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STATE NEWS IN DIGEST v D Printed copies of the audit of the State'* Financial Condition which hat been prepared at the instance of the last General Assembly were distri buted to county officials and news papers of the State this week. More additional salaries were lop ped off the income of Dr. L. B. Mc Brayer, leaving him only the >5,000 paid as superintendent of the State Tuberculosis Sanitorium, and approx imately >1,000 paid to him as post master when the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association in its an nual meeting dropped him from its pay roll. He had been receiving >1,200 from them annually. Bringing their unit prices down to ; the level of the bids submitted by Edwards A Broughton of Raleigh, three other printing shops in that city were given a share of the State printing for this year. The State will ? save approximately >28,000 by the new contract As it happened the first new bale of cotton of this season was brought in at Clayton by the same party that sold the first new bale last year. It , sold last year for 28 5-8, and this year it sold for 25 1-8 per pound. A. J. Maxwell, whose controversy t with Governor Morrison over wheth er North Carolina had a deficit of , more than five million dollars or not, , says the controversy is dead so far as ? he is concerned. The governors of Alabuma, Geor- j ] git, .South Carolina, Tennessee, Ar-11 kansas, and Missouri have joined < forces in the co-operative marketing , movement, and have issued procla mations says T. W. Chambliss, di- j 'rector of publicity. Governor Morri son of North Carolina is the only ' southern governor who has not en- ( dorsed the movement. United Sates Judge Henry G. Con- , nor continued the hearing on motion alleging of fraud on the part of , Lieutenant Governor Cooper and his ] brother, Thos. E. Cooper, who baa ] also been prominent in political cir cles. , Confederate veterans of every sec- , tion of North Carolina have arrived j in Winston-Salem for the annual , reunion which opened at the Robert , E. Lee Hotel Tuesday morning. Angler B. Duke, son of Benjamin ] Duke, tobacco manufacturer, was j drowned at Greenwich, Coml, when a email boat upeet there Monday. He was heir to the large Duke estate. He leaves two children by a divorced wife. With wheat and corn selling in the main below the cost of production, agricultural conditions in the Mid dle West are unusually distressing, according to C- C. Kilpatrick, presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce at New Bern. Tragedy has stalked abroad in Sampson county lately. Elliatt Sykes, son of Dr. Sykes of Salemsburg, a promising youth of 17, is dead as the consequence of a dive from a log in a swimming hole near his home. His spinal column was broken. Johnston county farmers turned out in full force Monday and gave a rousing reception to Congressman H. S. Ward, who was there speaking to them in support of the co-operative marketing of crops. His speech was highly endorsed by the farmers at tending. "The State is the only corporation I know of operating without capital," Secretary of the State W. N. Everett has said. "I do not see why it would not be a good idea for us to borrow about $6,000,000, and provide a sinking fund to retire the debt." Fire in the pad plant of the Thom ssvillc Chair Company practically de stroyed the machinery there Saturday night The loss is estimated at $100, 000, with insurance to cover more than half the amount. With requests for reservations pouring into Rocky Mount hotels from legionairres all over the State, the housing committee of the Cole man-Pitt Post of the American Leg ion is making a survey of the avail sble homes in the city, to take care of the visitor* who will be there at the annual meeting September 12 and 13. Complete entertainment plans have been made for welcoming to Rocky Mount nsxt Sunday the traf fic representatives of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The Southport Chamber of Com merce has been granted the 11th and 12th of this month as the day* for submitting its brief to the State Porta Commission, which will have a hearing on those dates. Emphatic denial that any attache [>f the State Department of Revenue eras taking any hand in the Congress ional campaign in the Second District to far as his knowledge goes was made by Revenue Commissioner R- O. Ooughton, Tuesday. There were re ports of activity among revenue agents working for former solicitor R G. AlUbrook. Wffl' C. Cotten, prosperous farmer of Barton'* Creek township in Wake county, is in the county jail without bail, charged with the murder of his son-in-law, Milton Woodlief. Members of the tobacco and cotton growers co-operative associations in the lower end of Nash county and from Wilson and Johnston counties heard at Bailey last Saturday what is believed to be the most senMbha talk en the movement ever delivered there. S. F. Austin of Nashville talk ed to the growers. Five hundred and seventy-three new rural school buildings, $14,042, 446.58, and more than one hundred city school buildings costing $11,264, 000, altogether more than seven hundred structures, costing twenty five million dollars, have been erect ed in North Carolina during the past two years, according to the annual report just issued. Mallie H. Griffin', former represen tative of Wake county in the General Assembly, and prominent banker of Wendell, died in Richmond last Sat urday. Mr. Griffin was one of the foremost fighters against the tobacco growers co-operative marketing asso ciation last year. The fourth annual session of the Baptist Sunday School superintend ents conference will be held in the First Baptist church in Shelby, Sep tember 9 to 11th, and with the First Baptiat church at Dunn, September 12th to 14th. Declaring that he intended to put a stop to false swearing on the wit ness stand, so far as his courts were concerned, Judge N. A. Sinclair last Thursday ordered into custody four witnesses who had appeared in cases before the court and directed that they be held under bond on the charge of perjury. With an overflowing attendance, State College opened at Raleigh Tues day, September 4th. A landslide to the tobacco growers association is declared to have taken place in the two Carolines recently, according to reports just issued from i the office of C. O. Dixon, manager of the Association. Enfield tobacco warehouses opened last Thursday selling 58,000 pounds of tobacco at an average of 21 cents | per pound. Following hard upon the heels of j the High School building at Baylief, in Wake County, which was' preced ed by 1 a threatening letter signed "K. K. K.", another communication has been addressed to Frank Fowler, special police officer at Wendell, ask ing him to leave the county at once. Bulletin* issued lately by the State ,' Corporation Comission Mt September 17 a* the day and hour of the hear ing on the leaae of the Carolina, CUnchfleld, and Ohio Railroad, to the Atlantic Coast line and Louisville A Nashville Railroad. ? Courthouse circles at Lexington ore agog over the audit of the books of the county for 1018 to the begin ning of the present year. Some sen sations are expected. Four counties will be united by a bridge which residents of Davidson, Montgomery, Stanley and Rowan counties within a radius of fifteen or twenty miles are seeking to have placed across the Yadkin river at Stokes ferry at a point where the four counties join. Valuation of railroad property in North Carolina has been reduced to about ten million dollars, accord ing to the figures for the next four years. SALE OF LAND Under the power and authority contained in the last will and testa ment of Isaac Newsome, deceased, which will and testament has been admitted to probate before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Hertford County, North Carolina; I will offer for sale at public auction at the U. S. Postofflce door in Ahoskie, N. C., the following described lands, vis: That certain tract of land in Hert ford county, state of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of W. B. Dilday, Lawrence Askew and others and bounded as follows: Beginning at the Pitch Landing road on W. S. Dilday** line then running S. 69 W. 194 poles to the New road to a pine and gum, thence N. 19 E. 17 poles, thence N. 24 E. 22 poles, thence N. 17 E. 24 poles along the line to new corner at a small pine, thence N. 70 1-9 E. to Pitch Landing road at Tuscary Branch between small gums, thence S, 31 1-2 E. along the road to the first station, containing by survey fifty acres, more or less. It being the land conveyed by WOloughby and wife to Isaac Newsome, Book 1L, page 37, of Register of Deeds, Hert ford County. Time of sale?Saturday, Septem ber 29th, 1928, at 8 o'clock, p. m. Place?In front of U. S. Pom Of fice door, Ahoskie, N. C. Terms of sal*?Cash. . * This August 30th, 1928. JOHN H. NEWSOME, Executor. W. R. JOHNSON, Attorney. 669 quickly relieves constipation, biliousness, headaches, colds and la irpr //^ENROLIS ? 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