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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance tt&ti THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $L60 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXVIII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JANUARY 12, 1916. NO. 23. mm IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Art Given. THE NEWS WTHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. Foreign Capt. Franz von Papen, who was forced out of the United States, wires the German ambassador at Washing ton from Falmouth that the British authorities have seized his papers, personal and official. Harold J. Tennant, parliamentary under secretary in the British house of commons, announces that the Brit ish lost 59,666 men in the battle of Loos, v.hich raged from September 25 to October 8. Emanating in Paris, a story is sent out that the emperor of Germany is suffering from cancer and is entirely unable to use his vocal chords; in fact it is stated that he has lost his voice. This is denied in German circles, who report that the emperor is suffer ing with a bronchial affection. Announcement is made in the Brit ish house of commons of the resigna tion of Sir John Simons, secretary of state for home affairs. The secretary could not agree with the decision of the cabinet to conscript unmarried men. Greece is aroused by the allied ac tion in arresting the Teutonic con suls at Saloniki. The allies claim the consuls were acting as spies, which Greek officials maintain is laughable in the face of the secret service of the allies which kept tab on every move and action of the consuls. The steamer Newton, the last vessel waiting for passage through Panama canal, has passed through the water way. This does not mean that the canal is officially open, and it is prob able that the canal will remain clos ed for many months. Washington President and Mrs. Wilson crowned the social attentions paid the visiting delegates to the Pan-American Scien tific congress during the past two weeks with a brilliant reception at the white house. In splendor it sur passed anything given at the white house in recent years. The state department announces that Germany has agreed to pay an indemnity for the Americans lost in the Lusitania disaster. Germany has assured the United States government that submarines operating in the Mediterranean will not in future torpedo non-combatant vessels without warning them and ac cording safety to all passengers and the vessels' crews. Continued business improvement over the country is reflected in month ly reports from the twelve federal re serve districts made public by the fed eral reserve board. A decided tendency is reported as having developed to store some of the unsold cotton crop because of soften ing in prices, but it is pointed out that this has not prevented liquidation of debts due for settlement. Loans in banks of New York in creased $146,041,000 between Novem ber 1 and January 1; deposits increas ed $124,234,000 and excess reserves decreased $37,357,000. President Wilson sent to the senate the nomination of Joseph Johnson of Spartanburg, S. C, to be. United States district judge for the western district of South Carolina. He is now serving under a recess appoint ment. A revolutionary outbreak at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, against United States marines is reported, but no United States citizen was killed. One of the rebels, however, was killed. The out break is characterized in Haiti as the heigth of folly. A London message states that Rev. Homer R. Salisbury, a resident of a Washington suburb, lost his life on the Persia. He was on his way 'to a mission field in India, where his wife was awaiting him. Pellagra has become such a menace in the South that Secretary McAdoo has asked congress for a rush appro priation of $100,000 for studies and demonstration work in rural sanita tion, with a particular view to check ing the spread of that disease and ty phoid fever. The public health service in its an nual report stated that urgent meas ures must be adopted in the South to prevent pellagra becoming a veri table scourge. The army and navy strategists for several days have been consider ing the possibility of an attack by two powers to break down the new Pan-American doctrine recently evolv ed at a conference of American gov ernmental representatives. President Wilson has returned from his honeymoon at Hot Springs, Va., and will proceed to work on the se curing of data regarding the sinking of the Persia by a submarine of un known nationality. The state department has been of ficially advised that the French gov ernment has ordered the release of the men recently removed from the United States ship on the high seas by the French cruiser Descartes. Gold valued at $98,891,100 was pro duced during 1915 in the United States against $94,531,800 the preced ing year. Domestic At Ybungstown, Ohio, three men were killed, nineteen persons, includ ing a woman, were wounded, six city blocks burned with a loss estimated at $800,000, and state troops called out to restore order as the result of rioting in East Youngstown following a battle between a crowd of strike sympathizers and armed guards at the plant of a steel company. Two com panies of United States regulars from Columbus were ordered to East Youngstown because of the looting and burning of the postoffice. Federal and city authorities of St. Paul, Minn., say they have no clew to the identity of the robbers who blew open the vault of the local internal revenue office in the federal building, and escaped with approximately $650, 000 in internal revenue stamps and $3,000 in currency. The loot weighed over two hundred pounds. The rob bery is the biggest in the history of the internal revenue department. Judge O. P. Shiras of Iowa, judge of the federal court for the northern dis trict of Iowa and author of a number of standard books on practice of law in federal court, is dead, at the age of 83, in Daytona, Fla. William F. McCombs, Democratic national chairman, in a statement is sued at Little Rock, Ark., says the "second term plank" in the Baltimore platform of the Democratic party, is not mandatory, and may be construed as either a recommendation to the candidate or a recommendation to pro cure the passage 'of a law inhibiting a second term. The Chicago National League base ball club was sold to Charles Weegh man for $500,000 by the principal own er, Charles P. Taft, brother of ex President Taft. This cinches peace between organized baseball and the outlaws. At a meeting of the American De fense Society in New York City, at tended by Colonel Roosevelt and oth er prominent advocates of prepared ness against foreign invasion, two res olution were passed, the first demand ing the immediate construction of 48 dreadnaughts and the second demand ing a standing army of 200,000 men supplemented by a citizen soldiery whose service should be compulsory. It was the concensus of the society that an "emergency" will arise with in the next twelve months. The national Prohibition convention will be held at St. Paul, Minn., on June 19 next. The reason for the heavy guard maintained over the British steamer Gordon Castle, which arrived in Bal timore from India and Africa, is. stated to have been that 250 cases of gold and silver bullion were shipped by an express company to a Canadian city on the vessel. Gateway, a Colorado mining town with a population of 160, 55 miles southwest of Grand Junction, is snow bound, completely cut off from any outside communication whatever and almost without food and coal supplies. More snow is predicted. Fire destroyed the plant of the Tex as Oil company at North Brimingham, Ala., causing a loss estimated at $250, 000. About four thousand dollars dam age was done to the Birmingham Packing company's plant and a bridge burned: European War Constantinople reports declare that a British submarine made its way from the Sea of Marmora into the Golden Horn and attacked an arsenal on the Pera side, causing much dam age and a panic among the inhabi tants. Athens, Greece, reports a fierce two days' engagement between the Serbians and the Bulgarians, which resulted in the defeat of the Bulgars. Amsterdam, Holland, announces the sinking of a British submarine off the coast of Holland. The crew was saved. Petrograd reports that four hundred guns played for fifty hours on the Austrian positions at Czernowitz as a preparation for an infantry attack. Dispatches from German sources say that the Russians have lc-st many men, but that the Teutonic position is ex tremely critical, and it cannot hold out much longer unless reinforced. The Austrians admit strong ' ad vances by the Russians in the Stripa and Volhynian districts of Russia and in east Galicia, but say that their at tacks have failed with heavy losses. The Russian war(office reports that the Russians have occupied a line of trenches northeast of Czernowitz and have repulsed strong counter at tacks. ' A Reuter dispatch to London says the Teutonic allies have evacuated Czernowitz and the Russians h;.ve captured a large number of prisoners. The dispatch says there has been a strong advance by the Russians, and indicates that the Teutons must, if they expect to stop the Russian on rush, send reinforcements from the Balkans. Several more steamers have been sunk by submarines in the Mediter ranean, but which of the Teutonic al lies is responsible is not yet known. The Austrian government has called out the reservists in foreign countries. Forty residents of Marquette, Kans., expect to leave New York City in the' near future, for their native land by an indirect route. Robert N. McNeely, United States consul at Aden, Arabia, was drowned when the Persia was sunk by a sub marine in the Mediterranean. According to consular reports ar riving at Washington anent the Per sia disaster in the Mediterranean, no submarine was seen by any of the sur vivors, but an officer of the ship re ports he saw the wake of a torpedo. ALLIES WITHDRAW - FROM GALLIPOLI ALL FORCES HAVE ABANDONED POSITION ALONG THE PENINSULA. ONLY ONE MAN IS WOUNDED British Battleship, Edward VII, Has Been Blown Up By a Mine. No Developments in West. London. The remaining positions held by the Allies of the Gallipoli Pen insula have now been abandoned with the wounding of only one man among the British and French, ac cording to a British official statement. This news has been expected for several days by the keener observers of the Near Eastern campaign for the retirement of the troops from Anzac and Suvla Bay three weeks ago left no strategic advantage to the retention of the tip of the peninsula. Nevertheless, th enews will be re ceived with a pang of regret by the people of the British Isles, as well as the colonies. Another pang to the British public will be caused by the announcement of the loss of the battleship King Ed ward VII which has been blown up by a mine. The brief official state ment on this subject does not reveal the scene of the action and merely says that the disaster occurred in a heavy sea, despite which the entire crew was saved before ship went down. The King Edward VII represented an investment of nearly 1,600,000 pounds and was one of the finest of the last class of pre-dreadhaughts, corresponding in general to the Amer ican ships of the New Jersey and Ne braska type, and was only slightly old ed than the Natal, which was sunk by an internal explosion about two weeks ago. On the West and East fronts there have been no developments of large importance over the week-end. The German communication " announces that the Germans have completed the recapture of positions on Hartsmans Weilerkopf taken by the French a few days before Christmas. SIX DIRECTORS ACQUITTED. Disagreement as to Other Five Jury Out Two Days. New York. Six of the 11 former directors of the New York, New Ha ven & Hartford Railroad, charged with criminal violation of the, Sher man anti-trust law, were found not guilty by the jury that for nearly three months has been trying the case. The jury disagreed on the five others. Those acquitted were D. Newton Barney, Farmington, Conn.; Robert W. Taft, Providence, R. I.; James S. Hemingway, A. Heaton Robertson and Frederick F. Brewster, New Haven, and Henry K. McHarg, Stamford, Conn. Those on whom the jury disagreed were Wfflliam Rockefeller, New York; Charles F. Brooker, Ansonia, Conn.; Charles M. Pratt, Brooklyn; Lewis Case Ledyard, New York, and Ed ward D. Robbins, New Haven. The veridict was returned after 51 hours of deliberation and the jury was discharged. The final vote on the ve defendants upon whom the jurors could not agree stood 8 to 4 for ac quittal. Should Not Fear Competition. Washington. Investigation by the department of commerce has shown, according to a report made to Presi dent Wilson that there were no grounds for fears expressed to Con gress by American manufacturers that a tariff reduction in knit underwear would force them to cut wages to meet foreign competition. Compulsory Service Says Garrison. Washington. Secretary Garrison told the house military committee at a hearing that compulsory service was the only really adequate basis upon which to construct a military policy compatible with the idea of democratic government. South Carolina May Quit Liquor. Columbia, S. C. Bills to make ille gal in South Carolina employment of children less than 14 years of age, and to amend the new prohibition laws, so that only one quart of liquor a month may be shipped into the state to any one individual, instead of one gallon, as at present allowed, are expected to come before the South Carolina general assembly, which con vened Tuesday in annual session. It was said also efforts might be made to make it illegal to ship any liquor Into the state. " Swiss Join. Peace Party. The Hague, via London.-Assurance was received that Switzerland was sending five civilians to joint those of the other neutral nations in the permanent board which it is planned to form as a result of the Ford peace expedition. The Swiss delegates will arrive at The Hague as soon as the interruption to traffic, due to the war, will permit. Invitations sent to the leading Spanish pacificists to joint the peace board have not yet been answered ,on account of the interrup .on to communicat.inna GERMANY AGREES III LUSITANIA CASE HAS MET DEMANDS OF UNITED STATES. ASSURANCES. ARE GIVEN. CONTROVERSY IS NEAR END Will Not Torpedo Ships of Any Char acter Without Warning. Pay For y American Lives. Washington. Two communications from Germany have reached the Uni ted States one containing a proposal to pay an indemnity for the Americans lost In the Lusitania disaster, which may bring negotiations on that sub ject to a conclusion and the other conveying assurances that German submarine commanders operating in the Mediterranean would not torpedo non-combatant ships of any character without warning them" and according safety to their passengers and crews. The communications were delivered to Secretary Lansing by Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador. The secretary immediately sent them to President Wilson. Official Washington considered that America and Germany at last were near a final agreement regarding the conduct of submarine" warfare. Offi cials made no attempt to conceal thefr gratification at the attitude Germany apparently has assumed. It is con sidered to be virtually in harmony with the American viewpoint. Tension regarding the entire subma rine Question seemed to have lessen ed considerably. Austria, in its re ply to the last Ancona note, having as sured the United States of its inten tions, to operate submarines with due regard for international law and the principles of humanity; Turkey and Bulgaria, it is understood, next will take steps to give such guarantees. It is stated authoritatively that Ger many and Austria-Hungary will use their influence to accomplish this end. The Lusitania controversy, except for the wording of the agreement to be entered into is considered in Teu tonic circles here virtually ended. It was made clear at the state de partment during the day that the posi tion of the United tSates in regard to Americans having a right to travel on merchant ships regardless of whether they were armed for defense had not been changed the slightest. RIOTING AT YOUNGSTOWN. Several Killed, Number Wounded and Town Set On Fire. Youngstown, O. Three men were killed, 19 persons, including a woman, were wounded, six city blocks were burned with a loss estimated at $800, 000 and state troops were called out to restore order as the result of riot ing in East Youngstown following a battle between a crowd of strike sym pathizers and armed guards at the plant of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co Two troops of United States regulars from Columbus are re ported to have been ordered to East Youngstown because of the looting and burning of the postoffice. The trouble was the culmination of a strike which began at the plant of the Republic Iron & Steel Co., a week ago and . spread to the plants of the tube company, the Youngstown Iron & Steel Co., and the Brier Hill Steel Company. Italy Paid to Stick. Berlin, via wireless to Sayville. The Neue Zuricher Zeitung has re ceived reports from reliable sources, says the Overseas News Agency, that the London treaty providing against the conclusion of. a separate peace, signed by Italy, contained a special clause under which Italy received 2, 000,000 lire for giving her adherence to the agreement. Robbers Make Big Haul. St. Paul, Minn. Approximately a million dollars worth of internal rev enue stamps and several thousand dollars In cash were stolen by rob bers who blew open a vault in the old ederal building here. Country's Most Prosperous Year. Washington. Secretary of Com merce Redfield, in a memorandum on business conditions transmitted to President Wilson pictures the coun try as in the most prosperous state of its history. The warfung is added, though, that war's inflation of com merce will last only until war's end, and, and that business foresight alone will prepare the United States for peace. The slump that will fbllow the war must find Americans ready to take their share of the world's trade unhampered by provincial notions. Brilliant Affair at White House. Washington. A brilliant reception given at the White House by Presi dent and Mrs. Wilson crowned the so cial attentions paid visiting delegates to the Pan-American Scientific Con gress. In numbers present and in splendor the affair surpassed any thing of the kind seen in Washington in recent years. Martial music and handsome costumes lent color to the scene. More than 4,000 men and wo men shook hands with the president and at times the carriage line outside extended six blocks. W LSON ADDRESSES PAN AMERICANS NATIONS SHOULD GUARANTEE EACH OTHER POLITICAL IN DEPENDENCE, HE SAYS. UPHOLDS MONROE DOCTRINE United States Will Maintain it on Her Own Authority. Attitude To wards Others. Washington. The United States Gov ernment's Pan-American policy was revealed in detail by President Wilson in an address before the second Pan American Scientific Congress. He explained the proposals submitted to South and Central American diplo mats here last week by Secretary Lansing as a basis for an effective agreement between all the republics of the Western Hemisphere "not only for the international peace of Amer ica, but the domestic peace of Ameri ca," This program, as outlined by the President, proposes that all the Amer ican nations shall take concerted ac tion as follows: Guarantee to each other absolute political independence and territorial integrity. Agree to settle all pending boun dary disputes as soon as possible, by amicable processes. Agree to handle all disputes arising among them by patient, impartial in vestigation and to settle them by arbitration. Agree that no revolutionary expedi tion shall be outfitted against or sup plies for revolutioni&ts shipped to neighboring states. He said the Monroe Doctrine al ways had been and always would be maintained by the United States on its own authority, but that the doc-x trine did not disclose what atti tude the United States would assume towards other nations of the hemis phere, and consequently the other nations had been distrustful of it. NsL LINER HAS MOUNTED GU Italian Liner at New York Wit Mounted Guns May be Interned. Washington. The Italian liner Giu seppe Verdi which arrived at New York with two three-inch rifles aboard manned by gunners of the Royal Italian navy will be refused clearance papers until "the guns have been dis mounted and removed. Moreover the state department officials said an in vestigation will be made to determine whether the liner is armed solely for defense or is a ship -of war liable to internment. This action will be taken to insure against violation of the general rules enforced by the United States defin ing the status of armed merchant ves sels entering its ports. The state department probably will take up informally with the Italian government the question of removing the guns, acting on the precedent es tablished in the case of the Waimana, an armed British vessel, which was denied clearance papers recently un til the four-inch gun it carried was removed. Cigarettes for British Soldiers. Savannah, Ga. Twelve carloads of cigarettes are here awaiting shipment to England for British soldiers at the front. They were shipped from Rich mon, Va., and will be sent to Liver pool on the British steamship E. O. Saltmarsh which will sail in a few days. . Order for 50,000 Dozen Pairs Hose. Montgomery, Ala. A hosiery manu facturer of Tuscaloosa, Ala., announces the receipt of an order for 50,000 doz en pairs bf hose to be shipped to Amsterdam Holland. Republican Committee Meets Jan. 24. New York Charles D. Hilles, chair man of the Republican National com mittee announced that the committee on arrangements for the convention at Chicago, will meet in that city on Monday, January 24. Labor Opposes Compulsion Bill. London. Organized labor of Great Britain, sitting In congress in London, decided against the government's compulsory bill by the overwhelming majority of 1,998,000 votes to 783,000. Hostility to the government's meas ure was uncompromising and necessi tated the resignation fronj the coali tion Ministry of all three labor mem bers. Arthur Henderson, William Brace and George H. Roberts. The labor congress was in many ways the most important body of the kind ever assembly. ( Scores Disloyal Hyphenates. New York. An invitation to "hyph enated citizens" who put the Interests of their native country before those of America to "get off the face of the earch," was issued here by Unit ed States Judge Henry D. Clayton of Alabama. Judge Clayton's rentarks were made in addressing the grand Jury that was impaneled to resume the investigation into the activities of German agents in this country. The grand jury will continue the inquiry Into strikes in munition plants CONGRESS BU WITH BIG AFFAIRS RESOLUTION INTRODUCED IN SENATE ATTACTING ADMINIS TRATION'S MEXICAN POLICY. PREPAREDNESS SPEECHES Senate Honors Justice Lamar. Thanks For Henry Ford- Num ber of New Bills Introduced. Washington. With the senate in session hardly 10 minutes and the house only a little more than two hours, Congress accomplished com paratively little in its first business day of the year, and the expected attack of the minority on the Admin istration's foreign policy did not de velop. Senator Fall, Republican of New Mexico, introduced a resolution call ing on President Wilson to inform the senate to what government it is proposed to accredit Henry Prather Fletcher, whose nomination as am bassador to Mexico is now before the senate. . The senate's early adjournment was taken out of respect to the late Justice Lamar of the United States Supreme Court, who died here Sun day. Representative Sherwood, Demo crat of Ohio, led off a number of pre paredness speches in the house with an onslaught on "armament makers and 'militarists" and proposed reduc ing the army to 50,000 men. Representative Sherwood said he had fought in 42 battles of the Civil War, left the army a general and now at 80 years was ready to enlist If danger threatened the country al though he spoke against prepared ness. He told the house "the people back home" were against the entire preparedness plan. Representative Steenerson, Repub lican of Minnesota, introduced a reso lution aimed at British interferences with American trade with European neutrals. It proposes to empower the president to prohibit exports of war munitions to any belligerent controll ing the seas and preventing export of food or food products from the United States. Among the hundreds of other bills and discussions introduced in the house were measures to extend the thanks of Congress to Henry Ford for his peace mission, to prevent clearance from American - ports of ships carrying both passengers and munitions, of war, to establish a Uni ted States commission for enduring peace which might act as intermedi ary between warring nations, to ask President Wilson for names of dis loyal naturalized citizens referred to in the president's last message: WILSON STUDIES SITUATION. Promises Action As Soon As Facts Are Known. Washington. There was no lessen ing of the tension in the new subma rine crisis with President Wilson's return to the White House to take personal charge of the situation, but there were marked Indications of the President's intention to proceed care fully and deliberately before commit ting the United States to the next step fn its already, strained relations with the Teutonic powers. At the state department the hope was expressed that there would be opportunity to settle the crisis amica bly, and it was stated that the Ameri can government beleved ' that Aus-j tria's assurances in the last Ancona note were given in good faith. Two points, it was emphasized, must be cleared up before the next move is made. It must be established whether the British liner Persia actually was torpedoed, and if so, what was the nationality of the sub marine. . President Wilson's first act on his return was to issue a statement through Secretary Tumulty promising th country action just as soon as the full facts in the Persia disaster can be learned. For National Prohibition. Washington. Representative Webb introduced his resolution calling for national prohibition, and the act marked formally the beginning of the fight round this subject before Con gress With the introduction of a bill for prohibition in the District of Columbia is expected to come imme diate Interest, since discussion of such 9 proposal has created a con cern In many quarters of the capital, the gro'iDS which gather at lunch times exage consideration of what they term "our rights." FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. Paris. Tb Havas agency says: "The British authorities have offered a reward of 50,000 francs for infor mation of the presence of German submarines in the Aegan Sea." Washington. Pellagra has become such a menace in the South that Sec retary McAdoo asked congress for a rush appropriation of $100,000 for stu dies and demonstration work in rural sanitation with a particular view of checking that disease and typhoid fever. STOCKMEN TO MEET AT SALISBURY SOON MANY PROMINENT SPEAKERS HAVE BEEN SECURED BY COMMITTEE. TO SELL PURE BRED CATTLE Biggest Meeting In History is Expect ed. Many New and Important Home Features Added. West Raleigh. Large posters are just out advertising the stockmen's meeting which is to be held In Salis bury on January 25-28. After chang ing the location of the meeting from Raleigh where it has been formerly held, interest- has rapidly developed until last year when the meeting was held at Statesville; more than 2,500 people were present during the three days of the meeting. The expecta tions for the meeting at Salisbury this year are even greater. Larger inducements in the way of livestock shows, premiums, demonstrations, and prominent livestock speakers have been provided. Some of the prominent speakers which are on the program for, the meeting Include Jesse M. Jones, agri cultural and field agent, U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, S. H. Ray, Uni ted States Department of Agriculture; J. Shamberg, Union Stock Yards, New York; N. P. Hull, president Na tional Dairy Union, Dimondale, Mich.; R. A. Derby, president Sand Hill Board of Trade, Aberdeen; E. C. Gatewood, general livestock agent. Southern Railway, Rectortown, Va.; Charles Gray, secretary of the Amer ican Aberdeen Angus Association, Chicago. On January 26 a sale of 40 pure bred Aberdeen Angus breeding cattle will be held under the auspices of the American Aberdeen Angus Breeders' Association. This sale pre sents an opportunity heretofore .un offered in North Carolina. The cat tle in this sale will be backed by this association, which in itself is a re liable guarantee of their individuality and breeding. Further information relative to this sale can be obtained from the association or by writing the office of beef cattle and sheep in vestigations, West Raleigh. On January 27 a sale of pure-bred dairy cattle consisting of Jerseys, Guernseys, and Holsteins will pro vide an opportunity from which ev ery dairyman can profit by securing a better grade of pure bred bulls. This sale is being held under the auspices of the North Carolina Dairy men's Association. Further informa tion can be obtained by writing W. H. Eaton, secretary, West Raleigh. In addition to these two important features there will be horses, mule and colt shows, meat-curing contests, milk, butter and cheese-souring con tests, moving pictures of livestock farms, and farm life stock, competi tive livestock judging contests for in dividuals and farm life schools, an automobile trip to points in Rowan county and a banquet on January 27. To Build Big Bridge. Statesville. At a meeting between the county commissioners of Iredell and Catawba Counties, and represen tatives of the Southern Power Com pany held here an agreement was drawn up and signed by all the par ties concerned, whereby an iron bridge to span Catawba river near the Southern Power Company5s dam at Lookout Shoals will be built in the near future and each of the three parties interested will be required to contribute one-third of the cost. Forward Step in Road Building. Salisbury. The Rowan County com missioners have taken a forward step in the matter of road building and maintenance. The county has been divided into four districts each to have a supervisor and a force of hands. By this means the roads after they are built are to be maintained properly, pay for these forces Is to be provided for out of special tax funds which are already operative Ixt each of the townships. Health Lectures For Schools. Statesville. The county commis sioners here met with the Board of Education, and after going over thor oughly the proposition of the State Board of Health that if the county would contribute the sum of $600 to be ufed in defraying expenses, a medical expert would be sent to Ire dell to give lectures and give health demonstrations in the 60-odd rural schools of the county, decided the proposition was of much merit and decided to accept it. The work will begin when school starts next fall. Plan County Tubercular Hospital. Lexington. The county commis sioners of Davidson have appointed a committee composed of a number of .the leading doctors and citizens of the county to inspect the county home property and report with recom mendations as to the advisibllity of establishing a county sanitarium for tubercular patients. The committee will make its report the first Monday in February. This action of the com missioners followed the presentation of strong resolutions from the board of health.
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