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Democratic Campaign Opens
With Address in Academy
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lion. T. W. Bickett, of Louisburg,
lltvt Governor of North Carolina,
will tonight open the Democratic
Cf iuiiaign in New Hanover county,
v lK ii he speaks in the Academy of
,!lUic at 8 o'clock. The exercises
vili begin promptly on schedule time
a,id the main address of the evening
v ill be preceded t by several local
s-cakers who will address the crowds
t0t 'nut a few minutes at a time, as
th.-xo in charge wish to give Mr.
frikott ample time to deliver his
message before the big audience it is
ei (Cted will be present.
Mr. Thomas E. Cooper, chairman
of the New Hanover County Demo
cratic Executive Committee, will
haw charge of the exercises and in
a short address will outline the plans
ilia l ommittee has devised for carry-in-
New Hanover county by the
uuatest majority in the history of
tiv county.
Mr. C. C. Cashwell, secretary of
the committee, will also make a short
address.
The introduction of the speaker of
the occasion will be made by L. Clay
tn Grant, Esq., nominee of the Dem
ceratic party as representative in
the next State Legislature:
The Whitlock-West band will as
semble at the Postoffice at 7:30
o'clock and will give an open-air
eoiuert. after which it will march to
the Academy, where the speakings
will take place.
As a speaker Mr. Bickett has few
equals. He is an orator of great
force' but always mingles in his
speeches the witticisms that are so
delightful for the crowds that are
present and those that keep them on
the verge of expectancy at all times.
EMPLOYS COTTON GRADER.
Cumberland County Commissioners
Arrange to Engage Expert.
The following from yesterday's
Fayetteville Observer will be of in
terest in this sections
The Board of Cumberland County
Commissioners, at their regular
monthly meeting held September 4,
appointed an expert cotton grader,
with headquarters in Fayetteville.
This action was taken under author
it) of an act ratified March 9, 1915,
and entitled 'An act to provide for
employment of expert cotton grad
ers, and to make the grades of cotton
so graded by i hem: as the basis of all
cotton transactions in North Caro
lina.' "Any board of county commission
ers in the State has authority to ap
point a grader under this act. The
prader thus appointed shall have full
authority to grade any cotton in
Xo:th Carolina on request of owner.
Said grader shall grade in accord
v.ith the standard established by the
Secretary of Agriculture. The grade
pronounced by said grader shall be
prime facie proof of true grade of
said cotton sales.
"The Cumberland county board, in
taking the action to employ an ex
pert grader, appropriated $300, an
nually, for current expenses office
rent, cotton .tags, etc. The Federal
government, which appoints the grad
er, pays the salary of same.
"In the opinion of many who are
in a position to know the employ
ment by the commissioners of an ex
Fjit grader is a god thing, and will
five satisfaction jto the farmers.
Among the advantages to be men
tioned is the certainty of high and
fo:rect grading of every bale of cot
ton, it is claimed also that cotton
i'sied by a government expert will
bring one-eighth of a cent a pound
mere than that graded by the buyers,
a:; the government grade is higher
f.nu the cotton must be bought on the
ba;:i3 of that grading."
WHITE SLAVE CASE.
M. C. White Bound Over to Laurin- '
burg Term Federal Court.
M. C White, a white man arrested
fcere some weeks ago on a charge of
violating the Mann white slave act,
was friven hearing a few day3 ago be-
ie a United Slates Commissioner in
-Maxton and bound over to the next
term of Federal Court at Laurinburg.
The Fayetteville Observer of yes
terday has the following relative to the
Deputy United States Marshall J.
W Tomlinson returned yesterday
from Maxton, where he presented a
h)to man by the jiame of M. C.
'I.ite. alias M. L. White, to U. S.
r'niniis3ioner E. L. Wooten for a pre
liminary hsaring on a charge of vio
,atig the white slave law. White
was bound over to the next term of
the Federal Court in Laurinburg, in
the um of one thousand dollars. The
a"r:;t Was made in Laurinburg on a
Warrant sworn out by J. B. Pittman,
ot Scotland county.
"White enticed, it is alleeed. a girl
ahut fifteen years old away with him'
i'ito South Carolina for immoral pur
Pojfs. The girl admitted that they
,ivffi as man and wife. White is from
a northern State and a machinist by
trade.
Marshal Tomlinson -further said
that this is the third--white slave case
UP for trial in the United States Court
in his district."
Meeting Called to Complete
Program for, State Conven
tion Here Next Month. ',
At a meeting to be held tomorrow
afternoon by the Wilmington W. C.
T' F' tbe Prram of the thirty-fourth
annual convention of the North Caro
lina Women's Christian Temperance
Union, which is to be held in this city
October 4, 5, 6 and 7," will be arranged.-
The meeting has been
called for 4 o'clock by Mrs. E. jR.
Clarke, president of the local union,
and it will be held in the -parlors of
the First Baptist church. ;
One of the, big features of the Con
vention, which is the first W. C. T.
U. annual meeting that has ever been
held in this city, will be an address
by Miss Anna Gordan, president of
the National W. C. T. U. Her's will
be the principal address of the meet
ing. Arrangements are being made by
the local W. C. T. U. committees to
take care of about one hundred dele
gates who will come from the unions
from all parts of the State. The lo
cal members are planning to make
the convention one of the best ever
held.
NEW BANK ORGANIZED.
Officer and Directors Elected
For Community Savings
& Loan -Co.
At the organization meeting of the
stockholders, held Tuesday after
noon, at 4 o'clock in the offices of
James & James, Inc., the officers and
directors for the Community Savings
& Loan Company were elected. The
firm is a new kind of bank for Wil
mington and" does not' intend to com
pete with the other banks of the city
in any way at all, but is organized
for the purpose of loaning small
sums to the working man and allow
ing him to pay back the principle in
small weekly or monthly payments.
Mr. A. M. Hall, president of the
Merchants' Association, and also of
the Bureau of Credits, was elected
president Other officers elected are
Messrs. C. W. Polvogt and W. I. Bax
ter, vice-presidents; W. G. James, sec
retary and treasurer; Cyrus D.
Hogue, Esq., attorney.
The directors elected are Messrs. I
a. m. Man, j. vv. foivogt, vv. i. wax
ter, C. D. Hogue, C. C. Chadbourn, J.
Haughton James, Thos. F. Woods, C.
W. Woodward, Thos. E. Cooper, W.
A. Woods, Edwin Bancroft,Edw. P.
Bailey, J. W. H. Fuchs and Horace
Pearsall.
The company is being organized
under the authority of the Universal
Savings Corporation, of Norfolk, Va,
but is purely a local enterprise, being
owned by local capitalists and oper
ated by local men.
Before adjournment the directors
adopted a resolution 'calling on all
the stockholders to pay in their stock
by Saturday so that the new institu
tion could begin work at once.
The system under which the bank
will be operated is known as the
Stein universal plan for savings and
loans and has worked with splendid
results in the numerous cities that it
has been tried. The slogan of the
plan is that it "capitalizes a man's
honesty."
RETURNED FROM NEW YORK.
Mr. W. A. McGirt Attended Notifica
tion of President at Shadow Lawn.
Mr. W. A. McGirt, chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners, has
returned from a visit to New York.
While away Mr. McGirt attended the
formal notification of the renomination
of President Wilson, which took place
at Shadow Lawn Saturday.
Mr . McGirt states that the Demo
crats in the Northern States are con
fident of a victory in the coming cam
paign and that the leaders are working
industriously to that end. , .
FUNERAL OF MR. REESE.
Services Will Be Held at Residence
Interment Bellevue.
The funeral services of Mr. J. M.'
Reese, who died Tuesday morning at j
5 o'clock at his home, No. .916 South
Fifth street, will be held Wednesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock from his late
residence! Interment will be in Bell
evue cemetery .
Prices Lower According to local
gasoline dealers buzz fluid is
scheduled to take another drop
of a few cents within the near
future. Within the past few weeks
the price has alrea'dy dropped
from 25 cents to 23 cents and the gaso
line dealers state that if it had not
been for the threatened strike that the
price woiild have declined before now:
They give aa a reason.of the decline in
price that is x expected in the near fu
ture is that output Is now more than
the demand since so many new wells
were sunk when the price advanced .
Postpones Meeting. The Board of
Navigation and Pilotage that was to
have met in regular monthly meeting
Wednesday; morning did not meet on
account of so many of the members
of the board being out of" the city.
No special meeting has been ar
ranged for and if nothing unforeseen
comes up the board will not meet un
til their regular monthly meeting
next month.
Artillerymen Will Welcome
Barracks at Fort Caswell
V After Patroling Border
After having spent nearly five
uiuuius on uie Mexican Doraer doing
patrol duty the 31st i Coast Artillery
Ail.- -A - r m . .
Company will arrive in the city late
tonight and proceed to its station at meeting of the Board of County Com
Fort Caswell early tomorrow morn-! missioners . Tuesday afternoon its is
ing. The company is in command ' understood; that the Commissioners
of Capt. Francis N. Cooke and Lieut-I win act upon it shortly.- ,
r , I lt wa stipulated in the agreement
enants Prentice and Welschner. between the county and the beach
The 31st Company left Fort Sam
iiousion, Texas, several days ago ana i oi me cost, oi me uaronna Beacn road,
is due to arrive in Florence, S. C, tnat the beach companies should ex
tort ot a v.wt on. TOm i tend the road to Fort Fisher Sea Beach
Wilmington some time after midnight.
tW company of about a hundred men
are making the trip in two Pullmans
and an express coach. It is expected
that they will make the trip from
Wilmington to Fort Caswell by boat,
It is expected that the men will
welcome the comforts of the barracks
at the cool spot at the mouth of the
Cape Fear river after spending the
Rummer near the Mexican border
wnere the thermometer
around 100 degrees.
WANT TOURIST BOOK.
Good Roads Association
Wants Wilmington's Sup
port in Publishing Guide
Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, of the
North Carolina Good Roads Associa
tion, is making a strong effort to se
cure enough support in Eastern North
Carolina to justify association in is
suing a tour book showing all the im
portant roads and routes connecting
the larger towns and cities similar to
the one that has recently been issued
for Western North Carolina.
A letter has been received at the
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
asking if support from Wilmington
could be expected and to what ex
tent. It was suggested in the letter
by Dr. Pratt that the Chamber of
Commerce reserve space in the book
let which will get into the hands of
tourists who are bankers and capital
ists and the prospective investors.
In the tourist book of Western
North Carolina is shown all of the
im.portmt connecting roads, includ
ing the highways running across the
State. Each route is in color and it
shows just how to enter and leave a
city of any size along the route. Dis
tances are shown to the tenth of a
milet. One of. the best features con
tained in the book is the description
of every mile of the roads shown. It
tells if the road is sand-clay, mac
adam, sand or whatever it is con
structed of. It also tells the condi
tions of the roads in all kinds of
weather.
The book is highly important to
persons making automobile tours and
to those who use the automobile t3
travel through parts of the country
with which they are not familiar.
LIGHT INFANTRY'S
L
T
Feature Ocasion will be Held
in Market Street Armory
Very Shortly.
Following an established custom the
members of the Wilmington Light In
fantry last night at their regular
weekly meating decided to hold their
annual fall banquet within the next
short while and to this end a com
mittee was appointed to make all ne
cessary arrangements, for the event
which promises to be one of the best
in the history of the company.
This year the banquet is to be given
in honor of the new commanding of
ficer, Captain James B . Lynch and the
former commander, Captain Edward P.
Bailey, who recently resigned and
went on the list of reserve officers .
Several of the former officers of this
old organization are expected to be
present.
The annual banquet is always looked
ANNUA
HIE
forward to with a grea deal of pleasure Zeppelins unarmed and each with a
by the members of the Co as the carrying capacity of 60 tons have been
occasion has always been one of the omit in Germany to carry mail be
feature yearly events. The occasion t ween Berlin and the United States,
is marked by many happy reminis- according to a statement here by Mor
censes. ris Epstein agent of the German Am-
The committeeappointed to prepare erican Alliance who returned from
for the banquet is composed of the' Europe yesterday,
following members: Messrs. Jack Epstien was permitted to view them,
Rutland, Adrain B. Rhodes, W. Ken- he declares. Their engines-are pow
neth Gaylor, J. S. LeMoyne, and J. erfully equipped and they can make
Harry Hayden. the voyage between Berlin and New
lYork in 72 hours. .
Store Improvements. The Little ; .
Cash Shoe Store of George S. Nevens QT(")RM PASSES TO
& Son is undergoing repairs prepara- imtcdiad nroTATC
tory to the fall and winter season. UN 1 HK1UK Ur 3.1A1L
Additional shelving is being install-,
ed and a general repairing of the in- (By Associated Press.)
terior is being made. I Washington, Sept. 6 Weather Bu-
- Jreau reports indicate that the central
"The ploughman homeward plods Part of the South Atlantic storm has
his weary way." ; passed j'ifetland' to North Carolina,
The reader put aside his volume whence it will continue to move north
of poems. . wardx - "'"''
VTimes change," he commented. "I It has been attended by moderate
see in Kansas they are taking hired gales' off the North Carolina Coast, and
hands to the harvest fields in taxi- rains in Eastern,, North Carolina and
cabs' Kansas City Journal. Southeatsern Virginia.
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County Commissioners Want
Soil Highway to Resorts.
Monthly Meeting.
While the matter of extending the
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Carolina Beacn road a distance of
about three miles to Fort Fisher Sea
Beach did noffcome up at the regular 1
interests, each of whom paid half J
and Work was to begin not later than
October 1. The beach companies have
asked to be allowed to construct a
' plank road for the distance but the
' Commissioners seem . to favor the
j 80il'To ftppnde the damage done to
j his property in constructing the new
road from Winter Park to East Wil-
mington Cr. W. B. McClellan, of
East Wilmington, appeared before the
Commissioners and asked that a com
mittee be appointed. The matter was
. j referred to the permanent road com
novers t ...
An appropriation of $147-38 was
made to cover. New Hanover county's
share of the cost of the survey of
the Wilmington-Fayetteville Highway.
The total cost will be about $1,500 and
each county pays according to the
mileage. New Hanover County has
only ten miles of the road. A bill
of about $150 for repairs to the car
used by Deputy Sheriff A. L. Kelly,
was ordered paid.
Present at the meeting were Chair
man W. H. McGirt, Commissioners
Willard, MacMillian and Kerr. The
regular monthly reports were read.
Miss Brooks Voluntarily Sur
renders First Place in
Movie Production.
While the rain of the past two days
has seriously interferred with work
on the Dispatch Motion Picture pro
duction, Mr. Bird has been able to
film some interior scenes and hopes
to get started early tomorrow morn
ing with clearing weather, ? on the ex
teriors at the different locations.
The full cast will be announced with
in the next few days. Miss Thelma
Brooks, the attractive and charming
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. JxW. Brooks, I
Carolina Heights, who won first hon
ors in the contest, has withdrawn from
the leading part in favor of Miss Jane
Iredell Meares, who finished second.
This action on the part of Miss Brooks
was taken on account of the fact that
she dose not aspire to become a mov
ing picture star and Miss Meares does
have ambition in that direction, and
the leading part in the local produc
tion will enable her to display what
ever talent she may have to the best
advantage. Miss Brooks at her own
request, for the reason stated, will'
play second part and act as Miss J
Meares' best friend in the production, i
Some very good interior scenes were
obtained early this afternoon, consist-'
ing of office scenes called for in the
story. Tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock it is desired to take a school
scene, both exterior and Interior, and
for that purpose it is desired that a
large bunch of small children prim
ary grades assemble at the Hemen
way School at that hour if they de
sire to get into this scene of the photo
play. This will give a large number
of the smaller children who wish to
appear in the movies to get into this
scene and it is hoped that a large
crowd will be present at the hour nam
ed. Permission for the use of the school
building for this purpose was given
this morning by Mr. J. A. Taylor,
chairman of the school committee.
-DOUBLE" ZEPPELIN
TO BRING MAIL
(By Associated Press.)
Chicago, Sept. Jd. Two "double"
LEADING PART
TO MISS MEARES
t Mil
mill
Our representative; Receiving Glerk, or
Wagon Man says it as he takes a shipment
from you.
Made to Your Individual Measure
Coats, Coat Suits and Skirts
25 PER CENT. REDUCTION
on all Skirts from now until September 20th, Styles and;
Weaves that are unmistakably clever in Man's Ware Serge,
Gaberdines, Broadcloth, Poplins.
EVERY PIECE GUARANTEED PURE WOOL
Supply is 'limited. Order early.
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ANOTHER SLIGHT
ADVANCE FOR PLAGUE
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Sept. 6. Further slight
thn infWil nnrlv?ii '
the infantile paralysis
increase in
epidemic was shown in department of
health reports for the 24 hours end
ing at 10 a. m. today. Fifty-three
new cases were discovered against
42 yesterday, and there were 22
deaths, an increase of one
PREPARING TO TAKE
WOMEN STUDENTS
(By Associated Press.)
Athens, Sept. 6. The American and
British schools of Archaeology in
Greece are making preparations for the
accommodation of women students of
the respective schools . , Two new
buildings are to be built, one by each
school for the housing of the women
students. The building; for the male
students of. tha American school has
only just been completed. .There is
nothing like it for comfort, 'cleanliness
and modern conveniences in all Greece.
Though at present there' are almost
no students of either school, it. is
hoped that when the war ends both the
American and British schools will
again be flourishing. . s.,
The present buildings of the schools
are situated in a very beautiful wood
ed park where shade (a rarity in
Athens) is plentiful and excellent ten
nis courts at hand. -
I . don't believe in , automobiles.
They discourage walking. ,
Mine, don't. I've done more walk
ing since I .bought that . machine than
I, ever, did in my life before
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