The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-07-29


the neighborhood, the proceeds from
which will be applied to the school.
The third annual convention OF the
Association of North Carolina pPost-
masters will be held in Raleigh, We'd
uesday and Thursday, September 29-
80.
In Raleigh's police court Tuesday
Furney Green and Jim Wright, both
coIored. were sentenced to serve six
months on the roads for operating
blind tigers"
Charles Blake, white, OF Falls,
Wake County, was before United
states Commissioner, John Nichols,
Tuesday, charged with retailing, but
the evidence was not sufficient to
convict and the defendant was re-
leased
Two divorce suits have been insti-
tated in Wake Superior Court by SER
vice of summonds. The first Is en-
titled Virginia Walden VS.. John e.
Walden. The second Is Ernest C..
B..
parties are white.
]. J. Whitehurst, a Confederate
veteran and an inmate of the Sol
diers' Home since 1902, passed away
at the Home Thursday night. He
belonged to the Second Regiment,
and was seventy-eight years old. He
was a native of Edgecombe County.
Mr. W. H. Stanton, an inmate Of
the Soldiers Home, passed away
Sunday morning, in his seventy-third
year. He came to the home on Au-
gust 9Th Of last year from Vance
County, and was a member Of Com
pany K, saith North Carolina Regi-
ment.
The July term of Wake criminal
court ended Saturday. There were
twenty-eight road sentences imposed
upon defendants. One defendant was
sent to the penitentiary, another to
the criminal insane department.
There are twenty-eight prisoners now
in jail, of whom fifteen are Federal
prisoners.
The Negro Exposition and Devel-
opment Company, of North Carolina.
announces it's intention to celebrate
the fftieth anniversary of the free
dom Of the race in 1913 with a great
semi-centennial exposition. The idea
is to have this exposition at Raleigh
and have every Southern State espe-
cially represented.
There were many cases of many
nature in Raleigh's police court yes
terday. The only one of Importance
that was disposed of was the case
against Ed Hall, colored, charged
with running a retail establishment
in connection with his store. He
was found guilty and sentenced to
the roads for twelve months.
Governor Kitchin has granted par
dons to Carrie Thomas, Swain Coun-
ty, and Stevens Turner. YadkiI
County. Carrie Thomas is a negro
woman who encouraged negro boys
to shoot into a crowd Of white boys
who were believed to have thrown
missels into the crowd of negroes a
a railroad station. Turner was serv
ing for making and selling whiskey
His health is completely gone, hence
the pardon.
The trial of Lemond Shaw, the
ninety-six-year-old negro from st
Mary's Township, on the charge o
killing David Hall, consumed thu
whole day in Wake Court Friday
The jury acquitted Shaw. Shaw
who lives at Garner, had forbidden
Hall to take his granddaughter to ;
neighborhood party. Hall was killed
when he returned with the damsel
but Shaw claimed that he was in tn
house, and was no party to the shoot
ing.
The Farmers Institute. held a
Apex Friday, while not as Target
attended as was expected on accoun
of protracted meetings being held Il
number of churches, was attends
by a considerable number of farmer
and their wives, sons and daughter
from all parts of western Wax
County. 1t is quite an encouragin
sign that so many of the boys an
young men are taking great interes
in advanced agriculture. Some G
the farmers at the Apex meetin
stated that they expected to max
over eighty bushels Of corn to tn
acre this year.