--Jack Elkins, the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. P.L. Elkins of Goldston, was drowned in a well.
--Mrs. R.T. Edwards, prominent society woman of Rocky Mount, ftally shot herself at her home in that city.
--James L. Hancock, manager of the New Bern marine railways, died at a hospital in “Baltimore this week.
--Walter S. Taylor, a well known cotton mill man, died at his home in Hickory following a storke of paralysis.
--The State Home Economics Association will hold its annual meeting at the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro on March 19.
--The Poole Turpentine Distilling Co. will start extracting turpentine and other by-products from pine stumps in Hamlet April 1.
--Mrs. Lucy Cromwell of Charlotte has been awarded $10,000 by the Supreme Court because of venereal infection communicated to her by her husband.
--Practically 400 laborers and mechanics returned to work this week when the big mills of the Tilghman Lumber Company of Dunn resumed operations, after being idle since last November.
--Lenoir County’s new roads are being built for a cost of about $35,000 a mile, and the county will get approximately 70 miles out of the appropriations for its present program.
--The newly appointed committee of the North Carolina State Fair met with the president, Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt, in the offices of the Chamber of Commerce in Raleigh Thursday.
--Richard Asbury, a colored road worker, is in jail at Kinston on a charge of assaulting John Stanley, white, foreman on the road, with a shovel. Stanley was not seriously hurt.
--Fire completely destroyed one of the large woodworking buildings of the Briggs-Shaffner Company’s plant in Winston-Salem, entailing a loss of $100,000 covered by insurance.
--A fire which is said to have started in the store of the Williams Furniture Company at Louisburg did damage amounting to as much as $100,000.
--At a banquet at the Lafayette Hotell at Fayetteville, it was decided that a Y.M.C.A. building is the Cape Fear metropolis’ biggest need, and provided some $50,000 to build it with.
--In less than five minutes, the jury in the case of Ira Thompson, oung Raleigh man charged with murder in connection with killing of Dr. J.M. Pickell by automobile, returned a verdict of not guilty.
--Dr. R.R. Moton, president of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Tuskegee, Ala., and recognized leader among negro educators, is making a speaking tour of North Carolina this week.
--The largest poultry yards in North Carolina are located a few miles from Winston-Salem. W.A. Cook, owner, announced that 3,500 chickens are now being hatched at his yard every Tuesday. One incubator holds 10,800 eggs.
--Edward T. King, formerly manager of Ricks Hotel at Rocky Mount, N.C., ended his life with a pistol after an altercation with his father-in-law at the latter’s home in Baltimore. Domestic troubles led up to the suicide.
--Pink Hill, literally the “roundest town in the world” because of its circular corporate line, has acquired an added distinction which all North Carolina towns should try to acquire. Health bureau workers say it bids fair to be a “flyless town” this summer.
--Herbert Newbold, Assistant Bank Examiner, has returned to Raleigh from Pink Hill after closing up the Bank of Pink Hill. George S. Willard, cashier of the Bank, is still missing. Allen Whittaker has been appointed receiver for the bank.
--Employes of the Rocky Mount mills have been placed on a half-time basis, their time having been reduced from 55 to 30 hours per week. The management stated that the reduction was necessitated by a slack in orders for yarns at present.
--Under the North Carolina law the property of the late Walter R. Reynolds, who left no will, goes to the brothers and sisters of the deceased, and to the children of a deceased brother and a deceased sister. The estate is valued from $500,000 to $1,000,000.
--It now appears that all institutions in the State will be required to submit plans for all buildings to Stacy W. Wade, the Insurance Commissioner, and those plans will bge subject to approval for the purpose of ascertaining that the construction provided is fire proof.
--Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geologist, who is spending some time in Asheville, working on plans for having one of the biggest artificial lakes in America located in the mountains of western North Carolina, has also conceived the idea of building an automobile road up Mt. Mitchell—to the very roof of eastern North Carolina.
--J.W. Bailey, United States collector of internal revenue, has sworn out a warrant for the arrest of Jesse E. Woolard, income tax field deputy for Beaufort and Hyde counties, charged with embezzling government funds. Wollard disappeared from his headquarters in Washington, N.C., and a checking of his accounts revealed a shortage.
--Judge George W. Connor issued a restraining order which was served upon the Mayor of Dunn, and the four members of the town council, forbidding them to take further steps toward converting Lucknow Square, its public market place, into a public park, as the Atlantic Coast Line claims this square as their property.
--Damage estimated at between $8,000 and $10,000 was done in Cedar Ford and Leesville townships of Wake County by a cyclonic wind which swept through that section at a tremendous rate of speed. Only one house, that unoccupied, was destroyed, but barns and outbuildings of all kinds were swept away.
From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, March 18, 1921
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