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News Briefs from Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., February 1911

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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