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VOL. XXXVIII.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, NOVEMBER 3, 1915.
NO. 13.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
ings of This and Other Nations
liu
Ftf Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS J)FTHE SOUTH
What Is Taking P.'ace in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Foreign
King George of England suffered a
painful accident while reviewing his
troops. The soldiers cheered the
king and waved their handkerchiefs,
which frightened his horse. The king
seemed to have mastered the animai,
but just as success was in his grasp
the horse fell over backward, throw
ing the king.
British casualties from the begin
ning of the war to October 9 are an
nounced as having been 493,294 kill
ed, wounded and missing.
Aristide Briand, named as premier
of France, has organized the new
cabinet, which is a coalition of rep
resentatives of all the opposing par
ties and factions, something never be
fore tried in the history of the French
republic.
Formation of a supplementary air-
fleet of 5,000 aeroplanes, whose special
mission will be to conduct a ceaseless
campaign of destruction on" German
factories, is the object of the new
French Aerial League.
Official announcement was made in
London that another spy had been
put to death. The announcement
says the prisoner, charged with es
pionage, was tried recently by the gen
eral courtmartial, found guilty and
sentenced to death. This sentence
was confirmed and was carried out,
The Hestia of Athens, as quoted
by the Havas agency, says that steps
are being taken by the Bulgarian and
Turkish ministers to Greece, with the
intention of establishing the right of
their governments" troops to pursue
the Serbians and their allies into
Greek territory should the occasion
arise.
A typhoon in the Philippine Islands
has partly wiped out the town of To
bacco. One hundred people were kill
ed, and a railroad line entirely wash
ed away.
Porter Charlton, the American who
has been on trial in Como, Italy, on
the charge of murdering his wife, in
1910, was condemned to six years
and eight months, but, owing to a gen
eral amnesty, he will serve only 29
days. He benefits by the time he has
already been under restraint.
The Russian government is endeav
oring to negotiate a foreign loan of
$2,750,000,000 and also to issue abroad
the necessary treasury bonds in
pounds, francs and dollars.
The Russian government will short
ly make effective the income tax law
which is now being considered by the
duma.
The severity of the fighting in the
western zone of the war is indicated
by the casualty list for the fortnight
ending October 11, which shows that
the British army lost 383 killed, 646
wounded and 107 missing a total of
Domestic
Eight people were injured and many
passengers narrowly escaped death in
a street car collision in Atlanta. Broken
glass was scattered in all directions
and it is a miracle that more passen
gers were not injured. Slick tracks
is given as the cause. .
In San Francisco- Ralph K. Blair
and Dr. Thomas Addis were found
guilty of conspiring to hire men in
the United States for British military
service. The cases against Lieuten
ant Kenneth Croft of the British army
and Barry G. Lane were not consid
ered.
The Illinois state supreme court
held invalid a village ordinance pro
hibiting the erection of billboards ad
vertising spirituous liquors. H. J. Has
kell of the village of Villa Grove,
which is dry, erected a sign and the
mayor and the village board had it
torn down.
William O'Berry, a railway employe,
shot and killed his wife In Tampa,
Fla., and then killed himself. . Scream
ing of children in the room where
the crime was committed drew the
attention of neighbors. Domestic trou
ble, indicated in notes left by O'Berry,
was the motive.
The third national conference on
marketing and farm credits is to be
held in Chicago, November 29 to De
cember 2, inclusive. At this meeting
representatives of agricultural, educa
tioial and banking interests of every
action of the United States will be
bought together to frame legislation
necessary to secure an easy flow of
money to agricultural operations, to
sec-are the standardization of farm
Products and to encourage the organi
zation of agriculture.
Two unmasked men entered the
First National bank at Marble Falls
Texas, about fifty miles northwest of
Austin, shot and probably fatally
wounded a bookkeeper, forced another
employe to open the bank's vault and
escaped with about two thousand dol
lars. The robbers escaped, and have
not been located.
News of the burning Mallory line
steamship Colorado, abandoned near
t-ape Romaine, was that the vessel
'as likely to be a total loss. The
Clyde Line Steamship Comanche
Passed close to the Colorado. The
captain and crew were rescued.
I
A rifle formerly owned by Abraham
Lincoln brought $285 in a sale of Lin
coln relics in New York City. A
law book owned by him brought $95.
The eighteen railroads involved in
demand made a month by 4,000 Chi
cago switchmen for an increase of 5
cents an hour have refused the de
mand. Col. Theodore Roosevelt celebrated
his 57th birthday at Oyster Bay by
taking a four-mile row and a walk
with Mrs. Roosevelt, eating lunch in
the woods. He said he had a regular
picnic." Newspaper friends in Al-
toona, Pa., sent him a birthday cake
with " fifty-seven candles on it. The
colonel said he was feeling "tip-top."
In the arrest of Robert Fay. a lieu
tenant in the German army, and Wal
ter Scholz, his brother-in-law, police
and federal secret service agents be
lieve they have detained the. leaders!
in a piot to wrecK American munition
plants. They were apprehended In
New York City.
Washington
United States citizens residing in
the state of Sonora are believed to
have been placed in great danger .by
the posting of printed copies of a
protest sent to President Wilson
against the recent order giving per-
mission to Carranza to 'move a por
tion of his troops over United States
territory, thereby enabling him .o
strike General Villa from every side.
The crew of 21 of the United
States submarine F-4, which was
wrecked in Honolulu harbor last
March, did not commit suicide, but
fought gamely to the last for their
lives. This is shown in the final re
port of the board .of inquiry headed
by Rear Admiral Bush and made pub
lic. Secretary Lansing has instructed
Ambassador Gerard at Berlin to use
his good offices in behalf of the thir
ty or more persons sentenced to death
by the German courtmartial at Liege,
Belgium.
Secretary Daniels has signed an or
der for the construction at the navy
yard in Washington of a giant biplane
for the navy to be built at any govern
ment establishment.
A 10,000-word note, which covers
the argument of the United States gov
ernment in all its phases of British
interference with neutral trade, has
been approved by President Wilson
and is on its way to England.
Postoffice burglars have grown so
numerous that postmasters are being
ordered to keep a smaller number of
stamps on hand. Last year's losses
totaled $190,000. Department officials
believe that an organized band of
stamp brokers in the large cities dis
pose of the loot taken in postoffice
robbers. A scheme to identify stamps
mailed from any city will probably
be tried.
In the details of the plot to ham
per munitions shipments to the allies
it is shown that if Lieutenant Fay told
the truth, no blame can be attached
to Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von
Papen of the German embassy at
Washington. Fay says that Captains
Boy-Ed and von Papen refused to
have anything to do with the scheme.
The American steamship Zealandia,
under investigation by customs au
thorities on charges that she had fit
ted out as a German sea raider when
she sailed from Pensacola on October
7 for Tampico, Mex., has been locat
ed at Campeche, Mex., with a cargo
of rosin.
European War
The German army now has an open
road through Northeastern Serbia and
Bulgaria to the Aegean sea and Con
stantinople, and can easily supply the
Turks with all the ammunition they
need."
In the southern part of Serbia, the
Bulgarians are retreating before the
allied forces.
Capt. Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, an
English newspaper reporter, told a
London audience that it was a prac
tical impossibility for the allies to
take Cdnstantinople, as the Turks,
while suffering defeat, still number
ed 800,000.
The Teutonic allies are making
steady progress all along the north
ern and eastern frontier of Serbia, al
though at great cost of life, as the
Serbians now that they have reached
the hills are making them pay dear
ly for every mile covered.
Great Britain and France announce
that they will deal blow for blow
in the Near East, and 'hope to secure
very shortly the support of both Rou
mania and Greece.
A London dispatch states that
Greek troops have been drawn into
the fighting near the junction of the
Greek-Serbian and Bulgarian bounda
ries. -
The British transport Marquette has
been torpedoed in the Aegean sea. But
ninety-nine of the personnel of the
vessel are unaccounted for.
The Italian war office reports that
a new "and brilliant success has mark
ed the Italian offensive in the Ledro
valley.
Except for a. few attacks by the
Germans, fighting in the west has
consisted for the most part of ar
tillery engagements and some excit
ing air contests.
The German cruiser, Prinz Adal
bert, with a complement of 557 men,
was sunk by a British submarine in
the Baltic. Only a small portion of
the crew was rescued.
At some points in the southern part
of Serbia, where the French have
joined the Serbian army, the Serbians
have assumed the offensive and cap
tured several strategic points in Bui
gariaJv territory-
VILLA WILL KEEP
UP ACTIVE FIGHT
IF NECESSARY HE SAYS HE WILL
FIGHT THE UNITED STATES
ARMY.
TO CAPTURE AGNA PRIETA
This is His Frst Step; Meanwhile He
is Plumb Through With Ameri
cans of All Kinds.
Douglas, Ariz. Villa troops Invad
ing Sonora arrived within striking
distance of Agua' Prieta, opposite here
and the expected attack against the
Carranza garrison apparently is a mat
ter of hours. Advance cavalry of the
invaders halted three and a half miles
east of Rgua Prieta.
Gen. Francisco Villa, who arrived
at the international border several
miles further east a few hours earlier,
talked with Americans across the
boundary and announced that he in
tended to attack the Mexican ' town,
regardless of any action United S tates
troops -might take.
"If necessary I will fight the United
States Army assembled along th bor
der," he said.
General Villa learned for the first
time that permission had been given
by the United States government for
Carranza to move troops through
American territory to reinforce the
Agua Prieta garrison.
Four Carranza troops trains jour
neying through United States territory
arrived bringing the fighting strength
of the Carranza garrison to 6,000 men.
Villa, according to reliable advices,
has 10,000 soldiers.
Villa himself was with his cavalry,
which passed along the border to take
position just out of range of the gar
rison. It was during this march that
'he learned that Carranza reinforce
ments had been transported over Am
erican territory.
"Agua Prieta wiH be mine," he as
serted, "Americans or no Americans.
We may have to fight the whole
American army if necessary, but no
matter, it will be ours."
"When?" he was asked.
"I know," was the reply.
Suddenly Villa asked again if it
was true that the United States gov
ernment had permitted General Car
ranza to transport reinforcements
over. American territory. He then
said:
"This is the way the United States
repays me for protection I have given
foreigners in Mexico. Hereafter I
don't give . what happens to
foreigners in Mexico or in my
territory.
"I am through with the United
States. I can fight my battles. Let
them fight theirs.
"I can whip Carranza and his en
tire army, but it is asking a great
deal to whip the United States also;
tout I suppose I can do that, too."
Villa declined to pose for a photo
graph. "No more of my pictures for
the United States," he exclaimed.
BULGARIANS CAPTURE PIEROT.
Important Fortress is Described as
Key to Nish.
London. The Serbian fortress of
Pierot, described as the key to Nish,
is in the hand of the Bulgarians,
while the Austro-Gennans, advancing
from the north, are endeavoring to
form a ring around Krauguyevatz, the
Serbian arsenal. Thus, besides en
dangering both the Serbian war capi
tal and the town where the Serbian
munitions are manufactured, the Cen
tral Powers with Bulgaria are narrow
ing the gap through which the Ser
bian army must escape.
Simultaneously the Austrians are
attacking Montenegro, to remove if
possible the danger of having an
enemy army on their flank. - Little
has been said about the fighting be
tween the Austrians and Monteneg
rins along the Drina river, but appa
rently it is of a most sanguinary char
acter, as it took the Austrians with far
superior equipment more" than a week
to force acrossing of the river at one
point alone, that south of Vishegrad.
Were Not After Slaton.
Atlanta, Ga. Fulton county police
after an investigation of the source of
shots heard near the country home of
former Governor John M. Slaton, said
there was no reason to believe the
disturbance had any connection with
alleged threats against Slaton shortly
after he commuted the sentence of
Leo M. Frank. The shots were fired,
the police believe, by a boisterous au
tomobile party, or 'possum hunters.
Former Governor Slaton returned to
Atlanta three weeks ago following: an
absence of several months.
Carranza Wants to Deal Direct.
Washington. General Carranza has
made it clear through the Foreign
Office of his government that he does
not desire to deal with European gov
ernments through the United States
and state deaiDrtment officials are in
accord with his course. European
powers which have not yet recognized
the de facto government have been
transmitting (representations through
American officials in Mexico. General
Carranza now desires that foreign gov
ernments deal directly with him in the
future.
FRENCH CABINET
ASSUMES DUTIES
NEW COALITION CABINET, ALL
PARTY GROUPS BEING
REPRESENTED
FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
New Cabinet is Remarkable For Its
Personnel and For Ability of Its
Members.
Paris. A new French Cabinet,
headed by Aristide Briand as Premier
and Minister of Foreign . Affairs has
taken up its work
This is the first time in the history
of the French Republic 'that there is
a coalition ministry of ail the oppos
ing parties and factions It follows
oioseiy on the recent innovation of
forming a British coalition cabinet
of Conservatives and Liberals.
The action in forming the cabinet
was the culmination of a deep popular
sentiment that at the supreme crisis
of the war party division should give
way to united action by all parties.
Because the cabinet of Rene Viviani
was representative of only a few
political groups, the ministers pre
sented their collective resignations
and President Poincare immediately
charged Aristide Briand with the for
mation of a new organization com
bining all elements.
The composition of the Cabinet
follows :
Premier and Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Aristide Briand.
Minister of State and Vice Presi
dent of Cabinet, vharies de Frey
c'net. Minister of War, General , J. S.
Gallieni.
Minister of Justice, Rene Viviani.
Minister of the Interior, Louis J.
Malvy.
Minister of Marine, Rear Admiral
Lacazee.
Minister 'of Finance, Alexandre
Ribot.
General Secretary of the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Jules Cambon.
Minister of Public Instruction and
Inventions concerning National De
fense, Prof. Paul Painleve.
Minister of Public Works, Marcel
Zembat.
Minister of Commerce, Etienne
Clementel.
Minister of Colonies, Gaston Bou
rn ergue.
Minister of Agriculture, Jules Me
Mne. Minister of Labor, Albert Metin.
Ministers without portfolio, Email
Combes, Leon Bourgeois, Denys Co
chin and Jules Guesde.
Under Secretary of State, War,
Munitions, Albert Thomas.
Under Secretary of State for Sub
sistence, Joseph Thierry.
Under Secretary of State for San
itary Service, Justin GodarL
Under Secretary of State for Avia
tion, Rene Besnard.
Under Seccrefcary of State for Ma
rine, Louis Nail.
Under Secretary for Fine Arts, Al
bert Dalimier.
The Under Seoietaries of the Min
istries of the Interior and Foreign
Affairs were not made public.
J. P. MORGAN UNDER KNIFE.
Opreated on for Appendicitis Attack
Mi!d Condition Good.
New York. J. P. Morgan, who had
been at his desk a little over tro
months since recovering from bullet
wounds inflicted by Erich Meuntur,
the mad professor of languages, who
attempted to kill the financier last
July is again confined to his bed, this
time from an attack of appendicitis
Mr. Morgan went through an oper
ation which three attendant special
ists afterward described as successful
in every way. The append! was re
moved at noon by Drs. Markoe, Lyle
and Smith; and the official bulletin is
sued shortly thereafter, said Mr. Mor
gan was resting comfortably. Con
tinued progress was reported unoffi
cially during the artefnoon.
The attack of appendicitis was mild
In character, it was said, and the
parent's condition was very good.
Carranza Asked for Orders.
Washington. Representations have
been made to General Carranza by the
United States asking for positive or
ders to military authorities in the vi
cinity of Matamoros to pursue and ar
rest Mexcans raiding ir.to American
territory. It is understood that such
orders already have been issued.
The state department received the
protest of acting Goceiroor Randall of
the Villa government in Sonora
against the transportation of Carranza
troops through American territory en
route to Agua Prieta.
Garrison Encounters Opposition.
Washington. Secretary Garrison
encountered some opposition to the
proposal for a continental army as a
part of the administration national de
fense plans from members of the ex
ecutive committee of the National
Guard Association and of the official
militia board, an advisory body com
posed of militia officers. After a con
ference called by Secretary Garrison
and which lasted several hours It
was indicated that no agreement had
been reached.
WHITE BOOK ISSUED
BV UNITED STATES
8ECOND INSTALLMENT OF PUB
LIC RECORD ON WAR QUES
TIONS ISSUED.
NEUTRALITY IS MAIN TOPIC
Both British and German Authorities
Complain. Lansing Always. Had
Unanswerable Reply.
Washington. A second installment
of the United States Government's
White Book has been issued by the
etajfce department. It contains im
portant diplomatic correspondence
with the belligerent governments of
Europe since the publication of the
first Installment last May.
Besides constituting a public record
of the position of the United States
as precedent for the future, the vol
ume reveals a series of charges and
counter-charges by the belligerents
that reflect the difficulties constantly
encountered in observing neutrality.
One of the most interesting features
is the publication for the first time of
a memorandum of the German For
eign office referred to in a colloquy
between Chairman Flood of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee and Rep
resentative Bartiholdt of Missouri, at
the hearing on the bills proposing an
embargo on arms. (Mr. Flood quoted
the memorandum to sustain his argu
ment that Germany did not hold ship
ments of munitions to the Allies as
illegal. The corresipondence with the
German Government developed as a
consequence of a ruling by the United
States that it was a violation of neu
trality for merchant ships to leave
American ports for the express pur
pose of supplying belligerent warships
at sea.
TWENTY CHILDREN BURNED.
School Building at Beabody, Mass.,
Burns. Many Are Injured.
Beabody, Mass. Twenty children,
most of them girls ranging in age
from 7 to 17 years, lost their lives in
a fire which destroyed St. John's
Parochial School. Another girl has
injuries regarded as probably fatal,
while others were less severely hurt.
The 600 children had just entered
tueir classrooms when the fire was
discovered, and although a majority
were guided to safety by Sisters of
the Order of Notre Dame, who were
their teachers, panic seized a large
number as they neared the front door
and in their rush to escape they lost
their footing nod their bodies block
ed the exit.
11 of the deters escaped, but Moth
er Superior Marie CarmeTita was ser
iously burned. At the convent house
It was said that her injuries probably
were net fatal, although she is pros
trated by the disaster and the suffer
ing of her charges.
How the fire started may never be
known. An early theory that a boiler
explosion caused it having been dis
mised, state police officials were of
the opinion that a store room in the
basement, where a gas meter was Lo
cated, was its source.
Austro German Forces Advance.
London. The German official state
ment records the advance of the Aus-tro-Cerman
forces and the capture by
the Bulgarians of Zajecar and Knia
jevats, both on the Timok River
northeast of Nish and the heights of
Pirol, almost directly east of Nish, but
beyond this there is little or no auth
entic news of the invasion of Serbia.
King Peter May Go to Italy.
Amsterdam, via London. A tele
gram from Budapest to The Cologne
Volks Zeituing says that King Peter
of Serbia probably will ' leave that
country and go to Italy.
- Four German Steamers Sunk.
Petrograd, via London. British
submarines have sunk four more Ger
man steamers in the Baltic. This an
nouncement is made in the Russian
official statement.
Favor National Prohibition.
Baltimore. Unanimous authoriza
tion of a petition to Congress to sub
mit to the states a national prohibi
tion amendment was voted by the
Presbyterian Synod of Baltimore in
annual session here. Petitions also
were approved asking for a federal
censorship of moving picture films
and a prohibition against the export
ation from the United States of .in
toxicating liquors " to Africa. Each
of the petitions it was said, would be
supported by a national movement oi
cibjurches to be initiated by the Synod.
A Hard Knock.
Hub "One night while you were
away I heard a burglar. You should
have seen me going downstairs three
steps at a time." Wife (who knows
him) "Where was he, on the roof?':
Boston Transcript.
The Doctrine of Chance.
. He "'Was your father very angry
when you told him of our engage
ment?" She "Not particularly. ' He
said he had been rather fortunate in
the stock market of late, and figured
it was about time for his luck to turn."
GERMAN DEFENDS
COUNTRY'S DEED
UNDER SECRETARY TELLS OP
THE EXECUTION OF MISS
CAVILL, A NURSE.
REGRETTED BUT WAS JUSTICE
Hard That Woman Should Be Put to
Death But No Other Course Seem
ed Possible.
Berlin, via The Hague and Germany.'
'Dr. A. F. Zimmerman, German un
der secretary for foreign affairs, has
issued an official explanation of the
recent execution in Belgium of Miss
Edith Oavell, the - British nurse. He
phrased Ms remarks by the declara
tion that he had examined every de
tail of the evidence with the greatest
care and found the. verdict "though
regretaible, to be just." His state
ment in part follows:
"I see by the British and the Amer
ican press that the shooting of an
English woman and the conviction of
everal other women in Brussels for
treason have caused us to be severe
ly criticised. It is indeed hard that
a woman must be executed, but what
shall a state which is at war come
to, if it allows to pass unnoticed a
crime against the safety of its armies
because committed by women?. No
law book in the world, least of all
those dealing with war regulations,
makes such a differentiation, and the
female sex has only one preference
according to ' legal usages, namely,
that women in a delicate condition
may not be executed.
"In the Cavell case I have reviewed
the decision of the court and examin
ed evidence to the smallest detail.
"The reason ds so convincing and
all the circumstances are so clear
and convincing that no courtmartial
in the world could have rendered any
other decision. For it concerns not
the act of one single person, rather
it concerns a well thought out, world
wide conspiracy which succeded nine
months to render the most valuable
aid to the enemy, to the disadvantage
of our army. Countless British, Bel
gian and French soldiers now again
are figfhting in the allied ranks who
owe their escape from Belgium to
the activity of the band now sentenc
ed, at the head of which stood Miss
Cavell.
"With such a situation, under the
very eyes of the enemy, only the ut
most severity can bring relief, and the
government violates the most elemen
tal duty toward the army and its safe
ty if it does not adopt th strictest
measures. These duties in war are
greater than any ether."
5,713,347 BALES COTTON GINNED.
Third Report Issued by Government.
Big Deficiency.
Washington. The third cotton gin
ning report of the season, compiled
from reports of census bureau corres
pondents and agents throughout the
cotton belt, announced that 5,713,347
bales of cotton counting round as half
bales, of the growth of 1915 has been
ginned, prior to October 18. This
compared with 7,619,747 bales, or 47.9
per cent of the entire crop ginned
prior to October 18 last year, 6,973,
518 bales, or 49.9 per cent in 1913 and
6,874,206 boles, or 51.0 per cent in 1912.
Gdnnings prior to October, by states,
with comparisons for the last two
years and the percentage of the . en
tare crop ginned in those states prior
u that date in the same years follow
Alabama.
Year - Bales Percent
1915 . 556,272
1914 810,295 46.8
1913 839,899 56.6
Georgia.
1915 1,178,389
1914 1,367,916 50.2
1913 1,296,911 55.3
North Carolina.
1915 264,665
1914 304,108 34.0
1913 252,193 30.1
South Carolina.
1915 581,978
1914 693,444 44.4
1913 619,720 43.7
Villa Troops Occupy Naco,
Washington. State department dis
patches representing that the forces
of the de facto government of Mexico
have evacuated Naco and that the
town has been occupied by a Villa
force of 800 men said practicoy all
train service in northern Sonora was
suspended and that although Can
anea was quiet, mining operations
there might have to be suspended if
railway communication was not open
ed in the near future. Reports from
tne Sonora border indicate Villa
troops are entering the Bavispe.
Soldiers Wounded in Border Clash.
Bronwsville, Texas. One United
States soldier, Private Herman E.
Moore, was probably fatally wounded
In a skirmish between a detachment
of the Fourth infantry and a band of
Mexican raiders near Brownsville.
The fight took place near the scene
of ihe recent decking of a St. Louis,
mifwnsville & Mexico passenger train
and the killing of several Americans
by a band of outlaws. The Mexicans
were put to flight and were being pur
sued by $wo troops of cavalry.
SYNOD CLOSES ITS
T
T
STATE PRESBYTERIAN BODY END
102D ANNUAL MEETING BEST
IN HISTORY.
MUCH NEW WORK IS PLANED
Summer Home For Members to be
Built at Montreat. 1916 Sesr ion
Will Be Held at Salisbury.
Gastonia. The Presbyterian Synod
of North Carolina concluded its one
hundred and second annual session
here, following a busy business ses
sion which began four days ago. The
delegates left for their homes, declar
ing the present session to have been
one of the best as well as most enjoy
able in the Synod's 'history. Just be
fore adjourning the body adopted un
animously a set of resolutions thank
ing the local church and the people
of the town for the splendid manner
in which the delegates had been enter
tained.
A resolution was adopted accepting
an offer made by the Mountain Re
treat Asociation of a free site at Man
treat Association of a free site a Mon
members of the Synod could have
free lodging and wh,re they could
gather for res tand recuperation dur
ing the summer months. The task
of erecting a suitable building on this
site was put in the hands of a com
mittee composed of A. T. McCullum,
W. H. Sprunt, B. R. Sellers, Rev. W.
Mc White, Rev. W. M. Fairley and
Rev. D. H. Rolston. They are auth
orized to provide the building but are
restrained from incurring any debt.
Resolutions were adopted expressing
Synod's regret at losing Asheville
Presbytery and bidding that Presby
tery God speed in its work as a mem
ber of the new Synod of Appalachia.
On recommendation of the commit
tee on Christian education and minis
terial relief directors as follows were
appointed to serve on governing board
of proposed new normal scchool to be
established at Montreat: For one
year, Dr. A. D. McClure; two years,
W. H. Belk; three years. Dr. H. G.
Hill, Dr. W. J. Martin and Dr. C. G.
Vardell were chosen members of the
assembly's permanent advisory com
mittee on Christian education and
ministerial relief. Action was taken
looking toward the co-ordination of all
synodical schools and colleges.
Rev. E. C. Murray, D. D., was elect
ed permanent clerk to succeed Rev.
E. L. Siler. In the closing hour many
papers were read and adopted, mostly
of routine nature.
A significant report was that of the
evangelistic committee. The report
showed 500 more professions of faith
and 100 more additions to the church
than any previous year. The work of
thf general and local evangelists was
sumxnerized as follows: 3,858 ser
mons preached, 2,736 professions of
faith. 1,252 additions to Presbyter
Ian church, 81 additions to other
cttrchesf 17 Sunday schools organiz
ed, 10 churches organized, $2,149 rais
ed for the Synod's work. Appropria
tions to the amount of $14,285 have
been made for the year and Synod ap
portioned $20,000 to the churches to
sustain this work. The general evan
gelists, Rev. William Black and Rev.
O. G. Jones and Rev. A. W. Crawford,
superintendent, were re-elected.
The First church, Salisbury, was
chosen as the lacpe for meeting next
year and the time is the fourth Tues
day dn October.
Auto Show For Asheville.
. Asheville. Announcement is made
by the Asheville Automobile Trade
Association to the effect that the
large building at the comer of Patton
avenue and Government street has
been secured for the first automobile
show of the city which is to be con'
ducted here next month. The struc
ture is admirably arranged and locat
ed for the exhibition and the dealers
in motor cars will demonstrate and
display the latest models of all types
of cars during the time of the exhibi
tion. Killed When Car Hita Bridge.
States ville. T. A. Corbin of Win-fiton-Salem
was instantly killed when
hds five-passenger' car hit the end of
si bridge on the Statesville-Win.stoin-Solem
road seven miles from town
throwing (Mr. Corbin into the creek
and pinning him underneath. In com
pany with' Mr. Corbin was J. R. Simp
son of Stokesdale Guilford county.
Mr. Simpson was also thrown into the
creek and had his leg pinned under
the car, but managed to extricate him
self within a few minutes with only
a few bruises.
Gastonia to Have White Way.'
Gastonia. Castonia's long-cherished
dream of a white way is at last to
be realized. Contracts were let by the
Hy for $6,000 worth of equipment, in
cluding 63 light poles and trolley
poles. The lights will be installed ai
once and will be located on Main ave
nue in the business section of Main
avenue and on the cross streets in the
business section. This was in accord
ance with action taken by the city
council at an adjourned meeting. The
city will also spend $50,000 for street
paving.
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