General News Items
Capt. Erskine E. Boyce of Gastonia and officer of the 113th
field artillery, has been awarded the distinguished service cross for bravery
on the battle fields of France.
Traffic to Shulls Mills, Boone, and other points along the
line has been entirely cut off since Wednesday morning of last week when a
tremendous slide of rock entirely filled a big cut near the Grandfather Gap.
The Railroad Co. put a large force of hands to work at once, and by working
almost night and day the track was practically cleared by Sunday evening, but
during the heavy rain at night, another slide came in, but not so heavy as the
first, and on Tuesday evening freight and passenger traffic was moving
undisturbed.
A car load of whiskey was recently captured in Durham. It
was billed as hay and consigned to an eastern North Carolina town from
Baltimore. The car contained 480 quarts of whiskey and 10 tons of hay.
The United States Employment Service will be reduced by 80
per cent on March 22nd and the number of unemployment offices will
be changed from 750 to 56. This step was made necessary because Congress failed
to provide funds to continue the work.
The power dam of the Southern Power Co. on Linville river in
Burke County burst last Thursday, and a hole 200 feet long and 40 feet deep
washed out. The new power house below the dam was overflowed, and the machinery
in the first floor is thought to be greatly damaged. No damage was done by the
water in the valley below.
The government of India reports that deaths from influenza
during the year of 1918 totaled 5 million.
The frontier between German-Austria and Czecho-Slovakia was
reopened Sunday, the 9th, and trains are again crossing the
frontier.
Camp Greene was not turned over to the owners of the camp
site on March 15 as was formerly indicated. It will be some time before all the
troops are removed.
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