No Votes for Women, Say N.C. Democrats, 1914

“Only One Vote for Suffrage” from the June 5, 1914, issue of The Sun. The state of North Carolina did not approve the amendment that allowed women to cast ballots until 1971.

North Carolina Democrats Reject It and Also Referendum

Raleigh, June 4—Gov. Craig led a successful fight against the initiative and referendum in the Democratic State convention here to-day and the platform committee declines to offer the plank to the convention. The Democratic mass meeting had endorsed the measure.

The convention was nearly unanimous against woman suffrage. The first suffrage resolution ever offered in this State was hissed and jeered and voted down. Only the introducer supported it. Senator Overman, who had been renominated for the Senate, cheered with Gov. Craig when the proposal failed.

A plank favoring statewide primaries was voted down by 572 to 268. The Progressives appealed for the adoption of the plank in the name of Bryan, Daniels and Wilson and quoted a letter President Wilson wrote recently to a Raleigh Progressive, in which Wilson lamented North Carolina’s lack of primary law.

News From Across the Old North State, 1920

"N.C. State News: A Digest of Everything Worth Knowing About Old North State Folks and Things" from the June 19, 1920, issue of the Elizabeth City Independent

Typhus fever has broken out in Cleveland County about eight miles from Kings Mountain. Dr. J. Sidney Hood has asked the State Board of Health for help in trying to keep the disease from spreading. The Board has sent Dr. D.C. Absher who has had experience in fighting this disease in India. So far as is known, this is the first time typhus fever has ever appeared in North Carolina. This disease is transmitted by lice and is fed by filth. Epidemics often occur in Europe, but only once before in New York in 1915 has America had this awful malady.

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On last Friday night the Odd Fellows of Raleigh gave a reception to Charles H. Benie who celebrates his 86^th birthday in August and who was elected Grand Patriarch at the meeting of the Grand Encampment in Gastonia in May.

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A quarrel over 50 cents in a dice game resulted in the killing of Charles Columbus by Charles Brown in Asheville on the night of June 12^th. Brown took an axe and literally split Columbus’s head open. Brown made his escape and at last accounts was still at large.

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Democratic National Committeeman A.W. McLean is in the Emergency Hospital in Washington, D.C. recovering from the effects of an operation of his tonsils. He is doing nicely and expects to be back on the job in a new days.

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Two are dead and one fatally injured as a result of a Southern Train colliding with an automobile at Spencer. The dead are: H.M. Grubbs, a well known farmer and Miss Pearl Smithy of North Wilkesboro. Miss Kate Grubbs, the 21-year-old daughter of Mr. H.M. Grubbs, lies fatally injured.

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William Heller, a shoe dealer of Raleigh, has been indicted by the Grand Jury in the Federal Court for profiteering on the sale of shoes. One indictment charges that he sold on October 28^th a pair of shoes to Mrs. Louis Connor for $16.50 which cost him $7.05 and to A.E. Beddingfield a pair of men’s shoes for $13.50 which cost him $7.05.

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The meeting of the North Carolina Federation of Business and Professional Women which met in Greensboro on last Friday and Saturday endorsed the following: That the Legislature at its coming session in July ratify the constitutional Amendment giving suffrage to women; Better and cleaner moving picture shows and a state-wide censorship of all moving picture shows; Championing a dormitory for women at the State University and ask the Legislature to make an appropriation to that end; and the establishment of a woman’s bureau to aid wage earners among the sex to obtain better employment and better working conditions. Miss Elsie Riddick of Raleigh was elected President of the Federation.

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One of the sensational murders in the history of High Point was committed in that town on the night of June 8^th. J.E. Fletcher, who owned and operated a meat market in the Negro section of the town, was shot and almost instantly killed on his way from his business to his residence. Two Negroes, Eugene Alford and Roy Alford are being held by the authorities following the verdict of the Coroner’s Jury.

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George H. Bryan, a farmer residing on the Grantham-Parker place, 4 miles from New Bern, Saturday at noon shot and killed himself with a single barrel shot gun. The act was caused by financial reversals and a recent court decision in which he lost heavily. Mr. Bryan was standing before a mirror in his room when he pulled the trigger. He was 41 years of age and leaves a wife and several small children.

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Hon. Claud Kitchin, former floor leader of the Democrats in the Lower House of Congress is leaving Washington, D.C., for Scotland Neck, where he and Mrs. Kitchen will remain for several days. From there they are going to Lake Cayuga in New York. Mr. Kitchin says he does not expect the President to call an extra session of Congress and that he wants to get away from politicians, newspapers and all sorts of pests and rest in a secluded place.

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Five men, Walter Murray, alias “Missouri Shorty”; John O’Brien, alias “Hostile Johnny”; John Murray, alias “Michigan Shorty”; John  Devins, alias “California Bill”; and J.T. Lathrop have been indicted in the Federal Court  in Raleigh for the theft of about $36,000 from the United States Post Office in Oxford. This theft was committed on the night of March 9^th. The men were captured and are being held in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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State Supt. E.C. Brooks, in a letter to Miss Mary B. Palmer, Secretary of the North Carolina Library commission, endorsed in strong terms the program of the American Library Association. Dr. Brooks says he wishes to see the time when in every county in the State there will be several traveling libraries and that the people of the State would become more interested in good reading. The American Library Association is seeking to arouse interest in reading and is now trying to raise a fund of $2 million with which to place books within easy reach of all people.

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The social circles of New Bern received a shock this week when it was announced by a local paper that the millionaire widow of James B. Blades, who was killed in an automobile wreck near Black Mountain some months ago, had married in Wilmington Frank McCrary, who is an evangelistic choir leader. The two met a few months ago during a revival in New Bern. It was love at first sight for both. They were married by the bride’s pastor, Rev. W.A. Ayers.

Mrs. C.J. Hawkins Celebrates 89th Birthday, 1914

From the June 4, 1914, issue of the Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad Hustler, Hendersonville, N.C.

Mrs. Hawkins’ Birthday

Mrs. C.J. Hawkins celebrated her 89^th birthday Sunday. Mrs. Hawkins is said to be the oldest resident of the city. She has held her membership in the First Baptist church of this city for a long number of years and during the services Sunday especial reference was made to her strong loyalty to this institution. Her granddaughter, Mrs. Will Morrow of Marshall, rendered a solo during the service.

In the afternoon Mrs. Hawkins received many of her friends at her residence and many gifts and congratulations were given. She entertained about 15 guests at dinner.

Should 200,000 Homeless Young Women Be Eligible for Civilian Conservation Corps? 1933

“Forest Camps For Women Are Proposed” from the June 3, 1933 issue of Happy Days, Newspaper Of the Civilian Conservation Corps

Camps for women, too?

That is what is being talked in Washington.

Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, wife of the President, is interested in the project. The women would be put in reforestation nurseries.

Labor Department estimates show that approximately 200,000 young women in the United States are homeless and in need of aid.

Mrs. Roosevelt said at the White House that she has received some letters on the subject and that she has turned these letters over to Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor in President Roosevelt’s cabinet, with the suggestion that a sweeping inquiry be made into the situation to determine if the need for camps for women is sufficiently emphatic to warrant their establishment.

Laurel Park Street Car Carries 1,400 to Hendersonville Park, 1914

“1,400 Visit Laurel Park” from the June 4, 1914, issue of the Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad Hustler, Hendersonville, N.C.

Street Car Line Had Record-Breaking Day on Sunday—Many Visit Park

The Laurel Park Street Railway company operated its cars Sunday for the first time during the season and as a result there were in excess of 1,400 fares collected. This was a record-breaking  day as regards the first day’s operations or any day’s business in the month of May. A 40-minute schedule will be maintained and although the company owns two cars and two trailers, it is likely that another car will be purchased in order to accommodate the large number of visitors to the park this summer. There was some bathing Sunday in the park, despite the fact that the mountain water was cool and quite bracing.

The Southern Planter Cover, June 1944

What to Do With Dirty, Tired, Almost Naked Little Orphan Boy With Broken Shoulder, 1933

From the May 20, 1933, issue of Happy Days, the authorized weekly newspaper of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Happy Days was privately owned, and not published by the U.S. government.

Co. 880 Plays Godfather to Little Lad Found Injured and Almost Naked

A crew from Co. 880, Center, Texas, was working about 45 miles from camp when they came across a little orphan boy with a shoulder that had been broken for about a week, with no chance of getting it set. He was dirty and tired and almost naked.

The foreman was in a tight spot. He had to abide by regulations by refusing to let the little fellow ride back to camp with the boys. But as the truck started, one enrollee threw his hat off. When the truck stopped to let him get it, the kid was smuggled aboard and in this way brought back to camp.

The camp surgeon, Capt. B.R. Galbraith, acting under the authority of the C.O., Capt. G.J. Luebben, took the little fellow in hand, scrubbed him clean, and set the shoulder.

The whole company then took up a collection and brought their “charge” enough clothes to last him for the rest of the year. Most of them took the last remaining part of the five bucks to chip in for the “babe in the woods.”

Hats off to this bunch of true men and gentlemen.