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-THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT r "THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS FT The Monroe jourjs PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY VOL.25. No. 101. MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1920. $1.50 PER YEAR CASH. innii IVTPf I inPTP Fisher was working in a Charlotte I ll.WK OK l'M( STOCKHOLD JLUALi I. lbUilUDrj cafe ,he ,!me SJW b a daui:hter KUS T rl T uuhnmni SIELt lot Mrs. Mary Jane Sikes of New! Latest Happenings In and Around Monroe. Mr. C. C. Sikes has returned from St. Louis where he bought stork for the Sikes Company. Dr. S. A. Stevens and Mr. Hayden Shepherd are routined to their homes with slight Illness. Cotton Statistician Rogers reports 2S..828 bales of cotton eined in this r ' county up to January 16. as compared with 23, 687 to the same date last year. Mr. It. Y. Killough is preparing to erect a large brirk plant at In dian Trail, which will give employ ment, reports say, to fifty or more men. Wood and machinery are al ready being assembled on the ground. . All members of Wingate Woodmen Circle are requested to meet in the Wodman hall here Thursday after noon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. John Griffin of Charlotte, district deputy, will be present at this meeting. Mr. W. P. Kendall announces that he plans to construct a brick store building, one hundred and fifty by one hundred and fifty feet, at Indian Trail. Work will commence when the material can be secured. Another meeting of baseball enthu siasts will be held Thursday night in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, be ginning at 7:30 o'clock. An effort is being made to put out a strong am ateur team this coming summer, and all who are Interested are urged to be present at this meeting. Mr. G. W. Funderburk requests The Journal to nay that he Is grateful to his friends and neighbors for their sympathy and help during the Illness and death of his baby on January 2!. The child was about nine months old, and lis little body was laid to rest at Shiloh Friday. Stockholders In the proposed cot ton warehouse for Monroe are re quested to meet in the Chamber of Commerce rooms here Saturday. Jan. 31. An o, ionization will he perfect ed and churter applied for. Mr. T. J. W. Broom, chairman of the Union county association, urges every aub wriber for stock to be present. The Journal is requested to an nounce for the committee on prograju that the program for the firth Sun day meeting of the churches of the Union Association will be prepared and announced later and to ask the churches to send delegates. They hope to have discussed some matters of vital Interest. The Chamber of Commerce has made its first move toward securing an adequate water supply for Monroe by inviting Trof. Thorndyke Saville, of the University of North Carolina, to come here Saturday- to make a tentative survey. He will investigate the water supply pot-sibilitles of. sev eral creeks within a radius of a few miles from Monroe, and the result of his survey is awaited with interest. The contract for the construction of the .Marshville township link of the Charlotte to Wilmington highway has been let by the state highway commis sion to S. L. Davis & Sons, who are now engaged in loud work in Stanly county. Chairman Page writes Mr. Henderson that Davis & Sons will have forty mules at work on this road in a few weeks. Eventually they will have 100 mules engaged on the com pletion of the highway. The Monroe relief association, of which Messrs. V. C. Redwlne. T. P. Dillon, and Misses Louise Morrow and Mabel Belk are the prime movers. Is in need of funds. The hospital bills Salem township. Mr. Joe Deese of Sandy Ridge township and Miss Jennie Turner of Vance township were married this arternoon by Esq. M. L. Flow at his office on Jefferson street. Mrs. Mary Helms of North Monroe township will celebrate her one hun dreth birthday next Wedensday at her home near Bakers. She was born Jan. 28. 1820. on the Fitzgerald place, two miles northewst of Mon roe. She is in good health for one of her age. Tony Rossi, the well-known Italian ice cream vendor, has returued from a trip to Baltimore. While there he saw one of his brothers for the first time In ten years. Another of Tony's brothers was in the Italian army and saw service In the trenches for near ly three years. Cloy Deese plead guilty to a charge of fornication and adultery in Supe rior court today. He was ordered to pay to the prosecutrix $500, her at torneys $125, and costs of the action. Deese Is the young white man who re fused to accept a pardon from a road sentence provided he would enlist In the army. A suit of clot les, pair of shoes, raincoat, and $145 in cash were stolen from the home of Mr. W. J. Holla way on Windsor street, near the oil mill, Wednesday night by a daring thief, who made his entrance through the bark door. After getting in the house, he walked up stairs into the room where Mr. and Mrs. Holluway were sleeping, and quietly walked away with his haul. The occupants of the room were not awakened, and the theft was not discovered until the next morning. There is no clue lo the robber. THOMAS PAYS Sli.YIMMI I OK THE L. MEDLIX PI. AUK Fuiiii Near Wingate Sold lor Over One Hundred Dollar an Acre largest Tinnsmiioii Here hi Num ber of Yem. One of the latgest real estate trans actions ever known in this county was made public Saturday when a deed conveying the L. Medlin place, five miles east of Monroe, to J. E. Thomas of Marshville, was recorded in the Register of Deed's office. The consideration was twenty-five thou sand dollars. The place consists or a few buildings and two hundred and seventeen acres of land. It lies near Wingate, and is considered very val uable properly. Mr. M. C. Long, reg ister of deeds, says this deed car ried the largest consideration of any he had recorded since he was elected to office. Another deed stipulating a large consideration whs thai of J. C. Mor gan's conveying a house and lot in Marshville to E. C. Griffin fur twelve thousand dollars. The Seabrnrd Shale and Tile com pany, tlio corporation which l. pre paring to unite pressed brick on a large scale ai Stouts, paid E. M. Hin son $11,970 lor the land out of which they will extract clay for its product . Other recint transfers were the following: Mr. nnd M,. V. C. Redwlne to B. K. Chv.k. 4" 1-2 res or land In Sandv illdge town.hip. for a consl der.it li i of $2,547. A. R. Detve to Lonnie S. Fowler, 31 0-10 acr t on the Concord road, two miles from Von roe, for a con sideration of five thousand dollars. .OX Capital Stuck f Institution Also In emoted lo flOO.IMMI Surplus Fund Will Amount to Same. Rank of Union stockholders will di vide a $50. Out) melon, equal to the par value of their stork, in a few days. At the same time the bank will in crease its capital slock to $100,000, and its surplus fund to the same fig ure. This decision was made Satur day at a meeting of the stockholders in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The capital of the bank is $50,000, and the surplus $100,000. The ac tion of the stockholders, in voting a division of $50.U00, reduces the sur plus fund to half. It will be increas ed lo its old figure of $100,000. how ever, by the sale of the additional $50,000 worth of stock. Purchasers of the new issue of stock will pay $100 per share, half of which goes to the capital stock, and half to the sur plus fund. In earning a surplus fund equal to three times the amount of the capital stock, the Bank of Union has accom plished a feat seldom equalled In this section of the country. By doing so, the bank won a high place on the honor roll of banks In this country. MARSHVILLE CAME .NEAR IIKINti DEVOID OK WATER ATTEMPT TO tiET UOIHl TO SPEAK HERE HEI.XU MADE of t'e two boys whom they placed In charge of Baltimore specialists, are Secretary Xishet Issues Warm lovlta- mounting higher and higher until new the resources of the association are more than exhausted. Donations to this worthy charity will be appre ciated by them. Several cases of influenza have tion to Famous Novelist to Vlst 'City of Hoses." An attempt Is being made to In duce Irviu S. Cobb, world famous novelist and humerist, to deliver a Itwtltt'M lit Mmit-na Ifa la at m-oaAiit been reported from Wingate and oneollrl h; Sou)h' ad sreduIe(1 case from North Monroe. The dls-t0 apear , Cnar0,,e March 9. Mr. ease this year, however, comes In a mild form, and no fatalities are fear- Up Until Wet Weather Set In, the Town Pump Had Pined AhJ Applauds Smith Carolina leglsln lure. Marshville. Jan. 26. Mr. Dolph Motley of Mooresville has been the guest of his brother-in-law, Mr. John Long, for several days. Mr. E. C. Griffin has purchased the house and farm of Mr. J. C. Morgan. Mr. Morgan in turn bought Mr. Grif fin's house and lot. The families will move to their respective homes in a short while. Miss Helen Garland of the high school faculty has been confined lo her room for several days with cold. "The Early Bird." an unusually well written play. was presented at the school auditorium on Friday ev ening to one of the largest audiences ever gathered here. The play, which contains considerable humor, was well acted by the characters showing excellent training, and the large aud ience demonstrated their apprecia tion by frequent and hearty applause and laughter. Between arts the school glee club and orchestra fur nished music. There are no rases of Influenza in the town that have been heard of so far, but a good many rases of laryn gitis and colds. There has been only one case of pneumonia In town dur ing the winter so far, that of Mr. James Morgan who Is now in the Presbyterian hospital at Charlotte re covering slowly. Mrs. Applewhite Is spending a few 'la at home. ShP has been In phar 'otte since Christmas with her hus l:t:id who is receiving treatment at Hi" Presbyterian hospital for typhoid fewr. Mr. Applewhite will probably be able to come home In another week or two. The Junior Missionary society of 4 he Methodist church met for their s'ory hour with Mrs. J..S. Harrell on Saturday afternoon. Their subject now is China nnd stories of the Chl iipso peopl1 were told by the leader, followed by a number of fairy sto ries. The Junior choir was organized at this meeting and henceforth will furnish music for the prayer meeting services on Wednesday evening and occasionally at the Sunday services. Fruit was served to the members. The present Bpell o' bad weather, while rather disagreeable in a way, Is very welcome indeed to the town ow ing to the fact that the majority of the wells are practically dry. and wa ter was fast becoming a very precious and scarce asset. The town pump had faithfully furnished water for a number of cows and mules belonging to private families until one unfortu nate day It grew tired of life and ceased to operate. Had not this time G.-L. Nisbet, secretary of the Chatn- hpr fit PnmmttiTa U n nlnmr with a ed. Pneumonia has also set In. three few 0(her Monroe cHlzen. Is leading Iv rain appeared we hate to think of ,ne attenipt to land the famous hum-. the fate of the stork, or the state or Isolated cases have appeared over the or,Hl for a ectuns herei believes Mr. the feelings of the owners who had to county, too. Doctors do not expect Col)t) ., en(,r rome tne day b.for ,ake on(? journeys on cold nights a return of an Influenza epidemic oflor ,he day after nfs engagement In leading a frlskv cow or riding a ine size mine uun mat rr, tti ,um iWim PHv II,,,., ..I,,- n,i i ....fc ,.f a..ii,L Mr. Nisbet has written, as follows, Verily we have been bone dry. to Mr. Cobb: Columbia, S. C. has made a move "Monroe wants you. I don't need , which will win heart felt thanks from many of the gentle sex namely EX FORCE PROHIBITION LAW URtiES Jl IKiE T. It. FI X LEV poaple should not be unnecessarily alarmed. Messrs. Porter k Boyd of Charlote, who recently received the contract for to tell you that you have a host of lb" construction of nearly $4U0.ihiu' admirers here, for you have them ev worth of roads in this county, state they will shortly have enough con tractors here to commence work on four or five different roads. In antici pation of their coming, the road com mission has ordered surveys to be made on the following roads: Jackson highway. Price's Mill road. Morgan east of Charlotte on the Seaboard erywhere the American language Is known. I say 'American' advisedly, instead of 'English. When can you give us a speaking date, and what guarantee do you require? I note you are to be in Charlotte on March h. i.Monroe is only 25 mile south-jerlng daintily around one's nose and abolishing smoking in public eating places. Unfortunately (7) many wo-1 men have not learned to smoke as yet, so have not acquired an over whelming fondness for "the great trod Nic o' Teen" and Irvine lo eat with a cloud of cigarette smoke hov- j Mill road, Marsliville-Eulo . road. Marshville to Anson county road. Marshville to Pageland road. Stack road. Lancaster road, and Providence road. The head of this concern Is quoted as saying that the commission will not be able to furnish enough en gineers to keep up with their work. Carl Fisher, the ex-service man cordial welcome to the 'City from Ohio, who was brought here on j Roses'." road. We would like lo have you at an earlier dale, but If that Is not pos sible can you come while you are filling the Charlotte appointment T "Please let me hear from you as soon as possible, giving date when you can speak at Monroe, so we can 'get the word out.' I assure a most an abandonment charge, Is still In Jail. His hearing, which was sched uled for Saturday, was postponed a week on the request of Fisher's at torney. Mrs. Fisher, who before her marriage was Mrs. Cornelia Sikes Meacham. Is said to be reconciled to her husband, and now wants him re leased from custody. Fisher's attor ney. It Is understood, Is waiting to hear from his parents before the hearing Is concluded. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher were married while the former was stationed at Camp Greene. Mrs. Bord Thomas of Plalnfield. N. J.. is a victim of sleeping sickness and has been asleep for two weeks. Spe cialists pronounce his case as the most severe attark developed In this country. Mr. Thomas, whose condi tion Is critical, has been nourished by injection. His physicians announce that no progress has been made by their treatment. Major W. C. Heath has returned from a business trip to Mobile, Ala, mouth, said smoke having Just been expertly blown from the nose and mouth of the man at the next table Is well to put It mildly. It is extreme ly disagreeable. The Is no objection to the men smoking In proper places. If thev want to smoke let 'em! It's their funeral! But It really is to be hoped that the move against render- of Ing public eating places so disagree able to the ladies will find support in other places besides Columbia. The thirteen-year-old son of Mr. Clvde Edwards who lives several miles from town, died last week of pneumonia. He had apparently Im proved some, but suffered a relapse and never recovered. We agre- with "Aunt Mellndv" that John Vann had belter have an-1 other picture taken for publication If he expects many votes. We n - that he change his collar -nd hp-sh his hair before posing for the next one. Mrs. J. S. H. lu His Charge In Jury He Calls F rial Attention to lilorkadcr and Cigarette Violators. Superior eourt for the trial of crim inal rases convened here yesterday af ternoon with Judge T. B. Finley of North Wilkesboro presiding. Most of the afternoon was taken up hearing the motion for the transfer of a civil case against the Tallahassee Power Co. to Stanly county. After its dis posal, the court began hearing evi dence In the cases against the two Deese hoys, charged with abduction under promise of marriage. Judge Finley is well known in Mon roe, having been a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress from this district four years ago. This Is his first term of court here. In his charge to the grand jury. Judge Finley said: ''In this day and time when there is so much dissatisfaction, when there is upheaval from one end of the earth to the other, when the smoke has not yet cleared away from the battles, when everything is in an uncertain condition, the law of violation is more in vogue than ever before. If there Is a street fight it takes an hour or two for people iO calm dowu. It stirs people up. Here you have had a fight that is a million times greater than a street tight, and the whole country is stirred up. The animal is brought to the front. The mental and moral has been submerged. And when that is the case you see the violators of the law busy, because they know that while the law of violation is prevalent it is time for them to get in their lick. Therefore It takes more sense, more nerve and more courage than ever be fore. Not only do the violators work in the dark, but they have become so bold as to defy the government itself. Revolutions are being plotted. All sorts of disorders are running ram pant over the country. "And so, gentlemen of the jury, your high ortice calls upon you for bigger things than ever before. I want to appeal to your pride, the pride of your county, Hih pride of your state, the pride of your nation, to spur you on to better enforcement .of the law than has been in the past. You are proud of Union county. Every man is proud or the county he lives in. If hells not he Is not a very valuable cit izen. You say you have the best coun ty In the state. And it is true you haVe a good one, but there are 99 oth er'countymen who will say the same thing about the county they live In. This is all good and well, and as it should be, because county pride Is Just like home pride. If you do not think you have a good home and fam il you are not at peace with yoursel, your household, or your neighbors. You are out of joint with the times, and not in a condition to make a good citizen. If ou are at peace with your household, and your neighbors you are going to be brought nearer your neighborhood and your county. You have a county that has been pre-eminent In many things. It is situated where you can raise almost alt the tropical and temperate products. You are between the Piedmont and the Coastal plains. You have a town which Is making good progress, gain ins a reputation wherever it is known. You gentlemen live in the state of North Carolina, and I do not believe anybody living in North Carolina has in recent years has cause to hang his head in shame because of this fart. It is almost an empire in itself, running from the coast to the highest moun tain. It has almost every variety of soil, of every kind or manufacturing, of manufactured products, and every variety of every kind except citizen ship. It has the best rltizenshin of ii'iy state In the Union. How lit 1 1 foreign element we have! The ten dency of the New England manufact urers is to come down here to engage in business because the foreign ele ment is so prevalent in that territory that they can hardly control it. But here we have home-folks, the pure Anglo-Saxon stock that has been here for centuries. Yes, you have a coun ty you should be proud of, a state you should be proud of. and whn It comes lo your nation, we never knew here we were until a few years ago. We thought we used to be a third rale nation. Then came the lime when we thought we were a second rate nation, hut to-day we stand head and shoul ders above the entire civilized world. From being down on the side of the table before the war, we are now standing at the head of the table. Those nations fought for property, they fought for grudges in the old country. They tried lo even up things of the past. But when we fought we fought for humanity, without asking a penny, we fought without the Idea et gaining territory, or anything else except to make the world safe for dt niocracy. And now that the war Is oer and finished to some extent by the help of this nation, the question arises whether or not after making the world safe for democracy we can make democracy safe for the world. Someone said a year and a half ago that the next problem after autpcrary was deposed was to keep democracy sare for the people. Whether or not after gaining this liberty we have fought for, this new system of peace, whether or not In the agitations fol lowing the war it Is going to be a after we concluded to get together and sacrifice our individual rights in order that we might have governmen tal rights, from that time the evolu tion of government has come down the centuries until now we think that the American form of government is the best. We have tested it out for one hundred and forty-three years. It has proved good. But we have not gotten to the end of the road yet. Government was intended to be for the whole people, not for a class, or for a part. "Gentlemen of the jury, I do not know of any peculiar features of the law In this county. I understand you are as a rule a law-abiding people. But I do not suppose there ever was, or ever will be a county that hasn't some black spots. And that Is what I want to impress upon you gentlemen to wipe out thes black spots; that all crimes that have been committed, or are in the process of being commit ted, be suppressed. If you are going to rnke the nation and the state safe, you have to do it by making the fam ily i.tid the community safe; in other words, by the enforcement of law. This Is a lesson which should be im pressed upon the mind of every pa triot. Without It we cannot have government. Without it everything goes hack to chaos and ruin. When each of you gentlemen look after the situation and enforce the law in your respective neighborhoods you cause those around you to do likewise. We all know-of course that there Is more or less infringement of the prohibi tion law. There Is a tendency to blockading and running blind tigers. I do not suppose you have as much of it as some other counties, but what you have you should subdue now. The enforcement of the prohibition law. selling of cigarettes to minors, and the health laws I want to especially call to your attention. I do not in tend to linger on the different vices you know what is for the good of the public and what is not. You know when the solicitor sends you a bill it is only a question for you to consider whether or not the defendant should be sent to this court. Gentlemen, when you examine a witness and he satisfies you that there is probable cause of a crime being committed you can stop there, and waste no time. The grand Jury Is composed of M. H. Richardson, foreman; T. J. Cha ncy. J. P. Toer. J. P. Belk. J. W. Carnes, J. S. Braswell, W. G. Stegall, T. J Pyron. W. E. Elmore, C. A. Car rlker. A. W. Davis. T. M. Edwards. J. I. Griffin. J. S. Howey. R. D. Rob inson. T. W. Taylor, James E. Hayes, John L. Crlffin. LATEST HAPPENINGS MAXY JIETEINfiS OF FARMERS TO HE HELD NEXT WEEK Still Mangeinent nnd How to Conduit the Roll Weeil Will He Subjects for Discussion. ' Soil management and fertilizers and how to combat the boll weevil, will bidiscussed at ten meetings to be held In the county lhi week by Mr. T. J. W. Broom, assisted by ex perts from the depart ment or agri culture. The meetings will be held at the following places: Indian Trail, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock; Moughedge, at Junior hall, Wednesday night; Waxhaw, Thursdav morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Woodman hall; Weddlngton, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock; Ilel- mont. in Ooose Creek. Thursday night: Trinity, Friday morning, Feb. fi. at 10:30; Union, in Lanes Creek, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock; Marsh ville. Friday night. Feb. 6; Eulo school house, Saturday morning at 10:30; and at Wingate, Saturday ar ternoon at 2 o'clock. In speaking of the meetings to be held next week, Mr. Broom says: "We will have one of the most com petent men In the country with us, and I have placed these appointments in every township so as to give every farmer the opportunity of attending at least one of the meetings. I want to repeat that the man who Is to be wiih us is one of the most competent men In the country, and Is worth go ing miles to hear. The Information he has to give is worth while, nnd I trust every farmer In the county will hear him." SOME OF HIS PITIES ;ET- TlXti DRUNK, TEACHER OUTS Alter EK'lliiig the Intoxicated Ones .Mr. Iniiiionil Tendered Ills l!elg- IIHtloil, Mr. Robert W. I.emmoud, vett ran Union county school leacher, who has been in charge of the Pleasant Hill school, has given up his profession, temporarily at least. He resigned one day lasl week when some of his tjldel boy pupils came to school drunk. The boys, it is said, found a quant ity of sorghum. To this they added vinegar and corn meal, making a mash, which was (hen boiled. The crude mixture highly Intoxicated them, reports say, and in this condi- rtlon they went to school on that par ticular day. The antics they played are not known, but it is claimed that they were exceedingly gay. On learning or their condition, Mr, Lemmond expelled every one of them who had partaken of enough of the drink to affect their deportment. Thrt night he summoned the school com- menace to the Government Itseir. You I mil icemen, and forthwith tendered see In almost every paper where aliens h's resignation. His successor has have been deported, where plots have not been learned, been formed to kill this or that per-1 Mr. Lemmond is past sixty years son, where agitations have b"n tak- old. and Is one of (he county's best Ing place listigal"d by foreign ele Yon remember that before the Inrmatioii of courts. In the lime when C?re was no government, the strong er was ruler. Might made right. But jare not known. known teachers. The affair has cre ated much Interest In Monroe as well as in Pleasant Hill section. The names of the boys who were expelled News Events of the Day in the State and Nation. Fire early Friday mornig destroyed ne .Mountain far It hotel at Asheville, 'causing a loss of $30,0U0. The guest escaped. j After being trailed around the ,world, Wiliam H. Moffit. New York real estate and oil stock swindler, has been arrested In California. He swind led clients out of about $1,000,000, jthe police say. j Will L. Post on, of Mazeppa, who i would have faced trial in Superior court next weekk charged wiib the murder of Otho Morrow last fall, com mitted suicide in the Iredell county Jail at Statesvllle Friday night by hanging himself. He was about SO years old, and before killing Morrow, was considered a reputable and weUt to-dn citiieii. lie shut Unt-mw whan he came riding by his home in a bug By Holland hu3 refused to deliver the ex-Kaiser to the allies, claiming she cannot be bound by a peace treaty to wnicn she is not a part. The national honor, the reply states, does not per- mil betrayal of the confidence of those who entrusted themselves to Holland and her free institutions. Two are dead at Gastonla from In fluenza. Health authorities estimate forty or fifty persons in the town are down with the disease. One of the most notable cotton sales consummated in Chester, S. C, in some time was that of 160 bales of the staple hy,F. A. Kirkpatrick. a prominent planter, for approximately $$33,000. Finley Patterson, 14 year-old negro boy who set himself and the plant of Ethel chair company on fire at Lenoir recently, has died from burns. Secretary Branch of the Chester chamber of commerce js Ailcavorlng to have the Seabord to put on a chair car on local trains numbers 29 and 30, which run from Monroe to At lanta. iMisfortune again is attending the attempt to bring the disabled U. S. transport Powhatan into port. Mas ter of the Canadian Lady Laurler, which has been slowly towing the transport in, reports one of the two lines has parted and the ship was fast filling and It was feared that the crew would be forced to abandon It. Influenza and pneumonia continued to spread in Chicago at the rate of more than 2.000 new cases In 24 hours, with more than 100 deaths from the two diseases, it was an nounced today by the city health commission. Reports from all over the nation indicate the disease is gen erally prevalent with many fatalities. Director Sam L. Rogers, of- the census bureau, said today that the time would be extended for com pleting the census, if necessary. Di rector Rogers said the enumeration had not yet been finished In any of the large cities, but that some returns had been received from a number of them. Governor Hick 'U Friday pardoned Waller and Grover Keyser, of For syth county, who were serving four teen months on the roads on being convicted of charges growing out of the riots at Winston-Salem in 1918. The pasi good records or the Keysers was given as the reason for the par dons. The two year sentence of John Brandon, also convicted on charges resulting from the Winston Salem riots was commuted by Gov ernor Blckett to one year because of ill health. New York State's normal birthrate has btten d"creased 36,000 since 1918, according to a statement Issued Sat urday by the bureau of vital statis tics, due to the war and the high cost or living. The Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, well-known author and Epicsopal clergman, died or pneumonia at his home in Yonkers, N. Y Friday. Need for spindles for the cotton manufacturing business of Japan, in creasing by leaps and bounds since the outbreak of the war. has become so great during the last six months 5.1,001) spindles have been bought from running American mills and shipped lo Japan. Most of these pur chases have been made In New Eng land and In North and South Carolina. Driven 1,500 miles off her course by a cyclonic blizzard which raged for four days, the Norwegian steamer Pu na arrived in New York Saturday, mi nus one member of the crew who was washed overboard. The steamer left New York Dec. 7th enroute to St. Johns, N. V., but was forced to return. Three deaths in Gastonla and one in Beaufort represent the fatalities In North Carolina from influenza. Gas tonla reiwirls four to five Jiundred ca ses In a mild form. Governor Coo'idge or Massachu setts declared Saturday that he was not and never had been a candidate for President. The world's debt Is estimated by the National Bank of New York City at two hundred billions, compared with forty millions in 1914. Eleven I. W. W.'s are on trial In Montesanor, Wash., charged with the killing of four ex-service men at Cen- tralia. Wash., on armistice day. Marshals Foch, Joffre and Petan make up the new French war council. The trial of U. S. Senator Fruman H. Newberry and 134 others charged with conspiracy, fraud and corruption In the 1918 senatorial election, U scheduled to begin today In Grand Rapids. Mich. In an effort to rescue his wife from a Turkish harem, where she has been held captive for about four years. Ass dour Derboghes, an Armenian of Ra cine; Wis., will sail from New York this week for Turkey.