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THE STATE NEWS A Summary of Interesting Things Happening During the Week in North Carolina ® WILMINGTON — William Henry Lane, brother of S. Lane, chief of police, died after a long illness. BENSON—The Kiwanis club cele brated its first anniversary at the North State hotel. TRENTON—Crop conditions for Jones county are at the present very promising. DUNN—Rev. J. S- Connell a Bap tist minister, aged 54, died at his home 2% miles northeast of Dunn. BREVARD—Robert Latham, of the Charleston News and Courier was elected president of the South Caro lina Press Association. was arrested for setting fire to a dwelling house. Several persons were asleep in the house at the time. CLINTON—Fifteen carloads of cu cumbers were shipped from here in two days this week to a Wilmington pickling concern. GRANITTE FALLS—Gwyn and Glenn Bolic, 6 and 8 years old, were drowmed while playing in backwater from the Southern Power company dam. SALISBURY—Wrightsville Beach was selected as the 1926 meeting place of the superior court clerks of North Carolina in their eighth an nual convention here. DUKE.—A total of 125 babies were entered in the Duke baby show and 50 were awarded blue ribbons for be ing able to meet the requirements in weight and height. ASHEVILLE—Several large lakes are being planned for the area being excavated for stone near Grovemont. The E. W. Grove Investments are in charge. RALEIGH — Approximately 350 boys and girls attended the fifth an nual short course offered by the State College Summer School to boy and girl club leaders. TARBORO—J. O. Watkins had been drinking and fell off the river dam without waking. Passerby found him asleep in a Ford car in the bottom below the dam. WINSTON-SALEM — Miss Edith Denny, popular 19-year-old daughter of Elder O. J. Denny, died at her home Wednesday after an illness of several days. NORTH WILKESBORO—Mexican bean beetles have made their appear ance in large numbers in Wilkes this season, and are ruining many acres of beans throughout the county WILMINGTON—M. F. Beasley, 73, well-known farmer of the sound sec tion was found dead on the porch of his home. His death is believed to have resulted from heart trouble. —Also Major O. O- Kuentz has an nounced the opening of the new 26 foot channel in the Cape Fear river from Wilmington to the sea. JACKSON—J. S. Gordon, chief of police of La Crosse, Va-, and four oher men arrested with him when they crossed the line from Virginia into North Carolina with a quantity of liquor, were given a hearing here and all we/e bound over to superior court of Northampton county. WENDELL—William M. Martin, wealthy Mark Creek township citizen, was found dead at his cotton house Death was supposedly caused from heart failure. RALEIGH—Col. Daniel D. Greg ory, U. S- A., Professor of Military Science and Tactics at State College, has been transferred to a similar post at Porter Military School, Charles ton, S- C. RALEIGH—T(he latest reports show that there is an increase in the i production of peaches this year. North Carolina has already shipped 25 per cent more cars than last year at this date. RALEIGH—Revenue Commissioner R. A. Doughton in one day banked $1,911,000 from licenses sold by the state to automobile owners. This is not all the state will receive but it is a whaling big roundup of taxes. STATESVILLE—Two young men each received a load of shot and two arrests were made following a “night ride” participated in by four young men who called at Dillard Jarvis’ ;home about 10:30 at night and de manded with threats to see his daugh | ter. GREENSBORO—Peggy Lee, aged 18, giving her home as Asheville was abandoned by two men after an au tomobile wreck on the outskirts of this city in which an Essex car was demolished. A half gallon of whis key figured in the wreck. TAXES “My tax is so high It soars to the sky; It takes all the coin from my pocket; But what can I do But sputter and stew, And pay the blame thing and then knock it?” So said Farmer Jones In violent tones With all the choice words in the docket “It’s stupid of us To make such a fuss Though taxes go up like a rocket; If the money’s well spent We should be content, And if it is not we should block it.” Farmer Brown quickly said And lifted his head With brains enough in it to stock it. “For we are the State And W'e fix the rate; If we told the world that, it would shock it. We should open the books, And put all the crooks In the calaboose. Then we should lock it. Then gather the facts And reckon our tax, With the calaboose key in our pocket.” Exchange. “One at Ni^ht— Next Day Bright” Thousands of satisfied users feel that way about . ***•*•* is*._:»iwr..iss.J ORDERLIES They work naturally and form no habit. Pleasant to take, easy in action, safe and sure. Good for children as weil as adults. Box of 60 Orderlies 50c Hood Bros. SmithlMd. N, C TJUs S:sra HERTFORD HERALD GETS SAVORY CUP - ® Next Meeting May Be At New Bern; J. W. Atkins, Gastonia Gazette, President Asheville, July 10-—Tentatively agreeing to hold next year’s meeting of the North Carolina Press Associa tion with Brother Dawson, jn New Bern and electing J. W. Atkins, of the Gastonia Gazette, to preside over the session, the organization Bounded out is three-day session here this aft ernoon, and adjourned. Mr. Atkins’ election as president was by acclamation, when Josh Horne, of Rocky Mount removed him self from the race. Resolutions pledging the “sympa thetic cooperation and interest” of the association to the adminisra tion of Governor Angus W. McLean were adopted on a rising vote of the session shortly before adjournment. The resolution was presented by Congressman W. Cicero Hammer of the Seventh District and seconded by Josephus Daniels. The customary resolutions of general thanks to the local hosts were also passed. Parker Again Wins Cup. For the second year in succession the Savory cup, awarded to the best kept weekly paper in the state, went o J- Roy Parker, edior and owner of the Hertford County Herald, printed in Ahoskie. One more award and the cup will belong permanently to Mr. Parker. Honorable mention, which , is second place, was made to the ■ Clinton Democrat- The cup was first offered in 1922 and was won by the Smithfield Herald. Lee Weathers of the Cleveland Star was named as vice president of the association, and Miss Beatrice Cobb was continued, despite her own protests, as secretary and treasurer. Members of the executive committee named were J. A. Parham, of the Charlotte Observer; J. H- Galt Brax ton, of the Kinston Free Press, retir ing president; Frank Smithurst, County Extension V-"-" " EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Miss Mary E. Wells, Rural Supervisor What Educational Opportunity Is Your Child Getting? Three hundred and *wo children in the Johnston County rural schools passed the seventh grade examina tion this year. Fifty-two of these children come from our rural six months schools, fifty-two from the seven months consolidated schools, and the other one hundred ninety eight from the eight months schools The largest class passing was from the Four Oaks school and numbered forty-four. Princeton came next with a class of thirty-eight. The other schools were as follows: Kenly thir ty-three, Corinth - Holders twenty seven, Micro twenty, Meadow nine teen, Wilson’s Mills sixteen, Archer L-odge fifteen, Pine Level eleven, Corbett-Hatcher eight and Brogden two. The school passing the largest percent of its class was Pine Level, which passed one hundred percent. Kenly passed ninety-four percent, Corbett-Hatcher eighty-seven per cent, Meadow eighty-six, Four Oaks eighty-one percent. The other schools passed less than eighty percent of their classes. Kenly led in the gener al average made by the class, the av erage being 80-8 per cent. Meadow came second with an average of 79.8 percent; Corinth-Holders 78.5; Pine Level 77-9; Archer Lodge 76-; and Wilson’s Mills 75.6. The average passing mark in the other schools managing editor of The News and Observer; Chas- A. Webb, of the Asheville Citizen, and J. B. Sherrill of the Concord Tribune. M. L. Ship man was continued as historian.— Ben Dixon McNeil in News and Ob server. was below 75. The school having the highest per cent of children on the honor roll was Kenly, her percent being 63.6. Sec ond came Meadow with 57.8. Corinth Holders 51.8; Pine Level 45.4. The other schools have less than one-third of their class on the honor roll. There were in all 411 chidreh who took the examination. One hundred of these came from the rural six months schools. Of this 100 fifty-two percent passed with six on the hon or roll. Sixty-nine came from the consolidated' seven-months schools. Seventy-five percent of these passed with 18 on the honor roll and 81.8 of the children from the eight months ;cshools passed with 67 on the hon or roll. From the above figures we must draw the following conclusions: A : child attending a six months non consolidated school has fifty chances out of one hundred to pass his exam inations to enter high school. In the i seven months consolidated schools he has seventy chances out of one hundred, while in the eight months schools a child has more than eighty one chances out of a hundred to pass their examination. In the six months schools less than one-tenth of the children were able to make a passing grad of 80 percent or above while in the seven and eight months schools more than one third of the pupils made this average. Last year’s record , shows that in the six months schools ! 49 out of every hundred passed. In the seven months schools 62 out of a hundred passed and in the eight months schools 75 out of a hundred. What kind of opportunities are your children getting? Hot, dry weather will retard devel opment of the boll weevil but it is advisable to be prepared to dust when necessary, say insect specialists at State College. NEW BUILDINGS DUKE UNIVERSITY Estimate Cost At Three Mil lion; Only First Step In Building Program Durham, July 10.—Complete plans and specifications for 11 new build ings to be erected at Duke University were received here today, from Hor ace Trumbauer, architect, of Phila delphia. Eighty-three large blue prints covering in minutest detail the work of the new building pro gram. are now in the office of Burke Hobgood, local chamber of commerce secretary. A bound volume accompanied the drawings and blue prints containing complete data on every phase of the erection work. The plans include the following buildings: Two story audi torium building with moving picture booth, balcony and dressing rooms and basement; union hall, with lobby, faculty lounging rooms, dining halls and reading room, two story library building, with special reading rooms and second story delivery rooms, three-story science hall; three -story class room building, three story apart ment house building, five-story dormi tory buildings. Estimates as to the total cost of he entire group of buildings cannot be made with any degree of accuracy, although it is generally understood that it will be in the neighborhood of three million dolars. While no definite statement is made in the specifications with re gard to the number of buildings which may follow this initial group, it is believed here that these eleven buildings will be but the first step ing program. Included in the plans are a Uni versity telephone system, fire alarm system, lighting system, refrigera tion plant, dairy plant with butcher shop and bakery. The plans are now being inspected by 'all local contrac tors—News and Observer. “Nash Leads the World in Motor Car Value” NASH enthusiasm is contagious JHE performance of NASH Cars, and the service ren dered by the NASH organization, are so satisfac tory to NASH owneys that they experience keen delight in telling their friends to “Buy a Nash.” Every Nash Sells ”Another Nash” Advanced Six, 5-passenger, $1540 delivered m 9 Nash . Motor Davie & Blount Sts. ' Phone 2440 m Authorized ^Represents ive for & "ales Co. Raleigh, N. C. Johnstc® County
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