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VOL. XXXVI
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JUNE 17, 1914.
NO. 45.
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IMPORTANT NRVS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings cf This and. Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS JFTHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
American and Mexican delegates to
the peace conference at Niagara Falls,
Ontf signed the first protocol be
tween the United States and Mexico,
rt provides that a government shall be
established to be recognized by the
United States.
When the word reached Washington
that the first peace protocol had been
signed the members of President Wil
son's cabinet were jubilant.
The next proposition to be taken
up by the mediators at Niagara is
the choosing of a successor to General
Huerta.
The rebel delegates are on their way
to the peace conference at Niagara
Falls. Ont., having been sent there
by orders of General Carranza.
Texas is now harvesting its grain
crop. According to reports from the
grain belt it will be the largest crop
that the state has ever known.
A monument to the North Carolina
women of the Confederacy was erect
ed at Raleigh, N. C.
The state of Texas has ousted the
Pierce Oil Corporation from the state.
This is the result o f prosecutions
against corporations, charging viola
tion of the state's anti-trust law. (
The "dry" navy order issued by
Secretary Daniels, which abolished
the wine mess on board American
warships, will go in to effect July 1st.
Kermit Roosevelt, son of former
President Rooseevelt, was married to
Hiss Belle Wyatt Willard, in Madrid,
Spain. Miss Willard is a daughter of
the United States embassador to
Spain.
The death of former Vice President
Adlia Stevenson is momentarily ex
pected. He has been ill for several
weeks in a Chicago hospital.
A loss of life and considerable dam
age is reported as the result of a
storm which swept the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, Chaleuer Bay and Straits
of Northumberland.
The estate of the late Pierpont
Morgan has been increased by several
million as the result of the fact that
he owned a considerable puantity of
property that it was not known he
owned.
E. F. Stackable, collector of the port
of Honolulu, has received a telegram
from William G. McAdoo, Secretary
of the Treasury, requesting his imme
diate resignation. Stackable, it is said,
has insisted that he will not vacate
the office unless he is dismissed.
As the result of experiments, the
United States Department of Agri
culture at Washington has announced
that eggs can be mailed by parcel
post '
John M. Dunn, a Unltejfl States
seaman on board the Amphitrite, has
been awarded a silver life saving med:
al by the United States Treasury
Department at Washington, for gal
lant conduct in recovering a seaman
from drowning at the Mare Island Na
vy yard, California, in March. Dunn
is a native of New Orleans.
Eight lives were lost and a score of
persons injured in a fire which destroy
ed a tenement house in the East
Side of New York City.
The entire country from one end
to the other has been suffering from
record-breaking heat. Highest tern
peratures are reported from all direc
tions. Mercury climbs steadily in the
Southern states, establishing new rec
ords this year.
The edict has gone forth that it is
the president's wish that the house go
on record within a few days either for
or against national prohibition. Rep
resentative Cantrell of Kentucky has
offered a resolution providing for a ten
hours debate, after which a vote will
be taken on the Hobson. resolution to
amend the fed&ral Constitution.
Nice hundred million bushels of
ttheat, which is almost half of the
average world's wheat production, and
a new record fc,r- the United States,
is the prospective total yield of the
farms of the country this year, the
departments of agriculture announced
in its June crop report just issued.
The enormous croD will be 137,000,-
00 bushels more than ever was grown
before in the United States in one
ear. Excellent year for the growing
crP and an increase of 6.4 per cent
in the acreage planted to wheat are re
sponsible. There also will be large
jieias of oats and barley, probably.
second in size, in the history of the
nation.
Washington officials breathed easier
'hen they learned Huerta had chang
ed his nind with regard to the bot
llmg up of Tamnico harbor.
The United States delegates to the
peace, conference at Niagara Falls
uit., have tendered their plans for the
establishment of a government in
Mexico, it is said to be similar to
the one offered bv the ABC envoys
which was accepted by Huerta's rep-
't-sentatives.
Seven were killed and a dozen were
injured when a tornado swept through
a portion of Iowa according to reports
reived at Sioux City.
i ue education committee of the Lon
don, England, county council have de-
"eu to bar the teaching of sex hygi
Ui U1 the public schools.
Much anxiety is being rewet for the
safety of the occupants of three bal
loons that left Portland, dregon, and.
later encountered a terrific storm.
The balloons were contestants in the
annual national race.
According to estimates made by
Secretary McAdoo the government in
come for the fiscal year ending June
30 will be about thirty million dol
lars. There will be about ten million
dollars less this year than last year.
The new French cabinet lasted but
one day.
The Yaqui and Pima Indians are
reported to hajve been fighting each
other according to reports reaching
Douglas, Arizona.
With a rush the house Friday pass
ed the amended Panama canal tolls
exemption repeal bill, and all that re
mains to be done Is for the president
to affix his signature.
T. B. Jones, a lawyer of Chicago,
has been mentioned as governor of
the federal bank reserve board, and
it is thought prQbable that his name
will be sent along with the other ap
pointees by the president -to the sen
ate. It has been repeaedly asserted by
Icccf-rs of reform movements and tho
police officials of ti:e city of Chicago
that organized vice has been driven
ouc of the city. The reform organiza
tivca of that city have been carrying
on crusades extending over a period
of nearly two years.
In Korea, Tomitaro Watanabe, was
tried and given a life sentence on the
charge of murdering Dr. Edgar De
Mott Stryker, an American surgeon.
The convicted man appealed his case
to the superior court of Korea and
this court made the sentence death.
The question of woman suffrage oc
cupied most of the sessions of the Na
tional Association of Women's Clubs
in session in Chicago.
The Mexican war veterans while in
session at Chillicothe, Ohio, resolved
to recover from Mrs. Moore Murdock
of Alabama data and relics which she
is said to now have in her possession,
in order that they may be placed in
the archives in Washington
"Intellectual Bravery" was the sub
ject of Vice President Thomas R. Mar
shall's address to the graduating class
of the University of Maine at Orona,
Maine.
An Atlanta policeman has made the
discovery that the automobile which
he recently purchased from an auto
mobile' dealer, was stolen property.
However, the man who sold it to the
auto dealer is now being held by the
Atlanta authorities on the charge of
forgery.
Congress is now facing one of the
most bitter struggles that has been
witnessed in the house for many years
when the Hobson amendment is forced
to a vote. This amendment is the na
tional prohibition issue.
The United States has determined
that Huerta shall be entirely eliminat
ed in the formation of a new govern
ment for Mexico. It is even hinted
that the American representative at
the peace conferenc at Niagara Falls
will insist that the new provincial pres
ident be sympathetically inclined to
ward the rebel movement.
Officials of Washington await in
anxious suspense word from the peace
conference as to whether the Huerta
delegates will withdraw their demands
that the dictator be allowed to name
his successor, for it is believed in
Washington, D. C, that there is a pos
sibility of a disruption of the peace
plans if this question is not amiably
settled.
The first round in the canal tolls
fight in the senate was won by the
anti-subsidy forces. The' Simmons?
Norris amendment declaring the Unit
ed States waives no rights over the
Panama canal was adopted in the sen
ate by a vote of 50 to 24.
John W. Coombs, baseball player on
the Philadelphia-American team, was
nominated for state senator by the
York county Progressives of Maine.
A jewelry store of San Francisco was
entered, the safe opened and $30,000
worth of unmounted gems were taken,
also $200 in cash. A clerk formerly
employed in the store was reported
missing the day following the theft.
Nathan Cohen may be known as the
man without a country unless some
nation accepts him at their port. He
was found in the United States and
deported to Brazil as an undesirable
alien. They refused him. Then he
was sent to his native country, Russia,
but they would not have him. Now
he is the guest of the Ocean Steamship
una. timt carried him to Russia. In
the meanwhile the United States Im
migration officials are considering his
case.
The will of Alexander E. Orr, mer
chant, banker and rapid transit pio
neer of New York, leaves the bulk of
of his estate of five million dollars to
his wife and daughters.
The bill introduced into the Louisi
ana legislator eto permit horse racing
in that state -as defeated.
The little country of Albania is
havine its troubles. The insurrectoes
mimr fnr the withdrawal of
aic v-j. j -"r- -w-
Prince William of Weid., George Fred
Williams, American minister to
Greece, has offered his services as
disinterested mediator.
According to reports from Washing
ton, D. C, immigrants have been ar
riving at American ports during the
past ten months at the race of more
than twenty-nine hundred per week,
and it is the belief of the immigration
officials that if this number is con
tinued the year of 1914 will establish
a record.
Australia is planning to have an
exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Expo
sition at San Francisco. Neil Nelson,
the Australian commission, has ar
rived in Washington to make arrange
ments for the admittance of the exhib
its from his country.
MEX CO WANTS MAN
ACCEPTABLE!) ALL
SELECTION OF A SUITABLE PRO-
VISIONAL IS PROBLEM OF
MEDIATORS.
SOME NAMES ARE DISCUSSED
No Agreement Has Yet Been Reach
ed The Task is a Difficult One
and Causing Work.
Niagara Falls, Ont. The crux of the
Mexican problem, the selection of a
manjfor provisional president, accept
able to all factions in Mexico and for
eign governments generally was
reached in a conference between the
mediators and the American and
Mexican delegates. f
For more than an hour names of
various individuals were discussed
but on none was there a semblance
of agreement. There will be another
conference on the same subject. De
tails of the peace plan are practically
set aside now for the greater task of
finding the man of the hour he who
can reconcile the warring factions
and maintain peace while a constitu
tional election is held and normal or
der is resumed.
Incidentally General Carranza's note
transmitted by Rafael Zubaran, his
representative in Washington, arrived
advising the mediators that Constitu
tionalist delegates were on their way
to the mediation conference with full
instructions.
The ' mediator's made no comment
on the note. It contains no reference
to an armistice, on which the media
tors have been insisting and there was
nothing to show that the mediators
had in any way altered their determi
nation reached not to admit officially
the representatives of General Carran
za unless an armistice was declared.
Some other way of dealing with them
perhaps through the American dele
gates, may be found when they arrive.
The Constitutionalist representa
tives are needed here to facilitate the
course of the peace program in its
present stages for in the discussion
of names they can be of mush servire
to mediation generally by indirating
who will, or will not be acceptable.
At present the mediators have ac
complished only one step in their
journey toward the pacification of
Mexico. This was the adoption of the
first protocol dealing with the trans
fer of authority from the hands of
the present regime to a new provi
sional government.
WILSON WILL LEAD WAY.
International Fleet of World's Navies
"Will Pass Through In March, 1915.
Washington President Wilson next
March personally will lead the Inter
national fleet of warships from Hamp
ton Roads to Colon to participate in
the formal opening of the Panama
canal by passing through on the
bridge of the world-famous old battle
ship Oregon as leader of the long
line of fighting craft of all nations
and then after proceeding northward,
enter the Golden Gate at the head of
the immense armada and attend the
Panama Pacific Exposition at San
Francisco.
This announcement was' made by
Secretary Daniels. Originally the
president was to go from Washington
to Hampton Roads to greet command
ers of the International fleet as they
arrived. Afterward he was to make
the trip by rail to San Francisco to
visit the exposition at some conveni
ent later date.
The president, however, has deter
mined now to do full honor to the ex
position by making his advent on the
scene at the head of an armada, the
like of which the world has never
seen. Also he will redeem his long
standing promise to Col. George W.
Goethals to formally open the Pana
ma carnal.
The president," according to the
present program, will leave Washing
ton for Hampton Roads, accompanied
by his official family, on the yacht
Mayflower, March 5, 1915. The inter
national fleet will have been gathering
in hte Roads since January 1.
May Put in White Man.
Washington. James B. Lloyd, ol
Tarboro, is slated for recorder of
deeds of the District of Columbia, if
the Democrats can prize Henly Lin
coin Johnson, negro, out of that place
and keep another negro from getting
it. It has been understood f or some
time that Mr. Wilson's campaign man.
agers promised . negro leaders in
doubtful states to keep a negro in the
recorder of deeds office. Mr. Lloyd liv
ed in Illinois for several years and
has just recently returned to North
Carolina.
Examine School Children.
Wilmington. Announcement was
made by Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles,
professor in charge of tile Marine hos
pital. here, that the physical examina
tion of school children of this city
would be. continued during the sum
mer months. Last summer several
hundred children were examined and
during the past winter mental examin-
ations of practically all the school
children of the city were made. There
will b'e 17 medical men engaged upon
this work all the summer.
HORNE MONUMENT
TO STATE
COMMEMORATES COURAGE AND
DEVOTION OF WOMEN OF THE
CONFEDERACY.
LATE STATE CAPITOL NEWS
... , 1
Review of the Latest News Gathered
Around the State Capitol That
Will Be of Interest to Our Readers
Over North Carolina. "
JUdeisfc.
With twelve hundred Confederate
veterans and 1,000 or more Daughters
of the Confederacy taking part, the
ceremonies for the unveiling of the
Home monument to the North Caro
lina women of the Confederacy given
to the state were carried out. The
veterans were here in annual reunion
and joined in fine tribute to the
women of the South exemplified in
the magnificent gift to the state that
testifies the appreciation of Mr.
Home and the state.
The exercises began in the auditor
ium at 11 o'clock with an invocation
by Rev. A. E. Osborne, late colonel of
the- Fourth North Carolina Regiment,
Confederate Sates Army. The Third
Regiment Band furnished music.
Dr. D. H. Hill, president of the A.
& M. College and son of General D. H.
Hill of the Confederate Army, deliver
ed the address for the occasion, his
theme being "The Spirit, Character
and Deeds of the North Carolina Wo
men of the Confederacy." It was an
inspiring story of the heroism and
sacrifices made by the North Carolina
women of the Confederacy.
At the monument J. A. Long, chair
man of the Memorial Commission, in
brief, fitting remarks, presented the
monument to the state, addressing
Governor Craig for this purpose. He
paid a most fitting tribute to Ashley
Home who made the monument pos
sible, depicting him as having loved
the South and especially North Caro
lina and having admired most of all
that type of life found in the South
ern women.
The speech of acceptance was by
Governor Locke Craig, who declared
that the state accepts it with most
grateful appreciation as the tribute
of a knightly soldier to the women of
the Confederacy. The statue, he said,
is an epic with heroism and devotion
as its theme. '
Prepare Instruction Camp.
The city of tents which will accom
modate the hundreds of young men
from yarious Southern colleges and
universities during the time that they
are receiving instructions for service
In the United States army under the
auspices of the War department will
begin to rise at the foot of Sunset
Mountain, a message from Robert O.
Van Horn, chief of staff, bearing the
information that Captains Day and
Brown with their troops will leave the
latter part of the week for Asheville.
Army engineers will prepare for
the drainage of the land, electricians
will have supervision of the stringing
of the wires, construction men will
arrange the tents and water and sew
er lines will be laid. By the date set
for the beginning of the maneuvres
everything will be in readiness for
Southern high school, college and uni
versity graduates who are desiriqus
of taking training under competent
instructors assigned to duty at Ashe
ville by the war department.
Craig Names Board of Election.
Governor Craig announces the ap
pointment of the state board of elec
tions as follows: Wilson G. Lamb,
Williamston; R. C. Clay well, Morgan
ton; J. B. Underwood, Fayetteville ;
W. J. Davis, Hendersonville, and Clar
ence Call, Wilkesboro. Colonel Lamb
contiues chairman of the board. Mr.
Clay well has served several terms as
secretary. Mr. Call represent the Re
publicans and Mr. Davis the Progres
sives. Secretary Issues New Charters.
The Bobbett-Forbes Warehouse
Company, Greensboro, . capital $25,
000 authorized and $1,100 subscribed
by A. V. Bobbitt and others.
Evidence in the McArthur Case.
The defense completed the taking
of evidence in the Federal court trial
of, the noted cas of Citizen's Bank of
Norfolk vs. Adam McArthur and Mrs.
M. E. McArthur involving the genuine
ness of $25,000 in notes held by the
bank against the defendants and it is
expected that the case will go to the
jury soon. This is the second trial
the first one some months ago, having
resulted in a hung jury. Much of the
time was taken up with the examina
tion of David N. Carvalho, the famous
handwriting expert.
Medical Examinations On.
The State Board of Medical Exam
iners began the examination of 150
applicants for licenses to practice
medicine in this' state. Dr. Benjamin
Hayes of Oxford is chairman of the
board and the work will not be com
pleted for several days, the names
of those successful to be announced
in connection with the annual conven
tion of the North Carolina Medical So
ciety in session three days in- Raleigh.
The examination of 50 applicants for
licenses to practice pharmacy in this
state is now on.
GIVEN
State's Share in Smith-Lever Act.
Washington The maximum amount
North Carolina can receive under the
Smith-Lever Co-Operative Agricultural
Extension act for the fiscal year 1914-.
15 is $10,000; for 1915-16, $32,953;
1916-17, $52,081. For 1917-18, 1918-19,
1919-20", 1920-21 and 921-22 and each
year the amount of $19,127 to the to
tal for the immediately preceding
year. For 1922-23 and thereafter
$166,846 wil be provided.
The. act provides ' that each state
must duplicate all Federal money
above $10,000 a year. N
In explaining the appropriation the
department of agricultures - ays :
The act first appropriates $480,000
annually, beginning with 1914-15, and
gives each state $10,000 for each fiscal
year as a basic fund.
The act then appropriates addition
al Federal moneys to be distributed in
the proportion of rural population. To
share in these additional fnuds the
state must dpulicate the additional
money thus received. The additoinal
apprbpriations are as follows : ' 1915
16, $600,000; 1916-17, $1,100,000;
1917-18, $1,600,000; 1918-19, $2,100,-
000; 1919-20, $2,000,000; 1920-21-, $3,-
100,000; 1921-22, $3,600,000; 1922-23,
and thereafter, $4,100,000.
It will be noticed that after 1915-16
the total appropriation is increased
each year by $500,000. The fifth
column in the table shows the amount
of each additional $500,000 that the
state is entitled to receive. To get
the amount that any state is entitled
to receive for any fiscal year from
1917 to 1922 add the amount given in
the table to the total for the immedi
ate preceding year. Example: Ala
bama, in 1917-18 will receive $49,404
plus $17,911 equals $67,315; for 1918
19 Alabama will receive $67,315 plus
$17,911 equals $85,226; and so on until
the maximum given under the column
1922-23 is reached.
The totals for each state contain
the basic $10,000 granted each year.
To -.obtain the amount that the state
would have to duplicate in any year
to receive its entire Federal quota,
subtract $10,000 from the total. Ex
ample: The amount Alabama would
have to duplicate in 1917-18 is $67,
315 minus $10,000, or $57,315. '
North Carolina Editors Prepare.
President Clarence Poe of the. North
Carolina Press Association made pub
lic the completed program for the
North Carolina Press Association to
be in session at Wrightsville Beach,
June 24 to 26. The president's ad
dress will have for its theme "The
Editor as a .Crusader." Bion H. But
ler of The Raeford Journal will have
a paper, "North Carolina Slopping
Over With Opportunities What Can
the Press Do in Developing Them."
President Graham of the State Uni
versity will discuss "Civil Service
Work; An Opportunity for the Press."
Josephus Daniels will deliver an ad
dress. All these features will charac
terize the first morning session.
Wednesday night R. F. Beasley of
The Monroe Journal will deliver the
annual oration, his theme being "The
Tyranny of the Status Quo." The
poem will be read by William Laurie
Hill, this followed by a Dutch supper
by citizens of Wilmington.
Business problems will be consider
ed at the session of the editors Thurs
day morning. And during the after
noon there wil be trolley rides and
bathing. Thursday night Editor Nor
man Hapgood of Harper's Weekly,
will deliver his address and the gen
eral business of the convention round
ed up. On Friday there will be a trip
down the Cape Fear on the steamer
Wilmington.
Fine Wheat At Farm.
The state department of agriculture
received from the farm of the Central
Hospital for the Insane specimens of
wheat from a 70-acre field that are
especially fine, the tallest bundle
measuring five to six inches long,' es
pecially well filled out. There are
three varieties, purple straw, fulcos
ter and red wonder. The farm super
intendent expects the wheat crop to
thrash out an average of 40 or more
bushels an acre.
Little Tobacco Sold in May.
Only five leaf tobacco markets in
North Carolina reported leaf tobacco
sales on warehouse floors for the
month of May, according to the report
of the state board of agriculture just
issued. These were Reidsville, .11.6,
956 pounds; Winston-Salem, 67,218;
Durham, 25,620; Mount Airy, 454, and
Stoneville, 350 pounds. The sales for
May, 1913, were 26,704 pounds.
Oil Painting of Ashley Home.
: In presiding for the ceremony of un
veiling and presenting to the state
the oil painting of Ashley Home,
Mrs. M. A. Winstead of Rocky Mount
delivered an especially eloquent ad
dress in which she declared this one
of the proudest days for the women of
the state in all the history of North
Carolina and especially so for the Uni
ted Daughters of the Confederacy, and
that the ceremonies of the unveiling
of the monument just witnessed was
one of the most Imposing and beauti
ful ever held at the state capital. .
James R. Young Gives Warning.
Commissioner of Insurance James
R. Young, before leaving for New York
to attend important meetings of the
executive committee and the commit
tee on standard form "of life policies
of the National Association of Insur
ance Commissioners, served notice on
certain land concerns that they and
their agents must stop operations in
this state until the attorney general
passes upon their methods under the
"blue sky act" of the last legislature.
He says he finds that very many peo-
jple continue to become the victims. .
STATE ITEMS
OF INTEREST TO ALL NORTH
CAROLINA PEOPLE.
B. Y. P. U. Elects Officers. .
The annual convention of the North
Carolina Baptist Young Peopled Union
adojurned at Ralegh to meet next
year at Mount Airy. Officers were
elected for the next year , as follows:
Presdient, L. Bunn Olive, Apex; vice
presidents, W. G. Privtt, Washington,
W. C. Barrett, Gastonia, W. M. Gil
more, Louisburg, G. T. Page, Lumber
ton, R. G. Kendrick, Greensboro; re
cording secretary, Miss Beulah Bow
den, Mars Hill; treasurer, L. F. Foust,
Raleigh; auditor, L. R. Norris, Ral
eigh. This was the final day of the
convention and, like the two preced
ing days, was taken up largely with
addresses and special discussions on
phases of union and personal work
along the lines of B. Y. P. U. service.
This morning W. H. Weatherspoon of
Laurinburg made an address on teach
ing that can be done in the union
work. Rev. Theo. B. Davis, of Zebu
Ion, told "How to Insure the, Life of
a Union."
Jockey With Rates.
Mr. Lincoln Green, freight traffic
manager of the Southern Railway and
one of the foremost experts in the
country on the various elmnts enter
ing into th fabric of rate-making in
this territory, spent practically all of
the day on the witness stand before
Special Examiner Richard Eddy, Jr.,
of the interstate commerce commis
sion, who is conducting the present
general inquiry into the rate situation
as it relates to the transportation
charges from the Appalachian coal
fields to the Carolinas. Mr. Green's
testimony was largely technical and
dealt with conditions which he declar
ed existed in this territory and such
as affected the proposition of rate
making. He arraigned the contention
of Mr. E. i. McVan, the noted rate ex
pert of Omaha, Neb., who had argued
that the C. C. & O. route should be the
basis for fixing the standard rate into
the Carolina territory from the coal
fields.
Prepare For Tourist Season.
That Waynesville is anticipating
the largest summer season in her his
tory i3 evidenced by the unusual prep
arations made by the hotels and the
boarding house people, and by the
booking of several trains for this city
by the Southern Railway traffic de
partment. "
NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS.
Senator Overman introduced a bill
to provide $25,000 for a monument to
be erected to Sir Walter Raleigh at
Raleigh. The bill provides that the
land upon which the statue Is placed
must be donated. The design is to
be passed on by the secretary of war.
For the purpose of familiarizing
himself with the work done by the
state convicts since, his last visit to
Western North Carolina, Dr. Joseph
Hyde Pratt, state geologist, left for
an inspection Jour of the Asheville
Charlotte highway. He was accompa
nied by Dr. M. H. Fletcher.
The cattle quarantine in Lenoir
county instituted by the United States
and state departments of agriculture
has resulted in the curtailment of
Kinston's beef supply. The chamber
of commerce has decided to ask the
departments and the county commis
sioners to have dipping vats erected
on the Duplin and Jones lines, so that
cattle from those counties now debar
red, may be shipped in.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the North Carolina Veterinary Medi
cal Association will be held in the
chamber of commerce rooms in Wil
son, June 23 and 24. Dr. M. J. Rag
land of Salisbury is president.
J. W. Hatchet is in a serious condi
tion, at his home near Statesville as
the result of being struck by a falling
tree'. Mr. Hatchett was In the woods
on his place when the accident oc
curred. Two trees were being cut at
the same time and while . he was
watching one tree the other struck
him.
. The annual celebration at Guilford
Battle Ground on July 4 this year will
be featured by the presence of Hon,
W. H. Murray, widely known as "Al
falfa Bill" and at present a member of
the United States Congress. By rea
son of being chairman of the constitu
tional convention he is referred to as
the father of Oklahoma's constitution,
The following readustment of post-
office classification is announced
High point from second to first class;
third class to second class, Albemarle,
Edenton, Louisburg and North Wilkes
boro. s
A year ago the thought that an auto
mobile would ever make the trip to
the top of High Peak, 8 miles from
Morganton, would have been laughed
at but today it can be made over one
of the finest roads in the state. High
Peak is one of the highest points in
this section of the state, is several
hundred feet higher than Battery Park
and gives a splendid- view V
Solomon Godfrey was electrocuted
at the Southern Power Company's
substation at Lexington. A flash of
lightning disabled the plant for a few
minutes and Godfrey, who was an em
ploye of the Dacotah Cotton Mill,
which is nearby, was helping to repair
the damage.
. The Statesville aldermen have pass
ea ordinances creating street im
provement districts on a number of
streets which have not yet been im
proved and concrete sidewalks will be
laid on these at once. With this work
completed there will be feV streets in
the town that do not have concrete
TILL WILL PAT
DEATH PENALTY
YOUNG MAN CONVICTED OF
SWAIN MURDER SENTENCED
TO ELECTRIC CHAIR.
JUDGE SHAW BREAKS DOWN
Dramatic Moments Marked Conclu-t "
ion of Sensational Murder Trial
Just Ended at Charlotte.
Charlotte. "I'm awfully sorry for
you," sobbed Judge Shaw as he spoke
the words of death to Charles T. Trull
at 6:40 o'clock after the final page in
the tragic chapter of his trial for the
murder of the late Sidney Swain had
been written In the court records of
this county. The young man was sen
tenced to be electrocuted August 14
between the hours of 6 a. m. and 4 p.
m., for his mrime,
Following the announcement of the
jury's verdict in the morning at 9
o'clock, the court had designated the
entire day for the counsel of the de
fendant to do what it could do to off
set the outcome of the deliberations'
of the jury. It was a task too monu
mental for human capacities and the
three men who have tried to stand
between the iron hand of the law and
the life of this young man fell back
aghast before the work that was laid
out for them to do. They could not
stay the majestic movements of the
law, the inevitable consequence of the
court's proceedings and while they
toiled laboriously and fought tactful
ly and gave up hopefully, they failed
to find a flaw upon which the court
would open up to them the avenue of
opportunity for saving the life of their
client.
With many motions swept away by
Judge Shaw and no further ground
left upon which the counsel for the
unfortunate youth could plant its feet
in .behalf of his life, the court called
up$n Trull to stand up. The de
fendant sprang from his seat at the
call and faced the bench.' He was
unflinching. His face showed a sick
ly pallor. In appearance he was rans-
latea irom an impetuous youtn oi tne
first day's trial to a wrecked piece of
human flesh. His eyes were sunk and
hollowed, his color was hideous; his
countenance was pallid; his hair wa3
wrecked with perspiration, but hi3
nerve abided. It never left him. He
was as cool and composed as any
man in the congested corridors of the
court house. He spoke without trem
or; he was unsupported so far as
friends and relatives were involved.
No man who had lifted a voice for
him was near except his lawyers.
His step-father was not in court. ,
FIGHT FOR ROAD MONEY.
Overman and Simmons Do Not Intend
to Let Money Slip.
Washington. Senators Overman
and Simmons are going to the mat
with Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Blakeslee. They will meet
him in Postmaster General Burleson's
office and discuss the $10,000 that be
says Davidson county cannot have
because it has not met the require-,
ments of the law, and which he now
threatens to Vurn over to some other
State.
"I do not intend to let that money
leave North Carolina if I can pre
vent it,", said Senator Simmons. "I
told the Postmaster General the oth
er day, in the presence of ' Senator
Overman and Charles M. Thompson
of Davidson county, that Blakeslee
was trying to find an excuse to take
the $10,000 away from our allotment.
Mr. Burleson said he would not let
him do it."
It looks now as if the Forsyth-Davie-Iredell
project would get the
$10,000 that Davidson has lost. This
will make $30,000 for that I road.
Those counties have offered to put up
the rest of the money for that $100,
000 project if Uncle Sam will give
them $30,000.
Both Senator Overman and Sim
mons are in fighting mood.
Make Final Arrangements.
Wilmington. At a meeting of the
committee of local newspaper men
and the entertainment committee of
the Chamber of Commerce held re
cently, final arrangements were made
for the entertainment of the editors at
the annual meeting of the North Car
olina Press Association which will be
held here June 24 and 25. When Sec
retary of Navy Daniels arrives he will
be met at the station by a special car
which will take him immediately to
the beach, where he will speak the.
same morning.
Lewis Has Good Cotton.
'"Gastonia. For 18 years past E. P.
Lewis, originator of the now famous
Lewis long-staple cotton, has taken
the measurement of the height of his
cotton stalks on June 10 each year.
On that date this year his highest
stalk was 13 inches. Last year in
the same date the highest stalk was
10 inches. The lowest it has been at
any time within the 18 years was
about six years ago when the tallest
stalk was only six and on.e-fourth
inches high. - Mr. Lewis say3 he has
a prety .good stand this year.