The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-05-09
NORTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS
Items of Interest From Many
Parts of the State
MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NEWS
Happenings, Of More or Less Import
ance Told in Paragraphs-The Cot
ton Markets.
Tar Heel Notes.

Tar Heel Notes.
There was another negro shooting
scrape in StatesvilIe Tuesday night
and as a result Tom Ferguson a hack
driver is dangerously wounded.
Charters are granted the Clarkton
Planning Mill Company, Capital stock
$25, 1000, o. L. Clark principal stock
holder. Another charter is granted
the High Point Machine Company;
capital stock $25O,OOO, which is 20
take over the High Point Machine
Works and the Dixie Motor Company
E. w. VanBrunt and H. A. Meagraw
of High Point being the chief stock
holders. The company will make
numbers of articles, including bicycles
The King Whiskey Distilling Com
pany, Salisbury, has changed its name
to the H. j. Summers Company.
A charter is granted the Montreal
Concrete and Building Company, TO
make blocks, brick and tiles, capital
stock, $4,000; Fleming Ramseur, of
Shelby and others stockholders. An
other charter is granted to the Newton
Purdle Lumber Company, Elizabeth
town, $4,000; F. A. Arlington, Of
Wake and other stockholders.
The county superintendent samp-
son informs the State Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction that con-
tracts have been let for seven new
public schools and that four local tax
elections in school districts will be
held in a few days and that a favor
able result is sure. When the board
meets next Monday three more petit
tons for such elections will be pre-
sented. A irst-class county high
school is to be established at Salem
burg, and besides this more rural
schools are to be built.
B. C. Beckwith of the State board
of internal Improvements sold the
State arsenal in the corner of capital
square by order of the Legislature for
$l55. The building is 80 years old.
The p~enitentiary authorities an
nouce that John Bailey. a mulatto,
aged %, sentenced form Mecklenburg
last December for % years for muir
der, escaped from the convict camp
near Goodwin. A reward of $25 and
all necessary expenses is offered.
A new company Of the national
guard has been organized at Shelby
to take the place of the one disband-
ed last week for failure to appear
for inspection. 1t seems that the fail
ure to appear is owing to some local
trouble. In a few days the new COM
pany will be mustered in and will
take the old place in the regiment.
State Superintendent Joyner is no.
tilted by Superintendent Giles of Nc
Dowell that local tax elections were
carried in two school districts in that
county and that another is pending
with good prospects.
The agricultural department is
making very complete arrangements
for its summer series of county insti-
tutes for farmers. These will cover
more than two-tkirds of the State.
and very great care is to be taken
IN making up a strong corps of field
workers to conduct them. The de-
partment is very mnch gratifed by the
fact that from year to year interest
IN and attendance at these institutes
has increased. The work of arrange
ment is entrusted to State Veterin-
arlan Butler.
Two lives were lost on the Seaboard
Air Line at Norlina, Engineer N. S.
Efferson drove his fast freight train
northbouhd into the tender and some
cars shifting engine in the yards a
quarter of a mile the other side of
the station. The engineer and his
fireman B. F. Johnson were Instantly
killed and their engine utterly wreE-
ed. Strange to say the engineer and
fireman on the shifter were unhurt.