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Local Tobacco Market Stands With Leattiag Markets of State Out Figure. ■urktU, hot Um Nfort of lh« atate authoritiea pats the Moat Airy competing thf fitat# is tbtolvUly rma be i*IM upon M being Kfiirtl*. The onee msking up Uhm reports have no intereat in the ma War. they h*n no favoritaa and the l|im that ar* givaa out >peak for themialeaa. Last jraar the Mount Airy market •Iiffcrad ann loan of tradu on acroaat of a bad crop in thin immediate auc tion, and thia condition cauacd th» irrrafa to fall three or four centa below the anrap of other mark eta, but the report for Ortobar ahowa that with an average crop of tobacco our warehnuaea can get the farmer h food nn average aa any other market. During October a large lot of prim ing* and tipa were marketed which kept the average below what Novem ber will »lw.w And now with the low grades out of the way and the higher grade» coming in the Mount Ail y market will average cloae to 80 centa. Warehousemen tell us that all grades of tobacco are selling itrnng and they are advising the farmer* to bring their tobacco on as fast a« they can prepare it for the market. Below ia the statement of the aver age price per pound that was made by Mime of the markets of the atate for the month of October as reported by the atate department: Aberdeen, 27 Centa j Burlington. 24 Cental Carthage, 22 Centa j Durham, 2fl Centa j Elkin, 24 Centa | Henderson. 24 Cents Madiaon, 21 Centa | Mebane, 24 Centa j Mount Airy, 24 Centa Oxford. 28 Centa j Beidavillf, . 26 .Cent* Roxboro, 24 Cent* Hawa»tl<. — 20 Cent* Winston-Salem 24 Cent* ' Road C>)iW»tiwi at Christ- j iVa. The opening to trafllf at tht' <"hri*tianhurg-EUi*ton link of the 1m Highway which mark* the com pletion of the ftrot east and Weot hard mirfared highway arroaa the itate of Virginia win celebrated in •! rather big way at Chriatianaburg. Va., Wednesday. The town waa decorated and thooa- ■ and* of viaitor* wire present. The' program included aotorcadaa tM cMaa along the bee Highway and in North Carolina, and *{ paraf- two and a half mile* long of bMWtiful float* waa a feature of thej program together with hiatorir pare Roanoke College. Salem, Va- rep / re tented the Koanoka College Mm keteer Guard of CHrfl War daya and * Sallin* CoHaga, Brirtol; Martha Washington College. Ahington; and Radford College war* all ivpiaaaatad wither by fctti or groupa af *tudent». Oowrnon of Waat Virginia, Teaa JOE CANNON PAMO AWAY AT HIS HOME IN ILLINOIS DanrlBa, IIU No*. 1L-TW (Wry •f ninety r»«n, «n qo—rtwd today hy daath. In tha Immm fro* which k want to Cmmi ftfty-thrco jmn ifi, and amid walk Man with tha troph iaa a# Ma fuUk Ufa, tha patriarch diad at high mm, hi tha Midst at a d«wp «lacp. Weakening of the kMrt muarlaa rRUwd Ma death, but the general kia family aeveral montha ago thai the and «u mm. Ha UM eoante In the national Houna, wbea ha fM tta halla hi IMS. that ho vaa going home to die, home to tha rambling brown manaion which ha built aiaty • flra year* ago for Ma brkb who pre nM him to tha grave. Hi. mind laded with hia body, and he could rocaU but dimly, after hia ninetieth birthday laat May, the acanea with which hia lone Congres sional aerviee waa vivid. Not even a fading memory, however, could keep him inactive, and hia laat public art four montha ago waa to turn the aod for a new church for the 8t. Jamea Mrthodiat Epiacopal congregation. Horn a Quaker, he joined the Meth od tat Church after leaving Congreaa and each Sunday until recent week* found him in the |>ew hia wife had occupied throughout her life time in Danville. Hia ninetieth birthday waa made a civic holiday and he waa a gueat cf the Kiwania Club, to which he He- j longed, at a birthday party. He did not try to apeak, but he atond be-1 hind the mammoth birthday cake,; tilted hia pictureaque hat at the' accustomed angle and amiled genial ly above hia chin whiakers while photographer* made a record of the occaaion. He even inaerted a cigar between hia teeth to make complete the re semblance to the Cannon of old, al •hoiTgh he had largely abondoned smoking in hia later yeara and had «»hatitnt«d mild cigara for tha stogie* which were recognised throughout the land aa a part of the Cannon picture. PEACE FINALLY WON IN ENGLISH STRIKE Coal Strike is Settled Although I* May Be Week or Twe Before Miners Hnnn Work. London. Nov. IS.—To nil intents the long coal stoppage, which dis located half thf country'* Indus tries and la estimated to have coat the nation 11,600.000,000. haa ended with defeat of avery important claim for which the miners fought ao tenaciously. It may still he a week or to before there la • general resumption of work, hot the termination of the strike came today when the miner's delegate conference recommended that the miners accept the govern ment's peace proposal The card vote of the delegate* was 4S2.0M In favor of rccoaueandteg that the districts sccepl the terms, and *82,000 against the proposal. That the miners, who vote by dis tricts, not by ballot, will scespt the reeommendatiae la regarded aa a foregone conclnaioe. The settlement la ilsscrtbsd by no body aa a negotiated paste. It la peace virtually Impaaed by the gov ernment sad waa aanplad only after bitter uyyseltlea by a minority a# the Welsh miners sad la the face of • One artsaatsi railway system hi Tim oi Retarn Mt. Airy Missionary Fran Japu Near—Away 7 Tew* ™. , 1 Grady, amr ilitMii )rnr in tkr Kl| of Caaadfan J mm, W back htlMM tlon again «tadyinf •pedal (tudtaa. and la atadytaf i hand and tMtklni mm in the ritjr, receiving good pajr time riven to trachitic. Ha (till interest la athletics. Ha baa played tvwry position in hatha) I bat la bast known In newspapers a tba llttla southpaw pitcher. Grady la ready to rntrr Duka Un iversity, bat »tnr» wr arr to return •lacy. Ob the ether, I ha** no pleaaara I* laaitag my wwril hare ■mi grtmg »Wr» I aai tart a jMgrti. Sot the folk, at have inat aa wall. Mi K will be pfcaaart to mm mm m rklMrn and other loaad mm llliri. The rWUt reaaltt of Um work ea Uwajina CtmM an gimtm thle year than laat year. Bat wa ara rrwrOy hlader.d by tin Ulaaaa of aaa ef My native ptwihiu who to the ar» to leave aaaa far aar DUtrlct Conference which la to iaa»aaa hi gayaa***hi. tha 10th instant. Wa will have to rMa all lifM by haat prafcably railed ay far breakf aat by fear o'clock. Tha tin at mm An nual Mlaeioa Mntiag la mmt detlnlta ly knowa yat by tha writer. Uwajima. EMaie Kan. Japan. Oc tobar IS. ltM. J. W. Frank. An oyatar rapper will ha giaaa at tha White Plain* hhrh aehaol 8atar day night, November Mtk, ais to taa o'clock f. M., for tha benefit of tha achoel. They wfH serve oyators, aal ad*. eanilakha*. and othar gaad thin** to aat. Splendid ainaic will add to tha anjoyaiant at tha ocraaiaa and a general goad time ia expected. The public la cordially invited to <-<Hae and take auppar. • j Happenings Twenty-one Years Ago IrUrreMting Hem* Gleaned From the Tilt* <V The Mount Airy Xeir* ft Year* .4go Thix W*rek Mr. Cullea Mnrllt returned from South Carolina Monday. I)* ha* been down there on a hunting trip #nd brought back a fine large deer. Mr. Clew Wrenn will teach the 7th, rrade in the graded school until a teacher ran be secured. Rev. J. A. Cook and hi* family will leave town in a few dayi and will make Asbeville their home where Mr. Cook ha* charge ef one of the tost churches in the state . Rev. J. E. Atornethy i* the new I preacher for Mount Airy station, L T. CordeO the new Presiding Elder and D. C. Ballard i* on the Mount Airy circuit. The city father* Tuesday night elected G. B. Cody chief of police and Kred Johnson first policeman. E. 8. Lundy, of Fancy Gap, wa« in town Monday and told u* he ha* a fine milk cow that he wishes to sail. She gave three gallons all the sum mer and be will take MO for her. Dr. R.*D. Haymore start* today for Wakefield, N C„ where he will (•reach the dedicatory MfiM of a new church just completed at that place. O. G. Baker, of Paxton, 111., U in town trying to sell a ftne stock horse, j The animal I* a beauty and ia of; Norman coach stock. Tt will take IS.OOO to hoy him. He is bay in color and only four years old. Mr. Council Smith, of Ararat, Va^ tell* of a hen that ha own* that he know* la It year* old aad has raised j two and three broods of chickens; each year for 14 years and she shows; age very little now. Miss Ella Greenwo id is at Boon-1 ville visiting relatives. Missee Addie Greenwood, of Round Peak, and Or* Arm field, of Low Gap,' were in town Wednesday shopping. They say H takes a wagon load of; liquor to do Mount Airy a weak—a 1 two horse load at that. In iun»e» nat ion this week with two ama. who 1 know this town from s to t they both j state it ia a fact that men who do; the business of the town are not arm* addicted to the habit at taking a I toddy. One of the men said that ha knew that the man who da buslases here oa Main Street almost to a saaa are total ahstolasr. aad the aaaw to true of the mea who ran the large to tMa: If K takes a two haras lead sf Hqaar to de this town a weak that eat ef ths Mfctfa ef make to provide for their families. If thia la true, and we think U i*,' •very man who lores hi* country •hould oae hi* influence to cruah out the habit of drinking intoxicating tiquor*. Be pin now to get ready for alii Methodist preacher* in the country are coming to Mount Airy next year.; Mr. A. H. Mrrrttt, of tint city, i* due the credit for inducing the Confer ence to make thin city tta next Meet-' ing place. Several other town* want-' rd it and had strong delegation* ( there but our man, Mr. Mrrrttt, was too much for them. One of the state paper* reported It this way: The hit of the morning wa* made I by Mr. A. H. Merritt, of Mount Airy, and the occaaaion of the hit wa* the choosing of • location for next year'* conference. Mount Airy, Salisbury! and Aaheville were presented for chcioe but after Mr. Merritt'* ipe*ch' in behalf of Mount Airy there would have been no hope for New York or, Parle In competition with him. "After setting forth Mount Airy1* need of the spiritual light which a Conference would bring to H Mr. Merritt began to expatiate on the attraction* of the region he repre sent*. Mount Airy eeaM not offers much in the way of ftne house* or buildings, he said, bat H could offer all in the way of hospitality. Bat1 probably the moat notable attraction there wa* it* cabbage*, which were the finest in the world. Here Mr. Merritt was interrupted with roars *f laughter bat when order wa* restor ed he i mud his task of proving hi* point by dating that a man who wa* traveling In Scotland wrote hack telling of the wunden of the place. He stated among other things that there grew there the finest cabbage* produced anywhere in the world ex cept la Mount Airy, M. 0. "How about chicken* ?" wa* de manded and ia reply Mr. Merritt an nounced that Meant Airy kept a the place for export—that ahe tap* all the turkey* and that as far I til nil I Bin | rill nilHiiiir-Tfr to Fbush Buldiag Rood to State Liae ] •I State Gfa>w Can»H Gaaalir *12MM —Tv»BrMf.teB* TW J"T ft uk kfe bet murier uk! spectators tkn tion of manslaughter, mJorH; of Ikt juror* way. and attorney* for Wood for a mistrial at Wot. Bat m Um nifkt war* on and no verdict rata*, Judo Bond found the jury in • deadlock and he sent H to bod. Thin morning's drllktraticiu brought it quickly around to the de fendant's aid* of the caao, and a verdict of not guilty. Wood received the verdict without emotion, hut he moved to the jury box and shook hand* with aach juror. Hard Fight. The minister and hi* counael had to fight their way through to an ac quittal agatn*t major difficulties. The state had all the eye witneaac* to the artuai shooting rn the after noon of August SI. The eye wlt neases, moat of them women, all run tended that Wood (hot the con vict while the latter was holding hi* hand* aloft and crying out in sur render. Wood had to rely upon hi* own testimony, and that of a con vict, to support hi* claim that the shooting happened when Vickora irrabhed for his gun. But there was one weak spot in the state's evidence. Thr state witnesses thought the gun was pointed on a level. Physician* tes timony showed the fatal bullet veered down and into the man's stomach at an angle of nearly 45 degrees. The state thought a button might have caused the ball to glance down ward but the defense, which made much of the point that a gun pointed straight ahead will not send Ha bullet downward, contended that Vickora! pushed the gun down when he grab bed It John G. Dawson, of Khtaton, who «M Wood'* chief ranwl. Mitt Ml pliant back to Lenoir county and to hU country ministerial charge there this afternoon. Wood i« wall thought of in Kinaton and Lenoir county, and a boat of the town and county's Mat prominent ritisena came here to testify to Ma good character. The shooting, which coat Vkkara his life and Wood a desperate legal Aght, occurred aa the aftermath af an attempt to escape hy Vickers, who was at the tiase hy Woad to the Spartanburg, captured after a smeaaafnl hrsak from a guard from the atiaate of Charlotte two week» aarMar. He itenre of 10 yaara for having haan sent up from Mecklenburg superior court early In the rear for slayiag a man hy the TV Circle af ai the First at t tW aide of th» a fifty foot hlgkwt; the Fancy Gap. A mwNto «utaart KMbnck hem* baiK ItlbW low below the half-way bcanrb and t All about » feet high will be h* there In order to take tb< <■>» ewt of the rand at that point For aowe montha traffic on tlaa Fancy Gap baa bat on awant of the the work haa pragraaaad until tnwl la now Mora aatlafaetery over tbla HllCsvtlle is mow connected with the Lee ki(l>way over In Wythe County by a rack road. North Carolina to building r rock road from this etty to the wtate line, which is practically mmplftr. Bland County I* mnwrtiif with the lit* highway with a rock road, hi • few Month* Mand will also begin the work of completing a con necting link with Bluefield. and fro* that point hardeurface road* lead hi various directions connecting with point* on the Great Lakes. With the work in Bland County complete Mount Airy will be less than three hoars drive from Minefield, traveling over a rock rand all the way. Thia route ia the one that Is being advanced as the proper one to adopt as the I-akes-to-FWids highway, while some of the special correspond ents continue to spaak of the road over through Grayson and Alleghany as the official route. As a matter ef fact neither route has been adopted aid th<- ..(Brials of the association have Mated that no route will ho adopted R» the Lakr*-t»-Plorida high way until a road ia completed over the mountain that will stand year arouad traffic. Just the same the route through Grayson and Alleghany is being advertised as the official one, and over at Brooks Ooas Roads, It miles helow Elkin, the Standard OH Company has a large electric lighted sign with a map oT Route No. 2*. fr«m Charlotte to Sparta, and has emhlaaonod upon H the title: "Stat* Mfffcway, Hardnurfar mI. To EM*, Rnarinc Gap. Spar, ta and North Ukn-tv-FWUi Highway." Btwidf* twine » »>m of twillto *bl» tixr K ha* an rlrrtrirnl rqmip mrnt which make* H riniblr at a rttat dlitMw at ii|U.
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