Fast Liquor Sleuths
Durham, March 11—Marly C. Klapp yesterday began his new duties as state revenue agent and his first day’s labors were fruitful to the extent of two stills captured, and the arrest of two white men on the charge of blockading.
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Great Hydro-Electric Plant
Charlotte, March 11—A $3 million 80,000 horsepower hydro-electric plant will be constructed on the Catawba River at Mountain Island near Mount Holly, Mecklenburg county. The contract was awarded for the erection of the plant Friday and work will begin at once. It is expected that it will take two years to complete it.
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Bold Automobile Robbery
Lumberton, March 11—Travis Bass Jr., of this city, charged with stealing an automobile belonging to Rev. Eugene Alexander of Raeford, from near the door of the Presbyterian church here, was bound over yesterday for trial at Superior court. Bond was fixed at $2,500.
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Gets Huge Still
Raleigh, March 11—Deputy Sheriff A.W. Thompson of Wake county, who last November captured the biggest still ever found in Wake county, a 280-gallon affair, yesterday arrested Ed Taylor and John Pollard, believed to have been its operators, and with them captured another giant still, a 200-gallon capacity, and 115 gallons of whiskey.
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Shoots His Boarder
Charlotte, March 11—Andy Bullware of Thrift, near this city, Saturday morning shot and seriously wounded B.C. Mickle, a boarder in the Bullware home, at the breakfast table. Bullware, it is said, had ordered Mickle to leave his home, and when he found him at the breakfast table he said, “I thought I told you to leave here,” drew his pistol and shot three times, every bullet taking effect.
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Stokes Farmer Kills Self
Winston-Salem, March 11—John L. Knight, a well known farmer of Stokes county, was found by his wife dead in a field near his home Friday, with a bullet hole through his head and a pistol by his side. Ill health is given as the cause for suicide.
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Working at Age of 100
Wilmington, March 11—Harriet Evans, former slave, who says that she is around 100 years of age, and is perhaps the oldest woman in New Hanover county, is still making her daily round selling vegetables, which she herself has raised. She recalls that today 70 years ago she was “placed” on the block at the Duplin county court house and offered for sale.
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Shriners to Meet at High Point
The spring ceremonial of Oasis temple, Mystic Shrine, will be held at High Point on May 25. Several thousand Shriners will attend the ceremonial and a large number of candidates will be initiated.
From the Greensboro Patriot, Monday, March 13, 1922
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