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TiiE CHATHAM RCORD H A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription 1.50 Per Year Strictly in Atfvancs THE CUATHAT.1 RECORD Rates of Advertising One Squar, ob insertion tUOQ One Square, two insertions ' t0 On Square, one month For Larger Advertisements LibsraJ Contracts wit! bo made VOL. XXXV. PITTSBOaO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, DECEMBLR 11, 1912. NO. 18. 8RIEF NEWS NOTES FOB THE BUSy MHI HOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED ;omplete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. ..Dangling from the limb of a tree the body of Azariah Curtis, a young negro, was found at Butler, Ala., as mute evidence that the murder of B B. Bush, a planter who was shot tc death had been avenged. Curtis con fessed that he and two other negroes killed Mr. Bush while they were ly ,'.ng in wait for two men whom thej intended robbing. According to the negro's confession the highwaymen were waiting for Tax Collector T. B Bennett and J. F. Howington, both oi whom were known to have large sums of money on their person. Permanent organization of the gov ernors of the various states tff the United States in an association to be known as "The Governors' Confer ence," was effected here at the an nual conference of the state execu tives. Annual meetings of the or ganization will be held. Its active members will embrace the governors and governors elect of the various states. Ex-governors will be admit ted to the conference as honorarv members, with all privileges of the organization except the right to vote. Colorado Springs, Col., was selected as the place of meeting for the con ference next year. J. Beal Sneed was found not guilty of the murder of Capt. Al G. Boyce, Sr., at Fort Worth, Texas. John Beal Sneed shot Capt. A. G. Boyce to death January 13, 1912, at Fort Worth, soon after Sneed had returned from Winni. peg, Canada, with his wife, with ' whom Al G. Boyce, Jr., son of Cap tain Boyce, had eloped. Captain Boyce was sitting in a hotel lobby when Sneed entered and almost im mediately shot him. Captain Boyce, it was testified, was unarmed. Sneed claimed self-defense, and also a con spiracy of the Broyles to rob him ol his .wife. The commission form of municipal government has been inaugurated ir New Orleans. Martin Behrman, may or for the past eight years, was again sworn in for another four-year term Cnder the new form of government, the mayor is also "commissioner ol public affairs.'' Four other commis' Eioners complete the organization. General. That the operating departments oi a city government snould be manned by a force selected and retained sole ly because of competence, was a sug gestion contained in the joint com mittee report of the National Munic ipal League and the National Service Reform League, presented at the an nual meeting of the latter organiza tion at Milwaukee, Wis. It cost the Democratic national com mittee $1,159,446 to carry the election for Wilson and Marshall. Rebel groups under Gen. Pascual Orozco. Jr., Marcolo Caraveo and An tonio Rojas have combined along the .Mexican Central railway midway be tween Chihuahua City and Juarez, making a command of more than one thousand men led by General Orozco. It is stated that they attacked a north bound Mexican train below Gallego. Samuel Kramer, wanted in New York as accessory after the fact In the Rosenthal murder, was arrested in Chicago by detectives after a des perate resistance in which Kramer was beaten unconscious. Acting on telegraphic information from New York the detectives found Kramer hiding in a house on the police list in the west side levee. Kramer is 23 years old and is known under a number of other names. . He was charged with having sheltered "Gyp the Blood" and two companions in his Brooklyn home after the Rosen Eight lives were sacrificed and five persons are not expected to live as a result of a wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad near Dresden, Ohio. Four persons were killed outright and four died soon after the crash in a hospi tal. The casualties occurred in the rtr poach of a passenger train when tbe engine of another train ploughed trough, reducing the car and its oc cupants into a tangled mass of broken bodies and steel and timber. M Xew York City the Waiters' As sociation, at the celebration of its nnth birthday, dedicated a library of 2.000 volumes, bought with mony ob tained by selling champagne corks at $S 30 per htousand. After more than sixteen years de positors in the private bank of Emilio de Stefano at Chicago will be paid. Although he will celebrate his 100th birthday anniversary soon, Jacob So ners, Huntington's (Ind.) oldest resi dent, submitted to his first shave at (he hands of a barber. He did it un der protest. The barber was sum moned secretly by a daughter. Fewer deer than ever before were slain in the Maine woods during the hunting season, which has just closed, hut twelve men were killed and four teen wounded when they were mis taken .for deer. Alarm at the growth of Buddhism on the Pacific coast is expressed in the report of the home missions con- kmittee at the federal council of the Churches of Christ submitted. "One of the most startling facts, confirmed by investigation, is that Buddhism in. Seattle, San Francisco and Los An geles is aggressively propagating it self from these centers," says the re port. Buddhist temples have been erected in which cultured priests ad minister the rites and ceremonies of their religion. Loud applause greeted the Jury's verdict of "first degree murder" in the trial of William J. Erown for the murder of Alfred Percy. Mrs. Alfred Percy, wife of the victim, clapped her hands with delight. "I would not take a thousand dollars for that vor diet," she exclaimed a few minutes later. The wife of the accused man nodded her satisfaction with the out come of the trial. Brown killed Per cry as the latter stepped from a street car in Oakdale, Ala., July 6, last. He entered pleas of self defense. "Of forty fires a day in New York City," says Fire Commission Johnson, "are set with fraud as a purpose." Rev. Charles Stelzle, secretary of the bureau of social service of New York City, in an address before the federal council of the Churches of Christ, said that Ellis Island should be closed for five years and that some Southern city should be made the port of entry for immigrants. William Collier of Los Anegles and an unknown companion were burned to death in the local jail after they had started in the flames in the hope of making their escape at Crawley, La. Collin Lebeu, also a prisoner, was seriously burned. Collier and the unknown-prisoner were being held on a minor charge. According to Lebeu the two men started the conflagra tion, despite his efforts to dissuade them. They both were overcome 'by smoke in their cells, where their char red bodies later were found. Governor Wilson has heard his first tariff discussion since his election as president of the United States. He visited the Bermuda ' parliament, where he was cheered and sat among the members for three hours. President-elect Woodrow Wilson was a principal in a "first aid" case at Hamilton, Bermuda, He rescued a honeymoon couple who fell from their bicycles in front of his house. The bride was slightly injured and one of Mr. Wilson's daughters assist ed In bathing her wounds. After four and a half months study ing pellagra in South Carolina, the Thompson-McFadden pellagra com mission reported that while its data on the epidemology of the disease was the most complete ever obtained, the mystery enveloping the origin of the ailment has not been dispelled. It will take months to get the details into such r ape that anything like a logical, conclusion may be drawn and the probability is that the cause can not be positively determined without further exhaustive investigation. "Good cooks are more necessary than governors," said Gov. Thomas R. Marshall in his address on "Th? Personal Touch'' before the local council of women. "I do not think there is any one in this world, aside from my wife, that is more competent than my cook. I think she is well educated. I don't suppose she would be received at many of the social functions, but she does her work as it should be done. There is not a work ing woman in this city that is doing an honest work that is not more im portant to this state than the gover nor of Indiana.". Washington. After sixteen years, a record of service in the cabinet, "Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, has submitted to President Taft the last annual report he will make as head of the United States department of agriculture.. The report is more than a review of the past year's work; it contains a sum mary of the agricultural advance of the country during the venerable sec retary's term of public service, v Strongly urging radical reform of the "unreasoned and unscientific" banking and currency system of the United States, Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury, freely warns congress in his annual report submitted that the Federal govern ment, as long as the present scheme exists, will be exclusively responsible for the commercial, industrial and so cial disasters which flow from panics and attack, directly or indirectly, ev ery home in the nation. The present system promotes and develops panics, and legislation is urgent, says Mr. MacVeagh. Appropriations of nearly two hun dred million dollars for pensions to veterans of American wars will be necessary at this session of congress. The unusual sum exceeding all appro priations Qf former years, will be nec essary to rake up a deficit of nearly twenty minion dollars, resulting from the increase of pensions by the Sher wood bill last winter and the propor tionate increase of the general pen sions authorized by this act. ' The Supreme court declined to in terpret the pure food law as involved in the case of the seizure of 443 cans of frozen egg products by the govern ment, holding the circuit court of the Third circuit had no jurisdiction to hear the case. Four hundred and forty-three cans of frozen egg product, shipped from Kansas, were seized by the government as being a shipment in -violation of the pure food law, on the ground that it was a decomposed substance. The consignees of the shipment insisted that the egg prod uct was not decomposed, and around this point the controversy turned. NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OVER METHODISTS ADJOURN SESSION AT FAYETTEVI LLE AFTER AP POINTMENTS. MANY CHANGES IN PASTORS Presiding Elder Wilson's Resolution Withdrawn. Rev. Roger H. Hasty Transferred. Commissioner of Edu cation Appointed, Fayetteville. A few minutes after the hour of noon Monday Bishop Col lins Denny had concluded the reading of the appointments of the North Car olina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the seventy-sixth session of the Conference adjourned immediately afterward, Bishop Denny pronouncing the bene diction. The appointments are: Durham District. R. C. Beamon, presiding elder; Burlington station, T. A. Sikes; Chapel Hill Station, G. S. Bearden; Durham, Branson, H. C. Smith; Durham, Carr Church, A. L. Ormond; Durham, "Mangum Street, C. B. Culbreth; Durham, Memorial, G. F. Smith; Durham, Lake wood Mission, L. Hayman ; Durham, Trinity, R. C. Craven; Durham, West Durham, A. J. Parker; Durham Circuit, W. P. Con stable; Graham, R. G. L. Edmonds; Hillsboro Circuit, J. M. Ormond; Leas burg Circuit, C. R. Ross ; Milton Cir cuit, S. F. Nix; Mount Tirzah Circuit, B. C. Allred; North Alamance, R. B. Noblitt; Pelham and Shady Grove, R. L. Andrews; Peele Mill and Bethany, B. B. Slaughter; Ruxboro Circuit, E. M. Snipes; South Alamance, W. F. Galloway; Secretary Y. M. C. A. in China, E. E. Barnette; Professor in Trinity College, H. E. Spence; Head master in Trinity Park High School, W. W. Peele; Student in Vanderbilt University, G. M. Daniel. Elizabeth City District. M. F. Ply ler, presiding elder; Camden Circuit, A. W. Price; Chowan Circuit, B. T. Hurley; Columbia Circuit, K. D. Du val; Currituck Circuit, C. P. Jerome; Dare Circuit, J. A. Morris; Edenton Station, P. D. Woodall; Elizabeth City, City Road, J. H. Buffalo; Elizabeth City, First Church, J. C. Wooten; Gat es Circuit, W. H. Brown; Hattears Circuit, William H. Smith; Hertford Station, F. M. Shamburger; Kenne kett, J. L. Midgett; Kittie Hawk Cir cuit, M. B. Cox, supply; Moyock Cir cuit, J. A. Martin; North Gates Cir cuit, T. M. Grant; Pantego and Bel haven, C. A. Jones, C. J. H. Miller; Pasquotank Circuit, V. A. Royall; Per quimans Circuit, P. B. Robinson; Ply mouth Station, W. J. Watson; Roan oke Island, J. T. Draper; Roper Sta tion, J. W. Potter; Student in Trinity College, T. W. Lee. Fayetteville District. R. B. John, presiding elder; Bladen Circuit, J. M. Whitson, supply; Buckhorn Circuit, L. M. Chaffin; Carthage Circuit, E. E. Rose; Cokesbury Circuit, F. T. Dixon; Duke, Frank Culbreth; Dunn Station, J. H. Shore; Elise Circuit, T. C. Ellers; Fayetteville, Hay Street, W. R. Royall; Fayetteville Circuit, G. B. Starling; Goldston Circuit, M. D. Giles; Haw River Circuit, W. E. Trotman; Hope Mills Circuit, N. B. Strickland; Jones boro Circuit, J. G. Johnson; Lillington Circuit, George W. Perry; Newton Grove Circuit, G. T. Simmons; Pitts boro Circuit, L. E. Sawyer; Sanford. K. D. Holmes; Siler City Circuit, T. H. Sutton. Newbern District. J. E. Under wood, presiding elder; Atlantic, Z. B. Pyatt, supply; Beaufort Station, S. A, Cotton; Bridgeton Circuit, R. E. Pitt man; Carteret Circuit, F. F. Fulcher; Dover Circuit, L. B. Pattishall; Elm Station and East Kinston, J. M. Wright; Goldsboro, St. PauC N. H. D. Wilson; Goldsboro, St. John, B. C. Thompson; Goldsboro Circuit, C. O. Durant; Grifton Circuit, E. D. Dodd; Hookerton Circuit, W. E. Hocutt; Jones Circuit, C. E. Vale; Kinston Sta tion, F. S. Love; LaGrange Circuit, J. M. Carraway supply; Morehead City Station, E. McWhortor; Mount Olive and Faison, J. H. Frizelle; Mount Olive Circuit, W. A. Piland; Newbern, Centenary, J. B. Hurley; Ocracoke and Portsmouth, F. F. Eure supply; Oriental Circuit, Walter Patten; Pam lico Circuit, F. S. Ueckton supply; Seven Springs Circuit, R. R. Johnson supply; Snow Hill Circuit, J. J. Boone; Straits Circuit, W. B. Humble. Raleigh District, J. H. Hall, pre siding elder; Cary Circuit, G. W. Fish er; Clayton Circuit, C. W. Robinson; Four Oaks District, G. W. Starling; Franklin ton Circuit, W. W. Rose; Saved Over $1,500 For Wake. The records in- the office of the Wake county register of deeds show that the substitution of the salary basis for fees in that office saved over $1,500 to the county during the fiscal year ending November 30. Reorganization of Commissioners. The Wake County Board of Com missioners reorganized, the only change being E. C. Beddingfield in the place of W. C. Brewer. Mr. Bedding field was for a long while Coropration Commissioner. Grantviile Circuit, M. D. Hix; Kenly Circuit, J. M. Benson;' Louisburg Sta tion, A. D. Wilcox; Millbrook Circuit, P. Greening; Oxford Circuit, L. H. Joyner; Oxford Station, A. P, Tyre; Raleigh, Central Church, J. H. Mc Cracken; Raleigh, Edenton Street, H. M. North; Raleigh, Epworth, C. J. Harrell; Raleigh, Jenkins Memorial and Apex, R. E. Taylor; Salem and Princeton, J. M. Daniels; Smithfield Station, A. S. Barnes; Tar River Cir cuit, C. R. Canipe; Youngsville Cir cuit, J. W. Martin; Zebulon Circuit, G. B. Perry; Director of Correspondence School, J. L. Cunningim; Raleigh Christian Advocate, L. S. Massey, edi tor; Methodist Orphanage, J. N. Cole, superintendent; Assistant Secretary Epworth League, J. M. Culbreth; Stu dent Vanderbilt University, N. V. Mc Rae; Financial agent Louisburg Fe male College, A. D. Wilcox; Superin tendent North Carolina Anti-Saloon League, R. L. Davis. Rockingham District. A. M. McCul len, presiding elder; Aberdeen and Biscoe, C. L. Reid; Caledonia Circuit. J. C. Humble; Ellerbe Circuit, C. C. Brothers; Hamlet Station, J. A. Dail ey; Laurel Hill Circuit, F. B. McCall; Laurinburg Station, H. A. Humble; umberton Station, J. W. Bradley; Maxton Station, S. E. Mercer and E. L. Jones; Mount Gilead Circuit, N. E. Coltrane; Montgomery Circuit, S. J. McConnell supply; Candor, D. B. Par ker; Raeford, A. E. B. Craven and D. A. Watkins; Red Springs, H. M. Eure; Richmond Circuit, B. E. Stanfield; Roberdel Circuit, N. E. Wright; Robe son Circuit, S. T. Moyle, R. W. Town send and N. H. Townsend supernum erary; Rockingham Station, E. H. Davis; Rowland Circuit, J. D. Lee; St. John and Gibson, O. W. Dowd; St. Paul Circuit, A. J. Graves; Troy Cir cuit, C. W. Smith; Conference mis sionary evangelist, L. L. Nash. Washington District. J. T. Gibbs, presiding elder; Aurora Circuit, J. W. Hoyle; Ayden Circuit, Ambrose Bur gess supply; Bath Circuit, J. B. Bridg ers; Bethel Circuit, D. A. Futrell; Elm City, J. M. Ashby; Farmville Circuit, H. E. Tripp; Fairfield and Englebardt, E. C. Glenn; Fremont Circuit, B. R. Grant; Greenville Jarvis Memorial, E. M. Hoyle; Mattamuskeet Circuit, J. W. Autrey; McKendree Circuit, W. J. Covington supply; Mount Pleasant Circuit, J. L. Rumley; Rocky Mount First Church, L. P. Howard; South Rocky Mount, Marvin and dart Street, J. B. Thompson; Stantonsburg Circuit, H. E. Lane; Springhope Cir cuit, B. P. Watson supply; Swanquar ter and Soule, W. T. Phipps; Tarbora Station, L. B. Jones; Vanceboro Cir cuit, T. E. Wyche; Washington Sta tion, R. H. Broom; Wilson Station, M. Bradshaw. Warrenton District. R. F. Bum pass, presiding elder; Battleboro and Whitakers, E. N. Harrison; Bertie Cir cuit, M. W. Dargan; Conway Circuit, P. L. Earnhardt; Enfield and Halifax, L. T. Singleton; . Garysburg Circuit, Marvin Y. Self; Harrelsville Circuit, C. H. Caviness; Henderson, Firsl Church, D. H. Tuttle; Hobgood Cir cuit, Marvin W. Hester; Littleton Station, R. H. Willis; Murfreesboro and Winton, H. M. Jackson; North ampton Circuit, W. B. North; North and South, Henderson, T. J. Darley; Rich Square Circuit, W. C. Merritt; Ridgeway Circuit, J. B. Holden; Roan oke Circuit, Rufus Bradley; Roanoke Rapids, William Towe; Scotland Neck Station, N. C. Yearby; Warren Circuit, R. W. Bailey; Warrenton Circuit, D N. Caviness; Weldon and South Wei don, J. A. Hornaday; Williamston and Hamilton, J. T. Stanford; Littleton Female College, J. M. Rhoades; Mis sionary to Japan, J. W. Frank. Wilmington District. L. E. Thomp son, presiding elder; Burgaw Circuit, T. G. Vickers; Carvers Creek Circuit, W. E. Brown; Chadbourn, W. C. Mar 'tin; Clinton Circuit, W. A. Stanbury; Hallsboro Circuit, R. N. Fitts; Jack sonville, N. M. Wright; Kenansvills Circuit, D. C. Geddie; Magnolia Cir cuit, E. C. Sell; Onslow Circuit, R. I Carraway; Richlands, J. M. Lowder; Sea Gate and Wrightsville, G. B. Web ster supply; Scotts Hill Circuit, R. A. Bruton; Shallotte Circuit, J. M. Mar lowe supply; South port Station, C. M. Lance; Swansboro Circuit, J. C. Whed bee; Tabor Circuit, R, G. Beasley sup ply; Town Creek Circuit, F. A. Lupton supply; Whites ville, J. P. Pate; Wil mington, Bladen Street, N. L. Rexford; Wilmington, Grace, J. D. Bundy; Wit mington, Fifth Street, G. T. Adams; Wilmington, Trinity, C. T, Rodgers; Wallace and Rose Hill, B. H. Black; Conference missionary secretary, J. D. Bundy. Transferred. Rev. Roger H. Hasty to the Western North Carolina Conference. Funds For N. C. Postoffices. The following sums are available for North Carolina postoffice build ings: Raleigh, $90,000; Gastonia, $25, 000; Greenville, $25,000; Henderson ville, $7,000; Hickory, $20,000; Mon roe $5,000; Oxford, $10,000, and $5,009 each for Raleigh and Charlotte for postoffice rent, while buildings are be ing erected. Iredell Commissioner Resigns. Saying that he considered the elec tion of a new member of the Iredell Board of County Commissioners to the chairmanship over him an unfriendly act, Mr. N. B. Mills resigned the posi tion to which he was so recently elected. County Officers Take Oath of Office. The board of Mecklenburg county commissioners held an important meeting. The meeting was the first for the new year, and all county offi cers took the oath of office. THE STATE 0 0 E5 T COMPLETES CANVASS AND TURNS IT OVER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE. THE OFFICIAL REPORT GIVEN State Treasurer Lacy Led the Demo cratic Ticket Woodrow Wilson Received 144,507; Roosevelt 63,130 and Taft 28,175. Raleigh. The state board of elec tions completed its canvass of the election returns and turned the offi cial figures over to the secretary of state. The returns for state officers show that State Treasurer "B. R. Lacy led the Democratic ticket with 150,108; Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes received 150,093; Col. W. P. Wood, state auditor, received 150,056; Su perintendent of Public i Instruction J. Y. Joyner, 149,987; Attorney General Bickett, 150,069; Commissioner of Labor and Printing Shipman, 149,929; Commissioner of Agriculture Graham, 149,998; Commissioner of Insurance James R. Young, 149,962; for Lieuten ant Governor Daughtridge, Democrat, received 149,779; Caskill, Taft Repub lican, 42,400, and Greene, Bull Moose, 51,371; D. L. Gore, Bull Moose candi date for state treasurer, received 51, 478. There was only a very slight differ ence in the votes for other defeated candidates for state offices. The vote for governor follows: Craig, 149,975; Meares, 49,930; Settle, 43,625. Craig's majority over Meares and Settle is 56,420 and the total vote for Meares and Settle 93,555. The returns for presidential vote show that Woodrow Wilson received 144,507; Roosevelt, 63,130. and Taft 28,175. Wilson's majority is 46,202 and total vote for Taft and Roose velt 98,305. Beaufort Fair Association. The Beaufort County Agricultural Fair Association, incorporated, was formally organized in Washington w.ith an authorized capital stock of $50,000 with $5,0C0 paid in. The " in corporators are Dr. Joshua Tayloe, Dr. D. T. Tayloe, Jesse L. Warren and George Hackney, Jr., and Capt. Geo. T. Leach. The following officers were elected: President, Dr. Joshua Tay loe; secretary, Jesse L. Warren; treasurer, Geo. Hackney, Jr. The pur poses of this organization is to es tablish and maintain fair grounds for agricutlure, manufacturing industries, live stock, forestry, horticulture and other like exhibits, to establish race tracks for the exhibition of speed contests with automobiles, horses and bicycles. Little Change Among Officers. There was little change among the county officers at Warrenton, which met to take the oath of office. R. B Davis was sworn in as county com missioner in place of Mr. J. T. Mills who has served the county for several terms and did not stand for re-election. All other officers were re-elected. P. M. Stallings, who has served as chairman of the board of county commissioners for several terms, was re-elected to that position. S. G. Daniel, who has served the board for several terms as county attorney was unanimously elected for another term. Bonds Must Be Taxed. An opinion of widespread interest in the list delivered by the supreme court is that in Drainage Commis sioners vs. Webb, from Duplin coun ty In this the court holds that- an act exempting the bonds of a drain age company from taxation is inva lid. The opinion states that the con stitution requires all property to be taxed ad valorem, except the property of the state, counties and municipali ties and a drainage company is not a municipality; besides, the bonds are not the property of the party that is sues them. Gaston Officers On Salary Basis. Beginning January 1, 1913, Gaston county's officers will go on a salary basis and the expectation is that the new scheme will prove of benefit to the county financially. Heretofore the officers have received their pay in fees and all of them have been get ting more than good salaries under this arrangement. The salaries to be paid are as follows: Sheriff, $2,000; clerk of the court, $2,000, with $600 for clerk hire; register of deeds, $1, 800 with $600 for clerk hire; treasurer $1,200 and jailor, $50 per month. N. C. Postoffice Appointments. The following postoffice appoint ments for North Carolina were sent to the senate by President Taft: James W. Ingle, Elon College; Harry T. Scar boro, Mount Gilead; James McN. Johnson, Aberdeen; Walter C. Brinson, Belhaven; Thomas H. Dickens, Enfield; William P. Edwards, Franklinton; James E. Smith, Kitrell; W. Eugenia Miller, Lenoir; Walter H. Everhardt, Newton; Thomas C. Smith, Ruther fordton; Lonnie E. Pickard, West Durham; William D. Deal, Taylorsville ; John R. GurgenuB, Vineland. 1,1 THE BOARD 0F AGRICULTURE Receipts For the Year $213,826:75 Cotton Crop Same as That . of, 1910, Corn 20 Per Cent Less. Raleigh. The state board of agri culture devoted its first session to hearing the annual report of Commis sioner Graham, which showed re ceipts for the year aggregating $213, 826.75, of which $139,141 ws from fertilizer tags; 27,198 from C. S. M. tags, $23,722 from feed stamps, $6,198 from serum, $12,803 from test farms and amounts of $LO0O and less, each from other sources. The treasurer's balance is $3,700. The report carries no statements as to the oil inspec tion receipts. However, the report, in reviewing work of divisions, states that the legislature will probably consider the matter of reducing the tax. The commissioner estimates the cotton crop at about the same as the 1910 crop, and the corn crop 20 per cent less; wheat about the same but not as good quality; oats and pota toes fine and hay much above the average. He says important farm sup plies fell off, happily, from $60,000, 000 in 1909,t to less than $40,000,000 in 1911. The tobacco crop was good, and prices the cent in several years; there was a gaiu of 33,392 in num ber of hogs; cattle fell off 2,000 and sheep 9,000, according to tax re turns. The commissioner recommends the employment of an additional veteri narian. It was found necessary to raise the salary of State Horticultu rist W. M. Hutt to $2,750, without the authority of the board, in order to prevent his accepting an offer from Canada. ' Over 600 farmers' institutes were held, every county except Dare hav ing been favored. Each of the di visions of the department came in for review, analysis of fertilizers, soil sur vey, animal indutsry, entomology, horticulture, inspection of foods and feeds, farmers' institutes and demon strations, botany, agronomy, the museum and test farms. There are now more than 20 dis trict and county fairs in the state, and Commissioner Graham commend ed the results obtained by the depart ment in giving aid to these institu tions. Pardons One, Commutes Two. Governor Kitchin pardoned one p-fis-oner and commuted two, the crimes being manslaughter, burglary and lar ceny. He goes slightly into the his tory of one of the cases, the most in teresting of the three cases being that of Will Setzer, alias Will Frazier, of Catawba county, who was serving a life sentence for burglary. Setzer went to the penitentiary in the sring of 1901. Governor Kitchin says this of his record: Prisoner and three others were guilty of second degree burglary. One who was used as a witness was sentenced to two years and the others to ten years each, while Setzer owing to his record was given a life sentence. Prisoner was then about twenty years old. He has served nearly twelve years with a good record. The solicitor and many other citizens ask for his pardon. I commute prisoner's sentence to a term of twenty years on condition that he always remain lawabiding. Report of Registrar of University. Of much interest to North Caro linians each year is the annual report of the registrar of the University of North Carolina, setting forth a gen eral statistical survey of the 800 or more students of the institution with reference to the counties that they present, the per cent of students from the state, occupations of the pa rents of the students, and the reli gious affiliations of the students, etc. The total enrollment in all depart ments for the sessien of 1912-13 is 816. . Wilson County Officers Sworn In. The newly elected officials . of Wil son county were sworn in by the clerk of the superior court and gave bonds in the following sums: Howard j M. Rowe, sheriff, $105,000; John S. ; Thompson, treasurer, $60,000; John , P. Dildy, register of deeds, $10,000; : Golden Walston, constable Wilson township; N. F. Lucas, constable ; Cross Roads township, and John D. j Mercer (appointed in place of Larry ' D. Mercer, who failed to qualify, $1,- 1 000 each. Durham County Commissioners. The new board of Durham county commissioners were sworn in, the fol lowing taking the oath of office: J. T. Rogers, G. W. Flowers, Maynard Mangum, J. G. Nichols and A. B. Bar bee; Mr. Mangum was the only mem ber of the old board, who was re elected to the new board, only two other members of the old board be ing candidates for the nomination in the Democratic primary. J. T. Rog ers was elected chairman and the board proceeded with the regular buslnrs of passing on accounts. Charljtte Fair Association. ; The annual meeting of the Char lotte Fair Association was held in the assembly room, of the Selwyn Hotel. The stockholders named the follow- , ing directors for the coming year: Messrs. A. L. Smith, J. A. Henderson, J. E. Thomas, J. A. Berryhill, E. B. Moore, J. O. Gardner and C. C. Moore. After the meeting the board of direc tors met and elected the foilowing officers: C. C. Moore, president; J. O. Gardner, first vice president; A. L. Smith, second vice president, and E. B. Moore, secretary and treasurer. LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE! Short Paragraphs of State News That Has Been Condensed For the Peo ple of the State. Belhaven. In an affray between two boatmen of this place Ex Swin dell was cut in the side with a pocket knife by George Williams. Washington. The next North Caro lina Legislature may redistrict the state so as to give a more equal popu lation in the next congressional dis tricts. Hendersonville The $2,000 stock of general merchandise belonging' to J. M. Lanning and $800 worth of gro ceries belonging to R. A. Robard were completely destroyed by fire. The cause of the fire is unknown. Hendersonville. Having taken the oath of office the newly-elected Board of County Commissioners in session recently made John T. Staton chair man, he being the only member of the new board who had served in the capacity of commissioner. Washington. At the meeting of the North Carolina Congressmen here Josephus Daniels of Raleigh will be endorsed for a Cabinet position. The state representatives in Congress have determined to make a strong fight for Mr. Daniels and it looks as if they would win. Washington. The annual agricul- tural fair at Aurora was held several days ago. Special trains ran from this city and numbers went over to see the exhibits, which are pronounc ed good. The live stock and farm pro ducts were adjudged exceptionally fine, and the attractions on the grounds of interest. Raleigh. Drs. D. T. and Joshua Tayloe were called to Bear Grass to see Samuel C. Mizelle, a white man who was shot by.Eason Rogers, also white, at the home of the latter. Both the physicians have no hope for the man's recovery and it was impossible to move him to Washington Hospital as he was too weak. The difficulty took place at the farm of Rogers. Goldsboro. The trustee problem of the Baptists of North Carolina seems satisfactorily settled. The resolutions of Rev. W." C. Barrett and Baylus Cade, looking to a recognition of the Convention by the boards which gov ern the Baptist educational institu tions of the state, were reported on by the ccftnmitee appointed to consid er them, and the Convention accepted the solution offered. Durham. The proposition of open ing negotiations with the Durham Wa ter Company, in regard to a new con tract, came up unexpectedly at the regular meeting of the board of alder men, when half a dozen or more of the most prominent business men of the city appeared at the meeting and asked that some definite action be taken in regard to the matter without delay. Raleigh. ' Clarence H. Poe, as au thor of "Where Half the World is Waking Up,' wins the Patterson lov ing cup for the year, as having done the best literary work of any North Carolinian. The award was made in connection with the thirteenth annual session of the North Carolina Liter ary and Historical Association. The presentation was by, Walter H. Page of New. York, who also delivered the literary address. Kinston. One of the actions of the North Carolina conference in recent session in Fayetteville was the estab lishment of a new charge to be known as "Elm Street and East Kinston." Elm Street is a newly organized church in Goldsboro, which, with the church in East Kinston, forms a dou ble station. Rev. J. M. Wright is to have charge of this work. He comes from Bridgeton, N. C, where he has just finished a four-years' successful pastorate. Wake Forest With damages that amounted to $13,000, the W. C. Brewer & Company, cotton and seed ware houses burned to the ground here. The origin of the fire is still a puz zle, but the theory is that it started from a spark from a passing locomo tive When first discovered it had gained sach headway that very little could be done in the fire fighting. Valuable assistance was rendered by the students of the college in remov ing bales of cotton from the platform to a place of safety. High Point, Governor-elect Locke Craig, of Asheville, delivered the an nual memorial address at the memo rial services of the Elks in the audi torium, where deferential respect was paid to the memory of the only de ceased member during the year. Statesville. The new county ad ministration wis inaugurated recent ly, and while there are but few changes in the personnel of the coun tj officers there was no lack of in terest in the proceedings. The prin cipal incident was the resignation of Mr. N. B. Mills as a member of the board of county commissioners. Statesville. John Arey, who re cently declined the position of com missioner of agriculture for Iredell county, provided for by the Chicago Crop Improvement committee, the na tional department of agriculture and the county, has reconsidered the mat ter and will take the place. Durham. Mr. Otis Eakes, -who was badly scalded and internally injured by falling into-a tub of boiling gaso line, died at the Watts Hospital. Mr. Eakes was dry cleaner for the Model Steam Laundry, and while at work was overcome by the fumes and fell Into the hot tub of gasoline nearby.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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