The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-12

SSeA t1 washington "a NeN1tt OF the
new train. The train il put On vim.
carry 4 sleeper and probably leave
Asheville about 8 O'Clock IN the morn
ing.
1t is stated that the Durham hosiery
mills Of High Point at one of their re-
cent meetings. decided to ~inaugurate
the proft-sharing feature among the
employees.
Frank D0bfe, a white youth of some
IL years was arrested in Charlotte on
last Thursday night, upon the receipt
of a telegram from the jackson train
ing School near Concord, where he had.
been an inmate for some time. The
boy made his escape from the institu-
ticn and went to Charlotte without
more ado. The school authorities
were notified of his arrest and an Of
icer was dispatched to the city and
returned with the runaway on the
night train.
Fourteen foreigners, natives OF
northern Europe, arrived in the city
yesterday from New York and will be.
placed at work in the brick manufac-
turing plant of Mr.. s. S. McNinch, n
the Catawba river. These men were
secured through a labor agent in the
metropolis and were hurried tc the
Queen City en- route to the brick works
where their presence is earnestly de-
sired IN account of the shortage of La
borers which October always pro-
duces.-Charlotte Observer.
The police and fire commission of
Durham have been figuring with rep
resentatives of several houses upor
apparatus to be used in the fire de-
partment of the city. A motor truck
engine and chemical combination will
be purchased at an expense CT about
$4,000 and the building of a new sta
ton in another portion of town will
make the purchase of materials for it
necessary. The entire cost to the city
will be nearly $4,000.
The death of Private George w.
Walker of Company G, Fourth Com
federate Regiment at the Soldiers
Home last week, brought to light the
fact that he had an estate of several
thousand dollars value in Fender
county and elsewhere and that he left
400 of it to the Southern Baptist The-l
illogical Seminary, Louisville, KY, and
the remainder to Wake Forest Col
lege.
United States Senator Lee S. Over
man, says he is, as president of the
h-cme-seekers committee created at
the backbone convention held rel
Gently in Charlotte, deeply interested
in inducing the State Board of Agri-
to create the Office of commissioner of
Immigration so that this state may
have a well-trained man to press the
matter of attracting desirable immi- !,
grafton, especially the return of
North Carolinians to this State who
left way back in the reconstruction
and other stressed periods in the his
tc-y of the State.
The J.. Van Lindley Nursery COM
pany has about completed a mammoth
new ~greenhouse at Ramona, this being
the seventh and largest greenhouse
that the company has erected there in
the last few years. The building.
which is 500 feet long by AZ IL feet
wide, will contain nearly a half-mil-
lion carnations annually. which will
be added to the already large output
of the company. The S of the new
building is about $4,000.
Former Associate Justice Walter
A. Montgomery of the North Carolina
Supreme Court has returned to Raj
eigh from Washington, where he
spent the past year for the special
purpc.se of making researches in con-
ton with his special work of writing
his forthcoming book. 1.-THE Civil Adj
ministration of the Confederate Gov
eminent and It's Diplomatic Rela-
tioAs." This is to- be in two volumes
and is to be published some time DUR
ing the coming spring.
Prof. Kenneth H. Mcintyre, who has
charge of the teaching of agriculture
apd> domestic science in the country
schools of GuilfcTd county, reports
very interesting progress thus far IN
the three schools i'm which the work
has been undertaken. At each OF the