North Carolina Newspapers

S Last Edition WASHINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, ffcl AFTERNOON, JANUARY 11, 1?1?. Instituted By A. Farming in the State h a Mode of Life--* Forty-Seventh io / Will Accomplish Go * Is Preliminary Farming in North Carolina la both a business and a mode of life. Aa you know, eighty-two out of .every one hundred families In our State de pend directly on the soil for their liv ing and their comforts. Therefore, If these families ever increase In -wealth, in comfort, in ability to edu cate their own children and the chil dren of others, in ability to help their chnrch and their State, tbey-must get this Increase by better and more eco nomic farming. Any movement then to increase our farm yields Is a direct movement to enlarge the comforta of our homes, and to make greater onr capacity to contribute to good gov ernment, State improvements, Educa tion and religion. Unfortunately for all these Inter ests, the average yield of crops In our State is far too low. Compared with tire other States, and territories. North Carolina stands forty-seven\h in its avorage corn yield. Only throb States, namely, Georgia, South Carov Una and Florida, make on the aver age-less torn per acre than we do. New Hampshire, with a soil very sim ilar to ours, makes three .and one * half times mofe than North Ca/ollna.' Our average yield of oogp for the past thirty years has been only 13.7 bush els per acre. It has been again' gnd again dem onstrated that* the. corn crop can eas ily be doubled by the application of a few, jjimple,* (practical, scientific PWr principles. Osr North Carolina crop of corn was last year Valued at $19, 000.000. Suppose we could double this value io4wo years. . This Increase In value would ; raise thousands of families ftom poverty to' comfort. If by better methods of planting, of cul tivation, and of selecting seed one thousand boys can be taught to pro duce ttrenty-slx bushels to the * acre Instead of thirteen bushels, there Is no way of measuring the economic gooo inAl would ? result! for these boys- would then extend theee^ better methods to all their crops and hun - dreds of slower men would follow their example. - The principles that would lead to such an Increaae can readily be taught every day in some school#. Our State law directs thst* the ele mentary principles of good farnUng shall be taught In our schools. TCils law la already enforced ha our gram mar schools and In many of them ex cellent results are obtained. With the establishment of our rural high schools, the wajt seems clear to give farm life training a place In the cur ' ricnlum worthy of Its importance. This ottee is planning to do this falth fully. As one of the preliminary ateps in - this new teaching, clubs of boys ' and girls wilt be organised for study, ex perimenting} and for work outside of class hours. The interest of these pupils will be quickened and their knowledge made more accurate and practical by this objective work. For these clubs to succeed and to fill a vital mission in the life of the young people and ot the sohool, they must have -the hearty aid of every county superintendent and of every teacher. The following is a preliminary out line to aid in organising working club* of tayi add PdlMr 16 formation will be furnished In later bulletins. n Ptaa of State Organisation. The name of fhese clubs will be: North Carolina Boys' Farm Life Association. Nortji^ Carolina Girls* Home Life Association. Object. The object* of this Aaaoeletlon are: to qulckan ?D Interest In school life by linking the school more closely with tie industries of the farm borne; to direct IMo Mtfre, Intelligent service the active tower In young people and to dterelop this P'rMr; to teach them fields and add^^^Sidy to the pleas FH CAROLINA & M. College i Both a Business and forth Carolina Stands iverage Corn Yield ? od. Announcement Is connected with the Department of j Education and ihe U- 8. Department of Agriculture, as General Manager of the Association* Professor Schaub j Is employed to give his entire time to | this line of educational work. S. A President, Vice President and Secretary will be elected by the ac tive members at each regular annual meeting. * 3. The Advisory Council will con sist of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State- Commissioner of Agriculture, the President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the Director of the Biperiment Station. Member*. 1. Any public school puull between twelve and twenty years of fcge may become a member. 2. Any boy or girl who 14 a mem ber of a County Farm Life or Home Life Club, or a School Farm Life or Home Life Club, may also become a member of the State Association. 3. Any teacher or other person in terested in the welfare of the Asso ciation may become - an honorary qiember. Meetings. The* 8tate Association ^wlll meet annually .at the Agricultural And Me chanical College, in Raleigh. This meeting will be devoted to business, instruction, entertainment, and to an exhibit of the work done by members of the Association. Poises will be of fered for the best exhibits of specified work. Cou2y Associations. County Associations will be or ganised as follows: ...... County Boys' Farm Life As sociation. ? H t. I ......County Girls' Home Llffe As sociation. " object. The object of the County Assocls tion wJU be: to unify the work of tlie individual scnoftl cluBi|r-to oner prises 'tor-auooeesfUl -^contestants,, and to provide ways for Judging these contests; to select exhibits for the State exhibit, and to cooperate with that ^ody; to bring Into closer rela tion the workers in the county. Any school club or any member of such a club, or any p^pll in the pub lic, schools, may become a member of the County Association .' 1. The' County Superintendent or some capable person appointed by him will be the Manager of the Coun ty Asspciation. The County Super intendent is asked to associate with himself two or more Interested citi zens .of the county^and these with the Superintendent wlUconstltute an Ad visory Committee. t. A President, Vice Prssident, snd a Secretary for the County Associa tion will be elected at each annual meeting. The County Aifddatlon will have one regular meeting to trans act business, and at this meeting ex hibits will be displayed. Judged, prises awarded, and exhibits for the State' meeting selected. School Organisation. School dubs win be formed as foK School Boys' Farm Life Club. School Girls' Home Life Club. Object. These school clubs will take up di rectly the work to be done. JfW will follow the directions for plat ing, cultivating. and hsrvestlng such crops as may be undertaken, and the g^rls will follow directions for work In domestic science. These employ ments will be supervised by the teach er* who tn turn will be aided by the Oeneral Manager, the* bounty Man ager, and by others appointed for 1. Any pupil enrolled during the TEXAN RILLS ; ,1 HIS FAMILY MDJIMSELF Slays Wife, Children ' ?? "v vi'l tte^-Probably Fatally Wounds a Niece and Then Cuts His Own Throat? Was Successful and In telligent Farmer. POOR HEALTH THE CAUSE Ballingef, Tex., Jan. 10. ? #. B. Klmbler, a prominent farmer living In the northern portion of this coun ty, killed his wife, his 6-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, seriously wounded his neice, aged. 20. and end ed his own life by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a pocket knife, at daylight this morning. Klmbler had been In bad health for a couple of months, but got up at the usual Utne this morning and was assisting his wife in making the fires. He stepped out and . secured a hatchet, ostensibly to cut kindling. Returning to the room where his wife was start ing the Are, with the hatchet tn his band, he said: "Wife, we have all got to go," and split her head open with one blow of the hatchet. Going over to the bed, where the children were asleep, he battered their brains out with the hatchet and going to his neice's room he struck her several blows on the head and arms. By this time a young man, a nephew of Klmbler, was aroused and he and the badly wound ed young woman made their escape Returning to the room where his wife lay unconscious on the floor, Klmbler used a pocket knife to end his own life. Mrs. Klmbler and the baby lived for Ave or six hours, but the 6-yeaf old boy, was instantly killed. The goung woman Is in a serious condi tion and her recover Is doubtful. Kimbler has been living in this county for a number of years, was a successful farmer, a county officer In the farms rs ' U nl<yi and wa^V^t exi gent and popultrr wfth Mb neighbors 1 Kills Wife and Suirl.le*. Lelghfon, Pa., Jan. 10. ? Sheeting his wife and 4-year-old son as they were on their way to Sunday school today. William Oauner, aged 35 rears, of this place, shot his wife In the face iand then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Mrs. Gauner, It is said, cannot recdver. Jealousy is thought to have caustd the crime. v JQ ORGAXIZK BAXD. Prof.' Will E. Smith left yesterday afternoon for BelhaSren, where he ex pected to organise a band, composed of citizens of that town.- Prof. Smith has recently organized similar organ izations at Aurora and Small tfrid now has overtures at Edward. Beaufort county Is rapidly forging to the front In the'musical line. "THE GREAT CATASTROPHE" To Re Presented at Edward, on Jan - rnjry 14th. ? Local talent will present "The Great Catastrophe" at the school house In Edward. N. C., Friday night, January 14, for the benefit of the Episcopal church. "The Great Catas trophe" Is a play consisting of many good points and proves that murder will out, though' sometime* late. The price of admission will be 15 and 26 cents. It will be presented for "a ruost worthy cause and should be generously patronized. rycori) Immigrant year. More Foreigners Settled Here In 1009 Than Ever Before. New York'. N. Y.\ Jan. 10 ? W. C Moore, landing agent at Bltts island, says that more immigrants arrived during 1M9 than in any other year. Only 771,380 third-class, passengers entered the port, last year, as against 1,040. 16t In 1907. but In 1007. Mr. Moore says, many naturalised Amer ican citizens and aliens who had been here before returned to their native countries in the steerage. In 1909 the Italians led In num bers. They numbered 120*01? flrst class passengers and 167.252 second class passengers. An unusual fea ture was the arrival of 1,636 immi grants from Brazil. ?M>. pxraoii TO RICHMOND. FORMER PASTOR DIES SUDDENLY . 3 ' ? Rev. Samuel Smith o<| the Pres ' byterian Church bead. The announcement of the death of Rev. Samuel Smith, D. D., at one time pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, this city, will carry with It ml versa I regret. ? Br- Smith when a resident of Washington, waa loved ahd admired by all our people, ir respective of denomination. As a pulpiteer the Keta doubts if he had a superior In theNjouthern Pre?by-| terlan Church. The following ac count of hie death appeared in the News and Observer today: Qreensboi-o, N. C., Jan. 10. ? Great sorrow is felt here -at" the intelll-| genco of the sudden death at his home in Columbia today of appoplexy of Rev. Samuel C. Smith. pastor of' the First Presbyterian Church of Co lumbia. He was reared here, lelng the eld est son of the late Efev. J. Henry Smith, who was pastor) of the First Presbyterian church here for forty years. . He entered the ministry in early life, having served but two pas torates, the first at Washington, N. C , going theaoe to Columbia, 8. C. Besides being a student and thinker, he waa a preacher at< great, power, and his genial t>ersonallty endeaVed him to all regardless of denomina tional affiliation. He waa fifty-three j years of age and Is survived by hlB wife and a son. who la a member of the -faculty of the University of Cin cinnati. Arrangements for the funeral, which will be held from the First Presbyterian Church .here on Wed nesday, where his father and brother, Rev. Egbert W. Smith, of the First Presbyterian ahurch. Louisville, serv ed as tfastors. aggregator fifty years, have not been yaL-eompleted, owing to the scattered family, two othoT brothers. Dr. Harry Louis Smith, of Davidson College, and Dr. C. Alphon- 1 so Smith, recently of the University of North Carolina, now of the faculty of Jthe University of Virginia, now be-] Ing en route to ColunHMa. CAMPBELL'S CREEK NOTES. Capt. Carl Overton' and brother. Mr. Sam Overton. ga^,Mr.. Midyett, Miss Irene Tuthill spent last week with hen sister, Mrs. C. C. Mayo. fcfr. Gus Sadler, of Jones Bay, was In our midst last week shawing hands with old friends. Mr. A. C. Austin expects to preach at White Hill third Saturday night and Sunday, and at Edward fourth Saturday night and Sunday in this month. MIbs Henrietta Lewis and Miss Mattie Warren, of Bonner ton, are vis iting relative* at thin nla ro Miss Alice Jones, 'of Vandemere, who has been visiting here for several days, expects to "return home Wed nesday. , Miss Josie Mixon who has been vis iting her sister, Mrs. Tom Jones, and other relatives here, expects to return home" Thursday. BILL JU8TICE. TO ADVERTISERS. Owing to the necessity for making! connections with all malls leaving the city, we will be unable to make changes In any advertisements un less copy Is in this office by 9 o'clock. Please bear this In mind. * STREET PARADE. Barlow and Wilson's minstrels gave a street parade this afternoon which was most creditable. TRAINS CRASH AT WE L DOW Passenger Plunges Into Freight on Side Track. Weldon, N.C., Jan. 10. ? -Passenger train No. 38 on the 8eaboard Air Line ran into an open switch here this af? ternoon at 3 o'clock and crashed Into ???ffelght train on the siding.. No one was Injured. The .switch had been left open by some person and the pas senger rTOi was running og schedule time. It plowed Its way dear through' the shanty and then went Into a box car loaded with cotton. The wreck age was set oa Are and three box cars were -burned. RETIRES PROM BUSINESS. Mr. parley O. Sparrow who haa been conducting a top and news busi ness, has retired. The stock will be sold. MAJOR PATTERSON DEAD. Was For Many Yean Bursar of the 'Slate University. Chapel HU1, _ Jan. 10 ? Willie Thomas Patterson, bursar of the Uni versity of North Oarolinft. died here this morning at lQ tfolock. His death resulted from a complication of ail ments caused by the Infirmities of old 'age. He ifea ' Tfc? Barl?w WU?? mlWr.1 ?iow ?rrlTM) tkU att.rnoon la tkMr THE QUARREL MAY BRING ON SfiARPGOHFUCT Situation is Critical The Pinchot-Ballinger Feud May Bring Forth a Conflict? Battle Royal is Expmed in the House Over Matter. CONTROVERSY TOPIC Washington, Jan. 10. ? The dismis sal bf Gifford Pinchot as chief fores ter of the United 8tates. will likely *ead In news Interest during the corn ing week. The next step In the con troversy between Secretary Balllnger and the deposed forester will be the appointment of a qpngresslonsl com mittee to Investigate the Quarrel. The House has refused the privilege of this appointment to Speaker Can non, but a resolution which would enable him to name the House mem bers of the committee will be before the 8enate this week, and the Imme diate battleground will be in that branch of the national Legislature. Developments in the fight of the House "Insurgents" concerning the recommendations of President Taft's' message on conservation of national resources will thus assume added im portance in th'e light of their connec tion with the Ballinger-Pinchot struggle. Week Will Decide. The present week probably will de cide whether there will be a prolong ed conflict involving the President of the United StateB within the ranks of the Republican party in Congress. Conditions have been?tenditag in that direction for some time, but instead of adding to the impulse the dismis sal of Mr. Pinchot apparently has had the effect of causing a halt^ It jias prompted Senators and members of the House to consider* the possibili ties of a continuation -of, the contro versy and present indications are of a more specific tendency than were "fctraBe of a week ago. There is no denying the f*ct. how ever. that in some respects the situa tion remains critical. Mr. Pinchot has a 1 arge number of personal friends and admirers in both houses of Congress, who would be inclined to take up his case if favorable oppor tunity should pcesent itself. On the other hand many are saying that the personal .forftrtttn of Messrs. Ballln ger and Pinchot are of little Impor tance compared to the great question of th? nrpaervnt ?nn Qf party harmony. and those who take this view are urging the necessity of preventing any sharp conflict in Congress. . The Present Statu*. .The question will receive its next attention on the floor of the Sepate. The present situation is this: The House has adopted the resolution providing for the appointment of Its members of. the committee by the House Itself, rather than by the 8peaker, as was originally provided. Without awaiting the official notifi cation as to the action of the House the Senate committee on public lands has flecided to report the resolution In such a form as to authorise the selection of the House members by the Speaker. Unquestionably this ac tion was taken with the intention of complimenting the Speaker, and It will be reported to the Senate. No matter how the general situa tion may shape Itself, the controversy between the Secretary of the Interior and his antagonist Is expected* to be the principal topic In congressional circles ^during the week. Officially the question wjll not again come up In the House until after the 8enate shall havq acted. NOTICK^-p PARENTS. % s Kindergarten Will Open Thursday Morning. Miss Wright has returned to the city from Richmond where she has been In the hospital. The kindergar ten, cla^s will 'be reopened Thursday. Parerfra who have children in this de partment should take notfc* of this I *nd send their children to school | Thursday morning.' , ANNOUNCEMENT. Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Milholland request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter < Lou Nona to Mr. Walter Reads John.on on Wednesday afternoon, the twenty sixth of January, nineteen hundred and tan at three. o'clock. ?nt Prashytorlan Church, Washington, N. C. No carta Issued la this oKy ' ? rtfcl Jt\ . Mrs. L. H. Day, of South. Crsek. ? ?II ? ? thKKMfc the city today en routs to Norfolk. of the Lyceum Th$*&ext attraction in the Lyceum course will bq the Vassar Girls, ap pearing here In the school auditorium | January 17. For five years this com nanj of educated, refined and cul tured young women have honored its name, the Eight Vassar GirlB. in a high class musical event in the best advanced vaudeville In the leading cities of the "United Stales and hus demonstrated have many of the great artists of the world, that a good, clean musical event of superior quality, tree from an*, suspicion of coarseness or cheapness, wins appre ciation and applause on Its merits everywhere. 80 great has been their success that practically all of their time for five years has been consumed In return date work In twenty or thir ty cities. Their concert will be the big event of the season. The company includes: A sextett" of saxaphonea. v A sextette of brass Instruments, cornets and trombones. ^ A sextette of wood wind Instru ments: flute, clarlneta, oboe and bas son. A quartette of clarinets corre sponding to tenor, soprano, alto and bass of the numan voice. A quartette of wind Instruments: flute, clarinet, aboe and basson. such as Is used by symphony orchestras. Trios and duets in various combi nations of Instruments. Instrumental solos on flute, clari net. trombones, saxophone, oboe, bas soon. Vocal soloist. Miss Olive Greatrex. ACCEPTS POSITION. Miss Pearl Campbell haB accepted a position with the firm of E. R. Mlxon & Co. as stenographer, suc ceeding Miss Lou Mllhollaud. She will assume her duties next Monday. FOR NORTHERN CITIES. Mr. H. B. Goldstein, the tailor, ex pects to leave tomorrow morning fbr New York and other Northern cities to purchase his spring and summer Btock. ^ * WILL ENTERTAIN. Mrs. A. M. Dum&y will entertain the West End Bridge Club at her home this evening from 8 to 12. A most pleasant evening is anticipated by the members. IN HANDS OF RECEIVER. The grocery business of Mr. An tlroM's on Main street, went into the hands of (Receiver yesterday. What disposition will be made of the stock is not known. _ . ? ASKING TONDS FOR INSTITUTE The Principal Endorsed by Hon. Jno. H. Small. Prof. W. C. Chance, principal of the Higgs Industrial Institute, locat ed at Parmele, this State, is In the city soliciting funds for that school. He bears a strong endorsement from Congressman John H. Small, who says he has faith in the capacity. In tegrity; and high ideals of Professor Chance, and heartily commends the work he Is doing In establishing a school for the industrial training of the boys and girls of his race. This school is fashioned after the Colored A. St M. at Oreensboro. and is Intended to be to the people of the eastern part of the Stater what the Greensboro Institution Is to the people of "the middle and western sections. Congressman Small says that Principal Chance Is entitled to the confidence and support of any people in this chuse and that he has the right ideas about the work, coupled with common sense and ability, and possesses such excellent qualifications that he heartily commends him to the people of the State. " Professor Chance will be here a day or two in the interest of this hchool. Mr. J. G. Godard, cashier of the Bank of Martin County, WilllamBton, is treasurer of the institute. ? Raleigh Times. ' ' ' * 1 WRECK ON SOUTHERN Washington. Ga.. Jan. 10 ? A brok en rail was responsible for the de railment of a train on ths Southern Railway early this morning about a mile south of Cross Keys, Ga., a half dosen passengers being slightly in jured The baggage car, two coaches and two sleeping oars left the track. M ?ditor MM L. Mayo went to Booth CrMfct ?p* SHED BY 7f BUGLE CALL OF C0N1RI1DES Students in Fire The 300 Pupils in the New York Military Academy 'Saved From Death in Fire Early Yesterday by Warning Call. MANY WERE OVERCOME West Point. N. Y.. Jan. 10. ? The 300 puplh 1b the New York Military -"k Academy at Comwail-on-the-Hudson were saved from death in Are early today lay a bugle call. Two heroic students sounded revielle as the fire story dormitory building of the school burned. The loea was $200, ? 000. Many of the lads who slept on the Bfth floor of the building were over come as they fought their way through the furnace-like halls, but all were saved. The Instructors mar shalled the boya and many of them walked from the burning structure pajama-clad, but In military forma tion. Without the warning blast of ft the bugle it would have been lmpos tlble to awaken tscores in time. The are started In the servants juarters and before it was discovered imoke had penetrated to nearly every ' . ~ >art of the building, making many of he you t hp stupid and half overcom ng others before they werg awak ened. Once gaining headway, the Are - spread rapidly. Then It was^that the college buglers. Cadets Newton and Travis, took their bugles and ran up and down the halls, blaring away at the rising call. Within a few momeuts the exodus had begun, the score or more of In structors, who slept fhe third and fou rt-lT ' floors, leading their charges through flame nud smoke to the cam pus and parade ground. Many of those on the flfth floor, however, were mlaslng. When this was discovered a dozen youths darted back Into the now fiercely biasing building' apd made their way at t^e risk of their lives to thp^top floor. There they roused the& half-over come comrades, and led or carried them to safety. A cadet sergeant on sentry duty discovered the ftre, which is supposed to have been started by an overheated stove or fat boiling over on the kitchen range. The sergeant notified the buglers jnfror vainly trying to control the flames, and then Colonel S. E. Jones, superintendent; Major Davis, com- " mandant. and Captain Frazler, all of the United States army, took com mand of the situatlon FfRRT SHAD. Tha firm of Swindell & Fulford, fl>h dealers, received the first white shad of the season last Saturday. LEOPARD ATTACKS TRAINER. Assistant Pulls Beast From Prostrate Form By His Tail. f New York, Jan. 10. ? The sharp teeth and claws of Clayton, a trained ?-* leopard, nearly coBt the life of Mrs. Papline Russelle. . his trainer, today, .'J but the length and strength of his tall saved her. Clayton was ugly and would not perform. Mrs. Russelle prodded hial with an iron bar and called to her - < 'kB assistant for aid. In the instant of turning her head to call, the leopard ^ leaped. He bore his mistress to the ground and stood over her growling [and lashing his tail. It was then the quick-witted assistant, reaching into /i| the cage, grabbed Clayton's tall, took /7a a double hitch around the bars of . ^ the cage with it. and rescued Mrs. Russelle in safety. The woman was badly torn and at the hospital it "fcas said that her re- ; .fJSj covery Is problematical. The attack ^ occurred in private training quarters. ?New Advertisements ^ | * in today's News ? ?? ? J. K. Hoyt ? JanuaryJftVhlts Sale. ? ? Brooks' Shoe Store ? Polishing -? . .Jjj ? Sets. ? ? ? McKeel >Rlchardsoii Hardware ? ? "Co. ? Harness. ":.;i ? Pippen * Wools rd ? Brokers. ? ?; * ? Southern Furniture Co, ? Under- ? J ? taking. ? ? Gem Theater. ? raj ? Oalety Theater. ? ? Capudlna. ? ? ? Vlck's Renedlee. ? i :ssr? -?-r : ?jrrmnk Miller? Por? WHtaterm. ? ? Pou'i Kldncr Pttla. ? ***?*?*?**??**? .