North Carolina Newspapers

» • » , ,1 THE DUNN VOLUME X. « DtniW, WOfcTH CAMOLPU^ ENGLISH COTTON MEN .VISIT SOUTH Arc Impressed With PoaaiWili of Purchatimc Cotton From Association Impressed with lUe possibilities of fairrhasing cotton directly from the producer*. and desirous of getting in touch with the m:inn genie ill of the cooperative associations, two lead ing lotion mill men of England were in Raleigh yesterday Amo S. I'earive, of Manchester, England, and Arthur Poster, of 1 'res roc, England, together with Fred A. Tomlinson, of Manchester, England, have spent the past sev eral weeks visiting various points, more especially in the cotton belt. Mr Tomlinson did not come to Ral eigh. but weal from Charlotte to Sa vannah and Norfolk, and will join Messrs. Pearse and Poster in At lanta Jhe last of this week The coming of Messrs. Pearse and Foster to Raleigh wss in order that -they could discuss the entire c|ue»tion of co-operative cotton mar-J keting with (J. TV Rlalock, general manager of the North Caroliua Cot ton Growers’ Co-operative Associa tion. In the course of the confer ences held yesterday, Imth visitor* cxpve-iied themselves ns heartily in Miupathy with the plans of the as -.nation and predicted success for tl'r movement Tti-ir -m perfect arrangements for the pur- ( chaw of rotton through the associa tion for the mills of their country in which they are interested — the .Manchester spinner*. During the afternoon Vrnn I’carse and Austin visited the F.x pe nmergtr.l farms and were very <1 reply interfiled in ihc work of Dr R. Y. Winters. Discus.-ing the e«jtton needs of Manchester, they ' stressed the importance of cotton growers adopting standardized va rieties, especially those varieties ! which have an even running staple , of the heavy bodied type. Br. Win ter* a^ ( 1916. After discussing with Dr. t Winters the spinning qualities of , this as well as dther varieties of cot ton. the Englishmen expressed tltemselves as confiilent that it was a type which was well suited to the needs of the Manchester spinners. The methods adopted at the exper iment farm impressed the visitor*, and they expressed their interval heartily. Messrs Pear*c and Austin were ipi&t* nf Mr .Blalock at a luncheon at the Yarbrough hotel yeslerdav. Other guests were: Messrs. A. 6. Ring, secretary and treasurer of the Cotton Growers' association; T aw rence McRae, sales nwinager; Cil hert Stephenson, of the Wachovia Rank and Trust Company: Dr. B W. Kilgore, Dr Clarence Poo and T. H. Boushall. Mr. Pearse is general secretary - of die International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners and Manu facturers' .Associations, Manchester Mr. Foster is chairman of the North I -irtcastrT Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Association, Pres ton.— Raleigh News and Observer YOUNG MAN FOUND WANDERING IN WOODS Had Bna SI—ping Outdoors And Living On floldsboro. lolv 24.— Edwin I. Keiffer, 25-year-uld white man, whose mind is evidently unbalanc ed. wax found wandering in the woods near the Wayne county fair grounds b y local police, who In-might him to the city jail, where he is being held for observation. The young man, neatly dressed and of excellent appearance, but without funds, claims San Anto nio, Texas, a* his home. He has been loafing around the city for the past two weak*, obviously without ' visible means of support. Local authorities, becoming suspicion*, followed him yesterday, and found that he had been sleeping in the ‘ woods for some time. Hi* bed, or much or pallet, whichever it may lie termed, was composed of woods rubbish over which he had spread newspapers, using his suitcase as a pillow. He stated to the officers that he had been living on such eat able berries as he could gather in the woods. Chief vd Police Tew hat wired A. 0. Kieffer, of San Antonio, whom (he young man claims is Ms brother, In the effort to have him carried to some sanatorium, where he can he properly erred (or. Over 6.000 young farm boys are enrolled io the agncuhursl vlori of the North Carolina State Coile«( and Deportment of Agrictthurt this year a , PRESENT COTTON PLAN IN GEORGIA McLaan And Emttt Speak T« Georgia Legislator* On Cotton Com mi tai on Atlanta, Ga., July 25.— Appoint ment of a cotton commission of three member* to join with appoint ed commissioner* from all other cotton-growing States in wliat is to be known at the Cotton .Stales Commission were urged today be fore the Georgia Senate and House of Representative* by a delegation representing the movement. These speakers were: Senator N. B Dial, of Smith Carolina; A. W. McLean, of North Carolina, for merly director of the War Finance Corporation and former assistant United State* Treasurer, and R. O. Everett, chairman of the Cotton State* Communion and a member of the North Carolina general as sembly. The purpose of the proposed com mission, it was declared, would be 10 organize the cotton-producing States so that they might systemati cally and effectively work out the •robtans common to all in co-opera ion with the federal government. The Cotton States Commission i* io be made up of three mem'-err From ebch cotton-growing Snte - - 1 hr commission to be appointed b\ be governors of the Stale* - ore mrtted. North Carolina and T 11 lessee have already adopted the plan md ajtpointed their commissioner*. Mr. McLttn declared. Tlte oh nission will not go into effect until ux States have taken similar action. Mr. Mcl .can stated that as *>xm a> he plan had received the official ap woval of the required number of states, a central bureau would lie trganited. He expressed the opi.i on that eitehr Memphis or Atlanta ton Id be selected as the seat of »l.e lentral tmerau. The bureau would >c financed by appropriations of 13,000 from each State represented. Georgia legislator*, Mr. McLean favorable xa the plan. He 1U0 indicated that toe Mia has the MrMcL«nandMrEvcTett eft today for Montgomery. Ala.. vhere they expect In present the dan liefore the Alabama legisla ure tomorrow. IOHN R. EARLY RACK AT THE LEPROSARIUM liaturae After Fetamdarl Tour of North Caroliaa A ad Na tional Capital Xew Orleans. I .a., July 24.— Jno. 1. Early, the truant leper, is beck it the leprosarium at Canrille after ti* fourth escape from the institn ipn to visit his old haunts in W a*h ngton, D. C. He arrived here Mon by from Washington under the inrvciilance of two clerks of lire Preasury Department and was taken o the colony in an ambulance. Early travelled in a private draw ng room, and prolably none of the passengers on the train knew that Ire was aboard. At soon as he ar rived here the authorities of the lepeT colony were reached by tala phone and an ambulance was sent here immediately One of the gov ernment employee* accompanied Early in the ambulance. Last Monday Early reported to tlte District of Columbia health au iiivn luca, wnu utucioi mm Km back to Louisiana. Me told them he had been living in a Washington hotel. having left the leprosarium three weeks before, and that he had visited Chattanooga, Asheville end Tryon, N. C., and Milwaukee. Early receive* a pension of $72 a month as a veteran of the Spanish American war, and it it on the sav ings from this source that he make his occasional pilgrimage* about,ih country. His detention a* a lepe some years ago and hit fight foi freedom — Early is an attorney — was a country-wide sensation. KLAN ADVERTISING A PUBLIC CEKIMONlAI The public is invited to the nex ceremonial of the Ku Klnx Klan to lie held August 6 at Wright* villa Beads. The Fayrtlevifie Ob server of Monday carried the foi towing advertisement of the meet ^’Attention Klammen 1 On Mon day evening, August 6th, there wil he an opA public ceremonial o 'Wrightaville Beads. The ecremc dial, with tha ocean at t beck of K. K. K. specially prepared firs works. The public ts welcome. Te your friends. ■' Wilmington K. K. K." CRANKED CAR IN GEAR. FUNERAL SERVICES HELI Greensboro, July 24.— h'unera services were held here this after noon for George G. Hendricks aged 31 fif this city, who was fa tally injured when an auiomohi), be cranked, while in high gear, r.ir over him. He wu partially |>jra lysed, the car passing over hi, neck, lie wa* injured Thursday afternoon and died late yesterday afternoon. Mr. Hendricks, who was a veter an of the World War, having en listed early after tltc United Slates declared war, saw IS months ser vice in France. He was a civil en gincer and had returned here from Virginia jost before be was in jured. DONNHOSPITAL IS MAKING GOOD It A growth that has by far mtr finsscd the expectation* of the pro moter! and builders has come to the Dunn hoH]Htal since it was founded and put into operation a few months ago. Already thia much-needed in II.W I'l VM.IU quarters. However, there is no criticism of the quarters except in that they are not sufficiently large to accomodate the ever-growing demand for ad niittance. The Dispatch man yes terday visited the hospital and fouml that every room was occu|iicd and was advised that five other patients were at that time clamoring for ad mittance Recently a number of improve ment* have been maos, and* no where will one find a better equip ped institution of its kind. The building is well-kci>t in every re spect,- and nothing is left undone for the pleasure and comfort of the side. In fact, very few hospitals are so well prepared to furnish rairmpg Mh r'weerTtiv been re-paint ed, inside and out. Miss Della Wheelers, superin tendent of the hospital, is one of the most capable to lie found any where. She is assisted by s corps of able and experienced assistants, and yesterday two additional rteii lered nurses were secured. Orders for six additional beds have recently been placed. The operating mom is provided with the very latest in surgical sup plies, several additions to this de partment having recently been in stalled Dunn now has a hospital of which its citizens should fed proud. This being true, they should lend every influence and assistance possible for its continued success NEGRO PRAYS FOR HORSESHOE PITCHERS Monroe, July 23.— Wearing a pair, of tan shoes, white six. light trousers ami a “ iim swinrer " coat. a colored evangelist arrived in Win gate a few days ago and announced that the Ix>rd had sent him to that town to warn the white buy* against spending their time pitching horse shoes, something like Jonah was sent to warn Nineveh against her evil way*. The evangelist repaired to the field of operation* and right in the midst of a game of honest-tn-gnod ne*s borahoe pitching he sailed into the white boys by telling them tha’t honhoe pitching isn't hardly a de cent game for colored boy* to waste their time with, to say nothing of intelligetx white folia> He tola th« boy* they should be at home work ing the garden* or helping shorn the (arm work. Ha then Icndt and offered prayer (or the boys, and they began to slip away one at i time until the game was finally bro ken op. It is stated that some o< the hoys wanted lo whip the mtrud er, bat dated not do it because hi vrse a preacher. . NEW TEI-EPHONE LINE DUNN TO ULUKOTOI The CarnSna Telephone and Tel (graph Company is erecting a nev - line front I hum to Lilfington, vs - Duke. Under the preeent ivsteti - call* to LOlington are tranaferre through Benaoo, and the new lin • 'will mean an improved tclephoo I servica between the two towns. 1 • te expected that the new tine wi - be completed within the next mnnrt An eecaped convict, (ram tl .North Carolina State prison ht Wan arras**rt and returned to prise r alter being at Hberty for 32 year II Another case of deferring.uaUI n) ■gw TVisi wfjtcn inouici nstt dei done In the younger daya. ERWIN ! EARLY OF a Rsmli Ha FINDS Scot lattAta (a Early Aa 1 Earliaat side Which Lodge—< QuarreL A locality rich in but still untouched historians, was ing of guests by Wl Jr., when he friends at his new. Roost, at Smiley's P; Aver, Tuesday aft ning. For months Mr. accumulating inf early settlers of tl CumiicHand county II _a a • Va_ In the rapacity of rru^^Er of the Krwm Cotton Milhi-^Kjpany at Duke, owner of mon^^k) 3..VX) acres of land upon wt^Khc orig inal Scot settlers buH^Bcir first cabin* in America, Mr^Ewin has traced many of the trans ferrer) lo hi* rompane^Bfc to tj,e original royat grants -in the tracing he ha* come acrtHAmtch in formation that iithm >Mjnnlml i|, would never have becof^Bbbtk' From the okler nati»<^ty0.y,xrT told try ihctr parents-j^B;*rsn<l parrsits, he learned th^Meec a* early a* 1720 there sy^i^Btot set tles in Harnett toutitg^Kd that llieir cabin* were oat^H^roo* knoll* along the river./^Ki-uins of one of the first cabta^^kds on Pmliuok Hill—a pruminq^bfugMd like a hairpin, which risdEaM^ nver valley on the I-rwOl even that early were attempting to rat a canal around the falls. While these tnen were engaged in the work, the legend goes, they quarreled. A challenge to (fuel was accepted, and they retired to the very spring beside which Mr. Er win ha* buih his lodge. One of the dneists Mon|icd over the spring tn drink of it* sparkiing waters. As he did *o hi* asscoiate hot him dead. » The slayer fled. A settler lound the I tody and gave -it burial. Thia is said to have been the first burial of a white person in tba settlement Over the grave die settlers placed a rtorte. I-ong since the grave has disappeared. Hut several months ago Mr. Erwin found a stone with rser inscriptions upon-h lying at entrance to Ute pufjfk park at Duke. He inveatigatetf and found that it had served as a hearthstone in the home of a negro tertkt on the Erwin farm. Then he went to sue the negro, and was informed that it was uncovered by the big flood which swept the Cape Fear rallev about fifteen rears ago. and that rl was found a short distance (Continued on page 4.) STATE HATCHERY SUES INSPECTED Commission Wbads Up At Far ottavMU AsJ G«n Ta Fayetteville, July 25>* The com mittee appointed by the North Car olina Fisheries Commission' to aeiec a location for a Stac* hatchery it Eastern Carolina today completer the inspection of a 'score of rite in Cumberland county. A decision will be anuounced about tbe’Wiri of Sejrteaaber, after aitsa Ka'ie beat inspected near RaMci, Kinstor Rockingham, Smith field and otfK ■ cities, according to stmeartent* mad by members of the co&mittec b« fore leaving for Rockingham tUi afternoon. • * ' The members of the -eomatitie were much pleased with the coot ■ erst ion shown by the local cmmm ’ ice of business mao, , beaded b i Frank H. St adman, and wps ev > dsrttly quite favorably hnprtase 1 with the sites shown tbsm hen. * i The be«t of these, hi the opink e of the committee apan^srs, is Or t rie’s pond, in the wMwra patl't 1 the oounty, and the local busine i. men declare that tha outlook far d selection of this site la aaeouragfci t The conmiftae making the to ■ of impactiob is i aapom of J. 1 n Disonan. of Trenton, aba inn* i. Capt. J. A. Netaon, of Moreb« d City, and . W. K. Brown, a filheri n rtpert, whohescharwtof^tbehale FAYETTEVILLE TO PAVE ALL OF ITS STREET Fayetteville', July 25/— A paviq i program involving the expenditun #1 $367,250. which contemplate the paring or practically ever i bittiness and residential street it •'ayetteville not now paved, war approved br unanimons vote of tbs board of aldermen when the joint , eanmittee appointed to prepare et I tiniate* for the work reported tc the board. The committee recoin i mended that a bond iaette of $175, t 000 be authorized muneditaely for r the inauguration of the improve i »>ent program, and that the ramit der of the $567,000 be raised by the issuance of bonds, me needed, over a period of five years. DLLS TWEE AM) THEM COTS SELF Mae Meshes TUaata Of WMa And Two Children las Fk at MelapafcOfc Columbia, Tenn., July 23.—Mrt. Ophir Dugger, aged J5. her two children, *• boy of four and a girl of two, are dead, eng Ophir Dug ger, the husband and father, is dy ing in the King's Daughters hospi iai nere lontgM as the result of a sudden fit of melancholia on the pan of Doggers Sunday. Dugger, according to the sheriff, who made a personal investigation, used a razor to cut the throats of his wife and two children .and then turned the weapon upon himself, inflicting wound* from which he is dying The tragedy took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Jacobs, at Carter's Cneek. Mrs. Ja cobs is a titter of the slain woman. msmsm turned from that city only a few days apt amt stated that he had hecn a nr. Me to secure a frA, woriP mg only one day of the week ia Nashville Jacoirs Rated that Dug ger had brooded over his inability 10 secure employment, and that this is believed to have affected his mind and resulted ia today's tragedy. After cutting the throats of hi* wife and two children. Dogger used the same razor l» inflict three ugly, wounds u|*>n himself, slashing hi* throat, cutting his ahtWxnen across ami also slashing bis' left arm. He was removed to the hoapital here,' where tonight attending physicians stated that he was not expected to ■arrive the night. DUNN CANINE HAS A PLEASANT EVENING Feeding a dog seven pounds'o/ ham meat at one timr is right ex pensive. but that waa the amount of ham meat devoured by a dog owned by a Dunn citizen Tuesday night. Of course it was not the purpose of the dog-owner to give 1 him the delightful treat, hut that [ didn't keep him fnxu enjoying the ^n««f frt ffr fttlWl RvfMtt In nr ider to kcejt the dog at how he m locked in the pantry for the night. > The ham wa* ahto locked up in the ' Mine pantry. NaturaBy the dog ‘ took advantage of the pwTTomding* and spent a moat'delightful emiug TWO MEN DROWNED WHEN BOAT CAPSIZE! HeodersonviNa, July 24.— Joht ! A Wall, of Spartanburg. S. C. , and Harold Shoat, of Concord, N i C., were drowned fhortfy after fiat > o’clock Monday afternoon at Lain 1 Summitt when a tmaB boat cap * fired. The bodies were recover** , within a half hour and dementi . effort* were made to revive them. , S. W. John ton, alto of Spartan burg, wa* tr the boat, and arviate e in locating the hodie*. Cnrone . Dixon mane an inquiry ami decklo . an inqneat wa* am nacmaary.* I NABBED APm BEING A OUT Of PENlTUmAKT " Newtun, July 24/— Well <1 and proeperou* in appearance an la claiming to have travelled al ovt * the world. Dam Brinkley wa* arm |. ad at Claremont, near here, Mot ir day, as an escapad convict. He a l caped 22 year* ago from the Non i; Carolina penitentiary, whure he wt id w-viug a tan-year term for robber la He admitted hi* identity to offioei b> *4)0 will take hko to the panto* dary fat Ralei^i l—ailatilj. , . BAPTISTS ENJOY ANNUAL PHI > f By Too. O. Harris.) Surrounded by the natural tsMl' of Holt l.ake ahum, two kmdrri or mom member* of the Pint Bap (Mt Sunday school of Dnon bah their annual picnic Wednesday af ■emoon. T'erbaps the largest sad utoet • joy able event of its kind in the hi* very of the dim*, there was afc tcnce of nothing on this oecasior that cooM add to the joy of thaw who perScijKue; ooT was there ar untoward incident to max then . Arriving at the- lake, eighteen ..ale. from Dunn, si J o’cluckVlht afternoon,* the eiun# nnu dielifj began to enjoy the sports iocident to the presence of a bathing paviSaa, boms, and kindred pastime possi fcifittea — including that of love iMUng; Many wen the ample* that wandered off into the study d*ffs to fall victims to the Kttic god of love. As ever on such oecawonV there were those whose -ole object we* the providing plea tare for other*. ITiese lost no tnu in sM*.r« SEARCH FOR VARMINT RESULTS IN KILLING Ym*| Bojr ShoTr* DmkRi «ad Wilson. July 24.—A terrible tra gedy is reported front Edgecombe county which canted the death of one white hoy and the serious wounding of his brother. For tame-time a rumor had been rirmlated around Macclesfield, in Kdgrcotfdte county, that some land of a wild "varmint'’ fane1, been roaming around the plamatioa of B. F. Eaglet, scaring the farm hands in their work. Sunday morn ing last the neighborhood armed ihem?elves and started on a drivt to exterminate the beast. Twc white boys secreted themselves un der the foliage ef a damp of bosh es waiting for the “ terror " to past uini T%mj. i A negro man who was also or “ the hunt ** saw the bn she* shak big and naturally he thonght be hail ran Ins quarry to earth, and fired killing oik of the boys and serious ly injuring hit brother. Some are of the opinion that thi wild heart report was a hoax, start ed by seam one who had a corn* on I he huckleberry market, to beq other pickers ont of the berr hushes A valne of $300 was pW on th i ten tone of hay which one farme ’ cut from a six-acre demowalrstio . nk* in Psaqnottnk. If« says th 1 my paid all expanses'of potting oa • the peatnre. PLAN PON REUNION OP I METHODIST DIVISIONS ; UNDER COMMDntATIOI Cleveland. Ohio. July 24.— . plan for the unaion of the Noel) cm and Southern dMilosm of ti Methodist Episcopal church on * taken under consideration by d joint fflmwHt* an uniftcation a 1 night after having bean appro* d bv member* i ipusr ntina both brw r the* at separate branches. I* The plan, drafted by a Joint eoa h adttae of sixtasn, was adopt) k- manimnosly by the Vortbent mas b bars at a meeting this afternoon. I ta iu atuathig tonight the Soothe f. members made a few ckannss a, the wordirw of jha plan, srhich w I- I No snbmitMl ID the Joint warn *"■ :■ - .1 GENUAL BOflEY 1 spH Bps § BE i Fart «"-**°«* J-br A. /. Boarlay, ma-annai at Fwt ! Vnu. F.yeOerille, ipraki.W >*. I fora the Cracntboro Rotary dub bit afternoon, declared that "law —not war* daraMMtfWMM an not the proper way id aacor* and talk bid a great deal of ainWcaaoa '» triaw of the fact that aaara ar dtandgsyg Mr—SKsi5: ifeB £~H : j[5 mgl T* • : rj .7 Ganaml Bowtey aMfottaait iAKE VIEW SCENE fttl IE yl since the low imwht in the im mediate locality of Dm haa dried up all the bathing pool* about town. Untie by the lake View ordms 'tra. a picnic dinner, the fame of childhood and other featnres made id the oration all Mat the yawn people could desire. A table; 100 feet long, waa spread with food of every variety; end the crowd of '] hoys add girls, am and women, their appetites whetted by the low pleaawt 'drive ever emooit roads xrroufn cool loretu, BMI ' shun** of what (he < r More than fifty a , 1 r«jnired to take the pichkhen to | the lake. They left Dunn to 0 ‘ o'clock in the morning and returned toon after sundown, with Mr i pmrnr-r* fired, hnt lappi and *a • ‘ Ae nooal. George Gardner, Santa < Claus to all the Wttte children of * Dnnn, was master of cerewvonie- In V the rapacity off chairman of the - entertainment rrnmitim. He waa • aided by P. A. Lee and K. 0. a Week*. • Marvin Wade waa thelr—a of ► 'the transportation and d was aided by NeM i Z. 'ML- * r" .■ •SL 'f. 'L,