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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A- LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance TV THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Sqaare, en inrti , JL.00 On Square, two ktsrtM (L9 Om Square, one moatk $2JQ For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXVI PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, FEBRUARY 11, 1914. NO. 27. IEF HEWS BOTES 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. In the presence of thousands of per sons, at Palatka, Fla., Thomas Wil liams, a negro, convicted of the mur der of his stepdaughter, Vallie Moore, aged 14, was hanged. He confessed his crime on the gallows. The curtain of tragedy dropped up on another mysterious "eternal tri angle" when A. J. Amerson of New Orleans pumped two bullets into the body of a young woman who passed in Atlanta, Ga., as his wife, and then drilled a hole through his own heart. Over a sea too rough for lifeboats, lii'esavers at Norfolk, Va., took off by means of breeches buoys the crew of the three-masted schooner Helen H. Benedict, ashore south of Cape Henry. Tiie Benedict is leaking, but appar ently will be able to live many hours. "Hie revenue cutter Onondaga went to her assistance. Sam Walden, who lives two miles south of. Mitchell, Ga., committed sui cide. The cause is unknown. His v.ife left the house for a short time when he secured a gun, placed it to his forehead and pushed the trigger w ith a stick. The top of his head and a piece of his skull were blown off and through the window. The South Carolina house of repre sentatives has passsed a compulsory educational bill, and it" is stated that it will be concurred in by the senate. Leslie Edwards, 21 years old, was frozen to death, and Buford Terhune, aged 22, probably will die from expos ure as a result of being caught under an automobile that turned turtle in a creek near Lexington, Ky., at night, when the steering gear failed to work. The postofflce at Rex, Ga., which is located in the general merchandise store of the Powell brothers, was broken into by two Yeggs, who were preparing to make a "clean sweep" of postofflce and store, when interrupt ed by a posse and forced to surren der. A citizen passing about ten o'clock at night saw a light in the building and on investigating found that burglars were busy. He summon ed friends and several officers, and they surrounded the building. The Yeggs were called upon to surrender, and, seeing they had no chance to es cape, they surrendered without a fight. General. Rioting and pillaging broke out in Cape Haitien to such an extent that Commander Bostwick of the gunboat Nashville landed eighty men to pro tect lives and property of foreign res idents. Lucius N. Littauer, a former member of congress, and his brother, William, were fined $1,000 each and sentenced to six months in jail for smuggling. The brothers were arraigned in the federal -district court before Judge Thomas in New York City, having pleaded guilty to two indictments charging smuggling and conspiracy to defraud. They had admitted bringing into this country, without paying duty, valuable jewels purchased in Venice and intended for gifts for William Littaur's wife. The president of the republic of Peru, Guillermo Billinghurst, was tak en prisoner by the military revolution ists. President Billinghurst was later taken by. the rebels as a prisoner to Callac, from which port he will be sent into exile in a foreign country. The rebels suddenly attacked the presiden ts palace under the leadership of Colonel Benavides. Gen. Enrique Va- rela, premier and minister of war, was killed in the fight which ensued. Dr. Augusto Durand, a former revolution ary leade.r whose arrest was sought by the police, took possession of the palace. . Women citizens of Chicago are turn ing out in full strength to take advan tage of their first opportunity to reg ister as voters, and are giving their ages nonchalantly. "The Mexican war will not last very much longer." Gen. Francisco Villa nd other rebel leaders at Juarez made this -comment on the announce ment front. .Washington that President Wilson had lifted the embargo against the shipment, of arms and ammunition into Mexico; -General Villa was con fident that Jlis ability to procure un limited arms soon would multiply rebel victories, and equally confident that the news from Washington would dis courage and demoralize the federals so that a speedy termination of the war "would soon result.; Charged with burning the four-year old child of a deceased relative, Will Calloway and his wife are under ar rest in the Jonesville, Va., jail. Ac cording to sheriff's officers, the ne groes confessed to the crime when they were taken to the. scene. Callo "way, the officers state, in his confes sion, is alleged to have admitted strip ping the child of its clothing and burn ing it, while alive, on a camp fire. The reason given for the act, according to the alleged confession, was that Calloway and his wife tired of the child. The burning is said to have IN oceeurred at night. Reports that conspirators trere planning a coup d'etat resulted in the troops of the entire gairison of Mex ico City being held in quarters or plac ed on guard in the neighborhood of the artillery barracks. Soldiers were on top of some of the buildings, from which a few families had been advised to move. The guard at the palace was increased and soldiers slept in the court yard. The 1,600 inmates of Folsom, Cal, penitentiary take kindly to the exten sion courses of the University of Cali fornia. The convicts will grow their own tobacco hereafter, and all the vegetables they need on the farm. Two million pounds of frozen beef and mutton, the first direct shipment of this kind ever sent from Australia to Seattle, Wash., has arrived on the British ship Waimato. John D. Fackler andWilliam Agnew, deputy state taxation officers for Cuya hoga county, Ohio, went to the home of John D. Rockefeller in East Cleve land, and filed a written demands upon him that he pay taxes on his personal property estimated at $900,000,000 into the treasury of Cuyahoga county. Currency issued by the Bank of So nora, the Bank of Minero and other banks established under the Diaz re gime in Mexico will be treated as counterfeit money after February 10, under a decree issued by the Rebel government. The free and unlimited coinage of silver will be offered as a means of providing ample money. The embargo' against the old bank curren cy, which is frowned on as a sur vival of the cientifico days, when the Creels and Terrazases were in power, will render worthless in the rebel ter ritory millions of dollars in. paper money. A detailed apprisal of the estate of the late Henry H. Rogers, Standard Oil magnate, j. who died nearly four years ago, shows that the estate ia worth about $40,000,000 net. . .. Washington. President Woodrow Wilson, in a let ter to William L. Marbutt of Balti more, says the exemption of American coastwise shipping from Panama ca nal tolls "constitutes a very mistaken policy from every point of view," and benefits, for the present, at any rate; only a monopoly." The president also pays a high tribute to Secretary of State Bryan, who, he says, deserves "not only our confidence, but our af fectionate admiration." He says the exemption is economically unjust; as a matter of fact, it benefits, for the present, only a monopoly, and thinks it violates the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Secretary Daniels has nominated Medical Inspector William C. Braisted to be surgeon general o fthe navy, relieving Medical .Director C. F. Stokes, whose term of four years has exDired. Surgeon General Stokes is! relieved of his detail -under Secretary Daniels policy of making "such ap pointments for one term "of four years only to ensure variation in service. The secretary has issued a statement praising the administration -'of Surgeon General Stokes and declaring : that never before has the standing and reputation of the medical cords of the navy been so high. :- By a majority of one vote, 32 to &1, Frank P. Glass of Alabama lost his fight for a seat in the United States'; senate. The vote sustained the recom mendation of the committee on privi leges and elections, which held that Mr. Glass was not entitled to be seated because his appointment by Governor O'Neal to succeed the late Senator . 'Jo seph F. Johnston was made after the seventeenth constitutional amendment directing the election of senators' by the people had been proclaimed in full effect. Mr. Glass had made remarkable progress in gaining votes, but lost, which was a great surprise. The Burnett immigration bill, pre scribing a literacy test for applicants for admission to the United States, was passed by the house, by a . vote of 241 to 126. As the bill passed, it pro vides that every immigrant admitted 'to the United States must be able to read "the English language or soma other language or dialect, including Hebrew or Yiddish." It prescribes the method of testing immigrants, pro viding that each applicant for admis sion must read a slip on which is printed between thirty and forty words. Asiatic excursion agitation was qui eted temporarily at least in the house of representatives at Washington af ter a heated debate that brought both Republican and Democratic leaders to the floor with pleas for calmness and deliberation. The fight which has been waged in the senate over the plan of distribut ing the agricultural extension work fund of the Smith-Lever bill ended in a yictory for Senator Smith. The amendment of Senator Cummins of Iowa was defeated by a vote of 40 to 16. The bill as had been reported provided for a distribution on a basis of rural population, and the Cummins amendment provided for a distribu tion on a basis of acreage under cul tivation, which would have given the state of Iowa two and a half times as much ' as Georgia, although Geor gia has a larger population than Iowa. Reports to the state department In Washington indicated that the real cri sis in Haiti may be expected soon. The American naval commanders and the minister at Port-Au-Prince will con tinue, however, to act under the gen eral instructions to protect Ameri can and other foreign interests. The disposition among the officials in the capital is to refrain from lending even moral suppotr to any of the individual leaders in the turbulent island until they have tested their own relative strength Advices to the navy depart ment told events in the port of Gon aives, where a hostil collision ensued. OVER $50,000,000 III COTTON MILLS COMMISSONER M. L. SHIPMAN RE PORTS ON STATE'S COTTON MANUFACTURES. DISPATCHES FROM' RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the Stats Capitol. Raleigh. Reports from two hundred and eighty-seven cotton mills in North Carolina made to Commissioner of Labor and Printing M. L. Shipman, show that more than fifty-two mil lion dollars are now invested in thy cotton manufacturing industry in this state. The figures do not indicate the increase in the capital stock of the year, if there was an increase, though it is supposed that a conipar: son with the report for 1913 would show a gain. The advanced data given out re cently by Commissioner Shipman con stitutes Chapter V in the forthcoming report which he will make tris year, and which will soon be issued from the press. The information as given tout follows: "The number of cotton mills report ing is two hundred and eighty-seven. Of this number two hundred and sixty-five show an authorized capital of $52,351,800. The number of spin dles reported is 3,515,822; looms, 63,. 122; cards, 8,704, employing 136,536 horsepower. The approximate amount of raw material used, 372,907,046 pounds; estimated value of yearly out put, $71,306,223. The total number of employees reported is 56,332. Ot these 27,896 are males, 18,361 are fe males; 5,591 crildren; twenty-one mills, employing 4,484, do not classify employees. The estimated number dependent on these mills and on the 56,332 employees for a livelihood is 150,993. The per cent of .operatives who read and write is given as eighty, four and two-tenths.. "The high average wages for males is $2.82; low average, 94 cents. High average for females, $1.47; low aver age, 80 cents. "One hundred and fifty-three mills pay wages weekly; one hundred and thirteen pay twice a month; nine pay monthly;, eight mills do not give this information. t . "The average number of hours con stituting a day's' work is ten hours and four minutes. The average hours for the mills doing night work Is ten hours and twenty minutes. Bond Issue for State Fair. A bond issue of $50,000 is decided upon by the executive committee of th.e North Carolina State Fair, in an nual session at Raleigh, for the erec tion of a modern exhibit building to take the place of the old agricultural building erected ' in 1884, and a new and molern grandstand! There also is to be another extension of the grounds eastward. The. financial statement of the treas urer .showed. $45,000 receipts for the last -state fair, netting a profit of $3,411. . The assets' of the fair were shown to be $112,8121 Historical Commission Add Letters... The North Carolina Historical com mission has- just added the letters and papers of . Chief Justice Thomas Ruf fin to its rich' store of papers in the new fire-proof archives. . The collec tion includes over 2,000 letters from leading men of the state and the na tion, the period covered beings from about 1820 to I860. The colection is being edited for publication by the commission by Professor Hamilton of the University of North Carolina. New State Charters. The Southeaestern Lumber Com pany, Monroe, capital $50,000 author ized, and $6,000. subscribed by C. N. Simpson and others. The Long Dug and Mercantile Company, Glen Alpine, capital $15,000 authorized 'and' $2,500 subscribed by D. B. Long and others. For Agricultural Advancement. Under the auspices of the state board of agriculture there is under way preparation for a conference in this city to include leaders in all lines of endeavor in the state, the pur pose being the promotion of co-opera; tion of all agenciesin the state for advancement of - rural upbuilding. GoveraorvCraig, Commissioner of Agri culture Graham and the members of the board of agriculture will take an active part in the conference which is to be held soon. In the conference will be the lead ers of all the North Carolina institu tions, including the Farmers' Union Farmers' Alliance, Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of educa tion, Bradford Knapp and Dr. E. C. Branson of Athens, Ga. The subjects to be considered are: "How Can the Department of Agriculture Here Represented Co operate to Better Advantage for Rural Development in North Caro Una?" . "How Can the Department of Agri culture and Each Other Agency Here Represented Increases Its Usefulness." Forty-Seven Pass Law Examinations. The North Carolina Supreme Court announces the granting of licenses to practice law to 47 of the 53 applicants for license who undertook the exami nation recently at the opening of the court for the spring term. The names of the hew lawyers follow: Edwin T. Burton, Pender county; Gudger W. Edwards, Madison; Harry E. Hannah, Chatham J Donald R. Jackson, Pitt; Luther M. Kitchen, Halifax; Dan B. King, Lee; Lonnie B. Klutt, Catawba; William L. Mor ris, Forsyth; Gordon B. Rowland, Wake; Hoyt P. Taylor, Hertford;; Jesse F. Wilson, Harnett; Ralph V. Kidd, Mecklenburg; - Roy- Webster, South Carolina; Ernest R. Taylor, Berte; Fitzhugb E. 'Wallace, Duplin; William B. Campbell, Beaufort; Wal ter F. Taylor, "Duplin; Alexander B. Otulaw, Pasquotank; John H. Ken yon, Catawba; Charles B. Glick, Macon; William C. West, Macon; Ezra Parker, Johnston; William , C. Davis, Mecklenburg; Lowry Axley, Cherokee ; Robert E. Hamlet, Mont gomery; Joseph C. Leatherwood, Haywood; Ernest C. Ruff in, Edge combe; Julius A. Rousseau, Wilkes; Edward L. Tilly, Durham; Orville T. Davis, Haywood; Samuel E. Teague, Wayne; William H. Oates, Hender-, son; Marvin L. ' Ritch, Mecklenburg;' William A. Efird, Buncombe; Claude C. Cannaday, Johnston; , : Purvis C. Smith, Buncombe; Joseph R. Lee, Buncombe ; Walter W. Cook,' Cumber-, land; William H. Cowles,- Iredell;, James M. Alexander, Buncombe ; ' John. L. Woodland, Haywood; Joseph P. Johnston, Mecklenburg; Warren R.: Williams, Lee; William B. Coulter, Catawba; Edgar O. Achorn, Massa chusetts; David A. Houston, Union; Joseph A. Lyon, Blalen. Anti-Saloon League Opens Campaign. Declaring that while it looks like North Carolina cannot be ' the very first to take steps to put an end to all importations of liquors for beverage purposes, he. does believe it entirely posible and probable that this state can be second in such a movement, Su perintendent R. L. Davis of the North Carolina Anti-Salon League, formally opened his campaign here looking to legislation by the 1915 legislature to pass an act that, In conjunction with the Webb act will make the state abso lutely dry. Superintendent Davis was introduc ing Rev. E. C. Dinwiddie, national su perintendent of the Anti-Saloon Lea gue for an address. The reason Superintendent Davis thinks it impossible for North Caro lina to be at the head of the table of this movement is that Mississippi is now passing an act. to this end that prohibits shipments of liquors for bev erage purposes, and allows delivery of liquors only- in cases where heads of families make affidavit that intoxi cants are necessary for sickness in the family and this is backed up by prescriptions by the physician. Then the carrier can deliver the shipment up to one gallon, colect an extra 25 cents and have the shipment and de livery registered, paying the 25 cents for this registration. Mr. Davis de clared that North Carolina would have a similar bill, or one that will be some sort of improvement over the present one. Mill Inspector Returns. Secretary W. H. Swift, of the North Carolina Child Labor committee, 1 back from a trip to South Carolina, where he visited all the cotton mift centers and investigated conditions as to the working of children in the mills. In addition to being secretary of the North Carolina committee he is con nected with the South Carolina work He was told in South Carolina tfcat the law is being pretty well enforced, in fact, so well enforced that people are leaving South Carolina arid com ing to North Carolina. Enrolling Big Corn Club. There are already 2,500 boys In' this state enrolled for the 1914 corn clubs in. this state, more already than enrolled last year, and there are sev eral weeks yet during which the en rollments m will continue with increas ing volume. , Governor Honors Requisition. Governor Craig recently honored a requisition fro mthe governor of Vir ginia for Jim Hayes, who Is now held in the Richmond county jail for the Richmond authorities, charged with assault iwth deadly weapon. Ten Accredited High Schools. Prof. N. W. Walker, state v inspec tor of high schols, makes public the number of accredited high schools in North Carolina as approved by the Ac credited Schools of the Southern States, which organization held its convention in Knoxville, Tenn., some time ago. In the accredited list of the ,11 Southern States there were included 153 schools, and North Carolina has 10 schools thus recognized of the first-grade variety as meeting all the requirements of this commission. Looking For Worthy Speaker. Having failed to induce President Wilson to come to Raleigh this spring to deliver the address for the unveil ing of the monument to the women of the Confederacy given to the state by the late Ashley Home, the committee on program is arranging to secure an other speaker for this' occasion. The address is to be that of presenting the monument to the state and the ad dress that is wanted is one that will present in concrete form arid so make a real contribution to history, the self sacrificing service rendered. IMMIGRATE SOUTH SEVERAL HUNDRED FOREIGNERS ARE IMPORTED INTO EAST CAROLINA. I DEVELOPED EAST CAROLINA Judging from the Arival of . Hundreds of Italians, Poles and Southern Euro peans "the Tide of Immigration is Turning Southward. Kinston. The arrival in this section during the past fortnight of several hundred foreigners confirms the be lief of a middle western capitalist who three. month's ago expressed the opin ion that son the tide of immigration wuold' be turned southward in Teality and 'that it woul'd be a sign of the material development of Sasf1. Caro-' Una by, outside capital. Fifteen' Italians have arrived at Ay den, 'a few miles from here. A score' of Italians 'and Poles' are at Pink Hill 20 miles from Kinston. A : number of Austrians were -recently taken to Beaufort county.. From! 100 to 150 southern '. Europeans "are to be ; em ployed in a development scheme near Jacksonville, in Onslow county. Nearly all of " the men brought tq thi section are to labor on railroads In. : the logging c'amps and on drain age work. Theirt, introduction here is necessitated, say promoters, by the scarcity of labor,- and the shiftless; ness cf the negioes. H. Tull, chair man of the Lenoir county commission ers say- that men cannot be secured to work the roads of the county for hardly any price, and planters have been incommoded in the past two sea sons by the lack of farm labor. In the tobacco towns the employment of a large percentage of the black popula-' tion in the stemmeries and other plants is partly responsible for the shortage of labor in other lines, but this does not apply to other localities. Local circles are viewing the com ing of Italians, Austrians and Poles with some apprehension, although the men brought so far are selected and of a superior type to those which have flooded the coal mining section of the country. They came, in nearly every instance, from the East Side of New York. Those in this immediate vicin ity are large, intelligent men. Experiments with them in the for ests during the past 10 days are said to have been thoroughly satisfactory. They accomplish as much in a work day as th average negro, and are bet ter morally. BTg Good Roads Era. Hendersonville. With approximate ly $100,000 available for good roads purposes, Henderson county is enjoy ing the greatest good-roads era in its history, as a result of which the prin cipal highways of this- community are receiving attention after neglect for many years. The funds for road purposes are to, be distributed in various sections of the county, $20,000 going to the Fletcher section in Hooper's Creek Township, and $25,000 for surfacing purposes in various sections of the county. In addition to this, the chain gang force is doing splendid work on some of the thoroughfares. Open Southern Branch. Asheville. That Asheville will be the Southern headquarters of the Woodbury-Foster Company, effective within a few weeks, is announced by W. H. Woodbury, secretary and treas urer of the concern, and one. of West ern North Carolina's leading lumber men. The concern recently was char tered in the state of New York with an authorized capital of $50,000, of which amount "$40,000 is paid in, it is stated. The president is E. H. Foster of New York city. Another Hospital For Raleigh. Raleigh." A new hospital will be opened in, Raleigh within a few weeks now, the 'building being about finish ed and. the 'equipment, which is to be especially complete for medical, oste opathic an& surgical treatment, being in process,' of installation. It will be known as the Mary Elizabeth Hos pital. Drs. Harold Masscock and A. S. Tucker, being in charge. Lettuce Acreage Large. Wilmington Truckers in New Han over County are especially active In getting their Spring crops planted and full advantage has been taken of the balmy weather of the past few days. The land has never been prepared for a crop better than this year and the outlook for a good yield is very promising, unless there should be very severe weather later. The acre age in lettuce this Spring will be un usually large and the growers are los ing no time. in setting out the lettucs plants. "" " - , For Cleaner Cities. Asheville. The Civic. Betterment League of Asheville has started ' a movement looking to the holding of rallies throughout the state in the in terest of cleaner cities and has writ ten to the organizations of Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Wilmington asking their co-operation in the movement. ' It is planned to hold public meetings which will be featured by the addresses of promin ent citizens who are interested in in the work of making cleaner cities and towns. UNVEILING SET FOR JUNE 10 Ashley Home's Gift to State Will Soon Be Presented to State By Dr. W. H. Hill. Raleigh. The Home Monument Committee, which has been making preparation for the unveiling of the monument given by Col. Ashley Home to the state as a memorial to the Confederate women, has named June 10, 1914, as the date of the ex ercises. At the last meeting of the commit tee, which was attended by Col. J. A. Long, of Roxboro; Cant. T. W. Mason; of Northampton; Mrs. F. M. Williams, of Duplin; J. Bryan Grimes, of Ra leigh; Maj. .Hi A. London, -of , Pits-. boro, and R. D. W. Connor, of Ra leigh, this date was selected, and it is one of marked historical interest! The date is the fifty-third anniver sary of the . Battle of Big Bethel, the first great engagement of the war be tween the two sections of the country. In that battle, fell Henry Lawson Wyatt, June 10, 1861. A monument to young Wyatt, one of the finest ,on the Capitol Square, was erected two years ago. ' In this rjreat fight, Col. D. H. Hill, afterwards General Hill, was in com mand. Of the twelve hundred soidiersi in that engagement eight huna,rf were North Carolinians. Dr.- D: ' it, Hill, president of "the A', and.' M. Col lege, a son of General Hill, has' been asked to delive'r the address, and . has, consented, as have all. others who have been asked to take part in ' th exercises.. Colonel Lbn,g will present the mon ument and Governor Craig will ac cept it. Rev. EL A. Osborne, late col onel of the Fourth North. Carolina Regiment, will make the Invocation, and ReV. Dr. R. H. March, chaplain of the Twenty-Sixth North 'Carolina, will give the benediction., , Prof- Hen.- "ry Jerome Stockard will . . read . ths poem., f ' . ; ' ". . The committee Issued a cordial in vitation to the. Confederate soldiers of North Carolina. , to' rattend these exer cises. The United Daughters of the Confederacy were also invited in th same way, and the hope is to have as many of both ' patriotic organizations as possible . The committee issued these invita tions of its own.initiative and did not make request that city organizations invite the veterans to meet in Ra leigh this year. But individuals in Raleigh will take this matter up. It has been some years since the sol diers came here, and the event, which is to be celebrated June 10th, is one that addresses an appeal to all North Carolinians. Rowan Agricultural Fair. Salisbury The Peoples Agricultural Salisbury with the following officers: President, A. L. Smoot, Salisbury; first vice president, M. G. M. Fisher, Faith; second (vice president, W. D. Graham, Mount Ulla; secretary, Wil liam James, Salisbury; treasurer, J. H. Warburton, Salisbury. A board of directors was chosen in cluding Dr. John Whitehead, . H. A Rouszer, C. A. Brown and R. L. Avery. Building Now In Use.' Reidsville. The postoffice building which has for the past nine months been in the hands of the remodelers, is finished and is now occupied by the force. It is a modern building. The original cost of the first building was $65,000 and the appropriation for the remod eling was $35,000 making the total value of the building as it stands $100,000. Parents For Tar Heels. Washington. Messrs. Davis & Da vis, patent attorneys, report the grant to citizens of North Carolina of the following patents: Clyde Bailey, Penland, railroad tie; Lewis S. Williams, Fayetteville, stalk cutter; Aurora Cotton Mills, Darling ton, trademark for seersuckers and ginghams. Town Buys Water Plant. . Spencer. The plant of the Spencer Water Company belongs to the Town of Spencer. This was the statement of Mayor C. G. Heiling made recently, the deal for a sale of the plant to the town is closed; the purchase price being $29,185 which amount was paid in cash by City Treasurer J. K. Dor sett. Bonds Will Be Sold. Asheville. Weaverville will be sup plied with water and -sewer lines with in the very near future, a law suit which has held up the sale of the bonds issued for this purpose having been compromised at a recent session of the Superior Court. Under the terms of the compromise, a verdict is rendered in favor of the city officials and it is ordered that the costs of the action be divided equally between the plaintiff and the defendant. The suit was brought by about, a dozen of the residents of Weaverville. Vanderford Arrives. Greensboro. The rooms in the Fed eral building occupied by the revenue agent before his removal from Greens boro five years ago will be used by Revenue Agent Vanderford and his force, who have arrived and are in stalling the furniture. . It had been anticipated that the' Offices would be those formerly 'used by-the marshal and vacated when Marshal Webb mov ed his offices to Asheville, but it was decided that these would be needed by the marshal during sessions of the federal Court. ILLITERACY CAN BE ELIMINATED WHOLLY ILLITERATE ADULTS '.K THE UNITED STATES A NA TIONAL DISGRACE. REPORT ON THE LEVER BILL House Committee on Education Makes Declaration. Commissioner Claxljon Believes Illiteracy Can Be Cut to f Fraction of 6 Per Cent. Washington. "The proportion of the, wholly illiterate adults among the population of the United States is a national disgrace, which can be very quickly eliminated," declared a unani mous report from the house education committee on the Lever bill to invest tigate illiteracy. The bill which car dies! no appropriation, authorizes the commissioner of education to co-operate with a concerted movement In volving field and clerical service, with "the states, individuals and asociations to-, 'obliterate the stain and reproach of illiteracy." ! P. P. Claxton, commissioner of the federal bureau of education, has ex pressed the belief that illiteracy could be cut to a fraction of one per cent and Representative Towner, of Iowa, in submitting the committee reports, predicted it would be acomplished with little delay. The report of the commissioner shows the number of illiterates in the United. States to be 3,184,954 whites, 19 years old or more, at the census of 1910, exceeding the popula tion of the country in 1800. The dis tribution ranges from 17 per 1,000 peo ple in Iowa to 290 per'l.OOO in Lousi ana. In the South, the report adds, the percentage is highest in the rural districts, and in the North it is high est in the cities. Boston has 24,468 Il literates over 10 years old. "There are 2,273,603 illiterate males of 21 years and over in the United States," it pointed out, "or enough to determine any national election at any period of United .States history." France by quick concerted, action reduced its number of adult illit erates from 45 in 100 to 5 in 100, the report adds. pass Agricultural .Bill. Washington. The house agricul tural extension bill was passed with amendments by the senate without disenting vote. The bill provides for demonstrations on farms of approved methods and scientific discoveries as to farming and home economics, made in state agricultural colleges, experimental stations and in the federal department of agriculture. The secretary of agri culture and land-grant agricultural col leges are to outline plans for carrying out demonstrations. As agreed to in the senate the bill would appropriate unconditonally $10, 000 annually to each state. In addition a sum of $600,000 for the coming year, with a yearly increase of $600,000 for the next seven years would be provid ed for distribution among the states on a basis of rural population, condi tioned on each state apropriating a sum ( equal to its portion of the federal funds. After seven years the bill would provide a permanent annual ap propriation of $4,800,000. Treat Officers as Deserters. Washington. Three officers of th United States army are missing from their commands and when found will be dealt wits as deserters. They are Lieutenants Clarence K. Farnham, Fourth Infantry, and Spencer Smith, Nineteenth Infantry, stunned at Tex as City, Tex., and Lieut. Frank C. Mc Cune, Eleventh Infantry, stationed at the military prison at Alcatrax Island, San Francisco. Camp at Asheville. Washington. The war department has acquired an excellent tract of ground for the accommodation of the college students and regular soldiers who will go into encampment next summer at Asheville, N. C. Part ot the Biltmore estate lies within the lim its of the tract which will be laid out Angry Outburst of Blease. Columb'a, S. C An angry outburst by Governor Cole L. Blease, eontian ing threats of personal violence direct ed at a witness, and testimony by the Governor to the effect that he expect ed to clear the South Carolina peni tentioary of some 400 prisoners by next August, were the features of an in quiry into the conditions at the State Hospital for the Insane, which was instituted before a special legislative committee here. It was the testi mony of Dr. J. W. Babcock which aroused the governor. Thinks Mistake Was Made. Washington. The provision favor ing free passage for American ships through the Panama Cabal was in jected into the knowledge of the ma jority of the resolutions committee at the Baltimore convention .according to the assertion of Representative Adamson of Georgia, chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. He had met but three or four members of the convention, he said .who knew of the existence of tfie tolls plank before the' platform vas promulgated.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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