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None ear* m honest to goodness
Ter Heel could ever get North Caro
lina geography straight, says Dr.
; J. Henry Highsmith in the late bulle
tin issued by the State Department of
Education.
It is estimated that more than
? 1,000 people attended the 100th
birthday celebration near Yadkinville
f of William Raevis to do honor to him
j jand his vfite who will be 07 years of
age in December. They haVe lived
together for more than 71 years.
Realising and apreciathig the
* many wonderful attractions North
Carolina posseases, the business and
[professional women are preparing to
^ have an exhibit to be held in the
'Commodore Hotel, New York City,
September 24 to 20.
A. G. Oliver, State Poultry Exten
sion Age^t, has gone and done it He
has gathered together some $2,700 in
; prises for the poultry division of the
! North Carolina State Fair, to say
I nothing of $(00 that is offered mem
.?bers of the boys and girls poultry
t clubs.
With nearly a quarter of million
members, cotton co-operatives of the
Southern states begin the new mar
keting season with bright prospects,
according to General Manager U. B.
Blalock, of the North Carolina Asso
ciation. .. ?.?. ?
?j Monday was a great day for White
ville. Their $100,000 school build
jing recently constructed was dedicat
ed with, very impressive exercises.
More tH|n five hundred children gath
ered there for the opening day.
Walter Johnson, of Albemarle,
and Joe Finney of Clinton, S. C., were
| instantly killed at Albermarle when
the cable to one ?f the steam shovels
operated by the AshevMe Paving
Company broke and caused the ahovel
which was filled 'with crushed stones
to fell on the two men.
An altogether optimistic view of
the effectiveness of prohibition, was
expresaed by'Judge J. Lloyd Hottaft,
of Farmville, in his charge to the
grand jury at the convening of the
superior criminal court at New 9arn
N. James Rouse, Kinaton candidate
for the seat in Congress from the
JSecond District, may be nominated in
the first primary, say Us mends hi
his home tow*. , ??'''L* fr*
A spectacular show stayed by Army
airmen over the famous graveyard
of ship. otT the Shoali at Cape Stat
teras last week marked the beginning
of scrapping of American warcrm'ft,
required under the naval limitation
treaty negotiated at Washington.
The State Department has been ad
vised by wireless from Consul Dick
over at Kobe that Elisabeth Dodeoa,
of Khwtoit, wa* killed in the Japan
ese earthquake,
"We value all of the large rait
roads of the State at a much higher
valuation than can be obtained by
any means other than putting a Ugh
value on franchises," declaims R. A.
Doughton, State Revenue Collector.
The long, lank shadow of Henry
Ford fell athwart the meditations of
the State Water Transportation Com
mission in session at Raleigh this
week. It came through a rumor that
Ford would develop Southport termi
nals by acquiring property there and
building a railroad. Monday was the
- day for the Southport representatives
to have their say so before the Com
mission.
High oflUcials of State and Nation
met at Concord yeaterday to take
in the dedication of the new Cannon
Building at the Stat# Training Sehool
for Indigent boys.
Duplin county witnesed another
exhiUtion of the Ku Khu Klan whan
Wallace Klan No. 88 staged a big
parade and a public initiation cere
money on Monday. Twenty-eight
candidates were initiated into the
mysteries of the Invisible Empire.
Dr. Archibald Henderson, profes
sor of Mathematics in the University
of North Carolina, Just back from a
trip to New York and other points
North, has confirmed the report that
he has been offered the presidency of
the University of Oklahoma, hut was
reluctant to discuss the details of the
proposition, which caried an annual
salary of $10,000.
Final approval for tha plans of the
new municipal building to be located
in Hamlet, to cost between $34,000
and $49,000, was made at last week's
meeting of the town commissioners.
Approximately 2,(00 automobiles,
trucks, motorcycles and wagons pass
ed over the smooth surface of the
Greensboro-High Point highway, ac
cording to an estimate made by State
Highway Commissioner J. Elwood
Cox, in the course of one day.
This month marks the anaiversary
of the first war aver fought on North
Carolina soil, with regular pitched
battles and heavy caaualities. The
strife has been almost forgotten, says
a Kinston correspondent, who tells of
t
the tribe BSE Indiana, . Tuacaroras,
fighting battle* along the Roanoke
and Neuee river*.
Rocky Mount on Monday enter
tained Atlantic Coaat line traffic rep
resentatives more than a hundifed
strong, who visited that city as part
of their tour of inspection over the
Coast Line system.
A fprty-llve thousand dollars new
high school building is being dedi
cated in Garner, near Raleigh, todpy.
Thirteen ^yesrs ago Elisabeth City
held seventh place in population
among cities in North Carolina. To
day her rank is fifteenth. Lack of
community spirit has held the town
ba?k in .everything, say* Walter L.
Cahoon, prominent "attorney and a
representative of the State Highway
j Comisalon. ^
While the erection of the buildihg
j for tho Methodist Protestant Collage
goes forward Jn Greensboro, commit
tee* are'at work on the task of se
lecting a president for the college,
and arranging courses of stndy. ?
Total collection# from January 1st
to this date of M.000,000 has been
(announced by Commissioner of Rev
| enue R. A. Doughton.
North Carolina school children*'
(memorial to Charles Brantley Ay
cock, the governor who laid the foun
dation for the State's system of pub
i Ik schools, will be unveiled with im
pressive ceremonies on Capitol square
in Raleigh on November 1.
1 The Tobaoco Growers Co-operative
Association established new high
records in deliveries for this season
during the part week, when over
aeyen and a half .million pounds
reached "the co-operathre warehouses
in the South Carolina eastern belt*.
Old Trinity College in which a
state high school has bden maintained
for many years at Old Trinity in
Randolph County has been condemn
ed as unaafe by the State Insurance
and Fire Department.
Though hu touring car was com
pletely demolished when it was hit a
broadside and dragged 100 yards up
the track by % Norfolk-Southern
freight train near New Bern, Louis
Thomas at that city, foreman of a
mill, atepped from hia machine at jthe
end of his ride without a scratch.
Unusual honor haa come to
Forrest Chambers Feasor, of Lexing
ton, who has been elected to a f?U
felowship in WHHana-Jewell College
at -Liberty, Mo. He has been made
head of the College Bible school.
The thirty-sixth session of the
Uniee^tiy's summer school which
canje tp a closer last week has surpass
ed records in attendance Sbd
amount and quality of work accom
President Calvin Ceolidge will not
bi able to accept an invitation ex
tended by the Elizabeth City Cham
ber of Commerce and fair association
to speak at the Albemarle Fair at
Elizabeth City.
Wake county's internal discord
Which wty precipitated last week by
criticism by the county commission
en of the manner in which the county
sinking fund has been loaned to in
dividuals took another tarn last Sat
urday when County Auditor Henry
G. Holding and Miss Lottie E. Lewis,
treasurer, joined hands and stopped
ail outgo of funds.
Wilson was again winner in the
Virginia Baseball League this year,
winning by one lone point over
Richmond, Va.
Davidson College began its fall
session today, Thursday.
"Undoubtedly much money has al
ready been wasted in North Carolina
this year in needles and ineffective
attempt to combat the boll weevil,"
says Franklin 8herman, chief of the
State Department of Entmology.
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RESOLUTIONS
a On the afternoon of August Slat,
the soul of Ethel Ward Hines passed,
from earth to heaven to enter that
eternal bliaa that God ha* in More for
Ms loved ones. She was- born and;
reared in this little town, and grew
to womanhood among the friends of
her childhood. She became the wife
of Ay P. Hines early in life and
three children bleased the unibn, one
died in infancy, and she has left be
hind to mourn the loss of a mother,
a boy aged steal and an infant of
nine months. Moat of her life was
spent in the town of her birth, hut
about two years ago she and her hus
band moved to Greenville, N. C.,
where she made new friends and be
came much interested in church work
and the growth of the town. Follow
ing the wish of her Confedesate an
cestors, she joined the Hertford
County Chapter of the U. D. C., and
was a most faithful member.
So BE IT RESOLVED: ?
1. That we bow in humble submis
sion to God's wiU.
2. That we mourn the loss of oar
departed co-owrker.
8. That we implore God's mercy
and guidance on her family.
4. That we send a copy of these
resolutions to members of her family,
a copy to our county paper for pub
lication and spread upon our minutes.
MRS. EDWARD JONES,
MRS. H. B. JONES,
> MRS. J. N. CLARK,
MRS. R. C. BRIDGER.
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