French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-09

cess for paper has been installed ar
the plant of the Champion Fibre COM
pany at Canton.
D. L. Boyd of Haywood county, has
announced his candidacy to secure
the Democratic nomination for Corpor-
alton Commission in opposition to w.
T. Lee. whose term expires this year.
Negroes of Greensboro have taken
steps to organize a training school for
Sunday school workers to be pattern
ed after the organization of the white
people Of that city.
A campaign for 25 cents on the 500
and 70 cents on the poll. to supple
.ment the school tax in Catawba coun
ty, is progressing faYorably and the
outlook is that it will carry.
D. J. Fry. of Newton, sued J. c..
Matthews for the small sum of 1884.
FRY lost the cose and must pay the
costs which amounted to $40.
w. James Jordan, editor of the East
Carolina Republican, has been off
cially endorsed by the Republicans of
Greene county for the office of Com
missioner of Labor and Printing.
Messrs George Stephens and Word
H. Wood. of Charlotte, have purchased
from the D. A. Tompkins estate it's
holdings of stock in The Observer
Company and are now the sole owners
OF the property.
The second dual electrocution in the
history of the State occurred at Raj
eigh last week when Ernest Lowry
and George Poster, negroes convicted
OF the murder of Grant Davis, another
negro. in CASTOR county on March Z.
1915.
Nine dollars worth OF telegram was
sent last Thursday afternoon to Sen
ators Overman and Simmons and Rep
resentative Page by the business and
professional men of Lexington urging
them to stand solidly behind the Pres.
ident in his attitude towards Ger
Citizens of Albemarle and vicinity
are planning to have one of the largest
crowds present in the history of AL
ONAAAA Oh uuo4S y " OOOSI LuC
Observation-Disclosures highway, the oc-
casion will be a big one. and a red
letter day in the g~ood-roads movement
in that section of the state.
Bishop John G. KiIgo of Charlotte,
will preach the baccalaureate sermon,
and DR.. William P. Few, president OF
Trinity College will deliver the liter
airy address at Davenport College, the
Methodist institution at Lenoir, early
il May.
The county boards of commission
els and education have made appro-
priations necessary to get the medical
inspection of school children at the
oBening of the public schools next fall.
and nov the county is arranging for
the treatment of tubercular patients
at the county home.
The Imperial Furniture Manufac-
turing Company, of Statesville is
building an addition to its plant which
will give it 5000 feet of additional
SPACE for its finishing department and
is expected to increase its yearly
sales from $4,000 to $4,000.
Lee Hamlet, who escaped from the
officers of the law in Buncombe coun-
ty along with his partner in crime,
named Cole, after they had been con-
victed of housebreaking and larceny,
aid sentenced to serve foul years On
the roads, are under arrest at Will
mington Del. Governor Craig has
made requisitiOn on the Governor OF
Delaware for them.
C0uornor TToir hos afforof1 n ~ a |
ward of 500 for the capture of
Charles Mace, who murdered his wife |
in Burke county, Wednesday and has /
fled the state in the opinion of the |
sheriff and other officers OF teh county
ty commissioners will offer a similar
reward to that offered by the state.
Jim Davis, a 19-year-old white
youth of Greensboro, was given a two
year sentence to the roads, in the
city court at that place last week for
beating his little sister who refused
to make a third errand for him late in
the evening. He wanted ice cream,
it. was stated, and demanded that she I
go to a store and buy it for him with |
d quarter secured from his mother.
Judge Frank Carter. while spendins
two days with his family in Asheville
last week, declared that he had not
written a letter nor asked any man
to support him in the ace for attor-
ney general of North Carolina. Judge
Carter declared emphatically that his
time is occupied in holding court, and
that his campaign for the present. is
in the hands of his friends.
Mary c. Gurley was awarded a YER
dict for $4,000 by a Guilford jury at
Greensboro last Friday. Mrs. Gurley |
the Southern Power Company
and G. C. Howard, superintendent of
the snh-station at High Point for S2h.-