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VOL. XL.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. G NOVEMBER 7, 1917.
NO. 14.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI8
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR.
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS JIFJfKE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South
land W.N Be Found In
Bref Paragraphs
Washington.
The 1917 pack of canned corn will
otal 11,000 ease-, the food administra-
i n announces.
The Aiurieau transport Finland ia
in dry dock at a French Atlantic sea-
fxrt.
Director of the Mint Ba.ker has or
. red various plants of the mints to
rate Sundays to turn out the need
coins the necessity for which has
.: ?eloped on account of the demand
for small change.
More than ten million people aided
in the flotation of the second war
.an.
The German uprising in south Bra
wl is reported to be making progress.
: lilroad traffic is completely paralysed
and the strike is spreading over the
country.
According to the latest Brazil crop
stimates the wheat crop of that coun
try will total 5.600,000 tons, linseed
,000 tuns and oats 1,200,000 tons.
k Honolulu. Hawaii, dispatch brings
news that the tomb of King Lu
ualilo has been broken open and his
rer crown emblems have been
stolen.
Approximately four million dollars'
worth of German products, piled up
m the wharves at Rotterdam, will be
permitted to move to America. The
state dpartment has secured from the
foreign office permission to
ship merchandise consigned- to Anier
ican importers and paid for prior to
fie entrance of the United States into
'he war.
The United States transport Finland
-as recently torpedoed on a return
trip to the United States, but was able
ro return to a foreign port under her
own steam. The Finland is one of
the largest steamers flying the Amer
ican Flag. It is not known whether
'here was any loss of life.
Domestic
After weeks of investigation the
New York City district attorney's of- j
nee obtained an indictment against
Morris Waliack, who is declared to be
one of a band of 26 "white slavers"
operat'ng in the tenderloin district
with 150 women under their control.
Washington, D. C, went dry with a
wildly hilarious celebration in which
Hallowe'en merrymakers contributed
ost of the noise. Some saloons had
dosed their doors during the day, and
many others, including the bars of the
leading hotels, closed long before 12 ',
'clock at midnight, the hour fixed by
ihe law passed by congress last win
r The law forbids the manufac
ture, sale or giving away of intoxi
cating liquor in the District of Co-:-.;mbia.
The milling division of the food ad-
' (.ration announces that all di-
let trading by American millers, ex- j
porters and blenders of flour with Eu
rnppn countries is proh'bited.
Effective December 1 flour millers
nrost sell flour in packages of one
eighth, one-quarter and one-half bar
rel or larger.
Mrs. Ananaide Marie Ducayet
bunniB, probably the most noted and
faring woman Confederate spy in the
lvil war. is dead in New Orleans.
She was many times captured, but al
ways managed to destroy incriminat
ing evidence.
The Metropolitan Grand Opera corn-
niciL iiu vjciiiidii uyci aj havoc on theni, and even old men or can troops. German shells were dls
ww be sung until after the war. This the Garibaldi relict are clamoring to tributed impartially among the
"'ciua !nat many notea uerman arusts
ill not appear before the American
Public this year.
W. G. Hunter of Louisville, Ky., the
minister to Guatemala under McKin
'ey, and a noted politician 20 years ago,
is dead, aged 76.
A woman 77 years old and a man, 84,
were caught in the New York City
police dragnet for pickpocket'ng. It
ia stated that both are old offenders,
laving been operating for two or
more decades.
Twenty-cent beans and 45-cent bacon
'caused a strike of laborers at the avi
ation camp at Ellington, Texas.
Fiv unmasked men held up the bank
at Glfmwood, Ark., and escaped in an
"immobile with $8,000, and carried off
e cashier, K. E. Hallman, with them.
Hie entire force of the bank was at
work when the men drove up in their
ar, rushed inside and covered every
one with revolvers. Taking all the cur--ency
in sight and using the cashier
8 a shield, they backed into their car
dashed away. Posses are in pur
suit James M. McDonald, a Mississippi
Politician, who killed a Chinaman in
Atlanta recently, at the fair grounds,
aa found guilty and sentenced to 20
var- at hard labor.
A Pole in New York City aggrived
itn the female sex, because several
omen haci bothered him, began to
slash girls by the wholesale in the
'Baodal district, and was arrested.
Mre than one hundred manufactur
ing ''4nts were closed and approxi
ately forty thousand men thrown out
r enloyment by the first natural gas
W y 6 f the seieon at Wheeling,
Roland B. Molineux, who figured in
the celebrated "Molineaux case" in
New York 20 years ago, is dead.
' W. M. Kehler, a Wellsboro, Pa., law
yer, was forced to kiss the American
Flag, because he asserted that Belgium
"got what was coming to her." i
An El Paso, Texas, dispatch says that
Colonel Ancheta was killed and his
command of 200 Mexican troops almost
wiped out when trapped in a mountain
pass near Sugui Grande, Sonora, by !
Yaqui Indians.
European.
Sir Eric Geddes, who recently suc
succeeded Sir Edward Carson as first
lord of the admiralty, made his first
address in parliament and gave some
interesting and anxiously awaited fig
ures on the work of the navy and
shipping in general.
The English first lord of the admiral
ty announces that between forty and
fifty per cent of the German subma
rines operating in trflNerth sea, the
Atlantic and the Arctic oceans, have
been sunk.
The English navy has requisitioned
the services of many young officers to
add strength to the experience of old
er officers on the naval staff.
A German warship has been sunk
in the sound, according to a dispatch
from the National Tidende from Mal
mo, Sweden.
Russia entered the war early and
she is now worn out by the strain,
Premier Kerensky is reported bv the
Associated Press to have stated. He
said that it is only fair to Russia that
the other allies should now shoulder
the burden of the war.
A question which is agitating Rus
sia is "Where is the British fleet now
that the German fleet is out in the
Baltic?"
Eight persons were killed and 21
others wore injured in a German air
raid on London, according to an of
ficial statement by the British war de
partment. he material damage was
slight.
United States Senators William S.
Kenyon of Iowa and John B. Kendrick
of Wyoming have passed unscathed
through their second air raid experi
ence in London.
Russian Premier Kerensky says that
Russia is worn out but still in the
war. Help is urgently needed and
Russia asks it as her right, because
Russia saved France and England at
the beginning of hostilities.
Premier Kerensky says that with
out Russia's entry in the war England
and France would have been wiped off
the map; that Russia has borne the
brunt of the fighting, and, with the
help the United States has extended
to England and France, Russia would
still be fighting in enemy territory
There is unrest in Russian political
circles over Swedish agitation over
the possibility of the taking by Swe
den of the Aland islands, which lie in
the Gulf of Bothnia, at the entrance of
the Gulf of Finland.
A renewal of fighting activity is re
ported on the Russian southwestern
frcnt.
Russian airmen bombarded Tarno-
pol successfully and got away without
injury.
Italian advices say that there are in
dications that the allies are sending
great forces to help the battling Ital
ian. The Italian king is at the front.
The Germans, say English advices,
have retreated from points along the
historic Chemin-des-Dames sector on
the Aisne front in France, where Gen-
eraj petain, the French military ge-
n'us, unknown before the war, has
been hammering and battering them
world without end.
On the Italian front the Austro-Ger-mans
and Italians are in combat along
the middle and lower regions of the
Tagliamento river, with the Teutonic
forces on the east and the Italians on
tne wesl side of the stream. The over
flow of the river is holding the Ger
mans in check.
Italian sentiment has awakened. It
was never dreamed that the Germans
could in such short time wreak such
zo tf the front
Emperor William has congratulated
the German troops for their "brilliant
victory" over the Italians, and says:
"With me, the fatherland thanks its
incomparable sons. Forward, with
God!"
In Prussia the celebration of the Ger
man victorv is pronounced. Te Deums
are being sung in the cathedrals and
flags have been hoisted and salutes
fired. "
The driving back of the Italians
southward in the Austro-Swiss region
may seriously affect the plans of the
entente allies to send relief to Gene
ral Cadorna if the route chosen for
this purpose were across the Franco
Italian border and eastward by rail.
Two more of the notorious Count
von Luxburg's messages to the German
foreign office from Buenos Aires were
made public recently. They provide
ample confirmation of Germany's plan
to control southern Brazil.
Count George von Hertling, Bavari
an prime minister, has been appointed
imperial German chancellor.
Count Von Bernstorff, former am
bassador to the United States, has been
made a "Wirklicher Ceheimrat" by the
emperor with the title of "his excel
lency." General Pershing's men operating
in France have taken their first pris
oner. They were compelled to shoot
him before effecting capture,, and he
afterwards died.
Former Chancellor Michaelis has
been made prime minister of Prussia.
The Russian foreign minister says
the separate peace is impossible, and
that defense of Russian territory is
one of the Russian fundamental needs.
ALLIED ARMIES ARE
AIDING THE ITALIANS
TROOPS OF ALLIES HAVE JOINED
CADORNA'S MEN AGAINST
THE ENEMY.
AUSTRO-GERMANS HELD BACK
Reinforcements Arrive and Western
Front Extends From North Sea to
Adriatic War Department's Week
ly Review Is Issued.
Washington. England, France and
Italy stand firmly united to oppose
any further advance of the enemy in
the Italian sector, says the war de
partment's weekly review of military
operations. The statement suggests
that the Teutons probably thought
Italy would be left to her fate, or that
the allies would be unable to dispatch
the necessary forces in time, but de
clares that England and France al
ready have sent large reinforcements
and the western front today stretches
from the North sea to the Adriatic.
Only bare mention of the American
troops in France is made by the de-
partment. In pointing out that the
momentous events in Italy must not
"lead us to forget that the principal
battle front of the war remains" in
France and Flanders, the statement
says, "here our forces are fighting."
"Our attention during the past week
has been centered on the gigantic
struggle now going on in the Friulian
plain," says the review.
"The Austro-German forces, break
ing through the Italian defenses
along the upper reaches of the Isonzo,'
have erupted into the low lands, and
carried forward a series of rapidly
co-ordinated operations, which havp
resulted in the conquest of much ter
ritory. "Trench warfare has, for the time
being, been abandoned. Great troop
masses are maneuvering in open
country.
"Under the direction of General Ca
dorna, the Italian armies have with
drawn to the west bank of the Taglia
mento river.
"The momentous events In Italy
should not lead us to forget that the
principal battle fronts of the war re
mains, as it has been since the be
ginning, the important sectors of the
western front, in France and Flan
ders. "Here the overwhelming bulk of
enemy strength is concentrated. Here
our forces are fiehting.
"Steadily the Franco-British forces
are pushing forward."
BERLIN REPORTS FIRST
CAPTURE OF AMERICANS
Berlin, via London. The canture of
American so'diens by a German re
connoiterinsr party is announced by
the war office.
The sateonent says that on the
Rhine-Marne canal as a result of a
reconncitering thrust. North Ameri
can soldiers were brought in.
The portion of the official state
ment making this announcement
reads :
"At the Rhine-Marne canal, as the
result of a reconnoitering thrust
North American soldiers were brought
in as prisoners."
GERMANS DISPLAY UNUSUAL
ACTIVITY AGAINST AMERICANS
"With the American rmv in France
Notwithstard'ng the rainy weather
the German batteries displayed more
actvity than normal on the Part of the
French line occunied by the Ameri-
trenches the American batteries reply
ing in the same fashion.
The enemy is using both high exnlo
rive and shrapnel in sending ooccasinnl
reminders of the war toward the
Americans. Reports re-aching head
ouarters. however, are that the bom
bardment coid in no sense be con
sidered "lively" merely being a de-
pasture from the normal state of quiet-
ude at night on that particuiar sector,
. :
SALVATION ARMY HALL IS
SCENE OF HOLOCAUST
Paterson, N. J. Nineteen bodies
were taken from the ruins of the Sal
vation Army rescue mission in this
city which was d-rs-troyed by fire. Ten
men were taken to hosnitals-with prob
ably mortal iniuries and many others
were less seriously hurt in leaning
from w'ndows of the burning struc
ture. Identification of all the dead
will be impossible, the police believe,
as the records of the nstitution were
lost in the fire.
THOSE NOT COMMISSIONED
ARE SUBJECT TO CALL
Washington. Under plans complet
ed by the war department for dispo
sition of the graduates of the second
series of officers ' training camps,
which close this month, every man of
the 19 000 who is recommended for
a commission either will be commis
sioned at once or placed on an eligible
list sublect to call. The commissions,
as was the case with the graduates of
the first camps, will be in the officers'
reserve corps or the national army.
GERMAN TORPEDOES
GOST EIGHT LIVES
VICE ADMIRAL SIMS REPORTS TO
NAVY DEPARTMENT TORPE
DOING OF TRANSPORT.
TWO OF HOWL GUARDS DUO
Casualty List Made Public Includes Affidavit Filed by Solicitor Asking Re- Was to Be Used to Awe Some Latin
Two Enlisted Men and Four of moval is Countered by Affidavit Americans and to Flatter Others
Ship's Crew, Also a Third Naval i from Defendant Attorney General With Salutes Lansing Discloses
Seaman Is Missing. ' Manning Begins Argument. j Without Discussion.
Washington. The torpedoing of the
homeward bound army transport Fin
land in the war zone resulted in the.
death of two members of the naval
armed guard, two army enlisted men
and four of the ship's civilian crew.
A third naval seaman is missing.
Vice Admiral Sims' report of the
casualties to the navy department to
day added no details to the announce
ment yesterday that the Finland had
been torpedoed, but had been able to
reach a European port under her own
steam.
The casualty list as made public
follows :
Members of the naval gun crew:
James W. Henry, seaman, second
class; dead. Next of kin, Rose Hen
ry, 43 Reynolds street, Harrisou.
N. J.
Newton R. Head, seaman; dead
Next of kin, not given. Home ad
dress, Cleveland, Ga.
Porter Hilton, seaman, second
class; missing. Mother, Mrs. Lizzie
Hilton, Toccoa, Ga.
Army: Private Lester Hickey, in
fantry; drowned. Father, Thomas
Hickey, 142 North Racine avenue,
Chicago, 111.
Charles H. Maxwell, colored, trans
port workers' battalion; drowned.
Brother, Thomas E. Maxwell. Box
278, Concord, N. C.
Memhers of Finland's crew:
M. Cardoza, fireman; drowned. No
emergency address.
J. Haneslo, barber; drowned. No
emergency address.
W. F. Phillips, waiter; drowned.
Brother, A. Phillips, Jackson bar
racks, New Orleans.
Jose Cuevas, mess boy; probably
died from injuries.
GERMAN TROOPS RETREAT
FROM CHEMIN-DES-DAMES
Full Extent of Retrograde Movement
Not Yet Fully Known.
The Germans have retreated from
points along the historic Chemin-Des-Dames
sector on the Aisne front in
i France, where for several months the
French troops of General Petain had
been keeping them sharply to task.
Just where the retrograde move
ment took place and how far it ex
tends cannot yet be told, a3 the Ger
man official communication merely
says that the Teutons, "unnoticed and
undisturbed by the enemy," system
atically withdrew their lines rom the
hilly front in this region. The entire
line to the north of the Aisne where
the Germans were last reported as
facing the French is undulating in
character from the Soissons sector
eastward to the vicinity of Craonne;
and therefore it is impossible, from
the rather terse acknowledgment of
withdrawal, to delimit the terrain
which has been given up.
Nevertheless it seems apparent that
the Germans, tired of the terrible or
deal they had been forced to undergo
for some time from the French artil
lery and violent infantry attacks, have
decided to fall back upon Laon, capi
tal of the department of the Aisne,
which with its network of railways
has been the Quest of the French.
FLOUR TRADING WITH
EUROPE PROHIBITED
New York. The milling division of
the United States food administra
tion announced here that effective im
mediately, all direct trading by Amer
ican millers, exporters and blenders
of flour with European countries is
prohibited. This business will be
handled hereafter only by the food
administration.
WITHDRAW EXEMPTIONS
GRANTED TO STRIKERS
Houston, Tex. Denouncing as "lit
tle short of criminal" a war-time
strike in any industry needed for the
successful prosecution of hostilities
and defining the oil industry as "the
absolute heart of our navy," Dr. Sid
ney J. Smith, chairman of the south
ern district draft board, said he would
immediately ask his . own board to
withdraw exemptions or discharges
granted on industrial grounds to all
registrants involved in the strike.
NUMBER OF TROOP TRAINS
HAVE BEEN DOUBLED
Geneva, Switzerland. Swiss sol
diers stationed on the Alpine heights
on the frontire in the canton of Gri
sons report that since the Germans
captured Udine, the number of troop
trains going in the direction of Trent
has been doubled. The Swiss troops
say that when heavy artillery trainr
are passing, the Germans make smoke
curtains at exposed points to prevent
the number of guns being ascertained
by. onlookers.
E
G. 0. MEANS
GUILTY
IN CONNECTION WITH DEATH OF
MRS. MAUDE A. KING ON
AUGUST 29.
OEFENDANT PLEAD ROT GUILTY
Concord, N. C. The Cabarrus coun- '
cy grand jury announced that they had
found a true bill for murder against
Gaston B. Means in connection with
the death of Mrs. Maude A. King, a
wealthy Chicago lady, which occurred
near here August 29.
After presentment of the bill by
the grand jury, Means was formally
arraigned in court and made his plea
of not guilty.
Solicitor Hayden Clement then, on
behalf of the state, presented to the
court an affidavit, asking that the
case be moved to an adjoining county
in this judicial district for trial.
Counsel for the defense announced
themselves as ready, and E. T. Cans
ler presented an affidavit from Gas
ton B. Means in reply to that of the
solicitor.
L. T, Hartsell, counsel for the de
fense, then presented affidavits from
15 representative men of Concord,
saying that in their opin'on a fair
trial for the state could be hid here, j
The men signing these affidavits were
the postmaster, merchants, manufac
turers, salesmen, bank officials, coun
ty officers and others.
J. L. Crowell, of defendants coun
sel, read affidavits from several other
officers and prominent persons of this
place.
Solicitor Clement presented affida
vits from Detective William Jones
and Gapt. William T. Jones, from the
attorney general, and a certificate
from the clerk of superior court, show
ing that since April, 1914. three bills i
for murder had been presented in this
county, in each of which cases the
defendants were acquitted. No other
bills for murder had been presented
during that time.
At the conclusion of these, Attor
ney General James S. Manning, for
Judge E. B. Cline eft uave the case
the state, bean aremment before
Troved to another county. Fe was
fallowed bv J. L. Orowett. L. T. Han
sell, Frank Armfid. Frank f. Os
borne and E. T. Cansler for the de
fendant.
NEARLY ONE-HALF KAISER'S
U-BOATS HAVE BEEN LOST
London. Between 40 and 50 per
cent of the German submarines oper
ating in the North Sea, the Arctic and
Atlantic since the beginning of the
war have been sunk, said Sir Eric
Geddes, first lord of the admiralty, in
the house of commons.
"We must lay plans for a long war,"
continued Sir Eric. "I see no signs
of its being a short one."
"During the last quarter the Ger
mans lost as many su-omarines as they
lost in 1916," said Sir Eric.
The output of merchant shipping in
the first nine months of th's year, he
said, was 123 per cent higher than in
the corresponding period last year.
The admiraltv had decided that four
new shipbuilding yards would be nec
essary. Sir Eric said he regretted it had not
been found possible to arrive at a ba
sis for publication cf British tonnage
losses by submarine action without
giving information to the enemy.
The losses of merchantmen in Octo
ber, he said, were slightly worse than
in September. Enemy submarines
were being sunk to an increasing ex
tent, but the Germans were building
them faster than hitherto.
In September, Sir Eric continued
there was afloat on the high seas an
increase of 20 per cent in numbers
and 30 per cent in tonnage of British
sh'ips as compared with April.
He announced the government's in
tention of appointing an additional
civil lord cf the admiralty, and said
the attention of the first sea lord
would be wholly naval sfcaaff matters.
The total net reduction of British
tonnage since the beeinning of the
war was given as 2.500 000 tons.
Replying to the criticism that the
fleet had not been sent to assist Rus
sia, he pointed out that such an oper
ation woud occupy considerable time
and that there were extensive mine j
fields. Responsible naval opirion was j
unanimous that the step was not one
which should be taken.
DROP IN PRICES ON
CANNED VEGETABLES
Washington. An immediate drop in
prices on canned vegetables was pre
dicted by the food administration as
a result of the operation of the license
?ystem for wholesale dealers. Many
canned goods, it as said, were
bought by dealers at low prices last
Tormg and can be sold at less than
rihe&present market prices. Dealers
charfrinsr more than a reasonable profit
areiable to forfeiture of their license
to do business.
G A JO Y GUARS
IRE VON L
RO
NOTES MADE
TWO MORE SHED ADDITIONAL
LIGHT ON INTRIGUE IN
SOUTH AMERICA.
WANTED SUBMARINE SQUAD
Washington. Two more of the no
torious Count von Luxburg messages
to the German foreign office from
Buenos Aires were made public by
Secretary Lansing. They provide of
ficial confirmation of Germany's plan
to control southern Brazil, shed addi
tional light upon Teutonic intrigue in
South America generally, and reveal
that Luxburg appealed vainly for a
squadron of submarines with which to
awe some Latin-Americans and to flat
ter others with salutes.
These dispatches, , like others that
have gone before, were given out by
Secretary Lansing without discussion
of their contents. The only comment
was In this statement attached to the
copies :
"In view of the fact that the sub
stance of certain telegrams addressed
by Count Luxburg to the German
foreign office his been published, the
secretary of state makes public the ac
tual text of the telegrams."
The messages follow:
"No. 63. July 7, 1917. Our attitude
towards Brazil has created the im
pression here that our easy-going
good-nature can be counted on. This
is dangerous in South America where
the people under thin veneer are In
dians. A submarine squadron wi'h
full powers to me might probably still
save the situation. I request instruc
tions as to whether, after a rupture
of relations, legation is to start for
home or to remove to Paraguay or
possibly Chile. The naval attache
will doubtless go to Sand'aeo de Chile.
"LUXBURG."
"No. 89. August 4, 1917. I am con
vinced that we shall be able to carry
through our principal politcal aims
in South America, the maintenance
of open market in Argentina and the
reorganization of south Brazil Equally
well whether with or against Argen
tina. Please cultivate friendship with
Chile. The announcement of a visit
cf a submarine squadron to salute the
president would even now exercise de
cisive influence on the situation in
South America Prosner-t excellent
for wheat harvest in December.
"LUXBURG."
GERMANY'S LOFSES PLACED
AT SIX MILLION MEN
Washington. Germany lost six mil
lion men in three years of war, accord
ing to the declaration made in the
reichstag by the independent social
ist Ledbour. A report of his speech
reaching Washingon through Switzer
land states that, contemplating the
prospects of a fourth winter campaign,
the socialist leader said.
"You have not evidently, gentle
men, an exact conception of what war
means. We have had 1,500,000 dead;
three or four million wounded, of
whom 500,000 are crippled for life and
two million absolutely invalided. That
makes it altogether six million men
lost during three years."
It is stated that official informa
tion confirmatory of these figures
have been in possession of Ameri
can officials for some time.
BALTIMORE FIRE DESTROYS 1
MUCH WAR SUPPLIES
Baltimore. One of the largest fires
in Baltimore since the great conflagra
tion in Febraury, 1904, that destroyed
the business section of the city is rag
ing at midnight on the big piers of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at its
extensive terminal at Locust Point on
the south side of the harbors. Piers
8 and 9 are stored with vast quantities
of munitions and supplies for the
American forces in France and their
allies.
SUBSTANTIAL PROOF
FAITH IN ITALY
Washingon. Substantial evidence
of America's faith in Italy in the hour
of her trial was given at the treasury
in the form of a loan of $230,000,000.
This brought the total credits extend
ed to Italy to $485,000 000, and the
grand total of loans to the allies o
$3,091,400,000. With this money Italy
will pay for vast quantities of coal
and otherf supplies purchased here for
her armies and industries.
STANDARD LOAF OF
WHEATLESS BREAD
Boston. A standard loaf of wheat
less bread will be adopted by hotels
throughout this state it was announc
ed after a conference between leading
hotel proprietors and Henry B. Endi
cott, state food administrator. A com
mittee was appointed to compile re
cipes from which the best will be sub
mitted to every hotel chef in the state
and made public for home use. Plans
were also sdooted to enforce two fish
days a week at aT hotels.
PDRLIC
DR. O.R. ROLSTONIS
SYNOD MODERATOR
DR. WELLS' RESPONSE TO HER.
BERT HOOVERS REQUE8T
IS APPROVED.
MEET IN RALEIGH IN 1918
Red Springs Loses in Contest for Next
Meeting Much Progressive
Work Reported.
( Fayetteville. Raleigh was selected
as next year's meeting place of the
North Carolina Presbyterian synod,
by a vote that indicated a large ma
jority over Red Springs until the vote
was made unanimous, when Dr. C. O.
Vardell, who invited the synod to Red
Springs, voted for the capital city
when he saw Raleigh would win. State
Treasurer B. R. Lacy invited the body
to Raleigh, seconded by Dr. W. McC.
White and Dr. A. A. McGeachy.
The date of the meeting will be
left to the selection of the moderator,
stated clerk and the minister of the
First church of Raleigh, and will be
governed by the date of the state fair.
The synod finished up its work at the
night session and adjourned.
Dr. D. H. Rolston. of the First Pres
byterian church of Charlotte, was
elected by acclamation moderator of
the Synod of North Carolina in its
104th annual session which began
here today. He succeeds Rev. Dr. J,
N. H. Summerell, of New Bern.
The synod placed itself on record as
endorsing the action of Dr. J. M
Wells, as moderator of the general as
sembly, in appointing committees 1b
each synod to co-operate with the na
tional government in the food con
servation campaign.
Dr. A. D. McClure and Dr. C. E.
Raynall, having been appointed a
committee to sustain this action, in
troduced a resolution endorsing Dr.
Wells' program, which was adopted
unanimously. There was no opposi
tion on the floor, although one dele
gate made inquiry as to the method of
procedure.
The synod listened to an Interesting
talk by Dr. W. T. Elmore, of Hamil
ton, N. Y., Id charge of Y. M. C. A.
work at Camp Greene, Charlotte.
After Dr. Wells had stated to the
synod his position on church co op
eration in the food conservation pro
gram and a discussion of the ques
tion, Rev. W. S Goodman presented
the report on Sunday school exten
sion work. Mr. Goodman's report
showed 29 new Sunday schools enroll
ed in the work during the year, mak
ing a total of 489 for the synod. Fay
etteville presbytery leading with 131.
The sum of $40,000 was contributed to
the Sunday school extension fund by
175 schools. The report stated that
$48,000 was needed for next year.
Dr. A. D. McClure, of Wilmington, dis
cussed the report, holding up the First
church of Fayetteville as a splendid
example of Sunday school extension,
this congregation having a greater
number of mission schools than any
other church in the synod.
Dr. R. C. Anderson, agent of the
Montreat association, discussed the af
fairs of Montreat, reporting 10,000
visitors during the past summer, a
model community of 250 homes, a
normal school for girls without means
of securing an education, utilizing as
sembly buildings.
The report on the Barium Springs
orphanage was made by Dr. H. G.
Hill, president of the board of regents.
The orphanage supports 231 children.
Dr Hill reported an increase of $5,000
in the endowment fund, and that insti
tution has a balance of $440 on hand,
despite the increased cost of mainte
nance. Tar Heel Nurses for France.
Richmond, Va. Seven trained
nurses from North Carolina will form
part of the personnel of the Medical
College of Virginia Hospital Unit be
in tr formed here for service in France.
They are Miss Josie Ash by, Mt. Airy;
Miss Margaret Ashion, Rocky Mount:
Miss Cora Foy. Gastonia; Miss Louise
Reinhardt, Miss Hettie Reinhardt. and
Miss Jane Eckles, Black Mountain:
Miss M. E. Williamson, Salisbury.
Winter Grazing for Cattle.
Raleigh. The state department of
agriculture is much interested in the
idea expressed by R. W. Collett, of the
state test farms, that as much of the
beef cattle as possible now in the
mountain counties be driven into the
piedmont and eastern counties for win
der grazing, now thr.t the heavy frosts
have about put out of commission the
grazing lands in the mountain sec
tions. Commissioner of Agriculture
W. A .Graham hopes that this sugges
tion will be amply tried out.
Pioneer Photographer is Dead.
Morganton. L. A. Ramsour, the
pioneer photographer of North Caro
lina, and who has made photographs
ior over 50 years in North Carolina,
died at his home near Table Rock, in
this county. Mr. Ramsour made
daguerotypes in their day, then tin
types, then the wet plate and later the
dry plate process and was the first
photographer to make a photograph on
a sheet of paper in the state, it is said
He has been confind to his home sev
eral years, but still made a few pictures.