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Charles M. Andrews

Charles M. Andrews, a Chapel Hill native, ran the West End Drug Store on Nash Street in West Hillsboro from about 1908; its soda fountain served the mill village. In 1913 the Hillsboro Building and Loan Association was organized in the back of his store, and as its first secretary-treasurer he took members' payments at his drug counter. He moved to Burlington in 1926.

Source: Documenting the American South: Annie Sutton Cameron. A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina.…

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  1. C. M. and W. H. Andrews take over the West End Drug Company in West Hillsboro Two Chapel Hill natives, C. M. and W. H. Andrews, bought the West End Drug Company, a drug store with a soda fountain serving the mill families of West Hillsboro. C. M. Andrews ran it until he left town in 1926. People: Charles M. Andrews Place: West End Drug Company, Nash Street, West Hillsborough · Also named: W. H. AndrewsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 25, 1910, p. 2 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 5, 1950, p. 10
  2. The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association is organized in the back of the West End Drug Store Six incorporators put up $5,500 to start the Hillsboro Building and Loan Association, with Charles H. Robertson as president and druggist C. M. Andrews as secretary-treasurer. Andrews took members' payments at his drug counter until 1926. People: Charles H. Robertson, Charles M. Andrews, N. W. Brown Place: West End Drug Store, Nash Street, West Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsboro Building and Loan AssociationSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 5, 1950, p. 10 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 13, 1961, p. 27
  3. A four-church committee raises $504 for Jewish war relief About the middle of August 1918 a campaign for the Jewish Relief Fund, run by men from the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal churches, raised $504. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Charles M. Andrews Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 73
  4. Hillsboro re-elects Mayor T. M. Arrasmith and a five-man council Hillsboro held its town election on May 5, 1925, re-electing Mayor T. M. Arrasmith and electing E. M. Lockhart, C. M. Andrews, W. H. Webb, W. W. Walker and C. A. Bivens to the council. A mass meeting in the court house on April 28 had renominated Arrasmith, cheering a speech that praised his strict enforcement of the laws against speeding motorists. People: Charles M. Andrews Place: Hillsborough · Also named: T. M. Arrasmith, E. M. Lockhart, W. H. Webb, W. W. Walker, C. A. BivensSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 7, 1925, p. 1

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Cecil S. Johnson papers, 1923-1970.

Johnson, Cecil, 1900-1976 · 1923

Ten and a half linear feet of papers kept by Cecil Johnson, 1900 to 1976, spanning 1923 to 1970, about 7,000 items, collection 3806 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Johnson taught at the University of North Carolina, and the papers concern higher education and college teachers in the South, naming Charles McLean Andrews, R. D. W. Connor and William Whatley Pierson.

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