Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-12-09
CONDENSED NEWS FROM |
THE OLD NORTH STATE

lie VLU NUNln OlAlE
SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
X CAROLNLANS.
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Saltst Frank Brown.
retired business man. of the city, is
seriously ill from blood poisoning, fol-
J wing the bite Of rat. The rodent
.l.t Captain Brown on the hand sew
cal days ago.
Spencer.-Engineer C. w. Baker, ct
S Jeneer, was badly scalded when
Pug blew out of the boiler of his en-
| gle, attached to train No. As near
| ST. inner. His colored fireman escaped
by jumping.
Fayetteville.-A huge woodworking
plant for the manufacture gun rollers
to be used in mining operations is the
la est big industrial enterprise landed
by the Fayetteville Chamber of Com
merce.
Few Bern.-Louis Boyd, colored
W. shot and killed by Patrolman
| Frsd BRowe, following an assault on
| the officer when he attempted to
arrest the negro for firing a revolver
on the street.
Kinston-Kinstonians saw clothing
take another tumble, a precipitate
| drop which left goods in neary every
shop in town not great deal higher
in price than during the fall Of 1916.
Statesville.-Prof D. Matt Thomp-
son, who has been superintendent OF
the Statesville graded schools since
their establishment twenty-nine years
ago, was struck and seriously injured
| by an automobile.
Rocky Mount Burns received
when a pot Of boiling coffee was &C.
cidently overturned at the home OF
| its parents resulted in the death Of
Kenneth Bruce CoHrane, eight months
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. George H
| Coltrane.
Winston-Salem. - During q brief
business trip to Winston Salem Cover
nor T. w. Beckett, advised some Of
his close friends that he has definitely
decided to locate in Raleigh at the
close Of his term as North Carolinas
chief executive.
High Point. - Several burglaries
have been committed in High Point
during the past few weeks, but none
has caused more comment than the
one when SIS disappeared from the
| lockers Of Desk Sergeant Ed Mungo,
| at local police headquarters.
Belmont-A large and appreciative
audience greeted the presentation Of
Edward the Conqueror" at Belmont
Abbey college.
Raleigh of the Goth
| birthday of Comrade Cathey Of Ma
| con county, the oldest soldier in the
| Confederate home here, was held at
the home.
Statesville.-The North Carolina
Fox Hunters association will meet in
Statesville on Tuesday, December Z.
| for the purpose of effecting perma-
nent organization.
Observation-Disclosures breaks at the
| local warehouses were quite heavy
the first three days of this week.
Prices show very little changes,
though it is thought some of the me-
dunn grades were slightly off.
| Hamlet-An exceedingly enjoyable
occasion was gathering of a large
number of the Methodists of Hamlet
at the church on Thanksgiving night
when Rev. J. H, Buffalo, the retiring
pastor, was presented with a chest
Of silver.
Wilson-Rev. N. S. Gillespie, color
ed, of Washington, D. c., formerly OF
Roneson county, North Carolina, was
bound over to superior court here in
the sum of $500 for doing an insur-
ance business without license.
Wilsou.-It looks blue and is blue
for tobacco farmers, supervisor OF
sales reports for the week ending
| November "a, four days sales, 1885,
S74 pounds which brought $62S,033.29,
an average of 1882 per hundred
pounds.
Fayetteville.-Lower food prices in
Fayetteville cafes is assured by the
action of the leading cafe here, which
ha scut prices of all foods on its me
nue. 20 per cent. 1t is predicted that
others of the large number OF restau-
rants in the city will follow.
Middlesex. - Fire completely de-
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