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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD. Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $1.50 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXVII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JANUARY 13, 1915. NO. 23. The War in Brief SUMMARY OF THE EUROPEAN WAR FOR ONE WEEK READ AT A GLANCE January 11 Only in northen France are operations referred to in the latest official communications from the French war office. There, is said, a new German offensive has been re pulsed, both in the north of Soissons and in the vicinity of Perthesies Hurius. A Buenos Aires newspaper prints a report that the German battle cruiser von Der Tann has been. sunk by the British cnnser Invincible. Operations in Russian Poland, so far as definite advices are concerned, are virtually at a standstill, but a fierce engagement is developing not far from Marjelowa. Vienna says in west Galicia the Austrians have repulsed the Russians on the heights to the northeast of Szakliczyn- Unfavorable climatic conditions are interfering with the campaign throughout the entire East, even Montengro complaining that torren tial rains have rendered military op erations difficult. Large German reinforcements are hastening to the support of the troops in Alsace, where the struggle for su premacy has been continuous for vreeks. A report from Geneva estimates German casualties at 6,000 and de clares that Belfort, the French stronghold, is filled with prisoners. Turkey and Greece are believed to be on the verge of a complete rup ture owing to the alleged persecution of Greeks in Asia Minor. Roumania is said to be preparing to join in the vast struggle; Bulgaria so far con tinues neutral, while Servia is return ing to the fight against the Austrians with renewed vgor. January 10. Near Soissons the French assert they have taken and are holding despite counterattacks a German redoubt and twow lines of trenches and in the Argonne that they have reoccupied positions previously taken from them by vicious onslaughts of the Germans. In Alsace the fighting continues, as has been the case for several days, with neither side having attained su periority. In the East and the West bad weather and mud are hampering the armies, virtually holding the men in the trenches prisoners. Movement of heavy guns in the quagmbires which have resulted from the heavy rains is next to impossible. Germany reports slight gains and the capture of prisoners in Poland. A repulse of a counterattack and the taking of 400 prisoners and sever al machine guns is credited to the Austrains in Vienna's official an- nouncement. Petrograd says the Turks in Trans Caucasia again have taken a vigorous offensive, apparently in an endeavor to relieve tne predicament of the Tenth army corps, defeated several days ago at Sari Kamysh: A news dispatch reports that Rou mania is mobilizing 750,000 men and that she will enter the war even should Italy decide not to do so. Aus tria is declared in a dispatch from Innsbruck to have started to fortify her line facing the Italian frontier and an Italian newspaper asserts that Austria has sent a note to Italy's oc cupatio at Avlona, Albania. Germany has informed the Vatican that there is no truth in the reports that Cardinal Mereiar, primate of Bel gium, has been arrested or even had been confined in his palace at Malines. January 9. Although severe fight ing the past day or two it has been ing the pas day otr two it has been discounted by the Russian successes against the Turks in the Caucasus and against the Austrians in the Car pathians. In both Eastern and Western war theatres the Germans have been er Cedingly ac.tivp . Stearic nrocrfocs la - w. m , vwu. M. -J& AO I noted in their official statements re-! eardmg operations in Poland. ' Activity by Austrian submarines, according to Berlin, apparently has compelled the French admiral to with draw his ships from the Strait of Otranto at the entrance to the Adri atic sea. ( The German military government in Berlin denies reports that Cardinal -Mercier, primate of Belgium, has been arrested or detained by the German authorities. Neither have any priests een arrested it is asserted. The British admiralty is of the opinion that the sinking of the bat tleship Formidable in the English channel was due to two torpedoes 'red by a German submarine The -Marquis of Crewe has so announced to the British house of lords. Great Britain's parliamentary reply the United States government's potest against delays to American commerce is to be forwarded shortly. further reply will come later. The jriiamentary note will be in the na- re of an acknowledgement of the niencan note and a general state inJ f the UDUSUal conditions fac ? t,ie allies and the many new prob es thrust upon England. rmany has ordered that there be more fraternizing between the field'lat3 3nd their PPnents in the J January 8 Next to the Russian vic tory over the Turks in Trans-Caucasia, which is described in a dispatch to the Russian Embassy from Petrograd as "complete," interest in the war cen ters in the stubborn fight between the French and Germans for the roads to Cernay and Melhausen in upper A sace. The battle in that region, raging for a week, is described in a Berlin dispatch as the most violent of the war. Along the rest of the western front the tide of battle continues to ebb and flow. On either side of Rheims, ac cording to reports, the French daily push their lines a few years forward, while in the Argonne, where more hard fighting is going on, both the Germans and the French report the capture of the other's entrenchments. Another region where the French seemingly keep nibbling away at the German lines in the Woevre. The Russians with all their other frontiers to cover have found another army with which to take the offensive frontier, and report the capture of a village on the road to that town. The Germans still are hammering at the Russian line drawn directly across the roads to Warsaw from the west but, it is reported, with less force behind them. In West Galicia, how ever, .where they have reinforced the Austriana, they have held up the Rus sian advance near Gorlice. In Southern Poland rain has stop ped the fighting,. Neither side is able to move there owing to the high water and mud. . The Russians continue to drive the Austrians through the snow-covered passes of the Carpathians and out of Bukowka and simultaneously are deal ing in detail with the remnants of the Turkish armies in Trans-Caucasia which are reported either to have been routed or surrounded. January 7. Turkey apparently has suffered one of the worst defeats of the war. Petrograd reports that two of the Ottoman army corps in the Caucasus have been utterly defeated in the destruction of Sari Kamysh, Trans-Caucasia, one of them surrend ering while the remnants of the oth er are being relentlessly pursued. Still another corps in the vicinity of Ardahan is reported to be striving desperately to find an outlet through the snow passes of the Armenian mountains to escape from the oncom ing Muscovites. These Turkish forces evidently had Tiflis, capital of Trans Caucasia,, as their objective. , That the Russians worked havoc among the Turks at Sari Kamysh is indicated by the statement in the of ficial report that the small bodies of troops which escaped "were vigorous ly pursued, and destroyed." Grand Duke Nicholas and Gen. Jof fre, the French commander in chief, have exchanged felicitations over the Russian victory. . In the Eastern war theatre both Petrograd and Berlin assert that con ditions remain unchanged, although operations are proceeding without ces sation. In the West the most severe fight ing is taking place on the eastern end of the line where the French declare they have made gains in the occupa tion of strategic points in the vicinity of Rouvrois and St. Mihiel. January 6 Upper Alsace appears to be the centre of the most important fighting in the Western war arena. Violent engagements are being fought In the region of Sennheim, which the French call Cernay, about eight miles northwest of Muelhausen; French forces have occupied the heights around Sennheim and also have driven the Germans out of Stein bach, a village farther to the north. At other points along the front there has been only intermittent cannonad ing. Both Russians and Germans an- mnce no important change has taken i ice on the front along the left bank cl the Vistula. In west Galicia the Russians are making steady progress, and accord ing to their official statement, have captured many Austrian prisoners. Russian troops have crossed the crown land of Bukowina and occupied Suozawa, near the Austro-Roumanian frontier. A Berlin Tageblaat correspondent at Austrian headquarters explains the recent change in the situation in Ga licia by the statement that the Rus sians have been reinforced from Kiev. Another German correspondent says the Russians are bending, every effort to reach the fortress of Cracow, but have met with repulses and ' heavy losses, owing to the well seelcted Aus trian positions. British warships have bombarded Dar-Es-Salaam, capital of German East Africa, where it is reported much damage was inflicted and all German vessels in the harbor were disabled. It was a German submarine which sank the British battleship Formid able New Year's day in the English channel. This announcement is made from Berlin, which was so advised by a wireless dispatch from the sub marine. The Formidable, according to the same authority, met with dis aster off Plymouth. SEEKS TO AGREEMENT TURKS MAKE STAND ON FRON TIER AND -FIERCELY ATTACK THE RUSSIANS. HAVE SUPERIOR ARTILLERY British Official Historian Claims Al lies Are Using All Their Big Guns and Effectively. London. The Brits'h reply to the American note occupies the attention of the British press and public in the absence of any important news from the European battlefields. The Ger mans and French official reports of most recent fighting in the western field are almost a repetitionn of those issued on preceding days. A British eye-witness who has been the official historian of events at the front, lay stress on the important part played by the artillery and high explosives In modern warfare and claims superiority for the allies in ar tillery which is being used to its full strength. From the cost to the River Aise, where the country is under water and the rivers are flooded, the big guns have been engaged continuously, but the water and mud prevent the infan try from coming Into action. Along the Aisne Valley however, and through the Champagne district as far as western Argonne the French are pushing their offensive and organizing the ground gained. These gains have been made at heavy cost. In western Argonne the Germans also claim to have made gains and to have repulsed a French attempt to carry their trenches in the Wpevre and Alsace. The only news from the East is the German report that the Russian offen sive toward illawa has failed, their force having been driven back. In the Caucasus the Turks have made a stand on the frontier near Kara-Urgan and are fiercely attack ing the Russian lines. Seemingly the Russians believe the report that the Turkish cruiser Goeben has been damaged, for their Black Sea fleet which is superior to the Turkish fleet with the Goeben, has been attacking Turkish ports and de stroying their shipping. There is no development in the near east beyond the report from Sofia that M. Guenadioff, former Bulgarian min ister of foreign affairs, is leaving for Rome on a semi-official mission, the object of which is to ascertain the at titude of Italy towards the possible future co-ordination of Italo-Bulgarian interests in the war. COTTON GINNINGS LARGEST. Up to January First, Total 14,447,623 Bales. Washington. Cotton ginning in the last two weeks of December surpass ed the same period of every other year except the record production of the year of 1911 and brought the total cotton ginned from the 1914 crop up to 14,447,623 bales, a quantity greater than ever ginned in any other year to January 1, and 130,000 bales more than in 1911. Cotton ginned during the last three years after January 1 has varied from 1,236,071 bales in 1911 to 635,090 bales in 1913- .Ginnings for the two weeks' period amounted to 470,914 bales, or 95,000 bales less than the record for the pe riod made in 1911. The period's out turn brought the total cotton in Ala bama and Oklahoma to a greater quantity than ever produced in those states. . Included in the ginnings were 44, 816 round bales ( compared with 94, 265 last year, 77,999 in 1912 and 96,227 in 1911. Sea Island cotton includes number ed 76,8886 bales, compared with 74,320 bales last year, 67,257 bales in 1912 and 105,988 bales in 1911. German Ship Sunk. Buenos 'Aires. La Prenza publishes the eroptr that an engagement has taken place off Rio Grande del Norte, Brazil, between the British battle cruiser Von de Taun, adding that the Von der Tann has been sunk. Villa Licks Carranza Forces. Laredo, Tex. Carranza troops un der General Antonio Villareal and Maclovio Herrera have been decisive ly defeated by the forces of General Villat Saltillo, Mexico, and are re treating toward Monterey with the Villa forces in close pursuit. Another engagement is expected at Monterey. The defeat of the Carranza army is said to have resulted from a misun derstanding of orders the troops of Villareal and Herrera becoming de moralized after positions of advantage had been gained. Will Receive Commission. Washington. President Wilson will receive the Alaskan engineering com mission who have been investigating various proposed routes for the gov ernment railroad to connect the Alas kan coal fields with the coast, au thorized by Congress last year. Un der the law the President will decide on the route and determine if railroad lines already constructed should be purchased as a part of the system. The commission practically has com pleted its preliminary report on sur- BULGARIA REACH GOVERNOR CRA READS HIS MESSAGE JOINT SESSION OF LEGISLATURE HELD TO HEAR SUGGESTIONS OF GOVERNOR. LEADING SUBJECTS NAMED Severe in His Arraignment of Insur ance Companies Doing Business . ' In North Carolina. Raleigh Following the custom in augurated by Gov. R. B. Glenn during his incumbency, and that of Presi dent Wilson in appearing before the two Houses of Congress and reading his messages, Governor Craig, by in vitation of the General Assembly, ap peared be fore a joint session of the two Houses in the hall of the House of Representatives and read his bien nial messages to the members. At the noon hour, accompanied by Lieutenant Governor Daughtridge, the members of the Senate filed into the House and were given seats. Shortly after the governor appear ed,' accompanied by the committee from the two houses, and wihout any further ado proceeded to deliver his message. As the governor entered the chamber, every man arose, and he was greeted with a round of applause. Handsome in appearance, faultless ly attired, the governor never appeared to better advantage in his life. ' His well-rounded voice carried to the ex treme connes of the hall, and he was listened to with the closest attention. The State's Progress. The governor in the beginning call ed attention to the substantial prog ress in evidence throughout the state, both mater'ally, industrially, and in an educational way, lamented the fact that the European war had caused some depression in business, 'but stated that it was his belief that as we have been blessed with years of advantageous circumstances, that the people of the state would triumph antly overcome this reverse. The .governor paid a great deal of attention to the work of the agricul tural department," praised the manage ment of the state prison, made an ap peal for a state-wide primary law, and urged that better laws be enacted for the preservations of the forests of the state and for the building of better roads. Raps Insurance Companies. The governor was plain spoken re garding insurance rates and urged the legislature to enact laws that would give the people cheaper fire protection. He recommended the establishment of a training school in the western section of the state for teachers, similar to that at Greenville, in the east, and dealt fully with the tuber culosis situation, stating that he thought it better to establish a bu reau for the prevention of this plague rather than keep the sanitorium at Montrose in exstence at the expense of the state, where so few people would derive any benefit from it. The governor was outspoken as re garded child labor and went on re cord as being opposed to working childrne of tedner years in the mills. Taxation Problem. He declared that the present sys tem of taxation in the state was far from what it should be, saying that the fault with our present system is that our property is not assessed for taxation as it should be, and that the quadrennial assessment of property will be for the purpose of lowering the tax rate if a more equitable listing of taxable property can be secured. The governor transmitted the re ports of the several departments of the state, reviewing their work in his message and declaring that all these departments and other state institu tions had been administered with economy, ability and honesty, and af ter being thoroughly audited by com petent experts. The governor recommended that the matter of aportioning convicts to railroads and other public works be given over to the board of direc tors, of the state prison and this mat ter be taken out of the hands of the governor and the council of state as is now the case. Would Appoint State Officers. The governor opened up a new line of thought when he recommended that the administrative officers of the state, except those named in the con stitution, be appointed by the governor instead of elected by the people. The governor claimed that this would ac complish a reform of immense bene fit and that the appointment of these officers by the Chief Executive of the state would unify the administration and increase the efficiency of the gov ernment. New Paper at Hickory. Hickory J. F. Click, former editor of the Times-Mercury, a local news paper, is making arrangements to start up a new paper here to be known as the . Nut Shell. The new paper will not be intended as a newspaper but will be more on the order of a maga zine, still any local news of an inter esting character will be carried and) commented on. Mr. Click is making arrangements to purchase a comlptee mechanical outfit for the publishing of the paper. I ACT TO REGULATE HIRE NG CONVICTS BILL INTRODUCED IN SENATE GIVING PRISON BOARD ALL RIGHT OF HIRE. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the State Caoitol. Raleigh. . Senate. Senator C. M. Muse of Carthage, iropped into tho legislative ' hopper the feature state-wide bill under the title of a bill to be entitled "An act to regulate the hiring of state convicts." The bill provides for transferring from the governor and council of state to the state's prison board the right to hire out convicts, and pre scribed that the prison board shall hire them out only for money value considered by the board to be reason able. It specifies that a sufficient number shall be retained 'at all times at the state farm for its proper cultivation, and is especially designed to put an end to working convicts for stock railroads being construct ed as at present. The bill specifies April, 1915, as the time the act would be effective. Committees. " The personnel of the more import ant committees announced follows: Manufactures Dixon, Chatham, Weaver, Cohoon, McRackin, Nash, Efird, Cooper, Currin, Steadman, Ma Jette and Herbert. Military Affairs Paxton, Hobgood, Johnson of Hoke, Johnson of Duplin, Gardner, Gilliam, Currin, Snow and Herbert. Privileges and Elections Morris, Paxton, Ballou, Gilliam, Stubbs, Thompson of Iredell, Dixon, McRae and Fisher Public Roads Ballou, Washington, Harding, Miller. Paxton, Snow, Muse, Efird, White Cohoon Lineback and Haymore. ; Railroads Gardner, Thompson of Onslow, Washington, Efird, Dixon, Harding, Johnston of Duplin, Snow, Stubbs and Jonas. Pensions and Soldier's Home Speight, Atwater, Currin, McLeod, Nash, Washington, Muse Polk, Stev ens and Haymore. Penal Institutions Ward, Chair, man. Chatham, Currin, Johnson of Duplin, Johnson of Hoke, McRae, Steadman, Weaver, Stevens, Washing ton, McAuley, Polk Ballou Snow, Mc Rackin, Speight and Haymore Bills Introduced. Cooper To amend Chapter 33 Public Laws of 1913 so as to make the state library appropriation .for clerical help payable annually. Johnson To repeal the act of 1913 relative to taxing dogs in Duplin county. Senator Muse To regulate the hir ing out of state convicts. Senator Ward To repeal Chapter 71, Public Laws of 1913 relating to inheri tances of illegitimate children from their mothers. Cohoon Resolution to facilitate work of senators employing two stenographers to d' the official cor respondence of the senators. Weaver Resolution for printing 1, 000 copies of the governor's message. House. Committee on Rules Tohams, Sea well, Dough ton, Eure and Allen. En rolled Bills Gatling Bynum, Camp, Ebbs, Small, Dean, Witherspoon. New Bills A call for the introduction of bills was made and Mr. Hoover, of Lincoln, was recognized and has the honor of introducing the first bill of the session which was for the appointment of Pink A. Thompson, a Justice of the peace for Catawba Springs township, Lincoln county. Brown, of Rowan To regulate the killing of calves in Rowan county. Bell of Chowan To abolish the of fice of county treasurer in Chowan. Put on readings, passed and sent to senate. Good Enough, Says General Young. Adjutant General Laurence W. Young of the North Carolina National Guard said in regard to the adverse report on the North Carolina naval militia made to the department at Washington by the commander of the U. S. S. Rhode Island, Captain Wil liams, by whom the reserves were taken on their last annual cruise, that the showing actually made by the officers and men was all that could be expected and was much more cred .table than the reports or the criti cisms by Captain Williams indicated. Tar Heels Should Have Credit. Commissioner of Agriculture W. A. Graham says that Washington dis patches were inclined to give too much credit to the United States De partment of Agriculture in the recent advancement of North' Carolina in the matter of the farmers growing their supplies at home. He says that for a decade the State Department of Agriculture has been preaching this thing to the farmers and that it has only been during the past two years the Federal Government has been co operating with the state in this work. Brummitt of Granville Relative to holding courts in Granville. Bell of Chowan To amend the act providing recorder's court for Chow an county. Passed readings and sent to the senate. In the house Speaker Wooten an nounced the appointment of the fol lowing pages: Walter Lee Horton, cheif page; Will West, Gilbert Moody. Hugh Carrawan, Sam Johnson, Clyde Anderson, Will Cooper, James John son,. Robert Collins, Stafford Forshee, Jake Palmer, Larry W. Smith, Cronji Earp, Charles Henry Smith, Jack Meekins. In Good Working Order. The clercial working forces of the senate and house of representatives are now fully organized and will only have to be recruited from time to time as the volume of the legislative grist, increases, and no legislature ever had more competent and accommodating staffs of clerical workers than those in both ends of the capitol for this session are proving to be. The Senate. The gavel, in the hands of Lieut. Gov. E. L. Daughtridge, sounded for order in the Senate chamber at noon and Principal Clerk R O. Self was directed to call the roll of members for them to approach the desk and take4 the oath of office. This was ad ministered in regular form by Asso ciate Justice W. A. Hoke of the Su preme Court. The election of officers was taken up and O. Max Gardner, as the choice of the Democratic caucus for Presi dent of the Senate, was placed In nom ination by Senator R. D. Johnson of Duplin. Senator Lineback of Spruce Pine for the minority, placed in nomi naiton the choice of the Republican caucus,' Senator R. L. Haymore. The vote was 39 for Gardner and 6 for Hay more. Senator Gardner was sworn in by Justice Hoke. Other Officers. Senator Hobgood nominated R. O. Self for re-election as principal clerk, seconded by Senator Gardner. J. H. Burnett was elected reading clerk. I W. G. Aycock engrossing clerk and W. D. Gaster sergeant-at-arms. Lieutenant Governor Daughtridge announced a number of stenographers, pages and laborers. The stenograph ers are Misses Nell Hinsdale, Sophie Busbee and Irene Smith. The pages are Weston Taylor, chief, Peroy Meekins, Edwin Pless, Francis John son, Heath Price, James Messenberg, messenger, and .Edward Spruill. The House. Pincipal Clerk T. G. Cobb called the House to order and Dr. R. T. Vann, president of Meredith College, offer ed the prayer. Then there was for an hour the routine of administering the oath of office to the members, which was done by Chief Justice Wal ter Clark. In the lining up of the members in groups to take the oath of office there was especially noticeable youth among the members. There is not wanting, however, men of advanced age; for there is Capt. T. W. Mason of North ampton, who is here with his grand son, W.L. Long, Representative from Halifax, the two occupying adjacent seats. Captain Mason is not the old est nor is Mr. Long the youngest man in the House. Bryan Conley of Mc Donald is the most youthful and J. C. Meekins of Tyrrell County is 81. There are numbers of the members 25 and under and also a goodly per cent of members of rather advanced age, veterans of the Confederacy, or in service to their state. At 1:30 o'clock the House took up the work of electing officers. E. R. Wooten of Lenoir was nominated by Representative Dunning. The second speech was by Representative Thom as of Anson. ' 1 ' Other Officers. For reading clerk .David P. Delling er, Democratic caucus nominee, was nominated by Representative Bowie and his election was unanimous. In deed Che votes on all the other offi cers were unanimous, the Republicans having no candidates for any of the subordinate officers. J. H. Morling was elected sergeant-at-arms and Elias J. Jenkins of Granville assistant. M. D. Kinsland of Haywood was re-elected engrossing clerk. Representative Benehan Cameron introduced a resolution providing for a joint committee of three from the House and two from the Senate to represent the state at the celebration of the battle of New Orleans January 8. A duplicate of the resolution from the Senate was passed unanimously and ordered enrolled for ratification. Meeting of Mental Hygiene Society. The North Carolina Society of Mental Hygiene was in annual ses sion here with President W. A. Erwin of Durham, presiding. At the after noon session the old officers were re elected for another year, and Dr. Al bert Anderson, secretary, submitted his report showing much educational work as to the purposes of the society done throughout the state through is suance of literature and by other means. There were vigorous talks by Dr. J. K. Hall of Richmond, Dr. A. A. Kent of the General Asssembly. National Gaurd Meeting Postponed. The annual meeting of the North Carolina National Guard Association, which was called to meet in Golds boro January 12 and 13 has been post opend to January 26-27. This change is on account of there having been a call issued for the National Associa tion of Adjutants General to meet in Washington January 15 and the of fleers of the North Carolina National Guard prefer to await the action of the adjutants general as to just what legislation is to be passed upon the present Congress. STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL NORTH CAROLINA PEOPLE. COMING EVENTS. Annual Live Stock Meeting-, Statesville January 19-21. 1915. Tri-State Medical Association, Charles ton, S. C Feb. 17-18, 1915. Health Officer For Pitt. A" telegram from Greenville to the State Board of Health announced that Pitt county is the next to have a whole time county health officer. The matter has been pending before the commissioners of Pitt for some time. It has been a county issue brought to bear by the friends of good health conditions and by the advocates of systematic health policy for the county to have this step taken. The commissioners had the right kind of a new year spirit," says the bulletin of the State Board of Health in regard to this matter, "when they voted un animously for a whole time county health officer. This was the termina tion of a long and continuous effort on the part of the county's wide awake and progressive citizens in behalf of their people's better health and wel fare and the decision is positive one. Cut Size of Loaves. Wilmington Local bakers have re duced the size of the loaves of bread from 14 1-2 ounces to 12 ounces. The reason for this is the skyward ten dency of the price of wheat, it is ex plained. Local bakers have express ed themselves as being strictly "up against it" because of the increase In price of flour. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BRIEFS. There are 343 students enrolled at Wake Forest for the spring term. The corporation commission has or dered a new set of tariffs on glass jars from Pittsburg. Work will soon be begun to replace the Presbyterian Farm School near Ashevllle, which was destroyed by fire recently. Joseph A. Baldwin, aged 71, promi nent citizen of Columbus county died of paralysis recently. Cracksmen broke open a safe In the store of J. C. Adams near Fayette ville recently and secured $400 in cash. The Duplin Enterprise weekly paper that has been published at Warsaw for the past year has been moved to Bowden and will be published there. J. E. Provo, formerly superintend ent of the chaingang system of Craven county, has been elected by the Pas quotank county commissioners super intendent of the Pasquotank county chaingang and manager of the public roads, at a salary of $1,200 per year. Three Cumberland county prisoners, John Garvin, charged with house breaking, George Hart, charged with burglary, and Walter Riddle, accused of larcency, affected a successful jail delivery from the county jail at Fay etteville. John C. Drewery has been elected president of the Capital Club at Ral eigh. Charlotte was visited by a severe wind and rain storm ?. few days ago. Kinston is discussing the city man ager form of government. The publication of The State Jour nal has been resumed here under the editorship and ownership of Col. Alex Field ,who was one of the founders of the paper. The first issue of re sumed publication appeared recently. The Spring term of the East Caro lina Teachers Training School has be gun. Applications continue to come in every room is taken. The attend ance would no doubt run up 100 more If room could be had. The'Asheville Ministers' Association at a meeting recently gave its en dorsement to the proposed bill look ing to the restriction of marriages in this state, adopting resolutions similar to those which have been adopted by other bodies of ministers during the past few weeks. The City of Savannah, a passenger and freight steamer of the Ocean Steamship Company, sailed from Wil mington, a few days ago under char ter by D. H. LIppett of this city with 9,529 bales of cotton, valued at about $400,000, her destination being Hotter dam. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Roanoke Baptist Asso ciation Rev. R. A. McFarland of the Scotland Neck Baptist Church, was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Noah Biggs. Thos. McNeely, who was crushed beneath a wrecking derrick near Mor ganton recently died at an Asheville hospital, , Salisbury property increased in value $220,150.81 during the year 1914. Nearly all students enrolled during the Fall term at the A. & M. college have returned for the Spring term. Rowan's commissioners have voted $5,000 to the farm life school which opened its first session at China Grove recently. This amount is to be paid in five yearly payments. The school has a $14,000 building and ten acres of land. Acting upon legal advice Sheriff Richard B. Lane recently closed the doors of the Mutual Aid Banking Company, a negro concern of New Bern and telegraphed the Corporation Commission to send an examiner to look into the affairs of the institution. Henderson and Mecklenburg Coun ties are soon to join other counties in the state that maintain whole-time health officers according to Dr. W. S. Rankin, who has just returned from an inspection trip to both of these, and other western counties. This will make 13 counties that have whole time health officers. O