News From Hickory Daily Record, June 11, 1919

From the Hickory Daily Record, June 11, 1919

Clinton Cilley Injured

Mr. Clinton Cilley was painfully injured Monday when the bicycle he was riding collided with an automobile driven by Dr. Menzies on the hill near Mr. G.H. Geitner’s. The accident was unavoidable, the rider being on the wrong side of the street. The young man is getting along nicely under the care of Dr. Menzies and aside from bruises and cuts no other injuries were sustained.

Dance Tomorrow Night

The young men of the town will give a dance in the Chero-Cola building tomorrow night. An orchestra from Asheville will furnish the music. A number of out of town dancers will attend.

Our Band

Well, we are to have a real band in Hickory, much to the pleasure of all. The organization formed here the other night has in its ranks many men with much experience and quite a number are first class musicians. The Record is sure the community will stand by these men in their efforts to provide entertainment in this city. It will be months before the band will be as good as it should be but hard work, which the members are willing to do, will make it a first class organization. It will be a credit to Hickory and it should have the liberal support of this whole community. Secretary Joy struck the right note when he called for a concert.

The Central Highway

Secretary Beaman of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce has launched a movement that sounds good up this way. The Raleigh organization is not opposed to the Wilmington-Charlotte-Asheville highway, but it is interested in the Central highway, which runs through the capital city, Durham, Burlington, Greensboro, High Point and Salisbury, Statesville, Newton, Hickory, Morganton, Marion and other points to Asheville. With the project the Record also is in sympathy. The Central highway should be permanent if any highway in the state is permanent, and at Hickory a hard-surface road should be built through Granite Falls and Lenoir to Blowing Rock, the loveliest mountain country in the south. This latter project, however, is more remote, because the counties are not in position to pay their part of the cost. But the Central highway is a good bet.

Shot By Foreman

Garland Benfield, a white man, was shot and slightly injured Saturday afternoon by Mr. L. Tate Holler. The shooting occurred when Benfield refused to leave the property of the Buffalo Clay Co., on the Catawba river, of which plant Mr. Holler is foreman. Benfield received a slight wound in one arm. Mr. Holler reported the matter to Sheriff Alexander at once. Mr. Holler’s act will easily prove justifiable. –Statesville Landmark

Burned to Death

Last week when the main building of the Valle Crucis Industrial school, Watauga county, was destroyed by fire, two young ladies, Miss Adalade Miller of Lenoir, domestic science teacher in the institution, and Miss Clyde Philomon of Lincolnton, lost their lives in the flames. The school had just closed a few days before and they were the only inmates of the building, occupying a room on the third floor. Miss Philomon’s brother and two young men were rooming in the adjoining building, were awakened by the flames but it was too late. After the fire died down, a search was made for some trace of the incinerated bodies, but a few fragments of bones were all that could be found.

Memorial Is Unveiled to Lieut. James McConnell

McConnell flew for France and was the last American pilot killed before the U.S. entered the fighting.

Charlottesville, Va., June 11—Military men gathered here at the unveiling of the memorial to Lieut. James Rogers McConnell, who lost his life while flying with the La Fayette escadrille March 19, 1917. The memorial was unveiled by Rev. Robert Williams of Princeton, N.J., and was received on behalf of the University of Virginia by Major Armstead M. Dobie, who has just returned from France. Clara and Frankie Heck, twin daughters of the late Prof. William H. Heck, withdrew the veil. The statue was the result of a nation wide campaign by the friends of McConnell. It is the work of Guetzon Borglum, New York sculpture.

Miss Gertrude Clinard Wins Medal for Essay

Miss Gertrude M. Clinard, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. Will L. Clinard and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Clinard of Hickory, has won the medal for an essay on the immigration question written at her school in DeBucque, Iowa, recently. She took the position that immigration should not be restricted further, urging that enforcement of the present laws would prevent a great influx of undesirables. Miss Clinard points out that the immigrants have contributed to the greatness of the United States, and she does not overlook the cultural benefits that the country has received by reasons of their coming. The immigrants have contributed to American art, music, literature and industry and she urges that only the English language be taught to those who come to these shores.

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