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The Association OF North Carolina
Case Workers viii hold a convention
In Lenoir on May 24th.
Mr.. ". II. Fishr. OF Sampson
County, won the debaters medal at
Buie's Greek Academy last Friday.
The tax assessors In Rowan County
have added $50 more per acre TO
the tax valuation of land in that
county.
A press dispatch from Winston
Salem says that the seventeen-year
Iocusts are in evidence In that county
In great numbers.
CLYDE Ward, a white boy OF Ashe-
vile, was arrested a few days ago
charged with attempted criminal as
gault on two little girls in Asheviile.
Charters were issued Monday TO
the Merchants and Farmers Bank at
Princeton, Johnston County, and to
The Bank OF Hope at Raeford, ". c.
The barn OF Hon. A. A. Whitener.
a prominent lawyer OF Hickory, was
burned a few days ago. This Is the
third barn Mr.. Whitener has lost by
fire since March.
A young man named Roebuck
was arrested and placed in jail in
Tarboro few days ago charged with
passing worthless checks. His home
is at Jacksonville.
Mr.. s. A. Kellam, of Guilford
County, who was fatally injured a
few days ago by falling tree, died
a few hours afterwards at st. Leo's
Hospital in Durham.
Mr.. Geo. w. Watts, of Durham,
has given $4,000 to the Union The
illogical Seminary at Richmond, Va.
Rev. w. w. Moore. formerly of this
State, is now president of that insti-
tuition.
The North Carolina Society Of Co
lonial Danes of America will unveil,
on May 23rd, at Southport, a tablet
marking the site OF Fort Johnson, the
first fort in the Province of North
Carolina.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the North Carolina Confer
ence closed their business session at
New Bern Saturday afternoon. Lit
Teton was selected as the place for
meeting in 1912.
The 10Sth annual session of the
North Carolina Synod of the Evan
gelical Lutheran Church was held in
Wilmington last Thursday and Fri
day. The church now has a member
ship of nearly 5000 in this State.
Robert Glassbrooks, whose home is
near Granite Falls, N. c., was arrest
ed Tuesday at Chase City, a., charged
with burning the post-office building
at Granite Falls. Glassbrooks will be
brought back to this State for trial.
The contract for the erection of the
new medical building at Chapel Hill
has been awarded to I. G. Lawrence,
of Durham. His bid was $4,000,
but including heating plant, equip
ments, ETC., the building will cost
about $4,000.
Mr.. w. B. Burgess, of Kinston.
committed suicide Saturday afternoon
by shooting himself through the tenn
pie. Poor health and financial trou-
bles are given as the causes for his
rash act. He leaves wife and five
The Salisbury Post says a rooster
attacked the two-year-old son of Mrs.
j. W. Kesler, in the yard of his
mothers home in Salisbury Saturday
morning, and badly lacerated the
child's face. But for the prompt in
reference of Mrs. Kesler, more seri-
Gus damage would have resulted.
The North Carolina Synod of the
Lutheran Church adjourned their
meeting at Wilmington Saturday
night. The question of the CONSOLE
dation of the North Carolina and Lee
noir Colleges was re-committed to
the committee for further negotia-
ton. The Synod elected to meet in
Charlotte next year.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge Of Odd Fellows was held in
Winston-Salem last week Mr.. Wal
ter II. Overton, Of Durham, was
elected Grand Master; Mr.. B. H.
Woodell, of Raleigh, Secretary, and
Richard ]. Jones, of Wilmington,
Treasurer The next annual meeting