Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-08-24
CONDENSED NEWS FROM
THE OLD NORTH STATE
SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
cARoLINIANs.

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freight depot were knocked down and
damage was done to
freight when westbound train No. ~
ran into the house track unexpected
ly.
High Point.-A beautiful memorial
to the veterans OF the World War WILL
be erected here on Broad street just
of of Main street by Mr.. and Mrs. M.
J. Wrenn.
Tarboro. - Tarboro's two auction
warehouses for the sale Of leaf tobacco
opened here with sales OF $4,000 Ids. |
at an average Of $24.2O per hundred
lbs.
Asheville. - Josiah Norton Is dead
and Grant Sans, young man, Is De-
ing held in the Madison county jail
at Marshall as result Of a shoouns
several nights ago in the Shelton
Laurel section. No motive has been
assigned for the deed.
Charlotte Noll Construction
company was awarded the contract
for paving seven miles on the York
Vile road at approximate cost OF
$4,000. The road is to be the same
type of construction as the Camp
Greene road. There were three bids.
Greensboro.-The Southeastern Pas
senger association, Atlantas Ca, an
nounces reduced passenger fares Tor
the American Legion convention. de-
partment of North Carolina, to be held
here September and 3.
Goldsboro - The boil weevil and
water covers the finest cotton crops
IN Wayne county For thirty days the
water has been standing in the finest
cotton fields in the county. B. G..
Thompson. the largest cotton buyer IN
the county, said.
Observation-Disclosures schoolfeld. a
Young white man OF Guilford county
was convicted in the Guilford superior
court Of swindling the American Ex'
change National bank here out OF ten
thousand dollars last April by means
Of q forged check.
Wake Forest. - Mrs. Bette Stell
of the cotton mill district of'Wake
Forest, was instantly killed here. when
she was struck by Seaboard train NO
II. The train struck her about
mile from the Wake Forest station
and opposite the Royal cotton min.
Durham. - Local authorities have
been unable to find clue as to the
identity of the mother OF pretty
I four-months-old baby left at the dool
!, OF DR.. z. H. Dowling's office in the
, Greer building. The baby is IN tht
local Salvation Army home, where II
will receive temporary care.
Il Greensboro.-Dr. ]. w. Long, presi
, dent Of the North Carolina Medica
Society, has appointed committee o
), thirty members of the society to TAX
!. some action on the proposed four-yea
d medical school to be established b.
3 the University of NORTH Carolina.
e Charlotte-ThG News Publishing Cc
|. has Just collected an advertising bil
q for $3.50 made In 1901. Just 2l year
a ago October 20. The bill was part Q
the costs Of a commissioners sale q
a piece of property in the city which
for some reason or other was allowe
s to remain pending In the courts unit
l. recently when the owners, desiring t
"a make q sale OF the real estate, wen
g. TO clear the title to the land and foun
"a that the costs Of this sale had neve
Il been paid.
Ia Lumberton.-An election to vote o
ID a $4,000 road bond issue in Britt
n. towship, Robson county, has been o
3 dared by the county commissioner
fhe e,gcttoo vii be held at an earl
II data
At Shelby. - The Kiwanis club HI
At launched o movement to improve tn
n. baseball park at the high school, tW
~ blocks from the court square. and CO
ly vArt It into a general playground Il
n. grown-ups as we'll as children.
ia New Bern-W. D. Allen, prohibitic
ca enforcement officer, announced II
Of capture Of a solid copper 250-galle
or distilling plant and 200 gallons
he corn whiskey on the Perry farm
ar Brice's creek, about ten miles fro
81 New Bern.
,le Wadesboro. The unusually co
IA. weather OF the past few days
er thought by farmerg to be conduct
ss to the operations Of the boil weev
The weevil 10 supposed TO be hinder'
BY warm, dry weather and to becon
more active in cool. wet weatht
10, They seem to be increasing ever
Ia. where and to be spreading over
70. sections OF the county with remaI
as able rapidity.
,is Rocky Mouut.'-Work ON the Ma
,ra street beautfytng and improveme
progrann which was adopted by t
,at board OF aldermen some time ago
h. progressing as rapii lily as possit
In ssnce q gang Of workmen began p
eH fiminary steps towards laying the
,th| derground cable Tor the White w
az In the business section early Il
week.