Some Revolutionary Heroes of Rutherford
Major John Lewis, born 1757 in Virginia, fought in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and at Yorktown. He settled in Rutherford County, faced bond failures, moved to Green River, married Anne Berry Earle, and died 1840 in Georgia. Also noted are Isaac and George Suttle and Allen Hinson as Revolutionary figures connected to Rutherford lineage.
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John Lewis
Sarah Taliaferro
Albemarle County
Virginia
Marks
Sfayette
New Jersey
Pennyhania
Monmouth
Brandyne
Stoney Point
Germantown
Lord Cornwallis
Yorktown
Mountain Creek
Rutherford County
Charles
Lewis Brothers
Charles Lewis
Richard Lewis
Fed Alley
Ben Hyder, Jr
Green River
Isaac and
George Suttle
Trane Suttle
Isaac Sut
Car!penter
Sulphur Strings Township
Sulphur Springs
High Shoals Townships
Floyd's Creek
R. W. Eaves Promoted From Spindale School Principal
Spindale July 28 Mr. R Wendell Eaves former principal of Spindale Elementary school will travel to Charlottesville Virginia this week to attend the University of Virginia summer school as part of his promotion.
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Spindale
R. Wendell Eaves
Charlottesville
University of Virgi
Beason Returns Home From Hospital
Sheriff J. W. Beason who had been at a hospital for some time is well enough to go home. Mr. Eaves will be assistant principal of a suburban high school in Rutherfordton next year and will also study at Johns Hopkins University. His friends report his continued improvement.
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Eaves
Rutherfordton
Baltimore
J. W. Beason
John Hoplin
Waskins University
Ellenboro High School Opens August Fourth
Ellenboro July 28 The fall term of Ellenboro High School will begin August 4 with bright prospects and an efficient corps of teachers. Principal is Prof Curtis Price, a Duke graduate, with a large staff including Prof A B Bushong Wake Forest coach Louis Nanney and several teachers from Queens College, Asheville Normal College, and other institutions. The home economics teacher is Miss Dailey Baker from Melton who finished at North Carolina College for Women.
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Ellenboro
Ellenboro High School
Curtis Price
Duke University
A. B. Bushong
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Louis W. Nanney
Wake Forest College
Mary C. Thompson
Queens College
Charlotte
Velma Mayse
Asheville Normal College
East
Carolina College
Lillian Street
Alice Edwards Smart
Moores
Farmers Hardware Co Sells Summer Essentials Ice Cream Freezers
Farmers Hardware Co offers a selection of hot weather necessities including ice cream freezers oil stoves camp equipment and related items for summer use. Local shoppers can find discounts on durable goods designed to ease warm season tasks and outdoor cooking.
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Farmers Hardware Co
Mull Heads North Carolina Democrats in Acclaimed Re‑election
Raleigh July 28 Odus M Mull was re elected chairman of the state democratic executive committee at a spirited meeting in Raleigh He and Mrs Thomas O Berry of Goldsboro were named vice chairman and the group vowed an aggressive campaign across the state Governor Gardener and J W Bailey urged a militant offensive Bailey predicted a great democratic victory insisting the party be united and regain districts lost in 1928 Mull chaired the session with W C Coughenour and R C Self named as secretaries Mrs T Palmer Jerman presided as temporary chairwoman and Mull’s name was placed in nomination for re election by E Delia Dixon Carroll with broad support
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Raleigh
Democratic Executive Committee
Odus M. Mull
Thomas O’berry
Goldsboro
C. Max Gardner
J. W. Bailey
Gardner
Jerusalem
Samaria
Bailey
United States Senate
Ers
Jerman
Mull
House of Representatives
W. C. Coughenour
Salisbury
R. C. Self
T. Palmer Jerman
National Democratic
Vr. E. Delia Dixon-Carroll
Mr. Mull
R. A. Patton
Franklin
Macon County
County Warden W J Hardin Resigns in Rutherfordton
Rutherfordton July 28 1930 County Game Fish and Forest Fire Warden W J Hardin resigns effective September 1 1930. Citizens urged him to stay I for his faithful service to fish and game life and his role in checking forest fires. The note ends with unrelated lines about Paris decrees Mull predicts victory and paint advertising.
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Rutherfordton
W. J. Hardin
Mull
Party and Ware Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rutherford
Clarence Griffin
Courier News
County Hi
Part
George Lewis
Court of Pleas
General Assembly
Warr
Allen Hinson
Rutherford County Court of Pleas
al Ien Hinson
R. W. Eaves
0. M. Mull Heads
N. C
Democrats
Paris
Frank P. Stratford
Rutherfordton, N. C
Chesterfield
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