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Three Month, by Mal...1i8 , LargeM e:eultlon of any if.S' fr . - ::- I sr:-- . : ,::::r-!L' - - . : v:-"5T,-;?!-- ". . Wilmington Paper. " ..4 ' 'V ' ' - ' - i - - - - . .. )) M , VOL. LXXXIII KO. 74. WILMINGTON, N. CM WEDNESDAY, DEGEjVIBER 30, 19081 WHOLE NOl 12 878 I 'I'1 OUTLINES. The earthqwake which wrought de vastation and ruin to the province of Calabria and the Island of Sicily was the worse disaster -ever known in that country. Between fifty and sixty thou sand people are believed to have toeen killed. The scenes - in Afisssina and other towns are described as fearful As the result of a quarrel over the scoring in a target shoot, four men ware shot at iStratham, Ga., by Iillius Thurmond, who declared he had been treated unfairly Prident-elect Taft will be actively,, engaged with conferences in regard to the appoint ments in his Cabinet during .the next few days According to ah omcial dispatch received at Washington, Ar thur S. Cheney, American consul at Messina, Sicily, and his wife, were killed as a result of the earthquake Judge Waddill authorizes the is suance of $1,000,000 receivers certifi cates for the Norfolk and (Southern Railroad In the Hains-Annis mur der trial the defense puts. on witness nrove the tomroper relations be- Cantain Hajs wife and Annis, which facts are told to Captain Hains -Train No. 35 on the 'Southern Rail road was wrecked by an open switch at Danville, Va., last Bignt. vine engi n DPT" TViftA Trilled and fireman and mail riftrks were inj ured-r -Forty to sixty men wftre entombed by a coal mine disaster in West Virginia last evening wv.iWnvnr Ttner is sentenced io fftnrteftn vears in th3 penitentiary-?. In the night rider, cases the defense is trying to prove alibis tlor all the ziofonriflnta- Some witnesses, even give such testimony in reference to persons wno nave luraeu ouniBar denoa and said they were present , at v,o iHiUne- of Rankin New York v"0 , , Markets: Money on call firm, at 6 to 3 1-4 per cent., ruling rate 3 1-4, clos ing bid 3, offered at 3, Flour drall but steady. Wheat firm, No. 2 red 1.08 to 1.09 1-2 elevator. Corn steady, No. 2 fik 1-2 elevator. Oats steady, mixed 54 to 54 1-2. Rosin and turpentine RtPAdv. Cotton quiet, middling up lands 9.30, middling gulf 9.55. What is a bank examiner for if not to find out when bank men are going wrong The illness ot that Tennessee night rider came in time to save the others for a short while, i We wont display our ignorance ,by saying that we never heard of Wick prsttfam before.. t How is it that the regular bank ex aminers did not "discover the rascality in the Pittsburg banks long ago? Pennsylvania has been called the State of grafters. Now let her show that she is a state which gives graft ers their just deserts. urely after Taft's visit to Aiken he can persuade Roosevte-lt not . to put Senator Tillman ; on the list: of iittd sirable citizens Otherwise he will have accomplished nothing by his visit Mr. Burton of Ohio, does "not seem to be as accommodating as was Mr. Woodruff of New Yorfc Maybe he does not think his chances so desper ate. You fellows who are in the habit of "swearing off" on the last day of the year may as well make up your minds to do so "sure enough" tomor row. That Ohio Senatorship muddle gets mnrMir and muddier: but Foraker will be apt .to clear the political wa ters on next Saturday, when the Legis lative caucus is to meet. The evacuation of Cuba by the American military forces will begin Friday. It has not yet been decided at Washington when the next such evacuation will begin. Maybe it will never be. The Missouri Supreme Court, want ing to get the money, 'places the fine on the -standard Oil Company at only fifty thousand dollars a nominal sum as compared with the fine imposed by Judgta Landis. Those judges were sen sible men. The men . who assassinated. ex-Senator Carmack have already .received more punishment than they expected. No dombt the denial of bail was a great urprise to them. Judge Hart de serves the commendation of every law-abiding citizen of the country, The House Ways and .Means Com mittee has taken six thousand pages of testimony oh the, question of tariff revision. What a good excuse for the Republicans of Congress to refuse to sive the people proper relief .from the Present iniquitous tariff tax. A WasWngdilpltcYninces 1 wr.cf at noi: I v;'- ;l!Wi;- Brandvinsld guard. These uit Roosevelt will , not only 4 send tome the stuffed skins of the big an imals and rare birds he kills in Africa at Government expense-but h& ex Pects to end oyer soma live1 lions' -D.aFadl -iCxti'T itwtkv -at'ltte,V7ilxnIflgt'6siSaYin'" and Tns 'This opened, up tne question 01 tne. pressing every satisfaction with their wimungron wavings ana Trust , . j AFFAIRS M.RALEIGH Great hations Being Made For Milita. ; Matures of In- ' ' " ' i' . '( i, "i auguraiion o Kitchin.: NINE COMPANIES TO ATTEND doverrt ors Prcnunciamento as to State. Prohibition Uaw ; VEffective January 1st 'Eastern Carolina Teichers' Training School. (Special Star Telegram.) Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 29.-hCo1. Chas. E. Johnson, chairman of the Raleigh committees for the inauguration of Governor-elect Kitchin, received tele grams today from nine (companies of the North Carolina National Guard that they will be on hand for the inau gural ceremonies. They are Battery A, Field Artillery, Charlotte, and com panies at Weldon, Henderson, Frank- Iinton, ,Louisburg, Durham, Clinton Kington and Tarboro. fCol. Johnson "believes there will be 15 companies including the local com' party and A. & M. cadets. He names as' a committee from the Chamber of Commerce for the inauguration F. A, Olds, B. S. Jerman. R. H. Battle, S, B, onepinera, r. w. uooDin, Hi. u. smitn with himself as chairman. They wil co-operate with (committees from other local bodies and the Mayor and Aldermen for civic features of the in auguration wfhich are sure to be am ong the most elaborate ever seen here. Two negro boys, Hay Carter and Ed Mitchell, were jailed here today for killing Buck Mitchell, near Roles ville. The boys went to Mitchell's home drunk. Carter made a drunken remark about "hugging" the wife of the deceased. There was a remon stranpe by the. husband with the re suit that Carter-Shot Mitchell, the load taxing enect just. )ver tue rignt eye. The boys, claipi .the killing was aoci dental. " Discussing the going into effect o the State Drohibition law in North Carolina January 1st, Governor Glenn year he-;woiil3ee41i enforcement, even- if he had to put a gun in every man's hand and exhaust the State treasury to do it.,. He in sists that, the law having been voted by forty-odd thousand majority, it is entitled to a fair trM of its efficaicy. Revenue officers are still complain ing that the sheriffs in the counties are making no effort to break up illi cit distilleries, there being pos3ibly a half dozen exceptions to this rule, and and they are free to express the Ihotfe that all revenue raiders will be with. drawn from the State. Ami tot trhA State authorities make the fight. There is a movement for the .Leglsla rare '-to a'Ppoint special constables in counties for this work.tp relfeye the sheriffs. Members of the State Board of Edu cation and other State officers will go to Greenville Thursday as the guests of the Greenville Chamber of Com merce and the directors of the East ern Carolina Teachers Training School for a. general inspection of , the ground and the buildings in process of construction for this institution wfeich is to be ready for occupancy next Fall. It was the State Board of Education that selected Greenville for the location of the school. The di rectors will be In annual session on Thursday and the Chamber of Com merce will arrange special entertain ment In honor of them, the State offi cers and the Board. Supt of Public Instruction Joyner today received a handsome loving cup as a gift from' the Southern States As sociation of Superintendents of Pub lie Instruction of which he has been president the, past three years vand secretary theretofore ' .since its organ ization. -' 1 ! The Post Company, of Rockingham, for the publication of newspaper and general ipfmting business is incorpor ated with $10,000 capital - authorized and $650 paid in, by , I G. Fox, Claud Gore and others. -The Farmars' Mu tual Benevolent Association, Lumber ton, is also chartered by James P. Lee and others. Miles. Good win, 12 years old, son of a widow here fen under a Norfolk and Southern train passing out of the yards here yesterday and both ,feet were badly crushed, rendering him a cripple for life. 1 "" Fiva Salisbury corporations for dis tilling and dealing in liquor filed no tices of dissolution yesterday, their, purpose being to go out of business with the coming into effect of the State prohibition law oh January 1st. V By an exchange 'of courts -Judg?a Cooke will hold Franklin court De cember ltth , and Judge Oliver, H. Al len Pitt court January 18th. , . Clarendon Lodge, K.bf P. ' '-';?' . On account, of vacancies caused by resignations since the ; recent ; election S JndSodffe N?V2 I Knlchta.ofvPvthias. -last niffht elected Mfc G.iV Scherer-yice cBapceitbr ; f Mr. with' n a other nfflcers recently elected will 0e Jnstalle the "first meeting night in aAst fx 1-iA.rv-v ANNUAL HOLIDAY GERMAN Pretty Christmas Dance Last Night in - Masonic Temple Bail Room by L' Arioso Club Many VisV ' tors Present. The annual Christmas .-german of L'Arioso Cotillon Club last night in the Masonic Temple ball room, which was ablaze with lights and resplen dent with beautiful holiday decora tions, was one of the largest and most brilliant social affairs of the season. Interest in the dance was heighten ed by the presence of many visiting young ladies and gentlemen and other young people at home from college and elsewhere for the holidays. Ex cellent music for the dance was dis coursed by Hollowbush's Academy Or chestra iand ' the germa'n was one of the most elaborate and pleasant for those who participated yet given, by this old and popular organization. Among the couples present and dancing were Miss Bessie Albright, Mr. W. M. McKoy; Miss Helen Kenly, Mr. E. L. Prince, Jr.; Miss Mary Cal der, Mr. Thos. H. Wright; Miss Etta Brand, Mr. C. McD., Davis; Miss Mar garet Harris, Mr. Raymond Hunt; Miss LJ.na DeRosset, Mr. J. Haughton James; Miss Luciana Poisson, Mr. Marion Hdirriss; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Prince ; Miss Smallbones, Mr. James C. Craft; Miss Jane Meares, Mr. E. M. Beery; Miss Agnes McQueen, Mr. C. C. Bellamy; Miss Theo. Cantwell, Mr. W. M. Parsley; Miss Louise La Mar, of Monticello, ,Fla., Mr. J. EJ. Croswell; Miss Madeline DeRosset, Mr. Louis T. -Moore; Miss Margaret Walker, Mr. H. P. West; Mtfss Atha Hicks, Mr. L. J. Poisson; Miss Mary Lucas Cantwell, Mr. R. C. Cantwell, Jr.; Miss Sue Prince, Mr. R. A. Wil-. Hams; Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Wif liamson; Miss Jean Cronly, Mr. S. M. Boat wright; Miss CSharlotte Pleasants, Mr. Edw. P. Bailey; Miss Julia Worth, Mr. Richard L. Meares; Miss Amoret Lord, Mr. L. deR. Belden; Miss King, of New York, Mr. Milton Calder; Miss Katie Grainger, Mr. Victor Grainger, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Thos. B. Willard; Miss Helen Strange, Mr. T. D. Meares, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Grain ger; Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Seabrease, Philadelphia; Mrs. R. R. Bellamy, Mr. J. Hargrove Taylor; Mr! and Mrs. Clayton Giles, Jr. ; Miss Lucile Mur- chfson, Mr. Graham Kenan; Mr. find Mr; Frasder; Miss-Margaret Bridgers, Mr. John Robinson, Goldsboro. Stags -Dr. N. Courtlanii Curtis, Au burn, Ala. ; Dr. R. B. Seem, Mr. P. R. Albright, Mr. H. F. Boatwright and Mr. Homer Giles Day, of New York. BRUNSWICK'S SPECIAL TERM. No Extra Term of Court for Trial of Alleged Murderer, Walker. The special term of Brunswick County Superior Court authorized shortly before the holidays for the es pecial purpose of giving an early trial to J. P. Walker, the alleged assassin of Sheriff Jackson Stanland, and sche duled, to be held by Judge Ward, be ginning January 11th, has been revok ed by the Governor because of the conflict of date with the regular term of Superior Court of Cumberland county where Solicitor N. A. Sinclair will Jbe engaged for the week. It in stated now .that there will be no spe cial term in Brunswick and that Wal ker will await trial at the regular term in March. So far as Is learned here Walker has as yet employed no counsel to defend him against the terrible charge which he will have to answer and ap pears to be unconcerned ov4r the out come in any event. The county of Brunswick, it is understood, will vi- gorousiy prosecuxe me case lor a ver dict in the first degree employing ex tra counsel to assist Solicitor Sinclair for the State. Col. N. A. McLean, of Lumberton, is mentioned in this con nection, but whether he has been re tained is not known. WATCH NIGHT SERVICES. Boys' Brigade Will Observe Pretty Custom at Their Armory This Year Following its usual custom, the Boys' Brigade invites the public to its watch services, beginning at 11 P. M. Thursday night, Dec. 31st and lasting one hour. A very attractive musical programme has been arranged and the following subjects wail be discuss ed in ten-minute talks by the minis ters named : "Responsibility to Self," by Rev. Mr. Holmes, of Fifth Street Methodist Church. ' "Responsibility to Neighbor," by Rev. Mr. Noe, of Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd. "Responslbiiaty to State-," by Rev. Mr; Martin, of Southside Baptist Church. ' Responsibility to Church," by Rev. Mr- Crowley, of Immahuel Presbyter- an Church. ompvand -brine your friends.'' is the invitation extended by the young : men of the Brigade. - On Sunday afternoon, January 3rd, at 5 o'clock, Rev. Mr. W. "A, Snyder, of Stv..' Paul's -Lutheran. Churen, -will addres an open meeUng at tlie armo- ry, to which Tall will be welcome.- c i The New Year Is the befeianingof a fregular rj 'periOdTat lepie s oavingsiJ3a4iJt, ai.itiutju uumw rwuj icwguucu jw wmyamuwiy ww -f-miaxu ycLgtss ; i DeposSt jwandou wllgetvyu v . 1 terest'in Three months.- v - Et.h ling -publicscntimsijt'as he, regarded -The situation was informally dis- - . - . - L ivmosltsnxade onf " or besfw,eJan., nigh 'useless ,-witbout,, the support of, bers of the committee at some length' Deposits made on, or before Jan,-? IAKELAW EFFECTIVE Mbyor Officially Receives Ex ecutive Committee of The Law Enforcement League ITS CO-OPERATION TENDERED Tf)0-.roffer . . Rc.eived'','With' ' Pleasure an Gratification by City's .Chief Executive Officers of Recent ly Formed Organization. Assuring him of their hearty co-operation in making as completely effec tive ias possible" the State prohibition law. which goes into effect January lstr:and expressing their confidence in his ability and determination to do his full duty .in the premises, members of the Executive Committee of the re cently' organized Law Enforcement League; in Wilmipgton yesterday, by appointment, called : officially upon Mayor iWHliam E. Springer and receiv ed f rdgjhim a most cordial and sin ce expression of his appreciation of the tender of the kindly offices of the League, assuring them, in turn, that he feR, the need of the coropsiratlon of thepublic in the difficult problem before him in a rigid enforcement of the law- .The committee was received in the Mayor's office at the City Hall at 1 o'clock just after the session of the the police court yesterday at noon. The committee was headed by Presi dent H...G. Fennell, of the League, and ! was composed of Messrs. B. C. Moore first .ward; T. W. Wood, second ward; J. A. Taylor, third ward; J. O. Carr; fourth ward, and J. B. "Fales, fifth ward.i 7Tb2.re were in addition to the executive,:, committeemen presen Judg C.. A. Erwin, pastor of the First unrispan Church, vice president o the League,, and Mr. George E. Left- wichj the -treasurer. Mr. C. L. Browne the Secretary, was the only ofiicer not in attendance Prqsident Funnel! presented the gen tlemen named to the Mavor and stat ed tl: Mr. Taylor had been chosen ;Tajr1or "ki addressing the Mayor;wsnti into a .tnorougn anjyysis .01 tne situa tion asv it is presented with the going Into effect of the new law and told of the objects and purposes of the Lfw Enforcement League, which are in no wise to antagonize but to back-up and co-operate with tire duly constituted authority in a rigid enforcement of the statutes that govern; accomplishing this by the creation of a wholesom3 public sentiment and educating the people to a sense of the majesty iand supremacy of the law... He spoke ful ly of thas obstacles to be surmounted and the difficulties to be encountered and expressed confidence in the May or's willingness and evident determi nation to do all that lay within his power toward the ends so much de sired The Mayor In reply to the address of Mr. Taylor first thanked the com mitten for the honor of the call and stated that words were not at his com mand to express' his great gratification and appreciation of the assurances given for their co-operation in what was "admittedly & most difficult propo sition. He said first most candidly that he was a prohibitionist but abova all ne stood for the supremacy of the law and that he was determined to en force this law to go into effect on Jan uary 1st or stef down and out if he should "prove ungual to the task, and he has never yet admitted that it was an impossibility. He felt, however, that without the hearty co-operation of an aggressive public sentiment be hind hiim, the task would be difficult, therefore he was glad to receive the assurances which had just been ten dered him by men who know and real ize the situation. "I'll promise you further," said th3 Mayor, "from the Chief of Police down to the last officer on the force will be held to strict accountability for the part he should take in the enforce: ment of the law." He went on to. say that he was just as determined Upon this matter as he was ever about anything in his life, first as a duty he owed to himself and secondly as a debt he was due to a citizenship which had honored him with the position "he occupied. He again thanked tha committee for its call and assured the members of his high appreciation, closing with ; the statement that he was gratified to see the general, public 'sentiment crystall ing in favor of a rigid enforcement of the new law, 1 citing the , instance of the Wilmington lodge of Elks, whose action in declaring for an elimination of thebufBet in Its club rooms he.com- mended. . . . when the Mayor had concluded.. Mr. rayior sponesman :,ior: tne aeiegauon, stated that he was hot at aU surpris- ea atytne position 01 tne : cnrei execu- tive, out it was gratifying to near ms 1 empnaxic prououncwiuew resaru w emphatic pronouncement in regarl '31r,,. "J:;.. O; Carr. stated tthat was the' firet:jneetihg.of jthe Lehe. had. efforts' at enforcement of jthe Jaw well THE WATER WORKS DEAL Another Satisfactory Test of Pipe by Committee From Board of Alder men Audit and Finance and Finance Board to; Meet. Matters are rapidly shaping theha selves for final passage upon the ques tion of municipal ownership of water works at the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Aldermen on Monday night. Yesterday thg committee from the Board had another very satisfac tory test of the pipes of the Claren don Water Works Company, which it is proposed to absorb as 1a pdrt of a new and larger plant if it can be purchased reasonably, and the reali zation of the proceeds of the bonds sale now only awaits the observance of certain farmalities by the Board of Audit and Finance, which, will proba bly meet , on Monday night to finally pass on the question. The test of the water pipe by the committee yesterday was on Sixth between Princess and Chesnut streets, a section of the four-inch main hav ing been removed after being under ground for the past 27 years: This section is said to have been in even better condition than that previously examined from Front and Dock streets, so thiat the charge that the pipes - are badly corroded and other wise damaged by electrolysis seems to have fallen flat. The pipe removed yesterday was . in excellent condition and was pronounced by persons com petent to pass upon such matters, as good as when first laid years ago. The meeting of the Board of Audit and Finance has been decayed on ac count of the inability to get a full fat- tendance upon the session, but it is expected that there will certainly be a delay not longer than Monday. In the meantime the city attorney has been asked to give an opinion in writ ing as to the form and verbiage of the resolution by the Atdermenlto be cdn-; curred in and thfe form, verbiage, etc., of the bonds and coupons' ropbsed to be issued. When all these prelim inaries are disposed of and the money is. in . hand, it is safe to ' that the Aldermen will take final zn d de cisive action in regard to the purchase or reje ction of the existin g plant. The 1 Aldermen sm m-'uieirropiuioii mat me tator biiuiuu not be required to pay. more than $140,000, which was the 'figure tenta tively agreed upon when the negotia tions wrere all but concluded about this time last year. The revenues have been increased by the adyianoe in rates, but it Is pointed out that this does not increase the value of the property and, if anything, is more than off-set by the depreciation in the val ue of pipe -from ruling .prices when the negotiations were on before. Cargo For Ghent, Belgium. From the compresses of Messrs Alexander Sprunt & iSbn yesterday there was cleared the British steamer Holmleta, Captain Airey, with 5,700 bales of cotton, valued at $285,000, and consigned to Ghent, Belgium, This be ing the first cargo of the staple from Wilmington to Ghent Jthis season. ' The receipts at the local port continue very satisfactory,; in spite of the more or less demoralization incident to the holidays. Yesterday 1,931 bales were received, of which number 42 were from the upper Cape Fear' by .the steamer City of Fayetteville. Here For Operation. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Pearsall, of Rocky Point, arrived in the city last evening and are guests at The Colo nial Inn. They came to accompany their son, Mr. Norwood Pearsall, 26 years of age, who will undergo an operation for appendicitis this morning at the James Walker Memorial Hos pital by Dr. Joseph Akerman. Friends of the youbg man and the parents trust that the operation will be entire ly successful and that the patient will soon be on the road to recovery. the proceedure there in cases sent - " , -m ir . 1 1 t . 11 over ty tne Mayor, it. uemg especially desirable that there should be effec tive juries in dealing with violations of the law, this education of public sentiment being especially desirable in the elevation of the standard of jury service on the county. Mr. Fennell expressed his apprecia tion of the position' of tHe Mayor and referred to the difficulties -sometimes encountered in the higher courts, stat ing that it was the purpose to employ counsel to go there for the prosecu tion of violators where such, action appeared necessary. Judge Erwin made the observation that the courts should not always be blamed with the fall of a prosecution after the -cases are sent over. After a charge . has rested, for. some weeks or months, interest in the .case, tends to abate and the prosecutions are not always so vigorous . nor- the 'evidence so complete jas at the original trial be- lore the committing magistrate. However,;-: he believed ; that : pub lic enlightenment upon the ne cessity" of . an enforcement of '.the law' "would tend to elevate ;- the jury service so tha there would be cussed between the Mayor and 'mem- length PROHIBITION Wilmington Making Ready Fast For Change in Long Exists , ing Order of Things. MUCH TALK ON THE STREETS Dealers Making the Best of the Situa tionEagles Vote to Eliminate Buffet in Club Other Aspects, of Case. Wilmington with its fifty-odd sa loons, three brewery agencies and two distilleries, is making ready fast for the going into effect of the State pro hibition law tomorrow midnight Al though a glance at the books of the City Clerk and Treasurer shows that every one of the dealers has paid his license in full to January 1st, several or tne saloons have actually already closed up and the others are prepar ing to follow suit with the chiming of tne midmgnt hour tomorrow. . One hears but little on the streets - nowadays but speculation as ,to the passing of the saloons, which have ex isted in Wilmington in one f orm-or an other since Colonial days, way back in the seventies. All the local dealers seem reconciled to the change and are . making the best of the situation. Many of the mail order houses and others have made their arrangements to move to Norfolk, Richmond and . other "Virginia cities, while one or two will go even still farther North. A large majority of the dealers, howev er, are "native and to the manner born' and will remain in Wilmington to engage iu some other iand more useful occupation. Now that the. law has been placed on the statute books, it is safe to say that ninety per cent, of the local dealers are strictly in fa vor qf a rigid enforcement of the law. Many express this wish deeply and sincerely out of respect for , the law and the good of the community while there is no concealment of the fact on the part of a few that they are actuated by the feeling that the "best way to get rid of a bad law is to strict ly enforce it." ' , -Both.. the Boards pf Aldermen "and v the Board of XJoicmty -Cdplnmbi6nr8 have gbrie, on record as unalterably opposed to the licensing of drug stores to dispense ' intoxicants and the talk of establishing a "m-edical" depository" similar to that In several prohibition towns in the State, finds little favor among those who are discussing the probabilities of the change.. The aver age citizen, who is discussing the question, appears to be in favor of "going the whole hog or none," and that will likely be the result in Wil mington for two years at the very least. Th? (attitude of the clubs toward the prohibitionaw has been a sublect of some speculation but the declaration of at' least two such organizations for the elimination of the buffet and intoxicating liquors in their rooms has placed an entirely new aspect on this phase of the question. At the regular , meeting of Carolina Aerie No. 1171,' Fraternal Order of Eagles, last night the organization voted to cease their buffet service on December 3lst and no provision has been made for locker or card systems of dispensing intoxi cants to members. The Cap? Fear Club it is understood, has hit upon a plan clearly within the law by which none of the former privileges of mem bers will be abridged by the new law. The Magnolia and Owls clubs, so far as is learned, have taken no action and nothing has been heard as to sev eral other clubs only recently charter ed for social purpose0 by the Secre tary of iState. At any rate, Wilmington promises to be quite a dry little burg after the first, or at least after "left overs" are - consumed. "Good Bye Old Booze" will be the refrain after the stroke of 12," midnight, tomorrow. Many of the dealers have been doing a "closing out" business f r th past week or ten days and those bibulously Inclined have provided themselves temporarily against the exigencies of the occasion Other have formed mail order con nections with the dealers just across the line andexpress deliveries ."will be quite frequent until patrons jade un der the inconvenience of the thing. Elsewhere in today's paper . is given an indication of how the law will be enforced against blind tigers. The change tomorrow night will be ob served w$h much interest by . the pub lic at large? regardless of their inter est in the pphibition issue. Academy Improvements. Under the direction, of Chairman K. Wx Jewell, of tiie Public BuiMing Com mittee .of, the Board .of .Aldermen, a. number" of Improvements are - being, made at the Academy of. Music toy which the city will receive a .substan tial reduction vto .insurance, rates on the ' entire huiraing. The contract is to "Mr. iH. ll Brady and the work will cost in the "neighborhood of $200 ; ; t '.-"'.v 7 . The'New Vear." 1 : " is the beginning6 of a regular - interest period' at The People's Savings Bank, Deposit now and- you will get '. yonr interest- in Three, months. , . U STATE 1 4 ''iir.-.S' X - ) 1 1 aDi other such animal
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