PAGE SIX
PUBLIC LEDGER
THE NEWS IN OUTLINE
STATE
It is said the good grades of tobac
co are selling at better prices in this
State than in Virginia.
The ideal fall weather has done
much toward the early and success
ful harvesting of the cotton crop.
The number of automobiles record
ed in the State this year is 20,069,
this exceeding the number licensed
last year by about four thousand,
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Rev. George Sweatt, a Wesleyan
Methodist minister, was shot and
killed by an unknown assailant Mon
day night near Hamlet. Ata investi
gation has begun.
The beautiful weather caused the
Johnston County Fair to be a record
breaker in attendance, more than six
ihousand people passed through the
gate the second day.
The 1916 volume of "Quips and
Cranks," the Davidson College an
nual, will be dedicated to President
Wilson, and the President has writ
ten the editor a letter of apprecia
tion.
After a year's idleness, the fire
company at Morganton was called out
twice in a week to fight fires that
urould have been serious but for
prompt action. Thus the fire de
partment proves its worth.
Mrs. I. C. Bagwell, of Asheville,
virile sweeping a room in her home
found a negro concealed under a bad.
She struck him with the broom and
called for help, but the negro escaped
although he was pursued at once.
There were interesting exercises
at Bear Wallow church on the com
pletion of Hickory Nut Gap Road.
Forty automobiles were lined up,
and Governor Craig, standing on a
big rock by the side of the road.
spoke to 300 mountaineers from
Asheville, Hendersonville, Ruther-
fordton and the places between.
The seven-inch target practice pro
jectile made by Secretary of the Navy
Daniels recently at the Raleigh Iron
Works, has been along with other
projectiles made at the Raleigh plant
placed in the Hall of History. In
the lot are five, six, seven and eight-
inch projectiles. The lot will be dis
played in a special stand in the west
hall and will be shown with project
iles made in 1864 at the same plant.
Picturesque old Pilot Mountain
-was sold Tuesday, by Commissioner
a. C. Bernard and J. H. Folger for
$26,500 to a syndicate of Winston-
Saiem. This plot contains 2,911
acres, and the bulk of the money
goes to Miss Annie L. Boyd and the
Bernard heirs.
House Creek District No. 2, Wake
county, is again without teachers
and is in trobule over the ancient
controversy as to the admission of
the Medlin children. The compul
sory school attendance act will thus
become inoperative in face of the Su
preme Court's decision.
Durham county has just held its
first community fair at Lowe's Grove
and there declared itself in favor of
better farming, school progress and
social uplift. State Inspector of
Schools, N. W. Walker, made the ad
dress of the occasion, showing the
duty of service along these lines.
The public schools of Marion have
been closed for two weeks because
1 of scarlet fever. All the Sunday-
schools will be suspended and the
children have been warned to stay
away from public gatherings and
stay off the streets, as the several
cases already developed are of a ma
lignant form of the disease.
At the last meeting of the Wom
an's Club of High Point it was de
cided to help pay for a moving pic
ture machine for the graded school
so that educational pictures can be
shown, also to help pay for a Vic
trola for the school. Another mat
ter that was considered was the san
itary condition of the schools, and
many suggestions were made.
Fire at South Bethlehem, Pa., last
week virtually destroyed the No. 4
machine shop of the Bethlehem Steel
Company, with an estimated loss of
from $1,000,000 to $4,000,000. The
building destroyed was recently re
constructed and equipped with ma
chinery at a cost of about $3,000,000
Eight hundred guns among other war
material were in process of manufac
ture in the shop.
Her Son Subject to Croup
"My son Edwin is subject to croup"
writes Mrs. E. O. Irwin.New Kensing
ton, Pa., "I put in many sleepless
hours at night before I learned of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Moth
ers need not fear this disease if they
keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
i.emedy in the house and use it as di
rected. It always gave my boy relief."
Obtainable everywhere. adv.
NOTICE
I will on the 4th day of December
1915 sell at public aution for cash at
my home (the John H. Bowling
home place) near Tar River station,
my entire possessions. A lot of house
hold and kitchen furniture, one good
family horse, 6 years old, one milch
cow, one 2-horse wagon and harness,
one buggy and harness, a lot of corn,
fodder and shucks, farming imple
ments of all kind including mower,
rake and pea thresher. Time of sale
10 o'clock a- m. O. C. TINGEN. 3Tx
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when your stomach is bad or an un
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speed in giving relief; its harmless
ness; its certain, unfailing action in
regulating sick sour, gassy stomachs.
Its millions of cures in indigestion,
dyspepsia, gastritis and other stom
ach trouble has made it famous the
world over.
Keep this perfect stomach doctor
in your home keep it handy get a
large fifty-cent case from any drug
store and then if any one should eat
something which doesn't agree with
them, if what they eat lays like lead,
ferments and sours and forms gas;
causes headache, dizziness and nau
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with the stomach all such distress
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SOME MONEY
Gold is Shoveled up as if it Were
Pig Iron
The flood of gold that is pouring
into New York to pay the war bills of
the allies has created a task in the
United States assay office such as that
institution has never faced before.
With each new shipment the piles of
boxes containing the coin of Europe
and, the heaps of yellow bars in the
vaults rise higher, and toil as they
will the sweating men in the melting
room cannot handle the stuff fast enough.
They work longer hours each day
than they ever did before, but with
each shovelful of the glittering coins
tossed into the melting pot the gold
en hill, instead of decreasing, seems
to grow, for as soon as one great
shipment is partly melted and on its
way to the mint at Philadelphia to be
turned into united states coin an
other consignment of millions is
poured on top of what is left. The
vaults can scarcely hold it all, and
two Sundays the entire force has
been hard at work trying to keep the
office from being overwhelmed by the
yellow tide.
Some of the Statistics
An idea o fthe tremendous increase
in the work of the office can be gain
ed by a comparison of figures. The
average amount of gold that goes
through the assay office in ordinary
times is $100,000,000 a year. In ten
days $37,292,000 in foreign coin and
$494,500 in bullion have been receiv
ed there- That includes the ship
ment of $24,333,000 received for J
P. Morgan & Co. In three months
and a few days from July 1 to Oct 8
8 Superintendent Boyle took in $44,-
351,600, which makes $82,138,100
received and melted at the assay of
fice in less than four months, only
about $18,000,000 less than would be
received ordinarily in a year.
The gold comes chiefly in bullion,
English sovereigns, French napoleons
and Japanese yen. Of the gold re
ceived from July 1 to Oct. 8, $17,-
121,300 was in bullion, $11,623,000
in sovereigns, $4,b3,suu in yen aaia
$2,189,700 in napoleons. J. P. Mor
gan & Co., and the Guaranty Truste
company have been the two big de
positors.
The work that is required to turn
this into bars for coinage can be
judged by the fact that it took a week
to handle the latest Morgan consign
ment, and in the meantime the other
deposits, of which there are from
$500,000 to $1,000,000 a day outside
o fthe big foreign shipments, must be
taken care of. This is because a de
positor gets a check for only 90 per
cent of the indicated weight value of
his gold when it is turned over to the
assay office. He must wait until the
gold has been melted, assayed and
valued down to the last otne one-hun
dredth of a cent before he can. get a
check for the remainder.
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Some Prices That Speak Loud
er man words
MARION QUAL.LS:
14 1-4, 23, 45, 50, 30, 21.
L. B. THOMASSON:
10 i2 1 S' 43 12' 23 1"2' 22 X"2'
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GEV. HUNT:
16 1-2, 22 1-2, 40, 22 1-2, 13.
HAYS & MINOR:
21, 23, 42 1-2, 28, 23, 19.
CREWS & MOSS:
10, 17 3-4, 35, 50, 21, 17.
R. E. CASH:
11 3-4, 25, 42 1-2, 41, 22 1-2.
W. B. MOSS:
17 1-4, 24, 45, 27 1-2, 12 3-4.
J. J. THOMASSON:
10, 28, 50, 28 1-2, 22 1-2, 14 1-2.
Bring us your next load
and we will send you
home pleased
fh E Fleming, Frop.
M. Deleval. a Belgian emnloved bv
the United States as counselor to the
legation at Brussels, has left Belgium
and will not return to his post be-
cause.Germany has given notice that
he is persona nom grata. The State
Department will not admit that De
leval has been removed but announ
ced that he had left Belgium and will
not return.
Ex-President Taft advocates prep
aration for the national defence but
he doesn't seem to think much of Sec
retary of the Navy Daniel's board of
inventors. He says they are as im
practical as a board of opera singers;
that a board of naval experts is need
ed. Mr. Taft would increase the navy
but wouldn't make it as large as
England's.
If
ROOMS FOR RENT ONE LARGE
and one small room in the. Mitchell
Building. Apply to J. T. Britt
Climate Failed ;
Medicine Effective
rfufferers from .tuberculosis often '
think that medicine will not helD
them. Fresh air, regular habits and
good food aid -in restoring health,
but' more is often needed. Many
have been restored to health by
Eckman's Alterative, iiead this:
Weldou, 111.
"Gentlemen : Through your in
strumentality I have heen saved
from a premature grave. On Decem
ber 14, 1904, 1 was taken with Ty
phoid Pneumonia, which developed
into Tuberculosis (bacilli vere
found). In February, 1905, I went
to Fort Worth, Texas, and later to
Canon City, Colorado. After being
there two weeks my physician in
formed me that my case was hope
less. Three weeks later I returned
home, weighing: 103 pounds, the doc
tor having given me no assurance
of reaching there alive. On July
14, 1905, I began taking Eckman's .?
wonderful remedy for Lung Trouble.
Now I am stout and well and can
do any kind of work about my grain
elevator." (Abbreviated).
(Affidavit) ARTHUR WEBB.
Eckman's Alterative is most
efficacious in bronchial catarrh and
severe throat and lung affections
and up-building the system. Con
tains no harmful or habit-forming
drugs. Accept no substitutes. Small
size, $1; regular size, $2. Sold by
leading druggists. Write for book
let of recoveries.
Erkman Laboratory. Philadelphia.
For Sale By J. G. Hall. Oxford, N. C.
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Used at Browning Tent Meeting
J. ROBT. WOOD
Furniture House, Main Street, Oxford, N. C. I