The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-04-20
GENERAL NEWS,

1He OF Concord re-nom
mated their entire municipal las
week.
There came from the war depart
ment Saturday an official order fo1
five more officers of the North Caro-.
ma National Guard to report at the
san Antonio. Texas. Mexican horde.
camp April rs.
Rev. Plato T. Durham. pm !,
Concord, has just accepted an invita-
o TO deliver the closing address al
the Baraca-Philathea convention n
Greensboro. Monday night April "a.
The Socialists will put ont q MINT.
cipal ticket in the Winston election a
Aass-meetlng will be- held for the
purpose OF nominating candidates for
mayor and nine members of the board
of aldermen.
The first presbyterian of the Az
sociate Reformed Presbyterian church
will meet in Boyce Memorial chI1rca
at Kings Mountain Monday evening
May 8, at s P. M. The openine sar'
mon VIII De preached by the retiring
@SSA1 IVY d. L. h0OX. 81
The twenty-second nnuaJ session
of the North Carolina Funeral Diroc-
tors and Embalmers' Association will
De neld IN High Point Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday, May 2, 8 and 4.
Inc sessions will be open to the pub
lie and viii be of much interest. ildp-
ing by the excellent program which
has been prepared.
John Scott Hoover, a prominent and
wealthy farmer of M~eekienburg comr
" Tell from the seat of the wagon he
was driving as he neared his home at
Matthews Saturday, landing on his
mead and breaking his neck. Death
was instantaneous. Hoover had been
In charlotte all day and is said to have
lmbl0ed rather freely. He was 65
years old and unmarried.
Representative delegations from
every shop on the Southern railway
system left Sunday for Washington
confer with the officials of the
Southern Railway company relative to
a new schedule of wages for the en-
surfing fiscial year. The schedule was
agreed upon by district representative
It Birmingham, Ala, last month All
of labor are included in |
he proposed new contract.
At the approaching commencement
I Salem College at Winston-SaIem
. G., a diploma will be awarded to
RS. r. L. McWhorter., of Georgia i
no finished her course in the insti'I
lt1on 6S years ago. Mrs. McWhor-Il
r is now more than so years old
men Mrs. McWhorter was graudat-
l. Nefesnot given. She will.
ave TO Wfnston-Salem in a private
" provided by her son, a prominent
Lilroad lawyer.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
v arranged a most attractive pro-
ram for the unwilling next Thursday
the handsome bronze statun Of
Gorge Davis, Wilmington's tllustri-
If son and Attorney General of the
o~n1ederacy, erected by Cape Fear
napier. The address of the occasion
LII be delivered by Henry Groves
onnor, judge of the United States
urt for the eastern district of North
ILO1lud,
-c-@
me surest sign of the growth of a
WI is It's postof1ce receipts No
Wn is standing still while it's post
nee receipts are increasing. The
'rllngton Office did the largest BUSH
during the past year in its hist
ry' Tor the year ending March 31st,
IL the receipts were "$12,141.O7 as
ainst $~11,403.77 for the year ending
lrch 31st, 1910. This shows a heal
: increase and is an indication that
rely.
There was shipped last Saturdar
IA Meoan the last of "a cars of
Id mahogany furniture for the war
from the White Furniture
npany. d furniture went nc
'fy state in the United States and
possessions Hawaii, Porto Rico
the philippines for the army of
homes and was all solid mahoa-
throughout and of very high
IS.
ne Car company of High
III, Tor the manufacture of electric
ct cars especially, recently brought
er n control of the electrical
'er consultations being engineered
ne Dukes and other interests filed |
week with the Secretary of state
amendment to it's charter increas-
the capital to 100000 from $780, II
e A. Snow is president of the cor- y
ton. The business is to be greatlylN
rged. M
le next electrocution for capital Y
shment at the State prison is
duled for May 5. Lewis West. the
county murderer of Deputy
if Munford, is to be the victim.
day IL there will be the electrocu-
OF Norman Lewis. the Spring
> murderer, who killed the chief
olice there. There are no more
) set until July 80, when the Yam
county murderer, Chas. Murphy
heduled to pay the death penalty.
an appeal to the Supreme
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