News from Across North Carolina, Sept. 17, 1925

Brief Mention of State Interest

--The Grasselli Chemical Corporation, with headquarters at Cincinnati, will establish at $200,000 plant at Charlotte. This concern has 14 plants scattered over the United States.

--Fred Adams, Aaron and Coleman Smith, three negroes, were drowned in Badin lake one day last week when a boat they were in capsized during a terrific wind storm. All leave families.

--W.B. Peters of Baltimore and W.W. Avery of Greensboro, two young students at the University of North Carolina, were arrested at Winston-Salem last Saturday charged with having stolen an automobile tire. They were fined and liberated. Peters is not to operate a car during his school term.

--Rev. W.P. Cline, Ph.D., DD, died at his home at Columbia, S.C., last Saturday, aged 72 years. The deceased was buried at Hickory Sunday. Dr. Cline was one of the backers of the Lenoir-Rhyne College and was professor of Latin and History at the college for 10 years.

--Conley E. Robinson and Joseph McKants Hammerly, two lawyers of Charlotte, engaged in a fisticuff in a magistrate’s court and were permitted to scuffle it out. They were subjected to a fine. The men were arguing some point of law, Robinson having been interrupted by a question of Hammerly. Hammerly wore a blue spot on his forehead, while Robinson’s shirt was torn to pieces.

--Robert Woolens, formerly a citizen of Rockingham county, fell tohis death in an airplane accident at Brunswick, Ga., one day last week. He was 28 years of age and was well-known in Reidsville, where he had spent a good portion of his boyhood. His body was buried at Monroeton, close to his boyhood home, on Sunday.

--Judge Finley of North Wilkesboro, one of the most prominent jurists in North Carolina, has been appointed by Governor McLean to hold court at Rockingham beginning September 28th, when W.B. Cole will be formally charged with and tried for the murder of Will Ormond.

--Robert S. Rhinehardt, prominent mill man and Mason, of Lincolnton, died at his home there last Thursday. Funeral took place Saturday afternoon from the First Presbyterian Church in that place, when the entire county turned out to pay respects to this splendid man. There were also numerous people there from all over the State.

--Former Chief Justice A. Hoke died at the Rex hospital in Raleigh Sunday morning, following an operation which was performed about two weeks prior tohis demise. Judge Hoke was one of the retired jurists and was esteemed and revered throughout North Carolina. The burial took place at Lincolnton.

From the front page of The Mooresville Enterprise, Thursday, September 17, 1925

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