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PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. DECEMBER 26, 1918
VOL. XL fro. 21.
Record
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT CO UN
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
r
Gathered From All Parts Of Th
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Domestic
Secretary of War Baker opines that
states must give cities greater latitude
In dealing with local Individual prob
lems. Jack Coombs may manage the Phil
lies next year.
Ty Cobb, on his return from
France, says that, while baseball still
has a fascination for him, he may
have quit the, game for good.
The Atlanta city council has order
ed a probe of the gas prices in that
city.
Charles D. Harris, probably the
youngest captain in the United States
Army, was killed in action. He was
a nephew of Senator-Elect William J.
Harris of Georgia.
The jitney bus ordinance of the city
of Atlanta has been repealed. The
ordinance has been fought through
all the state courts and is now in the
"United States Supreme court. The
old ordinance made the jitney bus a
common carrier, and subject to the
restrictions of a common carrier. At
lanta has now removed all restrictions.
Atlanta has a new sensation or spec
tacular event every day. Now it Is
a strike of the gas men. The men
want better hours and better pay. The
company declines to grant the re
quest, and says it is training men to
take the strikers jobs.
December 17 was a busy day In
Denver, Colo. Bone dryness went into
effect that day, and there were thou
sands of thirty souls who wanted to
supply themselves for the days to
come. Express officials worked to
the "dropping" point.
President, Wilson has been present
ed a gold medal of the city of Paris.
Mrs. Wilson was presented a diamond
brooch, adorned with an enamel dove.
President Wilson is now a citizen
of Rome and Paris, as well as execu
tive and citizen of the United States.
The Presbyterian church is taking
the lead in the movement for the pur
pose of unifying a program for the pro
jected united action of the churches
in a war reconstruction campaign.
Four congresses will be held one in
Atlanta, one Philadelphia, one in Chi
cago and one in. Toronto, Canada.
Thirty-six governors held a confer
ence in Annapolis, Md." Secretary of
War Baker told them that the war
had proven the necessity of x strong
state governments in peace as well as
in war.
European
It is persistently stated that the Rus
sian Bolsheviki is endeavoring to en
list an army of three million men ' to
put down conservatism.
It is reported that food is so scarce
in Russia that horse flesh sells for
10 rubles ($5) a pound, and black
bread for 12 rubles ($6). a loaf, when
it can be obtained at all.
The Bolsheviki is a "progressive''
herd, to say the least. They are hold
ing former imperialists as hostages to
be shot in case any member of the
Bolsheviki government is assassinat
ed. Recently when one of the Bol
sheviki ministers was slain, the gov
ernment proceeded to wreak ven
geance on 512 hostages.
The British steamship Corinthian,
which stuck on Northwest ledge at the
mouth of the Bay of Fundy, a few
hours after she left that port for Glas
gow, with a valuable cargo, was re
ported to be pounding to pieces in a
heavy sea, but that the crew was saved
to a man. (
Hugo Haase and Herr Barth, two of
the three Independent . Socialist mem
bers of the committee of six which
constituted the German government,
have resigned, according to reports re
ceived in Geneva.
The council of people's commission
ers of Germany, according to a Berlin
telegram, has authorized the forma
tion of a volunteer national guard to
maintain public order and safety. The
organization is to be under the com
plete control of the commissioners and
will be pledged to support the Social
ist Democratic republic.
President Wilson of the United
States spent his first Sunday in Paris
by going twice to church, laying a
wreath on the tomb of Lafayette, and
having a brief conference with Pre
mier Clemeneeau and another with
Col. E. M. House. ''
The supreme military tribunal at
Vienna announces that 11,400 persons
were sentenced to death by the Aus
trian military tribunals during the war
and executed.
It is stated that Germany is spend
ing too much money on irrelevant de
tails of state administration.
The British government has decided
upon the attitude it will adopt at the
peace conference regarding the free
dom of the seas. It is stated that the
British government is reaiy-,i.to con
cede to the United States, th freest
of all free hands in naval fevelop
ment, and it welcomes the idea of the
extension of American sea power as
one of the best guarantees of the peace
of the world and of real freedom of the
seas.
Italy, .with a population of only 36,
000,000 and with 5,500,000 men called
to the colors, suffered approximately
1,500,000 casualties In the war.
During the war twelve fcpies were
shot in the tower of London. Among
the condemned were two. women, but
they were reprieved and sentenced to
long terms of imprisonment.
Copenhagen hears that the intente
governments intend to refuse to send
foodstuffs to Germany until a demand
they are said to have made for the
dissolution of the soldiers' and work
men's council is carried put. The allies
may reserve the right to march Into
Germany.
With the arrival of the Americans
at the Rhine, a company of engineers
preparea to throw a temporary bridge
across the stream. There were, how
ever, already four bridges spanning the
stream, two here and one in the north
and another to the south, over which
the American army was ordered to
corss December 13 in a thirty-mile
arc. ,
A voice interrupted the British pre
mier when he was speaking in Bristol
the other day anent the superiority of
the British navy: "Then watch Wil
son!" "Well, I hope to meet him in a
fortnight. I will tell him what you
say," instantly shouted the premier.
The German finance minister says
that if the war had ended in the fall
the amount of money required from im
perial taxation would have reached
fourteen billion marks. These calcu
lations have been . upset by recent
events.
David Lloyd-George says that Geat
Britain's navy must remain supreme,
no matter what the action of the peace
conference.
Washington
Signs point to the conclusion that the
present pope will refuse, ere long, to
consider himself a "prisoner of
Rome." Some foreign "papers say he
may attend the peace conference.
President Wilson will take Christ
mas dinner with the American troops
in France. He will make a speebh,
which, it is declared, will deal with
international questions, and will place
the United States' position clearly be
fore the world. x
Church unity may not ie so far
away as it may seem. It is, hinted tbatjp divergencies of opinion, the presi
the pope may request Presidefit Wilson-ent is constantly giving tne closest
to act as mediator between, the quiri- attention 'to immediate problems. He
nal and the Vatican. The pope as head receiving reports from the United
of the Roman" Christians represent -states from Amercain diplomatic
tne tneocrauc iaea or government in
church; while President Wilson, who
is a rigid Presbyterian, whose Prot
estant orthodoxy cannot be question
ed, represents the democratic, idea of
church government. We may be'liv'
ing in more wonderful times than we
appreciate. It is perfectly apparent"
that it Wilson snouia De successiui in
umpiring a dispute as long standing
as that between the quirinal and the
Vatican that theologians could dis
pense with some of their hobbies and
get closer together.
In a report to the war department
General Pershing reports the unre
ported casualties as follows: Killed in
action, 390; died of wounds, 275; died
of disease, 353; accidentally killed, 51;
severely wounded in action, 39,731. To
tal 40,440 unreported.
Dr. Sidonio Paes, president of Por
tugal, was shot a.nd killed by an as
sassin shortly before midnight Decem
ber 15, while. he in a railway station
at Lisbon waiting for a train to Opor
to. Advices from Lisbon reporting the
assassination say that he was struck
by three bullets, ai d died within a few
minutes after he was shot. According
to a Havas dispatch the assassin was
lynched by the crowd. . .? - ..
The assassinated president of Pprtus
gal, Doctor Paes, was a professor of
mathematics in the University of Coin
bra when he entered the Portuguese
cabinet in 1911 as minister of public
work. At the outbreak of the war
he was Portuguese minister to Ber
lin and remained in Berlin until early
in 1916, when he returned to Lisbon.
One of his first acts after being; pro-,
claimed president was to take active
steps for great participation In; the
war by Portugal.
In a clash on November 28 between
the army navy guard of the American
steamship Monterey arid Mexican 'cus
toms guards at Tampico, one: Mexican,
said to have been captured, was killed;
a Mexican soldier mortally wounded,
and a chief gunner's mate, named Ber
ry, in charge of the American guard,
less seriously hurt. This was learned
with the steamer's arrival in New
York from Havana and Nassau, where
she touched after leaving Tampico. ,
The "United States stands ready to
tender alone, or in conjunction with
other countries of their hemisphere,
all possible assistance" to bring about
an eouitable solution of the difficul
ties presented in the Chife-Peru .sit
uation, says" Acting Secretary of State
Polk.
All South American countries have
been asked by the United States to
join in the suggesion to Chile and
Peru that the interests of pan-American
unity demand an amicable settle
ment of their controversy over the
provinces of Tacna and Arica. Acting1
Secretary Polk of the state depart
ment announced this, explaining that
it had been erroneously reported that
Argentine alone had been approached
on the subject.
Cablegrams announce that President
Wilson reached the harbor of Brest on
board the steamer George Washington
and stepped , on shore the first time
an American executive had evr trod
den European soil. The arriaj.was
the culmination of an imposing haival
spectacle which began as the presi-
dential fleet rounded the outer capes,
then passed the entrance forts'; and
moved majestically into the harbor,
where the George Washington anchor
ed at the head of a long double column
of American dreadnaughts and 'd
stroyers and the units of a French crui
ser squadron.
DEFINITE PUNS
SHAPING SLOWLY
PRESIDENT SATISFIED THAT THE
FRENCH AND BRITISH ARE
IN ACCORD WITH HIM.
PEACE IS FIRST TASK
Neutral Nations Will Not Come Into
General Discussions Now Going on ,
Among Peace Delegates.
Paris. Definite plans for the peace
conference are not shaping as rapidly
as some of the American commission
ers expected. Meanwhile President
Wilson is taking advantage of oppor
tunity to assess public opinion in
Prance arnd incidentally in Great Brit
ain. His advisers say that he is en
tirely satsified that these peoples are
largely in accord with the principles
he has announced as necessary to dur
able peace.
The members of the American mis
sion are ?em ploying their time before
countries actually assemble, in a se
ries of informal conferences, which
eventually will include a representa
tive of each of the entente belliger
ents. Neutral states will not come
into these discussions.
The feeling among all the entente
conferees is that the making ' of
peace should be their first task, so
that they may determine upon the
broad outlines of a league of nations,
which, later, representatives of neu
tral countries will assist in com
pleting. While the American commission-
1 ers are holding these informal ex
changes, which are designated to clear
agencies throughout the world and
from the group of investigators
brought here for the purpose of study
ing the many special problems which
will arrive. These investigators are
continuing their studies with the ad
vantage now of being on the ground.
64,842 CASUALTIES ARE
YET TO BE PUBLISHED
Washington. Casualties of the
American expeditionary forces, which
have not been published, but which
have been announced officially .by
General Pershing, had been" reduced
at noon, December 18, to a total of
64,892. These, the war department
announced, were clawified as follows:
Major casualties, including killed
in action;-died of wounds, died of dis
ease and died of other causes, 1,680;
wounded, 64,862; missing and prison
ers, .350.
A large proportion of the 64,842
names listed as wounded are minor
cases, it was said, many patients hav
ing long since recovered and return
ed' to duty. Officials explained that
tjie total is really less, due to the
"fact that General Pershing's total in
cluded marine casualties of 1,202 kill
ed and more' than 4,000 wounded,
which already have been published
by the marine headquarters here.
GERMANY WILL NOT HAVE
ANYTHING TO EXPAND ON
London. "Germany is ruined for
generations politically, industrailly and
economically," Dr. Walter Rathenau,
president of the German Electric Co.,
is quoted as declaring to the Berlin
correspondent of The Daily Express.
"It is the greatest calamity that has
happened to any country in two thous
and years," added Dr. Rathenau, who
is one of the largest employers of la
bor in Germany. "If the indemntiies
are high we sh'all have nothing with
which to expand cur industries and
there will be a great tide of emigra
tion, probably to South America, the
far east and certair.ly to Russia. The
result will be the Balkanization of
Europe."
SENATOR SIMMONS RECEIVES
COMPLIMENTARY NOTICES
Washington. Washington Star car
ries a highly complimentary editorial
for the work of Senator Simmons,
chairman of the senate finance com
mittee, and his work on the revenue
bill.) The Star says, in part: "Mr.
Simmons is proba-bly feeling good,
and certainly is entitled to such a
feeling. Steering two revenue meas
ures through the senate in one con
gress is a notable performance.
OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN
OF THE PEASE CONFERENCE
Paris. During President Wilson's
inspection of the American peace mis4
aion headquarters in the Hotel De Cril
lon, an official photograph was made
of the president and the other deler
gates by army photographers. The
photograph was taken in the confer
erence room of the American head
quarters. President Wilso:i continues to re
ceive exhaustive reports of what iu go
ing on in Washington.
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ENEMY WAR SHIPS
AMERICAN PEACE DELEGATES
WILL RESIST. ANY PROJECT
FOR DISTRIBUTION
ENGLAND AGREES TO PLAN
Great Idea in the Proposition is the
. Avoidance of Dissension Ambrrg
the Several Nations.
Paris. The American delegates to
the peace congress have resolved to
advocate the sinking of tihe surrender
ed enemy warships and resist any
proposition to distribute them on the
basis of naval losses. This announce
ment is made by those in close touch
with the American representatives,
who, it is added, feel that such a po
sition would result in avoiding dissen
sion and materially support President
Wilson's declaration that the war was
not based on aggression or the acquisi
tion of property.
England .through Sir Eric Geddes,
first lord of the admiralty, had pre
viously acquiesced in the American
plan to destroy the captured ' or sur
rendered warships, and it is declared
will continue to support the United
States, ,iai
SENATOR OVERMAN FIGHTS
CHILD LABOR AMENDMENTS
Washington. Senator Overman at
tacked the child labor amendment to
the revenue bill in the senate. He em
phasized the argument that the amend
ment is not to raise revenue, but to use
the taxing power "to nullify an opinion
of the supreme court in which it
states that the act (the Child Labor
law) was unconstitutional."
GLASS MAKES REQUEST OF
CHARITABLE AGENCIES
Washington Secretary of Treasury
Glass in a statement requested chari
table " organizations seeking funds by
public subscription to refrain from
making any suggestion to the public
that they will accept Liberty bonds or
war savings stamps unless' they intend
to use those securities as endowment
funds to be held for permanent in
vestment. Mr. Glass said that in appealing
for Liberty bonds and war savings
stamps the organizations seemed to
overlok the fact that so long as the
government must sell additional se
curities the taking of bonds of pre
vious issues ty charitable organiza
tions and the subsequent resale of
such bonds on the open market has a
tendency to depress the price.
LANE EXPOUNDS MEANING OF
PRESIDENT'S VISIT ABROAD
Annapolis. Commenting on Presi
dent Wilson's trip Secretary Lane
paid:
"I have seen criticisms of the
president, and so have you, for going
across the vater at this time. The
spirit whici animates .him in going
is the spirit of the new day. It is
the spirit of giving youh andto your
neighbor.
"It is the spirit that would make
this war tie end of wars.
"The man who stands as the rep
resentative of the foremost democracy
: of the world goes to Europe not that
: ha may march down the Champs-Ely-j
see, not that he may receive the
plaudtis of the French multitudes. But
he goes to Europe as the champion of
! American ideals because he wants to
I see that out of this war comes some
thing worth while. He would have
been derelict, he would have been neg
ligent, he would have been false to his
own conscience and false to our idea
of him if he had not stood in Paris
in person as the champion of that prin
ciple which we love and those institu
tions which we hope to see spread
around the world.
AMBASSADOR DAVIS PRESENTS
HIS CREDENTIALS TO KING
London. John W -Davis, the new
American ambassador to Great Brit
ain, presented his credentials to King
George at Buckingham palace. Mr.
Davis was accompanied to the palace
by Naval Attache " Louchlin and Mili
tary Attache Wright.
The ambassador and his staff drove
to the palace in royal carriages sent
by King George. The ambassador was
attended by Sir Arthur Walsh, master
of ceremonies to the king.
POSTOFFICE APPROPRIATION '
BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE
Washington. The annual postoffice
appropriation bill, carrying a total of
$35;. 350,000, vas passed by the house
with an amenlment requiring the post
master general to use army aviators
for mail airplanes instead of organiz
ing a separate flying corps.
Supporters of the amendment pro
viring that airiiail planes shall be "op
erated nd mtntained by the per
sonnel of the army air service
PROPOSA
RUSSIA PRESENTS
A GREAT PROBLEM
SETTLEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN
QUESTION ONE OF FIRST TO
BE ARRANGED.
GOVERNMENT SADLY SPLIT UP
Entente Nations, Have Not Yet Lost
Hope That Stable Regime May
Be Established.
Washington. The Russian situation
already has been taken up by Presi
dent Wilson with French statesmen,
it was learned here, and the deter
mination of a definite policy on which
all the allied countries and the United
; States may agree will be one of the
first things undertaken at the prelim
inary meetifigs which are to precede
the peace conference.
Russia's plight and the attitude to
be adopted by the victorious associ
ated nations is recognized as one of
the most serious problems of the con
ference. Every proposed solution so
far is said to have been blocked by
the unanswered question of who is
qualified , to speak for the Russian
people.
. Even when a set of leaders is rec
ognized as Russian spokesmen, the
United States and the allies must face
the great question of how they can
be aided in setting up a stable govern
ment and in preventing famine, for
the benefit of Russia herself, and in
the interest of the peace of the world.
The government at Omsk, of which
the United States and other govern
ments has expected much, is now in
the hands of a dictator and split into
factions. The entente nations have
not given up hope that the Omsk au
thorities may yet evolve a stable form
of government for Russia.
ADMIRAL CASTRO IS NEW
PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL
New York. Santos Fernandez, rep
resentative of the Portuguese ship
ping board here, declared that the
new president of Portugal, Admiral
Canto E. Castro, undoubtedly had been
chosen by parliament "to conciliate
all factions." Lacking complete In
formation, he said he believed Castro
was now provincial head of the re
public and subject to a future popular
election.
PROMPT ACTION ON REVENUE
BILL URGED BY PENROSE
Washington. Rapid progress on the
war revenue bill was made by the
senate with leaders apparently uniting
to hasten its passage by late this week
or at least before the- holidays.
After Senator Penrose, senior re
publican of the finance committee,
had delivered a prepared address
urging prompt passage of the bill,
but disapproving its provisions to fix
1920 tax rates, the senate, with only
a handful of members present and
with perfunctory discussion, adopted
many important amendments and ap
proved pages of minor provisions.
Consideration of all 1920 rates, how
ever, was postponed.
The war excess profits rates for
1919, ranging from 30 "to 80 per cent
as revised by the finance committee
and estimated to raise $2,400,000,000
as compared with $3,200,000,000 under
the house bill.
Rates of $6.40 and $2.20 a gallon,
respectively, on distilled spirits for
beverage and non-beverage purposes,
as reduced from the respective $8
and $4.40 gallon rates of the house
bill and estimated to raise 454,000,
000 as against $760,000,000 under the
house draft ;
Taxes on freight, passenger, ex
press, Pullman and oil pipe line
transportation, as proposed In the
finance committee's revision and esti
mated to yield $229,000,000; and,
Repeal on Jly 1, next, of the law
increasing first ass mail rates from
2 to 3 cents an ounce, and providing
for restoration of the old pre-war
rates involving a revenue reduction
of about $50,000,000.
COMMONWEALTH OF
JEWS IS PROPOSED
Philadelphia. The American Jew
ish congress declared for a Jewish
commonwealth in Palestine under the
trusteeship of Great Britain, acting
on behalf of such league of nations
as may be formed. ' .
The declaration, in the -form of a
resolution, was adopted amid wild en
thusiasm. The 400 delegates repre
senting more than 3,000,000 members
of their race in the United States, rose
and sang the Hatikvoh.
CAMP BRAGG MAY,
BE DISCONTINUED
Washington. It looks as if the Fay
.tteville camp may be doomed. The
debate in the house, over the adver
tisement for 12,000 workmen after the
; armistice was signed, has made the
war department timid about Camp
; Bragg. This announcement was made
by the war department news bureau.
"The director of operations has in
structed the construction division to
abandon the 'construction of an artil
lery cantonment at Camp Jackson."
I0RTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE
large Number of Delegates Attended
Recent Session of This Great ,
Body at Goldsboro.
Goldsboro. The eighty-second ses
don of the North Carolina confer
snce, Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, convened here with about 400
ninisters and laymen present. .'
Bishop U. V. W.. Darlington, of
Huntington, W. Va., is presiding. He
led the devotions by administering
ihe sacrament of the Lord's supper to
ihe conference.
The following are the appointments
made by Bishop Darlington in the
Fayetteville, Durham, Raleigh' and
Rockingham districts:
FayetteVille district Presiding el
ier, J. D. Bunday; Bladen, J. W. Dim
mette; Buckhorn E. C. Maness; Car
thage, N5. E. Coletrain; Duke W. E.
Brown; Dunn, J. M. Daniel; Fayette
ville, Hay street, W. V. McRae; Per
son and Calvary, T. H. Sutton; Fay
ette ville circuit, W. F. Craven; Gold
3ton circuit,' F F. Taylor; Haw River,
G. W. Perry; Hemp, H. E. Lance;
Jonesboro, V. A. Royal; Lillington, N.
M. McDonald; Newton Grove, J. I.
Midgett; Parkton W. L. Maness;
Pittsboro, P. D. Woodall; Roseboro,
R. F. Muns; Sandford, W. R. Royall;
Siler City, H. B. Porter; Steadman,
J. A. Tharpe.
Durham district Presiding 'elder,
J. C. Woo ten; Burlington, S. E. Mer
cer; Burlington circuit, W. F. Gallo
way; Brooksdale, J. A. Russell; Chap
el Hill, E. H. McWhorter; Durham
Branson, J. A. Martin; Calvary, L. D.
Hayman; Carr, H. C. Smith; Lake
wood, Samuel Maxwell, supply; Me
morial, M. Bradshaw; Trinity, C. J.
Harrell; West Durham, W. C. Mar
tin; Durham circuit, J. C. Humble;
East Burlington, E. C. Glenn; East
Roxboro and Longhurst, J. L. Shaver;
Graham and Haw River, J. R. Ed
wards; Hillsboro, M. E. Hester; Lees
burg, R. E. Atkinson; Mebane, B. F.
Boone; Milton, J. E. Blalock, Mount
Tirzah, L. L. Smith; Orange, B. C.
JMerritt; Pearl Mill and Eno, W. L.
Rollins; Pelham, J. C. Long; Person,
J. A. Daily; Rougemont, M. A. Petty;
Roxboro. C. W. Dwd South Ala
mance,' N. B. Strickland; Yancey
ville, S. F. Nicks; professor of bibli
cal literature, Trinity college, H. E.
Spencer; chaplain United States army,
W. A. McCullen; student Boston uni
versity, H.- E. Myers.
Raleigh district Presiding elder, J.
E. Underwood; Benson, E. M. Hall,
J. T. Standford, Jr., preacher; Cary,
R. C. Ross; Clayton, C. L Hinson;
Four Oak, E. B. Craven; Franklinton,
T. A. Sikes; Garner, M. B. Cox; Gran
ville, B. H. Black; Princeton, J. G.
Johnston; Kenly.C. P. Jerome Louis
burg, G. F. Smith; Millbrook, J. C.
Williams; Oxford, R. C. Craven; Ox
ford circuit, B. C. Thompson; Raleigh
Central, D. N. Caviness; Edenton
Street, W. W. Peele, J. C. Guthrie, su
pernumerary; Ep worth, W. G. McFar
land; Jenkins Memorial, C. W. Rob
inson; Selma, C. KJ. Proctor;
Smithfield, S. A. Cotton; Tar River.
J. B. Perry; Youngs ville, H. M. Jack
son; Zebulon, J. W. Fisher; superin
tendent Anti-Saloon League, R. L. Da
vis; editor Raleigh Christian Advo
cate, L. S. Massep; superintendent
Methodist orphanage, A. S. Barnes;
editor Christian Advocate, T. N. Ivey;
conference missionary secretary, A. D
Willcox; president Louisburg college
F. S. Love; chaplain " United State!
jnavy, W. E. Edmundson.
1 Rockingham district Presiding el
der, H. M. North; Aberdeen, J. H
1 Hall; Biscoe, A. S. Parker; Caledonia
G. M. Daniel;. Elizabeth, W. B. Hum
ble; Ellerbe, G. H. Biggs; Hamlet, J
H. Buffalo; Laurel Hill, G. T. Sim
mons; Laurinburg, E. H. Davis; Lum
berton, R. C. Beaman; Lumberton cir.
cuit, R, A. 'Burton; Maxton, J. A
Hornaday; Montgomery, N. ' L. Sea
boldt; Mount Gilead circuit, W. F
Yearby; Mount Gilead circuit, W. F
Tray wick; Rae.ford, B. P. Robinson;
Red Springs, A. J. Parker; Richmond.
B. F. Watson, supply; Robertdel, E. L
Hill; Robinson, J. T. Draper; Rock
ingham, A. L. Ormond; Rowland, A
J. Groves; St. John and Gibson, W.
Brown; St. Paul, G. W. Starling; Troy,
J. P. Bross; Vass, L. H. Joyner; pres
ident Carolina college, R. B. John.
The next session of the North Caro
lina conference will meet with the
Methodist church in Wilson.
Keep Your Sayings Stamps.
Winston-Salem'. State war savings
headquarters has been informed that
in not a few localities in the state,
people are cashing in their war sav
ings stamps. According to informa
tion this is being done, first, through
misapprehension as the the date of
the. maturity of the stamps, second, for
the purpose of spending the money for
Christmas and, third, because certain
salesmen are inducing owners" oi
stamps to get money to buy whatever
they are offering for -sale.
Looking for Profiteers.
Wilmington. M. W. Nash, district
inspector for the food administration,
arrived here today to give wide oppor
tunity In regard to profiteering which
general declarations have said exists
here in - large quantities. Mr. Nash
announces-that generalities are taboo;
.that he -.wants specific instances of
high food prices and if any citizen will
lay well-founded complaint, he can
get the action he wants. Complaints
as to high prices have been general.
Severe punishment is sureto follow
convictions.
DISSENSION EXISTS
III FARMERS UIIIOli:
NUMEROUS DISCORDANT NOTES
STRUCK AT RECENT MEETING
HELD AT WILSON.
WILL PASS THROUGH TRIALS
Said Many Local 'Unions Will With-
J
dFaW"; f rom Parent Bpdy
Operate Separately.
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- Durham. -Rumbles of dissension in
the ranks of the North Carolina Farm
ers' union, following the annual con
vention held recently in Wilson, have
found their way to this city, and to
judge from rumors the organization
will, during the coming year, pass
through trials and tribulations.
Within the not far distant future
various locals, units of the state unit,
will in all probability pull away from
the parent organization. Sentiment in
favor of such action is said to be
strong among the members of the
Durham county union. Rumors that
are well founded say further that
many locals throughout the state con
templates similar action.
The plans, it is said, which found
root at the Wilson convention will
mean that many locals will dislodge
themselves with the state organiza
tion. Afterwards they will operate
separate and distinctly outside the
bounds of the Alexander organiza
tion.
Charges of politics in the state
union are heard on all sides. It is
further claimed that the death knell
of the state union is sounded through
the fact decrease in state union mem
bership. Some years ago the organi
zation boasted 35.000 members. It is
claimed that it now has less than 20,
000 members. With more than 500,
000 farmers in the state, local far
mers explain that the union repre
sents in only a small way the farmers
of North Carolina.
Burlington Has Big Blaze.
Burlington. Damage estimated at
$250,000 resulted from fire in the
business district which destroyed
three concerns and partly burned the
buildings and stocks of several others.
The greatest individual loss was sus
tained by the Burlington Hardware
Company.its building and stock hav
ing been valued at $100,000. The M
B. Smith Furniture Company and the
Kirk-Holt Hardware Company, both
destroyed, placed their loss at $45,000
and $50,000, respectviely.
Appeal for Appropriation.
Wilmington. The city's recent ex
perience with incorrigible boys has
moved council to prepare a strong
appeal to the next legislature to en
large its appropriation for the Stone
.wall Jackson training school until de
linquent ' boys from all over the state
may be admitted and cared for. This
county is allowed to send five boys,
and that number had been sent when
the probation officer reported he had
as many as 30 delinquents in his
'charge. ,who were going from bad to
worse. The court had placed them
in his charge to keep lron sending
them to jail or the county workhouse
or farm. Men and women of the city
started a movement to establish a
local refromatory, when arrangement .
was made with the Concord institu
tion to take some of the worst cases
at the rate of $200 a year each for.
maintenance. The city council feels .
that this is the state's duty, and that
in having to pay out its sorely needed
cit? funds, it is undertaking to do
work that the state should do.
Notice toK Sheep Breeders.
Charlotte. County Agent Charles
E. Miller said that anyone wishing to,
purchase western sheep should see. ,k
him this week or next. One car of
100 sheep said Mr. Miller, are yearl
ing ewes, weight about 100 pounds,
are of Rambouillet grade, guaranteed
to shear from 10 to 16 pounds, bred
to lamb in February or March. Th
price has been fixed; at $16.50 plus
about $1.50 freight.
Highway Move Continues.
Charlotte. The move for the con
struction of a highway between
Charlotte and Wilmington continues,
communications received by Co. T. L.
Kirkpatrick indicates. A letter from
Secretary J. H. Cowan, of the Wil
mington chamber of commerce, gave
assurance that the people of eastern
Carolina are still in the fight for the
highway. He wrote that the Wilming
ton chamber not only has adopted
resolutions calling for the construc
tion of the highwiy, but also has en
dorsed the bill pending in Congress.
Cheap Coal for Soldiers..
Charlotte. Wives or dependents of
soldiers can get coal from Camp
Greene at cheap-prices if theymake
application, enclosing with the" appli
cation a certificate signed by the sol
dier. Fred B: McCall, of the cham
ber of commerce, said the organiza
tion had been Informed by Camp
Greene .officials. The chamber plans
to have' certificates printed which,
wives or dependents of soldiers can
get, these to be sent to the soldier to
be signed. A large sxrpply of cccl i
on hand at Camp Greene.
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