Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-08-01

Old NORTH STATE NEWS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings in
This States That Are of Interest to
All the People.
Belmont now has a community can
ming plant.
h July crop report has some in
teresting figures on North Carolina.
A big canning plant is soon to be
erected at New Bern.
The exemption boards of North
Carolina met and organized Thursday.
The Western District board met at
Statesville| and the Eastern at Raleigh.
Walter Storm, a Wilmington man,
has what he terms a successful anti
submarine device.
Miss May Stephenson, of Raleigh,
N. c., has been named a vice-presi-
dent of the Girls Conference OF the
Chautauqua and School of Methods of
the Christian Church for the coming
year.
The thirty-fourth annual session of
the Statesville district conference of
the NJ. E. Church was held at Gas
tonia last week and many splendid
addresses were delivered.
Gen. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, has
r%eopened his fight against the "yallar
cur dog-a fight that caused a state
wide controversy, when the general
was a representative from Durham
county in the state legislature.
Capt. Henry w. Stiness, of Provi-
dence, R. l., of the Rhode Island quar-
termaster's department, has arrived in
Charlotte having been detailed at
Camp Greene, where the New Eng
land division is to go into camp some
time in August. Captain Stiness is a
former newspaper man.
Members of the Hundred Thousand
Dollar Club of the Jefferson Standard
Life Insurance Company of Green's
boro, spent one day last week on Mt.
Mitchell, the highest point east of the
Rockies. The trip was part of the
vacation rendered by the company.
The community canning plant at
Cherryville built by the chamber Of
commerce is an institution that is at
tracing and will attract much atten-
ton and at the same time be Of great
service to he people in and around
C~herryville. The plant has been built
at considerable expense and for the
benefit of all who will use it.
The first news of the sudden death
Of Edwin J. Justice of Greensboro in
San Francisco to reach Greensboro
was a telegram to his law partner, E.
D. Broadhurst. This message was
from F. P. Hobgood, Jr., also Of
Greensboro, who has been associated
with Mr.. Justice in the prosecution of
important suits on behalf of the gov
eminent.
Meeting at the Buncombe county
courthouse superior court clerks from,
all parts of North Carolina perfected
a permanent organization to work for
greater unity and to the mutual ad-
vantage of clerks throughout the
state. Temporary organization was
perfected with Judge c. M. Pace, of
Henderson county as chairman and
w. H. Young of Durham county as
secretary.
Black Mountain pople are protest
ing vigorously about the Dad from
Black Mountain to Asheville, and are
planning a mass meeting to voice the
sentiments of the town toward the
! commissioners and demand some &C.
ton. The town and that end of the
county are already planning to estab-
lish a new county, with Black Noun
tain as the county seat, if some salts
factory arrangement for a road is not
made.
Robert Hutchins, a fouryear-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. R. w Hutchins, of
Spencer, fell out a second-story win
dow, some seventeen feet to the
ground and went on about his play
as usual. The lad had gone upstairs
in the afternoon to rest, went to an
open window and in pushing the
blinds open fell out head foremost to
the ground. The strange feature of
the accident was that he was practi-