December 19, 2014 Coats Museum News
The Echo, the 1951 Coats School yearbook, recorded that the following students were serving on the Student Council: Max Avery, Russell Lamm, Wilma Barnes, Fannie Sue Langdon, Edna Mae Avery, Laura Grace Ennis, Marilyn Yarley, Jo Ann Ennis, T.J. Barnes, and Donald Blalock.
Mrs. Emma Denning Bayles, 77 year- old widow of D.S. Bayles, had died at her home after an extended illness. Burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery in Dunn. Mrs. Bayles was the daughter of Jesse Martin and Elizabeth Matthews Denning. Mr. Bayles had died in 1931. Mrs. Bayles had been very active in community affairs until she became ill. Her children were J.C. Bayles, T.C. Bayles, Mrs. J.B. Page, Mrs. (H) A .L. Cutts, Mrs. J.W. Dixon and Miss Bernice Bayles. Her brother was J.K. Denning of Coats.
The following article was found in the Dunn Dispatch September 6, 1950 edition. Mr. and Mrs. Merwin Turner of Turlington’s Crossroads announced the birth of a son, Graham Dwight, in Good Hope Hospital. The mother was the former Eutha Williams of Erwin.
Did you know that Turlington Crossroads was once a booming little area with naval stores, cotton gin, sawmill, stage coach stop, a school, a post office and a candidate to be the county seat of Harnett?
The same paper reported that jurors were picked for the October Superior Court. Thomas Matthews
Zennie L. Poole, and Martin Davis were summoned. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Vida Ennis Turlington, 55, of Elm City. She died in Richmond, Virginia after a brief illness. Rev. E.D. McMahan and Rev. Dennis Kinlaw held the service at Rose’s Funeral Home in Benson. Her husband, Lee J. Turlington, of Dunn and children-Mrs. M.L. Davis, Mrs. H.C. Pearce, Howard Turlington and Harry Turlington survived her. She had seven siblings--Mrs. T.J. (Dona Ennis) Turlington, Sr., Mrs. Melvin (Inez Ennis) Avery, Mrs. P.C. Merrill, Iva Ennis, C.H. Ennis, Nelson Ennis and U.M. Ennis.
In the Barclaysville area, Mr. and Mrs. Hassell Lewis and Ray, Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill Stephenson, Jo Anne and Larry, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barnes enjoyed a fish fry at the Stephenson tobacco barn. The Stephenson family had entertained at another date with a steak supper for the Lewis family (Dunn Dispatch September 8, 1950).
The following information was a surprise to me since the two ladies mentioned were so involved in the Coats social, school and church activities for years. The two ladies – Mrs. Exie Smith and Mrs. T.O. Beasley-were the two newest members of the Coats Woman’s Club. Mr. and Mrs. Hoag of California had spent a week with Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Barnes. Mrs. Hoag was the former Edna May Barnes, sister of Mr. Barnes. This was her first trip home since 1946. Mr. Hoag was a teacher at the University of California (Dunn Dispatch September 11, 1950).
The Coats Negro School and Mt. Pisgah near Buies Creek joined three other Negro Schools that were consolidated into a new $110,000 school building at Erwin (Dunn Dispatch September 13, 1950). Was this Gentry?
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Stewart had returned to Coats after spending several days fishing at Morehead. They also attended the Dog Races while there. Elsewhere Richard Sorrell and Glenn Hooper, Jr. had returned to Duke University where they were juniors. On a sadder note, Mr. Thurman Leon Avery, 39, a carpenter at Erwin Mills, had suffered a heart attack and had died immediately. He was brother to Mrs. Ira Williams of Coats (Dunn Dispatch September 18, 1950).
In 1950 it had cost $1,225,000 to operate the Harnett County Public Schools. Harnett’s part was $240,000 but in 1951, would have to pay $318,000. The system had 12,000 students. Do those numbers surprise you? Would you believe that Coats School student population peaked in 1954 with 1042 students? Can anyone venture to guess why the increase in number of students?
Returning to Turlington’s Crossroads area for news, it can be noted that Eastwood G. Turlington had entered the School of Dentistry at the University of Maryland. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Turlington who managed big farm operations in that area. Is Eastwood Turlington the uncle of Edward Turlington who built our two newer museums on the square? Is Eastwood Turlington alive?
This I do know. Past president Mrs. W.R. Langdon installed Vic Lee as president of the Coats PTA. Mrs. Fred Fleming, Mrs. Herbert Johnson and Miss Phyllis Timberlake were the officers for 1950-51 (Dunn Dispatch September 21, 1950).
Devaul Langdon, Wallace E. Byrd, and Ray Langdon went to Fort Bragg for induction into the US Army. While some of the young men were headed to places away from Coats, some of the younger ones were eager to get onto the football field. Coats had joined two other Harnett County Schools in organizing a six-man football team. Do you know what other schools were coming on board? Two schools across the Cape Fear River who joined the Coats team were Boone Trail and Lillington.
Carson Gregory spoke to the Coats Jr. Woman’s Club and encouraged them to push forward in progress of community and schools. Club members for 1950-51 were Mrs. Leroy Stewart, Mrs. Haywood Roberts, Mrs. Woodrow Langdon, Miss Ruth Langdon, Mrs. Donald Moore, Mrs. Ray Langdon, Mrs. Gene Stewart, Mrs. Lib Beasley, and Mrs. Raymond Ennis (Dunn Dispatch September 25, 1950).
Over at Bailey’s Crossroads, the members of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church were making preparation for their Harvest Day Sale. From the sales at Harvest Days, the church had added new pews, Sunday School classrooms, and renovated the church. In 1950, Governor Kerr Scott was to be the special guest. Victor Gregory and Frank Elliott were on the arrangement committee. Herbert Johnson had announced that 1000 tickets for BBQ had been sold for the Harvest Day with the governor.
The same edition of the Dunn Dispatch, September 27, 1950 paper shared that little Ann Parker Stewart and Mrs. Savannah Horton were patients at Dunn Hospital.
The HCBOC put a ban on carnivals in Harnett County after a shooting in Angier. However, the ladies in the Pleasant Grove Home Demonstration Club met with Mrs. T.H. Penny at the home of Mrs. G.C. Denton. During the meeting the members exchanged and matched feed bags (Dunn Dispatch September 29, 1950).
Some of you might exclaim-“What?” OK-here’s goes. Farmers depended on their farm animals for varied reasons: chickens provided meat and eggs; cows provided milk, butter, and sometimes meat for eating or for marketing. Feed was essential to keep the animals nourished. Hence, the farmer would go to the feed store and purchase the feed that was in colorful bags of varied prints and designs. When the farmer purchased more than one bag, he tried to get two similar bags. However, that was not always easy for a couple of reasons. First, most of the time there were not two exactly alike at one time and second, many farmers could only afford one bag at a time. Thus, the farm wife was left with an assortment of empty, beautiful bags which she unraveled, washed, and pressed to become a piece of fabric.
Mrs. Florine Penny recalled that the bags were turned into house dresses, blouses, skirts, and even sleepwear. Some of the bags were even used to make quilts. Who knows—when we see some of the lovely old quilts at estate sales, possibly some of the linings or squares were feed bags.
The Heritage of Coats, NC book will make a wonderful gift for only $40.00. The deal ends on January 31, 2015. The two volume set normally sells for $75.00. The reduced price is our way of saying thank you to the community for being so supportive of the Coats Museum building project. Books can be purchased at the Coats Museum on Thursdays and Sundays and at the Coats Barber Shop.
The Echo, the 1951 Coats School yearbook, recorded that the following students were serving on the Student Council: Max Avery, Russell Lamm, Wilma Barnes, Fannie Sue Langdon, Edna Mae Avery, Laura Grace Ennis, Marilyn Yarley, Jo Ann Ennis, T.J. Barnes, and Donald Blalock.
Mrs. Emma Denning Bayles, 77 year- old widow of D.S. Bayles, had died at her home after an extended illness. Burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery in Dunn. Mrs. Bayles was the daughter of Jesse Martin and Elizabeth Matthews Denning. Mr. Bayles had died in 1931. Mrs. Bayles had been very active in community affairs until she became ill. Her children were J.C. Bayles, T.C. Bayles, Mrs. J.B. Page, Mrs. (H) A .L. Cutts, Mrs. J.W. Dixon and Miss Bernice Bayles. Her brother was J.K. Denning of Coats.
The following article was found in the Dunn Dispatch September 6, 1950 edition. Mr. and Mrs. Merwin Turner of Turlington’s Crossroads announced the birth of a son, Graham Dwight, in Good Hope Hospital. The mother was the former Eutha Williams of Erwin.
Did you know that Turlington Crossroads was once a booming little area with naval stores, cotton gin, sawmill, stage coach stop, a school, a post office and a candidate to be the county seat of Harnett?
The same paper reported that jurors were picked for the October Superior Court. Thomas Matthews
Zennie L. Poole, and Martin Davis were summoned. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Vida Ennis Turlington, 55, of Elm City. She died in Richmond, Virginia after a brief illness. Rev. E.D. McMahan and Rev. Dennis Kinlaw held the service at Rose’s Funeral Home in Benson. Her husband, Lee J. Turlington, of Dunn and children-Mrs. M.L. Davis, Mrs. H.C. Pearce, Howard Turlington and Harry Turlington survived her. She had seven siblings--Mrs. T.J. (Dona Ennis) Turlington, Sr., Mrs. Melvin (Inez Ennis) Avery, Mrs. P.C. Merrill, Iva Ennis, C.H. Ennis, Nelson Ennis and U.M. Ennis.
In the Barclaysville area, Mr. and Mrs. Hassell Lewis and Ray, Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill Stephenson, Jo Anne and Larry, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barnes enjoyed a fish fry at the Stephenson tobacco barn. The Stephenson family had entertained at another date with a steak supper for the Lewis family (Dunn Dispatch September 8, 1950).
The following information was a surprise to me since the two ladies mentioned were so involved in the Coats social, school and church activities for years. The two ladies – Mrs. Exie Smith and Mrs. T.O. Beasley-were the two newest members of the Coats Woman’s Club. Mr. and Mrs. Hoag of California had spent a week with Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Barnes. Mrs. Hoag was the former Edna May Barnes, sister of Mr. Barnes. This was her first trip home since 1946. Mr. Hoag was a teacher at the University of California (Dunn Dispatch September 11, 1950).
The Coats Negro School and Mt. Pisgah near Buies Creek joined three other Negro Schools that were consolidated into a new $110,000 school building at Erwin (Dunn Dispatch September 13, 1950). Was this Gentry?
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Stewart had returned to Coats after spending several days fishing at Morehead. They also attended the Dog Races while there. Elsewhere Richard Sorrell and Glenn Hooper, Jr. had returned to Duke University where they were juniors. On a sadder note, Mr. Thurman Leon Avery, 39, a carpenter at Erwin Mills, had suffered a heart attack and had died immediately. He was brother to Mrs. Ira Williams of Coats (Dunn Dispatch September 18, 1950).
In 1950 it had cost $1,225,000 to operate the Harnett County Public Schools. Harnett’s part was $240,000 but in 1951, would have to pay $318,000. The system had 12,000 students. Do those numbers surprise you? Would you believe that Coats School student population peaked in 1954 with 1042 students? Can anyone venture to guess why the increase in number of students?
Returning to Turlington’s Crossroads area for news, it can be noted that Eastwood G. Turlington had entered the School of Dentistry at the University of Maryland. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Turlington who managed big farm operations in that area. Is Eastwood Turlington the uncle of Edward Turlington who built our two newer museums on the square? Is Eastwood Turlington alive?
This I do know. Past president Mrs. W.R. Langdon installed Vic Lee as president of the Coats PTA. Mrs. Fred Fleming, Mrs. Herbert Johnson and Miss Phyllis Timberlake were the officers for 1950-51 (Dunn Dispatch September 21, 1950).
Devaul Langdon, Wallace E. Byrd, and Ray Langdon went to Fort Bragg for induction into the US Army. While some of the young men were headed to places away from Coats, some of the younger ones were eager to get onto the football field. Coats had joined two other Harnett County Schools in organizing a six-man football team. Do you know what other schools were coming on board? Two schools across the Cape Fear River who joined the Coats team were Boone Trail and Lillington.
Carson Gregory spoke to the Coats Jr. Woman’s Club and encouraged them to push forward in progress of community and schools. Club members for 1950-51 were Mrs. Leroy Stewart, Mrs. Haywood Roberts, Mrs. Woodrow Langdon, Miss Ruth Langdon, Mrs. Donald Moore, Mrs. Ray Langdon, Mrs. Gene Stewart, Mrs. Lib Beasley, and Mrs. Raymond Ennis (Dunn Dispatch September 25, 1950).
Over at Bailey’s Crossroads, the members of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church were making preparation for their Harvest Day Sale. From the sales at Harvest Days, the church had added new pews, Sunday School classrooms, and renovated the church. In 1950, Governor Kerr Scott was to be the special guest. Victor Gregory and Frank Elliott were on the arrangement committee. Herbert Johnson had announced that 1000 tickets for BBQ had been sold for the Harvest Day with the governor.
The same edition of the Dunn Dispatch, September 27, 1950 paper shared that little Ann Parker Stewart and Mrs. Savannah Horton were patients at Dunn Hospital.
The HCBOC put a ban on carnivals in Harnett County after a shooting in Angier. However, the ladies in the Pleasant Grove Home Demonstration Club met with Mrs. T.H. Penny at the home of Mrs. G.C. Denton. During the meeting the members exchanged and matched feed bags (Dunn Dispatch September 29, 1950).
Some of you might exclaim-“What?” OK-here’s goes. Farmers depended on their farm animals for varied reasons: chickens provided meat and eggs; cows provided milk, butter, and sometimes meat for eating or for marketing. Feed was essential to keep the animals nourished. Hence, the farmer would go to the feed store and purchase the feed that was in colorful bags of varied prints and designs. When the farmer purchased more than one bag, he tried to get two similar bags. However, that was not always easy for a couple of reasons. First, most of the time there were not two exactly alike at one time and second, many farmers could only afford one bag at a time. Thus, the farm wife was left with an assortment of empty, beautiful bags which she unraveled, washed, and pressed to become a piece of fabric.
Mrs. Florine Penny recalled that the bags were turned into house dresses, blouses, skirts, and even sleepwear. Some of the bags were even used to make quilts. Who knows—when we see some of the lovely old quilts at estate sales, possibly some of the linings or squares were feed bags.
The Heritage of Coats, NC book will make a wonderful gift for only $40.00. The deal ends on January 31, 2015. The two volume set normally sells for $75.00. The reduced price is our way of saying thank you to the community for being so supportive of the Coats Museum building project. Books can be purchased at the Coats Museum on Thursdays and Sundays and at the Coats Barber Shop.