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Hbe (Dbatbam IRecorfc. U. LONDON RATES OF ADVERTISING: One Square, one Insertion $1.0 One Square, two Insertions.... 1.5 One Square, one month... a.09 jfllTOE AND PROPRIETOR. " " 9 CRMS 0 SUBSCRIPTION: 31 .50 Per Year . For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. aRiCUY IN ADVANCE VOL. XXX. PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. 0., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 3. 1908. NO. 43. 0 ,m o n 1 HI r IT FEW WET COUNTIES leader of the Prohibition Movement Ijsues Biaiemeas m wiucn lie sets porfi his Views oa the Victory d the Prohibition Forces. B-l h. Special. " Our majority t grouca i-,vuw anu . taxing the :ate turough and through our ma- Lnties are Deuer man our Iriends .ad hoped tor", said Chairman John ates. nf the Mate Anti-Saioon ague to-night. He added: "Our jeasue offered a banner to the county trie? the largest majority. It goes I Buncombe, whieh gave 3,681. An- ttr to the county casting the larg- L; percentage of its vote for prohi- iiion goes to xancey, which voted ,200 to 15. The people have spoken. This is :iwn by the fact that nine of the h congressional aisincis nave given rohibition majorities, only the arth of Kaleigh districts being in le wet column. "One of our greatest triumphs is 1 Forsyth, Governor Glenn's home iimty. which was considered doubt d. It gave 1.500 prohibition ma rity, a great compliment to the overnor. My own county, Cumber mil. where there was a heavy fight, -at dry by 500. 'Another notable victory was at alisbury, the anti-prohibition head carters, which went dry by 126, the iiinty going that way by 600. Tele rams of congratulations have come j us from Virginia, saying that tate would be the next to get in the rohibition column. "Our victory does not mean disso ition of the Anti-Saloon League. eadquarters will be moved to Fay- teville, and our organization will be pt up and be ready to go into bat- e at a moment s notice. The returns of the election on tate prohibition as received at State fohibkion headquarters places the ajonty for prohibition at 42,948, tares that are expected to vary but irfitlv from ths official returns. :e returns show that 77 counties lave majorities for prohibition and csrainst it. eports From Various Counties of the State. The following reports have been reived from the various counties of e state on the prohibition election. Maj. Ma.j County amanee. . Dry Wet 1198 50 553 600 550 200 650 200 '.exander legheny . , 200 2son.. .. Be.. .. paufort. . rtie.. .. laden.. . ninswiek uncombe 3300 'irke. 400 118 600 rrabus . aldwell. . maiden . arteret aswell. . -atrba. . 95 300 300 600 :atham . , Mrokee 1250 wan . . 100 500 20S3 120 350 lav. . "eland . . Iambus . . "aven.. potgoscry's Dry Majority Small. ry. Special. Montgomery coun , ves a majority for prohibition approximately. .Three pre ncts are not heard from, though ;ese figures are practically correct. :y townshin rave a maioritv of pl for nrohil-iitirm ATnnnt. Gilead paship voted wet by a majority of f" ot a full vote was polled in county. p Richmond Dry. Ofkinffliam. Special. Latest re- ma over '"s indicate Richmond county .".v lor prohibition will be abethtown. Snem'f, Fie-ht ""ships in Bladen eive trohibition fjonties as follows: Abotts. 27: Wensboro. 101; Brown Marsh, 82; gbeth, C9; Hollow, 28; Gbly, 19; to 14. Thfi , , W , V-A . w. wv f 'l Heard from will nrnbablv OTve P 150 to 200 majority for prohibi- vuuservaiive esiun&'.e. Lincoln. LlncoInton Special. Every pre- except one in Lincoln county D' "drv." iho moT-if in ihil recinct being 11 for the "wets." A 6 Of nlinnf 1 ')0 r.c rr.lloJ nr,A j 11 aj viivu uuu majority for prohibition is about lvo pretincts are vet to be m fro estimated. N North Carolina Votes Out Liquor By a Majority of Oyer Forty Thousand Cumberland Currituck Dare Davidson. Davie. ...... 540 250 300 400 450 Duplin 400 uurham Edgecomb . . .... Forsyth ". ' Franklin Gaston Gates.. Graham 700 175 200 1568 1418 200 13-1 Granville 250 ureene 400 Guilford 1500 ..'.." Hafax ' .. .. 300 .... Harnett.. 150 Haywood 2000 Henderson ..1200 Hertford 398 Hyde 3S4 Iredell.. .. 12S6 .... Jackson 1000 Johnston.. 1500 Jones Vx Lenoir ; .. 630 Lee 500 Lincoln 900 McDowell 800 Macon 600 Madison 1500 Martin 400 Mecklenburg 1896 Montgomery . . 140 . Moore 500 Nash 50 New Hanover ISO m m m 300 199 75 Ncrftbampton SS2 Onslow. Orange Pamlico ;. m 126 Pasquotank .. . Pender 250 Perquimans 6 Person 200 Pitt 750 Polk 600 Randolph 1400 Richmond... .. 275 Robeson 200 Rockingham 250 Rowan 43S Rutherford 945 Sampson 650 Scotland 523 Stanly Stokes Surry 350 Swain 350 Transylvania 450 Tvrell Union 1208 166 400 200 Vance Wake "Warren Washington Watauga Wavne Wilkes Wilson 350 S00 280 58 600 500 '715 1500 Yadkin.. 515 Yancev 1200 .... The Bill in a Nutshell. State wide prohibition will go into effect January 1st next. The bill forbids the sale or manu facture of intoxicating liquors, and this means spirituous, vinous and malt liquors or intoxicating bitters, with in the State. Licensed drug stores will be per mitted to handle it and sell it upon ' the prescription of a regularly lieens- Mr. Heitman wants not less than ed physician provided it is prescribed $200,000 for the patent, only for sickness. . The place of delivery, as is the case Been Collecting Too Much, now, is made the place of sale. Winston-Salem, Special. Forsyth The officer of any church, or any j is one of those counties that has minister of the gospel is permitted to .been violating the poll tax law. For purchase wine for communion ser- . years the sheriffs have : been collect vices, i ing $3.30 on polls in Winson township Brunswick. Wilmington, Special Returns from Brunswick county indicate that prohibition carrie dby a small major ity. Township results are as follows: Southport, 69 majority; Northwest, f 33 majority, and Town Creek, 31 ma jority, all for prihibition. Supply and Shallotte townships also give a majority for prohibition. The ma jority wil probably be 200. Polk. Tryon, May 26 Returns from the five precincts Tryon, Saluda, Colum- bus, Mill Springs and Big Level, give the vote as follows: Tryon, for 91; against 32: Columbus, for 51; agianst 2; Mill Springs, for 51; against 10; - Saluda, for 28; against 16; Big Lev el, for 33; against 10; Pearidge, for 14; against 10. About a two-thirds vote was polled. No direct communi cation with Cooper's Gap and Green's Creek and vote not obtain able at this hour. The election was quiet. Cherokee Gives 1,250 and Clay 500. , Murphy, Specials Cherokee coun ty has given the sale and manufac ture of intoxicating drinks a black eye ,hy a safe estimated majority of 1,250, and Clay county has done like wise by 500 majority. Cherokee al ready had very stringent prohibition laws, but she joined forces with her sister counties to drive the demon li quor traffic from the State. THE UNIVERSITY CLOSING! m . . '. iins a unape U1L This Year Marks the End of Successful Year's Work. niinrwil Tj;il C? 1 mi i-iin, opcciai. me com mencement exercises of the State University were marked by unusual interest this year. Judge Pritchard addressed the senior class on "The Judiciary." There were fiftv -sewn graduates, representing many of the iiiut prominent iamilies in North i Carolina and other States. President Oscar R. Rand, of Smithfield, who was recently awarded the Cecil Khodes scholarship to Oxford Uni versity from North Carolina and who hag been a leading spirit in his class lor. years, was in charge of the exer cises. Education and democracv. was the basic theme treated in his ad dress. The class history was read bv o. a. Andrews of Chapel Hill. H. B. Gunter was class prophet. J. W. T" ft A " Hester announced the class gift, and M. L. Wright, of Greensboro, ' rea'd the class will. The exercises were of a very high order, reflecting: the ex cellent work done by the University tne past year. Young Msji is Drowned. Greensboro, Special. Will Lyon, the 17-year-old son and only child of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lyon, of this city, was drowned while swim ming in Lake Wilfong, at Guilford Battle Ground, Saturday afternoon. The body was recovered after a search of about two hours. Young (Lyon was accompanied by two boy companions, the three riding out to ! the battle ground on their bicycles yearly in the afternoon. Soon after . going into the water Lyon was attack ed by cramp, sinking before his companions could reach him. The dead boy was a manly young fellow, of spotless character and pure life, and had the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He held a posi tion in the Commercial National Bank. Asheville Man Dies Suddenly. Asheville, Special. Asheville was shocked to learn of the death Satur day morning a few minutes after 3 o'clock of Mr. W. A. Boyce, proprie tor of the W. A. Boyce hardware, es tablishment of this city and one of the best known and most highly re spected citizens of the city. Mr. Boyce 's death occurred at his home on Haywood street after a few hours of acute illness. While he had been in bad health for the past several months and recently suffering fear fully with neuralgia, none of his friends or acquaintances thought for an instant that his illness was serious and the announcement of his death came as a distinct shock. v Big Sum For a Patent. Lexington, Special. Mr. H. Cam Heitman, who recently invented and secured a patent on an automatic hanging arc light and took the matter up with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburg, has been offered by the above company the sum of $125,000, he states for the right in the United States and Germany. The Wetsing house Company writes Mr. Heitman that after testing the arc light for twenty-four hours they are satisfied it is the most perfect thing of the kind yet invented. The light with this arrangement only needs trimming ev ery three months. It holds sixteen carbons and has other attachments. and $2.70 in all townships outside of the twin city. Salisbury Men Quarrel and Shoot on Street. Salisbury, Special. N. S. Freeman a coco cola dealer, of Salisbury, was firea , upon on the street here by C. M. Bailey, . a saloon-keeper, who claims he was assaulted by Freeman. The gun was knocked out of Bailey's hand and the men were soon separ ated. The shooting followed a quar rel. Boy Killed by; Train. New Bern, Special. Willie Boy- wag' kiUed here Mle jumping; on a string of moving cars in the Norfolk and Southern yards. In some way ...... he lost his ffrip and his clothes caught,-dragging him along the cross ties until he was dead.' The body fin ally fell away from the track, and was not mangled. His father, W. J, Boyette, an employ of the Norfolk and Southern, was at work in the railroad shops only a short distance away 'from the place where the acci dent happened. Pardons Refused. Pardons are refused Sam Watson, Chatham; Ed Causey, Guilford; Nick Harper, Halifax; W. J- Archbell, Beaufort ; D. A. West, Buncombe ; Champ B. Elliot, McDowell; Warren Perkins, Meclenburg; Francis Burris, Stanly; and C. A. Strickland, whose county is not named. Perkins was convicted of murder in the second degree two years ago and sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary. CONGRESS IS OVER Session Adjourned Saturday At Midnight TIRED MEMBERS GO HOME NOW Last Day in Senate Proves to Be a . Busy One, Many Important Bills Being Rushed Through Aldrich Vreeland Emergency Currency Bill Passes by a Vote of 43 to 22. : Washington, SpeciaLJust ten minutes, officially, before the hands of the big round clock in the cham ber of the two houses of Congress pointed to the hour of midnight the first session of the Sixtieth Congress came to a close. In the House the closing hours were characterized by singing of songs by Republicans in honor of Speaker Cannon, and by Democrats in the interest of William J. Bryan. The excitement which was great at times finally subsided and the session closed with general good fellowship amonsr the members. The Senate was extreme! v -init. .inrmir the closing hours, held together only by the necessity of remaining in ses sion, for the engrossing and signing OI DlliS. The last days of the Senate will be memorable on account of the filibus ter of Messrs. LaFollette, Stone and Uore against the emercencv currency bill, by the remarkable interpreta tions ot the rules which go far to establish cloture in a bodv . note worthy for the freedom of debate. and by the final passage of the cur rency bill. President Roosevelt and several of his cabinet were at the Capitol during the evening. The President shortly before 10 o'clock signed the compromise cur rency bill and presented the pen he used in aflixmg his signature to Rep resentative Wilson, of Chicago. At 9:oo p. m. committees from both . houses waited upon the Presi dent and informed him that Congress was ready to adjourn. They report ed that they had performed the duty and that the President said he had no further communication to make. Previous to his signature to the currency bill the President had hand ed it to Secretary Cortelyou, who earetully read its provisions. Two other members of the Cabinet were present Secretaries Root and Gar field. The President in conversinsr with several Senators told them that he was very well satisfied with the accomplishments of the congressional session. An hour after his arrical at the Capitol, the President had signed all the bills placed before him, including the public buildinsrs. the ereneral de ficiency and the crovernment em ployes' liability bills. The President applied a "pocket veto" .to the bill to compensate in ventors for inventions used by the government. Last Day in House. Washington. Special. Havinsr con cluded its labors for the session the House Saturday night shortly after 9 o'clock adopted a resolution to ad journ sine die at 10 minutes' before midnight. The news that the cur rency bill had passed the Senate quickly reached the House and evok ed great applause. From that time on business moved with a rapidity that signified a speedy termination of the first session of the Sixtieth Congress. The cenference report on the public buildings bill, which had been held up pending action on the currency question, was oiiicklv brought out and agreed to. . This ac tion was immediately followed bv the adoption of the conference report on the .general deficiency bill, thus clear ing the decks of all important pend ing legislation. Just before adjourning Mr. Tawney gave a resume of the work of the ses- on. Mr. Tawney stated the total appropriations for the session to be $S51,08S,607. He said . the total" rev enues of the government estimated to Congress by the Secretary of 'the Treasury, are placed at $S78,123,011 ; that in addition to the authorized ex penditures of $851,088,607 for the operation of the government during the next fiscal year, appropriations are also made as follows: Deficiency acts, exclusive of $12,466,750 for pub lic buildings authorized at this ses sion, $44,529,223; for requirements of the sinking fund $53,000,000; for redemption of national bank notes $25,000,000; for construction of the Panama canal (bonds to be issued) $29,187,000 for miscellaneous and special objects. $1,000,000, including $250,000 for the relief of storm and flood Vsufferors in Southern States, and $403,000 for the payment of claims of the Roman Catholic church in the Philippine Islands; making a grand aggregation for the next fiscal year of $1,00S,804,894. Ashcre on Nausett Beach. Chatham, Mass., Special. An un known steamer went ashore on Nau sett beach shortly before 11 o'clock Sunday night. A southwest gale is blowing and there is a high sea, mak ing her position a very dangerous one. The Old Harbor life savin." crew has gone to her assistance with beach apparatus. GEN. S. D. LEE DEAD Another Brave Confederate Leader Gathered to Rest HONORED ALL THROUGH DIXIE One of Three Surviving Lieutenant Generals of the Confederacy Passes Away Within Sight of the' Fields on Which He Fought the Hardest Battles For the Cause He Loved. Vicksburg, Miss., Special Within light' of the fields on which he had fought his hardest battles during the civil war, and on the same grounds where he had welcomed and enter tained his former foes less than a week ago, General Stephen TV Lee. eommander-in-chief of the' United Confederate Veterans and ohe of the last three surviving lieutenant gen erals of the Confederacy, died here in the Vicksburs- Nati Park, at the official residence of the park commission. Immediately followinc the death ot General Lee the sad intelligence was flashed to all parts of the coun try and irom early morning until late it night messages of condolence and sympathy continued to nonr in "KVnm Montgomery, Ala., the cradle of the Confederacy, where its government was first organized from Richmond. Va., the stronghold of the Southland during the greater part of the bloody strife;. from New Orleans, the head quarters of the United Confederate Veterans, and from many other cities, not only in the South, but in the North and West expressions of sor row and brief eulogies were received. Camps and other Confederate organi sations as well as many prominent persons, including the President of the United States, were quick to con vey their expressions of sympathy to Che bereaved iamily. All arrangements for the funeral of General Lee were completed and and order bearing upon this was is sued by Adjutant General Miekle from the headquarters of the veterans at New Orleans at the direction of Gen. W. L. Cabell, of Dallas, Tex., who, in accordance with the by-laws of the organization, assumes the office of lieutenant general commanding. Greneral Mickle left New Orleans for Columbus, Miss., where the funeral would be held Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock. At the time of his death, although not the ranking officer of the Confed sracy. General Lee was commander-in-chief of the Confederate Veterans. Lieutenant General A. P. Stewart, of Chattanooga, is ranking officer, but dc account of his infirmities he has not taken an active part in the af fairs of the organization for many years. General Lee was ohe of the South Carolina Lees. He was born in that State in 1833. He received his ap pointment to the United States Mili tary Academy at West Point and graduated at that State, receiving his commission in the artillery. At the outbreak of the civil war General Lee resigned his commission in the United States army and entered the Confederacy. He served with the Confederate army in Virginia until after the battle of Antietam, when he was made a brigadier general and sent to Vicksburg. Remains Taken to Columbus. Vicksburg, Miss.) Special. With an escort of Confederate veterans and members of the State ' militia, who were appointed by Governor Noel, the body of the late General Stephen ! D. Lee, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Vetrans, was conveyed by a special train and taken to Columbus, Miss. Daughters Asked to Hold Memorial Services. Houston, Tex., Special. Mrs. Cor nelia Branch Stone, president-general of the United Daughters of the Con federacy, issued a general orders de ploring the death of General Stephen D. Lee and requesting - that every chapter of the United Daughters of the, Confederacy, shall at once ap point a day for a fitting memorial service to be held in his memory. Flags at Vicksburg at Half Mast. . Washington,, . SpeciaL President Roosevelt issued ; an order that . in honor of the memory of the . late General Stephen D. Lee, commander in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, who died at his home in Mississippi, the flags in the national park cemetery at Vicksburg should be half-masted. General Lee was a member of the Vicksburg park com mission. Flags on the Federal build ings at Vicksburg, Jackson and Col umbus, Miss., also will bs placed al half-mast. Virginia Farmer Killed By Lightning Roanoke, Va., Special. Shilo Bish op, a well-known Montgomery countj farmer, who lived near Christians burg, watj struck and instantly kill ed by. lightning Friday .afternoon Bishop, with several of his childrer was standing in his yard under a tret when the fatal bolt fell. One of the children was knocked senselessj but recovered. TASR HEEL TO TICJT. i Items Gathered from Big Storm; in Buncombe. .. Asheville, Special Reports re eeived here are to the effect that one of the severest storms in the history of Buncombe county passed over the Eteem's Creek, Flat Creek and Ivy sections of .the county Wednesday, doing thousands of dollars' worth of I damage to lands , by washing and to crops. The storm was little short of a cloudburst. - Reem's creek went 18 Inches higher 'than it had ever been known to go before The" abutments if a new steel bridge across the creek were washed away, while a mill near Weaverville was damaged $20,000. The creek rose rapidly after the storm had passed and qs a result of this an old couple, Mr.- and Mrs. Mc Canless, of Baker's Mill, .came near losing their lives. Mr. and Mrs.. Mc Canless went out to view their gar den to;; see what ; damage had been lone when the waters rose and cut them off from their house. They were marooned on a strip of land scarcely six feet square, where they were forced to remain in water until near midnight. Efforts toj rescue them were futile. Had the creek risen much further they would prob ably have been drowned. Davidson Gets $100,000. The general education board en lowed by John D. Rockefeller, gave out for publication a resume of gifts made to colleges and institutions, and also announced the election to the 3oard of President Charles W. Elliot, of Harvard, and Andrew Carnegie. The list of gifts was announced as follows : Davidson College, ' Davidson, N. C, $100,000; Hamilton College, Clinton, N. 3T.y $50,000 Knox Col lege, Galesburg,. 111., $50,000;; Wa bash College, Crawfordsville Ind., $50,000; -' Williamsburg- Institute, Williamsburg, Ky,, $50,000; Univer-1 sity of Rochester,. Rochester, N. Y., ! P30,000; Smith College, Northampton,! Mass., $12,500; MacAlester College, St. Paul, Minn., $75,900; William' Tewett College, Liberty, Mo., $125, 300; Western College for Women, Oxford, O., $50,000 ; Harvard Univer sity, Cambridge, Mass. (for graduate school of business) $62,000; for far mers' co-operative demonstration tvork in the Southern States, $80,000 ; for special high school agents in con nection with State universities in the Southern States, $20,000 ; Hampton -Institute, Hampton, Va., $10,000 ;Tu3- kegee Institute, Alabama, $10,000; Spellman Seminary, Atlanta, ' $12,- 500; total $782,522. Three Interesting Opinions. Raleigh, Special. The .Supreme : Court filed three interesting opinions ' Friday. That of Commissioners of Pitt county against , McDonald in volves the bonds issued for the Eastern, Training School at Green-1 ville, which have 1 heretofore been held ' valid. The buyer now wants ' adjudication so that the county can exceed the limit of taxation to pay the principal and interest. This the jourt declines to do as there was no such promise in the statute under which the people voted the bonds. In Holtwell against Borden, from Wayne, it is held that ' bonds issued to build a schoolhouse are not valid ' unless submitted to the ,vote . of the people. In Victor against Louise Cottoa Mills, from Mecklenburg, it is held to be ultra vires and without authori ty for a corporation to insure the lives of its officers out of the corpor ation's funds. Four Years in Penitentiary. Fayetteville, Special. The Com berlahd Superior Court convened here last week. The only, case of interest was that of Adolphus Ingram, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for four years, for bigamy, in eloping with and marrying Ito Neal, a young girl of Cambellton, while having a wife and family living in South Caro lina. v Rope Broke, Elevator FelL Asheville, Special. An accident that may prove fatal befell Seeb Grant at the Asheville laundry Fri 3ay morning. Grant had gone to the third floor to make some repairs and was starting down the elevator when a rope broke and the elevator with its human freight crashed to the bot tom. Grant was rendered unconsci ous and remained in this condition for several hours.. An examination established the fact that there were six broken ribs and a rupture of the lungs and bladder. Farmer Finds English Coin. Clinton, Special. Mr. Murphy Smith, a farmer of the county, was hauling straw on his place the other day and found an English penny with a head of George the Third on it and Brittania on the other side. It-is dated 1775.; The figures and letter ing are quite plain, though the coin was evidently lost during the Revolu tionary war times. AH Sections of the State W Five ' Convicts Pardoned. Raleigh, Special. -Governor Glenn Friday granted five pardons and re fused ten applications. Pardons are granted to the follow ing: '.. . . ,. . . Amzie Helms, Mecklenburg coun ty, sentenced to 12 months on the t road for manslaughter. Helms was a youth of. fine character and the mother of the girl whom he killed joins in the. request for pardon. Joseph Dauley, Bertie county. 2 years for carnal knowledge of a child. The ' Governor believes on testimony' that the man is innocent. C. W. Hyams, Mecklenburg county. 12 months for larceny. Hyams was . once a professor in the A. and M. Col lege in Raleigh, and took books from laWVers. TVfn nu norenno tiava acL-aV the Governor to give the man anoth er chance.' Jack Palmer, Wilson county, for storebreaking, sentenced to three- years. The man has eonsumtion and will v. die if kept in jail, and is too weak to work. George Rhyne, Gaston county, sia months for larceny. The pardons refused were as fol lows : ' . Sam Watson, Chatham county, murder in second degree, sentenced for 25 years. Ed. Causey, Guilford, larceny, two years. W. J. Archbell, Beaufort county, six months for assault with deadly weapon. ' Warren Perkins, . Mecklenburg, murder in second degress. 12 years. Pure Food Law Effective July 1. . Raleigh, Special. Mr. Allen, head of the pure food section of the Agri cultural Department, says that on the 1st of July the law becomes ef fective which forbids the use of any preservatives in foods. This will be strictly enforced and the sale of all such food will . be prohibited. Many manufacturers of foods, who had said they could not put up and ship them unless preservatives were used are now sending them out pure and in proper shape. Mr. Allen says the law is sweeping. The department has usually depended on publicity, which is really more powerful, he thinks, than arrests and wonderful improve ment has been made in the foods on sale in this State. Bad Storm at Newbern. Newbern, Special. The worst storm in several years has raged here all day. Four inches of rain fell, the wind has been blowing a gale all day and the tide is higher than in the past year or two. : Many trees have been blown down in the streets and the city electric plant has been out of service all day. Just how much dam age has been done to the trucking in terests cannot be learned for a day or two. The storm was so bad that the graduating exercises for the city school were postponed until Monday. Receiver For Printing Company Ask ed For. Winstom-Stlem, Special. The reg ular two weeks' term of Forsyth Su perior Court adjourned ' late Friday afternoon. Major J. E. Alexander, at torney for Bradley Reese Company, made application for a receiver foi the King Printing Company, of this city, Friday afternoon. The motion was continued until June 15th, when the matter will probably be heard be fore Judge Jones. - Itema of State News. The State Agricultural Department asked its fifteen hundred correspond ents for information as to the acre- !age of crops May 20th, compared with last year's acreage, whicch is put down as 100, and the reports show " the acreage ot cotton tnia year is 97, corn 100, tobacco 102, pea nuts 101. The North Carolina National Guard. Raleigh, Special. Adjutant Gen eral T. R. Robertson has issued com missions to the following officers . oi Company G, Second Infantry, North Carolina National Guard, at Wash ington; Captain O. B. Wynne; First Lieutenant, J. F. Rossj- Second Lieu tenant, R. B. Cowell. General Rob ertson has accepted t'le resignation of Z. I. Walser, First Lieutenant Company A, Third Infantry, Lexing ton, and W. O. Brown, Second Lieu tenant Company L, Third Infantry, Greensboro. i Louisburg Mattress Factory Burned. Louisburg, Special. Fire Thurs day morning about 8 o'clock destroy ed the Louisburg Mattress Factory, leaving only the shell of the two-rStory brick building. The less is ab-TUt $300, fully covert d by insurance. The fire is said to have ca'v;Lt in the up per story amcng shucks near the ! shredding machinery. .
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