--Roger Moore, a prominent business man of Wilmington, was elected Governor of the Seventh District Rotary Clubs last week.
--R.E.L. Skinner of Durham was badly but not seriously hurt as the result of the derailment of the Seaboard Mid-South special near Alberta, Va.
--W.L. Reasons of Pinetops, near Tarboro, was seriously and probably fatally injured while using dynamite to blow up a stump on his farm.
--Dr. Kemp Plummer Battle, prominent Raleigh specialist, died last week at the Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia.
--The 32nd Annual Convention of the North Carolina Baptist Women’s Missionary Convention will open in Charlotte Tuesday, April 4.
--The death rate from tuberculosis fell below a hundred per hundred thousand in 1921 for the first time in the history of vital statistics in North Carolina.
--An enrollment of not less than 300 is expected at the training school for Sunday school and church leaders scheduled to be held at Trinity College April 2 to 9.
--Bangor Crumpler, probably the oldest citizen of Sampson County, is dead. Not having an authentic record of his age, it has been estimated that he was more than 100 years old.
--E.G. Coltrane, superintendent of the Roanoke Rapids schools, has been named full time secretary of the North Carolina Teachers’ Assembly at a salary of $4,000 per year.
--Police Chief C.C. McClees of Durham, whose resignation takes effect April 5, has issued a signed statement in which he lays his failure to succeed on the job to doing his duty.
--Alfred Collins, negro, charged with robbery of a store and post office at Wenona, dug himself out of jail at Plymouth Sunday afternoon, but was recaptured and back in his cell at midnight.
--The State Fish Commission yacht Atlantic picked up 53 shots of illegally set nets in the vicinity of Edenton this week. The catch was sold at Manteo and the proceeds will go to the public schools.
--Jane Addams, settlement worker and head of Hull House, Chicago, was secured as speaker for Phi Beta Kappa day at Trinity college. Miss Addams spoke at Craven Memorial Hall Thursday evening, March 30.
--The administrator of the estate of W.T. McCuiston, Greensboro policeman murdered last May by bootleggers in that city, won a $10,000 verdict against Carl Talley, one of the bootleggers, and his wife, Mrs. Ethel Talley.
--Property owners in North Carolina paid fire insurance companies last year a total of $8,379,054.06 in premiums and received back $6,364,378.65 for losses incurred, according to a statement issued by Insurance Commissioner Stacey W. Wade.
--W.T. Clark, senior member of the W.T. Clark Co., independent buyers, re-driers and shippers of tobacco, turned down a salary of $50,000 a year tendered him to manage the leaf end of the Co-operative Marketing Association in Eastern Carolina.
--J.C. Plonk, retired cotton mill manufacturer, has made a gift of $100,000 to the Rutherford Hospital at Rutherfordton, as a memorial to his wife, the late Laura E. Plonk. The money will e used to purchase radium equipment for the institution.
--George W. Garren, 28, of the Fruitland section, Henderson county, was fatally stabbed in a church yard near his home, and Hubert Maxwell, of that section, is held charged with the killing. It seems that ill feeling had existed for some time between the two.
--John Newborn, negro laborer, employed in road construction work near Kinston, while taking his bath, substituted gasoline for soap to remove grease spots form his skin, then stood too near a fire. The gasoline ignited and Newborn was severely burned.
--Bob Williams, negro bandit who has terrorized hamlets of Brunswick county for the past two weeks, was captured in a swamp near Phoenix after a thrilling chase in which sheriffs’ posses from two counties, a cordon of city police and a detachment of National Guardsmen took part.
--Jule Coswell is in jail at Lenoir charged with the murder of his brother-in-law, Jacob Carlton, who died from gunshot wounds. The shooting arose over a quarrel between Carlton and his wife, who is Coswell’s sister, and Coswell claims that he shot Carlton because he was beating his sister.
--J.B. Hunt of Goldsboro received a judgment of $10,000 against the Standard Oil Company. The plaintiff exhibited two severely burned legs to the jury, testifying that he was injured by an explosion of an oil stove, due to the fact that it was filled with oil containing too high a percentage of gasoline.
--County authorities are still investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Harry Shuford, young cotton mill executive whose body was found in the Hotel Carroll at Bessemer City, Saturday, with a bullet wound in the head and the skull fractured as if by a blow from some heavy instrument.
--At a directors’ meeting held in New York C.M. Carr was elected president of the Durham Hosiery Mills, to succeed his brother, the late Julian S. Carr Jr. C.M. Carr was formerly treasurer of the company. A.H Carr, former vice-president and assistant secretary, was elected vice-president and treasurer.
--Building of the union passenger station in Winston-Salem on the Wheeler lot in the eastern part of the city seems to be a foregone conclusion. Several of the tenant houses on the property have been torn down and occupants of others have been requested to move without delay, which is taken to mean that excavation work will begin at once.
--David Croon, negro, who has been held in Craven jail since he was captured in Pamlico county by Sheriff W.H. Pickles following the killing of another negro at Adams Creek three weeks ago, was taken to a hospital in New Bern where his left leg was amputated having been shot by Sheriff Pickles when he attempted to resist arrest.
--J.W. Kepley, proprietor of the Hotel March at Lexington, was the first man to feel the teeth incorporated in the hotel inspection law by the General Assembly last year when he was hauled into court and fined $10 for refusing to comply with the regulations of the State Board of Health. He declined to post room rates, supply fresh bed linen, exterminate vermin and correct conditions in his kitchen.
--Mrs. Annie L. Everett of Winston-Salem has instituted suit against S.W. Davis, a furniture merchant of Greensboro, in which judgment in sum of $20,000 is asked because of alleged improper remarks made to her in August, 1920, at which time Mr. and Mrs. Everett were residents of Greensboro. The plaintiff claims that because of fear of causing trouble between Davis and her husband, she kept the matter a secret at the time.
--Mrs. J.E. Taylor of Thomasville asked for $40,000 in her suit against Dr. J.W. Peacock because of the killing of the plaintiff’s husband a year ago, and was awarded $23,150 last week by a jury in Forsyth superior court J.E. Taylor was chief of police of Thomasville when he was shot and killed by Dr. Peacock, who was later tried and committed to the State Insane Asylum at Raleigh after a verdict of insanity had been returned.
--Gypsy Smith Jr., in one of his sermons in Raleigh last week, said, “If I were to ask you church members sitting there before me at the end of this service to join me in a whirlwind campaign of personal work to save the lost in this city, 75 per cent of you would bolt. You church members know the letter of the law, and you know all about the activities of your church organization, but the vast majority of you are as ignorant of free grace as a crowd of Hottentots.”
--The Department of Commerce thru the Bureau of Census announces that on February 28 there were in place in North Carolina 5,340,000 cotton spinning spindles, and that 5,253, 199 were operated at some time during the month of February. The aggregate number of active spindle hours reported for February are 1,369,660,481 the report shows that North Carolina was behind only Massachusetts in the cotton spinning industry for February, with South Carolina ranking third.
--2,600 bales of cotton stored in the tobacco warehouse of T.V. Bobbitt and Company at Goldsboro were destroyed when the structure was burned Sunday night by a fire believed to have been of incendiary origin. The loss in cotton was estimated at $200,000 with $190,000 insurance. It is understood that the warehouse was insured for $16,000, which is believed to cover its loss. Total damage to cotton, warehouse and out buildings is around $225,000. The cotton was owned by H. Weil and Brothers, cotton factors, and the warehouse was the property of the Carolina Warehouse Company.
From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 31, 1922
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