French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-02-24

tion uroYes q success to follow in due
time by examination of the eyes, ears
nose and throat.
Announcement has been made from
the head Office of the Carr System OF
hosiery mills, operating Throughout
the State, that the capital stock Of the
company would be increased to two
and oneJhalf million dollars. The
phenomenal jump is made from the
present operating capital of seventeen
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Seven white men serving time for
the State made their escape at Sails
bury one night last week while being
moved fro mthe Badin camp to a rail-
road camp in the western part of the
state. The men with "a others were
in a special car attached to westbonL
Nc. 35. They got out OF the car while
the train was turning about face at the
"Y'' just after leaving the depot,
Director Sam L. Rogers of the Blu
reau of the Census has issued a pre-
liminary statement of the general re-
, suits of the census of manufacturers
for Charlotte, in which the population
on July 1, 1914. is estimated at $4,000
and the total amount of capital invest
ed in 1914 is given at $11 sos, 900. This
was a gain of $~2,357,000 or 24.s per
cent over $9,451gO00 in 1908.
Revenue officers returning to Ashe-
| vile Friday morning from the Rosman
fsection of Pennsylvania county, report
! the destruction of a complete sheet
iron distillery and a large quantity of
beer. The officers who made the raid,
report that the distillery was a brand
new one with a sixty gallon capacity.
and was cleVerly concealed high up on
the mountain side not far from Ros-
man.
Glen Ramsey, son of j. A. Ramsey
of Hickory, fell from a freight train
near Statesville Thursday morning and
was SO badly injured that he died in a
hospital at StatesVi1Ie that afternoon.
Ramsey and two other young men
were beating a ride on the freight and
Ramsey was in the act of passing
from one side of a car to the other
when he lost his balance and fell.
Wheels passed over his legs, breaking
the bones in seyraI places
Willie McCracken of Swain county
has an invention that protects tele
phones from lightning, and those who
have seen it and understand its work
iDgs pronounce it a good thing. The
continuance automatically throws a
flash of lightning to the ground and
cuts it out of the telephone altogether,
thus enabling to use the telphone
with perfect safety during an eIectri-
cal storm.
A telegram recalxed ut Morganton
q few days ago told of the death at La
Mar, Colorado, of Todd r. Henderson,
n prominent farmer Of Burke. who
lived about even miles from Morgan
ton. He left Morganton a few weeks
ago to visit relatives in Alabama. He
decided to take a trip through the west
and had reached La Mar, when a sud-
den attack of appendicitis necessitated
an operation at a hospital at that
place. MI. Henderson, was q grandson
OF the late Governor Todd r. Caldwell.
the committee is to make HANDBAGS
and other material needed for dress
ing wounds OF the soldiezE at the FRONT
in the European war. Headquarters
have been furnished the committee in
the First National Bank building, and
each afternoon the city's leading sDel
ETY. matrOns gather to aid in the work.
Cherryvine has completed a new
$25, 900 graded school building and
opened school in it Monday. In con-
nection with this graded school is n
fof the foremost States high schools
, With the largest enrolment of any IN
the county. The farm life school idea
and the domestic science department
work, which have been carried on as
best they could under the handicap of
scant equipment, are to be given more
and better attention in tire new build
ing
Visitors from Pamlico county who
were in Newbern last week gave out
the information that the farmers of
that section are planning to plant an
enormous corp of Irish potatoes this
spring and they believe that they viii
reap a rich harvest from the sale OF
these. Last yea thousands of barrels
of Irish potatoes were grown inPam1ico
and the farmers readily disposed OF
diem at a price which vas gratifying.
Pink Hill, a town i'm Eenoir county.
IS said 10 be the rounaNst town in the
world. Pink Hills corporate line is
nearly a perfect circle. The distance
across the town in any direction is
lprecfsly LOO yards. The ticket office
in the Carolina railroad station is the
exact center of the village. The popu-
lation of sevral hundred PRISONS is con-
tanned within that circle and not one
house laps over. The strtets, how
ever, extend beyond the circle in some
directions, although there isn't any
thing but trees IN the "suburbA"
James Benton, white, is believed to
be the first man for whom g warrant
| has been issued for violation of the
amended State law against ~disorderli-.