--Reidsville will make a bid for the branch orphanage of the Junior O.U.A.M., which will be located in North Carolina.
--Frank Johnson, negro serving on the Guilford County chaingang, didn’t know anything about the “honor” system in penology and when he was put upon it he left suddenly.
--Dr. O.G. King, only surviving member of the first board of City Commissioner in Raleigh, and four years one of the prominent druggists of the city, died suddenly Sunday.
--Not a lynching occurred in North Carolina the past six months. This is to the credit of the State. But the blot of that affair in Robeson where women were beaten will not, out.
--Mystery surrounds the death of Rance S. Bridgers, a well known citizen of Wake County, who was picked up for dead from a heavy blow on the back of the head on the Smithfield road.
--An advantage of 12 bushels of wheat per acre was made on the farm of Beaver Bros., Coll Springs township near Statesville. The crop has just been threshed. The 12 acres made a total of 285 bushels.
--G.H. Coats, who lives near Rehobeth church in Johnston County, says he has a grandson, Reuben Coats, who on his 12th birthday tipped the scales at 265 pounds. The “little fellow” celebrated his birthday June 28.
--After a brief visit in Raleigh, Senator F.M. Simmons left no doubt in the minds of his friends that he expects to return to the Senate in the next election and that he also expects to champion the candidacy of A.W. McLean for Governor.
--The Nash County board of commissioners in special session at Nashville awarded the consolidated contract for the new county home and jail, which it was decided to build some time ago. This bid of the local contractor for the two structures was $124,890.50.
--A Mitchell Palmer, who talked one night last week to the biggest crowd of lawyers ever assembled at a meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association, isn’t running for President this year. He is practicing law and making more money than President Harding gets.
--Courtney Mewborn, small son of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Mewborn of North Kinston, suffered fracture of both arms in a fall from a rafter in a building under construction. The boy climbed to the rafter in play. He slipped and fell to the ground, a distance of 12 to 15 feet.
--Local federal inspectors “Bill” Brewer, who has charge of the 12 vats in the Ahoskie section, took his first dip in the brine Friday. He was wrestling with an unruly member of a cow heard when he tumbled into the narrow vat, and got a taste of what he had been giving the cattle.
--R.H. Mayberry, Reidsville ticket agent of the Southern Railway Company, created a sensation by making his escape from the city jail Monday morning. He gained his freedom by removing bricks from the thick wall. A hole about 9x12 was cleared and the prisoner climbed through it.
--The executive committee of the Baltimore Clearing ?? Association raised the embargo which for some time was placed upon checks of certain North Carolina banks presented for collection. This means that the Baltimore banks will now accept checks of all North Carolina banks for collection.
--We had heard so much about your roads before we crossed the State line that we didn’t think there was much of a possibility of a surprise after we got here, but we are amazed at the progress you have made,” declared Governor Auston Peay of Tennessee on his arrival in Raleigh Tuesday night.
--Jeff Powell of Garner, who was sentenced to a term of not less than four nor more than seven years in the state prison by Judge E.H. Carnmer at the June term of the Wake County Superior Court, withdrew his appeal to the Supreme Court, it is said, and began serving his sentence this week.
--As quick as a flash several hundred depositors of the closed First National Bank of Spencer, in a meeting, stood in a unanimous voice to organize a new State bank in Spencer with a capital of $60,000 to take the place of the old bank which went down June 8th in the wreck of the Peoples National in Salisbury.
--Chief of Police Pink Campbell of West Hickory is in a critical condition at a Hickory hospital as a result of knife stabs inflicted, it is asserted by officers, by Claude Pollard, young white giant drunk at the time, as Campbell and Policeman Ben Danner were attempting to arrest him. One of the wounds is between the heart and the liver.
--James C. Braswell Jr. of Rocky Mount was drowned at Marblehead, Mass. The body will be accompanied home by Maxwell Erbaugh, the roommate of the drowned young man and a fellow student at the Harvard University law school, where Mr. Braswell had just completed his first year after graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1922.
--Jacob Baach, aged 84, Confederate veteran and one of the best known of Greensboro citizens, died at his home here Friday after an illness of only a few hours. Apoplexy was the cause of his death. He was a native of Germany, having been born in Baden, immigrating to the United States just at the outbreak of the Civil War, and enlisted in the Confederate Army.
--A public library to cost not more than $30,000, and a lot in the heart of the city on which to built it, is offered the city of Henderson by Col. and Mrs. Henry Perry, parents, and Mrs. H.L. Perry, widow, of the late Henry Leslie Perry as a permanent memorial to the prominent young local attorney who died a few weeks ago after an illness of several years.
--The state of Tennessee wants to agree on a general co-operative road building program with North Carolina with the view of connecting up the highway systems of the two states, according to Governor Austin Peay, of the former commonwealth, who was in Asheville Saturday with highway experts to confer with Governor Morrison and highway officials of this state. [Gov. Morrison would have been conducting state affairs from his summer residence in Asheville, which is why Tenn. Gov. Peay didn’t come to Raleigh.]
--Bill Harris, colored, of Weldon has been actively engaged in the car inspecting department of the A.C.L. for 45 years. This is, indeed, a very remarkable record, and ?? one of the great systems of railroads richly deserves a pension in our judgment, says the “Roanoke News” that man is Bill Harris. He has always been an honest, polite, upright colored man.
--Due to the effectiveness of the “Live-at-Home” campaign, the negro migration from North Carolina has been small compared to some of the other States and the migration that has occurred has been offset to a great degree by the coming into North Carolina of negroes from South Carolina and Georgia, according to C.R. Hudson, State Home Demonstration Agent.
--Hundreds of thousands of dollars will be saved the tax payers of the State when the newly installed bureau of school organization begins to make itself effective, declares State Superintendent of Public Instruction A.T. Allen. George Howard of Tarboro, who has been specialized in this work at Columbia University for two years, is in charge of the bureau.
--Approximately 2,000 stockholders are said to be demanding a sweeping investigation into the affairs of the defunct Seminole Phosphate Company, a $2 million fertilizer concern with plants at Goldsboro and Dunn, and phosphate mines in Florida, which failed recently with liabilities to far in excess as assets that a dividend to creditors of as little as 10 per cent is considered doubtful.
--Bennie Jarrell, aged 17, was instantly killed by lightning Thursday evening at the home of his father, J.H. Jarrell, in Warren county, 12 miles from Henderson, and his two brothers, whose names were not learned, were severely burned and shocked by the same bolt, but will recover, it is said. The three boys were sitting on a porch during the severe electrical storm.
--25 child caring institutions and three maternity homes in North Carolina have just received licenses to operate, effective for one year, issued them by the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. Licensing of such institutions, their inspection and supervision is one of the duties of the State Board which makes a full investigation of each applicant before issuing a license.
--Declared by beauty experts to be one of the most perfect types of young blonde womanhood that ever went to New York from Dixie, and a danger of marvelous accomplishments, Miss Marguerite Boatwright, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Boatright of Charlotte, has arrived home for a vacation before becoming a member of the famous Ziegfeld Follies at the New Amsterdam Theater, New York.
--One of the most interesting events in the long history of Chowan College, the famous old school for girls which has had a continuous useful existence of 75 years as an educational factor in Eastern North Carolina and Virginia, took place at Murfreesboro last week when Dr. C.P. Weaver, the new president of Chowan, was given a hearty welcome by the school, the community and the friends of the College in general.
--A great crowd of representative farmers and their wives will be present at the Farmers’ and Farm Women’s Convention at the State College, at Raleigh, on July 31 and august 1 and 2, according to reports that are now being received by James M. Gray, secretary of the convention. Mr. Gray thinks that this is because of the good program which has been arranged and because of the outstanding speakers which he has secured.
--Declaring that most of the films have features that are hurtful in their effect upon children, Miss Minnie Kennedy, Nashville, Tenn. Superintendent of Elementary Sunday School work, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in an address before the Social Service Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in session of Lake Junaluska, suggested that some organization of parents and other interested citizens should be created for the specific purpose of caring for the local moving picture situation.
--Checks aggregating more than $2 million went out to the 30-odd thousand members of the North Carolina Cotton Growers’ Cooperative Association last week from the Raleigh headquarters, General Manager A.B. Blalock announced. These checks represent the fourth distribution made to members, bringing the total advances up to 22 cents a pound basis middling, and making a grand total of $15 million that has been paid out on the 135,000 bales of cotton received by the association during the past season.
--Average conditions in 15 county jails and chaingangs in Eastern North Carolina just inspected by agents of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare show a considerable improvement over the condition of 30 counties in which inspections were made in October, 1922, results of which were included in the report of the board to the General Assembly. In addition to these 45 counties on which complete records have been made the agents of the board, it is announced, have made less complete inspections in 30 other counties.
From page 3 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, July 13, 1923. To see individual photos of Ziegfeld follies girls, go to /www.flickr.com/photos/ky_olsen/albums/72157624784705437/, but be forewarned, these photos are not always labeled by name or date and are rather risqué! The Internet Broadway Database has “Miss Boatwright” in 295 performances with the Ziegfeld Follies, opening date June 24, 1924, to closing date March 7, 1925. Also, according to BroadwayWorld.com, she also had stage credits with Louie the 14th, a 1925 Broadway ensemble, and Annie Dear, an original Broadway production in 1924.
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