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Premier Clemenceau of France has withdrawn as a candidate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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