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VOL. XXXV.
PITTSBOrtO, CHATHAM COUKTYN .C., JUNE 4. 1913.
NO. 43.
life
VETERANS TO MEET
Oil BATTLEFIELD
Big Reunion of Survivors of Civil
War at Gettysburg on
July 1.
40,000 EXPECTED TO ATTEND
Men Who Wore the Blue and Gray
to Again Gather on Ground
Made Memorable by His- ..
torlc Conflict.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
PASHINGTON. During the
first four days of July the
battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa.,
will again be the scene of a
meeting of the Blue and the
Gray, but this time they will meet in
amity and affection. A half-century will
have passed since last these men of two
great American armies met on this
northern field. Then they were face
to face in deadly conflict, for the Issue,
it was well understood to both con
tending forces, was the success of the
southern cause, or the beginning of its
defeat, to be followed by the restora
tion of the Union as it had been before
the first shot was fired at Fort Sum
ter. The United States government and
the government of nearly every state
in the Union have combined to make
the Gettysburg reunion of the soldiers
of the north and south one of the great
peace events of the century. The state
of Pennsylvania some time ago ap
pointed a "Fiftieth Anniversary of the
Battle of Gettysburg commission" to
make preparations for the four days'
reunion, at which Pennsylvania as a
state was to act as host to the vet
erans of the war between the states
and to the thousands of visitors who
would follow their march to. the field
of battle, and appropriated $150,000 for
the purpose of entertaining the vet
erans. 40,000 Veterans Expected.
It Is expected that 40,000 veterans
of the war, not all of them, however,
survivors of the Gettysburg battle, will
be found encamped upon the field
when reveille sounds on the morning
of July 1. It will be a different re
veille than that which the fife and
drum corps of the two great armies
sounded fifty years ago. The call to
awakening will be a call to a peaceful
celebration while the call to the awak
ening in July, 1863, was a call of
armies to conflict and, to thousands of
men, a call to death.
For years the veterans have been
looking forward to this reunion. It is
probable that there will be present
many thousands of survivors of the
battle. The United States government
under an act of congress has appro
priated money for the preparation of
the camps and for the messing of the
soldier visitors. The average age of
the men engaged in the Civil war was
only eighteen years, but fifty years
have passed since these soldier -boys
fought at Gettysburg, and so if the
computation of age was a true one the
average years of the veterans who will
meet in Pennsylvania in July will be
about sixty-eight years. Many of them,
of course, will be much older and a
good many of them, men who entered
at ages ranging from fourteen to sev
enteen years, will be younger, but all
will be old men as the world views
age.
Many of the states of the Union,
north as well as south, have made ap
propriations to send their veterans to
the Gettysburg reunion and to pay all
other expenses. The battle of Gettys
burg is recognized as the turning point
of the war between the states. It has
been called time and again one of the
decisive battles of the world. Gener
ally ' it is recognized that Gettysburg
decided the great conflict, helped in
the decision probably by the fall of
Vicksburg on the Mississippi, which
took place virtually at the moment
that the conflict on the Pennsylvania
field was decided in favor of the north
ern arms. ,
The preparations which the govern
ment is making to care for the veter
ans at Gettysburg are interesting.
They have been under the charge of
James B. Aleshire, quartermaster gen
eral of the United States army, and
Henry G. Sharpe, commissary general
of the United States army. Two years
ago last March 14,000 regular troops
were gathered in camp at Texas. The
health of the soldiers throughout the
Texas encampment was almost per
fect, made so by the plane which had
been carefully laid to see that perfect
sanitation was maintained. The Unit
ed States army was taught a lesson
by the Spanish war, when lack of
proper sanitary precautions and unpre
paredness in other ways cost the gov
ernment the lives of more men than
were sacrificed to the bullets of the
Spaniard. '
The estimates of the commissary
and quartermaster authorities are
based upon an attendance of 40,000 vet
erans. It probably will cost the gov
ernment about $360,000 to act in part;
as host tothe survivors of the battle
and other 'veterans who attend the
Gettysburg reunion.
Big Task to Feed Men.
The survivors of the war from the
north and south who will be present,
being old men, must be cared for in
a way which would not have been nec
essary fifty years ago. The messing of
the veterans will require 400 army
ranges, l great field bakery, 40,000
mess kits, 800 cooks, 800 kitchen help
ers and 130 bakers. This helping per
sonnel will be required to be in camp
for at least seven days, and many "of
w
them for a longer period, for the pur
pose of installing the field bakery, the
field ranges and in dismantling, clean
ing, packing and storing material after
the encampment is over.
' The old soldiers are to be. supplied
with fresh meat directly from refrig
erator cars drawn upon the field. They
will be given fresh vegetables a- spe
cial bread with the best coffee and tea
which the market affords. For them it
will not be a case of hardtack, bootleg
and poor bacon.
" The Battle of Gettysburg commis
sion of the state of Pennsylvania has
a large sum . of money at its disposal
for the entertainment of the visiting
veterans, and the thousands of persons
who will accompany them. Hospital
ity is to mark the days. Fifty years
ago Pennsylvania aided in the work of
repelling the visitors from the south.
In early July next the same state will
have its arms wide open in welcome
to the men wearing the gray. Enter
tainments of various kinds will be of
fered the visiting veterans, but it is
pretty well understood that their deep
interest in revisiting the scenes where
they fought, Little Round Top, . Oak
RidgeV Cemetery Hill, Culp'e Hill,
Rock Creek, the Stone Wall and other
places will hold them largely to the
pleasures and to the sadnesses of per
sonal reminiscences. Arm in arm with
the Union soldiers the Confederate sol
diers will re"tramp the battleground.
They will look over the field of Pick
ett's desperate charge. They will re
trace the marching steps of Long
street's corps. They will go , to the
place where Meade had his headquar
ters and to the place from which Lee
directed his southern forces in battle.
Pennsylvania is going to make a
great celebration of peace of this fif
tieth anniversary of what probably
was the decisive battle of the war, al
though it was fought nearly two years
before the war ended. Other states
will help Pennsylvania in its work, and
from every section of the country,
north, east, 6outh and west, the vet
erans will assemble, most of them
probably to see for the last time in
life the field upon which they were
willing to die for the sake of their re
spective causes.
The veterans will not be directly en
camped in the Gettysburg park, which
is dotted with monuments to the vari
ous commands which took part in the
fight and which is laid out in approved
park fashion, with fine drives and
beautifully kept lawns. There will be
two camps, known as No. 1 and No. 2.
No. 1 will cover 149 acres and No. 2
will cover 44 acres. The layouts of
these camps are based on the use of
conical tents, each of which will, with
out crowding, accommodate eight per
sons. Inasmuch as accommodations
are to be furnished for-40,000 visitors
5,000 tents will be required to give
quarters to the visiting hosts.
Visitors to Be Cared For.
Every possible care is to be taken
of the visitors. The sanitary arrange
ments which have been made are said
to be the beet that are possible and
they are the result of careful study by
medical officers of the service. All the
experience of the past has been drawn
upon to make it certain that the health
of the veterans will be conserved while
they are in camp.
"With so many thousands of old sol
diers in attendance, and taking into
consideration the probability that the
weather will.be warm, it is expected
that there will be sickness, but the
United States government and the
state of Pennsylvania are preparing
for a hospital service which shall be
adequate to any contingency. There
will be hospital corps detachments
present ready to render first aid to
the injured, and there will be many
field hospitals with surgeons in at
tendance, where the sick can receive
Instant attendance.
It is said that this contemplated re
union has induced more interest
among the old soldiers of the north
and the south than .any event which
has happened since the day that the
war closed. There is today at Gettys
burg a great national park, in which
is included a cemetery where thou
sands of soldier dead are buried. The
United States government and the leg
islature of Pennsylvania worked to
gether to make a park of the battle
field and to mark accurately every
point in it which has historic interest.
When one goes to the field he can tell
just where this brigade or that bri
gade was engaged, just where this
charge or that charge was made and
just where the desperate defenses of
positions were maintained until the
tide of battle brought either victory or
defeat to one of the immediate com
mands engaged. ,
It was in 1895 that congress estab
lished a national park at Gettysburg
and gave the secretary of war author
ity to name a commission "to superin
tend the opening of additional roads,
mark the boundaries, ascertain and
definitely mark the lines of battle of
troops engaged, to acquire lands which
were occupied by infantry, cavalry and
artillery, and such other adjacent
lands as the secretary of war may
deem necessary to preserve the impor
tant topographical features of the bat
tlefield." When the Union and the Confeder
ate veterans reach Gettysburg on June
30 next they will find on the scene of
the old conflict between five and six
hundred memorials raised in commem
oration of the deeds of their - com
mands on the great fields bf the Penn
sylvania battlefield. There are, more
over, 1,000 markers placed to desig
nate historic spots. There are great
towers built upon the field by the gov
ernment so that bird's-eye views can
be obtained of the entire scene of the
battle. Fine roads have been con
structed and everywhere attention has"
been paid to every detail of the least
importance in setting forth the history
of one of the greatest battles eve?
known to warfare.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY
MOST IMPORTANT ' EVENTS' OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest From, All
Parts of World
Southern.
Accompanied by rain and hail, a cyclonic-like
wind storm passed over the
section adjacent to Norfolk, Va., and
a number of lives are reported lost.
Twenty houses were blown down in
Berkeley and South Norflok, but no
lives were lost so far as known. Mrs.
George Harper was seriously injured
when her home was blown down and
a number of others were hurt by fall
ing timbers and flying glass.
Jacksonville, Fla., was awarded the
honor of entertaining the twenty
fourth annual United Confederate re
union, and Commander-in-Chief Gen.
Bennett H. Young of Louisville, Ky.,
with his three departmental command
ers, were re-elected at the last import
ant business session of veterans dur
ing the present reunion at Chattanoo
ga, Tenn. .
Sergeant Gill D. Cates, second officer
of the Durham police force, was killed
at Durham, N. C, while trying to ar
rest Felix Conklin, a white. man, who
had shot his wife. Officers Cates and
Morgan responded to a call from West
Durham, saying that Conklin had shot
his wife, and when they started to ar
rest him, the drunken man opened fire.
Conklin was killed.
Deputy Sheriff J. P. Gaines of Bartow
county, and Frank Nation, an alleged
hold-up man, were-seriously wounded
in a battle fought between a sheriffs
posse and six men, alleged to be ban
dits, who, only a few minutes before,
had demanded the life of Telegraph
Operator Thomas Scorvells or $40. Na
tion and two other men were captured
after100 shots had been fired in the
running battle, which took place at
Hugo, Ga., a small telegraph station of
the Western and Atlantic railroad.
A committee of the Virginia legisla
ture went to Georgia for the purpose
of bringing to his native state the re
mains of General Henry Lee, better
known as "Light Horse Harry Lee"
the father of General Rovert E. Lee.
General Lee died at Savaia.ah on his
return journey from Cuba, where he
had been' on account of his health. He
was buried on Cumberland island, near
that city, and his grave has since been
cared for by the Georgia chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Traveling northeastward a column of
grasshoppers 5 miles wide and 18 miles
long is reported in northeastern New
Mexico. Reports that the millions of
grasshoppers seem to spread as they
travel and also the appearance of smal
ler bodies of grasshoppers in sections
of west Texas have caused fear of a
general grasshoper pest in the south
west,especially in Texas, western Okla
homa and New Mexico.
General
Falling 400 feet from an aeroplane,
Arthur Lampham, a youthful parachute
jumper, landed feet buried to his neck
in the mud. With ropes and boards
he was extricated. He suffered only
from the shock. Lampham was taken
up by Harry B. Brown, an aviator, and
was to have made a 500-foot drop in
New oYrk City.
Miss Lela Hesterley, 20 years old,
shot Walter Hickman at Springer,
Okla., with a shotgun as he was riding
by her home near there on horseback.
As Hichman fell to the ground he tried
to pull his pistol from his scabbard.
Then the girl rushed toward him and
shot him again, killing him.
The growing displeasure in diploma
tic circles of the great powers at the
attitude of Greece and Servia 'found ex
pression in what practically amounts to
to an ultimatum, which Sir Edward
Grey, the British secretary for foreign
affairs, delivered to the delegates of
the .belligerents. The communication
made it clear that, enough time has
been spent in futile discussions of the
peace settlement, and that the moment
had arrived for signing the draft treaty.
Volplaning from a height of 1,200
feet in a blazing biplane, the British
aviator, Coloyns Pizey and a passen
ger, H. Felows, reached the ground in
safety at Salisbury, England, and step
ped from the machine just as an ex
plosion of the gasoline tank wrecked
it. The aeroplane was in easy flight
over the outskirts of the town when
suddenly the carburetor took fire.
The surplus of idle freight cars in
the United States and Canada on May
15 was 50,294, according to the Ameri
can Railway Association. This is 10,
495 more than on May 1, Nevertheless,
the total reported is 7,204 cars fewer
than on April 15 of this year.
Inyestigation of " the armor plate
situation was authorized by a resolu
tion adopted by the senate. The naval
affairs committee will meet to consider
instituting a thorough inquiry into
armor plate bids and contracts.
Energetic action was taken by the
French government against the anti
military campaign in France. '
The French battleships Diderot and
Justice called off Toulon, France
during maneuvers. The. Diderot had
ten feet of plating below the water line
sheared off and several of her boats
were smashed. '
IN
The preliminary treaty of peace was
signed at St. James' palace, London,
by the delegates of all the Balkan al
lies and of Turkey. ;; This is said to
mean not only peace to, the Balkans,
but general peace.
The body of Barbara Fritchle, hero-
ine of Whittier's poem, and that of'
her husband, John C. Frietchie, which
were recently disinterred from the old
Reformed Congregational cemetery at.
Frederick, Md., were deposited in the
mausoleum in Mt. Olivet cemetery at
Frederick.
Thad A. Thompson, a -wealthy and
prominent business ' men of Austin,
Texas, has ben selected .for United
State's minister to Coluombia, to suc
ceed James T. Dubois. Mr. Thompson
was a delegate to the Baltimore con
vention and has been an active work
er in the Democratic ranks. He is a
personal friend of Postmaster General
Burleson. ,
In memory of the" two hundred and
sixty-seven officers and men who were
lost with the battleship Maine in Ha
vana harbor 15 years ago, the National
Maine monument was dedicated in
New York City. From a dozen Amer
ican warships, units of the Atlantic
fleet at anchor in the Hudson river, a
salute of 252 guns echoed from the
Palisades as the veil was swept aside
that revealed the country's, tribute a
pylon 40 feet high, that stands in Cen
tral park, overlooking Columbus Cir
cle. W. J. Miller, 60 years old, whose
home is near Bedford, Va., commit
ted suicide at six o'clock in the morn
ing by hanging himself to a tree in
his orchard. His body was found by
members of his family before life was
extinct, and although he lived for fif
teen minutes after being cut down, he
never regained consciousness. He died
from strangulation.
"Nat" Herreshoff, designer of many
successful defenders of the American
cup, probably will build a candidate for
the defense of the cup next year
against Sir Thomas Lipton. A syndi
cate, made up of Commodore Corne
lius Vanderbilt, C. Oliver Islin and oth
er older members of the New York
Yacht club, will furnish the funds.
The dream of a Danish, engineer
named Aesen of seeing the next war
waged by automatons in place of sol
diers has developed into the patent
ing of an invention which, it is said,
will revolutionize defensive ' tactics.
Aesen's contrivance is a cylinder
which may be buried in the ground
for years in the same fashion as sub
marine mines are placed in harbors,
doing no damage until they are fired.
The cylinder is operated by electricity
from a station four or five miles dis
tant. Military circles of the Bulgarian
capital expect an almost immediate
outbreak of. hostilities between Bulga
ria and Servia. Bulgaria has address
ed a note to the powers offering to
submit to their decision the question
of the future of Salonika, according
to the Reichspost.
Former State Senator Stephen K.
Stillwell of New York, convicted of
bribery by a jury, after he had been
exonerated by the New York state sen
ate, was sentenced to serve not less
than four years nor more than eight
in Sing Sing prison. Supreme Court
Justice Seabury granted a stay of ex
ecution, so Stlllwell's lawyers might
apply for a certificate of reasonable
"doubt.
Washington
Secretary Bryan signified the day
commemorative of the coutnry's hero
dead by announcing that eight nations
have responded favorably to his peace
plan, asking that suggestions be sub
mitted in regard to details. The na
tions in the order in which they have
accepted are Italy, Great Britain, Bra
zil, France, Sweden, Norway, Peru and
Russia.
The following statement was Issued
by the state department: "The state
department has authorized the Ameri
can embassy at Tokio to deny a San
Francisco telegram which appeared in
Japanese papers that preparation were
being made for war and to the effect
that troops of artillery were being sent
to Hawaii and that the Phillippine gar
rison was to be increased.
Washington's slums will be cleaned
out if the influence and active work of
the "white house family count for any
thing. Mrs. Wilson has made several
quiet trips of inspection through the
Capital's unslightly alleys, and she has
joined other prominent women in at
tending a meeting of the Woman's De
partment of the National Civic Federa
tion. There a letter was read from
President Wilson approving the move
ment for wiping out disreputable alleys
and providing sanitary homes at low
rentals for the poor.
Over the opposition of ten states'
rights Democrats from the south, in
cluding Senators Bacon and Hoke
Smith of Georgia, the senate passed
the Kern resolution for an investiga
tion of the West Virginia coal strike
situation. Senator Smith, as chairman
of the committee on education and la
bor, in reporting the favorable action
of his committee, said he regarded the
resolution as of somewhat doubtful
propriety, and that it presented an is
sue of great seriousness.
The so-called "patent monopoly"
which threatened to prevent cut rates
by retailers in all patented articles on
the market was destroyed by a decis
ion of the supreme court of the United
States. The court held that the own
ers of patents are not given the right
by the patent law to control the price
at which retailers must sell to the con
sumers. The decision in words applied
only to a nerve tonic, for which a pat
ent has been issued, but will control
all patented articles being sold under
restrictions not to resell at cut rates.
The court reversed the policy adopted
in the formous "minograph" . case.
TAX RAILROADS ON
GROSS EARNINGS
Wisconsin' man tells sub-com-mittee
how this is done
IN HIS STATE.
THE SESSION IS ADJOURNED
The Members Will Meet With the Con-
. , f -
stltutional Amendment Commission
in -Raleigh in the Near Future to
Discuss Matters. V. : ....
Greensboro. The Constitutional
Amendment Commission's sub-committee
on taxation and revenue ad
journed several days ago to meet In
Raleigh the day prior to the meeting
of the whole committee to further
consider matters discussed at this
hearing and endeavor to make some
deflnitj report and recommendations
to the full committee. "-'"
- At this session no definite plan was
adopted the time being given to pub
lic hearings and suggestions from
state officials and tax experts. State
Treasurer Lacy, Attorney General
Bickett, Corporation Commissioner
Travis and State Superintendent Joy
ner submitted definite constitutional
amendment sections relating to their
several departments while by special
invitation, in addition to valuable ad
dresses, Editor, R. M. Beasley submit
ted amendments relative to realty
taxes and assessments, Prof. Charles
Lee Raper of the sate University on
the general scheme of taxation, and
Professor Adams of the University of
Wisconsin submitted a. proposed
amendment to the present revenue
and tax sections of the constitution.
These addresses and -proposed
amendments will be printed for the
benefit of the public, and for the spe
cial use by the members of the com;
mission.
At one session Chairman Travis
submitted figures bearing on the
amount of present taxes paid by the
railroads. The total state, county and
local taxes paid by railroads last yer
in North Carolina were $1,742,000.
Asked If a 'segregation of property
was decided upon and a straight tax
on gross earnings imposed what
would this yield, Mr. Travis replied
that the present total amount paid by
the railroads was not quite 4 per cent
of the gross earning.
Dozen Postmasters Confirmed.
An even dozen confirmations of
North Carolina postmasters were
ground out by the senate and there
remain comparatively few now to be
confirmed. The following were con
firmed: Hector McL. Green, Wilming
ton; Lee H. Yarborough, Clayton
William H. Etheridge, Selma; W. C.
Hall, Black Mountain; Plato C. Rollin,
Rutherfordton; P. J. Caudell, St. Paul;
Duncan L. Webster, Siler City; H. C.
Curtis, Southport; , W. D. Pethel;
Spencer; Joseph S. Stallings, Spring
Hope; Johja L. Gwaltney, Taylors
ville; W. H. Stearsn, Tryon. -
Bonds Passed in, New Hanover.
New Hanover county by a small ma
jority voted for $175,000 bonds for
schools and $100,000 bonds for good
roads. Few votes were . actually
against the measures, but the advo.
cates had to secure a majority of the
registered vote, which they did, thf
majority for schools being somewhat
larger than for roads. The money
will be used to build new school
houses and to extend the good roads
system. This is the largest amount
ever voted for school purposes in, any
county in the state.
Thrown From Motorcycle and Killed.
Forest Lee, a young white man
whose home is at Bridgeton, just
across Neuse river from New Bern,
and who was a member of the crew of
the revenue cutter Pamlico-, stationed
at New Bern,-was instantly killed re
cently when he was thrown from a
motorcycle, while speeding up East
Front street at, a. rate of sixty miles
xn hour. .
Road Building in North. Carolina.
Dr, Joseph Hyde Pratt, of North
Carolina, who was . in Washington to
see the president about drainage mat
ters, stated that North Carolina coun
ties had passed favorably upon the
issue of bonds aggregating $2,200,000
for good roads in North Carolina and
that the legislature has authorized a
vote on. good roads bonds between
$9,000,000 and $10,000,000 to be voted
upon." ' He said that authorized bonds
had been sold easily and he had a de
mand for more expert engineers than
he could supply. -
Talk of Another Railroad.
Another railroad was proposed at a
mass meeting held at Casar in the up
per part of Cleveland county. In pur
suance to a call a big crowd was pres
ent to discuss plans for building a
road to Casar and after an address by
Major H. F. Schenek, president of the
Cleveland Mills '& Power Co., a rail
road and industrial club was organ
ized, electing G. W.' Peeler, president;
Sam Warlick, secretary, and, A. A.'
Warlick, treasurer. A committee was
appointed to co-operate, make and re
ceive propositons.
ARE DOING WORK OF VALUE
North Carolina Educators Receive
Complimentary Notices For -Scien-'
title Wdrk Being Done.
, Raleigh. The work being done by
North Carolina educators is being no
ted throughout the country, for it is
work bf the constructive class. Among
those educators are Prof. W. A. With
ers and Prof. F. S. Stevens of the A.
& M. College, whose work with refer
ence to microbial efficiency in soils
is most favorably commented upon in
a technical bulletin of the experiment
station of the Michigan Agricultural
College. In referring to this that bulle
tin says: .
, "The discussion concerning the best
method for determining the microbial
efficiency in soils has entered a new-
stage since Stevens and Withers de
monstrated by several series of exper-
(munto fnrttll rMffT-fn tvnfiR of SOllS
that there is' no direct relation be
tween the microbial activity in the
soil and in the extract of this soil or
In a similar nutrient solution. Ste
vens and Withers are not the first
ones to advocate the .use of soil rath
er, than liquids for soil bacteria. Prac
tically air work coming from the soil
bacteriological laboratory In Goettin
gen has been done with soil in its
natural condition. But we owe to
Stevens and Withers the experiment
al and conclusive proof that biochem
ical changes in soil and in solutions
inoculated with soil give not the same
and nt even comparable data. There
Is no definite relation between the
two, and no constant factor will allow
of the companion of one datum from
the other. . .
To Represent North Carolina.
Governor Craig has appointed a
number of delegates to the National
Conference of Charities and correc
tions at Seattle, to be held in the
early summer. A special statute in
this state empowers the directors of
the state Institution to defray the ex
penses of representatives attending
these conferences. Those appointed
from the state institutions are H. B.
Varner, chairman pf the board of di
rectors, and J. S. Mann, superintend
ent of the state penitentiary; Dr. Al
bert Anderson, superintendent of
Central Hospital for Insane; Dr. W.
W. Faison, superintendent of the Col
ored Hospital for Insane, ' Dr. Ira Har
dy, superintendent of the State
School for Feeble-Minded; W. A.
Blair, Winston-Salem;! Mrs. Isaac" M.
Taylor, Morganton; Mrs. Sol. WeiL
Goldsboro; Bishop Robert Strange,
Wilmington; Prof. Horace Chase,
Chapel Hill; Clarence Poe, Raleigh;
G. Hi Hastings, judge of the record
er's court, Winston-Salem.
Who Are Rightful Members of Board
The state department of education
is advised that an agreed state of
facts has been submitted- to Judge
Foushee on 'which he is to pass on
the big contest at Andrews, Chero
kee county, involving the personnel
of the public school board. It is a
contest over who are the rightful
members of the board. The state is
due to pay to the board $500 for an
nual maintenance of the public high
schhool there, but payment can not
be made until there is a decree of
court as to who is rightful custodian.
Mr. Joyner took a trip to Andrews in
an unsuccessful attempt to settle the
rom. '
Of Interest Throughout State.
Much interest throughout western
North Carolina centers in the plans
of the Blue Ridge Interurban Rail
way Company with reference to its
independent development of water
power , interests on the Green River,
near Hendersonville with its associat
ed plans for the construction of an
electric trolley line to connect Hender
sonville with Saluda and with exten
sions proposed to Rutherfordton, H
where connection will be had with
the Seaboard and to Asheville where
connection with the Southern will be
available.
Inaugurate Sunday -Train Service.
The Carolina & Yadkin River Rail
way has inaugurated a Sunday train
serv'ce. Train No. 21 will leave
Thomasville at 9 a. m. arriving at
High Rock at 11:25. Returning will
leave High Rock at' 2:45, arriving at
Thomasville at' 5:20.
Appeal to Craig and State Council.
The Raleigh City Commission is ap
pealing to Governor Craig and the
Council of State to take steps as
speedily as possible for draining Wal
nut Creek, In compliance with provi
sion made by the legislature to cor
rect the unsanitary condition of this
stream "' near Raleigh through the ef
fects of the state penitentiary author
ities by digging clay for the brick-making
activities. The great pits of water
are a menace to the health of Raleigh
and generate malaria and swarms of
mosquitoes. '
Car and Locomotive Collide.
A dinky locomotive met a gasoline
motor car on the Hardway Construc
tion Company road at Whitney bruis
ing seven passengers of the motor car
but not seriously injuring any . one.
Two negroes who jumped from the
car were most painfully hurt. The
drivers of both engines reversed in
an effort to avoid the collision, but a
Wet track made this effort useless
The . accident - occurred about two
miles but on the road to the big darr
which the Hardway firm is now build
ing. ' .' . -
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Latest News of General Interest That
Has Been Collected From Many
1 " Towns and Counties.
Ralelghl The commencement . address-by
Dr. J. Herman Randall, New?
York, and the presentation of the
diplomas to the graduates. marked the
close of the Meredith College com
mencement season several days ago.
Twenty-one young ladies received
diplomas.
Asheville. Some of the noted auto
mobile" driver of the south will be
seen in action here Juiy 4, If plans be
ing made by Asheville motorists ma-'
terialize. The plans being considered
embrace either, a first-class road race
of five or ten. miles, or a hill climb
that will test the stability of every
car entered, as well as the ingenuity
of the driver. '
Dunn. The party of surveyors who
have been -working on the extension
of the Durham & Southern into Samp
son, have finished their work and will
disband and go to. the Western part
of the state. It is not known Just
where this road is going; lines have
been surveyed to Clinton by several
routes, but as usual the public Is In
the dark. . -
Washington. Maj. E. J. Hale of
Fayetteville was recently endorsed by
a formidable delegation, who appear
ed before President Wilson to urge his
appointment as Ambassador to
France. Mr. Bryan, Secretary of
State, headed the delegation, which
included Senator Overman, accom
panied by Bacon of Gebrgia and Rans
dell of Louisiana.
Salisbury. Heavy rains interferred
somewhat with the first day's canvass
for memberships to the Salisbury Li
brary Association, but the undertak
ing is a great success so far. Secur
ing the lists after the rain the can
vassers covered the city with a de
termlnaton to secure 300 members
for the organization and In this well
nigh succeeded.
Statesville. News of the robbery
of three stores in Yadkin county has
come to Statesville. At one or more
places the store safe was battered
open in the same manner that the
safe of Stimpson & Steele was open
ed at Turnersburg, and this leads to
the conclusion that . all the robberies
were by the same gang.
Charlotte. The handsome new con
crete bridge that has been under
construction over Paw Creek on the
Paw Creek road, about eight miles
from the city, since last October Is
nearing. completion and County Engi
neer Stowe states that the finishing
touches will likely be added within
two weeks. ' f
Davidson. In exercises as simple
as ever attended an event of such far
reaching importance and yet withal
as profoundly impressive as deepest
sincerity could make them, Dr. Wil
liam Joseph Martin, for the past year
the president de facto of Davidson
College, was formally Inaugurated In
to office and declared to be its exe-.
cutive head.
Duke. Duke Is soon to have a mod
ern hospital, the Erwin Cotton Mills
Company providing the needed insti
tution. A part of the furniture and
fixtures has already been received and
as soon as the remainder comes the
hospital will be opened. Miss Eliza
beth and Dr. W. P. Holt will be the
physician In charge.
Henderson. Following the blowing'
down by storm of the tent of the
Wild West show here recently, whldh
resulted In the death of Robert Davis,
a Vance county farmer, and injury to
others, the town authorities served
attachment papers on the circus peo
ple and required bond, T. H. Hicks
and J. C. Klttrell, attorneys acting
for the city. It is understood that the
managers are willing to pay $1,000
and compromise.
Siler City. Siler City ' claims to
have raised the largest amount in
cash for carrying on the fighht for just
freight rates In North Carolina, in
proportion to her population and
wealth. Some days ago an organiza
tion was formed with J. C. Gregson,
president and V. M. Dorsett, secre
tary and treasurer. They at once saw
the business men of the town and ex
plained that it was necessary, in or
der t to carry on this fight, to have
some money, and raised $88.50.
Raleigh. Pursuant to resolutions
adopted at the last meeting of the
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, Pres
ident Albert L. Cox has appointed sev
eral committees to take charge of
.various propositions that the chamber
now. has under consideration.
Raleigh. The fire at Blltmore sev
eral days ago that burned, a barn and
several fine horses on the Vanderbilt
estate is being investigated by Deputy
Insurance Commissioner F. M. Jordan.
There are strong indications of incen
diarism it is said. This is the second
barn that has been burned on this
site in two years.
Raleigh. After pleading guilty to
larceny Id the Superior Court, Char
lie Moore, of Carlos, in the confusion
incident to the adjournment of court,
walked quietly down stairs and dis
appeared. He has not been appre
hended at last report.
Canton. At the regular meeting of
the Board of Aldermen, the election
of town officials was continued, J. K.
Downs being elected to the position
of night policeman to succeed Harley
Wells". There were several other ap
plicants for this position and interest
in the selection of the officer to sue
cAd Mr. Wells was Intense.