Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-01-08
CONDENSED MEMS OF 10TH
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Review 0f the Latest ImUOrta6I Hap-
penings of Thirteen Surround
ing Counties.


a boys CORP club and a girls tomato
I. club have been organized at ElIenboro
and the young people of that place
are preparing for some good crops of
corn and tomatoes for next year
Camp Jackson has been selected as.
the name OF the summer training
school which is to9be conducted at the
fsir grounds at sylvia during the com.
ing summer
The Jackson county singing convex
ton will be held at Addie on he third
Saturday and Sunday in January.
Walter 2. Moore of sylvia. is a can
didate for the position Of district at
torney for the western district of
North Carolina.
When Corporation Commissioners w.
7. Lee went to Bryson City last Tues
day to give a special hearing on com
plants filed by shippers against ex-
c~essive freight rates by the Smoky
Mountain Railroad company, the rail-
road officials submitted a schedule of
reductions that proved acceptable to
the shippers. Therefore, the commits
sion made an order approving the new
reduced schedule of rates and the rail
road company is directed to publish
and apply the reduced rates at once.
An order has been made by. Govern
or Craig TO ra special term of Swain.
Superior court to open January &c, for
one week. Judge W. A. Delyin, pre-
siding, for trial Of civil cases.
Frank Warren, son of Mr.. and. Mrs.
Fl G. Warren of Canton, was accident
ally short in the side while hunting
last week. He was rushed to an Ashe-
vile hospital.
At their meeting last week, the men,
ters o 'fthe joint Board of Health of
AsheVille decided to reduce the tax of
81 a head on all dairy cattle whose.
owners furnish milk to consumers in
that city to IS cents. The decision
fellows litigation of several months
and a decisive victory for the city IL
the Supreme court of North Carolina,
to which the case was carried.
- p1onC or0 on F0n@ For thu orro1,Sza ~
ton of a military company in Canton.
c. B. Skipper, president of the Bre-
ward Cotton Mills, and one of the best
known and most experienced cotton
mill men in North Carolina. was run
over by a street car and instantly kill
cd in Charlotte on Christmas night.
Major VIM. E. Strong, a civil engi-
neer of Tryon, died during Christmas
week at the age of 50 years.
Tryon has received fire ladders and
a truck and a voluntary fire company !
will be organized Immediately.
The long looked for traction engine
t. haul freight from billiard to High
lends has arrived and after many hard
struggles, succeeded. in getting 30
Highlands. We predict a great DIAL
of work will have to be 7doneAon the
read before a traction can be used
successfully-Franklin Press.
The commissioners of franklin
township, Macon county, have sold
thirty-year bonds to the amount of
$4,000 for the improvement of the
roads. in that township.
Probably the largest pay roll ever
given out here since the Champion
Fibre company's plant began opera
tons was distributed Tuesday of this
week. Nearly $22 900 was paid to en-
ployes of the Fibre company and they
were also granted a holiday of three
days, with the exception of those who
work in departments that cannot be
closed down-Canton Observer.
Prof. c. NJ. Campbell has resigned
his position in the high school depart
ment of the Marion Graded school, and
Miss Lura Brogden. Of Goldsboro, has
been elected to succeed him.
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