News Briefs From Across the State, Oct. 20, 1923

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

--Isabel Jones, 6-year-old negro girl, was fatally shot by her 7-year-old brother at their home in New Bern.

--The 34th annual session of the Western North Carolina M.E. Conference convened in Winston-Salem this week with Bishop Collins Denny of Richmond, Va., presiding. [M.E.—Methodist Episcopal]

--Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Butler, the latter known as Annie Oakley, called the best marksman in the world, have decided to be located in Greensboro.

--Librarians from all over the State will meet in Winston-Salem November 22-23 for the biennial conference of the North Carolina Library Association.

--“We will have 10,000 people at the unveiling of the [Confederate Soldier] monument at Holly Springs on October 25th,” said Col. B.G. Alford, of that place, who was in Raleigh last week.

--Judge John H. Kerr of Warrenton, who, by the withdrawal of R.G. Allsbrook of Tarboro, received the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Second District.

--Dallas Jester, 10-year-old school boy of High Point, was injured perhaps seriously when struck by the automobile of C.F. Tomlinson, prominent manufacturer and chairman of the city school board.

--Will G. Allen, prominent Raleigh real estate operator, died at Rex hospital from injuries received in an automobile collision last Thursday afternoon.

--At the University Day exercises at Chapel Hill Dr. James. F. Royster, dean of the college of liberal arts, read the names of 57 alumni who died within the last 12 months.

--W.C. Cotten and his son, Coy Cotten, prominent farmers of Barton’s Creek township near Raleigh, who were charged with the murder of Milton Woodlief, son-in-law of the older Cotton, were acquitted by a jury in Wake Superior Court.

--Certain Legionnaires of North Carolina are backing Colonel George H. Bunker of Wilmington, prominent in American Legion circles, as a possible candidate against Baxter Durham for State Auditor, in the next Democratic primary.

--Prof. Frederick H. Koch, director of the Bureau of Community Drama in the University of North Carolina, announced that Miss Ethel Theodora Rockwell has been secured by the Bureau as its new dramatic director. She succeeds Miss Elizabeth Taylor, who is now doing professional work in New York City.

--All home for the finding of John S. Breese, 82-year-old retired farmer of Carver’s Creek township near Fayetteville, who disappeared from the home of his niece, was practically abandoned after a thorough search of the county surrounding the spot where he was last seen.

--J.W. Hollinsworth, an attorney of Winston-Salem, is plaintiff in a suit which has been instituted against P.P. McLean, a wealthy citizen of Whittier, owning extensive real estate and other property in North Carolina and New Mexico, in which judgement in the sum of $50,000 is asked for legal services and for specific performance.

--A thousand teachers of the Northwestern district of the North Carolina Educational Association, ending their convention at Greensboro, denounced “any organization which, under the cover of hidden identity, claims to be teaching citizenship and 100 per cent Americanism.” The denunciation came in the form of a resolution.

--To create a port out of Wilmington sufficiently impressive to give the State any commercial advantage, North Carolina must draw traffic from the Southwest and Middle West and must start operations with convenient dock facilities as a port of call, developing gradually into a service port, according to Dr. Edwin J. Clapp, well known port authority.

--Miss Ella Peal, daughter of L.A. Peal of Plymouth, with her guest, Miss Beulah Harris, was caught in an upstairs room when fire destroyed the family residence and had to leap from a second story window to save themselves. They were awakened by the colored cook, who first discovered the blaze. The darkey broke her leg in leaping from the window while Miss Peal sprained her ankle.

--A young woman, 20 to 25 years of age, who gave her name and home as Miss Todd of Baltimore, is in a Winston-Salem hospital as the result of an alleged attempt to commit suicide while a passenger between High Point and Winston-Salem. The young woman sprang from the bus while en route to Winston-Salem, while the car was moving at a rate of about 20 miles an hour.

--Col. D.A. Bodenhamer, auctioneer of Kernersville, was instantly killed and Will Allen, prominent Raleigh real estate man, was seriously, if not fatally injured, and W.P. Murchison, W.E. Mangum, Wake County deputy sheriff, and C.A. Payne, motor dealer, were slightly hurt when the cars of Mr. Allen and Officer Mangum crashed head-on on the New Bern Avenue road about a mile from Raleigh.

--Mr. and Mrs. Paul Starkey of Philadelphia, accompanied by his manager, Mr. King and his wife, were in Washington, N.C., last week on a visit of inspection in company with Mr. F.W. Thirkildson. The party motored to Lake Pillips in Washington to inspect some land there for trucking purposes and later went to Havelock, beyond New Bern, inspecting some land there. [Found a Lake Phelps in Washington, N.C., but not a Lake Pillips.]

--Lucius Polk McGehee, Dean of the Law School in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died last week in a hospital in Richmond, Va., whither he had gone for medical treatment. The announcement of the death of this admirable gentleman, able lawyer, and successful teacher will be heard with deep regret by hundreds of former pupils, and a wide circle of relatives and friends in this and other states.

From page 3 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, October 19, 1923