Life in the Land of the Long Leaf Pine, 1910

“Life in the Land of the Long Leaf Pine,” from the Eastern Carolina News, Kenansville, N.C., August 17, 1910

Delegates to Irrigation Congress

The Governor has appointed, to represent North Carolina at the 18^th National Irrigation Congress, to be held in Pueblo, Colorado, Sept. 25 to 30, the following delegates:

Mr. R.L. Knowles, Hertford; W.A. Manney, King’s Mountain; Dr. J.H. Pratt, Chapel Hill; H.A. London Jr., Pittsboro; Mr. J.M. Pruden Jr., Edenton; Dr. R.W. Haywood, Greensboro; Mr. J.B. Sherrill, Concord; Mr. Frank D. Hackett, North Wilkesboro; Mr. W.H. Phillips, Lexington; Mr. J.P. Frizzelle, Snow Hill; H.”E. Fries, Winston-Salem; W.S. Cobb, Lumber Bridge; Henry Perry, Henderson; W.M. Boone, Louisburg; A.L. Starr, Mooresville; S. Otho Holding, Wake Forest; J.A. Noell, Roxboro; R.H. Haigler, Haynesville, No. 2; A.S. McNeill, Gibson; E.A. Hamrick, Ellenboro; R.L. Hauffman, Morganton; A. Hall Johnson, Marion.

A Rowdy Mixed Excursion

A small-sized riot, in which pistols and bottles were freely used, took place Thursday night in Southampton County, Virginia, on a mixed excursion train returning from Norfolk to Greensboro.

The trouble started when a white man went back into the negro coach and bought a bottle of liquor. One of the negroes jerked the bottle out of his pocket and a big fight ensued. Ted Stanley, white, of Guilford College, was shot in his right breast and seriously hurt.

Robert Jones, a youth of 16 years of age of Greensboro, was severely beaten over the head by the negroes with a bottle.

They are in the hospital at Danville, and four negroes are in jail, having been arrested when the train arrived at Danville. Several North Carolina officers who were on the train made no arrests.

Dr. Delegates to Whateveritis

Among the list of 112 physicians from all p arts of the state, commissioned to represent North Carolina at the 15^th annual international congress on Hygiene and Demography at Washington, D.C., September 26 to October 1, are E.C. Register, F.O. Hawley and J.P. Monroe, of Charlotte; H.W. McKenzie and H.F. Nathan of Salisbury; and T.E. McBrayer, Shelby.

Hookworm at High Point

Capt. E.P. Carpenter of the High Point Rifles has received the health report of his company in which it states that 14 of his men are affected with the hookworm disease. The names are given and it is suggested that they receive treatment at once from their respective family physicians. The report comes from Dr. E.B. Glenn of Asheville, who was the surgeon in charge of the First Regiment at Chicamauga last month.

Extraordinary Cabbage Snake

While Mrs. E.K. Huff of Kernersville was cutting up a cabbage grown in her own garden, she noticed something “moving through it.” Carefully cutting it apart she found it to be a genuine “cabbage snake,” being perfectly white, about the size of number 50 sewing thread, its head looked like a “fly speck,” its length being something like 18 to 24 inches, being removed from the cabbage and placed in a bottle of water its movements of “head, body, and tail” were identical of any other of the “snake tribe.” It will be preserved in water as long as it will live, and then be placed in alcohol.

Circus Will Get $5,000 at Fair

The State Fair management is exasperated to discover that the county authorities have issued license to Ringling Bros. Circus to show in Raleigh Thursday of fair week. Secretary Pogue declares this will reduce fair receipts several thousand dollars, the circus last year having cut fair receipts $5,000.

Did Knockout Drops Kill Boy?

The most important development Thursday in connection with the inquiry by a coroner’s jury into the circumstances of the death of Edward Cromwell, who lost his life in the Rock Springs Hotel fire Tuesday night at Wilmington, was the discovery by Dr. C.D. Bell, coroner, that L.B. Sasser, a druggist, sold to J.C. Holly, proprietor of the hotel, 16 ounces of patent drops containing laudanum, etc., about 10 o’clock Tuesday night, and the subsequent finding by the physician of a bottle in the hotel with less than a teaspoonful of the drug in it.

Southern M. of W. to Charlotte

The Southern is to move its department of maintenance of way from Columbia, S.C., to Charlotte. A survey is being made between Graham and Poplar streets in the northern part of the city, with a view of extending the tracks, and of the erection of a building in that section. The moving of this department of the Southern to Charlotte means the bringing of 100 men, who will have homes in the city.

State Convention Jr. O.U.A.M.

Chairman William E. Springer of the joint committee in charge of arrangement for the State Convention Jr. O.U.A.M., to be held at Tarrymore Hotel, Wrightsville Beach, August 23^rd to 26^th, has received a letter from Senator Lee S. Overman of Salisbury, accepting the invitation to deliver the principal address to the Juniors at the meeting, which promises to be the largest attended of any in many years.