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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. XXXVIII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, DECEMBER 22, 1915. NO. 20. ... . t IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS J)FTHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. Foreign Demand for American coal by the French government is becoming so urgent that coal dealers say France may be compelled to establish a fleet cf steamers to obtain an adequate supply of fuel. The Greek government has com mandeered all Greek shipping in Brit ish and American ports. This is done in an effort to supply the deficiency in Greece as a result of the entente allies' restrictions. American securities will be mobiliz ed by Great Britain and used as col lateral for loans to meet Great Brit ain's liabilities in the United States. The trade balance of Great Britain in the United States has been near ly exhausted by the demands made upon America for England and her allies, and this move is taken to keep a continual flow of supplies from the United States into England and Fiance. The Serbian crown jewels, includ ing the crown itself have been found by the Germans occupying Brussels in the houses of former Serbian min isters. It is reported that Austria is an gered by the latest United States note anent the Ancona tragedy. There is talk in Austria of a rupture in the diplomatic relations between the two countries. The census of the population of Pe trograd, Russia, that has just been taken, shows a total of 2,300,000 in habitants. London advices are to the effect that the allies will not abandon the Bal kan campaign. One hundred and ten people are reported dead as the result of a Bel gian munition factory explosion at Havre. Ammunition from he United States was found in the debris upon investigation into the cause of the explosion. Washington The second note of the United States government to Austria will vigorously renew the demands made in the first note. A plot to destroy the Welland ca nal by alleged German spies has been made public by the arrest of Paul Koenig in New York City, pharged wiih conspiring to blow up the canal. Congress adjourned December 17 for the Christmas holidays, and will reconvene at noon Tuesday, January the fourth. Henry Prather Fletcher, now am bassador to Chile, has been nominated by President Wilson for ambassador to Mexico.. Elesio Arredondo has been sent as ambassador to the United States by the Mexican.de facto government. It is announced that the peace con gress which was to have convened at Berne has been postponed until spring, one-half of the delegates being unable to attend. France refused to send delegates. A plea for appropriation of several million dollars for the prevention and eradication of the citrus canker in the South and West was made before the house agriculture committee by a delegation of congressmen and rep resentatives of producer. In an official statement to the Unit ed States government the Austrian ad miralty says the submarine comman der who sank the Italian steamer An cona, which carried several United States citizens as passengers, did nothing but bis duty. The reply of the Austrian admiralty to the note sent to the Austrian gov: ernment by the secretary of state was received in Washington without sur prise. It is pointed out that the Ger man government made the same kind of reply regarding the torpedoing of the Lusitania, and that it was the for eign office in Berlin, and not the ad miralty, that finally settled the inci dent, One-cent postage has been propos ed in the house of representatives. Two attaches of the German consul ate San Francisco were indicted by the grand jury on charges of con piracy to interfere with and destroy commerce and the use of the mails to incite arson, assassination and mur der. ' Three hundred and fifty-seven thou sand five hundred c-d fifteen indi vid- uaU paid the personal income tax during the last fiscal year, who turned in to the government more than for ty-one million dollars. The United States government has cabled Ambassador Sharp at Paris for presentation to the French for eign office a note vigorously protest ing against the removal by the French cruiser Descartes of six Germans and Austrians from the American steam cnips Carolina, Coamo and San Juan Immediate release of the men is de manded. The Reublican national commit tee, meeting in Washington, selected Chicago as the meeting place of the 1916 national convention, to be held June 7, one week before the Demo cratic convention in St. Louis. Formal notice of the nullification by General Carranza of "all acts, con tracts and concessions" of the Huef ta and Conventionist governments in Mexico reached the Mexican embas sy in Washington from Mexico City recently, and is effective immedi ately. The United States in a note to Aus tria demands the punishment of the commander of the submarine that sank the Ancona, on which were a number of United States citizens, some of whom were killed. The note is the most emphatic sent by the Unit ed States since the beginning of hos tilities in Europe. Corporations paid an income tax during the last fiscal year of $38,986, 952, over six million dollars less than the preceding year, due to. disturbed business conditions incident to the war in Europe and the revolution in Mexico. Few falsifications were not ed, and few sought to evade the tax. Secretary Daniels asks for half a billion dollars for the American navy. Details of building plans are given in his annual message to congress. In many instances he recommends an increase ever the naval board's rec ommendations. The commissioner of internal reve nue reports that during the last fiscal year there were 174 incomes of $500, 000 a year. Reports received in Washington at the war department are to the effect that captured Villa soldiers in Mex ico are being shown no quarter where they are found to have been guilty of looting and theft. Intermittent bat tles are reported between the rebels and Constitutionalists. Domestic Several persons were killed and many injured by a storm that swept through several Mississippi counties and over into Alabama. Five persons were killed and eleven injured, one probably fatally, in a rear end collision between an accommoda tion train bound from Wilmington to Chester, Pa., and a train of empty ex press cars on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Congressman Kenneth D. McKellar of Memphis won the Democratic sena torial nomination for United States senator from Tennessee against ex Gov. Malcom R. Patterson by over 15, 000 majority. Patterson concedes Mc Kellar's election. Both aspirants are citizens of the city of Memphis. The Southern Commercial Congress in selssion at Charleston, S. C, lis tened attentively to an address by Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, in which he advocated the establishment in all nations of a vigilance committee sim ilar in many ways to those which were the first steps toward legal au thority on the frontier in the early days of the American republic. A day and a night were given over to discussions of plans for settlement of international differences without re sort to war. The wax figures of the world-famous persons in the Eden Musee, in New York City, were recently sold at auc tion. Francis Marion Cockrell (Dem.), United States senator from Missouri, 1875 to 1905, died in Washington. The seventh annual convention of the Southern Commercial congress convened in Charleston, S. C, with special services in many Charleston churches. The congress will discuss methods for the betterment of the agricultural, commercial and other re sources of the South. European War It is stated in dispatches from Ber lin that, the Germans are only waiting for reinforcements and munitions be fore making a drive on the allies at Saloniki. The Serbs and Bulgars are engag ed in a desperate battle in Albania, and the report is that the Bulgarians have so far been victorious. Field Marshal Sir John French has been relieved of the command of the British forces in' France and has been succeeded by Gen. Sir Douglas Haig, a Scotchman. The Italian destroyer Intrepido and the Italian transport Re Umberto have been sunk in the Adriatic sea by drifting mines, with a loss of forty lives. Many believe, according to Paris re ports, that the Germans purpose to rest on their laurels in the Near East for the time being. Just as soon as the weather clears and the ground is relieved of its sea of md, it is expected that the Ger mans will make another smash at the allies in the western zone of hostili ties. The Henry Ford peace party is re ported to have arrived at Kirkwall, Orkney Island, an island owned and governed by the British empire. Fighting has been resumed in the Gallipoli peninsula. The Turks claim to be winnjng at all points. The Turkish transport Rechid Pasha, of 8,000 tons, was sunk by a French submarine in the sea of Mar German and Austro-Hungarian sub marines have sunk 508 allied vessels since the war began. The British in Macedonia have so far repelled all attacks administered by Bulgarians. The Germans have so far sent no relief to the Bulgarians fighting in Macedonia. It is reported that the "Bulgarians sustained a loss of over eight thousand killed in the lasJt battle with the allies. Greece has agreed to withdraw all her troops in the zone the Anglo French troops will use in Greek ter ritory. Information emanating from Rot terdam, Holland, states that the Prus sians have lost 2,244,248 men since tie war began. WILSON WEDDING A FAMILY AFFAIR Ceremony at Gait Home Marked by Simplicity. DETAILS ARE KEPT SECRET Only Relatives of President and His Bride Are Present Start on Honey moon Trip to South Try to Avoid Crowds. Washington, Dec. 18. In the pres ence of relatives only, President Wil son and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait were quietly and simply wedded this eve ning in the parlors of the bride's un pretentious home at 1308 Twentieth street. There was no fuss and feath ers, and official and social circles must wait for tomorrow's newspapers before they know how it all came about. Secretary of the Treasury Mc Adoo was the lone official present and he was there simply as Mr. Wilson's son-in-law. Miss Bertha Boiling of this city at tended her sister, the bride, and a small orchestra from the Marine band furnished the nuptial music. The bride wore a dark traveling .costume and carried a huge bouquet of orchids. She met the bridegroom at the foot of the broad stairway in her home and together they went slowly to the altar of flowers erected at the east end of the parlors. The president placed on her third left-hand fin ger a plain gold circlet engraved with her initials and his own. The cere mony was the utmost In simplicity and taste in keeping with the best American traditions. Keep Hour a Secret. In order to avoid the crowds of curi ous folk in Washington the hour of the wedding was kept secret until late in the day. The plan worked with fair success and the police had no trouble in handling the few hundred men, women and children who pressed eagerly in the streets near the Gait home. As soon as the ceremony was over and the bride had been saluted by those present in the accustomed fash Ion, while the smiling groom received congratulations, the newly-weds sped away In a big White House automobile to the Union station and took a train to the South for their honeymoon. If they told anybody their destination that person kept his secret well. It is reported from family circles, how ever, that the couple will be away un till the first week in January. They must be back in Washington rby January 7, though, because on that date the president and Mrs. Wilson will act as host and hostess at a great reception to-be given in the White House for the Pan-American repre sentatives at the national capital. Moreover, congress will have recon vened, after the holiday season, and Mr. Wilson will have to be back at his desk. Only Relatives Are Present Among those present at the cere mony were: Miss Margaret Wilson, the president's eldest daughter; Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre of Williams town, Mass., the president's second daughter; Mrs. William G. McAdoo, the president's youngest child; Mrs. Anne Howe of Philadelphia, the presi dent's sister; Joseph R. Wilson of Bal timore, the president's brother, and Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, the pres ident's cousin. The bride, who before her marriage to Norman Gait was Miss Edith Boil ing of Virginia, was well represented with kinsmen and kinswomen. She and her mother, Mrs. William H. Boil ing, have lived together for several years, and Mrs. Boiling, of course, was the dowager queen of the occasion. The bride's sisters, Miss Bertha Boiling of Washington and Mrs. H. H. Maury of Anniston, Ala., and her brothers, John Randolph Boiling, Richard W. Boiling, Julian B. Boiling, all of Washington; R. E. Boiling of Panama and Dr. W. A. Boiling of Louisville, Ky., attended the cere mony. The president's bride is a hand some woman, unusually good to look upon, and for years ;tshe has been known as the most perfectly gowned woman in Washington, both because she has exquisite taste and because she has plenty of means to follow her taste in dress. Her gowns have al ways been chosen with rare care and she bought much from ihe fashionable costumers in Paris, where she was a frequent visitor before! the war. Those who are in a position to know say the bride spent several months in the preparation of her trousseau, be ing aided in this important labor by "her mother, who also is a woman of extraordinary discernment. It was all complete, 'tis whispered, two weeks before the date of the wedding. Some controversy arose as to the origin of the gowns and frocks and linens and laces. There were stories to the ef fect that French supply houses balked at furnishing anything through the medium of German-American middle men. Most of the stories werje base less, be it said truthfully, for the bride's wedding outfit was almost en tirely of American origin. Orchids Her Favorite. Dark green and orchid are the pre dominating hues in the trousseau gowns, for orchids are the new Mrs. Wilson's favorite flowers. There are traveling gowns, street frocks and eve ning gowns of amazing loveliness which will be seen much this winter, for the White House is to he re opened for a series of old-time enter tainments. The four great official re ceptions, which were omitted last win ter, will be resumed, and there will be matinee teas and frequent musicales. Mr. Wilson is the sixth president of the United States to marry a widow. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Fill more and Benjamin Harrison were his predecessors in this sort of a union, but in not more than one or two cases was the widow the second wife as in this case. John Tyler and Theodore Roosevelt married twice, but their second wives had not been wedded be fore. It is scarcely necessary to recall George Washington's . marriage. The world knows of his courtship, engage ment and espousal. His love was the "Widow Custis." Thomas Jefferson, at the home of a friend, John Wayles, met Martha Skelton, Wayles' widowed daughter. She was a beautiful wom an, much sought after, but Jefferson finally won her heart. Perhaps Dolly Madison, wife of President James Madison, is best known generally to Americans of all generations next to Martha Washing ton. John Tyler's Romance. John Tyler was twice married, the second time while he was president. His first wife was Letitia Christian, who belonged to one of the old fami lies of Virginia. Mrs. Tyler bore the president nine children. Just before her husband was elected vice presi dent of the United States she suffered a stroke of paralysis and a short time after he succeeded William Henry Harrison as president she died in the White House. The second winter after her death the president met Julia, the daughter of a Mr. Gardiner, who lived on one of the islands in Long Island sound. The president fell desperately in love he wooed as a youth of twenty would woo, Impetuously and roman tically. It wasn't a great while before they were engaged and a short time later they were married quietly at the Church of the Ascension in New York city. Grover Cleveland did not marry un til fairly late in life. Then he fell in love with Frances Folsom, the daugh ter of his law partner. She was a girl whom he had known from early childhood there was a - time when she called him "Uncle Cleve." Mr. Cleveland and Miss Folsom were wedded in the famous Blue room at the White House. For a long time it was thought that President Wilson and Mrs. Gait would be married in the White House. Peo ple just supposed that Mrs. Gait would want to go down in history as an actual White House bride. From the general feminine point of view it seemed really the only thing to do. Charming, tactful Mrs. Gait decided long ago, however, that a woman should be married in her own home and not in that of her husband. She did not believe in breaking the Amer ican nay, the world precedent in the matter. -And in this all Washing ton approved. - SPEND HONEYMOON AT HOT SPRINGS, VA. PRESIDENT WILSON -AND BRIDE WILL' BE AT HOMESTEAD HOTEL. REMAIN UNTIL NEW YEAR Will Be Away From White House Two Weeks Unless Developments Necessitate Early Return. Washington. President Wilson and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait were married at 8 : 30 o'clock and left afterward to spend their honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va. The President and his bride traveled in a private car at tached to a special train leaving here at 11:10 o'clock which is due to ar rive in Hot Springs next morning at 8:15 a. m. At Hot Springs, Mr. and Mrs. Wil son will live at the Homestead Hotel until after New Year's Day unless some development should necessitate the President's earlier return to the capital. Two White House automo biles have have been sent on ahead and the couple expect to spend their honeymon motoring, golfing and walk ing over the mountain trails. Beside the secret service guard, the party was accompanied by a stenographer. The President will keep in touch with the White House over special wires. Shortly after 10 o'clock the Presi dent and Mrs. Wilson entered a wait ing White House automobile and mo tored to Alexandria, across the Po tomac, to take their private car there and avoid a crowd at the railroad station in the city. Hot Springs, Va. President Wilson and his bride, the former Mrs. Norman Gait, arrived here shortly after 9 o'clock to spend their honeymoon They were met at the train by a crowd of several hundred people who -"applauded , as they alighted from their private car. NEW NOTE RENEWS DEMANDS. Austria Must Pay Indemnity, Punish Commander and Disavow Act. Washington. The new American note to Austria-Hungary regarding the sinking of the Italian steamship An cona has been cabled to Ambassador Penfield for presentation to the Vienna foreign office. Secretary Lansing and other officials of the state department declined to divulge any information " concerning the communication. From other re liable sources, however, came a strong intimation that the final draft of the note had been completed by Secretary Lansing during the day and had been put in code and started on its way over the cables. A veil of secrecy ha3 surrounded the communication ever since a White House messenger carried a prelimi nary draft from President Wilson to Secretary Lansing. However, it is known that the secretary spent con siderable time at work developing the ideas the president had outlined. As completed the note is believed to have been considerably more lengthy than the first. Certain portions of the text of the note were said to be nearly identical with portion of the first. The demands of the United States which are reiter ated are for disavowal, punishment of the submarine commander and rep aration by the payment of indemnity for the Americans killed and injured. For Great Merchant Marine. Washington. American shipyards have under construction now more vessels than ever before were build ing in the United States to add to an American merchant marine whose gross tonnage is the largest in the country's history, said a report issued by the commission of navigation. Newspapers Quit Party. London. A Christiana dispatch to the Morning Post, says that several newspaper correspondents as the re sult of a quarrel, will quit the Ford peace expedition while the steamer is in port. Says War Will Soon Be Over. Christiania, . via London. "Every nation in the world will soon look up on American peace pilgrims as taking the initiative in stopping history's worst war. The landing of the peace expedition in Europe will be recorded as one of the most benevolent things the American republic ever did," said Henry Ford to the Associated Press representative on stepping ashore on , Norwegian . soil. The steamship Os car II, carrying the Ford peace ex pedition, arrived at this port on Sat urday after a 14'days voyage. Handle Much Farm Product. Washington. Farmers' co-operative marketing and purchasing organiza tions will transact this yeara total business amounting to more than $1, 400,000,000 according to an estimate made in the annual report of the Office of Markets and Rural Organi zation of the Department of Agricul ture, Just made public. While agri cultural co-operation in the United States is far more prevalent than is generally believed, the report says, it is not yet upon a sufficient strong business basis. BIGGES T T EVER LARGE CROPS AND GOOD PRICE RULE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. AN UNUSUAL COMBINATION For First Time in History Extraordi nary Production and High Prices Have Prevailed. Washington. The nation's harvests this year have surpassed any ever be fore recorded. The value of the prin cipal farm crops, based on prices paid to farmers December 1, was announc ed by the department of agriculture in its final estimate as $5,568,773,000 mak ing 1915 a banner year both in value and in production df crops. The unusual situation of extraor dinary production and high prices, probably never before so pronounced is credited principally to the Euro pean war. With the price of grain soaring as the war progressed, American farmers began the season by planting greater areas to grain. The acreage of the principal crop this year aggregated approximately 486,570 square miles. That is larger than the combined area of Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Switzerland. Corn was planted on 108,321,000 acres, the second largest area ever planteQ, and the harvest was 3,054, 535,000 bushels, the second largest crop ever grown. Its value was-$l,-755,859,000, exceeding that of the previous most valuable corn crop by $33,000,000. New records were made in produc tion by wheat, oats, barley, rye sweet potatoes, rice and hay, while tobacco closely approached its production rec ord, 1,103,415,000 pounds, made in 1910. Each of these crops, in addi-. tion, established records as being the most valuable crop over grown, ex cept in the case of barley and tobac co. Production of the first billion bush el wheat crop and second three-billion bushel corn crop were features of the year. Wheat acreage aggre gated 59,898,000 acres, or 6,000.000 more than ever before. The yield was 16.9 bushels an acre, the largest acre yield for winter and spring wheat combined ever attained in this coun try. The final estimates of production was 1,011,505,000 bushels with a val ue of $930,302,000. The crop ex ceeded last year's which was a rec ord, by more than 120,000,000 bush els and by $50,000,000 in value. Oats, rye, potatoes, sweet potatoes and tobacco all were plented on rec ord areas. Oats exceeded its record production of 1912 by 122,000,000 bushels and its record value of 1914 by $56,000,000. Barley production was 13,000,000 bushels more than the 1912 record crop and was worth $4,- 000. 000 more than the former most valuable crop that grows in 1914. Rice passed the 1913 record by 3, 200,000 bushels and its 1912 record valued by $1,700,000. The apple crop was 76,670,000 valu ed at $156,407,000; the bean crop, in the three principal producing states, 9,325,000 bushels a decrease of 1, 688,000 bushels valued at $27,558,000 and the cranberry crop, 457,000 bush els, valued at $2,845,000. The value of these three crops are included in the year's total. The value of each crop was an nounced as follows: The value this year of each cro?.. based on its farm price on December 1, with last year's value, is announc ed as follows: (in thousands, i. e., 000 omitted). Crop 1915 1914 Corn '. .. ..$1,755,859 $1,722,070 Winter wheat 622,012 675,623 Spring wheat 308,290 203.057 All wheat 930,302 878,680 Oats .. .. 955,569 499,431 Barley 122,499 105,903 Rye 41,295 37,018 Buckwheat 12,408 12,892 Flaxseed 24,080 19,540 Rice '.. .. 26,212 21,849 Potatoes 221.104 198,609 Sweet potatoes .. .. 46,081 41.294 Hay 912,320 779,068 Tobacco .. 96,041 101,411 Cotton 602,393 525,324 Sugar beets 35,800 30,438 In addition to these crops other farm products, such as minor crops and animals and animal products, will bring the year'8 total to about $10,000,000,000. Other details of the report show: (Pro duction in 000's.) Corn: Production, 3,054,535 bushels, against 2,672,804,000 last year. Acre yield 28.2 bushels, against 25.8 'last year. De cember 1 farm price, 57.5 cents a bushel against 64.4 last year. Winter wheat: Production 655,045 bush els, against 684,999,999 last year. Acre yield 16.2 bushels, against 19.0 last year. Price 95.0 cents, against 98.6 last yet. Spring wheat: Production 356,460 bvrsh eds, against 206,027,000 last year. Acre yield 18.3 bushels against 11.8 last year. Price 86.5 cents, against 98.6 last year. All wheat: Production 1,011,505 bush els, against 891,017,000 last year. Acre vield 16.9 bushels, against 16.6 last year. Price 92.0 cents, against 98.6 last year. Oats: Production 1,540,362 bushels, against 1,141,060,000 last year. Acre yield 37.8 bushels, against 29.7 last year. Price 36.1 cents, against 43.8 last year. Barley: Production 237,009 bushels. ..gainst 194,953,000 last year. Acre yield 32.0 bushels, against 25.8 last year. Price 51.7 cents, against 54.3 last year. Rye: Production 49,190 bushels, against 42 779 last year. Acre yield 17.2 bushels, against 16.8 last year. Price 83 9 cents .against 86.5 last year. Buckwheat: Production 15,769.000 bush els against 16,881,000 last year. Acre yield 19.6 bushels, against 21.2 last year. Price 78.7 cents against 76.4 last year. Flaxseed: Production 13,845 bushels, against 15,559,100 last year. Acre yield 0 1 bushels, against 8.3 last year. Price $1.75 against $1.26 last year. Rice: Production 28,547 bushels, pgalnst 23.649,000 last year. Acre yield 36.1 bushels, against 34.1 last year. Price ao6 cents, against 92.4 last yeax. HARVES RECORDED PLANS FOR SELLING II COMMISSIONERS TO ASK CON-' GRESS TO ESTABLISH CHAM BERS OF AGRICULTURE. E. J. WATSON EXPLAINS PLAN Association of Southern Agricultural Commissioners Hold Sessions in Charleston. Elect New Officers. Charleston, S. C. The Association of Southern Commissioners of Agricul ture after an executive session' here, announced the adoption of resolution calling upon the United States Con gress to establish a "semi-official Na tional, state, county and township sys tem" of chambers of agriculture. Th sole purpose of the various organiza tions, the resolutions urged, should be to facilitate and develop the market ing and distribution of farm product "in a local and upon and a nation wide basis." Resolutions also were passed, it was announced, urging up on congress the creation of a rural credit system "enacted-upon the basis of organization of borrowers and not of lenders." The' resolutions urging a system ot chambers of agriculture, as announce by E. J. Watson, commissioner of Ag riculture of South Carolina, would provide that congress empower the President to appoint a commission ot seven members to organize the cham bers of agriculture on the fpllowinj; basis: Township charters would be grant ed upon application of at least 25 per sons and later county and then state charters would be granted upon th basis of Increased membership. When 20 state chambers of agriculture ha been organized, the proposed law would empower the chambers to elect representatives who would form "th semi-official National Chamber of Ag riculture." This body then would su persede the seven organizers appoint ed by the President. The resolution proposed that the chambers of agri culture be "unattached to any purely official political department or bu reau." Commissioner Watson explained that the work of the proposed organ ization would be similar to that dons by the German Government for Ger man farmers. The resolutions came after a con ference between Southern Commis sioners and David Lubin, United States delegate to the 'International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. They were presented before the Southern Commercial Congress is session here for approval, and were signed by agricultural commissioner from Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee. Alabama, North Carolina, South Caro lina and Texas. The association of Southern Com missioners of Agriculture chose Rich mond, Va., for its next annual conven tion and elected the following officers; President, Commissioner George W. Koiner of Virginia; vice president! Commissioner H. B. Bryson of Ten nessee; secretary-treasurer, Commi sioner J. A. Wade of Alabama. Durham Votes Bonds. Durham. Durham voted $75,000 ir bonds for erection of two new school buildings. A proposal to increase the special school tax five cents on th $100 was also carried. The election was held against one of the biggest registrations ever booked for school bonds. The bonds got a majority of 250 and the tax increase 200. Only one precinct in the town gave a ma jority against either proposition. The scchool board will begin immediately to make preparations to build school. Bids For Shelby Postoffice. Shelby. Postmaster W. J. Robert has received notice from the treasury department asking for bids for the $60,000 postoffice building which Is promised for next year. The bidi will be opened in Washington on Jan uary 26. Blueprints and specification have not yet arrived, so it is not learn ed what material will be used and om what plan the building will be erected. Burned to Death. Monroe. M. M. Coltharp, a natlv of Mecklenburg county who traveled for The Atlanta Journal Publishing Company out of Fort Mill, S. C, lost his life in a fire which partially de stroyed the Shute building in which were located Holloway Brothers, mu sic dealers, and the Southern Express Company. The second story of the building has en used as a Hoard ing and lodging house by Mrs. Addie Porter and in a room directly over the. express office Mr. Coltharp was sleejH Ing. Building Boom In Wilmington. 1 Wilmington. There is much build ing activity in Wilmington at thlf time. There are more residences un der construction now than at any umr during the year. Carpenters, paint ers, paper hangers, etc., are verr scarce now owing to the large amourx: Of work going on. Twenty-odd hoiftev some very handsome, are going ? aow in the eastern part of the and a number o houses have recently been completed In the central porta of the city. PRODUCTS OF FAR
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