembly News So You Can Understand It I • FEED BARN, FEED, AND MEAT BURNED EAST WEEK The feed barn, together with some feed* and meat that were in the house, belonging to Robert Wright of Altamahaw, Route 2, were burned up last week. There was a horse in the same barn . w'hich was just barely saved. The horse had to be beaten to get him out of his stall. There was an automobile in a shed nearby and one side of this was scorched quite a bit. The origin of the fire has not been learned. MRS. ISABELLA A. POTEAT DIED JANUARY 26TH Funeral at Bush Arbor, Conduct ed by Rev. Currie King. Mrs. Isabella Ann Potent, wife of a Confederate , veteran, Allen Potent,-a life long resident of Caswell county, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Rudd, near Bush Arbor, N. t., W ednesday afternoon, Jan uary -'0, i<)-!/. She had been in j declining health for several years, l hut has only been confined to her lied a few months. She has been a consistent member of the~Coutt-| 11 y -Line Primitive Baptist church! for many years and always at- j tended the services as long as her j health permitted. She made friends with all whom she came in contact, and was always bright and cheerful. Mrs. Poteat was 79 years of age. She is survived by the following; One brother, Pres ton Smith; two sisters, Mrs. Al medie Barts, Mrs. Sarah Evans; fiive'children E. 1’. Poteat, K. A. Poteat, of Yanceyville, N. C., Mrs. Lula A. Foster of Burlington, N. C„ Mrs. Hattie Aldridge, Mrs. Sarah B. Rudd of Bush Arbor; t hirty-one grawlchildren—Walter, Oliver, Philip, Henry, Mary Rudd, Rufus, Graham, John, I Mary, Kate Foster; Mrs. John! J lodges, Mrs. Raleigh Cobh, Mrs. Harvey Smith, Mrs. Dock Bass, Mrs. Hattie Rudd; Fred, Wilson, Sterling, Preston, Edgar, Lewis Poteat; Mrs. J. S. Shelton, Mrs. C. Q. Blackwell', Mrs. W. B. Shel ton; Steve, Isabella, Harvey, Louise, Marvie. Torn W., and Norman Patent. Twenty-four, great grandchildren survive her. The funeral service was conduct ed by her pastor, Rev. Mr. King,' before a large and sympathetic gathering of friends and neigh bors, after which the body was laid to rest in the Bush Arbor cemetery by the side of her hus band, who passed away in June, 1919. The ■ pall-bearers were; Hill Roberts, H. K. Rudd, Luther Hicks, Charlie Pace, Dave Rudd, Ray Simmons. The flower bear (Coutinued on Page 5) MRS. J. M. FIX, OF BURLINGTON. DIES SUDDENLY TODAY Mrs. J. M. Fix died suddenly! and unexpectedly this morning, before breakfast. She was greatly | beloved, and her many friends sympathize profoundly with Mr.j Fix, the cashier of the Morris Plan Industrial Bank. Six chil dren survive to mourn the loss of their mother. Mrs, Fix was a "iffember of the First Christian church. - During the past summer Mrs. Fix underwent a serious operation and her health was considered bet ter. Her sudden death has'great ly shocked the entire community. The Argentine flax crop is down five per cent from last year’s bumper total. Who’s Who? What's What? And Why? Are All Right Ham Before You. (By M. L. Shipman) Raleigh, January 31.—The Gen eral Assembly is the big show in the capital of the State these days and is expected to hold the center of the stage for a little more than fo.ur weeks yet. The present ses sion has, like its “predecessors,’' required three weeks in prepara tion and another week in getting started. However, it has had the advantage of investigations made by Governor McLean and the Budget Commission that have simplified the work of the big committees, appropriations and finance. Hitherto these commit tees have brought in their reports near the conclusion of the ses sions and there has generally been very little time for consideration. This time the revenue act and ap propriation bill had been prepared and printed ready for committee okeys. While a good many changes are being made most of them are of minor importance. Few of the State institutions are satisfied with the budget "dole" and the committees meet tegularly to hear the reasons why they can not get along without more money than was offered by the Governor and the advisory budget commission. President Chase, of the University, has let it be known that $2,300,000 are necessary to bring that institu tion’s building equipment up to present needs. Ihe Budget Com- j mission bad suggested $r,220,000; President Brooks of State Col- J lege, asks increases over the (Continued from Pago 5) MONTHLY MEETING OF THE MILTON BOOK CLUB Charming in every 'detail was the affair of Thursday afternoon, when Mrs. W. L, Morton was hostess to the members of the Milton Book Club 'and a few in vited guests at her home on Hugh street The living' ro.om and hall were lovely with fragrant lilies and potted plants arranged in" pleasing effect. * J After the meeting had been call cd to order by the president, Mrs. John K. Tucker, and the routine business of the club disposed of, Mrs. Morton took charge of the program. Her subject for the af ternoon was "Historical Southern Homes and Gardens." 1 he first number on the program was ‘‘Flower Gardens of Charleston,” read by Mrs. J. J. Lipscomb; the next, ‘‘Oak Hill, the Home of James Monroe,” read by Mrs. C. R. Thomas, this was followed by “Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson,” by Miss Hayes, and the last number, “Mount Veron, Washington’s Home," was given by Mrs. W. L. Morton. At the close of the program Mrs. Morton, assisted by Miss Mary Williams, served delicious refreshments in two courts to the following: Mesdames G. G. Donoho, Jay Foote, J. J. Lips comb, J. W. Moore, E. B. Mor ton, J. I.. Satterfield, W. L. Thomas, Sr., C. R. Thomas, J. E. Tucker, Kate Watkins, N. R Claytor, Montrose Angle, and Misses Ellen Donoho, Kathleen Hayes and Mary Williams. TRADE WITH THE ADVER TISERS Readers of The Messenger are asked to remember, when they go to buy their goods, that we could not have a good county paper without the advertising patronage of the merchants. So won't you please, Mr. and Mrs. Reader, buy your goods from the shops that advertise with us from week to
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