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

Five cnlldren or SANFORD were plSI9!'
b. a mad deg that passed tEroug1 tsaS
town last week.
Farmers of Beaufort county will
send 10000 barrels of potatoes mo
the market this season.
Wallace voted on a $4,000 bond
Issue last week for the purpose OF
erecting a brick school building. II
was carried by a majority of "A.
Forty odd students from the Penn
sylvania Forestry College arrived Ill
New Bern Saturday for the purpose OF
studying forestry in East Carolina.
'Cliffside is now lighted by electrici-
ty The current is being furnished by
a Turbo-Generator installed in con-
nection with the power plant of the
Ciffside Mills.-Rutherfordton Sun.
J. A. Edwards, an undertaken OF
Snow Hill, received last week by par
Gel post, a coffin sent from Burlington.
The coffin was. for an infant and the
shipping expense was just 20 cents.
The Northwestern Construction Co.,
OF New York City, have secured the
contract to build the customs house
and appraisers stores at Wilmington.
at 1868, 400 for limestone construction.
Senator OVerman and Representa-
tive Britt were informed last week by
tie Postofice Department that a post
Office s~ub-station would be furnished
at West Asheville, who carrier delivery
service.
It is said that there is a strong
probability of s. Duke abandoning
his plan to erect an estate valued al
| $10O,0OO on Mountain Island, near
Great Falls, and erect the residence
in Myers park, Charlotte.
Charlie Penland, a young man OF
! ASheville, was found guilty last week
in the Federal court at G~reenville, S
c., of violating tn eMann white slave
act and was sentenced to two years
in the Federal prison at Atlanta.
Montgomery held fer first county
; commencement at. Troy, March 81,
=, and there was one of the largest gath
! eTings that has been in that place.
There were two special trains operat-
. ed by the Norfolk-Southern for the &C.
! casion.
Mrs. P. S. Ramseur of Newton, who
vas spending the winter in Paris.
Ten. has returned to Newton. Her
friends learn that in the big Paris frs
she lost eight buildings and a large
lumber plant, the fire eve destroying
the house she occupied.
Mayor o. B. Eaton of Winston-Sal-
en- signed an order last Thursday
closing all the churches and schools
OF that city for a period Of IL days,
The order was issued as a matter %
precaution. an endemic of scarla;
fever is threatened.
On last Saturday, in Charlotte, the
announcement was made of the in
corDOratiOn of the ]. & D. Tire and
Rubber Company with an authorized
capital of 500, 900 for the purpose o.
erecting a factory in that city for the
manufacture of automobile tires.
Joseph F. Taylor, secretary to Sen
ator Simmons who has been to North
Carolina the past week, reports bust
ness in the eastern part of the State
in good conditions and says the farm
ers are in better condition and furth-
er advanced with their crops than the5
have been in many years..
The business men and bankers OF
Gil eensboro are to furnish bloOded
pigs to the members of the Guilfori
county pig club to be raised in al
"endleSs chain contract, according
t oa statement made by E. H. Ander-
sen, farm demonstration agent or
GUilford county.
j Chief of Police Braswell of Hamlet
bad the left side of his face split open
last Friday in an encounter with All
escaped convict from South Carolina.
After cutting the officer the convict
attempted to escape but was shot by
Braswell, but the bullet struck the
G in the head, and the ball
glanced off.
! Catawba county will hold her public
schools commencement on the 14th OF
this month. A parade, defamation
and recitation contests. exhibits OF
school work and athletic events arr
on the program. There are 55 grad
yates of the public schools, and larger
crowds are expected to attend than
were present last year, which consist
ed of several thousand.