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VOL. LXXXIII-NO. 66. WTLMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1908. WHOLETtfO. 12,870r OUTLINES. Senator P. C. Knox, of Pennsylvan . has been appointed Secretary1' of n'ate in President-elect Taft's Cabinet &nd has announced his tceptance two record flights were made by. Wil bur Wright, the American aeroplanist, ,n LeMans, France, yesterday . president-elect Taft and family; arriv ed at Augusta, Oft., yesterday, where tbey will remain until ,the latter part 0f January when 'the . Presidentelect visit Panama- -Gen. TaskerH. Bliss reports the death of 11 enlisted en in the Philippines, from drinMflg poisoned spirits- --n a boxing, bout in Philadelphia last night J&mes Cur rin collapsed' after -the second round and died shortly afterwards --The first testimony in the trial of theTen nessee night riders was submitted yesterday The Government at The Hague puts no credence in the report nf Venezuela having declared wfar, but if she has that the fleet in the Carib bean is sufficient to meet the emer gency Roosevelt will nave the; foundations -of the docks and dams inspected by expert icivil engineers r,nt nTiTiKtv1 witfh th Government Congress is asked for. an urgent deficiency appropriations of $5,450,000 for Panama canal construction The negro, Will Grabam, was hanged at Concord, N. C; yesterday for crimi nal assault r There was some very damaging testimony against the de fendant "In the" Bains-Annls murder trial yesterday Judge, Gary, chair man of the board of directors of the Steel Corporation, was before the Ways - and Means Committee fester flay and gave some interesting' infor-ination-r- New YorJt . markets: Mon ey on call .firm, 2 to 3 1-2 per cent, ruling rate 3, closing oid- 2, offered at 2 1-2. Flour dull and barely steady. Wheat barely steady, No. 2 red 1.06 14 to 1.07 3-4 elevator. Corn easy. No. 2, 65 to arrive s elevator. .. Oats easy,' mixed 54 to 54 1-2. " Rosin step dy. Turpentine quiet. Cotton quiets middling uplands 9.10, middling gulf 9.35. Today week we will -all begin liv ing on turkey hash . and the other scraps. . We would like to know to what ex tent Roosevelt has aided in increas ing the sales of the New York World. It looks like' people after awhile Ttould learn the distinguish between hcnest dealing and plain schemes' to defraud. -s Kaiser: Wilhelm will lhardJy giyajto (fie press any conversation wfiieh may occur between himself and CastrO on the Holland-Venezuela situation. Why don't the people who consume the manufacturers' products now tell the Ways and) Means Committee what they think about it? . , -' Wouldn't some Congressmen be as tounded if Roosevelt should tell, them he has had secret service men shad owing them for some time? That was a solar plexus the State's attorney gave the defense on the pe remptory challenge question in . the night riders' trial. - The Congressional bee is buzzing In the bonnets of more Democrats in the. Fifth district than would be the case had Brooks not been defeated. Thia pre-election promise of 4 pros perity if Taft were elected, made by the Republicans, certainly has not struck the cotton grower yet. When the revenue officers are thin ned out in this ; State after January 1st it will be up to the county sheriffs to get busy looking after blockade ttills. W suppose the House will be oblig ed to receive and make public and Message the President v may send in reply to its demand for the "evi dence." If the President has blundered there are many people who believe the "Roosevelt luck" will bring him out on toP in the end, and 'iris likely to be so. Ve suppose Governor Glenn's atti i ... - mae toward the nomination to Con-J less in 1910 is the same as it Was last winter and spring, regarding that of the Senatorship, , T, V 'ith. Congress as a' body frbraker as an individual Senator and several fading newspapers aftervhim xne mig"ht suoDose Roosevelt. to Jhave his hands pretty full. Schwab, in opposing the reduction: of the tariff on steel.' told the Ways aDd Moan a "inking of the manufacturer and not the COllsnrnpr fihaf una ' les declaration. Jt looks like they are going to be m to make paper out of com stalksl cotton stalks at last V. What a a-send it will .be to the South'. . The y-products of' the cotton plant will time bring-more money to the" than the lint :- ' DOINGS; IN; Special Ugn ft Haywood to .JElect Metiu f The Gen- .eral AW Nv. " ' SPECI AL TERM IN BRUNSWICK Court For Trial of WalkerBequests For Methodist Orphanage -Governor's Missionary Work 0her v : Capital News andNotes. , (Special iSitar Telegram.) Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 18. Governor Glenn issued this afternoon an order for a special election to be held in Haywood county January 4th to se- lect a successor to H. R. Ferguson, member-elect of the North Carolhfa General . Assembly, to convene Janu ary 6th, who died this week in Balti more. The order : is .addressed to R. B. Osborne, chairman of Kthe Haywood County Board of Elections. , A special term: of Superior Court for Brunswick ; is ordered by Govern or Glenn, Judge G. W. Ward to pre side, and the court to convene Janu ary 11th and continue until the crim inal docket is cleared. - The " special purpose of the" term is. to try J. P. Walker, the' white men " Charged with the murder of Sheriff .Stanland. . Governor Glenn has gone to Green ville, iS- C, to confer with Rev, S. M. Morris and 'E. C. Graham, of the Southern , Presbyterian Laymen's Movement, as to the itinerary of the Governor's tour during February, March, April and May. The will of the late C. H. Belvin, for 4fr years a prominent banker, and business man here, includes a bequest of $2,500 to the' Methodist Orphanage located here; $1,000 to the Masonic Orphanage at Oxford, and' $1,000 to Edehton Street Methodist ' church, of which he was a member. The will of Mrs. Belvin, who died about a year ago, left $4,000 to the Methodist Or phanage, niakimf eigQirtiiis institu - tion received from, the Belvin estate, which is valued at tmore than $200,000 and is divided among .three children and relatives here and in Durham. Thj-emains of Miss Jeannette Bes-sdnrriv'wSd-frlree'- this -opening from Mills River near Asheviile where she died yesterday. They were' conveyed to ..the, ihom3 of her brother-in-law, W. A. Linehan, on BloUnt street, to await the funeral tomorrow. , She had been teaching school at Mill River. - The, Taylor Grocery Company, Win stoh-Salem, capital $100,000 was char tered today with John M. Taylor, Dallas C. Butler and Henry C. Jones as incorporators for wholesale and re tail business. Luke Banner, former member of the legislature from Watauga county, has 'entered upon the service of, his thirty years sentence in the penitentiary for killing Ambrose Cline. , This is the case in which the Supreme Court, in affirming the conviction and sentence, declared recently that Banner should be thankful that he escaped the gal lows as the jury would ' ' have - been amply; justified in finding first degree murders A section of the annual report of State Treasury Lacy shows that 3,059 people are . being taken care of in the State asylums, hospitals ; for insane, Soldiers' Hom-a, and iSftat schools for deaf, dumb and blind. This is an in crease of 766 over the number in 1902. Practically , all of " this increase has been in the hospitals for insane, there having been an increase of only four in the schools for deaf, , dumb and blind and of 18 in the Soldiers' Home, with all the other increase in the hos pitals for insane. v Comrade J. C. Richardson, an in mate of the North CarblinaSoldiers' Home, from Johnston county, -has in vented an automatic 'mail catcher'' foruse on railway mail trains that those who . have' seen it- believe is a decidedly, meritorious appliance, an immense improvement t over the "pouch catchers" now in use. .He is falso at work on an appliance designed to eliminate the trouble experienced in running trolley cars through the trplley jumping off the-wire. COU NTY SAN ITARY BOARD. Conference t Withv Butchers Relative to Permanent Remedy of -Conditions. - After anotber full and free f discus sion of the slaughter house question by the County Sanitary Board yester day, a special committee composed of Drs. Harriss, Wood.and R. H.: Bella my, was appointed r? to "- inspect the jslaugMer , houses now fn existence around Wilmington and direct what should be1 idone to improve i sanitary! .. in . m - .. ii: . . j j conaiuons xor ;cne preseni anu lo ior mulate a plan for a permanent reme dy or the situationi to be presented to the CJounty Board of Health, audi the Board of. Aldermen of the: city-and' to consider r the v" question of . ft central slaughter house or abattoir,; drafting sukshi a ' bill as may be needed for enactment by the coming session of. I the. General Assembly, if same is re-t quired for .carrying into effect : the plans of the Board of Health. - Mr 3i J' Hopkins 'a leading dealer, was- present t yesterday and conferred with t the ! Board: and the, , committee will visit - the -slaughter house of--Mr. I. B. Rhodes on Monday afternoon at o'clock for . the purpose , of . confer ring with the owner as to. the best STILL ON THE LAND SUIT interesting Testimony by Pilot and Others Yesterday in Federal Court. "Fort Caswell Reservation Con . troversy Takes Much -Time. Another entire day in the . Federal court yesterday was devoted to the continued hearing of what has now come to be commonly iknown as the Fort Caswell land suit. The plaintiff had not concluded its testimony when court took a recess at 5 o'clock yes terday afternoon and "the defenso will hardly have-, an inning before about noon today. - Yesterday upon convening Mr. Theo. McKeithan, was taken on cross- examination by the government and re-direct by the plaintiff. Some nw matters in regard to fish camps along the beach, were brought out and the fact developed fromi the witness that the government landmarks on the ocean and river sides had been moved from time to time in the opinion of the witness. . Mr. John W. Galloway was . alsov xjross-examined by the . gov ernment, but this developed nothing new. - .-. ....- vi-. k Mr. J. C. Mintz. a surveyor and civil engineer, identified the lands under description offered in , tha , various deeds for plaintiff 'and testified as to measurements at considerable length especially as to marks on the Baker line, which is in controversy and which he established about 40 feet east of the line shown on the map by Messrs. MacRae and Humphreys. Mrs. S. A. Thompson, relict of the late Captain T. M. Thompson and step-mother of tbe principal plaintiff in the - suit, testified to ' continuous acts of possession on the lands for 40 years, as to the encroachnTent of the sea upon the "big "pond", near the water, as to thta cultivation of the lands and -the opening of new fields toy her brothers. Mr. Asa DOsher, a member of the board of county commissioners of Brunswick, testified that in 1880 when a boy he saw certain stones marked h - u s and later atout 15 years ago, saw similar stones in changed posi tion; that he knew the bluffs on the river and testinea as to tneir names. "Captain Richard Benson, a Cape Fear pilot, was a.anost interesting wit ness Send told of Imowrag the"taiidstor the paste 28 years; of the encroach men t of the: beach on the lands 150 or 200 yards in 28 years; that the dis tance from the ocean to the edge of "big pond" "was less than when he first knew it; that the pond 28 years ago was 300 yards, wide and now not 50 yards. He told of the steamer Ag nes E. Fry ashore at Piney Point during the war and that 28 years ago he could walk around it. Now there is" 10 feet of water around the wreck. He also told of the steamer McCall, which grounded : near there during the war. It was then 300 yards from shore; now it is not . less than 400 yards. Captain Benson began piloting in 1874. The recess yesterday after noon was to 9:30 A. M. today. QUARTERLY CONFERENCES. First Round of Rev. W. L. Cuninggim, Presiding Elder of District. The following are the appointments of Rev; W. L. Cuningginx, presiding elder of the Wilmington District M. E. Church, first round of quarterly con ferences: Southport, Dec. 20th; Wil mington .Trinity, Dec. 27th, 11 A. Ml; Wilmington, Bladen Street, Dec. 27th, at night; Burgaw, Rocky Point, Jan. 2nd and 3rd; Swansboro, Jan. 7thtat night and "8th; Onslow, Maysvllle, Jan. 9th and 10th; Shallotte, New Hope, Jan. 14th; Town Creek, Zion, Jan. 16th and 17th; Chadbourn and Bolton, Freeman, Jan. 21st;' Columbus, Evergreen, Jan. 23rd and 24tlh,; White ville and VIneland, White ville, Jan. 24th at night end 25th; Scott's Hill, Prospect, Jan. 27th at 11 A. M. : Ke- nansville, Warsaw, Jan. 30th and 31st; Magnolia, Rose Hill, Jan. 31st . at night, Feb. 1st; Carver's Creek, COun- cii, Jb eo. 3ra at nigint ana 4tn; Clinton, Keener, Feb. 6th and 7th; Mt. Tabor. Lebanon, Feb. s 13th and. 14thi; New River, Snead's Ferry, Feb. 18th, at night; Jacksonville and Richlands, Richlands, Feb. 20th and 21st; .Wil mington Grace, Feb. 28th, 11 A. M.; Wilmington, Fifth street, Feb. 28th, at , night. The 'distriict stewards will meet at Grace Churdhi, Tuesday, Jan. 5Mf; at 1:15 P. M. , THE SOUTHERN LIFE. Manager Says Base Misrepresentation Has Been Made From Columbia.'. (Special Star Telegram.) Fayetteville, . N. C, . Dec. 18. The following statement was made tonight by C. Jw Cooper, manager of the Sou thern Life-insurance Company . 'A news item has been sent out from Co lumbia to the effect that the commis sions paid for sale of . a block of Sou thern Life Insurance stock were di vided ' between the '-onUcers of each compamy. This fs a- base . misrepre sentation. The report' shows that the officers" oft. the - Southern Life - did not receive a cent of, the commissions and iOr such ' thlng was ever: anticipated.!' J A - Practical Holiday Suggestion. ' Open an account with The People's Savings Bank in name of aWife, .Mo ther, Sister, -or Child, ?;and -present them with - the - Bank' Book y Christmas morning. It will be en everlasting, srs. C. N. Evans,-SamK Bear; Wm. E.7 Honnett's; jewelry: , store- announces:; mbuted a '-pom to' the "programme- , rv. v . daily reminder of .the donor. , -Interest Worth, -Jaines H. Chadbourn and Col: splendid" arrivals for'the last Says of ' '-";-.. 'I ' '"'-X i PUBLIC QUESTION :.:,. ' - - ' - . ., . -s- s , . . - important . Special Meeting of Cham6er 6 Commerce Held Yesterday Morning. CAROLINA AND CUNCHFIELD ConnectlotWUV Be Made January 1st. Officer! nvlted to Banquet -We-tenyays Association Action Endorsed Ft. Fisher Park. At a special, called; meeting of the Wilmington" Chamber of I Commerce which was; well attended yesterday morning at 11:30 o'clock, the action of the North Carolina Waterways As sociation upon the resolution prepared by Mr. James Sprunt with reference to the continuance of the present sys tem of governmental improvement of the - public waterways of the country was, enthitisiastJcally and unanimously endorsed1 , an , -rimportaht announce ment in .regard to the opening of the line of the Carolina & Clinchfield rail road on January 1st, connecting with the Seaboard Air Lane at Bpstic, N. C, was made by Preside J.' Ar Tay lor and in - making ' jfrrangenients - for the annuaJ; banquet of the Chamber in January, t"was Tesplved to extend a special, "invitation to the officials of that corporation to be present, and finally biit ,not least important, the. ef forts of Rev, J. A.. Smith and others to have: the government.. adopt Fort Fisher as a National Park were unani mously approved., "" The meeting Was held in the rooms of the Chainber on' North Front street and the Resolution y the Waterways Association; placing on record an em phatic expk'ession of its high apprecia tion of jthe excellent service of the Corps of Engineers in North Carolina and especially on the Cape Fear river, in view of President Roosevelt's rec ommendation of , material changes in the composition, of the corps in its re lation to river and harbor improve ment, was readT and discussed. On motion of Mr. D. L. Gore, ' seconded by Mr. C. N. Evans, the, resolution was unanimously endorsed Following this action. President Taylor referred; to the gracious 'and igpsfc , miY3&9entZMSix8& the Rev. X. Ai Smith, of this city, upon Jbis recent visit to Uti-ea, N. Y., and stated that some recognition was due and some co-operation should b3 given the veterans of that memorable . conflict in their efforts to secure the adoption and improvement of Fort Fisher as a National Park. He requested Mr. Calder to draw resolutions covering the subject, which he did, supplement ing the same with appropriate re marks. Upon Mr. Calder's motion, seconded by Mr. Gore, the following was unanimously passed: "Resolved, That the Chamber of Commerce of the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, desires to record their appreciation of the icpurtesies shown our fellow townsman, the Rev. James A Smith, upon his recent visit to the city of Utica New York, for the pur pose Of delivering an address upon the battle of Fort Fisher from the standpoint of a Confederate veteran, and to esneciallr ... emphasize their pleasure in the cordial hospitality ex tended him by the city authorities and by the Union veterans there. "Resolved, That we heartily approve the action of the Union veterans of the State of New York, and do hereby join in their request that the Govern ment of the United States set apart the Fort Fisher field a9 a National park upon) which should be erected a suitable ' monument, to commemorate the valor of the 'Blue and. the Gray' displayed on this field in the battle of January 15th, 1865. "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the mayor of the city of Utica,: and also to our Sen ators and Representatives m Congress from this State, with the request that fiiish the object above set forth." Mr. Taylor, im introducing the an nouncement as to the Carolina & Clinchfield railroad, said the Chamber had been quietly at work for some time looking after ' Wilmington's in terest in the development of this great enterprise in the mountains and he had it authoritatively -. from high sources - that Jan. 1st or very soon thereafter trains could be . operated from Wilmington through, to Johnston City, Tenn., the Carolina and Clinch- field, connecting with the Seaboard Air Line at Boston.' This would mean eventually a trunk line from Wilming ton to the west,- via' the Seaboard with whom advantageous v trackage rights had been made. " It is hinted even that- the large interests behind the Carolina & Clinchfield are. identi cal with those behind the Seaboard, which will nean the i development of Wilmington into ; a great icoaling sta tion with Southport as a deep 'water mington. - -" . i Mr. C- N. Evans spoke with great satisfaction at the announcement of the President and suggested that the officials of; the new 'road be Invited to attend the annual banquet here early in. January in order, that Wihningtbn business men might ' come"- to' jknow tmem oeirer.vi uapt; wni. VKODerisonvS , y , . seconded the. motion and itt was una-- gpectlon vof the inanyr pretty things Grades gave a study; of ''Ifrfrscaro ' , nimouslr carried, i the president plater, at this, store, appropriate for gifts;, I rasEdward ? Teach toixd ? Tfre . ' ' ' appointing bn this : committee: Mes- - : - 1 Stamp- AcC- Th, Fifth,'Grades"' con-' c T ODD FELLOWS SESSION Sixth District - Meeting in This City Last- Night, a Great j Success. Fine Representation Fron All Lodgs and Guests of Honor. With all. of the eleven lodges, save one, represented by complete delega tions, the Sixth District Odd Fellows' convention in -this city last night was a splendid success, the meeting hav ing continued until an early hour this morning, in the I. : Cv O. P. building at Third and Princess streets. , The guests of honor were Grand Master H. M. l3haw,-of Oxford-and Grand Secretary B. H; Woodell, of Raleigh, who were entertained while in the city by Past Grand Master M. W. Jacobi. The district ; supervisor; Dr. John A Stevens, of Clinton, and other visiting delegates were" enter tained at The Colqnial Inn, a soteial Session having followed the (district meeting in the hall last night.4 The exercises opened last night with the singling of an ode "That , Noble Band of Odd Fellows," e composition by Henry Arnold Davis, 16 years of age, a student in the I. O. O. I. Home at Goldsboro, who is issuing the words and music, the latter by. E: Mcintosh Cullom, with the hope of- securing a ministerial education at Triniity Col lege. After prayer by the Rev. A. D. McClure, D. D., the visitors were wel comed by Past Grand B.. F, King and the response, exceedingly cordial, was by Dr. Stevens. Then followed the enEollmont of delegates and the elec tion of offlcrs for the ensuing year, af ter 'Which the discussion of the var ious topics, was listened to from repre sentatives of the visiting lodges, a list of whom was printed in yester day morning's paper. Special addres seswere made by Past Grand E. N. Penny on "The Rebekah Degree" and by Grand Worthy Patriarch W. L. Smith, on the encampment branch of the order. What everyone . declared was "the best for the last' came in splendid addresses by Grand Master Shaw and Grand Secretary Woodell, who Were given ,the closest attention; and most enthusiastic applause. " The delegates from the Wilmington lodges are as follows, those from the visiting lodges having been given yes terday: I -Cape Fear No., 2M. .;w.:Jar,' icbbI,Ul J. -Josies and L$lt lmTitp tp 'feUtjCQM gymustic eauipK j. , Orion' Nb:V67, C. D. Morrell orrell, J, E. SUrj via and A! T. Parker; Wilmington No. 13. W. C. Smith, .J. F. Littleton and T. G. Landen; Hanover No. 145, J. E. Wood, E. S. Hancock and W. H. Pe terson. The annual electSon, of- officers re sulted as follows: President M. W. Jacobi, Wilmington; Vice President F. B. Johnson, Clinton;: Secretary M. C. Guthrie, Southport; Treasurer H FASchulken, Vineland; Marshal H-G. Owen, Warsaw; Sentinel John E. Lamb, Walla. v The time of next meeting was left with the district supervisor, but it is probable that two meetings will be held . each year m April and Novem ver. Warsaw was selected s as the next place of- meeting at the call of the supervisor. The following com mittees were appointed last night: By-Laws F. B. Johnson, W. G Smith, A H. Paddison, Jno. E. Wood and C. D. Morrell. Offlciial Organ M. C. Guthrie, F. C Middleton, J. H. Jefferies, T. H. Par trick, G. P. Jordan, R. C. Powell, M. H. Brimmer, J. E. Silva,T. G. LandenU and E. S. Hancock. JVIemorial H. G. Owen, J. F. Little- Ton, A. H. Paddison, J. D. Carr, J. A Williams, W. H. Yopp, C. R. Spooner, A. T. Parker and John E. Lamb. Past Grand W. H. Yopp (made a spe cial appeal for the musical composi tion referred1 to above as the opening ode and 33 copies were disposed of among the members present. Past Grand. T. H. Partriick, of Clin ton, gave a very interesting and val uable exemplification of the sfecret work and some of the discussions dur ing. the evening were: "Visiting the Sick," Past Grand H. G. Owen, of War saw; "Orphan's Home," Past Grand A. H. Paddison, Burgaw; "Relation of Odd Fellows to the CommunStv Past Grand Master John E. Lamb,. Wallace ; "Our" Paper," Past Grand M. C. Gu thrie, Southport; "District Benefits," Past Grand J. R. Williams, of VineH land. . - ; Truckers' Executive Committee Mornine and afternoon sessions of the Executive Committee of the ' East Carolina Truck and ' Fruit Growers Association were held here yesterday, in a general discussion of the affairs of the organization .and the outlook for the coming season. The members reported the strawberry prospect as extraordinarily fine. Those in attend ance were President Wm E. -Springer, Secretary H. T. Bauman and Attorney Robert Ruark, of Wilmington ; Messrs. W. L. Hill, of 'WarsaiwrJ. S. West- brook, of'Wallatoe, and J. A West brook, , of Mount Olive.- Nothing of public - interest for publication devel oped at the : meeting., - Solky's "Christmas Goods. - - - .. Christmas goods galore, in hand some -and "select tvariety, to please the most " dainty of - the season's purchas ers,, may . be . found ; im the ; elaborate Xmas display at - J. M. Solky & Go's SCHOOL EXERCISES North Carolina Day Appropriately , Observed throughout The County on Yesterday. IN THE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS! Especially Pleasing Observance at Un ion, He men way and Tileston Exceptionally Well Prepar ' ed Papers by Pupils. Especially pleading and appropriate exercises incident to North Carolina Day, annually set apart by the State Board of Education, were observed by the publics schools ' throughout the county yesterday. The subject for study was "German Settlements in North Carolina" and " the prograimanes as 'prepared! 'by Mr.R D.-'W, Connor, , of. theNorth Carolina Historical So ciety, were ' either used ' literally - or taken as a basis for very interesting exercises in each school. " ; , ' : , The country schools generally ob served ther occasion with exercises during tfhe day while several had their celebrations during the evening. The schools in the country, for the most! part, used the programme- as'promuK gated bythe State Board of Educa tion which was quite befitting the subject. The exercises in the -city schools were quite pleasing, jthose at the High School and at Union being, at 9 o'clock tin the morning and the. observance at" Hemenway having been by the several grades in their respec tive rooms as the opportunity present ed itself in the regular order of , stu dies for the day. - At the High. School the "exercises were in the assembly hall . and there were persent besides the faculty, stu dent body and a number of visitors, Supt. Blair, Mr. Jas.v H. Chadbourn, chairman o;f the oommittee of District' No. 2, M Wm. H. Sprunt, of the County Bjard of Education," and oth ers; '-The i coimty kindly loaned its North; Carolina flag for the day and this was unfurled from the flagstaff on the -grounds during the day. , - Dur ing the exercises Supt Blair took oc- ment given, during the past year to r" . the schools by Mrl We H. Sprunt and which" has been source of great pleasure and benefit to the students of the three institutions. Both at the High School and at Union; the donor was given a rising vote of thanks for his splendid generosity, exactly 1,070 little folks ha.ving stood at the Union School in gleeful appreciation of the gift. The High School exercises consist ed of "The North Carolina Toast," by Miss Madge Brand; "The - Guardian Angel," by Miss Rachel Berger; "Sad dle Bags of Gold," by Miss Eunice An drews; "Ho! For Carolina," by the school; a declamation, "Universal. Education," by Israel Noe; "How a School Boy Preserved an- Historic Picture," by Miss Ethel Solomon; "A Journey Through the Carolina Wilder ness," by Miss Edna Lanier; "The Old North State," by the School; "Settlers From Germany," by. Miss Mary Worth; "German Schools and School Teachers," by Miss Emily Westbrook; "The Wanderer Back Home," a poem, by Miss Carrie Toomer; "The British Invasion of the German Settlements" by Miss Alice Sawyer; "The "Begin ning of Wachovia," by Leon Walsh; "The German Pioneer," . by M1ss Nell Bowden, and "America,'' by the school. 'At He men way School. . The programmes observed in each of the rooms at Hemenway School were very instructive and most credi-, table to the pupils. There were pres ent, during the forenoon Chairman J. A. Taylor and Messrs. Sam Bear and W. E. Perdew, of the school commit tee, who inspected all departments of the splendid school, and were delight ed with the evidences of progress and splendid work, being one. In . the sev enth grade the study of the earlier German settlements was j in the form of 25 questions submitted by the teachers and answered and discussed by the pupils in cbnnection with maps of the . 16 counties in North Carolina where, German settlements were made. The Fifth Grade had compo sitions on the "First Settlement of. Moravians in North Carolina;" 'The Guardian Angel rA Lagend of Bettra-, . bara" and "Nathaniel Greene's Visit to Mrs. Elizabeth Steele.", Then there were questions on the early settle ments ? in . North ' Carolina, ' Roger Greene, The Scotch Irish, Wilmington, and the German 'Settlements. In the, Sixth "Grade the 'counties settled ' by Germans! were named and located by the pupils. Under the head of A Ger man -Pioneer -John Paul . Barrfnger, there were questions-covering the en- . tire scope of the sub jeX5tr and the same " wag true f"of "Moravian Settlements" , as suggested by the- State programme. The exercises by each : grade ; ",were . . ; (highly . interesting ." and developed.. a wonderful kriowledge bf a :; phase of - North Carolina history, - which a Is ex ceedingly interesting? : 1 "" . ' y Union School. ; r At 'the' Union School the exercises opened with ; the ' singing of the "Olcl n ii 1 1 v , methods .to be adopted- -'. - , ' - "e;;r;-T: X- ) s:: ry X iy 'h : Cf, '?:yyx ;:--:v. yy Jyy: yy-" ,
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