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THE STATENEWS A Digest of Things Worih Knowing About Old North State Folks and Things Wiiliani It:?.un: :iu nrphamnre I my (.1' !.*? v'irv u:i- seriously horned I?y eleefrie wires mi tl??? orphanage ?maud. Thetnasville. and lirtle hope ?<f his iwoivr.r is held. The h??v had ?liinhe,) a tower >>f the Southern I 'owe ami tied the string nf his kite t.? 'lie pinnacle and had de scended t.? the ground to watch its movements when it l*"cauie en tangled. he ;iM-end?l the rower to ? ?:>? ntavle the line of the kite and it i- helieied rweived a shock and fell across i InUer wire which fired hi? clothing, inflicting severe hums, i<i hi-: f|??h l>efoi"e and after l?e s riw-fc the ground. Shortly after waiving preliminary! I aria, on charge-, nf ji>?auit ?>n a i f'ts-ale i'id :e>ault with a deadi.i ".am.n. .1 ? ?nrgi*. foriut*r iitirlir ciptain "f Italeigh police. was! ' ii i. ad u Irh assault with intent to ? ntiitilit ra|>?' in a warrant -.Wnrii to tiefore .Justice J. K. Owens. The fearing .va waived liefniv .IllStice K. Lloyd fillet, will) raised li;ir.*i-' l aid tn Slutm wiiile declining to ?rant ropie-t of t!o- private prose cnti'ai that it he raised to SinlKt from -Sno nnder which he lias la-en ince he charge- wciv made Feb ruary .'{. | I, ? Fittv-fonr jieople wpre burned to j de. :k iii Nurtli Carolina last month, jaccording to the Jnnuiiry violent death report of the Ilurenu of Vital Statistics of the State Hoard of Health. It was the first time iu many months that the automobile death total did not lead the list. In j January there were a total of -IS people killed in automobile aor dents, two of which died at rail road grade crossings. ?As a joke, several girls at Flora .McDonald College, in Red Springs, wrote Henry Ford u letter telling him they were hungry and mis treated. The lerter was a joke and J lot gotten, but Ford rook it seri ously and sent a representative to ' Ued Springs to investigate the eon ) ditious at this college. Dr. K. ('. Vardell. president of rlie college has written .Mr. Ford a letter of apology. ?Mystery surrounds the sudden j disappearance of l.'i-yen r-old Julian : WliitMier. son of A. A. (.Miketl Whiteuer. prominent lawyer of j Hickory and one of tin* leading j Republican politicians of the state, who told his mother he might goj to Charlotte with a traveling sales-^ man. last Saturday, ami has not I been found since, it is believed hej has been kidnapped. ?The Hanking Department of the! Corporation Commission mailed t?'?| creditors of the Hank of Helhaven j checks aggregating $21,332.1*. These! checks represent payment in full to; preferred creditors of this hank. I 1 ?thulium is the only oitv in the; vuinli. with the exceptiou of Rich mond. Vn. visited hy Dr. Franz I Rt-rthold and l?r. Ilelmoth Westphal, lU'oininent Herman political econo mists. din ins.' a visit of four weeks i in the Fulled States to study muni cipal administration. They were! advised hy the national institute of public adminiostration to study; Durham's system of government. j ?Although examination hy Dr. li S. King. called when the lifeless ImhI.v of Carl J. Salisbury of Hamil ton. was found on the Wake Forest College campus, resulted in the I theory that the hoy had died from j acute indigestion and it heart at tack, later investigations revealed I that the young student had commit ted suicide. No motive for the deed) could he given hy the youth's friends or instructors. ? The State measles total for 1P2N is now over 2b.?'tn>. it was learned from the Hureau of Kpideiuiology' of the State Hoard of Health. In 1!)27. which was considered a year of measles epidemic, the total for the 12 months was .''.2uo!mi. If theI epidemic continues at its present j rate, and there is no sign of abate ment. according to health authori ties. the l!?27 mark will he passed ; within three weeks. ? Hids ,,u n; projects calling for lie miles of concrete and dirt roads in scattered sections of North < 'a ml inn and on one bridge in Jones county, will he received hy the State High way t oiuniissioii on March IS. lite only county in this section which will get in on this is Chowan, it will get 4.2 miles on Koiite .'{21. i from intersection of Ills. 32 ami 221 to IVnpiimans county line. I?Jury sitting in the sii|?crior court of WHmiiigti a in the case of \V. I D. Col well and wife vs. Martin I ohrieii ami wife suing for for alleged breach of contract, re I turned with a verdict awarding the plaintiffs fifty cents damages. i _____ ?Congressman Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, is slated for the keynoter of the Republican State Convention to lie held in Raleigh. April 11. it was announced at Republican State headquarters. Federal Judge i. M.' Meek ins has wired headquarters of Burton's acceptance, and David L. Blair has written the office in Raleigh his occurence in the choice j of a speaker. ?Mrs. Robert Critz and children, j of Winston\>alein. have made a gift of $luo.ouo to Fiiion Theologi cal Seminary, at Richmond. Va.J for the establishment of the Roliert Critz professorship of Christian J education. The gift is made as a | memorial to the bate Robert Critz. j for many years n citizen of Win-1 ston-Salem. | ?Charles Seifort and Braham Le- j Fraze. two l.Vyear-old Craven coup-1 t.v Imys who went out in a boat! last Saturday and were believed to | have been drowned, were found) Sunday asleep in a Fishing Camp four miles below New Bern. The j hoys were safe, and not worried at I all. At least loll men and the New Bern firemen had been searching( for them. ?A powerful plea for the State to deny matrimony to all types of hereditary degeneracy, which he said was about in per cent of the i population, was made by Dr. Wil liam Louis Potent, president emeri tus of Wake Forest College in an address before a luncheon meeting, of the State-wide Institute on] Pa rental Education, held iit the Woman's <"luh. Fully 2.1 per cent more counties of North Carolina today are pro vided with electrical power suffi cient for manufacturing purposes over the number so equipped two years ago. Wade 11. Phillips, director of the Department of Conservation and Development, reveals after a review of the power situation. J?State Senator Frank L. Grier. of Statesville, died in Philadelphia J where he was rushed for treatment I by a specialist, for pernicious anemia. Senator Grier was the1 youngest member of the State lietris- [ la tare l?eing only 2X years of age' 'wlu-n he first took his oath of office) I in 1927. j ?The suicide of \V. H. Edmundson,' 50 years old. one of the largest and wealthiest land owners of Wayne | and Greene counties, who shot him-1 self the other day is still unex-| plained. At the time of his death ! he was in good health, was insured to an amount In excess of $100,000,1 said by some to have been $145,000. ?.Wrecking his car and not having $45 to pay for repairs, got J. E. iRiggs, Jr., of Charleston in had. He was arrested near Aberdeen. ! when an automobile inspector found from 200 to 400 quarts of various good liquors in his car. Riggs is in the Carthage jail. ?On Uncle Sam's payroll there are two women who are listed as Vil lage .Mail Carriers in the United States. One of these is in the far west. The other is Kate E. PhilpotJ of Williamston. North Carolina. I .Miss Phil pot has been in the serv ice since 1918. ?A new graduate school of reli-! gious education, under the joint., auspices of Duke University and the' General Sunday School Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, will ojien at Lake Junaluska fori its first summer session, July 24.1 and will continue to SeptemlierrS. ?^Irs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, of Wyom-1 ing. former governor of that stale! and first, woman governor in the United States, will speak liefore the Chowan College Club of Charlotte, on March 20. Miss Carrie McLean, is making arrangements for the af-1 fair. . ?'The largest jioultrv car in the his- j tor.v of Rutherford county was load- j e<| tliere the other day. A total of j 19.7!>4 jMinmls of jmultry were load- i ed which netted the 275 farmers j who shipped it a total of $3,940.(14. j ~ i ?The way is being paved for work to l*egin on the Inland Waterway extension from Beaufort, to the Cape Fear on July 1. when the Federal appropriation of $5,000,000 becomes available, it was reported to the State Transportation Advisory Com mission. ?The new automatic state tele phs>?? been formally in K ?a!eigii, ?, ?Stepping from in front of ohe car into the path of another, Thomas A. Riggs. :i resident of ('amdon eounty. was seriously injured, in an aeeident near South Mills Mon day night. Riggs is in the Kllz aheth City hospital. ?Lois, four-year-old daughter of C. K. Rosser. of near Jonesltoro, died, following an ojteration for cancer of the stomach. |?W. H. Ednuindson. ,>i ? In ml holder of Wnyuc > ! ; COitllticff. whoso l?((|y w.u f, ',fc . the home nr ShiMons!,^'1,1' j ink ted filicide hy "j*-' * ?.1 nines Wells Burlier enf for many yenr* )? J*1* shilling circles, did hi"*J In llnehursf from henn th|l'' hn?l been ill for nlmui f.,iIr, ' (Continued wn ^ ' Best Known Street In All Tarheelia HERK is one of IIih must familiar street scenes in North Carolina, it is busy Fayetteville Street ill Kaleigh, Hie |>rinei|ml business street of the j State's capital city. It will be more familiar to readers of this newspaper with the hard surfacing of the road between Edeuton and Williamston j when Mail* Street Elizabeth City and the main street of tlie capital city j will be united bv one continuous ribbon of concrete. : i t ; GENERAL? ELECTRIC ; Refrigerator Developed, produced and guaranteed by General Electric. That alone, makes this refrigerator worthy of your consideration. But its remarkable simplicity, its economy, its spaciousness, its efficiency?these will make their direct appeal to any housewife. See the General Electric Refrigerator today. M. G. Morrisette & Co. The Big Main Street Furniture Store ? ?? r i Field-Tested WHAT'S the best test for fertilizer? Use?long use?under ali conditions. Then consider this. Royster's tertilizers have been made and used for 43 years. They have kept pace with progress, and their standard of quality has always remained the highest. Thousands of farmers have tested them in their fields for various crops and under every conceivable condition of soil and climate Many farmers have been using Royster's for fifteen, twe7ny and thirty years. Some for j even forty years. Dependable That's the kind of fertilizer you can buy with assurance. There's no guesswork in the mak ing of Royster's. What it does is an example in simple arithmetic that has been tried and proved a million times. The soil plus Royster's equals more and better crop. Ask the Royster dealer near "ou. [ -f'S'ft ROYSTER FIELD TESTED k Fertilizers [ WANT HELP! j r I'VE got myself into a jam. I promised the j C Delco-Light heme office that I'd run an ad J C; in ^is space every other .Week. ? And how I J i y dcnAt know what to say. If I tell the truth T n about how good Delco-Light is, nobody will J > believe me. If I don't get more or less enthusi- J j > is tic, nobody will come in and ask about J > Delco-Light. And that's the big idea back of < | r these ads. Get people interested. Then sell < r them a Delco-Light. So if anybody has any \ r good advertising ideas, please send them along. n f No pay, but lots of thanks. In the mean- J f while?"stand by for further announcements." j C Frigidaire-Delco Light Products 2 ( Main Street Phone 623 S C ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. J I C Just phone or drop me a curd and fit bring J (" Delco light to your home for a night drm onstration / ) DELCO-LIGHT C ELECTRIC WATER j C PLANTS Vh^SYSTEMS 1 Q PRODUCTS OF GENERAL MOTORS J { ( Made and Guaranteed by Delco-Light Company, Dayton,Ohio. ) Riverside Machine Co. MACHINISTS MILL, MARINE, GAS and CRUDE OIL ENGINE WORK A SPECIALTY MARINE RAILWAY Rivettride Avenue 125 Foot Cradle Phones, Day 903, Night 911-J ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. 1" ? 111 , ' ii I1'/ I Genuine Exide I Batteries 13-Plate I $10.00 and Your Old Battery ! | i j I Harrison, & McCoy Ltd. i Phone 566 Elizabeth City, N. C. ' i^AREFUI and exactinc Business Mei buy more thai $65,000,001 worth of - - Graham Brother Trades and Con mereial Cars i year - - -: *670 J^.Ton Commercial $895 1-Ton G-Boy $1245 11/2-Ton *1595 6-cyi. 2-Ton Abav* Piicei thaui* /? o. It. L/ttroit *770 1/2-Ton Deluxe Panel Complete /. a. b. D?uou Auto Supply & Vulcanizing I Elizabeth City, N. C. Graham Brother! TRUCKS 8o!i and Serviced by * Dodge Brother* Dealer* Everywhere I Built by Trui Diviiioo ut Uo4 Urutbtrt, It \\f ?:lS!'?lf:i!j;:S ,6^*' WHY SC MANVa SMOKERS HAVE CHANGED TO CHESTERFIELD... We state it as our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield cigarettes are of finer quality ?nd hence of better taste than in any other cigarette at the price. Liggett & Myeks Tobacco Co. ... and what's more? / THEY'RE MILD V? and yet THEY SATISFY! \
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