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| DOINGS IN THE ;j ii TAR HEEL STATE i* ' > i »♦♦»»♦♦♦<»<»<»<»»>&♦» g**#*^**; | !! NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA .. !! TOLD IN SHORT PARA ;; GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE o ♦ Rocky Mount.—Offerings on the lo cal tobacco market the past week, to taled 1.505,040 pounds, bringing the total sales for the season up to 5.796, 667 pounds as compared with 4,S77, 582 up to the same date last year. Charlotte.—J. Black, of Mount Holly, died at the Charlotte Sanatorium a few minutes after he was brought here. He fell from a two-story building un der construction in Mount Holly and sustained a fractured skull. Winston-Salem—Professional men, including physicians, lawyers, chiro practors, opticians and dentists, suf fered heavy losses when an early morning fire gutted the second floor o fthe Woolworth Building in the cen ter of the city. Bethel.—Mrs. Emma Eliza Johnson was run over here and instantly kill ed by Hugh Highsmith. An inquest was held and the jury returned the verdict that Mrs. Johnson was killed by Highsmith’s driving recklessly and exceeding the speed limit. * Apex.—With the greater Western Wake Fair less than two weeks off and with "Red” Kearns, fair promoter •xtxraordinary, working in high gear, indications point to the biggest avent ever staged in Apex when the exhibits are in place October 9. Angier. -—• Malie Matthews, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Mat thews, picked 221 pounds of cotton in 8 1-2 hours. The child is 10 years old. One of the smaller daughters picked 124 pounds by dinner. She is eight years old. Spencer.—Following injuries sus tained Sunday night when struck by an automobile driven by Quinn Thom as, a young white man from Winston Salem, Mrs. T. H. Waller, aged ^ 71 years, died at her home in East Spencer. She had been in a precarious condition since the accident. Clarkton.—Mrs. Cam Smith, of Clarkton, died in th| Baker sanator ium, Lumberton, from injuries she re ceived when the Fill'd touring car in which she and her husband and four children were riding turned over, pin ning her underneath. Oxford.—The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hobgood, of Enon, was killed. The child climbed non -he wheel of a wagon his father " g The cules moved off. ausing the child to fall under the -vpoi.s which passed over his body, brought at once to the Brant > d hospital here, but died in a short ”e. • -o—A negro woman and her ed to death here when - laundry plant was de T ey were asleep In the sec g and when the o red the structure ie that efforts of the ive fh,e lives of those c’ laundry plant 00 community in e n asked by W. , t ry o! the Wayne .ation, to hold com :o the county fair, . a.ds bringing to the fair which he’d in Goldsboro the exhibits •d at ’he community gather « iderson.—In addition to General A. J. Bowley, commandant of Fort Bragg, at Fayetteville, officials of the Golden Belt Fair have determined to •ry o have Governor Angus W. Me Gean present for the coming annual fair event in this city, and have issued a formal invitation to the governor to be present. Durham.—Officials in the office of the city building inspector are expect ing to issue in the next two or three days a building permit which will take precedence over all such writs ever issued in North Carolina. Appli cation has already been made for the permit for erection of the Duke Uni versity buildings, but due to a tech nicality a delay was caused. Enfield.—The Methodist Episcopal church of Enfiel received recently a generous gift of $10,000 from one of its members, Mrs Cotoie N. Sherrod, wife of the late W. D- Sherrod, prom inent farmer and business man of Halifax and Martin counties. The do nation was made toward the erection of a new and largeT church building. Morganton.—A patient from the State Hospital who has the freedom ©f the grounds and had gone into a thicket just beyond the hospital to set * squirrel trap made a gruesome dis covery. About 300 yards from the Enola road and on the State grounds lay a pile of clothes and bones, out lining a man’s form and several yards from the body was a skeleton. Dunn.—Dunn district farmers are making good headway with harvest ling the cotton crop, as is indicated by |the sales on the market here. Sales on the open market reached the 600 mark, while more than 5,000 bales of •the new crop have been marketed here to date. I Raleigh.—William Branch Jones, of Raleigh, eon of Armlstead Jones who died Thursday, was named a member of the board of trustees of the sol diers’ home in Raleigh to succeed the older Jones, who was one of the best friend* to the Confederate cause any where incite state. MAY DEVELOP AN OIL FIELD ' Spade Handle Thrust Into Earth, Ignites When Match is Struck To It. Clinton.—Sampson, admittedly on# of the richest and most fertile coun ties in America, may develop a gas [ and oil field, according to Col. T. W. Clawson, of Wilmington, and other reputable geologists who have visited the southeastern section of the county. These experts declare that the syn clinal and anaclinal formations sug gest gas pockets and oil pools and those familiar with the topography of the Butler. Kansas, field, in the north end of the Mid-continent, assert it is almost identically like the local area. While no organized effort has been made to form a company and drill for oil here, indications that gas obtains are nearly tangible. On the farm of S. H. Finch, located in Turkey town ship. five miles from Clinton, gas may be ignited with a match. The demon stration actually was staged when Mr. Finch, accompanied by others, insert ed a spade handle in a portion of over flow land, in the southeast corner of one of his tracts, and withdrew it sud denly near a lighted mach. The re sultant explosion was distinct and the flare plainly observable. Tobacco Prices on Upward Swing. Goldsboro—Although low-grade to- j bacco continues to form the bulk of the offerings on the floors of the three I independent warehouses in Goldsboro, I a condition which has prevailed since the opening of the season early this month, the average price is on the up ward trend, and warehousemen of the city and others are certain that im mediately the growers begin brinigng in larger quantities of good tobacco, the average will advance still further. Friday 57,444 pounds of the golden weed were sold in Goldsboro for $10. "09.35, an average price of $18.47 per hundred pounds. Friday's sales made the total for the week k310.410 pounds, which brought $49,453.76. The season s totals are 1.895,796 pounds, for which the growers have been paid $265,003.28. Wilson Freight Depot Burned. Wilson.—Fire destroyed the Atlantic Coast Line freight depot number two | here, a loss e' .mated at between $75. 000 and $100,000 being sustained. The fire was discovered a few minutes be fore 7 oleoek and was at its height , a few minutes later. The storage depot, a brick building about 150 feet in length, valued at $25,000 and well covered by insurance, was completely destroyed. Nothing but the brick walls remained stand ing. The building was filled with hogsheads of tobacco, it being estimat ed that around 250 of these were in the building. Hundreds of bales of straw and cotton were also stored in the building. These were also totally de stroyed. 20 Women Prisoners Strike. Durham.—Twenty women, incarcer ated in the Durham workhouse, re fused to work, obey orders or act in any manner becoming prisoners. Chief of Police Doby declared that only a small percentage of the women are residents of Durham county but that the majority of them came here from other points and were picked yp by a vigilant police force. Thus far the authorities have been unable to quell the insubordinate spirits of the women. The women are under sen tences ranging from six to 18 months. Dying With Bullet in Head. Asheville.—Edward S. Patton, a life long resident of Swannanoa near here, was found in a dying condition from a bullet wound in the right side of his head .a short distance from his home. Mr. Patton, who was about 60 years of age, lived only a few minutes after he was found, according to officers who made an investigation He had taken two pillows from the house, ap parently, and gone a short distance to a pile of straw at the edge of the yard where he was found a short time later. His sister, Miss Lizzie Patton, with whom he made his home, stated that she saw him leave the house with the pollows but did not see any pistol in his hand although she knew he had I one at the house. Mr. Patton has been in extremely bad health for some time, and it is be lieved that his condition caused him to become depressed. Court House Nearing Completion. Wilson.—Wilson county’s new half million dollar courthouse is nearing completion. The finishing up of the electrical and plumbing work is done. The steel furniture has arrived and is being stored in the building until it can be installed. It is thought that the building will be ready to be occu pied by December 1. Piedmont Tobacco Crop Cut. Winston-Salem—Well-informed to bacco men are inclined to believe that the tobacco crop in the Piedmont sec tion has been cut short at least one third, as a result of the drought this summer. They also figure that with lower prices being paid on other mar kets for the weed, the farmers will not realize more than one-half from this year’s labor, as compared with last year’s crop. The growers are com pl^inining that tobacco is curing up badly. They say there i» very little , cap in it. I ! Mr. Philip S illman, Formerly of Plymouth, Will Be Glad to Greet You Here Would You Care to Make Money? —BWBIBamd—1BgWIEaEfl———BH—HiaBBBggSHimriHlffll—8SgSBIiMI i 1I E23E&33 To those who would care to save money on the r Fall suit, we insist that you visit our store at once ^SPECIAL PURCHASE WHILE IN NEW VORK SEUERAL WEEKS AGO WE MADE A SPECIAL PUR CHASE OF MEN’S SUITS ON WHICH WE CAN SAUE YOU $3 00 TO $10.00 Buy Your Fall Suit Now! ___<._ ^____ -= Our stock is complete, all sizes, all models Suits made by Fashion Park and Michael Stern. Wonderful val ues njw to be offered as low as $19.75 Florsheim Shoes Schoble Hats . K. HOYT WASHINGTON N. C. .nr., .s '• ‘ 'twt n’- ■'*’*)*« ' t • .T-> OMV" SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PRO PERTY Under and by virtue of the au thority conferred upon us in a deed of trust executed by F. I. Hartung and wife, Bertha C. Hartung, on the 18th day of June 1923, and recorded in book 89. page 10 in Washington county; we will on Saturday, the 24th day of October, 1925, at 12 o’ clock, noon, at the court house door in Plymouth, sell at public auction for cash to the highest bidder the following land,to-wit: That certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate lying and being in-township, Wash ington county, 3tate of North Carolina, having such shape, metes, courses and distances as are shown upon a map taken from a survey, which map is on file with the North Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank of Durham, North Carolina, the said land being bounded as follows: On the north by the land of M. Lane, on the east by the land* of E. Burrell, on the south by the lands of M. Smith and on the west by the lands of F. I. Hartung, containing 80 acres, and being the same tract or par cel of land which is described in certificate of title to F. I. Har tung, registered No. 58, recorded in book 2, page 12 in the regis ter’s office of Washington county to which reference is hereby made. This sale is made bv reason of the failure of F. I, Hartung and wife, Bertha C, Hartung, to pay off and discharge the indebted ness secured by said deed of trust to the North Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank of Durham. This the 18th day of Septem THE1 FIRST NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY. TRUSTEE DURHAM, N. C. Wanted SEED COTTON, HIGHEST MARKET PRICES PAID W H. Clark, Clark Peanut Co. Men’s Fall ;Suits HERE THEY ARE, FOR THE MEN WHO BELIEUE IN A FULL SEASON'S WEAR FOR SUITS-THE NEW FALL STYLES AND IN THE SEASON’S MOST POPULAR TONES. WE CANT BEGIN TO DESCRIBE ALL OF THE CLEUER LITTLE TAILORING TWIRLS ON THESE SUITS. WE CAN FURNISH YOU AS CHEAP AS $17.50 We have a wide assortment of the world famous HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES FOR MEN FLORSHEIM SHOES I Winter Blankets and Quilts All Colors, Shades, Weights $1.95 to $17.50 Cahoon Quality Shop
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