. %/%/ ! * :"J Special Discourses at First F Presbyterian Church at 11 A. M and Methodiat g? Two wn? on educdtloh.oro to to delivered In tke cltj tomorrow, w C Hot. H. B. Seorldht pddtor of tho fa rim PreabTterinn Church. ipwlu on Fi Ky thin (root theme tomorrow moraine cl et 11 o'eloek. HI* enbjeet will bo: re Education ee s moene of Craco." re T-t In. tke Pint Methodiat Church it I nc o'clock, the footer Rev. R. Hj Broom Ai wlH deliver a dtecoureo on the aana nl *uUoet end kid topic will bo: "Tke re ! tveonred Ufa1' 7 b< !b both the First Presbyterian and tfa Metbodtet Churches the choirs will hi [ reader special music and all arc cord- at tahr Inrtted to be pMMt P? ' mcMUiSf' : TRMBNC SCHOOL; President Robert, H, Wright attend ^ | ?d the South era Educational Confer- ** race la Hash Tills* Tenn. R ' f The asw class of; students, numb- * erlag thirty si*, that sntered at the * "* 8'' beginning of the new term, are en- w terlng the work* and school life with a< > % *** . v \"' %'[i 1 An interesting basket-ball game be tweea one of the regular teams, the ^ Oobttua, and a team selected from ? the who)# school, was played on April A ?. the Goblins won. ' Many of the students went home TJ y tor the Caster holidays?whlfch ex- 0 V\/ tended from noon on Good Friday to 1 Tuesday, April tth. The students / that remained had a pleasant time - end were not allowed to get homo - swu . ' r. The T. W. a A. Sunday evening * services have tsten quite Interesting U recently. They have been cotfduct- ? ed by Rev. C. M Rock, of the Bap- R I j v tlat church of Greenville, by' Prof, * ' ' Austin and hy the Moelc Committee * of tha T.-W. C. A.; fFZ* ? 1 Prof H E Austin Hrlivrriul in ari. Ol I dress at the closing of the* Chooowln-1l< I Ity sefeools Tuesday. April 2nd. {?' Prof. C. w-Wilson addressed the}" Craven County teachers at New Bern ? K*H|" on April Ith.' y * \ ) " r I M Twilight atory telling on Thnra|-~ day evening is quite a feature 1* the school life. The different cldhses are H rw taking turns In telling stories. . 4 The One Year Class 4tw the school an unlgse entertainment on the evening of Aprinirs^ Four fools CjS' Imltatioa of tbo Shakespeare ~fool, li spoke {he prologue and epilogue and C. commented on the various types of n * humanity and follies of the age that F wen presented In tattlesux or drama n tlzatkm. Snatches of songs were In- e terspersad. , While there was much v fun there was tnhuffoonery. It was s high class but greatly amusing entertainment After the program, the One Year Class gave a reception to Wjki the faculty and new sFudeots. The c Y W. 0- A. hall waa beautifully dec' orated In gray moss and yeljow floyr* 1 - . " ere/ the' class calora. The refresh 1 v. ments were hidden under the. fools' * I r > ? - ?? , t } IKYFJITIONH HHOW ' .r-vrpt ' IN NEW YORK a New York. April ir?Thh brain] children of Thomas A. Edlaon and L other famous inventors of the pre# ml day ar? to be aeon fa the (trend f I Ceatrel Palace, where the Invention! fc. , ' show today for e weak1! ran. The r Hfr rzhlblttOD hoi broucht together t many of the Important invention! t H and labor aartnc device! produced In a mf m< the loot decade. One notable ooetlon c to denped to a loan exhibition from I . - the-'tfnlted Ota tee Patent Oihee. the i * feature! includlnt the drat eewla#U machine, the drat automobile and 'he t dret talking machine and electric t lampe. e n ?g- - * TO ATTBND Kt'NKRAI, t \8 The member! of the Charitable Brotherhood In tbla city are reqieet- f ed to meet a, their hell Bender afternoes nod o'clock for the pnrpoee of t* attending the funeral of the Info 9. i P. Dnrand. ^ ' ntw OndMT SNAP BRANS I at Waehlnron Prnlt Store. Phone j j uneral Will Take Place Sunday Afternoon From [ Residence. Interment In ! Oakdale. * ' After an illness of orer a peek . Ith pneumonia Mr. Frank Durand II on sleep at his residence, Rant >urth Street, laat night at 7:46 o'- ; ock. As was noted In this paper atcrday the conditio? of Mr. Dead was thought to be critical but >ne dreamed that end was so near. L the time of his death he was fifty j ne years of age. He was born and j red in Washington. Prom child- ' >od and early manhood ho enjoyed i m eeteom of a larfa. number and going la to ha deplored When 1 ilta a young man ho took an active irt In the social aOalra or the city? dog on* or the laadoro among hia imraden and frlenda. Bit hearted . > had the taeg of forming and keen- " as n member in good standing will rod by hit widow, one son Mr. Loon 1 urand and two grandoUidron The * moral will take place from the rani- race an fourth Street Snnday afterron at three e'elock conducted by , ay. R. H. Broom, pastor of the First athodtet Church The Interment 111 bo In Oakdale cemetery. The heritable Brotherhood of which he as a member In sod standing will tend In h body and aohdnct the rtwMns at Che grave. The follow!g pellhearern have been selected: r. M. Chenncey. W. H. McDovett. liberty It am ley, Chan. f Harris I reephI'Tingle and D. M. Lewie. , eiVAL SERVICES^ :! mjm night : A series of revival meetings will j gin In the Plret Baptist Church. . Be city, on tomrrow eve&Ui* at 1 :'?t dock, conducted by the pastor, , W H. P. Dalton. A cordial lnvl- . Ukm la extended to all who may , Mire to attend botb of the other de- j ominatlons and the public In gen- , ral. Daring the past week prepara?ry services autre been held in the j lurch and considerable Interest ( lanUfeated. The music will be one f the features of the matting , ~ ' ' "* 1 TO RKPHAT MUSIC Mw Manic Repeated we M. R. . Church Sunday "Sight. wlHar'Aflt" - , At the solicitation of a large numbr. who worn enable to be present on wt Sunday evening due to the lg- | lemency of the weather, the lister insic rendered by the ehoir of the Irat Method let Church ;laat Sunday ight. will be repeated tomorrow veiling. The offering at thia ser- , lio will be for ^be benefit of the bolr. ' WJdne PWE HHOWIM: r>mp?n> ?<J? Rl>e Tna rt-sctlcl Teefeerday Afternoon FVr Meet. * Or ' The rlflg team oJT Company, "(J^' j rhich-leaves tomorrow for QofdkbOrp \ ? take part In. the regimental ride1 hoot next week, had a practice ytfr < erday afternoon.' The team made an verage of 13$ out of-u possible 150. 'his record Is very creditable V& OP?N NKW RAIl,KOAI>. ipoctsl to tho Dotty Novo. j, r 1 Pittsburg. P?.. April 1J.?Tonjorow la the date fixed for the opening o traffic of the new connecting Use K^ween the Pittsburg and Lake. ErieT ind Wester ^Maryland railroads. The onnectioi line Is eighty-four miles on* and has been built St a cost of learly 116,000,000 The connection rlth. the Western Maryland roads is nade at Cumberland, Md? and wfth he Pittsburg and Lake Brie et Dickirson Ran, Pa. The nee line dene Mttaburg a new outlet to the' sea osrd aad a most /direct mate beween Baltimore aad Ckleaco. It will J so open an (Teat coal and timber lei da along the Youghlothenr River. A head at MUa has enabled near a woman to ernes the (alf that jnf fron society. . HATt f 8HOWUR8 TO.NKiUT rHE HARMONCL V , - ' ' v- . ~ J. Guilfoi ERECTED BY SONS Forecast of News For Next Week Waabtngton. D. C.. April 13.? mportant fixtures on the political alendar of the week will included he following; -?T Monday; Republican territorial invention of Hawaii, at Honolulu, .o aelect delegates to the national ronventlon. Tuesday: Republican State contention of Connecticut, at N?rw Haven, to select delegates to tbo-anional convention. Republican State convention of Delaware, at Dover, to aelect delegates to the national convention. Wednesday: District conventions of Republicans in Connecticut to select ie legatee to the national convention. Democratic - conventions of Alalama, at, Montgomery, to aelect del ? gates to the national convention Friday: Direct primaries of all parties in Nebraska to select deleted name candidates for United States senator and state officers. Direct primaries of all parties In Oregon tp select delegates to the national conventions and express preference tor- United Statee senator. . ~ State conventions of all parties In Illinois to select the deiegstes-atlarge to^the national conventions. ^ Nearly all of the presidential as piranha will be in the field during the week. Col. Roosevelt is expected to to confide his activities to the eastern states. Woodrow Wilson wlH spesjt in Georgia and Florida. Governor Harmon in the mfddle westr' and Senator'L&Follette IB the ?rf..t*S William J. Bryan will add to the gayety of the situation by bpaaklng against Harmon in the tatter's home state. The unveiling of the statue erected in t ho national capital in idemary of John Paul Jdhes,' the revolutionary hero, fa fixed,for Wcdnesday apd vrllf be made an occasion for ImpresiAlve * mliitaur and cjvlc exercises Jn whieh Psesident Taft and other notables will take part. central eclipse or the s6n is scheduled to take "place early Wednesday morning, visible as impartial eclipse In' the eastern portion of the 6silted States iwwUConade. The conventions of the week will include the episcopal Church Con gross In St. Louis, the Conservative Congress of the Men and Religion Forward Movement In New TOrk City the national cwiventlon of the Daughtera of- the American Revolution In Washington, and jthe InterNational Conference of the Negro at Tuakekee, Ala. mourn humi . .. Mrs. B. te Brooke who waa operated on at the Waahlagton Hoagttal to leave the hoagttal. She expects to return to her home In thin city tomorrow, this will be (ratifying news to her maay friends here and elsewhere < . >?'A it i ' wm . i OOOI> APPLES At WASHINGTON Fmit Store at I A 10c. Phone 410. 4-11 ?tc. t 1 I IV . 'i t" . - I . rf-lv*' ."A Ji. 1* f <h.f AND SUNDAY. HOtlMTI SOUTH ?(-X .ftl \ #?u-A?N 1M /[fyuo*c^a V \ ^T / I yyT* ' tf" y?rflS^HpA w?fi OF AMERICAN RE) The Democratic County Executive * Committee met eg theofllo* df the ? chairman Mr. .Wiley C. Rodman, this 11 morning at 11 o'clock.-^ " ? They recommended that the Board L of Electiofli call the primcry (0r the c 19th of May for the State and district officers. _ -m? . Democrat!* 5 County convention la called to meet b on Saturday May 26 in this City at t he Courthouse for the purpose of 8 selecting delegates to the State Convention. t: - ^ t A HISTORIC DASEHALL PARK . ? , V BuaLod, Man., April 13.?THe " opening of the. National League season In Norton this week ushered In the forty-fifth consecutive season on the historic South End grounds. The National League plant in this city Is the oldest professional baseball park in the world. Championships were won there in 1872, 1873, 1874 and lS?o. Not a game was lost on the grounds in 1876, a record never paralel.edln the-history of tho game. Pennants'were also won in 1877, 187ft, 1891, 1892, .1893, 1897 and 1892. % CONSERVATION COhtiKKKS y National , Christian Conservation Congress of the Men and Religion forward movement wilj be held in York Cfty.-*pcKp 19- 24 for^the purpose of sunr*y?pg the. etc to religion in America. To challenge tho churches wtlb the conr Uuent's claims. To sum up the message and findings of tho year's campaign. To arrest the attention <(T North America by an exhibition of niasculine Christianity Addressee wlll. be made foy leaders In church and state. The number of delegates 13 limited to 8,000. VNITED HT.1TKH WELL REPRKSKXTiO Special to the Daily News, if Ropie, April 18.?Distinguished medical scientists and other delegates from .many countries have arrived in Rome to participate in the seventh international Congress on Tuberculoma. The formal opening t of the congress ts set for tomorrow and the dlscuaslona will occupy the i ensuing wash. The American data- 1 gates Include Dr. Charles 1,. Greene of St. Paul, Dr. Gerald B. Webb, of ? Colorado Springs. Dr. William R. i Baldwin -of (Washington Dr. Henry , Barton iaeobe of Baltimore. Dr. Ut. i tngston rat-rand of New Tork and 1 Dr. C. Walter Holden of Dearer. i T i i Did yon srsr step to consider haw < ??rea yeur thoughts are and hoe ( mild your actions 7 I | A marrtage*~can~te arranged in ( .henna It the girl ha. no mother to , ff -. - $ jSp* . / i*L ' ** * F 4 MrUi i TT*r ' fjK wAv 19 x ? wyp (Vinos. :_* ;iw ' .jr . I 3T MINSTRELS^ xv/\ i Marked SOLUTION FRIDA\ mpreaive Ceremony Took Plaqe McConnel Station. Dr. Hodman Orator.Beneath the pine* which havu 'fathered many winters, and the isssive oaka, sentinel* a century old, a an humble country (C*veyard here gathered yesterday old men nd young men, women and hildnm. to do honor to a soldier of Its revolution. Joseph Guilford. The xerefeea took place at McConuell nd solemn occasion began v 11 o'lock with a prayer by Rev. H. B. y the Aurora Concert Band, under he leadership of Professor Will B. mith. Dr. John C. Rodman, president Of ho North Carolina chapter. Sons of he American Revolution, made a nost impressive talk. His subject ras: "Joseph Guilford, patriot, M'.nite man." He spoke of this soldier ! rtao, with hundred* of others suffer- j d hunger, cold and even death to live us our liberty; of Washington,-' he beloved general and president. i man not gifted with attractive nanners and gilded speech, but a nan whose bravery, courage, truth ind (ove of country has never been i urposaed m the history of the world vlth one exception?the immortal lobert E. Lee. He spoke of Joseph* Sullford, the son, wj^o stood at the [save of his ,father. \Jn hJs band* lUsped the Gag which uncovered the rtfthe Just placed in honor of one sho beneath a Gag like tblX though aded and torn, and he with the i'e'ary hundreds of others, feckblecdug and starving fought and died for ieir country CSreathttM there a man with rpul so { dead. i vho never to himself hath said: Thifi is my o vn, <h> native I^nd!" I After ?'singing the "Old North Irate," Rt-v*^Nathaniel Harding was isked to pronounce the benediction. TlfSvcs ask^d for a slior mik and j repressed hia pleasure at being prosrat at the imprcssivo services; r.<1d| if his love for the surrounding coiid:fy, his birthplace being only a few lilies from the place he stood. After t beautiful heart-felt talk, he pro-' lounced tho benediction. After the ceremonies were completed all were cordially Invited to unch prepared by the ladies present. The tables were spread In the yard lurrounding the old Onilford farm, >nilt by the first Joseph Guilford and [athored. together were tour generalions o? the same family!" During thje lunch Mr. Harding spoke for a, lew minutes about the faithful work j md splendid achievment of Mr. R. r. Bonner, who organised the chapler In North Carolina. Mr. Bonner vaa called on for a speech. Ha ex aa aot a apaakar. Dr. Rodman than Mid: "Ha may aot be a apaakar kat u la a worker" aad pTOpoeed thraa ihaara for l(r. Boaaar. Profaaaor knlth Madly naaaaatad to gfre eer>ral aalaetlooa ky tka band Aftor hla tka crowd left for tkalr naylil aa homaa, feeling a pride aad honor lo kavlBg akowa rMgni. to tka memtry of tka faithful aoldlar and appreciating aa goad mark of aa Bona Of tka American Rarolatton. FORMER TOWNSMAi T. WIKYI BEST LOCAL B. B. > CLOB WHS FROM ELIZABETH CITY. Wnflhindtnn T^?*o irt Jr.lnf Debate But Wins In Declamation Contest. , " 1 The Washington ball club In the ' game yesterday won by a score of 3 ' to 2. This makes three games the 1 Washington boys have won and the j team bids fair to be the champions , of Eastern Carolina. In the debate between the Washington and Elisabeth City High Schools last night*the 1 Elizabeth City debaters were declared the winners. The query was "Resolved: That the United States Senators shall be elected by the people.'* i In the declamation contest Washington carried off the honors and Miss Carlotta Nicholson the Washington representative is today receiving the . congratulations of her many friends. ENTERTAINMENTS AT SCHOOL BUILDING There will be an entertainment | given in the Public Schools auditor!- ; urn next Tuesda^evenlng for the purpose of creating a lecture fund. The , principal part of the program will be ^ ?" Buffalo. K. Y., who has a fine reputation as a reader and entertainer. Her repertoire is remarkably interesting and complete. She will be assisted by local talent? On next Wednesday in the auditorium Dr. Rankin, secretary of the State Board of Health will j speak. Dr. Rankin will also apeak In the afternoon of the same day. His subject for 11 a. m. will bo "Public Health and Citizenship." A more detailed program will bo announced later through these columns. JACKSON STATUE DAY Headquarters North Carolina Division. United Confederate Veterans, Durham, N. C., April 5. 1912. General Orders No. 46. . Paragraph 1. The Jackson Memorial Association, of Richmond, Va., has asked thai next Memorial Day, | Tenth of May, be sta apart in the 'schools of the South as "Jac^kon ; Statue Monument Day" and that every child in these sihodls be asked to contribute ten cents for the erection of an appropriate equestrian statue of the immortal Jackson at Richmond. In furtherance of this most laudable undertaking North Car clinians are requested to do their j part as our North Carolina soldiers did their part In winning those battics tjint immortalized Jackson's tiainf aiul fame. Every school child in this state, every Daughter, of the Confederacy, every ..Confederate Vet-1 eran srfld every oth*r patriotic citizen of North Carolina is hereby urged to contribute the small sum of ten cents for the purpose of thus honoring th'e n:ettf6ry of one whose name and fame will ever be fondly cherish-1 ed by all who admire and rover the military genius and matchless exploits of Stonewall JackBon. Paragraph 2. While thfcre are niagOcfent statues and monuments erect a at Kicnmond to L>avia, Lee, Stuart and others Confederate heroea, jet yet the only memorial there of Jackson bronxe bust In the Capitol Square and that woe erected by admiring Englishmen. No adquate statue of him has been erected by his own people, for whom he sacrificed his life. Let this no longer be said, but let North Carolinians, young and oM, gladly respond to the appeal of the Jackson Memorial Association and aid In thla good work. Send all remmtttancea to Mr. W. J. Holloway, Coshigr *tret National Bank. Durham. N. C. By order of Mpjor-Oeaeca! J. 8. Conr! H. A. London. Adjutant General ana Chief of,Staff 1 ll NO 141 v. x ~ J If ROSEN - 1 PROVES HEl E1SHIP ONTARIO RISKS JLIFE 1 TO SECURE | EASTER HAT T?? n..vu.' rapcio ruuur Cuts of Him and OS His Experience. _____ Mr. Rosea T. WlndUy. son of Mrs W. B. Wlndley.of this city, now a efildent of Wilmington, N. C., who was one of the passengers on the Merchants nad Miners steamship Ontario, burned off the coast of Masen* chusetts a few days ago,, proved to De one of the heroes on bo^rd ship according to the Botson dally papers. In the Boston Daily Globe of April 9 appears on the front page a three column cut ot iIr Windfey and Miss Mabel Perkins, whose attractive hat and other valuables Mr. Wlndley succeeded in aaving from the burning ship. In the Boston Journal of the same date appears a one column cut of Mr. Wlndley; Mr. Windley gave the following account of his experience to the Journal which will no doubt prove of Interest to his friends ? ^ in Washington. He says; "Some one burst in the dodv to my state room shortly after 1:30 In the morning. The crash awoke me and 1 leaped from the berth, only to find the room filled with choking smoke. Someone yelled "Get up. for God's sake." The ship is afire and sinking." Throwing on a pair of trousers and my overcoat, I groped my wnt to the upper detfk. Here I found Mr. and~Mrs. C. E. Perkins of Madbury. N. H., together wUh their daughter with whom I had become acquainted with on the trip. Quite a knot of us huddled here for more than an hour and a half until the ship was beached. We were all shivering by * reason of our scanty, attiro and 1 lent % Misa Perkins my overcoat. When the life savers finally arrived Miss Perkins expressed a desire for the > ? ?? WO"'" ""U O JWUI1R # sailor at the risk of Btlfling to death, made his way to the room and shoved everything in reach In the pillowslips. He came hack, however minus Miss Perkins' Easter hat. Although she begged me not to do so, the hat*, was such a beauty that 1 could nor think of letting it perish, and so I rescued it." Mr. Windlcy is expected to be in Washington next Tuesday on his way back to Wilmington, N. C. MRS. A. S. fULFORD RIVES PORCH PARI* Mrs. A. S. Fulford entertained it few of her friends at a porch party last evening from eight to eleven a, her residence corner of Bridge and Second Streets. The evening was cr.c of pleasure and merriment and Mrs. Fulford proved to be a charming hostess. Refreshments were served and all voting the ho.--.-. *. * many thanks fcr an evening npt soon to te fcrecttcn. f?s MAKIXti REPAIRS )j ! Mr. Daniel Simmons Is making repairs to his resideuce at the corner of Van Xorden &i}d Second Streets. CHRISTIAN CHURCH llov. Mr. Wiilkrr of WUnon Will hi the Krwwher Tomorrow I Rev. J. J. Walker of the Atlantic jChristian College, Wilson, N. C., is 'expected to arrive in the city this j evening and will fill the pulpit of the ^ J 'Christian Church Sunday morning 'and evening at the usual hourtr. All Invited. 1 CHOIR PRACTICE The members of the Methodist Church cuoir are requested to attend a practice at the church thie evening at 7:lt o'clock. Every member org- 3 ed te be pr asset, CAUfOWU !! IU ORANCKH SO cents doeen at Washington PruR Store. Phone 4S0. . , 4-11 StC.

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