Concord Sunday Schools Closed Because of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria, And Other News From Across North Carolina, 1912

From the Caucasian and Raleigh Enterprise, September 19, 1912

The Sunday-schools at 13 churches in the vicinity of Concord have been closed on account of the prevalence of scarlet fever and diphtheria.

--Joe Grady, a well-known carpenter at Morganton, was struck by a freight train on the Southern Railway near Drexel Sunday night and received fatal injuries.

--The plant of the Reidsville Fertilizer Company was completely destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss was partially covered by insurance.

--The Southern Railway has just appropriated $60,000 for improvements on the passenger statin at Asheville. The Southern Railway has declared a dividend of 2 ½ per cent on preferred stock.

--Jacob R., Nocho, colored, 40 years in the railway mail service, was found dead in his car at Franklinton a few days ago. He leaves an estate estimated at $20,000 to $30,000.

--The Henderson Gold Leaf says a mule owned by a Vance County man died last week at the age of 45. The owner of the mule had it in his possession 36 years.

--A young man claiming to be W. Frank Whitaker, son of a prominent merchant of Charlotte, has been arrested in Atlanta charged with stealing $4,000 in money and jewelry from a wealthy woman in Norfolk, Virginia.

--H.M. Baucom, a well-known white man who lived at Lowell and ran a blacksmith shop at Gastonia, was instantly killed Saturday night at Ranlo, about two miles from Gastonia, by an interurban car. It is said that Baucom was drinking and was waiting at Ranlo, a local station, for the car.

--The Statesville Landmark reports that J.R. Askew of Halifax County dreamed his saw-mill had burned. When he awoke he was so impressed with the dream that he got out of bed and looked in the direction of the mill, but saw nothing. Next morning when he drove to the mill he found it in ashes. The loss on mill and lumber is estimated at $2,500.

--William Taylor, an aged negro shoe-maker, while sitting on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad track in the outskirts of Fayetteville, was run over and instantly killed by a train of the Atlantic Coast Line Friday afternoon. The old man was partly demented, the engineer blew the whistle when he saw the man, but the aged shoe-maker did not seem to hear and took no notice of the warning.