The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-01
LocaI Matters.

-. Iohn 4. Wiikersoh' oi De'Ha''
-, - be chief marshal at the next
state Fair.
announcement exercises at
I'm College and the A. 4 VI.
81. xere held this week.
8, Mary's conference for
and laity OF the two Carolinas
o. .,ke place at St Mary's School
So the week of June $40.
The Finance Committee OF the
-, BOARD Of Agriculture held It's
-...rg Tuesday and yesterday pre-
- 10 a meeting Of the whole
Board today.
Josh Beasley. colored. chief porter
,he CAPITAL Club, died suddenly
60 afternoon in the club-room.
,a.s ras politeness itself and will be
.,e,,Iy missed by the club members.
Columbus Taylor, negro sem
...o,a 10 serve term for house
ling who escaped from Camp
~ April 18th, has been arrested
rochester. y. Y. The prisoner
ell be brought back to finish his SEN
,egce OF two years.
ninIomas were awarded to forty
,onr graduates at the A. & NJ. College
.os,erdav. There were twenty-six
a,rl graduates at Meredith College.
uon Leslie NJ Shaw, ex-Secretary or
tho Treasury, delivered the annual
address at Meredith.
Tom Wade and Dave Holland, two
coIored carpenters, fell from a scat
fold on Fayetteville Street Tuesday
and received very painful injuries.
Tbey fell a distance of twenty-five
feet Holland had two ribs broken,
while Wade escaped with severe
bruises.
NrJP. Holmes died Friday morn
ing at his home on Pace Street,
this city. after a lingering illness of
several weeks. Mr.. Holmes was an
Englishman by birth, but had lived
in this country since early manhood.
He served in the Union Army during
the Civil War.
DR. w. H. Evans, of the Office Of
Experiment Stations, United States
Department of Agriculture, was in
Raleigh Saturday in conference with
the heads of the different divisions OF
ten Experiment Station. DR.. Evans
is chief of the Insular Experiment
Stations located in Alaska, Hawaii,
Porto Rico and Guam. --
Since the suicide last week Of Cash
Ter R. H. Spruill, the Corporation
Commission is to apply at once to the
court for receiver for the Merchants
and Farmers Bank of Columbia, Tyr
rel County, n. G.. State Bank Ex-
aminer Doughton has returned to Co
lumbia and taken charge of the bank
to hold the assets until a receiver
can relieve him.
Promoters of the proposed South
from the Tennessee coal fields
through Knoxville. Waynesville, Ashe-
vile, and Rutherfordton, to South
port and connections Of vast proper
tons, had hearing Saturday noon
before the Governor and Council Of
State on the question of procuring
from the State convicts for the con-
.struction of the road in this State,
compensation to the State for the
convicts to be in stock in the road.
There is to be another conference
during the coming week, at which
time the Council of State will an
nounce their decision In the matter.
A suit in arrest and bail was
brought against II. P. Mcknight, OF
southern Pines, Tuesday, by a coal
hrm in Lynchburg, Va, alleging that
Mcknight and others, who are said
10 De interested in a construction
company at Rural Hall, Guilford
county, had made false representa-
uonS to obtain coal. Mcknight sued
NOoS SOl puS papers anu q hCdi
ing was had in Raleigh Tuesday be-
lore Supreme Court Justice George
H. Brown. Judge Brown held that
Il Proceedings were brought they
should be before the Clerk of the
court of Guilford County. Mcknight
was In Jail here yesterday in default
OF $500 bond.