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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1924
Page
4
Rev. John Barclay of the First Christian Church criticizes Wilson for lacking mental culture. He argues townspeople ignore books and magazines, preferring entertainment and leisure, and praises frank critique while urging growth in intellectual pursuit.
Readers are urged to start purchases early in the day to ensure timely Christmas gifts. The note emphasizes that early timing matters even if it’s late in the season.
The narrator recalls a police station visit after a fatal shooting in which a suspect was killed and Officer Stallings wounded. He describes pursuing the assailant into a dark house and being drawn by excitement, imagining how he might react, and questions his own judgments under pressure.
Elder J. A. T. Jones of McCullers Route 1 Johnston County died Sunday at his home after a year of illness. A Primitive Baptist pastor and former senator from Johnston County in 1899 and 1905, he also taught school for about fifty years. Funeral services were to be held at Muddy Creek Church at two this afternoon with burial in the church cemetery.
At a P O S of A meeting last night officers for the term were elected. Past President A S Barnes. President George W Crist. Vice President E Hathaway. Master of Forms R E Mint. Secretary W E Barbour. Assistant Secretary L V Goodwin. Treasurer A T Strickland. Chaplain W B Woolata. Inside Guard J T Stancil. Right Sentinel N F Parsons. Left Sentinel Joe B Amerson. Trustees George W W Crist, A S Barnes, Rex L Farmer. Conductor A C Woolard.
Deputy Warden L. W. Fletcher who resigned from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary will leave office January 31 1925 and is now on furlough at his own request authorities stated tonight in Atlanta Georgia.
F A Daniels named to replace H M Humphrey as alderman from the first ward. The meeting also approved pool room licenses and an ordinance banning street fire crackers. Humphrey resigns after six years to serve as senator in January.
Dec 17 Deering Missouri Dave Edgerton a lumber company bookkeeper was killed Glaud Kinshaw a clerk was fatally wounded and two other men injured when Andrew Simmons a negro opened fire in the store A deputy sheriff shot Simmons dead minutes later in self defense.
Stockholm reports liquor smuggling has grown large in the Swedish Archipelago. Government officials announce use of airplanes to hunt rum runners as public sentiment shifts against prohibition.
By virtue of the power of sale in a 1923 deed of trust from W. D. Bissette and Savannah Bissette to R. F. Bissette the undersigned offers 20 acres more or less in Old Fields Township Wilson County at public auction on the Sunday of Jan 1925 between 12:00 M and 1:00 P M at the courthouse door in Wilson North Carolina. Mortgagee R F Bissette Assignee F Bissette Dec 1924.
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