“N.C. State News: A Digest of Everything Worth Knowing About Old North
State Folks and Things” from the Friday, June 27, 1919, issue of the Elizabeth City Independent
The three-year canning club record of Miss Tazzie Dean and
her two sisters of Granville County is considered an unusual achievement by the
United States Department of Agriculture. On one-fifth of an acre in this period
of time the girls have earned enough from their canned vegetables to remodel
and paint their home and buy new furniture; to pay half the expenses of one
girl in college for two years, and to pay a part of the cost of a new
automobile. In addition, they supplied the family table with garden products,
all from this plot of ground.
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Sheriff J.E.C. Bell of Vance County has been indicted on a
charge of gambling. The case is now being tried in the courts of the county.
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Ed Coley, charged with criminal assault on 11-year-old Glady
Stanberry, whose disappearance from her home in Nash County occasioned much
alarm last week, has been bound over to the Superior court without bail. Coley
was a laborer on the Stanberry farm.
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Edward Kidder Graham Jr., son of the late President Graham
of the University of North Carolina, has been adopted by the trustees of the
University, who will care for and educate the boy as a memorial t his
distinguished father. The boy’s mother died two years ago.
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Paul Wagner of Newton, a member of one of the Agricultural
Extension Service poultry clubs, has a flock of 15 hens which have laid 1,108
eggs in four months from Feb. 1 to June 1. Wagner has realized a net profit of
$33.40 on his small flock, or an average gain of $2 per hen.
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The combined exhibits of several United States Government
departments will be shown at the State Fair to be held in Raleigh in October.
This material will include photographs, charts, and miscellaneous samples from
the Department of Agriculture, Trophies of the Great War from the War
Department, and models of ships with all sorts of navy equipment from the Navy
Department.
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North Carolina Masons celebrated Tuesday, June 24 as St.
John’s Day at the Oxford Orphanage. Many members of the organization were
present at the exercises, which included a barbecue and the presentation of the
Grand Lodge Memorial to Past Grand Master Claude L. Pridgen of Kinston.
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Rev. Joe Johnson, pastor of the colored Church of God and
Saints of Christ in Wilson was assaulted in the pulpit last Sunday by a member
of his congregation armed with a knife. Parson Johnson beat off his assailant
with a chair, and both were fined in police court next day.
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To meet the great and increasing demand for competent
highway engineers in North Carolina, the State College at Raleigh has created a
new department of highway engineering, which will be a suibdivision of the
civil engineering department. All this year’s graduates in civil engineering
are going into State highway work.
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The tax rate for the city of Durham has been fixed at $1.50
per $100 property valuation for the coming year. Due to the economical
administration of the city government, a surplus of about $11,000 has
accumulated. Salaries of the city clerk and city auditor were increased, and
the city tax collector was placed on a salary basis of $2,400 per year.
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The National Prisoners’ Relief Society is endeavoring to
have the Department of Justice investigate prison conditions in North Carolina,
following a recent investigation by the North Carolina prison board, by whom
charges were declared groundless. The board likewise denies that prisoners
reporting cruel treatment were severely punished.
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The city commissioners of Raleigh have decreed that public
dancing in that city must be above reproach, but they are uncertain just how to
cope with the quivery “shimmie” and other ultra-modern dances which they argue
are being carried on in an objectionable manner. It is suggested that a police
matron be present as a chaperone at each dance.
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Two bold burglars recently entered the home of Miss Corrinna
Rogers of West Durham and at the point of a pistol made her submit to being
gagged, blindfolded and tied hand and foot to the bed, after which they
ransacked the room, appropriating $75 in currency. Miss Rogers was found and
released by the cook early in the morning. The robbers have not been
apprehended.
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A red flag was raised at the naval air station at Morehead
city one night last week, and as a result four sailors are locked in the guard
house awaiting trial for mutiny. The trouble is said to have arisen over
discontent among the men due to the cancellation of discharge orders. The flag
has been sent to Washington for finger print tests.
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Stripped utterly naked and with a 5-ounce bottle of poison
lying two-thirds empty besides her, Vassie Thompson, 35-year-old white woman
was recently found dead in a vacant house in Raleigh. The woman has long been
addicted to the use of drugs, and when under their influence was possesses of
an insane mania to tear off her clothes. She has a son in France.
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