French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-06-08

splendld brick structure. handsome
and we'll arranged. O..
Every furniture factory in Mount
Airy is reported running on full time.
and sales never as good as at this
time.
Frank Arthur of Asheville. with a
passenger, made the run from High
Point to Asheville on a motorcycle, a
distance of 225 miles in eight hours.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the North Carolina Association OF
Insurance Agents is being held in
Greensboro.
Monroe is remodeling. its city hall
and when completed it is claimed that
it will be one among the best buildings
in a city OF it's size in the State.
A colored man from Wingate. Union
county, exhibited in Charlotte last
week a gold nugget that weighed two
and a half ounces
A community stock raising associa-
ton has been organized by the farm
ers of the Landers Chapel section OF
Lincoln county and they are going in
for better cattle.
The First Baptist church of Monroe
has lust installed a new pipe organ
and have added 10 new rooms for Sun
day school work. The organ was
transported in sections on an auto
truck from Charlotte to Monroe.
Col. A. L. Blow, clerk of federal
court for the eastern district of North
Carolina, died at his home in Green
Vile Sunday. and Judge Conner has
appointed Major LeOd Heart as Colo
mel Blows successor.
Car loads of machinery have been
arriving at Maiden, CataWba county,
for the new Carolina Cotton Mills re-
Gently organized by Maiden business
men. The mill is to make yarn. It is
Maiden's fourth cotton industry.
Hail storms Tuesday did considera-
BILE damage in certain sections of the
State, Morganton, Greensboro and
Salisbury reporting property losses
running into hundreds of dollars. The
stones were of unusually large size.
John Adams, aged So, vas electro
cuted Tuesday morning at Henderson
when he sat down on a lightning are
roster in the yard Of the sub-station
Of the Carolina Power and Light COM
pany.
Congressman E. Y. Webb has almost
completed the preparation # a bill to
permit American exporters to form
selling agencies in foreign countries
for the purpose of more effectively
and economically disposing of their
goods.
The lowest bidder for the construc.
ton of a public building at Waynes-
Vile was A. r. Blair of Montgomery
Ala. His bid was $50, 7S0 for lime
stone.
Mrs. j. Eugene Kelley of Charlotte
was elected second vice president of
the National Federation of Women's
Clubs in session in New York Thurs
day. E
Monroe is making plans for a big
Fourth of July celebration. Among
the many features this year will be a
racing ostrich and a flying machine.
Last year there were more than 10 900
people in attendance at the celebra-
ton.
w. o. Lemmond has been selected
to make arrangements for an Old Fid-
dlers' convention in Monroe durin :
the 4th of July celebration and he is
getting the names of all the old folks
who make the "fddles" sing.
Business men of New Bern are
planning to form a company to operate
a cotton mill. More than $70,O 900
worth of stock has already been sub
subscribed for, but $4,000 more stock
remains unsold and it is desired that
this be placed before any definite move
is made.
Claude Warren. a young farmer
Living in the extreme northern Sec
ton of Iredell county. was shot from
ambush and instantly killed Monday
by his brother-in-law. Homer Mathe-
son, who confessed and was lodged in
Jail. There had been bad feeling be-
tween the two since last summer.
All bids have been filed and copies
offered for adoption by the State
board of education for use in the pub
lie schools of North Carolina for the
next five. years. There will be a gen
eral hearing On the merits of the books
offered and reasonableness of prices
offered on June IA. There were a
large number O. bidders.