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JOURN L
NEW BERN SEMI-WEEKLY
NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA may 25 1915
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Bigger, Bettt r Beaufort,
Her Past Progress And
Her Future Aspirations
Story of the Town's Re
;Jarkable Growth
f Heads Like a Leaf
from Some Fairy Tale
-Founded More Than
Two Hundred Years
Ago
iny the hours on some sunny stretch
of beach which was kissed by some
warm breath of air oft the Gulf stream
which How to the South.
With the opening up of the HarBor
of Refuge at Cape Lookout, the town
will grow even more popular and it
has been predicted that within the
oourse of the nest Ive years its will
double in population. Whether these
expectations will be true remains to
be seen is a matter of speculation, but
already a number of new citiiens
have gone to the town with a view of
remaining there while the great har
bor is being built and to remain there
if they like the place and one who
CREDIT LOAN IS
SAVING SOCIETY
N. C. Department of Agri
culture Gives A Defini
tion of the Plan
Two score miles to the East of
Mew Bern lies Beaufort, the capital
of Carteret county a town which once visits Beaufort ne'er wants to
in years gone by has been paid' but leave.
little attention outside of this i mined- j What Beaufort Has.
aU , aeotWB, but which through the Qne rf the thiDft thmt oae
building of the frreat Harbor of Re-1 to know a , WBmt ,t
fuge at Cape Lookout, twelve miles Bealfort nM mMy thing8i but
way, wo teir to oeoome Known, noi om tha nrnmlnnnt U i.. a.
only in this State, but all over the Uent ,te eIeotrW ighting
country, system, its county buildings which
Beaufort has been called the ocean nc,ude m magmncent court house,
gateway of North Carolina and right- flgh factoriwlj fc ton goodg mfcnu
ry has it been named. Located at a fM5tt,r,ng plant busine houses g
most advantageous point on the At- lofe hotel that m of the ,
Untie oast, but heretofore enjoying newgpaper and othw enter.
a comparatively smau percentage
LE QUEX BOOK IS
BANNED BY CENSOR
7Z
01 gre
iiriuj 'I'hAPA ir hnwwvcr room lor
of the. great ocean traffic it, in the mny' more industries and Beaufort
enurse or a lew onei monins, w... ue- ,g anxjOU8 to these and j ready
tne stopping place 01 nunareas Md wiUinjf t0 make My inducement
at ships which go out upon the to t them
and which for causes real or twF,t . ,hnu i. . onnA town.
fancied seek shelter in that great har- Le ft Rood plftce to Uw Jn for itg pp,.
T 18 D 0rC T n the P-onifleation of hospitality fwm the union in PaM he needs theml
and always extend the glad nd to for hig own Yes, upon proper
Seme Early History. lth.e stranger ana Dia mm weiwrne-to I notice
fn order to give those unacquaint-1 its borders and to aU who will come
this quaint little town some and live with them they will assure
its foundation and subsequent prosperity, peace and happiness,
it is necessary to go two
What is a Credit l awn, as author
ised by the North Carolina Legisla
ture? A Credit Uuion is a saving
society. -
Who may form a Credit Union ?
Any group of neighbors who want te
save all their spare money, however
little bt may be. The youngest in
the family is to be taught the lesson
of saving pennies. The parents and
older brothers and sisters are to save
for the Credit Union.
Does every neighbor join a Credit
Union? No; only those who work and
pay their debts may' become mem
bers. Who are the people who form Cred
it Unions? Those who belong to t lie
same church. Farmers' Union, or
other organisations, or those who work
at mills or stores in the same town.
The more interests people have in
common the better they wilt stick
together in a Credit Union.
What becomes of the money which
the members have toiled for, and
handed to the keeping of the Credit
Union? The savings are not hoarded
but kept busy. The Union lends them
to its members. If any of the savings
are not loaned they are deposited in
a safe bank where they earn interest.
Do the members get paid for lend
ing their savings? Yes, four cents
for every dollar that is left with t he
Union for one year.
Can a person withdraw his savings
London, May 8- At th order of
the war onto, the sensor has put his
ban on "MsoJs'ai Deadly Peril." a
hoot by William Ls (Juei. purport
ing to sxposa the spy danger in Oreat
Britai. TWawapd ( spies whisk
had been distributed among dealers
are held up and th publisher is en
joined from printing any more copies.
This is done through the defense of
Lthe realm aet.
Ls Quex told If his adance not lees
of alleged personal experiences lo
support bis theory that the islands
are honeycombed y German spies.
In one case he tells of sceintf a mys
terious light in a lonely house on the
east coast of BagBwiu where a tier-
man lived. He daW that lie rigged
up a flashlight aofie distance away,
and employing H tn night when a
light appeared in4h' German house
received in reply What was obviously
a code meaaage. He then complains
that he tookj thi Information to the
war office, which Aercly sent a print
ed acknowledgment mo I did nothing
in the way of Iwitsi Ration.
It is known thnjtthe censorship has
cautioned nwaJbers against pub
lishing articles' likely to inflame the
Germans and cause retaliatory meas
ures against English ' interned in Ger
many. Furthermore, (here are many
naturalised Germans in England who
are trusted by the authorities. The
assumption is therefore made that
Le Quex's book is suppressed in ac
cordance with this policy.
CHANGING FORTUNE
BRINGS BACK LOVE
However, Husband Lives In
"Town of Tomorrow"
and Don't Forget
ed with
iae qr
i
hundred years or more. History
says that "the town was named for
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES BEGIN
AT THREE SCHOOLS
.. . m
lio when tl' Lords Proprie
e called en' in 172ff rerB
the 'Duke of Beaufort, the county
seat of Carteret, wbioh was named
for Sir George Carteret, one of tho
Lords Proprictots. It was one of the
original precincts in Carolina, these
being large divisions' embracing an
area now covered by .several counties.
Carteret's son became Lord Gran
vjlle. who
tOere
to the Crown their land holdings here,
declined to sell his portion, but lost
it all at the beginnniS of the last
century as a result of the war of the
revolution. The Spanish pirates com-
Imd hi, fmni liMiiMrla nnrl further
Southward made two attempts to Noted Speakers From Var
capture the town, but were defeated
in their attempt, their vessels -being
captured."
.Alter this period more trouble
arose, Spain declared that the town
as Well as some other seel ions along
ONCE BRILLIANT
VIOLINIST'S MIND
IS NOW A BLANK
CLERK MAKES
Meredith College, A. fls. M.
Aikl.St, Maty's Have
Ended The Term
MANY ATTENDING
ious Parts of Coun
try To Be Heard
(By W. T. Boat.)
Raleigh, May 22 Meredith college,
How is the Union able to pay its
members for savings? It charges any
member who borrows six cents a year
for each dollar borrowed. If the time
is only half a year then the interest
charge would only be three cents for
every dollar borrowed.
i Can a member borrow money for
any purpose? No; member can bor
row only to spend it for productive
purposes. Would spending the money
for a buggy be allowed? No. For
an automobile? No. For tickets to
fej.mMt? !??7 No. To
pay off debts? No, Why not, are
these things not good? Yes; but they
do hot help the cotton to groW nor
bring it to the market. If
were needed to loosen the soil more
deeply or if a new wagon were neces
sary to haul the cotton to markets.
member might borrow the money
with which to buy the plow or wagon.
Is this Credit Union not a bank?
Yes, and no. Like a savings bank it
helps people to save. Like a State
or National bank it helps borrowers
1m fho ftrtvlit thaw iiAAt-f Rut. ii itnnW
the coast, belonged to her, but this the A. & m. ana ot. Marys oeP" doea not limit its loans to its members
claim was not substantiated and the I their commencement exercises to- jg not a Credit Union a competitor
affair was finally straightened out m((rr()W with their baccallureate Her- of a hank? No: I hey have not proved
mons. two of which will be breached Tke people who become member
at the same hour, eleven o'clock, of a Credit Union are not those who:
The A. & M. sermon is at 8 o'clock take their savings to banks nor ar
in the evening 'key those who borrow from them,
The Meredith art exhibit was Toe Uredit union takes its rtnds to
opened this evening and the com- hank
mencement Work has actually begun May I then become a share holder
in the Baptist college. The college in a Credit Union? Why not; if you
and quiet for the time was resumed
Coming on up to the period of the
- Civil War, Beaufort continued to
grow apace, and while the town and
immediate section was not thickly
populated, the citizeniy made a fair
Irving from fishing and farming, and
like in Loagfelllow's immortal village
- ofand P
and at peace
The War Breaks Out
J , j . in iuv vuvip w
iney-wcre sausueu flM tw0 nolaDM' -j, itg 0o,ni at- have a dollar to spare? Must not one
tractions. Rev. Dr. Williain Josey who desires to become a share holder
McOlothin of Louisville, Ky., will in a bank have a hundred dollars to
When the war between, the States preach the baccallaureate and the buy even one share? Yes. But not
began Beaufort and the surrounding I missionary sermons .tomorrow morn- in a Credit Union. In a Credit Union
territory gave its full quota of sturdy I ing and evening. shares may be made any sise front
territory gave it full quota of sturdy Tuesday Rev. Dr. Robert H. Mac one dollar to one hundred. But if all
fathers and sons to fight for the cause, Arthur, president of the Baptist in our neighborhood joined, 'farmer,
and many were the brave deeds ac- World Alliance, will make the com- teachers, and pastor, there would be
credited to them. Beaufort then, as I mencement address. He will discuss only forty of us; and if we made our
is now, was a logical point for an at-1 Russia and at this time will have a shares five dollar and each took one
taok from the sea and to guard I subject of uncommon interest to all land paid one dollar as a first pay
against these a fort of enormous di-1 Americans. He is an intimate ao-1 ment our capital would be only forty
mensions was erected at the mouth I quaintanoe of the czar and has done I dollars to start with. Surely so small
of the inlet and this was named Fort la great Christian work in the big a capital would not be worth eon
Macon alter Nathaniel Macon, a I empire. sidering. Ye, It would in a Credit
famous speaker of the National House I At the same hour of the Meredith Union. The first co-operative bank
of Representatives. The history of baccallaureate sermon at Meredith, established in America bagan with a
this old fort which today "stands as a the St. Mary's girls will be listening capital of $28.00 and a membership
silent memento to that dark period, to the commencement sermon of of ninety. Now, after twelve year it
Would fill a volume and would be in- Bishop A. M. Knight, of Sewanee, I has loaned $fl71,7ft4.94 to its mem
4erest!ng to the exremt. I Tenn., former bishop of Cuba. bers. Not one cent has been lolt
Many Industrie. The commencement address will Such may be the result of thrift and
As mentioned once before, fishing I be made by Rev. Dr. Charles M. I mutual oare for one's fellows
furnishes the chief industry of many I Nile, of Atlantic City. To tell how Credit Union have
of the citherns of that place, hut not I The A. A M. commencement ser- brought a new prosperity to agricul-
by any means is this the only occupa-lmon will be preached tomorrow even- ture and how they have developed a
tion engaged in. There are other ling at 8 o'clock by Rev. Dr. J. Y. spirit of working together in a com
kind of manufacturing going on, and i Dowhan, rector of All Saint church, munity would be too long a story for
the hum of machinery is at all time I Richmond. - t his short article
ia evidence. Then, too, that sec won Monday evening the commence- AH who desire to know more about
1 among the most fertile to be found ment address i to be made by Wil- the Credit Union, provided for by
hi the famous Eastern North Carolina liam B. Wilson, secretary of labor the North Carolina legislature, may
farming belt, and it does its share in and member of the Wilson adminia- have their questions answered by
furnishing to the world the foodstuffs I tration. While in the city he will writing to Win. R. Camp, North Car-
which it devour. Just at present, be entertelied by the Rotarian and Una Division of Markets. West Ra
Beaufort is devoting much time and a dinner will be given in bu honor, etgn, N. ,
money to encouraging the farmers
owning land there to adopt the mot Dr. and Mrs. Earl SUan. Dr
scientific methods in vogue in their There were aeveral offender ar- Sloan's secretary and private nurse
agricultural work and this is bring-1 rainged in Police Court yesterday and Andrew Moan, who have been
ln results. afternoon, but none of them were I spending several month at D.
Aa A hteaart. charged with any grave offense, nd Sloan'' winter home at Loagwood,
i As a resort both duriuir the summer no fine war imposed. Walter Evan near this city, win leave Tuesday
and winter months. Beaufort is un- Wat taxed with the oot for being for Boston, Ma., where they win
exoafled. ' In the summer it enjoy j disorderly. Judgment was sutpead- spend th summer, returning here
It greatest popularity, thousands of led upon the payment of the cost in 1 some lime ia the fail
vlaitor going there from nil parts of I the case against Laura Jones and
thl and other States but in the past Lula Wilson, colored, charged with
it ha been ao unusual thing for I being disorderly. Osborne Lee plead William Dunn. Jr., and sons WtU
dosen or more Northern pleasure boats guilty te not having th proper light Ham and Pranel. returned hut night
ft M tM up thaw during the bia pn Oil oar and wai utad with tM ot. mm gin v sit iq rm qcg
auntb, that own wblllni . . vWe
ERROR:
CIRt tlATAiTIMl"
Helena, MontMay 22. Did you
ever wire a friend for $5 and have him
send you $80 Wnet you were broke in
Helena?
That's the experience which Miss
Blanch Beers of, wiitt thought she had
until the police looked her up and
found she had spent about all the 80
jtMt as though ft fas her money.
Blanohe and her friend, Mrs. J.
Adler. were livijfc-at So"11' Main
Street hotel, Blanche was getting low
on funds arid' she touched the wires
a plow i to a mend in ureat rails, requesting
him to send her $5 by telegraph.
Inagine how the eyes of Miss Blan
che Beers stuck out of her head and
how good 'the end of her fingers felt a
the crisp new $10 bill were handed
her at the Western Union Telegraph
office. They simply tingled each
separate nerve and brought visions
of Joy rides and dinners, suoh dinners
a Blanche and her friend had not
had for a week or two.
The Western Union had orders
from Oreal Falls to pay the young
woman $S ), and they aimply insisted
on doing it. Blanche, was willing.
tghe may have thoiuht her friend in the
Falls Was a generous sort of a soul and
When a girl broke in Helena wired for
$5, he just went down into his pile
of negotiable tin and sent her $80 so
she could have a good time before
leaving Helena.
It all happened in this way: The
Oreat Falls friend of Mis Beers did
send 96 and about the same time a
traveling man wired his wife who is
in Helena, $7.V The sending opera
tor or clerk in Great Falls sent both
telegrams to Helena instructing Hel
ena to pay Mist Ben both amounts
The error was soon discovered bu
not until after Miss Bers had secured
the $80 and started to convert it into
popularity and clothes.
With this $80 "find" in her gold
mesh bag, she proceeded to a few
thing in Helena and answer the ad-
eertMements in Helena papers for
new spring clothe. The police were
asked to find t he tM and see what they
oould do' in the ww af1 recovering the
oaah. They found the-women, but
very little of th cah .remained. The
gold mesh bag had been open con
tinuously since Thursday evening
and by Friday evening the girl had
about enough left to take a jitney
ride
New York May 22. This is the
story of couple which shall be name-
lea, because of the prominence the
man has attained.
They had been deeply in love When
they married. That was ten years
ago. Mucli had happened in ten years.
and in their case they had drifted apart
At first there were little scraps, mend
ed by a kiss and a few loving words.
By degrees the lift became larger.
She wanted the comfort, if not the
luxuries of life, and told him many
times of tYe motor errs and theater
boxes she could have if she had mar
ried Tom. Dick or Harry iustead of
him. Once he used to weave stories
of a tomorrow, but tomorrow never
came, and-fmally the friction became
too much for him.
"You arc never satisfied," he said,
after one of these quarrels. You have
no belief in me. Perhaps I .don't
amount to much. We don't git on.
You remain here, and I'll find a place
for myself. I'll let you have-enough
to keep you going $25 a weaf."
She agreed to tttis joyfully, and in
a few days he removed to a furnished
room not many blocks awav. Bach
week she received an envelope with
the stipulated amount in it. Other
wise they lived as strangers.
The man had only left Himself
enough out of his salary to keep hiito
self ali c There was no overplus for
amusements, and his chief recreation
was reading at the public library.
One evening, having finished his
evening paper, he took up a pencil
and began to draw on the edge. He
had a sense of humor and was, making
a comic picture of something he had
just read. He was fond of drawing
and had given much time to 'ioimtnre
his marriage. ifr
Then he took a sheet of paper and
drew several comic sketches, and they
amused him so much that just for fun
he sent one to a oomic paper. It was
accepted and .the editor asked for
more. He kept on drawing and in
three years had attained a reputa
tion under the name of "Scorn."
Meanwhile his wift lived on in the
old hoTfsepwfsett eetete!L.and
only slightly curious When her allow
ance was gradually' increased. When
one day the envelope contained $50
she decidedto go after him. She called
at the place where he had been em
ployed when they parted and asked
to see him. The clerk grinned.
"He left over a year ago."
She rushed to the house where he
had roomed. "He left over a year
ago." she was informed. Still the
$50 arrived regularly.
In California lives a thin man who
is something of a cynic. His reputa
tion as a comic artist is established
and money comes easily to him. Once
a pretty woman asked him why he
lived alone. "
''I have a wife," he told her. "I
left her because she didn't believe
in me. I am never going to teke her
back. It hurts a man to be tied to a
bundle of pessimism in petticoats."
"Aud'did ihe love you?" the pretty
woman asked.
"I hardly think so."
Onoe his agents wrote him that she
wanted to know where he lived.
"Tell her," he wrote, that 1 am
in the Town of Tomorrow."
And she understood.
Rheumatism Robbed Him of
His Power to Play
Musical Instrument
A PATHETIC CASE
Dreaded Malady Had Pluck
ed From Him Fame
and Fortune
SLEW SIEE...EAU,
DRAWS LONG TERM
Richmond youth ent to
Prison for grri
Years
Kichmondt May 21 After a de
liberation of about thie hour and
a half, the jury, m the ease of John
C. Watkia last night returned a
verdict of murder in th eeond de
gree, and gave, the aoouued a ttrm
of eighteen year, in tn penitentiary.
Watkina hot and killed hi awoat
hert, Hester Dodsou. at her home.
320 N. street, en the night of Febru
ary .
His defease, a conducted by Barry
M. Smith, was temporary insanity
Evidence wa produced to prove that
a streak of fnaity ran through tho
family, and thf accused himself eon
tended that he had no lecolltction of
the shooting: H remembered going
to the houje and talking with Ma
Dodcon but could recall nothing whwh
led up to the shooting. He said he had
carried a pistol in his pocket several
months because he lived jn an isolated
sec.iou of the eity and felt he.,might
need it for hi own protection.
The case brought out many sad
features. Watkins is still a minor, ana
to the time of the homicide had
conducted himself in a quiet ana
orderly manner. He admitted that
he was very much in love with tus
victim and , had intended marrying '
her in June. It was shown that he
had reciprocated his affections, except,
in the course of love, everything did
not run smoothly all the time. .They
had a quarrel bout rivals and opr
girls." and it was after one of tfse
quarrels that the' tragedy occurred.
Sympathy for All Concerned
After the evidence had been tr-b-mitted
of the streak of insanity which
ran in the Watkins family, spectators
agreed among themselves they were
glad not to have been summoned to
act as jurymen, because the shooting
was so palpably clear, there appeared
no chance for the young man. Sytn-
Wichita, Kan., May 22. While
Walter Damrosch, leader of the New
York Symphony Orchestra, thrilled
an audience in the Auditorium, Her
man Schmidt, onoe Damrosch's "sec
ond violin," bereft of all intelligence
save his appreciation for music, sat
in the Countv Poor Farm, not know
ing that his Moved master was near.
Had Schmidt known of the conoert
would have traded the few years
he is likely to live for one last chcane
to feast on the musie he so dearly
oves.
Crouched under a tree, with his
body exposed to a cold rain and his
treasured violin wrapped in his coat,
Schmidt was found ill by the police
in 1910. He was taken to the Sedge-
wick House.
The old man was crippled by rheu
matism. He could not play the vio
lin. The disease had cost him his
position with the New York Sym
phony Orchestra. It had dragged
him down from restaurant orchestras
to the position of itinerant musician
and at last had left him almost strand
ed as a piano tuner. A thief, by steal
ing the musician's tools, left him penniless.
On his recovery Schmidt was sup
plied with tuning instruments and
became a familiar figure in the Wichi
ta streets. He found one dear friend.
who had known him in Berlin, Corne
lius hchroeder, a shoemaker.
Refusing to beg, want at last drove n..hv was great for the mother and
Schmidt to break hislown heart. He igterg 0f the de58 girl. Ther ap
pawned his violin. fA$" learned peared no malice, and it wa upon
of his action from 'ScBfceder, but tmg p0jBt the jury agreed that a
Schmidt would not tell iere he had terra ; the penitentiary would,-an-pawned
the instrument. He did ao- gwer e purpose (ft th law. .
oept gifts from Woods which enabled Tne instructions were wide. The
him to keep up tb.pajjients. jagguM. Jljyf- f,-us,'.a
ileal or summer ana pnysicai wean- . . nvolurilan maVsuMlfttTB
ness protttrated Schmidt and wiped couid i,ave: sentenced him to thpen
his mind of memory. He could not itentj,rv f- flve or ten years 'on
remember where he had pawned his murderous assault, and it could have
violin and the whereabouts of the even given a term in jail for."wjfault
prized instrument is still a mystery. an(j oattery.
Schmidt is 75 years 61'd. Following when the verdiet- was ruairred
a sunstroke, he became mentally ir
responsible and retained only hi
passion for music and song. He had
no interest in anything else. When
he heard musie his memory seemed
to flood back and all his faculties
Watkins took it stoically; Bo tarned
to his weeping relative who sur
rounded him in the da and said,
n a lone of subdued ancawh: f
"1 am still young."
This Was taken to mean thai he
GREENVILLE SCENE
OF AJURGLARY
Robbers Break Into the
Pepsi-Cola Bottling
Plant
MRS. JAS. A. BRYAN
DIES SUDDENLY
Mr. James A, Bryan, wife of
Col. James A. Bryan of thi eity
died suddenly yafctrdy morning
t bar home on Middle street, heart
dkaaa bmg Anhad a the dir. a
nana of aer Num.
lira. Bryan ha been la III health
ff o time but har death earn
mast unexpectedly. Rh (urvtved
by bar husband and one sister, Mr
A. T. MeOIII of Montelair, N. J
The deceased Wa a consist en t me m
her of Phist Kpiaaapal hureh and
the faaeral (ervtee will be
ducted from that pUee tomorrow
afternoon t & otok and the Inter
Mt wil be feajtda a Cedar drove
Hnt?r
ADJT. GEN. YOUNG
VISITS CAMP GLENN
Raleigh, N. C, May 22. With
elevon field wagons and four sets
of harness for each wagon stored
awav at Camp Glenn, the North
Carolina National Guard has its com
plete field equipment for authorized
strength, according to Adjutant Gen
eral Laurence Young, who returned
yesterday from Camp Glenn, where
he went to superintend the installation
into the camp of a gasoline pump to
displace the old boilers used for the
water supply of the camp
The boilers in use there have been
would return, but they would disap- wouid try hi best to live through
pear as soon as the, melody ceased. ( tne trouble, and. if given another
chance, would do hi best, to make a
man of WO"
Judge 'Hlnhardson withheld n-
tence. Attorney amnn movea o set
aside th vehdict This motfcifNMw
overruled, and Mr. Smith wff later
enter bills of exception. The prisoner
was taken back to the city jail.
BELLAIR FARMERS
MUCH ENCOURAGED
ff AJ I .
Many Set-Backs, But They
Are Forgtng to the
Front
Greenville, N. C, May 22. The
tore of the Pepsi-Cola bottling works
broken open last night and
eight boxes of cigars stolen. A
susploion of Raymond Grey led the
officers to arrest him. Grey had four
boxes of the stolen cigars in his pos
session when the officers took him in
custody. There being four boxes
missing, Constable J. L. Whichard
was called in to assist Officer Bnley in
the search for the stolen goods. Sev
eral houses were searched in the mill
section lying along the Norfolk South
ern and while searching the house of
Annie Taylor, the officer found
rate of perfectly good beer and two
quarts of wikey. The beer i what
U commonly known as Virginia Pale
The whiskey, beer, boy nd woman
all brought before Chief Justice
B. F. Tyson thr morning and the
trial will he held this afternoon
Raymond Gray, the (tore breaker,
mad aeveral attempt to get away,
which necessitated the use of hand
cuff. The offbw remarked, "he will
run If he get a chance.
Bellair, May 22. The farmer eini
to be encouraged hy tne general
of good service in the camp and the progress being made under unfnv-
need has been long apparent for an orable condition. There were twen
improved system for the water sup- ty one frosts during the month of
ply. March and April and since that
General Young likewise yesterday time the weather has been very dry,
announced the completion by Major I but notwithstanding then diaadvaa-
York Coleman, Judge Advocate, of a I tag the crop are in a very good
compiled digest of changes of lws I condition.
and regulations affecting the militia I The prospects for a good fruit
of this State made since the regula- crop is alio good. Present conditions
tion of 1007 were published. indicate that there will be more fruit
The compiled digest will be pub- in thi section thi year then hoe
lished and distributed for the infor- ha been in ome time. However
mation and the guidance of all the the strawberry crop wa cut off oon-
officers at an early date. siderabl by the unusual dry weathVr.
Bunch beans are now being tMOd for
W. P. Lawrence, a tobacco ware- table purpose. od with favorable
houseman, who is well known through- seasons it will not be a great while
out the eastern part of Virginia and before thi product of the garden will
North and South Carolina, who ha be plentiful.
been spending several month in There are other thing of interest
New Bern helping to promote t h going on ia the Bellair ecfon, in
idea of building another warehouse eluding the arrangement for th build
here, has returned from Richland ing of a brick church ruifioe. The
where a very interesting proposition material for t hm if katag placed on
wa made to him in regard to takipg the ground and it i expected that
charge of the warehouse at that plaM the construct wn work wilt begin
. . . ... in.
Mr. Lawrence stated yesterday that within a thort lime. AOout mioen
while this proposition wa an inter- thousand brick will he used in the
ting one. b had not made any new buttpaf. and, the people of (hi
contract, and would not jpr a few Uea are anxious lot tbem to he
days. He will leave this morning turned Into substantial briek waHa
for Conway. H. C. to look after bmi- in whioV th paaplf of the Ba-
jrllM Sarah Whitohunt, left Uit
evening for Riaston to spend thort
tld friand.
mat tern relative to the ware-
houM that he eoadueU at that place.
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