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Asheboro, N. C Thursday, June 17, 1915
No. 24
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FORM FOR BUSY READERS.
Wilmington is to have a baby hos
pital in the near future.
Gov. Craig and family" will spend
most of the summer in Asheville.which
again becomes the "Summer Capital."
The plant of the Butte Socialist, of
Butte, Montana, was dynamited last
Friday.
Ex-Secretary of State William J.
Bryan will be president of the Winona
Assembly, the great western Chautau
qua, which is to be reorganized zoom.
Eugene Biggs, aged 14, was killed
in an automobile-railroad accident at
Victory Cotton Mill, two miles from
Fayetteville, last Saturday.
Genral Julian S. Carr, of Durham,
who has been boomed by a number of
friends for governor next year, an
nounces that he will not be a candi
date. Twelve persons lost their lives in a
storm that swept over Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Iowa, last Saturday
night Several others were seriously
injured.
Prof. H. Hoyle Sink, wio is a na
tive of Davidson county, now teaching
at Amoy, China, is a candidate for
the office of United States Vice-Consul
at that place.
A late report from Trieste, Austria,
is that meat is selling Sot a dollar a
pound there. There ib said to be n
bread, and the people are living on
vegetables and fruit from Istria.
The United States has notified 21
of the world's principal nations that
it intends the termination of the pro
visions of existing treaties, conflict
ing with the Seaman's Act passed by
the last Congress.
Lieutenant Braner and several sail
ers, missing from the German cruis
er, Prini EiteL act Norfolk, will be
dealt with by the government under
the immigration laws, If they can fee
located.
Richard Olney, W secretary
" of State in PresidentCleveland's ad
ministration is prominent among
those mentioned as the probable suc
cessor to Mr. Bryan in President Wil
son's Cabinet.
The Justices of the Peace of Mont
gomery county met in Troy, one day
last week, with Mr. A. B. McCaskill
in the chair, and elected the following
Board of County Commissioners:
Messrs. N. M. Thayer, CL M. Brutoa,
and E. L. Harris. Mr. Harris is the
only new member of the board.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the celebration at Guilford
Battle Ground, July 3 A monument
to General Nathaniel Green is to be
unveiled. A chorus of probably 100
voices, led by Prof. Wade R. Brown,
director of music at the State Nor
mal College, Greensboro, will sing
tional patriotic songs.
Former Secretary of State William
Jennings Bryan issued an address to
"The German-Am ericanb last Friday,
urging them to aid in maintaining
peace between the United States and
their fatherland by exerting their in
fluence with the German government
to persuade it not to take any steps
that would lead in the direction of
war.
A storm in the vicinity of Moores
ville, one day last week, did damage
that is estimated at $3,000. Trees
were uprooted, and buildings destroy
ed. A barn belonging to Mr. T. W.
Kestler was struck by lightning and
burned with a quantity of feed and
one mule. Leila, the 14-year old
daughter of Mr. Kestler was stunned
by the lightning.
A violent wind and rain storm broke
up the formal exercises of Confeder
ate Memorial Day, in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery, last Saturday. Presi
dent Wilson drove through the rain to
be a guest of honor, but the exercises
were abandoned except the placing of
flowers on the graves in the Confeder
ate section and the unveiling of
cross of flowers by two young girls.
Abel Carpenter, who died last week,
at the age of 95, was probably Lin
coln county's oldest male citizen.
In Montgomery county Superior
court, last week, the case in which the
Keeley Institute at Greensboro, was
being sued for damages on account of
the death in 1912 of a Mr. Coggins,
was decided in favor of the defendant,
there being no damage allowed. The
man's death resulted from a fall while
he was walking on the roof of a porch
lit the Keeley.
GENERAL NEWS ITE
MEETING
On Monday evening of this week
the Baraca and Philathea classes of
the town had a union meeting at the
M. P. church and organized a county
union. Mr. Clyde Auman, of Seagrove
was present and helped them to or
ganize. The following 'officers were
elected:
President, Clyde Auman, Seagrove;
vice president, Miss Annie Moring,
Asheboro; secretary and treasurer,
Mr. Clarence Macon, Providence town
ship. Mr. Auman will act as field secreta
ry during the summer, and will visit
the various townships in the county
to present the Baraca and Philathea
work. The plan is to bring all town
ships together to complete the organ
izatiori in August while the County
Sunday school convention is in session
and arrange for annual Baraca and
Philathea conventions to be held
some time daring the winter months.
This is a good cause and it is hoped
people throughout the county will re
spond to the efforts that are being
made.
RANDOLPH SUNDAY SCHOOLS
County Convention to be Held in
Ramsear, July 19th. and 20th.
President L. F. Rosb, of Asheboro;
Secretary, F. M, WrigTrt, of Moffitt;
and Mr. 3u. E. Johnson, of Ramseur;
composing the committee appointed
to decide on the time and place for
holding the Randolph County Sunday
School Convention this year, met in
Asheboro, last Tuesday, and decided
to accept the invitation from Ramseur.
Accordingly, the 26th annual Sunday
School Convention for "Randolph coun
ty will be heVd in that town, in the
M. E. church, July 19th and 20, next,
The committee in charge of the
work are preparing a program, which
will be published later.
The committee expresses a desire
that the pastors of the various church
es in the county, when arranging for
special meetings, will 'take into con
sideration the time of the Sunday
School Convention, July 19th and 20th
and so arrange as to have , no con
flirt. A special e,nrt will be made
t6 make this one of the best conven
tions that have -ever "been held.
The North Carolina Good Road
Association win meet in Asheville,
July 14th, 15th and 16th. .
Mr. E. Poole, a prominent citizen
of Greensboro, and native of England
died last Monday, .aged 48 years.
The recent report of the Superin
tendaat of the State Hospital, at Mor
canton, shows there -are more than
1,400 patients in the hospital now.
According to a recent estimate by
the manager of a lyceum bureau, ex
Secretary of Slate W. J. Bryan can
earn $137,000 a year as a lecturer.
Governor Craig has appointed Miss.
Annie Fry, of Greensboro, sponsor for
North Carolina at the unveiling of
the Nathaniel Green monument, at
Guilford Battleground, .July 3d.
A strike of 14,500 employes of the
surface and elevated street car sys
tems of Chicago was ordered last Sat
urday night. Increased wages is the
demand of the strikers.
Mr. J. Elwood Cox, of High Point,
who has been boomed as a candidate
for Governor on the Republican ticket
next year, has announced that he will
not be in the field.
The Census Bureau has announced
that the amount of cotton used during
the past May, exclusive of linters,
exceeded that used during May 1914,
by about 30,000 bales.
Reports from the Bureau of Census,
Washington, D. C, show that North
Carolina now has a greater per cent,
of native born people than any other
state in the Union.
The United States has been for
mally notified by General Villa, on
behalf of the Mexican convention for
ces, that he hta telegraphed General
Carranza, urging a conference for the
restoration of peace and a constitu
tional government in Mexico.
A general invitation to "all Mis-
sourians" has been issued for the wed
ding of Miss Genevieve Clark, daugh
ter of Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark,
June 30th. It is declared impossible
to issue individual invitatons to all
those who should be included. '
Mayor Fred I. Sutton, of Kinston,
has been arrested upon the oredr of
Judge T. C Wooten, Of the Recorder's
Court, and recognized for his appear
ance in court next week, on the charge
of exceeding his authority when he
released two men from custody,' ar
rested for a trifling misdmeanor. '
'.BARACA-PHILATHEA
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The 36th annual meeting of the
North Carolina Pharmaceutical Asso
ciation is in session at Durham,
The University of North Carolina
summer school, under the manage
ment of Director N. W. Walker,
opened last Tuesday.
One North Carolinian. Mr. C. M,
Busbee, of Raleigh, is among the 164
graduates at West Point, this week.
week.
The 14th annual convention of the
North Carolina Veterinary Medical
Association will be held in Asheville,
June 23d and 24th.
The Summer Forestry Association,
under the management of the. North
Carolina Forestry Association, will be
held at Montreat, July 6th to 9th,
Admiral Fullom, superintendent of
the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, is
under the grave charge of tampering
with the evidence of witnesses before
the court of inquiry investigating ir
regularities in examination papers at
the Naval Academy.
Settlement of the first of a number
of claims filed against Great Britain
by American cotton shippers whose
cargoes have been seized was announ
ced last Friday by the British embas
sy in Washington. Fifty-nine thou
sand ponds of cotton, shipped on the
steamers, Dicido and Livonia, have
been paid for at ten cents a pound.
Nunery King, convicted in Federal
Court at Greensboro, last week, of re
tailing and sentenced to three months
in the Guilford county jail, petitioned
Judge Boyd to change the sentence to
a year in the Federal penitentiary at
Atlanta, and the Judge complied with
his request and added one day mak
ing the sentence a year and a day.
Chester Banks, a negro , will be
tried this week in Guilford county
Superior court, on the charge of first
degree burglarly, the penalty for
which is death. There is strong cir
cumstantial evidence that the accused
man entered the home of Mrs. Lewey,
near McLeansville, daring the night
time, for the purpose of robbery, and
when detected choked the woman and
escaped.
Mrs. Albert Baker and son, of Dup
lin county, are under bond, charged
with the crime of attempted murder.
The son held Herbert Carter, a
nineteen-year old boy while the moth
er cut his throat intending to kill. It
is thought the boy will recover. Car
ter had recently joined a church and
had since confessed to improper rela
tions with Mrs. Baker, who is old
enough to be his mother, a fact which
probably accounts for the crime.
Safe blowers visited the town of
Cleveland, Rowan county, last Sunday
night, broke open the money drawer
in the freight depot but failed to get
anything, as the drawer was empty;
then blew Open the safe in the store
of W. W. Roseman & Co., securing
about seventy dollars in money and
several checks which they threw away
and made good their escape without
eaving any clue as to their identity.
About $65.00 of the money taken be
longed to the government, it being the
custom to lock up the postofnee money
in the Roseman safe.
Value
PROF. HOLT DEAD
Prof. J. Allen Holt, head of Oak
Ridge Institute, and one of the most
prominent educators of the State,
died at his home, last Tuesday even
ing, after a period of declining health
for several months, and acute illness
for a few days.
Prof. Holt was 62 years of age. He
was a brother of Prof. M. H. Holt,
and the two brothers were for many
years in control of Oak Ridge Insti
tute. Two sons, Prof. Earl Holt and
Clyde R. Holt, and one daughter, Mrs.
Gwynn, of Mt. Airy, survive.
MEETING NORTH CAROLINA
EDITORS
Arrangements are now almost com
plete for the meeting of the North
Carolina Press Association, at Mon
treat and Black Mountain, June 30,and
July 1-2.
In addition to the other feature
previously announced, a delightful
musical program will be rendered on
Thursday evening, by Prof. Adams
and his chorus of 40 or 50 voices. The
Mt. Mitchell trip will be taken on Fri
day. Secretary Sherrill and others
most earnestly express the hope that
every member will be present at the
opening session Wednesday night, and
remain till the close Saturday.
Social Event at Thomasville
The following item, clipped from a
Sunday paper, will be of interest to
the many Randolph friends and rela
tivea of the hostess and guest of hon
or:
"On Saturday evening Mrs. G. T.
Cochrane, delightfully entertained i
large number of young people in hon
or of her house-guest, Miss Jaunita
Kearns, of Farmer. The attractive
home was in gala attire, daisies be
ing prettily arranged in the parlor
and the crimson rambler roses in the
other rooms. Dainty and attractive
hand painted cards distributed for the
game of rook. Miniature bouquets of
sweet peas tied with ribbon were giv
en as favors to each guests. Delight
ful brick ice cream and wafers were
served. Mrs. Cochrane fully sustain
ed her reputation as a charming host
ess." NORTH CAROLINA'S GREAT
WHEAT CROP
Estimates of the Department of Ag
riculture give North Carolina 10,800,'
000 bushels of wheat, which if sold at
an average of $1.46 a bushel would
mean about $15,750,000, or nearly
twice as much as last year's crop was
worth. The crop this year surpasses
last year's crop about 3,000,000 bush
els, and is nearly double the average
crop for a period of five years before
that time.
State Senator F. P. Hobgood, Jr.,
one of the leading members of the
Greensboro bar, has been appointed
a special attorney in the Department
of Justice, at a salary of $7,500 a
year, and will be assigned to work
with Hon. E. J. Justice on the Pacific
coast
STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
The 62nd annual meeting of the
Medical Society of the State of North
Carolina, is in session in Greensboro
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
June 15th, 16th and 17th. Special
efforts to entertain the crowd are be
intr made by the hotels, which are
giving special rates.
The opening session of the Medical
Society was held Tuesday morning at
10:30 o'clock in the Grand Open
House, called to order by Dr. T,
Battle, chairman of the local com
mittee on arrangements. The invoca
tion was offered by Dr. Chas W. Byrd,
pastor of West Market street M. E
church. Mayor T. J. Murphy made
the address of welcome, and Dr. Ben
jamin K. Hays, of Oxford, responded
The president's annual address was
delivered by Dr. L. B. McBrayer, of
Sanatorium, N. C. The report of the
committee on arrangements, composed
of Dr. J. T. J. Battle and Dr. W. M.
Jones, was made at this time.
The social features of the meeting
began with a reception Tuesday after
noon by the Southern Life and Trust
Company, in their offices on the top
floor of the Southern Life and Trust
Building. Tuesday night, a reception
was given by Dr. and Mrs. J. W.
Long, at their residence on Church
street. Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock special cars carried the physi
cians to the State Normal and Indus
trial College, where they were met by
President J. I. Foust, and conducted
on a tour of inspection of the build
ings, grounds, laundry, kitchen, dairy,
etc., of this model plant that has done
and is doing so much for the citizen
ship of North Carolina. Afterwards
supper was served in the college din
ing room, the lecturer arid entertain
er, Karl Jansen, discussed the
subject: "Two ways of Selling Goods,
After supper, in the college auditori
um, the report of the committee on
obituaries was read. This was follow
ed by the annual essay, by Dr. Mary
E. Lapham, of Highland, on the sub
ject: "The Present Status of Tuber
cular Knowledge." The annual ora
tion followed by Dr. J. M.' Northing
ton, of Broadman, "whose subject was
"The Internationalized Profession.1
A meeting that was of broad inter
est, and to which the public was in
vited was held in the county court
house Monday evening, at 8 o'clock.
Col. James H. Southyate, of Durham
spoke on "The sick Boy in the Fam
ily.". Dr. H. F. Long, of Statesville,
spoke on "TJhe First Essential
Fighting the Great White Plague an
Early Diagnosis," and Dr. Thompson
Frazier, of Asheville, on "What the
State and You can do for the Con
sumptives."
Health exhibits of North Carolina,
Georgia, South Carolina, Jacksonville,
Fla., and Asheville Boards of Health,
were opened for the week in the rooms
of the Chamber of Commerce.. These
exhibits illustrate, in an interesting
and graphic way, diseases, their ways
and manners of communication, and
means of prevention. They cover, as
far as can be done by illustrations,
models, etc., the science of disease
prevention and health preservation.
WORLD'S FIRST CITIZEN
President Wilson so Characterized by
The London Daily News Unquali
fied Praise from Paris.
In a two-column tribute to Presi
dent Wilson, Alfred G. Gardiner, edi
tor of the London Daily News, says:
"No man in the democratic world
today is so entirely governed by prin
ciple and moral sanctions. President
Wilson is not merely the first citizen
of the United States, but the first citi
zen of the world. He makes mistakes
no doubt for he is human, but they
irever are the mistakes of a weak
man; they are never the mistakes of
a political gambler or one touched by
sordid motives of ambition."
Unqualified admiration for the firm,
dignified and courteous tone of Presi
dent Wilson's note to Germany is ex
pressed by the Paris newspapers,
While it is considered in no sense an
ultimatum the press considers the lan
guage so clear as to leave no room for
dilatory tactics or a complex contro
versy. Safe crackers blew open the safe
in the Forest City postoffice, last
Thursday night and took between $25
and $30 worth of stamps and several
dollars in money. The postmaster
does not know just how much money
was taken, as the robbers carried
away the account book.
A man claim-
ing his name to be Matheeny has been
arrested on suspicion.
N. C. PRESSASSOCIATION
THE FORTY - SECOND ANNUAL
SESSION TO MEET AT MON
TREAT JUNE 30 TO JULY 2, 1915
THE PROGRAM.
Following is the tentative program
of the 42nd annual session of the
North Carolina Prsss Association,
Montreat, June 30-July 1-2, 1915. All
sessions should begin promptly: t .
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30.
Evening Session, 8:30 o'clock. .. ;
Prayer.
Address of Welcome by Rev. R. C. An
derson, D. D.
Response to Address of Welcome by
Archibald Johnson, editor of
Charity and Children.
Report of Executive Committee; Elec
tion of new members; Reading of
Messages.
Address of the President, William C,
Hammer, Esq.
THURSDAY, JULY 1. (
Morning Session, 9:30 o'clock.
"Advantages and Disadvantages of the
Clubbing System" H. C. Martin
of the Lenoir News.
"The Best Methods of Securing Circu
lation" R. F. Beasley, of the?
Monroe Journal.
"Extension Activities in Our Univer
sity" Prof. E. C. Branson.
"The Importance of the Editorial'
Page" A. Johnson, of Charity
and Children.
"The Field of the Country Weekly"
S. T. Meares, of Bladen Journal.
"Why Not Cash in Advance for Sub
scriptions?" James W. Atkins,
of the Gastonia Gazette, and J. A.
Sharp, of Lumberton Robersonian:
"The Fellow on the Outside Looking'
In" James H. Cowan, of tha
Wilmington Dispatch.
Afternoon Session, 2:30 O'clock '
"Newspapers and Town Booming"
J. F. Hurley ,of the Salisbury Post
Historian's Paper: "Veteran Personal
ities of North Carolina Journal
ism" B. H. De Priest, of the
Shelby Highlander.
Address by Dr. J. Y. Joyner, State Su
perintendent of Public Instruction
Memoir of ThadVTfcTIaiiningby 3. A
Robinson.
"Various Ways of Securing Free Pub
licity" J. V. Simms, of the Char
lotte Observer.
Paper by Miss Lucile Smith, editor of
Skyland.
Paper by A. F. Johnson, of the Louis-
burg Times.
Evening Session, 8:30 O'clock.
Annual Poem Wm. Laurie Hill.
Annual Oration: "The New Flight"
Santford Martin, of the Winston
Salem Journal.
A musical program, arranged by Mr,
Adams, will be rendered in con
nection with the program of the
Press Astociation.
FRIDAY, JULY 2.
On Friday a trip to Mount Mitchell
will be taken over the railroad to that:
point, consuming the entire day.
SATURDAY, JULY 3.
On Saturday a barbecue and picnic-
dinner will be tendered the editorial,
party by the citizens of B!ck Moun
tain. TO ALTER BLOCKADE:
Great Britain Gives Assurance That
American Shipping to Holland,
Denmark and Sweden W1H not be
Interfered With.
The announcement in the American
Press that President Wilson was pre
paring to send a new note to Great
Britain, demanding that England re
frain from interfering with American
shipping to neutral countries, appears.
to have had a salutary effect in Lon
don.
Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British
ambassador at Washington, has, given;
Acting-Secretary of State Lansing?
what might be called informal assur
ance that his government will soon al
ter its long range blockade- in so far
as it applies to American commerces
Ambassador Rice is said' to. bavet
strongly intimated to Secretary Lam
ing that under the new plank. Ameri
can shipping to Holland, Denmark,
Norway and Sweden will be given safe
transit and will not be hetd up or de
tained m British ports; H this is
done it will have a good effect on cot
ton prices. The unwarrantable de
tention of American cargoes, it fis
claimed, has seriously depressed the
price of cotton and practically made
it impossible for our cargoes to reach
a market.
In the Central Carolina Fair heldi
in Greensboro, there will be a special'
department for the members of thet
Girl's Canning Clubs of the State.