The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-07-01
Local M a t ters

Cotton sold on the Raleigh marke
Monday for 12A cents per pound.
The public school teachers of Wake
county will hold an educational rail-!
~ Cary Saturday.
The eighth annual convention o
he North Carolina Veterinary Medi
cal Association will he held in viii
mtngton. July 2-3.
Mr.. f. r. Pool, former merchan
Of Raleigh, died Saturday morning
AT his home near EbeneZer Methods
Church, Wake County.
Norrisville is to have a big knitting
mill. The buildings are now under
coure Of construction. Mr.. Sam
Horne is behind the enterprise.
Mr., J. D. PEBBLES died Saturday
morning at his home on North Per
son Street this city. His remains
were carried to his old home near
R0lcsvlIe for burial.
dell. of Wake Forest, will start a
weekly paper in Raleigh about Au-
gust 1st The paper is to be known
as The state Democrat"
The Eastern Carolina Teachers
Training School at Greenville will
open October 5th. Prof. r. H
Wright, of Sampson County, will be
president of the new school.
Mr.. Ell Scarborough, of Eagle
Rock, Wake County, is a Democratic
Office-holder of the first degree. He
is postmaster at Eagle Rock, a JUS
tice Of the Peace, and a member OF
the Legislature.
In police court Tuesday, Alex
Johnson, a white boy of Raleigh, was
fined $4,000 and costs for setting
fire to the big black bear at Pullen
Park. The boy threw burning match
es into the cage which caught in the
bears wool and signed it,
Saturday night the post-of1ce at
unknown persons and $500 in cash
several books of stamps, and the
pOstmistress' revolver were taken
The screen was torn cut, a pane OF
glass broken to give entrance fol
the thief's hand and the window was
raised.
A million dollar cotton mill was
chartered by Secretary of the State
Friday under the name of the L
Banks Holt Manufacturing Company
at Graham. Another charter was
granted the Acran Manufacturing
Company of Bessemer City This
company will also engage in the man
ufacture of cotton goods
One of the largest lumber com
panies in the State was chartered by
the Secretary Of State a few days
ago. it is the Jackson Lumber Com
pany, of Asheville. The total au
thorized capital stock is 100000
The company will begin business
with $4,000 paid in. H. B. Stevens
of Asheville, owns two shares anc
the other 500 shares are divided
among outside capitalists.
Governor Kitchin has issued par
dons to Frank Bruton, of Buncombt
County, and to J. S. Carpenter O
Polk County. Bruton had served
two and one-half years of a four
year sentence for stealing $11 from
a man named Moore in Buncomb,
County. Carpenter was under a five
year sentence for assault and rob
berry. He had served only a few
months, but was required to pa,
$693 for his release, part of which
was cost in his case.
Maud Kelley, a white woman, wa
tried in police court Monday on tn
charge of having unlawful relation
with a negro hack-driver name,
Jones and was sentenced to eighteen
months on the roads. The woman
lived in Raleigh until some month
ago, when she fed to Rocky Mount
where she was arrested and brough
to Raleigh for trial. She appeale
her case to the Superior Court an
was released under $500 bond. TIL
negro was tried some days ago an
sentenced to eighteen months on tn
roads, but he also appealed his cas-
to the Superior Court.
A special meeting of the Stat
Board of Education will be held thi
week to confer with J. o. Wright
drainage engineer of the Unite
States Department of Agriculture
Mr.. Wright has been North in tn
interest of the State Board of Edl
cation with a view to finding pul
chasers for Mattamuskeet Lake,
$4,000 acre body of water in Hyd
County. which it is desired to hay
reclaimed for agricultural purpose
1t is understood that Mr.. Wright hs
located prospective purchasers
Tuesdays Raleigh News and Obse
YER
Child Scalded to Death.