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Judge Henry Gredy who opened hie
first term of superior court st New
Bern Monday morning failed to make
any direct refercene to his reported
connection with the Ku Klux Klan, in
making his charge to the jury. He
did state that he waa a member of no
secret organisation whose oath or
principles were in any way in conflict
with his oath as superior court judge.
Robert L. Grice and John Carswell,
charged with the murder of John
Ford, all of Gastonia, was given a
preliminary hearing before a justice
of the peace Tuesday afternoon.
,"I have never said I had the money,
but that I believed that I could raise
it," declared Dr. William Preston
Few, president of Trinity College, in a
brief statement issued last Monday
outlining his position on the proposed
merger of'intorest "by his Institution
and the University of North Carolina
in a four-year medical school.
December was a record breaker for
the prohibition agents of the, State
according to reports issued by Di
rector R. A. Kohless. The report
shows that total of 100 illicit distiller
ies and 187,122 gallons of intoxicat
ing liquors, including spirits, malts,
and wine were nabbed during that
month. Sixteen automobiles were
captured and confiscated during that
time also.
The Tobacco Growers Co-Operative'
Association opened He doors at more
than one hundred towns of Virginia
and North Carolina Monday, to re
ceive the flood of tobacco accumu
lated by ite members since the closing
of the warehouses for the holidays.
Approximately 188,000,000 pounds
were delivered in the three states be
fore Christmas.
A bill to enable the city of Ashe
ville to sell the Pack Memorial Li
brary at public auction with the privi
leges of rejecting any or all bids, will
be submitted to the General Assembly
during the present session.
The weekly session of the County
Board of Commissioners in Cherokee
County was interrupted when a negro
man and woman entered without an
nouncement and requested Rev. Gay
Bryant, a member of the board, to
marry them. He did and then
the deliberations of the governing
body of North Carolina's last county
to the west resumed their task of dis
patching official business.
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Walter Lyndall Watson. for many
yean a well known and successful
member of the Raleigh bar, died Sun
day night at half past seven o'clock.
In line with its effort to make
"Dunn the best town under the
sun," the municipal government has
subscribed and paid for $20,000 in
stock of the Home Building and Loan
Association.
"The most honest man in the
world," is the way a Kinston writer
describes a doctor who ran over a
small pig, hardly old enough to get
about, and spent a half hour looking
for the owner to whom he paid $6.00
damages.
Several thousand visitors were in
Fayetteville last Saturday when, for
the first time in thirty-two years, the
Grand Sire of the Independent Q^der
Odd Fellows, visited this State. The
purpose of the visitation of the Grand
Sire, Lucian J. Eastin of St. Joseph,
Mo., was to present veteran's jewels
to four members of the Fayetteville
lodge.
Governor Morrison has accepted
the 'resignation of John .C. McBee,
Republican Highway Commissioner
from the Eighth District, and has
named in his stead Andrew M. Kist
ler, republican, and business man of
Morganton. The resignation of Mc
Bee was sought by a delegation from
his district that claimed discrimina
tion in allocating the road funds in
that district.
Federal agents called to Wilming
ton last week to search'for Grover
Bergdoll, wealthy draft dodger who
was reported to have sailed from Ger
many on the liner Adriatic, failed to
find any trace of their man. How
ever, a close watch is still being
maintained.
Alvin W. Owsley, of Texas, nation
al commander of, the American Leg
ion, will make a tour of North Caro
lina March 6, 7, and 8, according to
word from him made public at Char
lotte last week, by the State com
mander, James A. Lockhart.
Billard place proprietors of North
Carolina met in Greensboro last Fri
day, to discuss plans to elevate the
sport and to remove objectionable
accompaniments, such as gambling,
drinking or anything else of that na
ture that might be in some places.
The Carolina and Yadkin Railroad
will be sold at public auction Jan
uary 16, in High Point, pursuant to
an order recently made by Judge W.
F. Harding. The railroad was thrown
into bankruptcy some time ago.
An unidentified man was found in
the ruins of the fire that swept a
portion of Elisabeth City last week.
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With one leg over the window sill and
his bod/ almost half out, the victim
came to his death.
Work on the bard-surfaced roads in
Pitt Count/ is now progressing very
rapidl/, and when the proposed sys
tem has been completed it will cover
a distance of 77.05 miles. Accord
ing to figures compiled, hard roads in
Pitt are being constructed more
cheaply than in any other section of
the State.
The arrival of the steamer Chelsea
from Norfolk last Friday inuagura
ted the new water transportation ser
vice between Norfolk and New Bern.
Suit for the recovery of $44,202.50
has been instituted against the board
of county commissioners of Stanley
county by S. H. Hearae, the sum be
ing the alleged balance dae on a note
which Mr. Hearne holds against the
County. The note was issued by the
retiring board of commissioners to
cover the price of a suitable lot for a
county courthouse.
Announcing that three units had
been admitted into the North Carolina
National Guard during the past sixty
days, a record for this season, offi
cials of the adjutant general's depart
ment Friday stated that only four
nfore organisations were to be filled
to complete the state's quota and that
applications for these had already
been filed.
The State Corporation Commission,
through the Attorney General, is pre
paring to start action by mandamus
against the Southern Railway and
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to
force compliance with the Commis
sion's order, originally issued, Septem
ber 10, 1014, for the erection of a
new union depot at Selma, the junct
ure point of the two railroads.
The State school building program
begun in 1921 will cost when complet
ed about $26,000,000, according tc
Dr. E. C. Brooks in his biennial re
port now being printed for distribu
tion among the members of the Gen
eral Assembly. - V
T. E. Cooper, president of the Com
mercial National Bank, of Wilming
ton, which closed its doors last Sat
urday upon the orders of the comp
troller of the currency, has announc
ed that all depositors will be paid in
full and that the bank will reopen j
within a few days.
Winston-Salem still holds high
honor as big taxpayer according to a
report just issued. Total revenue
collections during 1922 aggregated
nearly one hundred million dollars.
At the winter meeting of the di
rectors of the North Carolina Railroad
Company held in Charlotte last
Thursday ths regular annual divi
dend of ? per cent was declared, 0
1-8 per cent payable February 1, and
the balance August 1.
The failure of a single republican ,
to get on the eligibility list for the)
Monroe postmasterehip, at civil ser
vice examinations held recently for
this purpose, now makes it appear that
a democrat will of necessity be in
ducted into the offlce.'
Standardisation of products
through intelligent seed selection will
be the next big job undertaken by the
North Carolina cooperatives Field
representatives of the cotton and to
bacco association decided last Thurs
day to pirt on an intensive campaign
during the next two months to ac
quaint growers with the benefit deriv
ed from improving the quality of the
products grown by them.
A general election was authorised
by the Goldsboro board of alderman
last Tuesday to see whether the people
of the city want to take $35,000 of
the money from the coming sale of the
old power plant 10 years ago and
held as a sort of trust fund ever since,
and equip and operate the city's
street railway or let those railways
go along rusting and the rolling
stock standing idle as it has been for
the past several years.
The United States Supreme Court
has held that the major railroads of
North Carolina are entitled to pay
taxes in accordance with the valua
tion placed upon them in North Caro
lina since the revaluation act.
Walter Clark, son of Chief Justice
Clark of the State Supreme Court has
been recommended to President Hard
ing by Senator Overman, for a place
on the tariff commission at Washing
ton. Mr. Clark is now chief expert
to the commission.
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Will be properly taken care of this year
, by SWIFT FERTILIZER WORKS. With
a large factory now running in Norfolk,
fanners and planters of this vicinity
will be served better than ever before?
any quanity you may want.
The Old Red Steer
Is going to help raise more bumper crops
in 1923. Ask those who have used it.
I now have associated with me, Mr.
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cover this territory thoroly. Be sure to
see one of us, and let Swift's Fertilizers
be a boon to yon this year.
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Ahoskie, N. C.
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1,000 pairs Khaki djl QQ
Breeces, new at VI
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Corduroy pants d?0 JP
straight leg, new at_ w
1,000 pairs O. D. d|1 JQ
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Corduroy riding breeches, all
O- D. Wool pants $2.75
One.lot reclaimed 0(" .
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sizes at W I"
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1,000 pair waterproof and snag
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1 lot mens* dress and d?| QC
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1 lot mens' dress #0 if
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65 mens' S piece A QP
suits, very special
ARMY Overcoats AP
new at ?pO,5JD
.Army Overcoats, PA
slightly used at 99 9V
Officers' raincoats, ?9 AP
new, at
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overcoats, up fro QP
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knee boots,, S. H. at ** ^
Mens' hip bootf, new $3.79
Mens' knee boots new fro AP
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AHOSKIE, N. C.
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