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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance nthum ecord THE CHATHAM RECORD Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $U0 One Square, one month - - $&50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXVIII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, AUGUST 2, 1916. i NO. 52. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Jappsnings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS WFJHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In the South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs. European War Driving forward at two points leas than sixty miles apart, Russian forces captured Brody in Galicia and have broken the Austro-German first lines west of Lutsk in Volhynia. In addi tion the Russians have taken 9,000 prisoners and 46 guns. Servian forces have begun an of fensive against the Bulgarians in Greece. The Servians have occupied a series of heights and are maintain ing their position despite the artil lery fire and counter attacks of the Bulgarians. Capt. Charles Fryatt of the Great Eastern railway steamship Brussels, vhich vessel was captured by German destroyers, has been executed before a German naval courtmartial at Ber lin. He was charged with an at tempt to ram a German submarine. Turkey has placed a force of Otto man troops at the disposition of the central powers for service in Europe. These troops are now in transit through the Balkans. A British biplane was shot down by a German submarine at a point north of Zeebrugge, Belgium, one of the most remarkable feats of the war. In the Volhynia district, notwith standing the severity of the German fire, the Russians scent their troops across the Slonevke river. Many pris oners were taken by the Russians in this region. Petrograd says that the Russian cav alry has thrown back every Austrian attack in the Carpathian passes. The Turks in Armenia are fleeing before the Russians. The Turks, Pe trograd says, are leaving guns and munitions along the roads. The kaiser says it is a "privilege" to fight the British, and regrets ex ceeding that he is not allowed to go in the trenches and himself lead the German patriots. The village of Pozieres, which is described as a "death trap," is still held by the British, notwithstanding repeated attempts of the Germans to regain possession of the village. Cossack detachments succeeded in crossing into Hungary on July 14, cre ating a panic through the frontier towns and villages and causing thou sands of refugees to swarm down on to the plains, says a Budapest dis patch. Lieutenant Marchal of the French aviation corps, last month left French soil and flew over the German capital, upon which he dropped proclamations reciting that the French did not "thus kill women and innocent children," and then continued his flight, intend ing to land in the Russian lines. He was forced to descend in Poland, and taken prisoner by the Germans. Washington The thirteen Southern states will re ceive a total of $1,438,059, of the $5, 000,000 federal road fund made avail able for this fiscal year under the new federal aid road act approved this month. The department of agriculture announcement shows that Texas re ceived the largest allotment of any state in the Union. Future apportionments from the federal good road fund will be made on the same basis they are made this year that is, each state must spend an equal amount with the federal gov ernment. The good road fund, which was au thorized July 11, when President Wil son signed the bill authorizing same, will be put into operation immediately. Actual construction of some of the roads will begin this fall. Congressional representatives from the flooded districts in the South have taken energetic measures for the re lief of the thousands of victims of the disaster. At a meeting of the house military committee for the purpose of taking some action, Chairman Hay and other members of the committee were disposed to accord whatever re lief seems imperative. It is announced here that S. S. Mc lure, the American publisher, who has been detained in Great Britain for some time by the British authorities, must return to, the United States on board the same vessel he left the Lnited States, as he is persona non 8T'aTa to the British government. The department of agriculture is in receipt of information that India's wheat crop this year is put at 16 per cent less than last year's in consular advices. Naval officials located in Washing ton opine that the Danish West In dians, lying near Porto Rico, possess excellent advantages as a naval base and coaling station. The body of Lieut. Col. Butler of the Sixth United States. cavalry, who was killed at Alpine, Texas, by Harry J. Spannell, a hotel manager, was bur ied in Arlington cemetery. If the treaty for the purchase of the Danish West Indies is ratified the United States will pay $25,000,000 for the islands and will relinquish to Den mark the rights of the United States tn Greenland. General Carransa was informed in a note handed to his ambassador that the, Washington government is pre pared to submit to a joint internation al commission .the task of seeking a solution of border problems. Santiago Ramirez, a former gover nor of the Mexican state of Coahuila, and later a Villa general, was publicly executed on the plaza at Saltillo, Mex ico. Increased pay for officers and men of the regular army and National Guard in active service for the Mexi can emergency, improved camp condi tions to safeguard their health and authorization for them to vote in the field at the coming presidential elec$ tion were provided in amendments to the army appropriation bill agreed to by the senate. Negotiations between the United States and Denmark for the purchase of the Danish West Indies are under stood to have reached a definite stage where some important development may come soon. While the purchase has not been concluded, there were In dications that some of the more for midable barriers to an agreement had been removed, giving the negotiations promise of a successful outcome. Mexican News At Chihuahua City, Mexico, General Trevino announces that he has receiv ed orders from General Carranza to make every possible effort to pacify and rehabilitate northern Mexico. Reports from General Ramos, in the northern district of Durango, indicate that the extermination of the Villa bands is nearly accomplished, accord ing to the Mexican view. A heavily armed and well-mounted Mexican detachment has been detail ed to capture Villa, and his scatter ed forees are being relentlessly pur sued. Because of his recent hard riding Villa's leg is reported to be giving him great agony. No surgeon is avail able and he has been forced to lance his wound himself, sometimes with a rude knife. A formal statement has been issued in Chihuahua City denying that Gen eral Trevino has been demoted. It is anonnuced that shipments of ore have been resumed from the Mex ican Santa Eulalia mines, about twen ty miles east of Chihuahua City. This, it is stated, will do much to relieve the distress manifested with the shut ting down of industrial plants. Gen. Jose Robles reports that condi tions in the Saltillo district have been quiet for some time. General Bell, commanding the El Paso military district, has received as surances from Gen. Francisco Gonza les, commanding in Juarez, that "the island" will be depopulated by Mexi can authorities to prevent a repetition of the recent firing across the border line. Four negro soldiers, members of the Eighth Illinois National Guard, were shot by a squad of the provost guard of the Nineteenth regulars that had come to the rescue of a white man the soldiers were attacking near the mili tia camp. Domestic With the payment of $665,000 out side of court the White Star line now stands absolved of all liability for the sinking of the steamship Titanic, with a loss of 1,600 lives; and the four years of litigation of claimants is at last brought to an end in a final de cree handed down by Federai Judge Mayer in New York City. "Snubs" to which he and his family had been subjected because of his testimony againsf Roman Catholic clergymen, rather than fear the result of a second test of his efficiency as a telephone eavesdropper, was the rea son given in an ante-mortem state ment by Detective John Kennel, chief of the New York police wire tapping squad, for his attempt at. suicide by shooting himself. Appropriations totaling $809,000 for the relief of storm and flood sufferers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi are provided in joint resolutions introduc ed in the house at Washington and re ferred immediately to the committee on military affairs. If the aid asked by the flood suffer ers in the stricken southern section is passed by congress, North Carolina will get $300,000 ; South Carolina $100, 000; Georgia $200,000, and Alabama and Mississippi $200,000. A New York dispatch recites that the wealth of the Salvation Army in the United States can be safely placed at $8,353,179. This came out in an application of officers of the Army to mortgage certain property. Returning to his home at Waynes boro, Miss., after a mysterious disap pearance of more than eighteen months, and after he had been re garded as dead and the body of a man identified and interred as his own, and after his estate had been officially settled, C. C. Green, sixty-one years of age, former banker and land owner, maintained silence as to the reason for his long absence without wor? to his family or friends. Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, awaiting electrocution in Sing Sing prison, New York, for the murder of his father-in-law, John E. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich., whose case attracted nation wide interest, was found in his cell in the "death house" bleeding from a wound in his chest made in the shape of a cross. The prisoner had cut him self with a piece of broken glass. Damage estimated at $250,000 was caused in the business district of Aus tin, Texas, by a fire during which a terrific explosion occurred in a gar age. All telephones were put out of commission- EXPLOSIONS CAUSE $25,000,000 DAMAGE AMMUNITION AWAITING SHIP. MENT EXPLODES AT BLACK TOM ISLAND. LOSS OF LIFE NOT LARGE Fire on Barge Believed to Have Ignit ed Great Stores of War Supplies For the Entante Allies. Shock Felt in Five States. New York. Property losses esti mated at $25,000,000 were caused by a series ofr terrific explosions of ammu nition awaiting shipment to the En tente Allies and stored on Black Tom Island, a small strip of land jutting into New York Bay off Jersey City. The loss of life still was problemati cal. It will not be determined defi nitely until there has been opportunity to check up the workmen employed on the island and on boats moored near by. The detonations, which were felt in five States, began with a continuous rapid-fire of small shells, then the blowing up of great quantities of dy namite, trinitoltunine and other high explosives, followed by the bursting of thousands of shrapnel shells which literally showered the surrounding country and waters for many miles around. Fire that started soon after the first great crash which spread death and desolation in its wake, destroyed thir teen of the huge warehouses of the National Storage Company on Black Tom Island, in which were stored merchandise valued between $12,000, 000 and $15,600,000. The flames, shooting into the clouds were reflect ed against New York's "sky line" and towering offiee buildings, which only a few moments before were shaken to their foundations as by an earth quake. Miles of streets in Manhat tan were strewn with broken glass and shattered signs. Early reports of heavy loss of life were imppssibitle of verification, and the authorities asserted the number of death probably would be small, It was said that owing to the ex tent of the wreckage, it might be several days before the exact figures could be obtained. Three are known to be dead and at least two more are missing. Scores of persons were injured, some of them probably mortally. BRITAIN WARNED IN U. S. PROTEST OVER BLACKLIST Declares It is Manifestly Out of Ques tion That This Government Should Acquiesce In Such Methods. Washington. Great Britain is warn ed in the American note of protest against the blacklist made public by the state department of the "many se rious consequences to neutral right and neutral relations which such an act must necessarily involve. Already in the hands of the British foreign office, the note declares "in the gravest terms" that it is "manif festly out of the question that the gov ernment of the United States acquiesce in such methods" and that the United States regards the blacklist as "invi taiblly and essentially Inconsistent with the rights of all the citizens of the na tions not involved in any war." It re minds the Britsh government that "cit izens of the United States are entirely within their rights in attempting to trade with the people or the govern ments of any of the nations now at war, subject only to well gefined inter national practices and understandings which the government of the United State., deems the government of Great Britain to have too lightly and fre quently disregarded." HIGH COST OF PAPER RAISING SELLING PRICE St. Louis. The St. Louis Globe Democrat announces an increase in the price of its daily edition in St. Louis effective August 1. The high cost of print paper is given as the cause of the increase. 200 REPORTED DEAD FROM FOREST FIRES IN ONTARIO. Englehart, Ont. Forest fires rag ing in northern Ontario are believed to have resulted in the loss of from 150 to 200 lives. Other scores oi persons have been injured and it is feared many of them may die. Sev eral small towns have been wiped out by flames that have been raging for 48 hours. Reports thus far re ceived show that 57 perished at Mush ka, a French Canadian settlement, and 34 at Matheson. ENGLISH OWNERS AWARDED APPAM BY U. S. COURT. Norfolk. Possession of the British liner Appam, brought into Hampton Roads last February by a German prize crew, was awarded to her Eng lish owners, the African Steam Navi gation Company, by Judge Waddill ol the Federal District Court. An ap peal will be taken when the oppor tunity is given Wednesday, August 3 and the final decision in the libel pro ceedings probably will be given by the Supreme Court. GERMANS EXECUTE BRITISH CAPTAIN FRYATT ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTING TO RAM A SUBMARINE. TRIED, CONVICTED AND SHOT London Government Asks American Ambassador at Berlin to Procure Details of Case. Many Difficult Problems Involved. Berlin. Capt. Charles Fryatt, of the Great Eastern Railway Steamship Brussels, convicted by a German court martial at Bruges, Brussels, of at tempting on March 28, 1915, to ram a German submarine near the Maas lightship, when he did not belong to an armed force, has been executed by shooting. The Brussels was captur ed by German destroyers last month and brought into Zeebrugge. Captain Fraytt and the first officer and the first engineer of the Brus sels received from the British Admi ralty gold watches for "brave con duct" and were mentioned in the House of Commons. The submarine U-33 according to the official account of the trial had signalled to the British steamer to show her flag and to stop but Cap tain Fraytt did not heed and, it is alleged, turned at high sped toward the submarine which escaped only by diving immediately several yards be- , low the surface. Captain Fryatt, the official state- ment says, admitted that he had fol lowed the instructions of the British Admiralty. Sentence was confirmed and the captain was executed and shot for a "franc tierur crime against armed German sea forces." Washington Germany's execution of Capt. Charles Fryatt, master of the British steamship Brussels, for an alleged attempt to ram a submarine, is regarded in allied quarters here as a brutla violation of international law likely to result in prompt retailiatory measures by Great Britain. They contend that if a hostile submarine approached the Brussels it was "in ef fect an attack and Captain Fryatt in making a counter-attack by attempt ing to ram subjected himself only to treatment as a prisoner of war in event of capture. AUSTRI ANS LOSE TOWN OF BRODY UNEXPECTED. London. Brody, a great railway junction, in Galicia, 58 miles north east of Lemberg, which it was expect ed the Austrian troops would retain at all costs, has been captured by the Czar's forces, in a new and unexpect ed stroke administered by the Rus sians. The taking of this important town, it is believed, may lead to the capture of Lemberg, itself. News of the fall of Brody is coincident with reports that the Somme battle is con tinuing successfully for British forces under Gen. Sir Douglas Haig. The Russians, according to a report from Petrograd, also have broken the whole Austro-German front west of Lutsk. In this success they are reported to have captured two gener als, 9,000 prisoners and 46 guns. WASHINGTON SENDS NEW NOTE TO CARRANZA. Washington. General Carrana was informed in a note handed to his Am bassador here, that the Washington Government is' prepared to submit to a joint international commission the task of seeking a solution of border problems. The proposal of the do facto Government for a commission is accepted, however, with the sug gestion that the powers of the com missions be enlarged beyond the lim its proposed in the Mexican note of July 21. Agreement to thus suggestion is ex pected and it was stated officially that the American members would be appointed and the commission be assembled at some point in the Unit ed Sates at an early date. EX-GOVERNOR AND GENERAL UNDER VILLA EXECUTED. Laredo, Texas. Santiago Ramirez, a former Governor of the Mexican State of Coahuila, and later a Villa general, was publicly executed on the plaza at Saltillo, Mexico, according to news reaching Leuvo Laredo. Ramirez, it was stated, had left Mexico with the dwindling of Villa's power, and had returned recently to offer his services to General Carranza when war between the United States and Mexico seemed imminent. WILSON BACKING ALL PHASES OF PREPAREDNESS. Washington. In making public a letter from President Wilson acknowl edging receipt of a preliminary rep port of the new National Reserve Council, the White House issued a statement calling attention to the fact that preparedness does not consist mrely of enlargement of the Army and Navy and that the President has given his supoort to measures looking to the co-ordination of production, transportation and industry. ACTIVE SOLDIERS TO GET MORE PAT SENATE PASf.LS BILL INCREASING OFFICERS' PAY 10 PER CENT, PRIVATES 20 PER CENT. WHILE IN BORDER SERVICE Mso Vote to Improve Camp Conditions and Make Arrangements for Soldier Vote in the Coming Presidential Election. Washington. Increased pay for of Jeers and men of the regular army ind National Guard in active service for the Mexican emergency, improved camp conditions to safeguard their lealth and authorization for them to rote in the field at the coming presi lential election were provided in the amendments to the army appropria tion bill agreed to by the senate. By a vote of 44 to 13 the senate ilso suspended the rules to adopt an imendment changing the age mini mum for enlistment in the regular army from 18 to 21 years witihout the con sent of parent or guardian. Under the provision boys under 21 now serv ing in the army would not be retained In the service unless they filed within 50 days the written consent of their parents or guEirdians. The amend ment was adopted without a roll call. Senator Reel of Missouri offered the amendment which would make the existng provision for increased pay to the army when in service on toregn soil apply also to service on the Mexican border. Under it officers will receive a 10 per cent and enlisted men 20 per cent increase in pay. In adopting it the senate also increased the house appropriation for pay from 81,050,000 to $14,178,204. The amendment giving the soldiers In Mexican service authority to vote in the field at the National election passed without opposition. As a safe guard to health of soldiers an amend ment was adopted appropriating $260, 100 for construction of wooden floors a.nd screens in troop tents along the border. WILSON TO SEND NOTE OF PROTEST TO LONDON Administration Takes Firm Stand In Defense of Firms Against Blacklist. Washington. President Wilson and state department officials have practi cally completed preparation of a pro test against the promulgation of a blacklist of American firms under the British trading with the enemy act. It was said thar. the communication would be sent to London in the near future, probably within the next few days. It will discuss the principles Involved and will not interfere with the continuance of informal discus sions between representatives of the two governments over the cases of in dividual firms included In the black list. When the principles involved are taken up with the British government It is expected that issue also will be taken with France, Russia and Italy. The Allies' lew fo the legal aspects of the blacklist order which probably will be the basis of the statement to be issued soon in London and be incorporated in the reply to the Amer ican protest, is understood to be as follows : The Allies' view of the legal aspects national law against their enemies and upon all their subjects without dis tinction. The continental rule, ap plied by Germany, France, Italy and Russia interprets the word "enemy" as a person of enemy's origin or inter est. English and American prece dents put the. emphasis on domicile. Consequently British subjects have considered they could trade with any enemy firm domiciled in a neutral country." COLONEL BUTLER'S NAME IS ENTIRELY CLEARED. San Antonio, Texas. The official report made by Col. J. A. Gaston ' on the killing of Col. M. C. Butler at Alpine, Texas, by Harry Spannel,, completely clears the name of the dead officer. MAY POSTPONE THE TARIFF ON DYESTUFF. Washington. The Senate Finance Committee is seriously considering amending the Administration revenue bill to suspend the operation of the -proposed protective tariff on dyestuffe until the close of the European War The purpose of the tariff is to build up an American dyestuff industry, and it has been urged before the commit tee that the war is providing suffi cient protection for the present Amer ican dye manufacturers. GREAT BRITAIN TO ADMIT FOOD TO FIGHTING ZONES. London. Great Britain will consenl to the admission of food in the areas occupied by the armies of the Cen tral Powers under the supervision ol a neutral commission appointed by President Wilson. This will caust surprise in relief circles which have been working hard to procure some form of relief for Poland as the belied had become general that the negotia tlons between the Entente Powers and Germany were hopeless. BRITISH WARSHP INSIDE 3-MILE LIMIT CRUISER SPENDS MORE THAN HOUR WITHIN U. S. COAST LINE LIMIT. REPORTED TO WASHINGTON Big Cruiser, Awaiting German Sub marines Deutschland and Bremen, Passes Through Virginia Capes and Cruises About Fortress Monroe. Norfolk. Pilotless and without warning to the United States officials, one of the English cruisers lying oft Cape Henry awaiting the appearance of the German submarines Deutsch. land and Bremen, steamed through the Virginia capes, proceeded to the vicinity of Fort Monroe, cruised about for an hour or more and then return ed to a point just outside the three mile limit. Officers and members of the crews of the United States warship Louisi ana and the collier Neptune were the only government attaches to sight the ship, in so far as extended inquiry de veloped. At Fortress Monroe it was said no report of the ship being seen had been made, and similar reports came from government officials along the capes. A detailed official report of the in cident was made to Washington by naval officers who saw the ship. Authorities here said that while the entrance to American waters with out warning was no violation of any International law or regulation the procedure was "unusual." The cruiser was not identified fur ther than that she is known to have been of the "county class." This is a type of three-funnelled English cruis ers of which there are nine, the Cam berland, Berwick, Cornwall, Kent, Suffolk, Donegal, Monmouth, Essex and Lancashire. Some of them were reported to have appeared outside the capes when the Prinx Frederich sought refuge in Hampton Roads about a year ago. Each carries 26 guns, ranging from three-inch to six pounders and 18-inch torpedo-tubes, two of which are submerged. They have a sp'ed of from 23 to 24 knots. Initial knowledge of the presence of the cruiser in American waters came when an officer on the Louisiana sighted her about 500 yards behind him just inside Cape Henry. She was carrying steaming lights, the Luls lana proceeded slowly up the bay un til near Lunnhaven Roads when she prepared to anchor and then, notic ing the unidentified ship almost along side, signaled her. The cruiser then put out man-of-war lights and upon being pressed for her identity signal ed "British cruiser" through the darkness. ASK CONGRESS TO GIVE $800,000 FOR RELIEF. Propose $300,000 for North Carolina, $100,000 for South Carolina, $200, 000 for Alabama and Mississippi. Washington. Appropriations totall ing $800,000 for the relief of storm and flood sufferers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi are provided for in joint resolutions introduced in the HoUse and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. The resolutions also authorize the Secretary of War to issue tents and quatermasters and medical supplies to the needy. The appropriations are divided among the states as follows: North Carolina, $300,000; South Carolina $100,000; Geogia, $200,000; Alabama and Mississippi, $200,000. Representatve Britt Introduced the resolution for North Carolina awl It provides for the expenditure of the $300,000 in Buncombe, McDowell, Rutherford, Polk, Haywood, Macon, Jackson, Clay, Cherokee, Swain and Transylvania counties. The $100,000 proposed for South Carolina by Repesentatlve Whaley would be sent along the Santee River and its tributaries, which went out of their banks at the same time western North Carolina was flooded. CARRANZA ORDERS TREVINO TO PACIFY NORTHERN MEXICO Chihuahua City, Mexico. Instruc tions to use every effort to pacify and rehabilitate Northern Mexico, have been issued by General Carranza to General Trevino, commanding the Mexican army crops of the Northeast, General Trevino announced here. The exterminaMon of Villa and his band and other organizations of outlaws that may exist, it is said, will be the first step General Trevino will take. SENATE DETERMINES TO PASS CHILD LABOR BILL Washington. Yielding to an urg ent request from President Wilson, Democrats of the senate in caucus de termined to pass the child labor bill at this session of Congress. The deci sion was reached after a long debate, during which several Southern sena tors whose opposition forced the meas ure out of the imperative legislative program, vigorously objected to its reinstatement. The final determina tion was reached without a record vote. FOND FLOOD RELIEF SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO VISIT DEVASTATED SECTIONS AND REPORT NEEDS. MANY SECTIONS IN NEED John Sprunt Hill, Durham; A. M. Scales, Greensboro, and Dr. B. W. Kilgore, Special Committee. Raleigh. Governor Craig's general state committee for the relief of west ern Carolina sufferers, made definite appropriations for immediate relief work in the various counties that re port need for outside help and ap pointed John Sprunt Hill, Durham; A. M. Scales, Greensboro, and Dr. B. W. Kilgore, Raleigh, a special committee to visit the flood-swept sections, make personal investigations and report as to later aid that they deem deserved. The committee appointed a special committee of which J. W. Bailey, Ral eigh, ia chairman, expressing gratifi cation at the liberal response the peo ple have already made to the call for contributions and insisting that much more is badly needed and can be ex pended among deserving sufferers. The general committee meeting was held in the executive offices of Gov ernor Craig. The committee provided for a central committee of five, with the Governor as chairman, to act for the general committee in the relief work in interims of general committee meetings, which are to be held at the call of the Governor and the chairman. Governor Craig arrived from Ashe ville, where he kas been marooned since the storm and immediately took charge of the relief work. The Governor Is to appoint this cen tral committee. The Governor was further authorized to designate any other persons in addition to John Sprunt Hill, A. M. Scales and Doctor Kilgore to inspect and report on needs in any localities or sections. The ex penses of these Investigators are to be provided for by order of the general committee, i E. B. Crow was made treasurer of the general committee and Santford Martin, Of Winston-Salem, was made secretary. The view was expressed that fully $50,000 or $60,000 will be needed if permanent relief and add for rehabilitation, especially of farm ten ants and others of the poorer sufferers, is to be undertaken. A resolution by James H. Pou that was adopted by a vote of four to five provides that $8,000 be placed at the disposal of the Winston-Salem and lo cal committees for Immediate relief work In Wilkes, Ashe, Yadkin, Alle ghany and Surry counties and $500 to Mr. Chatham for relief In the Elkin section. Opposition to this arose be cause other sections were not includ ed, but the committee provided im mediately, through further motion by Pou and others, to provide $500 each for any other of 10 or more counties that are believed to have suffered disaster from the floods. It was order ed that $1,000 be placed at the dispos al of Judge M. H. Justice for rebef (n the Rutherfordton and Bat Cave sec tion. Burke county was allowed $500 to be sent to R. T. Claywell to be ex pended through proper channels. A like sum was ordered out for Caldwell county, if needed, J. W. Pless to he advised of the appropriation. Cald well, Catawba and other counties that are understood to he asking no aid were provided for in the event It turns out that there Is need for outside aid. Also $500 was sent each to Alexander and Wautauga for Immediate relief. Durham Sells Bonds. Durham. The city off Durham has sold $320,000 worth of water and re funding bonds for a grand total of $340,279, a record breaking price. Out of 16 bids, that of the Bernhard Scholls Company, of New York City, was accepted. The average per bond was $107.7625 for the water issue of $250,000. and $101.2725 for the refund ing bond issue of $70,000. A previous sale of $250,000 water bonds brought $104 and one-eighth. Iredell Crops Damaged. Statesville. Considerable corn was sold here at 90 cents a bushel. With reference to this year's crop, farmers in Iredell county assert they will not make more than one-quarter of a nor mal crop as a result of the storms and floods. Bert. Bristol stated that his crop would ordinarily amount to about 5,000 bushels of corn, but this fall he doubted if he would be able to harvest more than 500 bushels. This is a, typical case of the amount of damage done in Iredell county to crops. Avery Stood Floods Well. Raleigh. Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geologist and head of the good roads movement in this state for the past several years, said a few days ago that the Avery county authorities re port that the improved roads in the oounty have come through the floods in remarkably good condition and that the damage is not nearly so great as was at first thought. Doctor Pratt expressed the belief that this will be the case with reports from most of the other counties in the flood-swept sections of the state. APPORTION OR
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