The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-11-23


Friday at Kenansville with impressive
ceremonies by the Grand Lodge OF Ma
sons of North Carolina.
A steel engraved portrait Of General
Robert e. Lee was presented to the
Greensboro high school last Friday
morning by Guilford Chapter. United
Daughters Of the Confederacy.
The Fidelity Hosiery Mills Company
OF Newton is installing several thou
sand dollars worth OF new knitting ma
chimes to make the finer grade Of hos
| iery. This additional equipment calls
for number OF new operatives. The
company, upon the completion Of its
mammoth brick plant In the spring,
will add still more OF these machines
and manufacture silk az well as the
fine Egyptian cotton yarn hose.
a movement is ON foot to build a
trolley line from Greensboro to DUR
ham.
The Greensboro local tobacco market
is reported to be doing larger BUSH
ness than it has experienced before in
many years. There are more buyers
and the competition is keener, result
ing in higher prices for all grades of
the weed. Farmers generally are
pleased with the results of the sales.
A cablegram from Congressman e.
Y. Webb to his wife, at Shelby last
Friday night brought the news that he
had arrived safely in Panama having
sailed nine days ago on the Govern
ment steamer from New York harbor
with the congressional appropriation
committee of 21 Congressman, as
a specially invited guest. After spend
ing ten days in Panama, the party will
follow the canal distance of 40 miles
to Colon.
At a church conference of the First
Baptist church Wednesday night at
Shelby, Rev. L. W. Swope of Louis
burg was called to fill the pulpit re-
Gently vacated by Rev. c. A. Jenkins.
who resigned to go to Clayton and de-
vote the remainder Of his life to liter
ature.
The town of Maiden in Catawba
county has about completed stock
company whereby the town will be
equipped with electric light and pow
er, the electricity being furnished by the
Southern Power Company.
The John L Sparks circus will again
winter in Salisbury.
Wake county authorities are looking
for a man who represented himself to
be Marcus Martin of Wendell, and at
tempted to put through land fraud
that was unique and designed to pro-
cure $1,000 fraudulently. He went to
Raleigh and had a deed recorded for
104 acres of land belonging to John
w. Wick and wife conveying it to
Marcus Martin, and then went about
/ trying to borrow 81 500 on the bogus
recorded deed.
The final work of removing the de-
bris of the old buildings from the site
for the new State fireproof administers
ton building at Raleigh, it is reported
is being done and the lot occupying the
space between Fayetteville and Sails
bury streets, fronting Morgan street
and the capitol square, will be ready
for the contractors to begin the exca-
vations within the next week. The
contractors are under obligation to
have the building completed by Jan
uary 9,1913 when the next General as
sembly meets. The buildihgl will be
four stories high and will house the
State library, the Hall of History anC
archives of the State historical com.
mission, the Supreme court and su
preme court library and the State de-
! partments of Insurance and Education
The program Of exercises for the OBJ
servance of North Carolina day in thu
public schools of the State has JUS
been issued from the State Department
i of Education. December % is Sc
aside for this special observance b!
the schools and the booklet embracing
the program, readings and studies fol
the day, is the work of Secretary r
D.. w Conner of the State historical
commission.
Harnett, Sampson, Johnston ant
Cumberland counties have never hal
such crop Of hogs as this year. Sau
sage spareribs, backbones and chit
lings will be plentiful in that regiol
this season.
A recent dispatch from Fayettevill
says that the oldest inhabitant of tina
city, one of the oldest of the state, an
a real "old-time" darkey, passed ava
with the death in that city of "Aunt
Dolly Granger, who was Is years oil
when General Marquis De Lafayett
visited that town in 1924. She died il
her 103d year. Aunt Dolly, VIII
spent the last years of her long earth
; ly sojourn in her own small house o.
Blount street, had most vivid recol
lection of the visit Of the great French
man, the most memorable incident o
her life, as it was the most notabI
event in the history of Fayetteville
In her youth she was family servan
OF Mr.. James Cook, grandfather of Mrf
S. G. Aver of Fayetteville.
Secretary Clarence H. Poe OF tn
State Liteary and Historical Associa
ton of North Carolina is receiving as
surances from members of the associa
ton in every part of the State tina
they will be in Raleigh for the annua
meeting of the association on Novem
Der % and %, when the most notabl
address will be by United States Sen
ator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu
sets on ''The Constitution and II
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