Andrew S. Rowan Home for the Aged opens with Red Cross aid
The Andrew S. Rowan Home for the Aged at Old Sweet Springs in Monroe County is served by the first American Red Cross council attached to a civilian institution. More than 500 aged guests are cared for in three classes including mild psychoses, state wards, and paying guests. Red Cross Gray Ladies shift from Greenbrier Hotel to support this new council as national HQ approves the civilian service.
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Andrew S. Rowan
Old Sweet Springs
Monroe County
American Red Cross Council
State Department
Greenbrier
White Sulphur 'Springs
Ashford General Hospital
Red Cross
Andrew S. Rowan Hore
National Council
National
Gray Ladies aid for aged folk and Old Sweet Springs lore
The Gray Ladies supplied canes, crutches, knitting needles and other items to comfort the elderly at a home run by 48 staff including a superintendent and secretaries. The article mentions a Jefferson Building expansion to care for 30 more guests, oldest male Horace Jeakins aged 88 and Elizabeth Maror among the oldest. It also recounts stories of Old Sweet Springs, its discovery by a man near the spring, and a tradition about a rattlesnake and a dog bite cure.
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Watnen
Jefferson Building
Jefferson
Horace Jeakins
Elizabeth Maror
Jeriry
Yara
Samilin
Manteo
Alderson
Simmet
Lish
Rera
Rowan Ho
Monroe County
Elbert, Husbard
Lewis
William Lewis
Sweet Spring Marsh
Bouchelle Denies Hart Trial Writ
Lilie Mae Hart of 804 Young St challenged an intermediate court’s second degree murder verdict for the March murder of City Patrolman William J. Stith. Circuit Judge Julian F. Bouchelle rejected her writ of error, upholding the manslaughter appeal outcome and the 2nd degree murder sentence. She claimed she acted on impulse to protect her man Sam Mart, but the judge denied the writ.
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Lilie Mae Hart
Young St
Aep
William J
Court Street confrontation ends in fatal shooting
On Court Street a woman, on the pavement, grappled with an officer. She denied malice and said the state failed to prove malice. Smith died last Sept 29 after a quarrel with Hart over a disturbance. Mrs Hart allegedly leaned over and fired a gun at Smith's head.
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Court St
Smith
Mr. Hart
Hart
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