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Nr$. Le^ HostcM.
Mrs T. B. Lester entertained
on Wednesday raorninK of last
Xweek in honor of her sister, Mrs.
W. C. Blount of Macon, Ga.
Provision was made for both
rook and bridge.
After a number of proRres
sions, an enjoyable two course
luncheon was served Her
guests on. this occasion were:
Mrs, W. G Blount of Macon,
Ga., Mrs. J. B. Thomas. Mrs. S.
Q. McCraw. Mrs. J. A McGou-
Ran, Mrs. W. M. Thomas, Mrs.
Paul Dickson, Mrs. J. A. Glif
"ton, Jr, Mrs. Alfred Cole, Mrs.
H McK. McDiarmid, Mrs. R. B.
Stuart, Mrs L. B. Brandon, Mrs.
W. T. Covington, Mrs. W P.
Lentz. Mrs H. L. Gatlin, Mrs.
Ryan McBrydj, Mrs. R. L. Mur’
ray, Mrs. G. B. Rowland, Mrs.
H. W B. Whitley, Misses Mar
garet Currie and Loyd Tapp.
RAEFORD, NORTH CAROLINA* WIJRSDAY. JULY 4. 1929.
JOUBNAIi
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Mrs, J. T. Welsh Dies.
The many friends of Mrs. J.
T. Welsh of near Rockfish, were
grieved to learn of her death,
which occurred last Wednesday,
June 26. Mrs Welsh had been
in ill hejilth for sometime and re*
-cently underwent an oneration
^ at a hospital.
f Funeral services were con
ducted Thursday afternoon from
the home near'Davis bridge, and
interment made in the Davis
burying ground. Mrs Welsh is
survived by' her husband, two
sons and one daughter.
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hlsJEzpIanation.
^ We were misinformed, and a
statement in last week's Journal
^^’{waa erronious; ""HOnry Tedder
K^^^bmitted to the charge of driv
ing an automobile while under
the influence of intoxicants in
Recorder’s court just after his
wild escapade and was fined $50
and cost, prayer for judgment
continued upon payment of the
cost, the defendant to pay $5 a
week until $50 are paid, and be
has complied with terras up to
this time. Having seen this man
drive through town, we were
interested in the case. Guess he
knows now liquor is expensive.
Pineland College.
Prneland College at Salemburg,
Sampson county, has an ad. in
this issue of The Journal. . It is
a goed school. This school was
established a number of years
ago, and has grown with time.
Last year three hundred girls at.
tended this school, these rep
resenting forty counties and six
states.
Four years ago, Mr. and Mrs
W. J. Jones, . joint presidents,
deeded the school, valued at
$162,000, together with its $100 ,
000 endowment, a total of $262,-
000, to a board of trustees, and
have since given all they have
been able to get toTthe school.
Bo Ihe Journal is glad to ad
vertise a school Uke Pineland
College.
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Mill Kate Jobnion PaMes.
Miss Kate Johnson, a maiden
lady, aged 71 years, died at her
^.hbme in Little River township
Wednesday, June 26th, and was
burled at Cypress church on
Thursday, Rev. D. McP. Monroe
of Vass conducting the funeral
seevice.
Miss Johnson lived all her life
at the old Johnson home near
Vass with her sister. Miss Mary
Johnson and nephevy, Mr. B. B.
Johnson. She was a sister of
Mrs. D, D. Black of Raeford,
^ Route 2, and an adnt of - D. H
Johnson of Ashley ;Pei^ht8, and
was a woman held in high
(eem by all who knew her.
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Scotland Conoty News.
Albert Frank Bizzell, son of
the late Frank T. Bizzell, of
Laurinburg, has been missing
since early in the year l9l9, or
soon after be received his dis
ebarae from the military service
at the close of the. World War
No one here, or any of his rela
tives, has seen or heard of the
young man since. It is the sup
position that he is dead, or has
met some unexplained fate, oth
erwise his continued and strange
absence from home and kin
folks cannot ne explained.
Inherited from bis father’s es-
st^te and now in the hands of C
D. McCormick, clerk of the su
perior court for Scotland county
is considerable property, which
belongs to Albert Frank Bizzell,
or to bis estate. Mr. McCormick
says in round numbers, there is
about $2500 in cash and 75 acre^
of land. Since the death ' of
young Bizzeli’s fatbet, this prop
erty has'been administered on by
the clerk of the court.
. William Roy McNeill, 22 year
old colored man, and the mule he
was riding, were killed bv light
ning late Thursday afternoon,
June 20th, at the Gilchrist farm
near Laurinburg. Mr. N. P.
Gilchrist states that the man,
and another colored man, were
in the field plowing, when a rain
and thunderstorm came on.
They found shelter in a tenant
bouse nearby, and waited there
until the rain was over. Think
ing that there was no further
danger, the two men mounted
their mules and started for the
barns at the Gilchrist home,
j;raveling a road across the >field
ThenmurwEiffi
was riding was what the farm
folks call pert, She walked fast,
and thus Roy got ahead of the
other man and mule. Sudden
iy there was a bolt out of the
sky. The mule pitched forward
on its knees, and the man shot
overhead and stretched out on
the ground. Neither of them
ever moved again, it is stated.
Resurrecting an ancient ordi*
nance against the operation of
filling stations in Laurinburg on
Sundays, the board of Town
commissioners 1'ij''sday ordered
the police department to close all
filling stations within the city
limits hereafter on Sundays.--
Laurinburg Exchange.
R ising Taxes.
What is known as the "Santa
Claus theory of government,”
whereby public fund.s are used
for the benefit of privileged
groups, territories or businesses
is one of the surest known ways
to increase the tax burden
Paternalistic schemes, design
ed to help the few at the ex
pense of many, should be as for
eign to democratic principles of
government as obnoxious class
legislation.
It is an obvious fact that bur
densome taxes are not the re
sult of expenditures for actual
goverrnental functions. The
tax rate rises in direct proportion
to the extent the governm mt
branches away from governing
into the field of commercial busi
ness. Then waste, inefficiency
and bureaucracy creep in.
Under a truly individualistic
system, government really gov
erns and keeps out the busings
and private lives of its citizens
80 far as possible, In recent
years determined attempts have
been made to carry us far afield
from this basic democratic prin
ciple of government.
To insure your tobacco barn
means that you will get the
money to rebuild, should it burn.
The FondameiUls df iialetj.
In the opinion of the head of
the National Safety Council, the
four fundamentals of accident
prevention are a belief in safety,
acceptance of the principle of
personal responsibility bv every
citizen, an active, not a passive
attitude toward the* accident
menace and leadership to eradi
cate it.
Automobile accidents are the
result of three causes—recsless
ness, incompetence or ignorance.
There are few unpreventable ac
cidents. The tremendous toll in
lives taken each year is a shame
ful illustration of the failure of
authorities and citizens to ap
proach the problem from an in
telligent angle.
Great industries, such as the
railroads, have made amazing
success in preventing accidents^
bv study, education and enforce
ment of working rules.
Legislative accident preven
tion panaceas such as compul
sory liability insurance, begin at
the wrong end of the problem by
attempting to idemnify instead
of prevent The result has been
a tremendous expense to the
careful, without accident reduce
tion.
Tests have shown that en
forcement of modernized traffic
codes will appreciable reduce ac
cidents in a short time. Educa
tion of school children has borne
fine results in the past few years.
Good results follow public inter
est and co-operation.
Harnett County News.
CoujntF'Aj^^ntant J. £.
flrefTs* directing strong effort
now toward securing sufficient
funds for paying the balances on
salaries due teachers in Harnett
schools for the past session.
Numbers of ths teachers had to
go home without their money
for the last month’s work, due
to the fact that about fourteen
hundred property owners in the
county failed and refused to pay
their taxes.
The volume of traffic on high
way 21 is noticeably increasing
since the completion of the hard
surface link between the Wake
county line and Lillington.—
Harnett County News.
Sanford, June 24—Last night
during a heavy rain and a ter
rific storm a large b.arn of K E.
Seymore, on his farm one mile
west of Sanford, was struck by
lightning and totally destroyed
by fire.
•IWTHBLUE.
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Mrs. Bledsoe Passes.
Mrs. W. P. Bledsoe, a native
of South Carolina, aged about
76 years, died at the home of
her son, Mr. George Bledsoe, in
Raeford Cotton Mill village Sun
day afternoon at 3 o’clock.
She was for many years a
member of the Baptist church,
and was a good woman. She is
survived by her husband and
five children, all of whom are
grown and are scattered over
this and other states. Her re
mains were interred in Raeford
cemetery Monday afternoon.
Mr. H. C. McLauchlin and lit
tle Josephine, are both confined
to their room with mumps.
Mrs. R. M. Adams of Hamlet
is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
McLean, the latter her sister.
Mr N. McL. McDiarmid, who
was in the Presbyterian hospital,
Charlotte, for treatment„-feturn-
ed home last Friday very much
improved in health. His sister,
Mrs. Kate MeD, King, who ac
companied him, returned |Ubo.
I2tb. 1848, there
was Neill McKeitban
Blue i^Hylfe a' son whom they
namediPfll Smith' Blue. This
•on Sunday at Sandy
Grove juat after the ser-
:vicee b«p^ied.
Mr. tick last week
for a fMPhiySi but had recover
ed, aDdjlpnday be went up to
Sandy (»ve ^urcb, where bis
pastmr, Av. A. D. Carswell, was
to preamftervlces are held at
this cbi||p since the camp took
in tbat^ritory on each 6th
Suoda|miid be seemed in hie
usual He stood and sang
with thra9|igregation the open
ing byn^^What A Friend We
Have In ^us) and resuming his
seat duiAr opening prayer,
fell ovtf ;»in a faint. Relatives
noticed As and went to his as*
sistancei. Mt within a few mo
ments dead.
Had i^pyed 43 more days he
would hlpybeen 81 years old-
He was emted and ordained a
Ruling fi^er in Sandy Grove
church ihWS, and until the day
of his deli th, tor 56 years be
faith fiifiy filled this office
The effi of thought, with oth
ers, no do lift, that the members
of SandM Orove should have
moved membership to oth
er cbureliil^fter the camp res-
ery^iOD in that church,
but a epieoi^by the late M- A.
Pattersonolft reunion occasion
chang^jA4^wri‘ter*8 viewpoint.
Associi^D^iand memories of a
belovedl^lpused them to keep
tact in 4i^'orgianization. Mr.
Blue wahmiq^r a Qtember of any
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He was a self made man. Be
ginning life in limited circum
stances, by industry and close
application to business he be
came one of the largest land
owners in this section. He was
for years engaged in the manu
facture of naval stores lumber,
was an extensive farmer, mer
chant and stock raiser and rail
road owner.
He was a kind and devoted
husband and father, a good
neighbor and friend. He leaves
a wife, three sons and two
daughters: Messrs. F. S. of
Carthage, N. B. and J. McK.
Blue of Raeford; Mrs Charles
Kaylor of Portsnmuth. Va., Mrs.
Edwin Fuller of Liberty. Two
brothers survive, Messrs. J. A.
and D- J, Blue of Raeford, and a
large number of other relatives
in Hoke. Cumberland and Moore
counties.
The funeral was conducted
from Raeford Presbyterian
church Monday afternoon at
3:30 by bis pastor. Rev. A. D.
Carswell, assisted by Rev. W.
M. Fairley, D D., Rev. Eugene
Alexander of Salisbury, a form
er pastor, and Rev, W. S. Gold
en, D. D., pastor of Carthage
Presbyterian church, and inten
ment in Raford cemetery fol
lowed the services.
A very large concourse of rela
tives and friends gathered to
pay a last tribute to one they
loved and respected, for living
the life of the just and upright,
Mr. Blue merited the esteem of
all, for be sought to do justly,
love mercy add walk humbly
with bis God,
The floral tribute was unusual
ly large and exceptionally beau
tiful, which in a mute way ex
pressed the esteem in which the
deceased was held in the town
ano throughout tlfis section of
the state.
In respect to one of its found
ers. strongest eupportera and
directors, the Bank of Raeford
closed Monday, a^d during the
funeral hour the busiooea housea
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
Peaches are bringing from $3
to $7 per basket.
Miss Ida McLauchlin is visit
ing relatives at Smithfield.
Mr Paul Fuller of Wilmington
spent the week end with his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fuller.
Misses Addie Mae Gatlin,
Dixie Reaves and Mr. Marion
Gatlin spent last Wednesday in
Norwood.
Mrs. W. P. Baker and little
children have returned from a
visit to the home of her parents
In Pine Level.
Page Trust Company recently
loaned the State $4,000,000 at a
lower rate than it could be ob
tained in New York for.
Mr. Robert Peele, who is at
tending summer school at Wake
Forest, spent the week end with
his mother, Mrs. Will Peele
Mrs Joe Gulledge and Miss
Susan Gulledge have returned
from a pleasant visit with rela’
tives and friends in Greensboro.
It is now thought something
like a dozen cars ot cucumbers
will be shipped from Raeford.
Three cars have gdhe forward.
Mrs. D. S Poole, Mrs. Luke
Bethune and daughters, Peggy
and Isabel, spent last Friday in
Southern Pines with Mrs. W. E.
Blue.
Not having experience, a good
many growers pull their cucum
bers too young, so they have
more pickies at home than they
intended.
Heesa. J: A. McDiarmid and
J. A. McGougan wen t to Raleigh
a few days ago to find out if the
Workingman’s Compensation act
is mandatory.
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Virginia, little daughter of
Mr. and Jdrs. W, E. Pell, had
her tonsils removed at Red
Springs Wednesday. She is get
ting on nicely-
Prof. W. E. Pell is attending
Summer School at Columbia
University, New York He
wants to obtain bis degree of M.
A this summer.
Misses Maude and Mary Poole,
Isabel Jean Lamont, Messrs
William Lamont, Jr., and
Younger Snead spent last Thurs
day in Lowell.
In case of sickness or death,
you have opportunity to know
Raeford people. In common ev
ery day life, they show up only
moderately well.
Mr. D J McNeill has return
ed from Highsmitb hospital, and
is at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
D. S. MdKeitban. He is im
proving rapidly.
Sheriff and Mrs D H. Hod-
gin have rented a temporary
home in the Giles residence, and
will make their abode in Rae
ford. Glad to have thorn with us.
Mr. and Mrs. William Blouut
and little daughter, L’onita. of
Macon, Ga.. and Mr. Harry
Blount of Salisbury, who have
been visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. B.
Lester, left last Friday for their
respective homes.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lindeman
and daughters Frances and Su-
zanna, were at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Dickson for
a while Sunday afternoon on the
way to their home in Greens
boro from Wrightsvllle Beach,
where they had been for eome
time.
$1.50 Per Year.
The first union lervlceB of Hi'*
summer were held io the lfeHio«
dist church last Sunday nigbt.
The farmers say they have not
raised auy dust io plowing so
far this year, but we have aa
idea they will raise dust befoew
the year, or even before thfa
crop is laid by.
Mr. C. H Giles is engaged io
road construction for the State-
at Vass. Mrs. Giles spends a
few days with him this week,
and then will go to the moun
tains for fhe summer.
If you, or,a member of your
family should die, the Raeford
people would furnish the help,
sympathy and flowers. People
elsewhere might be sorry, but
relatives would hardlv know it.
Mrs. Percy D. Niven and chil
dren of Dunedin. Fla., are visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. W. McLean. Mr. Niveo
came up with the family, bat be
remained only a short time.
Mr. Robert Looper has joined
t^ Marines, and is now statitRi-
ed at Parris Island. The Red
Cross writes his mother, Mrs. J.
P Smith, they have taken her
boy in charge and to have no
worry about him.
In 1924. most of the oats were
ruined, rotted in the fields.
Small grain was saved this
year. Mr. J. D. Mason bad
2,300 bushels threshed out, that
is good grain. Others saved It
well and have good yields.
of the town closed.
He will b« greatly missed, and
to the bereaved faintly The
Journal axtanda haartfelt sym*
pathy.
Competitiye tfifle Matck
h^ in Baa-
ford last Friday between Co. E
120th Infantry, Concord. Co.
“L” I20th Inf., ParktoD, N. C ,
Batt. “F” 252nd C A. Raeford,
N. C. Co. “E” won the cup
with a total score of 2128. Co.
“L” was next with 2079, Batt.
“F” third with 1964. Each of
these teams shot a ten man team.
Individual high score were:
Captain Alston of Concord. 230,
1st Sgt.. Ishenhour. Concord.
229, Ist Lieut. Walker. Raeford,
226, Capt. Poole, Raeford- 225,
Capt. McGougan. Parkton, 223.
Sgt. Blount, Parkton. 222. The
day was finished with a fish fry
on the range, which was great
ly enjoyed.
Battery F made a poorer rec
ord than they have made in a
long time. It was just not their
day for gunning.
WANTED* Reliable party to r-
sume balance due on beeutifal
Upright Piano which is^iieiog
returned to us on account of
customer being nnable to pay
for same. We will transfer
this account to reliable party
allowing all of what has been
paid. Must reply promptly.
Yours truly,
CHA8. M. STIEFF. INC.r
Wilmington, N. C.
F. 0. Stelling, Manager.
Tobacco Bam Insurance
If you have any old barns
that are likely to bum dur
ing curing season, go ahead
and let them bum. After
insuring them with me the
loss will not be worth worry
ing about*
But suppose they boro fuU
of your finest tobacco and
you haven’t insured with
me. Your conscience will
bother you and your cred
itors this faU will want thmr '
money regardless of your
hard luck. Let this give you
a word of timely warnii^—^
Insure and play sate.
ARTHUB D. GORE.
Raiiard,
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