The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-05-04

Sydney Kenny Of Philadelphia will
erect a gas plant at Concord, work
to begin within twelve months.
A movement is on foot in Winston
Salem among members of the Winston
Hebrew congregation to establish a
synagogue there.
Congressman E. Y. Webb has been
invited to deliver the address at the
unwilling of the Confederate monu-
ment in court house square at Nor
canton the latter part of May.
T. B. Taylor, a clerk at the freight
depot of the Seaboard Air Line in
Wilmington, mysteriously disappeared
Thursday night and efforts to locate
him have been 'fruitless. His wife
is in New York on a visit to relatives.
The new city directory, just issued
by the Piedmont Directory Company,
estimates the population of Winston
Salem and immediate suburbs at &c.
900. The book contains 522 pages
and is we'll gotten up.
A young white boy by name of
Robert Smith, son of a New Bern
grocer, was arrested in Wilmington,
Saturday afternoon upon the charge
of forgery. He purchased some groc-
cries from local grocery store, and
presented for payment a twenty-five
dollar check, receiving twenty dollars
in change. Check purported to be
given by National Biscuit Company.
Engineer w. A. Kizziah, we'll known
on the Southern Railway between
Spencer and Greenville, has been
feasting one fine strawberries from
his garden in Spencer since April 10.
1t is stated that this is the earliest
date on record for strawberries in
that section of North Carolina and
Mr.. Kizziah is receiving congratulate
tions on account of his efforts in this
direction.
Miss Lala Barringer committed sui
eide at the home of her father, who
lives one mile west of New London.
Friday morning at 9 O'Clock. Miss
Barringer and her sister were in the
room together and she was as jolly
as ever A few moments after her
sister left her. the report of a % rifle
was heard, and, rushing to the room,
the parents found their daughter on
the floor dead, with a bullet hole in
her right temple. Sne left a note
stating that she was tired of living
and wanted to die.
An unique feature of the annual
memorial day celebration at Gastonia
served by the local chapter United
Daughters of the Confederacy to the
male slaves who went with their mas
tiers to the war or who, remaining
behind, did any service for the cause
of the South. There are a good many
old slaves in the county who come
under this head and this event PROM
ises to be one of unusual interest.
Congressman e. Y. Webb of that dis
trict will be orator of the day.
While speeding along the Atlantic
g. Yadkin track, four miles south of
Greensboro, Saturday afternoon at
4 o'clock, a freight engine overturn-
ed and pinioned under it Engineer r.
B. Terrell, breaking both his arms
and one leg and otherwise badly in
juring and bruising him. For three,
hours the injured man lay crushed
under the engine, though he never
lost consciousness and was able to
direct the men in the work of dig
ging him from under the engine and
removing him to the waiting train,
which took him to Greensboro. ;
Granville county has projected a
new contest, one. that will without
doubt result in much good. Accord
ing to the amended road law. there
will be thirty-six ~overseers in the
county. four for each township. The
county good roads association has de-
cided to offer a 500 buggy as a prize
to be contested for by these overseers.
The time over which this contest is
to extend is one year from date of
appointment and arrangements will
be made for a monthly inspection and
scoring of the condition of the roads.
These monthly scores will be used
as a basis for the final grade to de-
eide who the winner is to be. A re-
gular set of f~orfeits will be adopted,
such as holes in the road, bitches fill
led by plows from the adjacent fields,
shade too near the road, bad ap-
proaches to bridges, etc.
The salaries of the Baptist minis
tiers in North Carolina is made the
subject of some interesting ~calcula-
lions by Statistical Secretary e. L.
Middleton of the North Carolina Bap-
fist State Convention. He finds that
in the latest complete reports from
churches there are 1880 churches re-
porting salaries to pastors. the total
being $278. 400. He finds that there
are 113 churches that maintain preach
ing every Sunday, Sc for half the
time and 1911 churches that have
| ~nreaching only once each mouth. His
estimate is that this would give an
average of 474 pastors for full time
and that their average salary is $587
a year. He thinks that there are
mission funds paid to pastors in mis-
sion fields not included in the salaries
reported that would bring up the