Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-08-03
)UNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY AUG. 3, 1922

| CONDENSED NEWS FROM
THE OLD NORTH STATE
sAoar NOTES OF 'NrlREe1 TO
cARoLlNlANs.
Hickory.-News has been received
here OF the burning OF . storehouses
mill and stock Of goods near Zion
Lutheran church. this county. WITH
q total loss estimated at lsdus9p ~
900 and $4,000. !
Scotland Neck In pssDasing tor
the invasion of the bon wsevtl IN tfMs
section the bVsipess men d Scotland
Neck and the local chanbcT OF COM
nerce are leaving no work undone
that Will In any way help to combat
this menace expected by ne1t year.
Hio&ory.-Although crops generally
in this section arc unusually good, the
farmers report that frequent showers
have c9usad watermelon vA0 to grow
to hrge ase With few nsfbnr. and
the osaeat h expected u be rather
small.
Durham. - Manager - Qoooh Of
the Durham ball club. announced tho
purchase Of Second Basoman Carey,
Of the Norfolk (va.) League Club, and
the signing up 1 Pitcher caArln Oar.
roll. former Trinity college StAr.
Fsyetteville.-James Williams end
Rufus Murphy. negroeA srS SAhg hold
for the grand fury here on charges
Of murder growing out Of the killing
Of Henry E. Smith. another negro. at
a barbecue in the southern part Of
this county.
Kinston-Internatio and national
health experts will assist the Wood
men Of the World in locating the fra.
ternity's new sanatorium for tuber-
cular members. according to Elisha
B. Lewis, who has returned here from
a session Of the orders heads in
Western Carolina.
Raeford.-Hoke county has stepped
up another notch in the last sixty
days. The farmers mean business.
Enough Of them have signed up with
the Cooperative Marketing associa.
tion to aggregate 10000 acres Of cot
ton. Already they have bought site
and employed . contractor to erect o
modern warehouse for the use Of the
association.
Burlington..-As a result Of an az
fray between Floyd Miles, a negro
who lives near Ossippee, and his wife
the man Is in local hospital with a
bullet in his body and not expected to
recover. n is allaged that Miles at
tempted to give his wife an oldtime
beating and had not proceeded far
when his wife got gun and stopped
the husband BY firing a bullet into
his BODY.
Observation-Disclosures and other
property owned by the bxrley Tohao-
CO Growers Cooperative association,
but not needed by II for tho transac.
tion Of its business. will be sold at
auction to the highest bidder as soon
as arrangements can be m(de to ad.
vertiss them and arrange for the sales
says Director Of Warehouses Ralph
M. Barker.
observation-disclosures Moore was 80
rioSsly II not fatally injured when east
bound passenger train No. 5S struck
and demolished the Gulf Refining com.
pany's truck which he was driving.
Burlington. - This city has one Of
the lowest electric light rates in the
state. At recent meeting Of the
board Of aldermen and officials Of the
Piedmont Power and Light company,
an agreement was reached whereby
the rates were reduced for electric
current, the reduction to become Of.
fective September 1.
Lumberbon-The frvN and vegeta-
bic crop IN this section b 9 bumper
one. However, the producers ere and-
Ing local sales and at Satisfactory
prices. Many One melons are being
offered on the market here. The ma.
tof portion Of the fruit crop is being
used locally.