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I 1 People of owan and Adjoining "Counties an ui to fetter Advantage in tfalisbiirij Shan Elsewhere 1 1 1 ; i . . : ' ' - ' XT FAIR TONIGHT AND S SUN- EVENING POST THREE MONTHS FOB ONLY $1.00 DAY. . VOL. 9. NO. 199. SALISBURY. NORTH CAROLINA. SATURDAY. AUGUST 3U, 191.1. PRICE TWO CENTS AMERICANS LEAVING JOHN WILLIAM DAVIS. SOLICITOR GENERAL. FIRE CHIEF BROWN ! MR. NEWMAN RETURNS I THE BULL MOOSERS A SURPRISE GOES TO NEW YORK! FROM NEW YORK CUT GATHER AT CHICAGO IN THE THAW CASE liateltary While Many are Going to New Or-! leans and Galveston, Large Num bers are Seeking Safety in Cuba! and Europe. ! Washington, Aug. 29. Reports to! the State Department today contin-j ued to tell of the exodus jf A neri- j cans from Mexico. From Tampicoj came news of large numbs zath-; ering from adjacent States and i. was ( said hundreds were expected at Vet Cruz from the Southern interior States to await embarktion. While many probably will go to New Or-,' leans and Galveston, it is expected that not a few will seek safety in Cuba, while some will co to Europe, j Consul Letscher of Chihuah ta re-; ported that a train left that -ity -.as-! terday bound for El Paso -Tarrying a party of Americans including 54 men, 28 women, 17 children and ini-; ber of other foreigners. 'Ie M.!d,' however, that owing to vhe :o"li in of the tracks no forecast can be made of the time of their arrival !: El Paso. ! Other advices stated that 40 ref ugees who made their way from Du rango to Vera Cruz, were due Jo ar rive in New Orleans tomorrow. Fourteen others on the steamer City of Mexico, now are en route to the same city from Vera Cruz. . J. E. CRUSHED TO DEATH An Aged Granville County Woman Caught Between the Elevator and Door of the Durham Trust Build ing and Killed. Durham, Aug. 29. Mrs. J. E. Keith of the, Creedmoor section r.f Granville county was killed in the el evator of the Trust building here this morning. , Mrs. Keith and her daughter, Miss Meda, had been to the office of Dr. Joseph Graham for a consultation. This office is on the fourth 1oor and they were returning to the strest. The elevator stopped at the e!id floor to take on another passenger. Mrs. Keith thought that she was at the bottom 'floor, and while the other passenger came into the elevator she started out The boy runnihg the elevator hfd his back turned and did not see her. As soon as the other passenger got in he pushed thtj door shut, catching Mrs. Keith's dress between the floor and the door frame. Without look ing around, he sent the elevator down at full speed. Before the could stop the machine Mrs. Keith had been caught between the shafting and the ceiling of the car. Her screaks, and those of her daugh ter brought . the elevator to a stop as - soon as possible, but not before the body of the aged woman had been fearfully mangled. Death was in stantaneous. The car was in charge of the. day boy, whose name is Stone, The coroner will hold an Inquest and decide whether the elevator boy will be held for criminal carelessness. The daughter and the other occupants of the car are being: held as witnesses before the coroner. . , V Mrs. Keith was 61 years old and had been to the physician about some kind hi an ailment. The ' daughter Kolda up pretty well) in view of the a'gic., natuWi of . hfer mother's death. The body was placed in charge of a local undertaker, and will be sent back, to her home in Granville Coun- ty for Interment ' SWIMS FROM' BATTERY , . THIRTY-FIVE MILES. f Sandy Hook, N. Y . Aug. 29- Commodore Alfred Brown," of the Flushing 'Division of the 'American Life Saving society, was crowned premier long' distance . swimmer of America '.when he swam from the Battery to Sandy Hook today. Brown took a bath lasting thirteen hours' and seventeen minutes. It is esti ' mated that1 Brown' swam thirty-five miles, English overhand, at a, stroke rate of 27 to the minute.' ; Herhad a sandwich . fed to him off Roamer i Shoals, and this was his only stimu lant throughout the trip. - , f - V i - i ' & UMt IWHtd WAMt John William Davis, the new Solici- tee of the House. His work as chair tor General of the United States, man of the special House Committee ranking next to the Attorney General that investigated the assault of and the Government's chief represen- Charles C. Glover, a Washington tative before the Supreme Court of millionaire, upon Representative Sims, the United States, has risen rapidly of Tennessee, in a park at the national since he began life in Clarksburg, W. capital last April, resulting in Speak- Va., forty years ago. From country lawyer and college professor, he sprang to the head of the West Vir ginia bar and became a leading fig ure in the State legislature. His real rise in Congress began with his assignment to the Judiciary' Commit- A BIG GOOD ROAD RALLY AT DENTON TO BOOST AND PLAN FOR THE BUILDING OF THE ASHEBORO TO SALISBURY LINK IN THE CENTRAL HIGHWAY AN OR GANIZATION HAS BEEN FORMED AND WORK WILL BE SET GOING IN THE INTEREST OF TniS HIGHWAY MEETING MONDAY WILL BE IN THE N ATURE OF A BIGV ROAD RALLY WITH PROMINENT SPEAKE 28 AND ROAD BOOSTERS IN ATTENDANCE. A good roads rally will be held atj Denton on Monday September 8th. The boosters of the link of road be tween Asheboro to Salisbury will be there to plan for the building of this link into a first class piece of road, a sand clay road that will be as good as the best, and while our end of the road needs only a little going over in places we are interested in seeing the other portion of the link made good and Rowan people will attend this meeting. Organization Made to Promote This Road. Denton, Aug. 29. The citizens of j Denton and the surrounding1 towns ' and country met and organized a good roads association which will be known as the Davidson and Randolph ' Highway Association. The officers elected are Arthur Ross of Asheboro president; J. T. Sexton, vice president, of Denton; G. Dan Morgan, secretary and treasurer, of Denton. The proposed road will join the Capital and National Highways branching off of the Capital Highway at Asheboro and joining the National at either Salisbury or Thomasville where , the largest subscription can be raised, several thousand dollars haxe .already been subscribed. The .road will open one of the best sections of country in Randolph and Davidson counties where some . of the finest farming and timber sections are lo cated, v The new Highway will cross the Carolina and Yadkin R. R. at Denton which is "the half way mark between these two towns and is locat ed on the new railroad built by Milt Jones and bought over by the W, N. Coler Co., who are making one of the EXPLOSION KILLS SIX. v Pittsburg, Pa Aug. 30. Six men are known to be dead, three are missing and six are injured as a result of an explo sion which, wrecked a tow boat of the Rodgera Sand Company In the Ohio river this morning. er Clark's reprimanding of Glover at the bar of the House, a ceremony that had not occurred for forty years be fore, brought Davis into national prominence. Mr. and Mrs. Davis, in their electric victoria, are familiar figures in Washington. finest rairoads in the South have al ready extended it to High Point and High Rock where they are running through trains. Leonard Tufts owner of the famous winter resort at Pinehurst and Bird S. Coler of the W. N. Coler Co.,-ire behind the new Highway. Septem ber 8th, 1913 there will be a good roads meeting held at Denton where a number of prominent meri will' make good roads talks. Work will be start ed at an early date. Every one interested is invited to attend this meeting. It should appeal to Rowan and Salisbury people, for we will not have much road to build and the road once put into first class order will be a good feeder to this city and bring tourists and visitors to us, and put us in touch with a very choice section of the country. ,Dr. Joheph Hyde Pratt, President Southern Appalachian Good oRsds Association; Mr. Leonard Tufts, of Pinehurst, president Carolina & Yad kin Railway Company; Mr. H. B. Varner, President North Carolina Good Roads Association, and others will make addresses.. The Denton Cornet Band will make music The purpose of the meeting is to formulate a plan to build a highway connecting the Capital and National Highways via Asheboro and Denton, to either Lexington, Thom asville or , Salisbury, Delegations representing the various proposed routes will be expected to be present with information as to what they are prepared to do to secure this road. The Highway is going to be con structed. The question is where? This meeting is of the greatest im portance and a large crowd will be present. WAKE'S FIRST BALE. Raleigh, Aug. 80. Wake county's first bale of 1913 cot ton was sold on the local market- today and brought eleven and half cents a pound. This is considered early for the marketing of the first bale. Head of the Salisbury Fire Depart-, men! to Attend Meeting of Inter- j national Association of Fire Chiefs, Firemen's Special From Atlanta' Tonight. j Chief W. A. Brown of the Salis-j Imrv Fire Department, w:ti Mrs.' l.rown, leave tonight for New York ; (ity, where Chief Brown will attend , day night and retumeii this morning 'the annual convention of the Inter-1 accompanied by Mr. George W. national Association of Fire Chiefs j Breen, son of of Mr. James A. Breen, which meets in that city and will be; the latter one of the rounder with ; Ui session a week or ten days. They j ex -Governor I,evi P. Morton, or New will board a special firemen's train of j York, or Ma Morton 1 rust Company, solid Pullman cars which runs out of j'ono or the largest and strongest i Atlanta anil which will have on board ; trust companies in the world, having i fire chiers from aU of the leading! deposits of over 200,000.000. Mr. Southern cities. Chief Brown is a! Breen is also a director in the Tennes- member of this association which is, see Copper Company of which Mr. j composed of the chiefs of all of the ! Newman is a large stockholder, and ' leading cities of the country and , is going in us a director of the Gold j whose annual meetings are largely at-1 Hill Consolidnted Company, to repru- tended, there being over a tnousand: sent himse!r and otner large interests at each annual gathering. Last year! who are becoming interested in the the convention was held in Denver, pi operty. He is going to the mine to Colorado, and the Salisbury chief at-(sec ror hinwlf and verify the atute tinded this meeting. j ments as to the value of the proner- These conventions Drove exceding- ties. Mr. Newman, in talking of the ly beneficial to the members and top ics are discussed and aemonstrations made which are of great value in the fighting and prevention of fires. No fire chief in the country, even the high salaried men of the big cities, has his heart more in the work than Chief Brown and he takes these trips at his own expense in order that he may fully equip himself to cope with anv emercencv and be better prepared to superintend the work committed to his keeping as head of the Salisbury Fire Department, which j rich in copper, gold and silver. The) ming with the same enthusiasm that under his management has reached j mine is open to inspection to any one greetej Colonel Rooeevelfa "confes the highest state of efficiency in its at any time. I play life the same asj s5on 0j faithH one year ,ago today, history. It is an unusually rare oc- I play poker; when I see a man is, Tne Colonel's absence in the south) currence that a serious fire sweeps ; bluffing I call him, and I never bet we8t detracted slightly from interest sections of this city and the local de-1 heavy unless I hold four aces' and "a . in tne gathering "but' Progressive partment has not only kept fire from spreading but has kept in check and extinquished a number of times what would have otherwise proven a dis astrous conflagration. And all of the credit for this does not belong whol ly to Chief Brown for he has behind him a fire fighting force of brave and loyal men, who always respond will ingly to the call to duty. The city officials have contributed in a large measure to the efficiency of the department in providing-appa-i ratus the equal to that of any city of like size in the country, TO OPPOSED TO ISSUING Captain Richsrd Henderson Takes Is-! sue With Commissioner Bailey and Gives Some Figures in Regard to the Cost of Roads When Built With Bond Money. Editor of the Post. Dear Sir: One of our County Com- missioners, Mr. R. B. BaUey, comes . out in favor of building roads by bond. issue, ana aavocaies me issue oi $500,000 in bonds for that purpose. It has come to pass among cer- tain advocates of good roads to look upon all people who are opposed toj bond issues as enemies of good roads., I happen to be one who is opposed to! issuing bonds for any purpose when, tne oDject purcnasea wun we oonas does sot last as long as the life of the bond, r, For certain permanent im provemenU, bonds should, be used. Roads are not permanent In fact, nothing is more perishable than roads as they have been built in this coun ty. And we have constructed many miles of good roads. I know of not one over ten years old that is not en tirely worn out or in need of exten sive repairs. ' ,' In the last ten years this county has expended in constructing roads, about $350,000. The Toads are worn! out, but they are paid for. Suppose ten years ago these same reads had - been built by 30-year bonds: Our roads would be as they are now, worn out, and we would still owe the $850,000," and be paying the interest for twenty more years, and providing for the sinking fund as well. , Supposing we can build one mile of (Continued from page three.) ; Head or the Gold Hill Consolidated Company Make Hutricd BuslrcK Trip to the Milropuli Accom panied Here by Mr. George W. Breen, a Leading Capitalist. Mr. Walter GeoiKe Newman, pres ident of the Gold Hill Consolidated Company, went to New York ThWs- mine thic morning, said: "I make a positive statement and defy the world to call me down, and that is the one vein known as the W. G .Newman vein at the Gold Hill mine assays from the 800 foot level to the surface has been proven up and can measure up the same as you count money at a bank of $20,000,000, and if we only get half of what the! assay shows we have $10,000,000.1 There are 40 other verns at 800-foot , level, four of which are enormously! king and I now hold them and have; for seven years. I have all my other . financial interests well in hand and I did not want to come to North Carolina until I could give the mine my personal attention. I don't know what the word failure is; I have 60 years of past history and hot one failure marked up against me. Fifty years ago Gold Hill and North Caro lina were looked upon as the greatest gold producers in the United States. I predict now that North Carolina wUl soon come tnto ner own again jmously declared: tha tany sugges through the Gold Hill mine and as thej tjon 0f reuniting with the G. O. P. has Gold Hill mine has a mint record of; Dcen put Way for all time. Delega over $8,000,000 for the past B0 years t;ong arriving today from Michigan, that the next fifty years wtu snow Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and In $80,000,000 to her credit, .because I j diana were met at the trains and es- am now in the second mineral zone: where values are permanent, the vein perpendicular or vertical, which means gold to an unknown depth, end the richest value today in the mine is at the 800 foot level, and I want to say Kain that 1 "m t:,e firat man that ever came to ! North Carolina with money enough of his own and nerve enough to spend it to develop the natural mineral resources of the State and show to the world what the State has really got. I stake my life nn tha truth of this statement and prove it , the next twelw monthg by earning net $i000,000 at the Gold Hi mjne by alone. , Benefit children's Home, Thi8 to rwmind you that tomorrow, Sunday( Aug. 31, is the 5th Sunday 8nd that our coneetion through the dthat our collection through the Sunday gchooi goeg to the support of the chiidren at 0ur Children's Home at Winston. Please send a good do- nation, by the children or better yet, come and bring It. They are very much in need of funds just now and the management will appreciate a liberal donation from everyone con nected with the ' church or Sunday school. " Fifty thousand workmen are ported idle in the city of Berlin. re- DIAZ WOULD RULE. . London, Aug. ; 30. General Felix Diaz, the deposed ruler of Mexico, who has been exiled fro mthat country since the I j , revolution which overtherw his regime, would again rule his antive conutry and has an- nounced his candidacy for Pres- ident of Mexico. e e e ... : e . ; I vader CeUbrate the Birth of the New ProgrCHcive Party Colonel Roosevelt Absent, But Attendance is Expected to Reach 100,000. Chicago. Aug. 30. The first birth day of the Progressive party is be inur held here today and this evening Theodore Roeeevelt, Consplclous for his absence at the celebration at Chicago today to cele brate thi birth of the Progressive Party., c r ' ; ' wllj) thousands of Bull Moosers from nnonj, ,nd adjacent - states, brim ieaderg expected 100,000 to join in t,e ceebratlon by this evening, when a meeting is to be held In Riverview park. Miss Jane 4am8i James R. Garfield, of Ohio; Henry J, Allen, of Kansas; and Charles E. Merriam, of Chicago are to be the speakers. v A lively discussion of i ways and means and a. program for 1916 at Progressive headquarters , bristled with determination against any prop osition to reunite with the Old Guard Republican machine. Speakers unan- ported to headquarters by bands. , An automobile parade to Riverview park this afternoon was one of many fea tures on the program. Senator Wal ter Jones, of the Illinois State legis lature was to preside at a banquet in the park casino preceding the open air meeting. LAY CORNER STONE Impressive Ceremonies to Attend the Placing of the Foundation of the Second PresbyCerlan Church Tomor row Afternoon- The corner stone of the new Second Presbyterian church now In course of erection just off South Fulton street and near the Chestnut Hill cemcttry will be laid with appropriate and im pressive services tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. - The address on this occasion will be delivered by Rev. William Lingle a missionary to China and a native of Rowan. Mr. Lingle has been in the foreign field for 25 years as a Presbyterian missoinary nad is well known in this section The church is about one fourth completed and will cost 8,000. At the exerci.:es tomorrow a subscritpion and collection will be taken. Rev. C. B. Heller is pastor of this church which is now in a flourishing condition. The Masonic fraternity of Salisbury and flnencer has been invited Vo participate in the laying of the corner stone. "It takes the wild, grandeur tf Nature to demonstrate the m-ifi cance of man," remarked the retain ed traveler. "Oh, I dont't know you can get the same effect by staying at - home and attending a meeting of J suffragettes," replied the Mxe M 1 11 v O " - if) Will Seek to Have Thaw Discharged and Then Take Him te Coatkoke Where He Would be Rushed Across the Border Before the Court Could Again Interfere, ; ., " Sherbrooke, Quebec, Aug. 30. The ' New York State lawyers sprung a surprise this morning when they got the chief of police to ask for a writ requiring Thaw to show cause why. he should not be discharged -which Judge Judson granted. Jerome and other lawyers had expected to Im mediate discharge of the prisoner and -, had planned to have him deported but the judge unexpectedly gate Thaw's lawyers until Tuesday. Jerome, who ' was expecting Thaw's discharge, had an automobile in waiting to take him to Coaticooke where special immigra tion court was expected to order his immediate deportation, and he Would then be rushed across the border be fore his lawyers could interfere with the court as the courts close this afternoon. The plan was Jerome's, who discovered a Canadian Jaw per. mining any person to sue out a writ of habeas corpus for the release of any prisoner irregularly committed. TheKourt declined to assist in the kidnapping plan but granted a hear ing on writ as perfectly regular. . ELECTS OFFICERS Mrs. R. L. Patterson of Charlotte Is Again President of the Missionary Organisation of the North Carolina Lutheran Church. , China ' Grove, Aug. 29. The ' sec ond' session of the Womans Mission ary Convention was , opened , today with, a devotional service conducted by Mrs. O. 3. Kreps. Miss Constance Cline then conducted a mission study class,' considering ?The Widening Sovereignty of ChrisCVt T f .'f , . It was shown that the world is now easily reached, that it is plastic and changing, that the English language is becoming more and more the med ium through which, mission work is being done and that there are more translations of Scripture than ever before being distributed to a waiting world. The dose attention given to the leader indicated the appreciation of the information given through mission study cissies. The election of officers for the en suing year resulted as follows; ( Prei 'dent, Mrs. R; L, Patterson; first vice resident, Mrs. C;v PMcLaughllnj second vice president, Mrs, C. .A. Brown; third vice president, Mrs. J. H. C. Fisher; recording secretary, Miss Mattie Miller; corresponding secretary, Miss Laura Eflrd, honorary treasurer, Mrs. P, N. Heilig; active treasurer, Mrs. A. W. Wineooff; gen eral secrettry and treasurer of the young people's wok, Miss Constance Cline; general secretary and treasur er of , Children's work, Mrs. V. Y. Booter; historian Miss Lillian Miller. ; At 11 o'clock Rev. G. B. Spracher addressed the - convention ' on The Christian Mission." . s The afternoon session was open ed with devotional services led by Mrs. George F. McAllister.. The con vention then received reports from the Children's and Young People's Societies, .These were very encour aging, " showing increased interested and enlarged gWB1'fv;.i'f.f . The worst of greeting misfortune with a smile is that it is so apt to be a one-sided flirtation.'. The feminine idea ot a woman hat er is simply a man who never flatters. "NORTH CAROLINA," Washington,' Aug. 30. The Navy Department will probably honor Secretary Daniels home State by naming , battleship number thirtv-nine. : now an- der construction at New York, the "North Carolina." , When completed and launched it will be' the biggest warship afloat The 'cruiser new bearing the name "of North Carolina will probably be changed to the Raleigh.
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