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VOL. XXXVI
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM CO UNTY, N. C, JANUARY 28, 1914.
NO. 25.
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
Parte of World.
Southern.
Three inert, believed to have been
rank amateurs, held up Southern rail
way train No. 41, local to Tuscumbia,
at Facklers, Ala., at about 8:20 at
night. According to the best author
ity in Chattanooga, Tenn., there was
nothing of value in either express or
baggage car, which were looted, the
robbers finding only perishable arti
cles of food, a lot of trunks and a pile
of sacks containing second class mail.
A feature of unsual interest at the
celebration of the twelfth anniversary
of the famous Martha Berry school at
Rome, Ga., was the announcement of
the endowment by Mr.s. Woodrow Wil
son of the Edward W. Axson scholar
ship of $1,000 from money obtained
from the sale of her pictures. The
scholarship was in honor of her bro
ther, who was drowned near Rome, the
old family home.
Home-grown strawberries made their
debut in Mobile, Ala., with the first
straw hat. Although it has been
scarcely two weeks since the first and
only freeze of the water so far, abnor
mally spring-like weather has been pre
vailing, and H. C. Cochran, a fruit
grower of Satsuma, near Mobile,
brought the first consignment to mar
ket. The first straw hat seldom pre
cedes Mardi Gras, but a man was seen
wearing one on the streets.
Judge W. T. Roberts of Douglas,
Ga., former solicitor general of the
Tallapoosa circuit, has been named
by Secretary of Commerce Redfield
as special attorney for the bureau of
corporations. This important position
was landed for Judge Roberts through
the influence of William J. Harris, di
rector of the census, who is very close
to the secretary of commerce. Mr.,
Harris and Judge Roberts served in
the state senate together and occupied
adjoining seats. Judge Roberts was
chairman of the judiciary committee.
He will take up his work at once,
it is stated.
Jefferson Davis' two dueling pistols,
a double-barreled pistol and appurte
nances, seized by Union troops near
the close of the Civil war and which
have been in the custody of the war
department nearly fifty years, will be
turned over to Joseph A. Hayes, of
Colorado, whose wife is the eldest
daughter of the former president of
the Confederacy. The shawl and rag
Ian, belonging to Mrs. Davis, said to
have been worn by Davis when he was
captured, were not included among
the articles for which Mr. Hayes ask
ed, but they will be returned if Davis'
heirs ask for them.
"I have killed her father," said C.
King Morse, an automobile supply man
of Mobile, Ala., as he walked into
police headquarters at Mobile, with
Miss Eleonora Freadhoff, and handed
the desk sergeant a revolver, one
chamber of which contained an empty
shell. Miss Freadhoff corroborated
the story which her lover told the po
lice that her father, Charles Fread
hoff, had suddenly appeared before
them with a revolver when they were
walking near the girl's home about
eleven o'clock. She said that Morse
had shot in self-defense. He was
docked on a charge of murder.
Returning to his home, No. 3 Hill
Park, adjoining the Whittle school, at
Macon, Ga., Joe McWhorter, until re
cently proprietor of the "Old Seventy
six Saloon," went to a bedroom where
Mrs. McWhorter was doing some clean
ing, shot her through the heart and
then turned the weapon on himself,
firing two bullets through his own
breast. Mrs. McWhorter fell to the
floor dead and the body of her hus
band fell directly across iter lifeless
form. Both aparently died instantly.
General.
Capt. Harry A. Field, commanding
the battleship Louisiana, has been
found guilty by a courtmartial of "haz
arding his ship by navigating without
a chart" when the Louisiana ground
ed on a reef off "Vera Cruz, Mexico,
last August.
At Pittsburg, Oklahoma, two bandits
rode up to the state bank, forced the
cashier into the vault at pistol point,
rifled it of coin, placed their loot In
a sack and galloped safely out of the
town. The bank officials claim only,
a few hundred dollars were taken. Oth
er reports said several thousands were
secured. A posse with bloodhounds
have started on the trail of the rob
bers. Seven men were sent to death and
three persons were wounded when
three convicts attempted to escape
from the state penitentiary at McAl
ester, Oklahoma, and weres lain by
guards. One of the men murdered
by the convicts in their dash for lib
erty was John R. Thomas of Musko
gee, formerly United State district
judge, and once congressman from Il
linois. Despite the commotion caused
by the three men in trying to shoot
down every one who came in their
way, no general attempt was made
by other convicts to join in the deliv
ery. '
. With the assistance of two reluc
tant but badly scared porters, a lone
bandit held up four passengers on the
rear sleeper of the Michigan Central
passenger train due here from Detroit.
The robber entered the train at Jack
son, Mich., and left it about fifteen
minutes later, when Lewis Thombs,
one of the porters, signaled for the
emergency brakes near Chicago.
Armed guards had be to be called
into the house of Hungarian parlia
ment at Budapest, to eject unruly
members of the opposition during a de
bate on the press reform law. The
uproar was so great that it was im
possible to conduct business until the
members had quit.
The Wisconsin eugenic law, which
provides for the issuance of marriage
licenses only upon a certificate of a
clean bill of health was declared un
constitutional by Judge F. C. Eschwel
ler of the circuit court at Milwaukee
Judge Eschweiler held that the eu
genics law has unreasonable statutory
limitations so far . as physicians' fees
are concerned, and that it is an un
reasonable and material impairment of
the right of persons to enter into mat
rimony. The 3,300 Mexican federal soldiers,
six Mexican generals and 1,369 women
and children who sought asylum in
the United States after they were driv
en out of Ojinaga, Mexico, by Gen.
Francisco Villa's rebel forces, have
arrived in El Paso, Texas. They will
be held at the Fort Bliss military res
ervation. Arriving in ten trains from
Marfa, Texas, the refugees were taken
at once to Fort Bliss, where they were
put in a camp enclosed by a barbed
wire fence.
From the drift of proceedings at
Harrisburg, Pa., before the state
board of pardons, it is believed that
Mrs. Kate Edwards, who has been in
the Berks county jail for more than
twelve years under sentence of death
for the murder of her husband, will be
set free. Because of her sex, no gov
ernor since 1901 has cared to sign
papers for the carrying out of the
death sentence. Her case is one of
the most remarkable in the annals of
Pennsylvania courts.
Arrangements for ' the importation
into this country of thousands of tons
of beef and other meat products from
the Argentine Republic, Australia and
New Zealand, have just been complet
ed by a syndicate of American capi
talists whose identity has not been disclosed.
Washington.
The ninth cotton ginning report of
the census bureau for the season an
nounced that 13,589,171 bales of cot
ton counting round as half bales of the
growth of 1913 had been ginned prior
to January 16, to which date during the
past seven years the ginning average
was 97.5 per cent, of the entire crop.
Last year to January 16 there had
ginned 13,088,930 bales, or 97 per cent.,
of the entire crop; in 1911 to that
date 14,515,799 bales or 93.3 per cent.,
and in 1908 to that date 12,666,203
bales, or 96.8 per cent. Included in the
ginnigs were 97,034 round bales com
paring with 78,690 last year.
After a conference with Commission
er General Caminetti, Secretary Wil
son of the department of labor ad
vised Speaker Champ Clark that the
problem of Asiatic immigration could
be solved by congress raising the
standard of admission to this country.
The secretary said he saw no reason
"hy the standard should not be raised.
Former President Taft called a halt
la the movement toward "purer dem
ocracy" and greater social and indi
vidual freedom. In a speech at the
commencement exercises of a Phila
delphia business college he arraigned
"impractical reformers" and "dema
goguges" who seek to arouse class
consciousness. He took issue with
he tendency to inject more democ
racy into educational methods, and de
clared the spread of "lubricity" in lit
erature and on the stage, and indirect-
sctly in education, was a danger to
young men and women of the coun
try. President Wilson's ( suggestion to
congress in his trust address that the
government and business men are
ready to meet each other half way "In
a common effort to square business
methods with both public opinion and
the law," fell on attentive ears and
struck a responsive chord in represen
tatives of differing political parties.
The atmosphere of co-operation and
"accommodation" in the message; the
reforms proposed, expressed in terms
of conservatism, and the spirit of
friendliness to supersede antagonism
in dealing with big business, which
dominated the president's thoughts,
fcroused expressions of approval from
all sides.
An adverse report on the appoint
raet of Frak P. Glass as successor
t the late Seator Johnston of Alabama
as made by Senator Walsh on behalf
ol the committee on privileges and
ejections. Senator Kern submitted the
report of the majority, recommending
fhe seating of Blair Lee (Dem.) as
successor of Senator Jackson (Rep.)
of Maryland. Jr. Kern offered a res
olution directing that Lee be seatefl
for the remainder of the unexpired
term of the late Senator Rayner.
A supplemental report on the bill
to appropriate $25,000,000 a year for
federal aid to road construction in the
various states was filed in the house
by Representative Shackleford, chair
man of the house roads committee. A
special rule making this bill in order
as an amendment to the postoffice ap
propriation bill is now before the
house. The bill proposes to divide the
appropriation among the states in pro
portion to the rural delivery routes
and post roads in each state. Tables
setting forth the mileage of these
roads in each state were included in
the report filed.
RATE HEARINGS
L FEB.
AT THAT TIME CROSS-EXAMINATION
OF WITNESSES WILL ;
BEGIN.
TAR HEEL CAPITOL NEWS
General News of North Carolina Col
lected and Condensed From . the
State Capital That Will Profe of
Interest to All Our Readers.
t Raleigh.
The rate hearing before the special
freight rate commission , adjourned
recently until February 24 when the
state will take up the cross-examination
of its witnesses and begin the
development of its testimony.
The Norfolk and Western concluded
its case with Comptroller Coxe on the
witness stand and Lucien H. Cocke,
general counsel, conducting the ex
amination. The state cross-examined
Mr. Coxe while he was here and he
will not have to return here to be
polite while he is on the grill.
The Norfolk & Western choose its
own way to defend its case. It made
no distinction between interstate and
intrastate freight rates and made all
calculations upon the basis of busi
ness originating outside the state. It
conceded more to the state than any
of the roads and contended that upon
neither state nor trans-state business
was it making such revenues as would
justify a reduction. t
Mr. Coxe spoke by way of outlining
his company's position. He said that
he expected to be able to prove the
points urged against the Justice act
by sumitting the tax values of the
property as a correct value, "though
it is not," he explained, "and to as
sume that the entire intrastate busi
ness is done at no greater cost than
the intrastate business, and that even
then, the entire earnings of the Nor
folk and Western in North Carolina,
including all business, interstate and
intrastate, are not sufficient to pay a
return of more than four percent."
Mr. Coxe's concession was made in
order to fecilitate the hearing.
Throughout the examination the large
systems had maintained that there is
a very considerable difference in the
cost of operating a local and a trans
state train. The local runs more
slowly, carries -two more men, has
double terminal costs and loses much
time which adds to cost of fuel and
to overtime charged. He waived all
these and made no point of it when
he did it.
"This estimate Is based upon the
tax values under the rates as they
now exist," he continued, "but in the
event that rates are reduced, how
ever, and the excess value over and
above the tax value of th property
upon which the Norfolk and Western
Railway Company is entitled to a re
turn, be assumed as the value of the
property, then the return of the Nor
folk and Western Railway Company
upon the value of tne . property used
in the public service is less than three
per cent.
"We contend that we are entitled
to a return sufficient to meet the
cost of operation including a fair
wage to employees of the company
and a sum which would be sufficient
to keep the property, maintained un
der a safe and modern condition and
a sum not less than six per cent for
its stockholders, based upon a fair
value of the property used by the
company in conducting the public
business.
"The Norfolk and Western com
pany has made no attempt to separate
the freight business but has assum
ed for the purpose of this hearing
that all business Is done at the same
cost. Under that plan, it believes
that receipts from the entire business
would not justify any rate tribunal in
the conclusion that a reduction of
rates would be either Just or reason
able." Patents For Tar Heels.
Messrs. ' Davis & Davis, patent at
torneys, Washington, report the grant
to citizens of North Carolina of the
following patents:
George L. Allen, Shelby, line com
posing and casting machine; William
H. Lasater, Asheville, screw; Joseph
H. Tabe, Marion, automatic door-latch.
Another North Carolina History.
."Reconstruction in North Carolina"
is the title of an interesting new his
torical volume that is being looked
forward to with pleasure by many
North Carolina people. It is written
by Professor J. G. de Roulhac Hamil
ton, Ph.D., alumni professor at the
University of North Carolina, and
deals with that interesting period of
the state's history from 1861 to 1876.
References to it from .various leading
North Carolina educators and histo
rians are very flattering, and will con
stitute a valuable additon to history.
A. C. L. to Build Double Track.
Announcement was made recently
by Atlantic Coast Line of the award
of contracts in sections for grading
and construction of double track on
63-mile stretch from Selma to Parkton
through Fayetteville, work to be com
pleted by Fall. The contracts were let
as follows: Sections one and two
each section about 12 miles long to
W. L. Wiliams Company, of Macon,
Ga.; section three, C: W. Lane & Co.,
Atlanta; section four, J. J. Sheahan,
EHkton, Tenn.; section five, to A. &
C. Wright. Elkton.
END
Geological Board Reports.
In annual session here a few- days
ago the State Board of Geological
Survey heard the report of State Geol
ogist Joseph Hyde Pratt, giving the
activities of the board for the past six
months and adopted recommendations
as to an active campaign of work for
the next haf-year. Members of the
board all of whom were here for the
meeting, are Hugh McRae, Wilming
ton; H. E. Fries, Winston-Salem;
Frank Hewitt, Asheville; W. H. Wil
liamson, Raleigh.
The report showed active co-operation
with the State Department of
Agriculture in the investigation of
lime deposits and it was determined
to carry these investigations into
every section of the state during the
next year with a view to bringing
about the largest possible develop
ment of lime deposits for agricultural
purposes.
Gold mining in this state was shown
to "b emuch on the increase, with a
number of mines being operated on a
profitable basis.
In highway construction the report
was made that two miles of the Hick
ory Nut Gap highway have been com
pleted and six bridges, one of them
steel, and all of them thoroughly sub
stantial, have been constructed, there
being 35 state convicts at work on
the road. Another squad of 35 con
victs isi at work on the Madison coun
ty section of Central Highway and 50
on the Randolph county roads, the
latter being hired from the state at
$1.50 a day.
For all this work the State Geolo
gical Board is giving engineering as
sistance. Also such assistance has
bees, given in numbers of the coun
ties", with six state and two Govern
ment men enlisted in the work. The
counties are Henderson, Polk, Orange,
Alamance, Granville, Harnett, Tran
syhania, Jackson, McDowell, Burke,
Recent Charters Granted.
The Yum Drug Company, Durham,
capital $25,000 authorized and $5,000
subscribed.
The Cabarrus Laundry Company,
Concord, capital $10,00 authorized and
$3,000 subscribed.
The Person County Fair Associa
tion, Roxboro, capital $20,000 author
ized, and $530 subscribed.
The King Drug Company, of Forest
City, capital $25,0000 authorized and
$6,000 subscribed.
People's Motor-Car Company, High
jpoint, capital $20,000 authorized, and
$12,500 subscribed.
.The Gattys-Martin umber Manufac
turing Company of Zeublon, capital
$25,000 authorized, and $6,000 sub
scribed. Louise Knitting Mills Co., Durham,
capital $50,000 authorized and $13,000
bubscribed.
The Sumersett Undertaking Co., of
Salisbury, capital $35,000 authorized
and $5,000 subscribed.
The Smithfield Milling Co., Guilford
County, capital $25,000 authorized and
?6,000 subscribed.
State Wants Control of Public Service
The corporation comission.is taking
definite and active steps to assume the
direct supervision of electric light,
power, water and gas companies serv
ing the public throughout North Caro
lina pursuant to duties imposed on
the commission by the 1913 legislature
through Chapter 127, Public Laws of
the state.
To this end the commission issued a
call to all such companies, other than
municipal corporations, to file with
the commission witrin 30 days com
plete schedules of their rates and
charges for each class of service which
they sell to the public, together with
any schedules of discounts for quan
tity of service or prompt payment.
Inventory of State Timber.
The inventory of the timber re
sources of the states is to be pushed
eastward during the next year, the
work being already completed as far
as Warren, Durham and Randolph
counties eastward from the Blue
Ridge and beyond.
Drainage work is to have continu
ed attention, there being now 66
drainage districts in the state. Work
is now fully organized all along the
Central Highway, with not more than
two townships that have not actually
begun work. There are assurance
that the highway will be completed
by the fall of 1915.
New Fourth Class Postmasters.
"Recent apointments of postmasters
for fourth-class offices : , Wiljiam S.
Carawan, Columbia, Tyrrell county;
Jay K. Sanders, Tnna, Alleghany; Jno.
W. Ward, Griff n ; . Dare ; Roger Gant,
Glen Raven, Alamance; John B. Greer,
Moravian Falls, Wilkes; Robert L.
Capps, Areola, Warren; Robert R.
Fisher, Addie, Jackson; John T, Den
ny, Cromartie, Robeson; James M. H.
Flynt, Gideon, Stokes; Floyd F. Rob
erts, Laurel Branch, Alleghany, and
S. W. Davidson, Ranger Cherokee
county.
New State Building Open Feb. 2.
The new state building is to be
thrown open to the public in a sort
of informal reception on the evening
of February 2, the day for the opening
of the spring term of the supreme
court, the ceremonies for the opening
to be from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock. The
building is to be presented by J. A.
Long of the Building Commission, and
the acceptance on the part of the state
will be by Governor Craig. There will
also be remarks by Chief Justice
Clark, Col. J. Bryan Grimes, librarian
M. O, Sherrill and others.
FOUR NEW ANTI
TRUST BILLS OUT
Measures Based on Wilson Poli
cies Define Sherman Act
and Allied Laws.
FULL PUBLICITY IS SOUGHT
Trade Commission Instead of Corpora
tion Bureau Would Report Viola
tions of the Statutes Rigid
Inquiries Are' Ordered.
Washington, Jan. 23. Embodying
the program laid down by the presi
dent in his recent message, the ad
ministration's trust bills were present
ed to congress. '
The bills have received the approval
of Mr. Wilson and the Democratic
leaders of both houses of congress.
With little modification they will be
enacted into law. Their purposes are:
1. Definition of unlawful monop
oly or restraints of trade.
2. Prohibition of unfair trade
practice.
3. Creation of an interstate
trade commission.
4. Regulation of corporation di
rectorates and prohibition of in
terlocking directorates.
Unlawful Monopoly Defined.
Unlawful monopoly is defined as
any combination or agreement be
tween corporations, firms, or. persons
designed for the following purposes:
1. To create or carry out re
strictions in trade or to acquire a
monopoly in any interstate trade,
business, or commerce.
2. To limit or reduce the pro
duction or increase the price of
merchandise or of any commodity.
3. To prevent competition in
manufacturing, making, transport
ing, selling, or purchasing of mer
chandise, produce, or any com
modity. 4. To make any agreement, en
ten into any arrangement, or ar- .
rive at any understanding by
which they, directly or indirectly,
undertake to prevent a free and
unrestricted competition among
themselves or among any pur
chasers or consumers In the sale,
production, or transportation of
any product, article, or commod
ity. The penalty for violation of the law
is fixed at not more than $5,000 or im
'prisonment for one year or both.
Guilt is made personal through a
section that whenever a corporation
shall be guilty of the violation of the
law the offense shall be deemed to
cover the Individual directors, officers,
and agents of such corporation, as
authorizing, ordering, or doing the
prohibited acts, and they shall be pun
ished as prescribed above.
A paragraph prohibiting holding
companies is to be added to this meas
ure. Covers Unfair Trade Practices.
The bill forbidding unfair trade
practices declares that to discriminate
in price, between different purchasers
of commodities, with the purpose or
intent to injure or destroy a competi
tor, either of the purchaser or of the
seller, shall be deemed an attempt to
monopolize interstate commerce.
It is specifically declared that the
law Is not intended to prevent dis
crimination in price between purchas
ers of commodities "on account of
difference in the grade, quality, or
quantity of the commodity sold, or
that makes only due allowance for
difference In the cost of transporta
tion." Further, it is prescribed that noth
ing contained in the act shall prevent
person's from selecting their own cus
tomers, "but this provision shall not
authorize the owner or operator of
any mine engaged in selling its prod
uct In interstate or foreign commerce
to refuse arbitrarily to sell the same
to a responsible person, firm, or cor
poration, who applies to purchase."
An attempt at monopoly also Is de
clared to exist for any person to make
a sale of goods, wares, or merchandise
or fix a price charged therefor, or dis
count from or rebate upon such price,
on the condition or understanding
that the purchaser thereof shall not
deal in the goods, wares, or merchan
dise of a competitor or competitors of
the seller. i
Deals With Damage Suits. .
A Judgment against any defendant
in a suit brought under the anti-trust
law the bill provides shall constitute
as against such defendant conclusive
evidence of the same facts and be
conclusive as to . the same issues of
law in favor of any other party in any
other proceeding brought under and
Involving the provisions of the law.
For the benefit of parties injured in
their business or property, by any per
son or corporation found guilty of vio
lating the law the statute of limita
tions applicable to such cases shall be
suspended.
Injunctive relief is accorded against
As It Seemed to Her.
After viewing her new baby brother,
little Laura said: "Mamma, I know
why they went and cut baby's hair in
heaven. The angels knew he wouldn't
be strong enough to walk to the bar
ber's for several weeks."
Dut of Commission.
. Wife "0 h, William, dear, do order
a rat-trap o be sent home today!"
Husband But you bought one last
week." WiVe "Yes, dear, but there's
a rat in itf
threatened loss or damage by a viola,- I
tion of the act under the same condl- .
tions and principles that injunctive re
lief against threatened conduct which
will cause loss or damage is granted
by courts of equity.
It is required that a proper bond
shall be executed against damages for
an injunction improvidently granted,
and it must be shown that the danger
of Irreparable loss or damage is im
mediate. Hits Interlocking Directorates.
Concerning directorates, the bill on
that subject, which Is to become ef
fective two years from date of ap
proval of the act, provides:
"No person engaged as an Individ
ual or as a member of a partnership
or as a director or other officer of a
corporation in the business of selling
railroad cars or locomotives, or .rail
road rails or structural steel, or min
ing or selling coal, or-conducting a
bank or trust company, shall act as a
director or other officer or employe of
any railroad or other public service
corporation which conducts an inter
state business.
"No person shall at the same time
be a director or other officer or em
ploye in two or more federal reserve
banks, national banks, or banking as
sociations, or other banks or trust
companies which are members of any
reserve bank; and a private banker
and a person who is a director in any
state bank or trust company not oper
ating under, the provisions of the re
cent currency law shall not be eligible
to serve as a director in any bank or
banking association or trust company
operating under the provisions of the
law,"
' Violation of these sections is made
punishable by a fine of $100 a day, or
by imprisonment not exceeding one
year, or both.
If any two or more corporations
have common director or directors,
the fact shall be conclusive evidence
that there exists a real competition
between such corporation and such
elimination of competition shall be
construed as a restraint of interstate
trade and be treated accordingly.
The trade commission bill provides
for commission of five members, with
the commissioner of corporations as
chairman, and transfers all the exist
ing powers of the bureau of corpora
tions to. the commission.
The principal and most important
duty the commission besides conduct
ing investigations will be to aid the
courts when requested in the forma
tion of decrees of dissolution.
With this in view, the bill empow
ers he court to refer any part of pend
ing litigation to the commission, in
cluding the proposed decree, for infor
mation and advice.
Much Criticism for Bills.
The trust bils as framed will be
the subject of sharp criticism on the
part of progressives of all parties who
claim they do not go far enough. It
will be declared that the definition of
monopoly remains inadequate that the
prohibition of unfair trade practice
does not cover this evil in our econ
omic life that interlocking stock con
trol is not covered and that the pow
ers of the proposed trade commission
are insufficient.
It is interesting to note that the
proposal to place the burden of proof
upon a combination believed to be vio
lating the law has been omitted. No
attempt is made to prevent or destroy
monopoly based on patents. The great
est difficulty experienced in the effect
ive enforcement of the law has been
found to be in the unwillingness of
the courts to impose jail penalty. It
remains optional under the proposed
measures wiht the courts to fine or
imprison.
Trade Board May Disappoint.
In connection with the trade com
mission President Wilson declared in
his message that the country "de
mands such a commission only as an
indispensable instrument of Informa
tion and publicity as a clearing house
for the facts by which both the pub
lic mind and the managers of great
business undertakings should be
guided."
The bill prescribes that the commis
sion acts are to constitute a "public
record" but the body is authorized
to make public the information "in
such form and to such extent as may
be necessary" or "by direction of the
attorney general."
It is apparent that the public mind
cannot be guided unless it has the
facts, and then it will not get unless
the commission or the attorney gen
eral deems it politic.
Settlement of Differences.
The most important feature of the
bill is that which legalizes the policy
of the administration of terminating
an unlawful condition by agreement
between the combination attacked and
the attorney general.
This feature is comprehended under
a section which requires the commis
sion, upon the request of the attorney
general or any corporation affected,
to investigate whether a combination
is violating the law. In case the com
mission should find the violation to
exist it must report to the attorney
general a statement of the t)bjectlon
able acts and transactions and the
readjustments necessary for the of
fending combination to conform to
the law.
To Induce Sleep.
To many people the drinking of half
a pint or more of clear cold water on
retiring brings about a cure for sleep
lessness. It clears the blood, washes
irritating food out of the stomach, and
promotes a feeling of quietude which
helps sleep.
Getting It Straight.
She -"I believe you married me sln
ply because I had . money." He
"Quite the opposite, madam. I mil
ried you because I hadn't any." ,
Hews Stems of the
Old Elorvh State
Big Lumber Deal.
Announcement was made a few
days ago that the Camp Lumber Com
pany of Wilmington, has purchased
the timber holdings of the Cumber
land Lumber Company, of Baltimore,
Md., comprising large tracts in Pen
der, Duplin and Sampson counties
and contining standing timber esti
mated to be more than 125,000,000
feet and worth probably a half million
dollars.
Oliver Gets Job.- -
John T. Oliver, the Reidsville edt
tor who was defeated for the postmas
tership by Senator Simmons' opposi
tion, has been selected for a field po
sition in the Census Bureau at $1,500
a year, with traveling expenses when
at work out of the city. He was in
Washington recently and has decided
to take the place, which was secured
by Senator Overamn.
Enlarge Hosiery Mill.
The Freeze-Bacon Hosiery Mill at
Hendersonville, estaDlished in 1912
with 20 machines, which number has
been increased to 62 with 45 employes
sharing a monthly payroll of $1,500,
has been incorporated with a capital
of $50,000,- of which $40,000 has been
subscribed and plans are under con
sideration for a considerable increase
in the working capactity of the estab
lishment. Land Sells For $1,000 An Acre. -
One of the biggest real estate deals
of the year was consummated recent
ly when 25 acres of property lying
just west of Grove Park in Asheville
was sold by J. J. McCloskey to the
Annandale Development Company. It
is understood that the property
brought $1,000 per acre and that the
new owners contemplate developing
it.
NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS.
The annual municipal dinner to be
given by the Greater Charlotte Club
promises to be an event of the livest
kind. It will be called to order at 13
minutes and 13 seconds past the hour.
To it there will be 250 tickets sold.
ine congregation or the Methodist
church at Forest City has appointed a
building committee and started a cam
paign for funds with which to erect a
new church. It will cost about $15,000.
Whitehead Kluttz is to work as sec
retary of the boundary commission.
For a few days he is stopping at 1312
L. street, Northwest, Washington. He
will bring his family in a short while.
The total taxable property in Guil
ford county in 1913 was $28,248,691,
an increase of $1,827,751 over 1912
when the taxable values were $26,
456,940. Practically all of the increase
was In Morehead and High Point
townships.
The tabulation of the separate re
turns from g'nners for the January
report according to the Department
of Commerce shows there were 9,893
bales of cotton, counting round bales
as half-bales, ginned in Rutherford
county from the 1913 crop prior to
January 1, as compared to 8,941 bales
to the same date- the previous year,
an increase of 955 bales.
The commissioners of Cumberland
county, at their January meeting, or
dered that the tax levy for county
purposes for 1913 be reduced from
25 cents to 10 cents on the hundred
dollars, and that all persons who have
paid their taxes be refunded to that
extent.
The following postmasters were ap
pointed recently: Roger Grant, Glen
River; John B. Greer, Moravian Falls;
Robert L. Capps, Areola.
Governor Craig announces a re
ward of $50 for the arrest of Lon Ed
wards, the negro wno shot to death
D. A. Sanderford at Apex recenty.
PlnTlQ nro filronHv rn fnnt frr IhA
rebuilding of Oak Ridge Institute, the
two principal buildings of which wen
destroyed by fire only a few days
ago. The owners of the school hav
no idea of moving it
Reports submitted to the .stock
holders of three Asheville banks at
their annual meetings show that the
financial institutions hae experienc
ed a year of prosperity.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Bostic Bank at Bostic recently,
the usual semi-annual dividend of i
per cent was declared,
The report of the James Walker
Memorial Hospital of Wilmington for
the past year shows that a total of.
1,384 patients were treated; 816
white, 630 pay and 185- charity; 568
colored, 470 charity and 98 pay.
Plans for the organization 'of a
health board for Hendersonville are
rapidly materializing. The board will
be composed of the following mem
bers of the Board of City Commis
sioners. The road commissioners of Ruther
ford county held an all-day session re
cently, receiving, opening and accept
ing bids for certain sections of road,
in all contracts for 35 miles were
awarded. Bids on 15 miles- were all
rejected.
Under a recent decision following
a vote taken by the Oraer of Railway
Conductors on the Southern Railway,
Spencer is to be made a terminal
point for passenger trains. It is stat
ed that vote was polled recently and
that a majority of the conductors
voted for the terminal to be changed
from Charlotte to Spencer. '