/ VOLUME XXVI—Number 28
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|vV Thonnasville Mian Nominated ' For'
Long Torm—’Hjnton James, of
Laurinburg to finish Unexpired
Term. ?
Meeting in Asheboro last Friday
to ^lect a successor to the late
fiW-. C. Hammer as_ Democratic noml-
ee for member of Congress from
l^;f(his the Seventh District and a nom.
«lnee to succeed Mr. Hammer for the
the unexpired term, t^ie Democratic
ecutlve Comlittee for the District
m^ \^al ter Lambeth, fit Thomas-
ille, lor the long temii and Kliitoa
James, of Laurinburg for the short
term, after first tendering the short
term to the widow of Mr. Hainmer,
■who^very graciously refused, stating
that she considered that the best
c.^^.iiiteifcsts of the party would be ser.
I* "ved thereby. Mr. Lamboth’s victroy
came to the second bdllot when he
received seven of the thirceea viptes.
J(Ir. James’ nomination came on the
fifsif ballot when he i^ceived , eight
vbteh. Hoke county’s representative
on , the committee is JfcNalr Smith,
Ipcal attorney; ' *
^^;Waiter Lambeth Is in his thirty-
fifth year, but^hls busings and pp.
litical 'experience has been compre-
Ijjenslve. For the past twelve years
he has been actively engaged in the
furniture industry.
Politically he gained experience as
Ihe youngest State'Senator when he
represe^it'ed the; Twenty-Third Dis
trict in 1921, amt followed this- up
With four years as mayor of Thomps-
a.sville. As h^d^ot the city gn/ienx-
ment he stresbei the budget sys
tem, gaining for. Thomasville the
i' reputation of a well-governed, mu
nicipality and ^voldlxig licreases in
ftax rate. His .first vote was ''‘6ast
service,
[IdiuMstration lH ' tSlS elecftei»' Mr.
' Lambeth’s participation in 'pttblic af
fairs in his city and comity has
been, marked by the vigor with
whiclf he attacked extravagance in
governmental expenditures.
While in the General Assembly
he took an active part in the fight
■for the 1921 State Highway measure
:and otherwise ^ned recognition as
a constructive student of govern.
inent. He has actively Supported the
■movement for public libriry exten
sion td' the rural counties of the
stfrte, and has been a promoter of
cMc betterment movements in his
' county. HO is a Methodist, a .Ro
an, and a -Mason. Mr. Lambeth
as ai^ taken interest in the weL
fare of me'World War Veterans and
i& past commander of the American
"Legion Post in Thomasville.
Mr. Lambeth is the son of John
W. and DafSTy Summer Lambeth.
/He was educated at Trinity College.
• Hinton James, Laurinbu^ banker,
farmer and business man, Who is the
nominee lor the short teftnl, has
serv edas former mayor of Laurin-
"iurg and has beeti actively identified
the Democratic party and pub-
.jc and civic affairs all his life,
though he is still a young man. He^
Is a son of the late Alexander L.
nojpiAH lor many years an outstond-
‘Lig citizen and business and civic
leader of thle section of the State.
RAEFORD, N.- C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1930.
NOMINATED FOR CONGRESS
26th Series Raeford
B. & E* Matures
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The .|Uieford Building and Loan
'Assoctalion, last week, matured its
dw^enty-MxOi series of stock and paid
to stockbolders or credited on their
loans t^ i^ce sum of forty thousand
idollajdb.^;^e stockholders received,
one hundied dollars lor every eighty
dollars paid , in in 'Installment-. The
stock ■djas,;'"'therefore, matured in
eighty jipaths, which compares most
favorably.,j,with any association any-
Acoob^dl^ to the State Insurance
De(partn^n% who audit the bookb'
of the assboiation, the net earning
rate of the local association wae 7.3
per cent and when the fact of safety
and freedom from taxation is con
sidered, this makes an attractive
place, not only for savings but for
investments.
F. B. Sexton is presidents of’ the
'local association and W. L. Poole
secretary and treasurer.
WALTER LAMBETH, Thomasville, N. C., who was
*ominaW by the Democratic Executive Committee to
succeed Wm. Cr Hammer for the long term in Congress.
L^cal Colored Girl
7Meftts Trafde Death
A tra^e accident opcttrTed on -ihe
stri^to df'^ Raefor^ in front of Fttl-^
’J^n, %hen a ilttire colored gdrl
stepped from behind one car in
front of - another and was so badly
injured that she^ died within an
hour. Her, name was Irene Ha-
den and she lived on the farm of
Mrs. J. S. M^ultsby in the South
west part of town. She was rushed
to a Fayetteville hospital but died
about the time she reached there.
The driver of the car was L. F.
■Hartoeli, of Moore. County. He was
terribly unstrung over the accident
and when the I news of her death
came to him at the Mayor’s office
he vfainted. He was placed under a
bond of $750.00 pending an'investiga
tion.
Sunday afternoon Dr^G. W. Brown,
acting coroner, empanelled the foL
lowing to. serve as a coroner’s jury:
D. -C. Cox, N. L. Henderson, Dee
Currie, W. W. Roberts and L. M.
Andrewib. After a brief session Sun
day they adjourned until Monday
afternoon when they examined eye
witneases to the accidenj!,. all of
whom cjtestlfled that Mr. Hartsell was
in no wise to l^me.,, They found
that the accident was unavoidable
and exhonorated Mr. ^artaeU.j
‘MBACCO BRINGING FAIRLY
GOOD PRICE AT ABERDEEN
Ueportis 'reaching Raeford from
the two warefiouses in Aberdwn in
dicate that tobacco% prices are much
|„ better than they ha^ been thus far
this season and while lower ..than
last year, many grower appear
T^fcirly satisfied with them. It
'seems that the quality of the crop
j / In Hoke County is the best that it
been "for many years and this
is thought to be the reason for the
. prices,/much of the. tobacco sold
\ > A the lower marketo being of low
Quality. Some observers have ex-
, pressed the oplnionr that good to
bacco to bringing all that Itls worth,
-^hlle others think It should be
^ber. It .seeinsvattiaBsuted act,
:^ever, that Hoke
^^1 fare much better •.
^^^in 'the lower belt have
HUNTING IN FORT BRAGG
RESERVATION DANGEROUS
It is reported to The News-JoUr-
nal that Messfa. W. W. and W. G.
McCrlmmon,. of Little River To-wn-
Ship,! were indicted last week for
JmUting on the Fort Br.agg reserva
tion and bound over to the March
term of Federal Court under bonds
df $200.01) each. This is the most
drastic stepb ever taken to keep
civilians off the reservation, so far
as known, and the outcome of the
cases will be watched with much
interest. —...
STATE FEDERATION OF WO
MEN’S CLUBS TO" BE HELD
AT LILLINGTON MONDAY 13
The meeting of the Ninth District
of the ■ State Federation of Women’s
Clubs will be held at LlUington next
Monday, October i3th, at ten o’
clock at the courthouse,' Instead of
the'^resbyterlan *uroh, as first
nounce^ . A'^'large aUendance fyom
Baefoi4 js urged.
MRS.; t. B. UPCHURCH,
' , - PTMldent Ninth Dlatriot
Local Oil Mjll Having
Heavy Seed Season
Hok6| Oil >an^ Fertilizer Com
pany are having, one. 05. the 'kea-y:..
Trucksgalore, loaded to tKfe hilt
with seed, make their way to thi.=:
mill from many counties around and
it 110vV looks Hj t.hoiigh the mill will
crush more seed than last year,
which was their banner year, they
embhing more seed than any mill
in the state except seven, la’t year.
Many improvements have been
made in the plant for the handling
of a large, volume of bu3ines.3. An
au^liary^ meal house has been built
this year which will handle two
thousand tons of cotton seed meal,
ft being connected with conveyors
to the mill. A cooling system has
been installed in the seed house
which has completely removed the
danger of hot seed. Heretofore,
green seed, when put into the seed
house would naturally get hot and
damage, as well ab create a fire
hazard. This new cooling system
consists of a large number of tin
pipes Iteattered throughout the seed
through which ' a high powered
fan sucks air. You can lay'y'your
hand on a pile of seed when this
fan is on and feel the cool atr be
ing drawn through the seed. This
makes it safe to store this enor_
moub warehouse .full of seed with
out fear of fire or damage.
JOE,-McPHATTER, COL., SERIOUS.
LY INJURED IN AUTO WRECK
A bad automobile wreck occurred
over near the McEachern farm in
Blue Springs Townbhip Sunday when
a car driven by Charlie Shaw, color
ed, ran i^to the- ditch beside the
road and turned over. Shaw was
badly bruised up and his wife had
a leg and an arm broken. Joe Mc-
Phatter and wife, riding in the car
also received severe injuries, Joe
having his bac^ broken and his wife
having One arm broken. MePhatter
is still living but in a serious con.
dltioo. *
NEAREST ON FOOTBALL SCORES
NEAREST ON FOOTBALL SCOES
la a contest lost meek, put on
by the Fayetteville Observer, to see
who could guess the nearest the
scores of the leading football gameb
played' laist Saturday, Robert Morris,
of Raeford, led a field of twenty-
three contestants, coming much
closer. tf> the actual, scores made
than any one else. 1
Battery F Attends
Kings^Mt, Celebration
Battery F, Hoke. County’s oldest
military unit, left Monday afternoon
in two large buses to attend and
take part in the celebration of the
battle of Kings Mountain on Tueb-
iday. Sixty enlisted men ma?de the
tidp and. in addition Capt. Poole and
Lieutenants H. A. Currie, Herbert
McKeithaiij! and Y. Snead went by
automobile. Col. R. B. Lewis and
Capt. J. H, Blue, regimental offi
cers, also attended.' Practically all
of the 252nd Regiment was th^re,
They returned Tuesday night - and
report a fine time and a great oc
casion. Capt, Poole states that there
were kbout fifty thousand people at
the Merciseb and perhaps a total
of elghty--;thousand .;^terd "for, the
The outstanding event if the day
was ^ address by President Hoov
er, who came toNrohtuk,_Fm ... a
er, who come to North Carolina for
his first time and who delivered the
principal address which was broad
casted to the nation over a nation-^
wide hookup.
Sl.eO YE^R, IN ADVANCE
"““icii cmwisiioin.
iiisminv
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To Bid On Conotruetion of Highu
way Between LauHnburg and.
O^Aberdeen—County Not Liable fot*
Marvin Gillie Death.
Tuesday at Sanatorium
More than three hundred members
of the Fifth District Medical society
and auxiliary are expected to gather
at Sanatorium, Tuesday October
14 at 10:?0, for the annual conven
tion of that organization. A com
prehensive program has been ar
ranged and there will be Social fea
tures.
While the physicians are engaged
in their discussions there will be a
meeting of the women of the auxil
iary under the presidency of Mrs.
R. D. McMillan, of Red Springs. She
hah arranged a very attractive pro
gram - and Mrs. fW- B- Murphy, of
Snow Hill, the president of the state
auxiliary will be present
The Fifth District .Medical society
embraces the following counties:
Cumberland, Harnett, Lee, Hpke,
Robeson, Scotland, Moore, Montgom
ery, Chatham and Randolph.
The physicians will be the guests
of Dr. P. P. McCain, and hib staff.
RECORDER'S COURT
Cotton Crop In
North Carolina
On The Increase
Washington, October 8.—An in
dicated increase of 146,000 bales in
the cotton crop of this year over
that indicated a month ago was an
nounced today by the department of
agriculture.
Production^ on the basis of condi
tions existing October 1 was placed
at 14,486,000 bales. This is 342,000
balefei below last year’s production.
While there was a decline in the
indicated production in Texas, Mis
sissippi and Tennessee, this was off
set by increased indications in other
states, particularly Georgia, North,
Carolina and Alabama.
Picking and ,ginning was reported
as unusually advanced in Texas and
Oklahoma but backward in Alabama
and Mississippi, rlh other state gin-
nings are above average for this
time of the season.
In Recorder’s Court Tuesday Allie
Hayes, colored, Submitted to a
charge of driving a, car while under
the influence of whiskey and was
sentenced to four/ months on the
county roads, with judgment to be
suspended upon payrdent of a fine
of fifty dollars and the costs He
was ordered not to drive a motor
vehicle on the public roads of North
Carolina for a period of three
months. Irene Campbell wah' in
dicted with Hayes but the state took
a nol pros in her case.
D. Ammons, white, was found guil.
ty of driving a car while under the
influence of whiskey and sentenced
Jto six months on the county roads,
he having been convicted for this
offense ..b^9re.c ^ .
' Lonnie Milekj colored; plead guilty
to a charge of attempted criminal
assault and of an assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to kill.
He was bound over to ^Superior
Court in both cases. It is said that
the girl that he assaulted is in a
critical condition and there is
doubt about her recovery. Miles
te a ,haif wit who has been in court
before and it is generally consTSered
that he should go to the insane
asylum.
J. A- and Taft Hardister, of the
Ashely Heights sectloO^ltoe charg
ed by J. T. Parnell ofcjmiYing crops
unlawfully. Judemen^y the case
was reserved for one week, the
court advising /ifee parties to get
together on theli^'differences before
next ’Tuesday.
SOCIETY EDITOR FIRED—HIRED
The Society Editor of The News..
Journal has been fired and with just
cauSe. Last week, in reporting the
Women’s Club banquet at which At
torney General Brummitt spoke, bhe
left out the names of the donar and
recipient of one prize, namely, a
“Made in Carolina’’ end table given
by Raeford Furniture Company and
won by Mrs. W. R. Barrington.
However, tne fat Society Editor,
on account of“th6 unique relation,
ship existing between her and the
manager of- the paper, refuse^ to be
fired,and the said manager was pow
erless to anything further about it.
“The Board of Cooaty Commission
ers met in regular monthly session
on Monday.^ The usual routtoe of
businea;^ was transacted, two were
added to the pauper list and one,
Willie No^is, was sent to the State
Sanatorium.
The Commissioners decided to bid
on the construction of Oix and one.
half miles of state highway between
Aberdeen ..and Laurinburg and made
plans to Submit a bid on this pro
ject. If they get the contract they
expect to do the work with convict,
labor. Scotland county recently was
low bidder on another section of this
highway and work is going ahead,
the commissioners of that county be
ing well pleased with results, not
withstanding the fact that they were
about ten per cent unler the next
lowest bidder."
ft was decided to build a new
bridge over Lumber River near Riv
erton with the expense to be shared
jointly by Scotland County. County
Auditor McGoogan was instructed to
negotiate with the State Highway
Commisajon on .a_ car of I beam
steel for this project^ and other
bridges in the county.
It will be of interest to the people
of the county to know that the re
cent hearing in Raleigh before the
State Industrial Commission relative
to the liability of the county for the
death of Marvin Gillis, ended in a
ruling that tbe county was not lia
ble. '
RAErOlU> LOSES
fO FAYETTEVILLE
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY.
The foUowtog aames were drawn
Monday to adt as jurors at the Nov.
ember term cC. Hoke S^erior Court
which convenee on November 10th:
J. M. Clark, Allendale; W. L. Gib
son and F. F. McPhaul, Antioch; R.
H. RollinS', Little River; Manly
Jones, N. EL Townsend and L. M.
Maxwell, McLauchlin; H. G., Autry,
T. E. Walters, Milton Parks, D. A.
Currie and G. W. Farks, Blue
Springs; Jl. M. Pendergrass and G.
C. Wilson, QuawhiffleJ’ McLean
Campbell, J. M. Downer, Phil Car
penter, E. E. Smith, A. K. Stevens,
Al6x.,^Baker and W. C. Odom, Rae
ford;'j. B. Hair, J. A. Jordan and
A. Carter, Stonewall.
TWO FIRE ALARMS TURNED
IN last FRIDAY;SLIGHT DAMAGE
evening service hours at
ALL CHURCHES CHANGED
The hour for the evening services
in all the churches has been chang.
ed from 7:30 to 7 o’clock.
Two fire alarms were turned in
ast Friday but fortunately, no
serious damage was done. Shortly
after noon fire from the extract
from one of the big crude oil en
gines at the Raeford Gin Company
caught on top of the building and
quickly spread do\yn the length of
the gin house but tfie building being
of aU steel and concrete construc
tion, no damage was done.
Friday night about seven o’dock
Mr. C. D. McQueen’s car, which was
parked on Main Street,' caught fire
but the arrival of the fire truck and
The Raeford High School- foot-,
ball team lost to Fayetteville in
the .becond game of the season play
ed in Fayetteville last Friday. Key
ed to fighting pitch by and old riv
alry, both teams played hard football
but Fayetteville' had the' edge thru
superior team -work and ^wer.
Playing carefully and panting ofL
ten, the two teams were on almost
even tm^ms ufitil the end of the
second quarter when Fayetteville
gailied on an exchange of punts and
gained a first down in Raeford’s ter
ritory. A pass was then good for
the firbt score of ^e game. Again
in the second half the teams ilhow.
ed Btubbom defensive work and
neither was able to make any prog
ress in the third quarter. In the
fourth Fayetteville’s superior re.
serve strmigth began to tell and
the second touchdown wab register
ed by a well executed march down
the 'field in which line plaiys were
good for substantial ■ gains and a.
touchdown resultedt ' ^
Raeford plays at home on Me.
Lauchlin fl^d this week and ooaeh
and players are hard at work to
get back on the winning side of the
ledger, ^day’s game is called at
3:30 and it ib hoped- that a good
crowd will be preemit to see Bae-
ford come back.
RALLY DAY IN SUNDAY SCHOOL
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCFb
Rev. H. 6. Bedinger, president of
Flora McDonald College, will deliver
our address at the 11 o’clock sw-
vice. An effort is being made to. have
400 at the Sunday School at 9:45. A
short pageant will be presented just
before Mr. Bedinger speaks. Special
music will be given by the choir.
KILLING FROST REPORTED
IN LITTLE RIVER TOWNSHIP
County Warden H. .It McLean re
ports 'a filing frost in Little River
Township one night last week. He
states that potato vines are black
from the effects of it. While this
section is about eighteen miles from
Rheford, there is an appreciable dif.
ference In cUmate, there having , been
the applioatton of. chemicals soph no. trobt in^the lower part of tho
extinguished it