V(J4 XXU|.?NO. 10.
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RSDAY; JUNE 2,
Attente, World War V^eram!
Th^%(Nrh3 Wanndtertni’ '“Act
Jtd3^ 2,1926, provides that any
eyidenoe to show direct service
connec^^pa&on a disability that
did mdcezist'. in a compensable
degrOe-Withih one year after dis-
rhar^' mu^>be submitted to
^ the Buj^u prior to J une 7» 1927.
^ Such evidenen su^itted after
■ that i|o matter how clear
and cbnvinci
■ ■ V
cbnsidm^d by
cannot even be
the Bureau. If
f " there^are ani^ ex ser^e men in
your community who have .not
-' filed claim, aind desirle'to do so;
or If there are any whtq have filed
^ claim; and bave^ been denied
service connection by,,, tfie, Bu
* - reau4you arO urged to IbringthliB
|n; to thrtr attention at pnee^..
(1) ; The Statement of a phy-
^^v^sician on his own stationerv,
—r need not be'- sworn to Other-
^. , wise,’ his statement must be' wit-
nessad before i Notary Public.
The atotement .of all others must
^>,be made, before a Notary Public.
(2) 1 The ejcact or the spproxi-
matedate of the first age subse-
^eht examination or observa
^oh ihqst be given. Such ex
^^rprili^Bfons as ‘^‘Shortly after dis
iphmrgd” or “the year 1919“ must
be svohled. : “
'The lull physical find
dnn^^tbe physician or the ex
i|^dltion noticed, by the
upon which a diagnosis
ihesedi UQi^i be given- -Ac-
to the: Bureau as evi-
tpci|4but the findings upon
diagnosis was. made
^t^&|atated. .
iipe for filing app|lications
ailed i^mpehsation ex-
'1^1998. '
« Raeford Schemb Finals.
Raeford school held their final
exercises Monday night when
twenty five diplomas were given
out.
The largest class in the history
of the school graduaute, twelve
iHjys and thirteen girjs They
are as follows:
Johnsie Lee Akins,
Boswell Bethune,
Louise Blue,
Jonah Brown,
Vera Cox,
Sarah Catbariue Cromartie,
Walter Culbreth,
Kate Dalton,
* Robert Draughon,
Archie Epstein,
Marguerite Freeman,
Robert Gatlin,
Robrt Hampton.
Archie Howard,
Bennie McFadyen.
Isabel McFadven,
'Lucille McLeod j
Mary McVicker,
Mary Nprton,
Harris Parker, ,
Lacy Pratt,
Mary Frances Shankle.
Curtis Smith,
Crawford Thomas,
Laura Yearby.
Rev. W.^M, Fairley, D. D,
preached the sermon Sunday
morning in the school auditorium
that will linger in the minds of
all who heard it. It was pro
nouDced by many present the
most masterly address ever de>
livered in this town.
ILfiOPtfTi
LOCAL NEWS. -
I
Mr. Alex. Cameron of Matiley
died last week.
The editor had com silica the
day after rain. ,
Fairmont truckers loaded a car
of beans last Friday.
The best ram in months came
here on Saturday afternoon./
H.^
businii
last wi
V
Oil
duce
of gas'
Actni
menced
The following young men are | the Fay
at home from the State Univer
sity
The road between Southern
Pines and Pineburst is to be
paved soon.
Messrs. J. A. Blue and D. J.
McNeill have put a sawmill near
Timberland.
are very light
the dteught.
a prominent
ID of Pinehurst, died
/are planning to re-
^output, so the price
'be higher.
instruption has com-
biurdsurfacing of
mile road. ~
>lmstr'bf time yet' to
of peas, and no 6th-
m here''pay better.
are not signing
co'ops. ah they
Jr., has re-
Forest Col-
]Oip.
iheim
shot up
ptacsi
Ten
ton ha
carry,!
after alL-
The re
ed ai»%i
IS
ACT
Invl^eted and I'einstated; -
’‘PRDORAI^TIN AHON
the THIEF OP TIME:^"
;now......*.
^ .. Either of thfe; undersigned'will
|t£B glad.to render any assistance
’’possible in handling the 'claims
P which you bring to their Atten-
I ^iYpurs for service,
KIRBY,
Service Officer,
The American Legion,
. : • P. (j- Box 413*1: ,
(jharlotte, N C.
r. A. HUTCHISON,
State Service Officer.
f305 Johnston BuUding, >
Charlotte, !N. C.
Mr. Fred j. McDiarmid Dies in
Baltimore.
Mr- Fred McDiarmid vvas car
ned to Johns Hopkins hospital,
Baf
ih a 'sertous condition, it was
thought, but Mrs. McDiarmid,
who is with him, wrote en
couragingly since the doctors of
that institutiOD had diagnosed
his case.
I The hopeful news came to his
Miss Dudley McLean of Char
lotte spent the week end with
home people. ~
T
Mr, and Mrs J. W. McLauch-
lin haveltpne to their summer
home at Montreat.
Miss Elizabeth McLean has re
turned from Tnomasville where
she taught last year.
The cooler weather last week jlPP* llivef
was a relief to folks perhaps, IPP*^ P^^
blit it was bad on crpps,
Moore county commissioners
have postponed the sale of land
for taxes uutil September.
The Antioch picnic passed,
and Pleas Wright cut his oats,
and no rain yet—tiU,Satuday.-
Hoke Oil & Fertilizer Co.'have
crushed all the seed they bad and
have closed down for the season.
Mr. T. Upchurch sold 150
bales of cotton last Wednesday,
the remainder of his last year’s
i^windsjreeently have
Tittle cotton some-
^killing all of it ]Td
■
bales of 1926 oot
»|[ expeited. so the
rilVnot he BO large
llitation of the flood-
inding the Mississ
begun*in the up-
Misses l^l^phine Hall, Mary
D. Smith^H
Lean have
College,
Wjthc
I Moore •
postpoo^l
taxes unij"
[dewberry
) mould^'
verybodji'ii
Martha Lee Me*
Iturned from Queens
tlotte.
D injunction the
ty comipifsioners
sale of .land fmr
mber
DOW will ruin the
cause the fruit
i^Is hard\to please
i feather.
Messrs, w. T. Covington. Jr.itnn
Wade Leggette receive theii* di-l
plomas from Davidson College!
this week.
The clouds arose, the windi
blew up clouds of dust last Wnd
nesdav afternoon, but only a few
went alone
Linbergh
vky. back
family and friends here that his drops.of rain came,
conuition was not alarming, and Prof. J. M. Stackhouse left
that he was improving, so it was| jjaturday night for a hospital in
going over.
Storm warnings were ^ent out
from Eastern North Carolina
coast to Maine Friday, and that
storm sent us good rains since.
The Hoke dewberry growers
shipped a car of berries Satur
day. Express shipments had
been made earlier in the week
I a shock indeed to all who knew
him when a wire brought the
I sad news that he had died Mon
day at 2:30 p. ra. Mrs. Me
Diarmid and bis biother, Mr. J.
A. McDiarmid, accompanied
him to Baltimore, Mr. J. A. Me
Diarmid. leaving his brother im
proved as was thougnt returned
Washington, D. C., where he
goes for. treatment.
Misses Marie Blue, Myrtice
Barrington, Addie Mae Gatlin
and AlmaMcBrvdehave returned
from Greensboro College.
The bean vines, English peas
and the Irish potato tops are
Af the most ,revolting
^ever Committed in this I
committed betWeeit
irg and MaxtOQ on
night, iillay 2l8t, when
Laurl
batui
IRTO^of several men,'a mob,
Mld^^i^Ug man namedr, Davis.
and pistols, dc^g
ihis and a gijrl.mamed
ses fitem his car and assault-
.^hnost ufider- 4is eyes.
[ (^mes are idmost uQihinlc
the/pe^tiators should
tQA. eieo^c chair in a
I the most
against
jT,^ Davis and bis Wife are
arkbld, have been married
a few months; .tber^g^Ljf
[is 16, and aU>-lHKi'retnptoye8
jiumberl^d. Cotton Mill, near
ptteyiller apd^have hereto
jrbe good names/^
^0 young men, N^man and
tt, are heldj without - bond
borne Saturday night. On receipt [ nearly ah dead, and rain will not
of i telegram Monday that he
bad grown worse Mr N. McL
Mcbiarmid left for Baiiimore,
but tne news of bh death came a
few hours later.
Mr. McDiarmid was one of the
best men in the county, a good
Gbristian gentleman andasplen
did citizen. He was happily mar
ried last Thanksgiving to Miss
Ruth Shaw of Statesboro, Ga.,
who survives him. He leaves four
brothers, Messrs J. A , N. McL
and Henry of Raeford and Rev.
H. N. McDiarmid of Shelby; two
sisters, Miss Margaret McDiar
mid of Raeford, and Mrs. J. O. D.
King ofFayetteville. R 4.
Deceased was about 45 years l
help the peas nor potatoes now.
The county commissioners
meet next Monday, and the
business before them is of great
importance to the people of the
county.
MesSiS. W. T., Jr., and Robert
Covington, Herman Campbell
Kenneth Hampton, and Brown
McQueen are at home from Da
vidson College.
Mrs. H. L. Gatlin has as her
guests, her sister, Mrs. G. W
Belk and little daughter of Gas
tonia, and Miss I^ett Belk of
Kershaw, S- C.
Last Thursday evening was
Ladies’Night with Raeford Ki
wanis, and a most pleasant
evening was enjoyed by a large
crowd present
Companv L base ball team
from Parkton defeated Battery
F. team of Raeford 14 to 9 in a
game played on ttie local field
last Friday afternoon.
The weather has been dry for
nearly three years now, and
there has been no indication of
lew water in Raeford wells and
pumps. And it’s good water
here.
We would like to do the print-
ling the business men of Raeford
need and have done. We spend
the money we get in this town,
I and need to spend more than we
are getting.
Too many small children are
lAllowed to go unattended by
grown up people on the streets
Mr. H; L. Gatlin,
turned from Wake
lege.
Mrs. Guv Taylor of Kinston is
visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. R. Gatlin.
The great trouble with oui^
state government is there are so
many officers there is not room
for them all to function.
1
The Carolina Power & Light
Co. are to spend twent-seven
million dollars in new develop
ments, mostly in Eastern Caro*
Ima, this year.
Destructive storms visitedTen’
nessee, Kentucky and West Va
last Saturday. A number of
people were killed, and property
loss wai great.
Rev. N. C. Yearby, pastor of
the Methodist church, was taaen
seriously ill, while attending the
exercise^ in the school auditorium
Friday evening.
Soon as the water of the Miss
issippi flood began-to trickle in
to the “Sugar Bowl.” a sugar
cane district in Louisiana, sugar
began to rise in price.
When the Budget Bureau em
ployed R L. Maxey as senior ac
counting clerk ether state officers
are opposed because there is no
provision for such an officer.
None of these boys around
here may have an opportunity to
fly across the Atlantic, but they
can fly around home and do more
work than they have been doing.
The Womna’s auxiliary of the
Presbyterian church celebrated
the birthday of its organization,
and gave an interesting pageant
last Wednesday afternpun. The
quite a snug sum: „
Everybody should pay taxes,
and pay them promptly. But
taxes should be reasonable. No
sense in taxing people beyond
their ability to pay, and pay taxes
just to pay men,s salaries whose
services are unnecessary.
The state veterans loan funds
are now available, and the ex
pense of borrowing that money
has been reduced somewhat, and
the board will lend up to 75 per
cent, of the value of property
owned by World War veterans.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Coving
ton found several ol their fine
Rhode Island biddies with their
•
beads pulled off a few days ago.
and were puzzled to know the
perpetrator. In a few minutes
they beard the cry of a chick in
distress, rushed out to investigate
and a Blue Jay was eating it.
We have heard that a Jay bin
was rough in bis fun. and na
turely depraveo. This proves
the auction.
' wa M M Unit teifi
T. J. MeGifl aod B. W.
Whitley, attomer. wm
Judge Sinclair. reaidaBt.
and abowing tbeneircdMikflMr-
is retroactive and' aoeMiaOlM^
tional, asked that the SAMiiitlBNi.
county comnaisaioont of
county be restrained fn» alB^I "
land, for taxes as they bad ohpii*
ed to do on the 23rd; aotht
granted the order, temporanly*
a hearing to be beld am ah siirtjir,
date. So the land wifi'adl'ha
sold for taxes for some thna'tik
come, possibly several moBtbt.
age, and almost since its!
organization had been a men: ber|
of Raeford Presbyterian church.
His death causes a serious loss to j
his family, his church, t h^e
community, the county and the I
state, for he lived blamelessly
to a
ofHaeford. They are liable to
Mr. W. J. McDiarmid sold ajjuinp right in fhrat of a car,
car load of cotton last Wednes I when they get excited.
day—all he had they say, and
this is the first time we ever I
heard of bis selling oiit clean.
Four members of the Worley
family of Johnson county were!
sent to jail for bldckading by
\ergh did a-great seryipjs
(orld in sboyvl^ fyhat
lOt but teb tench may
letunte like bis, wdnot
and constantly aspired
of usefulness.
Notice of funeral exercises I
may be found on page three.
life I Judge Meekins of the Federal
coart in Raleigh last Thursday.
People will now detour in go*
ing to Fayetteville, and we sup-
Wiley a. Barnes. SKed 19. sonl?'®®
ntthe dally fioings of [of a prominent business man of ^***5.“ *
I nevagoli A* alU Uninfeerten, yrae killed instantly makes the distance very lik
ing remiarkafile things I Monday wben he stepped on wet'
but
ind while he held a 110
[light wite in his hand.
volt) boarders WANTED.--MRS.
D. A. MoLEOD, N. Main Streak.
, vAn effort will be made to have
Jule Bethea, or Easterling, par
doned or paroled we hear. This
is one of the colored 'men who
were sent up ter killing Dewey
(3astlebury in 1922 in Allendale
township.'
The Hoke Mantle and Serhen
Ck>, shop was burned last Thurs
day morning about 3 o’clock. The
fife is supposed to have started
from a spark from a passing rail
road engide. Sorie trs^* was
laet on fire near the house on
Wednesday evening, but it waa
they
4 Army Aviators Burned to Death.
Augusta, Ga., May 29th.—
Four aviators of a United States
army squadron enroute from
San Antonio to Langley Field,
Va., were burned to death here
today when the .left motor of
their machine went dead 500 feet
above the flying field and the
plane fell to the ground in
flames.
Liadberfh i
Captain Charles A. LindlMfiMi;
who in a little over 38 boon
wrote in the sky acroee the At
lantic Ocean the moot
accomplishment in aviatfoo hm-
tory, was the first trans-oceantc
flier to carry pneumafic tired
landing gear to the end his jour
ney
This is the gist of a bulletia
just received by G. A. Fuller
local Goodrich SUvertown dealer.
Trom the Gkxidrich factariee gt
I Akron. C«ptabi JUucttMHStehhA
his famous plane equipped with
Silvertowo Airplanes Ovds at
the hangar in Saa Diego, Cali
fornia. several weeks before jhe
hopped off on the Oral leg of hts
opochal 6, loo mile flight to Paris.
According to Mr. Foll«r these
tires, which were 30x6 iueh
stock SilvertowDs, were
tested in any way, but
merely picked out of the tire
racks at the factory.of.the Ryan
Airplane Company ly I fndbeiliii
and .'ipplied to the whaele ,hy
bimself and a h
carried normal loads whaa^^lt
hopped off at San Diego aod'St
Pauls, where it stopped oB’i|a
way to New York, its load for
the Paris hop was ooosiderabiy
above its normal. 5,160 pounds
hammered and bettered the
rnoDoplahe’s dilvertowo equip,
ment on the quarter mile of run
away before it lifted clemr and
sailed off for Paris. Had ooe of
these tires oollaped uoder tiMa
weight, amplifi^ as the plane
bouuced on the ground, a sedoua
accident might easily have re
sulted and the intrepid Lindbergh
would Qot have left the
ground.”
Ladies see us for the Kew Lace
Baodings, Edgings and All-
Over Laces.
'Tfae.Kash Sion.
Get your UniooaUs, Fley a|ult*
and Overalls for ehildreq at
Baucom’s CkMi
New Window Curtains,
made and ready to hang,
in and see Uiem.
The Kadi Ston.
Good Chicken Feed is paid tor in
more eggs^ -and (klPd Oow
Feed increases both i^k and
butter. None better Uimi nine.
(JansibbU,
Crops Damaged by Hail in Robeten
Hail did damage to nearly 25
or more per cent in the Cente
nary sectioo, near Rowland Sat*
urday afternoon. '
Crops id that community and
in the Gaddy’s Mill community
adjoining were badly beaten by
the hail.—The Robesonian..
FOR SALE: No. ROHverType
writer, first dess condition, at
« low prices.
J. A. BAUCOM.
A big line of Men's Pants, prtead'
right at
Baucom’s Caoh filort.
For the Kiddies—nice wash,
suits and play dothan
ThaKn^3Mw.
Expert Hemstitching and DiiHa
making.V SettofaclioiiiBasan*-
teed.
MRS. E. R. WILUAMBOK.
InTheKadkdtora.
PhonnSK
Qlaneo'
White Dpek, Palm
and other light
'Iroaseca^
fiaa'cik a
CTta-
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