French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-06-15
STATE NEWS
A Morris plan bank has been or
ganized at Asheville to open July l.

of the proposed national farm loan
banks for North Carolina.
Fire destroyed nearly 800 bales OF
cotton stored in a warehouse at Maxi
ton Friday night.
Mrs. Bessie Houghton, for many
years a foreign missionary. died at
AsheviIle Monday. aged &c.
Winston-Salem is now a port of
entry and tobacco can be sent to that
Mace from Cuba without having to
enter the port of New York.
The ninth annual session of the
North Carolina Conference of the Ep
worth League was held in New Bern
last week.
Sixteen horses persisted in a fire at
Goldsboro Saturday night, when the
livery stables of Don Scott went UP III
flames.
Between $500 and $500 men are
now working on the mammoth deveI-
.CDment Of the ALUMINIUM Company CT
America at Badin.
Spencer Chapter of the Order Of the
Eastern Star was invited to demon
state the imitation WOrk at the an
.nuaI state convention in AsheViile
this week.
superintendent Thornwell Haynes
OF the High Point public schools has
accepted the presidency Of BirmiES-
ham College at Birm, ngham. Ala. al
a salary Of $4,000 per year.
jim Hancock of AnsonviHe, received
injuries in an automobile accident near
WadesboTo Sunday, causing his death
within a few hours. A young lady had
a rib broken IN the same accident.
J.. B. GIL, clerk of the federal court
for the fifth district Of North Carolina,
Las paid Ii for lands condemned for
the national park in Mcdowell county
$4,5O5.5S, and in Macon county. ST.
1927.
Paul Conwell, a negro convict who
escaped from the convict camp at
Whitney, vas captured by Rowan Off
GERS after the negro had robbed the.
depots at Rockwell n New London.
ConweIl is a life termer.
The fourteenth annual convention
OF the North Carolina Merchants As
s~ociat.on will convene at Winston
Salem June 1923 l.. B. Martin OF
Durham is president of the State as
Gociation.
What is said to be the largest pure
bred pig club in North Carolina was
formally organized and photographed
at Hickory Saturday. 1t has twenty
SIX members and is said to be three
times as large as any other pig club
i Il the State.
Rev. Francis NJ. Osborne. rector Loc
the Church Of the Holy Comforter az
Charlotte, has resigned to accept the
task OF raising the endowment fund OF
$250,O00 for St. Mary's College at Raj,
eigb.
Broken-hearted over the death of
her husband and Gespairing of ever
providing for three small dependent
children, Mrs. j. W. Cooper of Raj
eigh, shot herself through the left
breast Monday and died almost in
stantly.
A. j. Smith, register of deeds OF
CASTOR county, committed suicide last
week by shooting himself. The deed
was done as he sat IN a chair in the
commissioners room on the first floor
of the court house. Failing health is
given as the use. Deceased was "A
years of age.
Friends of Judge w. R. Allen of the
North Carolina Superior Court. will
again urge his appointment by Pres;-
dent Wilson to the United States Su-
preme court bench, this time to sue
coed Charles E. Hughes. Judge Allen
was considered some time ago to sue
coed the late Justice Lamar, the place,
however, falling to Louis Brandeis.
c.. w. Fur of Cabarrus county, &
man having the reputation Of being
the O. powerful in the south, d ed a.
his own hands Thursday of last week.
He took a shot gun and blew the top
Of his hea doff, topping over in a he5A
as his grief-stricken wife and children,
horn fled at the scene which met their
eyes, rushed out of doors and called
for help. Fur was nearly 6 IL feet
tall and weighed more than zoe
pounds. He was a blacksmith by
trade and was 35 years of age.
German sailors interned at Will
m.ngton have registered a kick with
Governor Craig Inc this has been for
warded to Ambassador Bernstorff at
Washington. They complain of mis-
treatment, in that the. captains of the
two vessels withhold money to which
they are entitled and cut off their
supply of beer, while officers of he
vessels have plenty to drink. The
letter to the governor says numbers
OF the men have deserted and others
are anxious to go ashore and become
American citizens. .
A fatal accident occurred on the
logging road of the Gloucester Lum-
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