POWER COMPANY PURCHASES MILL BUYS CONTOL OF BIG PROPERTY SITUATED ON CATAWBA RIVER. MILL WHS BUILT IN 1184 Tuckaseege Plant of Gaston County Passes From Possession of Mt. Holly Citizens. Gastonia. —Announcement is made by the former owners, H. A. Rhyne, of Mt. Holly, W. W. Glenn, of Gastonia, that the Tuckaseege mill, on the Ca tawba river, near Mt. Holly, had passed from their control to that of the Tuckaseege Spinning company, A. Q. Kale, F. S. Kale and C. A. Cochran incorporators. The Southern Power compnay is the real owner of the property, the corporation having taken over the plant as part of its schedule of buying everything up and down the Catawba river. A. Q. Kale, who was formerly connected with the High Shoals mills, is president and general manager. The Tuckaseege mill was built in 1883 by A. P. and D. E. Rhyne, of Mt. Holly, and was known as the Tuckaseege Manufacturing company. It was run by water power. A. C. Lineberger, of Belmont, headed the mill for a long time until he went to Belmont. In 1916 the mill and ma chinery were practically destroyed by the big flood of that year. New ma chinery and equipment were installed, and three years ago a hydro-electric development was installed, the mill running by electric power generated from its own dam and generators. The fact that the continuous opera tion of the mill might in some way conflict with the program of the Southern Power company on the Ca tawba led to the negotiations for its sale to the big corporation. The mill has 8,064 spindles and makes fine combed yarns. Rhyne and Glenn each owned a half interest, Rhyne being president and Glenn, sec retary and treasurer. A. P. Rhyne, with a nominal interest was vice pres ident. The Southern Power company took over the mill and 625 acres of land in cluded in the property along the river. From the amount of revenue stamps on the deeds which passed, the sale price of the property was slightly in excess of $500,000, % Few Shoals In Harbor. Wilmington.—Maps just of a survey of the local harbor made by engineers in the office of Maj. O. O. Kuentz, district engineer, show that few shoals of any consequence exist in the harbor channels between Greenfield Creek and the Hilton rail road bridge, or in the waters adjacent to the channel. The survey was or dered by Major Kuentz, upon request of the United States Shipping Board, to which board two or three harbor groundings were recently reported. None of the grounding damaged or delayed the ships scraping the river i bottom. All vessels that touched up on the shoal places were heavily laden. Onslow Builds New County Home. Kinston. —Onslow county will have a new county home, one of the best equipped in the State, according to announcement in construction circles here. Three brick buildings will be erected on a site a short distance from Jacksonville, the county seat. These will take the form of dormitories for whites and negroes and a home for the superintendent. All modern con veniences will be installed, and the structures will be comfortably fur nished. Work will be started shortly. Governor Morrison Marries. Durham. —Governor Cameron Mor rison and Mrs. Sara Ecker Watts, widow of George W. Watts, Durham millionaire financier, were marrfed here at the Watts mansion on South Duke street. Rev. Dr. David H. Scan lon, pastor of the Durham First Pres byterian church, officiated at the cere mony which was witnessed by the Governor’s sister, Miss Ida Morrison, his daughter, Miss Angelia Morrison, and a few personal friends. Imme diately after the ceremony, Governor ahd Mrs. Morrison motored to Greens boro where they were to have taken a New York train for their honeymoon trip. m - The bride, one es the wealthiest women in North Carolina, is a native of Syracuse, N. Y., and was married to the wealthy Durham capitalist in that city on October 25, 1917. Some years ago, she was a trained nurse, but had given up that profession prior to her marriage to Mr. Watts. Bicyclists Killed By Automobile. Wilmington.—Adrian Matthews, 36 years old, Atlantic Coast Line con ductor, was instantly killed here, when struck by a speeding auto on the Wrightsville Turnpike, just east of the city limits. -The body was drag ged 20 feet, the police say, and the bicycle which Matthews was riding, was carried nearly 100 yards. The driver did not stop after hitting Mat thews, and police and county officials have no clue to his identity, other than he was driving a small sedan. ■ Washington Women Kicking Up Their Heels 8 W ;\* 7HII m - IIIBL II 4HI™ M Sn i S I Wives of United States senators and representatives and other society women of Washington going through a series of calisthenics under the direction of Miss Eva Bell Meyers. Among those in the photograph are Mrs. Albert Johnson, Mrs. Royal S. Copeland, Mrs. W. E. Hull, Mrs. E. P. Morey and Mrs. C. W. Co’nger. - It—— Use Psychology to Fight Insect Trend of Latest Experimen tal Work in Combating 801 l Weevil Menace. Washington.—Psychology may yet be resorted to as a means of probing the life secrets of insect pests and re vealing their weakest points. Per haps this may seein an extravagant idea. Still, it is no exaggeration to say that some of the latest experimen tal work with the baffling and power ful cotton boll weevil is in line with psychological tactics. For 30 years the government and cotton planters have fought the boll weevil more or less in the open, by di rect warfare. Poison has so far been the most effective destroyer. The in sects succumb promptly to calcium ar senate in sufficiently strong doses, and where this preparation is used to spray the cotton destruction by the weevil Is greatly reduced. Specially equipped airplanes are now being em ployed as a means of applying the spray to the field. It was discovered some time ago that adult weevils fly In the fall to comfortable hiding places near the cotton fields and there they hibernate peacefully. Knowing this, growers have slain thousands of the pests by burning rubbish and underbrush while the weevils slept. Always Thousands More. The main difficulty with these meth ods used alone is that no matter how many insects or larvae are poisoned or burned there are always thousands, even millions, left, and the future of the weevil race 1c not seriously en dangered. The pests multiply appall ingly. One pair of weevils may result In reproduction of 12,755,100 more In a single seasofa, though It Is true that heat, cold and insect enemies prevent the weevils from increasing at any such rapid rate. Besides slayihg the enemy, the cot ton growers have tried to evade it. They are urged by government agri cultural experts to plant early crops, to select field': for planting which have proved to be least infested, and to take other precautions. The owner of a small cotton patch Is rarely able to fight the weevil hordes, and If he continues to plant cotton without controlling the pests he is only spreading the South’s greatest enemy. For these reasons the govern ment Is of the opinion that cotton growing is reaching the stage at which it can only be conducted on the most up-to-date basis. To raise a success ful crop in the face of the weevil’s determined destructiveness requires rather expensive equipment and scien tific farming methods with every emergency considered. Enormous Annual Loss. The boll weevil has advanced into new territory almost every year since it first crossed the Mexican border back in 1892. Now; 87 per cent of the cotton belt is infested* The an nual loss is estimated at around $300,- 000,000. And, In consequence, the price of cotton goods soars. This Is the situation, and the De partment of Agriculture is trying every possible remedy that even vaguely promises relief for the growers. t The most recent researches are de signed to attack the weevil by Indi rect methods, at its most vulnerable point. This vulnerable point has ap parently been located by 1 methods which would certainly be regarded as psychological if the subjects were hu man beings. The senses, likes and dislikes, and peculiarities of the boll weevil have been studied, so that its personality is understood fairly well. The boll weevil is not a good sub ject for such study. It does 1 not co operate. On the contrary, it feigns death when it Is handled. When the weevil awakes after a winter’s sleep it flies straight to the nearest cotton field, even though that field may he several miles away.' In laboratory experiments it displays this same acuteness in locating cotton I plants. In fact, the weevil’s ability to * locate its chosen- food is almost un canny. Dr. N. E. Molndoo of the bureau of entomology, who has paid particular attention to the sepseS of insects, finds a clew to the mystery in the olfactory organs, which are numerous and highly developed. , Plants Attract Insects. “Entomologists believe that the plants which serve as hosts for in sects have some way of attracting them,” he says. “This might he ac complished by the plants by means of their form, size, color or volatile sub stances thrown off; but since It is .doubtful whether Insects, particularly the boll weevil, can (Ustinguish form, size and color of plants we cannot at tribute much significance to the in sect’s sense of sight. We are con vinced that insects can smell, nnd certain ones have keen olfactory sense. Therefore, we feel that plants, like animals, emit exhalations or emanations and that insects in search ing for food are partly guided to the plants by these exhalations.” A human being can only faintly im agine such sensitiveness of the sense of smell as this Implies, because a man’s olfactory sense, however keen It may seem to him, Is not at all high ly developed. Whether the boll weevil refuses all food except cotton through choice or necessity Is not certain. After observ ing and studying innumerable sub jects, however, scientists are of the opinion that nothing takes the place of cotton In this Insect’s life, and that It Is attracted to -the plant by some odor which,emanates from It. Seek Source of Odor. }Yith this data In mind, the bureau of' entomology has asked the bureau of chemistry to experiment with the odorous qualities of the cotton plant. If the odorous substances of the cot ton can be isolated and analyzed, it may then be possible to obtain them from some other source or to repro duce the odor synthetically. An ef fective poison made to smell#like cot ton, or a trap baited with the cotton odor would probably be the most pow erful lure that could he devised. Isolating and identifying the odor ous substances of any plant are diffi cult and tedious tasks. Dr. F. B. Power and V. K. Chestnut of the bureau of chemistry recently attract ed much public Interest by their suc cess In isolating the odorous sub stances of the apple, and producing a synthetic apple oil, thereby making apple ice cream a practical possibility. These chemists have undertaken the SHE JOINED THE UNION S *;• s S iVi y, Mrs. Clara Fargo Thomas, New York society woman and mural paint er, has been obliged to become tech nically a member of the scene paint ers’ union, in order to show some of her work on the stage. i: U. S. Has 544,671 jj !! Civilian Employees'! I \ I Washington.—The army of «I )! government civilian employees \| ' «» numbered 544,671 at the begin- j j \ \ ning of this year, having been \ J j | reduced 373,089 since the armis- J j -1 \ tice. Statistics issued recently «i j | by the civil service commission J [ !! show, however, number * i * | is still 106,014 more than on J J . ! \ June 30, 1916, before the United * * J \ States entered the war. IJ ’•» The Post Office department • j I \ \ employs 294,226 persons, or \ \ • • slightly more than 54 per cent of * J \ \ the total. That figure does not !! ; | include 36,638 clerks at fourth J J ‘ ~ class offices, because they are «• ; | not paid by the government, nor J J ' i • 19,900 mail messengers. • • ■\ | This army of employees is ) I f «» scattered over the entire world, • • ■ J J embracing consular and diplo- !! * • • matlc representatives. In the ■ J ! I nation’s capital there are 65.025 !! ’ 11 government workers, of * J !! 26,772 are women and 38,253 < i J * men. Outside Washington won; J \ . i en employees nunmer 53,413 and *• 1 11 men total 42,233. J j cotton research. They spent two ! months in Louisiana last summer col lecting material for their investiga tion. Several thousand pounds of cotton plants were required, as the odorous substances of the plant are present In extremely small propor tions. Analysis Is rendered still more difficult by the fact that the odorous substances are very complex. Doctor Power states that he has been giving all his time to the re search since It was begun, but that no definite results can be obtained for some months to come. His only com ment at present is that the work is progressing, and that y the prospects are encouraging. Nicaraguan Government to Take Over Railroad New York. —The government of Nicaragua within the next two months will pay off the remaining debt on the Nicaragua-Pacific Railroad company and establish this lirfe, which runs through the heart of the republic, as a government-owned property, accord ing to Albert Gamez, Jr., consul of Nicaragua to Hamburg. He made the statement here and is going to Ham burg to assume his duties there. The railroad, which runs 250 miles from the Pacific port of Corinto to Granada, has been under the control of American bankers for some time, but the amount owned by the govern ment of Nicaragua has steadily de creased. The property is under the management of J. G., White, Inc., and Mr. Gamez said that an effort would be made to retain the present manage ment when the change in ownership of the property takes place. At the office of the White company It was stated that they had not been informed defi nitely of the change in ownership. Mr. Gamez added that with the raif road In the hands of the government, thus leading to freer traffic, the out look for the future of the business be tween the United States and Nicaragua would be improved. According to present plans the remainder of the $6,000,000 loan to Nicaragua, made several years ago, will be paid off within the next two years. Nicaragua’s coffee crop for the year will be 1,000,000 bags, according to es timates of the government, the largest in the history of the. country. Efforts are being made to develop a cotton industry in the country. Apiarist Gets Stingless Bee From the Adel Strain Tacoma, Wash. —Stingless be'es have now been added to the spikeless cac tus, the stringless bean and the seed less grapefruit. The stingless bee is an exhibit shown to beekeepers in this region by E. J. Campbell of Tenimo, Wash. The bee, which is of the Adel strain, has no offensive armament whatever, and if attacked has no recourse save fly ing away. According to Campbell, the Adel bee is an excellent honey gatherer and a great little playmate for the children. THREE ARE DEAD IN ASYLUM FIRE S BROAD OAKS SANATORIUM PARTLY BURNED; LOSS ABOUT $25,000. P" S. " ■■ - 35 MfIENTS ARE RESCUED r Georgia , Woman Badly Burned; Ex pected to Be Fourth Victim of Early Morning Fire. Morganton, N. C. —Three patients lost their lives and one other was prob ably fatally injured in a which partially destroyed Broad Oaks ‘sanato rium, entailing a property loss estimat ed at $25,000. , The dead are John P. Green, Char l lotfe, contractor; Mrs. Isabella Here ford, of Union, W. Va., who was found after the fire, smothered to death in her bed, and Mrs. Julia Hamilton, of ] Jacksonville, Fla., whose room was cut ! off by the flames, rendering rescue ! impossible and whose charred bones i were- found following the fire. Mrs. | Corneulia Gaines, a patient from Georgia, was. terribly burned. It was , said at Grace hospital, where she was ! taken that no hope is etnertained for j her recovery. Thirty of the 42 pa -1 tients were women. 1 Mr. Green died the death of a hero, ! with a record rarely equalled in fact 1 or fiiction, according to attaches of the ' sanatorium, who credited him with [ having lost his own life solely in ! his efforts to save others. After he J himself had escaped the burning build -1 ing he returned repeatedly the I flames raged and bfought to safety ' at least three women patients, all of I whom might have perished except • for his efforts. He finally was found ! helpless, in* the corridor and rescued ; again, but too late. His injuries were ! fatal. His action, in view of the fact ! that he was weak and had been in 1 very poor health for several years, I was regarded as exemplifying all the 1 elements of the true hero, i Mr. Green was taken to Grace hos | pital, where at first it was reported 1 that he might recover, but he linger | ed all day and then passed away as 1 night came. His step-son-in-law, C. Newton, of Charlotte, came here, ' after hearing the news of Mr. Green’s injury, and was with him at the end. When discovered by the night watch man, Durant Williams, the fire had already gained considerable headway. Doctors, nurses and attendants be gan at once a heroic effort to get out of the burning building the 42 pa tients in their charge and the Mor ganton fire Company, arriving prompt ly on the scene, brought timely aid to them jn this attempt. Many were carried out bodily. Firemen rescued several by ladders placed to second story windows, their work handicap ped by the means formerly employed to prevent the escape of patients. Heavy screening had to be cut and windows broken through by axes. While the work rescue was being car ried on the fire gained rapidly in the frame buildings which formed the north and east wings of the institu tion. Shippers’ Association Organized. Houston, Tex.—The Southern Cot' ton Shippers association, to indude all cotton growing states, was tenta tively formed here. The proposed or ganization would embody several state groups, including the Texas Cotton association, the Oklahoma State Cotton exchange and the Arkan sas Cotton Trade association. Among its purpose would be foster ing of fair play in trade, relations, elimination of misunderstandings be tween southern spinners and buyers of raw cotton, reduction of handling costs, and ultimate decrease in the margin between producer and consum er. Residence Wrecked By Explosion. Pittsboro —An 80-horse .power boiler exploded near the depot, wrecking a near-by residence. Bricks from the boiler and other debris were thrown -100 yards, landing in a field of M. T. Williams and badly damaging his residence and others situated near by. Twelve or 15 men were at work on the yards near-by, of whom several sustained injuries. Nobody was killed Sherman Alston, colored, was struck by a flying brick bat 300 yards from the scene. A man on the yard in a truck had part of the steering wheel he was holding knocked off and his wind-, shield broken, but he was hurt. Windows were broken in homes sev eral blocks away. It is said that the boiler was in bad repair, and this is assigned as the cause of the explosion. ■> - 6 Convictions in Mobile Liquor Cases Mobile, Ala. —'Six defendants wer6 convicted in the United States court a Result of the first day’s trial in the sensational liquor raids by federal agents here last November. Fines ranging from SIOO to S3OO were im posed in five cases and the sixth was sentenced to serve 30 days in the county jail.