Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-09-21
LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE
Latest News Of General interest That
Has Been Gotten From Many
Towns OF the State.

Durham.-The spostOfice Depart
ment at Washington has announced
that it will in a short time create a
station at Trinity College for the
benefit Of the. college patrons OF the
Office and will put q clerk in the new
office.
Statesville.-The changing is doing
good work and progressing nicely on
the Turnersburg road. It has almost
reached the hill neal the ~Turnersburg
mill and will put a steel bridge over
the creek, leaving the wooden one
where 1t is. The new road leaves the
old one at Simpson & Steele's store
and goes by the roller mill.
Wilkesboro.-The managers of the
Wilkes county Fair are making eff
forts to have a flying machine here
for the occasion and they are pretty
sure of success The directors at
their. meeting appropriated $500 for
the purpose of securing a flying ma
chine. It will be something new and
attractive for our people and will be
worth seeing.
Dallas. - An enthusiastic crowd
gathered here in the interest. of a
farm-life school for CASTOR county.
DR.. J. Y. Joyner was present and dis
cussed the farm-life school in all its
phases in a most interesting way.
There was a most hearty response to
his appeal, and, judging by the pre-
vailing sentiment, the school is as
sured.
Raleigh.-Rev. J. E. Underwood,
presiding elder of the Warrenton dis
trict, and chairman of the board of
trustees of Carolina College at Max
ton, passed through Raleigh fer Max
ton to attend a meeting of the trustees
and a big educational rally there.
The people there have put big money
into this institution which will be a
great factor in the education of wo-
men.
Tarboro.-E. B. Hussey, the assist
ant cashier of the defunct and de-
spoiled Bank of Tarboro, when ar
raigned for trial plead guilty of the
charge against him. His specu1ations
began sever years ago, when J.. T..
Green was cashier. Judge Ward felt
for the families of the young man
and gave him a light sentence of
eighteen months in the penitentiary.
Charlotte.-Despite the fact that
rains have fallen in gracious album
dance during the past two weeks
throughout this entire section, the Ca
tawba river is still low and is still
threatening trouble for the plants Of
the Southern Power Company. At
Sloan's ferry where the new concrete
bridge is being erected, water is only
three feet deep.
Newbern. - Indications at present
are that there will be more money in
circulation in this section this fall
and winter than there has been be-
fore in several years and the mer-
chants and manufacturers are making
preparation for large sales of their
goods in all lines. ALI of the crops
this year have proven to be complete
successes and the farmers have re-
ceived gold prices for their products.
Siler City-Theodore F. Headen.
who shot and dangerously wounded
j. P. Dark last week, gave himself
up to the sheriff and had a hearing
before Squire George w. Womble
here. He vas held IN the sum of
$1,000 for his appearance at the next
term of superior court of Chatham
county, which convenes November Is.
| HI oouo h0nH for hic -
| court. :
Fayetteville.-The City and Coun-
ty Boards of Education signed ccn.
tracts for eleven hundred and fifty
school desks of the latest and best
sanitary pattern, fifty sanitary teach
ers' DESKS, and eight thousand feet of
the best quality of the celebrated
green hyloplate b~lackboards. This is
said to be n Of the largest single
orders ever placed in the state, and
was awarded as a whole to Mr..
Charles J. Parker, Of Raleigh.
Newton.-The cotton fields in Ca
tawba county are as white with open
cotton as they were last year at this
date in October. Picking is going on
as rapidly as possible, but not much
ginning has yet been done. There
will be two pretty good pickings. But
there are very few late bolls. The
crops will be picked unusually early
this year. Taking the county as a
whole, there is not more than half
normal crop in Catawba.
Raleigh.-Mr. Frank B. Simpson, OF
F. leigh, who is the associate archi-
tect with Mr.. p. Thornton Marye, OF
Atlanta, for the new state building,
has gone to Kinston on matters per-
tanning to a choice of architects for
the state School for the Feeble
Minded
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of some hitch,
the Barnum and Bailey circus will
not show here October 21st, and ne
%gotiations are opening up to sue the
circus by the traction company, the
billboard man and others who think
they have lost money by ~cancelling
the date.