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A Want Ad In' ? THE DAILY NEWS Brings Sura Results. WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS THE DAILY IOCW8 PRINTS MORE LOCAL NEWS THAN ANT OTHER PAPER IN THE STATE. THE WEATHER Fair and Tuesday. VOLUME T. Y7* WASHINGTON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1916. NUMBER 184. MANY COMPLAIN OFJHE WASTE IN SMALL OYSTERS C1TI*KX8 ARB STIRRED OVER WAY OYSTERAIEX ARE SBLI*. WO BIVALVES HERE. ARE (jpT "CULLING Make No Attempt to Ptmuk the Small Ojrrtcfi. Entire Loads Are Bob* Sold Here for Tea or Fif teen Cent* *~BuaheL Claiming that the oyster business being dona In Washington at the present time la a disgrace to the city, that oysters not iffuch larger than a quarter are being sold by the bushel and that the entire oyster "apply of this section is being endan gered, man^ local residents are be coming more and more insistent that some -action be tak*u to romedy the evil. Last Saturday there were a num ber of boats in port. Oysters were belar,. sold for ten and fifteen cents a bushel. Judging from the appear ance of the cargoes on tho boats, absolutely no attempt had been made at culling them. The waste incurred was great. ? i "It's a positive shafne," said a citisen this morning, "and some stepe ought to be taken to stop it.' If the present waste continues we're, going to be up against it for oyatera after the next aeason or two. Thev nywur? in ehould.be made to. take the little ones back and throw them overboard again. Instead of. that, they, gather la everything and then a*U. their load for ten or fifteen uiiU a busHek". FEATURE COMEDY AT -'/'//J THE IlKLLMO TODAY The Be'lmo Is offering today other of those mirth-provoking side splitting L-KO comediefe. and this one la In two huge reels. Haftry Oribbons. nick-named '.'The man wltfi the funny face." has the leading role and he is a "bird." U la a scrram-, ing burlesque travesty- on the rlchj society people and tEelr way of llv Ing. entitled "The Idle Rich." Ifj you want to laugh away your troii-l bles and worries, now is your chancv Another novelty that the progressive Universal program is releasing are screen adaptations of famous vaude ville acts. The Powera Co. Is pre senting Madam DuPree'a world fa mous bird act. entitled "The Think ing Cockatoos./" Adele Lane In a strong drama, "The Markswoman" completes thia all star bill. DOG IS IN AGAIN: OWNER IS "OUT" M?. Gray Hm Paid Out Amall For tune In Bailing Oat Animal Which Kb joy* Atanoephrre of Cttj Jail. Owing to the fondness of hl? dog for the aristocratic atmosphere of the city Jail. Alson Gray, manager of tbe local tobacco utemmery, la out the amount of another fine. The dog got pinched again yeaterdsy. The animal. white answers to th--> name of Nlmrod, and la one of th<? finest specimens of hunting dogs In tbe city, Is evidently also a hunter df trouble. In th? past It. has been highly successful. Mr. Qray has paid out a small fortune in fines In get ting the animal out of the pound wl^tre It Joyfully gallops every time It oan break loose. BELLMO TODAY HARRY ORIBBON8 In a I r*ei L-KO Comedy "TJJK IDLE RICH" Power'* Photo-Vaudeville "The Thinking Cockatoo*" AD ELE LANE Id a Rei Drams "THE MARKSDOMAN" MATIlrf* DAILY ? I p. M. IKTHOOI- OIDUXUI St H. MAKELY DIED ON SATURDAY " i Prominent Resident of EdenUn. WeU Kmwm tn Bsaafort County and Washington. M. Makely, a prominent realdent of Edenton, and well known locally, died at bis home In thai city Sat urday. He was 85 yeari of age. Death waa due to pnehmonia. Mr. Makely lived for many y?>ers in Hyde cohnty. He was interested: in several business eritenpriaes in | that and Beaufort county ' and waa well known in Washington. He la iurvlved by two sons, George and Metrah. both of whom reaide In Hyde county and three daughter, Mrs. Hogan and Mrs. H. M. S. Cason, of Edenton, and Mrs. Olive of Durham. MISSISSIPPI V ALLEY FLOOD SITUATION IS VERY SERIOUS Washington. Feb. 7, ? Official war department reports today on the Mlasisalppl valley flood situation In dicate that .aerlous trouble may re sult in the region south of the Ar. kansas river unless the residents there aasist in strengthening the levee. One of the most serious dif ficulties^ It was Bald, waa the scarcity of labor and there were intimations that the federal officers would be authorised to provide rations only for those who showed a disposition to assist them. i A report from the chief engineer officer at Vicksburg, Miss., said the levees were being subjected to a severe test, bat that there waa an excellent prospect that they would !hold If the white population put up a proper fight. FEW CHILDREN WORK IN MILLS uair.au Out of a.OOO in Mr. Britt'* j DUBkt Are Bolow (h< A(e of liowMM Tmw. ? - " - - - ? ' & Feb. 7. ? With the ar rival here of Congressman- Britt to address the Child Labor congress, this city devoted much time to a discuMon of both political and so ciological topics. Some said union labor would in the future oppose the Republ'can member who stood with h:s bemocra'.Kf colleagues from t hit 6t*te in opposing the Keating bill. Som? of Mr. Britt's friends got very ousy uiflt, tlicr anfert. pleasing t Xect. The managers of the cotton mi'.i. In t>rf"dlstrlftt.*?rere dalled up over long distance telephone and ques. tioned about labor condltiona. Thr French Broad Manufacturing Co. at Owenby. the Oreen River mills at Tuxedo, the Marlon mills, the Freeze Bacon mills at Hendersonville, th< Ashevll!e mills, the Caroleen and Henrietta mills were all appealed to (or light and by night Mr. Britt had oil his facts and figures In hand, either for offensive eg- defensive pur poses. It was ascertained that about 3,000 persons are employed by this group of mills, and of this number only 96 were under 14 years of age. while In most of these cases the ! chiM-en were employed for only a few hours, and were not regarded an regular employes. WILHON RBPURLICANB ACTIVE. Wilson. Feb. 7. ? Wilson county Republicans are getting ready ,*0f 'the campaign. Chairman Oeorgf W. Stanton, of the oounty executive 'committee, has called a me Hag: fur ' ebruary 19 for the purpose of elect ing delegates to the state convention which will convrne In Raleigh March 1 1 and a. so to the oongreeslonal con vention. Precinct conventions will be held over the Cbunty February is: MUNITION PLANT IN ONTARIO DK8TROYKD Ottawa, Onl., Feb. 7.? A* Are todar In the Jardlne munitions factory at Heapeler, Water; oo county, Ontario, ao alarfned the management and tho village authorities that they applied to Ottawa to have ordered 6m aa overseas regiment stationed In' the neighborhood. The blase, however, waa got under control after It hat) destroyed the shell manufacturing building. Oh lean a and OfAeee. An Ohio circuit judge aaid in Mate retaua OebeTt: "It may almoajt l*? aaid to lK> I P?Tt Of tlx I'ODHDOIl 1AW Uut ui OUo gun way o&?M u*nr <rflc?? uwailx elect** 0 appott* BIOS RECEIVED FOR ROM) BONOS. IBE ABOVE PAR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OPEN* ED BIDS FOR BONDS AT SES SION THIS MORNIN^. WERE 10 IN ALL Highest Wm for 901,000. Certain | Point* In Bid* Not Quit* Clear. WUl Not B? Foniudly Aoceptcd I Until Tomorrow. Bids for the $50,000 twenty-flve yea r Washington x township road bonds were received and opened by the board of county commissioners at the regular session of that body this morning. Ten bids were deceived and out. of this number seven were above par. One bid was for $51,000, an other for $50,375 and another for <50,271. Due to the fact that there were one or two matters which were not made perfectly clear in one or two of theme bids, the board did not take any steps in accepting any of them. Telegrams have been sent to the bidders, asking them to explain those pointB which are in dispute. It is expected that the bids will be formally accepted tomorrow. CENTRAL SOLD 1,059,029 POUNDS s Wm? Total Amount of Tobacco Bold! during Last Seaaon. Other Warcliounew Not Known. A report o t the saka at the Cen ~^1 warehouse during . the season ?st closed" *Ii own that 1.059.Q29 ounds were disposed of. The sa!a y months was as follows: Aug.. Sept., Oct 618,375. November. 2> 4,'i&. Dec. and Jan.. 13G.4G9. The report from the' other ware.' houes has not yet been received but *111 probab'y be made public within Hie next few days. It tis expected hat the total sales on the local mar ket will fal] a little short of three million pounds. DISMISSED NURSE WALKS INTO RIVER Pittsburgh, Feb. 7. ? The body of Miss Hazel Schoenfelt, age 20, of Altoona. was found floating in the Allegheny river here today. Miss 3choenfclt, who was a student in ! -.he school for nurses at the Alle gheny general hospital, was dismiss- 1 :d yesterday for giving a certain | medicine to the wrong patlrnt. She at once put on a heavy cpat, and hurrying to the rivor, three lltfcks away, walked into the water until it covered her hrad. lI?VKKTlKEf> TMIKIK.II KRHOK. J. W. Bowen bought I5~acrea of land Hated in Brond Credit O. Dlst. in the name of L. H. Wiley, fend paid; the ta xon the land. When the tax fist was revised showing the present owners, we failed to show that tho tax on said land had been paid by Mr. Bo?fen and hence advertised through error. The same statement applies a* to N. T. or J. H. Harris, W. B. W INDUCT. Sheriff. J-7-ltc. deemed Like Mere. lira. Flatbuab^I understand that tlie English language baa approximately 000,000 words. Mr. Flatbusb? Where Us- the world, tbed, do ycu get tlu? others une. . tewrf-Youk era SUtasnmn. CURE FOR THAT FIGHTING FEELING. ?8 lickmtn in Birmingham Ag?-H*r?ld. BIG MEETING ,HELD YESTERDAV Close to 400 Persons Were Present at Union Meeting of Bible Classes I nt lYesbxterian Church. ! With an attendance of almost four' hundred persons, including over 70 members of the M. E. Baraca c'.a-i? and good slzod delegations from tlii Baptist and Episcopal Bible classes, the Vanguard class of the Presbyter ian church yesterday afternoon cop ductcd a roost' Interesting and eofrt talnlng program, consisting of mu sical selections and addresses. II. B. Powle, president of tiie V .guard c'.ais. Mr. Perclval, pre* Id .it of the 3arac.T-cla8s, H. S. Ward leather of th Episcopal Bible clas-. K. L. Stewart. J. B. Sparrow, teach er of the Vanguard c'ass and Mason Smith of the Baptist Bible class, made interesting talks on the Sy mj&> School work of their respective churches, the benefits of the work and the achievements which tfre fu ture should bring about. Tho Van jtuard orch'stra rendered several selections and the quartette, consist :r.g of Messrs, E. L. Stewart, k.. Y Shaw, R L. Stewart and Jack 8mitb ran? in a highly pleasing manner Mr. Smith also sang a solo selection is did aTso R. L. Stewart. Miss Mary Elizabeth Thomas and Mrs. E. W Brown. Th<* Presbyterian choir a'.sc added greatly to the success of the afternoon's exercises by rendering s veral selections. The meeting was thoroughly en Joyod by all those present and wll? undoubtedly be followed by others of a similar nature in the future. I ANNOUNCEMENT. , Mr. and Mri. William C. Od?n ^ request the honor of jour presence at the marriage of their sister Laura Charlotte to Mr. Thomas Harvey Davis on the afternoon of Thursday, th tenth of February nineteen hundred and sixteen at four-thirty o'clock 308 West Seventeenth Street Norfolk. Virginia '* At home after February lBfh Washington. N. C. Snbaerfb* to fhe Neva. edr The Initial Payment of Dues To the Washington Building and Loan Association was due last Saturday. Mem bers are requested to see that their pay ments are made at once in ordor to avoid fines. Subscript ioq of stock still open. Call at the First Naliw .y] Bank OVER 6,000 PUPILS AT NIGHT SCHOOLS; Oldest la 75; Youngest 18. Fifty ! OountJee Were Organized During liMt Year. Ralolgh, Feb. 7. ? More than 6000 1 pupils have attended the night schools of North Carolina, enlisted : under the moonlight school move-! ment and Stokes, the county of the' highest percentage of Illiterate' whitos, is making as creditable a{ 'showing as any of them. \ Superintendent J. T* Smith has written Prof. W. C. Crosby, educa-l tional secretary of the State Farm rs' union, that 341 students have enrolled under his teachers. These have been taught to read and their ages take wide range. The oldest is 75, the youngest Is 18. Mr. Smith | says that 50 communities are asking' for ttfe schools next year and that , many of them will run this year un-1 til the day school closes. There are 200 men and 141 women enrolled. In the state at large CO counties organized the past year. There were 638 schools with an average of 10 pupils to the school. The modest undei taking of the forces of light next year Is 1,000 schools. From theBO will come from 10,000 to 15, 000 illiterates trained to read and I write. I ??THE BROKEN COIN" AT NEW THEATRE TONltfHT The NewVThaatra Offers their pat Irons tonight Ih^thjrd episode of tho ["Broken Coin," that splendid serial with Grace Canard and Francis Ford, also there will be Ave other reels of strong dramas and comedies mixed. As a great many of the New Theatre's patrons have requested of the management to secure some splendid features, this house has made qfrangement with "The Big Four," which Is the Vltagraph, Lu bln, Sellg and Essanay companies, which are now putting oat wh%t Is I conceded by every one to be the best ' feature photoplays on the market to 'supply them with the pick of their features every Tuesday of each week j starting Tuesday of next week, and ilt Is needlrss to say that the patrons! of this house will from now on see | the best photoplays that Washington ha? ever w|tn?j"sod. For n.r?l we-*: the Now Theatre will present tin great Vltagraph feature "The Jug gernaut," a splendid picture featur ing those well known actors. Anita jflUwart ?fMl ftarle Williams. 8Uu& Ing next week the price of adfhlMlon will be dye and tea cents every night with the exception of Tuesday, when the prloa wiU be ten and cents, as these splendid festure playa are too expensive to offer for five and ten cnta. CONDITION OF A. W. Mcl-RAN 18 REGARDED AB CRITICAL Lnmberton, Feb. 7. ? The condi tion of A. W. McUm. who fau been ?Irk with pneumonia for the put few Jajra, la re*erded todey u crlt Icel HI* condition ni Improved yeetopdey bnt Ul grown wore* to daj^k^a temperature belsa 104 and ha la 'tallrlene. Fonr phralclena are iln attendance. GHOCDWIKITT DELEEITiOH BCFORE THE GOMMISSIIIEBS ALARM SYSTP- ^ be ? * Called Cltl*en? Ar? Ajiked to Bend in Mot Orer tli? Phone. Boxee Art Not to be Meddled With. Durlag the Installation of the new city Are alarm ayatem. residents are requested to aend In all alarms of fire over the telephone and not to meddle with any of the boxes. All alarms over the phone will be re sponded to but no attention will be paid to any alarms that are turned In at any of the boxes. For the last few day*, the gong at the city hall has been ringing at frequent Intervals and many citizens I who were not acquainted with the 'cause, probably thought that there was a fire somewhere. All of the strokes, however, have been for testing purpose*. In the event of Are, the bell will ring 9.9. Disregard may be paid to all other Blgnals. It will only be a few days before the system is completed. Ab soon aa available, the complete list of be'.l i Blgnals and the location of the var ious boxeB will be published. GOES BAREFOOTED FOR THIRTY FIVE YEARS And Now at 75 Oklahoma Farmer Is a* Prankish a* a Boy of 17. < Tulsa. Okla.. Fob. a. ? For 35 years J. M. Halgler. of Carlton, ! Okla , has gone unshod the year i round, and now at 75 ho Is devoid of aches or pains of any sort. He Ib a man of extraordinary physique, standing alx feet tall and weighing 525 pourdf. and Is as prankish as a boy of 17. "t don't remember of ever being 111." he says, "and I have always eat en with .the r Hah of a hungry 'man what has boon set before me. 1 have lived outdoors as mu:b as possible and have a'.ways been active, both mentally and physlca'ly. Maybe that, has helped to keep me young." Therf la nothing eccentric about Haigler. He is the father of five aons, all husky men. owners of large herds of cattle, horses and dogs andi thousands of acres of land. WOMEN TEAMSTERS APPEAR IN AUSTRIA Vienna, Feb. 7. ? Not a week pass es In Austria without women ap pearing tn some new occupation. Wom'n teamsters are now to be seen on the streets, often performing la borious work. The big dairies are emptying them to deliver milk to he retail branches, and th'y are also irivlng Ice wagons. A chocolate factory Is sending out neatly uni formed women wagon drivers. Bua' nesa motor wagons are being driven by women chauffeurs. In the big petroleum works wo men are doing all kinds of work, filling cans, loading them on the wagons, and then going with the drivers and dclKorlng the cans at houses .and collecting the bills. I ALDERMEN MEET City Official? to IWIt Monthly HeMlon Tonltrlit. Firing Up Important Matter*. An Important meetln* of the Board of Aldermen will b" held tonight at eight o'clock. A delegation from !*r. r* v> r*:?h w!-l nr?#nn? nr??1 M.Mjuiat too t.o?ff-d uiK.i.n. sev eral civic improvrmenta. It la un derwood that aevoral other Inter esting matters will be brought op for action. t AN ARTIST AT ItKTIKlNfl | Thete are a lot of four-flushers , who go through life without learn ing that fosy-flu?hlnsr la a fine art) Such are Senesth coatempt. But one, has great admiration for those few who have mastered the game. "If a man calls me a liar,'* a?., sorted on* of such. "I'd nail In and l!ck him If he weighed 800 pound*." "Well, you big bluff," answered ^ne who was tired of listening. "I call you right h^ra and now. You're a liar." "Bluff yourself.* cams back the artist without a minutes hesitation. "You don't weigh more than ISO, a..d fou know what I said.'*' OVER FIFTY MEN APPEARED BEFORE BOARD TODAY TO PROTEST AGAINST A BOND ISSUE. WERE INDIGNANT H*d Been Informed TtuU CommU si oners Intended to Ron a $50,000 Bood Iwue Orer Their Heed*. Township Utterly Opposed to an Issue. Under tbe Impression (bat a bond issue of 160,000 was to be forced upon tbem for tbe building of roads, a delegation of over fifty cltliens from Chocowlnlty township appear ed before the board of county com missioners this morning to voice their strenuous objection to any sach steps being taken. Their spokesmen, among whom wero J.-, A. Buck and John T. Hill, dec'.arr d'that practically everyone In Cbocowlnlty was atterly opposed to a bond Issue, that the money had been wasted In tbe past, that no re. suits had been obtained from any expenditure on the roads and that the various highways were In worso condition now than tbry wore before any attempt was made in keeping them in shape. Considerable indig nation was expressed over tbe fact that the county commissioners were attempting to force such a measure over the heads of the poor people of that township. The hoard heard their oomplalnt through and Chairman Swindell then informed them that there was abso lutely no fdundatlon to the report that the comm'.ssloners were behind any move to put through a bond Is sue for Cbocowlnity and that they tth^ board) had never considered such a thing. When Interviewed after the meet ing, Mr. Duck Btated that the oppo ciMon to a bond Issue In Chocowln *iv was of a mo?t strenuous kind. "1 don't believe that th're are five persor.8 over there who are in favor of a bond issue." he stated In an swer to a question from a reporter. "And did th% commissioners say they knew nothing about It?" he was Tsked. "That's what they said." he re plied, "but there must have been omethlng to the v port. I believe that we made ffuch an Impression oa them this morning that they Just had to deny any knowledge of being connected with the matter. Thry saw ?he way Bentlment was ^olng." 138 BARACAS WERE PRESENT YESTERDAY New Record In Attendance Sot. Army Is in the Loiul In Securing New Members and Attendance. That the spirit of interest abd'en tliusiasni In the M. E. Baraca class is continuing to grow steadily, '? Khown by the increase at each suc ceeding meeting of the class. One hundred and thirty-eight members v. < re pr wont yes ciday morning, setting another new attendance rec ord. The Army is leading in the number of new members brought in and had also a shade the better In attendance. However, the Navy is not discouraged and expect to catch up within another Sunday or two. Much credit for the success of the rlass Is due to the teacher W. M. Kear. whose Interesting explanations of the lessons are both Instructive ??nd Interesting The clans Is to be rwiigra: ulai d upon having him for ,ls teacher.
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