The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-05-25

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mai meeting Saturday night. re-elect-
ing all the old officers.
Thirty thousand dollars has been
appropriated by the board OF alder
men for improvements to the WINS
TON public schools, the amounts TO De
expended in new buildings n N
urovements to old structures, potn
for white and colored.
Some weeks ago the little village
of Faith, in Rowan county, gained
much notoriety when it was publish
cd that there were nine sets of twins
in that little town and all were
rabies. Well, Friday there was born
To Mr.. and Mrs. James Myrick of that
place triplets, two girls and a boy.
Asheville was given a distinct
shock last week when 1t became
known that notices were posted at
the Asheville cotton mills to the eff
feet that on June Is the mills would
close down for an indefinite period
an dthat the more than 800 employees
would have to seek other employ
ment.
hlllSUOIO O4oA6 OONS
Friday rejoicing with Uncle JONI
Laws, just 81 years young and with
a record of 81 years as register OF
deeds of this county, who is TO-DAY
the happy father of a fine girl baby,
which arrived at the Laws home Fri
day morning. Mother and little one
both doing well.
+. A. Olds of the North Carolina hall
of history has learned of a gentleman
in one of the counties in the central
section of the State who has the first
steam engine ever brought to North
Carolina and has also the data to
prove the claim to this distinction.
Colonel Olds is trying to secure this
relic for the hall of history.
The Sand Hill farmers, of Southern
Pines are seeing things these days.
One of them is that the light sandy
land was less affected by the poor
stand of cotton than the stiff, cold
clay. The sand seems to hold mois-
ture and give it out to the sprouting
seeds better than the clay, and to
warm up and start termination bet
ter. 1t is also less liable to form
clods.
. The state building commission has
purchased the Grimes property,
where stands the old Haywood home,
facing the Capitol and bordering
Fayetteville, Morgan and Salisbury
streets. The price is $45, 700, leav-
ing over 100000 for the 1ve-story
concret administration building de-
cided upon Plans are to be sub
mitted shortly by architects, with
whom the commission have consult
ri
Announcement is made by General
Leinster of the North Carolina ma
tiOnal guard that the War Depart
ment has approved plans for holding
a camp Instructions for officers of the
Coast Artillery at Fort Caswell June
II to Is. There are twenty officers
OF the Coast Artillery who will be
expected to participate in this en-
campment, where they will be in
Etructed by regular army officers.
John A. Mcleod superintendent of
schools of Moore county, say that
hookworm is prevalent in many sec
lions of the county and DR.. Terrell
promises to undertake the Work of
eradication from the schools when
the next session begins. DR.. Mudgett,
health officer at Southern Pines, says
hoOkworm is not much in evidence in
the town schools, the proper sani-
tation of the villege being against its
presence here.
W. L. Duncan, of Baltimore has de-
to accept the invitation to be-
come the first secretary of the Raj
eigh Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton for which 500, 900 subscriptions
were taken in a whiriwind campaign
for the association building. The
first instalments of the pledges to this
building fund fall due June 1, and it
is expected that the announcement of
the location by the building commit
tee for the association building will
be announced at that time.
At the request of Senator Overman
of North Carolina, Governor BIease
has paroled during good behavior,
upon condition that he leaves the
State, a young man, one-armed, who
is the son of a North Carolina Con-
federate veteran and is serving, under
h name OF Robert Quillen, which is
not his real name, a sentence of five
years Imprisonment for larceny.
CULLEN is said to have stolen $40 from
the home of a negro from whom he
had besought a nights lodging.
Editor Clarence H. Poe, of The
Progressive Farmer his accepted a
pressing invitation to deliver the COM
mencement address for the Mississ-
ippi State Agricultural College at
Starkville, June Z. Governor Harmon
of Ohio had promised to deliver the
address but found it necessary to
cancel the engagement. President ].
C. Hardy of the college wired Mr.. Poe
that his people were very anxious for
him to come and deliver the address
The Mississippi Agricultural College
has v hundred students.
There has just been installed in the
hill 20 hs-AN-- ~ \ =