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A PBOGBSSSIVE EEPUBLICAfi NEWSPAPER HE VOTED TO tHE UPBUItpiNC OF AHi^CAX HUitlilS ANO AMERICAN LVDUSTBIES.
BURLINGTON, ALAMANCE COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. APRIL £0. 1915.
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HCIOWK-
ING SUCCESS.
he was expected to speak to all
the people of Alamance county,
and that if he pitehed his voice
soniewhat liigh he only meant to
be heal'd i?i Burlinjgton and in
j Mebane. In his discoui^e he
I dealt with binding the soul of
'.man tp Glod by bringing the child
i in contact with those things that
' “ ■ i would cause the best impulses
People Came In Crowfc ®^™*“,to be developed in the child. Hs
Every Corner of The Conn- how that might be
I language pr letters, the maniula-
Uion of metal or other material,
Many Flowering Flrats, Mil« of nature hersdf. It
Children, An Inspiring Sight. a masterful address, and
~ iw'orthy of deep consideration by
EIGHTY-FIVE GRADUATES, concerned in develbp-
_ ;ing the best manhood and wo-
A Handsome Exhibition, Pretty njanhood.
Weather, Every Feature A Immediately after the address,
Success, A Great And Good : certificates were presented to
eighty-five graduates that coin-
— _ poned th*? class of 1915. This
The Heavens shown abovewith jg largest class that has yet
bright skies and the earth made graduated from the Publi..-
a mild melody of music with an' (jf the county. They did
unfolding of tlie .spring tide as represent every school in
the good people from all over j.^pj.gggujgj
the county gathered in Gra- every section of the county,
ham on last Saturday for hold- xheir names are a.s follows;
ing their 4th Annual county ^ Dacy Spurgeon Isley, David
Commencement. Plans had been pleasant Teague, Ruth Elnor
made early in the school year for Williams, Effie Susan Braxton,
special lines of endeavors; some ^Ita Newlin, Ollie Victoria M;:
definite things v.'ere to be done; Rane, Lacy W. D. Guthrie, Wil
to the large number of beauti
ful oiies. This coinmitte award
ed 1st prize of $10.00 to Shal-
lowfoisd; 2nd prize of $7.50 to
\VpodIawn; 3rd prize of $5.00 to
McCray and 4th piiae of $2:50 to
Glenwood, with honorable mem-
tion for Sylvan, Friendship,
Glenliope, Spring, Center, Haw-
fields, Sidney, Mahan, Elder-
nibnt. Sunny Side Music School,
and the Tomato Club.
After a brief busy dinner
period, the contest* public
speaking by fourteen of the
graduates took place in the
court house and opera house—7
ih each group. Miss Annie Belle
Tickle of Shallowford was award
ed the prize in the court house
and Miss Nannie Teague of
Sylvan was awarded the prize in
the opera house.
oiMr. Josepil
Newlin fm
BARACA-PHILATHEA
1. ..UNION..
CITY
-I
Will Be Brought Here For Buri
al.
; The BaracarPhilathea City
Union will meet in regular
monthly meeting next Sunda.y
afternoon at three o'clock in th“.
First Bapti.'^t church. A pro- ■
gram consisting of special in- :
strumental music by the Wilson ;
OrehestKi, : an address by I,
Mr. W. S. Coulter, and reports'
BASE BALL.
Greenwood 6; Glenhope 4.
Saturday afternoon at Green
woods Gienhope team met Gree:;-
wood team in a very interesting
game. In this game good work
was done by the players of both
teams, especial by the pitcher,
. J J *1, ui- • • •(. « George Nicholson for Glenhooe.
lin «ton of ATr and Mrs H M tend and the public is invit-.M j ■ " i.
im, SOI. 01 *vir. ana lurs. ii. lu. rr». , ^ u The game resulted in a scoi*e of
Newlin, >.«hich occurred at Vixc banners for the ^ ^ Greenwood.
Sprinfield. Mo., Tuesday morn- percentage of attenaance will -r. g^tteries: for Gienhope, Gos-
ing after two days intense suffer- awarded as usual. Nicholson and Johnson; fo-:
ing, caused by an accident whik > . Greenwood:
Relatives Will Accompany The from delegates to the Stiite Cor-'
Body Here. venion will.be rendered.
— .. - All classes belonging to the
The death of Mr. Joseph New- Union are especially urged to at-
„ . Jones, Shepheri
riding a motorcycle, has cast a REVIVAL AT FIRST BAPTISI
gloom over his home here in CHURCH. . ...
which place he was the genenil
fnvnrite and over the entire sec- The revival meeting whicti be- ppson\ ille 17; Keystone ti.
tion of the county. gan at the First Baptist churcti Swepsonvifie base bail teai-i
The accident occurred late last Sunday morning is 'beiiiif ti>ok the first game of the series
Sunday ufternoon and ^'le was largely attended and there is from Key.stone last Saturday by
ation were Lois Sharp, Evelyn immediately rushed to the hos- much interest manifested in the ;i score of 17 to 3. '
J. Graham, loner Burch, Flor- pj^ai where every thing that ^d'^'Ces.
ence Garrison, William Mitchell, gi^iHed physicians could do for W. A. Claxton, 1). D., of
Edith Moore and Zolobei Me- ^ut from the be- High Point is delivering spkn-
ginning no hope was entertained did and forceful sermons, vihicn
for Ms recovery, his .jaw bone be- being felt by the congreg;i-
ing br.oken and t*he base of his tions. Tlie results of the meei.-
Whils the recitals were on,
the spelling coniest w;
Those that report for the final
race and who*had perfect record.s
for the. year and on the examin-
Pherson. William Mitchell won
first prize of $16.00 and Edith
E. C.
BARR DROWNED
MOREHEAD CITY.
AT
Moore second prize of $5.00.
- . . There vvas no better test of’skull fractured, leaving him un- 'ug wil! doubtless be .very satis-
and the people came together to ijgn, Ressie Guthrie, lola Emma}t!,e year’s work manifested dur-lconcious till his death- His wife factory. The serx ices begin ,il
consumate a work in which ad B/axton, Luther Jeffreys, Vallie ii„g ^he day and no betterinstrue-!remained with him in the ho.spit- ^:4o P. M.; each evening. Th.-:
Accident At The Inlet.
engaged with interest and pride. spo„n, Virgie Alexander, Oppiejtion given than the exhibition. |al until his death.
Early in the morning the people Spoon, Claude Simpson, Loh xhi.^; exhibition was put on in thi
began to come. First to appear shar-p, Nellie Tapscott, Nannie
was the automobile with its Alderidge, Francis Hurdle, Paul
speed and load. Then the fleete.'jt Thompson, Berty Stuart, Emma
horses with buggies and carri- Gibson, Watson Garrison, Ottis
ages. Soon all kinds of convey-- h. Ross. Wallace Barnett, Sadie ^here were displaved compost-ni^rht
ance were coming together, and Ross, Jessie Barker, Sherman luons histores drawing.j of all'
public is cordially invited to at-
continued to come till the town juij^ McCulloch,
was filled with folks.
, Mr. .James Newlin left on the meetings.
Oneida store. It was an excellent J g^j,jy morning train Monday to
display and spoke in no uneer-jaccompat^fi^Hts, Joseph Newlin
tain tones of some of the workig^^^ j-jje remains of the body
in the schools represented, jjjgj.g ^yhich will reach here Fri-
if good connections
are made.
PROGRESSIVE REPfBLICAM
•MASS MEEI'ING.
There will be a mass m^etin^
of the Progressixe Republican.^
of Burlington township tonight, caster,
Morehead City, Aprii 2-5.—Mr.
E. C. Barr of Lancastw county.
Va., was drowned here this af
ternoon and Mr. D. B. Wade, Jr.,
of this city was re.scued after
having gone down the third
time. ...
Mr. Wade left fhere early thi.s
momiiig with a party, composed
of Messrs.* E. C. Barr, of Lan-
Pa., and T. G, Phillips.
Mary kinds, pictures, cooking, sewing, j T.menh -i vo-intr man iut
McCulloch, Mez Foster, Euriejhaskets, picture frames, etc, etc.!:„ 4.j,p Woom of vouth beine on- ***' o’clock, in the Mayors of Atlanta, Ga., both of whom
The program was taken up EUgn Teague, Anna PaulineigaA ,'^pecime.*i of the work .seem-'«hout 24 vears of aVe with a purpose of reor- are foremen on the sewer con-
r o,. ^ ^ deserve ju„“t of relative^ ard friends in g^inizing the party and discus- strution work now in progress
special mention. But the li.st sections of the State who ’^’C*‘-''ures for the good of here, and Mr. Ned Willis..of this
too long for that. Several school Sj soJowerS his the party. Every person who city
hou-ses .were well sketched, so |
50 that the', co;ild
^ ” ' Food CivV
and carried out almost exactly Gritlin, Lee Roy Thompson,
a-s scheduled. The first on pro- Nannie Irene Teague, Margaret
gram was the parade. It formed Frances Engle, Bonnie Fcgle-
:it Graded 'School building jTjan. Iri^i Parrish, Sylvia Anci-
and moved down Main
and around the Court House and Somers, Florence Beckom, Lewis
. , , ~ . il.v recognized. Other drawings
back lO the Baptist Church. It paucette^ Litha Jane Stockard, of locai interest were displayed
was large and very beautiful. Florence
The parade was headed by the Desmond
Helen Durham, Fred
Fowler, Jacob K.
Oneida Band in uniform, which slaughter, Jesse R. Hilliard,
was followed by Uncle Sam aiid , Ralph F. Younger, Leona Scott,
Aunt Columbia on the town’s'c. A. Trollinger, John Barnwell,
white match horses. Then came Kate Roney, Felcie Fern Patter-
a long line of elegantly planned son, Elia Isley, Garland Isley.
and beautifully finished floats. Lillian Graves, Callie E. Isley, ae,ving!
-the Alamance battle field
monument, the birth -home of'-.rsonality \%iiich has .■surround-
. They had loeen to Shackle-
,.na«.=nrr,!n,- bcHeves that ttie policies of the ford banks and it wa/while ffliey
Although unas^« Rgp„bHcan party are the best were crossing the inlet that Mr.
in the Barr accidently slipped off the
cjvcr.v one Knew county, stiite and nation, and cabin striking a3i. rt i.i-y
words and sumerged his own who intends to act and vote with was sitting on the deck, both
friends.
he would not wound with harsh
Governor Holt, the Supei'intend-
ent and his machine. Five
schools had a good display of
cooking. Six a good display of
Ossipee had cooking,
caping, wood work,
and literary work.
sewing,
drawing
Spring had an excellent com-
Each one unique and pretty car- -Marvin Elizabeth Walker, Lo-
rying out some special design >ena Wellons. Hubei-t Nelson
and color scheme. A proces.sion ^ Graham, John Mitchell. Claude
of twenty and more of these Levi Walker, Ethel Patterson,
large floats drawn by pretty Zolabel McPherson, Lora Foust,ihgajjg gg chapter’s:
horses and filled with sweet!Ella Roberson, Beatrice Huf-settlements- 2.-^>
children presented a scene of fines, Annie Belle Tickle, Mamie
beauty Jinked on to beauty Sijxis-kle, Laura Silen Marlptt W.
they lined up on the new a.sphaltij. Pace, Margie Tate, Bessie M.
streets that were viewed and ad-1 Sample, Lillian Sam.ple, Myra B.
mired by solid phalanks of peo-' Anderson, Wml. A. Tate, Flioebe
pie that stood on the side as the'small, Lula Tate, Lillian Tate,
grfiat procession moved by. And I Addie Cates, Gunley Dodson,
then the scene did not cease, jmia Stallings, Jim Simpson,
Hundreds and hundreds of chil-; John Handy Kenny and Vergie
dren followed the floats in the'.ormond Strickler.
line of mardh. They wore their j Prizes were awarded and an-
colors, carried their banners, ■ |^om-,ced as follow’s: Under the
and marched with the beauti'|au3picies of the Country Life
ful bearing of the trained ;ciub, for donated improvement
soldscr. A beautiful sight, a; \jrork, 1st prize of $50.00 was
most magnificent demonstration' given to Ossipee; 2nd prize of
was the parade. i$30.00 to Spring School; 3rd
The large grove at the Baptist Ipxize of $20.00 to Sylvan; 4th
church formed a shady retreat:pj.jgg of $15.00 to Friendship;
and out door auditorium for flhe 5th p^ze of $10.00 to Mahan and
crowd while it listened to thelgth prize of $10.00 to Concord.
litei*ary address. Just before j Tlie gold pin for the best
the address ail joined in singing ig^-ade in English Grammar was
“All Hail the Power of Jesu^jvvon by Bonnie Fogleman of
Name,” and Rev. Rose of the ^ Sylvan and ISie silver pin for
Baptist church made the invoca-j second best grade in English
tion. The addre.ss was made by Grammar was won by lola Emma
Prof. E. C. Bix>oks of Trinity Braxton of the Green school.
CoWege. Prof. Brooks began by, -nig committee for iudging
saying that he did not know that pioats had a difficult task owing
us in the future i.‘; invited to be men falling overboard.
Tell vour friends and Members of the Coast Guard
ed him with many broad frie^^^^^ about it, and th.a who were watching in.mediateiy
-Me leaves a mother and tath- ^
er, four sisters, Mrs. Arthur ■’
w'ith you.
life boats for the scene of the
accident. In the meantime Wil-
Pierce of Greensboro^ Mrs. E. 1'.
Ferrell of Mebane and Mrs. Car
son Durham and Mre. J. W.
Ford of this city. Also two
brothers^ Messrs. James Newlin
munity history written by the j^£jke Newlin.
students under the following 1 jjo definite plans have been
Schools ' andjf,ui.taf^ut^L*in*p^^^^ infm-matiou as declaring Greec- made an effort to swim
Churches; 3,-^griculture; 4.-L.jii ^ buried at Pine Hill Ceme- ^ ^»ite with the allie.s Barr, who couldn’t swim,
and Manufacturing; 5.—jterj-, Saturday afternoon. Tlie
Part Laken in War; 6. Most|services wili be hekt at
Noted Mc-n; 7.—Social Life and home.
Anecdotes. Many schools had
e.Kcelient exhibits and many I
other things desrve special men-i OPENING OF ' g^t,
GREECE IS READY TO UNITE lis and Phillips had stopped the
WITH THE ALLIES. engine in the boat and were
^ making frantic efforts to save
Paris, April 24,--Christaki>i their comi>j»nions by throwing
Zographos, foreign minister of several life preservers to the
Greece, is quoted today by the men in the water. Mr. Willis
made an effort to swim to Mr.
■eady to unite with the allies Barr, who couldn’t swim, but af-
in the Dardanelles operations, it ter having seen -liim sink, Mr.
i«vit«i to do so. Willis returned to the boat. At
The information says M. Zo- this point Uie
tion. 'Fhc MeCi’ay school ■■.yas
awarded the banner on the best ■
general exSiibit. j
The day was thus filled full oJ'
entertainment and instruction.
The people were interested iii
the entertainment of their com
mencement. No more orderly
crowd was evsr seen. There was
scarcely a sign of drinking and
no disorder. All the people,
patron.';, and pupils had planned
and worked and had come to
gether to listen and learn. They
went away pleased and were
planning fi'om what they had
learned v/hat they would make
and bring next year;
SOUTHERN BELL TELE
PHONE.
graphos made this statement to reached the scene and after Mr.
Hubert Jacques, its corresponl- Wade had sunk the third time.
Up to the present, time, ho Captain Leslie Moore, of the
said, Greece had not been asked Coast Guards, dived to save him.
to cb-operate with
lilies. I'eaehing him about fifteen feet
AMien it comes to drawing con
clusions, all women are natun-I
born artists.
The foreign minister is qaotefl -'elow the surface of the water,
as saying the war policy of hi ^ 'VTien brought to the top and
placed in the life boat, Mr. Wade
was apparently dead, but efforts
of re.susciation tinallj' revived
thir. city, were sunimoned, reach
ing the station about ar,' hour
after the accident and gave
We are in receipt of an inviti!
tion announcing the fonnal cabinet is identical with that
opening of the new exchangi', M. Venizeloa, the former prt ...-|
Friday the 30th. The building er, whose retirement gener.aly
inis just bean completed and will has been understood to have been I'-ini.
be open to the public on that due to his desire for Greece's Doctors Royall and Headen of
da\- from 2 to 5 P. and participation in the war on the
from 6 to 9 P. M. of the allies.
The manager is extremely. “It simply is a question or
anxious to have every subscrib- propitious m(Knent,” the foreign medical assistance. They brought
er present and will take gi'eat minister is quoted as saying. Mr. Wade home, who is nowrest-
pleasre in showing them over the
new plant and explaning the Probably the worst thing The body of Mr. Barr has not
new equipments. about rich relations is the way yet been recovered. Several
Refreshments will be servd they look down on you because yachts and fish boats are drag-
during the day bv sev^sral ladies you are not rich enough to Iook ging the water in search of I't*
of the city. w?io will endeavor do^vn on them. address of Mr. Barr’s re-
^ j3jalce every one enjoy the —Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telc- latives has not been ascer^ain-
day. g’’apft.
ed.