Henderson gold leaf., 1911-09-07

Judge j. crawford BIggS on FIJI
day of last week rendered to Govern
} or Kitchin his resignation as Judge
OF the fifth superior court district o
, North Carolina to take effect Sep
: tember 18th. simultaneously comes
/ the announcement from Trinity Col
) lege that Judge Biggs has accepted
: a professorship OF law in that insti,
: tuition.
The hoard of county commission,
ers was in regular monthly session
. Monday, Mr.. ]. L. Capps being the
only member of the board not pres,
ent. Considerable routine business
was transacted, but aside from this
there was little claiming the atten-
tion of the board. 1t is understood
that the work of opening up the new
public highway from Hicks cross
roads, near the Granville line, to
Harris cross roads, about three
, miles from town, will begin right
soon. This new road, when com
pleted, will be one of the county's g
most important highways, and is to
be constructed at an estimated cost
of between three and four thousand
dollars. The board drew a jury for
the October term of Vance c0u.t
Superior court. The list of Jurors
. appears in another column.
One of the big shade trees in front
OF Mr.. J. B. Ovens residence on
North Garnett street, which is right
badly decayed near the ground, was
twisted and somewhat shattered by
recent storm, and it is feared it
will have to be cut down before very
long. Sheriff Powell estimates that
this big tree, which is of original
growth, is between two and three
hundred years old. 1t was n great
tree before anyone now living in
Henderson was born. There is no
finer lot of shade trees of original
growth anywhere, not even in the cap
ital square at Raleigh, than the splen-
did group around the residences OF
Messrs J. B. Owen, D. Y. Cooper and
Geo. A. Rose on North Garnett street,
and it would be q great pity for even
one of them to have to come down
for any cause.
Mrs Cora Duke, wife OF Mr.. Yer
non Duke, died at her home Tuesday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock after an i'll
ness OF nine days of typhoid fever,
She had been critically ill all of the
past week and there was little hope
of her recovery during that time.
Mrs Duke Was the daughter of Mr..
Ike Wrenn, who lives in the country
about six miles from Henderson.
She had many friends in that com
munity and in this place, who will
regret to hear of her death. Deceas-
ed was tWenty-six years OF age and
was a member of Salem Methodist
Protestant church, where the funeral
services were conducted Wednesday
afternoon by Rev. l.. II. Joyner, of
Oxford. The remains were buried in
Salem cemetery. Mrs. Duke is sur
vived by her husband, who is fire
man in the railroad yards here and
who has just recovered from an at
tack of fever, and two small children.
} Quite an interesting case was ar
gued in the Supreme Court this week,
that of State against Cole from
Warren county. The defendant was
convicted last February of having
made false and fraudulent count
and return OF votes cast in a certain
precinct in a primary held last Au-
gust to nominate Democratic candi-
dates for county offices. The princi-
pal grounds of the appeal were that
the primary act on which the election
was held had the effect Of disfran-
chising the citizens OfWarren county
in the nomination of candidates to
a large extent and is therefore I'M
constitutional and void. The de-
fendant was represented by Messrs.
T. 7. Hicks and T. NJ. Pittman, of
this city, and Mr.. B. B. Williams, OF
Warrenton. The latter attorney,
however, having been married the
day before the case was called in the
Supreme Court did not take part in
the argument. The decision of the
court in this important case is await
ed with much interest.
Henry l.. Wyatt Camp United
Confederate Veterans held its regu-
lar monthly meeting in the court
house Saturday morning at IL
o'clock. There were present about
forty members of the camp and also
a number of the Daughters of the
Confederacy who had been specially
invited to attend. As a token of
their appreciation Of her earnest and
faithful work in behalf Of the camp,
the veterans at this meeting present
ed Miss .Jessica Smith with a beauti-
full gold badge of honor, on which is
the Confederate flag, the stars and
bars, which was designed by her
father, Mr.. O. R. Smith. Little
diamond sets make the stars. Mr..
T. T. Hicks presented the badge to
Miss Smith with remarks very ap-
Appropriate to the occasion. Mr..
Hicks was present by special invita-
tion and made a most interesting
talk to the old soldiers, in the course
of which he said many things to en-
courage and help them through the
remainder OF their lives. In the af-
ternoon Mr.. S. S. Stevenson gave the
members of the camp free admission
to the picture show at the Pastime
Theatre.
Mr.. Robert Bum, we'll known
building contractor and citizen of
this place, came to Henderson from
Canada about thirty years ago. He
came from London to Canada, when
young man. He says that Hen
derson was only a small village OF
about 500 people when he first came
here from a city of $4,000 popula-
tion in Canada, and that hefelt right
) lonely for a while after taking up his
) abode here, but that he learned to
like the little place from the very
} start, and likes it better and better
as the years go by. Although there
are very few people here now who
Mere here when he first came. 1t has