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Thursday, April 20, 2023

News Briefs from Across the State, April 20, 1923

The State News. . . A Digest of Things Worth Knowing About Old North State Folks and Things

--Charles M. Ireland of Greensboro started subscriptions to a campaign at that place to raise $50,000 for a negro hospital with a check for $1,000. --The 13th annual convention of the North Carolina Drainage Association opened Wednesday morning.

--John B. Cobb, native of Caswell County, vice-president of the American Tobacco Company, who died on a train last week, is said to have left an estate of $10 million.

--A court action may be necessary for the State to secure the return of $25,000 deposited by the State Treasurer in the Commercial National Bank of Wilmington, which collapsed recently.

--John Dunn, white, aged about 55 years, of Greensboro, was instantly killed near White Oak when he was struck by a Southern passenger train. He was walking along the track when hit, according to trainmen.

--Benjamin N. Duke, multimillionaire tobacconist and his family arrived in Durham last week from St. Petersburg, Fla. They will occupy the Duke home in that city several weeks before returning to New York.

--Charged with having committed incest on his 12-year-old daughter, William T. Brinson of New Bern, white and aged about 30 years, is in jail in that city in default of $5,000 bond.

--The appointment of J.P. Stowe, Charlotte druggist, as a member of the State Board of Health by Governor Morrison pleases the druggists of the State who have long clamored for representation on the board.

--More than one-fourth of the manufactured chewing and smoking tobacco produced in the United States last year was manufactured in North Carolina, according to statistics announced through the Department of Commerce.

--Property to the value of $674,671 was destroyed by fire in North Carolina during March as compared with a property damage of $476,453 for March of last year, according to the report of Stacey W. Wade, Insurance Commissioner.

--Based on the 13th and 14th censuses, the average of white illiteracy in the United States was 3 per cent in 1910 and 2 per cent in 1920, with North Carolina ranking third from the last in standing of States.

--This year, 1923, the North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs attains its majority. Twenty-one years ago it was organized in Winston-Salem and, very appropriately Winston-Salem will again be hostess to the Federation on May 2.

--Two years at hard labor on the county roads was the sentence imposed on Roy Humphrey, age 32, truck driver of Charlotte on conviction of having unmercifully beaten his 8-year-old daughter, Elizabeth.

--Consolidation of the Peoples’ Bank and the National Bank of New Bern, with contemplated increase of stock and surplus of $300,000, which will give the new institution assets in excess of $3 million, is announced in a statement just issued.

--Dr. J.H. Way of Waynesville, who for the past 12 years has served as President of the State Board of Health, was re-elected for a term of six years as a recognition of his faithful services and interest in health problems in North Carolina.

--The embarrassment of the deficit of 20-odd thousand dollars temporarily removed through money borrowed on notes signed by individual members of the society, the North Carolina Agricultural Society is now getting ready for the staging of the 1923 State Fair at Raleigh.

--Representatives of the 4,500 students in the Baptist schools and colleges of North Carolina will attend the sectional meeting for the Baptist students of North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, that will be held in Greensboro April 27-29. --Following confession of systematic thefts of money intended for inmates of the State Institution for the Blind, William S. Thorton, mail carrier of the Raleigh post office, has lost his job and been bound over to the United States District Court under a bond of $500.

--At the 13th Annual convention of Women’s Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Mobile, Ala., Miss Mabel Jetton of Shelby, N.C., was assigned as a missionary to Brazil and Miss Blanche Hauser of Paffafftown, N.C., as a missionary to Korea.

--One action taken by the members of the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce in session in Goldsboro, last week, which will mean a great help to Eastern Carolina, was the plan to organize in each county a Thousand Dollar Poultry Club.

--John W. Guy of Statesville was sentenced to serve three years in the Federal prison at Altanta on his plea of guilty at the January term of court to embezzlement, misappropriation of funds, abstraction of funds, and making false entries in the individual ledger while cashier of the First National Bank of Statesville.

--Plans for the expenditure of $1 million of the $1.35 million appropriated by the General Assembly for permanent improvements at State College on six new buildings to be erected during the summer were drawn up by the Building Committee of the board of trustees at a meeting this week.

--In every town, city and county in North Carolina where there are enough physicians to attend all births, boards of health should make the practice of midwifery unlawful, according to Dr. A.C. Bulla, Wake county health officer and one of the leading members of the North Carolina Public Health Association.

--Romer Kee, found guilty of robbery of the Bank of Summerfield, was sentenced to seven years in the State Prison by Judge T.B. Finley, at Greensboro. Gus Matthews, found guilty of being accessory to the robbery, was sentenced to five years in the state prison. Attorneys for both men gave notice of appeal to the State Supreme Court.

--Erection of the Kilgo building at Trinity College will come as a logical step in the progress of religious training at Trinity. The coming of Prof. J.M. Ormond, for the past two years a member of the faculty of the school of theology at Southern Methodist University, increases the full time instructors in this department to three.

--An emphatic policy of confining its efforts in devising means of helping tenant farmers and prospective tenant farmers already in North Carolina has been adopted by the legislative commission on farm tenancy which also laid plans to speed up its work of investigation in view of the possibility of an extra session of the present General Assembly.

--Upon the recommendation of Judge Frank A. Daniels, who tried the case, and J.H. Davis, the solicitor of the Fifth Judicial District, who prosecuted the defendant, Governor Morrison has commuted from electrocution to life imprisonment the sentence of Joe Dixon, a negro, of New Bern, convicted of burglary at the April term of Craven County Superior Court.

--Ground was broken this week for the erection of the fourth new brick school building of the year in Craven county when the excavation was started for the structure that will house the consolidated schools at that place. In addition to this important project which is to cost $20,000, one other building has been completed and two more are under construction.

--Edna Eatman, 14-year-old daughter of D.B. Eatman, a farmer residing near Wilson, was missing after a fire that completely destroyed the Eatman home, which caused widespread apprehension that the girl had been cremated, but the girl was found at the home of young Richard E. Tomlinson, with whom she had eloped last February. Both Tomlinson and the girl are now in the custody of the Wilson county sheriff.

From page 2 of the Elizabeth City Independent, April 20, 1923

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