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u ■r fBB NBwiMoui^iu.. W, c. !'1‘ lum of Activity on Main Street ymm DEFENSE r-vi 1'^ ■ j Pfitv f N • - ■ ,' Evidently the fictitious town of “Coldriver” hsa adopted the siesta custom, as witness *Scattergood Baines” (.Ouy ^ibbee) and hialte’er- do-weB assist ‘^ipp” (WUlh Beat). The Clarice Budington yjltimt character now comes to the screm in a series of features of which “Scattergood Baines” is the first.. MIMinumi News i Mrs. J. Pi Mdtevid spent the last ■wedEOid at her home, in Jonesboro. iSr. and Mrs. Henry Miucwell spent Sunday with Ifr. and Mrs. J. L. McE^yd^ of Ardhiit; ; Bom to Mr. and Ml^ lirvin Beas- liQT, Sunday, Fdimdiry a ^n, James Ervin. Alitioch News Miss Margaret McPhaul returned home after spending several days in Winston-Salem with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Leggette. Little Misses MwUyn Poole and Harriet Adams Hod^ have bran on the sick list. Messrs Calton Gibson and M. L. McBryde spent Sunday in Char lotte. Derry, son of, Mr. McBryde, who had been in a hospital there, returned home with them. Mr. and Bfrs. Arch Gentry and eon, of Red Springs, were visitors in Arabia Sunday. friends of Jack Hodgin are glad to hear that he is much better after being seriously ill, for- two weeks. Miss Grace ^Maxwdl, of Dundar- rach, spent Sunday wfiBr Miss Mary .Jiftirayden. Mrs. Edens, of Red Springs, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. D; McPhaul, this wedc. ^ewer for Defense Secrebuy )E(^es said that power production of federal hydro-electric project h('bctoE stepped up ‘‘years ahead of sdieihtie” to meet a short-i age in power for defense industries: in the Northwest and “prospcctivjB shortaw” in other,.areas. WPA tabUshed a 50-hour work week m the Santee-Cooper hydro-elect^ power dorelcvinent jn Sooth Card- lina after PPM Director Genaera Knudsen classified the project sa “necessary to imtional defewe.” ,• DefoiSe Housing and. Roads v;v President Roosevelt asked Cong ress to, appropriate 98:^670,000 tc^ prefabricated houses, toaije^ and ob^, solete passenger ships ^ temporary housing for defense ers in sbihe areas until. jMennanerii construction ipeets tbe demtoui Fed^; eral Works Administrator Garmody announced the first dh^t. assign^; ments to., Ittoal, housing auttforitiek under the Lanham Act:^^ defense housing units at Cincinnati, and 300$ at Akron, at a cost lunited,„:to $2,75^; per unit. . , Selective Service latorpretathHis^^l Brig. Gen. Hershey, {Elective Sier-^ vice Deputy Director,, announced int- terpretations of B^tectiva" Servieb- System regulations to permit women' bank officials, school superintohdentiC and teachers to serve associate memi;' bers of advisoiy boards for regis'^i trants. Gen.. Hershey suggested “4^ person who understands tiie view point of the conscientious, object^, should be included.” " i ^ FUght lining ‘ '% Navy Secretary Knox annoimoed; that beginning February 15 and each : month thereafter ;1,00Q young men^ between the ages of 20 and 27 year|; ^will have an oppoi^ity ip entc^; training leading to conttnissions-i as stosigns in tiie Naval Reserve for assignment to flight duty with tiie U. S. fleet. Sabotage Control Attorney General Jackson, speak ing in New York Citir, said the FB^ has. established a .thoroii^ system of sabotage detection in ihiore thipr 1,200 plants producing defense ma terial “in order to scdeguard the entire American a^ns program.” FBI Director Hoovo’ advised that all per sons claiming to be. G-men be xe- quired to presdnt their credentials^ mi Miss-Homnnd Emipa Vanhoy (U]e. spending a while with tltoir' farothier, Paul'Vt^oy, of CSiarlotte; Mr.^and Mr& Grady Cede, of Ctoa- !|onin, spent tf^e wbGcend with Ifr. And Jita, I. J. . Cole. : .„:;pf Ashl^ Heights. - V ' 'A / f, '' I . MisO Louise Cole and Mr^ Ray cole entertained a number :of firiends With a Valentine party Satiiiday, February IS; at the(. home of their parents. -The iMurty,^ waa given in 'hopor ;Ot their cousin, Miss 'Ruby Lucas,''of Seagrove. .i,:, 'i, , y Floyd Lucas, of' Wilm|n9ton,' and Howard Lucas, Of Laurinburg, spent tii|e we^end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J/ I^'Lucas. Mi^ Louise^ find Thelma Parks spent Sunday witii friends in Albe marle.- . 4' 'i-' Mrs,: R. S. Clark, who has bafin ill ifor sometime, has returned ~to her home, in. Poptorville, .MSss. She' was. accompanied by her "daughter, ..Mrs. -rvC., Sinclair. ’Mr Alvin . Robertson, Woodrow Wil son,' Hubert Moss, and- Max Pickier’ spent the .weekend at their respective homes. They are in camp at Port Mbultne, S. C. Michele Morgan;' phe'of die most popular feminine film stars .of 'Franeje^'flS now |ii-Hollywood where her exotic Gallic chafma will 4)ebrot^bt tp the jwi£(m. in BEO Badio productions. Fascinating and blonde. Miss' iforgan is best known in this country for hex outstaiiding portrayal in “Port of Shadows.” She also co-starred abipad with, Charles Boyer in ‘fL’Orage^’ (“The Storm"). Mrs. Fannie Edwards and Colon Edwards, of Fork, S^ C., spent Sun day wito Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smoak. Sanatorium jNews As The Weather Viw Then'' Bine Swings News Mr. and B/lrs. H. D. Skipper, of Gibson, Esther Skipper, of Laurin burg, and Mrs. Sara Smith, of Ham let, were Saturday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Pearson. Mrs. Rudy Bumau aiid, daughter, Shirley, of Greensboro, are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bea^ at the Sanatorium. Paul McCain, Jr., of Davidson col lege, spent the weekend at tiie Sana- atorium^ with his parents. Mrs. Archie Clark, of Red Springs, spent a few days recratly'With Mr. and lUks. Lather Clark and family, of Blue Springs. Sidney Lylea, who fncoitiy resign-r ed his .^rk at live .^hatorium, and is now Working in Fayetteville,' spent the wetinmd at iheSanatorium. Friends of Mrs. Susan Davm are glad to .know that she is improving after a long illness. Appreciittioii , ■ (D. 8. P.) - Between the 11th, «nd 15th . Of February, 1898, we had t^e coHRai weather, ever known since my day. Thermometers ' rogisteied; 7 degreee below zero in Ttoy, and snow neaily two feet deep covered the earfli for weeks. R^inson Green, a; farmer who lived 4 sfifles east of lllroy, reported 14 degree* below zero' at 4 otolo^ oh the memh^ of the 15tii of .ttdit FeBruary. .Webaitott|».w«ur.Qf know ing udien a titottrioiftcter registers correctly, but 1 dO' imow it vtas ^retT cold weather. I have seen no blue birds 4ince. : Aidiie McGougeo, Edgar McGou- gaiii'iind Ernest OaviS, of Fpri Moul trie, James Hmidrix and ^Uy^Bar-. hour, of Fort Jadrson, were at home" fqr tiie wgHcehd. Miss OUie Biius, who teaches in the Ratpseur school, spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Bij^. Pete iOanady agi^ , R .Mr. inad.Jte.’H. «f.AiWb]a. The Hu' is takihg a b|ow at quite e ^mber of i^pte. to;tw l^,{«aiid it si|^ to beV more severe tgrpeitiumat^ first Isabel Bethuhe, Carolyn McLem,^ and BSary EHzabeth Trawicb fromi Flora Macdofihid, spent the weekend at home. Mr. and . Mrs. D. S. McKeitiian and Mhq. Annie McKefttmit'spent the S^day^in Red Springs with Mr. and Mrs. Bud McKeithan. - 4 . . Mr. Win Lament, who had an at tach of Hu last wctoki -has had a re- Ihpae and had to go^ hadc to bed. He is getting on nicely now, although he haz. been quite sich. ^UENTY OF GOOP WO^ SHOES, wwfc Shliis, overalls, pants, glorcs. The .eonunittee who had of the iborhament Friday nigb^uWl^ consiHfi^ of Mrs; R, L. : Murray; Mrs. A. D^Gqre, -Mist Loi^ato Fh^ wd Josephine HrOl; epph^to'tito^beiuly cooperatimi ofvthe coitotx«Jdyi^~Rw^^:^ niqonahitos class, the Ktouqiis iwb, azH Robert Gatito*' Thdr helii j^ tiio tour- naihent the success-that it wib. Dr. and, libs. B: Monay attend- liimlSoaxAM ed a meeting.qf file Rale|jgh We^bwidey^^evebing. ; Murray ;ia the mc^eatlej^miner lit Hoke county for w^hMeos. isRE^.!cin; swd^-njM they a|e''tii|.'Srpqp^' nlar Rdfidgeraton hi V FERTILIZERS^ FARM IMFLEMENTS MTTMnMTat 4 HARDWARE DEPARIMBH FOR FARM HONE i^OARDEM Y001.S STOVES iibMicis a • t •'-f 4^ EUERYlHRtG FDR THE WELL ’ ^jj^INTEp KlfpfiiN tv ;.'.-■ ■ -'.awi FME PAINT Whether you have a littin job to do at home or vriietlwr yon' ato a professional painter looking for the best siiq^plics—> thb store’s yonr hea^narters.. Vartiisbes - Laefisn - Eianeh Sberwia-Williams Paiit ■■ .* PA/HT-i/P A Ai One lot of Enamel Ware at givcHEway prices. Come s^ these. Better values are not offer ed than these. Mm and ; John Ai^eill, ea^periOnced; alert, «iid^ierye .youT^' ^ :■' - -::
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