The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-10-10
Local Matters.

-, had been i'll about week.
r,n Thomas Settle, Republican
.-didate for Governor, spoke in the
,ndrorium in Raleigh Saturday
light.
The Democratic candidates in
u.aga opened their campaign Monday
.. Wakelon school-house, in Little
pfyer township.
The Wake County Board of Com
-.ss.oners have authorized a dona-
..on Of 800 a year to the North Car
.r,a Children's Home of Greensboro.
Mrs. A. E. Gulley, mother Of SUI
,ertnrendent Gulley of the County
Home. is seriously i'll. She was OPP
rated on at Rex Hospital last Thurs
day
Mr.. John f. Hawkins, aged sew
ar-y, and Mrs. Martha Nicholson,
.qpd fsty-two, were united in mar
rage in Raleigh Monday by Justice
of the Peace Arch J. Wood. They
hailed from Durham.
II YOUR name is not on the regis
ration books see that it is there on
or before October Goth. The regis
frar will be at the polling places each
Saturday and he will register you at
his home at any time during the
week.
Comrade NJ. B. Vaughn died at
fa1
dav morning at o'clock. He enter
ed the service from Guilford, his ma
tive county, February, 1862, enlist
ing in Company E, Forty-fifth Regi-
ment.
DR.. James A. Rudolph, Raleigh's
meat and milk inspector, has arrived
in the city and assumed his new du-
ties Tuesday. DR.. Rudolph was Sc
cured from Anderson, S. c., where for
the past two years he has been meat
and milk inspector.
Deputy Collector Adams and Dep
uty Marshal Surles, captured John
A. Beasley, a white man, operating
an Illicit still near Benson, Johnston
County, last week. This is the third
offense charged against Beasley. He
was released in a bond of 5000.
Fire of unknown origin which was
discovered early Saturday morning
on the Cobb farm which is now own
ed by Mr.. w. A. Simpkins, destroyed
a barn containing fifteen bales of I'M
ginned cotton The loss was approx
mated at $1,000, with no insurance.
Mr.. A. S. Thomas, who for twelve
years operated the Durham Steam
Laundry, and who for the past nine
months has been secretary-treasurer
of the Peoples Laundry of Raleigh,
has purchased the Oak City Steam
Laundry of Raleigh and will take
charge October 14th.
Mrs, NJ. E. Rogers has instituted
suit against the Carolina Power and
Light Company for the death of her
husband, William H. Rogers, who
was electrocuted by taking hold Of a
live spike in an electric light pole
on East Hargett Street Tuesday
night, September 26th.
The appeal of L. J. Norris, who
was convicted last September of the
murder of J. B. Bissett and sentenced
to twenty years in the States Prison,
was dismissed by the Supreme
Court. Norris has been in the Wake
County Jail one year, and this will
not count on his sentence.
The Board of Aldermen has not
completed it's plans for giving the
people of Raleigh an abattoir and
rendering plant. The bids for the sale
of the city farm did not meet the ex-
pectation of the aldermen and for
that reason the matter of the abattOir
and rendering plant has been de-
ferred
The Caucasian has been endorsed
as the organ of the Roosevelt Pro-
&Tessives in Wake County. The price
OF the paper from now until Novem-
Der 10th is only 10 cents. Get up a
club of subscribers and send us be-
lore our next issue. We will also
send them copy of this weeks issue
so they can see the ticket named last
Tuesday.
An examination for the high school
teachers certificate and the five-year
state teachers certificate will be held
dt each cOunty-seat in the State, Oc-
IoOer 10 and IL. Heretofore these
examinations have been given in July
only, but the State Board of Exam
lners decided to give two regular ex-
amlnations-one on the second Tues
uay and Friday in October, and to
give no other examinations.
Inc contract for the extension and
dlteratlons of the Federal building in
[ldlelgh has been awarded to the
noyle-Robertson Construction Com.
pany of Washington, D. c., the con.
.lact price being $173,278. Work or