C.H. Blacknall Committed Suicide in Charlotte Hotel Oct. 15, 1926

Greensboro Man Is Suicide in Charlotte. . . C. H. Blacknall Shot Himself While Sitting Before Mirror in Hotel

Charlotte, Oct. 15 (AP)—Seated in front of a plate glass mirror in a local hotel, C. H. Blacknall of Greensboro shot and killed himself today. Ill health and financial worries were the cause ascribed by relatives for the deed.

Blacknall was about 35 (55?) years old. He was employed by the Progressive Farmer of Raleigh as a traveling representative. He came here about three weeks ago and lived for a time with his brother-in-law, R. W. Ballard, but two days ago moved to the hotel.

The body was discovered by a maid when she inspected the room. Life was extinct when the manager of the hotel and a physician called by the maid arrived.

Ballard told the police that Blacknall’s father, O. W. Blacknall, former owner of the Continental Plant Co. of Kitrell, in 1916 shot and killed himself, his wife and a daughter. Since that time, he said C.H. Blacknall had been on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

He said that Blacknall had been worried by financial affairs and also brooded over the actof his father.

The dead man left no notes.

From the front page of the concord Daily Tribune, Friday, Oct. 15, 1926

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George Toms Dies When Car He Was Driving Goes Off Road, Oct. 15, 1926

Student, Driving Car, Killed

George Toms, student in the University and son of Clinton W. Toms of New York and Durham, was instantly killed early last Sunday morning when the car which he was driving ran off the road between here and Durham. He and Jack Cobb, having taken some Durham girls home from a Saturday night dance, were on their way back to the village. Mr. Cobb was asleep and knew nothing of what had occurred until he was waked by being thrown out. He said afterward that he thought his companion, at the wheel, must have dropped asleep. The ccar left the road on the right, and Mr. Toms was crushed under it.

From page 3 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, Oct. 15, 1926

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Woman Tips Off Police About Filling Stations Selling Liquor, Oct. 15, 1926

Something Else Besides Gas

A good woman who lives in a town not very large, in a private letter says that she knows of a number of filling stations along the road where they do not confine themselves to the selling of gas and oil, but “they are prepared at all time to fill and hand out to their patrons bottles and jars of the vile liquor being manufactured these days.” This tip to the authorities out to be sufficient to protect the law-abiding filling station people against crooks in the business.

--The News and Observer

From the editorial page of the Norlina Headlight, Friday, Oct. 15, 1926

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Mountain People May Fight and Make Liquor, But They Rarely Lie on Stand, Says Judge, Oct. 15, 1926

Mountain People Don’t Lie, Judge Webb Tells Court

“These mountain fellows will fight and make liquor, but it’s seldom you’ll catch one of them swearing to a lie,” Judge Yates told the barristers in the Federal court room here Tuesday.

“That’s one thing you’ll have to give them credit for. On the o ther hand, liquor dealers in the cities can hardly be taken at their word on the stand, but usually you can mark it down as true when a native of the South Mountain goes on the stand makes a statement. They’d rather go to prison—most of them—than lie.”

--Cleveland Star

Editor’s Note: Newspaper calls the judge “Webb” in the headline and “Yates” in the article.

From page 7 of the Norlina Headlight, Friday, Oct. 15, 1926

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Paper Supports Annexation of Section Outlying Southern Pines Schools, Oct. 15, 1926

Stand by the School Children. . . Opportunity for Children in Outlying Section to Attend Southern Pines School

On Tuesday, October 19, an election will be held in the rural territory surrounding Southern Pines to determine whether or not to annex that territory to the Southern Pines school district.

The purpose is to give the children of the outlying section the privilege of attending the Southern Pines schools. It is quite generally recognized that Southern Pines has one of the best school systems in the state, with a standing not only as a capable educator, but also a system that enables its high school children to enter the colleges of the state on their certificates. The colleges recognize Southern Pines as a high class school.

The problem of the country child has been one that for years people all over the state have undertaken to solve, and in this vicinity consolidated schools have been one help, in most of the villages of the country of school districts have been so consolidated that the country children are taken to the town schools and there enjoy the advantages of grades, longer term, more skillful teachers, and everything that helps to secure an education. Now the territory surrounding Southern Pines is to vote on entering the Southern Pines district.

If the vote is favorable, as the indications appear to say, the children of the neighborhood of Southern Pines will be take to the school in automobiles provided for the purpose and brought home at night. They will have access to all the better equipment and bigger force of teachers with the benefits of the systematic grades, and all of the advantages of any modern school of its class and size. It is the chance for the country child to realize the same broad opportunity that the town and city children all over the state enjoy, and Tuesday ought to be a chance that every voter will embrace to give the rural child this privilege.

Everything else should be forgotten on that day until the children have been helped to the extent of a vote, and if the chance offers any missionary work that can be done in behalf of the child should be undertaken. It is the child’s chance. It deserves unusual effort that the children may be given what they can have if the voters will on Tuesday keep the child’s welfare in mind and do what can be done for this school plan.

From page 6 of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Friday, Oct. 15, 1926

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N.C. Federation of Women's Clubs Seeking Improvements, Oct. 15, 1926

Mrs. Connor Speaks to Club

Mrs. R. D. W. Connor outlined the plans of the North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs at a luncheon of the Women’s Club in Winston-Salem last week. She named five measures which the federation was supporting:

--The Australian ballot;

--The establishment of a farm colony for women offenders beyond the age-limit fixed at Samarcand;

--The taking over and the support of the reformatory for negro girls at Efland;

--A two-weeks’ notice of marriage; and

--Reduction of the hours of labor for children under 16.

Mrs. Connor laid emphasis upon the duty of women to use the ballot. She endorsed the movement for an eight-months’ school term.

From page 3 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, Oct. 15, 1926

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Neighborhood Notes in the Chapel Hill Weekly, Oct. 15, 1926

Neighborhood Notes

Miss Lucy Russell has gone to Watts Hospital.

Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Lear and Mrs. Totten are giving a reception at the Country Club this afternoon.

Mrs. Dey, Mrs. Foerster, and Mrs. Pierson gave a bridge party and reception at the Club Wednesday afternoon.

Mrs. J. S. Holmes has been here with her sister, Miss Smedes; she will return to Raleigh in a day or so.

Mrs. Hibbard’s mother, Mrs. Barr, left for her home in Racine, Wisconsin, Wednesday.

Lawrence MacRae will be here at the end of next week to attend the State College-Carolina football game.

Mrs. Della Battle and Miss Louise Wright will come from Raleigh tomorrow to spend a day or so with Mrs. Rees.

Mrs. Louis Graves is expected back from Morganton today. She has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Claywell.

Mrs. Henry Graves has come to join the secretarial staff of the school of commerce and is living with her sister-in-law, Miss Nellie Graves, in one of Mrs. Bryan’s cottages.

Miss Frances Gray has returned to the University as a student; she lives in Durham and comes over to Chapel Hill every day.

From page 3 of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, Oct. 15, 1926

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