Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-03-27
North Carolina News

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Items of Interest and Mention Of PeO'
pie Throughout the Old North State
The peach crop in Rowan and ad'
Joining counties has been badly dam
aged by frost, though not totally de
stroyed.
Col. A. H. Boyden of Salisbury has
announced himself as a candidate fol
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
western district.
The Patterson-Young Mercantile
Company of China Grove, made an as
signment last week with liabilities OF
$26, 600 and with assets at $4,000.
Hon. James J. Britt, who for the past
three years has been the Third Assist
ant Postmaster General, has returned
to Asheville, to again take up his resi-
dence in that city.
The Gordon Hotel Company, North
W~ilkesboro, has been chartered with
SIZE, 900 capital authorized and SIS ,O0C
subscribed by ]. r. Finley, s. w.
Tomlinson and others.
DR.. Phifer Gibson, aged "A years, OF
Salisbury, died at the home Of his
daughter. Mrs. Frank L. Robbins,
Thursday afternoon, following a pro-
tracted illness.
Salisburians were much interested
last week in a moving picture taken
during the Inauguration at Washing
tor, in which Senator Overman, whose
home is in that city, was shown up to
a splendid effect.
Miss Myrtle Bum has been appointed
by the woman suffrage committee of
Washington, D. c., to sea that ten del
egates are brought from North Carroll
ma for the SUFFRAGE meeting tire on
April z.
A concrete manufacturing plant will
be established in Salisbury by c. A.
Kirschmaum, of Chambersburg, Pa.
He is now making arrangements to
erect a building and work will be start
ed at an early date.
There is every indication that 80 or
more State c%onvicts, POSSIBILITY so, will
be assigned very soon to the work OF
grading the seven-mile Hickory Nut
Gap section of the Charlotte-Asheville
Highway and that this work will be
during the summer.
Buried alive beneath an avalanche
OF earth and rescued unhurt was the
experience of Dave Allison, an aged
colored man of S~tatesville, when a
occurred in a deep ditch in
he was working on Center street
last week.
A three year old child of Mr. and
Mrs Matt Brooks, of Shelby, was play
ing in the yard where it's father was
to kill a hog Monday morn
ing and was scalded to such an extent
that the burns caused it's death. The
child was a girl, and has a twin brother.
Representative and Mrs. James M.
will leave Washington in a.
few days for Asheville, where they will
attend the wedding of their neice, Miss
Emma Gudger, daughter of Judge and
Mrs. H. A. Gudger of the Canal Zone,
to Lieut.. Robert L. Eichelberger Of the
Infantry, on April q.
The board of trustees of the Hen
graded school, ever alert to
take forward steps, at a called meet
ing filled a vacancy on the board
Caused by the resignation of j. p.
by unanimously electing Mrs.
Junius Daniel, widow of General Jun
ius, Daniel, of Confederate fame.
Ground has been broken at the cor
~ 80 AYo~+h RTo;~ 81 UY~0lG~ G.o1G
for the erection of the Asheville Ma
temple. 1t is announced that
tie building will be completed within
4 year. 1t will be of brick, steel and
concrete and will cost approximately
b50,444.
". E. Smiley, an air inspector on
he Spencer yards, who was danger
ously injured by being struck in the
head by a train two months ago, is
improving at the Whitehead
sanitorium. He was uncon-
'cious for a long while, but it is now
bought he will recover.
The Women's Christian temperance
Union of North Carolina will ~endeavor
D run cigarettes out of the State. That
as IAO uSC1S1OA ICdCACu ny Iu6 0IdI0s
Executive Committee at a meeting in
greensboro, when Raleigh was select
d as the meeting place for the State
this year and November 9
IS the date.
Mr.. Lon Sheriff. of North Newton
as been working for two years on an
irship and thinks it will be ready for
is first flight in a short time. This
) no plaything. Mr.. Sheriff., who is
genius in such things, studied out a
Ian by which he thinks air navigation
will be made simple. While his model
) rude in construction, he believes he
las the right idea.
An airship, complete in all it's ap-
ointments, has just been finished byi
B. and William Kizziah, of
1t has been tested out on
everal occasions and sails with ease
distance of two blocks. 1t is pro-
elled b va series Of rubber springs
nd is a model of workmanship. TheF
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