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VOL. XIV. J B.-SHEWULU Editor and PubHibw CONCORD, N. C WEDNESDAY. MAY 20. 1914 40 Cents a Month I Cents Copy. NO. 225. CABARRUS COUNTY NEEDS A CREAMERY IN ORDER TO TAKE CARE ITS PRODUCTS. OF A Wall Known Business Man Declar ed Yesterday That It Was a Ques tion of the Farmers' of Cabarrus Taking Care of And Realising From What They Produce or Al lowing Some Other Community to Do It. Estimated That the Cost Will Be $6,000. Steady Stream From Milk Routes Going Out of County Daily. From time to. time this newspaper has printed articles showing tho ad vantages and -.value of a creamery. Individuals interested in the estab lishment of a creamery for the farm ers of Cabarrus have also advocated the proposition. A number of busi ness men have also become interested and the outlook now for a creamery is encouraging. A well known business man of the city declared yesterday that a cream ery was a necessity if the people here wanted to take care of their own pro ducts. "It is a question of the peo ple of Cabarrus taking care of and realizing from what they produce or allowing some other community to do it." "As far as securing funds to es tablish the creamery I think this can be easily done. The farmers of the county will take an interest in the matter and subscribe for stock and I know they will receive the co-opera tion of the business men of the town.i . Atlanta -Wants the EUu, Toot It will take about $0,000 to start the. Atjtnt. . jy 20 Following liar I creamery and I think this amount tvadaAm 0f tbe Shriner can be easily secured. j cvention( tbe biggest in the history The necessity of a creamery in or-, WQr, comw tue ,nB0UIlce. der to take care of the products i of j ment AtUnU is to maU, a?1 this county m evidenced by the fact! ffort to t the 1916 national con- QttXT AT VXAA CMX j Bays Tan Waiter. Xe Prospects of a Fight and Picture Keels Are Oona, Making Things Lonely. Ia a letter to his brother, If r. O. B. Walter, Mr. Van Walter, who is a member of the gun crew on the Prai rie at Vera Cms, state that every thing ia exceedingly quiet then. "The boys are waiting," he Bays' "for something to torn up." He also complains of tbe lack of amuse -n ent for the sailors, -iclering that all the moving picture reeis have been "run ont" and there is no prospect of new ones any time soon. Speaking of tbe probability of a battle he aaya that the report is started daily that General Maas will make an effort to recapture Vera Cms. "If he .should." tbe writer adds, "our guns from the abips would make him retreat in short order. GRADUATDTO CLASS AT TRINITY NUMBERS 73 Largest Class in the Eiststy of tbe . Methodist ' Institution. Trinity College, May 19. One of the most successful collegiate years in the history of "Trinity College now coming to a elose. This is the last week of recitation work for the year, and examinations start Monday The senior examinations are held s few days in advance of the other ex aminations, and will begin tomorrow. The Trinity commencement, which starts Sunday, June. 7, and lasts' un til Wednesday, June 10, is expected to be one of tbe largest and most suceessful that the college has yet held. The graduating class this year in tne academic ueparoneni . is me largest in tbe history of the institu tion, there being 67 students who will receive diplomas; while from the school of law will be six to graduate. KANT IN CHARLOTTE. Concord Sent Over Enough Oitiseat U Celebrate the "Evening Prop erly." Hundreds of people from Concord and Cabarrus are in Charlotte today attending the Twentieth of May Cel ebration. The mills and banks are closed and throngs left last night and this morning for Mecklenburg's capi tal to join in the celebration. The streets here bear eloquent tes timony of the departure of tbe throngs, as travel is practically ate standstill, reminding one of the calm and quiet of a Sunday afternoon. Many of those who did not go to Charlotte are scattered along the banks of Cold Water and Rocky river watching for a sucker to bite. Cob cord is taking a holiday without a celebration. DANIELS HURRIES TO CAPITAL Secretary of Navy Receives Dispatch. From Washington. Charleston, S. C, May 19. Secre tary Daniels left here tonight for Washington after he had received a message from the National Capital. The nature of the communication was not made known. the secretary delivered tue com mencement address tonight to the graduating class of the College of Charleston and departed shortly at terward. He originally planned ti remain here over tomorrow and in spect the navy yard. fierce mm Oil AT SALTILiO THE CITT IB ENTIRELY BUR- BOTJNDES BY JLEBEL TROOPS The Interest Her In the Mexican 8it- usUon Centred. -Today on the Fate f Consul Sfllimnn. Villa is Ex pected to Take Seltfllo in 48 Hours. The Worst 1 Billiman's Case is Feared. It la Believed That He Washington, May 20. With des perate lighting on progress at Saltillo and tbe city entirely surrounded by Villa's troops, interest in tbe Mexi can situation centered today cn tbe fate of Consul Silliman. The State Department expects Villa to take the city within 48 hours. Consular Rep resentative Can-others, who is wit'i Villa, has already been ordered to de termine immediately what happened to tbe vice consul, though high offi cials here, friendly jo Silliman, fear tbe worst. They declared that the promises of his safe delivery had been diaregarded so ofter, they be lieve he may be slain. But so far as the' administration is concerned ev erything is halted to await the out come of mediation. . BARNHABDT-ROOERS. that already routes have been estab lished in various townships for col lecting cream to be sent to creamer ies away from here. There is a steady stream that goes out daily Tk0915 convention has vention or rass. The citv of Denver, where the Elks meet in 1914 has already pledged its support to help Atlanta get the 191K from- this county thaCadda tov flie- V -rTs-':n. mmmi tn StHe. wealth and prosperity of other com-j TheF nationl,i convention of the mnnties, when, of a creamery was E,kg u in gize only to the esiM iianea nere, u o..m naa io ine gh and if AUanta ghouid win it u'onltli fir rhiH ciiinirv . . . . wealth of this county. A number of furthers have express ed themselves as strongly in favor of establishing a creamery in Cabarrus and state that they are willing to aid in the establishment of one. The bus iness men of the city are also strong ly in favor of the proposition and the indications are that a movement in this direction will soon be launch ed. Celebration at Charlotte. Charlotte, N. C, May 20. A three day celebration in honor of the 139th anniversary of the Mecklenburg dec laration of .independence, which was promulgated May 20, 1775, nearly a year in advance of the declaration of the thirteen colonies at Philadel phia, was opened here this afternoon with a programme of exercises which had as its principal feature an ora tion by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. The exercises were held in Vance Park, where a crowd that in cluded hundreds of visitors to the city nssemblcd to listen to the ad dresses. Oastonia Gazette: At the home of Mrs. D. A. Garrison, on York street, Friday afternoon the Gastonia chap ter of the Alumnca Association of the Greensboro College for Women held its annual meeting, there being pres ent twelve members. Officers for the ensuing year were chosen as follows: Mrs. B. T. Morris, president; Mrs. . W. L. Bnlthis, secretary and treasur er.1 Mrs. D. B. Coltrane, of Concord, was made a member of the Gastonia organization inasmuch as there is no branch at Concord, would bring almost as many visitors to Atlanta as during the week just closed. Minister Excommunicated. Atlanta, May 20. The Presbyte rian Church has put the ban of ex commuication upon a former Georgia minister, the Rev. Lloyd a. Field, as the result of a charge that tho minis ter alienated the affection of a wife from her husband, an Atlanta man, and afterward married the woman himself after she had obtained a di vorce which the Presbyterian Church does not recognize. r Mr. Field, who is now in Arkansas, has riven notice of his intention to appeal the action of the church to the Arkansas Presbytery. To Solve Mexico's Land Problem. President Wilson declared that the settlement of the Mexican problen in a definite form was a prerequisits to the withdrawal of the American forces from Vera Cruz. Peace in Mexico seems to jjjm to be conditioned on the elimination of tho Hnerta administration and the estab lishment in its place of a strong provisional government, which would conduct a fair election, and guaran-i tee a solution of the agrarian prob lem. The President emphasized that the duty of the Unite! States was un selfishly to seek to assist Mexico to set up a constitutional government which could be accorded recognition by the world. One feature or thelau the medi ators will recommend prescribes a di vision of lands in a way that will bo satisfactory to the masses. Huerta authorized the Mexican me diation delegates to submit his resig nation in case such a course is found necessary to a settlement in peace negotiations.. It was declared that the Hnerta delegates never would agree to tho selection for provisional president of any of the constitutionalists military men. Constitutionalists asserted that their plans contemplated not only the elimination of Huerta but also of his party, and that the resignation of Huerta would not compose the sit- iation. Who will come after Huerta whether an individual or a provision al commission still is an open ques tion. Recall Perdicaris Kidnapping. ' Washington, D. C, May 20. Ofli- MEDIATION DELEGATES REACH NIAGARA FALLS General Plan of Proceedure May Be Discussed This Afternoon. Niagara Falls, Ont., May 20. The Mexican1 mediation delegates and par ty, numbering twenty-two persons, arrived here early today. The early delegates refused to discuss condi tions in any way. The American del egates stopped at a hotel on tho Amer ican side. A joint conference may be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon, when a general plan of proeeednfe will be discussed. Mr. Chester Bernhardt And Miss Jennie Rogers Married Yesterday Afternoon. Miss Jennie Rogers and Mr. Ches ter Bernhardt were married yester day afternoon at 2 o'clock at Ep worth parsonage, on North Kerr street. The ceremony, which was wit nessed by intimate friends and rela tives of the young couple, was per formed by Rev. A. L. Coburn, pastor of Epworth Methodist Church. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Bernhardt drove to tbe home of tbe groom's father, Mr. Thomas Barnhardt, in No. 5 town ship, where a reception was held last evening. The bnde is from Kichneld ana was a nurse at ine loncora nospuai for several months. Mr. Barnhardt h a well known young farmer of No. 5 township. PREACHER'S HORSE WAS KILLED NEAR LEXINGTON Collection Was Taken in Lexington, However, and Now Rev. Mr. El liott Has Another Horse. Lexington, May 19. Rev. W. F. Elliott, pastor of the Linwood circuit of the M. . Church, south, who live here, returning to this city from til ling an appointment, lost his tine horse by accident. -Coming down a hill on the Salisbury road a few miles miles south of town, part of his harness broke, frightening' the horse, and he began kicking, soon breaking the shafts free from the buggy and starting to run. A short distance away he ran into a wagon belonging to the Lexington township road gang and was literally ripped open by a brake beam. As soon as news of the preacher's misfortune reached Lexington a movement was started to raise lunds lor a new horse and in a few hours more than $100 had been contributed. Sheriff Shaw offered the minister the use of one of his horses for a year and Messrs. Foy and Slfemwell, dealers in horses, came forward with a 6-year-old, valued at $250. The cash raised will be used to pay off a mortgage on the dead horse. . ARE YOU ENTERED IN THIS GREAT CIRCULATION CAMPAIGN? YOU CAN WIN THE PRIZE THAT YOU DESIRE IF YOU WILL ONLY MAKE UP YOUR MIND TO ENTER. Your Spare Time is all That Will Be Required. Start Today Be Tht You Will Have Every AdvantageAnd All of the Time Possible. Have you entered your name on Tribune office and ask to see the eam- PRFVATE PARKS. SHOT AND BODY BURNED According to Report of Brazilian Minister at Mexico City. Washington, May 20. Private Parks was shot and his body burned by the Mexican federals, according to a State Department report from the Brazilian minister at Mexieo City. This report is based on information from an alleged eye witness. the list of contestants in The Times- Tribune great Circulation Campaign? If not, then what are your reasons for not having done sol Surely it is not because there is not a prize on the list that does not appeal to you. And since some of the prizes ire bound to appeal to you and since you would like to be the owner of one of them, then why not get busy at once and get that one which you desire? Just stop and consider a moment. The Times-Tribune is going to award on July 11th ten beautiful and useful prizes and are also going to award a cash commission to those who work and do not win one of the prizes. Now, any one ean enter this contest. There are no strings attached to I lie prizes, and there is no cost to the contest. The verv least that anyone can get is the commission which will well repay them for the time and the trouble which they have put forth during the campaign. Now is there any good reason why you should not enter ? And, remember, this is not any thing that will take your whole time or detract in any way from the work that you are at present occupied with. Your spare time during the next few weeks will be all that is necessary to make you the owner of a valuable prize. Send in your name at once so that you will be among the first tp enter, and so that you will get every edvant- - . : 1. 1 - n i i ) m ago pussiuie. voiue o me . iimes- Want to Make Frank Case Issue in Campaign. Atlanta, May 20. A state-wide protest is being made against a move ment which is under way in Atlanta to put Hugh Dorsey in the guberna torial race and make the Mary Pha gan murder case a political issue in the coming primary paign manager. Talk it over with him and let him explain to you any part that is not quite clear. Get a receipt book and start out to gather the subscriptions. Use the telephone, write' and go about in' person and let your friends know that you are en tered in this great campaign and that you will want them to give you their subscriptions and help you get the subscriptions of others. Do this to day while the contest is young, and you will be surprised how easily it is to get the subscriptions and how swiftly you can make your vote total climb. Enter campaign now! Enter Campaign New. The first thing for a person to do is to fill in the nomination blank with their own name or that of a friend. This counts for 5,000 votes for the person nominated. After a candi date is -once credited with these 5,000 votes, there are just two resources from which they can secure more , votes. One is by clipping the ten vote coupons from each issue of The Times and Tribune and the other by securing paid-in-advance subscrip tions. The latter source is by far the more important as is shown in tbe schedule published in another part of this paper. Enter your name today. Do not delay. If you do not care to enter the race yourself, send in the name of a friend whom you would like to see share in the distribution of the prizes. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER grows Very cautious In Addition to Doubling His Guards He Has Had Installed System of Electric Lights. New York, May 19. In addition to doubling his guards ' from four to eight John D. Rockefeller has had installed about the grounds of his Pocantico Hills estate a system of electric lights, which he can flash by prewing a button at the head of his bed. Before the demonstration of tho President Young in Raleigh. News and Observer, 20th. Mr. Joseph H. Young, the new pres ident of the Norfolk Southern Rail road, will arrive in the city this morn ing. He spent last mgut at Beau ion Local representatives of the Norfolk Southern were not certain wnetner Mr. Young would come over the Nor folk. Southern route from New Bern here, or whether be would use tha part of the trip Anotfaer Killing in Charlotte. Charlotte. May 19. Will Sims, a.ioi. 0j .i.,!,,, :n n, xrnvv nnrt- narro. shot and mortally wounded i,.., his father-in-law, Bob White, tonight tlleir handg of laU,( but gome of tue at 10 o'clock at his home in Fair- veterall attaches of the department view, a utgro settlement, aims wa in a gpare moment today recalled the wmppins nis wue, nmw. fact that a little "war scare" was White interferred and Sim tired two in the air jugt ten yearg ag0 on thig shots at White, one entering the date It wag on May 20 m that eye ana passing through the head, tne country was set a-flutter by an and the otner longing in me ngui order gena,ng the whole South At side of the ehad. White is in a aj - i ntic 8Quadron to Tangier on account ing condition. He was janitor the of the kidnapping 0f Perdicaris, an Southern station. Sims escaped, a This was th fourth shooting since lv fhA nAntivA war ndeased bv the Saturday night at 12 o'ejock. kidnappers and the American ves- ' T" Isels returned borne without being put Sagus from sngn swsmb. to the necessity of firing a shot. m . . m ' w m a a l. i ' " Charlotte. ay iv.a. great band of eagles, nearly 3,000 in mini- Democratic Convention at Columbia, ber, flocked to Marions lousy an bi g c May 20 The CoL Roosevelt Returns From Stay in the Jungle. will continue to make this city their tat Dem0cratic convention'of South roostincr olace until next Tiaay. ine i n k. n,; ;.. tj. n 1 - . " . ..... . I ljnruiiua luck ill mD -lJ wng occasion of the gatnennf is tne. an- , nr(,r ; the haii of nual southeastern district eonventioa :.. t the Stttt hnniw. New York. May l. Theodore of the Fraternel Ureder oi eagles. I f i, nHnn will h Roosevelt today returned home from Represented at' the convention aroj fl d practically to the making of niS VlSll Ol iubiiv uiuuuio vi " ine lOttin OI me uiuw uuvugunnn l,l- -A nthnp orrnnitnmpntu fnr t.H America. Accompanied by the two) Virginia, Tennessee; Alabama, Miss- nrimarv eiection next Aueust when naturalists of his party, George K. isrippL Florida, Georgia and the Car- K TjmriUsd States 8enator and State riierrv and Leo E. Miller, be arrived . 0linas. S ' - I j noi. k nnmi. ."..' I BUU GUUUliT VllltCIB H V v w from Para at Quarantine shortly oe- . v The digcngsioM on the gub. fore 4 o'clock on board toe noom opnng uucu , Wuk w reform and the elee- line Aiaan, come discouraged. Strong political voices are also Industrial Workers of the World at raised against it here in Mr. Dorsey 's the downtown "offices of the Standard home community, and present indi- Oil Company and the threats that cations are that in the fact of this they would visit his estate, Mr. Rock- lecling Air. Uorsey 's proposed can- eteller was content with four guards. didacy may not materialize. These he called to from an open wfcn The point is made that if Mr. Dor-ldow when he wanted to feel assured scy runs at all, he would have to run that they were on duty. With tbe new on the I1 rank case as a platform, system in operation the flashing of since he has never taken any part i.i the lights is answered by the. guards, the public or political life of the who press buttons and sound buzzers State and is known to the public at above their employer's bed large purely and solely through his A similar system is being installed connection with this single case as at the home of John D. Rockefeller, solicitor general and prosecuting at-1 Jr. tor-ney. I able, two committee reports with re gard to Vanderbut University will be presented when the general. con ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South) resumes its sessions here tomorrow with the prospect ol a vigorous contest on the floor of the convention before either. - report is adopted. Bishop E. E. Hoss, who directed the legal contest of the church fot control of the university, decided ad versely by the Supreme Court of Tennessee, tonight issued a state ment urging that no further contest be made, leaving the trustees in quiet possession and control. Today the conference refused to grant laity rights to women. 6euTal: committee reports were read. Commendations of the commit tee on episcopacy included the re tirement of Bishop A. W. Wilson, of Baltimore, the senior bishop of tbe church, on account of age, and that leave of absence for a year be grant ed Bishop Hoss because of ill health. A resolution providing for the ad journment of the conferenco next Monday was adopted. between Goldsboro and Raleitrh. But . .. Strong Fight Expected at Conference they said his special train was sched- Delegates to the County convention. on Vauderbnt uled to arrive here at 10:30. The touowing are me aeiegaies OWalmm. at nbl rio The afternoon and night will be from precinct No. 1, township Ho. Unless an eleventh-hour agreement is spetn nere and wis aiternoon jar. io uie iuiw'" reached, which tonight seems imnrob xoung win inspect uie cumpauy w ""j nmnertv in this citv. Tomorrow M. I. Winecoff, W. C. Mckinley, G morninir he and his nartv will leaVe R. Winecoff, C. A. Tarlton, D. B, " I v in -i i 1, ft iir for Fayetteville and Charlotte. Ha Uastor, u vv. rarnnarai, o. w. oos, will ho hnnlf W airain Friday and A. E. Furr. W. C. Lltaker, b. M will leave here Saturdav mornins re- Shinn. B. L. Umberger. turning to Norfolk. The touowing aw delegates irom On his first trio over the new road. No. s townsnip the new president will be accompanied John Barnnger, W. A. Barnnger, by the retiring president, Mr. Charles Willis Hahn, Howard Lipe, Geo. T. H. Hii. Tha nthers wltB liim on the Bost. Rose Smith, John McDaniel. - i ' - . . tour r: Marsden H. Perrv. chair- Jas. Lee, Jas. Letter, Harvey McAl- nran of the Board of Directors; E. D. lister, Jr., Fred W. toil, M. fc. Ury, Kvle. Traffic manaeer: F. L. Nichol- C. U. Heilig, Jonn u. Miner. son, Chief Engineer: J. W. tation of treaty obligations. Landis Circuit. Preaching at the M. E. Church, South, at Unity Sunday at 11 a. m. Shiloh Sunday at 3 p. m. Services conducted by the pastor, S. L. Owen. Superintendent of Motive Power; J. M. Shea, Superintendent. tion officers are expected to provoke I t urn exercises this evening, Director Harris Resigns. Washineton. May 18. W. J. Bar- . . a j i 1 Ins. oi ueorgin, touay lenuereu ioi Atlanta Man Won Coveted Prise at I Secretary of Commerce Redfleld his Davidson. I resignation as director or tne census, i Davidson, May 10. The senior oruer to vu oratorical contest was the exercise of uemonane nommanuu th fnivnnnn at the Davidson Col-1 01 lege commencement today.' B. F. Prim, of Atlanta, was awarded the medal. Following this was the an nouncement of prises, honors and trophies. During the afternoon were held various alumni meetings and the :'MCri S ' . y' i at M 1 k If A . 1 Get Your Heads , Together ; And plan forHhe future. -; 4. i.. ,;T -' . -vvktHV-1'-'. Save some part of your in- come each week and put it in the bank, so that yon may have a comfortable old age. From saving comes having. some bitter contests between the sup porters of Senator Ellison D. Smith and Governor Cole Blease, who are I the opposing candidate for the beu- aioranip. - 1 - ' ' Death of Mrs. Aaron Quary. Mrs. ' Ahron ' Quay " died. Tuesday morning about 1 o'clock at her home at Harnsburg. aflter an illness or several days. Mrs. Quay was a daugb ter of Mr. Stafford, of uamsburg, and was about 40 years of age, '-She is survived by her husband and three children, one child being only a few days of age. .' V . The funeral was held Tuesday af ternoon at to 'clock and was conduct ed by Rev. James Lapsley, pastor of the Harrisburg Presbyterian Church, of which the deceased was a mem '-TEADB W COUOORD v,! The graduating exercises were held in the commencement hall. The bach elor of arts degree was- conferred up on 26 men while 14 received the bach elor of science degree. The master's degree was conferred-: upon three. The valedictory wai delivered by a.. Elliott, of Winsboro, 8. C, who was first honor man of the class. A number of honorary degrees . were also conferred. " , '. WANTED! Mark WalUftitM't Route. Trenton, N. J, May 20. A dozen monuments marking interesting points on the route traversed by Washington and his army previous to the battles of Trenton and Prince ton were unveiled.today . by the New, Jersey Society of the Sons of tbe Revolution. Tbe monuments consist of granite obelisks eight feet in height, each bearing a bronse tab I lI. feteeIJ Nomination Coupon GOOD FOR 5,000 VOTES. I Nominate Address District Number - As a candidate in The TIMES-TRIBUNE. Subscription Contest.' Nominated by ,. Address ,': Name of person making nomination will not be divulged. , This nomination blank entitles the person so nominated to five thousand (5,000 votes) if properly filled out and brought or sent to The Times-Tribune office. It is further understood that only one nomination blank entitling the nominee to 5,000 votes will be accepted by the. Campaign Manager for each candidate nominated. Fill ont the above blank at once and send or bring to the Cam-' , paign Department of The Times-Tribune. 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