--Walter M. Staples, 45, prominent tobacconist of Wilson, died at a hospital there following an illness of two weeks.
--John D. Bellamy, 51 years, a lawyer in the city of Wilmington, has been elected president of the North Carolina Bar Association.
--Philip Edwards Fritts, 58, well known Lexington farmer died after having been in failing health for the past two years.
--Samuel S. Carden, 28 years old, of Durham, was drowned while swimming at Crystal Lake, a nearby amusement park.
--Nearly 400 members of the Order of DeMolay from North Carolina assembled in Charlotte this week for a three-day conclave.
--The 23rd annual convention of the North Carolina Rural Letter Carriers Association was held in Sanford Monday and Tuesday of this week.
--Neal Wagoner was hot and fatally wounded by Joe Stanberry, both of Todd, Ashe Couty, in an affray which was the result of warm words over an account.
--Ray Elliott, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Elliott of Marion, was drowned in the Catawba River after saving the life of his 14-year-old cousin, Larkin Poole.
--The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrit, living near Morganton, was killed when he darted in front of a car. A little girl playing with him was badly injured.
--Mrs. Annie S. Syme, 84 years old, well known and beloved Raleigh woman, died at her home there. She was the widow of the late Andrew Syme.
--F.E. Glover, Raleigh street car conductor, is suing the city of Raleigh for $25,000 for injuries he suffered by being hit by a traffic signaling post last October.
--Capt. D.J. Ray, age 83 years, pioneer farmer, died at his home in Hoke County after an illness of several months. He served throughout the Civil War and was present at the surrender.
--Five prisoners escaped from the Lincoln County jail at Lincolnton by sawing the steel bars to the cage and descending with a rope blanket. Four other prisoners in the same cell refused to leave.
--The 24th annual convention of the Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association was held at Grove Park Inn, Asheville, this week. Fourteen states were represented at the convention.
--Ralph W. Page of Aberdeen, said to be a son of Walter Hines Page, late Ambassador to the Court of St. James, was convicted in Wilmington of breaking the prohibition laws of the state.
--Dr. O. Stanley Waldrop, about 33, prominent Kinston dentist was instantly killed when his automobile crashed through an embankment barricade near Wilmington.
--Abner Bowman, 21, of Winston-Salem was killed when the car in which he was riding turned over near Pilot Mountain. Reed Lynch, the driver, is under $5,000 bond charged with manslaughter.
--P.J. Ryan, 57, a stone cutter, formerly of Raleigh, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at a boarding house near Henderson. He had been out of work several weeks, and this is believed to have made him despondent enough to end his life.
--The church is not always safe in a thunderstorm. A bolt of lightning struck St. Mark’s Methodist church in the Mount Tabor community near Winston-Salem, and six people were injured, one, Henry Boles, seriously, and several others were stunned.
--Clarence Ellis, 20, an employe of the press room department at the Durham Herald, was killed when he came in contact with an electric hoist truck of the press. He was rushed to a Durham hospital but was dead when he arrived there.
--Governor McLean figures the “credit balance” of the State, as of June 30, at $1,126,398, representing the difference between receipts actually collected during the fiscal year and the expenditures. Part of the surplus was due to a 5 per cent in the appropriations amounting to $370,439.
--Grasping the throttle of his locomotive to roll the westbound Carolina Special, crack Southern Railway flyer, from the Asheville yards, John Barry, 55, veteran engineer of Knoxville, was stricken and died a few minutes later after being lifted from his cab.
--Wade Williams, 17, was stabbed to death by his brother-in-law Roy Exum, 25, at a filling station near Warsaw. The stabbing was the result of a quarrel which started when young Williams resented the mistreatment of his sister, Exum’s wife. Exum made his escape and has not yet been located.
--Trial of Donald B. Gaskill, president and director of the Bank of Whitakers, charged with embezzlement, abstraction of funds, forgery and false entries, terminated Tuesday when Judge Henry A Grady sentenced the defendant to 18 months to two years in prison.
--Caleb L. Ethridge, 36, president of the Ethridge Motor Sales Company of Charlotte, and also head of several other automotive concerns, and one of the promoters of the Charlotte Speedway, died suddenly of heart trouble.
--The American Home Economics Association will meet in Asheville in June 1927, Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon, State Home Demonstration Agent, and chairman of the local arrangements committee is advised. This will be the first meeting of this national association in North Carolina. From 1,500 to 2,000 delegates will probably attend.
--A total of $3,419,475 was expended for the relieve of World War veterans in North Carolina during the fiscal year ended June 30, according to the figures made public from the regional office, United States Veterans Bureau in Charlotte. Of this sum, $2,536,878 went to approximately 4,500 veterans for disability compensation.
--Jeffy Trexler Lanning, popular young farmer near Lexington, died as the result of a peculiar accident. Last week when engaged in threshing wheat he slid down a completed straw stack and encountered the upright handle of his own pitchfork and it penetrated his body to extent of rupturing his bladder and causing other severe injuries.
--Collection on a promissory note for $13,000 made to the Merchants Bank and Trust Company of Winston-Salem by Thomas Maslin, president of that institution, is sought in a suit field in Forsyth Superior court by the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, receiver for the Merchants Bank and Trust Company recently closed by the State bank examiner.
--Governor McLean, who persisted in re-appointing Jas. Ross Pou, Superintendent of State’s Prison, although the record of his extravagant and careless management had been published in many of the state papers, following exposure first in the Independent, now advises that ore money may be necessary for the support of the prison next year. Expected increase in the population of the prison is assigned to the reason.
--The Mutual Building and Loan Association, owned and operated by negroes, was the second most prosperous B. and L. association in the state in 1925, according to the report of Stacey W. Wade, state insurance commissioner, made to Governor McLean last week. The Mutual earned 9.9466 per cent, the report showed. Only the Citizens Building and Loan Association of Winston-Salem, earning more, in excess of 10 per cent. The assets of the negro’s association on Jan. 1, 1926, were $248,290.45.
--Earl E. Dudding, head of the Prisoners’ Relief Society who during the past several years has made several charges of mismanagement and inhumane treatment of prisoners at the State Prison and the various convict camps, is taking the state to task again. This time he has written from his headquarters at Washington charging extreme discipline and bad management at the Halifax Prison farm, addressing his letter to Governor McLean. Dudding characterized the Halifax farm as an “Outpost of Hell.”
From page 2 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, July 9, 1926
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