I STATE NEWS | IN DIGEST ?V The merger of the Farmers Bank and Trust Company and the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, to con tinue business under the name of the latter bank, was announced in Golds boro Monday. Contract for the new ten-story Odd Fellow Temple and office build ing in Raleigh was awarded to J. E. Beaman, of Raleigh, last Monday. The building will cost, exclusive of fixtures for lodge room, $336,400. The members of Governor Morri son's Water Commission, accompan ?by the Governor, have been motor ting in and around New Bern, Morehead City land Beaufort) tMp week. Investigation of the State Sanitor ium under the administration of Dr. B. BcBrayer, superintendent, was re sumed by the legislative committee at 10 o'clcok Tuesday morning, in the House of Representatives at Raleigh. After an illness of one week Frank Allen, member of the real estate firm of Allen Bros., at Raleigh, died'at a Greensboro hospital last Saturday. Mr. Allen was well known in this sec tion, having been here to assist in big real estate auction sales. His fun eral was conducted last Monday. Turkish tobacco is not superior to the North Carolina bright leaf prod uct, and is losing out with the dis criminating smokers of England, and ntW Vnrnnoon M>nntnaa aennr^ini* . MH?V|TV?|I VVUIl??WVVVSUIM^ to Leslie Worthing-ton, Kinston, a to bacco man who has recently returned from a trip abroad in interest of the tobacco industry. The work of apprehending liquor law violators has lessoned up in and around Greensboro si nee the new Turlington law became effective. When the violators realised that the chain gang was facing them, they be* came less liable to violate the laws. One ox the greatest revivals ever field in Mebane closed Monday night. Cyclone Mac did the preaching and more than a thousand persons pro cessed faith during the meeting. , The State Board of Assessment has ?uled that the Cotton Growers Co-op native Association wil have to list or taxation all cotton held by it in he warehouses in the State. - The as ociation has appealed from the rul Within sight of its horrified but telpless mother, little John McKee lorton, five year old son of Mr. and (re. Z. V. Horton at Raleigh, was un over and crushed to death by a ast traveling automobile. The driv r has not been apprehended. Under a decision reached Monday >y the commission appointed by the ut Legislature all possible routes ril be surveyed before any definite ction is taken in regard to a trunk ne railroad to the "Lost Provinces" f the ?tate, for which the so-called rrie act authorises an ekpendlture the State of $10,000,000. After a quarter of a century of in fective effort to counteract the die lemberment of the Cape Fear and adkin Valley Railroad by the Atlan c Coast Line and the Southern tilways, the Stale of North Caro na moved through the State Courts uesday to have the road returned to s initial status of an independent Ubugh line. The move was made i Attorney General Manning in fake County Superior Court. Attorney General Manning has >nt out letters to all county com issioners and solicitors in the State king that they make a thorough in stigation of treatment and condi ?n of prisoners, and to prosecute ly violations of laws in that respect le State Board of Welfare and Murities has halted its investigation prison and chain gang conditions, tar being requested by Governor it to do so. W. G. Coleman, 47, and Miss Fleming, 43, sistere of near were killed shortly after flee Sunday afternoon at Middle sar Henderson, when a Sea iir Line northbound freight nek a small sedan automobile i they were riding, nor Morrison says polities is a big part in the criticism of on in requesting the State f Charities and Public Wel cail off their prison investi thirty years delay Wake For lege has at last come into o?sssion of a bequest from Jabea A. Bostwick, of New iformation of the signing of 1 court decree transferring ty to the college having been in Raleigh last Saturday by Jones, attorney for the col lead of brick making equip ts shipped from Statesville to lie day this week, -a native of intry coming over here to test of the machinery with 600 pounds of Spanish day he brought along with him. Members of ths North and South Carolina Land Commissions meeting at Marion last week to continue the study of tenancy conditions in the two states heard Dr. R. F. Newell, of the United States Department of the Interior. Patriotic celebrations were staged at many North Carolina towns last Saturday, in honor of the Confeder ate Veterans. Speeches were made in all of the towns by leading states men. The spring ceremonial of Sudan Temple, Shriners, will be held in Washington, N. C., today. Many Shrine rs from this State are expected to attend the Ceremohial. A hundred or.more prominent Bap tists of North Carolina were travel ing westward Monday of this week, headed for Kansas City, Mo? where they are attending the sessions of the Southern Baptist Convention. Declaring they could find no evi dence that prisoners at the chain gang camps in Cabarrus county are cruelly treated, the commissioners on last Saturday made public the result of extensive investigations which they conducted during the past week into conditions at the prison camps. Thef investigation was the result of charges brought by the county grand jury. The camp superintendent of one chain gang was discharged. ' Raleigh will be the next meetingj place of the North Carolina division j of the Traveler's Protective Associa-' tion of America. The division held j an interesting session in Rocky Mount! last week. j William Bethune, State Collets student, who was tried in Wake county superior court last dreek for manslaughter in connection with the killing of two Raleigh boys on Easter Monday, when two automobiles crashed together, was acquitted by a jury last Saturday. William B. Dunn, prominent citi sen of Wake Forest, committed sui cide by drinking poison last Friday. His death was evidently the result of brooding over ill health, occasioned by an attack of influensa. Judge J no. H. Kerr, of .the class of 1895, will be the principal speaker before the graduating class of Wake Forest College, Thursday, May 84. The North Carolina- Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows met at the Orphan Home in Goldsbero Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this wfeek. Catawba county is experiencing a stiff fight between opposing school factions, and the S?ate Supreme Court will be called upon to decide who is the lawful county superintend ent before the battle has ended. Two sets of board of education members are claiming legal title to office. Reports of an oil well spouting real oil have caused the curious to pay visits to a farm near Wilson within the last few days. Real estate in that vicinity has taken a decided boost since the oil was discovered. - Kinston expects to make a strong bid far the second annual Eastern Carolina Exposition. The first an nual event was held in Wilson during the month of March. Governor E. Lee Trinkle and Gov ernor Cameron Morrison will be among the speakers who will partici pate in the El?n College commence ment exercises. May 27-28, inclusive! Sixty-nine applicants for licenses as Certified Public Accountants be gan a three-day examination prescrib ed by the State Board of Account ancy last Monday. Damages to the amount of $20,000 were awarded by a jury in a suit brought by Mattie Bell Moore, widow of an Atlantic Coast Line engineer, who was killed near Smithfield two years ago. Three new buildings will be in use at the opening of the State College Summer School, on June 12. Dr. W. A. Smithers, the director, announc ed last Monday. Rub Rheumatic Pain From Aching Joints Rub Rain right out with ?mall trial bottl# of oM "bt. Jaaoba Oil." StOp MosiOff" " ?s too thing, penertating "St. Jacob* Oil" right on the "tender spot." and by the tfcna yon say Jack Robinson?out comes the rheumatic pain and distress. Situs Sifts points and doesn't barn the sUn. It iHffnessjhom Limber opt Get ft small trial bottle a# k?nL "SI f23L OH* ox oio-iitiie, noncit ai. jacooti Lni nam any drag store, and in a mo ment, you'U be free from mbis, achat and Itiffinaaa. Don't stJEwl Bob Program Given During The Win ton High School Commencement MONDAY NIGHT, MAY 7, 1923 CLASS EXERCISES Chorus, "Welcome'Pretty Primrose Flower," Pinsuti-Bliss Salutatory ? ... Thelma Brown Easay, "Launched, Where Shall We Anchor?".-Arthur Harrell Vocal Duet, "Dreams of Eve" Willis-Brown Lizzie N. Jones and Estelle Clarke Easay, "Woman of Today and Her New Citizenship" Eva Mizelle Instrumental Solo, "Miserere Du Trovatore," Gottschalk Estelle Clarke Class Poem i. DeVilla Storey Oration, "Work Done For Humanity," Willard John Downs Chorus, "Maytime" Roberts-Stults Giftorian 1 Lizzie N. Jones Valedictory ? Estelle Clarke Class Song TUESDAY, MAY 8?11 A. M. 1. May time Pinauti Senior Class 1 2. Invocation 3. Presentation of Certificates 4. Duet-,? Concert Polonaise, by Engelmann Jessie Pearle Askew and Lillian Buck 5. Presentation of Diplomas 6. Solo Spanish Caprice, Mozskowski Estelle Clarke 7. Introduction 8. Address Hon. H. S. Ward 9. Announcements TUESDAY NIGHT, MAY 8,1923 OPEltETTA?A Masque of May Morning / . v ^ | Persons of the Play WINTER Estelle CUrk THE SNOWDROP Edith Joyner THE PRIMROSE Ruby Britton THE VIOLET Julia Downs THE HYACINTH - Willie Sue Matthews THE CELANDINE Jessie Pearl Askew THE ANEMONE " Margaret Jeffreys (Martha Carr Eley fATDiirc (Lillian Holloman FAIRIES (V.olet Lajjgiter (Elizabeth Banks APRIL Sophie Faison MAY Annie Ballard Herring THE SPIRIT OF THE ROSE Violet Lassiter (Martha Parker SNOWFLAKES