French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-04-04
THE LAND OF
THE LONG LEAF PINE
SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS.

Matthew s.. Sasser, carpenter, 81,
Mount Olive, N. c., was asphyxiated
in a rooming house at Richmond as a
result of blowing out the gas before
retiring. That was the conclusion
reached by Coroner Whitfield after
making an investigation.
Of interest to organized merchants
and business men throughout North
Carolina is the announcement by Sec
rotary q Paul Leonard, of Statesville,
that the State Merchants Association
will hold it's 1918 convention at
Wrightsville Beach June 18, 10 and 20.
Fred P. Latham, of Belhaven, presi-
dent of the Farmers and>Farm Wom-
ems State Association, is making elab-
crate plans for the big convention that
is to be held by the farmers and their
wives at State College, Raleigh, during
the latter part of August.
Family Bible refuse to lie. At
least this is the declaration of United
States Commissioner Hugh Scarlet,
who detected an effort to change
birth dates in the family, Bible Of Will
liam Williams, colored, of Person
county. Williams was before the COM
missioner on a charge of violating the
~selective draft by failing to register.
j. F. Armisted, fiscal agent fro the
Empire Steel Company, a North Caro-
lima corporation, is being sought by of
ficers of Wake county who have war
rents for his arrest in arrest and bail
proceedings, the warrant being sworn
out by persons who have purchased
stock in the corporation on alleged rep
reservations.
Traffic officer j. 4. Dwyer, of the
Charlotte police department has in his
possession an adj which was used by
his grandfather, Thomas K. Dwyer, in
helping to build the Merrimac near
Norfolk, Va during the war between
the states. Mr.. Dwyer prizes the old
relic very highly, and members Of the
police department were recently gwen
an opportunity to inspect t.
The man who invented the sewing
machine achieved what he was after
wien he stopped trying to initiate the
human hand. If you go into a factory
800 I'LL Zoo -rooobino dnipn fhiDOC
which only human skill could do but a
short time ago, but th~e-prOcesses are
quite different from the manual meth
cd. The inventors have lisen superior
to the formulate that nature would
seem to have laid down for them.
After celebrating on the matter the
city commissioners of Asheville an
nounced, their decision to close all the
pool rooms and bowling alleys of the
city on June 1 by refusing to issue
new license for the next fiscal year.
This action is taken as a war measure,
a large number of citizen of the city
having appeared before the board to
ask them to close these places for the
reason that they promoted idleness
and crime.
The advocates of cattle tick in era
e county; that is those who are op-
posed to the dipping vat route to de-
struction of this. pest, have launched
their offensive against the govern
ment's campaign to eradicate the tick
by ~dynamiting -four watts. One was
destroyed on the farm Of Mr.. W. R.
Pate about nine miles east of New
Bern and the other three were a few
miles further west. The IDENTIFY of
the dynamiters is unknown.
"Out of the tragedy of wal there
can come no compensation, but there
may come out of it some things that
will lift us up and show us that no
mar loves anything he will not die
for" said Secretary Of the Navy Jo-
sephus Daniels in an address before
the students of the State College of
Agriculture and Engineering. He
championed the cause of the American
youth, vouching for the high purpose
the patriotic spirit, and the zeal of
the young men of today, who, he de-
clared, are worthy of the men who
won the liberties which now hang in
the balance"
Tn body of Charles Thompson, 8.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Thompson, of Burlington, after beinR
In the water 70 days, was found lust
below the dam at S~wepsonvilIe. Jan.