Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-05-30

OLD NORTH STATE NEWS
Brief Notes COVERING Happenings in
This States That Are IF Interest to
All the People.
w. D. Moore, aged II, a Confederate
veteran of Wake county, died last
week.
The North Carolina Nurses Associa-
ton selected Kinston as their meeting
place for 1918.
A Red Cross auxiliary has been or
ganized at Lincolnton with forty char
Yer members.
Nurses attending the state eonven-
ton at Fayetteville visited the state
tuberculosis sanatorium at Montrose.
May 81 is named by the Corporation
commission as the date for hearing
arguments for and against the propos-
IN North Carolina.
Two hail storms that hit Whining
ton and outlying districts did damage
to crops, fruit trees and buildings that
will run far into the thousands Of
dollars.
Of Pender county met at Burgaw to
receive and anvas the returns of the
stock law election held last Saturday.
Official and unofficial returns gave the
vote as follows: For stock law, 1853:
against stock law, 852.
2. Paris, ST., one of the oldest citi-
zeas Of North Carolina, died in PAM
lico county, Monday, May 21st. He
was the father of Rev. DR.. q. Paris,
well known throughout the state. He
was SO years old and had been a
leader in his county in agriculture,
commercial, school and church life.
Private Harry E. Orrell, of Company
A, Engineers, while on guard duty at
the Pedee river bridge, twelve miles
east of Hamlet, kas killed by a freight
train. His remains were brought to
Hamlet, prepared for burial and sent
to Wilmington, his former home. He
was the son Of E. H. Orrell, Of VIII.
mington.
Clint N. Brown, an old newspaper
man of Salisbury, died at his home
several miles from the city. His body
was found in the bed, he having died
peacefully some time after neighbors
left him. He had been in i'll health
but it was not thought that he was in
more serious condition than he had
been recently.
What is said to be a precedent for
Chamber of Commerce work in the
United States was set by the Hender-
son chamber when the Board of Direc-
tors last week adopted suggestions in.
creasing the number of the directors
by four and making n of these a
woman, the first time, it is declared,
such has occurred in this country.
The mobilization Of the labor avail
able in the cities n towns of North
Carolina for the benefit of the farmers
who are suffering for lack of labor is
the latest movement in the campaign
being waged by the North Carolina
Food Conservation Commission for in
creased production of food and feed
stuffs in this state.
According to a telegram received at
Hendersonville from A. L. White Of
Sp%artanburg, work on the great water
power development at Tuxedo, seven
miles from Hen~dersonville, was be-
gun last week. The contract has been
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Blue Ridge Land Company, a corpora
ton made up of Charlotte and Spar
tanburg men. The contract calls for
a dam 121 feet high, which will back
the waters of Green River so al to SUBJ
merge over four hundred acres.
Soon on the battlefelds of France
an ambulance bearing the name
"S~tatesville" on it's side will be run.
ming its errands of mercy; two States.
Vile boys will be drivers. At a gath
ering of the citizens of Statesville at
Broad Street church more than $1,000
was raised to make the $1,000 to fur
nish ambulance and drivers will be
raised shortly. Julian Morrison, son
of the late J. K. Morrison of States
Vile, has volunteered and been &C.