--Henderson has subscribed $6,000 for the purpose of building a Y.M.C.A.
--Robbers entered a garage at Wilson and stole the wheels off an automobile.
--Drunkenness was the greatest cause of arrests in Raleigh for the month of April.
--Julian Walton, a young ex-soldier, has been named chief of police of Morgantown.
--Chas. U. Harris, a Raleigh attorney, will be a candidate for State Senate from Wake County.
--Mrs. Theresa Swert, oldest New Bern citizen, died at the age of 90 years. She was born in Germany.
--The Press Publishing Company of Warrenton and Littleton will launch a paper at Franklinton shortly.
--St. Luke’s circle of the King’s Daughters in Raleigh is planning to build a commodious home for aged women.
--The Cumnock Coal mine near Sanford is now getting out about 100 tons a day, according to Raleigh papers.
--John Underwood, former mayor of Fayetteville, was killed Saturday in an automobile accident in Moore county.
--The First National Bank of Thomasville is to begin the erection of a five-story bank building costing $100,000.
--William Bramble, a 50-year-old Fayetteville man, was caught in the shafting of a fertilizer plant and killed instantly.
--City Solicitor Beckwith of the Raleigh courts says the roads is the only place to stop drunken and reckless drivers.
--Shrimp shipments from Wilmington set a new record this season, there being 31 carloads in all sent to Northern markets.
--Leopold Karples, a paralytic patient at the Kenilworth public service Hospital, died from burns he received while taking a bath.
--Will Jones, a colored man near Edenton, lost $810 when his house was burned last week. The money was hidden in a mattress.
--James Weaver, a Raleigh white man convicted of hiring his wife for immoral purposes, has been sentenced to 12 months on the roads.
--Alleged laxity in the enforcement of the law in Gastonia has led the City Council to request the resignation of J.E. Orr, Chief of Police.
--Enoch Parker, Cleveland county’s oldest citizen, says he has chewed tobacco 80 years and has used coffee all his life. He is 101 years old.
--J.B. Hendren, superintendent of a power plant at Laurinburg, was killed while removing a broken insulator, when 2,200 volts passed thru his body.
--In a typewriting contest in Greensboro, Miss Hazel Ferguson won the first prize for accuracy, going at a rate of 65 words a minute for 15 minutes.
--An automobile fell over a 30-foot embankment near Asheville, shaking up the five occupants, none of whom were seriously injured. The car was demolished.
--Edgar Lytle, a linotype operator, and Hugh Bradshaw, a business man, of Hickory, were drowned when a motor boat capsized in an artificial lake near that town.
--On reaching up to pull the throttle of his locomotive, J.E. Spangler, a Norfolk and Western Railroad engineer, of Winston-Salem, dropped dead from heart failure.
--William W. Campbell, chief of police at Oteen hospital reservation, near Asheville, shot and killed Mrs. Anna Smathers, a young widow who had refused to marry him.
--Nearly $3,000 has been raised in Belhaven to build a boardwalk, pavilion and boathouses on the waterfront for the purpose of entertaining tourists and visitors this summer.
--A one-armed man of High Point named R.E. Dawkins has been sentenced to the state penitentiary for stealing an automobile., He is already suffering from tuberculosis.
--A recent investigation of eating places in Durham led to the rejection of 32 café and hotel employes as unfit for service, due to contagious diseases, most of which were venereal.
--As result of an automobile collision caused by careless driving, Levy Thomas and T.B. Marks of Broadway are in Sanford Hospital, the former fatally injured, and the latter probably so.
--James Bridgers, a white man, is in Wake county court charged with an attempt to commit rape on a 7-year-old girl, and Andrew Suggs is charged with a similar offence on a 15-year-old girl.
--J.A. Adden of Washington was shot and killed in his office by a negro, suspected to be one of the chauffeurs of the Thomas Hughes Tobacco Company. Adden was 30 years old and had a wife and two children.
--A colored jitney driver named Johnson was taking a colored man and his family to a wedding Monday night near Weldon, when the car ran into a mill pond, drowning Johnson and one of the children in the car.
--Leslie Avery of Kinston, who was banished from this state for an assault on his wife, has been pardoned by Governor Morrison. He returns to find his wife divorced from him, she having been granted a decree about a month ago.
--Dr. R. Harris, a Roland veterinarian, was instantly killed while attempting to stop a runaway team of mules carrying a wagon load of school children. His effort prevented the children from being hurt, but the wagon passed over his body.
--E.H. Chamberlain, a Rockingham dentist, is held on a charge of making liquor. In his house was found 30 pounds of sugar, and nearby were a 200-gallon still, 2,000 gallons of beer, a barrel of molasses, 10 gallons of whiskey and 200 pounds of sugar.
--Unknown parties placed dynamite under the grocery store of N.W. Baxter of Wilson, while it was thronged with shoppers. The explosion tore a large hole thru the building and wrecked a refrigerator, but no one was hurt except a negro who was run over in the scramble to get out.
--Dr. E.C. Lindeman, professor of Social Economics at the Greensboro College for Women, will resign his job one reason for which is that he has received a warning supposedly from the Ku Klux Klan to leave town. The warning follows up a party which he allowed his negro cook to give in his home for her friends.
From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., May 12, 1922
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