Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-04-27


Bandits In St. Louis, Mo-, are report
ed to be doing a booming business
Daily holdups are reported, and every
time the highwaymen have gotten away
30 far.
Mobile, Ala. is having q jury com
mission scandal, and the grand Jury
has asked for impeachment Of two
members Of the jury commission, on
the ground that they had engendered
personal spite when they dropped two
names from jury list.
The Gusy orphanage, a Jewish insti
tuition Of Pittsburg, Pa. was destroyed
BY fire, recently. but the children got
out, by using the fire drill" without
any injury whatever.
Capt. G. 8. Little and Sgt. James l.
Johnson were killed at San Antonio
when an airplane in which they were
riding went into nose dive at q
height Of 100 feet and fell.
Two persons were killed and two
others badly injured - one probably
mortally - when a Pennsylvania rail.
road excursion train struck their auto
bile near Asbury Park, N. ].
J. Hill, white foreman for the Co.
lumbia Salvage corporation, was
blown to bits by an explosion Of 10000
pounds Of black powder in an ammu.
milton salvage magazine near the or.
dinance depot, North Charleston, 8.
c. More than 50 boxcars were dam.
aged and trackage wrecked. It has
not been determined what caused the
blast.
Returns from the 37th New York
congressional district indicate the cleo.
tion Of Lewis Henry, Republican, by g
majority Of $500.
George Zabriskie, member Of the com.
mittee on the revision of the Book
Of Common Prayer Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, says that women in
the United States are, in nearly all re.
spects, equal Of men, and, therefore
the promises and vows Of the man and
woman and marriage should be recipro.
cal.
Hanford MacNider, national com.
mander Of the American Legion, asks
all newspapers to appeal to ex.service
men to return to their native heaths
and seek employment, where they are
better known and most likely to Sc.
cure jobs.
Charles H. Fletcher, whose name
appears on billboards the country over
advertising Castoria. died recently at
his home in Orange, N. J.
Capt. Road Amundsen, Arctic explo.
rer, and four flying companions, mar.
rowly escaped death at Miola, Pa,
when the monoplane in which they
were going from New York to Cleve.
land, the first lap Of a continental
journey, turned over when 1t was fore.
ed down in field.
Because he couldn't give a sufficient
ly detailed description OF hell, Charles
G Mckenzie, graduate Of Union Theo.
logical seminary, was refused the
right to preach by the Jersey City
presbytery.
Atlanta's annual grand opera sea.
son opens Monday, April "a, and runs
through the week. the final perform.
ance being on Saturday night. De-
spite the general business depression
the seat Gale to date is we'll up to
that NJ previous years. and there is
every indication that the season will
DO . successful one.
Beaufort.-A surveying party arriv.
ed to commence work on the state
highway survey from Beaufort to tn"
Craven county line. They say It will
take about two months to complete
the work. The survey Of the More
head City link to the Craven line was
made two years aro. It is understood
that construction work on the high
way will start this summer.
Fayetteville-Work on the surfac
ing or resurfacing Of approximately
10000 square yards Of street paving
will begin in this city ~ once. Con
tracts for this work have been let by
the municipal board Of aldermen and
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, the
latter corporation having in charge
the paving Of Russell street under the
old franchise granted the Cape Fear
and Yadkin Vallev railroad.
Henderson.-Henry Harris, accused
Of the killing Of negro woman said
BY some Of the officers to have been
his common.law wife, was given q
hearing before Recorder R. ]. South.
erlsnd and sent to jail without privi
lege Of bond.
Coneord.-At q recent meeting oi
the Board Of Aldermen Of Concord, the
city was authorised to secure the ser
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