Local News
Last Saturday night Rufus Heritage, son of Mr. Alfred R.
Heritage, Supt. of Sidney Cotton Mills of this place, and Herman Burke of
Burlington were victims of an automobile wreck in which young Heritage was
instantly killed and young Burke had a leg broken besides over injuries. The
latter is at Rainey Hospital and will recover. They had been in Graham the fore
part of the night and were returning to Burlington. They were driving a new
Dodge car and running at high speed. At the curve on Davis street, near the
Baptist church, in Burlington, the machine struck an electric light pole. The
pole was broken off at the ground. Another pole a few feet away was almost
knocked down. The machine was a complete wreck. The remains of Mr. Heritage
were buried at Providence Monday afternoon.
About 2:30 Monday afternoon Worth Black, telephone lineman,
fell from the top of a 35-foot telephone pole. One leg was broken above the
ankle, and in falling he caught on a spike in the pole which ripped an ugly
gash several inches long up the thigh, groin and the body. The accident
happened near Mr. W.H. Holt’s store where the car track pass under the light
and phone wires. Mr. Black had climbed to the top of the pole and was preparing
to belt himself to the pole to do some repairing, when he came in contact with
the highly charged light wire some two feet above. The shock knocked him off
and burned his shoulder and hand. He was picked up for dead and rushed to
Rainey Hospital and is reported doing as well as could be expected. It is a
marvel that he was not killed instantly, but being beneath the highly charged
wire and falling in a ditch where the ground was soft saved his life. He is a
son of Mr. Geo. M. Black of this place.
Lieut. F.B. Fowler, back from France, will speak at the
Mexican Friday evening. Lieut. Fowler was a member of Co. K, 140th
Infantry, 35th Division, a unit of General Pershing’s famous shock
troops. With the British in the north and later in the south with the French,
Lt. Fowler detached from the division and led reinforcements at Chateau Thierry
on the second day of that great fight in July. The 35th Division
suffered the loss of 11,256 men in France.
There is no court being held this week. Members of the bar
and others got together last Friday and canvassed the influenza situation in
different parts of the county and came to the conclusion that the promiscuous
mingling together of the people from all parts of the county would aggravate
the situation by tending to spread the disease. Judge Lyon was called and
apprised of the conditions and he agreed that the court should be called off.
Graham Grocery co. has just installed a new motor delivery
wagon.
Mr. J.D. Vaughn is adding to and otherwise improving his
residence on North Maple Street.
Last Friday was an all-day rainy day and today is another of
the same sort. The weather continues quite mild. Already there was talk of
gardening and if it had continued fair till this ground was dry enough to work,
some garden preparation would have been going on before the end of the week.
Another automobile was wrecked in or near Burlington Tuesday
night. It hit a telephone pole. If any one was hurt, it was not learned. The
car had been abandoned, the number removed and it was not definitely known to
whom it belonged.
Robert Holt, who does a dray business in town, was held up
by a negro Tuesday night. He was delivering some trunks out near the depot when
the negro poked a gun in his face, jumped on the seat beside him and searched
him. The loot was only 60 cents. It was a bold piece of business.
A deed passed through the office of the Clerk of Court and
Register of Deeds yesterday that bore $25 in revenue stamps, the largest amount
on any deed since the law requiring stamps went into effect over two years ago.
It was made to Mebane Real Estate & Trust Co. for the new Isley building in
Burlington.
Col. J.A. Long, who has bought a farm two miles South of
Graham, and Mr. B.M. Rogers are planning to raise some fine hogs. They have
chosen the O.I.C.’s and Berkshires to start with. Two fine brood sows have been
secured. Mr. Rogers will care for the O.I.C.’s at his place, about a mile from
Col. Long’s and the latter will care for the Berkshires on his farm. They have
an arrangement between them about raising the hogs. There is no good reason for
the venture not proving profitable if reasonable care is exercised.
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