“State and General News” from the Watauga Democrat 100 Years Ago Today—May 7, 1914
Durham has voted $500,000 for a water works.
Mt. Airy is to have a new and commodious railway station.
A wireless station is to be established on Mount Mitchell in
the Black Mountains to connect with the Langren Hotel at Asheville, J.W. Dunn
having leased the plateau on top of that highest peak east of the Rockies,
where he will build and carry on as a tourists hotel a log cabin Inn for the
entertainment of the thousands of people that visit that noted place every
year.
North Carolina is to spend nearly 5 million on good roads in
the near future, which surpasses any of its sister States, counting what is to
be gathered from counties, townships, cities, villages, towns and the State. We
should be proud of this record, for it places our state in the vanguard of
internal improvements.
Congressman James M. Cudger Jr. has introduced a bill in
congress to establish a fish hatchery in his district.
The Corporation Commission has ordered a new assessment of
property in Mecklenburg county for the reason that the last assessment is
smaller than that of 1910.
Mrs. Bettie Hutchinson and Miss Corrie Tinsley, charged with
having kidnapped the five-year-old daughter of E.C. Cole of Buncombe, will not
be returned to this State by the authorities of Washington, the Governor of
that State having refused to honor Gov. Craig’s requisition for their return.
An inscription offered by Prof. Alphonso Smith of the
University of Virginia has been selected for the monument soon to be erected to
Gen. Nathaniel Greene on the battle field of Guilford.
A pipe organ which has been in use 75 years at Chatham,
N.C., and the same organist, Mrs. A.M. Houghton, has played it for 66 years.
She is in her 80th year, but plays the instrument as well as anyone
can.
Mrs. Jack Evans of Beaver Dam, Haywood county, died last
week from the effect of burns received while she was trying to extinguish a
fire near her home. She fell into the fire and was horribly burned, aid having
reached her too late.
The barn of W.M. Buckner, sheriff of Madison county, was burned last week. The barn was large and filled with foodstuff all of which was a total loss. Just the week before the handsome residence of Sheriff Buckner had been burned, and he believes that both acts were those of an incendiary.
A portrait of Judge Joseph Harvey Wilson was presented to
the Supreme Court on the 23rd.
The experiment station of the U.S. Government at Canton,
Haywood county, to determine the best foods and manner of feeding cattle was
successful. Valuable information as to the results secured can be had by
writing to Mr. Peden, Superintendent, Springdale Farm, N.C.
The Camp Life Booklet issued by the Southern Railway is now
off the press and can be had by applying to the Greater Western N.C. Association,
Asheville. It tells in detail of the military and civil camps in the mountains
of this State.
The Womans Exchange of Asheville has closed because of lack
of support. It has been successfully conducted for 15 years and afforded a
market for the fancy and other work of resident ladies. It served a good
purpose, and it is a pity that it could not continue.
The Bankers of the State will meet at Raleigh May 12th,
13th, and 14th. Hon. John Skelton Williams, comptroller
of the currency will be principal speaker.
Gov. Craig has appointed the following as commissioners of
North Carolina to the Panama Fair to be held at San Francisco California next
year: George S. Powell of Asheville, Gen. Julian S. Carr of Durham, Stuart
Cramer and N.C. Hutchinson of Charlotte, John C. Drewry of Raleigh, T.D. Brown
of Salisbury, R.J. Reynolds of Winston-Salem, Leonard Tufts of Pinehurst, and
J.A. Brown of Chadburn. No appropriation has as yet been made for the representation
of our State in that Fair, but it is understood that one will be made at the
next session of the legislature upon the recommendation of the commission.
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