The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-08-28
ION 0 FREIGHT GIL: RATES.
FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE
Short Paragraphs of State News That
Has Been Condensed For Busy
People Of State.

81 teTnsIS Tor week md - ~,
civil actions er iro1v = All
:, Cha glotte'-A union n,eot;na 80
euute neg in the Mecklenburg- Cab
=. rus Baptist Association will he h
~itp IN a few days at Arlingt
o. Gnu rch A Sunday school mass me
in' viii probably be held also.
= Buster" the six-yeart
j son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lamm
Y AStantonsburg, who was so horri}
I ma ugled ythe explosion of a dvr
+, eite cap, died after intense sufferir
A. tha same time of the exnlosic
Mrscsr1x Ellis was badly wounded.
I.eal,svfn ,. = Sam Harris of tn
place fatally ~. MS "lle with
shotgun, and / leioaolns the Wea
on shot himself through the hea
Harris has haan sufferer with pell
gra for some time e'nu general Cpl
ion is hat the dis> 'aSe mao anecte
his mind \
:" ayetteville-Karl =. Taylor
Mount Croghan, S. c. =. uo was XII
ed when his motor car WA STRUCK
Carolina Northwestern ! assenge
train near Newton was at the Iime Q
MS death coming from Blowing roc
to Fayetteville to visit his sister, Nrs
W. A. Wicker of this city.
Observation-Disclosures was giMea
IN the Superior Court here against
the City of Greensboro in a suit
wherein Guilford farmer was pray.
ing for $4,000 damages to his proper.
ty because of the pollution of Buffalo
Creek by sewerage. The award
made was $1,000.
AsheVille.-In the Superior Court,
EDWARD King, 14-year-old boy,
through his next best friend, Column
bus King, has filed a complaint in
$4,000 from the Gloucester Lumber
company, for alleged personal injuries
received while in the employment of
the company.
Asheville.-Rather than pay a fine
OF one cent and the costs for an
alleged violation of the law which pro-
h1blts the growing of weeds on any
city lot higher than 10 inches, J. J.
SW1nk, business man of Asheville,
has appealed from the city police
court and will make a test case of
the legality of the law, it is under
stood
Observation-Disclosures of Internal Rev.
enue J. w. Bailey has appointed B. |
F. Dixon special deputy collector to |
serve for 10 days as successor to w. |
G. Staples, who was dismissed by
Collector Wheeler Martin just before
Collector Bailey came in office. Mr..
Dixon has charge of the records of the |
South Carolina Division until this is |
transferred to D. C. Hayward, the
Carolina.
Raleigh.-To secure an effective
enforcement Of the compulsory school
law, the Board of Education of Wake
county has appointed a 'wide-awake
and efficient truant officer I'M. each
township, and as soon as the board
his received the notice that these ap-
pointments have been accepted, the
full list of officers will be announced
1t is the intention of the board to see
that the law is obeyed, and no pains
will be spared to enforce it.
Wadseboro.-Dr. Platt w. Coving-
ton, younger son of DR.. J. M. Coving-
ton of this place, has been elected to
and has accepted the position of chief
of the Bureau of County Health, with
headquarters at Raleigh. His duties
will consist of establishing whole
time health officers in every county
OF the state. Doctor Covington has
been with the Rockefeller Hookworm
Commission for several years and had
made commemorate progress in his
profession. :,
Durham.-A big bond issue for the
purpose of purchasing the waterworks
and also for street improvement is
being talked in Durham, but no steps
have been taken towards calling an
election. Some fthe leading cit ]
gems of the city are in favor of !
bond issue that will give the city (
enough money to purchase the water
works and do good deal of perma- I
lent street work. Others think that .
such large issue, something like I
Il, 100000, would not pass. |
Fayetteville.-M.A A. Bethuno, of this
lily, has received by parcel post
omato weighing rs ounces. 1t came
rom jeff D. Seasons, who raised it at t
Stedman, in this county. Eleven s
ents postage was required to take +
he tomato on it's journey of q dozen d
miles, y
Goldsboro.-While driving through a
he southern part of the city on a F
wagon, Silas Cogdell was struck in n
he head by a stray bullet and almost +
killed. He was a worthy G.
olored man of this city. No blame q
ct is attached to any one for the n
Hing. y
Raleigh.-Governor Craig announces