--Ralph B. Patterson, a Wake Forest freshman whose home is in Fayetteville, was seized in broad daylight last Wednesday morning by eight men masked as Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who were presumably college students. Patterson was taken to the college gymnasium, hog-tied, bound and gagged and his scalp was blacked with a solution of nitrate of silver.
--J.W. Stout & Co. of Sanford will erect a new school building at Lenoir for $105,000.
--Six Wake Forest students have been expelled for hazing which has occurred during the year.
--John Henry Hensley, a 17-year-old Burlington youth, was killed when he jumped from a truck.
--A mistrial was ordered in the case of J.G. Robertson, charged with simple assault on an Ahoskie woman.
--The cornerstone of the William J. Hicks Memorial Hospital at the Oxford Orphanage was laid today.
--There are a total of 533,722 Baptists in the State of North Carolina according to a survey that has just been completed.
--Prohibition officers in Dunn conducted a public destruction of 22 gallons of moonshine they had brought to town from a nearby still.
--An uninsured tobacco barn was destroyed at Bethel by fire. Twenty-one bales of cotton stored in the barn were burned.
--In Columbus county more than four million pounds of tobacco have been signed up for sale next season by the co-operative marketing association.
--Ed. Stancell and wife, two colored people of Wilson, were fleeced of $625 by three other negroes who worked a confidence game on the pair.
--Rev. G.T. Adams, pastor of the Goldsboro Methodist church, fell over a pile of bricks in his back yard and broke his leg.
--James W. Cannon, one of the leading textile manufacturers of the entire South, died at his home in Concord Monday.
--Three desperate hold-ups occurred in Raleigh within an hour and a half one night last week. The total loot taken was a gold watch and about $25 in cash.
--The Carolina Power and Light Company has bought the municipal lighting plant of Dunn. The deal was carried by an overwhelming majority at the hands of the voters.
--The largest road-building program ever undertaken by a community of 35,000, it is estimated will be completed by June 1 in Lenoir county, at a cost of $2,000,000.
--John Tripp, age 68, is on trial at Greenville, charged with being the father of an illegitimate child born to Dora Chauncey, 14-year-girl. Tripp, who is married, denies the charges.
--W.L. Wilkins, cotton buyer on the Wilson market for several years, was found dead in his room in that city. Heart failure is supposed to have been the cause of his death.
--C.J. Kelly, Sanford automobile dealer, was sentenced to five years in the Atlanta Penitentiary and fined $5,000 in U.S. District court in Raleigh, for interstate traffic in stolen automobiles.
--Isaac Hammett of Rutherfordton died after having shot his wife twice, then fired two shots into his own body. Mrs. Hammett is expected to recover. Hammett was crazed by his wife having left him to live with her mother.
--Almo Chichrist of Wagam was instantly killed when the automobile he was driving was struck by an Atlantic Coast line passenger train. The train was wrecked and the fireman and conductor were seriously injured. None of the passengers were injured.
--Miss Carrie Mae Sanders of Burgaw has been declared the winner of the nation-wide contest under the auspices of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, in which a prize of $100 was offered to the high school student submitting the best essay on “Peace.”
--Governor Morrison has pardoned Howard Hill of Guilford county, who was sentenced to two years in State prison in June for simple assault upon a female. The pardon was recommended by the woman herself, her father, her lawyer, and the solicitor.
--North Carolina, during the week beginning January 16, 1922, will be asked to contribute its quota of $35,000 toward the Woodrow Wilson Fundation Fund, to be used as a memorial to the War President and the perpetuation of the Wilson ideals.
--Furman Betts Jr., 7-year-old boy of Raleigh, was led by a strange negro for more than a mile and robbed of a $5 bill, which the negro promised to get changed for the lad, and two express packages containing $200 worth of furs were stolen from an express wagon in Raleigh.
--A thorough survey of the tenant farming situation in North Carolina was provided for by the Board of Agriculture when it adopted a resolution requesting four prominent students of tenancy to co-operate with two members of the State Board of Agriculture in making plans and prosecuting investigations.
--Governor Morrison has offered a reward of $400 for the apprehension of Adam Miller, one of two negroes charged with having made an attack upon a young white married woman at her home near Charlotte. The other negro, Fred Ardrey, was arrested shortly after the attack and is now in jail at Salisbury.
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