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TERRIBLE CULT STORM DmM* «n Florid* Cm< Worst tw I Jacksonville, ft*.. Oct. M.—The en tire water fr&nt of 8t. PaWreburg wm wipad Mt by the gulf atom, th« wont i«li the city Km tvtr experienced, ae <"*rdtog to a message received by the Tlmee Union tonight from Thomas W Psrkfni, of St. Peternborg. deputy licenae co Hoc tor of Pinellas oounty. Mf. Parkin* Mid ho had traveled In an autoaMbile from St. Peteraburg to BroksvtOe to Mnd the MMft P*s sagrille km reported aa wiped oat, k« ■aid, Hia tohpam fallow*: "Cam* from St, Petersburg to Brokavill* la Ford ear. only maana get wire eoanaetiona. Jbie city badly damaged and obaerrationa coming through county 90 per cant eitfua fruit gone. Reports eay 10:90 a. m. Pamsagrllle abaolutely wiped out. En tire St Petersburg water front wiped aut AU previous atorme no com peri - eon. Town In total darkness for'at leaat three daya " * WM Reechoe Velocity of 100 Milea aa Hoar Fort Myers, Fla., Oct. 24.—The fiercest gale this section has known in several years raged bore for 36 hoari beginning at midnight Monday and attaining a maximum velocity of 100 miles. Tranamiaalon service waa prostrated whilethe pioperty loss tor thia, Lae county, la expected to total well over a million and a half dollar*. Reports froai Sanabel aad Captive is landa, near here, on which two beach reaorta are located, waa badly damag ed. the. caainoe, cottagee and other buildings being wrecked. ' Local railroad officials aaid thia city win ha without tranaportatlon faeilttiee tor three (toys. The high ways oat of Fort Myers are abaoet Impaaeable. The majority of the hooaea in Panto Raaea were either badly daasaged or washed away. Mltteaa of Mm* Dmih, Bat tittle Lm o(UI*. Lakeland, Pla., Oct. 2«—South Florida spent today in recapitulating the damsge. estimated to run wall into millions of dollar* caused by the gulf hurricane which tor* northwest wardly across the Florida peninsula yesterday at times attaining • velo city of 70 milea an hour, the gale wrought destruction to smaller ob stacle* in Its path but only in a few instances, arroMing to reports, caus ing a loss of life. While there have been only three or four isolated cases of deaths from the storm it is feared the clearing away of the debris in Tampa's wrecked por tions might rfdd to the list. Of the cities and towns within a radius of 40 miles of Lakeland, that could be reached today, Tampa appears to have suffered the greatest damage. The bay shore drive, residential section from Franklin street to Port Tampa are down, houses with roofs torn away and foundations, weakened from the tidal wave that swept in over the sea wall from Tampa bay, have col lapsed, and logs and other debris, swept in on the onrushing water*' crest, now grace what were once the beautiful lawns of the Hyde park sec tion, one of Tampa's most fashionable suburbs. Along the water front large sections of the sea wall were swept away and parts of streets were washed into the bay. Houses imme diately adjoining the boulevard wen crushed in by the gale. Sunset beach, a popular resort of Tampa, was completely destroyed. Small houses were torn down • and washed away and the white sands on the beach now show no vestige of eveT being inhabitated. The downtown section of Tampa was more fortunate than the suburbs, the damage in the city proper being confined to the breaking of plate glass Windows, and tearing away of awn ings and the unroofing of houses. A warehouse occupied by the Golf and South Steamship company was de stroysd as was part of the Mallory line docks. Hers and there throughout the city are stranded street cars, the victims - of the sudden failing of the chit's power plant. Telsphone and electric light wires dangis in a tangled mass, giving little bops of an early resump tion of service. Conservative estimates place the daasaga in Tampa at $>,000,000. The storm, traveling north, appear ed to concentrate its fall force on Tbor City, the Latin quarter of Tan pa. Hearty IN houses wan wrecked in that saetfcm. la the Palmetto beach man and child ran In thU mUm war* reacuad by • hand'of 40 volunteen and carried to aafety in the highland* of tha aity. All tha dwellinga to tha Palmetto »ar t ion were completely da. raollahad and tt ia faared that MM af j iha raaautara May hava piriahed, aa Soata brought Into play wan *wnpt (out from ahora and wrecked later, ! giving "rata evidence of their fata. Tha anxiety fall fur tha aafe'.y foe ! mm >00 hundred atadants of South em collage at Clearwater haarh waa relieved thla afternoon whan mea*«tig< an reached Tampa atat.ng that all tha Ktudanta wara takan acroaa tha bay into Claarwatar parly Tuaaday. Fifty automohilea from Claarwatar -aagn tiatad tha long bridge While tha atom waa breaking. Tha atudanta and men ban af tha faculty flad withinly thatr Immediate poaaeealona. Savaral of tham wara takan to Gray Mo*a Inn at Claarwatar and It la nported aoma' alight injuriaa wara aaatainaJ whan that building latar waa badly damag ad Tha toat automobila to ifnaa tha brida waa baraly ahaad of tha tearing away of a long apan of tha bridge, tt la reported. Reliable communication had not yet bean eatabliahed tonight with Paaaa grille Manatee, Saraaota, Van lea, Bra dentown. Palmetto, Tarra Ceia, Elling ton or any of tha towna on tha Tampa Southern railroad, a branch lino af tha Seaboard, extending from Turkey Creek to Saraaota. Feara for the aafety of a trainload^ of refugeea who left Boca Grande early yeaterday morning wara ex praaaed tonight by offtctola, of tha Charlotte harbor and northern rail way at Mulberry. They hare bean unable to obtain any Information from Boca Grande. A relief train waa des patched early thia morning bat it waa halted tan mile* north of Boca Grande by a eariee of waahoate. Plea Dead la Tampa ami Piepwtf Leea Over Milbea Tampa, Pla., Oct 26.—Flea paraaaa are kaoara to ba dead to thia city and St. Petaraburg. acroae Tampa bay, aa tha raantt of yesterday4* atom,' whiah caaaad a local pro petty damage eati mated at between fl .000,000 and B OM/MO. The atom waa tha wont that haa a track thla aactioa ainee 1841. The 110 naidanta of Paaaagrilla won eared, though the taland waa damaged to tha extant of approxi mately 1100,000. Thia city** property loea 1a aha red half by the atraet car, telephone aft telegraph compchlea About one fourth of the damage araa borne by roada and bridgea. Tha remainder of the eatimated loaa ia widely scatter ed among buildlnga, principally among the residential aection. FUTRELL SERVING PRISON SENTENCE L*ad«r of Mob That Attempted to Storm Goldaboro Jail Gives up Court Fight Wilson, Oct. 26.—When Superior court convened Monday moraine Judge Oliver H. Allen wanted to know what had become of the H. R. Futrell caae that was appealed to the Supreme court, and was 'nfonned by Clerk J. D. Bardln that Futrell is now in the State Penitentiary serving the sen tence imposed by Judge Allen. Futrell is the man who several months ago shot into the courthouse in Goldsboro in an effort to rvaeue three negro prisoners from officer# of the law vhen they were «bout to be put on trial. The trial was removed from Wayae to Wilson county. The defendent was sbly represented by attorneys of the Wayne county bar and representative citizens in great numbers, did every thing in their power to have the sen tence reduced to a fine and pay the damage done to the court by Futrell and the angry crowd he was leading, but to no effect. The jury found him guilty and Judge Allen sentenced him to serve four years in the State pris i'he seven-year-old ban on th* French language in Berlin has been broken. A Chicago opera fetor lias received permission from the German Government to sing the role of Mcp histo in French. The reet of the east will sing in German. fires have been burning continu ously for more than IN years near Fort Norman, not far south of the Arctic circle. They faed on gnat seams at lignite that have Ignited spontaneously. Altundir Mscktmii, the explorer, reported Omm to 1TW, •ad it ia likely that they had been burning away yean before te saw on. Aad Cro.. MamW.hip Driaa Novomlwr brings the mmI mem bership drive of The American Red Croaa. that ageat of mercy that hn« reached out ita hand* la saaeor to tflbee in need bath at home and abroad. Perhape some of inir raadvi do Ml know that SO par cant, of tha 11.00 pai member asked for in tha annual mem barahip drive, ramain* in tha treasury of our own county for haalth wort among our own paopla. Tha main work, being dona by Um National Had Croaa ot thia time, la that of raliaf wort among the wound ad soldiers in the govvrnment hoe pita!*, *0 that practically eve*v cant yon contribute daring thia drive will ba need to blaaa suffering humanity In America. Surry'* quota in tha mam barahip drive ia 1000 member*, if Surry. re sponds with 1000 mamber* at 11.00 each |M0 of that amount iroes Into tha tha National Bad Croaa treasury and W00 will remain in the treaaury of tha Surry chapter. However if one hund red man hi Surry county give *1<* .00 each 15.00 of that amount goes into tha National Red Croaa treasury, and {99S.OO remains in tha treasury of tha Surry chapter for wort In Surry. Doea it not therefore behoove our people to make large contributions thereby providing liberally for tha work in our own county ? Of course you know that tha salary of Miss Jones, the Surry county haalth nurse, and her pradacaaaora was paid by the Bad Croaa. You also know that theee funde were becoming ex hausted. and tha hoard a| commis sioners for the county tedk over her salary, recently, that left (fee upkeep of her automobile, which Wtf a gift tmm tha Skin Bad Cnte, and all other expenses incidental to her work tn the eaanty to ba paid oat of the money eeatribated daitag the Mae. The i«U for the National Boll Call waa set for Not 11th hat earing to the fact that the Woman's club had laanchad a war memorial campaign for that date the Barry eoanty fall call will begin November 17th aad conclude November Mtk which la Thanksgiving asp. The Sary Bed Cross eiecatlta com mittee la eompoaad of W. 0. Sydnor, chairman, Mrs. 0. T. Bath, 1st vice, Mrs. J. H. Pulton ted vice, and Mrs. J. G.-Powell Srd rice chairman; Mrs. W. P. Carter Jr. secretary; C. C. Craveling, treasurer; Mrs. B. C. Free man. Mrs. B. B. L. Fllppin; J. D. Sar gent; and Thomas Faweett. T. B. McCargo Jr. ia chairman of the 1M1 roll call for Mount Airy district and Miss tauiae Roth chairman for the Elkin district. The Elkin district takes In the town ships of Etkin, Marsh, Rockford, Bry an and Siloam. Other committee members are Mes dames R. R. Jackson, 8. T. Flippin, W. E. Jackson, A. D. Folger, L. W. Beamer. Silas Stone, C. A. Houck, Nat Marlon. Mias Loline Payne, Messrs Truelove, C. A. Sebastian, C. W. Williams, Prank Learellyn, J. 8. Patterson. Many Joblaaa Men Heading Southward Thousands of poople are leaving the bread linca and aoup kitchens of the northern cities and flocking to North Carolina in search of work. I.abor Commissioner 11. L. • Shipman finda, after an Investigation into em ployment conditions in thia State. Half of them are foreigner*, and mdst of them are willing to accept moat any kind -of work at moat any kind of w«ge. The Salvation Army in Raleigh maintain* barracks for the accommo dation of stranded men. On several nights that poet haa been forced to torn away men who sought a night'* aleep following their arrival from the north. Conditions are reported to be similar in other large cities of the State. The commiaaioner aaid many of theae people are finding employment in the State, employers accepting them lecauae of their willingness to work for • small wag*. In the crowd are many skilled workmen, not over one half being of the claaa which have no particular line. The Raleigh office of the employ ment service has received numerous request* tr*m these immigrants fas assistance la finding jobs, whik some have called with the request for aid in getting farther South. Two Hindus caled on Mr. Shipmas lam week and with difficulty explained to him that they had come South ta search of work, hearing that jobs could be now found down hare. ^ One maa hi every U tn the United * WARD SU9 LKDOVX CONDUCT HIS SALE Tint District CwgriiwM Hot Iwpr.i.il Wy Auction Safe mf Himih Batf. Waahington, Oct.26—CmfNuman Hallet 8. Ward wu an total—tail apectatPr of the winding up of the af fair* of "tlm •Lapping atona," tha lodg ing house aatabllnhad hara by Urbatn i r^xjoux, tha "Mr. Zero" who auctioned off JaMaea man OO Boa ton Common, but who waa forbidden bp tha Wash ington polica from auctioning off job laaa to Waahington. Ha aold tha rata and had a tag attar had to aach pledg ing thp labor of a man with it, and SO of tha Joblaaa ware taken care of to that way, peraons in Waahington tak ing near tha aervieea of tha man. Ran it Congreaaman Ward'a daacrlption of tha "auction." "I have been hearing and reading and aaelng pieturea of thaoa labor aaiaa that aeem to have commenced to Boa ton and hava awept over the eitiaa in their flood tide of Ke public an proa perity and vxclnaive Americaniam. I saw to the papers here a notice of one of the things to ha hold at ttt Pann aylvania avenue. I quit everything and went and saw it out with my own eyaa. Immenaa crowd, numbera of yoonr men, many to uniform, standing around to a hall. A preacher and an auctioneer, talking, singing patriotic aongs, ate. Presently tha man to charge announced that he could not get a city auctioneer oa account of brought to bear by the city >t Tha ante of laber hod aa similar to the sols of the aaaa, which waa unlawful, aa ha hod fallen apon tha plan of Bailing tha fellow's bad by nirtir, with Uas re sponsibility to tha porchaaar to take tha fallow that alee pa on it aad furnlah at M off tha front aad atood to a faw ate pa af him and watched him. Taking tha whole thing all ap aad down and through aad around it was tha d thing I ever aaw." Am DM Man Ploaaod With Admit of School Trucks Reidsville Review. Standing in front of the postofflce on* morning thi* week, an old gentle man, pointing to a truck load of child ren on their way to school, aald: "To my way of thinking I believe that the advent of the school truck ia the greatest thing that baa ever hap pened. When I was ahoy I had to walk two miles to and from school in all kinds of weather. There were thrM' of us, a sister and a brother, both younger than myself, and the weather was so bad at times I had to pick up my sister and carry her across the bad places. We had to cross the creek on a log, which father placed aero" the creek to shorten the dis tance between home and the school. Father had fl^tened th« log on the top side an4 placed a railing so that there would" be no danger of falling into the creek. Practice makes perfect and we finally concluded that it was unmanly to place our hand upon the railing. , "There had been a freshet the night before, and before leaving home father cautioned u< not to attempt to crciss the creek if the water was up to the log. We found Jhat the water wai not quite up to the log and decided to cross over as. usual. The log was as slick as glass and we caught hold of each other's hand and walked sidewiat with the other hand on the railing. , My foot slipped and the three of us ; tumbled into the stream, taWntf the ; railing with ns. The water was over ■ our heads and very swift. We were carried down stream about 60 yard* and landed in a bunch of vines hnA briars at the bend of the creek. "We were one mile from home and one mile from school, and as we won on the school house side of the creek we decided to go on to school, but be fore we reached the school how— sister was taken with s severe chill and died of pneumonia a few days later. "We always left home at sun-up and returned at sun-down. Since the advent of the truck the children have two or thrso hour* in which to help about the home and the farm. "When I think of the hardships thai I encountered durng my school days, It doe* me good to see the hap py children of the prsesnt gwieratica riding ha trucks to lsr|« and eoasfert H«i»ter HmI it TfcriUfaf Km* uriMM Witk •» CUpbMK London, Oct. 1—A good elephant yum to told by J. Marowood Dowsett, a wall-known big rmmr hull tar. who ha« just returned farm a hunting trip n Smith Africa. Ha was hunting olephanta In Uganda whan Information waa brought htm of i ha wheernbouts of a large hard. With a native rhlef and a house boy, ha I ifartad to find tham. The party runt upon tha hard In 1 tha tarsal. Mr. Dowaatt got aevernl i photograph* within 20 yarda of tha l beasts whan tha chtof warn..I him thai | thay had been 'srentsd' and that tha •nlMala wara coming for tham. Snatching up hto rlfla Mr. Dowaatt -attot and hi Dad tha big loader, • big bull * ^ While Mima surrounded thalr daad leader, many of tha baaaUr • tamped ad and. running tho wrong wayjfar. Dowaatt waa cut off tram tha party. Reloading hto gun, tha hunter .Called off for safety and ran Into • big bull elephant which craahad thrones tha buah ail yarda In front of him. Trunk aloft, aara ux tended and I trumpeting wildly, tha baaat ruahad at Mr. Doraatt and awapt him to tha ground with hia trunk and * urn ad rapidly In it* own length to trample Mm. Tha hunter took • filing diva un der tha monster's holly, realising he would than ha on tha right aide of tha wind, hot tha baaat turned rapidly round and again triad to t nun pie hint. Instead tha animal rolled hia over and over with ita leg* and tha hunter aaw above him two grant tusks as tha baaat triad to mnnoeuver hia body into position smi pick him up. Mr. Dowaett managed to roll behind tha animal and get to hto foet and make a rusk for cover. To the hunter's relief nnd surprise, the furious boost sat off in tha op poalte direction nnd disappeared Henry Forth Weakly. Evidence multiplies day by day that the anarchy in Wat Virginia to trace abto directly to tha dtoplacinf of gov •nuMat of, by and far the paopla by pwMMt of, by awl for tba coal ey and imported from outside tba •tata. In tba districts in which tba mine-owners play tba part of dictat on, tba local governments are on re cord a* pliant toola of their will aqd mere auxiltartea of the gunmen. Thia on om (ida of the question. On the other it to charged that similarly anarchistic combinations of working miners inaugurated a reign of lawtoaa ness in the regions that ware actually in their hands. Any attempt to ap portion blame between the warring in terests of mine-owners and mine workers to entirely beside the great main issue. NThis is nothing leea than the imperative necessity of restoring an American form of government in the state of West Virginia. Now that the legally constituted state authori ties have abdicated In favor of tba Federal Government, opportunity and duty synchronise. It to hiffh time, indeed, for a ilecisive cleaning up of the state. We are aaking nations to disarm hi the name of humanity and civilisa tion. Let us be consistent enough to ban the irresponsible desperadoes to whom the disputants of Weat Virginia have delegated the task of settling with revolver and shotgun their dif ferences. Let it be understood that the substitution of privately controll ed armed forces for the law of the! lapd, constitutes high treason. Not until anarchy to* ended and Ha chief cauae and incitement abolished by the will of the people, backed and aided with all the resources of the Federal Government, will West Vir ginia once more vindicate ita right to the proud motto of the state: "Mont anl Semper Ltberi"—Mountaineers Are Ever Freemen. Definite Plan for Methodist Unification * Detroit, Oct. 25.—A definite plan for reuniting the Method!it Episcopal Church, North and South, is to be made immediately preceding the world conference at the Methodist Episcopal church that open* November 14. An nnuncetaent that the commission on Methodist unification, composed of re presents tires of the northern church, would bold • sssslnn bars to map a pninB for that {KDrpOM, Wm made today by Bishop Theodore 8. Hender son bead of the church fai Michigan. When ths pin Is formulated. Bish op Henderson said, It will be suhmlt ted to the unification commission of ths Southern church, if uaifteatioa is effected. Bishop Hsshnos added, the chureh would be the largest of ths protestaat dsnoainations In the Harding-Wilaoa, a CnilMi Haven month* of the Harding «4 mlniAration enoblee aa to form as eatunate of what thta adminla tret lea meana to the country, and to cmnpoee Um prmat Mmtlvi with M» llluetrl oua DmhcMwr. The flrat thine worthy of notiae ia that both m were Il*d upon most frievoualy. Ho fin* a paper aa the Now York Times, lod ua to believe that Harding waa a puppet in tho hands of Ma aaafarr, tha i[im(f and thut h# would nctkljf obny tho ordora of hta boaa. Wa find that Harding long ago maotered tha aen ato, and compelled It to do hia bidding. Tha aanate waa bitterly opoaad to tha appointment of Charles E Hoghaa aa secretary of atato, but Hughaa waa appointed. Tha aaoate bated Sarhoit Hoover, bat Hoover te a member of tha cabinet. Tho aenata waa dolor mined to paeo tho aoMJer'* bonua bill, but meekly bowed to the will of tho White Houae and slaughtered the MIL Under the eoft and courtaoue phraaea of Harding there is an Iron will, and Lodge and Penrose have discovered that thoy made a n'rttbti moat take rather than give orders. But tho papera in tba campaign called Harding a putty man. Wilson has been tra duced and slandered aa has no other man in the public life of America. It Is the shame of tha ago that any man with purs and lofty motivee should have been hounded out of public Ufa. Mr. Harding ia not in tha same elaaa with Mr. Wilaoa in mental strength, but ha has better judgment than t(r. Wilson. Wilaoa surrounded himself with small man; Harding with Mg onee. Harding atrfvas to plaaaa, bat because of Ma fine skill, accoaapliahaa what WUaosi did by mala strength and awkwardnfea. WUaon by natore waa cold and repellent; Harding ia at tractive, worm hearted and magna*. WUaon understood perfectly tha science of govs ram ant; Harding an deratanda tha aeianc^ of politiaa. WU BOB flfflljj b#tt#T thlH M|i can patriots. Each la a Oiriatlan and not aahamed of it. Wilaoa maim ad himself for life for trying to do the work of 10 men. Harding wUl let Charlae do it and take a »-nrae of golf. Both have been shamefully slandered, hat the ahafte of malice have fallen harmless at their feet;- Charity and Children. To Find Use Best Speller Among N C. Children President R. H. Latham, of the Stat* Teacher* Ammhly. ha* ar rangrd for a spelling contest la con nection with the annual meeting of the sssenfbly November 23, to ascer tain the champion ipeller in the seventh grade, or below, in the public schools of North Carolina. Each county will be entitled to two representative*. All pupils in the first seven grade*, regularly attend ing the public schools during the pre sent term, will be eligible to ,chooss representatives by mean* of organised county contest* approved by the coun ty *chool superintendents, the detail* of the county contest* being left to the superintendent. The elimination plan is recommended, beginning with a spelling match in each school, the winner* of these school contest* to constitute a township contest; the township wincar to participate in county contest. The State spelling contest will be held in the Senate chamber in the capitol on the afternoon of ^he 23rd. A list of 100 words will be selected from the New World speller, book two, and the con teat Will be written Should there be • tie, list* of It word* additional will be pronounced until the winner is (elected. Gold, silver and bronse medal* wttt be awarded to the winner* of the State contest. Banners for the first, second and third place* will be ai*a given and the b*at speller of grade* in the public schools of State. Dr. E. C. Brooks, with a of three to ha selected by Mm, will be in charge of the snnteat, sod compet ent disinterested persons will be ehss en to State contests, and the IB to revive throughout the
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