I iiiiMiMMiTiiIiinf [ STATE NEWS [ IN DIGEST | Independent distributor* of gas oline appearing before Attorney Gen eral James ?. Manning dt Raleigh Monday brought with them charges supported by voluminous files of affi davits that the Standard Oil Company had set out to crush not only the in dependent distributors but to drive Overy independent retailer in the en tire State out of business. The attor ney general heard the evidence and announced that he would give the results of the finding* within a fnr day. ^ Stopping his car perfunctorily, in compliance with the grade crossing (aw, and there stalling it with the front wheels across the track, Harry Barnes was ground tie pieces under the wheels of a Southern passenger train, three miles east of Clayton on last Sunday. "I will place the matter in the Ju risdiction of the solicitor of this dis trict," stated Mrs. Kate Burr John Son, State Commissioner of Public Welfare, when asked this week what would be her attitude should th* Wayne county commissioners carry out their reported intention of lit 'storing the State Department in re fusing to approve the election of Fred R. Mints as county Superintendent Of Public Welfare. A petition declaring J. Dave Nor wood, of Salisbury, and former bead Of the State Democratic Executive Committee, bankrupt, and asking the Ji|dge of the Western North Csroli ' na Federal District Court likewise to ddelare him b&nksupt has been filed I , in the Federal Court at Greensboro. > Two bootleggers in Goldsboro pro fessed religion at a revival meeting held there at Brysn Street Baptist church last week. A young man identified as Sufua Nunn, Atlantic Coast Line agent at GdrlahS, was the victim of a strange eate of fiowtiliig at White Cake, near ' Fayettevilie, on Sunday. Nunn's bo dy was found standihg straight up under the water stuck in the mud. It is stated his home is at Pilot Moun ts*, Poison whiskey or too much whis key was the cause ascribed by Dr. .C. JB. Wilkereon, Wake County phy sician, to the death of J. Armand i Bailey, white farmer who died by the side of" the Fayettevilie road about eight miles out of Raleigh Sunday. , President Calvin Coolidge will be - unable to attend the celebration in . eident to the establishment of the Bennett Memorial at Durham during the mo^tfc of October, according to ? letter received by William .G. Prem ium, chairman of the Republican par ty in North Carolina. . Damage estimated at 110,090 was caused by dynamite to the partially completed Corinth-Holder school near Wendell last Sunday. It is thought it was due to controversy oveV the lo cation of the school. A. CI Carter, farmer of nea# Jack son Springs, claims the distinction of having the heaviest layer among the Rhode Island Red b: ;ed of chick ens. He has found an egg in one of his nests that was eight inches in cir cumference and 7 1-1 jnih.m the oth er way around. ^ What are thought to be the first boil weevils tq make their appearance in Currituck County have been sent to the State Department of AgricUl The lonesome* time a person could ?pend in this part of the country I would be a term in the Jones county jail. The little prison at Trenton is a place prepared for abode where no person abides. The most unused bus til e in North Carolina is the way the sheriff of the county dubs it. There have been only two prisoners there Since last April. In Kenanaville, $43,000 worth of jail bonds have been sold to complete the building already begun. 1 An important meeting of the Ex ecutive Committee of the North Ca rolina Agricultural Society is being ,leld at Raleigh today to arrange offi cial dates for the State Fair and lay the foundation for the 1923 fair. TQher Ol# Eaat Dormitory at the University of North Carolina, dated jirom 1798, the first State University hallding put up in the United State*, will be saved. Cooper A Bush, the oldest and lar gest cotton merchants in New Eng land, with home offices in Boston, are 'coming to North Carolina to do bus inert: They will locate at Charlotte. Eighty-two applicants for license to practice law in North Carolina suc cessfully negotiated the Supreme Court eaamination held in Raleigh August 20. There were 93 to tcke the examination. s ( i. * Farmers of EastCM North Carolina PXTC ?&%??? utonst ration in fuvor of co-opetutive Congressman H. S. Ward afld Paul Friielle spoke in behalf of the or ganisation. i Resolations asking for the balance of 1388,000 appropriated by the N. C. General Assembly for the Cullo wee Normal and Industrial School at Jackson Springs was adopted at a meeting of the board of trustees with | Governor Morrison and Secretary of State W. N. Everett, and State Super intendent of Public Instruction, A. T. , Allen, held at the Govenor'a office at Grove Park Inn, Asheville, last Fri day. Despite the absence of the Bladen Robinson group of stockholders of the Dixie Fire Insurance Company of 1 Greensboro from the meeting of the , directors, a six percent dividend was 1 voted by the directors, August 28. In Laurlnburg cotton is opening rapidly, two bales making the first for the season has been gathered by Mrs. W. C. Cooper. r , , In Asheville, August 24, an annual meeting of the State Association of County Commissioners adopted a res olution recommending that the legie- j tative committee take steps to have the General Assembly amend the law to eliminate stopping at crossings, | when there are no obstructions or j factory or station switches. 1 According to the tentative program 1 arranged for the 1928 reunion of the 1 N. C. division of the United Confed erate Veterans, the two cheif ad- ( duties Will be made by General Wll-j| liam B. Haldeman of Louisville, Commander in Chief of the United! Confederate Veterans, and Bfajor Gi-r ies P. Cook of Matthews Courthouse,!' Ya., the reunion tp be held in Win- 1 stomSalem September 4. The Tobacco Growers Co-Opera tive Associatoin won an unexpected i victory when a Pitt county jury de- < c la red that Henry Q. Pittman of Falk land, was not induced to sign Ms contract by fraud. Judge J. Lloyd 1 Horton thereupon signed 4 judgement that the Pitt man was bound by his contract and that plaintiff pay the costs of the ajtion. Notice of appeal . to Supareme court was made. There j are 110 other similar cases to be heard at some later date. Dividends paid on capital stock by State banks in North Carolina June 30, totaled 32JgS,859.41 and during the fiscal year ending the past averaged 9 percent, 4 percent mbre than dividends paid by state banks during the previous year, which ac cording to figures were $1,392,926.67 according to" a statement of the re sources of 534 state banks in N. C. including 57 branches completed and nounced August 25 by Clarence La tham; Chief Shite Bank Examiner. roiowing the arrest of E. V- i Pearce, attendant at thf N. C. State Hospital for the Insane, 1:*, 4-10| Fkl- ' IppUni 1:4-14. GOLDEN TEXT?"I prom to word tho nark (or tb? prtno of thn high calling ?f God In Chrlnt Josus."?FhlL 1:14. REFERENCE MATERIAL?Romans l ll:i?-li; O Cor. 11:1-11. PRIM ART TOPIC?How Fool Bo same a Christian. JUNIOR TOFIO?Pool the MlMten "^INTERMEDIATE AMD SENIOR TOF IO?Paul the Dotantlesa. TOUNQ PEOPLE AMD ADULT TOPIC ?Paul'* Contribution to Chrlatlaalty. Paul's asm* stand* second to nans la the nana la of history. Hie story at His life la of perennial Interest. I. His Birth. (v. S cf. Phil. 8:1T), He was born in Tarsus of par* He brew stock. He copld with legitimate pride boast of godly ancestry. It Is highly important that each generation should so lire that no hanriloegs be placed upon their children. II. His Home Training. (3:0). His parents were pious people and carefully reared htm according to Jew ish standards. Moat religions leaders spring out of such homes; for example, Moses, Samuel, Timothy. Stern prin ciples of integrity were inculcate! in him thus giving him strength of char acter to Impress the world. He was strongly attached to the peculiarities at the Jewish religion. The heroes which molded his life were such men as Joseph, Moses, David, Isaiah lutes d of Achilles, Hercules and UlySsee. III. His Education. (Acts 3:8). 1?His Patriotism. He was brought up to love his nation. He proudly af firmed. MI am a Jew." Paul was a nationalist of the true type. Children should he taught to love their nation. 3?A Love for the Bible. The Scrip tures were to him the very Ward of God. What was found written therein was the final word for Him. Laos ef love for the Bible and implicit faith therein la a tragedy. 8?Zealous for God. (Acts ISA). The word seaktas literally means To bolL" Zeal without knowledge la bet ter than no seal at all. 4?Conscientious. HI* >S|SUisi aim was to possess a conscience void of offense. Conformity to the dictates of conscience Is demanded. It is the lew of life for every men that because of the blight of aln the conscience needs, to be taught by God?* Word. ?-n? una ? Trade, kjvery Jowion boy, regardless of his father's wealth, was taught a trade, It was a saying among them that, "Ha Who Allied to teach his son a trade, taught him to steal." This would be a good plan in our modern days. IV. Hie Conversion. (Acts 22.0-10). 1?On the Way to Damascus, (v. 6), He was the enemy of Christ and was on bis way to Damascus authorized to br\ng bound such Christians as might be found to Jerusalem to be punished. While on this Journey he had time tor reflection and conscience began to work. 2?A Light from Heaven.