meKEirrwLLE ta tbe
mSAVr OF BAB9ER9
liOBYB GABOUITA. IT HAS
A FOPVIATION OF FOUR
^BOVBAND, ONE HUNDRED
%ND ONE, AND IS SUR-
KOVNtmD BY THE BEST
FARMTNG COUNTRY.
INDUSTRIES OF ALL
WINDS ARE INVITED TO
LOCATE HERE FOR WE
HAVE mVBBYTBINO TO
OFFER tN THE WAY OF
LABOR, OAPITAL AND
TmBOTABY FAClLfTtES.
WB HA.VE AN UP-T0-DATE
ms AND NEWSPAPER
n
i
If
m
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WE HATE A OIBGJSEA^
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TER ACQUAINTED WITH
THESE GOOD PEOPLE IN
A BUSINESS WAT TO TAKE
4 FEW INCHES SPACE AND
TELL THEM WHAT YOU
HAVE TO BRING TO THEIR
ATTENTION.
OUR ADVERTISING
HATES ARE LOW AND CAN
BE HAD UPON APPLICA
TION.
TOLCME 47.
(iHi;i:>viLrK, x. c. Finn vy, nEiUMitKit :ti, lai:..
NUAIBKR EIGHT
■B!
G. M. COX FOUND
DEflO IN ROOM
Death AVas Due To lOxces-
ivc Drinking And
Drill'S.
AV as a Xativo of liidiland.
IJody Passed TLrongli
Here Today For
Ills Home.
Mr. K. 31, i'o\, ubuiit ililrty-lire,
proiiiiiieiit linvjor of Farmvillo, was
fuuiid dotui III liis mom yesterday
about twehc o'eloek by frii’iids who
instituted u search for him followiii)^
liis failure to lunke liis ui>])eiiraiice at
tlic uoouday meal.
Coroner J. C. Groeno, of this place,
went to Farmvillo last night whore
he held an inquest over the body and
returned a verdict of death caused by
excessive drinking and the use of
drugs.
Mr. Cox had been known to have
been drinkiur; lioavily of late follow
ing some domestic troubles. IMonday
he was seen drunk and was taken to
his room about seven-thirty Monday
night. He asked friends to give liim
a dose of medicine from a bottle which
he had in his room. His request was
complied with.
Later in the night a dull sound was
lieard which resembled that of a fall
ing body, but no notice was taken of
it as his friends thought him to be
drunk and had fallen down in his
room.
Yesterday morning ho did not ap
pear for breakfast and was absent at
dinner. Then his room was visited
and he was found dead on the floor.
Coroner Greene stated that ho found
a black bottlo of medicine supposed to
contain a drug, which had had about
one and a lialf ounces taken from it.
Jlr. Cox was from Richland, N. C.
and had been in the practice of law at
Parmvillo for several years. His wife
had recently loft him.
The body passed through here today
enroute to Richland where it will bo
interred.
FORGE OF
CLEAN OUT RIVER
Channel From Ifere To
Washington Is Being
Cleared.
A government force hn« been busy
for the past few days cleaning out the
channel in Tar river in order to make
it navigable. It is said that a largo
number of logs and a good deal of oth
er rubbish has been collecting in the
channel and making it impossible for
a boat of more than two or three feet
to navigate from here to Washington
■without running the risk of being
grounded.
The work was started several days
ago and Is progressing rapidly, the
men stating tliat the channel will bo
cleared and open for more extensive
navigation within a few days.
The channel from here to Washinrr-
ton is on an average about six feet
deep.
J.
OIEO YESTEROfl!
AVas Sun o£ ]\lr. And ]\rrs.
]I. Sliclbnrii (>L‘ (ireen-
ville.
Died ol‘ ’C«rii)i»e—Was Held
In High l*]steem I>y
!Many Friend In
Cirecnville.
A terrible shock came to Mr. and
.Mr.s. 1\. II. Sholbui'u in a telegram re
ceived about 9 o’clock, Tuesday night,
announcing tl.e death of their oldest
son, Mr. John W. Sholliurn, in \Ve ;t
Point, Jliss., where lie was a post of-
lice inspector. The lirst intimation
oC the young man’s illness camo in a
telegram to his mother about 5 o'clock
stating that ho was seriously ill with
grip. In response to a wire asking
his exact condition, anotlier message
came two hours later ailvising that
he was growing worse. Mr. and Mry.
Shelburn at once began preparation
for leaving on the night train for Mis
sissippi and a little later received the
sad tidings that their son had passed
away. This was a severe shock not
only to tho parents and family, but
to the young man’s host of friends.
As tho sad news spread through the
town there were many who called at
the home on Fifth street to extend
sympathy. Tho body will bo brought
homo for interment, but tho exact time
of its arrival cannot yet be determined.
Mr. John W. Shelburn was 27 years
of age, a most popular, lovable young
man, and nuniberod among his friends
everyone who knew him. Besides tlie
parents he is survived l)y one brother.
Mr. Lee Shelburn, and two sisters,
Misses Mary and Ivor Shelburn.
For several years ho was asaistatit
postmaster hero under former Post
master Flanagan and continued in the
sanio position which ho filled most
cfTieiently, under Postmaster Which-
ard until the middle of October, 1014,
when he was promoted to post oince
inspector and assigned to the Chatta
nooga district and made his head
quarters at West Point, Miss. Ho was
JAILED, CIARGED
WOilTHLESS CHECK
Yuuiig New Yorker (ids
.In ]5ad .\l X».\v
]3ern.
liis Story As .1 ntt-i'f.din::; A'
a Jesse Janios Dime
Xovel—Yuung Wile
AVithont I’unds.
“LIUKUTY HKI.L” TO PKOCL.II.U WOMAV ,^irFFI{A(;i: VICTOKY
TOi’ J.ei’t to Iflftht—Mrs. tSertrude Hunter, Minn.; 3frs. llelenii II.. Weed, Coiin.. and Mi •• i:inic I.aucasier,
Washington, !>. ('.
IMrr’rO.M ItOW: l.eft to liig'ht—Miss Mar^?aret F. Wliltteinore, MiVli.; Miss Koris S<e>ciis, Ohio; Miss I.ncy
liurns, >ew York; Mrs. Jesso II. 3Ia<'kaye, Wasliinjrton, 1). Mrs. Kdiia S. Lafimt‘r, .Md., and Miss Virginia
Arnold, \or(h Carolina.
Tliis picture shows nine suffrage leaders with the replica of the Liberty Bell that was u.sed in tiie Pennsyl
vania suffrage campaign. The bell was taken to Washington for use in tlie demonstration of tho Coiiirrossioiial
Lnion for Woman Suffrage. The union plans to place the bell in tlie lioadquarters of the organization wliore it
will remain uni ung until woman is victorious in her fight for the vote. Tlien it will bo rung, as was its famous
original.
SMLl FIRE IT
Dlaze Started In The Pick
ing IJooin But Was
l']xt inn niched.
A fire wliicii started in the picking
room of the Greenville Cotton Mills
company tliis morning about eight
o’clock tlireatoned to wipe out tho
plant if it had not been for tho time
ly work of the mill’s tire lighters and
its lire lighting equipment.
Superintendent Norris was at the
plant when the fire started and at
once had two streams of water and
three sprinklers playing on the fire.
The damage to tlie stock and ma-
held in high esteem by those asso-^j^.j^g^y sliglit while the building
elated with him in the government suffer at all.
WFLLS lUfOW-X >£i:i»S .V IVIFK
TO SKW I I* IfOLllS 1\ rOCKKT
Lost—.V bunch of keys. Finder re
turn to Wells Brown. Mr. Urown has
lost a buncli of keys as the aiivcrtise-
ment above denotes. The cause of -Mr.
Brown’s losing the keys may be attri
buted to tho fact that he had a hole
in the pocket of his trousers. .Now
if Mr. Brown had a wife, there
wouldn’t have been any hole in his
pocket, which is. In itself, a moral.
Mr. Brown says he hopes that the
■want ad will bring him results. He
says he hopes though that it ■«on‘t
bring him a wife. So if there are any
maidens who have tliought about i>ro-
po.'^ing to Sir. Brown after Saturday,
they may wait awhile. Btit if Mr.
Brown had had a wife, ho wouldn’t
have had a hole in his pocket, lost his
keys and had to advertise for them.
Young men should take a hint from
the moral in this.
llF:(il\ TO TALK OF
the t’OMl>tJ Sl’EFCl!
Folks are beciinning to talk about
the coming of Col. I'red A. Olds next
Tuesday night. They are getting in-
terestea in it, and it is becoming cer
tain that there will bo a largo crowd
out to hear him when he addresses
the Carolina Club.
It is still being urged that if there
is anyone in the country who has any
kind of relic of historic value, that
he communicate with the club.
Remember the date of the speaking:
Xext Tuesday night. Place: The
Carolina Club rooms.
Discuss Control of College .Vfhlelies
NEW YORK. D1<:C. 29.—Dean Le
Baron Briggs of Harvard presided
(luring the first session of the Nation
al Collegiate Atheletic Association’s
annual convention here today. Com
plete control of college theletics by
college faculties was the keynote of
tbe speeches made.
TOF
IN GOOO SHAPE
St»ine Eeports Say Some ol
The Koads Fare Bad
Now^
Reports received here from differ
ent sections of the county state that
Ilio roads in some places are holding
up well during tho wet weather, but
that in other places they are in worse
shape.
Tho fact that sonio of tho roads are
in bad shape is said to be caused on
account of the work recently done on
them and that they have not had time
to become settled. It is expected, how
ever, that those whic'.i are now in
poor shape will soon bo in better con
dition.
,SAVS CKNTIML I’OWKKS WIIJ-
((»\sii)i;it I’KACi: iMfOl’O.sAi.s
GK.NIOVA, SWlTZi;ULA.\l), DKC. 20.
—\ ia I’aris.—A dispatch to the Tri-
bunt from Vienna says:
‘‘Chancellor von Betliinann-llollweg
is expected in Vienna siiortly with tho
full coiiditioi.s under which tlie cen
tral powers will accept peace. After
disiussing the terms with Baron von
Btirian, the Austrian foreign minister,
the conditions will be ofllcially com
municated to the allies, Germany sug
gesting that the first conference be
held at The Hague.”
TEUTONS ARE
FEAR OF
Tlie Advit'es '^i’hoiigh Are
Still I'noi'licial And
Unrelia])le,
AI'STIMA WILL >0T MKFT
Oru I)KMAM>S IS KEPORT
WASHIXTO.X, DEC. 20.--Austria,
according to unolficial information re
ceived in authoriative quarters here
today, will not meet the demands of
the United States in her forthcoming
reply to the Ancona note and tho Teu
tonic diplomatic circles are represent
ed as being prepared for a severance
of diplomatic relations.
WasI’i7igton, Dec., 2S.—I’nonic.ial ad
vices received hero today cont'orined
with intimations from aboard that Au
stria's I'onhconiing reply to the .\ii-
cona note will fail to iiiei't the de
mands of the United States, and Teu
tonic circles here wore authoritatively
represented as being prepared for a
break in diplomatic relations between
tlie two countries.
Various developments, it was agreed
might avoid such an eventuality, but
nono of the counter proposals which
it has boon intimated the Vienna for
eign office might advance have been
regarded so far as coming within Sc< -
retary Lansing's roni'wal of tho de
mands for disavowal, rep:iration and
punislinieiit of tho submarine cmu-
niander who sunk tho Ancona with
tho loss of more than a ilozen .\iiiei i-
can lives.
Now tlint the situatii';i after b> iii^'
dormant nearly two wot'k^, is aga! i
beginning to take on -Lho r.spoits o;' .i
crisis, tlie statuts of the negoiati'’:!--
of tho United States over submarine
warfare, against merchantmen, not
with Austria alone, but with the Teu
tonic powers as allies, is conimoiuling
attendtion.
ITAl.lAX PASSFMJKK SlllI’ IS
in:i*oini;i» lost; ki(;ht lost
WASIIIXGTO.V, DEC. 20.—An un
confirmed report from Rome that a;i
unidentitiod Italian passenger steaiii-
ship was torpedoed while on her way
to Catania, Sicily, with a loss of eight
lives, reached the state department
lata today. It was not reported
whether any Americans were aboard.
The American embassy at Romo, is
.\KW D::UX, dec. 20.—Wli.'n Frank
Do Lanoy, a wull-grcomcd souiiij
whito man, left his homo at Scliciiec-
tady, X. Y., and camo south with tin;
idea in his head tliat southiTnoi-s were
iby marks and that Bariiuni’s obi
.saying thtit u is l>i rn ever}
minutu" applied strictly to the sectioii
below tho Mason and Dixon line, he
doubtless did not think (hat ho would
meet his Waterloo and landed in jail
in Xew Bern, X. C., but this is just
what happened to Frank and v.hilc
bis newly-weddeil wife siin in her
room at the Gaston Hotel and wonder-
what the end will be ,young Do Laney
is silting ill a cell in tiie county jail
and revolving over in his mind the
old saying that "the way of the trans
gressor is indeed hard.”
Tho story of De Laney's career for
tho past fow weeks reads like a chap
ter from some fairy-tale. After
leaving dear old .\ew York Stale l'.'--
came to North Carolina. The lirst
time he passed a worthless clicik
for ten dollars on tiio LUiud hotel at
Raleigh. He maiir.gi d to get a'tva.'
from tliat plac.e before being arrcste-.'
and came down to Kiii.¥toii where li'^
passed another ten dollar liie U, thi^
time “sticking" tho Tull hot. 1.
At Kinston De i.aiioy luvanie a-'-
quainted with Miss Ditris She;’;.Ian,
of Philadelphia, Pa., who was iloing
stunts in the eliorus of lll■i^if:li
comedy playing a theatre thvre
while Frank w;is in the city. 1.
Laney, fairly f;uod looking and wil!
dressed, captivati'd the heart of Mis.
Shoridan and they were inarriel.
local magistr;ite performing the ce:‘.>
mony.
On Decemhor 2i: Mr. and Mrs. Dt
Laney came lo .Xe'.v Bern and sonj-’i'
food and shelter at the (I.iston ho;.'t
A day or so later De L.uu y pret ent
ed Manager Cherry with a cht. k for
tv, enty-;lve dollars, -.vliiih l.ore tlu
eu '.or.'(;!i.ent of I.. 'A'. M^tt. w;;i> is a
Well Uno'.Mi s,'n;i;or in New Vi'ri<
State.
Manacr.’!' (•’■lervy t;u)r.uhl th;il tl;e
clunk was “goo'i" and li.inde I out
twiiitv-five doHiirs f.ir the .rar.ie, L.J
er tl'.e check, whieh was d;;n\n on
a Ualeigli bank, camo baeli, there be
ing no si^'ch pi'r^.on as .Mr. >'i>;t know.t
there.
In tho mean'.ir.io, Mr. and Mrs. D<.'
Laney, who are C.itholies, had been
re-married, a loeal I'atholic priest
performing tho ceremony and tho\
were, apparently as happy as two
turtle doves. However, when tho
cheek camo back, all happiness for
De Laney disappeared.
Manager Cherry told De Lanoy
that ho must make good tiio money
given him on the cheek. De l.moy
got in telegraphic conimunicatiou
with relatives in Xow York and tried
to get the money to make good but
failed to <lo this, bis relatives reftia-
(Coiitiuued oa Pigd Three)