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A Glance Over the Whole State The Great State Fair has been in full swing this week. The First Voters Wilson Club is active in Guilford county. Raleigh's White Way rendered good service during the Fair. Domenjos, the greatest living avia tor, was in Raleigh at the Fair with his Beriot machine. November 30, Thanksgiving Day, will be "Orphanage Day" again this year in North Carolina.' A thrice welcome visitor to Ral eigh this week is Mr. Leonard Tufts, president of the State Fair. Arbor Day is not far off. Novem ber 3 is the day and it is hoped all the schools will observe it in some way. Hurrah for Gastonia! Her enter tainment of the U. D. C. Convention sets a new pace for such meetings in the future. High Point gave Governor Craig a warm welcome last Thursday night when he made his first speech in the campaign. The three dances held in the Al gonquin club, Goldsboro, during Wayne County Fair were the largest ever held in that section. Hon. Cameron Morrison, Congress man Godwin, J. A. Brown and others spoke at the Democratic Rally at Elizabethtown on Monday. lion. Victor S. Bryant, of Durham, was the chief speaker at the organi zation of the Wilson-Bickett club at the University last week. October 25th will be a great day for Farmville and the community around there, for everything points to a successful Community Fair. Saturday, the 21st, will be Bickett Day in Guilford county. Mr. Bickett will speak at High Point at night, and at Summerfield in the day. The Wilson club is very active in New Hanover county, and the lead ers are doing all in their power to poll as many votes as possible. Two thousand people heard the Hon. Claude Kitchin, leader of the National House, speak at Mount Pleasant in Nash county on Saturday. Hon. J. W. Bailey, of Raleigh, pleased the large audience he ad dressed in the courthouse at Jackson ville last Thursday on the campaign issues. The annual session of the South ern Association of Colleges and Sec ondary Schools, will be held at Trin ity College, Durham, November 16 and 17. Hon. Theodore F. Kluttz, of Salis bury, former Congressman, was the speaker at the first meeting of the Wilson-Bickett club of Davidson Col lege last week. Lieutenant Commander E. H. Ba ker, of the North Carolina Naval Mi litia, left Raleigh Saturday night for Washington, where he will spend a month in the Navy Department. A wedding of unusual interest in Scotland Neck was celebrated last Wednesday noon when Miss Dorothy Miriam Dunn and Mr. Harry Lee McDowell plighted their troth. Mrs. Mary E. Tucker, widow of the late Walter Scott Tucker, who died in 1897, died in Raleigh Saturday morning at the home of her son, Mr. Garland S. Tucker, age 75 years. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Potomac Synod of the German Reformed Synod held their meetings in Hickory last week with delegates in attendance from Virginia, Penn sylvania and other points. The campaign for the quarter mil lion dollar fund for St. Mary's 'School, Raleigh, is progressing well. There remains about $8,000 to be secured to complete the $25,000, the amount desired for Raleigh. Mr. C. C. Fulp, who has been with the Southern at Greensboro, has succeeded Mr. Rudolph Turk as city ticket agent in Raleigh. Mr. Turk resigned to go into real estate busi ness. Mr. Fulp is succeeded in Greensboro bl Mr. L. D. Sherer. Cary, Wake county, is very much grieved at the action of the Seaboard Air Line and Western Union Tele graph Company closing the telegraph office at that place. A committee from the Cary Development Club has been appointed to look into the mat ter. Eugene McDonald, a well known young man of Raleigh, attempted suicide Saturday morning while' sit ting in an automobile at the Wake Hunt Club on the Milburnie road, four miles from Raleigh. He shot him self in the breast, but is expect ed to recover. Mrs. Sallie C. Noble, of Salisbury, aged 60, was instantly killed at the Salisbury station Saturday by a freight train. She went to inquire about transportation to New York, where a son lives, and in some man ner fell under the wheels. She had lived with Mr. Walter Murphy sev eral years, and he identified the body. Col. John S. Cunningham, of Dur ham, who was a Raleigh visitor dur ing the Fair, praises the relief work done in Western North Carolina for the flood sufferers, giving much cred it to Governor Craig and the News and Observer under the direction of Editor Britton. Mystery surrounds the death of Mrs. F. J. Griffith, of Rocky Mount, whose body was found last week on the Norfolk division of the Atlantic Coast Line, a few miles out of town. She was a sufferer from poor health and was in a despondent condition. Miss Carraway, one of the super visors of the Wake county schools, says that the school at Garner, is forging ahead. Wayne County Fair a Success. Wayne County Fair last week broke all records in attendance, and the visitors declare the exhibits and other features the best ever. The behaviour of the large crowds was exceptionally good, as only one ar rest was made for disorderly con duct; not a fight occurred; and no more drunks than is usual for an or dinary busy Saturday. Gen. Carr Day at Durham Fair. . Thursday was General Julian S. Carr day at the Durham County Fair. Durham Confederacy turned out en masse to do honor to the occasion of the General's 71st birthday, and were joined by the King's Daughters in making the day a memorable one. A birthday cake with 71 candles was presented the General by Mrs. J. R. Patton in behalf of the King's Daughters. Veterans came from all over the county and helped make the day a gala one. General Carr Builds Home in California. General Julian S. Carr has bought land in California and by November first will have a home completed about twelve miles from Thermal and located between Riverside and Impe rial Valley. Here he has 160 acres, and the "Carrancho" bungalow he has had built is designed according to the old mission style of architec ture and is a handsome and beauti ful. The climate of the West appeals to the General, and he intends to go thither early in December. Promotion of Raleigh Men. Lieutenant Walter Clark, of Ral eigh, seeing service on the border, has been appointed provost marshal, representing the several divisions with headquarters at El Paso. First Lieutenant Clarence Howell, Com pany B, Raleigh, has been detailed a battalion adjutant of the first bat talion, Third Regiment, which is commanded by Major Bernard. Liu tenant Howell fills the vacancy caus ed by the promotion r Lieutenant Clark. Wilson Fund From North Carolina. The first report of the money that has been raised in North Carolina for the Wilson-Marshall campaign fund gave the amount to be $25,515.75. This report comes from the Demo cratic National Campaign Committee of the State, of which Hon. A. W. McLean, of Lumberton, is president and Hon. Hugh McRae, of Wilming ton, is secretary-treasurer. The pub lished report shows that Forsyth hes sent in the largest contribution, $11, 650. New Hanover county comes next with $3,205.75. Guilford is third with $1,536.50. Wake is fourth with $1,142.50. A Rare Pipe. Capt. T. W. Tilghman, of Wilson, has a pipe that he treasures because of its history. It is an eight-ounce elaborately carved meerschaum pipe, patterned after one that the Father of Our Country, George Washington, used when he was President of the United States, and a member of Washington Lodge of Masons at Al exandria, Va. Twenty members of the lodge obtained permission to send the original to Europe and have twenty pipes manufactured from the original model. This they did and the cost of each pipe was $20. Thfj "stem" of the pipe is of "cherry." The original model is now in the mu seum at Alexandria. The copy that Captain Tilghman has was presented to him about twenty years ago by Captain J. W. Simmons, master of the tramp boat that plied between Jamesville, N. C, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Community Fairs. Rich Square held its first Commu nity Fair last Thursday, and the fine thing about the exhibits was that they were things the community was accustomed to have, and were not prepared or grown just for the occa sion. The fancy work, the canned fruits and all the home products were fine, and the agricultural department had a display that could not be beaten, while the live stock shown was excellent and the floral exhibit was a thing of beauty. The teachers arranged a model school room, which was up to date in every respect. The progressive little town of Stokes, in Pitt county, held its first Community Fair last Friday in the public school building and grounds. The exhibits were so fine that they would have done justice to the State Fair. Stokes has about 200 popula tion on the Washington branch Of the A. C. L. Railroad and is one of the best and most progressive sections in Eastern Carolina. Mr. Bickett at Tarboro. At Tarboro Mr. Bickett was intro duced by Col. John L. Bridges, who paid a high tribute to the speaker as a public official. In the course of his speech Mr. Bickett said he regretted the people were too busy and too prosperous in that section 'to study more closely the record of the Demo cratic party in the administration of national affairs. The record made during the time Mr, Wilson has been in office has been the most wonderful in the whole history of the nation, declared, the, speaker. ''The con structive legislation during this pe riod has been the wonder of the world and the amazement of the Re publican party that formerly boasted that the Democratic party was not capable of administering the affairs of the nation." He said the Federal Reserve Bank ing system was worth more than all the legislation passed by the Repub lican party during fifty years. He told in detail of the measures and showed how it would provide money for emergency, how it would take the power out of the hands of the money kings and place it in the hands of the people, and how it would help the farmer to get money on easy terms to move his crop. He explained the rural credit bill, showing how it would help the farmer. He spoke on agricultural extension work and pointed out the fact that taxes in fourteen counties in the State un der Republican rule were higher than in the eighty-six counties un der Democratic rule. Governor Craig's Wise Words. In his speech at High Point Gov ernor Craig said many things worth serious consideration. He said that for the last four years more genuine reform had been accomplished for the interest of the people than in any other period of our history. He quoted Dr. Chas. W. Elliot, as fol lows: "On the whole, the independ ent voters are likely to act next No vember on two simple, well-ground convictions : First, that the Demo cratic party has done such an extra ordinary amount of good work dur ing the' present administration that the period from 1912 to 1916 will be memorable in the history of the Uni ted States; and, secondly, that the man chiefly responsible for this con summate service to the American people should again be made their chief servant." The Governor desig nated Woodrow Wilson as a man en dowed with the wisdom of the just the living prophet and champion of Democracy in America, and of right eousness for the whole earth. He said that when the Democratic party went into power it undertook a giant's task that demanded the leadership of the wisest and bravest, that the government had to be wrest ed from the powerful hand of selfish ness and greed. "The Democratic party," said he, "promised to substitute justice for privilege, and she has justified the trust of the American people. From of old, two policies have contended in organized society one for the ad vantage of the few the other for equal rights to all. We have seen this contest in all civilization .wher ever men were striving for opportu nity and improvement. This was the issue that divided Hamilton and Jef ferson, and is the issue today be tween Democracy and Republican der Democratic rule, ism. The question has been present ed in ever varying form, but the fundamental distinctipn always re mains. On the one side men will grasp and use undue power for self ish purposes; on the other, the race with an irrepressible and unconquer able instinct, yearns for justice and equal opportunity. Through periods of storm and quiescence, and revo lution with the English race Democ racy has gone forward, never back ward. "The men who have been canon ized in the history of our country are the men who stood for equal justice to men Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln. It was Lincoln who said that this should be a gov ernment of the people, by the people and for the people. The lineal suc cessor of these .immortals, the living prophet of practical altruism in America, and of righteousness for the whole earth is the President of. the United States." ' s
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