The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-07-06
LAND or THE LONG LEAF PINE
Short Paragraphs Of State News That
Have Been Condensed for eusy
People Of the State.
A rural delivery route has been
established at Bear Creek.

A rural delivery route has been
established at Bear Creek.
A farm survey of Stanly county iN
being made by Federal experts.
Durham appropriated $25,698 for IRE
protection during the coming year.
The House Judiciary Committee
favorably reported a bill establishing
regular term Of the Circuit Court of
Appeals at Asheville, N. C.
Governor Craig said that he Is anx.
ious to leave Raleigh for the noun
tains, as soon as the soldiers are mus
tered into the Federal service he win
go to Asheville.
With President T. NJ. Darlington
presiding, the annual convention Of
the Tobacco Association Of the United
States met at Grove Park Inn, Aehe-
Vile, last week.
The Spencer Methodist church has
started building campaign and rails
ed $5,400 the first day. The campaign
will be continued for some $40, 900
wanted to erect new house Of wor-
ship.
Barely escaping fatal injuries, Mrs.
M. T. Adkins was dangerously burned
about the face, neck and arms and
was violently shocked when she swept
dynamite caps into a small open fire
in the yard at her home in Durham.
Catawba County Agent III. B. Mask
plans to take large number of Ca
tawba farmers to the State Test Farm
in Iredell county, July Fl, when the
county agents from all the counties In
the western part of the state will
gather.
North Carolina leads the country in
the number of Irish potatoes shipped
this season-the total number Of car
loads being 2,549. South Carolina
shipped Lat. South Carolina ship
ped four carloads of tomatoes and one
of peaches.
Dewitt Erwin, OF Cleveland county,
who has spent 30 years in Mexico, has
arrived at his home and talks inter.
estingly OF the situation there. He
says Carranza Is not the man of high
moral repute he is reported to be in
this country.
Ground has been broken for one Of
the buildings to be known as the
bleachery in connection with the new
million dollar underwear plant at
Leaksville by the Thread Mill Com
pany, one Of the Marshall Field Com
pany interests.
The Census Bureau has given out
the final figures of the 1916 cotton
crop. 737,354 bales Of cotton were
ginned in North Carolina, a decrease
of 1885, 25 bales from the previous
year. There were 2,514 active GIN
nsries in the state, and $50 idle.
At the meeting of the board of truS
tees of the Thomasvil1e Baptist Or
phanage at Thomasville, the general
manager in his report gave the mum.
Der now present at Thomasville and
at the Kennedy Home at 500; received
during the year, 65; average attend
ance, 491; number Of children enroll.
ed from the beginning, 1862.
Th9 confirmation of the National
highway bill by the senate was cheer.
ing news to North Carolina good
roads enthusiasts. North Carolina'a
apportionment Of the $75,000,000 Fed
'eral aid for road construction will
roughly approximate 100000 accord
ing to an estimate Of D. III. Winslow,
United States highway maintenance
expert.
The eighteenth annual convention
of the North Carolina Bar Association,
in session at Wrightville Beach came
to a close after the election of Ell.
GERS. Place of next meeting is to be
decided later by the executive com.
mittee. Officers were elected as fol.
lows: President, A. l.. Brooks,
Greensboro; first vice president, H. L.
Lyon, Whiteville; second vice presi- !
dent. Henry Parker, Asheville; third |
vice-president e. L. Gather, Mocks- |
Vile; secretary and treasurer, Thorn |
as w. Davis, Wilmington, reelected.