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


Raleigh's meat bill for 1915 amount
ed to $432.082.
Albert Ray Turner of Hamlet has
been appointed as principal to Annap
oils by Representative Page.
Westray Battle of Rocky Mount haf
been appointed by Senator Oyermar
to be midshipman at Annapolis.
John w. vanhoy of Concord, secre-
tary to Representative Doughton, has
cesured q patent on an autoharpe.
The North Carolina jewelers. asso-
citation will meet in Greensboro July
13 and IA for its annual convention.
The Virginia Railway and Power
company placed an order with the
Southern Car company of High Point,
for four new cars. last week.
A charter has been granted to the
National Festival Company of Ameri-
Ca, of Black Mountain. Capital stock,
$250,OO0. Subscribed stock $4,000.
The Rutherford Presbyterian, a
hIOnLu1y paper uONOJC0 W NAO AAOOA COZ
Of the Presbyterian Churches in the
county is a new venture in Ruther-
fordton.
Safe crackers blew open the safe Of
the Coca Cola bottling plant in Lexing-
ton last week and got away with about
$40 in cash and checks to the amount
of nearly $10O.
Petitions are being prepared for cir
EQUATION in Hickory asking citizens 10
erect a new $4,000 school building to
be ready for occupancy by the time the
fall term opens.
Frank B. Brown of Raleigh, who
graduated from Trinity college in the
class of 1915, has been notified of his
appointment as assistant National
bank examiner with headquarters at
Atlanta, Ga.
A movement is on foot in High Point
to form an organization to be known
probably as the High Point Automobile
association. The purposes of this viii,
be social and cooperation in matters
relating to city progress.
d.. L. Beasley, a well known white
mar and former deputy sheriff Of Row
an county, was sentenced to two years
on the roads for house burning to con-
ceai thefts from a Southern. Railway
train, at Salisbury last week.
]. Elwood Cox of High Point is being
urged to become a candidate for the
Republican nomination for Governor.
UThnvA- Tho znE%n0k S, ronnR30~nE @~ KIM
he admits that he has been urged to
allow the use CT his name, but: to all
he says: Boys, I'm out of politics."
A Sunday School Teachers TraTning
School was organized at High Roint
last week with a large list of teachers
an6 works from the various Sunday
schools. The classes will meet each
Tuesday night for the next u weeks
Work began last week on the High
Point-Greensboro highway, the COM
missioners of Guilford. county having
decided to extend the highway con-
Meeting the two cities. The contract
has been let an dthe cost will be $12,-
600 a mile.
For the best essay on roads the
banks of Oxford will give the prize
winner in every rural school in Gran
vile county n dollar in the opening
OF a bank account. The children have
the right to choose any subject they
see fit.
Vital statistics just made public
show that for the last six months of
1915 births in Rowan county numbered
more than three t lines the Deaths
Outside Of the towns of Salisbury, Spen-
Ger and East Spencer, which are not
included there we're 344 bfrts and 1913
deaths.
Roy Scott, aged 81, white, was kill1
&c suddenly n morning last week in
Greensboro when a collision of a loco
motive with a string of freight cars
occurred and ScUtt was thrown to the
ground from ONE of the cars. He was
performing his duties as a Southern
brakeman when the accident occurred.
Durham gets the Trf-Seate Medical
Society convention for 1917. Asheville
also had a delegation in Richmond,
where the 1916 convention has Seen in
session for the past three days The
convention will mean the bringing to
Durham of at least 500 physicians
from Virginia, South Carolina and
North Carolina
Representative Doughton has intro>
duced a resolution granting to the
Boone Highway association of North
Carolina through its managing direc-
ter, J. Hampton Rich, of Winston
Salem. authority to erect a monument
in Washington to Daniel Boone. The
monument is to be in charge of the
North Carolina Society of WashingtOr
and the D. A. Il.
Clarence and Paul Denton of Hiek-
DRY, guilty of passing forged checks,
and Eugene Burns guilty of store
breaking I'm fail atl Newton. attemDte6