State News Briefly Told
Richmond Pearson Hobson tours the state delivering prohibition speeches while Winston Salem celebrates its 13th birthday. A 24 year old man is found dead in Salem church after drunkenness. Lenoir district votes a 100000 bond for white and black school buildings and improvements. State income taxes are projected to reach 6 million with 5.83 million collected to date. Emma Nelson is jailed on a charge of slaying her newborn. relatives bonded on aiding charges as the body is dug up. A Charlotte hotel fall injures Mrs. Barron but she remains conscious. Homicides rise 60 percent in April compared with March, with gunshot reports rising. April births exceed deaths by more than 1,100. Asheville reports a mountain clan audit showing 2817 members in good standing. A double killing near Arcola shocks the region. Sidney Odum and wife are shot, with W L Ross charged. Beekeepers in NC shift to full time beekeeping.
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Salem Church
Catfish
Catawba County
Lenoir Graded School
Negro Chidren
Coughton
A. A. Barron
Charlotte
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Sidney Odum
Arcola
N. C
Virginian Pilot
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Hollister
Ross
Odum
State
Warren County
Valle Crucis Notes and Local Happenings May
Miss Nannie Taylor returns to Charlotte after several weeks at home helping her father. Mrs. H. B. Perry and Prof and Mrs Kent visit from Boone. Young People Service League held a school entertainment raising about 70 dollars for the new church. Rt. Rev. J. M. Horner spent last Thursday and Friday at the school. Valle Crucis ice cream factory reopens for orders. Mrs. Howard Mast and her little son visit her mother Mrs. Potts in Tennessee.
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Nannie Taylor
Charlotte
H. B. Perry
Chestnut blight spreading southward in Appalachia
Raleigh May 19 Chestnut blight which has nearly wiped out northern chestnut forests is rapidly spreading over 33 million acres of southern Appalachians. The bulletin notes two problems: tapping chestnut timber for extract material and finding substitutes, as no substitute is known for the tanning extracts used by southern Appalachian plants and tanneries.
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Appalachians
Department of Agriculture
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