The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1912-12-26
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Latest News Of General Interest That
Has Been Collected From Many
Towns and Counties.

tiguous community was held in the
First Baptist church for the purpose
Of organizing ministerial union. At
ter the adoption of the constitution
permanent organization was affected.
Maxton.-Ground was broken for
the new union passenger station. The
| contractors, York & Cobb, of Raleigh,
will push the building as rapidly as
possible and hope to have it ready in
three months. It will be about 100
feet long and 35 wide, of brick con-
struction and modern.
Washington.-The subcommittee of
the house committee on public build
ings and grounds, of which Represen
tatiye Gudger is a member, allowed
the following sums for public build
ings for North Carolina: Waynesville,
5000; Tarboro, $4,000; Thomas
vile, $4,000; Rocky Mount, $4,000;
Raleigh. Superintendent William
Eggleston of this division of the
Southern Express Company and Local
Manager ]. J. Bowen are rejoicing
over the prompt arrest Of the express
travelers-check flasher who is said to
have cashed such checks here in Raj
eigh banks to the amount of over $500.
Durham.-Lee Cash, young white
| boy of Lebanon township, was arrest
ed on a charge of retailing and is now
in the county Jail awaiting trial. The
arrest was made by Constable Ray
| mond Hall and Sergeant Gates of the
city police force. The officers went
| to Lebanon township and found the
| still in operation.
Hendersonville-A $25, 1000 interest in
the gold mine formerly operated by
the Canadian Southern Mine Company
on Forge Mountain, Henderson coun-
| ty, was sold to Roberts & Reynolds,
of st. Louis, by local interests. The
purchasers have announced their in
| tention of operating the mine imme
diately.
Wilmington. = The Wilmington
chamber of commerce has adopted a
resolution favoring Hon. Stanton War
! burton's plan for a national military
highway connecting the capitals of
all the states, the funds for the con,
struction and maintenance to be de-
rived from an additional internal rev.
enue tax on tobacco or such other
means as congress may select.
Washington.-The report on pella-
gra issued by surgeon general of the
| public health and marine service says
that 1856 of the 2,412 cases in North
| Carolina were in Mecklenburg, 81 in
Rowan, in Cabarrus, % in Union, u
| in Wake, 204 in Guilford, 253 in Dur
| land in 173 in Buncombe.
Gastonia, $4,000.
Wilmington-Richard A. Burnett, a
| well-known citizen of this place, re-
Gently employed with A. D. O'Brien,
the engineer, in bridge construction
| work in Georgia, has been elected SUI
perintendent of roads in this county,
at a salary of $1,000 a year and has
begun his new duties. He was form.
erly a member of the old police COM
mission of this city.
Raleigh.-A charter is issued for
the Guilford Mining Company of
Greensboro, capital $4,000 authorized
| and $3.50 subscribed by Abraham Har-
WITT and others for mining all sorts
Of metals and ores An amendment
to the charter of the Kent Furniture
& Coffin Co., of Lenoir changing the
| name to the National Furniture Com.
pany of Lenoir was allowed.
shot and killed by julius Rowe, an.
other negro, at the home of Roxie
| Taylor, in Wayne county, near the LIE.
noir line. Lane was sitting on the
| porch tieing his shoe laces when
Rowe came up, and without warning
or known reason, shot him through
the head, the revolver ball entering
| escaped.
Raleigh.-R. H. Afford, defaulting
cashier of the Bank of Kinston, was
brought to the state prison to serve a
fve-year sentence. The defalcations
developed Is months ago, when Afford
disappeared and had not been heard
from until several days ago when he
came into Johnston county superior
court and entered plea of guilty, re.
ceiving the fve-year sentence forth
with.
Monroe. Miss Sadie Harkey, a
young white girl, making her home
| with the family of Mr.. John Watson,
about one mile west of town, was hor.
ribly burned by the explosion of
kerosene oil can. Miss Harkey had
gone into the kitchen to cook break
fast when the accident occurred.
Neutrality-suspicious. Freeland and
the postmaster of Burlington are here
to try to get the postoffice department
to give their town free delivery. The
population is more than $4,000 and
the receipts $4,000. The North Caro-
lima public building bill will carry $70,.