»sitl VOLUME XXVII—Number 6 RAEFdED, N. Ci, FltlPAY, MAY^Sth, 1931 S1.50 vt; aR. in ADVANCE WED SPEIHERS HSCHOOLnNiLS Dr. Rondthaler Of Salem To Address Graduates; Dr. Hickman To Preach Ser mon; Exercises Begin 15th. The annual commencement exer- Plj: cises of the Raeford High School will be held in the period extending from May the fifteenth to the, twenty.first inclusive. This period a is longer than that which is nsnally: * occupied by these exercises. The reason for the spreading out of the exercises is found in the ^act .that the' schools at iMildouson,... Blue Springs'” and Rockfish are having their exercises at thie same - time. Many of- the'high school students at ^ Raeford are from these sections and ^ the Raeford exercises were, dated. so that there would be as little conflict as possible with the commencement 0 activities of the other three schools. The Ashemont school has already completed its final exercises. §1 The Raeford Commencement wdU he opened with the Senior Class play t on Friday evening, May fifteenth. The play is being coached hy Miss Carrie Stnrgis and is called -“Apple; Blossom Time”. The seniors have: selected a romantic comedy and are practicing indnstriondy in ordfer to put on a good performance. On Sunday May seventeenth, the haccaulaureate sermon will be deiiv. eted hy Dr. Hickman of the faculty of Duke University. Dr. Hickman is a prominent member of the faculty of a, university which is fast becoming one of the best known in the nation and Hoke County people are privi- ledged to have a chance to hear this distinguished visitor. This service will be held fn the Presbyterian church. Senior Class night has been set for Tuesday night. May nineteenth; The form of these exercises, w'hich includes the graduation students’ in. formal farewell to the school, is well known. In this class night however, plans are being made for a unique presentation. The Sgh point of the commence ment exercises will he reached on Thursday night May twenty-first when the graduating studfints wBl receive their diplomas and advice o-a their future activities in the form of an address by one of the best known educators in the south. Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler. of 'Winston- Salem, president of Salem College, win make the address to the graduat ing class. Dr. Rondthaler is not only one of the south’s leading educators but is one of the most attractive and ^ Interesting speakers that the state can claim. His intellectual interests embrace all the problems of the mod (Continued on page eight) # PRESIDENT ANJD FISH From the 'office of the chief executive comes a statement which Is of real interest to the citizens of Hoke County. After weeks of propaganda, it Is a real pleasure to come across an opin ion from the {Jreeldent which touches \ a matter of deep im- pCjrtance to the welfare of so many Hoke County citizens. The statement Is as follows: “I personally, perhaps, lend more importance to fishing than most people, although I sympa thize with all those who want to get away from the workshop or desk. 1 am Tor fishing for fun as a construfcttve .Joy as it gives an excuse andean impulse to take to the woods-and the water. Mare- over fishing has DEMOCRATtIC values because the same joy is available for the country boy as for the city ^ boy.” Mothers £kty OMRVE MEHIIAL My Special Program At School House On Friday JlAorning; Dinner For Vets; Scliedule Of Decoration. * » Hdke County will observe Memori. al Day, according to Mrs. Herbert McLean, president of the Raeford Chapter of the U. D. C., on Friday. May the eighth. Memorial d.ay comes this year on Sunday but ■ the Daugh ters are planning their annual oh servance for the Friday preceding. At eleven d’clock on Fiddly rmorn- ihg the Daughters of the Confederacy *re presenting a program appropri ate to Memorial Day. Mrs. William McFadyen is chairman of the pro gram and has prepared one which will appeal to all the people of the county. The vprogram will be given in the school auditorium and all the people of the town are .cordially in vited to attend. At twelve thirty in the high school cafeteria there win be a dinner for the veterans, their "wives and widows. It is the hope of the hostesses that all of .them evdU be sresenL The following is a list of the cem eteries to be visited by the Raeford Chapter U. D. ,C. on Memorial Day, and the niimber of graves on which flags and flowers are to be placed. The flags are at" the home of Mrs. H. H. McLean and the Committee will please call for them. Antioch Cemetery, 35 graves; (Continued on page eight) I EAST COAST AIR LINES Employees of the East Coast Air Lines were in Raeford last week, in the course of a trip southward, srecting beacons for the air line which passes Just to the East of Raeford. The beacons mark the ftirect route which the planes fol low although their visibility makes it possible for the planes to vary several miles and still keep in eight of the beacons. These guide lights are brightly painted and are easily seen in^ay as well as night. At present the East Coast Air Line is running two planes per day on that part of the line be tween Raleigh and Florence, which pas^s by Raeford. One plane passes going south about noon and one going north about three in the afternoon. Word comes from Maxton that passengers may now hoard the ethereal express there if officials are notified and take the air route to New York. Fare to the city is around thirty dol lars. MUSICAL mOGIIAIi BE GIVEN lilRSDAY Community Sing Sunday Will Complete Program In CMh serration Of Music We^$ Much Interest Shown Here. WILL BETHUNE DIES AT HOME SATURDAY Interment Made At Raeford Cemetery Sunday; Large Crowd Attends Last Rites; Many Floral Tributes. |LL Mothers are rich when they love their children. | There are no poor Mothers, no old ones, no | ugly ones. j I Their love is always the most beautiful, of joys. | I And when they are sad it needs but a kiss which they I I receive or give to turn all their tears into stars, in I I the depths of their eyes. | I —Maurice Maeterlinck. | MRS. DOST TO TALK'IIAEFOIID SCOUTS DO SAITORII SOON WEIi AT JAMBOREE Mrs. W. T. Bost, State Comiss. ioner of Public Welfare, wil he the principal speaker at thg graduation erercises on May 21 oT the N. C. Sanatorium Training ' School for Nurses, according to announcement made Thursday by 'Miss Martha C. Newman, superintendent of tire school. This is said to be the first time. in the history of the Institu tion that a woman has been chosen to address the graduates. On the Sunday prior to the gradu ation erercises. Rev. E. L. Barber, The tumult and the shouting dies, Ing directions as to kow to reach pastor of the Aberdeen Presbyterian ELECTIONS GIVE CITIZENS FEVERISH DAY AND NEW SET OF TOWN OFFICERS Mayor And Board of Aldermen Selected By Citizens In Voting Monday; Courthouse Officials Turn Guide; Much Interest Shown By Citizens In Elections State Commissioner Of Public Welfare To Address Sana torium Nurses At Gradua tibn. Tie For Sixth Place With Wil mington Troop; Visit Bat tleship Raleigh At South- port; Interesting Trip. the candidates and the voters depart and the much hearalded town elec, tlon has made off into the shades. , Raeford's lovely city hall was deco rated with coats that proved too hot for the day and ranks of the politically curious who stood by to watch the progress of, the day’s vot ing. Along the North wall of the hall the voting booths were arranged ► with secretive curtains so thaf ex- , cept for the stage whispers- that emanated from the booths it would have been hard to surmise who the different' cltlzensi.^ were voting for. /^Pre-primary political work was e8.\ .nmated at a minimum before the big ^ day but all day Monday the air was as teha^ as the path of a tight-rope walker, ^i^oups gathered on the streets without the least provocation and began'^to converse in confiden tial tones, casting furtive glances at other groups at the same time, as If apprehensive lest some hit of wisdom should be loosed In another group. Audited calculations by McMillan, the sage of Sacramento, estimated ^ that every citizen of Raeford who walked the streets on primary day was asked exactly twenty-seven times whether he had voted. Deni, j^ens of the courthouse also had a Fexing problem steering voters out the dommissloners room and giv- > 4 the City HaR. After the post-dimiCT season. In which the voting was rather heavy for an hour the rush /Bed down and candidates and workers alike were able to enjoy an afternoon of horse shoes on the improvised links next door, and at the same time remain near the scene of action. The vote-counting in the evening was attended by the greatest curi. osity on the part of the citizens.'A good crowd was on hand to watch the developments of the-'^race in cluding those who had the bowling tournament at heart and were an- jxious to be rid of the rivalry which the vote-counting presented. Soon they were rewarded when the politl- )cal -vigil keepers surged away from the polls, telling the ones who ac. costed them than G. B. Rowland was elected Mayor, and L. M. Andrews, Carl Morris, Archie Stevens, Mlltoii Campbell and W. P. Covington were named to the board of Aldermen. The following are the official re turns: For Mayor: R. L. Bethune, 119; G. B, Roiyland, 307., For Aldermen: Carl Morris, 374; L. M. Andrews, 872;; W. P. Coving ton, 866; IMilton Campbell, 8^2; Ar chie Stevens, 800; M. L. McKelthan, 84, L. B. Monroe, 74;- Dr. G. W. Brown, 73. Church, will deliver the baccalaur eate sermon to the six members of the graduating class and their friends in the Sanatorium auditorium. Rev. ‘Watson Fairley, pastor of the" Rae ford Presbyterian Church, and Rev. ■W. C. Ball, pastor of th eAberdeen Methodist Church, have been invited to take part In the graduation exer cises proper. Miss "Virginia Hufty, popular 'Wilson vocalist and featured singer on a number of programs as “the sweetheart of the American Legion," win sing several songs. Dr. P. P. McCain, superintendent pf ;the' Sanatorium, Will present the di plomas to the graduates, and hos. pital pins will be presented by Dr. S. M. Bittlnger, assistant superin tendent. A number of social affairs have been arranged in honor of the gradu. ates by friends at the Sanatorium and elsewhere. Thirty farmers In Wilkes County have formed a corn club and each of them will grow one acre of corn under the supervision of County Ag ent A. G. Hendren. The latest meth ods of cultivation and fertilization will be followed, says Mr. Hendren. A little jack wil lift a car but nowadays it takes a lot of jack to keep one up. The Raeford Troop of Boy Scouts came back from the Jamboree at Wilmington -with flying colors. The troop made a splendid appearance at the scout gathering, took third place in the inspection, tied for sixth place in the tabulation of points al though they only entered seven of thirteen events, and had an int^- esting and inspiring trip. Twenty-one scouts left Friday morn, ing in a truck, accompanied hy Assistant-scoutmaster Younger Snead. Saturday morning they were joined by Scoutmaster Sexton and Mr. Ry an McBryde of the scout committee. Saturday morning the scouts took part in the parade and passed in review before the stand at the city' hall in Wilmington. . In the afternoon of Saturday the field events of the Jamboree took place at the Robert Strange play ground. The events in which the Raeford troop entered and the place won in each are as follows: Inspection, third; Competlt've drill, no place; Archery, second (Nig Epstein)Rifle Marksmanship, no place; Signaling Morse Code, no place;- Tent pitching, no place; Char iot Race, second place. Troop totals were as follows: Troop 19, Wilmington, first, 375 points: Troop 16, Wilmington, sec ond, 250 points; Troop 28, Maxton, third, 245 pouts; Troop 29, Lumber- ton, fourth, 166 points; Troop 9, Wilmington, fifth, 100 points; Troop 14, Wilmington, and Troop 1, Rae ford tied for sixth place, 70 points each. The scouts upon their return gave an enthusiastic account of their trip which included an inspection tour of the battleship Raleigh, lying at anchor In Southport harbor at the time of their trip. The Chaminade Club is carrying out th's week its previously annonne ed program with regard to Music week, which is being sponsored over the nation by the various musical organizations. Over radio, in music schools, by local music clubs and hy every organize! musical agency, effort is being made this week to ■recall to the public the glories of the art of music. Numerous radio advertisers are making their bow this week to the art which dominat. jes their programs and newspapers all over the country are giving space to the activities of the musical or ganizations. In Raeford and Hoke County the Chaminade club is leading the move ment. The program as they plan it will consist of two main programs. The first is to be given in the Rae- forl school auditorium on Thursday night of this week when the junior and senior music clubs will combine in a musical program which will be open to the public and quite free. The Chaminade club will present a program which will be in effect a re view of the music which has b.?ea presented at the club meetings throughout the vear. The music will be entirely vocal with the possible exception of numbers by a visl'ing violinist. The vocal numbers U-iii in clude solos, trios, quartets and inu.sl- cal readings. The Junior Music club, composed of the music pupils of the high school and the members of the youncer group who are inter, stei in music, will contribute several iiiim. bers to the program including sev eral choruses and numbers by the male quartet. A good program is. promised to those who will come out "0 the entertainment Thursday night. On Sunday night there will be a courr.unity sing ia which the three cbarchss of the town will join ?t the Presbyterian church at eight o'clock Sunday night. The choirs of the three churches will join to assist a from the home Sunday afternoon at song leader in the program. The- four 0 clock with his pastor. Dr. | audience will join in the singing of ■Waston M. Fairley, conducting the; old and familiar pieces. The intimacy last sad rites. Interment was made | and pleasure of the old group sing- in the Bethune plot in Raeford Cent ‘ ing will be outstanding in this pro- etery. Rail bearers were: Ed. Be- gram. It is" hoped, that all the peo- thune, Frank Blue, Charles E. i pje of the community will join with Pleasants, Jr., Francis Pleasants | the Chaminade club'in their Eston Blue and Malcolm Pleasants, i week celebration, all of Aberdeen, and all cousins o: i the deceased. An unusually large number of friends followed the body to its last resting place. The floral he is boss in his home." advises offering was large and beautiful. | Sap .McCleod. "Chauces are he'll (Continued on page eight) j He about other things, too." ■William Lauchlin Bethune, a life long resident 6f this county, passed at his home at Montrose Saturday following a few days critical illness and several years of declining health. About five years ago his health became ball from a kidney trouble and he received treatment at hospitals in this state and in Baltimore. .4bout a year ago he entered a Raleigh hospital for treatment and came honie somewhat improved, but on account of business reverses and his poor health, he was extremely blue at times, this condi tion resulting Wednesday, April 29. in his firing a pistol bullet into his heal, from which he passed- away Saturday at ten o’clock, p. m. _ Funeral services were conducted Music "Don’t trust the fellow who says FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL CHARTERED IN NORTH CAROLINA AT EDINBORO Tenant House Which Burned A Week Ago Was Office Of President Of School ; College Building Later Became Edinboro Gin; Torn Down Few Years Ago by BOB COVINGTON Through the ministry of forgetful ness carried out by the passing years, little notice was occasioned by the burning of a building Wednesday of last week, which, had it burned in 1860 would have spread consterna tion and concern throughout the State of North Carolina. To moderns it was a lit^e brick building used on a farm n^r Raeford as a tenant house. To the citizens of the seven- ,ties it was a storehouse of medical experience, a haven of relief to the ibodles that fell sick of “distemper” pr fever, a workshop from whose doors were turned out the cured people of the section, white and colored, slave and free. "With the burning of the little brick office, there passed from North Carolina the last tangible remnant of the medical school which from 1866 until 1872 trained the physicians of Eastern North Carolina and sent out into the widely scat tered homes of this section the gift of what medical knowledge and skill ■was available in that time. The Edln- borough Medical School was the first medical school chartered hy the State of North Carolina. It rendered a wonderful service through its trained physicians to all that sec tion of North Carolina between Ashe- boro and Lumberton, Rockingham ' and Fayetteville. Dr. Hector McLean Much of the story of the old Ed- inborough Medical School centers a- round that stalwart and romantic figure. Dr. Hector McLean. In his person were combined the knowledge and unselfish service of the pioneer phjsician, the wealth and affluence of the land and slave owner, the leadership of the educator. As early as fS56, while Dr. Mc Lean was practicing from his home at Edinborough, young men began to come to “read” medicine under his instruction. He was wealthy in the terms of the time, he was an acknowledged leader in knowledge and practice. He cultivated five hun dred acres of land, a monstrous farm for that day, he owned land from Edinborough to the Lumber River, he practiced medicine in a field so wide that at times he would be gone for two weeks on a trip, he stood like a tall and clean limbed pine, an outstanding leader of the section. Beginning of the School As more young men took up the idea of studying medicine with Dr. McLean, the doctor conceived the idea of a medical- school. There was no dearth of enthusiasm among his pupils and at a date during the Civil War which is not definitely told he cemstructed on the grounds of hie (Continued on page seven)

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