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Newspaper
Tabor City Tribune
Location
Tabor City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1949
Page
3
Fragmentary text references individuals Fowler, June Ler, Todd, Dil Povis, Norris Seagle Lin and events around a weekend. Content is too damaged to establish a coherent event, date, or context beyond scattered names and vague references to social activity.
Announcement notes the February 15 1949 Conway South Carolina ceremony for Jacquelyn Hardwick and William Spencer Wilson. Both attended Tabor City High School with Wilson a June graduate and Wilson garage manager. The item also lists other local visits and relocations by area residents.
Mr and Mrs Belton Lockbar and Mrs Dalley Nealey visit Emerson Soles family in Tabor City. Ruther Lee Soles Winston Norris and kin visit. Tom Nealey travels to L 2SC to see ill mother. return expected Wednesday. Bill Moss of Dillon visits brother Slim Moss. Matthew Norris visits Evelyn Moss. Clifton Norris visits Soles family. Dellar Williams of Cerro Gordo attends tent meeting in Tabor City. Jessie Batten of Chadbourn also attends. Gunnery Soles visits friends in Tabor City. Local folks dig potatoes with few left. Tombstone maker sign warns We Can Wait Drive Carefully.
Civitan Club awarded 50 dollars this week to essay contest winners on Good Citizenship. First prize 25 dollars went to Miss Jane Parham for "Good Citizenship Through Education" with runners up Miss Theol Prince and Miss Hebeces Burroughs. The piece cites Jefferson and Roosevelt on education as foundations of democracy and urges universal schooling and civic programs in high schools.
Sunday picnics at Cherry Grove Beach and visits across Nakina Raeford Eagle Springs and Whiteville feature in a longitudinal list. Residents including the Hewette Long Monroe and Gore families attend church meetings and social gatherings while members of Iron Hill church plan Lake Waccamaw trips and a July 6 gathering.
Mrs. W H Barnes and daughter Jean of New York visit Mr and Mrs Johnnie Barnes. Mr and Mrs Vernon Garrell and daughter Sylvia Ann from Winston Salem stay with relatives. W M Ray visits Kenneth Ray family. Mrs Jennie Garrell visits daughter Mrs Wilbur Wright. Bobby Norris stays with Flake Hewitt. Carl Causey with Earl Barnes. Mrs Doshie Lprey and Thelma Rockwell ill but improving. Local B T U organized at Jon Hill.
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