North Carolina Newspapers

Friday, June 14, 1935. THE PILOT, Southern Pinea and Aberdeen, North Carolina Good Enrollment in Vacation Bible Schools I Aged Ex-Stave Assaulted With J>unnagan Candidate Axe for Total Loot of 63 Cents Pinehurst Paragraphs West End and Jackson Springs Organize Daily Classes for Young People The parents and leaders in the churches of West End and Jackson Springs have organized a Daily Vaca tion Bible School for the purpose of “Building into the characters of the boys and girls who attend the prac- tical principles of Christian living which will show forth in their every day conduct and give them spiritual and moral center around which to build their lives.” The members of the churches are acting as the instructors. The schools began on June 3 under the supervision of Miss Adrian Croom of Wilmington, a student at the General Assembly Training School at Richmond, Va., where she is majoring in Religious Education. The daily session is from 9:30 to 11:30 in West End and from 9:30 to 12:00 in Jackson Springs. The average attendance at Jackson Springs has been about 52 with a total enrollment of 65. The attendance at West End has been around 32 with a total en rollment of 45. In both schools the pupils are di vided into four groups. Each instruc- I tor leads her students in the study of Christian Living, through the use of the Bible, and in prayer. Then the boys and girls are taught songs and stories and receive instruction about pictures and handicraft. There is also a recreation period. Both schools will have their com mencement exercises tonight, Friday, at 8:00 p. m. CARTHAGE Old Aunt Laura Taylor, in Hos pital, Identifies Negro Who Entered Her Cabin Mrs. Ervin Frye and children of Asheboro are visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Frye and family. Miss Betty Jones of Augusta, Ga., a former Carthage teacher, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Poole. Mrs. J. E. Muse and son George returned home Sunday after a visit with relatives in Fayetteville. J. M. Lane of Oxford spent the week-end in Carthage with his fam ily. Mrs. M. G. Boyette and Miss Mary Currie shopped in Raleigh Friday. Charles Cole is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Walter Gainey, in Parkton. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sinclair at tended commencement at the Univer sity Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hines, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Sugg of Sanford and Mrs. Harry Byrd of Branchville, S. C., vis ited friends in Carthage Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Riddle of San ford and Mrs. Jimmie Morgan of Fay etteville visited Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Yow Sunday. Albert Humphrey and Miss Ruby McGoogan of Fayetteville spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Muse. Miss May Seagroves of Pinehurst spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Dora Seagroves. Mrs. F. H. Underwood left Sunday for a visit with her sister in Lynch burg, Va. Mrs. May Gardner returned home last week after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Malcolm Withers, of Detroit. The Rev. D. L. Jones of Hope Mills filled the pulpit in the Carthage Pres byterian church Sunday evening. Miss Hall of Darlington, S. C., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hall. Mrs. Nelia Black has returned from Petersburg, Va., where she visited her daughter, Mrs. Andrew Batemai.. Mrs. F. M. Hester and daughter, Jean of Charlotte are visiting Mrs. Charles Barringer. Mis. Newton Edwari^s and son, Newton, Jr., have returned to their home in Chicago afcer a visit in Car thage wiVl Mrs. Liuy Edwards. They were accompanies* by Miss Alma Ed wards who will visit them for several weeks. Miss Eula May Morgan has gone to Greenville, where she has accepted a position. Miss Mary Fowler Spencer of the University is at home for the sum mer vacation. Miss Marie Clegg is at home and much improved after a lengthy stay in Moore County Hospital. Billy Kelly accompanied his father, Lawrence Kelly, to Little Rock, Ark. Mrs. Mollie Person is visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. P. Billups in Ker- nersville. Miss Annie McKeithen is spending a few days in Sanford. Miss Dorothy Cole of Sanford spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Cole. Mrs. W. H. Currie left Monday for Asheville where she will visit friends. The Rev. W. S. Golden returned home Monday from Red Springs where he was an instructor in the Young People’s Conference. Miss Mary Elizabeth Currie is visit ing her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Woltz in Gastonia. Mrs. Charles Cox, Mrs. R. G. Wal- Old Aunt Laura Taylor, ex.slave, turned her cracked head on her hos pital bed at Pinehurst, and looking sharply with the one eye that was not swollen shut, identified a 24-ytear- old colored man by the name of Bo gan as the person who knocked her in the head with the blunt side of an axe on Wednesday morning of last week as she went about the duties of preparing her brealcfast in her cabin home at Mooshaunee, a settlement four miles out from Carthage. Aunt Laura, like many other old slaves, does not know her age, but she is said to be around 80 years old. She lives alone, and according to her story, Bogan went to her home on Wednesday morning and talked with her for a good while. She thought that he had gone, when, according to her ver.sion of the affair, he returned with her axe and struck her on the forehead, rendering her unconscious. Sometime later she regained con sciousness, arose and made her way to the home of a neighbor about a quarter of a mile ^way. They carried her to the hospital and left a note in (^arthage advising the sheriff of the affair and giving the name of the person whom Aunt Laura said was her assailnt. Officers located Bogn the same day. He admitted going to the woman’s place, but denied going into the house. His version was that he went with a stranger and remain ed outside while the stranger went in to ask for a match. Bogan had seventy-two cents in his possession when he was lodged in jail, and Aunt Laura said that she had about sixty- two cents in her house. Robbery is thought to have been the motive of her assailant. Officers located Bogan order when visited following the bru tal attack. Bogan, it is said, acknowledge that he had run away from Asheboro af ter having been charged with stealing. He will be tried in Recorder’s Court after Aunt Laura recovers sufficient ly to appear against him. She is said to be making progress toward recov ery. (IKTS XIXE MONTHS FOR KOBBINO SLEEPING CITIZEN Three dollars a month seems a rather small salary, but “Boots" Med- lin, colored of Southern Pines, is to w'ork on the roads for nine months on account of the twenty-seven dollars which he removed from the person of one Forest Medlin as he peacefully slumbered in an automobile. The mon ey w'as taken in two installments, seventeen dollars at one time and ten at the other. Charlie Tyson, another colored man from Southern Pines, was given three months for aiding and abetting in this larceny, and at the expiration of this term, a four months sentence for an assault with a deadly weapon which has been suspended since August 1933 will go into effect, Tyson having vio lated the terms of the judgment by this recent wrongdoing. THE .\RK SCHOOL CLOSES AFTER SUCCESSFUL SE.4SON Steps Up I A. M. Calhoun, Vass-Lakeview Teacher and Coach Elected School Principal At a recent meeting of the Vass- Lal|eview School Board, A. M. Cal houn of Laurinburg was elected principal of the schools to succeed John McCrummen of West End, resigned. Mr. Calhoun has taught in the high school and coached boys’ ath letics for the past two years, and is quite popular both with the stu dent body and with the patrons. Up to Wednesday night the board had not been notified wheth er Mr. Calhoun would accept, but it is confidently expected that he will. The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspond ent To Seek Democratic Nomination $97,994 Received by Moore County Farmers North Carolinians had received $22,- 893,388.75 from the Federal Agricul tural Adjustment Administration from the beginning of that organiza tion in 1933 up to May 1, Dean I. O. Schaub, of State College, reports. Of this amount, $1,388,914.53 went to defray administration costs, large- I ly o county and community commit- I tetmen, farmers who aid in adminis- j i.crirjg the program, while the bulk, $21,504,474.22, went to farmers as rental and benefit payments for co operating with the AAA crop adjust ment program. Tobacco growers received $12,454,- 549.48 of these rental and benefit pay ments, cotton growers got $8,328,- 024.37, corn-hog producehs $638,- 064.25, and wheat growers $83,926.12. The bulk of this fund went to large tobacco and cotton growing counties in the eastern part of the state. Rob eson county led the state, receiving $1,276,846.58, nearly six per cent of the total, and Pitt got $1,036,872.07, or about five percent. Fourteen coun ties received more than half a million dollars. Some counties got less than $100, Graham receiving $61.49 and Swain $61.50. Mooi’e county had re ceived $97,992.94, the report shows. M. R. (Mike) Dunnagan, Raleigh j correspondent of The Pilot, announces I that it is his ‘‘present purpose" to be- I come a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State in the primary and election next year. His statement is as follows: "It is my pro.sent purpose to ask the Democrats of North Carolina to nominate and elect me Secretary of State. I have talked over this am bition with party leaders and work ers for more than a year. Many of them encourage it and promise their support. I am making this statement now to prevent uncertainty and to let my friends and Democrats of the State know of my intention.” Mr. Dunnagan is a native of Yad- kinville, finishing high school jlnd teaching two years in Yadkin county. He practically worked his ^’ay through the University of North Car olina, waiting on table and managing the former University Inn. He was secretary, treasurer and president of the Dialectic Literary Society and business manager of “The University Magazine.” Since graduation he has been secretary-treasurer of U. N. C. Alumni associations of Forsyth, Mecklenbrg and Durham countiet<. He started his newspaper work as reporter, later city editor, of the Winston-Salem Journal, later being city editor of the Charlotte Observer, managing editor of the Asheville Cit izen, manager of the Durham News Bureau, and for several years has been Raleigh correspondent of .sev eral newspapers. During the last 15 months of Gov ernor A. W. McLean’s administration, he was his personal secretary and was director of publicity for the State Democratic Executive Committee in the 1928 and 1934 campaigns. He is a Methodist and formerly a Kiwanian and member of the Junior Order. FI LL HOUSE AT V.\SS ' The Crazy Tobacco Tags of Raleigh I played to a full house on Wr’dnesdciy ' evening in the Vass-Lakeview audi torium. The boys were here under the ’ auspices of the B. Y. P. U. and were I guests of members of the organiza- i tion at supper. George Eastman and Garrett J. de Fay, auditors, of Boston arrived last week and will spend the month of June in Pinehurst. Mrs. R. L. Hammond and daughter Miss Dorothy Hammond have return ed to their home in Laurinburg after spending the past week as guests of Miss Mamie Leak. Little Misses Jane Cole and Edith Ann Dunlop have gone to Paikton to .spend a week with Miss Sara Cobb. Flora Ellen Cameron who was to ac company them had the misfortune of fallinw, receiving a severe cut on her falling, receiving a severe cut on her Mr. and Mrs. John Biggers left Wednesday for Chapel Hill where Mr. Biggers will attend summer school. Olive and Carol Hennessee have re turned from Belmont where they at tended school the past winter. They are entertaining with a house party at the home »f their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hennessee. Guests include Miss Roslyn Cravitch, Savannah, Ga.; Miss Cletus Wachter, Asheville, and two Belmont Abbey College boys, Mel vin Dengate, Chailcston, S. C., and Paul Lynch, Virginia. Friday evening the Misses Hennes see intertained with a dance in honor of their guests. Twenty young peo ple from Pinehurst and Southern Pines attended. Mrs, Alma Taylor and H. W. Ehr- hardt attended the Commencement exercises of Newberry College, New berry. S. C.. last week. H. W. Ehr- hardt, Jr., was a member of the grad uation class, and accompanied his father home, Mrs. Taylor going to Greenwood, S. C., to be the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Allen Watson, for an indefinite stay. The following gii-ls and boys went to Flora Macdonald college on Mon day to attend the Intermediate con ference this week: Jim and Eloise Wicker. Flora May and Margaret Mc Kenzie, Vivian Curiie, Wellons Mc Kenzie and Donald Currie, Jr. Jesse Cole left on Friday for a two weeks' visit with Billy Tate at his home in Blowing Rock. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lacks and Leo nard Lacks left SaHirday morning for Boston and other points north for the summer. Stanley Lacks has gone to Duke to attend summer school for six weeks. Bill and Junior Keith have return ed from Vass where they were guests of their grandmother last week. Dr. F. L. Owens of the Moore County Hospital staff left on Sunday for a month’s vacation. I Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Keating have closed their home in Knollwood and departed on Friday for Montclair, N, J. Mrs. J. A. Ruggles left on Wednes day for Minnesota to be the guest of her parents w'hile Dr. Rugglea is away on a cruise. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Carter left for the north on Wednesday and will at tend the re-union of Mr. Cai'ter’s class at Piinceton. Mrs. Leonard Tufts has gone to Boston for a short visit with relatives. Miss Carolina Battley accompanied ! her sister Mrs. Fred Utley to Duke Hospital. Durham, on Tuesday. Mrs. ^tley remained for a two weeks' ^lurse of treatment. Mrs. Edwin Montgomery of Lake I City. Fla., returned home Thur.sday after being a guest of Mrs. A J. McKelway. On Wednesday rMs. Mc- Kelway motored to Charlotte to meet ^er mother, Mrs. E. M. Gibbon of Jacksonville, Fla., who is her guest. Misses Nellie, Pearl and Sue Hol land of Statesville are tlie guests of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Johnson. ^ The Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Cheatham and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Carter and children spent the past week-enrf at Myrtle Beach. Mrs. J. N. Powell is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Rand in Durham. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Black motored to Lynchburg, Va., Sunday to visit Mr. Black’s sister, who is ill. On Friday evening the first meet ing of the Summer Bridge Club was held in the Community House. Mrs. J. M. Hagood is president of the club this year, succeeding Mrs. Raymond Johnson. There were nine tables at play and prizes were won by Miss Camille Alexander, Frank DuPont and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Swaringen. Mrs. Ha good and Mrs. J. I. O’brien were joint hoste.sses. Mrs. Ethel Journey, Mrs. Ellis Fields and Mrs. F. L. Du Pont were joint hostesses on Wednesday evening’ at the Community club at a miscella neous shower in honor of Mrs. Ber tha Freeman, who is to be married on Saturday to Mr. Paul of Wash ington, N. C. Mrs. Freeman has taught in the Pinehurst school for a number of years and her many friends showered her with attractive gifts. The Ark School closed a very suc cessful year on May 17th. Among those who completed the present course of study were Richard Ken worthy, Jane Musser. Russell Sibley, Sally Arkell, Sara Barnum, Charles Howe ana Louisa Graham. Mrs. Hayes is prepared to organ ize classes for more advanced work, under the direction of able masters, should there be a sufficient demand for next season. The school re-opens Monday, October 7th. JAMES PLE/» \NTS TO WED CAROLINA COLLEGES. CHURCHES. CULTURE The engagement has been announc ed of Miss Jean Mclver of Sanford to James Pleasants of Carthage. STEVENS SELLS L^ND E. C. Stevens has sold to J. Talbot Johnson and Frank W, McCluer of Aberdeen a plot of land on Bethesda Road near the Proctor peach or chard. lace, Mrs. R. W. Pleasants, Misses Annie and Frances McKeithen and Mary Curr*e attended a tea given in Saniord Wednesday after noon by Miss Mary Frances Under wood honoring Misses Jean Mclver and Ruth Phillips, both brides-elect. Mrs. George Beasley of Monroe vis ited Mr. and Mrs. John Beasley last week. Mrs. W. F. Wood, Jr., of Wadesboro is spending the week with Mrs. O. B. Welch. Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Felton and daughter, Margaret Anne spent Sun day in Fayetteville. SOCIAL, Spiritual and Intellectual environment are vastly important to the prospective new resident. The cultural advantages of the Carolinas are ample and inviting. For centuries the Carolinas have been leaders in building churches and schools; religious and educational institutions are of the highest character. Among the institutions of higher learning are the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, established in 1789—the oldest state university in America; Duke University at Durham, destined to become the largest and wealthiest university in the country; the University of South Carolina at Columbia. The College of Charleston, founded in 1785, was the first municipal college in the nation. Scores of other senior and junior colleges for men and women, agricultural, denominational, military and vocational institut'ons dot the two states. The public school system has kept pace and “the Little Red School House” has given way to modem, well lighted, well ventilated buildings. Magnificent “consolidated schools” serve rural children, thousands of buses being utilized to carry them daily to and from school. Carolinians are churchgoers; the metropolis of the Carolinas is known as “the second largest church going city in the world,” according to population, yielding only to Edinburgh, Scotland Few, if any denominations or faiths, are not adequately represented. Settlements and shrines of the Moravians at Winston-Salem and the Quakers at Guilford College, are nationally known. Citizens may live and rear their children in an environment that will fit them spiritually, intellectually and physically for the keen competition of today’s economic and sacial existence. That's the Purpose of The Carolinas, Inc. —“TO TELL THE JJ 7^ CAROLINAS The Carolinaf, Inc. Box 60, Charlotte, N. C. Without oblifations, pleate lend full infonnatioB coaccrning Carolina*, Inc., and copy of the Carolina* Opportunity Bulletin. Name... Street.. City.. INC. The newspaper* of North and South Carolina have donated the *pace for thi* and a aerie* of adverti*ements which will appear for the purpoie of bringing fact* about the Carolina* before their people, that they may he better informed a* to the re*ource*, hi*tory and induitrial importance of the ^rolina*. and that they may know how they «n a*ii*t in the broad morement to adTerti*e to the world the adTantaces of thl* faTored *ectio».