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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance hatha m 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.f JUNE 7, 1916. NO. 44. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER tisppenings of This and Other Matins for Seven Hays Are Given. THE NEWSJJFJHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs. Mexican News Claiming that the words and pro ti of the United States have been entirely contradiction of their acts, a I that in spite of protests not to in ervene in the affairs of Mexico, soldiers of the United States are in Mexico without the consent of the Mexican government and in violation of Mexico's sovereignty, the Mexican g vernment now asks for the imme e withdrawal of those troops. He guest is made in a 12,000-word note made public at the foreign office in Mexico City. The Mexican note is interpreted by many in Washington to mean "that he United States troops will have to get out of Mexico or fight." The Mexican note was presented to she department of state by Eliseo Ar redondo, the Mexican anibassjhtor des ignate. It is stated in Washington that the president will personally prepare the answer to Carranza's note. Ten machine guns, 3S0 rifles and a quantity of ammunition discovered in Villa cache near Namiquipa, Mexico, were taken to American headquarters. American army intelligence officers are centering their efforts on seeking further hiding places of weapons and amunition, realizing that the cleaning of northern Chihuahua of such caches is vital should Villa or any of his ad herents reorganize and attempt to op erate in that region. tt is stated that the Mexicans in Tampico are promulgating decrees de signed to make it impossible for any American to do business in that coun try, and it is stated that an Amer ican has been imprisoned for three hours because he refused to pay his employees wages fixed by the author ities in excess of terms previously agreed upon with the men. Candlaria Cervantes and Juan Beau como were buried without religious ceremony at Columbus, N. M. These two bandits have caused as much trou ble on the border as Villa himself, or nearly as much. There were no flowered carts in the funeral proces sion, followed by a few Mexicans wrapped in dirty blankets. European War Picking its way from its base in the Kiel canal, the German fleet struck an English fleet in the North sea, off the coast of Jutland. It was apparent ly the biggest naval clash in the his tory of the world from the standpoint of tonnage. News reports are to the effect that Germany had the best of the clash and that the British losses were very heavy. The French troops northwest of Ver dun, in the region of Le Mort Homme, have turned on the offensive against the Germans, and have captured a very strongly organized position on the slopes southwest of Le Mort Homme. Seven machine guns and 225 prison ers were taken in the attack. The town of Avocourt and Hill 304 in the Verdun vicinity are under a heavy bombardment and shells of large caliber are being made. Bom bardments are in progress north of Verdun. The British casualties in the month of May are reported to have been 1, 767 officers and 28,470 men. French positions on a front of ap proximately two miles, extending from the southern ridge of Le Mort Homme to the Cumieres village, northwest of Verdun, have been captured by the Germans. In addition the Teutons have again pressed forward in the Thiaumont wood, northeast of Verdun, and added their line in the eastern part of it. Around Le Mort Homme and Cu mieres a violent bombardment is still ;n progress, but there has been a dim inution in the intensity of the fire of he big guns northeast of Verdun. The Verdun region and southern Ty rol continue the theaters where the most sanguinary battles are taking place.. While the Italians are holding back; the Austrians are forming fur ther advances and inflicting heavy iosess on them in counter attacks in Trol, their German allies having been ble to make another gain in the cap ture of about three hundred meters of French trenches northwest of the village of Cumieres on the left bank of the Meuse near Verdun. Minor successes have been obtained by the Russians over the Turks in the itivandouza region of the Caucasus front. In the German reichstag Gustave Noske, Socialist, protested against the speech of Herr Hirsch, National Lib eral of Essen, which, he declared, was calculated to prevent the neutral pow ers from mediating in behaif Of peace. He said: "There is no disposition among the German people to hazard the lives of further hundreds of thou sands for fantastic plans of conquest." Except for a report from Petrograd that the Germans have repeatedly bombarded the railway line to the east of Riga, no operation of moment ha. token place on the Russian front After crossing the Aegean sea with out loss, the Serbian army in full strength now has been landed at Sal oniki, according to a wireless dispatch received in Paris. Domestic At least five persons lost their lives, a score or more were injured, and fif teen are missing, in the wreck of a Rock Island train, which plunged through a bridge at Packard, Iowa. The wreck was due to a storm which swept the northeastern section of the state of Iowa. Twenty-six persons were injured when the Wabash night mail train No. 17, bound from Chicago to St. Louis, was blown from the tracks by a tor nado near Saunemin, 111. The coaches were of steel, and this is said to have prevented loss of life. The lower house of the Louisiana legislature passed a bill which would make Columbus Day October 12 a legal holiday in that state. A pocket knife was thrown at Colo nel Roosevelt in Kansas City, Mo., which struck the arm of John W. Mc Grath, the former president's secre tary, and fell to the running board of the car. Colonel Roosevelt says it was a trivial incident, and that he had a "bully" time. Four persons were killed and. a score injured at Dallas, Texas, when a wooden awning, suspended by chains in front of a store in the business district, collapsed under the weight of spectators viewing a demonstration for preparedness. Five hundred thousand rabbits for consumption by the British army in France comprises part of the cargo of the British steamer Cumberland, which put in at Norfolk, Va., for coal. Seaboard train No. 5 ran into an automobile containing six persons and killed four and injured two, two miles south of Statham, Ga. The party tried to cross the track in an automobile in front of the train, when the auto mobile engine stuck on the track. James J. Hill, railroad builder, cap italist and most widely known figure of the Northwest, died at his home in St. Paul, Minn. He was uncon scious for nearly twelve hours before he died. He was probably worth in the neighborhood of $250,000,000. A declaration that he wishes no ap peal in his behalf was contained in a statement issued from his cell in the Tombs in New York City by Dr. Ar thur Warren Waite, convicted of the murder of his father-in-law, John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids. It is estimated that the liquor con fiscated at Girard, Ala., up to date has a total value of $1,250,000. But this is not all. There is still some $250, 000 worth of whiskey stored under ground and other places in Girard. The assertion is made in Alabama that the town of Girard will be under martial law for perhaps a year while the question of disposing of the con fiscated property is being, threshed out in the courts. It will probably be car ried to the United States Supreme court for final settlement. Washington The second of the big preparedness measures, a naval appropriation bill larger by many millions than any ever before considered in congress, has passed the house, action being almost unanimous. News from Corinto, Nicaragua, says that a number of American citizens and British subjects have been killed at Talara, Peru, by striking employees of the London-Pacific Petroleum com pany. A dispatch announces that Lieut. Sir Ernest Shackleford, the English Antarctic explorer, has arrived safely at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. The whole party were in very good health, but in a condition which demanded quick relief. Amendments to the naval appropri ation bill to provide for a $11,000,000 government armor plate plant for $3, 500,000 instead of $2,000,000 worth of aeroplanes, for 2,730 additional sailors and for a bonus system to encourage the speedy private construction of war ships were adopted by the house sit ting as a committee of the whole. Par ty lines were broken down on every vote. President Wilson delivered the Me morial Day address at Arlington Na tional cemetery in which he defined the spirit of America, warning citi zens of foreign birth not to set them selves against the purposes of the nation and calling upon the young men to perform military service. He defended his recent suggestion for an alliance of nations to preserve peace. President Wilson says the United States is ready at any time to be come a partner in any alliance of the nations "which would guarantee pub lic right against selfish aggression." President Wilson, in his Memorial Day address, said: "I shall never my self consent to an entangling alliance, but would gladly assent to a disen tangling alliance, an alliance which would disentagle the peoples of the world from those combinations in which they seek their own separate and private interests." Col. John S. Mosby, famous Confed erate raider of the Civil war, is dead at a Washington hospital. Death was due to old age. He dared death over fifty years ago when at the head or a band of a few hundred Confederate raiders he rode up and down the Shen andoah valley, capturing outposts, de stroying supply trains "and cutting off means of communication. Half a billion dollars will be the government's internal revenue tax ' loll for the fiscal year ending June 30 next, according to a statement ls , jued by Secretary McAdoo. LOSS NEAR EQUAL L BATTLE LATER NEWS INCREASES NUM BER OF GERMAN SHIPS SUNK. BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORY Berlin Considers Results Highly Satis factory. There Were 6,000 "Men. on the Ships. London. The latest reports from the British fleet, from neutral vessels which witnessed parts of the great naval battlo in the North Sea, and from survivors, cause the British pub lic to believe that the engagement was not so near a tiefeat as at first ap peared, and in no wise a disaster. The British losses, with all the craft engaged accounted for, were three battle cruisers, three cruisers and eight destroyers. The German losses are believed to have been about the same number of ships, although a much less aggre gate of 'onnage. British naval experts maintain that Great Britain continues to hold the supremacy of the sea by a safe mar gin and that her enormous navy could better afford the losses it suf fered than could the smaller German establishment. The first reports of the heavy loss of life, unhappily, have not been revised. Great Britain mourns for more than 4.000 of her best seamen, and the whole Nation is oppressed with sadness, which is re flected in the faces of all the people of London. There were same 6,000 men on the ships which sank, and only a few have been saved. The horrors of modern naval warfare, far exceeding those when wooden ships fought and continued to float even when they ceased to be fighting units, were real ized to their utmost. From five of the largest ships which went under with a complement of more than 4,000 men, only seven junior officers and a few seamen rescued. Rear Admiral the Honorable Hor ace Lambert Hood, second in com mand to Vice Admiral Sir I)avid Beat ty, and Captains Sowerby, Cay and Prowse were lost with many others, whose names are not yet known be cause the government has not so far issued any casualty list. There were no surrenders, and the ships which went down carried with them vir tually their whole crews. Only the Warrior, which was towed part way from the scene of battle to a British port, was an exception. Of some thousand men on the Queen Mary, only a corporal's guard is accounted for. The same is true of the Invincible, while there are no survivors reported from the Indefa tigable, the Defense or the Black Prince. AMERICA HAS STOOD STEADFASTLY FOR LAW. Lansing Tells Lawyers That Life and Property Are By No Means Equal. Watertown, N. H. Secretary Lans ing before the Jefferson County Bar association here scored critics of the administration's foreign policy who would have it do more than has been done in the negotiations arising from the war and replied to those who complain the United States has been more vigorous in its dealings with Germany than with Great Britain. "The violation of the natural right of life is a much more serious offense against an individual and against his nation," said Secretary Lansing, "than the violation of the legal right of property. Can you doubt for a mo ment which one gives this government the greatest cencern?" That there was an influence in America and even in congress which put right of property and right of life on a par. Secretary Lansing declared, showed that "the great heart of the Republic is threatened with fatty de generacy through those who have lost their patriotic vigor; that many Amer icans have become lovers of ease rath er than lovers of national honor." TO NOMINATE WILSON EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. St. Louis. President Wilson and Vice President Marshall are to be nominated as the Democratic party standard bearers for the presidential campaign some time early Saturday morning at the final session of the Democratic national convention. Plans for the convention have been prac tically agreed upon by National Chair man McCombs. Mr. McCombs and his associates expect to attend the Republican national convention. SEC. DANIELS TO INSIST ON U. S. NAVY DERIGI BLE Washington. Construction by the Navy Department of dirigible air craft of the Zeppelin type may be urged by Secretary Daniels as a result of the North Sea battle and the slowness of commercial development of such con struction in this country. Naval offi cers here agreed that the details thus for received of the battle pointed to the superior scouting ability of the German fleet throught its Zeppelins as a factor in the battle. $6,000,000 FOR BIGGER NAVY YARDS NORFOLK, NEW ORLEANS, CHAR LESTON, BOSTON, PHILADEL PHIA AND OTHERS. k " CLARK UPHOLDS MEASURES House Adopts Changes in Enlistment. Fight Against Hensley Resolution Fails. Washington. Advocates of greater preparedness than is provided by the naval bill as reported by the commit tee won some victories in the house. They succeeded in obtaining appro priations not to exceed $6,000,000 for enlarging the navy yards at Norfolk, New Orleans, Charleston, Boston, Portsmouth, N. H., Philadelphia and Puget Sound. Capital ships would be constructed at the Norfolk, Puget Sound, Philadelphia and Boston yards. An amendment designed to lower the enlistment period in the navy from four to three years and to permit men to enter the reserve after one year's service was also adopted. An unsuccessful fight was led by Representative Gardnner of Massachu setts against the section of the naval bill, embracing the Hensley resolu tion authorizing participation by the United States in the establishment of an international court for the enforce ment of peace. The section was re tained without a roll call in the house, sitting as a committee of the whole. Pacifiists, so-called "little navy" men and many advocates of general preparedness rallied to the support of the section. Speaker Clark took the floor and aroused enthusiasm by de claring the section was the best fea ture of the bill. The Hensley section would appro priate $200,000 and provide for the appointment of nine men by the president at the close of the European war, to enter into negotiations with other countries for establishment of an international court to enforce peace. It was placed in the bill as a compromise when it appeared that the opponents of a greater navy would not support the committee. Representative Gardner declared the plan could not be carried out and that if the United States had been a party to such an agreement in 1914 congress would not have voted! to send the country's quota of 500,000 men abroad to aid in the enforce ment of peace. CONDITION OF COTTON CROP 77.5 PER CENT. NORMAL, MAY 25 Department of Agriculture Reports Conditions Bad in Carollnas. Washington. The ootton crop at the United States showed a condition of 77.5 per cent of a normal May 25, the deparment of agriculture an nounced in its first condition report of the season, awaited with interest by ootton, textile and other interests. That condition compares with. 80.0 on May 25 last year, 74.3 in 1914, 79.1 in 1913 and 79.8, the average of the last 10 years on May 25. Until the government's official re port estimating the area planted to cotton this year is issued July 1, no calculation will be made by the de partment's experts as to the probable size of the crop. Unofficial estimates place the area planted at from 6 to 10 per cent more than last year when the preliminary estimate made by the department in July was 31,535,000 acres. An increase of from 6 to 10 per cent in the area this year would place the average at rrom 33,417,000 to 34,688,500 acres. WILL TAKE NO MORE MUNITION ORDERS Richmond, Va. George Gurry, man ager of the Richmond plant of the American Locomotive Company, an nounced that the company would take no more munition contracts. The Chesapeake & Ohio has just ordered 25 big Mallet engines built here and the Atlantic Coast Line has ordered five other locomotives. BRANDEIS WINS OUT AFTER LONG CONTEST Washington. The nomination of Louis D. Brandeii of Boston to the supreme court to succeed the late Joseph Lamar was confirmed by the senate by a vote of 47 to 22. The vote, taken without debate, ended one of the bitterest contests ever waged against a presidential nominee. Mr. Brandeis will be the first Jew to oc cupy a seat on the supreme bench. Only one Democrat, Senator New lands, voted against confirmation. ITALIANS CONTINUE TO HOLD BACK AUSTRIANS London. The Italians, according to Rome continue to hold back attacks by the Austrians at various points along the Tyrol front. Especially bitter fight ing has taken place in the region of Posina torrent and southeast of Ar siero, where the Avstrians either were stopped or driven back in disorder. Lively artillery duels are in progress in the Lagarina "Valley and between the Posina and the upper Asticc rivers. GARRANZA DEMANDS T. W. B1GKETT WINS T MEXICAN CHIEF'S LATEST NOTE BLUNTLY QUESTIONS FAITH OF UNITED STATES. NOTE 12,000 WORDS LONG Threatens Armed Resistance Wilson Considers Answer. No Immediate Withdrawal Is Belief. Washington. General Carranza s iatest note, bluntly questioning the good faith of the United States gov ernment, and with a threat of armed resistance, demanding withdrawal of American troops from Mexico, was presented at the state department by Eliseo Arredondo. the Mexican ambas sador designate. A translation of the voluminous document, about 12,000 words long, was laid before President Wilson, who at once began Consider ing how it should be answered. No one in official circles would at tempt to forecast just what course the president might decide upon. There was complete unanimity, however, in the belief that there would be no im mediate withdrawal of the Pershing expedition. High officials said the de facto government so far had utterly failed to demonstrate its ability to pro tect the border against bandits, and expressed the opinion that the troops would stay in Mexico until this was done. It was suggested that the beK Mgerent and uncompromising attitude assumed by Carranza probably was largely for effect upon the Mexican public, and there was little disposi tion to believe that the de facto gov ernment actually contemplated an effort to expel the American army by force. Mr. Arredondo left the impression that his chief did not expect the de fiant words of the note to be taken at their face value, when, on handing communication to Acting Secretary Polk he gave notice that it was not Intended as an ultimatum, but as a continuation of the negotiations which have been in progress between the two governments. Th i new note, written before the withdrawal of the Langhorne-Sibley expedition, which entered Mexico after the Boquil'as raid, was brought to Wnshington Monday by Manuel Men dex, an attache of the Mexican for eign oKice. Word of its coming had been received last week, but on Men dez's arrival he insisted that he knew nothing of a note and merely was in the United States on a vacation. Ar redondo said that he had heard noth ing of a note. It was later explained that Mendez left Mexico City with , strict instruc tions to keep the purpose of his visit secret even from the embassy here un til he had communicated with the for eign office on reaching Washington. Officials made it very plain that the Columbus expedition referred to in the Mexican note as "interned in the State of Chihuahua " can be with drawn from Mexico only on President Wilson's orders. The thinly veiled threat in he note that failing withdrawal, after due exchange of views between Wash ington and Mexico, American soldiers in Mexico might expect attack by Mex ican troops left army officers undis turbed. HOT DISCUSSION OVER WAR IN BRITISH CABINET. Parliamentary Under Secretary Criti cises Grooms and Officers' Ser vants at Front. London. The vote for the salary of Earl Kitchener as Secretary for Wai in the House of Commons led to a discussion of the general conduct oi the war. In introducing the vote Harold J. Tennant, parliamentary under-secretary for war, replied to the speech made last week by Winston Spencer Churchill, in which he said the position of the British lines at several points was disadvantageous and that there were large numbers oi men on duty as grooms and officers' servants who might be used to aug ment the fighting forces. Mr. Tennant pointed out that a large number of men was required be hind the lines to move up necessary supplies. The War Office he said al ready had adopted the plan of replac ing yqunger soldiers with older ones, although this could not be done in every case. As to Colonel Churchill's complain) in regard to the large number of of ficers' servants, Mr. Tennant said these men, like all other, had to tak their places in the firing line. With regard to the criticism respecting the great force of men kept at home, he explained they were being trained. WORK ON GENERAL REVENUE LEGISLATION IS TAKEN UP Washington. Work on general rev enue legislation has been taken up bj the House Ways and Means Commit tee Democrats. Representative Hit of Tennessee, submitted drafts o'. three bills. One would increase th surtax of the income tax law so at to raise approximately $100,000,001 additional; another to raise about $50, 000,000 by means of a tax on inheri tances; and another taxes munitiox Slants to raise S40.00C.000. WITHDRAW II N. G. PRIMARY HAS MAJORITY OF ABOUT 25,000 OVER E. L. DAUGHTRIDGE FOR GOVERNOR. KITCHIN IS RE-NOMINATED House Leader Carries District By Large Majority Second Primary for Secretary of State and Two Con gressmen. Raleigh. Attorney General T. W. Bickett has a lead of about 25,000 over Lieut. Gov. Daughtridge for the guber natorial nomination on incomplete re turns from North Carolina's first legal ized statewide primary. Rain cut down the size of the vote and the long bal lot made the count slow. Congressman Claude Kitchin carried every county in his district and his majority is now estimated as in excess of 7,000. Bertie, the home county of his opponent, Clingman W. Mitchell, gave Kitchin about 200 majority. On incomplete returns from the sixth dis trict, indicate that Congressman H. L. Godwin will enter the second primary with Q. K. Nimocks of Cumberland. In the seventh district Lee D. Robin son of Anson leads with U. L. Spence T. W. BICKETT Democratic Nominee for Governor ot North Carolina. af Moore claiming second pfcice for a second primary, i In the tenth Zebulon V. Weaver is nominated. All these are Democrats. In the ninth district Jake Newell of Mecklenbnrg, Republi can, is nominated in the only contest in the state among Republicans. Returns indicate that N. A. Sinclair is leading for Attorney General, but there will be a second primary. Attorney General Bickett's majority for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor over Lieut. Gov. E. L. Daught ridge is now estimated at above 25,000 on figures from 62 out of 100 counties. The returns now in and show a sec ond primary for secretary of state between the incumbent J. Bryan Grimes and J. A. Hartness of Iredell, also for commissioner of agriculture between the incumbent W. A. Graham and A. J. McKinnon of Robeson. All of the other incumbents are re-nominated. There were no contests on the Re publican ticket. President Wilson polled a heavy vote on the preferential ballot on the Democratic side and Theodore Roose velt was reported leading among the Republicans. PRESIDENT WILSON AT GRAVES OF THE CONFEDERATES Enthusiastically Received by Large Crowd of Southerners at Arling ton Cemetery. Washington. President Wilson at tended the Memorial exercises held in the Confederate section of Arlington National Cemetery, but did not speak. His appearance was unexpected as he had previously announced that he would be unable to attend. He was enthusiastically received by a large crowd of Southerners. The exercises were impressive in their simplicity. Senator Vardaman, orator of the occasion, paid tribute to the Confederate, soldier and the self sacrificing women of the South. De fending the right of the Southern States to secede he declared the ans wer to the question "is it well that the Confederacy failed?" rested with the future and the way the general government used its power. He said he would rather be a free citizen of a Democracy like Switzerland than "the slave of a militarism such as Germany's." APPROVED ROUTE TR! CITY HIGHWAY ROM CHARLOTTE THROUGH CONCORD, ALBEMARLE, TROY TO PINEHURST. THE METHODS OF FINANCING Executive Committee Meets at Albs marie and Hears Report of U. S Highway Engineer. Albemarle. The executive commit ee of the Charlotte-Pinehurst-Raleigh Highway Association held a meeting here at Albemarle for the purpose of hearing the report of United States Highway Engineer H. K. Craig and taking some action on the report. Four of the five members of the committee were present, they being J. F. Cannoa of Cabarrus; J. R. McQueen of Moore, Barnard Allen of Montgomery and J. A. Groves of Stanly. Barnard Allen Montgomery was made chairman ot the meeting and J. R. McQueen of Moore, secretary. The committee immediately went into executive session and Mr. Craig made his report, going into the de tails of the merits and demerits of the different possible routes. The report was received and the route rec ommended was approved. The route approved will pass from Charlotte through Concord, Albemarle and Troy to Pinehurst, the matter of the various possible routes between these towns being left for future consideration. Mr. W. S. Fallis, state highway en gineer, was present and entered inte the discussions of possible methods of financing and constructing this road. The executive committee is very en thusiastic over the outlook, and tt seems only a matter of time now in which to formulate a proper method or financing the road until actual con struction will begin. This road, when constructed will form the nearest route by a great deal between Ral eigh and Charlotte. The matter of a birdge across the Pee Dee River was discussed, but nothing definite as to this was de cided upon, but with the construction of the road it is thought that them will be litle trouble about securing the necessary funds ' for building the bridge. Securing More National Forest. Asheville. United States Deputy .darshal John Y. Jordan is busy lo cating and serving with notices about 450 people in this section, in connec tion with condemnation proceedings brought by the United States govern ment to secure about 700 acres ot land that is needed to fill in various corners in the national forests in this section. The land is, roughly estima ted, at $12.50 an acre, so that the net sum brought into this district will be nearly $100,000. Each notice has to be served personally, and with 450 or them to serve, Marshal Jordan is hav ing no easy time. Two years ago, there were 750 papers served in a simi lar suit, but the government got the land. McAdoo at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill. No doubt remains in the Latin-American world that the United States has sought to treat the American governments on a basis ot equality and co-operation. Secretary McAdoo told the graduating class of the University of North Carolina at the commencement exercises here where he spoke on the international relations between thiNs and the Latin American countries. "The Monroe Doctrine has grown," he said, "and as conditions have changed has taken on a new light that binds us closer than ever, not only against territorial expansion or encroachments, but in a renewed in terest in the development of their customs and institutions. "No doubt could remain, and I am happy to say that no doubt does re main Jn the Latin-American world, that we have sought to treat all the governments of America on a basi of equality and co-operation." The University conferred upon Jtft McAdoo the degree of doctor of laws. Ten Scientific Durham Cooks. Durham. Ten young iadies noire of them engaged graduated from the domestic science department of the Durham High School. "They are the finest young cooks I know of," is the compliment passed upon the girls by Miss Bertha Boughton, head of the department. The man who does get one of the girls, however, when they get ready to enter the matrimonial swim, according to,. Miss Boughton, will have the best on the market, pro vided they don't cause their hubbies to overeat. Music Festival Postponed. Asheville. Definite announcement was made here to the effect that the Damrosch Music Festrval, planned for the great Auditorium :at Black Mous tain in August will not be held th"u year owing to inability to get mate rials in time for the construction af the auditorium. Col. G. W. Hlnskxts; vice president and general manager ft the National Festival Chorus of Ann ica is authority for the annoamsv ment. Great preparations had nema made for the event through this seo tion of the state. r