The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-10-06
FARM OWNERS OF LENoIR AND
ADJACENT COUNTIES ARE
APPLYING FOR LOANS.
NO DIFFICULTY IS EXPECTED
The List Of Applicants to the Local
is Steadily Increasing.

KinStOn.-Farm owners in about 10
townships in Lenoir and adjacent
counties have applied for nearly $780,
900 in government loans to date, it is
estimated by officers of the local farm
loan association. The list of appli-
cants is increasing. 1t is expected
that no difficulty will be had in Sc
! curing the entire sum-
The majority of the members of the
| association are residents of Lenoir
county, and the bulk of the money ask
ed will be expended within this coun-
! ty.
While tobacco in the eastern belt
is bringing an average price of less
than Is cents pound, hundreds of
market reports tell of superior leaf
selling for sums ranging from 40 cents
to nearly 81, indicating that were the
1921 crop fully up to the standard of
which the region is capable the aver
age would be considerably higher.
GreensbOro.-The election of G. A.
Reynolds of WinstOn-Salem, chair
man, was the only happening of any
note at the call meeting of the exc
cutive committee of the republican
party in North Carolina, which was
keldS>here.
Woman's place in the committee
and the party was gone into, but moth
ing of a definite nature was done,
the committee deciding it best to wait
the state convention next year.
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maps the first of it's kind ever tried in
Mecklenburg county, involving the
prosecution of a minister or justice of
the peace for negrecting to file mar
riage license with the register of
deeds within the prescribed time, oc-
Cured. =
Rev. C. NJ Graham, a we'll known
egro-1ninister of Charlotte, was tried
on this charge before Magistrate F.
B. Alexander, convicted and fined 5000
and costs.
Charlotte.-Pledges and cash total
ing 100000 were received in a cam
paign to raise funds for the construc-
ton of the proposed Dilworth Metho-
dist church.
The total amount in sight is now
100000. This is composed of gift
of $4,000 made by J. B. Duke, the
$4,000 raised Sunday and about $780,
900 to be realized from the sale of the
church property. The new church will
cost about 100000.
Davidson. - Hugh Orrell of Knox
Vile, Tenn, member of the advance
guard of the fifty-first artillery, now
moving overland from Camp Jackson,
S. c., to Camp Eustice, Va, was acct
dentally killed at Davidson College
when he and another soldier were
caught between two heavy army
trucks.
Asheville-Fay Hampstead of Lit
tie Rock, Ark, was elected general
grand master of the general |
grand council of the Royal and Select |
Masters of the United States, in their |
final business session. o. Frank Hart |
of Columbus, s. c., was elected gen.
eral grand principal conductor of the |
work
Greensboro, travelling salesman, was |
instantly killed on the outskirts of |
near here, when the auto
mobile in which he was riding side
swiped telephone pole, crushing his
head.
Asheville-The Asheville Merchants
formulated plans for pro-
noting new hotel for the city Res
buttons embodying the action to be
taken by a special committee were
adopted.
Neat Will Caveat Dismissed.
. Observation-Disclosures B. F. Long,
II the superior court, rendered decis-
on in which he dismissed the caveat
lied by Public Administrator c. e.
Hamilton in the John Neal will case.
The courts decision sustained Clerk
McKaughn in appointing the Wacho-
ria Bank and Trust company, Of this