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RAEFORD. NOBTH tpAROUNA, THTJ^By, FEBRUARY 6, 1920.
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" Mothers’ Clab Meeting.
.,% The Twentieth Century Moth
era Cliib met with Mrs. W. T.
Covington on Friday^afte^noon,
- Jan. 30th, at four o’clock^ Mrs.
" Covington had as he| guests on
this ocjcaskih, besides the, mem
bers of the club, the facility of
Rj^ordHigh School, and her
k^sisler, Mrs. ..W. P.^ Covington.
Mrs. H‘ R. Cromartie, the presi-
f, dent of the club, called the meet-
/ ing to order, ahd after a'-short
. business session-the subject for
the day, Literature for Children,
-was taken up. Mrs.’ Paul Dick
son rrad an excellent paper on
Choice of Literature ^—Ghttd
ten; Mrs. W. E. 'Fteeman an
- interesting article entitled Books
in the Horae; Mrs.' Wm. La-
niont on needs of “Horae Libra
ries.” Mrs Luke Bethune then
read some comments by Kate
Douglas Wiggins. After which
which the “mothers” enjoyed
some most lovely musical selec
tions by Miss Ella Mae 'Poole,
Miss Hall and Miss Frye, v
The ladies were then asked to
draw for partners and each cou
ple was presented with a card
on which was written a Bird
Contest. Mrs. Luke Bethune
. and Miss Fry w'ere the lucky
contestants and were rewarded
with a lo^•ely piece of china
A delicious salad course and
mints was served by the
hostess, assisted by Mrs.. W. P.
Covington, After thanking.Mrs.
Covington for a most delightful
altemoon the ineeting adjournt^^l
to meet with Mrs. H, R. Crom
artiekn Tuesd^ after the fourth
s., Sunday in February.
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Fayetteville Presbytery.
Fayetteville Presbytery meets
in adjourned session in the aiidi-
torium of Flora McDonald Col- i
ege, Red Springs, Thursday,
February the 12th, today week,
at 2:30 o’clock, ', -'
The Journal had the date
wrong last week. We. had it
Tuesday, Feb: ”4^h. We[ make
the correction, with 'apologies,
but this is unnecessary, for if
anybody was fooled into going
to Red Springs on Tuesday by
our mistake we consider we did
little harm, as we see it, for you
will enjoy a day in Red Springs
any time. Presbytery or no Pres
bytery,
This meeting is to be one of
especial interest and all church
officers within reach are invited to,
attend. Several noted speakers
will be in attendance to make
addresses. #•
Remarkable Funeral Service.
I
The funeral of Mr. Curtis An
drew's was conducted from the
Methodist church last Friday at
noon by the pastor, Rev. B. P.
Robinson, assisted by Rev. W.
C.- Brown, pastor of the Presby
terian church. His-teacher, Mrs.
W. M. Currie, and his entire
class in the'high school joined
the jirocession at the residence
and marched to the church, a
number of the girls bearing fio-
I'al tributes from the school
Six of the school mates. Frank
Culbreth, ‘Willier McDonald,
James Williamson, Marion Dew,
Arch*McLean, ami Albert Cole
The sermon, the music, the
entire services^ were peculiarly
impressive. Besides the class
pOf . the deceased, ; the, .eutim
LHM^^ayTmSrrnug?^an |;jcKo{»f attended thekervice in s
people
Raeford needs
'andmore folks.
LOCAL AND PER
more payrolls
has.
Neiil McFadyen Dead.
“t
1920, the flashing telegram
o Mary E.-McFadven frpnu the
. State llospitii at Raleigh 6ore
the news of her brotheis-'s death,
• “Bud,” as his friends and rela
tives familiarly knew'- him, hau
been carried to the hospital twice
before. Although his state of
mind was undoubtly wrong, he
Showed a remarkable intelligence
in his scriptural quotations and
the distinction among the many
called to see him whom he had
known before.
“Bud” was 61 years 1 month
and 10 days old. Never before
\ were an honester man found
than he. He prided himself on
tending to his own business,
•specially. He was very good
and sympathetic to anyone in
'^trouble or sickness.
“Tho’ a loving voice is stilled,
And a vacancy that can never be
filled,”
is felt by remaining loved ones.
There's a comforting voice which
speaks “peace” and multitudes
of “promises” cheering them on
to the “Eternal Day.”
Written by E. M, McFadyen.
to
body, also many other
The large church was filled
oveiflowing, and almost the en
tire Cnngrcgatioii followed the
refn lins to the cemetery
Mr. J. H. Priest of Manley
was in.town today.
There is not much cotton be
ing sold in' Raeford these days.
; Fayetteville is havirli^ her first
automobile show today jiind to
tnbrrow.
From Virginia north the east
ern states have had a great snow
storm since yesterday.
Mr. Zeb V7~McMillan of Red
Springs has been licensed to
practice law by the Supreme
Coprt.
John McKeithan ihd Law
rence McNeill are at home from
The Sfhte Historical CommissioD
The State Historical Commis
Sion met in the Hall of History
in Raleigh on Wednesday, Feb.
4, and there met with the Com
mission something like a score
of county historians, whose duty
it is to see that the activities of
and the contributions to by each
county are madeinto a permanent
part of the history of our State.
We want it accurately stated—
How many men Hoke county
fu rn ished; date qf entrance ;d ate
of discharge; conwiiand to which
each belonged:
We want an account of the
Food and Fuel Administrations,
the various committees, the Red
Cross, the Y. M. C. A., Bone
arid Stamp sales—in fact, all war
activities during the World War.'
We are . depending in large
measure upon the Red Cross anc
Daughters of the Confederacy
for (lata, but we expect, each
soldier to aid in this when they
see the importance of the work.
Everybody help!
The great state of North Car-
olina *(]fid a noble part in the
World'War, and we are all just
ly proiiii of the record Hoke
County has made. Let us write
that record into history for the
benefit of future generations
vj Oak Ridge. Influenza-h^gotten
' into that school.
, The sale at Nisbet Bros. Co.
store has awakened great inter
est, people are flocking there.
The sale closes Saturday.
Mr. J. G. M. Vann of Monroe
who is a candidate for the Dern-
ocratlc nomination for Congress
from this district, was in tbyvn
today interviewing friends.
, A little son of Mr. and Mrs
G. B. Cromartie of Lumberton
has been very sick with menin
gitis, but he is improving we'jsteredSO
ar§/^ad to leArn. Miss Agnes
^ ^inclair is nursing the case.
Yes sir, this old town
started a building boom.
■ Mr. Sam Epstein has gone to
New York on a business trip.
Raeford has the money, wbj
not build another cotton mill?
Red Springs is planning tc
to build another cotton mill tbi^
year. ^
According to the ground hog'
we are to have 40 days of winter
weather. .
There was only routine work
lefore the county commissioners
don day.
Miss Hattie Smith, of Vass,
las accepted a position with the
Heins Telephone Co.
Rev. J. W, Goodman, pastor
of the Antioch church, was in
the city Monday afternoon.
Xhe Editor spent Wednesday
ui^ Ealeigh meeting witl^ the
State Historical Commission.
The Hoke school authorities
have a truck to bring in the
children to the Raeford school
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The sun came out long enough
Monday to drive the ground bog
back in bis hole alright, alright.
Miss Mary Poole came home
from Flora McDonald College
last Saturday and stayed until
Tuesday morning.
Mr. A. C. Burr. Evangelistic
Singer, who is leading the sing
ing at Antioch' this week, was
in town Monday. .
Rev. J. M. Clark. D. D-.i^vhc
is. ^or^upljn^ ya^KeUi
was in Raeford Monday
noon. _ ^
President Wilson is coming to
Pinehurst for a stay. The Presi
dent and .\lr. J. W. McLauchlin
were students together at Da
vidson College. ‘
There were severe earthquake
shocks in Brazil Monday. There
were 468 earthquakes reported
in the world last year; 97 were
felt in the United States.
Mr. W. S. Townsend, of Rock
fish arid Mrs. R. M. Adams, of
Hamlet, malted checks to pay
their subscription to The Jour
nal Saturday. You mail yours
today.' ^ > .
The price of cotton slumped,
but the American Cotton Asso
ciation has sold enough direct to
Europe, low grade m particular,
to send the price up. You will
soon see it higher". ^
As regular asf the first of Jan
uary comes Mr. T. W. Guiton of
Rockfish mails a money order to
pay his subscription. Our whole
list are sure pay, but we admire
Mr. Guiton’s unfailing regular
ity.
Let's hec
cotton mill
Anothefe^
built in S^l
Sheriff
of the \9\
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paid^ ^
His maflj
know that';
's improVii
The Jc
pendents.
what you
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Epst^n^C
nas bought (
store. See
Fredison
good showAi;=
there are to'
Miss Mary
Routr 2,
with relative
. Mr W. L?
ily of Montn
in town the fii
Mr. Tom
burned by a
weeks ago, hi
recovered, - ^
The' depth]
i^iins tried to i
seems to have^
shook up Simi
Mr. and Mi
of Raleigh, s]
the latter’s
Mrs. N.S.'Bli
[in this town wltn
ion mill will
fcls this year..
be
^saysSO per
taxes have
cent,
been
Mr. J,,C.
the naerOanl
Mrs
he and'Mr. Jt
"over Mori da]
friends rejoice to
I'John T. Sinclair
wants corres-
Sign your name to
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fepartment. Store
I Mrs. Mary Belle's
>1.
eatre is giving
iw, as good as
had!
McFadyen, of
it the week end
1 town.
Fadyen and fam-
visited' relatives
c of the week.
adyen, who was
explosion a few
almost entirely
Iboml) Adniital
)p op Joe Daniels
icked back and
Chas. Kaylor.
it Sunday with
rents, Mr. and
)et has bought
business of a
lurinburg, and
Chisholm went
charge.
M. F. McLean, colored, of Rae»
ford Route ^came iu Monday
and renewednis sub8(nWift*i
The JournaLfer-i920."^^hi8 he
has donb everYTea?^ since there
was a paper publisli^ in Rae
ford. 1 ^
* A rogue broke Into the shanty
belonging to the road force, after
work time Saturday, and before
they returned Monday, and stole
their bedding and rations They
are working the Turnpise road
about six miles from tpwn.
A gentleman from Buffaloe,
N. Y. was in town on business,
the first of the week, and told
the writer the thermometer reg-
degrees below zero,
and the snow was 8 feet deep
when he left home last Friday.
'ayetteviiuK Observer.
The Fayntteville Observer was
sold ag.'iin .b"'-
A. PaT k, of italeigli.
A few rrionths ago the Fay- j
etteville Press Co. was organized
and this new company bought
The Observer. Cspt. Something,
anorlhern man, was leader in
the now movement, and w^as
the -supposed editor The old
Observer force was to be con-
■ tinned until new equipment could
be bought to make new morning
daily to be called the Fayette
ville Press. The Observer was
changed to an independent pa
per, as the Press was to be. later.
We iust knew that would not
do. The Observer had been a
strong democratic paper for more
than a century and then for it
to change to an independent pa
per—that would not suit Fay
etteville nor the Cape Fear sec
tion* To be independent in poli
tics means to, be a mugwump.
The .Tournal is as independent
as any papery but it has no pa
tience with independence. Its
editor is a Democrat, and we
hope to always have the courage
to attack and demolish every
thing undernocratic.
We are glad the Observer has
changed hands. We feel cer-
we
our
will find
mail box
some
every
tain now
thing in
evening. ^ .v
Mr. Park has a’reputation as
a newspaper publisher, and our
good old friend George G. My-
rover, the new editor, will sling
the hot stuff—gas and so forth,
where it should go.' -
FOR SALE—9 year, old mule;
will work anywhere, and is in
good condition. See or write
E. A McNEILL,
Red Springs, N. C., R 1.
FOR sale—Two Ford Touring
Cars in A1 condition. See J^
L. Teal at Hoke Motor ’and
Machine Company, Raeford.
HAEFORD HIGH SCHOOL
Pmchiafity Roll.
First Grads
Sarah McFadyen
Thetus Campbell
Mary NeapiMcNair
Isabella Campbell
Mildred Peele
Ualiie Reaves
Hectot McNeill
George McLendon
John McNeill
Myrtle Buoyer
Lamont Brown.
Second Grade
Lula Hall
Mabel Lockey
Marv .McFadyen
Blanche Musselwhite
Amelia Nivens
Roscoe Currie
Thomas Hutchison
John Duncan McNeill
Oourtn ey Hobson.
Third Grade
Forest Austin
Seavy Bennett
Neal H, Cameron
Alma Ferguson
John F. Lockey
Gaston McBryde
Robert Morris
Mary Lee Seale
Flora Sessoms
Frances Walters.
Fourth Grade
Conrad Barnard
Paul Grimes
Patton McLeod
Johh McLeod
Howard WUkes
Marguerite Freeman
Myrtle Ingram
Elizabeth Morgan
Nettie Price.
Fifth Grade
Louise Blue
Elizabeth Currie ' ^ -
Etta Conoly
Kaiie Chisholm
K’tthleen I'lew
I' uutiiu Aiuc i'eigusou
Josephine Hall ^
Mary Alice Hutchison
Alma McBryde
Margaret Peele
Grace Rhye ? '
Elizabeth Sessoms •
Walter Culbreth
Robert Gatlin -
Edwin McDuffie
Ernest Mcljrill
Allen McGill
L. E Reaves
Curtis Smith.’
- Sixth Grade
Robert Covington
H. L. Gatlin
James Hampton
Kenneth Hampton
Brown McQueen
Lewis Upchurch
Willie Price
Marie Blue
Frances Moore
Claudia Bennett
Nellie Robinson
Seventh Grade
Eula Blue
Pauline Freeman
Addle Mae Gatlin
Isabel Jean Lamont
Nevil Pratt
Nellie Rhye
Devqo Austin
Herman Campbel
William CoviDgtori^
Graham Culbreth
iBtincan McFadyen
Glenn Peele
Eighth Grade
Lawrence Conoly
Marian Dew
Jar^es Willkmson
W/C WUirimson
Mary Blue
Gladys Price
Frances Robinson
Mary Douglass Smith “
Marguerite Sherrill
EloisqJMcFadyen.
Ninth Gk.ADE
Arthur Morgan
Jessie Bright Ferguson.
$1.50 Per Year.;
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Tenth Grade
Kate McFadyen
Mary McBry?
Lillian Fields'Moore
Annie McKeitm
Eleventh
Mary Eliza McFadyen
Margie Campbell
Ida Lee Patton '
Mabel Sherrill. ,
.. State Traveliog Library.
The free traveling libraries
sent ouf from Raleigh by the
North Carolina Library Commis
sion in January of this year
showed an increase (if over one
hundred per cent over the num
ber shipped in January, 1919,
80 counties are receiving this
service reaching from North- ;;
ampton to Richmond and from
Dare to Jackson.
Special collections have bwo
arranged for industrial'^dhmmu-
nities. This has been clone in n
response to demand from wel-
fare workers who urge that spe
cial attention be given the ne^s
of mill people. The Library
Commission now has 300 travel
ing libraries.
There is a marked increase in’
the number of reciuests reaching
the Director, Miss Mary 1^.''^ Pal
mer. not for travel and package*
libraries but ,for information.: on
various subjects including cur
rent events and social problems.
There are such questions as
world denfocracy, forest reser
vations, Mexico, Poe, Gala
worthy, Massfield, high pricee,
Jews, commerce with South
America, w'oman and relittUm,
etc- One woman wrpte for4lii^"
terial on child training,
folbe selfish and sfubbfPn.
reauest waSmiet from the special
collection oh child study. Recent
requests for material have come
from 8pnth Carolina, Pennsyl
vania and Saskatchewan, Can
ada.
Immigration restriction, th®
inter-high school query leads
among the debate subjects but
material on varied questions is
constantly in demand. The
commission have fifty package
libraries on the restriction of im-'
migration. ^
Luting of Personal Property.
The law requires that all per-
soanl property be listed at its
true value ou Jan. 1st. In other
words, each individual, firm and
eorporation is required t^give in
all property owned Jap^^lst for
taxation,
Arty person ia the* county can
give in the court house in
Raefori} any day during the first
Iwo w^ks of February. Dates
will be given in the other town
ships later,
J. A. McGOOGAN,
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Notke to Tretpauers.
All persons are hereby forbid
den to trespass on the land of
the late J. -H Morgan, in Anti-
ocJi_^wnsbip, Hofee County, ad
joining the lands of Mack Gib-
sou, Jno. Parish, deceased. Miss
Livena Smith and J. H. Town
send, by either cutting or haul
ing wood, straw, litter, huntiDg
or removing anything off of
land. Anyone violating any of
the above wUl be prosecuted to
tne extent of the law.
J. C. Morgan Sisters.
Shannon, N. C., Jloute 1.
LOST-t Between Ra^ord and
Red Springs one nearly new
United States Tread Tire on
riiu, 32 X.4. Reward if re
turned to T. C. Ingram, Rae
ford. N. C.'
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