ttmA
THE CHATHAM RECORD
H. A. London
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Terms of Subscription
$1.50 PER YEAR
Strictly in Advance
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This ami Other Nation
fir Seven Days Are
Given,
THE NEWS FTHE SOUTH
What It Taking Plaea in the South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraph.
Washington
The department of justice and the
department of labor are watching the
migration of negroes from Southern
labor centers to Northern centers. The
department of justice has in view the
reported political activity of certain
people, and the department of labor
in preventing their federal employ
ment service from being used to fur
their migration schemes.
At the end of the flrst4wo years'
operation of the Panama canal a finan
cial survey shows that tolls amounted
to $7,411,682, which showing is very
gratifying to the administration.
A dispatch from Santo Domingo,
Haiti, says that in an engagement be
tween American troops and rebel
forces, (Jen. Ramon Batista was killed.
Several Americans also are reported
killed, including two officers, and one
American officer was wounded. The
names of the American officers killed
are given as Capt. William Low and
Atwood. Lieutenant Morrison was
wounded.
Anent the trouble in Haiti, it is
stated that the revolt occurred in
the Dominican army several weeks
ago, but that American marines and
bluejackets soon had control of the
situation.
An important contribution to the
discussions on peace was made by
Viscount Grey, when the English for
eign secretary, after making it plain
in a London speech that the allies
were not prepared at this time to dis
cuss peace terms, said he welcomed
any efforts by neutral countries for a
combination to prevent future wars.
The diplomatic representative of the
United States, together with represen
tatives from all the allied countries,
was present
A dispatch from Denmark says that
the burgomaster of Eckenforde,
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, publish
ed an urgent order against the peel
ing of potatoes, violation of which
order will incur a penalty of three
months' imprisonment.
European War
A Berlin dispatch announces that
at least two or three topedo boat de
stroyers or torpedo boats were sunk
or damaged by a German torpedo boat
squadron in the English channel, be
tween Folkestone and Boulogne, Octo
ber 27.
A London dispatch says that ten
German torpedo boat destroyers at
tempted failed. Two of the German
channel transport service, but the at
tempted failed. Two of the eGrman
destroyers were sunk and the others
were driven off.
A new war credit bill for 12,000,000,
000 marks was submitted to the Ger
man reichstag by Count von Roedern,
secretary of the imperial treasury, who
also reviewed the successes of the
German war finances and compared
them with the practices followed by
the countries opposed to Germany.
From three points the Teutonic al
lies are working with feverish haste
in an attempt to encompass Roumania
from the northeastern and eastern
borders of Transylvania and through
Dobrudja.
In the Dobrudja and east Transylva
nia front the Germans have made fur
ther inroads into King Ferdinand's ter
ritory. On the northeast Transylvania front
In engagements with the Russians, the
Teutons have been driven from the
heights south of Dorna Watra.
David-Lloyd Georgia, British war
secretary, says the allies are working
in concert and doing everything pos
sibe to help Roumania.
The French announce the capture
of more than forty-five hundred Ger
man prisoners around Verdun.
The Russo-Roumanian line now runs
along the heights north of Constanza
and Medjidie, according to an an
nouncement from Petrograd, the en
tente forces having fallen back upon
these ridges "after evacuating the
towns.
In a powerful series of attacks on
the Verdun front the French have cap
tured the village and fort of Douau
mont, advanced beyond Thiaumont
work and farm and occupied also the
Haudromont quarries, to the north of
vrerdun. The prisoners captured num
ber thirty-iive hundred.
Norwegian newspapers unanimously
support the government in its embar
go on submarines of belligerent coun
tries. Rachova, on the river a very short
distance below Tchernavoda, and Med
jidie, on the railway btween Tcher
navoda and Constanza, have fallen
into the hands of the Teutonic allies,
it Is admitted by the French war de
partment. More than sixty-seven hun
dred prisoners were taken by the Ger
mans. Captain Tudor of the British steam
ship Hochelaga, which arrived in Bos
ton from Louisburg, says that before
he left Nova Scotia persistent rumors
were current that the German U-boat
53 had been sunk off Sydney by the
Canadian patrol boat Stanley.
VOL. xxxix.
In the region of Verdun, where the
French made their spectacular drive
over a wide front north and northeast
of Verdun, they are holding the ground
despite the vicious counter attacks
delivered, particularly in the regions
of Haudromont and Douaumont and
east of the Fumin wood and north of
Chenois.
French officials announce an Im
portant military move in the Balkans,
where Italian cavalry from southern
Albania has formed a junction with
cavalry and artillery from the entente
front in Macedonia.
Mexican News
General Carranza has thrown his
hat into the presidential ring in Met
ico, and says that if he is elected he
will not only obey the law himself,
but will enforce the laws.
It la announced in Mexico City that
Generals Gonzales and Obregon have
taken an oath of allegiance to General
Carranza.
Twety men, principally warehouse
men, have bee i executed In Mexico
City during the past week for alleged
participating in robbing the freight
consignments through fraudulent bills
of ladisrg.
Conditions in northern Mexico, re
volving on the new ascendancy of
Villa, are commanding more attention
than at any time since the border
raids, which resulted in the dispatch
of the American punitive expedition.
Washington officials make no effort
to disguise their opinion that the Mexican-American
commission sitting at
Atlantic City cannot be expected to ar
rive at a satisfactory solution of the
border problems until the situation in
Chihuahua has been clarified.
In official Washington, it is the
concensus of opinion that there is lit
tle likelihood of a reduction of the
force guarding the international boun
dary between Mexico and the United
States.
The military movements of Fran
cisco Villa are taken in some quar
ters as the shadow of the downfall of
the de facto government.
Withdrawal of General Pershing's
expedition is now considered entirely
out of the question.
Mrs. Jacinto Trevino, wife of Gen
eral Trevino, commanding the Car
ranza forces in the northeast, has ar
rived in Juarea, just across the river
from El Paso. She was accompanied
by her children and a number of oth
er women and children from Chihua
hua City, including the wives of sev
eral civil and military officers.
The arrival of two thousand rein
forecements in Chihuahua City is re
ported. Fifty persons were killed and a
great number injured in a rear-on
collision of a freight and passenger
train at Ramos Arispe, Mexico.
Carranza officials at El Paso, Tex.,
admit there has been heavy fighting
between Santa Ysabel and Chihuahua
City, but General Gonzales, in Jua
res, insists that he has received no
details of an ambush by Villa.
Domestic
Cleveland H. Dodge, who was grad
uated from Princeton with President
Wilson in '79, heads the list of con
tributors to the Democratic campaign
fund with a total of $79,000.
The number of contributors to the
Democratic campaign fund is given out
as 41,882.
Over a million dollars has been sub
scribed to the Democratic campaign
fund, of which $261,846 was sent In
in dollar amounts.
Gold amounting to fifteen million
dollars was deposited at the New York
assay office by the fiscal agents of
the British government. This makes
a total of $460,000,000 thus far this
years from the British and allied In
terests. Chicago faces a famine in common
labor. This is one of the greatest
markets for common labor in the coun
try, and is slowly being deserted by
labor agents.
Announcement is made In New York
that American bankers have floated
a new loan of $300,000,000 for the Brit
ish Empire. It will bear interest at
the rate of five and a half per cent,
and is payable in two installments.
At San Antonio, Texas, Miss Angela,
Madero, sister of former President
Madero of Mexico, noted In history
for having defied and denounced Vic
toriano Huerta after the death of her
brother, was married to Jose Trevino
Garcia of Monterey.
Captain Bowen, a Mississippi river
steamboat pilot for 33 years, and who
took the battleship Maine from New
Orleans on her last fateful voyage to
Havana in 1898, died at his home in
New Orleans, October 24.
Migration of Southern negroes to
Northern labor centers has been
brought to the attention of the Unit
ed States department of labor and
commerce. It is stated that 300 ne
groes left Florida for Eastern labor
centers on October 22.
The stork visited Kirkwood, a sub
urb of Atlanta, Ga., and left Mr. and
Mrs. Tillou von Nune triplets two
boys and one girl. The mother and
children are progressing finely. The
children will be named Julius Caesar,
Napoleon and Queen Elizabeth.
The national team match, the great
shooting match of the nation, was
won at Jacksonville, Fla., by the ma
rine corps team, which scored 3,047
out of a possible 3,600- points.-
With the election less than two
weeks away, President Wilson left
Martinsburg, W. Va:, for Ohio on his
third and final middle, western trip of
the campaign.
Nineteen dead is the result of the
explosion of the Marvel, Alabama,
mine, Sunday afternoon, October 22.
Eighteen were direct victims of the
explosion and one was killed while
engaged in rescue work.
PITTSBORO,
RUMANIANS FALL
BACK FROM DANUBE
TEUTONIC
DANUBE
ALLIES CROSSING
ON MANY PONTOON
BRIDGES.
FRENCH GAINING IN S0MME
On the Transylvania Front the Rus
sians and Rumanians Are Apparent
ly Operating Successfully Against
the Teutonic Allies.
London. Aside from the continued
progress of the Teutonic Allies in the
Dobrudja region of Rumania and fresh
gains by the French and British in
the Somme region of France, there is
little if any change in the situation In
any of the various theaters of the war.
The Rumanians and Russians in
Debrudja are still in retreat before
the German, Bulgarian and Turkish
troops who are now endeavoring to
make their way across the Danube at
various points on pontoon bridges, ac
cording to the Sofia War Oiffce.
On the Transylvania front the Rus
sians and Rumanians apparently are
operating successfully against the
Teoutonic Allies near the junction of
Bukowina, Transylvania and Ruman
ia, and to the south near Campulung
and in the Jiup Valley have gained
successes over them. In the fighting
in the Jiul Valley the Rumanians are
declared by Bucharest to have cap
tured two Howitzer batteries which
latter were turned aganist the Aus-tro-Germans.
According to Berlin
the Teutons have made additional
gains south of Kronstadt and in the
direction of Campulung.
Following up their advantage of
Saturday the British captured anoth
er German trench Sunday northeast
of Les Boeufs in the Somme region.
BORDER CONTROL CHARGES
DENIED; INCIDENT CLOSED.
Administration Officials Relieved to
Receive News; Alleged Author of
Criticism Says He Did Not Author
ize Statement.
Washington. What promised to be
a new source of serious friction be
tween the United States and the de
facte government of Mexico apparent
ly was cleared away through formal
repudiation by Eliseo Arredondo, Mex
ican Ambassador designate, of a state
ment issued here under the name of
Luis Cabrera, assailing the American
' government for permitting aid tio
reach Villa and other bandits from
its side of the border.
Mr. Arredondo went to the state
department with the explanation that
the statement was put out by an em
ploye of the Mexican news bureau,
the de facto government's semi-official
publicity agency, without the
knowledge of consent of either the
Embassy or Mr. Cabrera. This was
accepted by the department and the
incident was closed.
INVASION OF BRITISH
ISLES IS POSSIBLE.
London. Field Marshal Viscount
French, commander-in-chief of the
armies in the United Kingdom, ad
dressing the volunteers at Derby, said
that an invasion of the British isles
was not a mere supposition, but a pos
sibility. This they must be perpared
to meet.
PROMINENT RAILROAD
FINANCIER DEAD.
Chicago. Charles Wilcox Hotchkiss
well known in financial and railroad
Circles is dead at Battle Creek, Mich.,
of organic heart disease. He was 63
years old. He was chairman of the
board of directors of the Virginian
Railroad.
NORTH CAROLINA
CAVALRYMAN KILLED.
El Paso, Texas. Private Lee Furtic
of Troop A North Carolina Cavalry,
was killed in his tent while writing a
letter, by the accidental discharge of
his pictol. He enlisted at Mount
Island, N. C.
M. E. CHURCH SOUTH NOT TO
BARGAIN AWAY INHERITANCES.
Atlanta. The Bishops of Southern
Methodist Episcopal church, in "view
of some things that have been said and
repeated on public platforms and
public prints," issued statement set
ting forth position of the church on
question of uniting with two other
Methodist bodies, in which it declar
ed that "we are not ready to bargain
away any of the great inheritances
and glorious memories of other years
for any consideration."
KOERBER TO SUCCEED
AS AUSTRIAN PREMIER.
Vienna, via London. It may be ac
cepted as certain that Dr. von Koer
ber, now Austrian Hungarian minister
of finance, will succeed the late Count
Karl Stuergkh as premier. Dr. von
Koerber was received by the emperor
and went to Budapest to confer with
Count Tisza. Should Dr. von Koerber
accept, his successor in the financial
ministry probably will be Dr. von
Spitzmueller, now minister of commerce.
CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, NOVEMBER 1, 1916.
SFNK 11 STEAMERS IN
ENGLISH CHANNEL
GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT SQUAD
RON STAGE RAID. DO MUCH
DAMAGE.
RETURN SAFELY TO BASE
Flotilla Reaches German Waters
After a Raid Through the Straits of
Dover in the Line Folkestone, Bou
logne In English Channel.
Berlin, via London. At least 11 out
post steamers and two or three tor
pedo boat destroyers or torpedo-boats
were sunk or damaged by a German
torpedo-boat squadron In the English
Channel between Folkestone and Bou
longne, according to an official com
munication issued here.
The communication says:
"Parts of our torpedo forces moved
from a German bay Thursday night,
through the straits of Dover and Cal
ais to the line of Folkestone-Boulogne,
in the English Channel.
"According to the report of Com
mander Michaelsen at least 11 out
post steamers and two or three de
stroyers or torpedo-boats were sunk,
patrially or totally, near hostile ports.
Some members of the crews who
were saved were captured.
"Several other guarding vessels and
at least two destroyers were heavily
damaged by torpedoes and artillery
fire. Also the English post steamer
Queen was sunk south of Folkestone,
the crew having time to leave the
ship.
"In the channel near the Farnel
Lightship there was a striking ac
tive traffic by hospital ships.
"Our torpedo-boats safely returned
to German waters without any loss."
FORCE OF 11,000 TROOPS NOW
GARRISON CHIHUAHUA CITY.
Five Aeroplanes and Two Aviators
Ready For Use Against Villa. Rail
road Bridges and Tracks Torn Up
By Bandits.
El Paso, Texas. Chihuahua City is
now garrisoned by a force of 11,000
men, according to a Carranza official
who arrived here from that city. He
said General Maycotte recently arriv
ed at Chihuahua City from Torreon
bringing five aeroplanes, two English
aviators and a force of Carranza
troops for use against Villa.
An ore train was burned, railroad
bridges were destroyed and the track
of the Mexican Central Railroad cut
by bandits near Artia.
The American also brought ar re
port that Villa's troops were planning
to attack Parral, Jiminez, Santa Rosa
lia and Torreon soon.
Bandits under the command of
Villa are operating trains on the
western division of the Mexico North
western Railroad, between Santa Ysa
bel and San Antonio, a report received
by government agents here stated.
Villa, according to the same source,
now has approximately 4,000 men,
some of whom are not armed.
LETTER8 MAY GO BY AIR,
NEW YORK TO CHICAGO.
Buffalo, N. Y. The United States
Army, Navy and Postoffice Depart
ments are vitally mterested In a pro
posed non-stop mail-carrying flight
between Chicago and New York to be
attempted by Victor Carlstorm, Amer
ican aerial pathfinder.
The Army and Navy Departments
will take official cognizance of the
flight because Carlstrom will use a
Curtis s biplane like thoss being tried
out by the Army aerial carps.
LIQUOR AD8 IN PAPERS
SOLD AGENTS FINED,
Jackson, Miss. Two local news
agents, charged with selling copies of
a Chicago newspaper containing a
liquor advertisement were fined $50
each by the police judge here, but the
fines were remitted on the promise of
,the agent that In the future they
would delete such advertisements be
fore offering the papers for sale.
VILLA GETTING ARMS
FROM U. S. IS CLAIM.
Atlantic City, N. J. Reports that
arms and ammunition had been smug
gled into Mexico from the United
States and ini stance of the Mexican
representatives that the United
States Government take steps to
check the assistance they declare
Villa and other bandits are reveiving
from persons on this side of the bor
der featured the discussions of the
Mexican-American Join Commission
at the close of the nonth's conference.
$1,000,000 TO PREPARE
TROOPS CAMPS IN WINTER.
San Antonio, Texas. More than a
million dollars has been made avail
able by the "War Department for pro
viding winter quarters for troops on
the border. Southern department
headquarters was advised to this ef
fect and ordered to proceed with work
at once. Cantonments are to' be
erected for troops of the regular army
engaged in border duty and provision
has been made for framing and floor
ing the tents of national guard troops.
COTTON EO
TO OCTOBER 18TH
GOVERNMENT REPORT PLACES
THE AMOUNT AT 7,291,733
BALES.
FIGURES GIVEN BY STATES
Census Bureau's Cotton Statistics
Show More Than 1915 But Less
Than 1914. Texas Shows Increase.
Report of 1915 and 1919.
Washington. Cotton ginned prior
to October 18 was 7,291,733 bales,
compared with 5,708,730 for 1915 and
7,619,747, the Census Bureau announc
ed. Round bales included were 133,
659 and Sea Island 64,931.
The number of bales ginned, by
States, and last year's ginning to the
same date, follow:
State. 1916 1915
Alabama 292,815 556,086
Arkansas 669,827 283,423
California ... 6,852 4,272
Florida 32,845 32,165
Georgia 1,216,762 1,178,045
Louisiana 320,082 223,063
Mississippi 446,171 421,663
North Carolina .. 253,523 264,935
Oklahoma 489,782 66,255
South Carolina... 508,589 581,667
Tennessee 176,216 79,353
Texas 2,845,440 2,001,416
All other states.. 36,829 16,387
Distribution of Sea Island by states
is Florida 21,009; Georgia 43,565 and
South Carolina 357.
RUMANIANS BLOW UP BIG
BRIDGE OVER DANUBE RIVER.
Strong Effort to Check Advancing
Teutonic Allies From Dobrudja.
London. Except for the announce
ment that the Rumanians before their
retreat from Tchernavoda blew up
the big bridge spanning the Danube
River, thereby placing an obstacle in
the way of the advance of the Teu
tonic Allies from Dobrudja into old
Rumania, little fresh knowledge of the
real situation in that sector of the
war has been vouchsafed by any of
the war chancellories.
Petrograd asserts the force of the
violent blows which Field Marshal
von Mackensen had been delivered in
his rapid drive northward in Dobrud
ja has slackened somewhat although
Berlin says the Teutonic Allies still
are making progress against the Ru
manians and Russians.
Along the Transylvania front the
Rumanians and Austro-Germans are
still engaged In hard fighting. Ber
lin reports that in the Trotus Valley,
south of Paroituz and on the roads to
Sinaya and Campulung, the Central
Powers have met with further suc
cesses. On the other hand, Buch
arest asserts that the Austro-Germans
hahve been driven from the entire
western front of Moldavia, northern
Rumania, suffering heavy casualties
and that in the Uzul and Oituz Val
leys the Rumanians arms also have
been successful.
NEUTRALITY BREACH BY U. S.
WARSHIP3 HINTED BY BRITISH.
London. Some utterances of the
feeling that the activity of American
arships in rescuing passengers from
the vessels sunk by the German sub
marine U-53 off the American coast
amounted to a breach of neutrality
were made in the House of Lords by
Baron Beresford and Baron Syden
ham. Lord Beresford Is recognized as the
spokesman for the Navy in the House
of Lords and Lord Sydenham's varied
activities has included the authorship
of books on naval affairs. Similar
opinions, have been expressed by
some of the newspapers and public
men as well as by naval officers and
the matter was brought up for dis
cussion by requests for information
from Foreign Secretary Grey, regard
ing the American policy and possible
action by the British Government.
NO PAPER SHORTAGE REPORTED
IN GERMANY AT PRESENT.
Berlin. The threatened paper fam
ine which months ago caused cries of
distress among the publishers, appears
now to be a thing of the past. Claim
ing a shortage of labor and high wages
the manufacturers have sharply ad
vanced prices since the outbreak of
the war and the pubiishers several
months ago reduced the number of
pages to save expenses. The govern
ment inaugurated a propaganda for
the economical use of paper.
TROOPS REMAIN LONG AS
VILLA HOW8 HIMSELF.
Washington. Villistas activity near
Chihuahua had the effect of convincing
officials here thai no thought should
be given soon to removal of guards
men from border patrol duty or with
drawal of General Pershing's column
from Mexico. Fear was felt that if
Villa should succeed in his apparent
movement to Chihuahua, he might
find it easy to get control later of
northern Mexico. The entire Mexican
'situation was regarded as serious
NO, 13.
VILLA AGAIN REAL
8KIRMI8HING BETWEEN BANDIT'S
ADVANCE TROOP8 AND GARRI
SON SOLDIER3.
CHIHUAHUA CITY IN UP-R0AR
Reported That Chihuahua City Has
Fallen. Carranza Consul Denies Re
port. 8,000 Men Are Sent to Rein
force the Garrison.
San Antonio, Texas. Persistent re
ports of the fall of Chihuahua City to
the Villa forces, which have been cur
rent here, have not been confirmed in
advices to Southern department head
quarters of the United States Army.
Major General Funston, questioned
regardin gthe reports, said that so
far as he knew they were not true.
Washington. Mexican Consul Gar
dia at El Paso, Texas, telegraphed the
Mexican Embassy here that he had
been advised by General Trevino of
the arrival at Chihuahua of troop
trains bringing about 8,000 men under
General Maycotte to reinforce the gar
rison. An earlier message from the Consul
said he had just received information
from General Trevino denying that he
intended to evacuate Chihuahua and
declaring he did not fea ran attack.
Chihuahua City, Mexico. Skirmish
ing between General Garlos Ozuna's
advanced forces and those of Francis
co Villa continued, although the -general
engagement Is being delayed by
General Trevino until all of his troops
have been placed In stategic positions
in Western Chihuahua.
The excitement caused by the ap
proach of the Villa forces has been
quieted and the concentration of 8,
000 troops here has restored the feel
ing of security among the inhabitants.
Two military trains carrying a part
of General Maycotte's command from
Torreon arrived here.
General Trevino authorized the As
sociated Press to make an official de
nial of the rumors that he was prepar
ing to evacuate the city. He character
ized these rumors as "malicious inven
tions." General Trevino stated that the sit
uation in the field and in Chihuahua
City was entirely satisfactory.
"Any fear that Chihuahua City will
be captured by bandits is simply ab
surd," he said.
TWO BATTLESHIPS EXPECTED
TO BE BUILT IN SOUTH'.
Navy Department Opens Bids For Con
structing Colorado, Maryland, Wash
ington and West Virginia.
Washington. Bids for the four new
battleships Colorado, Maryland, Wash
ington and West Virginia were opened
at the Navy Department and indica
tions were that the construction of two
would be awarded to the Newport
News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.,
and that the other two would be built
by the Fore Shipbuilding Company, of
Quincy, Mass.
While all of the tenders show the
heavy lncreasee in prices during the
abnormal conditions of the shipbuild
ing industry, they were within the De
partment's limit of cost, and It Is virt
ually certain that the Government it
self will not construct any of these
craft or of the 20 destroyers for which
offers also were received.
Prices for the battleships quoted
ranged from 110,060,000 to $11,476,
000 as against the Department's limit
for hull and machinery of $11,500,000.
WAR-TORN EUROPE HALT8
WILD RISE IN WHEAT PRICES.
Chicago. War-torn Europe succeed
ed at least temporarily In accomplish
ing what all the embargo agitation in
the United States had heretofore fail
ed to effect the stoppage of the wild
wheat price advance which has been
in progress vitually unchecked for
nearly four months. After the market
here made a fresh jump of 7 cents,
Europe not only stopped buying, but
turned aggressively to the selling side
and forced a setback that offset the
greater part of recent upturning prices.
ALLIES DOMINATE RAW
MATERIALS ESSENTIAL IN U. S.
Washington. Domination by the
Allied Nations of the world's raw ma
terials which are esential to American
manufactures has been proved con
clusively to officials here by the com
pletion of a comprehensive summary
of British trade policies as to imports
into this "country. As a result the
recent Paris Econc mic Conference of
the Entente Power i is regarded here
with far greater disquiet than before.
NO CHOICE BETWEEN
WILSON AND HUGHES.
Scranton, Pa. Ira Landrith, prohib
ition vice presidential aspirant, declar
ed that WilBon and Hughes were both
excellent gentlemen, "Both of these
candidates are excellent gentlemen,
and the country won't be in grave dan
ger withx either of them in the White
House,"Jie said at Wilkesbarre. "Both
are preachers' sor s, they act alike and
think alike, and so I know they are
all right. I don't care whether Wil
on or Hughes wins.
MENACING FACTOR
THE CHATHAM RECORD
Rates of Advertising
One Square, one insertion - . $L00
One Square, two insertions - $1.50
One Square, one month - - $2.50
Fox Larger Advertisements Liberal
Contracts will be made.
CARNEGIE MEDALS
GIVEN TAR REELS
THREE NORTH CAROLINAIAN8
ARE REWARDED FOR RESCU
ING OTHER8.
REWARD 52 HEROISM ACTS
Mrs. Flonnle Holllman, Marshvllle, 39;
Russel Norburn, Aoton, 18; Cor
navo Patton, Murphy, 57.
Pittsburg. The Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission rewarded 62 acts
of heroism by awarding six silver
medals and 46 bronze medals. Twelve
of the heroes lost their lives and the
dependents of six of these were
awarded pensions aggregating $3,120
a year, and the dependents of three
others were awarded a sum totaling
$2,000 to be applied to various pur
poses. Three of the heroes are from
Carolina.
Mrs. S. Flonnie Holllman of Marsh
vllle, N. C, 30 years, saved Thomas
J. Caudle, aged five from drowning at
Marshvllle, October 21, 1914, and was
awarded a bronze medal. The child
fell Into a well, in which there was
eight feet of water. Although she
could not swim she jumped In, raised
the child until he cought the planks
above and pulled himself out. He
then notified Mrs. Halllman's husband,
who rescued her.
A bronze medal was awarded Rus
sell L. Norburn of Action, North Caro
lina. Norburn, aged 18 years, at the
peril of his own life, saved Rupert J.
Crowell, aged 16, from an impending
fatal fall at Balsam, N. C, August 5,
1912.
Cornaro S. Patton, of Murphy, N.
C 57 years, a stationary fireman, at
tempted to save Jesse Palmer, from
suffocation July 24, 1914, and was
awarded a bronze medal. He descend
ed into a 50 foot well, three times
when other men refused, in an effort
to save Palmer. .
High Points In North Carolina.
Washington. A statement issued by
the Geological Survey reads:
"Nearly a thousand points in the
state of North Carolln have been
marked by metal tablets or Iron posts,
whose heights have been accurately
determined by government surveyors.
These points are described and their
altitudes or elevations given in a bul
letin just issued by the United States
Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior. These elevations should be
of considerable value to engineers and
others whose work requires carefully
determined heights.
"The bulletin also gives, in an ap
pendix, the approximate elevtlons of
more than 160 well-konwn mountain
summits. Among these parks is
Mount Mitchell, whose summit is 6,711
feete abve sea level. This is not only
the highest point in the state of
North Carolina but the highest point
east of the Black Hills in South Da
kota, or of the Rocky Mountains In
Colorado. The bulletin gives the
names, descriptions and . altitudes of
12 peaks in North Carolina that are
higher than the celebrated Mount
Washington in New Hampshire, whose
elevation Is 6,293 feet."
First Newspaper Institute.
Chapel Hill. The first Winter Stat
Institute in North Carolina will be held
at the University December 7, 8 and
9. The purpose of this institute is to
bring together the newspaper men of
the state for the study of newspaper
problems and for the working out of
plans looking to improvement in their
special field. Similar institutes have
bee nsuccessfully held In many of the
states and especially has much been
accomplished In these meetings in
Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Texas and other states
To Rebuild Bridges.
Hendersonville. The construction
of concrete bridges on the Horse
Shoe and Mills River roads, which
were washed away by the flood, will
begin at once, according to a state
ment made by Supervisor P. F. Pat
ton, who was here from Greenville.
These places have been spanned since
July with temporary structures
Police Signals For Greensboro.
Greensboro. As a result of an in
vestigation of the police signal sys
tem of Richmond, Va., by Mayor T.
J.' Murphy and Commissioner of Public
Safety R. M. Rees, Greensboro will
have a similar system installed. This
was the decision reached by the city
commissioners and formal announce
ment of it was made. It is stated that
the installation of this system will
double the efficiency of the Greens
boro police force and will enable one
officer to patrol a district twice the
size now allotted to each man.
Opinions of the Supreme Court.
Raleigh. The list follows: Wil
liams and Bowden vs. Cape Fear
Lumber Company of Duplin county,
new trial; Caveness vs. Raleigh, Char
lotte & Southern Railroad Co., Wake,
no error; Watters vs. Hedgepath,
New Hanover, affirmed; Quelch vs.
Futch, New Hanover, new trial; Ele
vator,; Company vs. Hotel Company,
New, Hanover, no error; Lumberton
vs. Lumber Company, Robeson, af
firmed; Walters vs. Walters, Robeson,
affirmed; Webb vs. Roaemond, Or
ange, no error.
Mmmm