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A the party came ashore it found the Beafort band ready with a hearty welcome. After the speech the governor left town oh the four o'clock train head , ed for Raleigh The morning train hjad brought him to Camp Glenn" where he review ed the 120th North Carolina Infan try in Regimental parade. The twel ve hundred men filed out on the drill grounds and in orderly formations - passed In front of the stand where the governor patched with mny of the 'officers and officers dl other plac .es. ' ' J The troops after the parade had been completed drew in close around the reviewing stand and listened to th address of the governor, Gevernor Morrison in hos speech at Beaufort emphasized the value of the sounds which line the coast. He is in favor of taxation to secure the improvement which woull make the Old North State one of the best in the union. .But he is also in fa vor of making the most. of the mon ey paid to the government, "The sinking -fund cf the state,", he said, "has been turned into a road fund and. .the money used in, constructing highways." "Soon lie factory has been engaged in grind went on," there will be a hard surfac- ing shells for fertiliser purposes. In ed road from here to Raleigh and on a few days tomato canning will start up to Asheville and the mountains of the west. ' ' "A net work o'f roads are binding the towns and cities and counties together and making North Carolina into . 1 ' strong state. And yet the money saved to the automobile own ers in tires and gasoline will pay for these roads. "But'lhe best investment North Carolina can make .Is in developing its sounds. If a private company willyi,ld yoo. . ... owned the sound teylwould b val-( later performed the service. Only a 'V ued 'at millions' of dellars into their few immediate friends of the couple ' development nd you will-get many were in attendance. The couple will I T ' tt. .m7,t-Ji the return they . make "their home in Beaufort where "InTfta should be openFTI, opsters.iort urug w. i nlaatedand streams replenished with y ilsh. 'Carteret Caounty is free. This .Wfcl . . program will not be force upon her but she can of her owir free will vote themoney to carry on these im provements., "Fortv.four hundred dollars a year will(pay the interest on lion doners. "We have secured over a million dollars in the last two years from the Inheritance tax alone. A mil- lion dollars from the Insurance com panies and the Inoome tax) jylelds two and a half annually. "Pay the forty four hundred put lowed to dominate. Itl our duty of the income. tax money. We are! to see that law and order prevail hewers of wood and drawers of wa-jand I congratulate you upon the po ter beciuse we have sot developed eur resources. We should push for ward cotll North Carolina In the most efficient democracy In the world. But we can't do It If demagogues who howl about taxes being hibh art lis. teaed to, Let us build schools J wan tcrways, roads, hospitals and make oer state the foremost of the states ef the union." At Camp Glens the governor prals ed the saying that there nay be pet er troops but that he had never sees fees. "We must aas, troops,") said We, "to enforce the. laws the state . sad nation, and to suppress mob vio lence' We are building a mighty civilisation but this civilisation will aaaoant to aothiaf If atehrule Is el- BEAUFORT TERRAPINS TO i TRAVEL TO STATE FAIR , The management of 1 the State Fair, held annually in Raleigh "ob tained permission of the U. S. Gov ernment at Washington ' to 1. use , a number of terrapins from the labor atory on Piver's Island. ' The fair will begin sometime in October and last for week. Mr. Hatsell intends to send terra pins of varying age some two years old, some four, and some of the ad ults ranging in age from four to twelve years. ' A good while ago Mr. Hatsell re ceived the request for the terrapins but not having the right to fcrant it referred-the askers to Washington, The government consented and sent word to Piver's Island to send the animals when needed. There are now about four thou sand of them on the island and a bout thirty five hundred have just recently been released, ' nearly two thousand of. which .were turned into the waters of Core Bound, and Neuse River. - The rest were' sent to Mass achusetts to be used there. ' Jh: , In Pamlico Sound says Mr. Hatsell, terrapin fishing is made a business and if ever the government can be in duced to increase the output' of the farm here to as much as twenty thou sand a year the fishing will be profit able in this part of North Carolina. NEW SCHOL BUILDING. At a meeting "held here Monday the county bord of Education let the contract for the new school build ing at A Untie. The edifice will e a two story brick one and will be an addition to the present building. The contract price was $9,ST70 and Guthrie Brothers of orMerehead City were the sucessful bidders." When jthe structure is finished Atlantic will ; have a first class school building, one jof the best in the county.' 1 1 SOUTHCATE HAS NEW MANAC'R Mr: J. J. Whitehurst who has for some time been the chief clerk at the Norfolk and Southern freight depot is now manager for the Southgate Packing Campany here, having sue- ceeded' the late M. C. Holland. Smce the oyster packing season closed .the on a large. sca:e. ine oyster pack ing season will open about the first lot ctober.r MR KING AND MISS - WED DAVIS Mr. Roland King of Beaufort was married to Miss Kathleen Davis of Morehead City last Monday night a- bout, nine o'clock In, the Baptist church at Moreneaa uty. ine min uniy Mr- u tl mOTK W1UI 1"u" nbb t.a v wv MR, E. E. GUTHRIE PASSES. Mr. . Everettt. Guthrie died at his home ia Beaufort Sunday morning at S o'clock. The funeral took place that afternooi) at five and. was con ducted by Reverend E. B. Craven of i Methodist church, followed by interment at Ocean View Cemetary. Mr Guthrw. .who wu in dvi iu ty second year Is survived 'by hU. wasnvuie w ssammom wave we en wifei two daughUrs, Miss Estelle, tire trip was made vis automobile, .nd Vr.. Ward Moulton. and by two, After leaving their startlpg place sons, William and Ivey Guthrie. i sition which you hold. "I want to let the world knew that lynching! have ended In North Car olina and that the basest criminal will be protected by the law and not mur dered by the mob. "I know that North Carolina ought to do for yos end at the next meet ing of . the General Assembly will do it for yee or there will be the big gest fight hi the hiatory sf North Car olina. ' . v "The National Guardsmen ere sot policemen and they will tot be Med to save the hide of eoe cowardly official. But when I see the law trodden under foot H Is say purpose to support the law. Be aelp sse God, wfUle I am governor ef North Caret!- is. . ' YACHT RESCUED AT CAPE LOOKOUT No Wet fGood- Aboard " and . Seme Disappointment . v ' Evident The auxiliary Vacht Sea Scamp, un der the command of Captain George Purdy, on a voyage from Nassau in the West Indies to New York was caught in a squall Thursday night off Cape Lookout and the compass be ing out of the way went) ashore one mile south east of the cape break water. , ) Captain Leslie Moore and his crew of the life saving station put out to sea and brought in the stranded men. Captain Albert I. Lewis, marine un derwriters agent in Beauort was no tified with the consent of the yacht's captain employed the fishing boats W. B. Blades and George D. Balster to go. t the, boats assistance. Cap tain Lewis was accompanied in the undertaking by C. B. Wheldice o New Yotk special representative of marine underwriters. The fishboats were aided in their eftorts by the life saving crew and the yacht floated at eleven o'clock Sunday morning. She was then tow ed into Beaufort harbor. . The dam cge done to her was very small as far as could be ascertained. It is reported that fees for ser vices of the fish boats amounted to a thousand dollars. -" Captain Pundy has arranged t o have his yacht towed to Norfolk by Captain Ned Lewis' boat. - v 1 ;Ust year Just before QuVmaa a yacht went ashore at Cape Look- cotton beIt BD0W ten per out and" from it a Urge harvest ef cent with con- liquor of the .Scotch, and, rye varie. , dition of 71 Pr cent of ulL or ties was garnered. Men -from Har.;inorn1,conditIon. v"1 forecast, ac ker'a Island ad come fromtother .cording to these figures indicates 11 place ' discovered the' whiskey Md 0650 This includes 8,175r brought it ashore and for a long ?00 cr" -time after it was on tale in these ( Th rtt crP ,how tUrteea part,, in fact it is reported that some cent creage and, 76 of it ia ttill in existance en Harker'i. P nt eondition. The June 25 Island. , When the report got out Sea Scamp had gone ashore, tttrt w . who Mht she might, be a whiskey runner and Pr ceat awrease in ine condition the report is that there Was consider-1 durin P"4 mm& lthough for able disappointment when a search Mt there was a slight improve by coast Guard men revealed the fact, ment that no wet goods were aboard-. I f OTATOES The Irish poUto After writing the above, Captain "OP u uci better George Rose of Harker's Island re- Th ihtl increased in ported U the News that he together orth Carolba, resulting dn more with his crew and the help of Cap-fthn 20 P.t increase in the car tain Eugene Yoemana saved the yacht iIot iMprntnU in the eastern counties, frm hreakin la !. hv nnttin.The mounUin counties also show out an anchojl They were on the boat from Thursday night until Sun day when it was sucessfully floated and lowed into Beaufort harbor be- ing in the employ of Captain Pur- dv The Harker'a Island Cantains have a claim for salvage against the,"10"'1" received a year ago, ftvTTwTei , rrm a avo rv. yacht. HOME FROM TOUR. Dr. and Mrs. C. S. Maxwell and.Tht acreage is almost eguai w we Miss Laura Thomas returned Satur-J! per cent increase for the United day night after a tour by automobile States, and "our condition U practi of parti of North Carolina Georgia, , the same as the national average Tennessee and Kentucky The par-The average price of tweet potatoes ty left here and went as far as Creensboro on the train ' There they were met by Dr Maxwell's brother nd "o Wen until they returned wwv .vv iu UVM the wanderers traveled through Chstt . . anooga. Tntnce tney went to Asn- eville, Mammctb Cave and then re turned by Nashville, Chattanooga, At lanta Greenville S. C Henderson ville and Asheville to Greensboro. The Mammoth Cave waa the point which most stirred the Interest of the tight seers. For thirteen toillee they wound through the passages, vis I ting the Star Chamber where hun dreds ef tiny points caught the light ef he lantern reflected It 'far above looking like a star filled heaven) rid ing upon the dark waters of the Styx or going en the winding wsy of Echo River where the guide shout ed out in s voice that sent las echos ringing like sa organ. They found the mosstalns besu- tiful but the sunsets nothing to conv pare with those ef Beaufort . . ' Mrs. W. J. Jones el Coldabore a gweet of the Davis Hoses.' CROP CONDITIONS , ARE FAIRLY GOOD Too Much Rain in Some Sec lions Fruit Crop U Very Good ; " RALEIGH, July 17th Informa tion in regard to the condition of crops in North Carolina is furnished regularily by the State Board of Ag riculture, A statement issued a few days ago reads as follows: , CORN Corn over the ; nation is above the average at 85 per cent'of nbrmal. " The acreage remains the same and the price averages 62 cents per bushel. . The state's crop is much below the average at 70 per cent of a lull crop condition. A slight in crease is shown in the acreage, 'and the price averages 89 cents. The con dition is three per cent less than a year go. " - , ; 'J !. I .TOBACCO The tobacco crop of the nation, shows a 23 per" cent' in crease in acreage and a condition equal to the ten-year average, where as in North Caroling, the increase is reckoned at ten per cent in acreage, and the condition at only 69 per cent; The new belt meaning the coastal plain counties, have had entirely too much rain for this crop, resulting in a poor outlook, which shows its worse Condition in Green, Pitt, and Cra ven,where fiie condition is less than 60 per cent The counties Ao the north of these show very poor con dition too. 'Last year, the crop reporters re ported too much decrease in the ecreage, and this year they snowed the Mme bk b too smalUn increase. PrP "as percent oeuer wan nd bouL equal to the ten-year average. There was an 8 some increase for the fall crop. The condition of 84 pen cent of a crP u thre Pr "nt b,w onai average, tne yieja u iu bushels, and the average price $1.08 This price means about one-third SWEET' POTATOES The sweet potato crop shows a four per cent increase in acreage in this state, with a July 1st condition of 89. per cent L. . . A Aft. - Is $1.19. FRUIT This is one of the best fruit crops we hsve had . in many years. The peaches are unusually good In the sand hills, or comercial area averagfng 95 per cent there, and 86 per cent ever the state. The apple crop shows sn average it 12 per cent which is good for thet crop, ' . . .i.i eotn ox tneie crops mow conaiuons much above the national average. The saftd hill peaches are becoming recognised as the best in the United States. There Is a tremendous In crease in the number of young trees. The shipments of ssnd hill peaches will be about 1,000 cars. , HAT CROPS There win be a slight incnase in the acreage of hay this year, due to the heavy rainfall, and the inability to plant some crops hick were Intended early la the scs- son. ,8oy beans seed were so cheap that the opportunity Is available to s large increase ta soy beaa hay. SOT 'SCANS Such poor prices were received for the seed last year that the acreage for grain may be decreased this- year. There eecma to be a greater competition la the said die wevt thee was expected. This decrease this year, dee te 4ae win anprofitbleaeai ef their mltia! crop. MUCH TALK ABOUT ABERNETHY CARD Goldsboro, July, 15--The arrival yesterday, of an affidavit from Ashe- ville adds another phase to K the al ready multiplicity of phases surround ing the recent race' for the Congress ional nomination between Major Matt H. Allen of this city andChas. L. Abernethy of New: Bera. ' It is alleged that the Asheville minister had cards printed purporting to be by the Ku Elux Kln on which were statements that militated against the candidacy of Major Matt. Allen for Congress., . - v . '';.. ' By day and by night Major Allen is called' over the phone and always the question is the same, "What are you going to do about it?" 1 Col George Freeman who was mentioned on the card as Major's Allen cam paign manager and as a Roifin Cath olic has been advised to start suit When questioned yesterday he stat ed fie had not made up his mind what he was' going' to do. ' t ; Friends of Major Allen- claim that atlea,st4700 Republicana-Yoted -Jn Cartere . county, ' and, that . if these were thrown out thir candidate would still be the next Congressman from this district. , But Major Allen says i isji'f . Republican vbtes hat bothers him . but that it is he secret card pur ported to be from the Ku Klux Klan but' was according to the affidavit ar riving yesterday from Asheville, print ed by Ed. H. Whiteside of. Asheville for Rev. Arthur Talmadge Abernethy. The affidavit is signed by Mr. White side and held here by Mr. Allen as the written proof that the cards were printed and Circulated by Rev. Ab ernethy News & Observer, TAX RATE FIXED ELECTRIC RATES LOWER A recessed meeting of the Board of Town Commissioners was held at the City. Hall .Monday night.. The Mayor and all member of the board were present The object of the meeting was to fix the tax rate for the ensuing year. i Mayor Bushall stated that accerd ng to an estimate of City Treasurer W. L. Standi it would require a rate of $1.50 per hundred on property and $4.50 on polls to raise the revenue required, in addition to the license taxes. There was some discussion of the matter' and then a motion was passed fixing the rate as stated a- bovebove. - It was decided to reduce the rale on electricity from 15 cents per kilowstt to 12 -2 maximum For the present there will be no change in water rstes. L. Commissioner 'Lewis naked the board to permit the Beaufort Fish Scrap and Oil Company to erect a temporary dock at the foot of Orange street , He stated that they only wanted a few feet to be used in he fishing season. Commissioner Hunt ley objected to the request and said if they. were going to do it that he wished to apply for permission to builld a wharf at the foot of Ann street A motion was passed grant ing the request of the Beaufort Fish Scrap and Oil Company provided that the board had the legal right to do It. Just before the board adjourned commissioner riunuey anted that a resolution be pasted showing that he had never approved snr coal bills; There was considerable discussion of the matter but no action on the resolution. was taken REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following real estate transfers have been recorded. 1 la Smyrna Towrshf p Monroe D.Willis and wife to Geo. Hancock and wife 1-2 acre, considera tion $375. Star FUh Company to E. H. Cor ham lot S In block 78 In thi townof Morehead City, consideration; $500. E. H. Gorham and wife to Kate 8. Parks lot t in block 78 In Morebcsd City, consideration $2000 Cape Lookout Developement Co o Louis Wlckixer lot -10 isv block 29 subdivision B at Cape Lookout, con sideration $10. ' , Corollas Salter to John Q. Salter 1 .acre m Bilker's Island township, consideration $25. , V . Ekhti slsht per cent ef all the setesMbiles la the worid are ta the United States aad Canada. ' RISE AND FALL OF SEA POWER IN AMERICA It Was At Its 1861 Peak By , ; Albert Da Leaker. ' Chairman U. S. " , t" Shipping Board The first act passed by the Amer ¬ ican congress was one' that made the - tariffs lower ra goods when shipped , in American bottoms than when ship '. ped under foreign flags.' This was done to 1 encourage American rdA. ping. rXv''::: , , ' ' , From, the time of the union of our -original Wrteen -coastal states: until L'A: the civil war one of the leading in dustries in Amrica ,was ' ahiepping. . , Through our superior ability in the ' construction of ships and the prox- ' itnlty of our raw materials for wood- eh ships (wbfch were the 'only rips of those days) America"! sea annals . of that period Constitute a proud page in "the history of the republic, par clipper fleet made up of the fastest " sailing ships the world ever knew re- " main immortal sung in the words of ' our poets, t , " ; ' By 1828, through treaties, the poll- ' cy of discrimination, preferential tar- ! iffs, and similar legislation came to -an end. - Today over 100 commercial ; treaties forbid such 'practices. Sea Power . ot IU Height ' ur sea, power, as it relates to the ? merchant marine peached its height at the time of the civil war in 1861. ' By the close of that war we had lost over a million gross tons of the five and one-half million gross tons with ' which w entered the war. " . ,; ' Great Britain's close connection J with the south because of its, need', of cotton, Is of , course a historical . fact. Our civil war . weakened . A- merics's sea competition and the op portunity thus created was ' eagerly seized by Great Britaim Wa can not quarrel with BriUln for her at-''-; titude; it was, from her nation stand- ; point, a jroper one. But the fact remains that while the civil war wel ded the. United States together, on land, it marked America's practical disappearance from the seas for over J half a century. However, there were several c.a Jor heU contributed to our will- ingness to neglect eur merchant ma- " rine after' the close ' of the war. ' Among' these was the. development . of bur "rich central and far west which had really begun with finding of gold in California in, 1848. Capital 4rae frea Sea Not only was the adventuresome .. youth lured west of the AUeghenlea, but capital found, such better oppor-, ' tunity for profit in the development of cur rich empire than In maritime fields that, both from the standpoint ' of men aad money, America turned from the coast to inland develop ment ' At the same time the Iron ship wss perfected In those days America' was net in position to build iron ships in competition with Creat Britain,.- where coal and Iron ore lay prac tically at . seaboard, where the ships wr constructed. We had not theri ss yet developed our great Iron in? dustry, nor our steel Industry, which followed later. Our dominance on the seas lay dux- , ring the days of the wooden ship, where we had the same advantages ef propinquity of raw material to the seacoest that Britain had subsequent- . ly when Iron ships were first devel oped, a In addition to these very compell ing reasons, America required all the borrowed capital she could get, par- ticulsrily for the developement ef her railroads. . ' ' These roads were built as a result of the encouragement given by gov- , ernment subsidies ef land grants sad they formed the arteries through . which, the wealth ef the, central and' western portions of our country poor edV . -,.. '..?.' : , . Efp Carried Ow Pr4Ss ' Europe loaned ae sums required to huadreds of millions of dollars: sad. being their debtors, we could al ways be assured she would send wa kc' JP the products wha te dUharge our oUi- COKTINUtD OM ACS fTV i V t r i . f ... ,.. .