French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-04-13

The Carolina Municipal Association
VIA meet in Kinston in day. Tn5
CITY viii "a as its guests probably
100 mayors and other officials Of cities
and towns n North and South Carolina.
The directors are planning to provide
a joint shad stew and barbecue said
to have been first known to America
i'll that immediate section.
John Kale, a negro, stole four bales
Of cotton from the Long Island Cot
ton Mills of Catawba county, and then
Sclc it back to the mills, receiving |
S4OO for the same, He was arrested !
IN New Jersey and has been brought
back by the sheriff of Catawba. He
had $50 on him, a $32 watch and three |
suit cases full of glad rags
The first negro county commence
ment eve attempted in Mcdowell
county was held at tn ecourt house
last Saturday. 1t was in every man
ner a success, the exhibits being es-
pecjally fine, while the defamation
contest showed evidence of consider
able training on the part of the color
e1 teachers.-Marion Progress.
The Board of Trustee sof the North
O@AOAAhd HOSPITAL nave
started t praise $50, 900 to build a hos
p1tal for the care of the crippled or.
phanS Of this State. The purpose Of
the institution is to build a home for
the crippled or deformed orphans OF
North Carolina, there being 10 provi-
Visions in the State or the care or
treatment of this class of orphans.
Five men and SO gallons of liquor,
together with an automobile and q
morse and wagon, were seized Thurs
day night on the H~endersonville roa0
BIZ plain clothes men of the AsheviIle
police force. The men were taken to
AsheVille and given a preliminary ex-
animation before a magistrate, who
held them for trial under bonds OF
$500 each. Auto, horse and wagon
were confiscated.
Up to April 1, figures from the farm
Extension Service shows that there
had been enrolled in the corn, pig and
poultry clubs, 5,183 and girls. di-
Vided as follows: Corn, $500; pig
clubs, 1,O12; poultry clubs, 1862.
Stokes county leads in corr club en-
tries, 149 boys having entered. Meek
lenburg has 40. In pig clubs, Durham
leads with 65. Mecklenburg has 43.
Durham also leads in poultry clubs.
Mecklenburg has 80.
Mr.. E. S Millsaps, district agent for
the Federal and State Farm Extent.On
work met with the county commission
erS at Columbus, Monday to interest
them in making an appropriation to
have a whole time farm demonstrato~
He asked the commissioners to appro-
PIRATE $40 a month, the State anG
Federal government will give the bal
ance of about $50 a month. The COM
mlssloners are considering the matter
ard no doubt. will make the a~ppropri-
ation.-Tryon Bee.
Announcement has been made that
the capacity of the Wadesboro Silk
Mill, operated by colored help, will be
materially enlarged. Several years
ago the management of the Wadesboro
Silk Mill concluded that they would
experiment with colored labor and es-
taEliShed a factory for the purpose.
The experiment has proven so salts
factory that a contract has been let
for charging the plant n as soon
as the buildings are completed it viii
be equipped with machinery that VIII
, require a large number of additional
colOred laborerS.
DR.. Rankin, secretary of the State
Board of Health, has received notifica-
ton from Sam l.. Rogers, director OF
the United States Census Bureau. that
North Carolina has been admitted to
the registration area" of the United
States, thus giving the State not only
National but international recognition
as to vital statistics. This recogni~
ton m to North Carolina, thu |
third Southern State to be admitted,
as a result of a recent examination b.
experts Of the Federal Census Bureau, |
OF the records of the State Board.
Last Saturday all roads led to Ruth
ecfordton, and beginning with the
early morning they were lined with
autos, buggies, wagons n floats, all
filled with men, women, boys and
girls, coming to County Commence
ment. There were various estimates
OF the number in attendance, varyina
from five to ten thousand, but all agree
that in the history of Rutherfordton 4
rev record was made. The parade
was the most spectacular feature of
TIE day. By actual count here were
1922 children in Iine.-RUtherfordton