N.C. State News. . .
A Digest of Everything Worth Knowing About Old North State Folks and Things
--Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, will deliver an address
at Fayetteville, September 6, the occasion being the celebration of Lafayette
Day in that city.
--After shooting his wife three times, inflicting instant
death, W.B. Kettles, construction engineer of Greenville, shot himself twice.
Kettles has been in ill health for some time. He may recover from his wounds.
--Damage amounting to $2 million has been done to Wayne
county farms by the recent floods, and 3,000 acres of farm land under
cultivation have been flooded with consequent destruction of crops, according
to reliable estimates
--Despite his claim that he needed the whiskey for heart
disease, J.O. King of Raleigh will likely receive a road sentence for the
illegal possession of liquor. Elbert Choplin of that city was fined $50 and
costs for transporting whiskey for King.
--Here is something new under the sun. According to a recent
report of the Railroad Administration, the Norfolk Southern railroad has a
record for the past year of 97.5 per cent on time for its train service. This,
according to the Administration, is a very good record.
--Because he refused to raise the price on “hot dogs” and
cold drinks, Louis Costellos, proprietor of a small stand in Durham, was
threatened with death by Steve Proctor, another local dealer in similar
articles. Proctor was placed under a bond of $200 as a guarantee of good
behavior.
--At a farmers’ meeting held under the auspices of the
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, the farmers of Wake county announced as their most
pressing need a tobacco market, a cotton market and a packing plant. At the
present time, the farmers asserted, they have to go beyond their own county to
profitably dispose of their products.
--A reduction of 9 ½ per cent in the cotton crop of the
South compared with the cotton acreage of 1918, is announced by J.S.
Wannamaker, president of the American Cotton Association. This is the largest
decrease of acreage in cotton every recorded. It is further stated that the
condition of the growing crop at the end of July was 67 per cent normal, as
compared with 70 per cent on June 25. (When
the war ended, the market fell and cotton growers couldn’t sell the crop for cost. They
got together and decided to grow less cotton in 1919.)
--Eight new concerns, including three cotton mills, with an
aggregate capital stock of more than $3 million have just been chartered by the
Secretary of State. The industrial development of the State has proceeded at an
unusually rapid rate since the termination of the war.
--Mayor E.H. Bain of Goldsboro has established a new
precedent in dealing with fallen women, but the announcement that in the future
he will refuse to convict such women unless the equally guilty men are brought
before him. The police have been instructed to arrest all men found in houses
of ill fame.
--Every teacher in the schools of North Carolina this year
must hold a certificate stating that he or she has not an open or active
infectious stage of tuberculosis, or any other infectious disease. This is in
accordance with an act of the General Assembly of 1919 that was fathered by
Representative Turner of Mitchell County.
--Between 400 and 500 employes in the shops of the Atlantic
Coast Line and Norfolk Southern railroads at Raleigh have joined the national
strike of railway shopmen. Demands for wage increases which have not been
granted are given as the reason for the strike, which if continued will mean
the practical stoppage of railway traffic within a few days. (The inflation rate was 14.5% in 1919. By comparison, it was 2.4%
last year.)
--Editor J.A. Sharpe of the Lumberton Robesonian was elected President of the North Carolina
Press Association for the coming year, at the annual convention of the
Association recently held at Wrightsville Beach. Resolutions endorsing the
peace treaty were unanimously passed.
--“Fiddlin’ Joe” Collins maintained his title as champion
fiddler of central North Carolina n a big fiddling contest recently held at
Fuquay Springs, which was attended by aspiring fiddlers from Cumberland, Wake,
Harnett, Sampson, Durham and other counties, who strove to wrest the
championship from the uncrowned king of fiddlers in that part of the State.
--The strange pest supposed to be the army worm, which is
devastating the soy bean crop in Pasquotank and other nearby counties, is
likewise doing great damage in central North Carolina. That; taken with the
recent destruction of crops by floods and the expected return of the 7-year
locust, is causing much gloom and discouragement among the farmers of that part
of the State.
--Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, who succeeds Admiral
Victor Blue as head of the United States Bureau of Navigation, is a native of
Goldsboro, Wayne county. There are at present four other Tar Heels who are now
serving in the Navy with the rank of Admiral. They are Admirals Long, Anderson,
Scales, and Blue.
--The hospital for the colored insane at Goldsboro sustained
a loss of $35,000 during the recent floods, according to an estimate of the
management made public this week.
--All matters of controversy between the employees and the
management of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco company in Winston-Salem have been
adjusted and the threatened strike has been called off.
--The highest honor which can be bestowed on an American
soldier by the British government has been conferred upon Dr. A.R. Winston of
Franklinton. It is the D.S.O., and was given in recognition of Dr. Winton’s
bravery on the field of battle at Bellicourt.
--During the recent evangelistic campaign conducted by
“Cyclone Mack” McLendonin Sanford, more than $5,000 was collected by the
evangelistic party. Very large crowds attended every service, and scores of
persons have signified their intention of joining the local churches at an
early date.
--Capt. Chas. M. Bower, alias Steele, 81 years old, of
Statesville, is in the Washington, D.C.
jail on a charge of obtaining various sums from Washington City people to
finance a wild scheme for recovering buried treasure on Cocas Island, off the
coast of Costa Rica. Bower claims to know the exact location of the hidden
wealth.
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