The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-03-09

The Young men of Kinston have
made a flying machine that viii have
q test trial this week.
Newbern Aldermen last week g.
.warded contracts for $4,000 worth
of permanent street Improvement.
The Commercial National Bank. of
Charlotte expects to erect an elegant
ten-story building in the near future
to be occupied by the bank n otnces
to let.
The t~wenty-eight annual conven-
ton of the North Carolina Sunday
school Association will be held in
High Point, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday April 1928. A program
of unusual excellence has been pre-
pared.
The Hornets Nest Ri1emen OF
Charlotte. a noted military company
of the old days, which has been de-
funct for some time. has been reor-
ganized as company d, First North
Carolina regiment, and Mr. John A.
Parker, formerly Of S~tatesV1lle, mas
been elected captain.
T. 7. Council of Martin county, a
Confederate veteran, died at his home
Sunday. Mr.. Council was doing picket
duty at Charlottesville on the night
that Stonewill Jackson was shot. He
was also a classmate of Henry L.
Wyatt who was killed at Bethel and
to whom a monument is to be erected
In Capitol square at Raleigh.
Within the next week or two New
bern will have another newspaper
added to its list, Thesnew publ1ca-
ton will be called The. Industrial
Weekly and will be edited and pub
lished by E. J. Land & Co. The new
publication will consist of eight pages,
four columns wide, and will deal en-
tirely with industrial matters.
Rev, James B. Black of Nebraska
has taken charge of the Cam Memoir
ial Presbyterian church at Elizabeth
City church. DR.. Black has held impor-
tant charges in Nebraska and is re-
cognized as one Of the leading Pres
byterian ministers of that section of
the country. He is a polished speaker
and q man of fine attachments.
Upon entering the bed room of her
.daughter-in-law, Mrs. G. F. Taylor,
who resides On Broad street, Newbern,
Friday morning, Mrs. e. H. Taylor
found that she was dead. The de-
ceased has been in, very bad health
during the past few months and it is
supposed that she was taken with an
attack of heart disease and died be-
fore she could summon aid.
News was received at Waynesville
Thursday afternoon by wire of the
death at Suwanee, Fla. of Miss Cora
TeIford, who had gone there some six
months ago in search of health. She
was a niece of Mrs. HI. G.. Lindsey of
that place, with whom she had lived
since she was 4 years old. Miss Tel
ford health had been precarious for
several years.
Neuse river in the vicinity of New
bern is now filled with large shad and
thousands of pounds of these fish are
carried to that port each day and dis:
posed of to local dealers, who ship
them to Northern markets. While in
conversation with one of the largest
fishermen in that section Thursday,
he Informed a newspaper man that he
had cleared more than 1000 this sea-
son on shad clone, and this with only
one boat.
At a meeting of the directors of the
North Carolina Railroad Company held
IN Greensboro, Maj. Charles M. Sted-
man Congressman-elect from the fifth
district resigned as president and Col.
Benehan Cameron of Raleigh, was cleo
ted in his stead. The position pays
q salary of 5000 with certain perqui-
sites in addition,and the holder of the
office receives passes on many of the
Important roads OF the country.
Now, District Attorney A. H. Hol-
ton is after the manufacturers and
shippers of mean liquor" into North
Carolina. The little district attorney
has sent a sample of what he consid-
ers an a~dulterated quality Of liquor
shipped here to the Department of Ag-
riculture at Washington for examina-
ton and analysis. He contemp1ates an
an indictment, if the stuff shows UP as
he expects it will. The sample was
Tetailed. it is said, at $3.50 a gallon
and came from a point in Virginia.
]. w. Ward, who was arrested by
revenue officers from Raleigh several
days ago upon the charge of operat-
ing a blockade distiIleTy near Far
mers Turnout, Brunswick county, was
given a preliminary trial Friday be-
fore United States Commissioners Har-
ris. He waived trial and was bound
over to the May term of Federal court.
In default of a 81 5000 bond he was
committed to Jail, but it is understood
he will give bond. The distiIlery was
OF n hundred and sixty gallons ca
pacity, Ward is about so years old.
Friday night was a bad night for
accidents on the Southern, two extra
conductors being run over and each
losing a leg at about the same hour,l
hut at widely different points. While
preparing to take a train out of/the
Spencer yards, E.. T. Gausney was
caught under a moving train and his
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