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THE 1 5 CENT LIMIT T Committee Agrees to Report Favorably c AMID BOUNDLESS ENTHUS ASM In View' of Reports Alleging Discord Sent Out by Supposed Agents of New York Bears, Decision of Hold- - ing Committee is Announced Be fore Due and Resolution to Make 1 Fact of Harmony Known is Passed New Orleans, Special. With a large and representative attendance i rom the cotton-growing- states, the Southern Cotton Association opened a three days' session here. The hali Avas jerowdedT when President Jordan called he convention to order. A .feature that attracted attention was the presence of a negro delegation 'roivi! Uines county, Mississippi. Sec retary Woods of the Mississippi asso ciation said they were regular dele gates and entitled to seats. President Jordan was given -an ovation when Ivo aseended the platform. The invo cation" was offered by Rev. Dr. Bever ly Warner. John M. Parker of New Orleans, planted 7,000 acres in cotton last year, .and one of the most progressive and -Asn'i.;esftful men in the entire South, as chairman of the reception committee, welcomed the delagates to the South ern Cotton Association convention. New Orleans, Special. That the sum of work of the Southern Cotton f Association was to be a declaration for 15-cent cotton, with reduction in t he form of diversification, was prac tically settled at the afternoon session of ihe convention when Chairman Daucy, of the committee on holding in advance of the presentation of its report, announced that the. committee - 'had- unanimously decided favorably on. 'that proposition. The announce- nieni provoKea tno convention to a whirlwind of cheering. , The. premature announcement of the conclusions of the committee was .forced by advices from New York to the effect that" hewspa per dispatches ifild Wall Street rpnorfs nvmtpd rmrl ' circulated there indicated a lack of - harmony among the elements making n p the convention and dissesions over Xji .15-cent proposition. Secretary of War At Charleston. .Charleston, Special Secrear Bon aparte and a party of . officers of the cruiser Charleston visited the navy yard, which followed an excursion " around the harbor on, the1 light house tender Wistaria. The reception com mittee had looked carefully after the Avell being of the guests and the trip was a -very pleasant event. At the navy.: yard full honors were paid the . distinguished head of the najvy. A specially fitted car was prepared for the party and they were wheeled over 1 he grounds, visiting each of the build ings In turn and the dry dock. Secre tary Bonaparte followed the govern .incnt work with keen and intelligent I observation. Commandant Nickles : arid the engineers and inspectors of the naw yard were on hand to en- lighten the visitors about the work j The secretary and officers of the ship seemed well pleased with all that they saw. Secretary Bonaparte did not , hesitate to express his interest and satisfaction' in the construction' of the yard, and his favorable comments were greatly appreciated by the Char- criticism, coming on top of Admiral Die-kins' hearty commendation of the harbor and the ability of the largest is capable ot sheltering scores of ships the. kind, proved a source of pleasure to these interested in the welfare of the, port. Ifegrc Murderers Executed at Kings I ! tree, S. C. Columbia, S. C, -Special. John Burrows and Arthur Williams, two of the three negroes convicted of the , brutal murder of Julian Wilson, a prominent citizen of Williamsburg County, were hanged. Robert Scottl the third negro convicted of the same crime, has been respited for 30 days. , r Dividends by Dallas Mills. Dauas, Special. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Morowebb Cotton Mill Company, Tuesday, the . regular 4 per cent, sehi-annual divi dend was paid, and Mr. J. B. White Aa f leeted vice president and Mr. Fred Smyre, of Gastonia, a director to succeed Mr. C. B. Armstrong. At a meeting of .the stockholders of the Dallas Cotton Mil), on the same day, a 4i per cent, -semi-annual diyidend was apid and the folowing gantlemen elected directors: John O. Rankin. J. O. White and II. B. Moore, all of Gastonia. Serious Fire afc Pantha, W. Va. Roanoke, Va., Special Meagre re ports were received here that a fire is raging in the little town of Pan ther, McDowell county W. Va. The telegraph wires bav been burned and details of the conflagration are not ob tainable. The Ritter Lumber Com pany's large plant is located at Pan ther, near the railroad depot, which building is believed to bar been-des- ? troved. - STATE'S TEXTILE STATUS Highly Interesting Document Issued by The Department of Labor and Printing. ! . Raleigh, Spcial. Commissioner Yarner has issued the following! sum- . mary as to cotton woolen and knitting mille in North Carolina:; "The followin table indicates the present condition of the cotton, wool en, silk and knitting mills onw being operated in the State, 287 of these be ing represented. There appears to be a stron tendence toward the consoli- 1 dation of textile institutions in sever al eounties and a number of instances of the kind have occurred since the publication of the department report of 1904. The reason assigned for this is scarcity of labor, a condition which is not confined to any particular sec tion of the State. A number of new mille have been constructed and are soon to be operated, but the list does not appear in this as it was impossible to obtain from these such information as the, tables present. ' "The 287 mills reporting show an investment of $37,494,625. and . the employment of 2,267,625 spindles, 45,-. 6GII looms. o,933 knitting machines and 107,058 horse power. Seventy nine per cent, have consumed 251,796, SS4 pounds of raw material. Twenty one per cent, to not report this feature of their business. Total number of employees reported by eighty-five per eent. of the mills is 44,222, of which 19,793 are males and. 16,874 are fe male adults, and fifteen per cent, do not report the number employed : 113, 363 persons are dependant upon the mills for a livelihood ; 88 per cent, of adults read and write, and 79 per cent of the children. 'In response to the question with reference to children 'under twelve years of age working in the factories, 76 per cent, of the manufacturers answer in the negative, one per cent, in the affirmative nd twenty-three per cent, express no opinion upon the subject. "The average number of hours con stituting a day's work is 10:4-5. High est average wages for men $2.67: low average for men 6S cents; highest average for women 99; lowest wag es for children about 43 cents. Forty three per cent, of the mills pay wages weekly; forty-eight per cent, semi monthly; six per cent, pay monthly; one per cent, on demand and two per cent, do not report upon this matter at all. Sixty-nine peiv cent, report that wages have increased during the year; twenty-two per cent, say there has been no change, and" inne per cent, do not answer the question. Ci.v.ty- seven per cent, report financial condi tion of employes as being good; twen ty per cent, say it is fair ; two per cent, say excellent, and njne per cent failed to respond to the inquiry. This summery has beenj prepared in two tables, showing first jthe mills by counties, year of incorporation, post office, capital stock, class and name of mill,-name of officers or owners, capacity, power, hours worked, etc.; while the other indicates class of gojds produced, with number of em ploys, male and female, their condi tion intulectually and financially and the amount of wages paidr The re port also tmbodies expressions of mill men with respect to compulsory edu cation, the child labor law! and other questions suggested in the original blanks sent out by the department of labor. North State Brevities. Governor Glenn has ordered Judge T. S. McNeil t hold the Columbus county court in the absence of Judge C. M. Cook, who is detained at his home bv illness. A Voluminous . Document. Winston-Salem, Special. Registei of Deeds Lindsay received a volumi nous document to be put on record. It is a agreement between the Nor folk & Western Railway Company and a i Philadelphia Trust Company for $1,000,000 for the purchase of five passenger locomotives, 500 box cars. 300 hopper cars and 175 steel coke cars. New Trust Company For Concord. Cohcord. Scepcial. The stockhold ers of the Southern Loan and Trust Company mfet and organized for busi ness. The folloAving directors Ave re elected : D. B. Coltrane. W. C. Hous ton, J. P. Allison, W. R. Odell, E. P. Wharton, of Greensboro; Martin Boy er, J. F. Goodman, J. W. Cannon, J. A. Cannon, B. E. Harris, C. W. Swink, W. W. Flo we. Dr. R. S. Young, L. J. Foil and W. M. Smith. These direc tors are leading business men and. under their direction, the neAV com pany cannot butsuceeed. 20 Per Cent. Increasa. Morgan ton, Special. The stock-, holders of the First National Bank of Morganton, held their regular annual meeting Tuesday and elected officers for 1906. The affairs of , the. bank were found to be in excellent condi tion, as Avas shown by the report of their cashier, and the stockholders were Aveil pleased with the business transacted during the year. The j books showed an increase of 20 per cent, in the number of depositors. NORTH, STATE NEWS j . Items of Interest Gleaned From i Various Sections FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEASHORE Minor Occurrences of the Week of Interest to Tar! Heels Told in Para graphs Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid to wagons Jan. 8. Good Middling. ! 11-4 Middling.. I .. . . 11 1-8 Strict Middling 11 1-4 Good Middling . . 11 1-S Strict Middling tinges 11 Stains.. '.11 1-2 10 3-4 General Cotton Market. Galveston quiet. . 11 1-2 New Orleans quiet.. 11 0-16 Mobile easy: 11 1-4 Savannah nominal. . 11 1-4 Norfolk steady 11 1-2 Baltimore nominal . . .... . . 1158 New York quiet . . . , I 180 Boston quiet 11S0 Philadelphia 1205 Houston easy 11 1-2 Augusta steady.. . 11 1-16 Memphis quiet 117-10 Memphis quiet. . . (P z St. Louis: steady. . 11 5-8 Louisville firm. ... . . .... 11 3-4 Tar Heel Items.. The report of the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Masons shows only three lodges voluntarily surrendering ther charters while new lodges were instituted in the various eounties over the State. Charters were restored to each of the following three lodges: Wake Forest No. 268 at Wake Forest; Linville No. 480, Montezuman, Mitch ell county; Mecklenburg Lodge No. 170, Davidson, Mecklenburg county. The report further shows 15,528 mas ter Masons in North Carolina against 14,578 the year before. Other inter esting figures are 1,174 raised to the degree of Master Masons; 1,154 past. 1,250 initiated. Of deaths there were 243, exclusions 238, expulsions IS and 40 suspensions. Charters have been issued to the Richfield Manufacturing Compai, at Richfield, Stanley county, D. A. Frick, E. L. C. Miller and others being the stockholders. ' The company will manufacture from wood and iron, also farm products, capital stock $20,000 with $5,000 subscribed, another wodd . working" industry is that of tbc Moore Furniture Company, at Lenoir, with a paid in capital of $25,000, which is subscribed by J. C. Moore, J. P. Cof fey and others in that section. Tho Corbitt Buggy Company, at Hender son, amends its charter by increasing the capital stock from $60,000 to $100,000. The officers of the com pany are: A. C. Zollincoffer, presi dent and R. J. Corbett, secretary. The legal aspect of the sensational shooting of John C. Doekery Xy po liceman Isaac W. Rogers in Raleigh last June came to an end in Wake county Superior Court, Judge George D. Ward, pronouncing judgment against the defendan t for $50.00 and costs. The original bill of indictment was so amended as to charge secret assault at a hearing in J uly before a magistrate. Rogers was released on $5,000 bail. Dr. J. F. Miller, superintendent of the Eastern Hospital for the" Insane at Goldsboro, died on Tuesday night Dr. Miller was an excellent superin tendent as well as a splendid Chris tian gentleman, and his place will be difficult to fill. Struck y Train; Fatally Injured Carolyn,' Special. Mr. Burgess, a well-known magistrate of this place. was fatally injured at the Cliffside railroad junction, being struck by a passing train. The top buggy in which the old gentleman was riding was demolished; the horse Avas only slightly injured- It is feared that Mr. Burgess Avill not survive his injuries. Killed by His Friend. Washington, Special One of the saddest accidents that has eer taken place in this city occurred-when Hart well Thompson, the 17-year-old son of ReA L. , E. Thompson, accidentally shot and killed his friend and play mate, David Nelms, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Nelms, of this citA It seems that Nelms had purchased a new pistol, and he and young Thomp son Avere .out in the yearil trying it. Thompson Avas holding the pistol and, in some way, it Avas discharged, the load taking effect in Nelms head. The ball entered at the chin and, passing upward, pierced his brain. Suit By Ex-Convict. Charlotte, Special. Through his attorney Brevard Nixon, Frank Me Don, an ex-convict- has entered suit against P. A. Hartman and others of Rowan county, for alleged 'cruelties to hom while McDoav was serving a sentence. He asks $5,000 damages, alleging that he was forced to toil with a shovel about a month in mid winter until his. hands Avere swelleu and terribly lacerated. NEW IMMIGRATION IDEA . - ! , Secretary Bruneir Believes the Sug gestion Made by Dr. Mclver Would Solve the Immigration Problem. Raleigh, Special. Secretary T. K. Bruner, of the of agriculture, NSorth Carolina board has something to say resraxding immigration into North Caro . .raehmr'dl hrdlu shrdl rdd ww Carolina, after "having attended the meeting of the Piedmont Association at jGreensboro. When asked wht in his judgment was the most helpful step taken or idea advanced at that meeting of free lands in North Caro lina. This was the suggestion of -Dr. Charles D. Mclver, and his plans as outlined are about as follows: That land owners who have lands for sale and who want a colony of industrious people to settle about them so as to Create a eominunty interest and to promote the sale of adjoining lands, should unreservedly donate say ten acres upon something like the follow ing conditions:) that the party accept ing them, would, on his party agree to build a home; and improve the prop erty by proper cultivation; and that he woud live upon it for a term of five years, with the; understanding that at any time during- the five years the ad joining lands, ten twenty or thirty aaeres, may be purchased at so much per acre. The jprice of the additional lands being fixed at the time the do nation is accepted, becomes really a part of the contract all3 would pre clude any advance in the price during the five year period. Should the ten ant have the holding before the time, the improvements" would become the property of the donor. "For instance, a land owner ltaving 40 acres for sale, values, the land at $15 an acde $600, for the lot.1. He proposes to give ten acres to a bona fide settler, who will build a'hoine and occupy the land for five years. This small holding would enable the donot to secure the part of the time of the tenant and his family, when the con ditions on! his own farm demanded ex tra help. The tenant would soon want to expand and to acquire more prop erty. The donor having this in view has already offered the tenant the ad joining 30 acres at $20 an acre thus making a total of $600 the original valuation of the 40 acres. ' "This plan appears to be the most effective foi'm of advertising, since the great ambition of the white man is to own land, and his own home and fireside. Several persons . in the Greensboro meeting at once agreed to 1 give, lands on such conditions. There may be others avIio arc not members oC the organization, and not even in territory avIio are willing to do the same thing. To all such the Department of Agriculture extends an invitation to record Avith it such lands and thuss permit the Department to advertise; such donations to all en quirers seeking a homej in North Caro lina. This Avould draw to us mjany young men of ambition, whose ready money is 'only limited. Mill Officers Elected. Gastonia, Special. -The stockhold ers of the Modena mills met in the of fice of the secretary and treasure MondaAr afternoon and elected Mr. L. L. Jennings vice president, in place of Mr. J. H. Craig,. resigned. Mr. S N. BoAce Avas elected a director in place of Mr. Craig. Mr. J. O. White was, elected president and Mr. H. B. Moore secretary and treasurer. Messrs. H. B. Moore, J. 0. White, L. L. Jenkins. J. H. IvennedA, T. L. Craig and II. B. Parker Avare elected directors. The Modena Company, in addition to spending $103,250.03 on plant extensions, paid a 4 per cent. diA'idend last year. Lexington is having a mad dog craze. Seventeen dogs have been kill ed in the last few driys, and the police force is still artnejl with shot guns for the purpose of canine destruction. Last Sunday a dog manifested mad ness near t lie cotton mills in west Lexington, and on his Avay through town is said to have bitten 27 dogs in all, and Avas finally killed. As yet only dogs haAe been bitten. Goveraov Glenn is being urged to commute to imprisonment for life the negro Jess Mitchell, of Bertie county, who is sentenced to be hanged on the 22nd of this month. Charters were issued last week to Ray-Good Co., Selma, for the conduct of a. general merchandise bussinesSj with R. L. Ray, C. Goodwin and others as corporators; $5,000 is sub scribed out of $10,000 capitalization. Kelly Suspender Co.,Fayetteville, was incorporated for $25,000, with $5,000 paid in. Y. F. KcHj and others are interested ; the company Avill manu facture suspenders, garters and othei kindred goods. The twentieth annual meeting of the stockholders of the National Bank of High Point Avas held in the office of the bank. The report of the presi dent, Mr. W. J. Armfield, Sr., Avas read, reA'iewing the operations of the bank for the past tAventy years, it having been organizen March 13th. 1S86. The report disclosed the fact that the net profits .obove all expen ses, taxes and losses, Avere $170,000, and that $102,000 had been paid out in cash dividends to the stockholders. eAv lork City. So many fancy blouses are of necessity closed at the back that itj becomes a relief to the woman of practical mind to find a fashionable one which can be closed at the front while it retains the es sential! features of style and smart ness. iHere is one that fulfills the con ditions1 and that takes one of the most desirable of all forms, occupying a place midAyay between the severe shirt waist and the elaborate blouse. In the illustration it is made of a pretty, sim ple figured silk trimmed with banding and matches the skirt, but it also is adapted to the separate waist and will be found available for almost every thing seasonable. It is full below the yoke and must take soft folds, but this season so many fabrics are of the "chiffon" order that' in spite of that fact the list is long and generous. The shaped yoke and the deep pointed cuffs make especially noteA-orthy features and could be of contrasting material jif better liked, t The waist is made with the fitted lining, which is optional, the yoke and the full fronts and back. ' These last are gathered and joined to the yoke and the waist is arranged over, the lining, the closing being made invisi bly at the centre. 1 In this instance the plain stock is covered with a crush able one of chiffon, but the collar Avith out fulness has certain .advantages which are self evident. The sleeA'es are full aboAre the deep pointed cuffs and are arranged OA-er fitted linings. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four and one eighth yards twenty-one, three and one-quarter yards twenty-seA-en orfcwo and three-quarter yards forty-four inches wide, with seven-eighth yards silk for belt and four and three-eighth Hand Bags. On some of the newest hand bags the handles are attached by means 0f tiny buckles. This is generally the case when there are double handles, one on each side of Hhe opening. The little envelope bags that are long and rather narrow, and have a strap along one side so that they may be slipped over the back of the hand, are very popular and for some reasons are more easily carried than the ordinary hand bag. ; i . yards of banding to trim as in medium size. illustrated Miie Eton Wth Vet. The jaunty eton coat" is a favorite for the young girls as well as for thfr more mature women and is to-be noted made in various styles. Here is one of the prettiest and that includes a narrow vest, a wide collar and quite novel sleeves. As shown it is made of dark red Venetian cloth combined with, silk, while the trimming is straps of the material embroidered . with simu lated button-holes and held ,by hand some buttons, but it is Jan available model and can be utilised in various ways. The , vest and cuffs appro priately could be of velvet, of silk embroidered in some simple design, of the richer Mandarin embroideries or of cloth braided or, indeed, of almost any contrasting material that makes a good effect, while for the jacket it self all seasonable suitings are appro priate. The Eton is made with the plain, back, fronts that are cut in two por tions each and the vest. . The. vest is joined to the fronts and the closing made at the centre while the neck edge is finished with the collar.' The sleeAres can be either long", as illus trated, or cut off in three-quarter length and allow a choice "of scalloped or plain cuffs. . DESIGN BY MAT MANTOIT. The quantity of material required for the medium size (sixteen years) is three and fiA'e-eighth yards twenty seven, one and seven-eighth yarda forty-four or one and five-eighth yard fifty-two inches wide, with one yard of silk for vest and cuffs and five and one-half yards of banding. - Extremely Popular. Girdles are so extremely popular that everybody seems to wear them, and keep a variety of them at -hand, for the A-arious garments with which. they may be worn. Their popularity is due to the fat:t that they make the AA-aist look small and graceful and the figure trim. A snug, girdle gives a woman a more youtiftul figure than a loose low one; and the tight-fitting silk-girdle belts are certainly very neat and becoming.
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