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THE CHATHAM RECORD fl A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, on insertion 1L00 One Square, two kawrtioM $fJ9 On Square, one monta $259 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will borasdo. VOL. XXXV. PITTSBOO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N ,C, JULY 9, 1913. NO. 48. VETERANS HEAR THE PRESIDENT Mr. Wilson Delivers Address at Gettysburg Celebration. DRAWS LESSON FROM BATTLE Declares Great Army of the People Must Eight Peacefully to Perfect the Ration All Love. Gettysburg, Pa., July 4. National day in the semi-centennial celebration of the Battle' of Gettysburg was made especially notable by an address de livered by President Woodrow Wilson. In his audience were many thousands of the veterans who fought in the great battle, as well as a great throng of other visitors. The president's address follows: Friends and Fellow Citizens: I need not tell you what the battle of Gettys burg meant. These gallant men in 3lu-and gray sit all about us here. Many of them met here upon this ground in grim and deadly struggle. Upon these famous fields and hillsides their comrades died about them. In their presence it were an impertinence to discourse upon how the battle went, how it ended, what it signified! But 50 years have gone by since then and I crave the privilege of speaking to you for a few minutes of what those 60 years have meant. What have they meant? They have meant peace and union and vigor, and the maturity and might of a great na tion. How wholesome and healing the peace has been! We have found one another again as brothers and com rades in arms, enemies no longer, gen erous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten except that we shall not forget the splendid valor, the manly devotion of the men then arrayed against one another, now grasping hands and smiling into each other's eyes. How complete the union has become and how dear to all of us, how unquestioned, how benign and majestic, aa state after state has been added to this great family of free men! How handsome the vigor, the maturity, the might of the great na tion we love with undivided hearts; how full of large and confident prom ise that a life will be wrought out that will crown its strength with gra cious justice and a happy welfare that will touch all alike with deep content ment! We are debtors to those 50 crowded years; they have made us heirs to a mighty heritage. Nation Not Finished. But do we deem the nation com plete and finished? These venerable men crowding here to this famous field have set us a great example of devotion and utter sacrifice. They were willing to die that the people might live. But their task is done. Their day is turned into evening. They look to us to perfect what they estab lished. Their work is handed on to. us, to be done in another way but not In another spirit. Our day is not over; it is upon us in full tide. Have affairs paused? Does the nation stand still? Is it what the 50 years have wrought since those days of battle finished, rounded out, and completed? Here is a great people, great with every force that has ever beaten in the life blood of mankind. And it is secure. There is no one within its borders, there is no power among the nations of the earth, to make it afraid. But has it yet squared itself with its own great standards set up at its birth, when It made that first noble, naive appeal to the moral judgment of mankind to take notice that a government had now at last been established whicn was to serve men, not masters? It is secure in everything except the satis faction that its life Is right, adjusted to the uttermost to the standards of righteousness and humanity. The" days of sacrifice and cleansing are not closed. We have harder things to do than were done in the heroic days of war, because harder to see clearly, requiring more vision, more calm balance of judgment, a more candid searching of the very springs of right. Tribute to Their Valor. Look around you upon the field of Gettysburg! Picture the array, the fierce heats and agony of battle, col umn hurled against column, battery bellowing to battery! Valor? Yes! Greater no man shall see in war; and self-sacrifice, and loss to the utter most; the high recklessness of exalt ed devotion which does not count the cost. We are made by these tragic, epic things to know what It costs to make a nation the blood and sacri fice ,of multitudes of unknown men lifted to a great stature in the view of all generations by knowing no limit to their manly willingness to serve. In armies thus marshaled from the ranks of free men you will see, as it were, a nation embattled, the leaders and the led, and may know, if you will, how little except in form its action differs in days of peace from its action In days of war. May we, break camp now and be at ease ? Are the forces that fight for the Nation dispersed, disbanded, gone to their homes forgetful of the common cause? Are our forces disorganized, without constituted leaders and the might of men consciously united be cause we contend, not with armies, but with principalities and powers and wickedness in ' high places. Are we content to lie still ? Does our union mean sympathy, our peace content ' ment, our vigor right action, our ma turity self-comprehension and a clear confidence in choosing what we shall do? War fitted us for action, and ac tion never ceases. , v Our Laws the Orders of the Day. I have been chosen the leader of the Nation. I cannot justify the choice by any qualities of my own, but so it has come about, and here I stand. Whom do I command? The ghostly hosts who fought upon these battle fields long ago and are gone? These gallant gentlemen stricken in years whose fighting days are over, their glory won? What are the orders for them, who rallies them ? I have in my mind another host, whom these set free of civil strife in order that they might work out In "days of peace and settled order, the life of a great na tion. That host Is the people them selves, the great and the small, with out class or difference of kind or race or origin; and undivided in inter est, if we have but the vision to guide and direct them and order their lives aright in what we do. Our constitu tions are their articles of enlistment. The orders of the day are the laws upon our statute books. What we strive for is their freedom, their right to lift themselves from day to day and behold the things they have hoped for, and so make way for still better days pr those whom they love who are to come after them. The recruits are "the little children crowding in. The quartermaster's stores are in the mines and forests and fields, in the shops and factories. Every day some thing must be done to push the cam paign forward; and It must be done by plan and with an eye to some great destiny. How shall we hold such thoughts in our hearts and not be moved? I would not have you live even today wholly in the past, but would wish to stand with you in the light th'ajt streams upon us now out of that great day gone by. Here is the na tion God has builded by our hands. What shall we do with it? Who stands ready to act again and always in the Bpirit of this day of reunion and hope and patriotic fervor? The day of our country's life has but broadened into morning. Do not put uniforms by. Put the harness of the present on. Lilt your eyes to the great tracts of life yet to be conquered in the inter est of righteous peace, of that pros perity which lies in a people's hearts and outlasts all wars and errors of men. Come, let. us be comrades and soldiers yet to serve our fellow men in quiet counsel, where the blare of trumpets is neither heard nor heeded and where the things are done which make blessed the nations of the world in peace and righteousness and love. LOOK TO RUSSIAN OIL FIELDS Are Certain to Play an Important Part in Furnishing Power for Battleships. In discussing the fact that the use of oil Instead of coal as fuel in the English navy is under consideration It is time Russia should pay serious attention to this question. If England is replacing Its own cheap coal by the more expensive foreign product, there must be important advantages on the side of naphtha, and in the future Russian fleet the part to be played by this fuel will be a most important one, the Novoe Vremya says. Many mills and factories have gone over to naphtha as fuel and the consumption Is increasing every year. . -Russia owns immense oil fields and it could be the chief supplier of the world. The need of organization in the business is recognized by the government and a number of special meetings have been held for discuss ing the subject. New conditions have been laid down for the exploitation of government territories, and the regu lations, for investigations have been changed. Some territories known as being rich in oil have been closed to private enterprise, such as the Ap sheron peninsula, near Baku, and vari ous islands of the Caspian sea, as well as some territories in the Transcas- pian Ural and Gerghana districts, and others in the north of Russia and Si beria, amounting to millions of acres. The reason for this action is the wish to preserve these districts from ex haustion. Another question concerns the mat ter of investigation. It is quite neces- sary that the right of investigation be granted on a large scale, and not only for comparatively small lots of ground. where the investigation might not pay. The government is aware of this fact, and, according to the new regulations the plots of ground allotted for inves tigation are to be increased tenfold. The most advisable system is to grant concessions that would induce capitalists to place their money in such undertakings. Under the new regulations regarding the investigation of naphtha districts, the government proposes to publish geological de scriptions of the various districts. Ready Wit Saved Situation. A very laughable incident once oc curred in the house of commons. An Irish member having risen was as sailed by loud cries of. "Spoke Spoke!" meaning that having spoken once already he had no right to do so a second time. He had evidently a second speech struggling In his breast for an introduction Into the world, when seeing after remaining for some time on his legs, that there was not the slightest chance of being suffered to deliver a sentence of it, he observed with imperturbable grav ity and in rich Tipperary brogue: "If the honorable gintlemin suppose that I was going to spake again they are quite mistaken. I merely rose for the purpose of saying that I had nothing more to say on the subject," The house was convulsed with laughter for a few seconds afterward at the ready wit of the Hibernian M. P- BRIEF NEWS NOTES FDR THE BUSY MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS Or THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happening of Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. tke Harry C. Knight, known as Hero of the Indianapolis Speedway, was instantly killed and his mechani- oiur TVHH-rvn TVHVhoo1ia hrvth nf At.la.n- A. oc fatoiw iniri at , minm. IN bus. Ohio, when Knight's front lt drive car blew a right tire and turned v,o lltnv. lor, nf tho 9nn-milfi vUl llv Ulv J. J- C VA V. .uw automobile race. A 50-gallon still was captured eight miles south of Griffin, Ga., by the deputy collectors. The still was lo cated about fifty yards" from the home of an old lady, 82 years of age, ,who gave two of the officers a lively race for a short time With about 150 judges and lawyers present the fifteenth annual conven tion of the North Carolina Bar associ ation met at Asheville, N. C, in a three days' session. The principal address of the first session was that of Judge James S. Mannin of Raleigh, the presi dent of the association, which was in the form of a message to the lawyers of the state. J. L. Dempsy, a prominent farmer of Douglas county, Georgia, commit- ted suicide by hanging himself with a blanket in the county jail at Doug- lasville. He had been temporarily de- ranged and placed in jail for safe-1 keeping. State Senator Ben A. Smith of West Virginia was convicted of brib ery in connection with accepting $2, 200 to vote for Col. William Seymour Edwards as a candidate for the United States senate The proposition contained in the Clarke amendment to the Underwood tariff bill to tax one-tenth of a cent a pound all cotton futures contracts " - . r.r has aroused aggressive opposition on the part of members of the New Or- leans cotton 'exchange and many oth ers interested in cotton trade through out the South. General The waving of the American flag in Winnipeg. Man., while thousands of nrovinr.ial soldiers were naradine. ore- cinitated a riot during which the flag was tramnled and a number of persons received minor injuries. In the fight which followed a number of civilians were hurt, but none seriously. The American whose name could not be ascertained escaped without serious harm, and with the aid of the police eluded the crowd. The soldiers took no part in the demonstration. Mn at eorim fihtin ia no. curring in Macedonia is found in the arrival of large numbers of wounded and prisoners at the various Balkan capitals, but, owing to the silence at Sofia, and to the conflicting and prob ably biased stories from Servian and Greek sources, it is impossible to form an accurate idea of the struggle There has been no formal declaration of war and although it is reported the Bulgarian minister to Greece has been recalled, he has not departed yet from Athens. Five persons were killed and three injured, one probably fatally, when the "Scranton Flyer," on the Penn sylvania and Reading railroad, struck a wagon containing a picnic party at a railroad crossing near Quakertown, Penn. Secretary Daniels has discovered how to keep cool. His prescription is: Think of cotton and forget about the warm weather. The secretary made known his discovery when some one at the navy department deplored the hot weather in his presence. "Do you realize," he asked, "that this is the finest possible weather for raising cot- ton?" Bravery of the engine room crew of the battleship Louisiana helped the vessel out of a dangerous predicament when a valve bonnet blew off, flood- ing the starboard engine room. Inci- dentally the accident gave Capt. Tem- plin M. Potts, who was dismissed by the naval "plucking board," and re- tires, a memorable experience at the close of his service. The rush of wa- ter through the pasasge opened by the displacement of the bonet carried the men off their feet and forced them against the machinery, but they stuck to their work. - During the season just closed there were shipped 425 cars of strawberries averaging 240 crates to the car, which sold for over $300,000. This is the largest season ever known and the prices were much better than ever be fore at Shelby ville, Del. John Nicholson of Vandalia, Mo., pleaded guilty in court to mur dering his wife, Bertie Nicholson, and their nine-year-old ' adopted son, Hor ace, by pouring oil over them while they slept and Sttting fire to their bed carrying out Secretary McAdoo's re clothing. ' cent order charging interest on gov- The Atlantic waters which have been allowed to run slowly against the lower gates at Gatun have reached sea lefcel. The large gates are being .put .to the actual test of the full press- ure for the first time. Four men were fatally injured In Beatty ville, Ky., by an explosion of dynamite on a railroad track. Angered Pittsburg mothers who had seen an uncontrolled automobile plunge through a throng of several hundred children preparing for a pa rade on the streets of West Pittsburg, almost tore the clothes from the ma chine's chauffeur, Abe Yuengling, be fore he was turned over to the police. One of the "children in the throng was killed and twelve others were hurt. Yuengling declared brakes on his au tomobile refused to work while he was coming aown a steep graae. The Mohave desert in California has A stnrv nf niisrfinresentfttlon. imner- sonation of public men and organized effort to influence Wall street finan- ciers probably without parallel in the history of congressional investigation was unfolded before the senate lobby committee. A prosperoas'looking, self- possessed individual calling himself David Lamar of New. York, self described as "an operator in stocks" and admittedly the bearer of several assumed names, was the principal in the remarkable session. A bill to appropriate $300,000 to drain the swamp and wet lands of the " 7 " "c Cii"am eu mai leuamauuu 01 tu swamp lands of Georgia was important. He stated that if the swamp lands of Geor gia were drained, the state of Geor- eia would buv no more corn' and the other states would be coming: like th fViildron rf Israel Hrwn intr flcnr. gia to buy corn. gone dry. For the first time in Its history the desert is minus the saloons property is valued at more than $10, which dotted the sandy stretch for 000. The total funds subscribed at a distance of 200 miles. The hottest day of the year marked the advent of the "dry rule." It is reported that rifle pits and trenches are being dug by federal sol diers on the western outskirts of Jua rez and barbed mire is being stretch ed as an additional defense against attack by the Constitutionalists. An tpost of 100 federals has been sta-Jnp ' wfield of labor for the Southern li Z " ' across tne Rl Grande from EI Paso' , ' . , uos?n' vuas' an amaleu! avia T Or"caso' maa? ati?- r 7 " T , , . trip, made in a hydro-aeroplane, from St. Joseph, Mich., to Chicago, con sumed one hour and 44 minutes. Denver was selected for the 1916 meeting and W. F. Carter of Peoria, 111., elected president of the Brother hood of Locomitve Firemen and En- ginemen convention. Federal Judge Charles S. Wolverton siened the deorefl in the flron and railroad erant case which VlVfP"11? . a8!r iui iciia lvj nits KUTeruiueiiL .u a.Dio i acrpsi nf land in the wiiHamoHo Vai. lev held hv th Southern Panifin. - . I In the pitiless glare of a sun that sent the mercury bubbling over the 100 mark and made clothes a burden nl a bath only a delusion, the armies. or tne wortn and South have begun formal exercises set to mark the semi-centennial of Gettysburg. OTly women, mostly or tne Detter ciass, nave commuted suiciae in uu- rango since its occupation by the reb- els after a long seige, according to a private letter received in Mexico City. The women, said the letter, be- came desperate because of their treat' ment by victorious rebels. Four hundred coal miners were res- cueQ irom ine araaise mine, linnoisi near, Duquoin, which caught fire. The "6 " w , feet from the burning coal chutes, and worked the hoist that brought the men up the shaft in spite of the heat that blistered his hands and singed his hair. When the last man was res cued Matthis fell unconscious. He was taken to his home , A newspaper has a legal right to expose a business nrm s business methods, provided motives of its pub lishers are "open to the belief that they are in good faith." This was the opinion handed down by Federal Judge Hand in New York City. The Roumanian government tender ed a note to 'the Bulgarian govern ment refusing Bulgaria's offer to rec tify the Bulgarian-Roumanian frontiei in consideration of Roumania's con sent to remain neutral. Washington Majority members of1 the senate finance committee decided that all the schedules of the new tariff bill except sugar, and wool should become effect- ive immediately after the enactment of the measure into law. Sugar, with the approval of the Democratic cau- The waving of the American flag in Aldrich rates until March 1, 1914. Additional revenue was provided for by the committee when it decided, in view of the revenue tax on brandies, used in fortifying sweet wines, to levy a revenue tax of 25 per cent, ad valorem on what are known as "spu- nous wines," wines made from punv mis and fortified with chemicals. Uncle Sam closed the fishcal year 1913 with a surplus of $40,083,229, representing the excess of receipts over expenditures, exclusive of - Pan- ama canal, and public debt transac tions. This exceeds last year's sur- plus by $3,750,000. The Panama trans- actions, however, wiped out the sur- plus of ordinary receipts over or- dinary expenditures and created a de ficit of $2,149,000. National banks will pay about one hundred thousand dollars into the United States treasury, as interest for one month on deposits of the federal government. This is the first step in ernment deposits at the rate of 2 per cent, per annum. The order became effective June 1 and as the interest will be paid on July 1 and January 1 of each year, the first payment will be for only the month of June. The gov- ernment expects to earn more than a million dollars annually in this man- ner. - CONFERENCE ENDS RELIGIOUS MEETING AT LAKE JUNALUSKA ENDS. -WORK DONE. GOOD MISSIONARY SUBSCRIPTIONS A More Inspiring Sight Bishop Wilson Says He Has Never Witnssed. The Conference Was a Great Success. Object of Meeting. Waynesville. With an address by the venerable Bi3hop A. W. Wilson, the second general missionary con ference of the M6thodist Episcopal church, South, 'which had been in ses sion at Lake Junaluska for five days came to a close. The closing hours of the conference were featured by a remarkable outburst of enthusiasm, which, added $20,600 more to the total of $115,000 subscribed. The grand total was pushed past the one hun- dred and fifty thousand mark, when it was announced that a lay worker of MIssdssioDi had eiyen 550 acres of land, for the erection of an educational institution for the colored race. The this conference more than triple the record reached at New Orleans five years ago. Bishop J. McCoy preached , a special sermon at the morning service. At the closing exercises Bishop Lamburt detailed the results of hiis personal efforts to establish mission stations in Africa, a comparatively I1 - E. church. The bishop, who pen- etrated the heart of the Congo conn- try during his travels, declared that the prospects for successful mission- ary efforts in Africa were unusually bright. Bishop Wilson delivered the clos ing address. He said that the Waynes- ville conference had been successful to a marked degree in point of at tendance and results accomplished. bishop aroused great enthusiasm when he declared that the conference which just closed had set a new record fr missionary contributions. He had miMunry cum nevr witnessed a more inspiring ,.. h dn. than the eenerous re- s.ponses made to appeal for funds when the sum of $115,00 was sub- scribed in less than an hour. Revenue Collecti'ons Increasing. Raleigh. With the receipts total ling the large sum of $5,517,138.71, an .increase of over a million dollars, the United States revenue department for the Eastern district of North Caro lina ended its best year in the his- tory of the department. The receipt of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912 were $4,377,000, the Increase for . the past fiscal year being $1,140,138.71. The department has been steadily in- creasiing its collection for the past six months, especially since taking over the South Carolina district and the department for the western part of state lhag fallen behind Collector Wheeler Martin's monthly' showing. Delegation to Good Roads Meeting, Charlotte. Mayor Bland appointed the following Charlotte men to attend the annual convention of the North Carolina Good Roads Association to be held at the Wright Hotel in More- head City on July 31 and August 1 Messrs .O. L. Barranger,. Dr. B. J. Witherspoon, C. B. Bryant, B. Hush Lee, J. A. Jones, Thomas Garibaldi, J. O. Walker, C. C. Williams, C. C. Cod- dington and C. C. Hook. The circular letter announcing the convention fs sent out by Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, secretary of the association. Logging Train Wrecked. Lumberton. A log train on the Raleigh & Charleston Railroad was wrecked three miles south of here re cently as the result of a trestle 'be ing burned. The strain was running backwards and on account of fog none of the crew discovered the burn ed trestle until the train was right on It. Nearly every car was piled in a heapr Several members of the crew were injured, but only one was hurt bad enough to be carried to the hospital. Brown Collector For -Seven Years, Statesville. If Col. A. D. Watts does not take charge of the office of collector of Internal revenue until the lEh of this month, Collector George H. Brown will have completed his seventh year in that office, he hav ing taken charge July 15th, 1906. Dur ing that trime Collector Brown has collected in internal taxes for the gov ernment a total of $24,513,071.70, all of which has been deposited and ac- counted for without the loss of a pen- ny. Collector Brown has made a fine record in every respect. Storms Do Much Damage. Wilson. Besides the killing of Mrs, Baker by lightning and damage to many farmers by hail and wind, Mr, Wiley Webb, of Saratoga township, says he thinks $4,000 is a conserva tive estimate of the damage to his 10 horse crop; that his tobacco crop will not yield $25 to the acre, and that much of his corn and cotton 'is badly damaged. -Says that neighboring farms were (badly damaged, and that hail fell as large as hen eggs, and that the wind blew a hurricane and the rain came down in torrents. LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE Latest News of General Interest That Has Been Collected From Many Towns and Counties. Smithfield A .severe electric storm passed over Smithfiield recently when lightning struck the stables of W. L. Bray and killed a fine mule. There was another mule on one side and a cow. on the other which were not (hurt. Klnston. Every stream in this sec tion of the state is swollen from the recent rains. The total precipitation was over three inches, and the rivers and creeks are rising rapidly with the freshets from up state, - Raleigh. Sheriff Sears sent depu ties to search for the murderer of James Glenn, a well-known white mar in Barton's Creek township. Accord Ing to reports reaching here Glenn was struck over the head with a shov el by Henry Evans, colored, who es caped. Salisbury. At Albemarle several days ago Spencer Watklns, aged 21, agent for the Southern Express Com pany at that place, was electrocuted by a live wire. In some unaccountable way a semaphore at the depot became heavily . charged and he was killed when he touched it. It required three ment to pull his body from the wire. Asheville. .Secretary D. Harris, of the Western North Carolina Fair As sociation will go to Rutherfordton shortly to assist in the organization of a fair association for Rutherford ton county. Mayor J. P. Bean, of Rutherfordton, was here several days ago and he .extended an invitation to Mr. Harris to visit Rutherfordton for the purpose. Mt. Olive. Up to the present time, about 30,000 barrels of Irish potatoes have been -shipped to Northern mar kets from this point, -with about 10,000 barrels still to be dug and shipped. This is a much larger yield than has ever been raised in Mount Olive's ter ritory before, but the average price per barrel has (been far from satisfac tory. Raleigh. The time was up July 1 for receiving proposals from North Carolina towns for the location of the State Home for wives and Widows of Confederate veterans, for which there was a $10,000 appropriation of buildings and $5,000 annually for maintenance by the recent legislature. Some town is expected to donate the site and possibly other aid in making the institution creditable to the state. si,n.-? o o ooooooottt Raleigh. T. B. Parker, director of county farmers' institutes, returning from the western section of North Carolina wlhere he has been for the past week in. the interest of the con ducting of institutes during the sum mer months, and where his immediate interest was to aid other members of the state agricultural department in observing the work of the test farms, states that the fruit crop in western North Carolina Is a failure, j Jonesboro. The dewberry crop ir Lee county has been marketed and the returns have been good. From three acres owned by A. J. Sloan, of this place, he gathered 530 crates that netted $2.00 ' per crate above all ex penses of cultivating and getting on the market. This netted $333.53 per acre, or a total for the patch of $1,000.60, with about fifty crates left in the field for the hands after the market went down. Charlotte The Mecklenburg school authorities have recently had printed a list of those attractions at the next county fair which will be of interest to the children throughout the coun ty. The Mst includes the premiums and prizes offered in the various lines to be contested for by boys and girls throughout the county. The list In cludes all information necessary for competing for these many valuable prizes which are to be offered. Raleigh. Judging by the tone of the petition filed with the corpora tion commission through their attor ney L. H. Allred, of Smithfield, the whole town of Selma are up in arms In demanding that the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line Railways provide more adequate depot facilities at this railway junction, where passengers from points south, of Weldon, north of Fayetteville and eastern points stop over between trains. Raleigh. Robert C. Strong, North Carolina supreme court reporter, an nounced recently that the index of the 161st North Carolina report is in the hands of the printers anad that it is anticipated that at an early date the reports, will be in the- possession of the legal profession over the state Asheville. For the purpose of en abling the department to put a stop to reckless driving and speeding, the police committee of the board of al dermen is contemplating the purchase of two motorcycles for the use of the plain clothes men in running down violators of the speed and traffic laws Asheville. The laying of the new Masonic temple and Scottish Rite ca thedral, which is In the course of con struction at the corner of North Main and Wooding streets, marked an epoch in the history of Masonry in western North Carolina. Hickory. The business of the Ca tawba Co-Operatlve Creamery Assoc! ation of this city, which was organ Ized three years ago, has greatly in creased each 'year. , The first year of ts organization ; the receipts were about $13,000. For the year ending June 1, 1913, the creamery's business was $51,935, ' ' BULGARIAN TROOPS REPULSE SERINS REPORT' DESPERATE FIGHTING IN PROGRESS JUST NORTH OF SOLONIKA. i V GREEKS ARE THREATENED A jSpeclal Dispatch to London Tellsi of a Most Disgraceful Incident ati . Belgrade. Reports of Fighting , at Other PI'aces. . .Vienna, Desperate fighting has been in progress between Bulgarians and Servians several days near Veles (KopriM), according to the Sofia cor respondent of the Neu Frele Press. 2ie says the Bulgarian tfroops tre pulsed the Servian southern wing with .heavy losses and expect to oc cupy Veles shortly. The same correspondent telegraphs that a great battle extending over an area of 50 miles is in progress north, of Salonika, where 80,000 Greeks are opposed to 100,000 Bulgarians. The, result is expected to be a deciding lactor in the Greek and Bulgarian campaign. The strategy of the Bulgarian com manders forced the Greeks to aban don several fortified positions near Salonika, Langasa, Lake and Beahik Lake. . Salonlki. Greek troops captured from the Bulagrains the small town of LaHana on the railroad from Salonika to Serres. It is considered the most important position in the vicinity and the key 'to Serres, 20 miles northeast Constantinople. The Ottoman gov ernment has not yet decided what ac tion it will take in view of the Bal kan situation but the opinion prevails here that Turkey will not allow the opportunity to escape of obtaining some material or moral benefit from the clash. London. A disgraceful . incident marked the arrival at Belgrade of 1,384 Bulgarian prisoners of war, ac cording to a special dispatch -from the Servian capitaL The prisoners wee mialrched through the streets in the presence of immense crowds of Servians who closed In, cheering wildly at the rear of wagons loaded with wounded lying three deep, many of them apparently dying. Desecrate Flag, Apology Follows. Washington. Two incidents in- volving desecrations of national flags which marked celebrations are ex pected to form the subject of com plaints to the state department, though so far nohing has been heard from them. The affair at Winnipeg, Maanltoba, involving the trampling of an Amer ican flag at a British parade, prob- -ably cannot be made the basis of an official protest because the interna tional law does not guarantee proic- tion of flags of a foreign country ex cept where they are displayed over official buildings. In the Tucson, Ariz. incident, however, where the flag over the Mexican consulate was torn dowa. the state department will prcnabbly be obliged .to request the local authorlie to make a proper apology and amends to the Mexican consul. Governor Mann's Denial. Richmond, Va. In a statement Gor ernnor Mann strongly resented the( published reports that he had advo cated a grand reunion of the armies of the North and the South in Rich mond In 191-5 on the fiftieth anniver-' sary of the evacuation of the Confed erate capital. "There is absolutely no foundation lor the statement that I advocated such a reunion," said Gov ernor Mann.-v'The friendly gathering of American citizens who were sol diers in both armies on the field of Gettysburg was a very different thing from the proposeSTcelebration of the passing and fall of the Confederacy." The Political Reward. Washington. A bill to take part of the appointive power from the president and lodge It in a commis sion of three men will be introduced! by Senator Works. It is designed to ' prevent public offices from being used as political rewards and the chief ef fect would be to take from senators, representatives and party leaders their present power of recommend ing candidates. The proposed com mission, appointed by each president at the. opening of his term of office would recommend appointments. Independence Day Tragedies. New York. While the movement for safety and sanity In the celebra tion of the Fourth of July worked; wonders in the reduction of the num ber of victims despatches from a, score of different points throughout the country account for 41 persons' killed in a variety of other accidental incident to the outpouring of the holi-. day. crowds. - Twenty-eight personsi were drowned;- five persons were kill4 ed in automobile accidents, five In a single train accident and two killed in aeronautic sports. 1 '
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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July 9, 1913, edition 1
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