NEWS FROM YEARS PAST
June 13, 1902
WALTHALL: The farmers are needing rain badly. - Jim Taylor is reported on the sick list. - Dr. Finch has an abscess on the back of his neck which is giving him a great deal of pain. - Quite a number of our people went seining Wednesday. - Circuit Clerk Bailey is out this week registering the boys. - Summer fights have opened, judging from the bruised heads we have seen. - Mr. Ed Pounds and wife visited at Mrs. Brannon’s Sunday eve. - Miss Georgia Doolittle visited at H. H. Holland’s Sunday. - Mr. Dick Eudy and family visited Dr. F. N. Arnold’s Sunday. - Miss Jodie Finch visited at T. W. Lovett’s Wednesday night. - A shooting affray occurred Sunday evening at Wake Forest church, three miles northeast of here. John Dill McCarter, son of Julius McCarter, shot Marion Nolen, the ball entering the back part of Nolen’s thigh and coming out in front near the groin. McCarter was promptly arrested by Esquire Wade.
CUMBERLAND: We had a nice rain here Friday evening last. - A little boy of Mr. Jessie White’s had his arm broken last Saturday evening. - Mr. Willie Champion of Congress attended the musical at Mr. Darrough’s Saturday night. - Mrs. Drusilla Davis, who has been visiting relatives in the community for some time, went to Maben the first of the week where she will spend a short time before going to her home in Bolivar county.
ALVA: Farmers are putting on long faces over the drowth that we are having. - Quite a number on the sick list this week: Mrs. Lowrimore, Mrs. Harry Pyron and Mr. Walter Hood’s little girl are all very ill. - Mr. J. E. Philley must be farming on the large scale this year. He claims to have 120 areas in cultivation. Hurrah for Jo! - Mrs. Sallie Ann Carver and Mrs. Wells were visiting their city friends this week. - Lawyer Hammond of Pittsboro passed through our village the other day en route to his home. - Mrs. Woods is visiting Mr. Cannon’s family this week. - Mr. Judge James is again at his home after trying Millsaps College for ten months.
SHIP: The farmers around Ship have their crops in fine shape, but need a good rain to settle the dust. - A good many of our boys enjoyed themselves on the creek catching and frying fish last week. - J. O. Peeples and sister, Miss Nelia, visited at J. W. Strickland’s near Stewart Saturday and Sunday. - Some of the boys enjoyed a musical entertainment at J. M. McCain’s Saturday night. - Oscar Waits and wife visited the latter’s parents Saturday night. - Mr. Will Gary was in a bad accident last week. He was handling a revolver and it went off and shot a hole in his hand. Pistols generally get people in more trouble than they ever get them out of.
