Sorosis Club Meet and Community Events Notes
Sorosis Club members will meet tomorrow at 8 PM at Mrs. L. J. Ingram's home in Rowland Park. A Sedgefield Country Club dance follows Friday 9 PM to 1 AM with Kay Kiser orchestra. Ace of Clubs hosts a bridge party and dance with Blue Devils orchestra. A Calvary Methodist food sale and bazaar Saturday starts at 9 AM in the old Penny building North Main. Several local residents are noted traveling or attending nearby football games. Mrs. J. d. Garland's condition improves at Guilford General Hospital.
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Borosis Club
Sorosis Club
Sedgefield
Sedgefield Country Club
Kay Kiser
ACE OF Clubs
Country Club
Blue Devils Orchestra
Durham
Ladies Aid Society
The
Calvary Methodst Episcopal Church
Old Penny Building
North Main Street
Red Cross reports successful roll call campaign
The American Red Cross closes its enrollment drive with a target of 5,000,000 members and reports strong early returns. Preliminary data show many chapters reaching or exceeding their quotas as the drive began on Armistice Day and followed the 1927 tally of 3,078,789 members.
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Washington
American Red Cross
McAndrew Walks Out On Chicago School Trial
William McAndrew walked out of his school board trial in Chicago, saying he would stay away until the board addresses charges leading to his suspension as superintendent. He criticized the board for listening to various paid patriots during sessions.
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Chicago
William McAndrew
School Board
McAndrew
Japanese Steamer Tentaisan Maru Reports Distress
SOS sent at 7 25 a m by the Japanese steamer Tentaisan Maru was picked up by Seattle Harbor radio reporting she was stranded off Grays Harbor on the Washington coast and requiring immediate assistance.
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Seattle
Seattle Harbor
Grays Harbor
Washington
Police Raids Net Fifty Chicago Gangsters Including Pete Genna
Chicago police arrested about fifty gangsters in raids across gangland haunts. Pete Genna, last of the Genna brothers’ original leaders, is among those detained in the sweep that targeted the city’s once powerful underworld.
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Chicago
Lil
Pete
Genna
Memory of Joseph Clyde Rivers by Lloyd T. Wilson
Obituary notice for Joseph Clyde Bivens, born 1905 in Union County North Carolina. Died November 20 after infantile paralysis. Survived by parents and brother Homer Gwynn Bivens. Funeral at 307 Elm Street with Rev. Lloyd T. Wilson and others. Burial at Oakwood Memorial Park.
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Joseph Clyde Bivens
Clyde
Union County
N. C
J. K. Bivens
Wingate Junior College
Wingate
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
High Point
Salisbury
Elm Street
Perry-Plywood Corporation
Meadow Branch Baptist Church
C. J. Black
First Baptist Church
Baptist Young People’s Union
Homer Gwynn Bivens
Lloyd ‘T. Wilson
King’s Mountain
M. D. L. Pressler
Oakwood Memorial Park
Negroes invest heavily in building and loan stock in North Carolina
Durham observers report that black shareholders hold over 6 million dollars in white associations and nearly 700 thousand in black ones, based on the 1926 insurance department data. Across the state there are 1,380 black shareholders in seven black associations with total assets about 659 thousand. 12,451 black members in white associations imply a total investment around 6 million, totaling near 7 million overall. The Durham Conference, including C. C. Spaulding and J. M. Avery, plans a December 7 1927 meeting to map black savings credit and insurance, with a stocktaking aim at the status of the American negro.
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Durham
North Carolina
Insurance Commissioner
The
Mutual
Raleigh
People’s
Alarm System for Forest Fires Now Being Installed
The North Carolina forest service unveils home wardens signs on highways to aid motorists in reporting fires. A 300 gallon truck trailer with pumps and hose will aid districts. Fayetteville has one trailer, New Bern builds another, with more for Asheville Lenoir and Windsor districts.
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Raleigh
State Department of Conservation and Development
Forest Service
W. C. McCormick
Fayetteville
New Bern
Asheville
Lenoir
Windsor
Mrs. Roxanna Fisher Dies at 77 in Jamestown
Roxanna Fisher 77 died at her daughter’s home in Jamestown after a 12 week illness. Born January 12 1850 in Guilford County she was the daughter of James and Judia Kersey Fisher. Survived by daughter Mrs George L Hodgin three granddaughters and a great grandson. Funeral Friday at 4 pm at Jamestown M E Church with Rev. Hunt officiating burial in Deep River Cemetery.
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Roxanna Fisher
George L. Hodgin
Jamestown
Fisher
Guilford County
James and
Judia Kersey Fisher
Lois
Eddith Hodgin
J. Parks McLeod, Jr
Neman
Hunt
Jamestown M. E. Church
Deep River Cemetery
Feeble minded cost state big sum in Wake County charts
Wake County families charts show one feeble minded family costing over 32000 by 1927 with eight children in or out of state institutions. Officials urge segregation and sterilization as groups study the economic waste caused by marriages of mental defectives.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Wake County
State Board of Charities and Public Welfare
Kate Burr John
Wake
Caswell Training School
South Carolina
North Carolina College For Women
From
Peace Institute
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
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Eddings
Poe
J. H. Mellichamp
F. M. Pickett
Mrs. J. H. Neushafer
Rocky Mount
J. H. Adams
Washington, D. C
Mrs. Adams
Misses Nell
Elizabeth Adams
Martha Washington Seminary
Edwin A. Smith
Lee Tomlinson
Thomasville, N. C
A. R. McEachern
G. T. Fisher
G. W. Fisher
St. Paul
Thomasville
Catherine Ruth Moffitt
Jessie Milliken
Reid Evans
Lexington
Carter Dalton
Hiram Armentrout
D. O. Frazier
Roy Spearman
Margaret Hollowell
Elizabeth City
Lawrence Ingram
Mrs. C. M. Lewis
MI Little Daughter
Mrs. Lewis
Mrs. P. D. Justice
Ruth Jarrell
Matt Wall
J. d. Garland
Guilford General Hospital
P. S
Moffitt ’S
North Main
Bridge
Jacob
Cecil
DIAL
Joseph Clyde Rivers
Lloyd T. Wilson
Jesus
Mrs. Fisher
Lee Ben
Hoot Gibson
Allene Ray
Walter Miller
I. Miller
CoEeny Reat
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