Walter L. Alexander, 41, of Charlotte and Blowing Rock, died Thursday at Hotel Charlotte of heart trouble. He figured largely in development of Blowing Rock and built Mayview manor at that place.
Good rains fell in several places in the western part of the State Thursday night relieving in a measure the terrible drought that section of the State has been suffering. The 5th consecutive daily prayer meeting at Gastonia was followed Thursday by showers, and rain has followed prayers in other sections for relief from drought.
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, answering criticism resulting from loss of the Shenandoah and the PN-9 (the latter since found), says “there was nothing political whatever in connection with the flight of the Shenandoah” and that Commander Landsdown and Rogers themselves selected the time of their flight.
Dr. H.W. Chase, president of the university of North Carolina, returned Wednesday from a 6-week’s tour of Europe.
Maj. A.L. Bulwinkle of Gastonia, Congressman from the 9th N.C. District, is in a Hamlet hospital with a broken right leg and minor injuries as a result of the over-turning of an automobile in which he was riding near Rockingham Wednesday night.
B.N. Duke of Durham and New York has given $5,000 to St. Mary’s college for girls, of Raleigh, and $5,000 to the old ladies’ home of Durham.
B.N. Duke has authorized a gift of $25,000 to the Laurinburg Normal and Industrial institute for colored people conditioned upon the institution raising a similar amount for endowment fund. The work of the school is pattered after Tuskegee.
Mrs. C.B. Cook, active W.C.T.J. worker and president of the organization of her home county, was shot and killed at her home in Vinton, Iowa, Tuesday night as she was writing a paper to read before the W.C.T. U. meeting. Her friends believe her to be a victim of one of a number of liquor law violators against whom she has been active.
Gov. McLeod of South Carolina, who called upon the people of his State to pray for rain last Sunday, showed his faith the next day by forbidding the janitor to water the lawn at the executive mansion, which had been done daily. A shower of rain fell a few hours later.
From page 2 of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Sept. 14, 1925
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