The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-07-13
LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE
Short Paragraphs of state News That
Have Been Condensed for Susy
People of the State.

Have Been CONDENSED TOT busy
People of the State.
Union county DIS planning for exten"
live road improvements.
North Carolina melons are begin
aing to appear on the markets.
The secretary of war recommended
20 congress that the work on Fishing
Creek, in eastern North Carolina, be |
abandoned.
The cotton yarn mill of J. M. Odell |
Manufacturing Company, at Bynum,
Chatham. was struck by lightning, took
fire. and was entirely destroyed.
Governor Craig has announced the
appointment of Hon. Francis D. Win
ston as Judge of the third judicial dis
trict to succeed the late Judge Robert
Bruce Peoples, who died recently.
The drop in cotton caused by In
creased acreage and, fine weather has
interested North Carolinians. North
Carolina had 1900 900 acres in cotton
last year: she has 1,469, 900 this year.
A local Red Cross Chapter has been
formed in Salisbury with DIR. H.. n.
Newman, president; Mrs. w. w. way
vice president; DR.. John White head
treasurer, and. J. F. Hurley, secretary
"Horny-handed Henry" janitor at
the University of North Carolina for
! 81 years and ringer of the college oeli
for about 16 years and official mail
carrier, dropped dead from appoplexy.
Concrete Reinforcement work, which
! Is being begun at various points along
the Southern Railway between States
Vile and Biltmore, mean an ex2endl'
ture by the railroad company OF pos
sibly three million dollars.
J. S. Carr, Jr, president Of Dur
ham hosiery mill announces that MS
concern has received contract LOT
$4,000 pairs of cotton hosiery with
linen reinforced heels and toes 1o1
the War Department Of the United
States.
"IJncle Joe" Cannon will speak IN
Greensboro Saturday night, July ~ az
the Grand Opera House. The famous
ex-speaker of the House comes u
Greensboro under the auspices OF the
State Republican Executive Commit
tee.
Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois. 10;
several years speaker OF the House o
REPRESENTATIVES of the National con
gress. will be one of several guests
honor at a Republican rally to be helt
at Lakewood Park, in Charlotte, Satu1
, day, July 20.
The North Carolina Naval Militia i
> to assemble &C the Norfolk Navy Var
, July Is for a practice cruise on pear
, the United States steamship Louis
! ana, July Is to July 26. The division
are located at Washington, New Der
I and Elizabeth City.
;, Campaign headquarters for the Dem
ocrats will be opened in Raleigh Aus
ust /, according to information give
n out by State Chairman Thomas l
a Warren. who was in Raleigh tro1
,, his home in New Bern. Mr.. Ware
. said he had not finally closed for
II place for headquarters.
r With its organization interrupt"
r. by the caM for the state militia for tn
:. border the Planters National Ban
U of Rocky Mount is the first corpor
r ton here to announce that position
shall be held open and the Different
II in the salary paid Sc long as sue
IS employees may be out in the service
le the nation.
n There have been issued to date 2.
U. 70O-1917-automo5i bile licenses
,e comparison with "a, 460A1916-licen'
"a issued. This mears, according
r. statements made in the state deca1
a. ment, that there are a great numb
Il. of automobile owners who are ST
in using their 1915 licenses, this being
#. direct violation of the state law.
al A report on the soil of Wake COu
n. ty, which had been surveyed by the B
#. reau of Soils in cooperation with tt
&c North Carolina Department Of Agricl
% ture, is soon to be published by Il
rs United States Department of Agr1c'
q ture. The report devotes As pages
~ data on the different soils encounter
nc and suggestions for their treatment.
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