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Koch ixair/med To^ay at Noon. Gn., Feb. 7, wivcr*'' h'^ It' : U’ C'K- (ji- Ui> -1. ror the establishment ef the par cel post has been exhausted ^nd Postmaster Genera!' Hitchcock Knlay asked tor jai additional ap- iU'opriation 01 $50,000. a-' tilv! ‘t, ^ iinite a Si ccfss ,.y\ S 1- 1 U i iiV .u' t'X'uiiiniUiun and i hn :■ ( ! jSf.! Vf.;d !>y tJlc. i. X lJuievnieycr 'a ill xvriic- oi‘ the hearingal Bl'! II CEL PACMGES LEO Washington, Feb. 6.-Aptroxi mately 40,000,000 parcel post packages were handled during January. At the 60 largest post- oifices, 19,385,433 parcels were handled in the first month of the operation of the new system and The business of the last two weeks exceeded that of the first two weeks by more than five mil lion packages. Chicago exceeded all other cities in the number of parcels Handled, its total being 4,163,153. New '\ork handled 3,519.788; Atlg.rila ,i8;l00U; St Paul 181,056; ?\'evv Orieans l()6,o91; Dalkis 130, ?0(): Louisville 114,076; Richmond 100,000; Nashville 69,270; Jack sonville 42,963. The present season is the dull one in postofnee business, but even if there should be no in crease in the parcel post w'crk, about 500,000,000 parcels would be handled during the first year. Some postmasters estimate the first year’s total will be one bil lion packages. From the niore remote sections of the country, postmasters re port naeri'hants are preparing to extend their fields to the rural districtfo, through the new system and farmers are preparing to send products to cities and towns apon the opening of the Spring season. The preliminary appropriation i\ v: X ul ti , i' I.). 7 3S xs.O ‘ U;yU>/il ()• ,J h finpounced thc;t. vii( i;o :ur^'M aiidilOi'Jiuii ivfi vliV ' ' iv'v.; 1 I t.i!; Oi i Uu ^ ds the inemUerB of the Society itr the Pioveiiiion of Us(3leys Giviii^- irf knovvii. This or^'aniza sion is one of iviiss Moigan’s pet projects, it is composed exclusi vely of young women. At the last meeting it was decided to allow the members to extend in vitations to their men friends to attend the dance that followed the meeting. The result was that more than 3,000 people tried to jam their way into a hail that accomodated half that number when filled to capacity, Couisties Fighting Hookworm Disease. Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 6.-It is a notable fact that in North Car olina to date seventy two counti es have appropriated $20,300 for free dispensaries in the counties for the treatment of liookworm disease under the direction of the State Board of Health, with Dr. John A. Ferralin charge. Each county is given six weeks' work by competent assistants. A number of the counties are seeking return engagements for this work. Th-) latest to make the initial appropriations for the treatment for the treatment are Currituck, Pasquotank Perqui mans and Mecklenburg, Simply An Accidental President (Lincoln Times) ■presidT;n-t-eiect Wilson says ha intc-^rpretS) his eiivtion as. a triUHiph of !)i'(>i^r^^NSivi8;n Th;? true intei’nreiaiiiiri ;s il'nii: ih;- joi'ity oi' rnai; Aiir. iieav; • . i f iOt WHi'.!' Vy 1 out »)'..*(!,’vU oi’i.hcir o.- -^iipped i:. a, o.;iiy v;'i' 1; ;;v«v an . ocjde: .i.w.i Pie'Sldi'ri;, iVii HKi iH ih'-' UiMH ai':j ^;.ii ihe nificaiicii there is :o hii ok'Clioo, ^ Fails at W'i ’e’'s Feet. Va. Bat iky should Vote as iiiey Pray (dinton. Nevvs-Djspatch). w iiniingron Scar doVi’t wuoi. iheoi rem >ve toe tariff {uo-o.rf and rtuga'r^ 0;d Wo; -vaiit ilreinDVod I C'S •.■••• I'-i I' ii 1.1; ( ■I; 1.1 ; I .li?: ■ .. I ' !.'f i ..I. i : ■Mi' ? i.(J ■ i'; i;. -'i i i ix\ pi'i ;i.i .i! v.i; ;• 5'lil .1 1■ 'tip ■{ \ '' ’-'i ■ C ■■ .r>?aa.iey i auiets. l-hessi afclets hay^ been ... ^ 'T* ■ y . ■ ■r'i -n M I VVi,ieiess G Petersburg, Feb. 7. I — Immedialefy upon recovering consciousness after a convulsion due to uremia poisoning, from v/hich he had been suffering for several weeks. City treas urer William Ramey todav shot himself through the head He regained consciousness while his wife was out of the room for a fev/ minutes confering with a person and went to his trunk from which he took a 88-caliber revolver. Hearing him moving about Mrs. Ramey re-entered the room and saw him with the gun. She grabbed his arm but he broke away from her and firing a bullet into his right temple, fell dead at her feet. Mr. Ramey was 56 years old, was serving his second term as city treasurer and was a candi date for reelection. His wife and two sons survive. Navy Fatai Accident is Pender. New Bern, Feb.6. —News reach ed here this afternoon of a horr ible accident in Pender county yesterday afternoon at a logging camp operated by Munger and Bennet of this place and which caused the death of Earl Ketceum a citizen of that section. Ket- chum was employed at the camp as engmeer.of a skidder and was engaged in its operation when the heavy steel cable holding this snapped and wound arouud his body in such a manner that the victim was literally crushed to death ensued just after the heavy coils had been taken from his body. ^ State Warehoiise. Greensboro, Feb.8— At a well- attended meeting of the Farmers Union State Warehouse here to day it was determined to estab lished the Carolina Warehouse at Greensboro, with the object of advancing the interest of the farmer in both buying and sell ing. It is proposed that the warehouse shall have much to with eliminating the middleman and that it shall be a step toward solving the high cost of living. The stockholders elected direc tors of the company for terms of three and two years and in turn the directors selected R. W. H. Stone as president and A. J. Huges as secretary and treasuer. The diiectors are to arrange the details for opening the warehouse and also for conducting the bus iness. President Alexand er of Mecklendurg and Director Green of Union County were among the State Union officers here. During 1912 our business increased to such pro portions that we were forced this year to order in car load lots as follows: 1 Car load Pittsburg Perfect wire fencing. ^ “ “ Galvanized Roofing. Nails and Wire. Genuine Oliver Plows and Repairs. Buggies. Farming Machinery for Spring busi ness, including disk plows, cultivators, etc. We want to thank the public for the very liberal atronage given us during the past and assure them 1 it 1 i i6 i It 2 (i a 4 it Goods And ready to serve. We guarantee our prices ad goods and want you to try us yith an order his year. Come in and look around and see our mmense stock. ardware, Paints, Building Mater ial BURLINGTON, V V H a i 1 i 1 ti; i'i, . .i* O f.). oilicoi'.'' the Goverument in the annonuce- ment that tiie iVlarconi Company has conrracied for a great wire less station at Hoi'joiuiu as part of a giobe-girdiing ptan df mat company, A wiri^fc;ss plant there they say, would seriously inter fere with a similar plant of the Government, should the Govern ment later decide to erect one. After further tests of the Ar lington station here, it is probable that a station will be installed n the Panama Canal Zone anu officials said today that the next logical place for a station would be at Honolulu. The Station the Marconi Com pany is said to contemqlate erecting is understood to be one of lour. The others at Salinas, Caj., Belmar, N. J., and one on the Massachusetts Coast. last Stand Of The Turk. Turkey having had her Europe an territory cut bown about 90 per cent, the loss of about one per cent more could hardly be expected to appal her from fur ther contest. About 55,000 sq miles, .or an area greater than North Carolina,s will never own her sway again. She could lose, in addition, only Adrianople and. a small region in that vicinity. The Powers will not permit the Allies to enter Constantinople in any contingency, and it is gener ally agreed that’ for the present at least, no question of laying violent hands npon any of Tur key's Asiatic empire can arise. So the Allies are virtually de manding the last drop of blood when they insist uponAdrianople and when Turkey resolves to fight again, she risks nothing furtner which she cannot afford. Ad rianople the first capital of Eu ropean Turkey acquired long be fore Constantinople, possesses many claims of sentimental and patriotic interest for the Turk. The present Young Turk Cabinet will have a much better chance of continued power after the war iif it fights to the last ditch for a ' city held in such esteem. There is little or no prospect that the Turkish forces behind the fortifications atTchatalja will be able to afford Adrjanopie any relief. During the late armistice neither side was supposed to al ter its position, but of course each side was industriously en gaged in this very act. Nobody doubts that the Bulgarians, now heavily reinforced by Servian troops have forfitified every em inence between the beleaguered city and the Tchatalja lines. They are likely to attacc Adri anople' vigerously while content to keep relief cut off from the south. Only by unly utilizing her command of the Biack Sea can Turkey hope must be very small. Her commander? are under the necessity of keeping prepaired against attact father south and east, where tne forts on the Galliopia peninsula defen ding the Dardanelles are now menaced by perhaps 70.000 Bulgarins and the Greek fleet. II their troops here are beaten, they will be taken in the rear and” Constantinople's plight, with the sea-way cleared, will be desperate indeed. At present, therefore, all Tur key’s available troops are pent up in the narrow penisula between Tchatalja and Constan tinople, awaiting assault from the southeast, if not quite ^ yet from the north. The territory thus held is all that remains to Turkey of an empire which four centuries ago covered in Europe, about 500,000 square miles, in 1800 European Turkey had shrunk to perhaps 300,000 spuare miles Three-quarters of a cen tury later it had shrunk by more than half from these proportions; and since then two of the allied Nations now asuiailing their old masters have arisen in her rec- j eding steps. Her easy victory j over Greece in 1897 only served | to lay the foundation lor the i quintuple alliance which has cut j dow^n her European dommonsl from their last previous mark toj (he 2,000 square miles now dis- - pei'dteiy htld. j i morougmy .t:riea out, and are rec- I rr.meiided.as perfectly reliable. . and MORE OF IT, can be raised per acre if you lerfciliza liberally with High-Grade before planting. Nourish, witli the same plant food during growth, and use raodern farming methods if yoa have not already adopted them. V.-C. Fertilizers are vastly superior to other tobacco fertilizers. Profitable Tobi-co Culture is fully explained in our free 1913 FARMEPvS^ YEAR BOOK or almanac, whicK will bo sent to you oil your request. ^rginja-Carofini ca “ Chemical Co. Box 1117 RICBMOND - VDtCSINU 5, . The “Ground hog*' saw his shadow And dived into his hole To stay 40 rainy days— Confound his ugly sbuil But Ellis Still Sells Ori^ns Pianos and sewing machines;_ He’ll send or go through rain or snow. If you’ve got the '‘cash in your jeans” —No Copyright on above. Ellis Machine & Music The Dispatch A Year O • • A Have You Seen the great 1913 Cross Country Rambler Car with the Unit Gaso line Electric Motor. If you are in terested in the purchase of a car that is absolutely high grade, refin ed and second to none at a mode rate price write us today for cata log. We would also place an Agency with the right party in /Ala mance County. f.v 111-113 East Washington St lepMne 619
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