STATE NEWS II
IN D1GEST|
Leave of absence for one year has
been granted State Health Officer W.
S. Rankin by the State Board of
Health, to enable him to undertake
for the American Health Association
one of the most important pieces of
research work that ever has been at
tempted in the United States.
Train number 22 of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad hit an automo
bile and killed Jack Whitehead and
Eugene Pittman, at W hi takers on last
Friday. Both were young men.
With the deatiled plans for the an
nual convention of the North Caro
lina American Legion which will be
held in Rocky Mount September 12
and 13 rapidly being perfected, sev
eral scraps have been started in local
legions over who is to be elected as
the State Commander.
"The State of North Carolina is
mourning with the1 other states in the
Union the death of President Hard
ing. The people of every class and
color feel a keen sense of loss in the
President's death," said the Gover
nor of North Carolina in a brief ad
dress at a memorial service held in
city auditorium at Asheville on last
Friday afternoon.
Plans are now on foot at Bethel
to give better light and power facil
ities through the erection of trans
mission lines to that town from the
municipal plant at Greenville the
latter place to furnish current. The
A towr. of Bethel has hertofore gotten
i's current from a local plant
Grower member* of the Tobacco
Growers Co-operativo Awiation in
the bright leaf tobacco belt are dis
playing large volumes of marked in
'*n ti in the sect; d - e-r's operation
of tHe Association, report* state
Sixty-nine miles of hard surfaced
road construction, included in 13 pro
jects will be offered to contractors
in a letting announced last Friday by
the State Highway Commission for
Wednesday, August 29. With the ex
ception of four small projects calling
for grading and bridges every pro
ject in the list is for hard surfaced
construction. Bertie gets a contract
for bridge construction on the Wind
sor-Aulander road; while Hertford is
not included in the list. ?
The banner datrict of maaonry
comprising the counties of Wayne,
Lenoir, end Greene, officially styled
the sixth district, will hold a great
educational meeting in Wayne conn- I
ty courthouse at Goldsboro on Au
gust 14. i
The peach crop of the Sandhills
which is usually all marketed by this
time of the season is holding over
until this week and the growers re
port a rapid rise in prices.
Patrlach* of the Grand Encamp
ment of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows in North Carolina from
all sections of the State journeyed
to Raleigh thij week for a two-days
(session of the grand encampment
which was held in the Odd Fellows
hall of that elty.
The Tobacco Growers Go-operative
Association has won a complete vic
tory in its first injunction hearing
in South Carolina last Saturday,
when Judge Shipp, in the Florence
County court, upheld the Association
in all points, strengthening the con
tention of the Co-ops of all the to
bacco grown upon the lands of the
landlord members must be delivered
to their own Association.
The country store of Z. A. Jack
son near the Baylief School twelve
miles northwest of Raleigh was
wrecked by a charge of dynamite a
short while after midnight last Thurs
day, followed by the receipt of a let
ter by Mrs. Jackson signed "K. K.
K."
Ernest M. Green of New* Bern was
elected President of the Atlantic A
North Carolina Railroad at the meet
ing of the new board of directors and
stockholders held in Morehead City
last Thursday. Mr. Green succeeded
Dr. J. F. Patton, also of New Bern:
Summones were filed in seven suite
against fanners in Martin county on
last Thursday by the Tobacco Grow
ers Co-operative Association, and al
so three by the Cotton Growers Co
operative Association. .
The annual North Carolina Negro
Farmers' Congress came to a close
in .Greensboro last Thursday night
with an address by Dr. J. H. Walker
of the North Carolina Sanitorium,
telling the negroes of the plans now
being made for the erection of a hos
pital for negroes infected with tu
berculosis.
Preparations are being made for
the annual celebration of Virginia
Dare day August 18 at Old Fort in
Roanoke Island.
For the first time in the history of
88 summer sessions at the State Uni
versity the register books show that
there are more men registered than
women.
Indications are that North Caro
lina will produce 6,633,000 bushels
of wheat this year according to a
statement issued last Friday by the
Statiscian for the State Department
of Health.
"If I raise all this fuss about a
temporary borrowing of five million
dollars to be liquidated in a few
months by surplus uncollected reve
nue, I want to know it and I want
the people of the State to know it,"
declares A. J. Maxwell, Corporation
Commissioner, in reply to a state
ment issued by Governor Morrison
who places all the. blame for the fuss
on Mr. Maxwell's shoulders.
In Raleigh, September 5, represen
tatives of the Standard Oil Company,
Texas Oil Company and the Indian
Refining Company and other compan
ies distributing gasoline in North Ca
rolina will 'meet in conference with
attorney general James S. Manning,
in lieu of a summons issued by the
latter who is seeking to lower the ra
tes charged for gasoline in the State.
Governor Morrison in a thousand
word statement issued from Ashe
viUe last Wednesday says that while
there was a deficit in cash of five mil
lion dollars on December 81, 1922
there was no deficit in revenues le
vied; and alleges that the gentlemen
who made this attack upon the finan
cial policies of the State are dealing
in misleading intellectual gymnastics
and that the leaders in the deviltry
know it.
The budget for the city of Greens
boro calls for an outlay of $247,
500 and .for part of the money there
will come permanent improvements
and enlargements. A bond issue ol
$190,000 to provide fqr fire protec
tion is included. l
The dates for the annual conten
tion of the North Carolina Divisioi
of the United Daughters of the Con
federacy which is to be held in th?
city of Greensboro has been changed
from October 10-18 to Otober 8-9.
Duncan C. Mangum, who was rur
down by a bicycle in Raleigh on?
day last week, died from the injuriei
received in a hospital in that city.
$33,410,780 is the tentative valua
tion of all real and personal pro pert]
in Davidson county.
Alumni of the University of Nortl
Carolina banqueted at New York Ct
ty last Thursday night at the hote
Breboort, at the aaeond gathering o!
the year, and elected John Gordoi
Battle as its president.
More than 6,000 homes represent
Ing an investment of more than $15
000,000 were built in North Carolina f
in the year ending April SO, through d
the agency of building and loan asso
ciations and the total savings in the e
associations amounted to more than t
forty thousand dollars, according to j,
a report of Stacey W. Wade, Insur- (
ance Commissioner for the State. <j
Checks ranging in sis# from $10 f
to $300 were distributed this week t
to members of the New Bern Potato h
Association representing the profits
of the first season of co-operative
marketing of potatoes.
Numerous complaints have been c
made of red spiders doing damage to ?
cotton in Wilson, Bertie, Halifax and 1
Warren counties, according to Frank
lin Sherman, chief entomologist of 0
the State Department of Agriculture. ^
Heavy frosts during the months of *
March and Apirl cut down the yield *
of fruit in this State to levels that '
have not been approached in years, 1
siy reports from State Department 1
of Agriculture at Raleigh. ?
People are becoming more inter
ested in the Eastern Carolina Cham
ber of Commerce each day, reports
indicate. All over the State the pub
lic is becoming acquainted with the
kind of work being done, and the
plans being laid for future develop
ment of this section.
City officers of Shelby and oounty
officials of Cleveland in which Shelby
is located seemed to have started
something when they decided to dig
deep wells on the courthouse lawn.
Real gold has been found in the hard
granite rock through which the well
diggers' bits were slowly passing.
The resolution of the Wake coun
ty commissioners providing that any
loan made from the county sinking
fund should be made with the ap
proval of the board is not an innova
tion and contemplates merely the
performance of functions required
by the county board, according to a
statement recently made by the coun
I ty attorney to Miss Lewis, the treas
urer for Wake County,
i Last year there was a bumper crop
! of hay, say officials of the Departs
> ment of Agriculture. Especially was
this treu in the coastal counties, they
- state.
r Challenging the authority of the
former Commissioner of Revenue, A.
> D. Watts, now resigned, to allow a
- rebate to Liggett A Myers and the
1 American tobacco companies upon
f their property * located in Durham
i county, William S. Markham, former
tax agent for the county, has filed an
- action in the superior court to secure
, a mandamus to fdrce restoration of
13,042,808, the amount of the re
action in valuation made.
"It is time to call a halt in the ev
r increasing burden of taxation that
hreatens to arrest if not actually to
mpair the boasted progress of North
Carolina in the last twenty years,"
ieclared Josiah William Bailey of
laleigh in an address made before
he State Real Estate Convention
ield in Wrightsville this week.
A record breaking trucking season
or southeastern Carolina is just now
losing according to information
fathered from officials of the Amer
can Express Company.
Delegates to the annual convention
>f the North Carolina division of the
American Federation of Labor con
vened in Greensboro last Monday, at
asked what they termed the long
tours of labor in the State and de
nanded eight hours by law and 48
tours per week.
OPEN NOSTRILS! END
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