The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-05-11

bond issue for street improvements.
The State Funeral directors & EN-
balmers' Association were in session
in High Point last Thursday and Fri
day.
Ground was broken Monday morn
ing at Sanford for a three story hotel
to be named Lee Grand.
Concord post Office has been named
by Postmaster General Hitchcock as
a postal savings bank.
Attorney General T. w. Beckett de-
lapered the address at the Decoration
Day in Durham Wednesday.
b. Il. Holden, a member Of the
State Senate from the seventh dis
srict has resigned to become mayor
Of Loufsburg.
The business men rebel at Over
bearing position of politicians in Eli
zabeth City and win Aldermen
and mayor in Democratic primary
held last week
In the municipal election in Tryon
Thursday, F. P. Bacon was elected
mayor over the incumbent, e. E. Mes
sidiIdfne, by the narrow margin Of
one vote.
Bishop Hoss will hold the West
ern North Carolina conference, States
vile, N. c., November 8; North Caro-
lima, Kinston, N. c., November %;
Florida, Gainesville on December 13.
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Rev. Frederick F. Reese, Bishop of
Georgia is to deliver the baccalau-
reate sermon at st. Mary's School
the paroehial school for North and
South Carolina on May 81 at Raleigh.
The next e~lectrocution secluded to
take place at the States prison is
that of Norman Lewis, the slayer of
Chief of Police Stallings, of Spring
Hope, Nash county. This is to be
at 1920 o'clock on May II
The Arson County Sunday School
Association held it's first convention
with the HiIesNflle Baptist church
Sunday. The State secretary, Mr.. j.
Van Carter, addressed a large con-
gregation in the afternoon. The as
sociation is INSTRUMENTATION in
character.
One hundred and fifty boys from all
sections of the country have success
fully passed the mental examination
for entry into the Naval Academy as
lmidshipmen. The physical examina-
ttions will be held later. The success
sful candidates from North Carolina
were: L. M. Bourne, Jr.. Carlyle
Craig, n. A. Fisher, Norwood G. Cal
vert.
AT the last meeting of the Cleve-
land county board of commissioners
$4,000 worth of bonds were signed
ito pay for the steel bridge building
that has been going on for some
time. The county now has about
eleven steel bridges and more are
being erected. Tn bonds were sold to
&C. A. Webb & Co. of AsheviI1e and
pay 5 per cent.
Fleet Watkins, charged with the
murder of John Hill Bunting of Will
4lington at the Gladstone hotel,
Black Mountain, on the night of Au-
gust 6, 1903, and convicted last week
of n4anslaughter, was Saturday after
noon sentenced by Judge Webb to Is
months in the State prison. The de-
fen1Snt gave notice of appeal and
bond was fixed.
"A call has been extended by the
congregation of Fayetteville street
Baptist church in Raleigh, to Rev.
r. o. King to become pastor and the
expectation is that he will accept.
II - - e,,aaoo5 Dow U NJ Eroo-
man, who resigned on account of
the exacting duties of a member of
the faculty of Meredith College. Mr.
King is now pastor of the church at
JoneSboro.
The Loray Baptist church al Gas
tonia will be dedicated Sunday, May
81 by Rev. w. r. Bradshaw of Hick-
DRY, evangelist of the State mission
airy board for western North Caro-
ling. The ~dedicatory exercises will
take place in the afternoon. begin
ming at 3 o'clock. This will be follow
ed by a weeks protracted meeting con-
Quoted by Mr.. Bradshaw. :,
There is to be determined effort to
take the 1912 session of the North
Carolina Lodge of Odd Fellows to
Raleigh, the campaign to this end
to be pressed when the grand lodge
convenes this week in Winston-Salem.
The Raleig aldermen have just passed
a resolution urging the grand lodge
to select Raleigh for next year, assur-
ing the very best hotel and auditorium
Facilities.
There was at Salisbury last week on
e t1oition in the show-window of the
Piedmont cafe a curiosity in the
shape of a full-grown live rooster with
two w~ell-formed and w~ell-developed
spurs on his head, one protruding
from near each side of the comb and
each being about an inch in length.
The cockerel is of the Rhode Island
Red variety and is perfect in form
with the exception of the hed-spurs.
There are also the usual spurs on the