Thursday, May 23, 2024

N.C. State News Briefs, May 23, 1924

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

--T.L. Allsbrook, young man of Raleigh, was bound over to Superior Court Tuesday on a charge of bigamy.

--Mrs. Cameron Morrison delivered the pins to the graduating class of Watts hospital training school in Durham last week. She made a short speech of presentation.

--Oscar Haynes, 16, of Ashe County died last Saturday as a result of a gunshot wound accidentally self-inflicted while hunting near his home at Jefferson.

--Six persons were killed and seven hurt Monday morning when Seaboard passenger train Number 44 crashed into a standing express train at Apex.

--Farming conditions in the State are greatly improved as compared with last year, according to the monthly farm notes of Frank Parker, State Agricultural Statistician.

--Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, president of Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., will deliver the annual commencement address at Trinity College in Durham June 4.

--Bishop Edwin A. Penick will deliver the sermon and Judge W.P. Stacy of the Supreme Court of North Carolina will deliver the address at St. Mary’s School commencement, this city.

--D.R. Crissinger, comptroller of the currency and governor of the Federal Reserve Board is to speak at a dinner conference of North and South Carolina Bankers in Charlotte today.

--Harold Long of Forest City and proprietor of Long Drug company, died at Rutherfordton Hospital Monday morning as a result of injuries received late the night before in an auto accident.

--Chief Justice Walter Clark of the North Carolina Supreme Court died suddenly Sunday night. Death was due from a stroke of apoplexy. Justice Clark was 77 years old and was one of the leading men of the State.

--S.S. Little, a farmer of Wake County, was arrested Monday night in Raleigh on a charge of having accosted a woman with whom he was not acquainted and asking her to take a walk with him.

--Rev. W.F. Hollingsworth, for the past two years president of Mitchell College in Statesville, has tendered his resignation. He has been offered the presidency of a girls school in Atlanta and the board of trustees agreed to release him.

--The Barber Manufacturing company of Lowell, Mass., one of the oldest textile concerns in New England, manufacturing narrow fabrics, particularly machinery tape for spinning and twisting machines, has leased floor space in Charlotte and will move the plant there.

--There are only four survivors of Company A, Third North Carolina Regiment of Kinston, who marched away to war about this time 63 years ago. There are but four left to celebrate the 1924 anniversary of the command, out of more than 120 who were the original members of the company.

--Colonel Jesse C. Bessent, well-known throughout the State, died at his home in Winston-Salem, Sunday, after an illness of about an hour. The deceased was 69 years of age and for the past 35 years has been magistrate and has sat as judge on many important cases.

Negotiations leading to the sale of 1,300,00 in bonds for building a new passenger station in Greensboro are now in progress. City Manager P.C. Painte and City Attorney B.L. Fentress of Greensboro were in New York last week attending to details preparatory to selling the bonds.

--Mrs. Emma Schulen, Cleveland, Ohio, Policewoman, accompanied by a police guard, was in Raleigh last week serving extradition papers from Governor Morrison for Nora Moore, Negro woman under arrest in Asheville, charged with kidnapping a 3-year-old white child, Henry Peters, from Cleveland.

--Another Guilford County killer confined in the State prison for his crime, has made his escape, according to information received at the office of Sheriff D.B. Stafford in Greensboro, from George Ross Pou, Prison superintendent, early Tuesday morning. The escapee is Henry Rankin, negro, sent to prison in 1920 for murder.

--To participate in a touching and unique ceremony in the village of Thiacourt in eastern France, coincident with dedication of Memoria chimes to their son who is buried in that cemetery Capt. Oliver Baty Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs. F.S. Cunningham of Asheville and Evanston, Ill., are on their way across the Atlantic.

From page 3 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., May 23, 1924

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