08 Jan 1907
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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1907
Page
1
Regular correspondent reports residents visiting relatives and friends during Christmas in Schley, Durham, and nearby areas. The item notes social events, engagements, illnesses, a wedding, hunting mishaps, an upcoming church service, a funeral, and community updates from Rogers Store to Cedar Grove.
The writer recalls a festive time on Buffalo with dances and dinners hosted by Mrs Mangum and Mrs Deamstead. Visits from relatives include Charlie Wilson with his parents and Dave Hall with Bennie Laws. Ed Wilson bought young mules as farming resumes with New Year resolutions to work, while music, hunting tales, and cheerful chatter fill the day.
Reports from Chatham County describe unusually high wild turkey numbers with locals selling six birds in one week and three in a day at Pittsboro market. Uncle John Laws, 87, long time Register of Deeds, received a baby girl at Christmas. Hog and melon grower A Morgan reports three hogs weighing 1255 pounds total before Christmas. Three marriage ceremonies were held at Pittsboro with Henderson Clegg, Green Me Iver, and Baker Dismukes couples. D. A. H. Cook, respected in Damascus church area, died early morning.
North Carolina Cotton Growers re-elected C C Moore as president with J B Davis as vice president and A J McKinnon J H Currie and T J W Broome on the executive committee. Delegates from seventeen counties met as $55,000 state aid for the James town exposition was targeted. Other actions included crop report coordination, debt apportionment among counties, and several local agendas. Thomas Jackson, longtime Soldiers' Home inmate, died suddenly of a hemorrhage. News covers railway tie-ins, hospital expansions, a bank suit, and arrest of Horace Jones on mortgage-related charges.
Weath er turns mild for the New Year as Mr Rigsbee and daughter Miss Sarah Rigsbee return from an Oxford area visit. Calvin Clements recent days with brother Newton Clements, Misses Mary Ida Williams and Rufus Adcock visiting aunts near Littleton. Julia Dixon visits relatives in Durham county. Alice Annie Eakes and Charlie Eaks hosted by Annie Wilkerson. Jack Adcock and sister visit father and many friends in the community. L F C.
Rougemont and Reuter report Mr Bowen of Wake Forest postponed his Red Mountain Christmas sermon to the second Sunday in January. The community hosts parties, including a late night gathering at Mrs Bodie Lunsfords, lasting until 3 AM, with good humor and high spirits.
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