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State and National News of Interest, Jan. 20, 1920

From The Monroe Journal, Tuesday, January 20, 1920

News Events of the Day in the State and Nation

Mrs. Ada Lee Stanley of Guilford county has accepted the pastorate of the Friends church in Winston-Salem.

Eight cases of small pox have been located in Rocky Mount and several persons afflicted are in the last stage of the disease.

In a fit of despondency induced by a defective mind, Mrs. Lloyd Hall of Raleigh fired a pistol bullet through her breast and died shortly afterward.

The executive committee of the North Carolina Good Roads Association has decided to hold the next annual convention in Asheville in June.

Judge Charles M. Cook, former Secretary of State, speaker of the House of Representatives of North Carolina and for 15 years judge of the State Superior Court died Friday at his home in Louisburg.
The War Department Saturday asked Congress to authorize expenditure of $15,680,625 for the purchase of airplanes and motors. Work under the expenditures would be so allocated as to foster and promote the aviation industry.

Premier Clemenceau of France has withdrawn as a candidate for President of the French Republic in favor of President Poincaire. This will probably mean the “Tiger’s” withdrawal from public life entirely.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Delbane and their two sons of New York City are dead as the result of eating spoiled olives. Their daughter is in a hospital suffering from the same poison.

Work has started on the erection of a 24-room annex to the Charlotte Sanitarium, making the capacity of the hospital 75 beds.

A young woman, Miss Helen Wise of Virginia, dressed in an army uniform, is registering in hotels over the South and leaving post haste without settling her board bills. In Charlotte she escaped arrest by telling she was a French aviatress.

The Birmingham, Ala., school teachers are organized under the name of the Federation of Teachers and have affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. They demand $1,500 a year as a minimum salary and $1,750 as a maximum.

The U.S. Army transport Powhatan, with 500 passengers on board was reported yesterday to be in peril 700 miles east of New York. Two steamers were near her and it was thought the transport would make port all right.

Maude Powell, unquestionably the foremost woman violinist of her time, died last Tuesday at her home in New York City at the age of 52. She had been playing in public for 40 years and studied with the world’s most famous violinists.

Five Socialists in the lower branch of the New York State Legislature were denied their seats last week by a resolution of that body. The action was based on their questioned loyalty to the government and the best interest of the United States and the State of New York.

Churchill Godley, Johnston county white man, was electrocuted Friday in Raleigh for the criminal assault on a 9-year-old girl eight months ago. More persons were present that ever before at an electrocution. Godley denied his guilt to the end and the case has been a most spectacular one.

The British freighter Yarmouth, which left New York Friday for Havana with a cargo of liquor reported yesterday in radio messages that she was sinking. The cargo is valued at $2 million and left New York with a heavy list owing to the haste with which she was loaded in an effort to leave before prohibition became effective.

The tailor shop of President Andrew Johnson of Greenville, Tenn. One of the historic structures of Tennessee, is to be moved to the courthouse grounds there, and the lot on which it has stood for the past three generations is to be used for building purposes. While working as a tailor in Greenville, Johnson’s young wife taught him to read. His old home at Greenville, now occupied by his grandson, Andrew Johnson Patterson is also advertised for sale.

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