Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-22
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Happenings of Interest From All
Sections of North Carolina
Briefly Told


of women in industry in North Caro-
lima.
! Walter D. Silcr, of Pittsboro, will
manage the campaign of Senator Lee
| S. Overman in the coming primary,
it was announced Monday. Mr.. Siler
has opened headquarters in Raleigh.
Miss Gertrude W. Mendenhall, one
of the charter members of the facul-
ty of the North Carolina College,
died at Greensboro last Thursday
morning
Garrison Bailey, of Burnsville,
Yancey county, has been nominated
for congress on the Republican tick
ct in the Ninth Congression district.
in opposition to Congressman Bull
winkle.
The Winston-Salem high school,
represented by two girls, Misses Nell
Efird and Loretta Carroll, won the
Aycock Memorial cup in the finals of
the annual statewide championship
contest at Chapel Hill Friday night
Former Governor Frank o. Low
den, Of Illinois, leader of national
prominence in the farm improve
men, will speak in Charlotte tomor-
row afternoon. He will also speak
in Raleigh Saturday afternoon.
At last weeks meeting of the
board of directors of the Ashe Coun-
ty Commercial club, it was decided
to devise ways and means of selling
stock for the construction of hotel
at jefferson. One hundred thousand
dollars was fixed as the goal.
Congress on last Friday passed the
roads bill, calling for an appropria-
ton of $4,000, 0,000for 1929.
North Carolina will receive approx
mately $1,500,000 from this fund.
Congressman Doughton, former
chairman of the house roads COM
mittee, spoke in support of the bill.
Miss Elsie Harris, member of the
senior class of Salem College, Win
ston-Salem, was instantly killed Sat
urday night when the car in which
she was riding fell down an emb4nk-
ment on road leading into the Twin
City. Five other occupants of the
automobile escaped without injury.
James Duncan, about 30 years old,
of Pittsburgh, Pa, shot and probably
fatally wounded his 25-year-old wife
early Friday night at the home of
John Kluttz, his father-in-law, at Mt.
Airy, and then, Lighting a cigarette,
pressed the revolver to his heart and
killed himself. Domestic difficulties
arc blamed for the tragedy. The wife
is said to have left Duncan about two
weeks ago and returned to the home
of her parents at Mt. Airy, the hus-
band following her.
According to figures given out by
State Insurance Commissioner Stacey
Wade, North Cardinals life insurance
took big leap last year, exceeding
the amount sold in 1924 by 26 per
cent, or nearly $51 100000 over the
total for 1924. There is now in
force in-this state $936,545, 5,075.S5
insurance and 2,O19,SS3 policies in
force. The jefferson Standard Life
Insurance Company, of Greensboro,
leads the field in the amount Of
insurance written last year.
Three youths lost their lives last
Friday morning when fire destroyed
the home of Charlie Jacobs at
Aouone, Macon county. Troy, %;
John, 20, and Hubert, 18, sons\ Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacobs, were trapped
in the upper story of the home. Mrs.
Jacobs discovered the fire at about 2
o'clock in the morning and aroused
her husband After calling to the
boys the parents fled, barely escap-
ing the same death which was met
by their children, who were cut off
from any escape.
Representatives of militant funda-
mentalism, led by Judge W. H. Neal,
of Laurinburg, gathered in Charlotte
last Friday and mapped out plans for
spirited campaign to drive those
who would shake. the faith of the
people in the Bible from high places
in colleges and other institutions of
learning support by the state of
North Carolina. The campaign,
launched with the adoption of reso-
lutions deploring the tendency of
certain professors and teachers to
deny the infallibility Of the Scrip
lures, will be vigorously prosecuted
and carried into every county Of the
state, it was announced. Plans al
ready are under way for forming or
CARNATIONS within the various coun.
ties of the state to take up the ban.
ner of fundamentaIsm in the fight
against the liberalists and modern
lists. AS central directing body fol