The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-06-05
LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE.
Short Paragraphs Of State News That
Has Been Condensed For People
Of the State.


Statesville.-Mr. J. w. Nicholson, a
well-known citizen and veteran of
Statesville, died recently in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, where ne had gone to
attend the Confederate reunion.
Laurinburg.-Mr.. L. D.. McKinnon,
who is perhaps the best posted man
in the county on agriculture, says
that, owing to the cool, dry weather,
crop conditions at this time, so far
as he has observed, are not favorable.
Asheville. - Merida Williams and
others have just brought suit against
the county, which involves an inter-
esting point of law. The suit is for
mandamus to compel the commits
sioners Of the county to pay the sum
Of $175 recently awarded by a jury
bn account of damages to property
caused by the construction of road.
Salisbury.-A blaze of unknown Or
igin destroyed three dwellings in Sal
isbury, entailing a loss OF $500 or
more. The houses were occupied by
G. L. Yountz, Horace Zimmerman and
M Tinker. The fire was discovered
in the home of Mr.. Zimmerman, whose
family was away from home at the
time.
Salisbury.-Two negro women are
being held in Jail because of their
suspicious actions. They were seen
to throw an object from a bridge into
the Yadkin river ana when they saw
their action had been seen they ran,
In recent years several dead infants
have been found in the section from
which the women hail.
Washington.-The Senate confirmed
nine postmasters in North Carolina:
They are J. H. Wellington, Charlotte;
Mrs. Nettie G. Rowland, West Ra-
leigh; George l.. Whitfield, Franklin
ton; w. e. Gray, Henderson; Ira T.
Hunt, Kittrell; J. E. Lyon, Ellington;
Elijah B. Perry, Jr., Littleton; M. M.
Faison, Roanoke Rapids, and R. 8.
Galloway, Winston-Salem.
Waynesville.-Them movement for an
interurban electric railway line con-
Meeting Waynesville, Canton, Clyde,
Lakewood, Dellwood is meeting with
great enthusiasm. Captain Alden Ho-
we'll, president of the Bank of Way
nesvflle, John P. Swift, president of
the Waynesville Telephone company,
and many other of the most promin-
ent business men of this city are
among the subscribers for stock.
Statesville.-Firedb by lightning dur
ing severe storm which crossed the
southwestern corner of the county,
the barn of Mr.. w. B. Can't of the
Eufola section was destroyed with
all it's contents. A mule and a horse
lost their lives and a colored farm
hand who was in the barn at the
time was stunned by the lightning,
but rallied in time to get out before
the flames reached him.
Washington.-D. J. Kerr of Canton,
whose nomination for postmaster has
been held up pending an Investigation
of charges brought against him by
friends of one Of the defeated can.
didates, called at the Postoffice De-
partment with Representative Gudger.
He succeeded in convincing the Post
master General that the charges were
groundless. It is understood that
Kerr's nomination will go forward in
the near future.
region is said to be very short.
notwithstanding Houston, of
the Department of Agriculture; Secre-
tary Lane, of the Department of the
Interior; Secretary Garrison, of the
Department, of War; and Congress-
man Lee, of Georgia, and Graves, Geo.
logist Smith and Assistant Forester
Hall, of the National Forest Commits
ion, arrived here several days ago
for an inspection of the famous tim
Der lands of George W. Vanderbilt, at
Pisgah Forests, a portion of the
Biltmore estate.
Laurinburg-Twom monster cabbage
have been marketed here within the
past few days by gardeners that have
created quite a good deal of COM
ment among vegetable growers. One
grown in East Laurinburg tipped the
scale at 10 pounds and was sold to
Mr.. R. P. Lane, groceryman. The cab
bage brought only rs cents in money
and was sold by Mr.. Lane to Mr..
Mark Morgan of Laurel Hill. The
other was also a town product and
weighed % pounds and IS now on dis
play in McLaurin & Shaw's window
Observation-Disclosures Attorney
Holton returned from Wilkesboro,
where he attended the regular term Of
the Federal Court, which convened
there recently. He reports that over
100 cascs were disposed Of. Five
young white men were sent to the
penitentiary. -
Lexington. - Mrs. Laura Hinkle,
a retired capitalist, prominent social
ly and the mother of six sons, COM
mitted suicide at her home here by
hanging herself from the banisters