The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-04-17
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Short Paragraphs Of State News Tna'
Has Been Condensed For People :
of the State.

Charlotte.-It will be ballot with
,twentv-one names which will greet the
voter who goes to the polls for the
primary on Wednesday, April Il, TO
vote for candidates for commissioners
n-Salem.-The first arrest
under the search and seizure law IN
this county was made when Sherln
FGynt took into-custody Ernest Caudle,
a Well-known white man of Rural Hall.
Sahsbury.-A tarvia road is to be
placed at once from a point near the
centre of Salisbury to Spencer a dis
lance of two miles. This will be link
in one of the best drives in this Sec
ton.
Hickory.-Eight cars of an east
bound freight train were dera1led at
Hildebran, five miles west of this city
completely blocking traffic. Trains II
and 81 transferred passengers. No one
was injured.
Asheville-George S. Powell, who
for some time past has been chairman
of the board OF education of Buncombe
county, resigned that position and
Judge James D. Murphy was chosen
to fill out the unexpired term.
Gastonia.-May and 5 will be the
closing days of the Gastonfa public
schools. DR.. E. Z. Graham, dean of the
University of North Carolina, will de-
liver the annual literary address on
Monday night, May 5.
Elizabeth City.-The residents of
coming season at Mays Head. Many
of the owners of cottages at that
place are now engaged in having them
repaired for occupancy this summer.
Newton.-Suarks from Southern
Railroad engine set fire to an old field
on the farm of ex-Sheriff M. ]. Rowe
one evening last week and destroyed
between rs and 100 cords of dry pine
wood, besides lot of damage to the
young timber.
Raleigh.-A fight has been started
against the proposed removal of the
state school for the blind from its
present location in the heart of the
city to the Wyatt tract ON Boylan
Heights, between the state hospital
for the insane and the penitentiary.
Raleigh.-Governor Craig issued a
commission to A. E. Tate, of High
Point as one of three special repre-
sentatives of North Carolina on the
American commission for the study
of the application of the cooperative
system of agricultural production and
Raleigh.-The registration of voters
is the next thing to demand attention.
To vote, men must register. But there
is no new registration for men who
were on the books for the city cleo
ton in May, 1911, Or who got on the
books for the commission form cleo
ton. Unless the places of residence
have been changed to different wards
since May, 1911, those registered then
are all right.
Wilson.-After hearing the following
defendants tell their tales of woe,
Mayor Dickinson bound them over to
the May term of Wilson superior court
in bonds of $3.50 each: Belvin Wag-
ner for having in his possession sixty
half pints of whiskey and gin; A. d.
Dawson, two gallons; Tom Tucker,
one hundred and rhirty-two half
pints, which was brought to Wilson
as baggage.
Franklin.-At a special election
called for the purpose, a majority of
the people voted in favor of a bond
issue for the purpose of macadamiz-
ing the main highways of Franklin
township, Macon county. The amount
of bonds to be issued will amount to
about 100000. E. H. Franks of this
city is president of the highway COM
missioners of Franklin township and
has charge of the work and the issuing
of the bonds.
Statesville.-Editor Rufus R. Clark
has returned from Morganton where
he attended an important meeting of
the board of directors of the state
hospital, of which he is secretary. It
was the regular annual meeting of
the board and all the members, ex-
cept Mr.. J. w. NOEL, of Roxboro, were
present as follows: I. I. Davis, Nor
canton; J. G. Hall, Lenoir;- A. E.
Tate, High Point; DR.. J. E. S. David
son, Charlotte; F. P. Alspaugh, Win
ston; J. P. Sawyer, Ashevile; A. A.
Shuford, Hickory.
observation-disclosures F. M. Wooten.
acting coroner, went co Belvoir town.
ship to hold an inquest. There was
a party in school house out there.
After the party two boys, Wade
Moore and Moses Tyson, both less
than IL years old, had fight and Ty-
son is said to have struck Moore
across the temple with a strip of
board.
Winston-Salem.- Salem led
all North Carolina towns last month
in the sale of leaf tobacco, but there