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Saturday, January 21, 2023

Of Interest in Kinston and Surrounding County, Jan. 20, 1923

Of Local Interest

Death of Mrs. Gooding

Mrs. Elizabeth Gooding’s death at a Greene County point recently was reported here today. She was 77 years of age and well-known in the Hookerton and Snow Hill sections. Her death was attributed to heart trouble. She passed away at the home of a son, Leon Gooding. The funeral and burial services were held at a private cemetery in this vicinity. Mrs. Gooding was extensively related.

Death of Isaac Powell

Isaac Powell, well-known farmer of the LaGrange section, died at his residence a short distance from that town recently. Mr. Powel was a victim of influenza-pneumonia, which combination has caused more than a dozen deaths in this section during the past few weeks. He is survived by a widow and several children. He was 44 years of age. The funeral and burial services were held at a Greene County point Wednesday afternoon.

Names Announced Later

The police today prepared to spring surprises on 10 or more residents who stand to be fined $50 and costs each in Police Court Monday. There is little doubt that the municipal treasury will be enriched considerably; the authorities declared they had “ample evidence.” The prospective defendants on whom warrants are to be served are charged with parking cars on the same block with fire apparatus “actively engaged at a fire.” The cases are the first of the kind, at least in some time.

Marsden New Terminal Point

Marsden has taken on greater importance as a Norfolk Southern Railroad junction town, it was reported in railroad circles here today. Terminals in Washington are to be transferred to Marsden, three miles from the former town, the last of next week, it was stated. Trains will lay over at the junction instead of at Washington. The road has outgrown its facilities at the latter place. The Norfolk Southern has rather limited trackage with the corporate limits of the city. Marsden is a more convenient name for Chocowinity, the change in names having been ordered several years ago.

Held for Shooting 3 Years Ago

John Brock, pleading guilty to a charge of shooting Leon Branch here three years ago, has been sent up to Superior Court by the City Court here. Brock was arrested at Durham recently. By a strange prank of fate, Branch had recovered from serious wounds inflicted by Brock and located in the same city. They did not know each other’s presence in the same locality, however. Brock, who was delivered up to the local authorities after serving a minor term in Durham County, was unable to raise the $1,000 bail required of him in the local court.

Deep Run May Incorporate

Deep Run is contemplating incorporation. It will be the fourth “real” town in Lenoir County. It is the most important community between Kinston and Pink Hill, about 20 miles apart, and has a population of several hundred persons. A thickly populated agricultural district surrounds the village. Deep Run is a trading point for a considerable territory. It is located on a main highway of the local hard-surfaced system and the Kinston-Carolina Railroad, Norfolk Southern subsidiary. Some estimates place Deep Run in third place in the list of Lenoir towns. Pink Hill now holds that distinction. Deep Run has more people, it is claimed.

Search for Beneficiary Ends

George Everington, chief of police here, today announced the successful termination of a long search for a negro named Peyton. Peyton was sought in order that he might be given a small fortune awaiting him in Pitt County. Months ago the quest began. It “got nowhere” until the man’s first name had been forgotten. The records did not give it. Everington today said counsel at Greenville had located Peyton in Chester, Penn. A Pitt County relative willed Peyton a sum amounting to between $2,000 and $3,000 some years ago.

Miller May Be Left at Raleigh

Whether James Miller, negro slayer of John Sutton near this city September 29, 1922, will be brought here from Baltimore, where he was apprehended a few days ago, or taken to Raleigh was a question that could not be settled at the Court-house here today. It had been indicated that the authorities, fearing no trouble, would have Miller brought direct to Kinston, to be arraigned next week for the crime, one of the most brutal committed in this vicinity in years. Reports persisted today that the sheriff, who with a deputy went for Miller, would stop off at the capital with the prisoner and leave him there until the day of the trial. At the time of the murder Miller would have been summarily dealt with.

Cop’s Assailant Killed?

Intelligence from Cincinnati said to have come through a reliable source, is that a negro who shot and seriously wounded a policeman here during the 1921 holidays was killed by officers at the Ohio city recently. In an investigation of disorderliness in an alley December 24, Patrolman Thomas Stroud was shot by one of a group of negroes claimed to have been William Yarborough, who escaped. Stroud was incapacitated for months. He has a slight limp as a result of the wound. The police today had no confirmation of the report of Yarborough’s death at Cincinnati, but a negro who recently came here from that place was said to be positive that the gunman was killed in a rum-running expedition.

Marriage Licenses

H. McCoy and Lola Lambert, white, both of Lenoir County; Jesse Hood and Eva Jones, colored, both of LaGrange.

From page 6 of The Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Jan. 20, 1923. The town is still called Chocowinity, except by the railroad which persists on calling it Marsden.

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