Prohibition Changes and Auto Fatalities Highlight 1920s Raleigh Notes
The Raleigh News and Observer notes laughably inexact statistics and jokes about liars, praises Josephus Daniels for Bryan memory, and comments on High Point growth. It reports Haynes losing authority over prohibition directors and becoming advisory to the treasury, questions auto safety amid rising 2,511 midyear U.S. deaths, and cites Raleigh Times on Judge Shaw and University of North Carolina attribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haynes
David Blair
Internal Revenue
Andrews
Treasury Department
Rain Boosts High Point Water Supply Plans
The first substantial rain of summer fell in High Point, easing drought concerns. Locals note it is the first beneficial rain since early April, with six months of little rainfall remembered. City growth calls for planning a larger water supply, and the council is urged to address it promptly to avert a longer drought. Last night’s rain was welcomed, with hopes for more before summer ends.
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High Point
Labor Makes a Wise Decision Advancing Labor Policy
The American Federation of Labor ends its policy of backing independent presidential candidates and adopts a non partisan approach. It supported Robert LaFollette in the last campaign, but now urges backing the candidate or organization offering Labor the best deal. Labor seeks influence through party alignment rather than independents.
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American Federation of Labor
Labor
Federation of Labor
Robert LaFollette
LaFollette
Virginia A A A pushes Lee Highway over Washington route
The American Automobile Association plans rerouting Florida and Gulf tourists via the Lee Highway, bypassing the Washington Richmond corridor through North Carolina. Bristol is expected to receive about 200 000 tourists next season, with Boston New York Washington and western states routed through Bristol. State highway progress in Virginia is praised while North Carolina risks lost travel.
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North Carolina
Charlotte Observer
Virginia
Carolina
Florida
American Automobile Association
Gulf States
Lee Highway
Washington-Richmond
A. A. Hunt
Association
Bristol
Boston
New York
Washington
Hagerstown
Mississippi
S. M. Janney
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Chamber of Commerce
Richmond
Tennessee
Georgia
Ricmond
Durham
Greensboro
Charlotte
Eastern Seaboard
Bristols
Tourists to North Carolina May Alter Routes
A travel note warns that many tourists familiar with North Carolina highways could shift routes due to an A.A.A decision. It urges local communities to counteract the influence or risk losing a significant share of tourist travel.
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North Carolina
Hearing set in Chattanooga on scopes similar cases
Cases similar to scopes started in Chattanooga Tennessee, with a hearing date to be set before federal judges. One judge may be a Supreme Court justice or circuit judge, the other two may be circuit or district judges. The action marks a new move after Judge Gore refused a TRO in a Cookeville hearing. Dr Neal will confer with Judge Ben Hicks to fix a probable hearing time, then travel to New York for a conference with other attorneys.
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United States Supreme Court
Gore
Cooke~ville
Chattanooga
Dr. Neal
Ben Hicks
New York
Neal files federal bid to halt Tennessee anti evolution law
Dr John R Neal chief counsel in the Scopes case filed in the US district court a tax payers petition to enjoin enforcement of the state law banning teaching evolution in public schools. Robert Wilson repeats his challenge and seeks federal restraint to protect his children from being taught truth in state schools. Judge Zen Hicks presides in Chattanooga. Neal plans to travel to New York to confer with Dudley Field Malone Arthur Garfield Hays and others.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Scopes
John R. Neal
United States District Court
Publc
Tennessee
Cookeville
Dr. Neal
Gore
Robert Wilson
Neal
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Zen Hicks
New York
Dudley Field Malone
Arthur Garfield Hays
Price of Diamonds To Go Up Says Reichman
New York Aug 4 The head of Reichman Brothers Lee Reichman says diamond prices will rise and remain high. A new syndicate including J P Morgan and Company the Barnato Group and Dunkelsbuchler interests will control output from De Beers and other South African mines for five years starting January 1. He asserts this will stabilize and push prices higher.
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New York
Lee Reichman
Reichman Brothers
J. P. Morgan and Company
Barnato Group
London
Dunkelsbuchler
Germany
DeBers
Morgan
Reichman
Negress Not Badly Hurt In Accident
Bessie Leach, a Black girl, was injured in a noon automobile crash when a Ford coupe struck her head on the pavement. Hospital attendants at Guilford General report she is not seriously hurt and expects to leave the hospital soon.
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Bessie Leach
Guilford General Hospital
Escaped Cane Creek Prisoners Nabbed Near Fairview
Asheville reports two of twelve escapees from Cane Creek county convict camp were captured by Sheriff E. M. Mitchell and deputies on Mine Hole Gap's west side. The Roberson brothers Joe and Geo were surrounded after breaking brush where they hid. All escapees were white, totaling 18 this week with six reaching the county jail on July 26 weekend.
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Asheville
Cane Creek County
E. M. Mitchell
Mine Hole Gap
Fairview
Joe
Geo
Roberson
New York Boxing Commission Delays Dempsey Action
The New York State Athletic Commission decided not to take further disciplinary action against Jack Dempsey for delaying tactics in the Wills bout. It will suspend any boxer who signs or accepts a contract and posts a forfeit before the contract is signed, amid ongoing contention with the black challenger Harry Wills.
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Boxer
New York
Jack Dempsey
Harry Wills
New York State Athletic Commission
Young West Point Students Fined in Thomasville Traffic Case
Two young men described as West Point cadets and relatives of high officials were arrested in Thomasville for traffic violations. First speeding charge resulted in costs. second offense for passing on the left of a signal led to a $10 fine plus costs. They claimed unintentional violations due to unfamiliarity with local rules, noting their plans to Florida and Bermuda. One relative is a state department official and the other a congressman from Illinois. A Thomasville officer sought a Buick from Washington to hold the pair but later dropped the bond demand.
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Lexington
United States Military Academy
West Point
Thomasville
Florida
Bermuda
State Department
Tinois
New York City
New York
Contract Let for New Episcopal Parish House
In Burlington on August 4 a contract was let for a new Episcopal parish house behind the church on East Davis street. Costing 25000 dollars, the modern brick and stone building will be joined to the church by a cloister and will serve Sunday school, church groups, and weekday parish activities as the first unit toward a larger future.
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Burlington
Episcopal
East Davis Street
Lee County court sends three to state prison
Aug. 4. A two weeks term of Lee County Superior court presided by Judge W. A. Devin. Three prisoners were carried to Raleigh to serve state prison terms: Kenneth McNair two years for forging checks. Eddie Sniper colored eighteen months for seduction. J. G. Gulledger one to three years for embezzlement from Western Union Telegraph. Others will serve terms on Lee County roads.
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LEE
Jonesboro
Lee County
W. A. Devin
Raleigh
Kenneth McNair
Eddie Sniper
J. G. Gulledse
Western Union Telegraph Company
Co-ops Open Fourth Tobacco Growers Session
RICHMOND Aug 4 The fourth annual session of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association began today with thirty warehouses in South Carolina and border counties of North Carolina open to receive 192h tobacco. Headquarters report one of the largest crops ever raised in South Carolina is now being harvested.
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Richmond
Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association
South Carolina
North Carolina
Guilford County Protest Urges Enforcement of Dog and Game Law
Eighteen farmers in Guilford County urged the county commissioners to enforce the dog and game law. Officials said the law is in effect but cannot be ignored. Protesters claim the statute discriminates against them and seek abolition of game warden rules.
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Guilford
Greensboro
Guilford County
Trove of search for alleged assault suspect near Troy
Posse s scour woods around Troy to find John McMillan a negro accused of attempting criminal assault about eight miles from town. Guards posted on roads to prevent escape. A white woman was struck on the head and injured as she walked to a spring. she fought the assailant and he fled.
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Troy
N.C
John McMillan
University dean protests grand jury charge against faculty
James F. Royster, acting head of UNC Chapel Hill, cables Judge T. J. Shaw to retract a published remark alleging the University’s atmosphere created 40 percent of students becoming atheists or agnostics. He insists charges be specific, with proof, and warns against wholesale indictment of 25 hundred students and 1750 self-respecting faculty.
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Raleigh Times
Thomas J. Shaw
State University
University of North Carolina
the Times
Judge Shaw
Shaw
Wrightsville Beach
James F. Royster
College of Liberal Arts
H. W. Chase
Europe
T. J. Shaw
Greensboro
N. C
Cleveland County Grand Jury
University
North Carolina
The
Colege of Liberal “Arts
Death by Own Action Shocks Sandrock Lake Pavilion
At White Lake dancing pavilion a man named Young Tolar, a Fayetteville candy kitchen co proprietor, drew a pistol and fired at his heart after discovering his beloved dancing with another man. The shot wounded his arm. a bystander and others intervened. Tolar, drunk and armed, was arrested and fined $50 for carrying concealed weapons and $250 for drunken and disorderly conduct after a court hearing.
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Clinton
Sandrock
White Lake
Young Tolar
Fayetteville
Clarkton
Elizabethtown
Tolar
A. K. Williamson
Notich of Sale in Guilford County Court Proceeding
By order of the Clerk Superior Court of Guilford County in the special proceeding R. T. Holleman, administrator of T. L. Holleman versus John Holleman et al, the undersigned commissioner will sell on Monday September 7 1925 at 12 noon on the premises in High Point North Carolina the real estate of lots Nos 10 and 11 in Block A of D W Cassady sub division. Lot 10 measures 50 by 152 40 feet deep east front on West Green street and Lot 11 50 by 152 68 100 feet front on West Green street. Sale subject to court confirmation. This 1st day of August 1925. L A Martin Commissioner.
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D. W. Cassady
Office of Register of Deeds
Guilford County
N. C
West Green Street
L. A. Martin, Com
Cup of Coffee Quarrel Ends in Knife Attack
Burlington report says Ida May Benton, a Black woman, was stabbed in the hip multiple times by Bud Freeland, a half brother of her husband Cephas Benton, after he visited Mal Benton seeking coffee. The altercation followed a drinking bout and resulted in a gory injury per Ida May’s testimony in mayoral proceedings.
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Burlington
Ida May Benton
Bud Freeland
Cephas Benton
Freeland
Mal Benton
Cephys
Bud
Ida May
Resolution of Respect for Theodore Stoner
Piedmont Camp Woodmen of The World mourn the sudden loss of Theodore Stoner noted for his Christian character faithfulness and duty to lodge state and family The resolution offers sympathy to his wife daughter mother and siblings and asks copies be placed in minutes sent to the family High Point Enterprise and Sovereign Visitors.
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God
Theodore Stoner
Piedmont Camp Woodmen
Piedmont
High Point Enterprise
Bud Held on Bond in Horner’s Court Yesterday
Bud was held for the state yesterday morning in Horner's court on a bond of 209.
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Horner
Bud
Local men fined in Greensboro affray case
Greensboro officials fined Tin Malone and W. E. Goetz an umpire in the Piedmont baseball league ten dollars each in municipal court. The fines followed a bearing on a charge of affray stemming from a Saturday night street altercation between the two men.
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Greensboro
Aug
Tin, Malone
W. E. Goetz
Piedmont Baseball League
July Fire Loss Sets Greensboro Record Low
Greensboro reports July fire loss at 640 for buildings and contents damaged. Only one fire exceeded 5 dollars in value, marking the lowest total on record for the city.
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Greensboro
Mortgage sale of lands in Guilford County North Carolina
Public auction to cash bidder on September 7 1925 at Two O'clock P M in front of the court house Hast Door Greensboro NC. Property includes three tracts in High Point township described by metes and bounds with references to Guyer Swain and Burton plat. Mortgage by W P Shepherd and wife Martha Shepherd to R Ragan defaulted on principal and interest.
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W. P. Shepherd
Martha Shepherd
R. R. Ragan
Office of Register of Deeds
Guilford County
N. C
Court House
Greensboro
North Carolina
State of North Carolina
High Point Township
Jacob Guyer
J. W. Guyer
Guyer
Jacop Guyer
D. H. Parsons
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Manacet
Worth Bacon
Geo. B. Crater
Raleigh News and Observer
William Jennings Bryan
Josephus Daniels
Rotary Club
Mr. Daniels
Bryan
News and Observer
United States
Ten
Dean Royster
Cates
D. L. Hayes
Ww. Co
York
Committee
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