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? j STATE NEWS ?fflN DIGEST q,1 i?? ?? . . - ?" Alleging aristrocratic and unfair treatment by L. E. Anderson, super intendent of the workers in High land Parks Mill No. I, of the High land Park Manufacturing Company, located at North Charlotte, local 12 16 United Textile Workers of Ameri ca last Friday night voted 136 to 6, L to call a strike in that mill, the date of walkout has not been decided on. Mrs. Babe A thins and her twelve year old daughter, Minnie, were in stantly killed by lightning at their ' fcj home six miles from Mount Airy on last Friday afternoon. Unless Governor Cameron Morri son suffers a radical change of atti tude, there will be no special session of the General Assembly until early in 1624, to hear the report of the Committee on Water Transportation. The Governor is satisfied that there is no need for worry over the state's finances, regardless of the assaults that have been made upon it, lead by Corporation Commissioner Allen J. Maxwell. The trial of Dr. L. B. McBrayer, head of the State Sanitorium for tu berculosis, who was recently indicted for trading with himself as head of the institution will not be tried in the superior'court until the November term. The trustees of the Sanitorium recently raised Dr. McBrayeris an nual salary to |6,000. A distressing accident occurred at the Little River bridge on the Raleigh road near Goldsboro last Friday night when Garland Russell, 25 years old, car inspector fbr the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, dived from a tree into a strip of water fess than six feet deep and broke his neck. Death was instant Harry Adams, insurance agent of Raleigh, has been elected (Patriot governor of North Carolina Kiwan . tans. A closer co-operation between the State College Experiment Station, and the Extension Service of the State Department of Agriculture is urged by president of State College, at a recent meeting at Ralegh raised his salary one thousand dollars. lieutenant Governor William B. Cooper was indicted last week by a federal officer for attempting to de fraud the stockholders of the defunct National Commercial Bank, of Wil mington, of which he was formerly president He is not cut on a bail of five thousand dollars. His brother is also under indictment on a similar charge, and had to pay ten thousand dollars for bail. The Lieutenant Gov ernor says he will not resign his state office until after the trial, and con tends that politics is behind his ar rest by the republican federal offi cers. Over 2,000 tobacco farmers of Mar tin and ajoining counties will gather in Kinston for a great celebration and picnic on Friday. The Republican party of North Ca rolina has said to President Coolidge that he is all right, according E. E. Britton, Washington correspondent for the Raleigh News A Observer. State Republican chairman Bramham of Durham, and Colonel Ike Meekins, prominent republican of the State, called on the new president one day last week, and came out of rite con ference praising the new executive very highly. They say they are well j pleased with the appointment of Bas- . com Slemp, of Virginia, as Secretary to the President. Former Seantor Ma rion Butler, who is seeking the ap pointment as minister to Mexico, will not land the job. The expenditure of approximately 130,000 for the repair of the State Capitol building has been authorized by the Board of Public Buildings, and contract has been let according to an announcement mode the Other day by Secretary of State W. N. Everett The annual banquet of the Golds boro Merchant's Association with "Boost the Goldsboro Tobacco Mar ket" as its slogan was held in the main dining room cf the Kennon Ho tel last Friday night Warrant for the arrest of Julius Newbern, 24 year old driver of the automobiles that killed three of the Edanton baseball players one day last week, will be served on him as soon as he is discharged frqpi the hospital. He will be tried for manslaughter. The cotton crops throughout Rob eson county will soon be ready for picking, say reports from that see. tion. Harvest will begin by the 25th according to the reports. ,? H. B. Vamer, for over 26 years owner and publisher of the Lexington Dispatch, a semi-weekly newspaper, has retired from the business, having sold his newspaper property to Ernest Cresre, of Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Var ner owns and operates abou 4 moving . picture theaters and will hereafter devote all of his rims to that business. One of the youngest women in \ Robeson county U an old negro J man who is in her ninetieth yesr. She is probably ofte of the oldest colored persons jit the county, and her name is aunt Nancy McNeill. On hundred and nine fires endan gering property to the value of $2, 656,846, with 81,394,776 insurance, cost the State of North Carolina ap proximately a half million dollars in the month of July, according to the monthly figures given out by Stacey W. Wade, Insurance Commissioner. Members of organized growers of tobacco met by the thousands all the way from Pamlico fiver to the moun tains of Caswell and Davidson during the past three weeks. It reached a cli max in Virginia last Friday when Ol iver J. Sands, executive manager of the Association, Congressman Hallet S. Ward, of North Carolina, M. O. Wilson, secretary end James H. Craig treasurer, of the Tobacco Co-opera tive Association, were greeted at Martinsville by a thousand more of the Co-ops. They have received more than 3,000,000 pounds of the crop of 1923, according to figurse given out last week. An appreciably more optimistic view of the business outlook was ap eraptn etaoni shrdlu vbgkqj shrdlug parent in New York financial circles according to an announcement from there o'n Monday of this week. ' Variation in the theme of the edi rial chorus on whether Lieutenant Governor W. B. Cooper should resign or shbuld not resign is provided in a leading editorial of the Winston-Sa lem Journal of last Saturday. When a Guilford 'County superior court jury .awarded one thousand doL lars for the loss af an arm in a mill, the judge overruled athe verdict as to amount of damags, saying that it was enough for one arm. The vanguard of the fall class of applicants for law licenses arrived in Raleigh last Sunday, to take the Supreme Codrt examination which was given on Monday. This was one of the largest classes in recent years. A Norfolk Southren construction force at work on the railroad in New Bern had tb stop work last Saturday for several hours on account of en countering a large nest of buifible ?bees. Except for the annual summer sus pension of operations of cotton mills industrial work in North Carolina has continued through the season with an uninterrupted swing, according to the monthly survey of employment situation throughout tj?e country. People of Pasquotank county have for several days been speculating on the discovery of a vast oyster bed in the ground about six feet, on project No. 122 of the State Highway, lead ing into Elizabeth City. During the past ten days the third generation of boll weevils has made its appearance in the southern coun ties of the State and these added to the surviving yeevils of the first and second generations of weevils have punctured from 40 to 100 per cent of the cotton squares in most cotton fields, states Dr. R. W. Leiby, of the State boll weevil laboratory at Aber deen. Alfred De Mesquita, 26 years old, president of the Fayetteville Publish ing Company, publishers of the Dur ham Sun and Fayetteville Observer, and Sergeant Edward A. Reese, of the 22nd. Aero Squadron, were in stantly killed on Pppe Field at Camp Bragg Monday afternoon when the ship in which they were flying went into a nose dive and fell from 4n el evatlon of about l? feet Judge J. Lloyd Horton has refus ed to grant motion for a change of venue of the trial of G. H. Pittman Who is using the Tobacco Growers Co-operative Association fdr the re covery of his contract on grounds of alleged fraud, but directed that a new jury be drawn in Pitt County superior court. Wtth the Governor returned to Ashevilie, State Treasurer Ben La cy on Monday set about carrying out the authorisation of the Secretary ol Council of State for borrowing one million dollars for sixty days and tide over the state's institutional building program until fiv? million dollacs ir bonds have been marketed. Walter Hines, Ambassador to the Court of Saint James during the re , cent World War, and Secretary J. Bryan Grimes, of the Agriculture department of the State, havsf beer elected to the North Carolina Hal! of Fame. The families of the twc have been invited to attend the pre. sentation of the photos for the Hall The North Carolina Orphanage As sociation will meet at the Methodist Orphanage in Ralpigh on Septpmbei 19, according to announcement of M. L. Shipman, Secretary. Dr. J. E. Heilman, dean of the Ap palachian Training School, has. been named to succeed A. T. Allen as su pervisor of teacher training for the State Department of Education. Charles A. Jones, f'ormer judge of the Municipal Court of Greensboro, died Monday morning from the ef fects of, a pistol wound inflicted by his son-in-law, Clyde F. Tuttle, an advertising man of that city. Active agitation has been curried on to launch the government info the field of crop insurance, but a* report just issued by Department of Agri culture, while emphasizing the ne cessity for crop insurance, does not favor a government agency. LEGAL NOTICE * North Carolina?Hertford County. In The Superior Court J. P. Trent and Lyman Dickerson, partners trading as Trent A Dicker son, Venus W. A. Tschumy, Trading as W. A. Tahumy A Company. Notice of Summons and Warrant of ' Attachment The defendant, W. A. Tshumy above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been com menced in the Superior Court of Hertford County to recover judgment for the sum of 91,393.96; 9383.64 of which is for balance due on account for barrel staves and headings sold delivered to defendant or his order, ?nd 91,900.00 of which ia for breach of contract of purchase of ten car loads -of headings made-in 1931; and the said defendant will further take notice that he ia required to appear at the office of the Cleric of the Super ior Court of Hertford County, in Winton, N. C., on the 27th day of August, 1923, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action or the plaintiffs wil .apply to the Court for the relief therein demanded. And the defendant will further take notice that a warrant of attachment was lo aned in said action against the prop erty of said defendant, which warrant is returnable at the time and place gbove named. This the 30 th day of July, 1923. D. R. McGLOHON, 8-8-28-4L Clark Superior Court NOTICE! I We with to announce that we have par- I chased the HERTFORD AUTO & . MA- I CHINE CO.'S Machine Shop, Ahoskie, N. C. I We hope we have come here to stay I ? We want the public to know we are I at their service Day or Night Anything in the line of 1 MACHINE WORK I ACETYLENE WELDING I GAS ENGINE WORK I , STEAM-ENGINE REPAIR I GENERAL AUTO REPAIRS ! Our Slogan: if it Needs Fang, We an Fit it', I Yours for Service I Ahoskie Machine Works i , bH ; A ^ ' ' Feldman's Bargain Store ? v *? v- , ? ? - i.:S 1 *./ WELCOMES YOU TOBACCO FOLKS with a full line of up-to-date merchandise to dress the entire family from head to foot. We are ready to serve you as we have done for the past, 14 years. > ' ? . . , * ' ;? Jgl .*??? . ?' t - .?,<X ' ' - 1 You Get Two Dollars Worth of Merchandise For One Dollar?See How Far Your Dollar Goes in This Store. ? ! > " ? 5 Ice Cold Lemonade Will be Served Free to All Enter ing This Store on Opening Day, August 30th. . i * Make This Store Your Headquarters Feldman's Bargain Store Newsome's Block AHOSKIE, N. C. | 1 . . ' . ? > . i . . . ?" . < ? * " " (i r ' ? ^ * Barnes - Sawyer Grocery Company, he. r ^ > ? /'' y 1 ' ^ ' * - jt. . ? ' ' fi *' ' j'" ^ T ' ^ * : - j / , - V j" ? . 1 v . *' ?>._ ? - * J WHOLESALE HEAVY AND FANCY GROCERIES - - - We Sell To Dealers Only - - - / AHOSKIE, N. C. I - . We expect to arrive in due time lor fall planting, several cars of RYE?both ROSEN and ABRUZZI. Also TEXAS RED RUST PROOF OATS. . * MR. DELAER We Solicit Your Business.' '??'t'r V- ?'" ?; V ? ' ' .< J By buying them from us, we can save you freight, and you will also get the quickest service from this point ?" 5 ' ! Barnes-Sawyer Grocery Company, Inc. J j #
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