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GOLLECIB DATA ON WAR HISTORY WORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION CANVASSING STATE FOR MATERIAL. HOUSE CONDUCTING CAMPAIGN Ceneral Assembly Appropriated Mon ey for Collection and Preservation of These Invaluable Records. Raleigh. The North Carolina Historical Com mission is canvassing the entire state for letters, diaries, pictures, newspa per clippings —in fact, all materials of any nature that throw light on North -Carolina in the World War. R. B. House, Collector of Records for the Historical Commission, is con ducting this canvass by going to the sources of such official records as Red Cross Chapter Histories, Local Board reports, etc., by organizing volunteer committees to assist him in the various counties, and by going "Jiimself from community to commun ity all over the state. These materials canvassed for, -valuable as they are, will perish very rapidly unless they are stored where tfre, rats and other destroying agen cies cannot get at them. Practically the only safe depository for such things is the fireproof Hall of History in Raleigh, Realizing the necessity of preserv ing these valuable records, the last general assembly appropriated money lor the work, and directed the histori cal commission not only to collect all .data possible about North Carolina in the World War, but to prepare a com plete history of the state's life in that ipreat event. Central Traffic Committee. The traffic committee of the Raleigh •chamber of commerce congratulating the chambers of commerce of North Carolina on their part in the freight rate fight just terminated in favor of North Carolina shippers, suggests the need of a central organization in or der that these shippers may avail themselves of the advantages offered in the decision. In New Naval Division. By cutting off the southern end of the eastern naval division and the northern end of the southern division, & new naval division the southeast ern with headquarters in Atlanta, and In charge of Commander Roper, has Ibeen formed. This division contains the states of "North and South Carolina, Tennes see, Georgia and Alabama. New Organization Chartered. The Sons and Daughters and Amer ican Liberty, a fraternal, patriotic and beneficient organization to be form ed, with headquarters in Charlotte, has been chartered by Secretary J. Bryan Grimes, with the approval of Insurance Commissioner James R. Young, the charter members compris ing a number of the leading citizens of Charlotte. Penalty for Hazing. Investigation into hazing at the* :North Carolina State College of Agri culture and Engineering, recently, ■when Congressman R. A. Doughton's son was among the freshmen hazed •was followed by the dismissal of three sophomores, M. KaJ-s of Golsboro, Ralph Query of Richmond Va., and J. A. Stewman of Lancaster, S. C. Decrease in Tuberculosis A decrease of approximately fifteen per cent in the number of deaths caus ed by tuberculosis in North Carolina during the past four y?»rs is shown in "figures tabulated at tfie State Sana torium for the treatment of this dis ease. The total number of deaths from this cause in the state for the year 1915 was 3,710. In 1918 the total number had been reauced to 3,160, a -difference of 550. inequality in Law. A concurring opinion In the case of State v. O'Higgins, from Cumber land, in which the supreme court found no error, gare Chief Justice "Walter Clark a chance to attack the provisions of the North Carolina law prohibiting conviction of a man charged with eloping with a married ■woman upon the unsupported testi mony of the woman. The opinion was one of fifteen filed by the court, several of which were of local interest. T7ie opinion was ■written by Associate Justice Brown. Health Work for Negroes. In forty-three counties in the state special health work is heing done among the colored people by the ex tension department of the bureau of tuberculosis of the state board of health, co-operating with the state department of education. Community leagues have been organized in these counties, and the total membership Is in excess of twenty thousand. Leaders in these community leagues "have pledged approximately SB,OOO as their quota of the Red Cross Christ mas seals. Governor Backs National Guard. "I am firmly of the opinion that the backbone of the national defense will be the National Guard and I propose to make the guarG or tins state sec ond to none," said Governor Bickett in a communication to all the former officers and enlisted men of the Na tional Guard, in which he called upon them for co-operation in the reorgan ization of the guard in this state. The governor expressed the regret that it is impossible at this time to appoint and enlist all the splendid of ficers and men who served with dis tinction and credit in the world war. He promised, however, that all will be called upon to undertake the or ganization of addtional units next year. Twelve of the companies of the First infantry, North Carolina nation al guard, are now being organized. Major Gordon Smith, assistant adju tant general, who is directing the re organization of the National Guard, expects the forces allotted to North Carolina for the fiscal year to be com pletely organized by January, 1920. Freight Reduction Granted. Raleigh' had a mild-sized jubilation over the winning of the freight rate discrimination contest before the In terstate Commerce commission, an investigation which began here before Commissioner J. B. Eastman in the spring and was concluded in Washing ton. The fight then was for the Virginia differential. Over the long distance telephone J. H. Fishback, represent ing the North Carolina cities and chambers of commerce, announced that North Carolina places like Ral eigh, Greensboro and Goldsboro, will get a reduction of 20 cents on that differential. Had the state collected 18 cents it would have been glorious ly happy. It gets more than it ex pected. Of course this is a separate issue from that presented September 15, when North Carolina protested raising the rates to make up a deficit created by the discriminations in favor of Virginia. The business men of the state expect to win that, too. Sheep Industry Booming. George Evans, sheep extension worker of the agricultural extension service, has just returned from a trip to the farms of pure bred sheep breeders in different sections of the county where he purchased 140 fcTade ewes and 40 pure bred rams and ewes at prices ranging from SSO to SIOO per head. This is one of the largest orders for sheep that has ever been placed by North Carolina farmers at any one time. Mr. Evans had orders for several more, but, because of the great demand for better sheep by far mers all over the county, he was una ble to secure the animals desired at the prices which he was commissioned to pay. Large Tobacco Yield. That there is still a big tobacco yield in North Carolina, notwithstand ing the great shortage in condition of the crop, is evident from the leaf to bacco warehouse sales reports which showed 79,220.071 pounds were report ed sold by 164 warehouses. The 20 that did not report are es timated to have sold 8.285,000 pounds,, making a total of 87,505,071 pounds of first-hand or producers' sales.- This is much the same as the reports show ed for last year. To Award Rhodes Scholarship. The Rhodes scholarship for North Carolina will be awarded October 30, according to an announcement made by President H. W. Chase, of the Uni versity of North Carolina. Twelve applications have already been made for this scholarship, which is the largest number of any one year, and from the number of in quiries, President Chase said, there is a greater amount of interest among the colleges of the state than there has ever been before. Post-War Reconstruction. North Carolina's post-war recon struction program got under way when Governor Bickett called the state re construction commission to meet here October 28 and forwarded to the members a tentative program of work for their consideration. Legion Convention October 30. The state convention of the Ameri can Legion, scheduled for October 24 and 25, during fair week, has been postponed until October 30, in ordei to relieve the delegates of the neces sity of having to secure lodging ir the city during the congestion inci dent to the state far crowds. By post poning the meeting until the latei date the necessity for a two days session is also eliminated. The first session will probably be held in the afternoon of October ?*? and the busi ness concluded at a night session. Debt to North Carolina. It is estimated that the war de partment at Washington is due North Carolina citizens about $75,000 bal ance on account of administering the selective draft and J. Frank Mitchell who was disbursing agent for the government in this work is leavin*" for Washington in a few days to pe sonally investigate the situation that all accounts and vouchers WP closed and sent to Washington May and the government check? payment of the claims are far THE COURIER, FOREST CITY, N. C. An almost endless number of styles, with none of them dominant as yet, characterize the display of millinery and gowns this season. The powers that be in the production of them must have agreed to disagree, for every de signer appears to have operated in dependently of the others —in a meas ure. In fabrics they are of one mind, but in costumes we have widely vary ing silhouettes —the straight and slim from one source, the draped figure from another, wide hip and crinoline effects from several. Skirts and sleeves from some authoritative houses persist in being very short —both are lengthened by others, and bodices re veal a disparity more striking than any other, going from very low necks to collars so high that they reach the ears. There is a lack of coherence in the modes, but in the wide variety offered certainly every type of face and figure can be suited. Among the styles that have been received with enthusiasm by discrim inating judges of good millinery there are many medium-sized hats. A group of four, shown above, presents widely different types, each of them having scored a success. Whatever may be the difference of opinion about shapes, designers are agreed upon the use of rich materials, and the frmr hats that constitute this group are fine examples of the mode. The hat at the top has a moderate ly wide brim and represents the wide brimmed class that includes many pic turesque models that are very wide. This hat Is of panne velvet faced with Suits Differ in Details of Design AT In suits, as in frocks and hats, there is a considerable variety in styles to choose from this season. But these differences are not very apparent un til one has given suits a more than casual study; they lie in small de tails of design. At the beginning of the season suits presented coats both short and long, but the longer coats have persisted and are accepted. Skirts are wider and have gradually grown a littlt? shorter than in the early models. A happy medium is al ways a safer choice in street clothes, but the item of becomingness is more Important than any other and there is a suit for every figure this season. Women should find themselves more becomingly clothed than in seasons where styles are less varied; at pres ent there is every chance to suit in dividual taste. Two of the plainer suits, aro illus trated above. At the left the model is one of thoso that refuses to dis >ense with a vest in a contrasting •olor. that had such a vogue during rhe summer. But it shows a coat much engthened ami a skirt comfortably rt-ide. Its collar and fastening are dis .inctly of the new season, where col lars are uniformly snug and cozy look ing and either of fur or cloth. Its Hats Agree to Disagree plain velvet, and is trimmed with a wreath of ostrich plumes ending in a short, droopy plume. Ostrich, curled and uncurled, is with us again in plumes big and little, long and short. It returns from a banishment that lasted several seasons. Velvet and long napped beaver make the pretty hat with big, soft crown, at the left of the group. An embroidered pattern at the right side of the crown and a sasji of narrow silk and gold ribbon around it are all that it needs for trimming. The hat at the right is one of the smartest for a matron. It is rather intricate as to brim, and has a light draped crown —ail of velvet. A rib bon is tied about the crown, ending in a bow at the front in a manner so simple and so artful that it bespeaks the hand of an artist. Three tall, glycerined ostrich plumes are mounted at the back. The last hat recalls the Napoleon shape and employs velvet in two col ors —black on the upturned brim and silver gray on the crown. Lengthwise groups of tucks with small gray tassels between them proclaim this a mem ber of the tailored class, with lean ings in the direction of trimming. Veil Bound in Ribbon. There are veils that are bound with ribbon about the lower edge and this ribbon extends beyond the end of the veil, which is just large enough to go around the hat and is tied, in a bow at the back of the hat. straight lines are emphasized by small tucks at each side of the coat, but a narrow belt of the material adjusts them to the figure in a way that is easy and smart. In the suit at the right there is revelation of the liking for fanciei designs in tailored clothes. Oddities of cut, with new fabrics and new col ors, make a strong appeal to individ ual taste and account for many un usual designs. Duvetyn, peachblow, velours and similar cloths are favored for suits of this character, and trico tine is best liked for the olainer mod els, although this is no hard-and-fast rule. Brown, taupe, reindeer, dark green, besides navy, are fashionable colors with which collars and cuffs of seal or beaver, squirrel and kolinskv look particularly well. In the suit shown here Hudson seal makes deep cuffs and a choker that will justify the added expensivoness of furs, which is considerable this year, by doing duty with other costumes. Very small tucks and very large buttons invite consid eration as a trimming. HI TURNED UP BY WIFE Georgia Man Selling A'ito Truck# for Charlotte Concern Is Arrested at Salisbury on Charge of Murder. Salisbury.—Lloyd B. Robinson, who has been selling automobile trucks in Salisbury for a Charlotte firm for sev eral months, has been arrested and will be taken to Georgia, where he is charged with having killed a negro. Robinson says there is nothing to the charge and he has agreed to go without requisition papers. Local officers were tipped off by Mrs. Robinson that her husband had killed a man and inquiry of the Geor gia authorities brought the request from Statesboro that he be arrested. Since his arrest Mrs. Robinson has repented of having turned up her hus band and she spent a long time with him in jail. Fayetteville.—An expert cotton grader, sent by state and federal bu reau of cotton grading, will arrive here to take up his work in Fayette ville. Greensboro. —Definite steps being taken to organize a Virginia Carolina League for next season with Danville and Lynchburg of Virginia, Durham, Raleigh. Winston and Greensboro of North Carolina composing the cir cuit. Winston-Salem. —The board of trade directors are determined to secure a modern hotel and apartment house for Winston-Salem. One million dol lars will be expended in the hotel and perhaps $250,000 in the apartment house. Fayetteville.—A mass meeting, com posed of some 250 representative men, endorsed the administration of law in Fayetteville, hinted at the existence of insidious foreign doctrine among negroes here, and started a movement for organization by colored leaders in the interest of law and order. Raleigh.—Three divorce cases have been started in Superior Court, two of them involving well known Raleigh people. Harry E. Jones is seeking a separation from Maude McClaire Jones, Mabel Scarboro Crinkley, and Lena Cox has started proceedings against J. N. Cox. Monroe. —The Union county public schools will open between October 27 and November 3. County Superinten dent Ray Funderburk has issued a statement calling upon the people of the county to observe the compulsory school law of the state and to let everyone consider himself an attend ance officer. Bailey.—The local tobacco market continues to have heavy sales and it seems that prices have not yet reach ed their highest point. It was official ly announced here that both the Lead er and the Planters' Warehouses made an average, the market over, to gether, of $62.84 per hundred pounds inclusively all scrap tobacco. Rocky Mount.— Rocky Mount had as visitors the oldest pair of twins in the world At least that is the claim o? the twins themselves, and there is every reason to believe that the as sertion is true. The visitors were J. D. and John H. Whitehurst, of Pitt county, who are 81 years old and both hale and hearty. Asheville. —The sub-committee of postoffices and post roads reported favorably on Owen Gudger to be post master at Asheville. This means that he will doubtless be confirmed with out much delay. Senator Overman has introduced into the senate a bill to establish a U. S. naval coaling station at South port and to increase the depth of Southport harbor to Wilmington. Winston-Salem. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall will deliver an address in this city on Saturday night, November 15 under the auspices of the local Moose lodge, the vice presi dent being one of the founders of Mooseheart where the Moose have a home for indigent members and their children and which is the pride of the order. The distinguished visitor is expected to spend a day here. Gins Working Double Time. Lumberton. —Practically all the cot ton crop in Robeson is open and the crop will have been almost harvested by November 1. The gins are crowd ed and many are being operated both day and night in order to keep up with the ginning. Much of the crop is being sold, while many farmers are holding their cotton. A cotton stor age warehouse bonded under the warehouse law passed by the last leg islature will be opened in Lumber ton. Several other warehouses will be opened soon. Warm Times in Charlotte. Charlotte. —About 3,500 people at tended a mass meeting here of the administration support in the audi torium. The speakers charged the op position with being merely seeking to gain political jobs. While tins meeting was in progress, an open-air meeting of anti-adminis tration men was held in North Char lotte, a cotton mill settlement. Candidates for the offices of the present commissioners denounced charges that thoy were against la* «j»il nrdar ASSOCIATIONS OF PARENT-TEACHERS CHARLOTTE HAS EXTENDED AM INVITATION TO OTHERS TO ATTEND JOINT MEETING. 10 FORM STATE FEDERATION These Associations Have Been Found of Invaluable Service to Schools Wherever Organized. Charlotte. —The Parent-Teacher as- sociations of Charlotte have invited other associations of the state to send delegates to a joint meeting to be held in Charlotte, November 4, 5, and 6 for the purpose of organizing a state fed eration and to affiliate with the na tional federation. Mrs. Sehoff of Phil adelphia, president of the national federation, will be present and ad dress the meeting. Any school that has no local association should send a delegate to this meeting who «an go back home and organize a local association. Delegates who expect to attend should write to Mrs. J. H. Shuford, corresponding secretary, 411 East Boulevard. Charlotte N. C., that hotel accommodations may be engag ed for them. The Parent-Teacher association# wherever organized have been of in valuable service to the schools of the community. Lumberton. —Candis Brake, colored, aged 100 years, died at her home, near Lumberton. Albemarle. —Dee Porter, who was ihot during the riot here in the early morning of September 15, died at a Statesville hospital. Asheville. —Elvirey Ceborne, color ed, believed to be the oldest woman in Buncombe county, died at the coun ty home here recently at the age of 106 yuars. Mt. Airy. —According to the latest statistics compiled by the Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce the total apple crop of this section will fall fully 60 per cent short of normal. Asheville. —Following the alleged stabbing of a man named Huskins in Yancey county, R. 0. Kelly, a Hay wood county young man, was placed, under a SIO,OOO bond in Superior Court here. Winston-Salem.- —In !fne with some twenty other cities of the United States, the directors of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company created community trust foundations for Win ston-Salem, Asheville, Salisbury and High Point. The banking company has banks in each of these cities. Fayetteville.—Marley M. Melvin, Fayetteville policeman, charged by Ben Ward with assault with a deadly weapon, was found guilty by a recor der's court jury following a two-day trial. Lenoir. —Thrilling air stunts, tall spins and loop-the-loops marked the close of the m"st successful day of the Caldwell county fair. This was the first airplane ever in this particu lar section of the state. Lexington.—At a mass meeting of the citizens of Denton the people unanimously decided to consolidate the two schools of the town, the Den ton State high school and the one con- ducted by the Methodist Protestant church, into one institution. Asheville. —The Rev. R. Dabney Carson, D. D., of Abingdon presby tery, Virginia, was unanimously elect ed moderator at the opening of the annual meeting of the synod of Ap palachia, in session at the First Pres byterian church here for two days. Vice-President at Kinston. Kinston. —"I will not talk about the League of Nations," said Vice-Presi dent Thomas R. Marshall in an ad dress here at the Fifteen-County Fair. "The peace treaty, v/ith some reserva tions, is going to be ratified," Mr. Marshall added. "I believe in a League of Nations, but I want to pre serve American institutions. Th« preservation of the republic depends upon the submerging of individual rights for the benefit of the common wealth and the benefit of humanity. To Issue Wharf Bonds. Fayetteville.—An ordinance direct ing the city attorney to draw up the measure for the issuance of munici pal bonds to construct wharves on the Cape Fear river, subject to appro val by popular vote, was unanimously passed by the Fayetteville board of al dermen at a special meeting after the Cumberland county dock board had appeared before the aldermen and in formed the city fathers that they had found a vote of the people of the city would be necessary to make the bon4 ssue.
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