Goldsboro, N.C., Sept. 27—Miss Rena Smith, age 30, committed suicide by shooting herself through the heart with a revolver at the home of her brother, Braxton Smith, near Fremont this morning. She had been in ill health for some time. She came to this city two weeks ago and disappeared on a train. Her body was later found at her brother’s home. Coroner Robinson viewed her body this afternoon and deemed an inquest unnecessary.
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High Point Man Is Dead, Heart Failure
High Point, N.C., Sept. 27—J.J. Farris, editor of the High Point News, and one of the city’s most prominent men, dropped dead while talking with a friend in front of a local hotel here tonight. Heart failure was the cause of death.
Mr. Farriss had just left the hotel where he attended a meeting of the Rotary club of which he was a charter member. He had planned to celebrate his 57th birthday tomorrow, he having been born September 18, 1865. Among those surviving is a brother, Dr. Charles Farriss of DeLand, Fla.
Mr. Farriss held the postmastership of High Point under the Wilson administration. Arrangements for the funeral had not been completed tonight.
From the front page of The Durham Morning Herald, Sept. 28, 1923
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