Fayetteville—Ernest A. Skeen of Memphis, Tenn., employe of local road construction company, was killed here in a railroad crossing accident.
Rockingham—The tax rate for Richmond county for 1924 will be $1.40 on the $100 valuation, and $420 on the poll. The county valuation is approximately $31,000,000. The rate in 1923 was $1.10.
Lexington—Rev. A.R. Kilgore, pastor of Erlanger Methodist church, died at the local hospital following an illness of about four weeks of typhoid fever.
Asheville—Paul Morrow, 7 years old, died at Mission Hospital from injuries sustained when he was struck by one of the touring car operating on the taxi line between Asheville and Marion.
Henderson—The crop outlook has improved wonderfully in the past few weeks, and indications now are for a yield of from 65 to 70 per cent of last year’s yield, in the opinion of J.C. Anthony, poultry farm agent.
Wadesboro—It is expected that work will shortly begin on the new post office building which is to be erected on the corner of Rutherford and Morgan streets.
Asheville—Cutting through the bars of a window in the county jail by means of a saw believed to have been smuggled in by friends from the outside, five women prisoners, three white and two negro, made their escape. One of the white women later surrendered to the city police.
Durham—A total of nearly #40,000 in taxes over the amount collected last year is announced here from the office of J.R. Patton, city tax collector. Exclusive of the amount collected for penalties imposed for delinquent taxpaying, the total amount of city taxes for 1923 is $598,362; for 1922 the total was $558,731.
Rockingham—Richmond county recently appropriated funds to supply [line missing; the state and federal government provided funds only if the county also supplied a share of the costs] State and federal funds for waging a cattle tubercular campaign for the county. Dr Neeley, veterinarian, started on this work last week, first taking up Marks Creek township. It will require fully nine months to examine and test every cow in the county.
Elizabeth City—Evans Forbes, 40 years old machinist, indicted by a superior court jury at the March term of Superior court here on two counts for conspiracy to break into a jail and injury a prisoner, was allowed to plead guilty to forcible trespass and was let off with a fine of $50 and costs on each count.
Kinston—Dr. Stanley Whitaker and five Boy Scouts told of padding 130 points on the Neuse river in 20 hours. The voyage was made in two canoes by leisurely stages. The party traveled downstream, and the current aided them in averaging 6 ½ miles an hour.
Wilmington—With complete new arrangements as to the handling of freight and passengers between Southport and Wilmington, also as with regard to schedules, the Wilmington Brunswick and Southern railroad has put into operation for the first time the motor cars which are to supersede the steam driven trains.
Goldsboro—Smithfield has a curiosity which is causing a great deal of comment in and around that thriving little city. W.V. Taylor has a male Hampshire hog, six months old, which has seven feet—two perfectly formed on the right leg and two on each of the front legs.
Goldsboro—H.P. Culbreth of this city, W.N. Potter, and F.E. Albritton of Snow Hill, while returning from Wilmington spied a giant rattler sunning alongside the road. Stopping the machine, they alighted and after a battle, subdued the reptile and brough it on to the city. The snake was found to measure six feet, weighed 75 pounds and had 12 rattlers and a button.
Durham—An open-air schoolroom for pre-tubercular school children will be in operation here during the coming school year. Equipment and fixtures are being purchased by Maj. Marion B. Fowler, business manager of the city schools. In addition to the fixtures and equipment, an expert dietician will be employed. The open-air room, to be located in Morehead school, a grammar school of the city, will be used exclusively for underprivileged children.
Charlotte—G. Locke McKnight, prominent business man of Mooresville, N.C., and Grover Stutts, a tenant on McKnight’s farm four miles from Mooresville were shot to death in a pistol and gun duel between the two, according to information brought to Charlotte by H.P Deaton, editor of the Mooresville Enterprise.
Ahoskie—Hoard Newsome, aged married man of this town, died as the result of internal injuries received when he was struck in the stomach by a piece of timber which he was running through a planer at a building supply factory here.
From page 2 of the Alamance Gleaner, Graham, N.C., Aug. 28, 1924
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