The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-10-12
STATE 3

The first brick of the Masonic ano
Eastern Star Home for Aged and IN
digent Masons, their wives ano
daughters, was laid last week al
Greensboro in the presence OF q
number of Masons who went out &c
see the work begin. The building
occupies a lovely site of twenty-five
r Just beyond Lindley Park and
TO the north of Pomona station.
The tobacco farmers of North a
olina. particularly in the old tobacco
section in Stokes, Surry, Forsyth ano
adjacent counties who have seen their
nroducts taken for twenty years Dy
the trust at about the cots OF cultlva-
ton. have come to the conclusion that
there is no hope of protection 1or
them by the State or Federal Govern
ment SO long as the American ToDac-
co Company has the influence 1t now
has and they are organizing In order
to try to help themselves.
Governor Kitchin last week granted
pardons to four prisoners in for varl-
Gus terms and crimes, and a commu-
tation of sentence to one.
Robert Harrison, the young White
man of Cary whom it was sought IN
the Wake court at Raleigh to convict
of manslaughter for the shooting or
Yessie Turner, a small negro boy,
last New Years night, has been ac-
Quilted by the jury, members of which
took the view that the killing was en-
tirely accidental. Harrison was try
ing an old revolver by shooting at the
door of a shed and the boy came up
Unexpectedly, the ball glanced from
- ooI &rro1Z nffnnf in hiC head
In a batch of twenty-three opinions
delivered last week by the supreme
court, State VS.. Sandlin from New
Hanover was the most notable, this
against l.. M. Sandlin, under sentence
to be .e~lectrocuted for the murder OF
his wife in Wilmington.
Fred Richie, a lineman in the en-
ploy of the Southern Power Company,
was el%ectrocuted at Lexington n
day last week while strapped to a
pole thirty feet from the ground. He
was one of a force that has been
working around Lexington for sever
al weeks and when the accident oc-
CURED he was helping to make some
changes in the line at the lWenonah
cotto mill in the southern end of the
city.
Last week at the regular meeting
of the board of aldermen of Shelby an
election was called for December 5
to vote $4,000 worth of bonds with
which to- take over the electric light
plant. The town closed the deal for
the privately owned plant several
days ago, but will have to have the
act approved by the citizens in the
form of a bond issue. The sentiment
is strong for municipal ownership.
CataWba county advocates of bonds
for roads have prepared petitions for
circulation in Newton and Hickory
townships, calling for an election to
pass o nthe question of issuing bonds
to the amount of $4,000 in each town
ship. These will be presented to the
commissioners at the December meet
ing, and they will be asked to call the
election. 1t was the intention of the
bon dadvocates to take steps to have a
county election but it appears that the
road legislation for the county was
made with the township idea in view,
instead of the whole county as the
unit.
Cleveland county farmers are hold
ing their cotton for better prices. Very
few bales are being sold and these go
on the market by people who are una
bic to hold and whose creditors are
pushin gthem for settlement. The
Farmers Union is 1,40O strong in the
county and every union man has
pledged himself to hold his taples.
MI. r. M. Gidney, one of the leaders
of the union, has been appointed to
make a campaign for the union in the
interest of the holding movement.
The Durham and South Carolina
Railroad Company, running from Dur
ham to Bonsall, the extreme edge of
Wake county, last week awarded the
contract for an extension of twelve
or more miles to Kipling, where 1t
Joins the Raleigh and Southport and
enters into direct connection with the
Atlantic Coast Line.
The cotton leaf caterpilla which has
aA2eared in so many counties is all
over Catawba county, and spreads
with the greatest rapidity. The green
leaves of the plant are eaten while
you wait and the horde moves on.
many call it the army worm, although
the State entomologist has dubbed it
the aforementioned caterpillar. No
damage viii lbe done by it this late in
Catawba county.