(Published Every Thursday) CHERRYVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1942, No. 42 WAR FUND DRIVE TO BEGIN NOVEMBER 8TH Mrs. Mamie Sipe Dedmon Passed Away Wednesday Funeral Services Conducted This Afternoon At 4 O’clock From First Baptist Church; Had Undergone Operation. Mis. Mamie Sipe Dedmon, :!!), I passed away at the Gordon Crow ell Memorial Hospital Wednes day morning at 7:.'!<> o’clock, af ter undergoing ar operation a-i bout a week prior. Funeral services were conduct ed this afternoon at 1 o’clock from the First Baptist church, with the pastor. Rev. K. S. Fll iott in charge. Rev. David K Bobbitt of < 'harlot to. a former pastor, assisting. The church choir sang: “When The Morning Comes' and “Noth ing Between". A mixed quartet composed of Marlow Dellinger, Frank Putnam, Airs. S. M. Butler and Mrs. Ceorge S Falls sang: “Does Jesus Care." Active pallheareis were: Evon Moss, Fete lilackvv elder. Howard, llouser, Kenneth F. l’utnnm, T. C. 'Skidmore and D. Troy Car- | Renter. The flowers were in charge of Mrs. E. E. McDowell with Miss ’ Altonia Beam's fourth grade pu pils who are classmate's of Little Betty Jean Dedmon serving as1 flower bearers: I.orene McCurry, ' Winona Allran, Shirley Carpeu ' ter, Shirley Whitaker, Janice Richardson, Frankie Sellers. W il lie Lee Schronee. Wanda Sneed. : Dorothy Mate Stubblefield, Molly j Lander, Dorothy Cray. Margie Neill, Caroleen Sisk, Aulia M;io ; Conley, Betty Rudisill, Jeanette; Gantt and Doris‘Thornburg. These : little girls will ho assisted liy: Mesdames J I). Hobbs, Howard : W. Allran, Boh McNeil. James L. Beam, Yates llnmesley, Hugh Harrelson, Jesse Blanton, R. 11. ’al'roll, Russell Boggs. 1, C. Me A owell. Ruth Porter. M. A. Stroup, ara Wilson, J. A! (’rocker. Cleo Moss. Palmer Dellinger. Henry Carpenter, Cliff Jenks, Ceorge Falls. David Carpenter. Howard Houser and Misses Kate Whit worth, Martha Grey. Irene Sox. Mary Mostellor. Flora AIoss, Ju lia Renfro. Altonia Beam. Edith Hoyle, Inez Aderholdt and Airs J. Ralph Beam and Mrs. Victor Suriv'ing are her parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. C Sipe with whom she made her home: two children. Betty Jean and Catherine Dcd mon, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. W. B. Beam, and Lee Sipe of Cherrvvillo: Mrs. Earl Cates of Suffolk, Va.: 1.. C June of Charlotte and Floyd Sipe of Greenwood. South Carolina. CARLTON FAIR NEXT WEEK Carlton Clubs will present the Eighth Community hair Friday aiui 'Saturday, October 20th and 30th. 1 lie usual exhibits of Fancy Children’s wear. Ladies dresses. Knitting, Crochetin»-. Fancy coun terpanes, Canning, Bread and 1'ies, Custards, Cookies. Cakes, Arts and Crafts. Cut and Pot 1 lowers, Quilts and Antiques will I. displayed. 1 V e doors will open each day i.' ■> o clock. Hot dops and coffee \, ill be on sale. Bingo will also he on hand. A special feature will be a booth of service men's pictures. The sponsors of the Fair are particularly interested in yetting all the pictures possible of our boys in the service. Red Cross Surgical Dressing Room closed 9 The Surgical Dressing yiom will be closed until the local Red Cross recevies its November quota of gauze. For the past month the dressing room has had a splendid record. Volunteer work ers have rolled 10,00,0 bandages during the period September 15th, to October 20th. The workers have rolled a two months quota of gauze in one month and five days. This is it record of which all Cherryville shout! be justly The dressing room will be reap 'd as soon as another shipment if gauze is received Watch the Eagle .for the date of re-openiny. Help all you can in the Nation al War Fund Drive. Fort Leonard Wood I’FC (leorge Duncan, son of Mrs. Mac Duncan, was inducted into the service in .March DID!, lie is now it Fort l.eonard Wood Missouri, ltd has recently v'isi ted his mother lien on a fur lough. Before entering the ser vice he was also env|tloyed at the Dowell .Manufacturing Company. FIVE LINCOLN PERSONS COME FROM WAR ZONE Miss Clara Sullivan, Sister Of Mrs. Howard W. All ran On Ship. LINCOLXTON. Oct. 20.—At j least live pci sons scheduled to return to America on the Stve. dish ship, the Gtipsholm, from the Jill) \v;ir zones are known in l.mcolnton They are Miss Mary ( lain Sullivan, Miss Catherine | (St ii e wait. Rev. and Mrs. Stacy l'. I'itrrior and Miss Attic lips tick. The croup is among some 1,200 Americans being returned; to this country after being in-' term'd since the outbreak of the Miss Sullivan, a native of this; j county and a sister of Blair Sul- > livan, of this city, and a sister! to Mis. Howard W. Alrlan of ("nei i yv'ille, hits heed in charge of the Lutheran schools at Tsimo She was commissioned for ser viee in China in September, 1‘AliO, at ,Ht Mark’s Lutheran church in Charlotte. She received a li. A. degree from Lenoir Rhyne college and took a gradu ate work at Biblical Seminary in .sc\y York. Miss Stirwalt, former member of the l.incolnton school faculty, js the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Marlin L. Stirevvall, of Colum bia, where her father is dean of tlig Southern Theological Semi nary of the United Lutheran church. She was commissioned for the foreign mission church in Salisbury and sailed for China j it September of that year Mrs. Karrior is thp former Miss Kitty McMullen, a niece of Mrs. •L A. Lore, of this city. She and Mr. Furrier haV'e beep in China or a number of years as mis ionarics of the Presbyterian chinch. They were home on fur lough ilist before the war broke 'nt with Japan in December, HI-11, and had just returned to I heir field. They have been in clin'd for some time Miss Bostick, whose home is in Shelby, is a missionary from the Baptist church. KDITORS NOTH: Miss Clara Sullivan is a sister of Mis. How ard \V. Allrun of Cherryv'illo and has many friends here who will h<» interested in this good news. HOWARD WATKINS GETS GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL Sioux City Army Air Base, la., Oct. 1t>.-—Pvt. Howard Watkins, stationed at the army air base, ! Sioux City, Iowa, was recently, awarded a good conduct medal. | Pet. Watkins' mother, Mrs. Alice Watkins, resides at Cherryville, J N C. At Camp Livingston, La. ---—-. Pfc. Winston Duncan, son of Mrs. Mae Duncan, enlisted in the army in February, 1942. At present he i. stationed at Camp Livingston. La., and has recently been home on a visit with his mother. Before entering the erviee he was employed at the Howell Manufacturing Company. PUBLIC URGED TO PLACE SCRAP ON CURB NEXT TUESDAY OCTOBER 26TH. Second Scrap Drive Well Under Way Now; Get All The Scrap You Can Find. I.ce Cauble, chairman of the second scrap drive, stated today that the response of the people of CherryVille in this second drive has been excellent but that there still remains a lot of scrap to be collected. The pile beside the post office is growing ant| it js hoped by the members of the scrap drive committee that it will continue to grow and equal that of the last dri\e. Citizens are urged to place their scrap on the curb in front of their homes so that the trucks can pick it up next Tuesday af ternoon. Several piles were col lected in front of homes last Tuesday but the town as a whole hasn't fully responded to this request. All citizens are asked to gather all scrap metal, tin cans, old tires, etc., and make them available for the collectors. The government is in need of the scrap or this drive would not be on now and people all over the country are enlisting their aid in rounding up the scrap. A quota of 15 million tons has been set for this drive and the expectations are that it will surpass the re quested amount. Please call any ol the members of the scrap committee and report scrap piles so that trucks may be dispatched to collect the scrap and haul it to the pile by the post office. The members of the com mittee are: Lee Cauble, Roy Car penter, Howard Houser, VV. C. Cobb, and J. L. Putnam, Jr. There is still much scrap which can be collected in Cherryv'ille and this will not only «. the government but will aid in beautifying the town. The boys on the lighting fronts all over the world are giv ing their all in this fight for free dom and the least the people on the home front can do is to “Back the Attack” in every possible way. Let’s all get busv and gather all scrap that may be lying around idle doing no one any good so that the quota set for North Car olina in this drive will be over reached MR. AND MRS. HUGH SNEED BREAK POTATO RECORD Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Sneed have dug their sweet potatoes and hue broke all records reported so far. Mr. and Mrs. Sneed planted two short rows of Louis iana Sweets in their Victory Gar den and dug them this week making seven bushels on the two short rows Most all the potatoes were three pounders, one weigh ed 3 pounds and 14 ounces. — BUY WAR BONDS — WAR RATION BOOK NO. 4 TOBE ISSUED Public Urged To Follow Instructions. War Ration Rook Xo. i will be issued by the teachers of the local schools on .lie l'ohouing dates and accordin'; to the inai outlined below: On Friday October 22. appli. cation forms for Hook Xo. 1 a ill be gi.cn out iiv the teacn '!■ to l lie oldest child in each jabot., 'Flu \ will take .here application blanks home with . iiein. where ■hey ne to be tilled out prnpvily according to instructions, and returned to their respective teachers on Monday, October 2a together with War Ration Book Xo. .{. On Octobei 25 a’bl 2b the teachers will issue War Ration Book Xo. 1 to the pupils in their home rooms who bring it) these applications and Xo. ,'J Ration Book. On October 27 and 2,S the schools will close at 12:05, and the general public or those not receiving thoit book through the school children will be issued their books. The hours for the general public will be. from 1 I’ !M. to C 1* M. Place: The High School. The public is urged to observe strictly the above schedule. !) • not come for your ration book at any other time except from 1 P. M. to ti P. M on Wednesday and Thursday, the 27 and 2S. Also be sure to see to it that your child bring home the appli cation blank, that ii is properly i filled out. and returned with War Ration Book Xo ;! on Monday, | October 25. W. F. STAKNKS, Supt STATE B & L LEAGUE TOPS BOND QUOTA Firmly Hotel mined to hack the i attack, purchases of War Bonds ; to the extent of 208 tier cent of , the State's quota is the record of North Carolina Building', Sav ings. and Loan Associations, as i of September :50th. in a national bond purchase program for 194.‘i I it is announced by Croson B. Miller, Albemarle, League Presi- j dent, and amongst those who contributed substantially in j achieving this outstanding record . was the Cherryville Building & | Loan Association, Cherryville Dr. Einsphuch Is Speaker At Broth erhood Banquet i i D. Huunter Rudisill Installed President Of Organization. Rev. Henry Kinspruch, D. I)., pf lialbimore. one of the nation's greatest (’ li list ia 11 .Jewish lead jrs and pastor of tlie Salem He mew Lutheran Mission of Halti more. w;is guest speaker at the banquet of the North Carolina Southern Distriet l.utlieran Iirotli erliood held Tuesday night at lie Carlton Cltth House at 7 bill > clock. About lad or more members of the brotherhood and their wives front several North Caro linn counties attended the din In the absence of the president. Odell Mediums, the vice-presi dent. 1). Hunter Rudisill acted as .oastmaster and was later in stalled us president of the l)is . rict lit ot herhood. along with other recently elected officers. I.'lte ludtherhood holds quarterly meetings and when it found te ently that it wouid be possible o obtain Hr. lOins.phuch as speak er it Wits decided to make this ession ti dinner meeting. I he meeting was opened with he singing of "America" follow ed by player by Rev. (1 corgi* S Rowd.cn. Follow iIttr the dinner, the pin gram v‘us continued with the iiymn “A Mighty Fortress". Recognition of the guests a tiong which was John II llorri >n, {stare Secretary of the Itroth A collection in the amount of dlO.Otl wa staken for the Loan tnd (lift Fund. Dr Kinspruch was introduced | iy /.eh Trexler of Concord, pres deiit of the State Rrotherhood. The visiting minister, a Jew con erted to the Chritsian faith, is lead of the Jewish mission work If tIt • I atImran denoiuii ;tt >p ifid much of this wink centers n lialtiinore. One of his recently •otpplcted inn dr' nil works ,\es he translation of the new Tes tament into the Yiddish or mo dern llebretv language. This cholarly accomplishment is ex pected to have much influence :n promoting the work of the Lutheran Mission in its efforts to dd converts to Christianity from he ranks of the .fewisli people. Following the address a bus mess session was held and the installation of officers was made by ReV. I.. A. Thomas. D. 1). The program closed with the Rrotherhood song and lienedio ion by Rev \V. (i. Cobb. ROYAL CAFE GETS FLAG THIS WEEK 7. IS I 14 Thu Royal ('alt- won the Amor .ran Legion Flag this week hat .!Ur tlio highest collection from ijie American Legion Cigarette boxes. This makes the second time the Royal Cafe has achieved Jiis accomplishment. They marie .he grade from the first collec tion. however, the flag was not presented the first week. Collections from the boxes this week follows: Royal Cafe Ritz Cafe Fridays Cafe Fred's Place City Market Sanitary Market Roy ct Troy Ben Boyles Store ilarrelson Table Supply W. X McGinnis Store Xu way Store Farmers 1'nioii Supply Putnam Hdw Co. Forest Davis • llomesle.v Service Sta Amoco Service Sta. Sinclair Service Sta. .Veils Esso Station Western Auto Store Houser Drug Co. Allen Drug Co. Howells Belks Eagle Publishing Co. Galloways Goldiner's Ilarrelson Company Roses 5 & 10c Store Houser Grocery Co. 2.1: 14 I. I. .9.5 TOTAL $40.15 THOMAS BANKS BROWNE SELECTED HONOR MAN UAINBRIIXJK. M'l.. Oct 11. Thomas Banks Browne, of East First Street has heen selected honor man of his recruit train ing con»pan.v here at Bainhridire. BiVwne. son of Mr and Mrs. \V. 1). Browne of Oherryv'ille, is an apprentice seaman, and will soon he advanced to seaman sec ond class after graduation S. M. Butler Appointed Cherryville Chairman Publicity Material Being Distributed In County And Newspaper Advertisement Appearing This Week. In The Navy J CLYDE HAYES .1. Clyde ilayes,, (' ph M. smi of Mis K. -1. Ilayes anil the late .Mr. Ilayes. has been in the Navy for nine years, lie is now on the r. S. K hid destroyer lie was home in February and sinre then has been stationed m New York until about two months a“n when lie was t rahsfel rod to the West <'-oast. Ili- address is .1,. Civile Ilayes ( pli M. C. S Kidd. \ Fleet Postmaster, Sail Francisco. (’ali foi nia. MRS. KISER DIES FRIDAY MORNING (Lincoln Tiniest Mrs. Heat lire Stroup Kiser, wile of Ilr W.C. Kiser, of Keeps vilie. died h riday • morning in a local iiospital after an illness of several weeks. For the past week tier condition has been critical and her death had been almost momentarily expected. Alts Kiser was IT years old. having been horn in (iaslon counts' September tin, lsiiil. Survivors, in addition to her husband, are a daughter. Mrs. I!. Al. Rollinger. the forniei Miss Hose Kiser; three sons. Lyman Kiser ol Raleigh; .Mike Kiser of lleepsville; and Aiose Kiser ol iTreeiishoro;;md live sisters. Mrs. Ceorgia Kincaid of Ressemei ily; Mrs lloke lluss of Cherry ille: Alls. John Coon of Hesse liter City; Airs. .' R. Ream ol -lastonia' and .Mis. Cen.rgo Falls d Cherry ville. Soon after bet marriage Airs riser came to Lincoln county utility and has made her home tere since. For several years she iv'ed ill l.incolnton Vvhe’e shi ■ndeaied herself to a large hum ■er of friends The greater pail >f her life, ’however, was spent I n the Reepsv ille section, and n was there she was probably best .noun for her kind deeds anil ■IIIini’roiis henefact ions. Funeral services were condor ted Sunday aftermn n al 2 o'clock front Russell's ('Impel Methodist i Church at Reepsville. one of t be largest crowds evei to assemble 'at the church being in attendance Rev. AlcClamrock was assiste-d-in the service by Rev II. Wilson. Cr.•unisons were pail bearers and the members of the Lincoln County Medical Society were i honorary pallbearers. Interment took place in the church come to rv. RFV DAVID F. BOBRITT TAKES UP NF.W WORK AT GREEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST Rev. mul Mrs 1 lavM E. Boh hilt have moved to Charlotte where Rev. Mr. Bobbitt heeiime pastor of Green Memorial Bap tist Church. He filled his new pulpit for the /first time last Suri_ day. He eomes from (.'(derail), Bertie eonnty. where he has lieen pastor of the First Bantisi Chureh there since leaving: Cher ryville Rev. and Mrs. Bohhitt and son Albert are receiving a warm welcome in Charlotte. Their pictures appeared in the Char, lotte Observed on their arrival there last week. Plans are being made fpi Hie Gaston County I'nited Win Kdiid campaign which opens .November Nth. Ilenry A. I.ineberger of lielmont, is Gaston county chair man and S M. Butler is chan man for Cherryville township. County chairman 'nneheiyer urges local leaders to get prepa ratory material distributed and said he felt sure the merchants, manufacturers and others of the general public of tiaston county would fully co-operate in this kind and in liberal contributions to the campaign funds. Gaston county's quota foi the nationwide 15-million dol.hu I'liit ed War Fund drive is $t!5.dun. Proceeds of the fund go to IT war agencies which work for the hen efit of American war prisoners, war refugees and peoples of Al lied and Axis-occupied countries. Local Post Office Closes At 3 O’Clock Saturday Afternoons We are ordered by the Post Office Department to close the Cherry ville Post (nice at :.! o' clock on Saturday. Hereafter there will iie no uackages cteliv ered after I o'clock on Saturdpy unless it is proven to be an ab solute necessity. if your business is of such na ture that it becomes an absolute necessity to transact jjostal busi ness after closing time on Sat urday you may write the Post Office Department ami inform them of your grievances; 01 write nie and I will be glad to transmit your message to the department I'he help that is left in the dlice alter .*> o clock is adequate only to dispatch the mail. If we stop and wait on you that means that we neglect the work wt* are intended to do. from this date on we are c!os_ ed at •'! o'clock on Saturday, if you call there is no one in. JOHN \V. MOSTKLI.FR. Postmaster Mrs. Halissa Sellers Funeral Held Sunday Mis. I lalissia Wright Seilers, 'is. widow of the late I). C Sel lers of near here died at the home of her brother. John I.. U right on Highway IS about H Friday night. She had been in declining health for more that; three years. having suffered a stroke of paralysis in 1SU0. Funeral services were conduc ted Iron Shady Cro\,. baptist church Sunday, afternoon at .'! o clock with the pastor. l!e\ I u tlier W . Hawkins, a former pas lor. officiating. Interment was made in the family plot in the church cemetery. Mrs Sellers was a daughter of the late I.awsnn A. and Marg;;_ ret Howell Wright of the Hearns Mill section. She was married fn Mr. Sellers in Hbi ; who prceed ed her to I he grave Iasi April of Surviving are thiee lirotlu-rs. ■lol.ni 1. Wright, wilh whom she made her home, Josh R. \\ rig.lit and Furman S. Wright, of the I’eanis Mill section, one sister. Mrs. I.tuber Sellers of Itessemer ( it V FATHER OF MRS. BRYANT PASSES IN CAMDEN, Tilt1 many friends here of Ma im- and Mrs. Malcolm Bryan* were sorry to learn of the death of Mrs. Bryant's father, Ben P. I.el.oat-lie. which occurred in the t'nnitlen hospital Thursday niuht Mr Del.oaciie was til years of atre and was ill for only a short time havinir suffered a heart at tad;. Funeral services were con ducted Saturday afternoon at -t o’clock from the Littleton Street Methodist church in Camden. Burial was made in the Quaker cemet ery. Major and Mrs Bryant had many friends here. They will he remembered as beintr connected with the Camp Levi Houser some years aeo. Mis. Bryant was mak ing her home with her parents in Camden while Major Bryant is stationed in North Africa.

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