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THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, l9lg.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1916.
TOP V THE MORNING.
I KNOW that Ave minutes after I
am dead a colofcal fortune or a
world-wide fame 'Will profit me
nothing;. CHAPMAN.
Oh, you Wilmington!
Thank goodness, there are no sphinx
bike ladies.
One way to play the fool is to blow
fyour own horn until your chin music
fcmakes people tired.
The horoscope of the G. O. P. ele
rphant indicates that it is staggering
'with a white elephant on its hands.
The Colonel warns the boys about
.'becoming mollycoddles. We guess it's
,'becanse mollycoddles grow up to be
' U 1 11 U1AA1CO.
We hear about what the Mexicans are
doing to Americans, but we don't hear
what the Americans have been doing
to the Mexicans.
Ambassador Gerard expressed the be
lief that peace T is near. Seems as if
peace and the millenium are two things
that are so near and yet so far.
WILMINGTON WILL HAVE A PACKING-
HOUSE.
Wilmington will have a packing
house industry, according to the deter
mination of the Chamber of Commerce
at a special meeting' yesterday after
noon. Recently the Chamber got right
down after the proposition, and its
methodical and prompt way of follow
ing it up tp a conclusion shows what
it means for a city to have an organiz
ed, influential force to take hold of
opportunities with merit in them as
business propositions.
The proposition is to organize a
packing house corporation with a capi
tal stock of 1200,000, of Which $100,000
will be used in plant equipment and
$100,000 as operating capital. The
proposition and decision met with the
hearty concurrence of the leading bus
mess men and citizens in attendance,
and it augurs well that the action tak
en means that it is no half way bus
iness that Wilmington proposes to go
into. The movement has been a care
ful and deliberate one, and the further
steps to be taken are to be along
strictly business lines.
The Chamber committee which was
sent to Moultrie, Ga. ,to investigate the
packing house industry there made a
comprehensive and pains-taking re
port, and it will be found in the pro
ceedings of the Chamber of Commerce
published in the local department of
this morning's Star. The committee
was so impressed with the success of
the industry at Moultrie that its report
inspired confidence in such an enter
prise for Wilmington. Mr. G. Herbert
Smith of Acme, offered a resolution
authorizing the appointment of a com
mittee to take hold of the proposition
and put it through, and to negotiate
for a capable management. The mo
tion was enthusiastically adopted and
the committee appointed consists of W,
W. Love, chairman; H. C. McQueen, M.
J. Corbett, G. Herbert Smith and John
H. Brown. That is a strong commit
tee, and it will proceed at once to carry
out the packing house enterprise. Mr.
Smith offered to subscribe $25,000 if
the proper management of the industry
is secured. Other substantial Wilming
ton men have signified their intention
of taking stock and they are the kind
of men who make success succeed.
The leading citizens and farmers of
several counties are also concerned
and will take stock s a packing house
at Wilmington means a great industry
for all this portion of North Carolina.
Wilmington will have the meat end of
it and the country will have the live
stock end of the proposition. All par
ties are satisfied of the success of the
packing house as an investment and
as a factor for promoting the grow
ing livestock industry in Eastern North
Carolina.
HOW OPPORTUNITIES ARE NOT
SEIZED.
THE ANTI-SHINGLE MOVEMENT.
The Jacksonville Times-Union notes
that "Billy Sunday wants every man to
do his own praying." However, the
average man neglects to do so unless
lie is cornered by a bear
Some of the American ammunition
ipatriots are still smuggling ammuni
tion to the Villistas. Blood money
looks good to some men, even if Amer
ican blood furnishes the stain.
The manifest desire of the Republi
cans to nominate the unspeakably si
Jent Hughes shows that they do not
consider that noise makes a man elig
ible to the nomination at Chicago next
week.
The theory has been advanced that
diplomats can prevent future wars. "Of
course, if they can do that, future di
plomats will have to be phenomenal
rspecimens compared with regular diplomats.
If Hank Ford can't get the nomina
tion, he has a business that he can de
pend on for some time. Some of the
mother candidates will be down and out
down in the mouth and out a lot of
ash for expenses.
Those who knock something could dis
cover in it the possibilities for a boos,
if those who knock should happen to
,"be fortunate enough to entertain a few
practical ideas. A fellow who knocks
the clock and can't fix the time piece
hasn't any advantage over the clock
If a North Carolinian proposes to vote
for the best interests of his State, he
knows it is not' worth while to pay
any attention to what Republicans say.
If the Republicans had ever done a
thing for North Carolina they might
be trusted, but they. have, a record for
what they have always done to North
Carolina. In the face of their record
during the Reconstruction and the fu
sion periods they , haven't even an alibi
to offer.
How Orangeburg got a packing
house and how Columbia missed it is a
matter under discussion between the
Columbia Record and the Orangeburg
News. Columbia let a splendid oppor
tunity slip, but it was not the fault of
The Record, for that progressive paper
placed the matter in a strong light be
fore the business men of the South
Carolina capital. Naturally the Orange
burg paper feels cocky over the tri
umph of Orangeburg, but the Columbia
paper lets Columbia down easy with
this explanation:
Some of this country's orators pro
claim the great humanitarian princi
ples of the American people, but the
world will judge us by the sacrifices
. we have made towards relieving the
: distress of war ravaged Europe. With
the addition of $1,000,000 contributed by
Mr. John D .Rockefeller, America's con-
. niuu tiuuis na o avciagea si. cents a-
t. head. If Mr. Rockefeller had not given
that one,. cent for each us, our con
tributions would have been 30 cents.
i "Our ancestors came over in the May-
flower," boasts' a Boston girl. We glory
in her spunk. We ought to revere our
- own ancestors, even if we don't know
; why they had to leave home and settle
among the American Indians, it might
all be a part of the "Plan of the Ages,'
but it's all right so Jong as we are a
well-baheved lot of. posterity. "Honor
and shame from no conditions rise;
Act well your part there all the honor
ilies" for our ancestors and all of us
who are glad we were born and got
chance to come to the bat.
"The Orangeburg News o-ojects to a
reference in The Record to the man
ner in which Dr. W. W. Long has en
couraged Orangeburg in the locating
there of a meat packing house. The
News ,says:
" "Columbia and the other cities of
the State had the sspe chanee Orange
burgt had. The difference is: Orange
burg seized the opportunity and the
others did not,
"We assure our contemporary that
there is a difference. When Dr. Long
first discussed a packing house propo
sition in Columbia it was on a $75,000
basis, and at a -time when the influence
of the : European war ' was most de
pressing. When he first interested Or
angeburg it was on a basis of $40,000.
"We would not for a moment de
tract, from the splendid manner in
which - Orangeburg has responded, and
we wish to see the enterprise a great
success, as it will be. .
- "ButrweL insist that Columbia should
not be misjudged in this matted.
We confess surprise . mat Columbia
did not take the packing house serious
ly when it was proposed and we were
more surprised that she did not get
busy when both Orangeburg and Flor
ence began to look upon it as an op
portunity. Columbia had all the ad
vantage as a distributing point and as
a business center, and we fear that the
Columbians failed to appreciate the
splendid adaptabilities of their city or
minimized the importance of the pack
ing house industry.
It is too late now to tell how Colum
bia dropped her candy, but it goes to
show that when such a thing as an
opportunity is presented to a city the
time to act is before some other city
gets busy. Some opportunities are so
peculiar that they can be seized by
-only one town in a given area, as one
such industry within a certain radius
is sufficient for a large territory.
Our cities need to be more alert
when a good proposition is snruna.
They hem anc haw too long, with' the
result that while they are maneuver
ing some town mobilizes its organized
preparedness and robs another of what
it saw first.
A city's people ought to know its
adaptabilities like a book and be pre
pared to act through a real live brgani
aation that will refuse to adi&urn tm
it does something. A duck is np ath
lete tout it certainly i knows when a
June bug is ripe. When a: city i 'has a
chance o get on the map it had better
get up and get.
Some of the most disastrous fires in
the South and West have been traced to
the wooden shingle, especially to shin
gle roofs which have grown old and
become a tinder covering for houses
in the downtown districts. Shingles
become light by age and catch Are al
most like powder, but their tendency to
fly all over creation during a big fire
endangers property for blocks around.
They scatter fire and the fire depart
ments dread them as fire demons.
Augusta knows how it is.
Richmond, Augusta, Montgomery and
other Southern cities have passed anti
wooden shingle ordinances, and the At
lanta chamber of commerce, through
its fire prevention committee, has rec
ommended such an ordinance for At
lanta. The chamber has not acted has
tily but has made its recommendation
after careful consideration for the best
interests of Atlanta.
Of course, ordinances like that stir
up opposition, and ' even shingle poli
ties has played a part, somewhat like
the peanut variety that we hear pre
vails in distant cities. Hcwever, the
Atlanta Constitution wants to keep
shingles out of politics there or poli
tics out of shingles, for our esteemed
contemporary, thus delivers itself in
favor of an anti-shingle ordinance now
pending before the city council:
"Of course those who desire them
may use far more expensive roofing
materials'; but the average will un
doubtedly show a material saving
where the saving in insurance prem
iums for a three or five-year period is
considered. The fallacy of the argu
ment that the proposed ordinance
would prove oppressive to the poor
man may readily be gathered from this
fact.
"Again, the ordinance is important
from a general municipal standpoint.
If Atlanta should ever have a fire with
a strong wind it would mean, with
present highly inflammable- roofs, a
destructive conflagration on the order
of those in Augusta, Nashville, Jack
sonville afiTd Paris, Texas. So that
proper roofing will prove iot only a
protection with reduced cost of prem
iums to the home owner himself, but
to his neighbors von either side of him.
"The proposed' ordinance is in no
sense drastic, in that it provides for
reasonable repairs of present wood
shingle roofs, and forbids only the ' re
placing of entire roofs with this ma
terial. There are approved materials
one can use which cost little, if any,
more than wooden shingles; an owner
is at liberty to use these or more ex
pensive ones, if he desires.
"The question is purely " a business
one, affecting the whole city and into
which no smallest consideration of pol
itics should enter. To perfect and pass
the ordinance is a duty council owes
Atlanta."
The argument has been made that
the oirdmance will be oppressive to
the poor man, but the National Board
of Fire Underwriters points out that
they have to increase the premiums on
shingle roof risks and upon all proper
ty endangered by them. It is argued,
therefore, that although other roofs
cost more at first, shingle roofs cost
more every year on account of the in
creased insurance. It is claimed that
the cost of fireproof roofs is always
overcome, or more than made up with
in a comparatively brief period, by the
reduced cost of fire insurance.
We are only referring to this as a
matter of interest, because we believe
most buildings' in Wilmington's down
town district are modern, fire preven
tion roofs, but as a further preventa
tive precaution, some down-town
shacks ought to be gotten rid of un
der the fire ordinance. already in exist
ence. The building ordinance for the
down-town district ought to be carer
full yenforced.
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as E. Owen. It is understood the pur
chase price was something oyer $2,000.
Editor Owen, who has been a live
wire in the newspaper field, will look
after his farms and timber interests.
He recently bought a large tract of
timbered land involving a large amount
of money on which deal he expects to
realize profits that will make him
a rich man.
Growing out of the Butler-Duncan
fight in the State and locally,-he has
been stnoe that time out of harmony
with the Sutler machine, as he calls it,
having lined up with the Duncan forces
and lost the nomination for Congress
tn this district and election as delegate
to the Republican National convention
in consequence. His organ has since
then been out of tune with the party
as dominated by the Butler faction. But
there will be no more discordant notes
heard now as the present ownership is
orthodox and in harmony with the
dominant faction.
CHARGED WITH VIOLATION OF
THE CATTLE QUARANTINE IiAW
J. B. Scott of Pender Bound Over to
Court Politics Warm.
movement, the city health officers plan
ned a hay-fever weed exhibit. In many
of the store windows were displayed
all kinds of weeds whose pollens are
supposed to be the cause of hay fever,
and all the citizens were urged to be
come acquainted with these offending
weeds that they might know to ex
terminate them this summer. Dr. W.
Scheppegrell, of New Orleans, presi
dent of the American Hay Fever As
sociation, is giving assistance to the
city of Asheville in her undertaking
to become a weedless town.
"Asheville believes in making her
self healthfully attractive," says the
State Board of Health, "and she benefits
accordingly. She has for a number of
years enjoyed the reputation and the
advantages of a flyless town, compara
tively speaking, and of a pure milk
supply. Now she adds to her many
other health attractions by ridding her
self of weeds and becoming a safe
place for sufferers from hay-fever. Her
newest campaign slogan is 'No weeds,
No Hay-Fever.' "
CURRENT COMMENT
We as a nation chronically waste our
by-products, even 'when we are in a
furore of preparedness; else we would
prepare for half a dozen future wars by
collecting and storing the poison gas
spread in one political campaign.
Greensboro News.
MINISTER GONZALES AT HOME
Capt. William E. Gonzales, United
States minister to Cuba, arrived at
his home in Columbia on Monday and
will be there on business a few days
f-He states that the conditions in the
island republic are exceedingly grat
ifying and that peace and prosperity
prevail, throughout the island. Politi
cal conditions are quiet and the people
have ha dtwo big years of fine crops
and prosperous commercial conditions.
Havana is a. fine city and does a large
commerce with this and other foreign
countries.
A few days ago the New York Jour
nal of Commerce stated that our export
business to Cuba has grown enormously
and that shipments for Cuba are re
sponsible for a large portion of the
freight congestion at New York. Tet
the ports of Wilmington, Charleston,
Savannah and Jacksonville are close to
Cuba and ought to do the largest part
of this country's export and import
business with the. Gem of the Antilles
Then there is Porto Rico, and all of the
East Indies group which take millions
of dollars' worth of products from this
country. There are plenty of commer
cial opportunities there, if we would
make it our business to find them opt
and take advantage or them as neigh
boring American ports.
If Captain Gonzales is not in a hur
ry to get b?-ck to his post, it would be
a good idea to get him to come to
Wilmington and tell us of some of t5ie
opportunities tbat our South Atlantic
port are overlooking in a commercial
territory that we ought surely to ex
ploit. In New York last week large
shipments of flour for Cuba ywere' tied
up by the freight congestion, but flour
is only one of the items in our grow
ing export business with that rich
country just below us.
ASHEVILLE A WEEDLESS TOWN
Oh, you leafy month of Jane! You
bring us brides and flowers arid fruits
And other things to eat. but, of course
that doesn't mean the brides and flow
era. . . -
The interesting point about the con
test of the North Carolina delegation
to the Republican National Convention
is that if the contesting delegates are
seated they will be solidly for Colonel
Roosevelt. Secretary Reynolds, of the
National .jCommittee, side-stepped re
sponsibility on the ground that notice
of the proposed contest had not been
given within the time limit required
and shifted it to the credentials com
mittee. That will suit the North Caro
lina patriots just as well. All they
want is a chance to flght it out, some
where or another. Twenty-one dele
gates are involved and the outcome
will have a considerable bearing on the
fortunes of the Colonel. Charlotte Ob
server.
full agreement upon matters which
affect the people in their entirety.
Without wrangle of any moment with
in the party we are now within a few
days of the settlement of the question
of party candidates at the polls, for the
election comes on Saturday. The list
of men who seek the suffrage of the
Democratic voters of North Carolina is
a list of men who deserve well of the
Democracy, and this paper rejoices in
the fact that no matter what men are
chosen as the nominees of the party
the men whose names go on the ticket
for the general election are men whose
election will reflect honor upon the
State. Saturday ends the contest and
the people speak at the ballot box. The
Democracy has a right to feel proud
that it will present to the voters of the
State men of such qualifications, of
such character, that it will be recog
nized that good government is to- con
tinue to prevail in North Carolina. The
campaign has been conducted upon the
question of merit. Raleigh News and
Observer.
THOMAS E. OWEN SELLS HIS
NEWSPAPER TO W. H. FISHER.
Clinton News Dispatch Hereafter Will
be Orthodox Butler Paper.
(Special Star Telegram.)
Clinton, N. CX, May 31. W. H. Fisher,
State senator from this district and a
member of the law firm of Faircloth &
Fisher here, today bought the News
Dispatch, the Republican organ estab
lished and until today edited by Thom-
Burgaw, N. C May 31. Justice God
win, of Point Caswell, had Hon. J
B. Scott before him today on the
charge of violating the quarantine law
by refusing to allow his cattle to fte
examined by the officer whose duty ii
is to make such examinations, and tell
ing him to keep away from his prem
ises. The justice required him to give
bond of $100 for his appearance at tKe
next term of Superior Court.
It developed in the trial that Mr.
Scott not only did that which is de
clared violation of the law himself but
had advised his neighbors to do like
wise. In this attitude Mr. Scott does
not represent all the FT"ee Rangers, as
a great many of them have been ob
serving the law right along and appre
ciate the importance of cattle tick
eradication, even though they are op
posed to stock . law.
As the time of the primary draws
naar, much interest (is manifest in the
outcome of the county ticket. It is not
so confidently predicted now as it
was a short while ago that the Free
Range ticket will have a walk over.
In fact, it is the opinion in some quar
ters that it will not win. It is thought
by some that Ex-Sheriff W. W. Alder
man will defeat J. B. Scott for the
House, as Mr. Alderman is looked Upon
as a Free Ranger and is a very popular
man. There is far more interest taken
in the county ticket than all else com
bined and a stranger would not know
that a governor is to be nominated.
The friends of Mrs. H. L. Cook, of
Chattanooga, formerly of Burgaw, will
be glad to know that she is rapidly
recovering from the operation she had
performed about a month ago.
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. D. D
Sparkman sympathize with them in tire
death of their infant son a few days
ago.
NOTICE
TAX LISTING
The undersigned Tax Listers win
at the Court House daily uUring 9
month of May, (Sundays excepted) tto
9 A. M. to 5 P. M, for the purpose of
taking tax lists.
Your early attention to this duty ,
save both yourselves and us tim
trouble. e 4
Listers for Harnett
to 3lgt
be at the Court House May 26th
inclusive.
Listers for Cape Fear. Federal Poi,
and Masonboro will be at the r
House May 30th and 31st. n
B. F. KING,
WALTER RUTLAND
New York, May 31. Cotton goods
were quiet today. Print cloths and con
vertibles were dull ; yarns were firm.
Jobbers did a large export business.
Light weight specialties in men's wear
for spring, 1917, were ordered freely.
Dress goods were in demand from jobbers.
Saturday Night
opening of the season at Lumina. Don
Richardson'a Orchestra. Advertise-,
ment.
Dr. James A. McDonald, editor of
the Toronto (Canada) Globe, far-famed,
is now also of RobesOn county.
Robeson can claim an interest in him
that is more than the interest that tKe
rest of the world feels. Since he came
to Red Springs three years ago to de
liver the literary address at the com
mencement of the Southern Presbyte
rian college and catching a vision of
great things, suggested that hefe
should be perpetuated a college for the
training of noblest woman-hood, he has
been in a way a part of the county. He
became intensely interested then in this
college and in the career of the Scot
tish heroine Flora Macdonald, and Wy
the time, one year later than his firtt
visit, he came back to Fayetteville ati
delivered the annual address, as presi
dent of the Scottish Society of America,
the desire to do something for the col
lege at Red Springs and to honor the
memory of Flora Macdonald had be
come a passion with him. The resurt- is
history. Dr. Macdonald of Toronto aticl
Robeson Robeson is proud to claim
this distinguished citizen. Lumberton
Robesonian.
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We have been greatly gratified at the
high character of the campaigning
which has been going on in North Car
olina for nomination for office at the
hands of the Democracy. With the
primary law on trial we have seen
nothing, we have heard nothing, which
can be charged up against it as a
breeder of strife and discord. In no
part of the State is the Democracy
making a fierce flght within itself be
cause there is a legalized primary law.
Mind you, we do not ciaim mn me
present primary law is ail it ought to
be. But it is a law which can be put
in such shape as to fully give to the
people the right and the power to
name the men who seek their votes.
There are people who are fighting the
primary law, as was to be expected, for
nowhere on earth do we expect to find
Health is Wealth
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Ordinance That Will Make a Haven far
Hky-Pe've':. Sufferers.
To make AshevUle-a haven for hay
fever sneezers th.is summer is the lat-.
est, endeavor on the' part of that city's
energetic helth officers and- board of
commissioners. )A.n ordinance recent
ly passed makes it unlawful for a weed
over four inches in height' to be left in
the city limits. This measure was de'-
signed to free Asheville of all hay
fever producing weeds and thus make
her a place of refuge for hay-fevrr
sufferers.
' That the citizens might the more in-
Jtelligentlyvco-oprate .in the anti-wee"3
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ONTRARY to a considerable impression, the chorus girl's lot is not
a uniformly happy one. She has to work harder than anyone else,
concerned in the presentation of musical comedies; shows are re
hearsed in Augttst and September for the season; for these rehear
sals, in the hottest weather, she gets, as a rule, no pay. Then, when the
show is on, there must be frequent and quick changes of costume in cold
and usually unsanitary dressing rooms. When the show loses its urban
drawing power and goes on the road for one-night stands, in all kinds ot
weather, the theatre accommodations are likely to be no better than in
stables; cheap boarding houses furnish the food; trains have to be caught
at any and all hours, sleep or no sleep. The life is utterly unhygienic, and
therefore predisposing to disease, especially to tuberculosis, which begins
to take its greatest toll of human life -with adolescence, and to which at
least every fourth adult, in whatever walk of life, succumbs.
Most chorus girls know so little about voice training that they can
stantly strain their vocal cords; and they have sore throats pretty much all
the time. For relief they get at the nearest drug store used to, certainly,
before the enactments of the present anti-drug laws get medicines and
lozenges containing opiates, cocaine and what not else that is dreadful.
What sadness that kind of thing leads to only doctors can realize. The
chorus girl is constantly suffering from colds, one after another. Eventually
then, comes the time when her face thins and takes on a clammy sweat;
the hectic flush comes upon the cheek rouging becomes superfluous; her
eyes sparkle more than ever, but the brilliance is now that of a disease. Her
voice gets beyond her control. She takes to "faking" her part. Some
morning there is a sharp crack of the conductor's stick; the chorus stops;
she is pointed out and told she is off key. The erstwhile pride of the John
nies, the front row favorite, is sent to the rear. There now develops the per
sistent, dry hack of course it would never do to disturb the show that way.
The audience is there to be amused, not to be annoyed., And so the manager
has been known to call the delinquent aside, sarcastically suggesting to her
that she is too good for his show; "hates to give her up, but his conscience
won't let him keep her out of grand, opera." Funny! Behind the glamour
of the footlights there are miserable shadows that no one in front would
suspect." Young women ambitious to be in the chorus had better learn
something about such shadows before taking up the eareer.
WHOLE WHEAT BREAD, ETC.
TJ. T: writes; 1. What are the rel
ative merits of whole wheat bread
and of graham bread as a food. 2.
What aid does each render in reliev
ing a constipated habit? 3. What
trouble is indicated by specksefore
the eyesight? .4. What should be
done to correct this condition?- 9.
What is the action of blue flag in
medicine? 6. Has it any unfavorable
result in the body? 7. Must a slight
enlargement of the thyroid gland on
the right side receive immediate at
tention, or not?
Answer: 1. Both have slightly
more food value than fine flours, but
this advantage is lost because they
are not quite so digestible; they should
be well chewed. 2; Both alike are
better than patent flours for the con
stipated. 3. . Kidney trouble, diabetes,
exhaustion, rheumatism, gout. 4. Get
treated for the underlying trouble, 5.
Purgative and acts onpe kidneys. 6.
This column i devoted to disease prevention; to physical and mentai
hygiene; to domestic, industrial and public sanitation; to the promotion ot
health; efficiency and long life The latest tevejopment in medical science
cill be presented. Questions of general merest will be answered here, space
emitting others by mail if stamped return envelope is enOosed. Requests
;r personal diagnosis or treatment cannot, however, Vs considered in any way.
TOMORROW; Migraine
Not in the usual dosage (from 1 to
V grains). 7. It should. For brev
ity in this column you are the prize
correspondent thus far. ,
TORPID LIVER.
Answer to O. E. L.: a congested
liver comes from overindulgence in
food or drink. The symptoms are
nausea, furred tongue, the headache
"in the cold gray dawn of the morn
ing after. a "chocolate-oolored taste,"
lack of appetite, thirst; vomiting, fe
ver, with constipation or diarrhoea.
Liquid diet or better no diet at all
for 24 hours; cracked ice to swallow
instead of drinking water, a quarter
of ,a grain of calomel ever hour for
six hours and then a setdttte powder.
After which-"never again.'
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTlov
NEW REGISTRATION. D
Notice is hereby given that the rn,,,
cil of the City of Wilmington, by an
dinance duly adopted on the 26th a
of April. 1916, called and ordered to h
held in the City of Wilmington on Ra
urday, the 3rd day oi June, 131&, a
ial election for the purpose of submit
ting to the qualineu electors of Saifl
City an ordinance adopted by said Coun
cil on the 26th day of April, i9ig
which ordinance the tax ordinance of
said City for the fiscal year ending Mav
31st, 1917, and previously adopted bv
said Council, is amended, said amend
ing ordinance fixing the total tax rata
for said City for said fiscal year at i s
upon the one hundred dollars property
valuation, and authorizing said Council
to levy and collect as a part of the to
tal rate aforesaid a special tax of ioc"
on the one hundred dollars property val
uation, or so much thereof as may ba
necessary for the purpose of improve
and extending the water works system
of said City, the purchase of additional
fire fighting apparatus for the Fire Dei
partment of said City, the improvement
of Princess Street In said Cltj, and the
establishment or creation of an indus
trial or manufacturing suburb to said
City.
By said amending ordinance the prop,
ositions to improve said waterworks
system and purchase Tor said Fire De
partment additional apparatus, the im
provement of Princess Street and the
establishment of said industrial or man
ttfacturing suburb are provided to be
voted upon separately.
The said Council has further ordered
as provided by law an entirely new reg
istration or tne voters of said City for
said election; the following named poll
ing places have been designated and
registrars and judges of election have
been appointed for the holding and
conducting of said election, namely:
First Ward Precinct Polling place.
Engine House, 4th and Campbell; Reg
istrar, W. H. Howe; Judges, James El
kins, R. J. Darden, Sr.
Second Ward Precinct Polling place,
Court House; Registrar, W. W. Hodges;
Judges, D. H. Howes, Jr., TV. J. ilere
dith. Third Ward Precinct Polling place,
Giblem Lodge, downstairs; Registrar,
L. H. Partin; Judges, H. E. Bonitz, Co
Hewett. Fourth Ward Precinct Polling place,
McClellan's Stables; Registrar, J. B.
King; Judges, T. D. Love, S. Zeigler.
First Division, Fifth Ward Precinct
Polling place, New Engine House; Reg
istrar, J. E. Taylor; Judges, A. W.
Branch, Thos. Law son.
Second Division, Fifth Ward Precinct
Polling place, Old Engine House; Reg
istrar, T. G. Landen; Judges, J. B. Fales,
M. Marshburn.
Sixth Ward Precinct Polling place,
Mann's Store; Registrar, J. F. Manru,
Judges, W. I. Holt, W. A. Woodsf5
Said election will be held between
the hours of sunrise and sunset on tha
said 3rd day of June, 1916.
Each registrar will, between the
hours of 9:00 o'clock A. M. and 5:00
o'clock P. M., on each day (Sunday ex
cepted) for seven days preceding the
day for the closing of the registration
books keep open said books tor the reg
istration of the voters in their respect
ive precincts, and said registration
books will be open from 9:00 o'clock
A. M. until 9:00 o'clock P. M. on each
Saturday during said registration per
iod and shall be closed for registration
on the 2nd Saturday before the 3rd day
of June, 1916. No registration will be
allowed on said election day except to
such persons as shall give satisfactory
evidence to the registrar and judges of
! election that he has become of the age
of twenty-one years, or otherwise has
become qualified to register and vote
since the registration books closed for
registration.
On the second Saturday before the
election the registration books will be
kept open at the polling places in the
voting precincts for the inspection o
electors and to enable challenges to be
made to the right of any person to vote
in said election whose name appears on
said books, and if any person is object
ed to notice will be given him and a
hearing granted, as provided by law.
The Council has appointed the regis
trars and judges of election as herein
before stated, and caused them to be
notified of their appointment, and re
quired them to take the oath required
by law, and will cause to be furnished
all necessary books and arrange for the
ballots, and will fill a-11 vacancies oc
curriner either as to registrars or judges
as provided by law, and will receive re-
turns from said election ad proviaea
law. ,
By order of the Council of the City o.
Wilmington.
THOS. D. MEARES,
ap30-td City Clerk and Treasurer.
CASH PAID FOR
BEESWAX
88 cts. per lb., t. o. b. Steamer at
Wilmington, with: through B. L. to
' W. H. B0WDLEAR
220 Devonshire Street,
Boston, Muuk
BURETTH. STEPHENS
ARCHITECT
C8-9V OAR R ELL BUILDING.
WILMINGTON N. C.
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