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WASHINGTON WILL ACT
WHEN IT OBTAIS FACTS
t-
Secretary L&nsiftg Announces That President and
He Are Seeking Every Means Possible to
Secure Information Busy Time
in National Capital
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 4. Official an
nouncement that the government will
act promptly as soon as the infor
mation is received regarding the sink
ing of the Persia was made at the
white house today. Secretary Lans
ing made the following statement:
' The president and the secretary of
state are seeking every means pos
sible to obtain the cold facts in this
grave matter and will act just as soon
as the information is obtained."
In an effort to obtain the infor
mation, President Wilson cancelled the
cabinet meeting today, and held a con
ference with Senator Stone, chairman
of the senate committee on foreign
n 'lairs. Senator Stone told the pres
ident that some senators were pre
paring to make speeches on the sink
ing of the ships. The president was
understood to have told the chairman
that he had been conducting foreign
affairs with all
the ability he pos '
scssed.
President Wilson busied himself
with reading the dispatches so far
received and getting in touch with
the situation.
The administration is depending on i
American Tells
Hersia Sank; ini Five
lviinutes
(By Associated Press.)
Alexandria, Egypt, via London, Jan.
4. Charles Grant of Boston, one of
tho t.vo Americans known to have
been on the Persia when she was sunk
in the Mediterranean,. has. arrived in
Alexandria.
Mr. Grant gave to the Associated
Press the most complete account of
the sinking yet obtained.
'"I was in the dining saloon of the
Tcrsia at 1:05 p. m.," he said, "when a
terrific explosion occurred. The sa
loon became filled with smoke and
stf;im from the hroken crlas3 of the
boiler. No panic ensued. We went
on board the deck as if for a drill.
I clung to the railing, as the vessel
had listed to port. As the vessel was
then listiiag' so badly that it was im
possible to launch the starboard boat,
I slid down into the water and clung
to some floating wreckage.
"The last I saw of the Persia she
had her bow in the air five minutes
Russians Continue to
Make Progress Against
Austrians in Big Fight
(Uy Associated Press.) Paris reports the failure of num-
'. o British cabinet was expected to orous grenade attacks west of Tehure
ider the draft of a compulsion bill
1 . jU.. Petrograd chronicles the con -1
, tinuation of heavy fighting on the
? lront from Vn hvnm in Hiilfriwina nnd
claims that the Russian forces arej
continuing to advance on the east of '
Czernowitz in quite numerous coun
ter attacks.
no
A
(Hy Associated Press.)
New York, Jan. 4. The crew of the
Greek line steamer Thessaloniki, seek
to abandon the ship, which has been
at the mercy of high seas and waves
for ten days, according to a radio-;
gram from the steamship United:
btates received here today. j
The 'lhessaloniki sent a message to
the United States steamer saying that
all passengers had been transferred
but ihat (J0 members of the crew were i
on board.
SWEDEN FORBIDS OFFICERS TO
Si AY IN COUNTRIES AT WAR
Berlin, Jan. 4. Sweden has forbid
den all ofliccrs and privates of her
naval and military establishments to
remain in belligerent countries, ac
cording to the Lokal-Anzeiger. The
order also applies to members of the
military who ar newspaper corres
pondents. MRS. IIIGIITOWER LIBRARIAN
At the meting of the board of man-
i'prs of the Hickory Free Library,
Monday afternoon. Mrs. Alice High-
wer was elected librarian to serve
r a term of kix months.
WAN
ABANDON
GREEK
STEAMER
the inquiry which Ambassador Pen
field at Vienna has been instructed to
obtain and othrr information to es
tablish the nationality of the sub
marine. Consul General Skinner at London
announced today that the telegraphic
report from Alexandria did not in
clude the name of Consul McNeely.
One hundred and eleven survivors,
including Lord Montague, have been
landed at Malta, according to the
United States consul there.
His dispatch said several passen
gers and members of the crew had
been found clinging to the ship's
reckage.
Senator Stone told the president
that when the foreign relations com.
mittee met tomorrow he wanted to be
prepared to meet any situation that
might arise. The senator said after
his talk with the president that until
the facts regarding the Persia were
obtained nothing could bed one. Any
nation, he declared, which outraged
the United States should be dealt
with severely.
Later Chairman Flood of the housfv
foreign affairs committee called . oi
the president
HoV
Aixer oemg oit
after the explosion.
"After floating about on the WTeck-
, . . ...
ing around looking for other sur
vivors. "Myboat left the others in order to
seaf ch the more ' frequented -steals?
ship channels for help. - We rowed for
three hours. Then we were picked up
by a cruiser.
"We explained that we were sur
vivors of the Persia, and gave direc
tions to the cruiser as to where the
other boats were. They were soon
found and the occupants were taken
off immediately.
'Robert Ney McNeely, American
consul at Aden, sat at the same table
with me on the voyage. He was not
seen probably because his cabin was
on the port side.
"It was a horrible sc?e. The water
was as black as ink. Some passen
gers were screaming, others were say
ing goodby."
in the Champagne district. There has
been great artillery activity in the
Vosges south vi the Hartmanns
WeilerkODf.
A Saloniki dispatch declares that
Bulgarians are disinclined to embark
in a campaign against Saloniki un.
less promised Macedonian territory.
MAKING PLANS FOR
Plans for the Shriners' banquet to
be held Thursday night. January 13,
were brought a little nearer to frui
tion last night when a committee on
arrangements was appointed. This
committee is composed of J. D. Elliott,
chairman; Dr. Ia Wood, Geo. L. Ly
erly and Bob Martin. It was left for
the committee to work out the details.
AEROPLANES SERVE
AS ARMY AMBULANCE
Paris, Jan. 4. Word has reached
here that in the French retreat from
Serbia to Saloniki aeroplanes did ser
vice as hospital ambulances for the
first time.
A number of sick were transported
in six aeroplanes.
Mr. E. Bryan Jones leaves tomor
row for Norfolk.
Capt. John Paul Jones, field agent
for the Junior Order United American
Mechanics announced in Raleigh that
iors to throw open their halls for c:as
.rooms where the school facilities are
not adequate.
SHRINERS
BANQUET
HIGHER
(By Associated TVpsO
Washington. Jan. 4. Food nrices in
ine unuea otates aurmg iyi4 were
years 1882 when they w ere 4 par cent
higher than 1914 prices, 1883 when
4.1 T T " i . ri. . . - - . '
they were on the same level and in
1912 when they were 1 psr cent high
er. The bureau of labor statistics in
its annual bulletin just issued on
wholesale prices of commodities re
viewing the years from 1860 to 1914
discloses that in the 55 years food
prices were highest in 1864 when they
vvere 76 per cent more than 1914 p. ices
and lowest in 1896 when they were
40 per cent below.
In the vears of the Civil war and
during a dozen years or more after- i
v. aru prices oi ail commodities v.ere
the highest since 1860 when the first
attempt was made at keeping a record
of wholesale prices. In 1864 nrices
of most commodities reached their
highest point. Lowest prices were re
corded in the years frcm 1894 to 1898.
The effect of the European war on
wholesale prices in the United States
is notf ully disclosed in the report as
prices for only the first five months
of the war are recorded. Comparison
of Civil war prices with those prevail,
ing in this country during the Eu&i
iSh-American w ar .apparently hpiJBCS
tie effect on wholesale prices &fettex
remained on aeoty th&akjhe le$el as
they had bewaiiifithej period inijnedi
ateiy, precW rfe '
prouucis prices in iyii were
r-when 85 per cgat oiore than in 1914
,UM6rJ&a&3Ujjj had been in the last
4f.rj mith food prices their
" j-s reacneu in isd
'' jgXjfcTWld id-ftktiJa 1896 when 53 per cent
below,
i,ClaJvean clothing were lower in
1914- "than during the previous year
and--re higher than at any time
since 1884, when they were on the
same level, except in 1907, 1910 and
1913. The highest prices were in 1864
l c-.rt i . .i .. .. .
and lowest in 1896 nnd 1897 uhpn 9
uueii co-k per cent more tnan iyi4
per cent lower.
Fuel and lighting prices were 5 per
cent lower in 1914 than in 1913 hnr
were 32 per cent higher than the low
est point reached in 1894, and 120 per
cent below the highest point, reached
in 18J5. .
Metals and metal products were I
lower than they had been since 1905, 1
being 8 per cent below 1913 prices.
Their highest point was reached in
1834 when 194 per cent higher" than
in 1914 and lowest in 189& when 27 .
per-ent b.elow 1914 prices. j
Lumber and building materials were
4 per cent lower than in 1913, 82 per
cent below their highest prices reach
ed in 1864 and 88 per cent above their :
.owest point reached in 1897
higher than in 1913 and higher than
they had been in 30 years. They were
ro nor. fu;.
made in 1864 and 33 per cent higher 31 the collections have been $5,714,
than their lowest nrices in 1895. I 436.Y2, an increase over the corres-
house furnishin- goods were high-! Pninff Per'lJ last year ot ui,
Pr tVmn fv,o-.r v,oi qo ,rv. 221.54. cr 62 1-6 per cent. btates.
.rg 25 per cent hiher than their !
lowest prices made in 1897 and 184 1
per cent below the highest Drtces tire- I
vailing in 18G4. j
Prices of all cemmodities were 1
per cent below the prices in 1913 and ! :
on tne same level as tnose ot lyiz.
They were lower by 137 - per cent !
than the high prices of 1864 and high
er by 33 per cent than the lowest
prices prevailing in the years of 1896
and 1897.
'SH!
L
Friends of Prof. Geo. W. Hahn will
be glad to learn that his book "The
Catawba Soldier in the Civil War",
has been adopted by the board of edu
cation as a suitable work to be placed
in every school library in the county.
The people of Catawba are justly
proud of this work, recording, as it
does, the work of their o.vn heroes,
and written by one of them who has
deserved so well of his people, not
merely for his courage in the fearful
times of the '60's, but in the higher
courage he has shown in his school
work and brave stand for righ and
civic virtue in all times and places.
HAD VIRULENT CASE
Mr. George Young living beyond
Baker Mountain was in Hickory to
day for the first tim. n several
w eeks. He is convalescing from what j
ur. Henry Abernethy pronounces the
very worst case o smallpox, as dis
tinguished from varioloid or chicken-
pox is the manner in which the erup
tion affects the palms of the hands
and soles of the feet. Mr. Young
says he suffered so much with his feet
that he could not bear his weight upon
them for more than two weeks. He
had done his duty in beinpr vaccinated,
but the virus did not 4,take."
LIPPARD FOUND GUILTY
The church trial of Mr. Bud Lippard
took place as was announced last
Friday. Mr. Lippard was found guil
ty and suspended for six months frcm
the church. He took an appeal to the
quarterly conference. The trial was
presided over by Rev. Mr. Green the
pastor in charge.
The following gentlemen composed
the i-ury to pass upon the matter:
H. D. Howard, William Mundy, E.
A. Sherrill, Jim Bost, L. A. Womack.
J. A. Brotherton, W. L. Reynolds,
Zeb L'ttle and Albert Shcrria.
The following were objected to by
Mr. Lippard and stood aside. W. W.
Caldwell, C. B. Armstrong, Arthur
Little and Jessie McConnell. Catawba 4
PROF
HAHN
STORY
FOR
PUBLIC
sen
County NewB.
n I I inii.il
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mi unur
(By . Associated
Washington, Jan. 4.-
Press.)
-Pellagra has
become such a menace in the south
! congress for a rush appropriation of
$100,000 for sanitation and health
work in the south. Typhoid fever
.. as included in the request.
i'tii
( By Assodafe.rfrsfM
Meridian, Miss., ajjiiole'rs of
the fifth congressman tf&xict of Mis
issippi todayeriaBoting for a
successor vMe',fa Representative
3amuel j'grspbon. There were
jix acfrfan(iidittes, all Democrats,
'-nd Pesialint Wilson's preparedness
jrogTaBTBgured in the campaign.
tbE ILL a'sk'por more
Cotton
Mill
Operatives
Are Not
r- Satisaed
Nashua, N. H., Jan. 4. Union cot
ton mill operatives throughout new
ngiand win not accept the o per
cent .wage increase which manufac
turers announced would go
according to a statement by John
Golden of Fall River, president of
the United Textile Workers. Union
operatives, Golden said, have for
tima been considering a demand for
a 10 per cent increase.
SAXON KING TO QUIT
Paris, Jan. 4. "A report is current
King Frederick August of Savony is
considering abdicating in favor of his
eldest son, Prince George", says the
Journal in a dispatch Ircm Basel, "ow-
in& t the growing discontent of the
population which on several occasions
has taken the form of hostile demon-
strations against the king. There is
no confirmation of this report."
REVENUE COLLECTIONS
FOR DECEMBER
Durintr December Collector Watts,
of this district, collected $937,688.21
internal revenue taxes, as 'follows :
Tobacco $925,539.75
Income Taxes 1,460.62
Emergency. 1 9,991.96
Fines and Penalties 440.49
Liquor License 141.68
Oleomargarine 91.10
Narcotic Taxes 22.21
This is a decrease from last month
of $62,008.50 and an increase over
December, 1914, of
S336,30y.49. or
oa pe , ,
For the half year ending December
Vllle Landmark
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MARKETS
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CHICAGO WHEAT
(Bv Associated Press.)
- Chicago, Jan. 4. Wheat prices took
a downward swing today, influenced
by lower prices from Liverpool. Op
ening nrices which ranged from 4
up with May at 1.23 to 1.23 and July
at 1.16, vere followed by a general
setback and then a short rally.
NEW YORK COTTON
0
(Bv Associated Pr"Qs.)
Ncv York, Jan. 4. The cottoi.
market onened steady at an advance
of five to ten points today, with Jan
uarv selline at 12.33 and March at
12.55 immediately after the call Sen
Vment was still more unsettled over
international affairs and the list soon
ent back for a reaction.
NEW YORK STOCKS
( Bv Acociated esO
New York, Jan. 4 The range of
prices was generallv higher at today's
opening. California Petroleum pre
ferred was heavy on rumors of a
hit-h in its nronosed merger with
Mexican Petroleum. Gams in copper,
Mercantile nreferred and United
States Air Brakes were made. Rail
roads were hie-her by fractions to a
full point. The strength of Anglo-
French fives was notable.
COTTON FUTURES
New York, Jan. 4. Cotton futures
opened steady and closed steady.
Active months. Open Close
Tanuary 12-33 12.20
March - 12-53 12.48
Mav 12.55 12 69
juV 12.90 12 81
October .Z " 12-54 12.52
HICKORY MARKETS
Cotton -.i2c
Wheat $1-35
3
THE WEATHER
Forecast for North Carolina: Fair
and warmer tonight and Wednesday.
Gentle to moderate east to southeast
.vinds.
COMPARATIVE WEATHER
January 3. 1916
Maximum 67
1915
45
25
85
Minimum - - 41
PREPAREDNESS WAS
rnnnr mi nrmTnvF
IMUUN bUntESH
tf it
.lA f
Mean -- .
54
ill'
re
cruiting figures i oir-j tfe4gii be
tween October 23 f&i3&mWrJ15
show 1,150,000 m-j$fS4Gf'- and
1,679,263 mafpresented
themselves ffSf7f. jf-;
Of the pRaa fasts! of 2,829,263 mar
ried and-singl man, 103,000 unmar-
fMaimfflfo -immediately and
.?lftii1-flfested for future ser
Sicfed as unfit for service.
N
T
(Dy Associated Pres.)
Durham, Jan. 4. Fire of an un
known origin this morning at 3 o'clock
totally destroyed a lars two story
brick building and t.o mercantile
stores in West Durham. The loss is
est'mated by Fire Chief Christian at
SSI 2 OOO T'Vio Vmilr1irCT -tiraa ftonnnioH
by stores belonging to J. Winnecoff
and James S. Davis and R. G. Kearney.
V "w t TV
Davis of Henderson. The
surance amounted to $6,000.
total in-
CBv Associated Press.
Peking, Jan. 4. Twenty American
. . -
engineering experts are Dusny en-
gaged at Harbin erecting locomotives
shipped frcm the United States to the
Russian government. Both the Bald-
win Company and the American Loco
motive Works have experts here, as
sisting the Russians m their efforts
to get adequate locomotive power for
he Trans-Siberian Railway.
The locomotives coming from Am
erica are unloaded at Vladivostok.
They are knocked down into as small
lieces as possible,and boxed in Am
rica for shipment. Upon their ar
rival at 'Vladivostok, the engines are
! rushed on to Harbin, where the fa
cilities for erecting them are better
;han at Vladivostok.
BaiT'e of the slides in the Panama
canal, the delivery of the locomotive
as much delayed. It requires sev
eral weeks to erect an engine, anc"
;he first of the American engines t
each S beria will be put into ccm
mission this week.
All told four hundred and fifty lo
omotives have been sold by Americai
manufacturers to the Russian gov
ernment. These are now coming to
Vladivostok by way of the Suez, but
will doubtless be routed via Panama
as soon as the canal is clear. It is
estimated that the delivery of these
locomotives will extendo ver one year.
W. F. Carey of St. Paul, Minn., u
member of the firm of Siemes Carey
Construction Company, has arrived in
-LGhina and will open offices in Peking.
preparatory to undertakm- railway
construction and s'milar heavy work
This American firm had many large
onstruction contracts on the Grand
Trunk Pacific in Canada, and is the
rst American company engaged in
general construction -ork to open a
permanent office in China.
"DOGGTE" TRENCHARD TS
NOW IN LUMBER BUSINESS
Durham, Jan. 4. i:DoggIe" Trench
ird, who has served in the capacity of
thlet:c director of the University of
North Carolina athletics since Janu-
uary, lyiiJ, will no longer serve as
trainer of athletic teams. He has al
ready plunged into the timber busi
ness of Souths Carolina and has be
come as-ociated with his brother in
the purchase of Palmetto State tim
ber interests. He will obtain his law
license in February and appropriate
his legal training for commercial pur
poses. The action of the Carolina ath
letic committee with respect to the
coaching: system will not change his
decision to retire frcm the training
i i i .
h.mht,r hllsir,fiSS i- Henderson and
camp, tie w-as iormeriy engaged in
he will renew his activities along sim
ilar lines.
THE SHERIFF'S COLLECTIONS
Sheriff Isenhower collected $73,000
in taxes up to January 1, also $6,000
in check taxes. Thus he has collected
a total of $79,000. This is a good
showing for the year just closed. Ca
tawba County News.
DECLARES DIVIDEND
C tizens Bank of Conover Divides Pro
fits W th Stockholders.
Conover, Jan. 4. The stockholders
of the Citizens Bank of Conover at
their annual meeting today declared
a six per cent dividend, reelected the
old directors and officers an lata
away $3,000 as a surplus to be add
ed to the $10,000 capital. Sheriff
John A. Isenhower is president and
Mr. A. L. Shuford is secretary. A
number of farmers, who are stock
holders in the institution, were res
ent, and all were pleased with the
showing made.
SMALL FIRE THIS MORNING
Fire at 2:45 this morning threat
ened ther esidence owned by Mrs. M.
L. Flowe on Ninth avenue, but thanks
to prompt and efficient work by the
firemen the damage was Kept oowti
to $50. It is not known how the fire
I started. The house is occupied by
I the family of Mr. S. M. Wilkinson.
London.VW ' DerSx'
FIRE
DURHAM
OE
ROYS
BUILDING
AM AN
ENGINES
UNLOADED
RUSSIA
snate Fails to Pump Questions at Administration
v-oa-Conduct of Foreign Policy Matter
vnp?i Will Be Aired
Include
E
Lenoir, Jan. 4. The i . -ord made in
Caldwell county this past year by the
corn club boys is one to be proud of
and County Agent C. M. Goforth has
so far received G8 reports frcm the
boys and out of this number 28 of the
reports show that the boys made 50
bushels and more to the acre. The
boys of the other 48 reported did well
w ith their prize acres, but did not
quite reach the 50 bushel mark. Gar-
land Hoover, of route 5, reported 125
bushels; Johnny . Watson route 5, 80
bushels; Charlie Laxton, King's Creek,
80 bushels; Ralph Curtis, Pctterson,
'8 bushels; Horace Haas, route 1, 74V2
bushels; Paul Steele, Yadkin Valley,
C8 bushels; Carl Haas, route 2, 68
bushels; Matthe w Wilson, route 2, 66 V2
bushels- Carl West, route 2, C5 bush
els; Pink Cannon, Granite Falls, route
2, 63 bushels, ranging on down to
the list of -boys who raised 50 bushels
and more.
Owine to the drv Rcasnn diirino- fhp
Dast summer the corn crop in this
CALDWELL
COUNTY
MAK
RECORD
i f ,n f vl alC Was GX" BrItisl1 interference with neutral com.
pected to yield. While there was ,- j0 tj j
mora corn raised this year than the merce and Senator Lodge's amend
, former, this was due to increased acr- ment calling for an inquiry into the
eage planted in corn. Had the sea -
son been more favorable there cer-
tamly would have been a bumper crop
Dut with an uniavorab e season the1
yield was not quite up to the aver
age per acre. The v.crk of the corn
club boys helped to swell the croo
immc-nsel". The farm demonstration ,
work in the county f cr the past few
years has done much toward stlmulat-1
nr. . 4. . 1. r 1 !
"'oi iu'vg tannery ana
their boys to follow more clocely the
j aft of scientific farmln"- and they have
j gamea much thereby The cc unty
commissioners at their
meeting did not make an annroDria
ccmuv.i
tion to help carry on the demonstra
tion work in this county for another
year and an effort is being made by
many to get them to reconsider their
action in this particular and allow
the. work so well begun to be con
tinued. ' : ' ' "
OF
T
Catawba's fame as a cooperative
immunity extends far and wide.
Today Mr. Ceo. R. Wootten, secre
tary of the Catawba Rural Credits
Association, received a letter from
Mr. M. Alexander, governor of the
state of Idaho, asking for information
on the plan.
fJLZ yAl S3cTrtary Wootten
to furnish the data. The rural credit
association slmp.y is the adaptation
of the building and loan plan for
GOVERNOR
IDAHO
ASKS
ABOU
CATAWBA
rural communities. It is proposed to W WJCadev Gordon Whitener, A.
help people in the rural districts to p Majtja. - Lackey, C. P. Whit
purchase . land just as the budding ener-Kc.le, M. l! Harwell, W.
and loan is an aid to the working man J. Boff- iFLr Rolirk A C. H?Mp.
m town to acquire a home.
'
CAROLINA TO MEET HARVARD
Harvard University has included
the University of North Carolina on
its football schedule lor next fall,
the date b6in- October 14. The Uni
versity of Virginia has been playing
Harvard for t.vo years. In former
years southern institutions played the
big northern team3, bat the practice
as dropped by mutual consent be
cause the southerners simp y made a
light holiday. In recent years, how
i
ever, the southern teams have shov
up better and last fall a number
southern men were mentioned for no
sitiojis on Ail-American teams, in
cluding Vandergraaf. Mayer, Tanay
and others.
SESSION OF PEACE SOCIETY TO
BE HELD IN DURHAM IN MARCH
Raleigh, Jan. 4. The 1916 session
of the North Carolina Peace Society
will probably be held in Durham some
t'me during March. The state execu
tive committee in session here, adopt
ed a motion favoring this date and
place, butl eaviner the final selection
and announcement to Dr. L L. Hobbs,
Guilford Colleg2;vho is North Caro
lina representative in the directo
rate of the national society. United
States Senator Burton will be invited
to deliver an address. He is a for
mer president of the American Peace
Society. Governor Craig, Dr. J. Y.
Joyner, Dr. Chas. Lee Smith, Dr. T.
P. Harrison Jjs. G. Crown, Doctor
Hobbs and J. D. Berry participated
in the meeting here today.
ASSISTANT LEGISLATIVE
LIBRARIAN FOR THE STATE
Raleigh, Jan. 4. Miss Edna D. Bul
lock, w-ho is assistant legislative lib
rarian -for the state of Nebraska, has
arrived for the spaclal purpo-e of giv
intr ovnprt. ns'stanee tc W. S. Wilson.
l l.nn r f 'MVrtVi P.nrnlTnn '
in the installation and arrangement of
Mr. Wilson's quarters this work being
now under way. Miss Bullock has had
thorough special training in some of
the largest legislative libraries in the
country including that of New York
jtate, andi s . considered one of tne
best equipped in the whole country,
She will spend one month in the lcgia
'ative library here.
Mr. Robert Knox was in Lenoir yea.
terday., .
Tomorrow Will
Everything.
(By Associated Pres3.)
Washington, Jan. 4. The expected
attack on the administration's for
eign policy failed to materialize in
the senate today and that body ad
journed after the ten minutes' ses
sion until tomorrow.
The reason assigned by leaders on
both sides was that several senators
did not have their remarks ready.
The senate adjourned on account of
the death of Associate Justice La
mar,
pma eo-.uij j
. , Co"rf 3 reassembled today after
,he .hollday recess with the nation's
ire;gn affairs uppermost in the two
houses. On all sides it was freely ad
mittsd tW th c;t,t;n
... vuutivii vvact giavvi
Issues growing out of the submarine
warfare of Germany and Austria and
Great Britain's interference with neu
tral commerce were expected to fig
ro greatly in the deliberations of
..enators and representatives. It was
believed the questions would be dis
cussed tomorrow.
It seemed assured also that the ten
ate foreign relations committee would
take ud Senator Hoke Smith's reso
: lution providing for an inquiry into
; loss of American lives a3 the result
0f submarine activities,
i
T
Newton
.Tan A A f 4-Via Atlo
meeting of the commissioners yester-
day request was made upon the board
PROTEC
CITIZENS
AGAIN
SMALLPOX
of commissioners by the board of
education to make a regulation to re
strict the smallpox situation, but the
commissioners demurred and a hurry
call was issued to the bord.of health,
which met and adopted a resolution
prohibiting any person having small,
pox or having been exposed to small
pox to appear within 25 feet of a
public gathering. This was then taken,
to the , commissioners and after dls
cC 'on, approved and is now law the
violation of which means $50 fine or
30 days in jail. i'
The commissioners handled numer-
ous roaa matters, relieved a numbcrv
of persons ofiaxef and handled a lot
ot routine DttSJfi'iitafe
Jury fMSi-rt ?;V
Amone: x4h.-iMias ?fm com,?.
missionera Ore-tfe jBr- OT 7 he b-
ruary ternrcz -erfcf WJrvWjitWV
nmg the -fMfJMonday, aVJoESW? '"V
tt FJrstF&W' M- CampbB&y;;D. 7
Hefner, C. EJUtten, J. E. Abentetny
H. F. Huffnufn", Frame Elrod, Ceorg I
SpenceTLrO.-Poovey. EwellKUiiaV
m. DJtddnSrJ Bolick J J Walker
C. RSSSL S ! Sigmon, MS5
T. mi., n . h-v-a t u
d,KaftW E. Sigmon, A. F.
tSaglpiAtuif Spencer. E. Litten,
&)&. A. Hilton, Aubra M.
MC tobV'- UnSUCker M" W
Second-weeS-V. E. Yount, George
Hunt, M,J5mhardt, P. L. Holler,
N. C. Barring!, Peter Fulbright, P.
C. CoonCS&XTBoatright, L. A. Ho
ward, Hoseii Hefner, Jones Mackie, S.
L. Hilton;ArPTrild G. Herman. E. L.
Dagenhard VO. 4S3)rum, J. F. Propst,
Charlie Fuibrikt nd W. L. Rhoney.
11 ill.
SECRETIQANIELS
WOraZE CONTEST
(Bjf fatcd Press.), t V ;
Washing).,, Jfn. 4. Secretary
Daniels disolJetoday that he had
.7 1 : J K T A J 1 T T "
ueunieu usrcaib near lumirai risv. .
or Rear Admiral Knight to speak on - ?
the navy.-jjragm, even though lu
was assured tha-' the proposed addrjes- 'v
ses w-oulP$f de public. The
request was mafc6hn W. Scott,
president of tl)e ctwrt$al club of
Chicago, in a teaiJJ"tresie3, '
Wilson.
REAL ESTATE TRAi
4.
Newton, Jan. 4. The Entertl3
notes the tollowing deeds hied dusiisj
the week:
Z. B. Buchanan and S. D. Campbell
t T T? DaitJ o rrn nai
ling ton and Montana streets. Hicko:
Ruannah Hefner to H. L. Mundaf
for $590, tract of 19 acres adjoinil
P. E. Herman and others. f
I... A Cnmnholl to E. Sisrmon
$1,000, tract of 23 acres adjo2
Jones Abernethy. 4
Anna Deitz to John Murphr
$950, tract of 8 acres being lo 01
Sally Barger lands. f ,
J. S. Campbell io J. W. He? lor
500, lot in Maiden,
tv,t, n Pool n vv Tlf OniAteU tor
ci nnn 093. o iiles C
Ahcrr.ethv estate. ; J '
.T. T. MaTTaffev to TViom7Edwar
for $658.75. tract of tix uces adjo
ing purchacer. ,
nr.