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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance Chatham 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. xxxix. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, SEPTEMBER 13, 1916. J NO. 6. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nitieos fir Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs. Mexican News Thirty Mexicans, supposed to be Vil la followers, raided the engineers' camp of the American punitive expe dition, and escaped with a mule. The possibility that Francisco Villa is making his way to the nortfeeast with the intention of attacking Gen eral Pershing's expedition was con sidered at General Funston's San An tonio headquarters. It is reported that Villa's forces have been definitely located in the San ta Clara canyon. An outbreak of para-typhoid fever in the camp of the New York Guards men at Mission, Texas, is announced, but is not expected to develop into anything serirous. Villa with his main band is reported near the Mexican Northwestern rail way, about six miles from Chihuahua City. It is generally believed in Mexico that Villa is making his way to caches of ammunition in the Galeana dis trict. General Treving reports that he has executed three bandits caught rob bing a ranch in the Laguna Torreron district. General Iaveaga reports that te en gaged a small band of Vifla bandits in the Sierra Del Casco, killing two and capturing twenty horses. Domestic Paul Koonodle, 16 years old, has a chance to recover, according to phy sicians, after 300 stitches were used to close a wound in his left side caus ed by falling across a buzz saw at Langdon, Ark. The saw had cut a gash ten inches long just under the left arm, severed six ribs, struck the lung and exposed the beating heart. The Association of State Farmers' Union Presidents, in session at New Orleans, La., fixed 12 cents as tL. minimum price for cotton this sea son The National Association of Master Bakers, in session at Chicago, consid ered the high price of flour. The westbound Golden State Lim ited train was held np at Apacha sta tion, Arizona, forty miles east of Doug las by six masked men. No passen gers were molested. Cotton shows some improvement In the northern part of the belt, accord ing to the latest report of the na tional weather and crop bulletin. Because the Prohibition party did not poll 5 per cent of the entire vote at the last general election, that party is legally barred from putting out pres idential electors in West Virginia this fall. Robert M. LaFollette has been re nominated for the United States sen ate from Wisconsin over M. J. Jeffres of Janesville, Wis. Rioting, an outgrowth of a street railway strike that has been on in El Paso, Texas, for two months, fol lowed the Labor Day Parade. At least fifty are reported injured as a result of the riot. President Wilson was in Hodgen ville, Ky., Labor Day and accepted the log cabin in which Abraham Lin coln was born. He eulogized Lincoln in the highest terms. John Aitken won the 300-mile sweepstake at 'Cincinnati Labor Day. Only one acicdent marred the day's sport, when an 'automobile turned turtle and dived into a fence danger ously injuring the driver and fractur ing the thigh of Bert Shields, the mechanician. Three women were killed on a trol ley in Savannah, Ga., when they be came frightened when the controller box blew out. Ex-Governor Samuel W. Pennypack er of Pennsylvania died at his Phil adelphia home of uraemic poisoning. He was 73 years old. The superintendent of the Mem phis, Tenn., zoological gardens be lieves he has solved the boll weevil plague. He says that pheasants in a field will destroy the weevils with out in any way injuring the plant. European War It is reported from Athens, Greece that five classes of Greek reservists have been quietly called to the col ors. Heavy fighting is reported on the western Russian front and southwest of Lutsk, north of Zborow and near Brezezany in Galicia, with the Rus sians generally the aggressors. In the Verdun sector Paris reports fresh gain near Fleury. The Greek committee of national de fense which took over the admliHstra tion of the portions of northern Greece in which the revolutionists gained con trol, has issued a proclamation declar ing it does not desire to alter the con stitution, but merely to cause the na tion to rise against the Bulgarians, who have invaded Greek Macedonia. South of the Somme the village of Soyecourt and part of the ; village of Vermandovillers have been captured by the entente allies, while seemingly more important still, the French have made fresh progress east of the vil lage of Forest. Roumania, which entered the Euro pean war less than a fortnight ago, is the scene of a great battle between the Russo-Roumanian forces and the armies of the central powers. Bulgarian and Turkish troops, ad vancing along the Black sea eoast, have occupied Baltjik and two other seaports. The war has cost France up to date sixty-one billion france, and nearly nine billion more francs will he asked for the iast quarter of 1916. In the Roumanian theater German and Bulgarian troops are engaged with the Roumanians in the Dobrudja re gion. Berlin reports the capture of sev eral Tutrakan works, together with their armored batteries in the Rou manian zone of fighting. In Albania the Italian advance has been stopped, says Berlin, and the Teu tons have recaptured all positions tak en from them recently east of Avlona. In Galicia on the front of the Zlota Lipa and Dniester rivers the Russians have driven the Teutonic allies from fortified positions and have taken 4,500 prisoners, among them about two thousand Germans. The Russians in Turkish Armenia continue their progress against the Turks near Ognott, inflicting heavy casualties on them. Sinking of two vessels in the Euro pean war zone with Americans aboard, has been reported to the state depart ment at Washington, D. C, by Ameri can consular officers. Five hundred discharged Greek re servists, all having places of residence in the United States, were not per mitted to embark at Athens, Greece, for New York, owing to the possibil ity of their being called out in the new mobilization of the Greek army. The French minister of finance will ask the chamber of deputies for ap propriations for the last quarter of 1916 amounting to 8,347,000,000 francs, or about five hundred million more francs than was asked for the present quarter. Washington Sixty-seven of the largest steam rail ways earned a net revenue of $545 per mile last July, an increase of $43 a mile over July, 1915. A summary of the interstate com merce commission shows net railway revenues totaled $41,355,921, compared with $36,328,588 in July, 1915. The largest gains were in the East. Adjournment of the first session of the sixty-fourth congress came with out a hitch in the plans of the sen ate and house leaders. Nearly all the congressmen and sen ators have left Washington, either for rest, or to take part in the" national campaign this fall. The first session of the sixty-fourth congress will cost the country the grand total of $1,637,583,682, the larg est aggregate in the history of the country, and exceeding by far the much talked of billion dollar congress of several years ago. The sixty-first session of congress, among other important measures, es tablished a tariff commission, which is designed to take the tariff question out of politics, and place it on a ba sis somewhat similar to the way Ger many handles that question. It is stated in Washington that by far the most important legislation of the sixty-fourth congress was the passage of the child labor law. The Filipinos were given a wider scope in an enlarged system of self government by the sixty-fourth con gress. To the proposal of the entente al lies that neutrals accept the principle that all submarines are vessels of war, the United States has dispatched a re ply which holds to the principle that the characteristics of each individual submersible must govern the case. Officials in Washington view the de velopment in the China-Japanese cri sis with great anxiety, as it is pos sible to involve the interests of the United States. Japan's demands as published call for dismissal of Chinese officers in command of the troops at the scene of the trouble between Japanese and Chi nese troops. The administration emergency reve nue bill, designed to raise $205,000,000 annually from taxes on inheritances and war munitions and from increases in the income tax; creating a tariff commission; establishing a protective tariff on dyestuffs; providing for the protection of American firms from "dumping" at the end of the war, and giving the president authority to take drastic retaliatory steps against allied interference with American trade was passed by the senate. The American industrial commis sion to France has arrived at Bor deaux on board the steamer LaFay ette, and was received by a commit tee of representatives of the munici pality of the Bordeaux chamber of commerce. The threat of a general railroad strike, which has been hanging like a pall over the country for nearly a month, was lifted after the senate had passed without amendment the Adamson eight-hour bills, passed by the house. The 8-hour bill for railroad employ es which stopped the impending rail way strike, goes into effect January 1, 1917, except on roads of less than 100 miles and electric lines. Plans for reopening the Panama ca nal with a clear channel to all classes of vessels have been reported to the war department by Governor Goe thals. Some of the diplomats in Washing ton announce that Norway, Sweden, and Spain have forbidden their har bors to merchant submarines on the ground that they were indistinguisha ble from war craft. OF OF 64TH OONGRESS RECORD OF CONSTRUCTIVE LEG ISLATION BY CONGRESS IS GREATEST IN HISTORY. MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES Total of Appropriations $1,626,439,209 With Additional Contracts Amount ing to $231,945,275. -Items Are; Eneumerated. Some Big Bills. Washington, D. C. A record of con structive legislation, improving the advantages of the people all along the line is that of the 64th Congress which has just ended. The total of the appropriations, specifically made, is $1,626,439,209.63. ' In addition to this congress has au- thorized contracts to be entered into obligating appropriations in the fu ture of $231,945,275.20. These con tracts include $225,266,325.20 for na val and coast defense purposes, while the remainder, $6,678,950 is for or dinary objects of Government. The appropriations for military and naval purposes and for additional sea coast defenses alone amount to $685, 709,823.09. This sum, with the con tracts authorized, brings the total for preparedness to $910,976,148.29. How ever, there is still more to be added to the preparedness. Congress has authorized 90 additional war vessels to be constructed in the next three years, which will cost $295,000,000 ad ditional when they are completed and in commission. This brings the grand total for the preparedness legislation of this congress to $1,205,976,148.29. The appropriations are distributed as follows for preparedness: Army appropriation act, $267,6sV 530.10. Naval appropriation act, $313,300, ,555.84. Fortification appropriation act, $25, 747.550. Military Academy act, $1,225,043.5J. Sundry civil appropriation act: Armories and arsenals, $4,683,495; military posts, $1,616,000; military surveys, $35,000; Panama Canal for tifications, $4,535,000. Deficiency appropriations, military and naval , establishments $46,770, 648.58; National Guard camps, $200, 000; nitrate plant, $200,000,000. Investigations have been started to ascertain where the nitrate plants are to be located. The plan contemplated when this provision was accepted by congress was to place the plants at convenient sections of the country where they would supply the needs of agriculture with fertilizer, easily dis tributed, and also be ready for uuse in time of wor in the manufacture of munitions. One of the plants will be in the south. New government activities will be looked upon in the future among the notable achievements of the finest session of the sixty-fourth congress. For these a total of $73,719,700 is appropriated, to be used as follows: To encourage, develop and create a naval auxiliary and naval reserve and a merchant marine, $50,100,000; federal aid in the construction of good roads, $6,000,000; establishment of federal farm loan banks, $6,200, 000; federal employes' compensation commission, $550,000; tariff commis sion. $300,000; construction of rail roads in Alaska to develop its coal fields, $8,247,620; expenses of collecting the income tax, $1,828,000; federal trade commission, $444,080; eight hour day commission, $50,000. Included in the legislation of the session just closed are the following items : Reorganization of" the army. Vast increases In the navy and for tifications. A government controlled merchant marine. Exclusion of products of child la bor from interstate commerce. A system of rural credits, assuring the farmer of his ability to borrow money upon his asset at 6 per cent. Adequate compensation for work men injured in government employ ment A fuller measure of independence for the Philippines. An eight-hour day on the railroads. Eighty-five million dollars for good roads. Established official grain standards applicable to grain shipped in inter state or foreign commerce. A uniform system of bills of lading. Amended the federal reserve act to make it more generally applicable. A tariff commission. Levies upon dyestuffs. Retaliation for unfair trade meth ods by foreign countries. Government armor plate plant. Increased interest-bearing accounts in postal savings banks from $500 to $1,000. Created a sub-committee of the commerce committees to investigate railway problems. Some important measures failed to pass. They will be disposed of at the next session. Among them are the following: Conservation bills, including those relating to oil lands, water power, and coal lands. Women suffrage. Prohibition in the District of Co lumbia . Nationwide prohibition. SUMMARY WORK TEUTONIC ALLIES TAKE FORTRESS BULGARIAN AND GERMAN FORCES CAPTURE OLD FORTRESS 8IL ISTRAI ON DANUBE. RUSSIANS SUFFER BIG LOSS Rumanians Advance Against Aus trians Russians Fail in Attmpt to Break Through Austrian Lines Southeast of Lemburg. London. Continuing their advance in Western Dobrudja, the German and Bulgarian forces have captured the old Bulgarian fortress of Silistrai, which lies on the Eastern bank of the Dan ube about 25 miles east of Bucharest, the capital of Rumania and about an equal distance south of Constanza Bucharest railway line. The capture of the fortress is announced by the Berlin war office which asserts that the Rumanians and Russians fighting in Dobrudja apparently have suffered very considerable losses during the last few days. In the Banat, North of Orsova, however, the Rumanians advanced against the Austrians compelled the Austrian right wing after it had push ed them back two and a half miles, to withdraw to its former position under a strong counter-attack. Attempts by the Rumanians to advance against heights West of Csik Szereda were re pulsed. In Southern Bukowina near the junction of the Hungarian and Ru manian borders the Germans are in contact with the Rumanians. Attempts by the Russians to break through the Austrian lines Southeast of Lemberg, near Halicza, failed ac cording to Vienna with heavy losses. The Vienna statement mentions the gallantry of the Turkish forces fight ing with the Austrians in this region. GEN. BLISS TO ASSIST BORDER COMMISSION Secretary Baker Grants Request to Permit Army Officers to Explain Military Conditions. Washington Secretary Baker grant ed the request of the American-Mexican comission to have Maj. Gen. Task cr H. Bliss, assistant chief of staff, go to New London, Conn., to give the commissioners information that he has gathered first-hand concerning the military situation along the Interna tional border. The general Is regarded as one of the army's most competent authorities on Mexican questions. As assistant chief of staff he has more to do with the administration of military opera tions along the border than any other officer except Major General Funston and recently he completed a personal inspection of all the border patrol mi litia camp. Pressure from political and business quarters is being brought to bear upon Secretary Baker and administration officials generally to withdraw Na tional Guard organizations from the border. Members of Congress, busi ness houses and friends and relatives of. guardsmen have deluged the de partment the last few days with re- A quests for the release of the militia. GERMAN CASUALTIES THUS FAR 3,375,000 London. German casualties in the war during the month of August ac cording to a compilation here from the German casualty lists, totaled 240.900. This brings the German total since the beginning of the war, as compiled from the same sources to 3.375.000. These figures include all the German nationalities, but do not include the naal and colonial casualties. The detailed figures for the month of August follows: Killed, 42,100; prisoners, 1.800; missing, 42,900; wounded, 153,500; to tal 240,900. Detailed figures for the period of the war to the end of August, 1916: Killed 832.000; prisoners, 165,000; missing. 234,000; wounded, 2,144,000. Total 3,375,000. BRITISH TROOPS ENGAGED IN HEAVIEST OF FIGHTING London. British troops have been engaged in the heaviest kind of fight ing along 3 1-2 mile front on the Somme. extending from High wood to Leiize wood and have captured Ginchy, which lies almost directly north of Combles. and all the ground between Ginchy and Leuze wood. On a front of more than a quarter mile the Brit ish gained 300 yards east of High wood and northeast of Pqzieres captured 600 yards of German trenches. FARMERS ARE URGED TO HOLD THEIR COTTON Ft. Worth, Texas. Henry N. Pope, head of the Association of Farmers Union presidents, issued a statement nrgine aH farmers to hold their cotton for twenty cents, declaring that this price would be reached before the pres ent crop is picked, if a general holding plan is put in practice by Southern farmers. President Pope flatly denied recent press reports stating that the association fixed 12 cents per pound as the minimum price of cotton. CONGRESSMEN ALL HASTEN FOR HOME ANXIOUS FOR REST OR PART IN THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN WORK. PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT Gives Notice Remainder of Railroad Program Will Be Pressed Next Ses sion. Three Other Important Meas ures Go Over. Washington. Adjournment of Con gress was quickly followed by a gen eral exodus of members hastening homeward for rest or the national political campaign. While the closing saw the adminis tration legislative program mainly completed some things wait to be continued at the winter session notably the remainder of the president's pro gram of railroad legislation which was partially enacted to prevent the threat ened strike. In a formal statement President Wilson speaking of the work of Congress, gave notice that the re mainder of the railroad program would be pressed at the new session. The president's statement was as follows : "A very remarkable session of Con gress has just closed, full, as all re cent sessions of the Congress have been of helpful and humane legislation which constitutes contributions of cap ital importance to the defense, the eco nomic progress and the wholesome life of the country. "It is to be regretted that the ses sion could not have continued long enough to complete the program re cently projected with regard to the ac oommodcution of labor disputes be tween the railways and the employes, but it was not feasible in the circum stances to continue the session any longer and therefore only the most im mediately pressing parts of the pro gram could be completed. "The rest, it is agreed, has merely been postponed until it can be more maturely deliberated and perfected. I have every reason to believe that it is the purpose of the leaders of the two houses immediately upon the re assembling of Congress to undertake this additional legislation. It is evi dent that the country 3hould be re lieved of the anxiety which must have been created by recent events with re gard to the future accommodation of such disputes." The immigration bill, the corrupt practices bill and the bill to permit combinations of American exporters to meet foreign competition abroad went over. The closing hours of Congress were remarkably quiet. Only the presence of the president in his room, near the Senate chamber, served to attract in terest to what oth jrwise would have been an urjeventful ending of an event ful Congrss. RUSSO-RUMANIAN FORCES IN GREAT BATTLE WITH FOE Latest Country to Enter European War Scene of Chief Co-iflict Now Raging. London. Rumania , which entered the European war lass than two weeks ago, now 2s the scene of a great bat It3e between Russo-Riumanian- forces and armies of the ( entral Powers. The soutren part of Dobrudja or eastern Rumania, has become a fighting ground a.nd the opposing -rmies are engaged from the Black Sea to the Danube along a front of about 70 miles. Bulgarian and Turkish troops ar riving along the Bl ick Sea coast have occupied Baltjik and two other sea ports, Sofia reports, and the fortress of Dobritch or Bazardjik, 50 miles southeast of Bucharest, has been taken by a combined Bi Igar-German force. The Rumanians continue their of fensive in eastern Transylvania and also have occupied the important town of Orsova on the Danube, above the Iron Gate. Advancing from Csik Szereda in Thansylvania north of Kronstadt, the Rumanians are driv ing westward and Vienna admits the withdrawal of Austrian forces before attacks against He: gitta. BAKERS WOULD QUIT MAK NG 5-CENT LOAF Chicago. Recommendations to all bakers of the United States that the 5-cent loaf of brea' be abandoned and the 10-cent loaf standardized, were made after considerable discussion at the closing session of the executive committee of the National Association of Master Bakers. They urged that the recommendations be put into effect im mediately. Economic waste incident to the manufacture of the 5-cent loaf was emphasized as i reason. MINORITY LEADER MANN PAYS TRIBUTE TO KITCHIN Washington, With the close of the first session of the Sixty-fourth Con gress Representative KItchin round ed out his first experience as floor lead er. He was complimented by Minori ty Leader Mann in a speech. "It was natural," said Mr. Mann, "to see the Majority Leader develop and grow in his position." Mr. Kitchin immediate ly after adjournmwn" stepped across the aisle and grasped he hand of Mr. Mann. 1 CONGRESS ENDS 9 MONTHS SESSON EMERGENCY REVENUE BILL CONFERENCE AGREEMENT IS APPROVED. OWEN BILL IS SET ASIDE Purchase of Danish West Indies For $2,000,000 Was Ratified by Senate Both Houses Hold Protracted Night Session. Washington Congress adjourned Friday morning at 10 o'clock. After nine months devoted to legislation both houses held protrated sessions Thursday night to wind up their of fairs by approving the conference agreement on the emergency revenue bill to raise approximately $200,000, 000, desired by the Administration to meet the extraordinary appropria tions for national defense and the Mexican emergency. The last apropriation measure, the general deficiency bill, was adopted by both houses while waiting for the conference report on the revenue bill, and the senate ratified the Danish treaty to provide for purchase of the Danish West Indies for $25,000,000. The Owen corrupt practices bill to limit campaign expenditures and the immigration bill which President Wil sin had announced he would veto if passed, were put aside and will bbe taken up and pressed to a vote early in the December session. The revenue bill as it went to Pres ident Wilson for approval contained drastic provisions empowering the President to retaliate against foreign interference with American com merce, creates a non-partisan tariff commission, increases the duties on dyestuffs to encourage their manu facture in the United States, provides means to prevent dumping of cheap foreign-made goods into American markets after the war and provides for income, inheritance, munitions, corporation stock, liquor and miscel laneous Internal revenue taxes. GOMPERS AND BURLE80N ATTACKED BY SHERMAN. Senator In Bitter Partisan Speech Wages Political War on Labor Chief and Postmaster General. Washington. Senator Sherman re newed his attack on President Sam uel Gompers of the American Feder ation of Labor, during debate on the Owen Corrupt practice bill im the senate, declaring the labor leader and Postmaster General Burleson were the two most prominent figures on the Democratic side of the Presiden tial campaign. Mr. Gompers, he said, was to deliver the 2,000,000 labor votes to the Democrats while Mr. Burleson used the postmasters of the country "to fry fat" for it. Senator Sherman quoted from a Texas newspaper of 1909 to show that Mr. Burleson then was part owner of a ranch where hundreds of convict laborers were employed. In 1911, he said, the foreman of the ranch was tried for causing the death of a negro convict who had been whipped, but was acquitted and in 1913 was appointed postmaster at Longview, Texas. "If," continued Senator Sherman, "there is any tainted money in this country as Mr. Bryan has hinted, It certainly is to be found in the posses sion of the Postmaster General of the present Administration." AUSTRIANS, MENACED BY RUMANIANS, WITHDRAW. Vienna, via London. Austrian troops have withdrawn before threat ening Rumanian envelopment to the heights west of Olah Toplitza, south of Dorna Watra and 20 miles west of the Rumanian border, says the offi cial statement issued at the Austrc Hungarian headquarters. On the Russian front the Austrian troops be tween the Zlota Llpa and the Dnister River also have been withdrawn. HENRY FORD SUES PAPER FOR $1,000,000 DAMAGES. Chicago. Suit for $1,000,000 was filed by Henry Ford, the Detroit man ufacturer, against The Chicago Trib une in United States District Court here. Mr. Ford asks for personal damages as compensation for an edi torial in The Tribune, which, it is charged, called Ford an "anarchist." The bill charges that The Tribune "sought to bring the plaintiff into public hatred, contempt, ridicule and financial injury," by the editorial. FARMER8 WIN FIGHT ON SECRET FERTILIZER TRADE. Washington. "Independent" firms in the fertilizer industry, actually op erated by larger concerns, or the so called "fertilizer trust," will hereafter be fully identified with the parent in terests, according to a report made public by the Federal Trade Commis sion, which has been investigating the fertilizer situation. The report says the companies concerned have agreed to show their various rela tionships on the- containers. GUILFORD COUNTY GOOD ROADS DAY EXERCISES AT GREENSBORO AND HIGH POINT ATTENDED BY OVER 20,000. DR. D. W. DANIEL SPEAKER Long Auto Parade Opened Program. High Point Man Gets $50 Prize For Decorated Car. High Point. Dr. D. W. Daniel was the principal speaker at the celebra tion of the Guilford County Good Roads Day. High Point carried out her part of the celebration magnifi cently under the direction of Chief Marshal J. W. Harris. About 200 automobiles assembled in front of the graded school, many of them hand somely decorated. When everything was in readiness the chief marshal In Greensboro was 'phoned and the automobiles from the two cities start ed for the meeting point at Cobb's Lodge, seven miles from Greensboro, both contingents arrived about the same time. Then the grand parade was form ed, composed of several hundred au tomobiles. They drove to the fair grounds four miles away, where they passed around the track before the judges. Over 20,000 were present. S. C. Clark, of High Point, won first prize of $60,00, and J. W. Harris, of High Point, fourth prize. -There were several thousand people from High Point in attendance and the day was pronounced a great success. The attendance from the rural districts was very large, showing the great in-, terest among all classes of citizens in building permanent roads. The address of Dr. Daniels of Clemson College, S. C, was pro nounced a gem. The parade started in Greensboro at 10 o'clock, went over the city and then to High Point; and, returning, the automobilists stopped at the fair grounds where the principal exer cises of the day were held. At Cobb's farm the automobiles were lined up two abreast, one High Point car and one Greansboro car, and the Journey continued to the Fair Grounds. It wa sa great day for Guilford county people, and fully 20,000 were estimated to have attended. The first prize of $50 went to S. C. Clark, of Hibh Point, for the best decorated car. Jr. O. U. A. M. Elects Officers. Goldsboro. Asheville was selected as the next meeting place by the State Council Junior Order in ses sion in this city, followed by the nomination of officers, which result ed in a lively debate concerning some of the officers, but the convention re mained in perfect harmony. After debating for a short time the following officers were elected: State councillor, C. F. Alexander, Charlotte; secretary, Sam F. Vane, Winston Salem; treasurer, George V. Fulp, Kernersville; Rev. J. A. Koons, Rock well, chaplain. National representatives, W. E. Yopp, Wilmington; C. B. Sands, Reidsville; J. W. Sechrest, High Point; D. W. Cobbs, GoMsboro; W. A. Cooper, Raleigh; L. T. Hartsell, Concord. All of the above officers were unan imously elected. Pasquotank County Progressing. Elizabeth City. Pasquotank county can now proudly boast of her rank among the progressive counties of the state in farm life activities. At the monthly meeting of the coun ty commissioners the appropriation for a full time home demonstrator and can ning club agent was made. Pasquotank county now boasts with pride of a full time home demonstra tor, a full time farm demonstrator. Corn Club boys, Pig Club boys, Can ning Club girls, and is looking toward the organization of Poultry Clubs this fall and the eventful establishment of a Farm Life School. Wheat and Rye for Catawba. Hickory. There wil be more wheat And rye sown in Catawba this fall, ac cording to seed dealers and farmers, than ever before, partly on account of the great loss occasioned to corn lands by the July flood. Especially will the number of acres devoted to rye be increased, farmers hoping to obtain good pasturage far ito the winter. The hay crop, according to John W. Rob inson, president of the big creamery, was never better, and many acres of peas have been mown. Mt. Gllead Has New Schoolhouse. Mount Gilead. Many of our eitis ens were made glad as they assem bled in the auditorium of the new school building at the opening of the school term when they realized fully that their dreams of long years had materialized and that they were the owners of a magnificent $25,000 school building. As the superintendent with his assistants, pupils, patrons, citizens and visitois filled the audi torium to almost overflowing, a beau tiful and delightful dedicatory ser mon was heard gjj- - . a s a aM
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