Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-09-07
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Latest News Of General interest That
Has Been Collected With Much
Care by the Editor.


Care by the Editor.
Brevard.-Fire destroyed the 1aun-
dry building OF the Toxaway Inn at
Lake Toxaway entailing a loss -ef
about $4,000. The amount of insur-
ance is unknown, the policies being
carried by the Pittsburg owners Of
the property.
Hickory.The heavy rains which
have fallen in this county for the past
few days have caused the farmers
to forget that such a thing as the
drought ever existed. More rain has
fallen in this county in the last few
days than had fallen since the middle
Of April.
Pittsboro.-Deputy Sheriff James
T. Wright, Of Centre township, pre-
sented the county Jail with another
blockade still cap and worm CON-
plete, which was captured by Sheriff
Lane and himself in Bear Greek town
ship, about two miles southeast of
Boulee.
Lenoir.-For the past week or more
United States Deputy Marshals Abel
and Grant. have been searching for
Illicit distilleries in this county. Sew
eral weeks ago they went to the home
of a man named Sullivan Martin,
who has a farm of one of the
branches Of Jim's creek and found a
distillery.
Raleigh. Capt. J. . Laughing
house, the Superintendent Of the
states prison, who has just returned
from visit to eastern North Caro-
lima says thAt the prospects for cot
ton are very poor in that section -
the ntate. sOn my visit to Belhaven,
he said, distance Of 1873 miles from
Raleigh, did not see ten acres Of
cotton that had not turne red
Concord.-On account of the death
of Mrs. M J. Hartsell, mother of State
Senator L. T. sHartsell who is coun-
sci for the defendant in the case of
State VS.. Robert Goodman, charged
with the murder of Sidney Barrier,
the case has been continued until next
court. This was the only capital case
on the dockgg and attracted great in
terest.
Raleigh Mr.. J. p. Cook, of Con-
cord, the chairman of the board of
trustees of the jackson Training
School, is in the city. Mr.. Cook says
that there was good rain in his Sec
ton, but that it. will only prove of
value to late corn. The cotton crop
and the early corn crop in his section,
he says, have been greatly damaged
by the drouth and the extreme hot
weather.
Southern Pines.-As a recent phil
osopher remarked, "It is just one
darned thing after another The
viccitudes of the cotton planter have
been numerous and varied this sum-
mer, and now from down towards the
South Carolina boundary comes the
complaint of the red cotton spider.
The spider is a diminutive creature
barely big enough to see, but it leaves
it's trail on the cotton field.
Raleigh.-The Bank of Brunswick,
Southport, N, c., is chartered for gen.
eral banking business in this seaport
town at the mouth of the lower Cape
Fear river. The capital is SEE, 900 au-
thorized and $4,000 subscribed by
w. H. Pyke, C. Ed. Taylors Robert
Ruark and others. There is also q
charter for the C. B. Cheatham Com
pany, Louisburg, capital $4,000, by
L. r. Cheatham and others, for a leaf
tobacco business. ~
Salisbury. momen's Mission
ary Convention, which is in session at
ST. Johns, Cabarrus county, held an
interesting meeting. Twenty-three
new societies were reported as hav-
ing been organized during the year,
nineteen of which were Young Peo-
pies societies. A resolution appropri-
ating $1,000 to be paid the Japan
schools this year was unanimously
adopted. The convention accepted the
invitation to hold the next convention
at Holy Trinity church, Mt. Pleasant.
Gastonia.-Gastonia now has a
camp Of American Boy Scouts. 1t
was recently organized with Mr.. Fred
Barnes as drill master. and has about
thirty five members. The camp meets
weekly using the armory Of Com
pany B. The boys expect soon to-
have uniforms Within the next few
weeks the camp will take q "hike'' 10
some nearby point. The Boy Scouts
is nationwide organization which
has only come into prominence with
in the past year or so.