Rockfish News
Polly Barnard
| Tel. 875-2736
The young Adult Choir at
Tabcrnacle Baptist Church
presented the music for morning
i worship service the past Sunday.
The Youth Group was presented
certificates of appreciation by Mr.
and Mrs. "Chuck" Frazier for
i their participation in the activity
^during Youth Week.
i ' There were four new members
f received into the church during
worship service Sunday morning.
The entire church participated in
the St. Patricks supper Sunday
evening. Following the supper the
film, "Super - Stars on Location"
was shown.
The Young Adult Choir has
I begun practice for the "Easter
Loresentation."
All the Softball church teams in
the area are getting ready for the
softball season.
The Stoney Point Fire Depart
ment had an excellent turnout for
the "fish fry" and bake sale spon
sored the past Saturday.
The proceeds will go toward a
new station building. Appreciation
is extended to everyone who par
ticipated in making it a success.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wood and
son, Timothy of Greensboro were
weekend guests of Mr. Woods
mother, Mrs. Martin L. Wood, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wood
visited Mrs. Martin L. Wood, Sr.
Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Barnard
and Mrs. Jimmy Sakobie and sons,
Justen and Byron of Hope Mills
had a cookout Saturday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Grant, Jr.
visited Mrs. Lowell Schiebe and
Virgil Ogg of Fayetteville who are
patients in Womack Army
Hospital in Fort Bragg Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Wright Parker of Selma is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Watson
and other relatives in the area,
after spending several days last
week with the sister Mrs. Arthur
Watson of White Lake.
Mrs. Allen Wood, Sr., Mr. and
Mrs. Douglass Monroe visited Mr.
and Mrs. Craig Wood and
daughter, Deborah in Thomasville
the past Sunday. Mr. Wood had
surgery last week but is
recuperating at home at this time.
Mrs. Daisy Bennett of Fayett
ville visited friends and relatives in
the area Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Grady English spent
several days recently with her son,
Dwight English, Mrs. English and
daughters, Samantha, Heather and
Kelly in Connelly Springs, North
Carolina.
Lumber Bridge News
by Lib Sumner
The Presbyterian Church con
gregation is invited to attend a
covered dish supper at the Parkton
Presbyterian Church at 6 p.m. on
Sunday, March 27, honoring Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Dinkins, Mis
sionaries at Brazil. After supper,
Mr. and Mrs. Dinkins will give an
outline on their work in the mis
sion field.
f "Joyful Music Night," con
gregational hymn - sing was last
Sunday afternoon at 5:30 p.m. in
the Stamps Fellowship Center
under the sponsorship of the
Chancel, Youth and Children's
Choirs.
Following the program a finger
food supper was served. The con
gregation of the Rex Presbyterian
Church was invited.
f Annual Joint Revival Services
.ave been scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Monday through Thursday, April
18-21 in the Rex Presbyterian
Church.
The Reverend Alton C. Trivette,
of Laurinburg, Honorably Retired
Minister, has accepted to deliver
the messages.
Baptist Church will have
preaching Sundays - second and
f rourth Sundays each month.
' Work on the baptistry will be
complete, as soon as the water
heater is installed.
Tuesday at 4 p.m. the mission
friends and Youth In Action
groups will meet in the Educa
tional center with Mrs. Henry L.
Foster.
Thursday night at 7:30 the Bap
tist Women will meet in the home
of Mrs. Henry Foster in St. Pauls.
Topic of program - "Home Mis
sions."
Mrs. Hunter Forbis spent
several days last week with her
daughter, Mrs. Rob Schock, Mrs.
Schock and Jeffrey in Vanceboro.
Mrs. Schock is suffering with a
broken arm.
Visiting Misses Lib and Lois
Sumner Sunday evening were Mrs.
Sam Smith, Catherine, Lucy and
Wayne of Wagram and Mrs. Jack
Ellis and Jenny Ellis of Raeford.
They had spent several days with
their brother and family, Mr. and
Mrs. J.F. McMillan, Elizabeth
Ann and J.F. Ill in Wilmington.
We are glad to report that Mrs.
N.H.G. Balfour is home after an
extended stay with her daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Major Goodman,
Sein and Scot in Raleigh.
Mrs. Lucille Forbis is still a pa
tient in Cape Fear Hospital and, at
this writing, is very sick.
Other sick and shut-ins include
Mrs. W.H. Schell, Miss Lena
Marley, Mrs. Ida Smith and Mrs.
Viola Collins.
English Finishes Non-Com Course
Sergeant E7 Clarence G. English
of Raeford, completed the Senior
Noncommissioned Officers Course
conducted by the Office of the Ad
I, >utant General at the North
Carolina National Guard Military
Academy, Fort Bragg, North
Carolina.
The course conisted of six days
of training in many areas, such as,
Command and Staff Procedures,
Total Force, The Threat, Person
nel Management, Training
Management, Effective Speaking,
Effective Writing, Counseling,
I Duties, Responsibilities and
Authority of NCO's and
Ceremonies.
Sgt. English is a member of the
824th Quartermaster Company at
Fort Bragg, NC and is a Motor
Sergeant.
Sgt. English and his wife,
Margaret, have two children, Keith
and Amy. They reside at Route 5,
Raeford.
POSTAL RATES ARE
DOWN! If you think it's expensive
to send a letter today, you should
have lived in 1825. Then, a letter
cost 28 cents to mail, and the cost
increased with the distance the let
ter had to travel and the number of
pages it contained.
Proclamation
Job Service District Supervisor
Rurnice Craham looks on as
Mayor John K. Mc\eill signs the
document proclaiming Hire the
Older W orker W eek.
Southerland
Completes
Police Course
Airman 1st Class Mark E.
Southerland, son of Frank and
Connie Southerland of 504
Saunders St., Raeford, has
graduated from the U.S. Air Force
security police specialist course at
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
Graduates of the course studied
systems security operations, tactics
and weapons training and earned
credits toward an associate degree
in applied science through the
Community College of the Air
Force.
Southerland will now serve at
Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D.,
with the 45th Missile Security
Squadron.
He is a 1981 graduate of Hoke
County High School, Raeford.
Experienced burglars can tell im
mediately if a house has an alarm
system, says security consultant
Jim Lee.
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One Of Four
Red Springs Shay HI 19 at the l ima Shops in August 1884.
Four Railroads Served Red Springs
By David S. Carriker
Red Springs is a small communi
ty in northwest Robeson County
about 12 miles Southeast of
Raefbrd.
In the early 1880's it was
described as a little settlement in
the woods composed of two
families. But within five years it
had boomed into a thriving town
of 1,000 citizens, several stores,
two hotels, churches, a newspaper,
mills and various shops, ten saw
and planing mills, a sash-blind
door factory that employed 240
people, and at least four railroads!
Quite a prosperous town for
1888.
Part of the credit can be given to
the timber industry of that day
which is responsible for all of the
four railroads.
The first to come to Red Springs
was the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley Railway in June 1884.
The line hauled timber to Fayet
teville from the various points bet
ween that port city and Bennett
sville, S.C.
By 1891 the Red Springs
Railway & Lumber Company was
hauling timber out of the woods.
The line was operated by the
McKay family.
By 1896 the Williams Family
was also operating a tram in Red
Springs that connected with the
Red Springs Railway & Lumber
Company, and by connection, the
Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley
Railway.
The name of the Williams' line
I
was the Red Springs & Bowmore
Railway, which ran to Bowmore
and Wagram until 1920 when it
was abandoned.
The fourth line is the Devane
Tramway which was a lumber
operation run by R.F. DeVane of
Red Springs. It was in operation in
the late 1880's and early 1890's.
Of the four railroads in Red
Springs there were three different
gauges of track: The CF & YV
Railway was standard gauge (4 feet
8 1/2 inches); the Red Springs &
Bowmore R.R. and the Red Spr
ings Railway & Lumber Company
were 3-feet gauge; and the DeVane
Tramway was 4 feet. The gauge of
a railroad is the distance between
the two rails.
The DeVane Tramway owned at
least two Shay locomotives. They
were C.N. (Construction Number)
1 19 and 308. The #\ 19 was named
the 'Buffalo' by an earlier owner.
This was the first three-truck Shay
(three sets of axles) built by Lima
Locomotive Works, on August 18,
1884. It had a 42 inch gauge with
10 x 10 inch cylinders mounted in a
vertical position. This vertical
mounting of the pistons was
characteristic of the Shay
locomotive. The wheels were 30 in
ches in diameter and were capable
of riding on wooden rails.
The first owner #119 was An
drew Brown of the Bull's Eye
Spring Narrow Gauge R.R. in
Grayson, Kentucky. It was then
sold to R.F. DeVane of Red
Springs, N.C'., and then to J.T.
1
Jones of Autryville, N.C. After
this it was probably scrapped.
If you have any information
about the three lumber railroads of
Red Springs, please do not hesitate
to write to: Railroad Museum,
Hamlet, N.C. OR to your local
newspaper office, which can for
ward a message to us.
Any photographs of railroading
in your area could be helpful to the
railroad project too.
The railroad project now incor
porates over 175 different railroad
companies in this eight county
area, with 1000 photographs and
maps to illustrate the activities of
railroad history.
Come to the Railroad Museum
on any weekend to see the finest
Railroad Museum in the
Carolinas!
Seaweed made of plastic may
help save the nation's tallest
lighthouse, which is threatened by
an eroding beachfront.
The beach in front of the
208-foot Cape Hatteras
Lighthouse, an historic landmark,
has already been extended by
several hundred feet.. Plastic
seaweed installed in ocean waters
about 400 feet from the lighthouse
behaved like real seaweed to slow
sandladen ocean currents and
cause the sand to drop to the bot
tom and collect.
The National Park Service had
originally planned to build a
$6-million seawell to protect the
lighthouse.
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WEM EMU
Saturday and Sunday, March 26 & 27
1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
10th Annual Continuing Education
flFJTS PND GP^flFTS EXHIBIT
Departmental Displays
Entertainment Films
Alumni Mixer - Saturday, 5-7 p.m
(President's Residence)
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