Epidemic of Pellagra in Durham and Other State News, 1911

From the editorial page of the Watauga Democrat, Boone, September 28, 1911

--Durham seems to be having almost a scourge of Pellagra. Two hundred cases have been reported and we have not seen it denied or modified.

--From an exchange we find that the Governor of North Carolina has less power under the law than the governor of any other state. Every other governor has the veto power, while North Carolina’s governor alone has no such power, not being permitted to sign or refuse to sign an act of the Legislature. This fact developed at the Governor’s Conference.

--Craven County recently voted to establish a Farmlife School, and it is to be located at Vanceboro, that town having given 92 acres of land and $10,000 in bonds to secure the site. Craven is in a class by itself, for no other County in the State has done what she has done.

--A bank with $10,000 Capital has been organized at Conover and the Newton Enterprise says it is the seventh bank for Catawba County.