--State Treasurer B.R. Lacy of Raleigh is seriously ill in New York.
--Major Edward J. Hale, soldier, journalist, diplomat and statesman, died at his home in Fayetteville last week.
--There is little hope that the depositor of the defunct Central Bank at Raleigh will receive more than 50 cents on the dollar.
--The Old Plantation Tobacco warehouse in Wilson burned to the ground Tuesday morning, the total loss being around $`00,000 with only partial insurance.
--James R. and Benjamin N. Duke of Durham have donated $75,000 for a new negro hospital to be built in that city, when a like amount has been subscribed locally.
--Charles F. Stewart, machine room superintendent of the plant of the Imperial Tobacco Company at Kinston, was overcome by smoke and burned to death when fire partially destroyed his home.
--Arden Taylor, sheriff of Lenoir county, stated that he would suggest a pardon for Charlie Grimes, Negro convict, for service to the State in preventing the escape of Herbert Anderson and Claud Bunch, white men in the county jail on highway robbery charges. In the absence of the jailer, Grimes prevented a delivery at the risk of his life and incurred severe injuries, Taylor declared, adding that his conduct was nothing short of heroic.
--In the suit of Dr. G.W. Norman against R.B. Boren of Greensboro this week, Courtney Norman, a young son of Dr. and Mrs. Norman, testified that he caught his mother and Boren in an immoral act. Dr. Norman is suing Boren for $100,000.
--After giving strict Sunday enforcement a trial for one year, the Board of Aldermen of Goldsboro have amended the law so as to allow the sale of soft drink, ice cream, etc., on Sundays except during church hours. Newspapers and gasoline may be bought all day Sunday.
--Allen Umstead, a negro employe of Meredith College, arrested in connection with the invasion of the bed-room of two students of the college early last Saturday morning, has been formally charged with burglary in the first degree and will be tried for the rim, the punishment of which is death.
--Grady Cheek, J.D. Cardwell, Roy Huffman and Charlie Huffman, four young white men, are in jail at Winston-Salem, charged with an attempt to rob the Bank of Kernersville last Friday morning. Mrs. D.V. Musten, telephone operator, discovered the men trying to get in a window of the bank and notified the police.
--Jesse L. Armfield, former president of the Bank of Thomasville, which failed August 22, is now in jail at Lexington. Armfield is under 69 indictments in connection with the failure of the bank, and is specifically charged in these with embezzling, abstraction or misappropriating $21,000. He is alleged to have shortages totaling $154,000.
--Edward E. Martin, a resident of Florence, Pamlico county, and for a period of five or six years clerk of the court of that county, is at liberty under a bond of $2,500 to appear at the May term of Criminal court at Bayboro and answer to a charge of misappropriating funds to the amount of $2,500 while he was acting in an official capacity in that county.
--“Food for the Family First!” is the slogan for the home garden campaign now being waged in North Carolina to induce each family in the state to feed itself. A committee in each county is suggested to arouse the people to the necessity of planning for better and more gardens, a cow for every family on the farm, poultry to supply the family needs, and pork for home use.
--Milton Bruce is seriously wounded and is in a hospital at Concord, and his nephew Enoch Bruce is in the Cabarrus jail awaiting action which probably will put him face to face with a charge of burglary in the first degree. The two Bruces broke into Lawing’s store at Bergenburg, a suburb of Kannapolis, and Lawing and a man named Fuell were sleeping in the store, and when they discovered the burglars they opened fire with a shotgun.
--A formal application for the pardon of Capt. R.E. Crawford of Asheville, Southern Railway conductor, has been forwarded to Governor Morrison. Crawford was convicted of manslaughter in Rowan Superior Court in connection with the slaying of Engineer Sam Hinton at Spencer in December because of alleged remarks derogatory to Crawford’s wife. The remarkable fact is it is said that the application for pardon goes to the Governor before sentence has been passed.
--One North Carolinian, Private John E. Thompson of Bentenville, lost this life in the destruction of the giant dirigible airship Roma at the Norfolk Navy Base Tuesday. The Roma, 410 feet in length, built in Italy, attempted a demonstration flight Tuesday afternoon with 45 men on board. The steering gear failed 1,000 feet in the air and the big ship plunged to the ground, coming into contact with high tension electric wires causing a gas explosion which killed 34 men outright and burned their bodies to a crisp.
From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Feb. 24, 1922
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