THE CHARLOTTE NEWS'. MARC^4 4, T9 I f
Geneml Summary
OJ Woik Done By
Sixty First Congress
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ron:-rr.'? which
f ,)r.-''”itioiial limita-
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r.'\i~1-n -'f t':e tariff
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The most extensive census ever ta
ken.
Creation of the commerce court and
swropinc amendments to the inter
state coinmerco act.
nalIins:er-Pinchot investigation.
Conservation lppl?lation, including
aiithorzation of withklrawal of public
lanilr. to preserve x\-ater sites, and au
thorization of the issue of twenty mil
lion in bonds for* completing irri^a-
tin^ f)ro.iects.
Legislation designed to suppress the
"white slave trade.”
Publicity of campaiiEjn contributions
at olection of members of the House.
Amendment to the employers’ lia
bility act of 1908; supplemental safe
ty appliance act; requirement that
railroads report accidents to inter-
-iiate commerce commission, and es-
t..Mishment of a bureau of mines.
Reorganization of lighthouse ser-
Viro.
Authorization of expenditure of $2“^.-
for public buildtnps.
Ajier Turbulent Scenes
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'Vashington. March 4.—Scenes sue-
pc.'^tive of RoUlen day?, on the co11ec;e
campus at the final day of "com-
mencemeni” ^ound their reflection in
The house of renrf'setirntives of the
I'nited Stages congress iust before the
^’rav of dawn bean stealint; into ihe
c.i'^'iol ihis MUirnir"-.
'I'he house aliandoned al! rules to let
some Roklnn-voiced tenor or ba'-;s. or
whatever he nii:,p.' have desi^^nated
] ’ vocal rar.ue sing ‘ .Massa’s in the
I'old. Cold trround. " Suwaner* River "
or s'lnie oki-'im''* inusiral I'avi.riie, and
s;eiu'ra;’v wiieii a son>; linr.-«t I'orrh
♦ v*':;. soion on the t'oor tried to work
i!'-p 'lito tlie melo(l>.
i)f -liie this ua>oty the scenes
wt re nuM Ko'i by the nuder:one of sad-
nt-.Ks i! at comes of pariirie:s. (irini
o!d ’icinu' dut-ks" were halel I'ortli
fror.i lia:-; in -ioa!c rooms to sir.s;
“swan soncs ■ .Joseph Gurney ('an-
noh. facint hit last day as a towerin.:^
olfi-;ai flf-ure. '^rt-eu-d the dawn svith
ii -pi ij-'iiilinens that niit;ht liave sliam-
ed tnan- a vdiinirer solon snoozinf, in
s>(ni»* s(-('n- t.(i corner of the cloak
rouM.
UanKinri ilir.iUirh the house chamber
arui lu;-!iie.^ al! liiirht ion^, th.e siieaker
hf>J 'Diils now aiid tiicn, had
y wi*h slerjiy re!u•e^^■lltatives over
' -arcVi an-:i at ■! o’clock
iMs m'>;:rnc the veteran !aw-maker
ta^' i-d the ; ^ t iviff i: y nf ilie i'iri I'ai't
-i' a;~ ^;o^■^^ •• i-mf-,*,- wi:h a '.i^-’-or t!,al
, r^‘w ii;e -nto tiie tireii reprrseiita-
■\T ! oVlock .Ml’. 1'awne> of the ap-
p:'pr>ations '•oinniitiee. ro.e to ask
lor !' t)irjh*-i- cotjierence on tiie suu-
d.-;. '■•'vii hill.
Mr. S .eakf"-.” l.p-an .Mr. 'l''V,-!;|y
That Peculiar
Lightness and Flavor
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Found in the finest biscUit, rolls, cake,
etc., is due to the absolute purity, ,
fitness, and accurate combina'tioa
of the ingredients of the
Royal Baking Powder.
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The best things in cook
ery are always made with
the Royal Baking Powder.
Hence its use is universal
—in the most celebrated
restaurants, in the homes
of the people, wherever de
licious, wholesome food is appreciated.
Royal BaMng Powder
is sold in every civilized country,
the world over.
It IS the only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape
Cream of Tarjiro*.
Roycl Cook Book 809 Receipts Free, Send Ncune and Address,
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NE'V YORK.
equipment of 10,000 spindles, with
170 52-inch looms, driven by 450 elec
trical horse power and employing
about 125 operatives. The output is
cloth for conversion into oilcloth.
West, Texas.—The Brazos Valley
Cotton Mill is now operating at full
capacity its entire euqipment of 6,240
ring spindles, 210 narrow looms, etc.,
driven by steam power. It employs
150 operatives and last week com
pleted a large contract it had obtain
ed a year ago. This contract called
for a total of 384,000 yards of cloth,
which was shipped l^o Hopedale,
Mass. The cloth wfis shipped at the
rate of about 60,000 yards per week.
The farpenler Telephoii
Do You?
Chattanooga, Tenn.—The Bowen-
Jev.-ell Company of Chattanooga has
been incorporated with a capital
stock of $200,000 to manufacture cot
ton goods. Its incorporators are \Y. L.
Bowen, D. A. Jewell, A. S. Bowen, J.
B. Codj', L. M. Carr and George Brad
ley.
The company’s purpose is to manu
facture and bleach cotton goods, and
its organizers are now interested in
other similar cotton factories
Late Mill News
Randleman, N. C.—Judge Boyd, in
the Uijited States district court has
authorized the trustees of both the
Randleman Manufacturing Company
and the Naomi Falls Manufacturing
^ Company to sell at auction on March
28th. The announcement of the bank
ruptcy of these mills was made by
tho Textile Manufacturer in Decem
ber. F. H. Fries, of Winston, X. C.,
is trustee for the Randleman Manu
facturing Company, and I. H. Hunter,
of Greensboro, N. C., for the Naomi
Falls Mill. The trustees have been
operating them most of the time
since the failm’e. The Randleman
Mill contains 11,500 spindles and 510
looms, with all necessary machinery,
the Naomi Falls Mill has 6,528 spind
les and 2S9 looms with necessary ma
chinery .
From Textile Manufacturer.
At!.-?nta, Ga.—Th'^ Exnofirion Millf;
are changing over from yard
shectins; to -.12 and 3.1)5 yard drills.
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i’Mi .A 'jialacirMi and White,
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’rt.' Hllr;;', ' i I'n .iiirrhaf '- nr r-rec- i
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An f f'c iii ii;: j' 'i'll pn sed the sen-
" I (!' ii.i:: - (-;,i t),,f riianif.-st i
i!oi;,'h lildr-^ for it :i rf^nd it on to
•>l*- Whiw- I
lliirren a= t!w '^r-,;jnn mav have I
'• cn of fniitfiil U-nishit^m. the re-i
•■ubllrnn b-adf'rs pulnt to the preced-'
iUK sr-sHinns a n ;r, fruitfi-l. j
[•'f r the I'jr,;' >,i xti i ^jn. th('y !
[.'tint lo:
’1 ho Payiu-Aldiich lariff act, with
'ts maximun* and rnininuim feat\ires
;,nd coriHiration tax provlsion.s, and Its
• iij^tonis court.
Tho resolution providinc frr an in-
* ome tax amendment to tiu- constitu
tion.
For the first resrniar Hossion, they
ref»T to laws for:
RHtablishment of postal savingh
banks.
AduilSKion of N’ew ,Mexicf> :uid Ar
izona to KtatehorHl.
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
Has halped
many a man
to do better
' work—
Uor.d "Th” Rond to Wellville,”
in packages.
“There’s a Reason”
i.' sai.i some
Tr-x ;'...;, ’i'll,, in the
s f‘ ai’- palvanized into actio!'.
.-'I'I-.!] 'M .rf ,Toi. asli'ep.” hf.
sptal.er is vei." imuc'!
ai'd hi>, r;avr] irl tlif- (ie'-k
1 ei:.f.ir. . hrdln .-.h (I’u sltrdlu
v-iit, lif.ovs f-n j I ih .'I ‘ i . It wa.s
a'i nci;-nt of ihf farewf-ll ui;',hi.
.-Pr«‘s:dfnl Slie-'rnr'n v.and'iod
do’,\! ii;f iiaM) air 1(> of -be i'onse ’vh("i
■'tiC lr - was a U: h.^i;;hr. tiis ;k)-
: ' i'lrion.. 1;],' olu a social- ;-, v.;is
thf : i;-nal for a rush I'roni a:! paits
f 1' th‘- ha!l.
^ from \h' Ff^n.ite,” sliowi-
«• d Kc;>resentative Olcfj (, of \ew
York.
■ .-'peeeh, .sii-ech," canie fi-oui \n-
tioiiK quarif-rs. \\ lim the \ i«-f-]ire=i-
si-oA-rw] i;o intenfM'in o', tinn.-
).r.r- r!i* airea;|v iiadlv broken
rule,:, {it Tlie an .'iH hii.aasi
V(jjr'' . . 1 ii(‘k 'ij) “lie’s a .joUv
fello'v," iii(. crowd f-.ai it wrt'
lurty
A^'t j.ii , ir.:ri(-.;.s was 'i> u
in 'iie I fui .e until ;i o’c')C . Ropre-
seiUAti/,'; l..fi'i(ias F. T.;vjiijrston, '>f
C/f-or^ia. defi-*-iied :or re ion, v. a-s
calb'd foi'th -.s one of tlie re’oiain-
in{^ ( f'iitf‘d''‘rate ^^^J!djerH d. roniire.-'.s
and l.ad'- farewell lo tiis associare;
aftf-r 2n years of servir.. in ,u.->
H;Iire.sntative Ralph D. r;o'o. of
Ohio, likewise a def^-ateO mf'mb(>r,
was lialed beroi’«' the hon.^o in ih';
full regalia of .•venin^j; cIT.iie.t ntid
rrf)tested that the reason for hi.s de
feat was that every scb.-.ol l)>)y m
Ohio beKins life with Mv* idea of
''’iniii)p; i() Cf>n;;re.s.s
At H o’clock the hoiir.n did r little
actual work. It tock u|) fbo ijo.stofrieo
a;)I>ropriat ion bill renorted in from
tho conference 'on)rnih.ce atui from
that time husines.s held alr.jntion uii-
t_il 5:40, when a recess was taken to
( : 1 .J.
A story beeanie enrrrnt eaily in
th-‘ uif.rninK after Vice-Pr»-;siri^nt
Sreman’s visit to the iiou.^e thali
Speaker Cannon had made a b»t of
five to one with a fellow membfi-
that there would be no extra ses-
sHjn.
“VVell, there seems to be all sorti;
of rumors afloat foniRhl,” s,tid the
speaker later when members asi,“d
for information.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
was fin.illy passed by the house at
7::!0 o’clock this morning, the house
acfOf)tlng the senate amendment ))ro-
viding $200,000 for the lariif iKja^d
for the next year. The f)rigina-
l-'osal was $400,000 for the
board ff)r the next two years.
Over the protest of Chairman For-s
of the naval committee, the house to
day agreed to the senate amendments
to the naval appropriation bill, which
increased the llimt of coat for the
collier and the battleships authoriz
ed in the bill.
Mr. Foss said the senate amend
ments raising the posisble cost of the
battleshipa to $6,400,000 and of the
collier to $1,200,000, were to enable
the department to have the ships built
In a government navy yard If desir
ed. He said he believed It poor econo
my to do this; that the battleships
now under construction in navy yards
were coHting far more than tl^sse built
by private concerns.
Newton, N. C.—The addition of 60
locms to the cciuipmcnt al the Xev.ton
Cotton .^liii-. jninounced in January,
will be madi' uurir;y April.
Westminster. S. C.—The Oconee
.''Tills, of Westminster, lias been given
the rigiit to ini.‘rease its capital stock
from $100,000 to $5.j0,000.
Ne'vells, N. C.—This town is in-
tere.stcd in securing a cotion mill or
some allied indu.':try. It is in the
he-rrt of the coilon grov>-ing section,
about 2,000 bales of cotton being gin
ned in the immediate vicinity. W. B.
Newell, of Nev.e’l & Wallace, is es
pecially interer.tcd.
Charleston. S. C.—Tbe Royal Rax
sr Ya!'n Mills arc starting up TOO
(’!0'n;iiOii y, N,a{)v.';es lour box looms
' n p. hir'ih L'ladc liinjrhani and c!:aiu-
ijray.
■New Orleans, La.—The Lane Cot
ton Mills have mad^ an addition to
their equipmen* of four complete
sets of pickcrsl comprising 16 ma
chines. Contrac'*for this raachinery
was av ardcd PoUer & Johnston Co..
thix.agh il'.eir Southbru representa
tive, J. 11. ]\iiiy.os, of Charlotte, N.
C.
Concord, N. C.—Secelary ami Troas-
j urer A. li. iioward, of the Giljson Man-
[ facturing Co. sent out 2 per cvnt. semi
annual d’videnil checks last week
which dividend v.-ad rooenMy declared
and oulc-red paid by the company.
Talladega, Ala.—J. II. liicks, presi-
•'iont of ilio Jiighland City Mills an-
iK)iinced last wceK in the New York
marliet that his mills are running full
Yorkviile. S. C.—What was known
as the v\-a.?ie house at the ’Nee^y
Cotton Mill, together with the con
tents, was de.strowed by fire at about
1 o’clock last Sunday night. The
management estimates the loss at
about $1,000. There was no insurance
The origin of the fire is a mysterj'.
Gastonia, N. C.—“Stroup: Incorpo
rate Loray Mills, Gaston County.”
This little item in the list of new
bills introduced in the House of Rep
resentatives of North Carolina last
Monday brought the first intimation
most Gastonia ns had that the Loray
Mills is seeking to effect a municipal
incorporation. The provisions of the
bill are not yet known to the public
Mr. Andrew E. Moore, assistant treas
urer and general manager of the Lo
ray Mills, is in New York, hence no
information from first hand can be se
cured.
Just why the Loray wants a separate
municipal corporation, when the Lo
ray community, physically speaking
and to all intents and purposes is a
part of the town of Gastonia, is not
clear at this stage.
Greenville, S. C.—Grading has al-
^ ready been .“^larted on the switch
inie. and are supplied with more cot-
. , „ . , ';from the .Brandon Mill switch to the
site ol the Westcrveit iMills. The firm
of Porter & Boyd, of Charlotte, N.
C., received the contract for this
work about tAvo weeks ago and at
that time stated that the work would
begin about the first of March. The
recent good weather probably iiast-
t.
um than needed for immediate use.
Humboldt
Humboldt, Tenn.—The
Cotton .'iills will install additional
row ma'^hinery. This company now
IMS S,2C0 Kjiiiidles, 181 narrow looms,
r*; broad looms, etc., for manufactur-
in|2: slieetiug, bag cloth, etc.
Jonesville, S. C.—The annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the Jones-
ville Manufacturing Co. was held in
the Enterprise Hotel as the office of
the company w'as Jjurned in the firse
last week. The same board of direc
tors were elected except W. H. S.
Harris, w’ho declined to serve for the
next year, and J. M. Gault was* elect
ed to fill the place vacated by Mr. Har
ris.
This mill is equipped with 15,000
spindles and 400 looms on sheetings
and hosiery yarns.
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J order the sash by teleplione.'’
^ carpenter frequently ^ets an or.' ■
tlle telephone—maybe it’s for storm «irulo«.;
leaks, or other repairs are needed at the family're^;,j.,
It’s the man with the telephone who get.-s the
The local and Iona- distance B^]] Teleph
enables the business man to fill rush orders.
none
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You should have a Bell Teleph
SOUTHERN BELL TELEKIvV;:
AMD TELEGRAPH COMP.avv
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ened their plans. This spur will pro
Egan, Ga.—Tho Piedmont Cotton ‘’a,biy be finished before much work
?.iillK liave just begun to change overf^^ done on the mill and the material
the weave room from towels to bedi^®'^^ construction will very likely
f.preads, and will within a few days
start up one of the weaAe rooms on
night work.
be carried to the site over this spur.
Rock Hill, S. C.—Last Sunday about
}.IL’;;;o o’clock the waste house at the i
Chattanooga, Tenn.—As announcetl ' 11 i;;bl:uid Park Mills caught fire and'
in th(; Textile Manufacturer last wf:t k | w.ui itiucfically consumed. The city i
.Messrs. Cook, Husbands and Dr. \Vi:i-
st/U, of Patlucaii, Ky., :-re pianniii.''
a mill at Chattanooga for manufactur
ing and v/ater],roofing cotton clo'lis.
They are endeavoring to interest
(^'liattatjrujga investor,s to the (!Xl!nt,
of organizing a corporatif>n in ‘bat
^:i^J^ ']'ho capital stock conte!tiplalfl
is $100,000, with a
lii- ■d* parl iiient
tuill jil.o has
Rockingham, N. 0—The following
from the editorial columns of the
Post:
‘The cotton mills held their annual
, i meeting yesterday. The reports of the
financial officials are not what they
used to be but it is a credit to the
management to say they have not lost
money for the past year, w’hile many
mills in the country have lost heavily
and some have gone to the wall. The
officers w'ere all re-elected.
“Capt. W. I. Everett’s death left
three vacancies on the board of direc
tors. These were filled with Mr. Lee
Everett, for Roberdell; Mr. S. S. Steele
JUST ARRIVE
^ A consignment of books to retail
50c, formerly published at $1.50.
^ We have placed these in our window
that you may see what tnily wonderful
values are offered. They are not cheap
books of uncertain quality but are the
real big sellers by the real big authors.
Thousands have read them, have you?
^ A few of the big ones—Tlie Music
Master, Coniston, Comrades, Dr. Lav-
endar’s People, The Third Degree,
Happy Hawkins, The Fashionable
Adventures of Iosh«a Craig, The
Message.
Complete list for the asking.
ROBINSON^S Book Stor
12 North Try on Street
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responded and the
fire-fighting arrange- Henrv Wall, for
tufiiii,, hut the building, with its con- xhe Entwistle. This mill is being
t' lih , WHS practically destroyed, en-' started up and it is estimated that 300
tailing loii.s In the neighborhood of bales of cotton will be necessary to fill
."I.ooo. «;>v(Mod bv in.siirance ^ spindles and looms before a yard
of cloth is made.”
C'-»lnmbui
watpr-nroofinj-i Jiboi I whi, i ?i^‘ Mills,Oldest Woman in New oersey.
water j)rooini), 1 ut)oi I whicj, j^. new’s articie
equipment planned to begin wilh, and ! In anollwr folntiin eyn>clq
to be added to . - i. .»
a cotton clotJi mill
the jjlant lateni on.
Paterson, N. J., March 4.—Mrs.
in.,,,.,,.,,, . - *>egia Jane Beam, said to be the oldest wo-
s • ; V, /’ man in New Jersey, is dead here in
Ih f.apit.jii/,,.,1 at ,$;^00.000 and ha.s an
her 103rd year.
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tariff
A woman Is never afraid to. tell her
age 80 much as she is afraid that some
body else will.
Spring Matting
AND
Crex Rugs
of fine qmllty China and Jap Matting and
Uber and Opolla Rugs just opened up.
letim f'howlng also a strong line of best quality Llno-
V, e can certainly take care of your floor covering needs.
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It is all under shed and protected from
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M. A. BLANDi Sales Agent
YES WE SELL I
The Richmon
Suction Cieasiei
No more dust, no more
clean—perfectly clean iioi:? / •
you will have if you use a
Suction Cleaner.
Takes up all dirt or dust in cy
rugs, curtains, upholstered g'J '
In fact wherever dust sett.c-.-'
cleane gets it.
Let UB demonstrate to jx-u
merit. Write, 'phone or call ai.*:
will have one in you house Joi
proTal and you will not he ur.aei
obligations to buy.
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