Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-04-01
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General News and Happenings From
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Ernst, OF Kentucky, was unanimous
ly renon1inated by the Republican
state convention in session in Louis
vile Tuesday.
After four-hour battle behind
closed doors, the senate Friday con-
firmed Thomas F. Woodlock, of New
York, as a member of the interstate
commerce commission.
Six persons were instantly killed
at Corunna, Mich, late Saturday aft
ernoon when the automobile in which
they were riding was struck by a
west-bound passenger train on the
Grand Trunk railroad,
eff the church members and church
goers of johnson City would quit
drinking liquor, the bootleggers
would starve to DEATH" declared Rev.
Lewis M. Roper, Baptist minister in
his sermon at Johnson City, Tenn,
last Sunday.
Representative Stevenson, Demo-
crat, of South Carolina, who has
charged in the house that postal posi-
tions in his state had been sold, in
troduced a bill last Friday "to pre-
vent purchase and sale of public Of
flee"
Four of the six clerical delegates
of the Baltimore Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
to the general conference at Mem
phis, Tenn, in May, will favor unfit
cation between the northern and
branches of that church.
A spectacular fire which broke out
in the heart of the business district
of Augusta, Ga, Tuesday night, was
brought under control after fire ap-
paratus had been summoned from ad
joining towns. The damage is csti-
mated at 100000.
John Joseph Corbett, sc, paroled
convict, was arrested in Chicago FRI
day. and all but $500 of the $4,000
in Liberty bonds with which he disap-
peared in February while employed
as messenger by J. r. Ripple and
Company, of Newark, N j., is ex-
peced to be recovered by the police.
Seven negroes were killed and two
white men and thirteen negroes were
injured late Tuesday when a train
carrying employees of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Company col
lided head-on with a locomotive near
Junction, twelve miles
north of Birmingham, Ala.
Expenditure of 100000 by the
federal government toward establish
inent of a presidents plaza at Nash
vile, Tenn, for the erection there Of
a memorial in honor of Andrew Jack
son, Andrew johnson and James X.
PolR was proposed Saturday in a bill
by Representative Byrns. A similar
bill was introduced in the senate by
Senator Tyson, of Tennessee
Luther Burbank, originator of
new horticulture, and the author of
some striking new theories on the
hereafter. is slowly recovering from
a persistent illness brought about by
nervous strain rising from the furore
created by his recent statements on
the final destiny of men. Mr.. Bur-
banks home is at Santa Rosa, Calf
Preparations at Olso, Norway, for
the Amundsen-Ellswo polar flight
in May are nearing completion. On
hill just ouside Oslo a mooring mast
nearly 100 feet high has been erected
for the airship Norge" in which the
flight is to be made. The dirigible,
constructed in Italy, now is being in
spected by Captain Amundsen, who
arrived in Rome for that purpose last
Friday. Lincoln Ellsworth, the
American explorer, who will accom-
pany Amundsen, arrived from the
United States some time ago. The
polar expedition will be under the
Norwegian flag.
Charged with defrauding Florida
banks of $4,000 through bad checks,
and violating the Mann act, Mrs.
Doris Berne, wife of plastic sur
geon, DIR. Louis P. Berne, was arrest
ed in New York Sunday, with two
men, one of them man with whom
Mrs. Berne is said to have eloped to
Florida a year ago, leaving her six
year-old son, i'll with pneumonia. DR..
Berne who said he had forgiven his
wife after she returned to him, &C.
companied her to the police station
where she was held with Elliott Jaffe
her brother, and Paul Rosenthal, with
whom DR.. Berne said she eloped. DR.
Berne said Rosenthal was the son OF
wealthy shirt manufacturer" Mrs
Bernie eloped with Rosenthal in Feb
ruary, 1925, DR.. Berne said, taking
$4,000 from safe deposit vault
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