The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-08
STATE NEWS.

the designation of High Point
postofice as a postal saving de-
pository, effective June q.
Following the delivery of a.
final batch of eleven opinions last
Wednesday, the North Carolina
Supreme Court adjourned sine
die with practically a clear
docket.
Bonds In the sum Of $4,000 were
voted in New Hanover county last
week for road improvements.
This makes $2O0,0e0 voted in all
Only 1O4 votes werescast against
the bonds.
The board of trustees of the
A. and M. College have ~re-elect-
ed all the present members of the
faculty. This was done in con-
nection with sessions held while
here for the commencement sea-
son.
w. G. Poland, the news stand
and soft drink proprietor in the
Academy of Music building, at
Raleigh, was sentenced last week
by Judge Conner, in the Federal
court, to six months in Jail and
5000 fine for maintaining a blind
tiger at his place.
Adjutant General Leinster of
the North Carolina National
Guard announces another detach-
ment of officers of the guard to
go to the-San Antonio, Texasecamp
Of Federal troops for a two-weeks
training in camp life. They are
to report at San Antonio June II,
and to do this will have to start
on the trip June s.
Charlotte will have a postal
saving bank July 1, or shortly
thereafter. The Postofice De
partment announces plans of es-
tablishing branches Of the postal
saving banks in cities Of the first
class with the beginning Of the
new fiscal year and Charlotte is
certain to have an Office.
Edward j. cCormick, an en-
ploye of the Southern Railway
Company at Spencer, has been
awarded a free trip to Atlantic
City by the International Cores
oondence School of Scranton, Pa.
The prize was won by being the
lfarthest advanced IN mathema
ties and for making the drawing
of an engine frame.
Contracts have been awarded
~ the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
company, the largest tobacco
manufacturing firm in the South,
or the largest factory in all it's
mammoth plant. T. G. Thompson
Z Brother of Birmingham, Ala,
received the contract, the build
ng to cost about $4,000.
One of the biggest real estate
ieals of the year has just been
;losed in Winston-Salem, where
" Mr.. P. A. Thompson purchas-
ID from the Wachovia Bank and
Trust Co., the lot at the corner
# Fourth and Liberty streets,
a by 100 feet, the price being
xactly $4,000, or $1,666.6S a
'front.' foot.
Methodist laymen of Greens
ooro have taken $4,000 stock IN
The proposed assembly of the Me-
hodist Episcopal Church, South,
1T Waynesville, which is the maxi
mum amount that can be taken
by any city. Greensboro is the
'econod city to subscribe for its
full amount, Atlanta having been
the first. The $4,000 was sub
scribed at a gathering held in the
hotel last week.
Greensboro people are gratifed
at the announcement that the
Moses III. Gone memorial hospital
IS to be built in Greensboro. The
plan is to have a $1,000,000 en-
downment for the hospital, which
will make it one Of the greatest
institutions for the treatment of
diseases in the South and may
eventually be to the South what
Hopkins is to people far
Their north.
Secretary of War Stimson told
last week he would de-
an address at Greensboro on
the occasion of the 4th Of July
celebration. If possible. engage