--A big collection of South and North Carolina golfers are in Greensboro this week, taking part in the annual golf tournament of the Carolinas.
--Hillsboro reports the largest building boom that town has experienced in many years.
--200 North Carolina Republicans of the different parts of the State left on Monday for Washington, D.C., to confer with President Harding in regard to the holding up of the confirmation of Frank Linney as district attorney of this State.
--Robeson County farmers are reported as rapidly signing up for the contract for the Co-Operative Marketing Association of the cotton farmers of the South.
--The Bell Telephone Company, after having been granted a blanket increase in rates of telephone calls, are preparing to appeal their case to a higher tribunal. Several towns and cities are also kicking on the increase that was granted by the State Corporation Commission.
--Several thousand operatives of the textile mills of Charlotte and other towns of North Carolina went on a strike last week. When one of the mills attempted to reopen with non-union labor, it was necessary to call out the police reserves to quell the disturbances caused by the striking union laborers.
--The trustees of Greensboro College at their annual meeting last week voted to spend $700,000 on new buildings within the next two years. New dormitory space will be made available for the fall session of this year.
--150,000 automobile tags have been secured by the State authorities for distribution to the auto owners of this State. They will be issued during the month of June; and the cost of the tags will be greater this year than in any year previous, owing to the act of the last legislature in raising the rates.
--A machine gun company has been organized by the young men of the city of Wilson.
--Eight students of the State University were suspended last week for maltreating the rooms of several of the first year students.
--Dr. Collier Cobb of the State University has returned to his home after having been in Asia for a year on a leave of absence granted him by the college trustees.
--City commissioners of Asheville have opened up a war against the immoral dancing halls of the city and will place such a large tax upon them as to make their operation forbidden.
--Judge W.P. Bynum of Greensboro is being mentioned by his friends as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
--Frank Page, Chairman of the State Highway Association, has been given authority to construct two new stone crushing plants for use in constructing the state roads; one to be built in the western district and the other in the East.
--J.T. Harris, prominent merchant of Ridgecrest, has lost his appeal to the Supreme Court, in the case whereby he was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be electrocuted.
--The State Supreme Court has declared the Finance Act of 1921 unconstitutional; and thus the North Carolina towns and cities will have to govern themselves according to the old finance law, which places serious limitations around them.
--Kinston will in a few weeks vote on a proposition to issue $1,000,000 for schools in that city.
--The lone combination mail-baggage express-passenger, white and colored, smoking car, belonging to the Randolph and Cumberland Railway, of Moore County, last week was put out of commission, and the railroad is resorting to automobiles in which to convey their passengers to the destinations.
--Middlesex is one of recent towns to vote a bond issue for school improvements. A large majority was registered in favor of the bonds. --70 men received their diplomas from Davidson College at their annual commencement held during the week just passed.
--Spring Hope citizens voted overwhelmingly last week to issue $75,000 worth of bonds for school purposes.
--The State tax of $500 against auto manufacturers will stand, although a portion of it has been declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
--The State Highway Commission voted at their meeting last week not to let contracts for road construction in excess of $20 million for the first year under the act.
--Typhoid vaccination campaigns are being conducted throughout the state by the State Board of Health.
--The Eastern North Carolina Baseball League, composed of Kinston, New Bern, Washington and Greenville, is now ready to function, according to reports coming from these towns.
--The Pythians of North Carolina will meet in Greensboro for three days next week, at which time they will celebrate their Golden Jubilee, and it is expected to be the greatest event of its kind ever staged.
--Miss Hollon Bundy, prominent lady of Selma, was drowned in a pond near that town last Sunday afternoon.
--The trial of Dr. Peacock for the murder of Chief Taylor began at Thomasville Monday. Dr. Peacock went on the stand Tuesday and stated that he did not recall a single incident that took place on the day of the killing. He is pleading temporary insanity.
--Mrs. Page, the wife of Thomas Nelson Page, former Ambassador to England, died while in the State of Massachusetts on last Sunday.
--Robeson County has already signed up 47,000 bales of cotton in the Co-Operative Marketing Associatin campaign. Great process is being made throughout North Carolina.
--Guilford County commissioners are planning to erect a new and modern county home for the poor.
--A church building and four residences were burned to the ground in a fire that swept the residential section of that town on Monday of this week. (Story didn’t say which town.)
--A negro impostor, who claimed to be an agent of the Raleigh News and Observer, was given six months in jail for collecting subscriptions under false pretenses.
From the front page of The Hertford County Herald, Ahoskie, N.C., Friday, June 10, 1921
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