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C,, wbens^she spent' her beautiful life; She died at her home June She had been in fhilinK beath fOr'Sbtne time, but not antil Sunday before her death did we realize that death was so neiar. - She joined the church in early life and has lived 71 years for li!^ homjoT tier church, her as^herGod. ■. ■ a'ili^Vivdla bV one brother and two sisters: Mr. Henry , Johnson of West End, Miss > Mary Johnson of Vass and Mrs. “ D. D. Black of Kaeford. Be- ^,8^es these there are 11 neph- > ews, 14 nieces and many reia> /tfves and friends, who while sofferinK a great loss, do not mourn as those who have no hope. * ' Miss Johnson was an embodi* i'mont of Christiap principles— loving, tender, kind, meek and aarvlpK. W. I; * Ret, remains w-ere Interred i^i-Cypfess ‘ Presbyterian ceme tery Eriday morning and funeral ' ^ ai^vti^ were conducted by Rev. 1$gD. Monfbe of Vass A > I bi^ge^eircte of friends turned 7 away from their labor and oth er activities to pa^^ respect to the'woman they loved and es teemed. The doral contributions were large and beautiful. ^ Hers was a gentle spirit and onseHSfih Itfei^ but Ddd’s finger touched her and she slept. It is not death to die, ' To leave this weary road. And midst the brotherhood k.4iigh To be at borne with God. Jesus, Thou Prince of Life, Thy chosen cannot die; like Thee, they conquer in strife, . To reign with Thee on high •i"' f “tt f'"'': vk on i>.® the Scotland County News. ■ A big picnic and rally for the farmers of Scotland cuunty.ia to be held Thursday, July l8th, at Sfieads Grove. The picnic is be ing spon^red hy the club worn en and the home demonstration agent and the county farm agent’s departments. Miss Mill- saps and Mr. 8. E. Evans made annoucement this week of the plans, which are not yet com plete in detail. It is stated, however, that there, will be at least four speakers, who will discuss questions of vital inter est to farmers. One of these is to be Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon, of'Baieigb, wbo beads the home dmphntration work in North Oafoltoa.. "By terms- of an agreement reached between Mr. J, A, Long and associates, of Roxboro, and the directors of the Dickson, Scotland. Waverly and' Prince cotton mills, local textile estab lishments, at a meeting held here last week, Mr. Long and his associates are taking over ihe ac tual management of the cotton mills, effective July Ist. Mr. -a.'M. Fairley, who has> been acting as general manager and superintendent of the mills, will continue as production manager, while Mr. Long and associates will manage the affairs of t^e mills and shape tbeir policies in the future. Mr. Loog is. an experienced mill man_ and operates cotton milltStBpid around Roxboro.- Lauknbuiig Exchange. Pay Th^ Own Fipenses. Mr. J. A.JilcDiarmid Informs The Journal that he and Mr. J. A. McGoogan paid their oy^ex penses to Raleigh on a recent visit, when they obtained cer tain information as to whether the county would have to meet the expense of carrying insu- suranee on the county employes. It was liberal in these officers to meet the expenses of that trip. In numbers of otber counties such trips are made at the ex pense of the county which needs such information. But"- the school board must carry insu ranee on all teachers we are toid. Nisi Morris Hottest. Miss Mary Morris entertained in honor of her guests. Misses Mary Monroe and Grace Pem berton Coppadge of Rockingham, on Tuesday eyening, July 2ad A number of games and other amusement^ afforded fun for the young people during the evening, and Mr. Murdoch McDuffie gave several selections on the piano. After the amusement, the bos-, teas served punch with wafers. Mrt. Cole Hottest. Mrs. Alfred Cole entertained Friday evening in honor of her guests. Misses Emily Jenkins and Eioise Webster of Fairmont. . Three tables were arranged for bridge and two for , heart^ice. After the games the hostess served candle salad, sandwiches, saltines and iced tea. Those present were: Misses Emily Jenkins, Eioise Wetister, Elizabeth Cromartie, Bennie Mc- Fadyen, Mary Lee Seate, Jose phine Hail, Anna Rogers, Kath- een Dew. Messrs. Buist Bethune, Howard Rogers, John Duncan dcNeill, Hunter Phillips, James Mathes9n. Hallie Reaves, Clar ence Brown'and Alex Snead. Hammond-McRse. The announcement of the en gagemeot and approaching mar riage of Dr ‘ H. C, Hammond and Miss Polly McRae of Red Springs was made at a horty given Miss McRae last Friday afternoon, the wedding to take place August 61 h Dr. Hammond supplied Rae- ford Presbyterian church be fore Dr. Fairley was called to the pastorate of that chu^'ch. Ford Car htolen, Mr. Tom Culbreth’s Ford coupe was stoMo las^aturday morning about daylight. Claude Wil liams,' colored, Saw some'one pass his barn as he fed his stock about 4 o’clock that morCffig driving a car of the type stolen, and the fellow drove toward Fayetteville. Battery F goes into summer tuinlDgJuly i4tb.. The com-,^ paay 1%) carry a f»ll Quota Mrs. J. A. McEchern of Ham er, S. C., .visited her brothers, the Messrs. Campbell, during the past week. W e had good breeze ail week, so the hot weather was not so oppressive. But, anyhow, moat folks have forgetten the unusual cool weather of not long ago. The county commissioners met Monday a^ board of equaliza tion, an^heard complaints of over vajefation, and they beard sev€|;wf and ordered few changes. Equalization is a hard i^oblem. The Kelly Arnold players, a tent show, spent last week hers, because they bad little else ip spend, perhaps, and it is very likely they had leap to spend h; forpUugtoamC r,'- SHORT NEWS ITEMS. ,Mt8S Mary Virginia McLean of Ifaxton is visiting Miss Mar garet Currie. Mies Loyd Tapp -spent the Fourth with Mis. Scotl MePad yen of Fayetteville. Mrs. N. L. Henderson is visit ing her daughter. Mrs. J. C Bostisn Of Albemarle. ' Mrs- Malcom McLean spent several days last week with her sister. Miss Margaret Currie. , . Rev. Waiter L. LIngle, D. D,, of Richmond, Va.. has accepted the presidency of Davidson col lege. The heavy rains left the gronnd packed so bard plowing is hard work, where it was delayed fora few days. Mr. Gaston McBrdye has ac cepted a position for the summer with a filling station at Lake Waccamaw. « We notice ’’iced coffee” on menu curds now. Hump, it isn’t coffee if it isn’t hot with most tolks. Some people recommend mighty poor rations- Mr. R. R Covington of Laun inburg was in Raeford the Fourth. Mr. Covington attends to his businesss, driving bis own car like a. yeunger man. Mrs. 0. H. Purvis and little Suzanne Bethune of Cheraw, B. C., came over the first of last weak and returning carried Mrs. M. L. McKeitban back with them for a visit.' ; ^ — The shade trees around the court house shows what care will do for trees. Nortd Caro- olina will soon have a growth of timber if forest fires are pre vented long enough. There is a big difference in Wm. and W M. You should read the first as WjilUam, ihe second is W. M . which stands for two names. ' You would not read Dr D R. would y^u? Well, why write Wm. W. MJ Some one said a hundred mil lion dollars’ worth of North Carolina land was sold in 1928 for four million dollars’ worth of taxes, but believers in high taxes see no barm in this, but oee the land owners as worthless i creatures. There are quite a good deal of waste about every farm that might be converted into milk, if a cow ate it, or pork, if there were bogs to keep the weeds and grass eaten up. Lots of good cow and hog feed goes to waste on many places. Mrs. T. W. Bickett has been appointed president of tbe North Carplina .railroad She gets a salary of $76 per month . and her duties Will not interfere with fier serving Wake county as Welfare head. Lucky for her. $900 a year will help out migh tily. » Dr.* O. H. Purvis, Messrs. Robert Bethune, of Oheraw, S. C, M L 'and Herbert Mc- Eeithan, L. M. and Rowland Andrews and W. C. Odom went over to Black River to fish last week, but found the river too full for fishing, so they returned disappointed. - The title Mrs., meaning mis tress s married ladv, is the same in both numbers, that ,iB, Mrs. may mean one or more., So this causes confusion in writing, for to writo Mrs. Doe a nd Doolittle means two married women, the. wives of both Doe and Dolittte, the French title Meed erne is u eed. but this hardly serves Mrs." and Misses is pronounced North 'Gsrolina farmers are tornfog to the dairy cow as one Qieaiii tA balancing their farm oi^mtions. * Sfrr. D: W. Barrington of Clio, S. C., left Tuesday after a visit to her sou. Deputy Sheriff W. R. Bsrripgtoo. Raefmd cotton ginneries have b^n piA In good condition for the fell fnsiness, and they are ready to^nn. The crop identification will be one of 1^ interesting events of Farm a^ Rome Week at State Golkiire mIv 22 to 27. Duatitw with sulphur wilt stop red i pider, we leafn. Keep ing the vi down between the rows is alrery good preventitive. . ■' f'i«r The ant^Smitb Democrats in Texas haw put out a state ticket. We wondV| where ^ the distut bancee Maned last fall will endt Farmerj| and business men of StMlf coM^ty recentv made a tour of thOleoantv to study soil, impto^ng crons and tbi dairy inddMrv. The4tb^ July was tbe quiet estdav Ra^ord has anj'uved in a long time, people in average Bui R«^. W. Cuero, Tex. tbe Old Ni He stop] Georgia last^^k. ' Wben’wel^e tity cd any k] There were fewer n than you see on ay. McLeod D. D., of on his way back to . State tor a visit with relatives in ;_the quan we neea, Rhefortne \good market; but we have oo way^ of bandiing a surplus.. - Mr T. V. Riggsby of Cameron was a Raeford visitor one day last weex. We are glad to learn he is doing well in his new home. He is a good farmer. About one-fourth million to mato and sweet potato pj^mts have been donated to storm suf ferers in northern Alamance by nejnrby farmers. Much farm and garden seed has also been given. Senator Heflin’s son, Tom Hef lin, a young man in the 20’s, is a drinking character, and is fre quently in trouble with law en foVeemeut officers. Position does not make a man. nor help make a man’s sons. We used to get up on a . high hill and take a view around. It was easy to tell the bled from the nnbied pines In tbe sur rounding eountPy. The pines being worked fdr turpentine looked yellowisb. and the uncut timber had a rich green foliage. t A million and a half dollars’ worth of poultry was sold co operatively in this state last year. Tbe selfers got tbeir checks at the car door. Hogs should be sold the same wav- In fact, a market could be found for lots of stuff not now maraet ed. if it could be collected in suf- clent qiuntities. People are los ing for want of a market. Mr. T. B. Upchurch was bad ly dissatisfied with tbe gro'wth of his crops this year, and be lieved the fertilizer used was at fault, so the fertilizer manufac turers, and some agricultural ex perts visited the Upchurch farms last week, and the fertilizer folks furnished fertilizer free for an* other application, and this ex periment was tried on 160 acres, and fanners may learn something worth while from tbe experi ment. We aspect It will pay. This has bean a bad yeac to gat at the valua of farUtlzara, for with an ezeaae of water In the laijid, plant fpolklhpi bspu on abla. I ^ It seems to us this thing called auditing la carried to an excess. Mr. Fay Morris, who has been in St. Petersburg. Fla., is at home. Nearly every county in the atate is hard pushed to get mon ey to pay expenses Mr: Graham Culbreth, who is attending school at U. N. C., spent the 4th at home. Early green peas are bringing good prices on the local market, because they are scarce. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bethune and Mrs. Julia Williford spent the 4tb at Me. Vernon Springs. It now looks like more corn will be produced than ^med prab able two weeks ago. It has im proved lately. Aberdeen business men are working now to pull more to bacco to their market this fall. And they will get more. Crops are in good fix as a rule. Of course there are some not' well worked, because some folks just will not work much. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Barring ton and children spent the week end with Mrs. Barrington’s father at Charleston, S. C. Heavy bolt weevil damage is predict^ this year, and it will likely^be, for thetbipgs are here ready to eat the squafes as they appear. « Lightning killed Laurie James Tucker, colored, aged ,16. and hte poLBle ea he waa i^v^g in a field near LUlkigtm ~"ooi4^ 4^^ Jog last week.- Mr. and Mrs W. £. Freeman and daujfhters. Misses Pauline, Marguerite, Hallie and Frances Jean, spent Thursday at Monroe and Ansonvilte. Considerably over a hundred persons were killed July 4th. There were more drowned than died in any other way. automo bile accidents came second. Osea^ Harvey, colored, who farms on Dr. A. C. Bethune’s place near town, had 1929 sweet potatoes tox his dinner July 4tb. Wc suppose this beats tbe record. The best prices for produce ars not received by Hoke countv growers because their fruits and vegetab es are always a little la ter than ihat grown in other lo calities. It Is time dogs were vaccina ted egain. We have fewer mad dogs here than in most places, and we believe it is due to vac cination. Prevention is better than core. Mrs. Margaret McLeod of Timber land, R 1, is planning to rebuild her home, which was de stroyed by fire several months ago. This old home stood a short distance above the Turn pike bridge The lands of about 900 'Atizens of Harnett county have been sold for last year’s taxes- Th^ taxes against the laud amou^ed to 140.000 which means, that as the taxes represent oolv I small percent, of tbe value jof the property. Harnett coiuriy citt zens have lost their lanpg for t ' Superior court will coovtne bs Raefwd 6o August 19tb. Tbe watermeioa prospect is good, and indications are"ttMi4 prices will be satisfaetmr. Mrs. Daniel E. Blue returned Saturday rfom a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Max Heins of SanlhTd. Mrs. Ooy Taylcnr of KinstiMi is spending this week with her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Gattto. Miss Elizabeth Oromartie went over to Fayetteville Sunday for a few days visit with relativia. Mrs. Margaret Blue of Rat«gh is visiting her son-in law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. McFadyen. The Sunday schools of Ephesus Baptist aud Sandy Grove Metho dist churches picnicked at Lake * ri.m on the Fourth. Miss Diicey Tarplev of Spar tanburg. 8. C., arrived Sunday to spend some time with bur sister, Mrs. John Walker. Mr. G A. Fuller attended re cently tbeKlwanis International in Milwaukee. Wis., and had a good time and an enjoyable trip. A fine rain came Sunday af ternoon to this section, and as It had been ten days ainee we had had a shower. It wilt do a great deal of good. The McKeithan family held a picnic at the Country Club Houae on the evening of July 4tb, and that meant that there wala pretty good aaaemblage and a bounteour'r^^^n.. ^wfaeit* eop of Mr, andMrs. fi.B. MelMK bads utiil stuck in bis foot a few daya agow and baa been threatened with bloodpoisoni ng for the paet few d ays, and that’s mighty bad Mrs. Jane Biggs of Antioch visited her son-in-law and daugh ter, Prof, and Btra. H. M Thomp son, of Johnson City, Tenn., for some weeks, returning a few days ago. accompanied by Mr. and Mrs Thompson, who art spending some time with her. Lightning Sunday afternoon burned out a transformer for the Carolina Power & Light Co , ao darkness was about to aettie down upon tbe city before the damage was repaired, hut at 3 30 the lights came on and made the candles substituted look awfully insignifficant. Lawyer Lawrence of Lumher- tOD remarked within the hearing of The News and Observe recent ly something about the cool, wct weather being advantagious to the boll weevil, and tbe agricul turalists took issue with him right away. They say the hotter tti^ weather tbe more boil weevli there will be; and still evi^ cotton grower from Virgtota to Texas will more than likMy agree with tbe lawyer. fch. t ttng^pn. In tbe led tbe on du very nnall part of their G- L i'hompson. of H^way Patrobnao eighth diatrict, waa second After be wei ty. The motorcycle .o^'Whipb hn was riding aa be was^ passing through Wedsebora Wednesday;, July 8rd, was struck by an au* toipoMto driven by Oeiiey tibby- a |4-TaiK>ld boy of Albemar^ p. E.,Dobf, the boy'i father, ill the car. Tobacco Barn InranBce If you have any old barna that are likely to bum dur ing curing season, go ahead and let them bum. Afttf insuring them with me the loss will not be worth worry ing about. But suppose they bora full of your finest tobacco and' you haven’t inanred with me. . Your oonacleiioe will bother you and yoor cfid- itors this fall will wpnt tlwir money legardleaB of your hard lock. Letthki giv«]^ a word of tnnely wam^*-^ Inaore andplay aft. mSUBH-GOR^ % ■fej
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