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[ Prominent
Business
I Man Passes
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William Joshua Meares, 61,
one of the city's prominent business
men, died Wednseduy evenf
ing, at 6:00 o'clock at his home,
301 Beech street.
Mr. Meares operated a tailor
shop at 509 East Market street,
known as Meares' Tailor Shop,
for more than 40 years. He was
also treasurer of the Deacon
Board of St. James Presbyterian
church for 35 years, a member
of the Professional Men's club,
and a member of St. John's Masonic
Lodge No. 12.
Funeral services will be held
at St. James Presbyterian church
Sunday at 2:30 p.. m., with the
Ministerial Alliance in charge. '
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Essie B. Meares; a son, Julian
A. Meares: three daughters.
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WILI/IAM J. MEARE8
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Mrs. Marietta Carrlngton, Mrs.
Anita B. Rivers, and Miss Agnes
Mears; one brother, Gaston
Meares; four sisters, Mrs. M.
Dudley, Mrs. M. King, Mrs. L.
Hutching, Mrs. L. Baker; one
daughter-in-law and two sonsr
in-law.
< Interment will follow in Maple,
wood cemetery.
ELKS DELEGATES.
ATTEND CONVENTION
Li Pour officers of the Old Norht
State Lodge 87, Elks organization,
left Sunday for Phlladelk
phla to attend annual meeting
of the grand lodge and the branch
group, Independent order of the
' Elks of the World.
> Delegates are Alvls Rhodes,
exalted ruler; R. L. Ledwell, ee<!;
teemed leading knight; John
V ^ Purcell, member of the trustee
| board, and W. B. Hooker, secre0
tary. They will return thts week1
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RECEIVE MASTERS' DEGKEI
are Mrs. Lucille C. Tarpley, Mrs. 1
A. Clapp, all of Greensboro, who r
gree in Rural Education at the cl
convocation of A. and T. college i
Sunday. The three are public sch<
Letters To
Dear Editor: i
In asking for ideas to help combat
the deplorable crime wave <
which has swept our city and
county in the past months, you
have really thrown a challenge,
to the citizenry. I'm not sure I
can be --K^much help, but as a
good citizen, I felt the urge to
at least write.
I think our crime wave has its
source in several streams, and
when they converge, the resul
is rape, murder or illegitimates.
The first stream is ignorance.
Education may not be the answer
to all the problems, but there is
no substitute for it. When real
education, not Just "readin, 'ritin'
and 'rithmetic" is made available
to more people, it will in a
great measure help prevent
crlmds. I think it is high time
that sex and criminology should
be taught in school, Instill them
in pliable minds. This first fault
lies at the door of educators.
The second stream is idleness.
It is well said that "idleness is
the devil's workshop." When
young people, men and women
have nothing to do, then they
make something to do. At first
it may start out as a game, but
it usually ends in something violent.
We have in a lackadaisical
way, presented to the people a
summer recreational program,
but have we given the people a
well-rounded all the year program?
What we want to do, what
we need to do is give the people '
something to occupy their minds.
This second fault lies at the door
of the city.
The third Btream is poverty.
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is?Pictured above leit to rrgut
leatrice R. Jones and Mrs. Willie
eceived tile Master of Science deosing
session of the 12th annual
summer school which closed last
>ol teachers in the state.
the Editor
On this stream ride ill health,
disease, malnutrition and crowded
housing conditions. The war
has only brought to the fore
these conditions which have long
existed among us. Low wages
is the boat in which all these
other ills ride. When we are given
adequate housing facilities
with cheerful home surroundings,
we'll spend more time in
them. Poverty is the breeding
ground for all these ills. As you
know in neighborhoods where
all the pleasant conditions prevail,
we have less crime and less
delinquency. This fault lies at
the door of the people. Once we
as a body actually see this basic
condition and begin Btrlving to
remedy it, crime and its followers
in this area will start moving
out.
I hope I've been some help in
this campaign to lessen the evils
of crime in our county. Some of
the observations I have made
have been of necessity harsh,
but truth is harsh and justice is
uncompromising in the good for
all the people.
WILLIAM H. MALLORY
Greensboro, N. C.
August 25, 1945
Dear Editor:
I think where there's no Christianity
in the homes while the
children are growing up, and
the parents not interested to the
extent that they keep them in
school, allowing them to be in
bad company are some of the
causes of many of the crimes
committed today.
To prevent these crimes, the
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ER 1, 1945
Of Mrs. \
A. C. Wise, 30, ad James Warren,
41, were given a preliminary
hearing Friday morning before
Magistrate J. E. Paschal for the
brutal slaying of Mrs. Nellie P.
| Williams August 11 on Muir's
Cliapel road. Both men were la'ter
hound over to Superior court
j which is scheduled for September
10.
Only one deputy, J. W. Donovant,
testified for the state. He!
stated that Wise told him that
Mrs. Williams had made arrangements
to meet him by bus at a
designated spot on Waljter avenue
August 11, and he (Wise),
made arrangements with James
Warren to take him to the point
o( meeting. The deputy further
quoted Wise as saying that Mrs.
Williams did not come on the
first bus following his arrival,
but did come on the second one
and got off a short distance from
where Wise and Warren were
parked, then walked 15 or 20
feet in the pine thickets just off
Muir's road. The deputy quoted
Wipe as saying that after a disagreement
ho took his knife and
cut her throat, then toolc a sapling
from a nearby tree and beat
her. He took her watch, glasses
and pocketbook and went back
to the car where Warren was
waiting'. Upon returning to the
car Wise told Warren not'to tell
what had happened. He then paid
Warren 75 cents for the trip.
Mrs. Williams' glasses, watch
and pocketbook were found at
Wise's residence where he had
told the deputy they were placed.
Blood stains were seen on the
ground where the dead woman
lay and on the Bhirt waist whtch
she wore. The deputy stated that
Wise's pants and shirt were
bloody.
Warren, who is pleading not
guilty of taking Wise on the
August 11 trip, stated that he
took him to the Muirs' Chapel
L. H. McliAURlN,
CIVIC LEADER, PASSES
RBIDSVILLE, Aug. 30?L.
H. McLaurin, 43, civic leader,
died at Memorial hospital last
night. A native of Laurinburg,
he attended Laurinburg Institute,
Smith University, Charlotte,
and graduated from Clark
university, Atlanta, Ca., and Renaur
School of Embalming, New
York.
He came to Reidsvllle and established
the McLaurin Funeral
home in 1931. He was a member
of Omeida Phi Phi fraternity,
the Elks club, Men's Progres
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PRICE: 5o
Murder
itfilliams
road August 6 at which time Mrs.
Williams met Wise and went for
a short ride with him. Later she
got out of the car and walked a
short distance with Wise, and
the deputy quoted Warren as
saying that Wise paid hhn $1.0(1
for the trip.
Donovant quoted Warren as
stating further that lie went to
a dentist in the Jefterson Standard
building about 10 o'clock
Saturday morning, and that the
dentist pulled two teetli. From
there he is said to have gone to
an A. and P. store and to several
other places. He also stated
that he dixi not see Wise at alt
on August 11, "But Warren had
A. C. WISE
enough in him not to make any
further statement," said the deputy.
The picture shown in the Future
Outlook does not closely
resemble Wise due to the fact
that his glasses were off, and he
was a bit perturbed at the time
it was made. Wise, who is small
of statute, weighs approximately
160 pounds.
slve club of Reidsvtlle, chairman
of the finance committee of the
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Reldsvllle division of Boy Scouts
of America, and lay leader of
the Methodist church.
Funeral will be held Saturday
at 10 a. m., at Retdsville Methodist
church. Interment taking
place at Laurinburg Saturday at
5 p. m.
Mr, William Gilmer, of -1234
Gray street, has' returned from
Marietta, O., after spending a
week with his brother, Rev. Arthur
M. Gilmer.
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