Burlington—The Southern Hosiery mills, located in the western section of this city, has been adjudged in voluntary bankruptcy. The liabilities were $63,000 while the assets were appraised at $34,000, including machinery, building and accounts.
High Point—The shaving bin of the Snow Lumber company here was practically destroyed by fire entailing a loss of several thousand dollars. The origin of the fire has not been determined. The building is said to have been insured.
Greensboro—About 5,000 people gathered at the fair grounds here to hear W.J. Simmons, Imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, discuss the past, the present and the future of the organization. About 225 men clothed in the robes of the order marched in the parade.
Clinton—Congressman Ketcham of Michigan delivered a strong and timely address at the American Legion picnic here.
Tarboro—An encampment of local Odd Fellows organized with 28 charter members. The Patriarchal, Golden Rule and Royal Purple degrees were conferred on 25 candidates.
Fayetteville—A 90-gallon whiskey still was captured about three miles from McNeill’s bridge, in the southern part of Cumberland county by Deputy Sheriff Marshall A. McLean.
Hendersonville—Fully 300 bankers from South Carolina were present at Kanuga lake when the South Carolina Bankers’ convention was called to order.
Rockingham—Approximately seven-eighths of all farmers canvassed to date have signed the five-year contract for selling the cotton crop through the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative association.
Albemarle—The mutilated body of E.L. Kirke, merchant of Palestine, small town four miles north of Albemarle, was found by railroad employes after it had been run over by the Winston-Salem southbound train.
Winston-Salem—Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has accepted an invitation to address the North Carolina Labor Federation at High Point, August 9, it was announced here.
Charlotte—A camp school for the purpose of teaching cotton grading and stapling opened at Lake Burton in the Blue Ridge mountains, under the auspices of the Charlotte Cotton school, the oldest institution of its kind in the South.
Lumberton—Considerable damage was done at the local substation of the Yadkin River Power company during a severe electric storm.
Charlotte—E.J. Tillman, linotype operator for The Observer and later for The News, who is a former service man, is taking treatment at the Presbyterian hospital, and is now suffering from paralysis of his lower limbs and is unable to leave his bed.
Hendersonville—S.Y. Bryson has resigned as postmaster of Hendersonville. The announcement came as a thunderbolt from a clear sky as local citizens were expecting Mr. Bryson to remain as postmaster for the next two years. He has held the office here for the last seven years.
Cedar Grove—During nine days of intensive campaigning, Orange county signed up approximately 52 per cent of her growers for co-operative marketing tobacco.
Lenoir—Coupling the Youshlossee with the Lenoir-Blowing Rock turnpike as a connecting link with the great interstate highway leading from Charlotte to Lincolnton, Hickory, Lenoir, connecting with the National highway leading through Johnson City was discussed at a meeting held at the chamber of commerce.
Winston-Salem—The Women’s clubs through the mayor and aldermen have induced local ice manufacturers to reduce the price of their products from 80 to 60 cents per hundred pounds.
Lenoir—Arthur Allred, Dewey Post and Paul Rooke were arrested nine miles north of here on the Blowing Rock road on a charge of beating up and seriously injuring Jim Norman of Concord and robbing him of $100 cash and taking his automobile, which is undamaged.
From The Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., July 14, 1921
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