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State Netfs. Iredell County has toted for $409,000 bond iitue for good roads, The MyttJc Sbriners held their an nual meeting in New Bern last week. The Asoeiatlon of North Carolina Cafe Workers will bold a convention in Lenoir on May 24ib. Mr. W. H. Fitbr, of Sampson County, won tbe debaters medal at Bute's Creek Academy last Friday. Tbe tax aisessors In Rowan County have added $1.50 more per acre to the tax valuation of land In that county. A press dispatch from Winston Salem says that the seventeen-year locusts are in evidence In that county in great numbers. Clyde Ward, a white boy of Ashe vllle, was arrested a few days ago charged with attempted criminal as sault on two little girls in Asbeville. Charters were issued Monday to the Merchants and Farmers Bank at Prnceton, Johnston County, and to Tbe Bank of Hope at Raeford, N. C. Tbe barn of Hon. A. A. Whitener, a prominent lawyer of Hickory, was burned a few days ago. This is the third barn Mr. Whitener has lost by fire since March. A young man. named Roebuck was arrested and placed in jail in Tarboro a few days ago charged with passing worthless checks. His home is at Robersonvllle. Mr. S. A. Kellam, of Guilford County, who was fatally injured a few days ago by a falling tree, died a few hours afterwards at St. Leo's Hospital In Durham. Mr. Geo. W. Watts, of Durham, has given $25,000 to the Union The ological Seminary at Richmond, Va. Rev. W. W. Moore, formerly of this State, is now president of that Insti tution. The North Carolina Society of Co lonial Dames of America will unveil, on May 23rd, at South port, a tablet marking the site of Fort Johnson, the first fort in the Province of North Carolina. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the North Carolina Confer ence closed their business session at New Bern Saturday afternoon. - Lit tleton was selected as the place for meeting In 1912. The 108th annual session of the North Carolina Synod of the Evan gelical Lutheran Church was held in Wilmington last Thursday and Fri day. The church now has a member ship of nearly 9,000 in this State. Robert Glassbrooks, whose home is near Granite Falls, N. C, was arrest ed Tuesday at Chase City, a., charged with burning the post-office building at Granite Falls. , Glassbrooks will be brought back to this State for trial. The contract for the erection of the new medical building at Chapel Hill has been awarded to I. G. Lawrence, of Durham. His bid was $37,000, but including heating plant, equip ments, etc., the building will cost about $45,000. Mr. W. B. Burgess, of Kinston, committed suicide Saturday afternoon by shooting himself through the tem ple. Poor health and financial trou bles are given as the causes for his rash act. He leaves a wife and five children. ' The Salisbury Post says a rooster attacked the two-year-old son of Mrs. J. W. Kesler, in the yard of his mother's home In Salisbury Saturday morning, and badly lacerated the child's face. But for the prompt in- ' terference of Mrs. Kesler, more seri ous damage would have resulted The North Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church adjourned : their meeting at Wilmington Saturday nignt. The Question of the consoli dation of the North Carolina and Le noir Colleges was re-committed to the committee for further negotia tion. The Synod elected to meet in Charlotte next year. The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows was held in Winston-Salem last week. Mr. Wal ter H. Overton, of Durham, was elected Grand Master; - Mr. B. H. Woodell, of Raleigh, Secretary, and Richard J. Jones, of Wilmington, Treasurer. The next annual meeting will be held In Raleigh. Pigs came very near killing the baby son of Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Gad- dy, Jr.; at Polkton, Anson County. The baby was sitting on the porch eating candy and four pigs, which were in the" yard, went up on the porch and in their eagerness to get the little boy's candy, bit his fingers and badly bruised his body in several places.- Monroe Enquirer. Signifies the Same To-day. Union Republican. Free trade once meant "free soup and it signifies the same to-day. OFICLILS SHY BE lUICALLEI). Tbe City Fathers In Wilmington j HUrHe t Trouble- Have RalsnSj Their Salaries to the limit audi Created a New OSke for a Pet. Wilmington, X. C. May Saturdsy the five councilzncn elected j Sunder tbe commission government I act fasted by the last Legit ? ttok in hand tbe affair of tbe cy fof Wilmington and at tbe time there i -e rrT irt4fff !rm that th poandt f would have at easy sailing as could! Petersburg woman, committed gal - jbe expected with the great work inside at Newport Newt,. a.. Ian Sat- the way of varous city improvements to be carried out. But it now appears jtbat tbe members of tbe commission twill have a rough road to travel and j there li already talk of getting a pe - jtitlon to recall certain of tbe council - men. In fact, it is claimed that a conference was beld one night this! week to consider recalling at least j one member of tbe council. Although it was last Saturday that the council took charge, the first meeting was not held until Monday and that was when tbe trouble be gan to brew. The commissnon act provides that the members of the council shall fix the salary and puts the minimum at $900 per annum and the maximum at $1,900 per year. The council voted the maxi mum to each member, and while the salary is not regarded as an exorbi tant one, the very fact of going the limit failed to make a good impres sion upon the public. More Trouble Added. The counciimen have added more fuel to tbe flame by creating a new office of detective and general utility man and appointing tbe former chief-of-police to 'fill the position at a salary of $1,200 a year. It is stated that 'the former chief did not enforce the law, and -it is further claimed that the new office is entire ly unnecessary. ProgTam for Closing Exercises at Ag ricultural and Mechanical College, Greensboro, X. C The .twelfth annual commence ment exercises of the A. & M. Col lege at Greenboro, N. C, May 21-25, 1911. Sunday, May 21, 3 p. m. Bacca laureate Sermon by the Rev. E. K. McLarty, pastor of West Market Street M. E. Church, Greensboro, N. C. Sunday, May 21, 8 p. m. Annual Exercises of the Y. M. C. A. Address by the Rev. J. G. Walker, A.B., S.T.B., pastor of St. James Presbyterian-Church, Greensboro, N. C. Monday, May 22, 8 p. m. Annual Exercises of the Agricultural Literary Society. Address by Prof. J. H. Gar win, A.M., Superintendent City Col ored School, Winchester, Ky. Tuesday, May 23, 8 p. m. Annual Exercises of the Mechanical Literary Society. Address by Prof. L. B. Thompson, A.M., Director Mechanic Art, Georgia State Industrial Col lege, Savannah, Ga. Wednesday, May 24, 8:30 p. m. Historical Drama by Mrs. James B. Dudley. Thursday, May 25, 2 p. m. Com mencement Day Program. Annual Address by Prof. L. B. Moore, Ph.D., Dean of Teachers' College, Howard University, Washington, D. C. Thursday, May 25, 8:30 p. m. Tenth Anniversary of Class of 1901 Alumni Reunion and Banquet. All exercises held in the College Chapel. Ministerial Student Suicides at Mars Hill. Asheville, N. a, May 13. After borrowing a shot-gun from a mer chant at Mars Hill, Archie Linley, twenty-four years old, of Anderson, S. C, went to his room and blew out his brains at 2:30 this after noon. Linley arrived at Mars Hill eighteen miles from this city, this morning and told various people that he had come to spend the summer, He engaged a room at the residence of Mrs. Kate Woodsow, who was shopping in the town at the time of the tragedy. The deceased was a ministerial student and it is thought that his mind had been affected by close study. He. is survived by a mother. a sister and wo brothers, one of whom is Dr. William Linley, now in the Philippine Islands. Famous Old Mill in Rowan County is Burned. aft . - spencer, n. c. May 11. Old St. John's mill, one of the oldest grist mills on the South, situated on the Yadkin River,' two miles east of Spencer, was burned to-night, en tailing a loss of about twelve thou sand dollars. With the five-story building erected one hundred years ago, was burned ten thousand dol lars worth of modern machinery. ine plant helonged to H. Clay Cxrubh, a wealthy business man of Davidson County. The flames were decidedly spectacular and shot one hundred feet skywards. The build ing was situated on the historic site where General Greene met Corn- wallis In a skirmish two days before the battle of Guilford Court-House. The origin of the fire Is unknown, A Very Rare Book. Washington, N. C., May 12. Mr. J. T. Campbell of this city, has re cently found among some old papers quite a curiosity in the shape of an old book.. This book is a history of the Old and New Testaments and was printed in Philadelphia in 1784. General Net? Eighteen citltcas of McLean Corns-; H.-LattjMnganegro. The business section of tbe Steves- stalling a low of over I12S.O00. Miss Carriea Shall, a well-known j J- Herley L. Stlmion, f New York, w connnnea by me beaate Monday !t0 b Secretary of War to succeed ! Jcob M- Dickinson. , . "" J Knead Knight, a farmer living at; White Bluff. S. C. accidentally killed! tl wree-year-oia cnua rnaay whiles repairing an automatic gun. ? changed tbe name of tbe organixa- orient method of eradication of this " ! tlon to Sons of Confederate Veteran1 disease from affected lettuce bed. Forest fires are doing great dam-J instead of United Sons of Confederate1 The practical value of this work may age in the Ticinity of Bellington, W. 1 Veterans was voted down, the mar-f be realised from tbe fact that in in Va. One orchard worth $15,000 waslgin begin eight rote less than tbe cted beds from 10 to $0 per teat deitroyed near Bellington Saturday. Four persons are believed to have perished in a big lire in the Boston colliery at Larksville, Pa., a few days ago. Several others had nar row escapes. United States District Judge Wm. j H. Brawley. of Soutn Carolina has announced that he will retire from ' announced tnat ne win retire from, tbe bench this week. His successor has not been announced. i Thr wn nn a ma drown in 7h7 7 nT Natchez Saturday night when their ------ " r TV:". .: 7 disabled motor boat struck a barge and sank to the bottom of the river. The body of J. L. Benton, a mer chant near Norfolk, Va., was found in the edge of the woods near his home Sunday morning. When he left home on Friday he had $900 in his pocket and had evidently been mur dered for his money. Mack Morris, a negro at M4scosu kie, Florida, who had just been ac quitted by a Justice of the peace of some minor offense, shot and killed B. P. Smith, a resident of the coun ty, who was a witness against him, and going further down the road he j met J. Langston and shot him also, fearing he might report the assassi nation of Smith. The murder then escaped. The "Cuckoo" Type of Mother. Father or New York. May 15. Colonel Roosevelt has coined another expres sion. It was the "cuckoo" parent, which is now expected to take its place along with "mollycoddle," "dee-lighted," "malefactor of great wealth," and other picturesque of ferings the colonel has made to the English language. , "The cuckoo type of father or mother," Roosevelt told the DeWitt Clinton High School, "Is the one who deposits the child at the school door and goes away wit the feeling that all the future physical, mental and moral welfare of the child lies in the hands of the teacher." Two Killed and Three Wounded in Fight With Officers. Montgomery, Ala., May 14. Two negroes are dead and one mortally wounded, and four deputy sheriffs are wounded, one fatally, as the re sult of a murder committed by one of the negroes this morning on the Williams place, twenty-one miles south of here on the Mobile ' road and a spectacular battle that follow ed an effort to capture the murderer. CHANGE OF HEART. Sevierville, Tenn. "I never did believe in. patent medicines," writes Mrs. Martha Hown, of this place, "un til I took Cardui, and it cured me. For six months, I could not do any thing. Now I do all my housework, and it don't tire me. Doctors failed, but Cardui saved my life." The benefit from taking Cardui is- not connned to one part of the body. Cardui improves the whole womanly system. It helps headache, back ache, falling feelings, and female weakness. Try it. It will help you Price Si. Aegro Iiynched in Georgia Had Kill ed Deputy Sheriff. Swainsboro, Ga., May 15. At 11 o'clock Saturday night, twenty min utes after Deputy El wood whom he had shot died, John McLeod, a ne gro was dragged from Emanuel txwnty jail and suspended from tree and ridiculed with bullets. Hid den keys to the jails were found and uie Yicum quic-iy strung up. Dep uty bnennr -Uwood was shot by Mc Leod while trying to arrest the ne gro on a minor charge. Pay of Trainmen Increased Thirty- c-;weu njuuions in one Year. TT xiarnsDurg, Fa., May 11. The wages or the trainmen in the United States and Canada have been in creased $37,000,000 In a year, ac cording to the report made to the In ternational Convention of Broth r. hood of Trainmen to-day by W. G. Lee, President of the Brotherhood This is the first statement to mad of the great wage-increasing move ment In 1910. and covered everv sec tion of the country. . t UN till II III III II I i WWIIIIWi'ilWIIIIIIl'il I Willi il lf441&3 Aims nreal&a at UtU Rocfc-ift ttrvti 3fr(Ja$ LttU fiots, ArJu May 1C Omt i mtit la to4 ui bt wi to tpo& try Dr. fL C Cave, at Lorn!. addr f welcome and tbe naming proving, of tbe region of Cni!f4 Confederate Veterans. Tbe address of General Jame F. j smith, commanding tbA?kan vision, opening tbe roaventio Lias di- silon wraa brief. He referred to tb event of I conttrutclon, tbe orsanixaUcn of the j veterans and tbe twenty-one years j history of that organisation. f Large crowd is in attendance and all are enjoying tbe reunion. To the retiring commander-in-chief iovtng cup wa presented. An amendment which wmiid har required two-thirds. Working on Treaty With Great Britain. Washington, D. C, May 16. The tween the Uniti tt n.ftthe North Carolina grower to be -hi rest, the hope of j tbe EWPW Pple for a Prmanent peace between the two ntions and which nrobabllrl 6 . ri a prooaoiiy w" bc a4lmode 'or peace pacu with other nations, has at last reached thf o where it is to be presented to the Government for 1U appro - val. Ambassador James Bryce. of Great Britain, before the Cabinet met to- day had a half-hour conference with President Taft during which certain points in the treaty were thorough- ly discussed. This was the final con- ference of the numerous ones which these two advocates of permanent. peace have had since the President announced his intention of negotiat - ing with Great Britain for such a treaty. Offlcials of the State Department have .been constantly at work upon the treaty and to-day Secretary Knox presented to the Cabinet for its ap- proval a tentative draft of the treaty. fP?v" 2 m T" ff?"7! - "'utui. auu ix i a villain I law ily as a whole. Secretary Knox, whon lnP th White House after the Cabinet meet- ing, announced that the tentative draft of the treaty probably would be submitted to-morrow to Ambassador Bryce for transmission to the British Foreign Office. Exchange of notes between the two nations will follow. m OU8neis. me ooy and the soat did all the work, except the first Forty-Seven New Postoffices Named PlowInS of thel and, which was done as Postal Depositories. I ,T horse or mu,e powen No 8P- w . . A . ' cIal 8eed corn was used, no scientific Washington, D. C. May 14. method of cultlvtalon followed. Com Postmaster General Hitchcock an- mon corn was planted, and the crop nounced to-day the designation of was 'tended in the common way. forty-seven additional postal savings The State Commissioner of Agri depositaries. This number makes a culture heard of the case, and, finding total of 176 postal banks established it authentic, furnished the boy with Jan"ary f lt. I the best seed corn obtainable for this The offices designated to-day will year and gave him some instruction be ready to receive deposits on Mon- in approved methods of farming and day, June 12th The forty-five of- cultivation, and he is going to try for fleers selected and announced a week one hundred bushels to the acre The ago have reported that they will be Commissioner also offered to fu'rnish in readiness for operation on June. Hopping with a horse or a mule, but . , thIs boy refused, preferring to Following is a list of the Sotuhern stick to the goat power and the plow offices announced to-day: Tusca-j he built for himself. mP' SZLSSFr Arkir!a,nd'l topping is all right and seems to Fla., Gainesville, Ga.; Frankford, have a ticket for Success. It Is not Ky.; Jennings, La.: Grenada. Miss . , " Ardmore, Okla.; Georgetown. S. C; Victoria, Texas, and Suffolk, Va. To Regulate; Telephones Charges. Washintgon, D. C, May 14. A policy pursued generally by telephone companies received a vital blow when the Interstate Commerce Com mission Ijl a decision made public to day held that "as -between subscrib ers to a telephone service who are similarly situated nothing but a dif ference in the service who are simi larly situated nothing but a difference in the service rendered or facilities' i furnished can justify a difference in the charges exacted." Governor of West Virginia Advocates Corrupt Practices Act. Charleston, W. V., May 16. "Taft candidates for office have been send ing large sums of money illegally and corruptly cannot.be denied. I know that we cannot legislate honesty into the people, but we can and ought to have laws that will disfranchise those who corrupt the electorate, and no man should be permitted to be the beneficiary of a crime committed by him against society." So declared Governor William E. Glasscock in a special message to the Legislature, which convened in special session to day. In which he pleaded for the en actment of a corrupt-practice act "which will safeguard the ballot box es of this State." He charged that elections and primaries have been corrupted by lavish use of monfey. SPIT, QUIT, FIT. " - Hines, Ala. In a letter from this place, Mrs. Eula Mae Bradley says: "I used to spit up all I ate. I was tired and slept all the time. My head ached, and I could hardly drag around. Since taking Cardui, this has entirely quit, and now I feel quite fit." Mrs. Bradley suffered from ner vous indigestion. Cardui builds up the nervous system, and strengthens the womanly constitution. That's why Cardui helped Mrs. Bradley and why It will help you. Try it. Farm Topics A caaatef fartory 1 tatab- UabJ ia Castoala - Tsl ladftsUT M aaotber link la tbe grrat ctala of de- reloassfat ia tbe slaad Soata walta is to become tbe industrial reater and ih tardea s&ot of America. Tbtrt 4oagfet to be a caaaias factory ia every town of any siie ia tai sec- tica. Sbelby Highlander. Of laterr to LeUttce Crowrrs, Director C It Williams of tbe x perimeat Station, state that a Jet tut diieate (fdfroUalose), comtsoa ly known a "drop ba beta care fully studied by Dr. F. L. Stevens, j chief of tbe Plant Disease Division t of c station during tbe past few years, and as a result of these studies be has worked out a cheap and ef- of tbe plants are usually destroyed, thereby entailing tens of tbonsandt of dollar Iota to tbe lettuce grower of this State annually. The attention of lettuce growers in wMchVs nt tm w Since that time it. deadly ef- fecU bave DeQ felt oy Kwers in p,.flt," t.u f. f infl c"" ton aJ villard sections of tfce SUte, disease once gaining entrance to j ' "therehy rendered unnt for proniaDie leuuee growing unies tne funsus causing the disease is eradi- calea- ivacucaiiy ail the lettuce growing section of the Atlantic sea- D0Rrd is troubled more or less with thls trouble. Dr- Stevens has prepared a bulletin wbich will be issued soon, giving the result of his studies of this disease and detailed directions for overcom- . inS In the station lettuce beds Dr. Stevens was able to reduce tbe per- j centage of plant dying from the dis- ease from 45 Per cent in 1909, to less tnan one-half of 1 per cent during th season of 1910 and 1911. An Arkansas Boy and His Goat. A flfteen-year-old Arkansas boy J ttUU ms goai nave DeeQ emhaimed In the Congressional Record. The boy's nafe Is HPPinS that of the goat, unfortunately, is not given. Hop- - ?inf ' with a plow of hIs own m' facture, to which he harnessed his goat, planted and cultivated an acre of In corn nd gathered there , - uuj " v v.au ut e a goat and a home-made nlow and X -1 ! I. . .. - - into the Congressional Record, the Agricultural Reports and the news papers. Baltimore Sun. Husband and Wife Died Together. Binghamton, N. Y.. May 13. Af ter notifying friends where their bodies would be found, Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Harrington divided a vial of poison on the bank of the Che nango river here to-day and died to gether m a clump of trees. He was wIdely known as a newspaper man, a. .v broken in health and finances, and ms wire naa been his devoted com panion throughout a long married life. Friends who received tbe let ters, rushed to the scene only to find them dead. Chances Are She Will. Maxton Scottish Chief. A I ak . . . uaaijr marriage was mari in Greensboro through the medium of an aaertisement and described in the Record: He saw her first before ureaKiast; he loved her, and at 11 a. m., ne married her." This is the report of the marriage x-reacn uanaaian. of Maine, and - -w.u6 6in oi ureensboro. The uuanoue Observer does not as a rule approve of such hasty unions but thinks that the fact "He saw her ursi Deiore breakfast and loved her argues well for the happiness of the groom ana bride. We would have xuore una ir u was positively known me onae would continue working girl." a detteh urn spnriio. Spanking does not cure cluldrea of bed Wet tics'. There is a. mnt; f i W, Notre Dame. Ind.. -onii 7 mother her successful home treatment, with write her todav if -rwrv,;- . ut to his way. .Don't blame the child, the chaeces are it can't help itv This treatmen also cures adnlts and aed people trouble. i Fnor-l THE TROt1c.. wis x: i rni 1 - 1 iaOatrU An'tf . 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