“State and General News” From the March 26, 1914 issue of The
Watauga Democrat, Boone
The commissioners of Guilford County have decided to
establish a school for wayward boys.
Uncle Sam now has on duty along the Mexican border 18,000
soldiers of the regular army.
V.J. McArthur, postmaster at Clinton, died last week, aged
69 years He was a Confederate veteran.
It is given out that since last September 33 divorces have
been granted in Guilford County alone.
The Scout says that during the month of February there were
more than $10,000 worth of chickens and eggs shipped out of Alexander County.
Alex F. Santos, who was in charge of the Confederate States
mint during the Civil War, died in Norfolk, Va., on the 18th at the
age of 85 years.
The Woman’s Missionary Union of North Carolina is holding
its 24th annual meeting this week in the first Baptist Church in
Henderson.
Senator Simmons, who has been unwell for some time, is at
his home in New Bern to recuperate. His wife and confidential secretary are
with him.
Collector Keith of the port of Wilmington has resigned, his
resignation to be effective May 1. Democrats for some time have been anxious to
see his place filled by a Democrat.
The veneer plant at Taylorsville, owned by Connelly &
Teague, was destroyed by fire recently. This is the company’s fourth fire and
each time the loss was very heavy.
Clarence O. Sherrill, son of the State Librarian Miles O.
Sherrill, has been promoted from the rank of captain to major in the
engineering corps of the United States Army.
A movement is on foot in New Bern to secure funds with which
to place a bust of William Gaston, the author of “The Old North State,” in the
new administration building at Raleigh.
Mrs. Squires, wife of Major Mark Squires of Lenoir, died on
the 16th after a short illness. Beside her husband, she leaves two
little boys, a father and mother and several brothers and sisters to mourn
their loss.
It is stated that in Winston-Salem there are 2,700 children in the city limits unable to get into the schools, which are already
over-crowded, and bonds to the amount of $150,000 will probably be voted for
new school buildings.
There will, it is announced, be another White House wedding
in June, when Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson will be married to Secretary McAdoo,
the head of the Treasury Department. Miss Wilson is the youngest of the
President’s daughters, and is 24 years old, while Mr. McAdoo is 50 years old
and a widower with six children, two of whom are married.
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