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iors^l>e«we,iineters can be insteU^,
in W9S befe yest^^y^ by °'
T ■ '«a|^;^teba^ bt the pro-
Dalto stated that T- H. Jones,
servicemap, was' now on the job in-
^lylliiig meters and v^as unable to
install xpMJy of them when he first
cali^ bouses had not
Ti^GCCt'' ’. * '
' Ovey^ifr^TOttlJes on the project
baVe"^ho^ and most of
rt^ service ex^t
fhji, ehh^ance and fee ip"
^ ^ Bdw^ is fee. inspector
ibr.^HObo ccfW^; R- ^cb, for
^Scoi^Sfe-^^tuid Hai^ton for
: . ';i
,^-;lh»je«t.
'p^w applidatibn for a loan of ap'
prflBdfeateiy $2^
strudbon Ot ?a27 ;feUes of li^s fe
serw some'v7M consuihers cte j^bat
'fis “Erin go bragh’’ #;
%>per. S5,
At Hcnw
iDk Afloidye
l^&inent Hoke Farn^ Buried
Al Center Church Yesterday
jMimhig.
il^ khowii as fee “B”
OT fee
cooperative was filed wife
Washingtoh^ headquarters. .
The t^jAyi^r of febf mileage is in
fhesoMfe^^' bf ^eson county ac-
corwhg''to.hltr.' Dalton.
Wood^Cutten
1 Tl^ cutting trees near power
fee cooperative aae warned
6t fee 'feinger of allowing trees to
iall actdjn’ in a lefto being
-epMsdfe^fee ^
Twtr statu feat while feew
lines b^V^iJBot been energized, fee^
sen isfecat dang^ from fee ^ssi-
IjiUfe'Ol static electricity which may
ive 'accuihulated in fee lines. This
daiigerous as fee regu-
Lifeid woodcu t^
feSie''life,"tfiiiM
■/•
are wa
a#ay
tmg near fedm
J, A. ^McGookan, tax supervisor
lor H)fce county announces feat the
tune for Jfefeig property for taxra
has befe^ d^famded until Marfe loth.
Every day would be Maureen (yBafe’s day, if her costless fsns^hjd
feeir way, but fee Irish star bers^ will be after calling St. ]^toicjra
as one of her favorites of fee ,,The beauty from the JQa^d
IsH who makes pictures at RKp-Mib, will next be seen as thp South
American coUeen of Irish aribi^ in “They Met in Argentma.’'
£i bist^tiffli of R^. Mr. Moi
Church Simday
\^ol|h Arfeibald ROper, 55, one of
ABdhdale Township’s feost substan
tial farmer and public spirited cit-
zefis, ^di^A^is home there Mon-.
day'evenin^^|ut A o’cock, follow
ing n critic^^^^K of three wedks.
Mr^ Roper wH^^en ill while in
BonnettsviUe on^^Mpess and , was
taken to a feospiWPfeere where
be" remained ^ two wegts.
|feieral servies were^brf^ Wed-
nes^y feorning at the^ CctMI
byferian church at I^oralwCollede
vd.fe, the pastor, Rev. G. F. Kirk-
pairick in charge and burial was in
tlgr jchurchyard.
:X^)acDns of the church weye paU-
^sttrs. Mr. Roper was a member
o^fee board of deacons of fee churfe.
Mir. Rpper was the son of fee late
Ajl^ie and Ella Bethea Roper, of
Sc^land county.
'kfi is survived by his wife, form-
tet^,MisS: Rebecca Russell, two sons,
‘(has Russell and Jade Roper, Jr.,
a daughter, Mrs. Kemp Glenn, of
blk, Va. Two sist^ nnd a
ir also suirrive. Th^ are Wal-
.jper, Mrs. DougaM Stewart and
Willie Cooper, aU of near Laur-
On Defense
WeU Attaided
Rev. L. A. McLfOurin To
Preach Sermon} Dr,
P. P. McCmn Will
Charge Congregaikmf
w • '
Play Five Gunes
htRaeford
By Mmer L. Schuyler
WUliamspbrt, Pa*. March
Clunk, secretary-treasurer of tito Wu^-
Uamsport Grays, today tflea^ fee
spring trffei^ig^tel^feh^9®„e3feibl:fion'
gsS. ^e Grs^s will move Infe
op,:riceb A; Abbbttv fete ^ar’s nmr
a^. The schedule calls for speteefi
gSies of which five wUl be ^l^red at
Raefoiid. »
The Grays will have nine days of
conditioning before they
burg on Raeford field Wednesday,
ApT^ 2. Reading will be fee ^next
attraction there, on Monday, Ap^
7 Wilkes-Barre will be there on me
9th, and Scranton will come on the
'®Qn Friday, fee I8fe, the Grays
pl^ feeir last game at Raefort,
m,eefeig Greensboro, which has tek-
Feature Court
Clarke Goodman, colored of roti^
1 Shannon, paid cpsts for careless 8““*
reckless driving to the county W
Tuesday when arraigned fer.^
head-on into fee car of J. Pv *'
superintendent of schools of
'm
The ieghlar few for toting exr place of Rocky Moimt m the
SW'
H
pired Marife Ist; but due to exte^
sive i^ughout the county
and this Targe number of eife»ns em
ployed m ^ork at Fort
Bragg, ihf ,‘board of county com-
ixiissiccpers. grt®*^ .b*® .. !^y
tension;''
Mr. McGoogan states that fete ex
tension is granted because of the
heavy penalties exacted .fpr failure
to list and calls attention to this
fact. ; He urges all citizens to see
the Itettaker of feeir respective town
ships and give -in feteir property list
ings before fee 15fe of fete month
and avoid fee heavy fines resultant
to failure to comply wife fee tax
laws.
Riuliroad Fireman
Found Deed In
Cab Of ^giiie
Heiptet, Mardh l.*r-Sam. ilarrell,
43, flttehan of fee “Silver Meteor,”
Seahobrid trhin, was ^scovered in; g
slumped.PQsition Just before fee train
arrive^ ^l«rnbb»,;ACi,bjr a
her fee teafe rtrifc M^eal aid
teas summoned afiber arriving a^ bie
Ctelutohia station, but he teas already
iflypA Death was attributed to a
heart attack.
Blr' HarreU was bom in Moiitrose,
U. C., June 27, 1897, and entered the
service of the Seaboard on March 2,
1923 He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Anna L. Harrell of Norfolk, Va.
Murrill To Fort.
Davis For Duty
^trohnan J. E. Murrill was caUed
to rtrike patrol duty at Fort Davis
Tuesday afternoon. 'About 5,000
workers sit the Holly Ridge ®®ti-
aircraft oantohmmt were called out
on strike there Monday; Differences
are ejtpec^ to be sett^ fele Veek
MBUBaD F0I8T
s*
ently Mr. Roper was one of
promoters of fee Lumbee Elec-
Hember^p Cooperation and up-
$e approval of fee RBA project
te Washington Aufeority, he was
ed as a director of fee corpor-
whife is now completing the
nuction of approximately 500
of eljectric lines to serve fee
lites oi'^udiy sections of Hoke,
on, Scotland and Cumberland
Ihes-
Scolds
The county meeting on agricultixral
defense which was held at the Hoke
high sdtool auditorium, Tuesday was
well attended by the various county
and goverinnental agencies. It was
at the meeting to contact as
mav,y farm pieople as possible within
fee next few weeks to inform them
rf the agriculturad rituatiop and how
they may prepare themselves for a
better living by increasing food and
feed crops on fee farm, reports A. S.
Knowles, county agent.
The discussion was led by W. H.
White, a member of the State AAA
committee. Hte subject was an ex
planation of fee cotton stamp plan
which cotton farmers of Hoke coun
ty should take a^ygntage of, and the
food and feed Twenty-
five million dollars is available to
ebtton farmers in fee form of cotton
amps fer reducing feeir acreage of
«otton below fee 1941 allotment or
he 1940 planted acreage whichever
:s smaller. In addition to the stamp
plan three million dollars is avail
able to those taking part in fee Stomp
plan for increasing their food and
feed on. fee farm;
Only farms that take part in fee
cotton stamp plan bg ieligfele
to receive payments for caniying; out
food and fe^ drops. ag farmers on
such farms can receive feiteg ^dollars
extra by increasing their food aUi
fged above the previous yeat. In
.older to qualify for feeir paymmit
vlnder this practice at least 3 of fee
Jteifexring. crops must be grown in
^cess of last year’s gardjp: (a) 0.2
apre of 'Irish potatoes, (hi 0 j acre of
' y.'awio-of'.iugpt
Piedmont League. Imme^tely af
ter feat game fee Grays wiR puR out
for Portsmouth, Va., playing feere
on fee 19fe and 20fe and going f^
there to Richmond for an ovemi^t
stop and* on to WilMmsport on fee
21st. They will open fee Eastern
League season at Bowman i^eld, Wil-
Uaihsport, wife Elmira on Wednes
day, Ap^^H 23rd.
Harrisburg and Reading aire-mem
bers of fee Inter-State League, airf
the manager of the latter dub is
none ofeer than Fresco Thompson,
who managed the Grays last
and made many friends in
Sciranton, Hartford and Wilkes-
Barre are Eastern League teams,
training within easy driving distance
of Raeford—Scranton at Bennetts-
ville, S. C.; Hartford at (Soldsboro,
N. C., and Wilkes-Barre at Sumter,
SC.
The schedule in full foUows;
April 2~Harrisburg at Raeford.
^pril 4>-Barrisburg at Camd&i,
•g-.'C; ' ' ■
April 8—Hartford at Goldsboro, N.
C;
April 7—Reading at Raeford. ^
April 8—Reading at Wilson, N. C.
April 9-^WilkesiBarite at Raeford.
Aimil io—^reehfeoro at Darling
ton, S. C. . , 4.
April ll—Charleston at Charleston,
C.
April 12—Charleston at Charles
ton, S. C.
April 13—Savannah at Savannan,
Gfi* ■
April 14—Wilkes-Barre at Sum
ter, S. C. ^ ^
April 16—Scranton at Raeford..
April 17—Scranton at Bennetts-
ville, S. G. -- . -
April l8—Greensboro at Rtteford.
April 19—Portsmouth at Portsmouth,
Va.
April 20 Porismoufe at Ports-
mpufe.
There te dsb a game pending be-
tteeen Wfiton>fq?®rt amda Blinira, -for
April 15,/to be pjsye4 eifefe^ at Fort
Bragg or Bodqr MoUfet.
. Poole, of fee grocery depart
of M.TjmgMin company,*
heyi^t undenittind why fee
teiiiii dUgpartment was given a write
i;
vesflgjffei' ■ fee'',,
fee negro puRed nut foioen behind an-
ufeer car and. drove into fee car 01
the Red Springs man. Darned to
the car of Mr. Pugh amotmted to.
about $150.
Josh Purcell^, colored man of Blue
Springs, pleaded not guilty to an
pj^ult wife deadly weapon charge
h^fid the court fotmd his not guilty
upon hearing fee evidence.
William L. Knight, was found guil
ty of two charges, careless and reck
less driving and driving car without
operator’s license. He was given 30
day sentences on each charge, sus
pended on payment of costs.
William T. XJssery pleaded guilty
to operating truck without “for hire”
license and was taxed wife fee court
costs.
Reeby Bouyer was found guilty of
ppteuting a car under fee influaice
of liquor and was fined $50 and costs
in lieu of a three months sentence
on fee roads.
Preston Fews pleaded guilty to op
erating a car Without plates and was
taxed with the costs. LaurmceDrose
was cohvict^ of drunken and ois-
orderly conduct and paid the costs.
Leary Watkins appealed to Superior
court after being givrai a 4 months
sentence for violation of the prohi
bition laws.
Jesse James McNeill was convicted
of drunken and disorderly conduct
and taxed wife the court costs.
Jim Barber, local colored man,
pleaded guilty to bssault charges pre
ferred by his wife who testified he
had beat her. He was lectured by
Judge W. B. McQueen and given 30
days on the roai^, wife fee sentence
suspended ufion payment of the
costs.
. Lessie BeBe Maindr, colored vm-
man was taxed wife fee ePurt costs
for being drunk disorder^.
^ tite Wteaterh
«pe
Fper Area rCouacil in Refe innings
nmtei
EViday ni|fet> Ckie^Hhunt.^.'— v*" ““»• \o/-
sixteen scoUts ffom fee;feea we^ to abfb’oi^ifeitel^'^thef.fejfe eonii,
v%if»AeAv4^ urlFlc T.A11lMb1 fTlII*. 111 Av» a4 laocf A 1 aOTO niP
and
Rev. Harry K. Holland, who came
to the Raeford Presferterian church
early in February to succeed Rev*
Watson M. Fairley* D. D., as pasfor^
will be formally installed in that
position by a commission of Fay
etteville Presbytery at fee 11 o’dodt
service of the church on Sunday
morning.
Rev. Mr. Holland was received info
Fayetteville Presbytery from Mefe-
lehburg Presbytery at a special meet
ing of the former body here on
February 11th, and at that time pres
bytery named the three former pas
tors of the Raeford churdi, Re% I*.
A. McLaurin, of Hemp, N. C., B*v.
W. C. Brown, of Raeford, and'Rev*
W. M. Fairley, D. D., of Montreat, to
act wife Rev. Louis C*. IittM®tf(X *>•
D., of Mtetten, H. ^/Pod^ M
Antiofe, Dr.' P.
atorium, and Edgar HaB, of Rae*
ford, as the commission to hoetoB the
new minister, and tiie date ^ 'Ifarc^
9th at 11 o’clorit was set for fe!|^
acre'^d i^huts, (f) 0J2 acre
of peas or beans, (e) 0.3 Acre, of peat
1&J5S,. (f)^ 0.2 aface of caM, and (g)
presmit with Laurel filB'leading in
attendmice.' The Raeford troop wem
fee greatest number of points in fee
contests. Potets were made as fol
lows:
Inspection ——J
Knot-tying
Fire by friction ..—-
Signaling 1 .:......_.10
Rescue race ^ -7
First Aid -.5
Tiig-o-War — 10
AB Scouts appeared for inspection
and fee foBowing Scouts in fee var
ious contests:
Knot-tying Hal Clark, Jimmy
Alexander.
Fire bjr friction—^Hugh McLaurii-
lin.
Signaling—Hugh' McLauchlin, Hal
Clark, Wm. Poole, Chas. Spivey.
Rescue race—Wm. Alexander, J.
W. Dawson, Hal Clark, Wm. Poole,
First Aid^Hal .Cliirik, Hugh Mc
Lauchlin, Wm. Poole, Chas. Spivey,
Hamer I^ch.
Tug-o-War— Wm. Alexander, J.
W. Dawson, Hhl Clark, Wm. Poole,
Hugh' Mdliauchlin, Jimmy Warner.
occasion. ?
It was learned yesterday, hqwevers
that Dr. Fairley, fee pc^r
Mr. Holland, succeeded. Would itothf
able because of sickiwss to be bwe
fw the service. Dr, Fterl(qr has been
quite iU with infhtetfza, and is nd
able te. be pretent to take pert in
tiie installation, aldpg with^fee ofeer
ministei^ and laymcte* The appoint
ments have beoi roa^ as foBowat
Rev. Louis C. LaMotte, -D. D., hi
preside and propoun# fe8 questioi^
Rev. W. C. Bwwn to ntete fear
prayer.
Rev. L. A. McLaurin to piieadt thA-
sermon.
Rev. H. R. Poole to duirge tite
nnaten i'~'
I*. P;'McCain to diarge tlte
edngfotation. .
"E^ar Hall is the alternate laate
man -ii
The local church, since its-oiyt^
ization in 1899, has had only titew
or. at least 0.1 acre of coi^35^M«fe'«t regular pastors. Rev. Mr. Mtfiiy%
Misses Loma Langl^, of CUhton;
end Janet C^x, of Dunn, were vW-
teix in town Bundax,. Mias I«aiMIey
wax. fonher^.a very pwulax
dsnonstniitlic^ scent of Hoko counljr
Walter H« CuUbreth
Dies At Wlutlb Oak
three or mote of .tite f^tthwing fruits*
(a) Strawberries,' (by raspberries,
(c) dewberries, (dy figs, (e) bimdi
.^apes, and (f) Muscadine- grapes.
Jeff Davis Carver
Dies Saturday
FayetteviBe, March 2.—Jeff Davis
Carver, 80, died at his home in R(^'
fish township late Saturday night «e
vras a retired' lumberman,. having
bwn inactive for ten years. He was
a member of the Presbyteian church
of Lumberton Bridge. Mr. Carver
was the son of John M. an8 Eliza
beth Black Ctffver. SUryivi^ are
his widow, Mrs. Sallie M(NeB Car
ver, a son, John McNeill, a daugh
ter, Miss Mary Frances Carver, and
a brother, A. N. Carver. Fimeral
services were held from Jerlgan’s
Fimeral home at 11 o’clock Monday
morning.
H. L. Gatlin Attends
Philco Dealers
Celebration
President oF State
Garden Clubs Will
Sp^ali^ Hf^e
The Raeford gard®t^
meet in Kiwanis hail Tuesday after-,
noon, March 11, at 8 P, M. At this
time Mix. J, Buren fedbury, of Wil
mington, pitendent Of. thi^‘ North
Carolina Garden'
ABiO Fechtig, azalea expert also
of Wilmington, wlB adfttete Rt®
M|^. Sidbu]y’s.4^ectiiNdB ite “High
way Beautifeteftc^f 4 tiqiely sub
ject as now feote people ate visiting
and pasktes feteiiEh fee 4taf®
ever before. Miss Fechti^s - talk on
asateas will be:!^
Walter. H. Culbrefe, 76 year-old
farmer and highly respected citizen
of fee White Oak community of
Bladen counW, tii®d suddenly Mon
day momhig about 4 o’dotte of a heart
attack at his home. -
Funeral services were hdd Tues
day afternoon at 3:30 at fee home in
White Oak. Ite is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Ddla Cain Culbrefe; four
sistes,'Mrs. W. J. Brambel of At
kinson; Mrs. R. L; Dew, FastetteviBe;
Mrs. C. T. McClure, White Oak, and
Mrs. W. A. SeweB, FayetteviBe; four
brothers,- T. F. Culbrefe, Raeford, A.
A. Culbrefe, Juhiper, Fla.; T. S.
Culbreth, J. G. Culbrefe, both of
CuUport, Miss. Mr. Culbrefe was a
member of fee Methodist church for
many years and a mdnber of fee
Masonic Lodge.
azaitea wiQ^ betednb'Rte kfato flower
by an act df' die i$4riegji(^ture.
The bbstesaea
be Mibi. R.
Reitb, IfiM. Fafe
rad/
. ^ v. '^.1 vf
ri''.®.!
00^1^ wil
Mix. A. C.'
. Mrs. Is-
T. vGbvinftso,
telL'/K 0‘
,,
A. & P. Fbokl Stores
Are Celebratiiiff
Hogewood Week
Over 2,000 dnployees of fee A. and
P. food stores axe celebrating fee
“M. A. Hdgewood Week,” fefs wedc.
This is a tribute to an official, vfep
has been^wife ttie company ^ 9 l
Tefet, starting as a desk In one of
6^ Stone, and by aiiiite|«ten aw
Idgndtr ' huvrtsen to bS'Wteger oC
feeCateUDM dteteldh a^.vke prc4|
who wiB preach Sunday, served heSB
from 1901 to 1900; Rev* Browte
now retired and living in Raefoed,
aerved from 1907 to 1924; Rev. Dr
Fairley, also retired and now Bving
in Montteat, served from 1925 to
1940.
Special music has been arranged
for Sunday’s service.
At fee evening service at 7:36
o’clodc the pastoijisRev. Ifr. Hdlaiiii,
wiU preadi.
Csunpa^ Ibid
loimtv Sdbook
A special safety campaign is bcnig
cowlucted in the sdionls of Hake
county by Highway Fatrdman X. IL
MurriB and A. L. Leadi of fee na
tional safety Coiwcil. _
Tuesday programs were condncted
in each, of fee colored and Riidtek
schools and other {ffograms weni
presented in the white tebWljtt od
fee county yestefdsy. These ate ex
pected to be coBtetoted today* _ ^ ^ _
Both hi^way and genstel asfisty
rules are being explained in feejise*
ies of lectures and ‘ ‘ “
H. L. Gatlin, Jr., of the Raeford
Furniture company, local outlet for
Philco products, was caie of a num
ber of dealers from Eastern Ciaroliha ^
and Virginia to atteid fee annual | . . - ' ■ ..i...— ' 1 i -
dealerls celebration last wedr. 'Hus
year’s award for securing a hi^i^
volume of rales was a fefe to fhejLArge HiUBM
Mardi Gras and New Orleans, span-1 X—J t amI
sored by Hunter Brothors, distribu- •fkim l.*ara
tors of FayetteviBe. ^
The group left Ralei^ by special Tfeeves broke into ^
train on Friday and returned fee of Leon CanMroi^ M Ttobote^
following Thursday after iqiending [Saturday ni^t aiid.st« 6 IMbaO
; lour days in the festival dty, seeing [shoulders aira a stanc w la^ Kltoas
listoric sights and the prind]^ par- the dierifTs department reportea
ades and attendant activities of fee [yesterday.
Mardi Gras. Tghile no arrests have been made
several stwpects have been qaasDon-
,«d-
Pc^o at Pinehursl
Aext Steday [Dewitt Tam*
Pin^nrst. Mandi 5.—Simdaj n^jOul Again
wiU again be polo playoff day on fee 1 ,
No. 3 polo field. The YeBow Jackets) Mr. Dewitt Taw>, who has tejm a
WiB meet fee Red Jadrets in a reg- i patient at tt>e Veterans hoapttujto
ulation six-period matdi to decide IFayetteville, for the past ttuceewa^^
‘fee three-game jacket series of tt»|*etotned to his home Saturdte*
Pind&uTst polo dub* Iwcnt timo for n trontoi^t om
'jtete rest and is fedia# —
iMlr. Tw x«s ve«y
owssBw isr 'am
b ti» »i iMiw —«»- -«* *•«*
tributed to the fuo^ twnl«*w W» *to
btetributoKS were anilMI Iff i
feke. ’.'flEter: ate- fee^^A^® aaA P*