The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-29
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Star News Bureau
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BY HENRY r

BY HENRY AVERILL
RALEIGH, March 28.-Word from
Nash county indicates that v:
Sharpe Watson, something of q
stormy petrol in the 1898 house
may come to the state senate with.
out opposition.
In the 1888 legislature Watson
who had been an ardent supporte,
Of Dick Fountain in the 1882 gov.
ernor's race, was sharply critica.
of Governor j. c.. B. Ehringhaus
He was for a long time practically
at dagger's point with Bill Fenner
veteran Nash legislator, but it is
reported that the two at least
speak now.
Mrs. Lima Flowers, efficient an6
attractive rural identification au-
thority worker, reports that he1
private survey Of Honey Hill
Bogue township, Columbus county
indicates that Horton and Brough.
ton are in the lead.
W%hereupon her boss, Dudley
Bagley, cracked And as goes Hon.
ey Hill so goes the state;" but j
M. Granger, REA engineer added
THE only reason the vote wasn't
split three ways is that there are
only two voters there"
incidentally, Mrs. Flowers Il
complaining about her private
electric chair" It seems that dur
ing the winter while she has beer
wearing wool dresses she has from
time to time been really jolted ii
she happened to touch the meta.
back of her up-to-date steel an6
leather chair. She couldn't make
out what was happening, but En-
gineer Granger quickly demonstrate
ed that rubbing Of the wool dress
on the back of the chair charged
the metal to a point where it gave
off a terrifying electric spark when
touched.
Here's how the state board OF
elections kept republican members
Of the county boards from being
officially invited to the schools for
election officials being held all over
the state.
The state board simply invited
the chairman and the secretary OF
all county boards to attend. There
are no republican chairmen or sec
retaries, as every board is COM
posed of two democrats and one
republican and naturally the one
G.. o. P. man has no chance to
be either chairman or secretary.
There isn't any objection to the
republican members attending the
school sessions, however, and the
whole thing was done without any
opposition from the minority mem
bers of the state board.
A belated story has just come
to light of how close Sam Morris,
prominent Raleigh republican, came
to being a candidate for his par
tvs lieutenant governor nomina-
ton.
There had been no talk right up
to filing date, of any G. o. P. can
didate for the office, so Sam got
the necessary papers, filled them
in, wrapped eve dollars up in
them and hung around waiting to
slip in at the last minute and pay
his filing fee; but along in the
shank of the afternoon Forrest
Written of Salisbury, who had
been expected to run for governor,
paid up and formally entered the
lieutenant governors race.
Whereupon Morris went back to
his office, ~unwrapped the seven
dollars and filed his application in
the waste basket.
There are Indications that Gideon
Boswood, who got in the hair Of
the department of conservation ano
DEVELOPMENT on several occasions
during the 1899 assembly, will come
back to the house this year unop-
posed. Ed Johnson, perennial lead
or of one of Currituck's bitter fac
tions. is said to have decided to
unit notifies.