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Greensboro-Two weeks of Guilford
Superior court ending Saturday re-
suited In l12 years of sentences. Judge
T. j. Shaw presided over the court.
Fayetteville. - Major-General Will
liam J. Snow. chief of Field Artillery
OF the United States Army, and men,
Der of his staff. and officers of Fort
Bragg. were guests of honor at bar
becue given by citizens of Fayetteville
at Lakewood" the country place OF
John G. Shaw,
Albemarle.-The Western North
Carolina Press Association will meet
in Albemarle on October 11th and
18th holding its first session at s p.
m, October 11th. The organizations
headquarters during the meeting will
be at the Hotel Albemarle.
Greensboro-In order to save Ar
thur Shipton, 45-year-old married man
OF High Point, from a five-year term
on the Guilford county roads, Laster
Pell. young whie man. convicted of
breaking into the plant of the Con-
solidated Hosiery Mills. High Point,
went on the stand and confessed to
perjury, so far as his testimony impli-
eating Shipton was concerned.
Chapel Hill.--James Wills, 80, auto
mobile mechanic and son of H. c.
Wills. hardware merchant both resi-
dents of Chapel Hill, is lying in Watts
hospital. Durham, in critical con
struck by automobile, occupied by
man and three women, all unknown
en- route to the Carolina Wake Forest
game.
Davidson.-Announce is made
by the management of The Davidson
College Magazine that hereafter Gaps
and Bells" humorous publication of
the Junior class, that made quite a
hit and attracted much attention both
by its pictral comic and witty features.
oratoricals and celebration last spring.
will be combined with the magazine
and appear as It's humorous section.
Wilsou.-H. B. Johnson, supervisor
OF sales. reports the number OF
pounds Of tobacco sold on this mar
ket to be 15l3S.4S6 which sold for
$3,075, ,2S066 a1 average OF S203l per
sundred For the week ending Sep
tember 2Sth the number OF pounds
sold 3,660.936 FOR $714.75794 an aver
age of s19.52 per hundred a decrease
Of $3.50 pounds in receipts. an in
increase of Al cents in average,
! Thomasville. The record for health
in Thomasville has been broken with
in the past two months, no deaths
having occurred within the city limits
since July 20, according to the record3S
Wilmington,-Com Louis n.
Davis, U. S. N. Wilmington boy who
commanded one of the destroyers of
the squadron participating in the re-
cent naval disaster of Hondo Cal.
is one OF the several naval officers
that made the dramatic avowel before
the court on inquiry OF their inten-
tion to aid tho court" the public
and the navy to get at the bottom OF
the circumstances surrounding the dis
aster.
Rockingham.-The Hannah Pickett
cotton mill has Just awarded to T. c..
Thompson Co. contract to build at
once "a four-room cottages at the mill
village. Hannah Pickett mill is under
the management of W. B. Cole-one
of the best mill men in the South.
Dunn.-Margaret. 13-year-old daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Morgan. who
tive at Duke, near Dunn, died of burns
received, when her clothing was ignit-
ed by an oil stove When her cloth
ing caught fire she ran out OF the
room and her body was badly burned
before members OF the family could
reach her.
Greenville.-The First Presbyterian
church here plans to celebrate the
18th anniversary OF its organization
October IA to 16. During the cele-
bration, memorial tablets to the late
Vardry McBee and his wife, Jane
Alexander McBee, will be unveiled
Greensboro.-Thirty years in the
State prison was the sentence given
by Judge T. ]. Shaw in Guilford Su-
perior court. to James Lindsay High
Point negro, who withdrew his plea
Of not guilty to first degree murder
and submitted a plea OF guilty to Sec
ond degree murder. He set fire to
his wife, resulting in her death.
Raleigh,-The Suncrest Lumber
company. of Haywood county, must
pay a fine of $500 for hauling logs
over its standard gauge railroad on
Sunday. the supreme court ruled in
finding no error in the lower courts
judgment. Operation OF the train aud
the carting of logs violated the state
laws regulating the operation Of rail
road trains on Sunday. the court held.
Durham. B. Newell, 80. barber,
was instantly killed on road near
the city when the small touring car
in which he was passenger was
crowded on the road and overturned.
Coroner's verdict gave the cause Of
death as a fractured skull.
Lumberton.-Drawin and plans
are being made for the addition of
fifty rooms to the Lorraine Hotel.
north corner OF Fourth and Chestnut
streets, and q large store and office
building on the south corner of Fourth
and Chestnut, according to Mr.. A. Z.
White. president Of the Lumberton