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Ji) ♦ > y ^ ■ b-. J)btrict40f N. C. FarmBureau Has Meeting Here BEPRESENlATlVES OF 5 COUNTIES IN BAEFORD TUESDAY On Tuesday of this week, Dis trict 4 of the North Carolina Farm Bureau heTd a meeting w'ith ap proximately fifty leaders from Hoke, Robeson Scotland, Cumber land, and Moore Counties. The meeting was held in tl^e interest of getting in motion a memiber- ship campaign to be conducted in these counties during the months of Septemiber and" October. Representing the Bureau were John Eagles, and Will Rogers who outlined the plans in conductin the campajgp. In 1946, membership in Farm Bureau reached 62,000. The ^ard of Directors and Ex- i^e Committee ^have set a ecut goal fdr 1047 of 100,000 members. A. C. lEdiwards, Chairman of the mem)bership committee and a far mer of Greene County, was the main speaker for the occasion. He spoke ■ of the needs for organizing the strongest Farm Bureau pos- ^le. Mr. Edwards reviewed the accom^lshments made through the efforts of Farm Bureau and other farm organizations." He stat ed that it was becoming more difficult to maintain the gains made and harder to get* new Ag ricultural Legislation through Congress ahd the S^te Legislature without a larger farm'organiza tion. It was poifjted out by Mr. Ed wards that support prices for.the basic agricijiBural conmodities ’'"'^iild'enH n^t year; unless they were extended by the Congress early next year. He told the group present that Congress 'v^ould not likely extend this program unless the Southern farmer joined a farm organization that was working for his interest. Hoke County’s quota of membership is 471. 0 Hoke Cirls Compete In Electric Contest MI$S AMERliBA? Pictured below is Miss Vi vian White, 18 year-old Fay etteville girl who was recently chosen “Miss North Caro lina 1947,” and who is in Atlantic City, N. J., this wdek com peting with the 53 other girls chosen most beautiful in their states and territories for the title, “Miss America 1947.” mS Poole’s Medley Nine Hoke County girls are competing in the 4-H Club Better Method Electric Contest being bo- sponsored in 28 North Carolina counties by Carolina Power & Light company and Westinghouse. Extension workers in the 28 counties are cooperating in the project, a part of the nation-wide 4-H ^ub competition sponsored by Westinghouse Educational Foundation and designed to find means of improving the w^ys of performing farm and farm-home tasks electrically The nine Hoke County girls who are competing are eligible for numerous awards. Including prizes, trips, and scholarships. The win ning girl in Hoke County will re ceive an all-expense trip to Ral eigh for‘ the 4-(H Club Electric Congress to be held in October. The best contestant in Hoke Coun ty will win a: silver Medal of Honor. The county winners attending the Electric Congress will be eli gible to compete for other awards, with the State Winner receiving an all-expense trip to the Ration al 4-JI Club Congress to'be held in Chicago in December. 4-tH Club members of Hoke County who are competing in the Cbntest arer Myma Almond, Mel- va Dean Brown, Florence Camei;- on, Peggy Mac ChasonyTWtlJr Eoii Nixon, Elizabeth Parker, Joan Pickier, Bette Tasdor, and Betty Jean Vaiihoy. —- ■ 5' ' UIGHTNING STRKES SABIE PLACE THRICE i;> ■ if Oraiwiford. Wcig|.t reported yes terday that during the electrical storm Tuesday afternoon his feed barn was strudc three times by ughtning and set afire. Fortun ately there were people ani wster present ^nd danulge was not great. BY D. SCOTT POOLE There'have been many changes in Raeford since McRae and Will- if({rd named a postoffice establish ed at their store 70 years ago. Raeford Institute opened its doors for students in 1895 in a frame building of two stories. There were a dormitory and sev eral cottages in Which the faculty and boarding students lived. The school was well and favor ably known over the state. Sever al of the students were ministers and teachers later in life. Dr. Hector McLean owned a thousand acres of land near Rae ford, farmed, built a medical col lege, and had a "fine reputation oVer the state. This was said to have beqn the first medical col lege in North Carolina. He named the place Edinboro. 'The college went down when Dr. McLean died. v Theye were three hundred miles of railroad in the state when the Civil War ravaged' the United States, and destroyed the South, but folks who could just lirve any way, kdpt doing something, and have built a new world here. Stand or sit near U. S. highway 15A and watch the traffic. You will' see a million dollars worth of automobiles and trudes pass in i ^ort time, and all of them will be more or less loaded. One thing I do not much like, and that is the educational draze. is wdl to get wi^om but some brandies of education have run into high-toned foolism. If people got better by all ttiat is done, it would be praiseworthy. But our prosperity and vast store* of knowledge have, I fear, caused many to forget God. Knowledge :et of man’s nolhin^gness and the greatness of God are two things ^he world is deficient in. Trucks pass through the coun try selling apples by 4^e bushel or by the peck and that peck holds eight liquid quarts. People do not know the difference between dry and liquid measure. . In the 2fear 1858 there were fifteen boys and girls bom in the immediate vicinity of Jackson Springs, and this writer is’ the only one living. There were forty fine young men, each a gentleman, who went from the Jackson Springs com munity into the Confederate arm ed forces who never returned to their homes and loved ones. Folks on the farms.^-When I was a young man said a man could not pull over 100 bundles of fod der nor gather more than ten bushels of peas in the hull. But some could gather 25 bushels in the hull, I know. l4w Cases Tdce About All Day h Recorder’s Court SHOOTING CASE IS^ CONTINUED FOR ONE WEEK The administration of justice to nine defendants took about all day in Hoke County recorder’s court Tuesday before Judge Hen ry MoDiarmid. In addition to the nine defendants whose cases were disposed of, cases against six mo thers were continued. The case in which William Har ris, Tabnadge Melton. J. D. Wal ters and Nancy T. (McPherson were charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill was coiitinued for one w-edc at the request of the defense attor ney. All arJ ^arged in connec tion with aij ^^ged^ shooting of Irene Carpenter. All involved are Raeford white people. Guy McFarland and! William Sampson, both white ^paid the costs and forfeited a $^0 .>^ond, respectively, for speeding. Danny Shaw and J. T. Harring ton, both colored, each paid the costs for toeing drunk and disor derly. Joseph A. Handon, colored, paid $10 and the costs for careless and reckless driving. John C. Pate and Howard Gales, both local- white men, were found guilty of trespassing on White- Tex Mills property and each had to pay costs. Pate also paid the cosjts for violating the prohi bition laws. An old case against Gales vnE|S .and he a plea of Hole eontendere to the State’s charge of careless and reckless J idriving and damage to perso^ property. Sentence was six months to be suspended on payment of the costs and ($150 to the clerk for D. R. Huff, owner of the damaged property. William A. FauHc, colored, got 30 days suspended on payment of the costs for careless and reckless driving and 60 days suspended on payment of the costs and a $45 fine in another case in which he was charged with violating the prohibition laiws. Ridiard IMcPhatter, colored, operator of an establishment Nor th of Raeford on the 'V’ass rogd, was found guilty of selling beer on Sunday and paid the costs and a $10 fine. LIBRARY NEWS .1 Ip Mississippi there were paen who could and did pick 800 pounds of cotton iii a day. But a bale a week is the average picking. The peach crops helped the con- ditioxL of the country, and apples are now had all year round. We used to have apples only a few months in the year. Tobacco is not food or clothes, nor do 1 believe that it iwroves the health of the inhabitants, but so many smoke cigarettes the country is growing rich from the crop. Cigarettes, more than farm allotmeixts, make fanning pay. (Continued on bade page) A party for the members of the Summer Reading Club was given at the library Friday afternoon at four o’clock. This occasion marked the close of the reading project for this'summer. .Reading certificates were pre sented to the following, who had' read as many as 10 books, or more: John Brinkley, Geraldine Ch,appell, Tony Clark, George Dickson, Douglas Dixon, Grace Hess, Harriet Hodgin, Anne Leach, Alice Long, Joan McLeod, Vir- gini^, iMcNeill, Shirley Mann, Julia Morris, Lillian Scarborough, Marr ylin Tapp and Sandra Wood. Sandra Wood received the prize for reading the most books from the primary group. Bhe read 45, Lillian Scarborough came 2nd with 31 and Virginia McNeill 3rd with 29 to her credit. Grace Hess was awarded the prize for read ing the largest number from the grammar school age, having read 79, Alice Long was 2nd with 39 and 9iirley Mann 3rd with 28. In a contest recognizing char acter* cut from book jadeets, San dra Wo^ had the largest number and Irec^ved a prize:. ' Refreshments were served. Miss barlene Freeman is the new student assistant in the li- braiy, taking the place of Miss Eleanor Leach, who leaves soon to enier WCUiMC at Greensboro. 20 New Members Xhis Week For Commerce Group Twenty more names were added to the growing list of members of the newly organized Raeford Chamber Of, Commerce this week Lacy Clark, chairman of the mem bership committee, said yester day. This brings the total num ber of members to 42 and their membership contributions total slightly less than $800. It is hop ed that the Chamber will soon have a membership of over one hundred, both in order to be real ly representa/tive of the Whole community and 'because it needs the financial support of all. The 20 new members are W. C. Lee, Roland Covinton, Hotel Raeford, Raeford Furniture Co., Hoke Exchange Co., Amos and Co., Hoke Oil & Fertilizer Co., Israel Mann, Hotel Barber Shop, Dr. A L.. O’Briant, The Johnson Co., Baucom Appliance Co., T. B Upchurch, Inc,, Smith’s Radio Service, Belk-Hensdale Co, W. J McQuage Service Station, Gra ham’s Service Station, Elk Res taurant, Hoke County and the Progressive Store.. As previously stated, minimum contributions for membership are $25 yearly for corporations or firm's whose net worth is over $10,000, $15 for those -whose net worth is less than $10,000, $10 for professional men and $5 for individuals. These are minimum and larger contributions are ac cepted. 0 J, E. Sumner Dies At Lumber Brid4s:e Last FndayNigbt John Edwin Sumner died at his home near Lumber Bridge last Friday , night after an illness of several weeks. He had been in a critical condition for several days and the end was not unexpected- He was 68 years of age. Born in South Caroiiinaj-he_was the son. of the late Nicholas SunA- ner and Mary Louise Boswell of that state. He was a deacon in.,;the Lumber Bridge Baptist church and was superintendent of the Sunday school. , . Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lillie Graham Sumner; one son, Sidney Sumner of Lumber Bridge; five daughters, Mrs. H. K. Craw ford of Rowland, Mrs. Fulfprd MlcMillan and Mrs. George Cad- dell of Raeford, Miss Elizabeth Sumner and Miss Lois Sumner of Lumber Bridge, and two sis ters, Mrs. W. A. Wilkes of Maxton and Mrs. J. L. Walker of Knox ville, Tenn. Funeral services were conducted at Lumber Bridge Bafptist church at five "o’clock Sunday afternoon and burial was in thg Raeford cemetery. 0 Farm Bureau Will Have Fish Supper The current ouUook for NorUi Carolkui** conunereiel peaaut crop j* ewepttoMlIar food. The Hoke County Farm Bureau will hold its annual meeting at the Armory in Raeford Wednes day, September 10 at 6:30 P. M. A fish Slower will be served promptly at 6:30 and at 7:30 the business,, of the County Farm Bu reau will start. Officers 'will be elected to serve during the coming year. , SCHOOLS Of COUNTY SET TO OPEN NEW TERN NEXT WEEK Cotton Season Arrives And Gins Start Operating Cotton was being picked in the county last week and several bales already been ginned in the county by two gins and the others of the six are ready for the fall’s operation, ■Bales were ginned last Thurs day at Hoke Oil & Fertilizer Co. in Raeford for several farmers, the first bale belonging to J. K McNeill. At Pundarrach Trading (Company two bales were ginned on Friday for Dewey Hendrix, these toeing the first of the sea son’s crop at that gin. Other gkis to run in the county this season are the Rockfish gin, the Raeford gin to be operated by Marshall and Benton Thomas, Oakdale Gin and the Duffy Gin. Vetenuns Cashing Ternfmal Pay Bonds At Great Rate News from various sources yes terday indicated that veterans everywhm had started bright and early morning swapping their temdnai pay bonds for cash. Congress authorized the approxi mate! 9,0i|^0W men who hold tliem to *c»nvert the estimated one billion hundre^ million dol- larsAvd^^cfc bond's inb^ cash on or after Septemiber 3. At the Bank of Raeford business in the bonds was fairly brisk on Tuesday but slowed down some yesterday. $26,610.65 was paid out for bonds there in the two days. Elsewhere and in population centers the figures were^-^ropor- tionately higher. Chaflorte bariks, for example, paid out $589,000 on Tuesday, and, in Wilmington po lice were called to keep order when pver 5,000 veterans are said to have crowded around th^anks there. FIRE DEPARTMENT GETS TWO ALARMS m6nDAY e fire department was called 01^ twee Monday morning. The first time, around nine o’clock, a vehicle caught fire at the Dixie service station and the fire was extinguished by the time the fire men arrived. The second alarm, an hour or so later, was scraeiwhat more ser ious. The call was to the elevator of the Upchurdi Milling and Stor age Co. south of the A & R Re read and east of Main street. A belt had gotten improperly invol ved with a pulley and the friction set it afire. The Tjelt fell and ig nited the'sheift up the elevator. Firemen were ,able to extinguish the blaze by shooting water up the shaft. TEACHING POSITIONS ABR FILLED IN ALL FIVE COUNTY SCHOOLS K. A. MacDonald, county school superintendent, stat^ yesterday that the schools of the county are ready for. theft-, opening of the 1947-48 term next\ Thursday, Septemiber 11, and that the full allowance of teachers had been engaged at all schools with the exception of the Bible teacher at Hoke High, who is expected to be ogtained' in the nekt few days. Mr. MacDonald, called the at tention of all to the fact that the Raeford schools wiiU start the term operating from 8:00 to IL-SO a. in, only and that the other schools of the county would ope- raite from 7:30 to 12 noon dflily. He also announced that there woulr be a meeting of aH school bus drivers of the county at the High school at 3:00 p. m. next Tuuesday, September 9, to which public is invited. The program, will include a talk on safe driving by State Highway Patrolman Ja son Bame*. On Tuesday evening the *41 teachers of the sdiools, ai the cour^’^eill meet jn the Sgh school as^^rium. The public is also invited to this meeting. A i!^.. of the tellers of the county fol lows. ‘ap, ^e Hick aaieii W. T^^tbson. Principal, W, P. BMpps, Mies iiwee Cope- la^ Frances H. McLean, Mrsi Annie H. Gore, Miss Miriam Watson, Miss Mary Meinnis, Mrs. -Ei^uy B. Cameron. Miss Mamie McKieth- an, Mrs. Almena McKeithan, Hay wood Faircloth, W. O. Melvin, Harold A. Owens, Miss Blanche Owen, L. M. Lester, Phillip John son, Walter MePhauL Raeford Graded Sdieol J. W. Turlington, Prmc^>a]:, Mrs. Frances R. Davis, Mrs.. Ber tha Hardesty, M!rs. Elizabeth T. Robinson, Miss Sarah Blue, Mr& Mary M. Roiberts, Mrs. Ruria Shelton, Mrs. Aiinie Mae Brown, Mrs. Ollie Bigs, Mrs: Claudia Cates, Miss Nealie McLean and Miss Mildred Hamilt(». R. A. Smoak, Principal, Mrs. R. A. Smoak, Miss MUdred Wom- bie and (Miss Nancy Thoniimrg. PTA A. C. Edwards of Hookerton will be the guest speaker. He is chainman of the membersh^ com mittee of the North Carolina Farm Bureau. All Farm Bureau mem- b^ and prospective members are invited to attend the fish .supper and meeting. .iy 0 ' . Edward Lee, 7 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Lee, under went a tottsilectomy at Garland Tuesday. 0 Mrs. Lila Blue, who has been visiUng her brother, BiE Bobeita and fkmiljr has returned to b« home in Montgomery, Ala. T^ie first meeting of tiie year of the Hoke-Raeford PTA 'wiiU be held, Monday ni|d>>t> September 15, at 8 o’clock af the Hoke Coun ty High School building. Imme diately following the meeting a reception will be given for the teachers. All parents of the coun ty are urged to make plans to at tend this ranting. JOINS REGULAR ARMY Eugene L Smiflk of RaefOrd ha* reenllsted in the Regular Army for three years. Private Smith, sr iretaran of 29 months in the Navy aereed In Hie Asitftie Theetie. ]a the Army, Soldier Smllli Ima teen as signed to the Army Ckoond Ibr- OSf. J. M. Andrews, PrincqreL Miss Irene Downer and liGss Hortense McGregor. Rockfish T. C. Jones, Principal, Mrs. Treva T. Koonce, Mrs. Frances B. Capps and Mrs. Lela B. Mc Dowell. Bos Drivers Idsied School bus drivers of ttie ipun- ty are Melvin Haire, J^ Moss, Ralph Strother, Archie Walters, Alfred Leach, Sam ifendrbe, Jo anne Hamilton, Betty M^eill, Buster Maxwell, Archie Maxwell, Fred Wood, Arnold Monroe and Marvin English. Substitutes are R. H: Gibson, R. C. Kigre, Wade McDougald, Alex Norton, Lan- dos Yarborough, John CuXiretti, Jr., Francis Barkis and Ruby Strother. / Twenty-^our fiumere have ieg> Istered to go on fiie tour to B^ts- ville, lid. She to «i^ more fane- «n ate needed to complete a but load. Thoee fazmefs planning to go who have not registered should do so Hkis -week. The Bureau of Plant Industiy and Bureau of Animal Xhdushqf of Hie Ubited States Oepartmaai of AgrtroNaxe ace located at Bdhli' vm AR pbaMi of carried on a* Hdi Station. (OMtiBuad on tacR I
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