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Asheboro, N. C, Thursday, August 12, 1915
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TEXTILE EDUCATION AT A. & M
A textile education is a valuable as
set to a young man. During the past
year graduates of the Textile Depart
ment of the A. &. M. College, Raleigh,
haye been appointed to responsible po
sitions as follows: Overseer of finish
ing in a mill in Massachusetts making
fancy goods; effieiency engineer in
engineering firm, fabric designer in
mill; asistant superintendent in yarn
mill; Superintendent in yarn mill;
mill inspector for Federal' Horticultu
r-al Board.
This textile department is the tex
tile school of North Carolina and to
make this school representative of the
state and thoroughly up-to-date, the
equipment will be considerably in
creased during the year by the addi
tion of dyeing machinery, knitting
machinery, plain and fancy looms,
combing machines for the manufac
ture of fine yarns.
The addition of this machinery will
make this textile sohool one of the
best equipped in America for instruc
tion in cotton manufacturing.
The facutly of the textile depart
ment has been added, to by the ap
pointment of Mr. Henry K. Dick as
instructor in carding, spinning and
knitting. Mr. Dick has for the past
five years been instructor in these sub
jects at "the Lowell Textile School.
RANDOLPH LAND VALUES
The abstract of Randolph's taxa
bles recently completed by Register of
Deeds, George T. Murdock, shows that
475,478 acres of land were listed in
Randolph for 1915, valued at $3,099,
922, an average of 6.52 pey acre. The
highest average per acre was in Ran
dleman township, being $10.41, and the
lowest in Grant township, being $4,10
there. There was a total of 1,822
town lots listed, valued at $1,050,478.
COUNTY S. S. CONVENTION
Meets at Ramseur Thursday, August
19 Interesting Program
The Twenty-Sixth annual conven
tion of the Randolph County Sunday
School Association will meet in the
Methodist Episcopal church in Ram
seur Thursday, August 19. Mr. T. O.
Pender, of Mebane, will have charge
of the music Following is an out
line of the program:
Thursday Morning
10:45 Devotions.
11:00 Opening address, Rev. A. G.
Dixon.
11:45 Assignment of homes.
12:00 Adjournment. .
Thursday Afternoon
1 :30 Song service and devotions.
2:00 President's report, L. F. Ross.
2:20 A Whole Time Superinten.
dent or Director of Religious Educa
tion for Randolph County, A. W. Mc-
Alister. .
2:45 The Department of Education
and Training Schools, A. R. William.
. 3:10 The Prepared Teacher, Dr. W,
A. Harper.
3:40 Department of Education of
the Modern Sunday School, E. J. Col
trane. 4:00 General discussion.
4:30 Appointment of committees.
Thursday Evening
7:30 Music.
7:45 Devotions.
8:00 -Organization and ' Manage
ment, J. M. Broughton, Jr.
8:30 The Sunday School Institution
alisedj W. L. Hutchens. .- - '
9:00 Announcements and adjourn
ment. .
. Friday Morning
8:00 Home Visitation c Ramseur,
under direction of C. H, Julian and
Miss Dora .Sledding, ,
,9:30 Song Service and .Devotions,
10:00-Elementary Divisions-Stand
ards of Organisation and Efficiency,
W:25-Secondf3', : Division: ' 1)
Boya Section, B. J. Celtrane. (2)
Girls Section, Miss .Martha Dozier.
11:05 Adult Division, A. R. Williams.
ll:30r-The Meaning of It All, J.
Walter Long.
12:00--Adjournment.
Friday Afternoon
1:30 Song Service and Devotions.
1:46 Reports of Officers and De
partment Superintendents.
2:00 Next Year's Finances, Dr. VT.
I. Sumner.
2:30 Township Organization and
Management: (1) Township Associa
tion Its Importance, J. Rom Smith.
(2) The Township Convention Pro
gram, Mrs. Frances Hubbard. (4)
Township Training School, J. Walter
Long. ,
3:30 Elementary Conference Led
by Mrs. E. R. Michaux.
Secondary Conference Led by (1)
Girls Section, Miss Martha Dozier.
(2) Boy 8 Section, E. J. Coltrane and
D. M. Sharpe.
Baraca and Philathae Rally.
4:30 Adjournment.
Friday Evening
7:30 Music and Devotional.
8:00 Dynamics, Rev. Joseph Peele,
8:30 Reports of Committees and
Election of Officers.
9:00 Will Randolph Continue to
Lead Everybody Present.
Adjournment.
It is earnestly desired, that every
school in the county send delegates to
this convention. Each school is enti
tled to two delegates. Free entertain
ment is provided by the good people
of Ramseur, and a great and pleasant
occasion is awaiting those who attend
this convention. Plan to be present
for the opening address and remain
until the slose.
RUSSIANS GIVE IVANGOROD TO
, ENEMIES
Novogeorgievsk, the great Russian
fortress to the north of Warsaw, is
now the sole possession of the Rus-
sians along the Vistula. Here the
Russians purpose to stand a siege be
hind its well-fortified lines against the
oncoming forces of Field Marshal von
Hindenburg. Like Wsaw, Ivango-
rod fortress southeast of the capital,
has been abandoned to the Teutonic
allies. Here as at Warsaw, they de
stroyed the bridge crossing the Vistu
la before they evacuated. The Warsaw
fortifications were left intact to the
invaders, those at Ivangorod were de
molished. '
IN CITY SOCIAL CIRCLES
CLUB MEETINGS PARTIES AND
RECEPTIONS IN HONOR OF
OUT-OF-TOWN VISITORS.
PICNIC AT THE PARK
A picnic was enjoyed at the park
Monday evening in honor of Mrs. San
ford and Mr. Arnold Hall, of Burling
ton. About twenty-five were present.
ALPHA DELTA CLUB
The Alpha Delta Club met last
Friday afternoon with Misses Bess
and Beulah Laughlin, Progressive
games were played on the porch. Miss
Georgia Whitefield made the highest
score and won the hand painted cham
ois. An ice course was served.
CHAFING DISH PARTY
Miss Ina Auman gave a chafin dish
party in honor of Miss Mabel Ridge,
of Greensboro, Tuesday evening. Mu
sic and conversation "Were the chief
feautres of the evening.- Welch rare
bit and chocolate fudge were made on
the chafin dish.
MISS FERREE ENTERTAINS
Miss Gertrude Ferree entertained
the Lakeview camping party at her
home on street last Friday
evening.. Contests and games fea
tured the evening and a pleasant time
enjoyed by all present. ' Punch, sand
wiches and iced tea were served.
LITTLE MISS WOOD ENTERTAINS
Little Miss Etta Reid Wood enter
tained' a number of her little friends
at a party yesterday 'afternoon from
4 to 6 o'clock at the home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John hi. Wood, on
North Fayetteville street. The little
folks played games on the porches
and in the yard, and had a general
good time such as children enjoy. Re
freshments were served to them.
IN HONOR OF MRS. 3ANF0RD
Miss Harriette Mammer was at
home Thursday afternoon to a small
number of friends who had been in
vited to meet Mrs. Sanford who is the
house guest of Miss Lovett. Each
guest had been asked t;o bring needle
work so no further entertainment was
provided. Iced tea and sandwiches
were served. Misses Lucile Rush and
Georgia Whitefield sang several vocal
solos and duets. The porch, was at
tractive withpotted plants, season
flowers and golden-rod.
MISS WARD HOSTESS
. On last Monday afternoon, from
four to six o'clock, Miss Jessie Ward
was the charming hostess to several
of the town's young people at a rook
party given complimentary to her
house guest, Miss Annie Myers, of
Bristol, Va. The home was beauti
fully decorated with flowers and ferns
for the occasion. The guest of honor
and Miss Catherine Burns, who made
the highest score in the game of rook
were presented with lovely crepe de
chene handkerchiefs. Refreshments
consisting of cream and cake were
served.
MISS BRITTAIN HOSTESS
Miss Kate Brittin was the delight
ful hostess to the Jolly Dozen Club
Friday afternoon at her home on
South Fayetteville street. Progress
ive rook was the game greatly enjoy
ed at the four tables scattered around
the spacious veranda, and at the close
of the game, Miss Ethel Lovett hav
ing made the highest score, was pre
sented with a lovely work bag.
Delightful refreshments, consisting
of iced tea, sandwiches and olives,
were served by the hostess assisted by
Miss Carrie Brittain. There were in
addition to the club members: Misses
Elizabeth Bunch, Annie and Myrtle
Asbusy and Nina and Rosebud Rhodes,
of Florence, S. C, were invitee guests,
FARMER PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL
OPENS SEPTEMBER 1ST
The fall term of the Farmer public
high school begins Wednesday Sep
tember 1. An unusually large open
ing is expected.
The following teachers will have
charge of the work: Linnie Sham
burger, principal; Edna P. Lamb, high
school assistant; Hope Hubbard, inter
mediate department; Callie Vuncan
non, primary department.
STATE HEALTH EXHIBIT
WILL COME TO ASHEBORO SEP
TEMBER 3. BETTER BABIES
CONTEST TO BE , HELD ONE
DAY f
The Woman's Department Club
makes the interesting announcement
that Asheboro people and the people
of the county are to be given an op
portunity to see the State Health ex
hibit which attracted such wide at
tention at the meeting of the National
Medical Society, at Jacksonville, Fla.,
last, spring, and part of which is now
on exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Ex
position at San Francisco.
This exhibit has been duplicated by
the. State Health Department and is
being loaned to any county in the
State where some organization is in
terested to the extent of paying trans
portation charges.
Among. the many interesting and in
structive features of the exhibit will
se t.".osa dcalir.rr with tuberculosis.
sanitation, and model sleeping rooms.
Beginning Ausust 30th. the exhibit
will be in Asheboro at the court house
for tea days. The better babies con
test will be held on one of these ten
days, xne exact date will be announ
ced lapsr.
COMPANY K RETURNS
Company K, Asheboro's military
boys, arrived in town Tuesday night
from- their annual encampment at
Camp Glenn, near Morehead City, and
give glowing accounts of their trip.
The. company made a good showing
compared with the others " in camp
with them, receiving honors in the
Italian review and parade, and in the
target range; Fivfr members of" the
company, Messrs. H. L. Ingram, C.
Lovett; Jake Gray, A. Bt Bulla and .E.
J. Luck, receives badges of marks
manship. Tha property ' inspection
showed the company to be among the
best of the regiment When not on
duty, the boya enjoyed several excur
sions over the surrounding, country
and bathing ia the surL On Sunday
tha entire tompany went over to Old
Fort Macon for the day.
PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE
ADJOURNS
The Pan-American Conference at
Washington, considering means to re
store peace to Mexico adjourned last
Friday after developing no divergence
of opinion as to its general purpose,
but leaving undecided the exact course
to be pursued. It will probably reas
semble in New York this week. No
official announcement was made of the
proceedings of the conference and the
participants declined to discuss de
tails of their deliberations. Some,
however, had no hesitancy in saying
that there had been progress and that
they liked the general plan of the
American Government.
TWENTY-TWO MILLION WILDER
NESS ACRES
There are 22,000,000 uncultivated
Acres in North Carolina. Four-fifths
of it is valuable for farm purposes.
A little more than seven acres in
every ten are left at present to scrub
pines, black-jacks, sassafras bushes,
mullein stalks, may-pops and broom
sage. Here is a neglected area almost ex
actly twice the size of Belgium. Here
is room for every man jack of the
450,000 Belgian . farmers, on farms
twice the average size of the little
pocket handkerchief fields they have
been cultivating. And we should have
some nine million ceres of our wilder
ness spades still left for wood-lo'c uses,
University News Letter.
GOOD RESULTS FROM FARMERS'
. MEETINGS
At five Farmers' meetings held last
week by the County Farm Demonstra
tor, Mr. Foust, assisted by Mr. S. R.
Bivins, Demonstrator for Vance coun
ty, in the interest of more cover crops
there was present a total of one hun
dred and eleven farmers. From the
attention given the advice of the dem
onstrators and the number of appli
cations made for Pure Liquid Bacte.
ria Culture the indications are that
twice as many acres of cover crops
will be sown this fall th?n ever be
fore. When our people realize the
value and the possibilities of our soil
and the proper way to build up this
soil and then do it we can have more
and better farms and other things in
the same proportion.
GERMANS TAKE WARSAW
WARSAW, CAPITAL OF RUSSIAN
POLAND, HAS BEEN TAKEN
NOW ARMIES OF RUSSIA WILL
OPEN NEW CAMPAIGNS
The Germcns are in vossession of
Warsaw, Capitol of Poland, and the
third largest city in the Russian Em
pire. Bavarian troops entered the
city Thursday morning, having taken
successfully the Bbndie lines and the
outer and inner fortresses of the city
itself, the Russians only fighting rear
guard actions to' allow their main
army to escape. ,
While to the Bavarians command
ed by Prince Leopold has fallen the
honor of taking over Warsaw in the
name of the German Emperor and
his consort, who are expected to make
a state entry within a few days,
the real conquerors are the troops
fighting under Field Marshal von
Hindenburg along the Narew River to
the northeast; to the Austro-Ger-mans
who rrossed the Vistula to the
south of the city, and to the armies
of the Austrian Archduke Joseph
Ferdinand and the German Field
Marshal von Mackensen which are
advancing northward between the
Vistula and Bug Rivers.
The Russians are fighting deeper
ately to check these four armies and
have had several successes, inflicting
heavy losses on their pursurers, but
they are being steadily pressed back,
which made the longer occupation or
Warsaw a hazardous undertaking,
Even now, although the steadiness
of the Russian troops and their fierce
counter-attacks have gained much
valuable time for them, it is prob
lematic whether the whole Russian
army will succeed in reaching the new
positions chosen for it, or whether, if
it should get them, it; will not find
those positions turned by the Austn
ans who have crossed the Bug south-.
east of Chelm and the ' Germans wl9.j
have crossed the warew.
At the northwestern end of the line
the Russian communications are furr
ther. threatened by General von Bue-
low, who is. advancing, towatd JBvinsk
on the Vilna-Petrograd Railway. In
deed, the Austro-Germans have set
three traps to catch and destroy the
Russian army. None of them was
sprung but one was so near closing
that Grand Duke Nicholas was forced
to evacuate Warsaw and now is fight
ing with all his might to prevent the
othere from cutting off his retreat
Thus far he seemingly has been
successful, for .although the Germans
claim the capture of a large number
of prisoners, the aggregate is small
when compared with the immense
forces engaged. In addition the Rus
sian guns apparently are well on their
way to the rear. From refugees who
left Warsaw some days ago and have
arrived at Moscow, it has been learn
ed that Warsaw even at the early date
had been denuded of virtually every
thing that might be useful to the
Teutons. Factories had been stripped
of their macinery and all war stores
moved.
The Russians also are preparing to
evacuate Riga, the port on the gulf
of that name in the north. The Ger
mans are but 10 miles from that city.
British military critics make no at
tempt to belittle the achievements of
the Teutons or the effect their success
is likely to have in the near East and
West.
Since early in May, when they start
ed their great counter-offensive in
western Galicia against the Russians
debouching through the Carpathians
onto the plains of Hungray, the troops
of the Germanic powers have cleared
the Russians out of Galicia, with the
exception of a narrow strip of terri
tory in the southwest, have recaptured
Przemysl and Lamberg, taken LubBn,
Chelm and Warsaw and are in milita
ry occupation of virtually the' whole of
Poland.
What their next move will be is a
matter of conjecture. Some military
observers believe they will continue
to attack the Russians in the hope of
finally crushing them, a task which it
is considered is rendered difficult by
the fact that the Russians in their re
treat lay the country waste, making
it necessary for the invaders to bring
up every ounce of food required for
their army.
Other observers think Serbia will be
attacked, so as to impress the Balkan
States which remain neutral, while
still others look for a big offensive
against the France-British-Belgian
line in the West. All of the observers
are of the opinion that wherever the
new operation is begun, it will be on
GENERAL ISES ITEMS
ITEMS OF LIVE NEWS GATHER-
'"mKUM OUR EXCHANGES
AND CONDENSED IN BRIEF
FORM FOR BUSY READERS.
Gen. Benjamin G. Tracv. wh vu
President Harrison's Secretary of the
xsavy, died of paralysis at New York
last Friday, in his eiirhtv-fifth vear
after a period of unconsciousness last
ing nine days.
Warning has been' riven that th
oddest hotel in New York will be clos
ed August 28, when more than 50
working girls will be sent ashore from
the ship Jacob A.. Stamler. a floating
hotel. For years the Stamler has been
home for girls employed in shoos
and stores at a cost to them varvino-
from $2.80 to $3.50 a week. The city
fire department has ordered changes
to be made in the Stamler and the
company does not wish to go to the
expense to make them. The ship was
built in 1867.
The corporation income tax in North
Carolina paid to the Federal Govern
ment for the year ending June 30,
1914, was $173,267. Five Southern
States paid more, six less.
Thrifty people in the South in 1914
had in the savings banks denosita
amounting to $97,000,000. New Hamp
shire alone had $102,000,000 in her
savings banks, more than the savings
deposits of all the Southern States put
together.
Observance of the first anniversary
of the death of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson'
was marked at Rome, Ga., last Friday
by scores of children niacins; flowers
on her grave and by holding of memo
rial services under the auspices of the
Ellen Arson Wilson Memorial Asso
ciation. In Orange-county there is a canainfl?
club composed of thirteen members,
a .Mr. Thompson, his wife and eleven
Children. Last year the record of the
Hub was 2,100 cans of apples, pears,
peaches and tomatoes. . The profits
were a snug sum for the family purse.
Mr. Monroe Smith, aa Orange coun
ty farmer, living .on Teer-Route 1.
has solved the problem of running
.water for. his home, simply aad at
smo.l! expense. The necessary plumb
ing, the little water house at his kitch
en door and the whole outfit cost only.
$20.
While the Germans are pursuing the
retreating Russians on the eastern
front the Allies are delivering sharp
attacks on the German lines in France.
Recent encounters on the western
front have resulted in Success for tha
Allies.
The Powers of North and South
America have agreed upon a definite
plan for dealing with the Mexican
problem, and when the Pan-American
conference is resumed at an early date
in Nw York the program will be fro
mally ratified.
Chief of police, John R. May, of
Thomasville, has resigned and R. B.
Tolbert, a member of the force haa
been elected to succeed him.
The Thomasville Chair Company
has enlarged its plant by building
a five-story brick building.
North Carolina easily retained first
rank in gold output among the East
ern or Appalachian States in 1914,
the yield having been the second lar
gest in the last ten years. The total
production of gold in 1914 amounted
to 6,343,94 fine ounces, againsi 6,
116,92 ounces in 1913. In 1915 the
value of the North Carolina gold yield
was $134,141 of a total of $173,589 for
all the Eastern States.
Monday morning the home of Mr.
J. H. Taylor, at Lexington, was com
pletely destroyed by fire. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
CENTRAL HIGHWAY TO HAVE
PATROL SYSTEM
Hon. H. B. Varner, chairman of the
Central Highway Association, has re
ceived notice from- Washington that
the United States office of public roads
has decided to establish the patrol
system on the Central Highway
through North Carolina. Mr. Varner
has been working toward this end for
a long time and is much gratified at
the success of his efforts. The Ameri
can Highway Association furnishes
two automobiles and the government'
two engineers. The counties through
which the road passes will employ tha
patrolmen and equip them for work.
a big scale.
The Germans also have had local
successes in the West, recapturing on
the crest of the line in the Vosages a
portion of the trenches which the
French took from them some time ago.