News briefs from the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., February 2, 1911
Convicts to Complete Turnpike Between Lenoir and Blowing Rock
The proposition for the employment of State convicts in
completing the turnpike between Lenoir and Blowing Rock has been adopted with
some modifications that do not materially affect the bill. The governor and his
council have only to see that the State sustains n loss. This is the turnpike
that the people would neither desire nor permit. –Charlotte Chronicle
Nevada Prohibits Sale
of Tobacco
The State Senate of Nevada has passed a bill prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes and papers to any man or woman or child in the State of
Nevada
Wilkes County Farmers
Make Good Use of Dyamite
Farming by dynamite seems to be agitating the minds of the
Wilkes farmers at present. An interesting letter in the Wilkes Patriot from Mr.
W.H. Horton makes clear the advisability of using dynamite in farming. “The aim
is to pulverize the sub-soil to retain moisture and give the roots of the
growing crops a chance to penetrate the soil, and tests have proven that the
yield is doubled, and even trebbled, and that it destroys insects in and round
the hole you are preparing for planting.
Baptist University
Becomes Meredith College
The Baptist University will hereafter be known as Meredith
College, the change being made by an enactment of the legislature.
Mother Drops Dead
When Son Sentenced to Death
On Jan. 27 a broken hearted mother dropped dead when the
death sentence was passed on her son William Walker for burning his wife to
death. She was 72 years old and unable to bear the shock. She sat by her son
throughout the trial. He stoutly declared his innocence to the last.
Catawba Sweet
Potatoes Shipped Out
The Newton Enterprise says that Catawba County farmers are
beginning to ship their famous sweet potatoes. They go everywhere, from Atlanta
to Boston.
Carnelius Barnes
Traps 5-Foot Otter
An otter was caught by negro trapper Carnelius Barnes a few
days ago that measured 5 feet and 3 inches from tip to nose. He caught it in
Toisnot swamp. He carried his prize to Wilson and said that it would take two
bills to buy the hide with an X on each one.
Daily News of
Greensboro Sold
The directors and stock-holders of the Daily News of Greensboro have sold the plant to W.A. Hilderbrand
and Geo. B. Crater of the Gazette-News of Asheville, who take charge at once.
Both are newspaper men of experience.
Lobbyists Arriving in
Raleigh
The railroad men, the bankers, the new county men, the
anti-new county men, the near-beer men, and the divorce bill men are all
pulling mileage for Raleigh these days. All but the dog law man. He is too poor
for lack of mutton to sell and wool to market to pay his way to Raleigh. And if
he had the money it would only be wasting it to invest in a ticket. –Charlotte Chronicle
Statesville Lawyer
Moving to Racine, Wis.
Mr. George B. Nicholson of the Statesville bar has gone to
Racine, Wis., to become counsel for the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co., one of
the largest manufacturing plants in the West. He will receive a large salary.
C.M. Carr is
Aide-de-camp
Gov. Kitchen has appointed C.M. Carr of Durham as
aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel on his personal staff. He is a son of
Gen. Julius Carr.
Hilbert Fisher to Go
to West Point
Congressman C.H. Cowles has appointed Mr. Hilbert Fisher of
Rowan County a Cadet to West Point. He is said to be an “exceedingly bright
young man.”
Senate Accepts 50%
Raise for Secretary of State
The Senate has accepted the amendment to increase the salary
of Secretary of State from $8,000 to $12,000.
Rear Admiral Barry
Discharged for Immoral Conduct
Real Admiral Barry of the U.S. Navy has been forced to
retire or rather was discharged. Immoral conduct was the charge against him. He
was 45 years old.
Mistrial in Laura
Shenk Poisoning Case
Mrs. Laura Shenk of Wheeling W.Va., charged with having
attempted to poison her husband, has been released from prison, as it was a
mistrial. It is estimated that the cost of the trial will be $100,000. After
all we’d like for the old man to have it to pay, she probably was sinned
against as much as she sinned, can’t tell. There were to say the least, some
witnesses against her who proved themselves what the courts know as “swift
witnesses.”
H.B. Green Takes
Charge of Mother’s Fortune
Mrs. Hettie Green, the richest woman in America, has turned
her immense business over to her son, H.B. Green. The fortune as it stands is
estimated at $100,000,000. Mr. Green is a man in middle life, and his mother
tested his business ability by sending him to Texas 18 years ago to take charge
of a broken down railroad line. He stood the test and consequently takes charge
of his mother’s vast fortune.
R.C. Miller to
Attempt First Flight Across Isthmus of Panama
The Raleigh Daily
Times says that R.C. Miller, aviator, left Atlanta the 27th for
Panama, where he will attempt the first flight from ocean to ocean, across the
isthmus of Panama.
Mary Baker Eddy
Buried
The body of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy was laid to rest on the
shores of Lake Halcyon in Mt. Auburn, Jan. 15. The founder of the Christian
Science denomination rests in a casket on which a bronze box rests, containing
all of her latest publications. The ceremony was attended by the officials of
the church, Judge Clifford O. Smith read the 91st Psalm and the last
two chapters in Judges. Since the funeral the grave has been guarded night and
day.
Young Writer Killed
A sad affair that when David Graham Phillips was so cruelly
murdered in New York by Goldsborough, a Harvard graduate. He was young and was
a writer of rare gifts. He was shot in broad day light. The assassin, satisfied
that the awful deed was fully accomplished, fired a shot in his own brain. It
seems that Goldsborough’s grievance was hard to understand. One was that he
thought Phillips had used some members of his family in his books.
Grave of John Harold
Robbed
The grave of John Harold, a follower of George Washington,
has been opened and $500 in gold hidden there 100 years ago has been taken. It
is thought that his wife hid it there many years ago.
Arkansas May Erect
Monument to Confederacy
A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of Arkansas
asking for the appropriation of $10,000 for the erection of a monument to the
women of the confederacy.
New York City Has
14,000 Lawyers
There are 14,000 practicing lawyers in New York city with
the local law schools turning them out at the rate of 500 per day. There are more
lawyers than there is work for them to do.
Volcano in
Philippines Erupts
Volcanic eruption and the tidal wave which followed an
earthquake have caused serious loss in the Philippines. On the island of Luzon,
Mt. Taal rises 1,050 feet from the center of a lake of the same name and she is
now in eruption. Five towns are wiped out and 300 persons killed. No Americans
were reported dead.
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