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1905-1929
Footnotes
In 1902, the General Assembly passed a law prohibiting chickens from running at large in Fayetteville, with a penalty of $5 for each offense or 30 days' labor on the public roads.
Longtime Fayetteville Fire Chief James Dobbin McNeill served for 26 years as president of the North Carolina Firemen's Association and for three terms as the city's mayor between 1910 and 1920.
In 1909, the first bale of new cotton was ginned by the McNeill Milling Co. for H. McP. Kennedy of Seventy-First Township and was sold for 12 1/3 cents a pound.
During a six-week period in 1911, Dr. H.W. Page reported that 1,839 cases of the hookworm disease had been treated in Cumberland County.
In 1912, the Price-Campbell cotton picker, capable of picking 6,000 to 10,000 pounds daily, was in operation in Seventy-First Township.
Fayetteville native Celia Myrover Robinson's first book, 'Rowena's Happy Summer,' an illustrated book for young readers, was published by Rand McNally & Co. in 1912.
Road signs were being placed along the principal highways of Cumberland County in 1915.
Thirty-eight passenger trains were arriving and departing Fayetteville daily in 1913.
In 1912, seven nurses graduated from the Highsmith Hospital Training School for Nurses.
In 1922, Gray's Creek School was built near the center of Gray's Creek Township, as measured by wagon wheel revolutions.
Seven miles an hour was the speed limit in 1907.
Mrs. Wade Saunders, wife of the first owner of an automobile in Fayetteville, was killed when she jumped from the running board of an automobile in 1914.
According to the ordinances of the town of Falcon, defacing a church seat was a $5 fine, cussing a $10 fine and selling tobacco a $100 fine in 1917.
1910 Census
County: 35,284
White: 56 percent
Nonwhite: 44 percent
Fayetteville: 7,045
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1920 Census
County: 35,064
White: 59 percent
Nonwhite: 41 percent
Fayetteville: 8,877
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