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v .HE JiilNST PUBLISHED TWICE A WEE K-W EDNKSD AYS AN D 8 AT U R D AY KINSTON, N. C WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1919 PKICE FIVE CENTS HAVE HOUSE PLANS GIVE knoxville Held by small army state A TOBACCO PALMER FUNDS WITH let on Highway ON JOBS IS BELIEF FIGHT H. C. TROOPS; QUIET NOW ON mm TO ACCEPT til WILSON'S AND STAY - ' - .-, ' f '4 . ' I - - 1 Representatives of City, County, State, Patriotic Or ganizations and Freehiasonry at Exercises in City and at,' Site of BarkerAttention of Thousands to Be Attracted to Resting Place of One of Nation's Foremost; iPersonagestpf fCentury and Third Ago Great in Affairs of St$e and in Soldier's Uniform.: Senator Stacy Tells of Firmness of Character Rain Handicaps Ceremonies OnfJvmg Caswell Could Not Come for Program THUGS: AND DRUNKS AND OTIliS START THEIR WEED SEASON The municipality of Kinston, Lenoir County, thejate, patriotic so cieties , and. the .Masonic order . participated in exercisesJonday attend ant upon the unveiling of a marker pointing the way froSJhe Central Highway, i principal road in the State, to the grave of RichaVCaswel), village functipnary,, colonial assemblyman, member of CongresV-ould-have-been member' of the most momentous gathering in all AmericaNis- forv. governor and major-general of the American armies. -This tow dwelling in that apathy toward its great men and institutions character istic of,.North Carolina,, pffkially took a couple of hours off to do hom age to the '.memory -of. Its greatest citizen.. The ..public, fys, plight ardor , dampened ' by a 'drizzling rain, paid little attention to the occasion. The exercises 'at ' the Grand Theatre were not largely attended. . Because the highway, is closed for, improvements, and Because of the rain,-no large attendance at the unveiling proper could be expected. The exercises were simple but impressive. -They were opened around 10:30 o'clock. The orchestra rendered a number and Rev. Charles L. Read, pastor of Queen Street Methodist Church, spoke the invocation. State Senator George V. Cowper, who as a chairman of the local murker committee , presided over the exercises, introduced the speaker, Senator H. E. Stacy of Lumberton, brother of Judge Stacy of Wilmington and the late Dean Stacy of the University of North Carolina. Eulogizes Heroic Character. Caswell was one of the very "big- Senator Stacy's address was de- gest" men North Carolina has ever voted largely to a portrayal of the tailed citizen. His reputation was magnificence-of Caswell's character nationwide in the early days of the and the usefulness of the statesman- (Republic; indeed, his fame spread soldier to his community, State and beyond the seas. . Nation. He quoted at length from Authentic historians ta(ll that he the records of ' state and historians was born in Maryland August 3, in telling of the great career. He as- 1729. ' serted that his home county and the) He was the eon of a prosperous State had cause, to be extremely .merchant, who during Disorders Prevalent During Tobacco Season Have "Good Opening" SOME ROBBERY CASES aw Met Appeal proud that such a man had lived youth experienced business bad luck. withinhelf "bdun'da the field was a genius of a soldier, -Hna, then one of the most populous as he was one of (the commonwealth's colonks the first census after the chief statesmen and Masonry's revolution placed the State third in great loaders 150 years ago.- Ithe list following only Virginia and Representatives of patriotic ord- j Pennsylvania to seek his fortune. He -bore letters. from the governor, of Maryland to Governor Johnston. was well "Large Sum's Change Hands," as They Say in onnection With the Reports Cops q Be Overworked South Xinston's ijfcjestival open ed bnturday night wltbuf airly full program of crime and dirtier. Nu merous drunks ail some "aferder lies" took part in the "exerefstfe.' A. J. Stewart, a farmer, toldth police ho was robbed of Between $4Ql0 and $500 at the house of Lillian Gray in South Kinston. He was in com pany with several young bloods. Stewart supposed that he was reliev ed of the money when he dozed off to sleep in a chair, He had been drinking. A warrant was issued for George Palmer, a' restaurant em ploye, in. connection with the case. Another Supposed Robbery. Robert Suggs, white, told the Caswell's Luthor-'ties that he lost about $130 Early v 'Returns Indicate There Will De No Strike Yet TO CALL CONFERENCE Opens Tuesday With Ev ery Indication of Bigger EBusiness EVERYBODY OPTIMISTIC Executive! Will 'Probably i May le Twenty-five Million Fix Date for Assembling of Capitalists and Work ers Before Leaving . for the West (By tfto United Prom) Washington, Sept. 1. The Presi dent's, proposal of a wage increase Pounds, Possibly $10, 000,000 Business Crop Great One in Spite of Weather's Treachery (Daily Free Press Sept. 1) Kin;; Tobacco approaches. The nunarch is due here Tiles Material Progress in Can r paign Expected Dur ing Week PROSECUTIONS WANTED mm? f ronteermer pressmen Indies jl line 1 iAJT. ior i aiKinjjf; p . of four centa an hour pending reduc- forenoci, half a month later iTMs 4inm KarinM 4,. ....'II 1. 4 - J ...... UT jj'rt.fy the United Press) j'jCSehington, Kept. I. ine House ,Ala week ' is planning to give the tion of living costs will be accepted by the railway shopmen now taking a strlle vote,'1 it is indicated by early returns to the American Federation of Labor. i WacBington, Sept. 1. Announce ment by Preiident Wilson of the date on which hewiU call the eonferenco between representatives of capital and labor, far i complete discussion of the relations .between the two, put- the whole fluostion of Wpn unothef footing, is expectc roiMtm; rresident departs aay mysqis transcontinenta'itir. The "thja.'jt is believclfll be set for a tinie4Qon after jryTPresident'i return. probrJSiiefunn October. arts have rfutions fo educated. He soon Fred. Olds, Raleigh, found limself In public office, but a e ers were on the platform with the presiding officer, speaker and others. A feature of the exercises was talk by Col representing the State Historical he was a minor official to begin with. Commission. He brought with him A frw weeks or months after com-, one of the three only-revolutionary ing to this colony the young Mary, battla flags in existence. 'This was lender was a deputy surveyor and if .Si Sunday night In or on the street be- could not identify the persons suspected of robbing him. Charged With Larceny O. H. Walker was arrsSH Mon day morning on the chaffe of , rob binff.iiejman D. Boonap a stenog rapBezv, who had bef irfhded him, i a suit of clothes. 'Walker eaid a man who beat him unrobbed him of his own clothes that he borrowed Boone's. jF . Henry Cajrs specialty in the week- end prngTn was literally knocking the off Sudie. Belle Hooper, cojorei It is assumed that the girWf shoes were not tightly laced oflSr . js a fact that they were rred . off when Henry batted her. Among the other offenders were some VI or 16 crapshooters. all the evidence against them not in hand Monday . forenoon. The gamesters were both white and colored. Diraomr TIME mm nr?r urn I UII n at Guilford C&urthouse and York- clerk of the Orange County Court. town. . It 4s a priceless' thing, made I Ca3weil next located in Lenoir, by North Carolina women, and is of then a, part., of Pobba Connty, after the 13-starclesign.,, 'Miss Margaret .ward obliterated by , partition. Marstcn sang "Lest 'We. Forget." I '-He-; procured license to practice The amlience sang. fAjnariea.".. . law. - ' At the marker smail;Misses Kath- Jtises in Political Ranks, jcen naicner, iangnier oi . 1. 1 i roml7o4 , to 1771, Uaswell jpas Hatcher, and; Ivehice Bizaell, a ; member; jof the colonial assembly, daughter of 4 A. Bizzell 'and Mrs." He represented Johnsto? County for Bizzell, unveiled the tablet. Senator at leasl a part of that timaHe be Cowp?r read the inscription. Elisha cam, speaker of the HoulE of Com- B. Lewis epoke for the Masons. I Jnons and held that ihiortor during i-olonel Olds spoke briefly again. An 1770 and 1771 imprersive thing waa the kissmgr of I Casv.ell loved tharumpet'a alarm !ie precious standard Jbrought by .more than the bModless battles of the npted Carolina .historian by the jpolitics. . He. Md many soldierly little 'Misses' Bizzell and 'Hatcher, i characteristics,! is said. He was with all the solemnity of a'ceremony ' a colonel ofJnilitia, and commanded of state.' Rev. George B. Hanrahan, the right jnng of Governor Tryon's pastor of Atkiason Memorial rPres- forces ajrthe Battle of Alamance, hyte'rian Church, said the benedic- May 1S771. tion. Mrs. .Virgil iRbuntree repre-) Injf774 he wae named a delegate sented the Daughters of the Amerl- to We congress at Philadelphia. He can Revolution, Mrs.-W. T. Hines rejffenod 1n 1775 to becomi one of the Colonial 'Dames and Mrs. J. Fred, tjfe treasurers of state. Taylor the Daughters of the Con- f At Moore's Creek February 27, federacyiat the exercises. f , f'l776, again -in the field, Caswell The only known descendant " of routed the Tories, takinir a general rf. l . . , laKaiu. il woo vile uuilliui Casweil bearing his name, CoL Will- officer; prisoner and by his general- cloge friendg of Caswell it iam CMwell of Knoxville, Tenn, was 'ship tringing great honor upon the L(.thht the young fellow fiticiuni -imra oeing present oy -irregtiiar troops wnicn accompaniea poor Heaith and -stress of s business. -him to the place from this section. , The celebrity was his grandfather. : Loved liia Country... The inscription on reads: ' -i great-great Next he became brigadier-general of the New Bern district. i Ca3welJ was .elected, president of the marker , the provincial congress in the wint er of 1776. That was a most Im- the convention to , draft the Consti tution at Philadelphia in 1787, but declined, and having that unusual authority,' named William Blount to go in his stead. In 1739 he was a senator froin Dobbs. -, He was a member , of the State convention toe Fayetteville which ratified , the Federal Constitution in November, 19. HeJbecame speaker of the Senate. It was about this time that a' cloud came over the mind -of the disting uished Carolinian. His youngest son embarked at Charleston to voyage" to New Bern, and was never heard from again: It was the opinion of some is assum was cap tured by pirates and murdered. It was "a fairly prevalent opinion, at any rate. While presiding In the Senate No vember .15V 1789, , the, celebrated Le noir Countian was stricken with, pa ralysis.. He died 'five days later, aged CO years. - ' . The body' was brought to Kinston "South of this tablet, 166 yards, portant assemblage, is the grave of Riohard Caswell, the 'Th the 'Highest Office iirst Governor of North Carolina as The " Kinstonian Jecame governor and interred on what is now the' Wat an independent State. - J. will . most fo Ncrth Carolina in 1776, and held ford farm, a short distance west o'; cheerfully join any .of my country- the f 'ice until some time in 1778, the city, many notables attending tVc men, even as a rank and file man. He waa.no less a great war gover- services. ana whilst I, have blood in my veins nor than was the noble Vance during Macon 3aid He Was a Power. ireely offer it in' support1 of the lib- the War between the States. Cas erties it-my. eounry.'-aswelI to 'well was different in at least' one his son in 1775. The North Carolina respect i from wost modern politic f Ifatorical Commission 1 318 Citi- ians. He refused! 'compen;sations" Zens of - Lenoir Con nt Tjuvp!: Jnnmr tonnm f the Executive Nash Chapter, D. A. R." - joffico. Tha marker faces the mountains- With hia retirement from the gov- v-ownore ftiehwav at a no nt a ' nfffir Cfcaweal became a rPiMwoofdC his Majesty s custom. His lulighted local made extravagant at the Golden King'aijfyrTing. He wi sojourn here atyitet four month Monday aVTsand, maybe two or three thmtfqM, KJnstonians, worked like PreParation for Tues dyLyjrjtpemng. , Every warehouse yft center" of industry. baccomt.ts look for Kinston's biggest season a morel than 25,t)00,000 pounds season a better than $10, 000,000 season. mi . f n ' ,ine crop is large. , curing was well advanced at an earlier date than usual. The July rains and floods killed an insignificant part of the produc yet. in the fields, after all. bouin -varauna's opening prices caused no observers from this mar ket to get drunk from joy, but they if. ire" advanced i (steadily and hand somelj'j, and there is no telling what t day or within the few days fol Both .Morning and After- Sessions Rule noon in City Schools This Fall and Winter Authorities Have No Alternative fore tf-tm. 'Reporting for the Building Com mittee of the City School Board, of which he is chairman, . to J. W. Goodson, chairman of the board, on an investigation of the question of "extra rooms to care for the increase in -teachers and students," E. G. Bar rett states that "there are no prac tical quarters available for school purposes." i The board is now "face to face I announcement Monday that with- a question v that. forces ua to I "Conditions force uo to adopt the suggest, that the .most ""practical io-fplan.' .We can see no alternative." lowi the auctioning off of the initijfttareaks."' The tit-ylarge corps of buyers is on handjThey wear contented smiles. TVJ,would not dare to smile 'did thejff!Wc .the. farmers, had anything but a pk ant prospect be- X In tion lr to use the pI&i,Borted to by practically all cities fitjl simi !arc-nditions that a nuU, V of grades be put on the part-tim "Hn which - would mean that one Ki of children would attend school frOjt, 9 to 1 and another erroun frore 1 to 5. -These divisions might alter nate each months." Adopted. unairman uoodson s comment on Mr. Barrett's report was a simple PHILLIPS PROPERTY I5RINSS RECORD PRICE FOR OR001 HERE; LUMP SALE The "Phillips ' property", at Queen and North streets was sold at auc tion Monday at noon by J. A. Lang, the executor of the John' R. Phil lips estate, to the North American Land Company of Farmville, N. C, for the record price for local real estate of $127,311, The ground, containing frame buildings of comparatively little val ue, is 110 by 167 feet The nine lots were bought as a whole suon distance from Jhe city. It is handsome raised tablet, of bronze, and will attract the attention of "undms of.tourtets and other trav elers daily in the years to come. krtch of CaswelL major-general of troops, and was at Camden as a division eommander August 16, 1780. He was named comptroller-general in 1782. " - .',.-"-' Caswell was delegated to attend Nathaniel - Macon, then one of the most celebrated 'men in the Country, called - Caswell ''on of.the- most powerful men that ever lived in this or any other country.". One historian likened him to Washington in some particulars. ' : - a It was during Caswell's adminis tration as governor (second)' that the celebrated "State of Frankland," or "Franklin,", eceded from North Carolrr.a, Caswell was indignant. He was firm in his steps "to suppress (Continued on page 5) t F - I 'S I ) I .' , Jr ""S" "f j ,s:' j,if f , , II S i 1 3 - IB . , i f ill i v k- u M;'"' -' it' r '; if'! ' Jy f ; -i ii r ' ' - : - ' I - : : i i A'" , !i . . airs' . : ' 811 '.jrSehington, ween ' is planning Government's high cost of living campaign the biggest ' boost yet by providing the cash for the Depart ment of Justice's prosecution of profiteers and hoarders. The defic iency appropriation bill carrying ad ditional ''money j thought necessary to bring down prices will be placed be fore the House late in the week. Committee members have already given arsurance that it will carry ample i provision 'for the nationwide campaign, against profiteers plan ned, by., the Department of Justice. Sentiment in Congress favors whole-1 sale prosecutions as. the only means for stopping exorbitant oharging. Total of Seven Deaths in Rioting in Tennessee City t'- AR SOUTH LYNCHING As Best Means for SM>o Identified by White Woman as Her Attacker is Strung Up, Dragged Through Streets and, Lifeless, Burned (By the' United Press) , MUMTIONS SHIP SEIZEU). Cork, -IrelndK( Sept. 1-Sus--', pected of carrying munitions to &iwFei forces, J.h tUuHiahip Hampshire Coast was seized 'by a British destroyer yesterday and has been brought to Cork. The steamer left London for Ireland Wednesday. The British uutlnrities have not indicated whnt action they will take in ronrection with the ship's seizure. STEAMER CAPSIZES; MANY PASSENGERS. San : Francisco, Sept. 1-The Union Lumber Company's- steam er Unimack, capsized, in the open sea off the Golden Gate today with : 150 passengers and . crew ihor.rd. She was a coaster run- 'ig between 'Eureka and ( San r.itcisco. Casualty reDorts haVn come in. yet. , AUTO KVER BADLY HURT. Union(. Pa., Sept. li James Muri vf driving a Duesen berg in the ilifylng heats of the Uniontowrt,Vmile automo bile classic, waa-jNdly Injured today when his car,, Vjdded and overturned. MechaiLt'Hn Lyle, Headdon suffered bodjf . Guises, ...... ' nasnmgion,. toept. l.- Sennte Judiciary Committee iuS day postponed for two weeks itsf decision as, to the constitutional ity of the Franco-American treaty. (By the United Press) Knoxville, Sept. 1. labor Day dawned with Knoxville's streets pre senting a martial appearance, Twelva hundred soldiers of the Tennessee national guard from all over the' State were on duty. . , They are under the personal com mand of Adjt.-Gen. E. B. Smedley. While the troops were distrfbuted to 18 poste throughout the city early May, it was believed they would be removed during the day. . Earie ajindsey, husband , of Mir. Gertie ( Lindsey, the Akron, "Ohio, ; womai; whoso death caused the riot ing .arrived here this morning. Lynching in Louisiana. Boalusa, La., Sept. 1. Trailed by bloodhounds and caught, and ldenti- 1 f ied by a .white woman as jthe man (who , -attacked her Saturday, night, ; Lucius McCarty, a negro discharged soldier was lynched by a mob of a thousand men here late yesterday. 5 McCarty's body was then tied ; to ?.an ' automooile and dragged through- the streets nnd hurned a point in front of his victim's home. , Seveir-Killed st'Knoxvllle. Knoxville, Tehn., Sept. 1. Seven persons were killed or fatally wound ' ed in race riots here Saturday night and Sunday morning, according to unofficial counts. There , wore nu merous riot calls last night but the trouble died out during the nighy A big mob stormed the county jail, bent upon lynching the negro murderer of . a white woman. They found ha was not in .the prison. Bat tering down the doors, they left the way clear for several first degree ' murderers and other prisoners to es cape. The streets were filled with angry men tor hours. -The first few sol diers to , appear . from a nearby State camp were, overpowered: and beaten. ' Reinforcements were rushed., in. lho dead include an armyt officer. accidctdlly . shot. , by machjaegun- ' tiers. A: Many persons,, most of them negroes, were wounded. BELIEVE COOPER A 11 OF WHISKY SELLER; NO ARREST NEW BUSINESSES New enterprises in North Carolina include a $30,000 hospital at Wilson (K- C. Moore, H. B. Best and others incorporators), a V6W),000 mercan tile brokerage concern at Hender son, $30,000 development company at Morganton, a . $50,000 bank at lltiipelhHrd. a $400,000 realtv com pany at Rockingham and a $25,000 confection company at Greensboro- FAMOUS TRAIN HITS WRECK; ONE KILLED - . ' : 1 . . " J ' ; CI-EMEXCEAU, 'PREMIER OF WORLD'S SECOND REPUBLIC (By the United Press) . Cleve.'and, Sept l)ne person, Engineer Thomas Sankey, 40, was killed List night when the Twentieth (Centuiy Limited ran into a freight wjreck at Plainsville, , OhJo. The j freight train, running on a parallel- track, buckled and several cars piled jup over the way of the flyer. Prompt ' application of the brakes by Sankey prevented a more serious crash. Neville Police Admit . Lit tlferpgress JIas .Been Madlijltj Murder TCasfr-- ' RlackmU ts : Alternative, Thcv Saym (By the United "i . Ms) ,. Nashvifle, Sept. '1. Hy still to 'th main theory 'fchat fv in J. Cooper was killed by a whisky s Her, tne police are . working "along t line today, keeping quiet regardin,, " the blackmail theory that is he on., ly alternative offerinar a basis for clue. ..... -''''";. i ' ( -v Over 80 hours since the murder happened and 48 hours since the body was found in the rain-swollen waters of Richland Creek, it wae ad mitted this morning ; that very lit tle , headway " in ' solving the mystery had boen made. - WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST. Issued by the Weather Bureau, Washington, for the period Septem ber 1 to September 6: For South Atlantic and East Gulf St it-s: Normal temperature and "y fair weather will prevail, t t r ' probability of occasional loc:' . ers. , If . 1 4 I. - .it
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