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VOL. XXXIX.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, DECEMBER 13, 1916.
NO. 19.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Otair Natiaas
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS JF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In the South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
Domestic
At Thompson Falls, Mont., Miss
t,dith Colby, newspaper reporter, was
found guilty of murder in the second
degree for shooting and killing a poli
tician. She gets twelve years in the
entiary.
The Nebraska dry law is declared
to be a part of the constitution of
hat state, and will go into effect on
May 1, 1917.
A noted figure in the world's petro
leum industry was removed when John
Dcstin Archbold, capitalist, president
of the Standard Oil company and of
ficer and director in various other
enterprises, died at his home in Tar
ryton, N. Y.,
Ambassadaor Gerard on his return
ro his post at Berlin carries import
ant papers from President Wilson
bearing on the operation of subma
rines. Mike Inik, who, for several years,
has been trying to collect alleged
damages from the Standard Oil com
pany, entered the Lake circuit court
at Hamomnd, Ind., shot Judge C. E.
Greenwald, Bailiff Lew Debow and
George Robbins, a juror. The injuries,
however, are not regarded as serious.
Thomas Campbell (Rep.) was elect
ed governor of Arizona, according to
the official count, by a plurality of 32
votes, over Gov. George P. Hunt, the
Democratic nominee.
The law providing for total prohi
bition was adopted by a majority of
12,000 in Arizona.
Arizona has abolished capital pun
ishment. The high cost of living and what
steps the federal government can take
to control it has assumed proportions
as a national question, and at the
opening session overshadowed all oth
er :Lssues.
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor has
asked President Wilson to appoint a
special commission to investigate the
food question. The president does not
favor a commission, because there
is no law to compel witnesses to tes
tify, but assured Mr. Gomper that some
step would be taken to meet the un
desirable and uncalled for situation.
Mexican
The Carranza forces have regained
control of Chihuahua City, and the
wire service has been restored.
Juarez hears that the Mexican fed
eral lines have been entirely re-established
at Chihuahua City.
The latest reports from Mexican
sources are that many Villa followers
have been captured and killed.
Villa is reported to be in western
Chihuahua, and has in his possession
many trains of loot.
Villa is reported to have shown no
mercy to the Chinese in Chihuahua
City. As fast as one bobbed up, it
is reported, he was shot or immo
lated. It is the opinion in American army
circles that the object of Villa's raid
on Chihuahua City was to replenish
his waning stores and cement the ad
herence of his followers by "easy liv
ing." European War
A Halifax, N. S., dispatch sends out
the news that allied shipping has been
warned by the British naval authori
ties to be on the lookout for a strange
vessel believed to be a raider, which
was intercepted on December 2 off
the northwestern coast of Scotland.
British Foreign Secretary Grey has
sent out a statement on the Greek
situation in which he denies that the
presence of allied troops in Greece
is similar to the German invasion of
Belgium. France. Great Britain and
Russia guaranteed the Kingdom of
Greece, and it was their right and
duty to land troops to neutralize the
"unconstitutional action" of King Con-
stantine.
The capital of Roumania is in the
bands of the forces of the central
powers exactly one hundred days after
the declaration of war by Roumania.
With the fall of Bucharest, the cen
tral allies are now in possession of
four capitals of entente allied states,
others being Brussels, Belgrade
and Cettinje.
A Lloyds dispatch says that five of
the ccew.of the Japanese steamer Na
gata Maru, reported sunk, were killed
and five wounded by gunfire.
The Danish steamer Yrsa, of 441
tons gross, and the British schooners,
Grace and Seeker, both small vessels,
have been sunk.
With the capture of Tergovistea and
farther south the driving of th Rou
manians beyond the railroad junction
town of Titu, the forces of the central
powers now hold intact all the railway
lines running into Bucharest from the
west.
In the Carpathians south of Jablon
itza the Russians captured another
height.
Official announcements from Great
Britain state that with the appoint
ment of the new premier, Andrew Bo
nar Law, the coalition cabinet will be
continued, and the war management
win be speeded ud.
The total losses of the allies since i
the beginning of the war are estimat
ed to be not less than 15,100,000.
The Italian steamship alermo, with
25 Americans on board, has been tor
pedoed off the Spanish coast.
Dispatches emanating from London
say that the Norwegian Hittoroy, of
1,260 tons net, has been sunk; the
Norwegian steamer Erick H. Ethdoe
is reported sunk; the Greek steamer
Demitrios Inglesis is believed to have
been sunk and the French sailing ves
sel Therese has been sunk.
The armies of the Teutonic allies
fighting in southwestern Roumania,
with Bucharest their main objective,
have joined hands from the Danube
in the south, to the northwest of Buch
arest, where, coming through the
mountainous region, they have reached
the town of Tergovistea.
The Predeal pass line, running to
the north from the capital into Tran
sylvania, is the sole remaining rail
way connection in western Wallachia
partly in Roumanian hands and with
the Teutons now nearly astride this
line at Breza and rapidly advancing,
this route seems likely to be taken
from them.
The Teutons have captured the town
of Gradichtea, twelve miles from the
capital, Bucharest.
In Dobrudja and in the northwest
along the Bukowina and Transylvanian
fronts violent fighting is in progress.
Berlin admits slight progress in the
northwest by the Russians north and
south of the Trotus.
Berlin announces that the battle of
the Argechu river has come to a final
conclusion with the Teutonic allies
the victors, and says that all along
the front they are drawing closer their
net toward Bucharest.
Washington
More definite information as to the
facts involved in recent activities by
German submarines has brought the
situation to a point where a new note
to Germany designed to clear up any
doubt as to the interpretation of the
Berlin government's submarine pledge
to the United States, appears to be
among the possibilities of the near
future.
The American government's formal
protest to Germany against the de
portation of Belgians for forced labor
as a violation of principles of human
ity was made public by the state de
partment. It was in the form of a
note cabled to Charge Grew at Berlin,
with instructions that he seek an in
terview with the German chancellor
and read it to him, and was given
out by the- department with the terse
comment: "The interview has taken
place."
Until all nations agree to reduce
their armament the United States
must continue to increase its naval
power, Secretary Daniels declares in
his annual report, and urges that the
funds be appropriated at once to be
gin building 42 additional ships.
Postmaster General Burleson's an
nual report declares there was a post
office department surplus of $5,200,000
during the present year, and enumer
ates as among the year's accomplish
ments improvement of the parcel post
extension of city and rural deliveries
and development of the postal savings
system.
Cotton ginned to December the first
amounted to 10,359,346 running bales,
including 177,662 round and 101,260
bales of sea island, the census bu
reau announces.
Secretary McAdoo's annual report
of the government's finances, present
ed to the short session of the Sixty
fourth congress, estimates that the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, will
show a balance of $115,000,000 in the
general fund.
A London, England, telegram says
that twenty-six women were killed and
about thirty injured by an explosion
in a munitions factory.
One million dollars has been offer
ed for Monticello, the home of Thom
as Jefferson. The government is - of
fered the site, however, for half that
amount.
A Madrid, Spain, telegram says that
one hundred sailors were drowned
when the Pio IX, from New Orleans
to Barcelona, went down in a storm
off the Canary Islands.
Creation of a series of zones in the
south in which no cotton can be
grown is the latest measure proposed
in congress to prevent the spreading
of the boll weevil.
A London, England, dispatch brings
the information that David Lloyd
George will be England's new premier,
Bonar Law having declined to accept
that portfolio.
The first resignations from the dip
lomatic corps, which are expected to
be the forerunners of others as a
consequence of Woodrow Wilson's re
election and the closing of the first
term, have been announced.
The American relief committee has
sent one hundred thousand marks to
the suffering Belgians.
A London dispatch announces that
Herbert H. Asquith has resigned the
British premiership, his resignation
accepted and the Unionist leader, An
drew Bonar Law, appointed by the
king as his successor. Mr. Law ac
cepted. The steamship John Lambert, list
ed as an American vessel, was shelled
and sunk without warning by ,a Ger
man off the Isle of Wight on lovem
ber 22, according to members of the
crew sending their version to New
York papers
James W. Gerard, United States am
bassador to Germany, has returned to
his post at Berlin.
By a vote of 44 to 32, in which thir
teen Democrats voted with the latter
number, the senate refused to delay
seating the three new senators Kir
by of Arkansas, Watson of Indiana
and Fernald of Maine.
ANNOUNCES NEW
BRITISH
CABINET
OFFICIAL WAR CABINET COM
PRISES MANY STRONG LEAD
ERS OF ENGLAND.
BALFOUR FOREIGN MINISTER
Earl of Derby Is War Secretary. A.
Bonar Law Asked to Act as House
Leader and Member of War Cabinet
Not Expected to Attend Regularly.
London. Official announcement has
been made that the Government had
been constituted, with a war cabinet
comprising the following:
Premier, David Lloyd-George; Lord
President of the Council, Earl Cur
zon, who also will be Government
leader in the House of Lords; Arthur
Henderson, Minister without port
folio, and Andrew Bonar Law, Chan
cellor of the the Exchequer, who has
been asked by the Premier to act as
leader in the House of Commons and
also as member of the war Cabinet
without being expected to attend reg
ularly. The other members of the Min
istry, who are not in the war Cab
inet, are:
Lord High Chancellor, Sir Robert
Bannathyne Finlay.
Secretary of State Tor the Home
Department, Sir George Cave.
Secretary of State for Foreign Af
fairs, Dr. Arthur J. Balfour.
Seccretary of State for the Colonies,
Walter Hume Long.
Secretary of State for War, the Earl
of Derby.
Secretary of State for India, Aus
ten Chamberlain.
President of the Local Government
Board, Baron Rhondda.
President of the Board of Trade,
Sir Albert Stanley.
First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir
Edward Carson.
Minister of Munitions, Dr. Chris
topher Addison.
Minister of Blockade, Lord Robert
Cecil.
Shipping Controller, Sir Joseph Pa
ton Maclay.
President of the Board of Agricul
ture, Rowland E. Prothero.
President of the Board of Educa
tion, Herbert A. L. Fisher.
First Commissioner of Works, Sir
Alfred M. Mond.
Chancellor F. Duchy of Lancaster,
Sir Frederick Cawley.
Postmaster General, Albert Illing
worth. ZONE SYSTEM FOR PAPERS
PROPOSED IN POSTAL BILL
Rates of .Second Class Matter to be
Greatly Increased Under New Ter
ritorial Division. One Cent Postage
on Local Letters.
Washington. One cent postage for
local first class mail deliveries, and
a zone system of rates for second class
matter which is expected to greatly In
crease the charges for magazines and
other periodicals having a nation-wide
circulation, is provided for in the an
nual postoffice appropriation bill as
virtually completed in committee. The
measure, carrying appropriations to
taling about $327,000,000, probably
will be reported to the house next
week.
Under the one cent postage provis
ion the rate on letters and other mail
matters of the first class, when depos
ited in any postoffice or branch post
office or letter box or postoffice in the
delivery district, for delivery within
the limits of the postoffice, city or ru
ral delivery district, would be cut
in half.
The zone proposal for handling
newspapers and magazines, which
now pay a flat rate of one cent a
pound, is regarded as oce of the
most radical changes in postage rates
in years. It divides the country into
eight zones, with rates chargeable
ranging from one cent for 300 miles
to six cents for 1,800 miles or more.
The bulk of daily newspapers, the
committee believes, will not be affect
ed, because they do not circulate be
yond a 300-mile radius.
DEUTSCHLAND due back
IN U. S. EARLY IN JANUARY
New London, Conn. The German
commercial submarine Detuschland,
which , arrived in home waters, will
make another trip to this port with
in the next few weeks, according to a
statement by Paul G. L. Hilken, vice
president of the Eastern Forwarding
Company, American agents for the
undersea craft. He added that the
submersible would make regular trips
as long as the war continued.
WARNING MADE AGAINST
GIGANTIC NAVAL PLAN
Washington. Warning against un
dertaking too great a building pro
gram in naval plants the next 18
months is given in the annual report
of Rear Admiral Taylor, chief con
tractor. Because of the shortage of
skilled labor resulting from the un
precedented demands of private build
ers, the admiral says, "additional new
construction work must be undertak
en at the navy yards with great care
and recognition of probable delays."
LABOR OFFICIALS
HALT LABOR VOTE
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION WILL
AWAIT RESULT OF LEADER'S
EFFORTS.
ALLIANCE IS BEARING FRUIT
Effort Being Made to Draft Substitute
For All Forms of Compulsory Arbi
tration Which Will Be Agreeable to
All.
Washington. Congressional action
on President Wilson's railway legisla
tion program probably will await the
result of determined efforts of labor
leaders to draft a substitute for all
forms of compulsory arbitration which
will be agreeable to their followers,
employers and' the administration.
The determination of the president
to undertake making impossible by
such law a situation as he faced last
September in the railroad dispute has
aroused labor to the greatest activity.
The unofficial alliance between the
American Federation of Labor and the
four railway brotherhoods arranged
recently at Baltimore is bearing its
first fruit in conference between rep
resentatives of both organizations to
draft a plan that will shelve all compul
sory arbitration bills. Congressional
leaders are inclined to go slowly on
the president's program pending an
nouncement of labor's proposals, pro
vided they are revealed during the
present session of Congress.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, said
that conferences already have taken
place between brotherhood and Fed
eration leaders, but that no concrete
plan had been worked out. Hope exists,
he said, that some plan can be drawn
that will make congressional action
unnecessary.
"Organized labor," he said, "always
will oppose any form of compulsory
arbitration."
If a scheme satisfactory to the
workers is drafted, it is understood,
it will be submitted to representatives
of the railroads and other employers
and to the president. Apprpval of it
probably would mean that Congress
would eliminate the compulsory arbi
tration feature from any legislation
enacted.
DEPORTATION OF BELGIANS
BY GERMANS IS PROTESTED.
United - States Declares Germany's
Policy to Be "Contravention of Hu
mane Principles of International
Practive."
Washington. The American Gov
ernment's formal protest to Germany
against the depotation of Belgians
for forced labor, as a violation of the
principles of humanity, was made pub
lic by the State Department. It was
in the form of a note, cabled to
Charge Grew at Berlin with instruc
tions that he seek an interview with
the German Chancellor and read it
to him and was given out by the De
partment with the terse comment:
"The interview has taken place."
Officials refused to add to this
statement, and so far as could be
learned there has been no reply from
Germany. All information available,
however, indicates that the deporta
tions are continuing, and it is known
that through earlier informal repres
entations Charge Grew learned that
the German position was that the
policy was a military necessity and
not in violation of international law.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS, JR.,
HONORED WlfH OFFICE.
New York. Josephus Daniels, Jr.,
of Raleigh, N. C, was elected a vice
president of the National Young
Men's Democratic League at its an
nual meeting here. Frank D. Shelley
of New York was elected president
and William F. McCombs was made
chairman of the advisory committee.
Letters from President Wilson and
Mr. McCormick thanking the organi
zation for its campaign work, were
read at the meeting.
FRENCH SHIP WITH CREW
OF 718 LOST SAYS PARIS.
Paris. The French battleship Suf
fern ,which left November 24 for
L'Orient, a French naval station in
Brittany, has not been heard from
since the Minister of Marine consid
ers the vessel lost with all on board.
The Suffern was reported to have
been damaged by shell fire when the
Allies tried to force the Dardanelles
and she was sent to Toulon for re
pairs. She was of 12,750 tons and
had a staff of 18 officers and 700 men.
NATION NOW REVERTS TO
SOCIAL WORK SAYS WILSON.
Washington. Advocacy by Presi
dent Wilson of a better "social under
standing," and a, warning-' by Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, against govern
mental regulation of the normal activ
ities and personal relationships of the
people, featured the session of the
Conference on Social Insurance here
under the auspices of the Internation
al Association of Industrial Accident
Board and Commissions.
GERMANY LIABLE
IN ARABIA CASE
ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR
SINKING BRITISH LINER
WITHOUT WARNING.
GERMANY SENDS NOTE TO U. S
Note Over Incident Received by U. S.
Officials Places Submarine Warfare
Issue on a Clear-Cut Serious Basis.
No Quick Action.
Washington. Germany's acceptance
of responsibility for the sinking with
out warning of the British liner Arabia,
with the explanation that her subma
rine commander took the vessel for
an auxiliary warship, has brought the
issue over submarine warfare to a
more serious and clear-cut basis than
anything that has happened since the
threat of the United States to break
diplomatic relations after the torpedo
ing of the channel liner near Sussex
last April.
Such information as the American
government now has shows the Arabia
to have been a passenger ship of the
Peninsula and Oriental line, passing
through the Mediterranean on a regu
lar voyage. Among the many passa
gers was an American citizen, w
was rescued.
The German note, which was made
public by the state department, says
if official data is furnished showing
that the vessel was an ordinary pas
senger steamer, "this then would be a
case of regrettable mistake from which
the German government would prompt
ly draw the appropriate consequences."
It is assumed here that the conse
quences would be an expression of re
gret and offer of reparation for any in
jury or danger suffered by the Amer
icans on board.
The note has been referred to
President Wilson, who is considering
personally a review of recent German
submarine activities to which the
Arabia case comes as a climax. There
probably will be no immediate action,
as the state department first must
clear up beyond question the exact
status of the liner at the time of the
attack. Then it will be for the presi
dent to decide the course to be fol
lowed. In official quarters the German ex
planation is regarded as weak and
unsatisfactory, no weight being at
tached to the statements that the
Arabia was painted like a transport
and was following a route usually tak
en by transports, and that the subma
rine commander saw many Chinamen
but no women and children aboard her.
It is realized, however, that if official
data finally establishes the innocent
character of the vessel, in view of the
Sussex case, virtually only one action
remains open to the United States, and'
that would not be taken until every
possible consideration had been given
Germany's position.
SPECULATION HELPED BOOM
FOOD PRICES PROBE SHOWS.
Federal Investigators Find Organiza
tions to Regulate Living Cost
Short Lived in Most Cases.
Washington. Information gathered
from many sources by Government
officcials conducting the nation-wide
inquiry into the high cost of liying
pointed with increasing directness to
the conclusion that the soaring prices
of certain necessities of life were
due, to some extent, at least, to the
manipulations of food and other spec
ulators who had combined to force
quotations upward.
These combinations are believed by
the government investigators to have
been criminal in character, rather
spasmodic and rather short-lived.
Special attention is being given just
now to alleged price manipulation in
the so-called coal corner which re
cently resulted in sending prices to
a panic level. Investigation of the
high price of coal, hardly yet begun,
has already convinced some officials
that there was no warrant whatever
for $12 coal in Boston and New York,
'Other than the activity of these alleg
ed combinations.
MANY YOUNG? WOMEN
RECOGNIZK "OLIVER OSBORNE"
New York. Five more persons, in
cluding one young woman whom he
married, recognized in Charles H.
Wax the man they had known as "Oli
ver Osborne" or under some other
name. Wax, who is helol under $50,000
bail, as a material witnes in a Federal
case, was brought here from Chicago
to clear the name of JanK W. Os
borne, an attorney, who has been
accused by Miss Rae Tanzer of breach
of promise.
OVER 50,000 FARMERS HAVE
APPLIED FOR FARM LOANS
Washington. Officials of the farm
loan board announced that more than
50,000 farmers have applied for mort
gage loans aggregating approximately
$150,000,000 or more than 17 times the
amount of money which will be imme
diately available for loans upon the
organization of the 12 farm loan
banks. Most Of the applications have
come from the south and west. They
still continuue to come in by hundreds
every day.
BUCHAREST TAKEN
BY GERMAN ARMY
TEUTONS CAPTURE CAPITAL OF
RUMANIA AS CLIMAX OF BIG
DRIVE.
TAKE STORES FOOD STUFFS
End of Conquest Comes Just 100 Days
After Rumania Enters Into Euro
pean Conflict. Important Railway
Junction Also Surrenders.
Bucharest, the Capital of Rumania,
is in the hands of the- forces of the
Central Powers.
Exactly 100 days after the declara
tion of war by Rumania against them
finds the Teutonic Allies in control of
about 50,000 square miles of Ruman
ian territory virtually one-half of the
Kingdom running from the Transyl
vanian Alps northwest of the Capital
to the Danube south of it, and a large
part of Dobrudja, and probably still
on the heels of the retreating Russian
and Rumanian armies which have
been endeavoring to hold them back.
Simultaneously with the announce
ment of the fall of Bucharest came
the news of the capture of the im
portant ra41road junction of Ploechti,
north of the Capital, the conquest of
which places in the hands of the in
vaders the last railroad in the west
and gives to them the head of the
line running northward to Jassy,
where the Capital of Rumania is now
situated.
No details have as yet come
through concerning the climax to the
great drive of the armies of General
von Falkenhayn and Field Marshal
von Mackensen, or whether the Ru
manians or Russians succeeded en
tirely in making their escape behind
the Bucharest line. Previous to the
announcement of the capture of
Bucharest and of Pioechti unofficial
advices had indicated that four divis
ions of the defenders were in a haz
ardous position in the region due
west of Bucharest and in danger of
being enveloped.
With the fall of Bucharest the Cen
tral Powers are now in possession of
four Capitals of Entente Allied States,
the others being Brussels, Belgrade
and Cettinije.
The taking of Bucharest virtually
completes the conquest by the Teu
tonic forces of the southern section of
the Rumanian kingdom, embracing
territory of more than 50,000 square
miles and marks the culmination of
an operation accounted by military
commentators one of the most sound
ly conceived and brilliantly executed
feats of the great war.
From the hour when Field Marshal
von Mackensen forced a crossing of
the Danube and on November 24 set
foot .on Rumanian soil, effecting a
junction shortly afterward with Gen
eral von Falkenhaven's armies, driv
ing through Wallachia from the west,
there seemed little doubt of the ulti
mate fate of the Rumanian Capital.
The relentless pressure of the Teu
tonic invading armies, with their pre
ponderance of heavy artillery proved
too much for King Ferdinand's forces
once the Rumanian front was broken.
NATION-WIDE FOOD PROBE
BY U. S. AIRED IN CONGRESS
Dozen Seeches Made Resolutions In
troduced Referred to Committees.
Washington The Federal investiga
tion of the high cost of living began
to take a definite form, with indica
tions that it would be one of the most
comprehensive ever undertaken and
would extend to every section of the
United States. Not only is a sweep
ing inquiry into the cause of the soar
ing cost of foodstuffs contemplated,
but the recent pinch in the coal sup
ply and its resultant price advances
also may be made the subject of broad
investigation.
From President Wilson down, offi
cials began to cope in earnest with
the problems presented by the situa
tion. The president took under con
sideration preliminary reports which
with others yet to come wll form the
basis for recommendations he may
mak to Congress.
A dozen speeches on the subject
were made in the House and several
resolutions, proposing inquiries were
introduced These were referred to
committees without discussion, most
of them going to the interstate and
foreign commerce committee.
WARNING TO WATCH FOR
U-BOATS AGAIN FLASHED
New York. Another warning to
he merchant steamers of the Entente
Allies to beware of German subma
rines was sent broadcast by wireless
by a British cruiser off Sandy Hook.
BRYAN URGES ADOPTION OF
DRY ITEM BY DEMOCRATS
Washington, Reforms to which he
hopes ?4 commit the Democratic party
and to see accomplished within the
next four years were outlined by Wil
liam Jennings Bryan at a dinner given
in his honor by admirers among Dem
ocratic officials and members of con
gress. Nationwide prohibtion he urg
ed as most important and other causes
on his list included woman suffrage by
Federal amendment, election of the
president by direct popular vote.
GRAHAM MAKES
T
STATE'S CORN CROP WILL BE
NEARLY MILLION BUSHELS
SHORT.
FIGHT AGAINST CATTLE TICK
Twelve Creameries In The State.
Work of Canning Clubs and Farm
Women Oats Short
Raleigh. In his report for the year
to the state board of agriculture, Com
missioner of Agriculture W. A. Gra
ham estimated that the corn crop i:i
this state the past year was 56,000,000
bushels, nearly a million bushels short
of the previous crop. The oat crop
was the poorest ever harvested; Irish
and sweet potatoes were very fine. The
state is for the seventh year first in
the production of cotton per acre and
in the amount of sweet potatoes, pea
nuts and soja beans. The wheat crop
is sufficient to feed the population and
have several thousands barrels to ex
port. The corn is sufficient for the
needs of the state and the producticn
of animals for beef and pork is con
siderable. There are twelve creameries and
nine cheese factories in the state.
North Carolina apples are becoming
known in the markets of the country
with prospect for advantageous mar
kets for all the yield in the near fu
ture. The commissioner recorded con
stant and most beneficial progress in
the work among the farm women of
the state.
The commissioner in his treatment
of progress and conditions in State
test farm work recommended aban
donment of commercial farming on
these farms so long as they are main
tained and more attention at a num
ber of them. He said results of experi
ments showed that maintaining or
chards in the mountain sides of west
ern Carolina were not practical and
that these lands were best adapted to
pasture, according to the experiments
at the Blantire farm.
In hog cholera serum work the
sales have increased from 56,496 in
1911 to 6,236,498 in 1916. The cost
of the serum is 1.02 per cent.
In cattle tick eradication the work
has advanced until there are only 22
counties in the extreme east that are
not entirely cleared and work of
eradication is under way in nearly
half of them. If the legislature would
give the department an appropriation
of $200,000 the whole state, through
cooperation with the federal authori
ties, could be cleared of the tick evil.
In the work among farm women,
especially the canning club work,
there were 3,731 girls enrolled in can
ning work and 2.864 women. The out
put was 470,614 tin cans and 194,399
glass jars and 4,171 bottles of ketchup
and grape juice, the whole valued at
$117,816, a net profit of $88,383. Fine
progress is shown in extension work
and in the development of the effort
for supplying agricultural lime to farm
ers at cost and in the growth and
utilization of the soja bean in eastern
Carolina.
Deny Jurisdiction of Judge Bond.
Raleigh In taking recess to Decem
ber If in compliance with the order
of Judge Bond in the Britt-Weacer
contest for the certificate as congress
man from the Tenth congressional dis
trict, Governor Craig and the state
board of elections stated that they
deny the jurisdiction of Judge Bond to
Interfere with their discharge of their
statutory duty in the matter of the
award of the certificate in accordance
with the official returns from the dis
trict now in their hands. And that
when they meet on the 19th, the last
day under the provisions of the stat
ute within which they can act, they
propose to discharge their duty with
respect thereto. This means that if
the supreme court has not heard and
decided the appeal from Buncombe in
the proceeding before Judge Adams,
they will ignore any further action
by Judge Bond and award the cer
tificate to Weaver as the returns
require.
Big Growth at Albemarle.
Albemarle. Building activity in Al
bemarle is more pronounced than it
has been since the European war be
gan, and it is conservatively estimated
that there is around a half-million dol
lars' worth of buildings now under con
struction in the town. The new hosi
ery mill being constructed by the Wis
cassett Mills Company will cover about
6,000 feet of land and furnish about
10,000 square feet of floor space. The
Southern Railway Company has under
construction a spur track out from the
main line to this new plant.
Sweet Potato Crop Short.
Hickory. With not over half a crop
of sweet potatoes in Catawba county
and the rest of the sweet potato area,
according to local producers, the price
of this delicacy will go soaring along
towards spring. Enloe Yoder, secre
tary of the Catawba Sweet Potato
Growers' Association, said that the
production here was not half a crop,
and he had learned that this condition
obtained In the rest of the country.
Catawba growers, with their potatoes
housed snugly for winter, are not quot.
Ing prices.
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