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The Hoke County Journal
VOLUME XLni NUMBER 25
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1848
RAEFORD. N. C.
S2.00 PER TEAR
YOUR
ISCHOOL NEWS
By K. A. MacDonald 1
Mrs. D. S. Poole
Dies In Hospital
Tuesday Night
Mrs. D. Scott Poole, 80, wife
of D. Scott Poole of Raeford,
' I retired newspaperman and
Miss Mary Van O’Briant,' former legislator, died at 9:3Q
State Elementary Suprvisor and j o’clock Tuesday night in a
Associate Director of Instructional: Fayetteville hospital.
Service State Department of Mrs. Poole had. been ill for
Public Instruction, was in the some time, but her condition
county Monday and Tuesday. Miss
O’Briant taught Dr. Richard
Weaver’s class in Resource-Use
on Monday afternoon. Her main
jibb was to show how Resourse-
Use. could be integrated with the
regular school work.
On Tuesdy she visited the
eighth grades at Hoke High, the
Raeford Graded^ school, Rockfish
and Mildouson. Miss O’Briant
ptiade valuable suggestions for in
creasing the efficiency of our
work and at the same time was
high in her praise of the work
that she saw going on.
Miss Eloise Camp, state library
advisor, will be in the county
next Monday to assist with the
reorganization of the school
libraries.
The Mildouson P.T.A. will hold
its next regular meeting on next
Tuesday evening, November 23, at
7:30 o’clock. The program will be
in celebration of National Educa
tion week.
The following is the total en
rollment, memibership, and per
centage in attendance for the
second month of the vidiite schools.
Ashemont 120, 115, 96.2; Hoke
High 8th grade 85, 85, 90.3; Hoke
High 257, 251, 93.8; Mildouson 80,
80, 90; Raeford Graed 449, 442,
92.4; Rockfish 1^, 110, 92.5.
The Ashemont luncheon lunch
room has just installed a new gas
cooking range and gas hot water
hearter. Mildouson has also just
had a new range installed. We con
gratulate both schools.
Massey Hill To
Meet Bucks
Here Tonight
Strong Cumberland Team
Enter Contest At Armory
Park As Fayolrites
The county superintendent is
attending the State Work confer
ence for superintendents being
held in Raleigh this week,
ahothfld
The Southeastern district meet
ing of the negro Teachers as
sociation will be held at Jackson
ville, N. C., on Saturday, Novem
ber 20. There will be several Hoke
county teachers who will attend.
Next Sunday afternoon at 4
o’clock there will be special ser
vices held in the auditorium of
the Upchurch high school. At this
time a portrait of the late Thomas
Benton Upchurch, benefactor, and
for whom whom the school was
named, will be'unveiled
Rev. R. Nathaniel Tross of Char
lotte’ will be guest speaker. Dr.
Tross has been heard on the radio
by a great many in this section
with a great deal of interest. Seth
McCoy of Raeford and Greensboro
will be soloist for the occasion.
The school glee club will also have
part on the program.
became critical when she suf
fered a stroke about a month
ago. She was the former Miss
Margaret Leonora Holiday
and was born in Cumberland
county, 'a daughter of the late
William B. and Sarah Ann Be-
thune Holiday.
She was a granddaughter of
Lochlin Bethune, who repre
sented this section in Congress
over 100 years ago. Her girl
hood days were spent in his
home, as her mother died
when she was small. She at
tended boarding school at Mc-
Caskill’s seminary at Ellerbe
Springs and was married to
David Scott Poole on Septem
ber 28, 1884. The early part of
her married life was spent in
Montgomery county and the
Pooles came to Raeford in
March, 1905.
Surviving in addition to her
husband are four daughters,
Mrs. Luke Bethune, Mrs. A. K.
Currie and Miss Maude Poole,
all of Raeford, and Mrs.'Hugh
Lowe of Charlotte; a son,
William Lawrence* Poole of
Raeford; and five grand
children.
Funeral services will be
conducted at 11:00 o’clock this
morning at the Raeford Pres
byterian church by Rev. W. B.
JHeyward, pastor. Burial will
tie in Raeford cemetery,
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Albert B. Hair,
Aged Resident,
Dies Monday
Albert Bright Hair, 83-year
old resident of Raeford, died
at his home here with his
daughter, Mrs. G. G. Faircloth
at nine o’clock Monday morn
ing after on illness of sever
al months.
Mr. Hair was born in Cum
berland county and had liv
ed in this county for the past
40 years.
Funeral services were con
ducted from the home Tues
day afternoon at three o’
clock by the Rev. W. B. Hey
ward and the Rev. B. P. Rob
inson. Burial was in the Rae
ford cemetery.
Surivving are one brother,
David Hair of Virginia; one
daughter, Mrs. G. G. Fair-
cloth of Raeford; one son, J.
B. Hair of Lynchburg, Va.
three grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
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Gun Accident
Kills Brother
Of Mrs. Crawley
District Forester Hicks of Fay
etteville has visited both the Up
church and Hoke High schools
recently and is helping the teach
ers of vocational agriculture get
forestry projects started. County
Forester McBryde is also assisting
in this project. The Upchurch pro
ject will be on the school gorunds.
The site for the Hoke High pro
ject has as yet not been definitely
located. We think that this is a
splendid project for the boys of
both school?, and we are sure,
that the people of the county will
watch their rievelnpment with in
terest.
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INGATHERING
The Raeford Methodist
church is holding its a-nnual
ingathering'at the Raeford ar
mory today. Meals will be ser
ved at noon and at six o’clock
and the sales will be held af
ter supper.
Thomas Worley Smithwick,
59, resident of Route 1, Ply
mouth, died from accidental
shotgun wounds near his
home at 1:30 o’clock Monday
afternoon. Mr. Smithwick was
the brother of Mrs. Stanley
Crawley, of this county.
He had been shooting some
crows and was returning to
his house at the time of the
accident. He climbed over a
wire fence and was attempt
ing to take the gun over the
fonco when the trigger caught
in a nail. Funeral services
were conducted yesterday
i'rom the Acre Chapel Clndst-
ian church, of which the de
ceased was a deacon.
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TO DISTRICT MEETING
The Massey Hill Pirates will
come to Raeford tonight to
play Coach Haywood Fair-
cloth’s Hoke County High
School Bucks under the lights
at Armory park Kickoff is
scheduled for eight o’clock.
The Pirates will enter the
game as favorites by virtue of
their record of only one defeat
this season while the Bucks
have a record of five losses,
two wins and one tie.
The Hoke boys lost to Fair
mont, Hamlet, Rockingham,
Laurinburg, and Lumberton
and won over Rowland and
Hope Mills. In last week’s
game against Angler here the
two teams fought to a score
less tie.
Coach Haircloth’s starting
lineup is exected to be Clark
and Lundy at ends, Alexander
and Freeman at tackles. Blue
and Sinclair at guards. Huff
at center, and Niven, Gull-
edge, Leach and Norton or
McMillian in the backfield.
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For Massey Hill the line
will start with King, Hall,
Hawley, Bethea, Hodge,
Moore and McIntosh. In the
starting backfield will be
Strickland, Carter, Nunnery
and Brady. ^
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Soap Box Derby
Next Thursday
Israel Mann, chairman of
the Kiwanis club’s committee
sponsoring the entry of sev
eral Raeford lads in the Soap
Box derby, announced that
the race would be run in Fay
etteville next week. The der
by is being jointly sponsored
by the Fayetteville Observer
and the M .& O Chevrolet
company of Fayetteville.
The race on Thanksgiving
day will begin with the first
heat at eight o’clock and last
until all entrants have com
peted, Feature of the event
will be the big parade at one
o’clock in which the band of
the 82nd Airborne division
Fayetteville and Hoke High
schools will appear. ^Mayor
Charles G. Rose of Fayette
ville has invited Mayor W. L.
Poole of Raeford to ride with
him in the parade.
Prizes for the boys include
a first award of $125 in cash,
a bicycle and a watch. Second
prize is to be $50 in cash and a
wrist watch. Third prize is
$25 in cash and numerous
other smaller prizes will be
given.
Trial runs will be held in
Fayetteville on Saturday, No
vember 20, and entrants may
leave their car under lock and
key in Fayetteville from that
time until the big race. All
cars entered have been con
structed by the drivers with
out help.
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Farm Bureau Is
Making Drive
For Members
The membership committee of
the Hoke County Farm Bureau is
making a strenuous effort to ob
tain its quota of at least 375 mem
bers by Saturday night of this
week, Richard Neeley, presi
dent, said yesterday.
On Saturday the memlDers of the
Hoke Bureau will open a booth
in Raeford in front of the Bank
of Raeford. The booth will be
open all day for the purpose of
accepting memberships. Neeley
asked all who had not paid their
1948 miembership fees to do so.
Merribership solicitors have been
appointed in the various sections
of the county and their names
have been announced. This was
done to make the business of
joining the Farm Bureau as little
trouble as possible to farmers. At
tention is invited to a paid adver
tisement of the Bureau in this
issue.
Judge MeSwam
Holds Superior
Court Here
Both Murder Defendants
Submit To Second Degree;
Get Penitentiary Terms
Plan AAA Elections
For Committees
In Communities
Mrs. Barnard
Is Buried H^re
Community committee elections
will be held in Hoke County on
December 2, it was announed by
T. D. Potter, Chairman of the
Hoke County Agricultural Con
servation Committee. At the same
time farmers wiU choose delgates
to the county convention where
the county committeemen will be
elected December 3.
At these elections, committmen
to administer the Agricultural
Conservation Proi^m and re
lated programs fdlfjTp'49t. will bo
chosen. Since both the Agricul
tural Convention Program and
Price Supports are of vital con
cern to, farmers of this county, it
is to the best interest of each
farmer to participate in this elec
tion Mr. Potter reminds.
This farm program with its
elected farmer committees gives
farmers an opportunity to admini
ster their own farm program. It
is truly a democratic method of
administration.
Mr. Potter says that any person
is eligible to vote in the elections
who is participating in the 1848
Agricultural Conservation Pro
gram or in a price support or com
modity loan program.
“Every farmer who is eligible
to vote has a responsibility to cast
his or her ballot’’, the chairman
states. “We may well be at the
cross-roads this year. We may
neglect our opportunity to admini
ster our own program and let con
trol of agriculture slip away from
us. Or we maj’ unite back of the
farm program and build for a
better and stronger agriculture in
the future. It is our choice.”
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Mr. Potter emphasises that these
annual elections of committee-
give the farmer a chance to make
his voice heard “If you are pleased
with the present administration
you should show it by voting. On
the other hand, if you wish
changes you should show that by
voting,” he stressed. “Every
farmr should show interest in his
local farm program and'elect those
men who h feels will most effici
ently carry out their responsibili
ties.”
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With a judge and solicitor
both new to Hoke county
courts the November term of
Superior court was finished in
short order the first three
days of the week with crimi
nal and civil cases being tried.
On the bench was Judge
Peyton MeSwain of Shelby,
who was chosen by Governor
Cherry to preside at the term
when Judge Q. K. Nimocks of
Fayetteville asked for relief
due to his mother’s illness.
Presecuting attorney for the
term was Malcolm B. Seawell,
Lumberton attorney who was
recently appointed solicitor to
succeed F. Ertel Carlyle, re
signed.
Richard MePhatter, colored,
was charged with murdering
Leo Steele here early in the
year. The State accepted Mc-
Phatter’s plea of nolo conten
dere to manslaughter and sen
tence was 18 months on the'
rbads to be suspended on pay
ment of the costs and good be
havior for five years.
Willie J. McPhaul, colored,
charged with the murder of
Jesse Jackson, offered to sub
mit to second degree rhurder
and the State accepted. He
was sentenced to serve not
less than 18 nor more than 20
years in the State Prison.
Richard Kell y, .^olor^t
charged with -the mu»fer
Marion Blue, also entered
plea of nolo contendere to sec
ond degree and the State ac
cepted. He was sentenced to
not less' than 25 nor
Ertel Carlyle
Is Paid Tribute
In Court Monday
F. Ertel Carlyle. Lumbertbn
attorney who is retiring as
solicitor of t’n-e Ninth Judicial
district superior, c.ourt to be-j
come Member of Congress i
from the seventn congression-!
al district, was paid a tribute !
in Hoke County 'Superior |
court here Monday afternoon
by members of the bar, and
town and countv officials.
Commerce Group
Has Spirited
Session Thursday
Chamber Against More Gas
Taxes or Bonds For Roads;
Plan Improvements
TT. McL. McDiarmid and
James C. Lentz attended the
district meeting of funeral
directors which was held in
Candor Tuesday night.
Graveside services \yere
conducted at the cemetery
here yesterday for Mrs. Mar
garet Ann Barnard-, 65-year
old resident of Moore County
who died Monday morning in
• he Moore county liospital af
ter a short illness. The ser
vice was conducted by the
Rev. W. B. Heyward.
Mrs. Barnard is survivea
by three brothers, J. B., L. M
and H. M. Monroe, all of Car
1 thage, RFD.
SNEAD LEAVES GUARD
According to orders from
the Office of the Adjutant
General of' North Carolina,
tlie resignation of Lt. Col.
Younger F. Snead as com
mander of the 677tli Antiair
craft battalion was accepted.
Monday of jlast week. Maj.
William Lamont, Jr., has suc
ceeded Col Snead as batta
lion commander. The batta
lion includes National Guard
units in Raeford,»Red Springs
and Sanford.
serve
more than 30 years in the
State prisoh.
Tim McNair, colored, was
charged with a crime against
nature and the State accepted
a plea of guilty of forcible
trespass. Sentence was 8
months on the roads.
Teen Stubbs, colored, was
found guilty of non-support of
his illegitimate child. Senten
ce was six months to be su
spended on payment of $250
to the prosecuting witness and
the costs of the court.
McLaurin Clark, white, was
charged with carrying a con
cealed weapon, in a case ap
pealed from recorder’s court.
The State took a nol pros’ in
the case.
James D. Walters, white,
charged with larceny’’ of a car,
hit and run driving and driv
ing without a license, entered
a plea of guilty of stealing the
car and the State took a nol
pros on the other two charges.
Sentence was not less than
two.nor more than three years
in prison.
Douglas Currie and Mrs.
Eva Dunn Currie, both white,
each entered a plea of nolo
contendere on a charge of as
saulting the other. Judgement
was suspended on payment of
the costs.
In an old case Leander
Blackman, colored, was called
up for failing to pay judg
ment of the August court for
non-.support of his illegitimate
cliild. Judge MeSwain ordered
him to get up the money by
.‘^■I’.urday. October 20, or go to
the roaiLs for six months.
Carlyle’s efficiency out
standing performance of duty
during his years as solicitor
were spoken of by H. W. B.
Whitley for the Hoke County
bar association,. W. L. Poole
for the Town of Raeford, and
N. H. G. Balfour for the
county. A certificate of meri
torious service was presented
to Mr. Carlyle for the county
officials by J. A. McGoogan,
county. Mr. Carlyle in his ac
ceptance praised the officials
of the county and the people
of the county and said that he
intended to represent this
county as well as counties in
his own district.
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Lacy L. Guin
Dies Suddenly
Friday Night
Lacy Leonard Guin, 20-year
old son of Mr .and Mrs. John
Lacy Guin of Route 2, Rae
ford,* died suddenly of heart
trouble at the home of his
parents last Friday night.
Funeral services were con
ducted Sunday afternoon^ at
'o’clopk at Phillipi Pres-
6yt*erian church by the Rev.
W. B. Heyward, pastor of the
Raeford Presbyterian church.
Surviving in. addition to his
parents are three brothers.
Roy. Neill and Robert-Guin;
four sisters. Lessie. Clara.
Rosa Lee and Ester, all of
the home.
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Grand Jury Makes
Report T6 Judge
The Hoke county grand jury
in its report to the presiding
judge at the Superior court
this week appeared to have
found most of-the county in
stallations in order, except for
minor repairs to the office
building and the high school
gymnasium and they recom
mended that a janitor be se-
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cured for the courthouse
building. They Examined the
school buses of the county and
found them in good shape.
' The grand jury investigated
complaints from' patients at
the State Sanatorium at Mc
Cain regarding poorly prepar
ed food being served them.
They reported that there
seemed to be plenty to eat
but that it was poorly pre
pared.
Judge MeSwain ordered the
clerk to send a certified copy
of the report to the county
commissioners and a copy to
Governor Cherry.
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METHODISTS TO HAVE
GUEST PREACHER
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FARM NOTES
Bv A. S. Knowles
At the first quarterly meet- .
ing of the Raeford Chamber
of Commerce held in the new
fiscal year at the courthouse
last Thursday night some 30-
odd interested citizens of. the
town discussed ways and
means of making it a better
place for business and to
live.
President R. B. Lewis re
ported to the group that the
American Wringer company
was paying rent on the bxiild-
ing constructed here for them
by the Hoke Development'
corporation. The group also
heard from Mr. Aycock, of the
Carolina. Teleph-one and Tele
graph company that the com
pany would have a permanent
man here in about six ■weeks
and that a new trunk line had
been installed and other im
provements made in tele
phone ser’vice here.
The Christmas lighting
committee’s report was to the
effect that the Chamber
would be unable to get
Christmas lights up this
Christmas due to a late start
and lack of materials. A com
mittee was appointed to meet
with committees from the
Kiwanis and Woman’s clubs
to determine how to improve
the Raeford cemetery.
The club voted favorably on
a resolution against any ad
ditional gas tax or any addi
tional state bonds for building
roads as promised by gover
nor-elect Kerr Scott.
President Lewis also ap
pointed a committee to inves
tigate and recommend the
best ways of advertising the
community and several -ways
of doing this were 'discussed:
The publication of a pamphlet
on the community w'as also
planned and a committee was
appointed to work out details.
The president reported that
the Chamber was joining the
United States Chamber of
Commerce at once. ■
A committee was appointed
to work out details lor the
arranging of a visit to Raeford
by Santa Claus at some time
before Christmas.
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Swine
A niunber of farmers have re
ported sick hogs recently and
visits by the veterinarian reveal
that the toubles ha\-e been caused
mainly by a mineral deficiency.
This mineral deficiency has ■weak
ened the resistence of the hogs to
the point that other infections,
have set in. The veterinarian has
called the 'trouble mixed infecticMt.
He advisies that where hogs are
fat and ready for' slaughter they
should be killed for the meat'
supply if they are located near
hogs that ha\e been dying from
this mixed mcection. He states'
that the hogs that appear to be
The Rev. W. C. Ball, new su- well and in good shape are per-
' fectly all right for meat, if they
have V
The old A & R depot on
IMain street, which has not
been in use for some years, is
undergoing extensive repairs.
It is expected that the A & R
freight office will be moved
into the building in the near
future.
perintendent of the Fayette-
vilel 'district of the Met'i'’.odist
ch'uvc;'. will occupy the pulpit
at ti’.e R.-.-ofo-rd NIethodist
c'’'urch on Sunday night at
7:,30 and will conduct, the first
caartorly conference of the
-now c’uirch year. The pastor,
t'^^.o Rev. P. O. Lee. urges
church officials of Raeford
and Parker’s church to be pre
sent and have their reports
O'
c syrnptonv of any aisease.
of t'ne best ways to prevent
v,:ble .‘.'O provide a go-od
1 -a: all times .tor th-e hogs
s. '-■ecd a' balanced ration,
them with clean water.
Forestry
This is about the -last appeal
this :-all to farmers to obtain pine
. seed'd tigs for setting on waste and:
ready. Mr. Lee will meet his ' sab-marginal land. The ^State
regular appointments Sunday | Nursery will soon begin deliver-
m.orning at Raeford and Par-, iug the > seedlings and farmers
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