The Weather
For North Carolina: Fair and warmer tonight. Sunday cloudy and warmer; probably rain in the interior. Moderate northeast, becoming southerly, winds Sunday.
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Marriage License
James E. Edwards and Beatrice G. Moready, both of Duplin County, white.
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Mail Carrier Ill
James Dunn, colored rural mail carrier, is ill with influenza and unable to serve his route.
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Little Rascals
The “Ku Klux” has warned Julian Bell, janitor at the post office, to leave instanter. Mr. Bell has learned that the Ku Klux in this case is a band of juveniles. The warnings bear grewsome death’s heads and skulls and crossbones. Now Mr. Bell is issuing a warning of his own—that the post office is no place for monkeyshines, that the government strictly bans them, and that the kids will have to play elsewhere.
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Collins Is Better
Plato Collins, severely injured in an automobile accident at Birmingham some days ago, is recovering and will return to his home here before the middle of March, it was stated by relatives today. Mr. Collins, a former clerk of the Superior Court here, was run down by a car in a Birmingham street, according to the account had by his family here, suffering severe injuries to his head. His life was despaired of during the following day or two and an operation was necessitated. He was in Alabama on a business trip when hurt.
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Driver Not Blamed
William Walters, youthful driver of an automobile which struck and fatally injured Thomas Elbert Sanderson, 11-year-old boy, at Dunn School, near here, Thursday afternoon, was exonerated by a coroner’s jury sitting here Friday night. The victim, son of R.B. Sanderson, a farmer, suffered a fractured skull when thrown to the pavement of the highway by the car. A companion was said to have playfully pushed the boy before the automobile as it was about to pass a group of children on the road. The jury held that the affair was an unavoidable accident as far as Waters was concerned. His car was making moderate speed.
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Funeral of Mrs. Wallace
The funeral of Mrs. Catherine Wallace was held from the residence of a son, Ed. Wallace, Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock, burial being made in Maplewood Cemetery here. Mrs. Wallace, who was a member of a well-known Lenoir County family, died Friday evening at 8:30 o'clock at the home of her son. She was 71 years of age. She was the widow of “Doc” Wallace, a prominent farmer who died in recent years. She is survived by the following sons and daughters: Mrs. Hugh Heath of Kinston; Mrs. C.D. Huggins, Mrs. W.A. Harris, Jesse Wallace, Neal Wallace, Zebulon Wallace, Sol Wallace, Edward Wallace and Paul Wallace, all residing at points near this city. A brother, James Daughterty, resides in this county. Rev. C.K. Proctor, pastor of Queen Street Church, conducted the funeral and burial services.
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Will Save in One Way By Roads
Institute planters who have been promised the first of eight new hard-surfaced roads to be built by the Lenoir County commissioners “from time to time,” have concluded that reduced haulage costs will care for their part of the added tax burden. A number of leading farmers in that section are some miles from a railroad station. The paved highway will reduce the cost of hauling supplies between the Institute community and the station, and markets fully 50 per cent, it has been estimated there. The average agriculturist will save $60 a year, it is calculated. Paving of all main roads in the county system has already resulted in a saving of tens of thousands of dollars per annum to rural dwellers, according to estimates in well-informed quarters. People in the Institute and LaGrange districts demanding more road paving represent big farming interests. Every member of the county board is a farmer, though one or two have other interests.
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Church Camp to be Model
The new camp of the First Baptist Church of this city at Swansboro is expected to be ready for juvenile vacationists in the early summer. The camp will be a large-scale establishment, well equipped with buildings, athletic ground and gymnasium paraphernalia. Pastor Lee White expects hundreds of boys and girls to use the camp each summer. Four acres of ground will be cleared for the institution. It will be located a short distance form the shore of Onslow Bay.
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More Fruit Trees
Hundreds of fruit and nut trees will be set out in orchards near this city this spring. Dealers in trees have secured many orders in recent weeks, and deliveries are heavy. Experiments with peaches have proved that the fruit can be made a commercial crop in the section, though the soil conditions here are not so favorable as farther upstate. Cultivation of berries will be undertaken on numerous farms during the years. Pecans are being planted on many farms. Production of these nuts is bringing good profits to growers in the section.
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New Bern Exposition
The industrial exposition to be opened at New Bern March 5 will be the largest thing of its kind ever attempted in North Carolina, it is claimed. Features will include concerts by the United States Marine band from Washington and a big automobile show. A style show will be another big attraction. Living models will be brought from New York. Clean amusements will be offered. Yarborough’s “Broadway Melody Men” will play for dancing. Miss Julian Rodgers, a soloist, will sing each day. The Banner Warehouse at New Bern is being turned into a gaily decorated exposition hall. Thousands of East Carolinians will attend the show.
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Swatting the Mosquito Lively-Like
The war on the pesky mosquito is gaining impetus in Eastern Carolina. Started here a couple of years ago, the campaign has been carried into several counties of the tidewater region and the bordering fringe of territory, Craven and Beaufort people have become interested in the fight against the malaria mosquito. In the South Creek section of the latter county 800 blood tests have been made by medical men. Considerable research work has been accomplished by International Health Board men in Lenoir and Pamlico counties and elsewhere. Dr. Herbert Taylor, sent here with an International field force, discovered scores of species of mosquitoes in the section, many of them harmless and some carriers of the malarial germ. Medical men here predict that the campaign will become general. Malarial infections have taken heavy toll on the public health and energy in some localities. A national record for cooperation was established in Pamlico last year, when “practically the entire population” joined Dr. Taylor and his helpers in a movement to eradicate malaria and curb its insect carriers.
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Basketball Game
Pink Hill and Sand Hill basketball teams played at the latter place Friday afternoon, Pink Hill winning 24 to 12. The winning players were Preston Harper, James Cunningham, Hess Davis, Robert Harrison and Ralph Carter.
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Old-Fashioned Church Conference
The congregation of Queen Street Methodist Church will hold a regular church conference Wednesday night at 7:30, in the main auditorium of the church. Reports from all groups in the church will be given. The roll will be called, and the pastor promises a most interesting and unique meeting. All members are urged to attend and answer in the roll call.
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Small Fire
Burning waste in a West Caswell Street garage caused the department to be called Friday evening. The damage was trivial.
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Collector Coming
J.C. Thomas, a deputy commissioner of revenue for the State, will be here from February 26 to March 2, exclusive, for the purpose of assisting the payers of state income taxes in making out returns.
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Questioned Directory Scheme
The national vigilance committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World has issued a bulletin calling attention to an alleged fraudulent directory scheme. G.M. Hammond is named as the person responsible. His address is given as Baltimore. “Reliable sources in Baltimore report that Hammond is not known there.” Mercantile concerns are said to have been defrauded. The public has also been warned against “M. Morrison,” organizer of railroad employes and publisher of directories, said to operate at Chicago, Buffalo and elsewhere.
From page 6 of The Kinston Free Press, Feb. 24, 1923
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