Thursday, August i 1907.
THE lUt.ElGil
STATE NEWS.
They're seeing bears and bear
tracks in Stokes County. The moou
shine product in Stokes makes 'em
see strange things.
Dr. E. Kerner, who was in his
ninety-second year and had practiced
medicine for more than half a cen
tury, died Monday at his home at
Kernersville.
In Wilson County Sunday a thirteen-year-old
son of Mr. J. B. Ellis
found a half gallon jug of whiske
and drank so much of its contents
that he died.
The Moore Cotton Mill Company,
of Lenoir, has been chartered with
$150,000 authorized capital. It will
do a general maunfacturing and mer
chandise business.
The Seaboard Air Line, which is
operating under the reduced passenger-
rate law, has taken off two pas
senger trains between Charlotte and
Rutherfordton, claiming that this is
necessary to reduce expenses on ac
count of decreased earnings.
Two negro boys were arrested in
Wilmington last week for breaking
bottles and scattering glass on the
public highway. They were bound to
court on a charge of obstructing the
highway. The glass had given wheel
men and motorists much trouble.
The Anti-Saloon League of Car
thage, Moore County, has a notice in
the Carthage Blade headed, "Notice
to Blind Tigers," in which all per
sons who-deal in the ardent contrary
to the form of the statute are notified
that they must be good or get hurt.
ENTERPRISE.
AVakc Lund High School.
Wakefield and Zebulon have won the
race,
In selecting a site for the High
School to place;
May they ever remember St. Mat
thew 23,
Whenever on a matter they want to
agree.
Zebulon wanted to be first,
With Wakefield in the rear;
But, hurrah for Mr.- Ruffin Carroll,
Who helped them on with cheer.
Cease now with your strife
And join together in love;
When you are in need of wisdom
Just ask of our Lord above. 1
J. B. TISDALE.
It takes less sense to criticise
than to do anything else. There are
a great many critics in the asylum.
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We often meet subscribers whose
subscriptions have expired and who
say that they wanted the paper on,
didn't want to miss a copy, but neg
lected to renew; "didn't come to
town," etc. They show their faith by
renewing. But they could often
avoid missing several issues of the
paper by using the U. S. mails, which
were invented for just such purposes
The Raleigh Enterprise and the
New York World, thrice-a-week edi
tion, for only $1.60 a whole year.
Think of It I
It is said that Mr. Long had a
damage suit against the octopus some
time ago and didn't get but a small
amount. Mr. Glenn has a Senatorial
bee in his bonnet. When the3e scores
are wiped out perhaps the atmos
phere will clear up.
CHAS. M. STIEFF,
60 GRANHY STREET,
NORFOLK, VA.
GEO. S. NUSSEAR, Mgr.
Prof. A. E. Woltz, superintendent
of Lenoir graded schools since then
establishment, has resigned to ac
cept the superintendency of the
Goldsboro city schools.
Salisbury will vote in October on
an issue of $300,000 of bonds to pay
the city's floating debt, to extend and
enlarge the water and sewer lines
and to improve the streets.
A severe storm of wind and rain,
with some hail, visited Newton Wed
nesday afternoon and did some dam
age to crops, buildings and trees. The
storm was cyclonic in character.
A special from Asheville says that
Dr. Arthur Pritchard, son of Judge
J. C. Pritchard, has been appointed
assistant surgeon of the Southern for
the Asheville district or division.
In Asheville Tuesday afternoon
Wesley Tate, a colored boy, was
swinging on the side of a coal wagon
when he fell under the wheels, which
passed over his body and killed him.
Franc H. Jones, who embezzled
from the Charlotte National Bank,
and who was sentenced to the peni
tentiary for six years, is in the book
keeping department of the penitenti
ary.
At Kernersville Saturday afternoon
Dewitt Marshall, nineteen years old,
fell from a load of straw onto a pitch
fork. The prongs of the fork pene
trated his breast and killed him al
most instantly.
Ernest Stevens, a negro boy, while
riding a bicycle in Greensboro Satur
day, collided with a horse and buggy.
'1 he shaft of the buggy pierced the
boy's side, inflicting what is thought
to be a fatal injury.
A negro who had secreted himseli
in the house attempted to assault
Mrs. A. W. Ellison, at Laurinburg,
Friday night. Mrs. Ellison escaped
his clutches and attempted to shoot
him, but he escaped.
It is reported from Durham that a
very destructive hail, rain and wina
storm swept over the northern por
tion of Orange County Thursday eve
ning. In some localities growing
crops were literally cut to pieces.
The barn of William Beck, near
Farmington, Davie County, was burn
ed Friday night. with a mule and a
lot of feed stuff. The fire is supposed
to bo incendiary and bloodhunds were
ssnt for to track the criminal, but
could not be obtained.
Thomas Giddings, aged sixty-five,
of Wintson-Salem, was committed to
jail Monday in default of $6,500
bond, for incest, the victim being his
sixteen-year-old daughter, who is a
cripple. Gidding went to Winston-
Salem from Providence, R. I.
Wilkesboro Chronicle : Mr. Brud
Yates, of Purlear, was accidentally
killed at Garvey, Va., last week. His
body was sent home and buried Sun
day at New Hope Church. He was
an employe of the railway repair
shops and was under a car tightening
some bolts when a train backed
against the car, running it over him
and severing his body. He was about
flfty-flve years old.
Mr. R. F. Burton, for a number oi
years in the service of the Southern
Railway Company at Statesville, and
for the past several years agent for
the company at Marion, recently re
signed the latter position to become
cashier of the First National Bank of
Marion.
A young man who was killed by a
train at Landis, Rowan County,
Thursday of last week, . and who was
buried without identification, proved
to be Melford Dent, son of Mr. James
Dent, of Concord. Mr. Dent had the
remains exhumed and identified them
as those of his son.
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The lifeless body of James Mc
Cann, an employe of the White Oak
Mills at Greensboro, was found Mon
day evening within a short distance
of his home, where it had lain sev
eral hours; guarded by a faithful dog.
The growls of the animal when the
spot was approached by two men in
a buggy led to the discovery of the
body.
Thirty-seven revenue officers, arm
ed to the teeth, made another raid
on Smithtown, Stokes County, the
noted blockader settlement this week
expecting to do battle. Contrary to
expectation the place was practically
deserted, only two men and two dis
tilleries being found. The men were
arrested and the distilleries de
stroyed. Newton Enterprise: In Caldwell
Township last Wednesday Mr. Wli
burn Caldwell had a cow killed by
lightning, and about fifteen minutes
later another stroke killed a hog. On
the same afternoon lightning struck
a tree at Mr. Lee Setzer's, in the same
township, and a splinter from the
tree hit the daughter of Mr. Calvin
Setzer in the face. She was stunned
for awhile, but not badly injured.
A man named Ellis, whose home
rs at Gibsonville, Guilford Count,
whipped his wife on the public
strets of that town a few days ago
and as a result he is now at work o:t
the chain-gang. The charge agains.
him in the mayor's court was whip
ping his wife in public, which, undei
the law, is considered a more serioua
offence than private correction. But
in either case he deserved all he got.
John Lewis Franklin, driver of a
team for the State Hospital at Mor
ganton, went to Marion Saturday for
whiskey. Returning on a freight
which did not stop at Morganton, he
was carried to Drexel, eight miles
away. Franklin started to walk back
to Morganton on foot, carrying his
jug. A freight train overtook him
and his "mangled body was buried
next day. The jug of liquor was un
broken. Mrs. Graham, telegraph operator at
Paint Rock, was attacked Sunda ,
while walking along a - road near
Paint Rock, by John Kennedy pre
sumably a white man, who attempted
criminal assault. It is said that Ken nedy
had dragged Mrs. Graham from
the road and had choked her almost
into insensibility when passers-by saw
the struggle and interfered. Kea
nedy was arrested promptly and
placed in Jail at Marshall.
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