Joseph Pulliam’s store and stock of goods in Caswell county were destroyed by fire Friday. The loss amounted to several thousand dollars.
Fire Saturday at Salisbury burned out the Lingle garage and destroyed or badly damaged 18 automobiles stored in the building.
Mrs. M.A. Corpening, member of one of Burke county’s most prominent families, died Saturday at Grace hospital, Morganton, after a week’s illness of pneumonia.
J.L. Fracier, aged 50, inspector of the McClaren rubber company plant, Charlotte, died Saturday afternoon in a Charlotte hospital, following an automobile accident near Charlotte.
Two Boy Scots were drowned while playing on rotted ice of Lake Roland, Baltimore, late Saturday afternoon, and a third scout had a narrow escape while attempting to rescue his companion.
The interior of the Broadway theatre, Winston-Salem, and owned by the Piedmont Amusement company, was gutted by fire early Sunday morning, causing an estimated loss of $50,000, partially covered by insurance.
Alternations and repairs are now being made on the Empire Hotel at Salisbury, at a cost of several thousand dollars. A new dining hall on the first floor is being fitted up and the entire building will be given an overhauling.
Plans for motorizing various portions of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad where it would be feasible for economical reasons to substitute gasoline for steam power, are being considered by officials of the company, it has been announced from Baltimore.
A welcome to the south breakfast was served at Greenville, S.C., Saturday morning to 25 Pennsylvania bankers, guests of Stroud and company, Philadelphia, who are financing a half million dollar Lake Lure dam at Chimney Rock. The party made a three-day trip through western North Carolina, returning north Tuesday night.
Two hundred cadets, instructors and officers of the Green Brier Military Academy, Lewisburg, W. Va., marched to safety early Saturday morning when fire destroyed the main building and north wing of the school, causing damage estimated at $150,000. The school, one of the oldest in that state, will suspend for 10 days.
An epochal event in Wilmington’s port history was the sailing Saturday for Bermuda of the Furness liner, Fort Hamilton. There were approximately 250 Carolinians aboard, representing many cities and towns of the two Carolinas. Many ladies were in the party. Probably the most distinguished vacationist were the former Gov. Cameron Morrison and Mrs. Morrison of Charlotte.
High Point will have another large silk mill furnishing employment for several hundred men and women, it has been announced when the company purchased 6 ½ acres as a site for the factory. Representatives of the Hillcrest Silk company of West Newark, N.J., are making plans to go ahead with the erection of the plant in High Point. The company operates plants in New Jersey.
The directors of the Rowan cotton mills of Salisbury this week decided to more than double the capacity of the mill. The number of spindles in the mill is to be increased from 7,000 to 17,000, and to take care of these, an addition is to e built larger than the present mill building. Twenty new houses are to be built in the mill village. This mill manufacturers fine yarns and has had orders for more than it could supply since it began operation two and a half years ago.
From page 2 of The Albemarle Press, February 26, 1925
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