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THURSDAY, APBH. 19,1951
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SCHOOL NEWS
By K. A. MacDonald
The following is the schedule
lor closing events of the schools
of the county. It is given in chron
ological order. Operetta: Rockfish
Primary Grades, April 20; Sen
iors: Hoke High to Washington,
April 26-29; Operetta: Mildouson,
May 3; Raeford Graded: May Fes
tival, May 4; Senior Play, May 11;
Glee Club and Band Concert:
May 18; Class night; May 25; Bac-
culaureate Sermon: May 27; Sev
enth Grade Promotion Day, May
28; Graduation Exercises: May 29;
Skip Day, May 30; Schools close.
May 31. Ashemont exercises; date
not set. Seventh Grade: High
School visit, date will coincide
with date for standard tests.
The above schedule was set at
a principals meeting on last Fri
day. Details of. individual events
will be given later.
Mesdames C. D. Osment and J.
C. McLean and Misis Miriam Wat-
^n attended the state meeting of
the NCEA in Asheville last Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday as re-
, presentatives of the Hoke County
unit. A county meeting will be
held at an early date so that these
delegates may make a report of
the meeting to all members.
The Hoke-Raeford PTA wiU
hold its regular April meeting at
the Raeford Graded School, Mon
day night, April 23.
Graded School
.i^MaitC-will.be held at
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the school building at 9:00 a. m.
on Wednesday, May 16. Doctors
Murray, Matheson and O’Briant
will hold the clinic. Clinic, at
Rockfish will be Monday, April
30, 9:00 a. m.; and Mildouson at
1:00 p. m. same day.
The Hoke High band, under the
direction of Bandmaster Renn,
gave a concert at Ashemont School
yesterday morning. This was
greatly appreciated and enjoyed
by the students, faculty and those
parents present.
Miss Ollie Biggs of the Raeford
Graded faculty ^returned to work
yesterday after being out on ac
count of the illness and death of
her father. In the afternoon the
pupils in her room gave her a
surprise party to show their love
for and appreciation of their
teacher. In addition to this her
many, friends sympathize with her
in this loss.
Mrs. Robeson’s room at the
Raeford Graded School has estab
lished a savings bank in their
room, especially for their own use
in starting savings accounts. We
hope that pupils in other roqms
will take advantage of it also.
We are glad to report that Jen
nie Walters, who has been ill at
Moore County hospital has return
ed home much improved. At no
time was she as ill as reported,
we are glad to say.
The District Home Economics
teachers met at Hoke High last
Tuesday with Miss Hefner as hos
tess. The program was a study of
flowers conducted by Misses
Josephine Hall and Laura Beaty,
home agents of Hoke and, Scot
land counties respectively. A buf
fet supper was served all guests.
A campaign for major offices
in the student government is in
progress at Hoke High. Campaign
managers of various candidates
are busily at work making
speeches and trying to round up
votes for their candidates. The
election will be 'lield next Tues
day.
First and second honors have
been awarded in the senior class
at Hoke High for this year. Raye
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BiUWrightls
Fined $500 On
Ivey’s Evidence
Affair At Maultsby Home
Results In 4 Defendants
Getting Two Years Each
As a result of testimony of
George Ivey recently as to liquor
selling and gambling at Bill’s
Club, Bill Wright, white, appeared
before Judge Henry McDiarmid
Tuesday in Recorder’s court
charged with allowing gambling
in a house of entertainment and
with being connected with the il
legal sale of liquor there. He was
found guilty of "aiding and abet
ting in gambling’’ and was fined
$500 and the court costs. In the
liquor case he was also found guil
ty and prayer for judgment was
continued on payment of the costs
and on condition of two years
good behavior. He posted a $1,000
bond for compliance with the pay
ment of the' fine and costs by May
15, as his place, “Bill’s Club”, is
to be sold at auction at 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 28.
George Ivey, charged with the
same offenses at the same place
and time, got six months suspend
ed on payment of $50 and the
costs for the liquor charge and
was taxed with the costs on the
charge of aiding and abetting in
the gambling.
As the result of a fracas at the
Maultsby home here last Thurs
day afternoon John Leonard
Maultsby, Bill Gordon and Leona
and Elizabeth Marlow, all white,
were charged with assaulting
JBethu^e Maultsby with deadly
weapbhs" with intent to kill, him
to-wit: bricks and stove legs. The
judge apparently decided they
could have killed him if they had
intended to, as they were found
guilty of assault with a deadly
weapon without intent to kill.
Maultsby and Gordon got one year
each on the roads and the women
got one year each in jail. Gordon
and Leona Marlow were found
guilty of immoral conduct and got
one year each and Maultsby and
Elizabeth Marlow also got another
year each for the same offense
Each winding up with a total of
two years to serve, they all ap
pealed and Judge McDiarmid set
bonds at $1000 each. Maujtsby is
out and the others are still in.
Ivey Leonard Bunton, white,
and Daniel Henry Shaw, colored,
each got 90 days suspended on
payment of $100 and the costs for
driving drunk.
Roy Brown, colored, got six
months suspended on payment of
$100 and the costs and two years
good behavior for selling liquor.
Claude. W. Scott, white, got 60
days suspended on payment of $25
and the costs for dri'ang with no
driver’s license.
John D. McLain, colored, and
Joseph S. Sampson, Indian, each
paid $10 and the costs for speed
ing. Lonnie James Shaw, colored,
and James Alexander- McBryde,
white, each paid $25 and the costs
for speeding 70 or over. Alwertha
Galbraith, colored, paid $25 and
the costs for careless and reckless
driving.
Carl Hollingsworth, colored,
paid $10 and the costs for driving
with improper brakes.
Bennie Lee Murchison, colored,
got 30 days suspended on payment
of $25 and the costs for assault.
William Stacy Ritter, Indian,
got 60 days to be suspended on
payment of $25 and the costs for
careless and reckless driving and
no driver’s license. He went to
the roads.
James William Leach, colored,
pleaded guilty of being drunk and
disorderly, using profane and in
decent language and damaging
personal property. He got 90 days
to be suspended on payment of $25
and the costs. He went to the
roads. ■
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The Davidson College Male
CHiorus of 35 voices, shown above,
will present a program drawn
largely from the classics of the
l6th and 17th centuries in a con
cert at the Raeford Presbyterian
church Saturday night, April 21,
at 8:00 o’clock which will be a
worship service as well as a mus
ical program.
Of the 35 voices in the chorus,
the 34 Southerners are expected
to give a decided Dixie accent to
t^e program. Only one member of
the chorus hails from above the
Mason-Dixon line, J. L. Harter of
Akroa, Ohio. The largest state
delegation bn the chorus is natur
ally from North Carolina, a group
of 15 men. One of these is Bob
Murray of Raeford.
Earl F. Berg, who will conduct
the chorus in the concert here, is
instructor of voice at Davidson,
a position ^ has held since 1941
before which he studied in New
York. Th^ he studied for five
years under Helen Steele and
spent 18 months at the Sacred
Music School of the Union Theo
logical Seminary under Claresce
Dickenson and Dr. McKay Wil
liams. He is now director of the
choir of First Presbyterian church
in Charlotte and is soloist with
PERSONALS GeorgI C. Biggs
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson McBryde
had as their week end guests Mrs.
McBryde’s brother, Carl Hollo-
well and Mrs. Hollowell, of Golds
boro.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Benner and
family spent Sunday in Raleigh
at the hojne of Mrs. Benner’s sis
ter, Mrs. C. M. Gaddis. Miss Ina
Mae Benner, Mrs. Benner’s sis
ters, Mrs. Hazel Maness and Mrs.
Nova Liles, all of Raleigh and Mrs.
Benner’s brother and his wife,
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Corbett of
Clayton, were, also at the Gaddis
home, and in the afternoon they
all motored to Durham where
they visited the Duke gardens.
Mr. andC„Mrs. George Wood of
Vanceboro came to Raeford last
Wednesday to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Wood’s grandmother, Mrs.
E. M. Smith on Thursday. They
returned to Vanceboro Thursday
night.
Sgt. and Mrs. Rouse spent Sunday
with relatives in LaGrange.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Snead and
daughters have moved to Myrtle
Beach, S. C., where Mr. Snead is
connected with the Dulany Froz
en Foods.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Willis and
two children, Riley Willis and
daughter, Jean, visited in Rocky
Mount Sunday.
Col. Henry Monroe of Colorado
Springs, Colorado, Mrs. W. W.
Hendrick and children of Kanna
polis, visited Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Monroe several days last week.
Mr. and Mrs. H..O. Langdon and
children of Fayetteville spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Har
vey Cole..
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Snead and
Sandy of Rockingham visited re
latives in town last Wednesday.
Sandy returned to spend the week
end here with Younger Snead, Jr.
Miss Sarah Neal McKeithan,
who is a sophomore at the Shen
andoah Conservatory of Music,
Dayton, Ohio, was recently elected
president of the YWCfA for the
coming year.
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Mrs. Grady Leach, Anne and
Bobby attended the Ice Cycles in
Raleigh Saturday night. ’They
spent the week end in Raleigh
and Mbticure .with relatives.
Buried On Sunday
Funeral services for George C.
Biggs, 83, who died at his home
near Antioch last Saturday after
noon after an illness of one week,
were conducted at 8:80 o’clock
last Sunday afternoon at Antiodi
Presbyterian church by the Rev.
J. W. Mann of Atkinson, a former
pastor of the church- Burial was
in the church cemetery.
Mr. Biggs was a native of the
Antioch section, where he carried
on extensive farming. He was
deacon in the Antioch church for
about 40 years.
Surviving are three daughters,
Ollie Biggs of the Raeford Graded
Graded School faculty, Mrs. Hazel
Hamilton and Mrs. W. T. Ever-
leigh, all of the home; three sons,
Clayton R. and Henry M. Biggs
of the. home, and Daniel G. Biggs
of Rocky Mount; his stepmother,
Mrs. Jane Biggs of the Antioch
section; two half-brothers and a
sister.
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Hoke High Defeats
Aberdeen Tuesday;
Play Here Friday
The Hoke, County High school
baseball team went to Aberdeen
Tuesday afternoon dnd won them
selves a game from Aberdeen
High, 13 to 3 behind the pitching
of Bruce Phillips. This was a
conference game. ^
Phillips pitched the whole game
and allowed only thre^ hits. Bud
dy Huggins led the Hoke High at
tack , with a triple and a single.
The whole Hoke team was hitting
the ball* for the first time of the
season.
The local team will play Laurel
Hill High in a non-conference tilt
at Armory park here tomorrow
afternoon. Hoke High has one
more conference game to play in
the season, that being with Red
Springs on Wednesday of next
week.
The Hoke High second team
w'ent to Wagiam for a game with
the varsity on Monday afternoon
and got beat 11 to 7. Several
games are being arranged for the
second team to give them experi
ence for next year. The squad now
has about 20 boys and most are
showing promise.
the Charlotte Symphony orchestra.
The Chorus has enjoyed en
thusiastic acclaim from concerts
throughout the Southeast and the
East and from a number of radio
performances, including two coast-
to-coast broadcast's in the last
two years.
The program to be presented
here will be divided into five sec
tions, opening with several fami
liar 17th century hymns followed
by three Psalms and a hymn.
Following a scripture reading the
chorus will sing religious classics
of the- 16th century and the pro
gram will close with Handel’s
majestic Alleluia Chorus.
Commission To Ask
Bids On Roads
In Hoke County ,
The State Highway Commis
sion will call for bids on a road
project in Hoke County at its
April lettilig.^ ’
The project will be financed
under the $200,000,000 bond issue
program and involves hard-sur-
fhfftiig oi 14.T aBn Inm iMk-
flsh-iDinrlf BtMft Road to Ite
Cumberland Couhtjr line; from
Turnpike Road north of Raeford
toward the Fort Bragg Reserva
tion; from NC 211 near the Robe
son County line via McNeills Lake
to Lumber Bridge-Arabia Road;
from US 15-A via Floyd Monroe’s
to Rockfish Road; and from' a
point one mile north of Rockfish
to the Cumberland County line.
The Commission’s April 24 let
ting includes 35 projects covering
468.8 miles of road work.
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300th Meeting
Of Presbytery
Held In Maxton
Reverend William B. Heyward,
pastor of Raeford’s Presbyterian
Church and Moderator of Fayette
ville Presbytery, will preside at
a spec-al program in Fayetteville
next Wednesday evening (April
25) in connection with the sesqui-
centennial celebration of Fayette
vine’s First Presbyterian church.
Speakers for the occasion will
be Rev. John L. Fairley, D.D., of
the Board of Education, Presby
terian Church, U.S., Richmond,
Virginia, and Rev. J. J. Murray,
D.D., Pastor of the First Presby
terian Church of Lexington. Va.
Dr. Fairly’s topic will be “The
History of The Church"; Dr.
Murray will speak on “The In
fluence Of This Church”. Both
men are former assistant pastors
of the Fayetteville church.
■ This special service will be one
of a series of events planned by
the First Presbyterian Church of
Fayetteville for the week of April
Here Next Week
Two Murder Cases On
Docket, 10 Others And
Seven Divorce Cases
Judge Q. K. Nimocks, Jr., of
Fayetteville, will open the regular
April term of Hoke county S19-
erior court here next Monday for
the trial of criminal and civ3
cases. Criminal cases are to be
tried on Monday and Tuesday and
the civil term, mostly divorce
cases, is set for Wednesday, al
though it is quite likely that the
court will get to civil cases be
fore Wednesday.
Ruthie Jones, Indian, is to be
tried for the murder of Hu^es
Jones, her husband, at their home
in Allendale township on the af
ternoon of Tuesday, March 6. He
was shot with a I2-guage shotgun
The 300th stated meeting of
Fayetteville presbytery was held
in Maxton Tuesday with about
200 members attending. It was
called to order by Rev. S. A.
Ewart, moderator. W. B. Heyward
of Raeford, who was nominated
as moderator at the previous
meeting was unanimously elected
to serve and J. Earl Atkins was
elected temporary clerk.
John Hunter Lamotte, son of
Dr. Louis C. Lamotte, president hf
Presbyterian Junior college, and
Edward Armond McLeod, son of
Mrs. R, A. McLeod and the late
Dr. R. A. McLeod, first president
Of Presbyterian Jimior college,
were examined and accepted as
candidates for the ministry.
Rev. W. B. Gaston, pastor of
McPherson church, Cumberland
county, was nominated moderator
for the next meeting and Bethesda
church in Aberdeen was chosen
as the place for the meeting.
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CHURCH MEN TO MEET
from about 12 feet and died in-
22-29 in observance of its 150th I stantly. She is in the county jaiL
year. The celebration will begin Other murder case defendaot is
Sunday morning with an anniver- | Russell Cagle, colored soldier who
sary sermon by the pastor. Dr.
Walker B. Healy. Other special
services will be held on Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday even
ings, and on Sunday, April 29.
Organized in 1800 by Rev. John
Robinson of Cabarrus County,
the church actually marked the
end of its 150th year last spring,
but the sesquicentennial was
postponed until this year pending
the arrival of a new $25,000 organ.
The church’s choir loft was en
larged and extensively remodeled
to house the elaborate, three-
manual pipe instrument. It was
presented to the church' as a gift
by Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Pittman,
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Pittman, Jr.
and Dr. and Mrs. Wade T. Parker
and sons.
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Two Deaths Occur
In Monroe Family
turned himself in in Washington in
February, saying he was wanted
here for the murder of John C.
Black. Black was killed in Octo
ber, 1944. Cagle is said to have
left here at that time and to have
been in the Army since.
Remaining criminal cases are
appeals from judgments of Re
corder’s court and include the four
from this week’s court, William
Robert Jones for assault and lar
ceny of a car, Peter J. Thompson
for driving after license revoked,
and Weldon McCrimmon for lar-
ceny,of aoTRe pipe.
Civil cases include seven divorce
cases and two others.
Nine members of the Grand
Jury will continue to serve and
nine new ones will be chosen.
Jury list follows.
E. A. 'Wright, L. D. Brooks, J.
D. McBryde, L. M. Huggins, Al
bert Maxwell, Bernice Gamer, C.
W. Covington, John Henry Currie,
Eugene B. Maxwell, R. A. Jones,
Jasper D. Clark, M. L. Wood, P.
Clarence Leroy Monroe, 72, re-
tlred merdiailt of St. Pauls, N. C.
died Sunday morning, April 8, at
Thompson’s hospital in Lumberton IC. flnglish, E. C. Smith, Jr., Al-
of a heart attack, after an illness j bert Currie, Mrs. Julian McLeod,
of several months. I Floyd Holland, B. F. , McDuffie,
Mr. Monroe was twice married, • Jay McKenzie, J. E. Wood, Minor
first to Miss Anna Jane Johnson,
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
P. P. D. Johnson of Raeford. To
this union were born five child
ren as follows: C. P. Monroe of
Raleigh, Mrs. J. E. Wood and Mrs.
M. L. Wood of Rockfish. Mi’S.
Stan Hayes of Pasadena, Calif.,
and Malcolm L. Monroe of Miami,
Fla.
Besides the aboved named chil
dren he is survived by his wife,
who before her marriage was Miss
Minnie Lindsay of Cumberland
County, a son. Roy Lindsay Mon
roe and a daughter. Miss Peggy
Monroe of the home.
Mr. -Monroe’s death occurred
only two days after the death of
his elder daughter, Miss Omelia
Monroe, 24, of Wilmington, who
died in Duke hospital at Durham
after an illness of sevefal months.
Mr. Monroe, a long time resident
of St. Pauls, was born in Cumber
land county. He was an Elder in
the St. Pauls Presbyterian church
and a former member of the town
council. ’
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday at St. Pauls Presbyterian
church by Rev. R. H. Poole, pas
tor. Interment was in the church
cemetery. Nephews of Mr. Mon
roe served as pallbearers.
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The Men of the Ra|§ford Pres
byterian church will' hold their
regular monthly meeting and
supper in the basement of the
church next Tuesday night, April
24. The Rev. R. H. Poole, pastor
of the St. Pauls Presbyterian
church, will be the speaker.
MISS OMELIA MONROE
Funeral services for Miss Ome-
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NO DOG QUARANTINE
The- county board of health met
here last Friday afternoon and
lifted the quarantine which had
been placed on dogs some weeks
before due to the prevalence of
rabies. It is not now necessary or
required that dogs be kept locked
up. .
H. McGougan, A. A. Graham, J.
L. Teal, John Leach, Bernard
Bray, J. H. Blythe. Alton POtton,
E. G. CapF>s, H. K. Ivey, Everette
McBryde, Thomas L. McBryde,
Odell Ashbum, James Currie, R.
B. Ellis, W. L. McFadyen, Jack
McKenzie, O. B. Covington, Bruce
Morris. L. H. Koonce, R. D. Park
er, A. R. Currie. W. J. McBryde,
J; AV. McNeill, Douglas McPhauI,
Raymond Teal.
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FMG To Present
Lecturer Monday
Charles B. Shaw, fibrarian of
Swarthmore college in Pennsyl
vania, will be presented at Flora
Macdonald college as an added
.complimentary’ nunaber of the
season’s artist series, on Monday
evening, April 23, at 8:15.
Shortly before the fall of China
to the Communist forces, he spent
some months in China, making a
survey of the war-stricken libra
ries of thirteen American-support
ed Christian colleges and univer
sities.
A very fine lecturer, Mr. Shaw
will use at 'Flora Macdonald one
of his more popular themes,
“Printers’ Pleasantries”. It is a
coincidence that the date of this
lecture will be the anniversary of
Shakespeare’s birth and death.
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PLAN FIDDLERS’
CONVENTION
There will be an old time fi4*
dlers’ convention sponsored by the
Ruritans at Rockfish school oik
Thursday night, April 26. Fiddlers,
banjo and guitar pickers ate ia*
vited to come and pariidpaie.
There will be prizes fbr toe win
ning performers.