Ill scholar and local events dot Archdale details
Friends report Joel Williams III gravely ill at his parents home in Archdale. Church groups hold meetings tonight at 8. Music pupils perform at Elm Street school with Adelaide Crowell leading. Ice cream sale planned by Calvary church Philathea class at 8:39. Various local residents travel, visit, or return from trips and hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joel Williams
A. E. Williams
Archdale
Virginia Frank
Adelaide Crowell
Elm Street
Calvary M. E. Church
Weekend Visits Highlight Roaring Gap Social Scene
Mr and Mrs Hoke Bullard and children Betty Moore and Hoke Jr spent the week end at Gray Stone Inn Roaring Gap Miss Mary Elizabeth Ellis left Saturday for Baltimore Md where she will spend time with relatives and friends Miss Lelia Bouldin of Trinity spent the week end with Miss Faye
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Moffitt
Atlanta, Ga
Ogden Guilfuss
Daisy Lee York
Chapel Hill
Martha Crawford
Mrs. Hoke Bullard
Betty Moore and
Hoke, Jr
Graystone Inn
Roaring Gap
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Baltimore
Lelia Bouldin
Trinity
Faye
City to buy diving helmet after Lake Hickory drownings
In Hickory on July 20 a campaign was launched to fund a city diving helmet after three drownings in Lake Hickory. Sterling Menzies urged public subscriptions. Fire Chief Donald Shuford will oversee the helmet project and collect quotes from manufacturers. Recovery of the latest body required 40 hours.
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Hickory
Lake Hickory
Sterling Menzies
First National Bank
Donald Shuford
Catawba River
Koonts Holds Record In Growing of Wheat
Lexington reports C A Koonts of Tyro township holds the Davidson county wheat yield record for the year. He produced an average of 49 bushels per acre on two and a quarter acres, according to County Farm Agent P M Hendricks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
C. A. Koonts
Tyro Township
Davidson County
Legion work praised in radio address by NC official
North Carolina radio audience heard Frank D. Grist state labor commissioner laud the American Legion for civic work and wartime principles. He urged voters to study issues, limit money in campaigns, and vote with conscience to defend government by the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
American Legion
Frank D. Grist
WPTF
Legion
North Carolina
Grist
Davidson County to receive 345 teachers funded by state
Lexington July 20 Davidson county schools including Lexington charter schools will get 345 teachers paid by the state for the six month term. The breakdown shows 74 white high school teachers 243 white elementary teachers 4 colored high school teachers and 24 colored elementary teachers. Superintendent Evans notes last year total staff was 359 but state did not share in all. Last year’s mix included home economics and agricultural teachers funded locally or federally. Rural schools counted 181 white teachers plus 12 colored elementary for 219 total. The county appears to lose none of its white teachers funded by the state next year. Bull fighting banned Palm Beach Florida resort passes ordinance prohibiting bull fights within city limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Davidson County
State Board of Equalization
Paul F. Evans
Evans
George Reed
Thomasville
Corn stalk bears fifty tiny ears in unusual harvest
Reports from multiple North Carolina locales describe curious agricultural and civic notes. Timothy Morgan notes an extraordinary corn stalk with 50 ears. Other items cover a dairy association convention in Winston-Salem, a Greensboro fishing pair catching 850 fish, Robeson county home demonstration protests leading to policy reversal, and D. D. Sanders Jr resigning as Elizabeth City chamber secretary.
Rothrock Delivers Walk-Off Single for Red Sox
Jack Rothrock hit a single in the 12th inning driving in the winning run for the Red Sox against the Indians in a dramatic late victory.
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Jack Rothrock
Red Sox
Indians
Whiskey valued at twenty thousand in Patrick Mahoney case
Probate court in Chicago heard attorney Walter Murphy explain a $20 000 stock of old whiskey and wine in the Mahoney estate. The liquor is to be inherited by Patrick Mahoney of County Tipperary Ireland who may visit to collect or drink it, judge Horner suggesting an inventory and receipt.
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Chicago
Patrick Mahoney
County Tipperary
Ireland
America
Walter Murphy
John J. Mahoney
Internal Revenue Department
Henry Horner
Patrick
Murphy
X ray tube outlasts expectations at State College
State College reports an X ray tube of new design ran 11 000 hours without burnout far surpassing the former life of 450 hours. Washington notes a small but powerful naval observatory telescope will explore 1 500 000 000 light years more accurately. The world's largest telescope is 100 inches in diameter. New York notes Paul Beaujon of London, an authority on typography, is actually Mrs Beatrice Ward in her twenties. San Sebastian records two tourists fined 500 pesetas for failing to keep in touch with current events.
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State College
Washington
Naval Observatory
Navy
New York
Paul Beaujon
London
Beatrice Ward
San Sebastian
Spain
New York Philharmonic to Perform Chopin Polonaise Op26
Mrs. Charles E. Mitchell orchestrates Chopin Polonaise Op26 No 1 in C sharp minor to be played by the New York Philharmonic. The report notes past protests in Spain over shouting long live the republic and now long live the king.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
The
Republic
New York
Charles E. Mitchell
National City Bank
New York Philharmonic Symphony
Hoyle Becomes U S Attorney for Western North Carolina
Hoyle of Gastonia took the oath today as assistant United States district attorney for the western North Carolina district. The oath was given by United States Commissioner Eis Capps. He will have headquarters in Gastonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gastonia
Oe Hoyle
United States
North Carolina
Eisae Cappsogle
Calotte
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BY Cowan
While Sting
Antioue
Gladys
Mike Finnegan
Pat
Joel Williams III
C. E. Society
Senior Christian Endeavor Society
First Methodist Protestant Church
Margaret and
Lois Snipes
Steele Street
Esther Pritchard
Hauser
Eleanor Etch
Madge Robbins
Vogt
Evelyn Rose
Regina Frost
Tannhauser
Wagner
Katheie Putnam
Melody—Reigger
Pauline Kennett
Schumann
Bessie Hymen
Brahms
Mary Sueriggs
Mildred Free
Bach-Gounod
Iris Welch
Jocelyn—Godard
Edna May Douglas
Kriesler
Evelyn Sharp
Wieniawski
Elizabeth Ellis
Gertrude Clarke
Adoration
Borowski
Helen Stephens
Eleanor Stephens
L. Spohr
Philathea
A. A. York
High Point Hospital
Caudle
Alfred Street
Virginia Bennett
Edna Sloup
Salisbury
Jack Grubb
Marie
Myrtle Beach
Mary Hicks
Durham
Parker Waynick
Wake Forest
Mrs
R. L. Waynick
Virginia
Pauline Ponton
A. A. Moore
West
Lexington Avenue
Florence and
Margaret Herman
Conover
Mrs. W. R. Shaffer
Montheuravenue
O’connor Flower Shop
Hamilton Florist
English St
Koonts
North Main Street
Commissioner of Labor
Official
Bureau Weather Repor
San Antonio
San Francisco
Tampa
Vicksburg
Seee
Wilmington Ee
Palm Beach
Fla
Breepfs
le Hertford
N. C
Timothy Morgan
Winston-Salem, N. C
North Carolina Dairymen's Association
Vandermere
C. H. Sterly
A. R. Kertz
Greensboro
Lamberton
Robeson County
Board of Commissioners
Elizabeth City
D. D. Sanders, Jr
Chamber of Commerce
Charley Paddock
Trishman
Hoyle
U.S. Attorney
Beavans
the Ladies’ Store
Hutchen’s Bakery
East Washington
Cole Slaw
White Mt. Rolls, Doz
Om Haa
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