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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
3
A local notice announces the opening of the horse racing season with crowds invited to attend. Entries have begun and more are expected as the track is prepared and conditions improve for racing.
A terse note mentions Mere providing relief for women's back pains, with reference to Uri j dey eae and Gray Co.
The Halifax Good Roads Commission held its first regular meeting. Hirnk P Shields was elected chairman Geo C Green secretary. H C Hughes was elected Independent and engineer for the county. Other business postponed until the next regular meeting on the first Monday in July.
Local notes report Crops ripening and electric progress with new ice houses and a Weldon Lumber Co. fire. Posts include post office appointments for Halifax county and town improvements, church services, a stockholders meeting, and updates on local residents recovering from surgery.
Mr Noah Biggs visits relatives in Williamston while Mr R G Allsbrook sees his parents. Miss Ione Dunn returns from Greensboro to teach. Mr Chas T Lawrence attends court in Washington. Mr Chas M McNaughton visits Vaughan parents. Jesse Bowers to Washington for summer home. Local visitors include J C Smith E Wynn W Roberson and Dr Ward of Robersonville. Mrs D M Campbell travels from Halifax for family bereavement. Mrs J E Timberlake of Louisburg and Mrs W H Allen of Enfield visit the Morris family. Prof and Mrs J B Aiken travel to Littleton then Aberdeen. W F Joyner to Littleton to manage transfer line to Pamlico Springs. Rev N C Yearby and children depart for Trinity College commencement, then Roxboro and Creedmoor. L J Gay leaves for Suffolk Va with promotion. wife to join later. Block notes departure of the Gay family from Scotland Neck after seven years.
The regular United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting convenes Thursday at five in the Guck Kitchen Camp hall. Members are urged to attend.
A correction states Verla Strickland was omitted from last week's list of faded school students receiving honors in 10th grade. Verla led her class this year and did the same last year.
Rev. R. F. Bumpass, Presiding Elder of this district, preached at the Methodist church last Sunday in morning and evening services. His sermons were clear and interesting, reflecting travels and studies abroad. Listeners praised his narration and look forward to his return with pleasure.
Mr G S Barnhill of Tarboro married Miss Annie Belle Credle of Washington N C Saturday at 8 pm. He works on rebuilding the local telephone exchange here. They returned to Scotland Neck Monday night and are boarding at the Bowers house. Congratulations.
Rev. L W Blackwelder leaves Plymouth area for Scotland Neck to lead a new parish. The Plymouth Beacon notes his departure praises him as an excellent preacher and bids him and his wife welcome to their new town. Blackwelder held his first service at Trinity church to a large congregation.
Mrs. Sarah Hancock died at her son Thomas Hancock’s home on Wednesday morning May 28 after years of poor health. A Baptist Church member since youth, she is remembered as a devoted mother and friend. The funeral was led by Rev. O P Campbell, with interment in the Baptist cemetery. She leaves three sons Walter Thomas Lewis Hancock and a daughter Mrs D M Campbell and her husband George pil Hancock died last September.
A local notice seeks a boy or girl to learn the printer's trade at The Corni wealth office. Apply in person for potential apprenticeship opportunity.
The News and Observer lost its plant in an April 24 fire but published the next morning with renewed resolve. Rebuilding begins with new machinery on order as the Raleigh paper seeks 1000 new subscribers at six dollars yearly to rise from the ashes.
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