Rocky Mount—Offerings on the local tobacco market last week totaled 1,505,040 pounds, bringing the total sales for the season up to 5,796,567 pounds as compared with 4,877,582 up to the same date last year.
Charlotte—J. Black of Mount Holly died at the Charlotte Sanatorium a few minutes after he was brought here. He fell from a two-story building under construction in Mount Holly and sustained a fractured skull.
Winston-Salem—Professional men, including physicians, lawyers, chiropractors, opticians and dentists, suffered heavy losses when an early morning fire gutted the second floor of the Woolworth Building in the center of the city.
Bethel—Mrs. Emma Eliza Johnson was run over here and instantly killed by High Highsmith. An inquest was held and the jury returned the verdict that Mrs. Johnson was killed by Highsmith’s driving recklessly and exceeding the speed limit.
Apex—With the greater Western Wake Fair less than two weeks off and with “Red” Kearns, fair promoter extraordinary, working in high gear, indications point to the biggest event ever staged in Apex when the exhibits are in place October 9.
Angier—Malie Matthews, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Matthews, picked 221 pounds of cotton in 8 ½ hours. The child is 10 years old. One of the smaller daughters picked 124 pounds by dinner. She is eight years old.
Spencer—Following injuries sustained Sunday night when struck b an automobile driven by Quinn Thomas, a young white man from Winston-Salem, Mrs. T.H. Waller, aged 71 years, died at her home in East Spencer. She had been in precarious condition since the accident.
Clarkton—Mrs. Cam Smith of Clarkton died in the Baker sanatorium, Lumberton, from injuries she received when the Ford touring car in which she and her husband and four children were riding turned over, pinning her underneath.
Oxford—The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hobgood of Enon was killed. The child climbed upon the wheel of a wagon his father was loading. The mules moved off, causing the child to fall under the wheels, which passed over his body. He was brought at once to the Brantwood hospital here, but died in a short time.
Carthage—A negro woman and her child were burned to death here when the Carthage laundry plant was destroyed. They were asleep in the second floor of the building when the blaze was discovered. The structure was so far gone that efforts of the fire company to save the lives of those inside were futile. The laundry plant was worth about $8,000.
Henderson—In addition to General A.J. Bowley, commandant of Fort Bragg at Fayetteville, officials of the Golden Belt Fair have determined to try to have Governor Angus W. McLean present for the coming annual fair event in this city, and have issued a formal invitation to the governor to be present.
Durham—Officials in the office of the city building inspector are expecting to issue in the next two or three days a building permit which will take precedence over all such writs ever issued in North Carolina. Application has already been made for the permit for erection of the Duke University buildings, but due to a technicality, a delay was caused.
Enfield—The Methodist Episcopal Church of Enfield received recently a generous gift of $10,000 from one of its members, Mrs. Cotoie N. Sherrod, wife of the late W.L. Sherrod, prominent farmer and business man of Halifax and Martin counties. The donation was made toward the erection of a new and larger church building.
Morganton—A patient from the State Hospital who has the freedom of the grounds and had gone into a thicket just beyond the hospital to set a squirrel trap, made a gruesome discovery. About 300 yards from the Enola road and on the State grounds lay a pile of clothes and bones, outlining a man’s form, and several yards from the body was a skeleton.
Dunn—Dunn district farmers are making good headway with harvesting the cotton crop, as is indicated by the sales on the market here. Sales on the open market reached the 600 mark, while more than 5,000 bales of the new crop have been marketed here to date.
Raleigh—William Branch Jones of Raleigh, son of Armistead Jones who died Thursday, was named a member of the board of trustees of the soldiers’ home in Raleigh, to succeed the elder Jones, who was one of the best friends to the Confederate cause anywhere in the state.
Chapel Hill—Frank Gamble Jr. of Lincolnton, a freshman in the University, died here of heart disease from which he had been suffering for many months.
Salisbury—Mildred Balmer, 7-year-old daughter of W.E. Balmer, a local barber, was killed when an auto truck driven by Lester Safrit of China Grove ran over her.
Kinston—Poultry breeders in a number of states will enter exhibits at the annual Ten-County fair here October 6-9, but F.J. Gormican of Apopka, Fla., is a fancier with unusually ambitious designs. Gormican will seek premiums and ribbons in many classes.
Greensboro—A new city hospital is in the air of the local post of the American Legion, one which would open to charity patients free of charge and open to other patients at a cost that would cover operating expenses.
Durham—Amos McLean, Durham county negro farmer, bled to death from wounds sustained about the mouth and nose when a team of mules he was driving ran away with him.
Burlington—Miss Gertrude McGinnis, about 35 years old, a boarder at 615 East Davis street, is seriously if not fatally ill at Rainey hospital where she was rushed, the result of drinking carbolic acid in an attempt to kill herself.
Henderson—Willie White, a negro boy about 18 to 19 years of age, met instant death when he was caught between the floor of an elevator and the ceiling of the second floor in the J.P. Taylor Company tobacco drying plant here.
Asheville—Samuel Brady, aged 30, young hardware man of Landrum, S.C., died at a local hospital from injuries following an automobile accident near Oteen when the car in which he was riding is said to have skidded and to have thrown him to the pavement.
Elizabeth City—Struck in the left eye accidentally while she was playing golf on the new country club course near this city, Miss Margaret McCabe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. McCabe and sister of Mayor Aubrey G. McCabe, sustained an injury which necessitated the removal of the eye.
Asheville—Two men were wounded, one probably fatally in a pistol duel fought on the main street of Bryson City, seat of Swain county. Troy Muse of Asheville, Southern Railway engineer, is in a local hospital with two wounds in his body and Al Dorsey, merchant of Bryson City, is under medical attention there.
Concord—Family ties that were broken more than a quarter of a century ago, were knitted together again here this week when two brothers met for the first time in 38 years. The brothers are Charles E. Workheiser of Ackermonville, Pa., and William Workheiser, who has been making his home in Concord for several years.
Bennett—Deep River, according to old residents of this place, is the lowest that it has been in 50 years. Water for all uses is very scarce around here. Many are having to haul all the water that they are using for drinking, cooking, washing, and watering stock.
Raleigh—State College has among its thousand students one co-ed, Miss Martha Andrews of Raleigh, who is registered as an irregular sophomore in ceramic engineering. She is the first co-ed since Miss Lucile Thompson of Wilmington graduated in electrical engineering in 1923.
Goldston—Fannie Peoples, aged colored woman, and her 5-year-old grandson, were burned to death in their home five miles from Goldston. There were four other people in the house and though they managed to effect their escape from the burning dwelling, two of them were very badly burned.
Lexington—Nelson Swift, a young man of this city, reported to the officers that he was held up and robbed of $90 at the point of a pistol on South Main street. The robbers, according to this story, were two white men traveling in a Ford coupe who drove by his car and halted him just beyond a railroad bridge here, where there is a break in the residential district.
Gastonia—Fred Brennan, former Belmont policeman, and Mrs. Shirely Elmore, young woman of that place, who eloped several days ago with what was said to be $3,200 of the latter’s inherited money form a relative’s estate, were arrested in Los Angeles, Cal., according to a wire received here.
Raleigh—Rev. C. Almon Upchurch, pastor of the Nashville Baptist church, was elected superintendent of the North Carolina Anti-Saloon league to succeed Rev. R.L. Davis, who has directed the work throughout almost the entire life of the Anti-Saloon League.
Greenville—Mrs. Martha Jane Mills, age 104 years, died at her home in the county, death being caused by natural infirmities of old age. Funeral services were conducted by Elder W.H. Laughinghouse and interment immediately followed in the Williams burying ground near her home.
From page 6 of The Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., Oct. 7, 1925
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