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State News Briefs, June 18, 1925

State News

June Weavel was killed by a bolt of lightning Tuesday while taking clothes from a line at his home near High Point.

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C.R. Chatham, a Caswell county man, is in the courts for chaining his 10-year-old son to a tree.

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There are 649 enrolled in the Summer School at Boone and over 700 at Greenville.

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James Monroe ing.(?), who was shot Saturday night when a bandit held up the Winston steam laundry, died Sunday morning. A negro is held as a suspect.

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The N.C. Cotton Cooperative has paid for all the last crop of cotton. The average for middling was $22.60. Expenses of operation of the Association have been considerably cut; 1,500 new members are reported in recent weeks.

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Stephen Early, a middle-aged negro living near Ahoskie, is under charge of murder for shooting his negro landlord whom he found in his house with his wife. Early had laid a trip for the couple and caught them. He will plead the unwritten law.

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Robert William Brooks, a former student at the N.C. University, is under arrest in Washington, D.C., for the murder of a negro. Brooks, who is reported to be a native of Wake county, is said to have gone to Washington with another young man a few months ago and to have fallen into bad company and fast become demoralized. The killing was over a bootleg dispute as to a dollar.

From page 2 of The Chatham Record, Pittsboro, N.C., Thursday, June 18, 1925

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