James Smith Shot When Caught Stealing Tire from Truck, Sept. 19, 1926

James Smith Holding Own

James Smith, shot Friday night by Officer N. G. Gwatney when the latter discovered him in the act of stealing a tire from a truck in back of the rear of Raney’s Wholesale Grocery Co., was holding his own, it was stated at the Goldsboro hospital at 1 o’clock this morning. Very little hope, however, is held out for the recovery of the man.

The shot, which struck Smith, was the second that Gwatney fired. The policeman first called upon the man to halt, then fired into the air in an effort to frighten and stop him. The second shot took effect. Officers yesterday pointed out that Smith was hit just before he turned into James street and that once around the corner there would have been no capturing him.

From page 6 of The Goldsboro News, Sept. 19, 1926

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Car Steering Wheel, Wedding Present Stolen from Newlyweds, Sept. 19, 1926

Steal Steering Wheel from Automobile

Last evening about 9 o’clock Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Walla of Newton Grove parked their Ford automobile in front of the Wayne Shoe Store and went shopping. When they came back 30 minutes later, they discovered that someone had stolen the steering wheel of their car and a wedding present which they had just received.

Mr. and Mrs. Walla were married only a short time ago and their expedition last night was one of their first shopping experiences as a married couple.

From page 6 of The Goldsboro News, Sept. 19, 1926

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Virginia Hydroelectric Plant to Share Power with North Carolina, Sept. 19, 1926

Hydro-Electric Developments

The process of changing North Carolina and this part of the South from an agricultural to an industrial section goes apace. Announcement is made of plans for a huge hydro-electric project near Danville, Virginia. From Badin a few days ago came news of beginning of work on an additional plant for the Tallassee Power company. This plant is to represent an investment of $15 million and will develop thousands of horsepower in electricity. From Henderson a few weeks ago came word of a new project just over the line in Virginia but intended to serve both North Carolina and Virginia with power. The project is also spoken as of gigantic proportions.

It is such projects at these that are accomplishing the change in North Carolina and the South. Another 15 years will see as great a change as has the past 15 years. Eastern Carolina will figure most prominently in the change of this state.

Editor’s Note: Perhaps industrialization of the South would have happened if the stock market hadn’t crashed and the Great Depression begun in 1929.

From the editorial page of The Goldsboro News, Sept. 19, 1926

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Thomas Campen, Hazel Zealy Entering Harvard, Sept. 19, 1926

To Enter Harvard

Messrs. Thomas Campen and Hazel Zealy, graduates of the University of North Carolina, left yesterday morning to enter Harvard for post-graduate work. Mr. Zealy will study medicine, and Mr. Campen will study commerce, of which he has already taken two years at Chapel Hill.

From page 3 of The Goldsboro News, Sept. 19, 1926

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Judge Doesn't Buy Whiskey Needed for Baby, Sept. 18, 1926

Booze for Baby!

Charlotte News

Whiskey for the baby. If a certain pickananny in Charlotte ever attains his majority, he should be a wow when it comes to begin a general cut up. His mother, the wife of J. T. King of 322 East Hill Street, told Magistrate J. M. Alexander in police court Monday morning the whiskey kept in her home was kept by her for the benefit of the infant, and that her husband, who was charged with possession, knew nothing of its presence until officers searched the house.

The judge expressed his doubts concerning the value of hootch as a diet for an infant and ordered the woman held on a count of possession. She gave bond of $100,000 for her appearance Tuesday. The husband was released.

From page 7 of the Brevard News, Saturday, Sept. 18, 1926

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Smoky Johnson, 19, Assistant Director of P.E. at Christ School, Sept. 18, 1926

His Dream Fulfilled

From an unfinished high school product to assistant director of physical education at Christ School is the hop made by Joe “Smoky” Johnson, 19, of Kannapolis, known in this section wherever high school athletics are practiced.

His acceptance as a coach of Christ School fulfilled a dream of years. Where is a high school athlete that does not dream of coaching a team of boys and come back home to take the town by its ears?

Johnson’s ascension goes to show that Horatio Alger was right and that things happen in real life as well as in the story books.

“Smoky’s” rise isn’t a story of studying by the firelight at night for he was a delinquent in his classes. He was five years in high school, yet he never gained units enough to be rated a junior.

But on the diamond, court and gridiron, Oh boy, what a man! In athletics Smoky worked—and he worked hard. When a game started he started and not until the last second of the final play did he stop. In football he played a backfield position, in basketball he starred as a pivot man, and in baseball he shown at every corner of the diamond.

Athletics will love a player—but get a better coach and Kannapolis welcomes the day when Smokey Johnson’s proteges come home with the bacon.

From page 7 of the Brevard News, Saturday, Sept. 18, 1926

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Florida Land Company Buys Unfinished Fleetwood Hotel, Sept. 16, 1926

Will Resume Work on Fleetwood Hotel. . . Unfinished Hendersonville Structure Sold to Florida Firm for $1,200,000

Asheville, Sept.16—Gaunt and black, the steel skeleton of the Fleetwood rising skyward on top of Jump Off Mountain near Hendersonville will resound with the cries of the riveter and the roar of the hoist within 15 days, according to the terms of a contract signed tonight by which the creditors sell to the Florida and Gulf Coast Land Company the hotel and site for a consideration of $1,250,000.

Started by Commodore J. Perry Stoltz, the hotel rose rapidly and was a landmark for the entire section of the country in the vicinity of Hendersonville as its steel fingers pierced higher and higher into the clouds that often hang low around the summit of Jump Off Mountain. Slated to open July 1 of this year, the hotel met first one delay and then another, finally reaching a climax with a $2 million auction by Commodore Stoltz and the Fleetwood Hotel Corporation against Thomas R. Byrd and the Standard Mortgage Company for the alleged failure to make a loan according to terms of a contract purported to have been signed by plaintiffs and defendants.

The sale of the property tonight came as a climax to along series of negotiations in which several concerns were bidding for the property.

According to the terms of the contract all creditors will be paid in full and the work of enclosing the hotel with walls and roof will proceed at once.

From page 7 of the Brevard News, Sept. Saturday, 18, 1926

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