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THE CHATHAM RECORD ti A. LONDON; EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance HE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising Qp, 5ojuaxv on jmsttiaa $LCQ On Square, one mantk " ' 2Jj3 - For 'Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts vfttl bo inabo. VOL. XXXVI PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C; FEBRUARY 25, 1914;- mm IF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN 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. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says that a train on the Queen and Cres cent, running forty minutes late, was held up about twelve miles north of Birmingham, and four sacks of regis tered mail said to contain over forty thousand dollars taken. There is no clue to the robbers. The body of United States Senator A. O. Bacon reached Macon on a spe cial train from Atlanta. Hundreds of Macon people were in waiting at the station and stood with bared heads as the casket containing the remains of the dead Georgia senator was taken from the car and placed in the hearse and transported to the city hall. The funeral services were held in Christ Episcopal church, of which Rev. John Bunting is rector, and was attended by large concourses of people. The church only seats one thousand peo ple, and many stood outside during the burial service. The forty-ninth anniversary of the entrance of the Northern soldiers in to Columbia S. Q., was marked by the unveiling of a granite boulder. Some unknown person has been making a target out of one of the faces of the Cordele, Ga., city clock in the court house steeple for practice with a rifle. The $1,500 trophy for the best peck of oats, contested for at the Nation al Corn exposition at Dallas, Texas, was won by a Canadian. Stopping an Illinois Central pas senger train in the woods near Love Station, Miss., a mob of about fifty masked men held passengers and members of the train crew at bay under cover of revolvers while they forced Sheriff E. F. Nichols of DeSoto county to turn over to them Johnson McGuirk and Bill Phillips, negroes, accused of wounding J. K. Ingram, a wealthy mill owner, near Byhalia, Miss., several weeks ago. McGuirk was hanged from a railroad trestle and Phillips restored to the custody of the sheriff. The train waa than permitted to proceed. Currency amounting to between fif teen thousand and forty thousand dol lars was secured by yeggmen who wrecked the safe of C. H. Bonner, a bsuiness man of Milledgeville, Ga. One of the robbers bound and gagged the night watchman, and guarded him, while tw,o others exploded three charges of nitroglycerin, completely demolishing the safe, and emptied it of what is said to have been the ac cumulation of a lifetime. Mr. Bonner has made no definite estimate of his loss. The yeggmen escaped without detection, and apparently left no clue ty which they may be traced. A dispatch from Pensacola, Fla., says Lieut. J. McC. Murray of the United States naval aviation corps, stationed there, was instantly killed when his machine plunged into Pen sacola bay. He fell about eight hun dred feet. The machine was demol ished. Lieutenant Murray's body was discovered shortly afterwards about one hundred yards from the spot where he fell. Lieutenant Murray had been flying out in the gulf, and was . returning to the station when the- ac cident occurred. An investigation has not revealed the cause of the acci dent. General. With molten lead and red hot pieces of cornice falling about them, sixty n:en and twenty- women made their way out of a factory building in Green fctieet, New York City, when three floors were a raging furnace, but ev ery one escaped unhurt. Maximo Castillo, the bandit, has bee;, taken by United States troops to Kachita, N. M. With him are his brother, his trumpeter and the latter's v a'u and tw o Indian women. The ban dit apparently was not at all averse to being placed under the protection cf the United States. Among the stories told by the pas sengers of the steamship Columbia of the Anchor line, and the Red ' Star liner Lapland, which came into the port of New York City three days late, was the statement that the pas sengers were startled by the appear ance in the northern sky of a brilliant ball of fire. Shooting in a parabola toward the liner, it seemed to them almost certain to fall on the Lapland's fec k. Instead it burst into pieces with ti-e report of a cannon and sank into tiie sea. Four white men, charged with bur sary, one charged with carrying con cealed weapons and another charged .with larceny, escaped from the Han- coci county jail at. Bay St. Louis, Miss., by digging a hole through ' a three-foot brick wall. One of seven negro prisoners whd "refused to leave said the escaped men were directed in their work by Alfred Oliver, aged 20, charged . with burglary, and break ing jail. He said one of the prison ers escaped through the hole, stole the jail key from the sheriff's office, a updred yards away, and then releas- juie other five. The floods around Los Angeles, Cal., have severely damaged the citrus fruit crop. The loss is stated to be very heavy. Scores of homes in the low lands were inundated when a tempo rary dam, erected to protect railroad tracks, gave way. Col. George W. Goethals says that, barring -unforeseen accidents, the Pan ama canal will be open for merchant ships July 1. The colonel added that he had always been opposed to the exemption of American coastwise ship ping from the payment of tolls, be cause that would decrease the reve nues of the canal, and, in his Opinion, would not accrue to the benefit of con sumers, but merely increase profits of ship owners. The colonel declined to discuss its legal aspect or its bearing on treaty relations. He says the canal fortifications are entirely adequate and cannot be captured. Two more Englishmen are reported as having "disappeared" in Juarez, Mexico. The report came from Samuel Steward, whosays the men, John Law rence and a companion named Curtis, went to Juarea to search for William S. Benton. Stewart expressed the fear that they, like Benton, had been shot. Gustav Bauch, who was on trial for being a spy, also disappeared in Jua rea. Thomas D. Edwards, American consul at Juarez, said that when the friends of Bauch went to visit him with bedding and food he was not in the cell where he had been held in communicado while his trial was held. Salvador Diaz Miron, editor of El Imparcial, Mexico City, has been plac ed under police surveillance because of the report that he had threatened to kill Minister O'Shaughnessy, who recently protested to President Huerta concerning the character of anti-Wilson editorials appearing in El Impar cial. It appears, however, that the most serious threat made by Miron was that he "would repeat to Mr. O'Shaughnessy's face what he had written in editorials. Four persons were killed, five prob ably fatally injured and twenty-five others hurt in Indianapolis, Ind., when an English avenue street car was crushed between the two heavy trac tions cars. The accident was caused by slippery rails. Hanging by the cord which tied his milk bottle to his high chair, eight-months-old Clarence Hissom, son of Earl Hissom, ,of Charleston, W. Va., was found dead, by his mother. Scenes of tumult, which at times bordered on riot, marked the close of the special session of the Ohio legis lature, which adjourned sine die at the caprtal,Columbus. There was an altercation tover'the automobile license bill between a Republican and Demo cratic member, but the bill passed. Washington. A Washington telegram states that there was $1,866,619,157 in gold coin and bullion in the United States at the close of the last fiscal year. Conservation particularly as it af fects the building of water power proj ects in the navigable streams of the country was added to the chief ad ministration polices under discussion at the white house. Conservationists have learned in a preliminary way the answer which the Wilson administra tion has prepared to the question of whether the federal government of the states shall be supreme in the matter of water rights of navigable rivers. It is stated that federal permits for water power projects will be given only to in dividuals or concerns duly incorporat ed as public utilities. The administration Alaskan railroad bill authorizing the president to con struct a $35,000,000 railroad from Alaska's coast to its great coal fields, was passed by the house by a vote of 230 to 87. A similar measure has already passed the senate and the bills will be taken up at once in confer ence between the two houses, with a view to sending it quickly to the president, who has signified his inten tion of signing it. The federal reserve bank organiza tion committee, back in Washington, after a five weeks' trip through the country, in" a statement, announces that its selection of federal reserve cities and definition of reserve districts would not be made until it had care fully considered information accumu lated on the trip. The statement said the committee found the country very prosperous and learned that bankers and business men are confident of the success of the banking system. Sec retary McAdoo declared he hoped the system would be established in time to take care of this year's crop. State fisheries officials, Eastern fish dealers and representatives of fish and game organizations were before the house interstate commerce committee to discuss the Linthicum bill to pro hibit the use of food fish in the manu facture of fertilizer for interstate com merce. Most of the witnesses favored the passage of the bill. j Congress and the nation have paid final tribute to the late Senator A. O. Bacon of Georgia. The ceremonies were marked by, simplicity. There were no eulogies only prayer , and funeral service by the senate chap lain and Bishop Harding of the Epis copal church. Information that President Wilson would veto the immigration bill if it sent to him from congress with the literacy test provision amazed mem bers of the senate immigration com mittee. Many of them confessed that they were bewildered, . inasmuch as they had determined to retain the lit eracy test in their draft of the immi gration measure as it passed the house, under the impression that the president would accept the bill if it passed the senate. An interesting ses sion of the committee is looked for. The committee had directed its chair man to consult with the president. JETTON FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER JURY RENDERS VERDICT IN ONE HALF HOUR AFTER RE TIRING. LARGE CROWDS HEAR TRIAL Record-Breaking Scenes of Enthusiasm Jetton Receives Verdict Without Quiver. Shakes Hands With Jury and is Congratulated By Friends. Charlotte, N. C "Not guilty." Two words from tne lips of Jury Foreman J. Lee Campbell set free Monroe Jetton from the charge of murder in the first degree and precip itated the most dramatic and uproar iously enthusiastic scene ever wit ness in the staid criminal court room of Mecklenburg county. The verdict of the jury in the case of Mr. Jetton, who on the night of February 10 shot and killed Dr. W. H.. Wooten in the bedchamber of . the former's wife at Davidson, was rend ered just 30 minutes after the case had been committeeri to its hands. Judge Adams recalled the jury once to give additional information, so in all only 25 minutes was occupied in deliberation.- Mrs. Jetton, whose corroboration of her husband's story made it more easily possible for the jury to acquit her husband on the legal ground of self-defense .threw her arms around Mr. Jetton and kissed him. The erst while prisoner received the news with the same coolness which has marked his demeanor from the very inception of the tragedy which focused the spotlight of public attention on him. Seemingly had the verdict been other wise his reception of it would have been the same, but he returned Mrs. Jetton's embrace, and kiss but ap parently without emotion. Then his friends and relatives fell upon him and overwhelmed him with hearty handclasps, congratulations and goodwishes. From the very first he had never lacked for friends and from time to time during the trial some one of . these had taken the time to speak a word of encouragement. But he had borne the entire ordeal grimly, with a look on his face-which seemed to say that he was asking no odds of anybody; that he would see the thing through. Whether this was desperation or defiance, one could not say, at least there was no tinge of malace in his face. When the jury entered to make notice its decision Judge Adams bade Jetton to stand and raise his right hand. There rose with him his wife, Mrs. Jetton, and his sister, Miss Jet ton, the three clasping hands. Mrs. Jetton bowed here head as if in prayer but faced the jury when the formal question of . the clerk was put to them. "Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict?" "We have." "Who shall speak for you?" "Our foreman, Mr. Campbell." "Prisoner look upon the jury. Jury look upon the' prisoner "How say you, is the prisoner at the bar guilty of the felony and mur der as charged in the indictment, or not guilty?" There was an instant's breathless pause and then "Not guilty," said Mr. Campbell. The cheering that followed inter rupted the proceedings, for it was necessary to ask, "So say you all?" This was done, and each juror nod ded his head. Mr. E. T. Cansler, attorney for the defense, rested his head on the table in front of him; his eyes were wet. in vain did Judge Adams pound his gavel and in vain did Sheriff Walace shout in stentorian tones, "Keep si lence!" until the crowd had had its vocal will and that was not until the aged Bolejack stood up to receive his sentence to the electric chair! In the meantime Jetton had walked over to the jury box and shook hands with each member o the 12. Still he had scarcely batted an eye, maintaining his almost sphinx-like reserve. Vil'a Rejects Men. El Paso, Texas. In a telegram re ceived by he American consul at Juarez, Thomas D. Edwards, General Villa suggested that the Americans reported missing in Mexico may be in cluded in a batch of American recruits which he says he has rejected and will send back to Juarez by the first troop train. Villa's telegram says there were 15 Americans who wished to join his forces, but he found them unavailable. At present search is being made for Harry Compton and Roger. Laurence Send Two Big Guns. Vea Cruz. The commander of the German cruiser shipped to the German legation in Mexico City two ma chine guns and 40,000 rounds of am munition. Accompanying the shipment went a squad of sailors from the Dres den in civilian dress. The details of bluejackets on duty at the American consulate here was with drawn and replaced by a marine guard. This step was taken after Gen. Gustavo Maas, commander of the Federal forces here had given his C3n sent. ' '' FINE DISPLAY IN NEW YORK North Carolina Canning Clubs , Are ' Attracting Attention Everywhere and Advertising State. Charlotte. The New York papers are having much to say about the ex hibition of canned goods from North Carolina, which is now being held in the Grand Central Palace under the auspices of the Housewives League. Mrs. James McKimmon of this state is in charge and thesis play, not only of the goods on exhibition but the young girls who did the work as well, is attracting much attention. The fol lowing is from The New York Tribune under a fine three column picture of the exhibit: . "Right smart of canned stuff they've, got up at Grand Central Palace. Juicy tomatoes, luscious blackberries, plums, pears, beans, all kinds of ber ries, fruit and vegetables, all put up in shining glass by the farmerettes of the Girls' Canning clubs of North Carolina and sent here to show those who go 'io the Housewives League exhibit what good little Southern girls are made of. "Yes, there's a Housewives' League exhibit at Grand Central Palace. Some people haven't realized it yet, be cause the Women's Industrial Exhibit also is there. " They are running sim ultaneously, and everything in the food line is under the auspices of the league. And for youth and excel lence the North Carolina girls take the prize. "These canning clubs, as some per sons know, and some don't, belong to the United States Department of Ag riculture, and the Governrent has put Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon in charge in North Carolina. She sits in the booth at the Housewives' League show and tells callers how the farmerettes down there are learning, through this new work, te love the country and not yearn to migrate to a city as soon as they grow up. "'There was one girl of 15 in Jamestown .who wanted to go to high school,' she said between- taking ord ers from visitors. 'She put up 400 cans of tomatoes from surplus pro duct on her father's farm. She took one to the grocer in the little town, and when he saw how good they were he took them all, at 10 cents a can. That totalled $40 and is lending her to school this winter. ' 1 " 'Thirty counties are organized How in North Carolina, and' each- county has from three to six clubs. The counties are helping us now, because we have helped . them by. keeping business in the state $ba$ formerly went to outside canning factories. We have teachers who go-, from place to place, rand in. country school houses or in big, sunny farm house yards, with improvised stoves, the girls learn scientific canning. . They learn how to pack fruit in tin cans and solder it that's the kind" we sell at 10 cents a can, Dental Association Meets. Charlotte. The Cleveland district of the State Dental Asociation may de cide to make Charlotte the permanent winter meeting place. This matter was threshed out In the association meeting in the coun cil chamber of the city hall recently, but no agreement was reached. The decision was referred to a committee, which will report its recommendation at the next meeting of the association. The dentists meet -twice yearly, in the winter and in the summer and it was proposed at this session to have this city .for the winter headquarters and Shelby for the' summer meeting place. That town was named as the next place of convention, which is to occur in August. The- dentists ad journed after engaging in several in teresting clinics, led by prominent members of the society. The election of officers resulted in the following selections: President, Dr. A. R. Holland, of Caroleen; vice president, Dr. E. M. McConnell, of Gastonia; secretary, Dr. I. W. Jamieson, of Charlotte; treasu rer, Dr. L. P. Baker, of Kings Moun tain; essayist, Dr. J. R. Osborne. Manufacture Brick. Salisbury. To manufacture 100,000 brick daily is the determination of G. W. Isenhour & Sons, of East Spencer. The concern is undergoing some im portant changes by which the sons, Messrs. L. C. Isenhour, C. W. Isenhour and Rufus Isenhour, take an active part in the management of the two plants, one in East Spencer and an other at Whitney. eee; abandV " Raising Money for Milta'ry School. Salisbury. Of the $35,000 desired for -the establishment of a miltary school in Salisbury $15,000 has been subscribed and committes are hard at work to secure the remainder. Prof A. S. Ford of the Alabama State Nor mal is in Salisbury this week, confer ring with local business men relative to opening the school. ' ' An enthusiastic meeting 'was held a few days ago at which plans were per fected to continue the effort 'until the school is secured. Hard Yarn. Men Meet. Gastonia. The Hard Yarn Spinners Association of the South has been "in annual session here recently, the ses sions consuming almost the entire day and concluding with a Banquet at the' alls House, given complimentary the association by the Gaston County Textile' Association. The meetfn'g was largely attended and ilie number ol spindles represented wa. exceptional ly large. As tne business sessions are held behind closed doora, the na ture of the business transacted is not known. r DID NOT PRESENT DR. HARDY'S NAME FRIENDS DO NOT NOMINATE HIM AND DR. McNAIRY IS ELECTED. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the State Capitol. " Raleigh. That harmony , and a spirit of co operation exists among the members of the board of trustees of the State School for the FeeTle:Minded is the encouraging news brought from Kin ston by Dr. J. Y. Joyner, State Super intendent of Public Instruction, who is chairman of the board, and who re turned a few days ago from the meet ing held in Kinston. There is less dissension among the members now than before the meeting was held, ac cording to Dr. Joyner's statement giv en out recently. Friends of Dr. Ira M. Hardy, of Kinston, who was superintendent of the school prior4 to the election, did not present his name for re-election at the meeting of the board of trus tees. They realized, after a canvass of the members had been made,.,' that his supporters were, in the minority, and that it would be impossible for him to be. chosen again, and did not place him in nomination.. The result of the . election was predicted the afternoon before, or at least it' pre dicted that Dr. Hardy could not be re-elected. Four members of the board who fa vored Dr. Hardy asked that they be excused from voting, knowing that he could not be chosen, and not desir ing to vote for a second . choice, the final vote being eight in' f avor of Dr. C. B; McNairy, bf Lenoir, who was eleeted, and-the-other four preferring Dr Hardy, and not casting a: ballot. Dr, Hardy accepted the result of the election in the best of spirits, and himself tated-after the, meeting of the boaf&fthat he had lost none. of his interest in "the school, and that he would' continue to work for the best interests of the institution. Dr. Joyner said that the people of Kinston of course regretted that their citizen was not re-eiected as superin tendent of the school, but that they seemed to be disposed to stand by him and help him in every possible way in making a success of the insti tution. They feel that he is a strong man, and that; he has the ability to conduct the affairs ol the school as they should be. The exceutive committee was made at the meeting, covering all of the work that had been made in getting the institution nearer to the stage where it can be opened. It is thought that the school will be ready for open ing by the latter part of May or the first of June. Every member of the board of trus tees was present. - - .- Governor Craig Pardons Two. Governor Craig grants a commuta tion from death sentence ot life im prisonment in the case of Davis Mon roe, Robeson county, convicted of criminal assault, the commutation be ing on recommendation of the father of the injured child, counsel for the prosecution and by Judge Rountree, who imposed the death sentence, be cause the prisoner was mentally un able to realize the enormity of his crime. The governor also pardons Ed Stack of Guilford county. Ask For Lower Rates. Special from Washington says: The F. S. Royster Guano Company has asked the interstate commerce com mission to establish reasonable rates on commercial fertilizer between Nor folk and points in North Carolina on the Atlantic Coast Line and the Sea board Air Line. The railroads have the same rates they did 15 years ago. Court Hands Down Decision. The first of the 1914 opinions hand ed down by the Supreme Court were given recently and nineteen matters were settled. The court has not had a big case yet and the large number of decisions for this court will hardly present a case that has any new law In it. One of, the cases of local interest was that of John and Norman Forbes against the city of Rocky Mount,, the men being damaged by' live wires while working fdr the city.- The jury gave one $250 .and the. other $2,500. Plan For Aycock 'Monument. - , In , Governor Craig's office recently, members of the - Aycock -: Memorial Committee met andi discussed' 3lans for carrying a big campaign for rais ing ' funds to erect a monument . to .Charles B. Aycock. Governor Craig, Judge Henry -G. Connor, of Wilson; Superintendent' -J. Y. Joyner, of the Department of Education; Francis D. Winston, District Attorney; George C. Royall, of Goldsboro; Clarence Poe, of Raleigh, and" Col. P. M. Pearsall were present They agreed that a oamDahzn should be made i 8htpman's Plans Are Accepted. Commissioner Shipman is being con gratulated on the fact that the plans he worked out and submitted to the department at Washington for the co operation of the North. 'Carolina de partment of labor and printing and the department of commerce and la bor at Washington in the gathering of North Carolina data on manufacturies and kindred subjects for state and government reports have , been adopt ed by the government authorities and will be applied for the gathering of 1915 statistics. Commissioner Shipman has just re ceived irom Director W. J, Harris of the census bureau, a letter advising him of the acceptance of his plan, which will result in a saving of $2,000 a year for the state and in eliminating a' great deal of annoyance to nianu factcrers through being called upon by so many different branches of the state and federal government for re ports. .. Manufacture of Furnlituc. The advance . report from the de1-. partment of labor 7 and " printing fol lows: . ' ' ' '' J ' " "The number of-factories reporting this year is eighty-seven. Eighty-five of these'report a capital stock of $3, 267,355. Two do not' report capital stock. Seventy-nine report the use of 9,730 horsepower, seven do not re port horsepower. "The number of employees report ed is 6,366. Of these 5;730 are males, 144 women, 134 children, . and 388 are unclasified. The highest average daily wage is $2.79; lowest average wage, 88 cents. Eighty-nine and five-tenths per cent read and write. .Twenty-five factories pay wages. weekly; sixty-one semi-monthly. Seventy-three factories report increase in wages; ten. no change; one decreased and two do not' report. Th eaverage number. o. hours worked per day is nine and fifty-three minutes. Seventy-four "factories use steam for power, four electric ; three hand; one steam and electric; one steam and water; three do not give motive power. The estimated value of plants by seventy-two factories, $2 947,454. Estimated value of yearly output by eighty-two factories, $11, 444,000. Estimated yearly pay roll by seventy-nine factories,- $1,871,556. -: "Forty-five and four-tenths per. cent report improveSnent in fmancial con dition; thirty-seven and twotenths -per cent no change J seventeen and fjur tenths per cent do;" not report. Fy per cent report improvement in -general proficiency; ' twenty-eVeii afii npe-tenths per .cent no changetwen- ty-two ana one-tentn per cent do not report." , New North Carolina Charters. The Hamilton Realty Company, Smithfield, capital $50,000 authorized, and $30,000 subscribed by L. H. Allred, D. W. Hamilton and others for a gen eral real estate development business. The Sheppard-Martin Shoe Com pany, Mount Airy, capital $10,000 authorized and $2,000 subscribed by W. L. Sheppard, E. M. Martin and others. The Vanceboro ToDacco Warehouse Company, Vanceboro, Craven County, capital $25,000 authorized, and $850 subscribed by T. M. Howard, L. A. Spear and others for a leaf tobacco warehouse business. The Barbee Cigar & Tobacco Co., Asheville, capital $50,000 authorized, and $10,000 subscribed by S. A. Bar bee, Thomas S. Clark and W. P. Mc Lean. t The Green-Hartsell Company, Mid land; Cabarrus county, capital $25,000, authorized, and . $2,100 subscribed. The Fletcher Furniture Company, Winston-Salem", capital $50,000 author ized, and $6,000 subscribed. Patents For Tar Heels. Special from Washington says Messrs. Davis & Davis, patent attor neys, report the grant to citizens of North Carolina of the following pat ents:' Robert T. Bagley, Whitney, concrete railway tie; David H. Clark and R. J. Morton, Greeusboro, picker mechanism for looms; Webster M. Phillippie, Winston-Salem, hub-lock; Thomas R. Post, Wilmington, dating- stamp; William B. Sanford, Newbern, hand-torch; Julien H. Thayer, deceas ed, C. H. Thayer, administrator. Mount Pleasant, gin and delinter saw-dress ing machine; Warren F. Blount, Fay etteville, device for measuring mile age ; Robert H. Roney, Burlington, linge; Florence Mills, Forest City, trademark for cotton piece goods. B. & L. Associations in State. There are 164 bilding and loan as sociations in this state of which ohi'y' 96 have made the regular annua! re ports to the insurance , commissioner i in compliance with state s.tatute. The ' commissioner says that examinations of,..tiie associations show that jthey are nearly all. prospering well. ....There Js upwards of ten millions of 'dollars "in vested in" the associations.-1 New -associations are being formed at ' Dunn Harriett county, and at Troy, Mont gonVery county. ' ' " Meeting of Bar Association. The . "executive commission of .the Norjth Carolina Bar Association;'-at-a meeting just beld hereyskas selected. Wrigtville Beach as the .placeor holding "the neft annual . meetyig on. June 29 to July 30. The tonimittee will now give special tttentlon-. to the preparation of a program-that will be one of the most attractive the associa tion ever had. The committee con sists of A. W. McLean, Lumberton; T. W.' Davis, Wilmington; Harry Skin ner, Greenvillef T. S. Rollins, A. B Andrews, Jr., and J. Crawford Big PHYSICIANS MEET TRI-STATE DOCTORS HAVE IN TERESTING MEETING AT WILMINGTON. MEET NEXT IN GREEENVILLE Delegates Vote to Go to Greenville, S. C, Despite Rumors of Local Divi sions.. New Officers are Elected and New Members Enrolled.- Wilmington. The sixteenth annual convention of the Tri-state Medical As sociation adjourned recently after se lecting Greenville, S. C, as the next place of meeting and electing officers for next year. A large number of valuable papers were read at the ses sions. Officers elected for the ensu ing year wer: , President, Dr. E. C. Register, Char lotte; vice president for Virginia, Dr. J. Allison Hodges, Richmond ; North Carolina, Dr. Chas. T. Harper, Wil liston; South Carolina, Dr.. F. H. McLeod, Florence; secretary-treasurer, Dr. Rolee Hughes, Laurens, S. C. (re-elected); Dr. Southgate Leigh, of Norfolk, the retiring president, was elected a member of executive council in place of Dr. J. Shelton Horsley, of Richmond.' Dr. D. T. Tayloe, of Wash ington, was elected a member in place of Dr. Chas. T. Harper, of this city, who was elected vice-president, and Dr. W. W. Fennell, of Rock Hill, S. C, was elected to succeed himself. There were only three vacancies oc curring on the council. Columbia also extended invitations through the exec utive council for convention to meet in that city next year, but owing to the-. fact that the last meeting held in South Carolina was in Columbia it was decided to meet in Greenville." The recommendation of the council was unanimously adopted by the conven tion. After Greenville had been chosen there was a report that the selection was not pleasing to South Carolina physicians, particularly those of Greenville. It was said that there was friction among Greenville physi cians. For thi3 reason, it was rumor ed Grenville did not want the conven tion. The executive council was called into special session three hours after Greenville had been chosen and ,the question was discussed. It was de cided not to take the matter to the floor of the convention, but to let it rest for the time being, in hope that some settlement will be affected. It was reported that South Carolina had threatened to withdraw from the as sociation, but this was denied by members of the executive council. Wake Forest Trustees Meet. Wake Forest. The board of trus tees of Wake Forest College met here during the aniversary season and dis cussed many matters of importance to the college. The proposition , of the town of Sylva to move the summer law school there' was declined by the board. This town, situated on the Southern Rail way, 40 miles from Asheville, made the college an attractive offer some time ago If the law school would hold. forth in their town. The matter was referred to a committee and this committee made their report at this meeting. Pastor Ellington, of the Sylva Baptist church, was present and urged the board to move the school to Sylva. The board, after a statement from President Poteat of the financial needs of the college felt that a campaign to increase the present endowment can not be deferred more than a year or two. The present endowment is worth more than $600,000. Road About Completed. Newton. The Hickory-to-Malden sand-clay road has been completed to the city limits of Maiden. Only two tenths of a mile still remains to be built to the Lincoln county line. This now gives a stretch of 25 miles f as good as is to be found anywhere in this section of the state. The Lincoln commissioners have agreed to build a road to Intersect with the Catawba road at the county line. "-Asheville Quits "Trash Farm." .- Asheville. Asheville's municipal in cinerator, which has been in the course of erection for the past several weeks, has been finished and was tested recently in the presence of the membeTs of the board of aldermen' and heads of the various city departments. 'The plant was found to be in fine con dltion, and doubtless wil be accepted by. the city at an early date. With a modern crematory at her disposal' Asheville will abandon the trSe'of the old "trash farm" that has .feeefv used by the city. '".' Contract to Build New Town. Salisbury. Contracts have been closed with a local concern for the nis,hed material for 240 dwellings to bVerected at the new town of Baden, Stanly county. With a force of several hundTed workmen, Including all cl&ses of labor, five contractors are busfly engaged in building the hun dreds of houses for the Southern Aluminum Company, of Whitney, which concern is devloplng an enor mous electric power plant at that place. The Salisbury concern will de liver the material rapidly as nossible.