The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-02-02

flcers is proving a great save to
Cleveland as is shrown by the
Of deeds This is the only
county officer at present on q sal
airy basis, but the representatives
of the county expect to pass laws
at the present term of tht. Legis-
HlatHre putting all Of them on the
salary basis. Mr.. j. j.. baltimore,
register of deeds, saved the -coun-
ty $206.05 during the month of
December and says at least $3.50
will be saved this month. He is
getting a salary of $3.50 a month.
He took in fees amounting to 1856.
06 for which amount he gave the
treasurer a check and received in
return his salary of $3.50.
The host of friends of Mr.. Mau-
rice V. Griffin, formerly of Eliza
beth City, will receive with much.
pleasure, the news that he has
made himself famous in the West
by a new discovery. Mr.. Griffin
has invented a most unique light
ing device that is causing much
attention and newspapers space
to be devoted to him. The inven-
ton is a light that has no shad-
ow and is SO constructed that the
light is equally distributed
throughout the room. With this
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need for a person to select any
favored location in a room for
reading, and every nook and cor
ner is lighted equally as well as
right under the light. The inven-
ton is declared to be wonderful
and those who have tested the
light state that it surpasses any
thing of the kind ever before in
vented.
Sidney Barrier, aged %, a we'll
known farmer of Rimerton, Ca
barrus county, was found lying in
the public road, one and a quar-
ter miles east of Concord, at. about
IL 80 o'clock Saturday night with
a bullet hole through his heart.
The discovery was made by par
ties driving to Concord in a bug
gy. When found the man was still
breathing, but was unconscious
and died in a very few minutes,
making no statement whatever.
The authorities were notified of
the crime, but at an early hour
Saturday morning had succeeded
in finding no clue to the assailant.
The man had had no trouble with
any one, so far as was known, and
the officers are unable to even fas-
ten suspicion on anybody.
If the proposed State wide near
beer bill becomes effective March
l., Wilmington's treasury will be
shy $3.50 for this amount will
probably have to be returned to
the near-beer dealers, who secur-
ed and paid in advance $4,000 as
license for the fiscal year ending
June. There are forty-two icens-
ed near-beer saloons in Whining
ton, which at $500, brought in a
total revenue to the city of $12,.
600. The city will very likely have
to pay back the amount for the
three months from March / tc
June /, at $25 a month, which is
in the aggregate $3.50.
The dead and horribly bloodiec
body Of Joe Roycroft, a well-to-dc
Granville county farmer, lying
| forty yards from the blook-soak
J ed spot, where the fatal fight hac
occurred Friday night caused the
J arrest of G. III. Dove, a lumber
dealer, and his binding over tt
court without bond Saturday af
ternoon. Both men r prominen1
in the neighborhood and have
J been longtime friends.
The Secretary of State Satur
!. day issued a charter for the Blue
: Ridge Land Company of Char
lotte. TIE new company has an au
thorized capital stock of 800,
900 and $4,000 subscribed. Messrs
c.. H. Robinson, w. D. Wilkinson
A. w. Burch and others are The
incorporators.
The office of The Harnett Re
porter, including the entire news
paper plant, was destroyed by
fire, which broke out at Lillingto1
shortly after / o'clock Saturday
| afternoon, containing a loss o.
over $4,000. There WAS no in
suxance on either Office or outfit.
Negotiations were concluded
; Monday for the purchase by thu
Union Trust company of Pitts