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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1912
Page
8
When the legislature meets on the eighth of next month it will face a deficit of 725000 dollars. The last session ran a deficit of about 300000 dollars, but it was believed new assessments and higher taxes would cover it and the next two years. Instead appropriations exceed revenue, creating the shortage. The first task is to reform the tax laws.
Senator Overman underwent an appendectomy in Washington last Saturday. His condition is believed satisfactory for a safe recovery. He had planned to return home to Salisbury for Christmas and had purchased a ticket for travel the day he was stricken. Near Dublin Georgia, Mrs A L Lynn, wife of a farmer, killed 75 year old F W Hightower last week. The woman alleges attempted criminal assault.
W H Hughes of West Asheville shot George Carver and seriously wounded Mrs Carver during a dispute over a grocery bill. Hughes, now jailed, had gone to collect payment while the Carvers were at home. The incident left Carver gravely injured and Mrs Carver in hospital, as Hughes remained in a nervous frenzy. The Carvers later testified Hughes fired five shots. The surrounding text also notes Christmas reflections and a Farmers Union meeting at Wingate with a program planned for December 28 including officer elections and a key address by J M Templeton.
The woman who oversees the culinary department favors wholesome food and home baking. She rejects inferior meat and flour and supports homemade meals, citing experts who say the best cooking today uses Royal Baking Powder.
Three men died and several were badly injured by a boiler explosion Wednesday near Edgefield North Carolina. On the same day another boiler blast at Neshoba Mississippi killed two men and left others injured.
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