The News Reporter from Whiteville, North Carolina • Page 5

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1924 THE NEWS REPORTER PAGE FIVE will be constructed immediately on (laymen from this section of the the site. The filling station will state. you. Adertisements published in; Few men are able to endure un- will come to call it a shrine, and tha this paper continually tell of many limited prosperity, but almost any capital of the United suuv-s, w.lh handle the Texas Ois and eras, ex conveniences and comforts that you man will raKe a cnance. he rose to is greatest tame, natur.ai- clusively.

It will be remembered! At a meeting; of the Columbus ly has suggested itself as the place. might otherwise miss. County Fair Association Monday of PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON It is not improbable that his body READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS. IT PAYS that this oil company has only recently invaded Columbus and has built a big supply station here The this week new elected FALLS ON EVERLASTING SLEEP may rest, for a time at least, in the great national cathedral now rising Born to Mr. and Mrs.

M. Fu1-ifilIinS station flt tne old Lennon (Continued from page one) on Mount St. Albans, overlooking NO MORE FREE SEED the fair were decided upon and plans were advanced lookiner to-! or. of Baltimore, a son, M. K.

wards the 1924 event biesrer and: TVio fnllnwincr lettpr from Cone atauies win ue me ursi, step in an active campaign to introduce Texas oil in Columbus. Fuller, iy24. ressman Homer Lyon, dated Feb- oetter tnat oi any previous fair. Tha fair will Ka ViatA lumbia, S. C-, the burial place of his father and mother.

It is certain that he will not be buried at Princeton, N. although a burial there has been suggested. It seems certain also that he will not be buried in' Arlington National cemetery. It is more likely that he will be the city from the northwest section. It is planned to have' a place of sepulchre for the nation's great dead there, after the manner of Westminster Abbey in England.

Mr. Wilson's active pall bearers will be chosen later from among the men who were most closely asso tober 28-29-30 and 31st and the 4th- explains itself and may A fairly good sized crowd was here Monday to attend the meeting the board of county commission's and board of education. be useful to News Reporter readers lowing were elected officials: K. Clyde Council, president; R. J.

Ed- 1 i tt Mr. W. B. Keziah, Editor. The News Reporter, Whiteville, N.

C. Mv Dear Keziah As I am receiv- entombed temporarily here in Wash ciated with him during his terms ington at some ofthe local ceme-; in the presidency. Honorary pall Mr. J. S.

Mann, manager of the One Price Store, leaves Sunday for the northern markets to purchase his sprinig stock of goods. waiHis ana w. c. ivicitacKan, vice-president; Bruce Pierce secretary-treasurer. The following gentlemen were appointed an executive committee: F.

L. Finkenstaedt, Geo. T. Sutton, Roy Owens, R. teries to rest there, until the na ing a considerable number requests for flower and vegetable seed from all over my district it oc- bearers probably will be selected from men of congress, from which also a representative committee will be delegated.

tional memorial which is sure to mark his final tomb, is prepared. Where that may be still is amatter Despite the fact that January was the first month of the work and that there were many unfavorable circumstances attendant upon its starting. 1043 blood specimens were taken in the malaria campaign during that month and 893 of these specimens were examined. A fairly average percentage of the specimens examined showed traces of malaria or postive cases. Mr.

Y. M. Gore is preparing to move his family back to his farm near Clarendon where they will engage in farming during the summer He tells the New? Reporter that he will move back to Whiteville in the fall. Mr. Gore built a nice resi- Bailey.

J. A. Maultsby, A. I curs to me that there is perhaps of conjecture. At one time Mr Wil- Whether the funeral services will Powell, J.

T. Lazar, E. L. Green, some doubt as to the present status D. M.

Thompson, Dr. R. B. Whitaker 0f this matter. Congress at the last session decided to discontinue this ARE YOU CONTENTED? i practice, and refused to make an ap- son himself considered choosing his private or a great public cere-birthplace, Staunton, but later I mony probably will be dctci mined gave it up.

ed tomorrow, when t'n. r'lv t1 t- Memorial Likely place of intermejit probably will Those about him feel that a memo- l)f selected. A death mask was Mr. F. L.

Finkenstaedt of Bolton, is in Detroit, this week attending a meeting of the directors the Security Trust Company. The Woman's Club will meet tomorrow (Friday afternoon in the re Ft room at the court house at o'clock. All members are urg-i-fi to be present. An enterprising publication re- nronHation to cover the cost of seed cently asked thousands of farmers' distribution. For this reason there bj made today for the use and guidance ho of scu'ntors and other artists.

wives this most personal question is no seed available at this time. ocaiea, snouia "Am von nntonr) i hflvp hPPn fnven a limited allot-! easy access to the thousands dence here last year and he and 94 noreent. of all pps thn answer rrent of Yearbooks of the Depart-; family have been occupying it dur was Yes, decidedlv." ment of Agriculture for 1922 (the lilt, lit u-i i farm life i 1923 edition has not yet been pub- he wash-1 lishech "Diseases of the Horse," YTt Tl A A th Yet, only a decade ago Lmeant drudererv. Todav ing the winter and while the children were attending scohool. Mr.

J. L. Ripple will occupy the home during the summer. Mrs. Blanche Smith Lewis is in lireensboro this week visiting her ncice Miss Dorothy Smith at the North Carolina College for Women.

mer-machme and rlectrif iron make I and "Diseases of tattle ana aiso 0 quick work of what used to be a have a number of Farmers' Bulletins formidable task. New utensils speed on all manner of subjects. I will be up the preparation of meals. Dish i glad to send these publications to for envoy service The Parent-Teachers' association which performed quite a useful mis Mr. S.

J. Bennett of the law firm of Brown, Porter and Bennett is in Charlotte and Winston-Salem on special business. them cter. Vacuum cleaners lend their sion in the school here last session of school is to be re-organized at a Yours very truly, H. L.

LYON. meeting that is scheduled to be held most effective aid. Running water, better cleaners and innumerable household helps lighten, quicken and With a careo of 100 tons of school improve the work. That is what advertising means to 1 supplies, the auxiliary power schoon Attorney Jackson Greer is in Wilmington attending Federal court. He is one of the attorneys for the defense in the famous Cooper case that is now being tried.

women on the farm. It has brought at the school auditorium tomorrow night (Friday Feb. 8.) at 8 o'clock. The students of the school will present a nice little program before the business session of the meeting commences. All of the patrons and friends of the school are earnestly requested to be present.

er Boxer has sailed from Seattle for Southeastern Alaska, equipped as a floating school. Her officers will undertake to teach the natives various trades, including wireless telegraphy and navigation. them countless appliances which help in their work, better conditions in ther homes, add to their pleasure and increase their interest in life. We are now maintaining an efficient delivery service to all parts of the town and will have your grocery or- ders at your door in quick time after Advertising means as much to Mir. Detlaw Sanderson has resigned his position with the Columbus county road force and it is understood that he will leave Saturday for Wake Forest to enter the lew school.

receiving your orders. Norftfiaerai "or Special attention will be given to all telephone orders for groceries. Mr. Julian D. Lewis was among the successful ones to stand the examination for the practice of law at Wake Forest College last week.

He has returned to Whiteville and becomes a member of the law firm of Powell and Lewis. From three until four o'clock yesterday afternoon all business in Whiteville was suspended and practically all of the town united in me-meorial service to Woodrow Wilson, who was being buried at that hour. At the Westminster Presbyterian church an appropriate memorial service was held in charge of Rev. A. J.

Howell, Rev. I. T. Newton, 3V. D.

M. McGeachey and Rev. Mr. Patshall of the Methodist church. All spoke feelingly of the life and policies of the dead leader.

The 117th Motor Transport Company attended the service in full dress and bearing their arms. 'i- i Mark els Mr. R. B. Lennon and family have returned to Whiteville from Georgia and will make their home here in the future.

They have been living in Georgia nearly a year and decided that there was no state like Carolina and no town like J. B. Rogers Co. G. W.

Spivey, who was cinvicted in superior court last week and sentenced to serve eighteen months on the roads, from which judgment Vineland, North Carolina Mr. R. Burns, of Tabor, was among those licensed to practice law in this state by the state board of examiners in Raleigh last Friday. It is understood that Mr. Burns will move from Tabor to Whiteville and open law offices here.

I am leaving Sunday for the Northern markets. Anyone wishing to solicit special orders will please see me before Sunday. he appealed to the superior court, has withdrawn his appeal and left Monday to begin serving his sentence on the roads. Waitus, Cai'ter, Roy Carter and Levi Hilburn. who all entered appeals from sentences imposed upon them, are still in jail, having been1 unable "to furnish the appeal bonds of fifteen hundred dollars that was required in each case.

George Faircloth, another prisoner drawing a chain gang sentence and who likewise entered an appeal to the supreme court, has given his appeal bond and is at Squire A. T. Clark, of Boltdri, was among the vistors in town Monday. Mr. Clark is being strongly mentioned as a candidate for the county court.

He served several years as recorder in the lower part of Wac-camaw township and of Bolton and ave splendid service. colics (it wWm tt ji. 5. Mann, Application was made to the State Board of Examiners for license for the Whiteville Business School. Up-to-date fixtures ate being purchased and it is understood that the school will formally open just as soon as the license is Prop.

One Price Store y.XXXXXX"XXXXXXXX"X"X Readers of the News Reporter are familiar with the Mears case, a sordid, story wherein a white woman and her children were mixed up with negroes in the manufacture of whiskey and immorality. Two negro boys named Cross were sent to the chain gang for several months, two young white girls were sent to Samarcaud Manor and the ring leader of the manufacturing enterprise and other evils, Moses Cross, escaped. Cross kept the two white girls in his home near Durham for a considerable length of time. When his sons and the mother of the girls were arrested in Welches Creek township he fled the State. Last wmmr 4 i 10ffi The Powell school, two miles from town on the highway to Wilmington was destroyed by fire this morning.

An odd circumstance in connection with this fire is that two residences have been burned within two hundred yards of the school building during the past year. Today's fire started from a defective stove flue. week he was captured in Durham and Monday he was brought DacK The old Lennon livery stable is being torn down and it is understood that a modern brick filling station here bv deputy sheriff, L. J. bpivey He will be tried in the county court next Tuesday.

OVE1R AGAM 1 We could keep on telling you of the service a real insurance agency Westminster Presbyterian church, Rev. Andrew J. Howell, pastor. Ser vices will be held Sunday at 11 a. M.

and 7:15 p. m. Sunday schoo meets at 10 a. m. and Junior Christian Society "at 2:30.

Mid-week services Wednesday at 7:15 p. The nublic are cordially invited to attend the services. renders its clients but what we I Rev. Andrew J. Howell.

Rev. M. McGeacy and Mr. W. M.

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11 Dorothy Phillips in Hurricane's Gal And a Comedy. (Mrs, J. R. McNeill). Wednesday, Feb.

13 Lyceum Attraction Lecture by Strongheart, In-dian Chief. Prices 25c, 50c Thursday, Feb. 1 4 Anita Stewart in Rose o' the Sea One of the best. Also a good Comedy. (Mrs.

J. A. Maultsby). Friday, Feb. 15 Closing chapter of Haunted Valley Pathe News and a Comedy.

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