Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-01
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD
Happenings of Interest From All
Sections of North Carolina
Briefly Told

pointed postmaster at Silas Creek, in
Ashe county.
Robert F. Blevins was on Tuesday
confirmed by the United States SEN
ate as postmaster at jefferson.
The spring term of Ashe county
superior court will convene at Jeffer-
son on Monday, April 5, with Judge
Henry P. Lane presiding.
Warren T. Moguin, federal mar
cotic agent, was arrested in Winston
Salem Tuesday morning on a charge
of larceny of three diamond rings,
valued at $3.50, from Ella Shouse,
colored. Moguin was released on
81 900 bond.
A. Brady Medlin, deputy sheriff Of
Cabarrus county and policeman Of
Concord, who shot and killed Mark
Simpson on Medlin's farm in Goose
Greek township on the morning of
March 25, was given preliminary
hearing Monday morning and was
reminded to Jail without bond.
John E. Cameron, grand master of
the Masons of North Carolina, died
his home, Rose of Sharon, Kinston,
early Sunday morning. He was So
years of age and the head of large
family. Probably no man in Ameri-
ca had held so many Masonic honors
as did Mr.. Cameron.
Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover has been invited by Senator
Lee S. Overman, on behalf of the
Salisbury Chamber of Commerce, to
be the principal speaker at the annual
banquet of the chamber on a date
convenient to the secreatry between
April 10 and Is.
Banjamin N. Duke, New York and
Durham philanthropist, has made an
unconditional gift of $4,000 to
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
in Durham, to be applied on the debt
of the handsome church building conn.,
s2leted year or more ago at cost
of approximately 100000.
Investigation of the personal con-
duct of Police Chief Ferguson, of
Charlotte, which occupied the atten-
ton of Public Safety Commissioner
Robinson for several days last week,
eliminated last Friday in the suspen-
sion of Chief Ferguson, pending the
result of the investigation of the en-
tire police department by the city
What is proclaimed a worlds piano
playin endurance record, was estab-
lished in Winston-Salem Saturday
night at midnight when Prof. B. G.
Burt, of jamestown, N. Y, took his
hands from the worries for the first
time in sixty hours. Several hundred
spectators were present when the
professor ended his long grind on the
piano.
True bills charging murder were
returned in Jones county superior
court at Trenton Tuesday against
Federal Prohibition Agent w. H.
Ashburn, of Sloan, E. E. Potter,
Greene county deputy sheriff, and
Chief of Police C. F. Mcdaniel, of
Poilocksville. The men are charged
with killing Will Bryant, negro, in a
raid by the officers on December %
in Jones county.
The early morning Easter celebra-
tion at Winston-Salem next Sunday
morning will mark the 172nd observ-
ance of the custom in that section,
the first service of the kind being
held by the Moravian church in North
Carolina having taken place on Eas
ter Sunday, 1854, six months after
the arrival of the first band of Mo-
ravians from Pennsylvania. The
Easter service last year was attended
by more than 10000 people.
w. c. Murphy, county superinten-
dent of public instruction for Bun
combe county, was arrested Monday
afternoon and held under $4,000
bond upon complaint of DR.. N. A..
Mandelos, who filed suit for $4,000
for elienation of his wife's affections,
alleging that Murphy debaunched
and carnally knew her, using his
office to attain that end while she
was a member of the teching staff of
johnson school. Murphy was taken
into custody while at his desk in the
Buncombe county courthouse.
Edgar Lowder, of Concord, was
instantly killed about midnight Sun
day night in an automobile collision
with Bud Nichols, about three miles
south of Albemarle, when the Ford
runabout in which Lowder and his
wife were riding was struck by the
Ford touring car driven by Nichols
Lowder's head was crushed and death
lcame instantly. Nichols was taker
into custody and is being held unde,