AFamUy Newspaper: For the Promotion of the Politic Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the People.
VOL. XXXII.
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1916.
NUMBER 6.
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PARTY LINES ARE OBLITERATED
AND HOUSE PASSES TWO
NAVY BILLS.
CHARLES A. KORBLY
PASS WITHOUT OPPOSITION
One Provides for Addition of 300 Mid
shipmen to July Class Other for
Battleships 43 and 44.
Washington Speaker Clark and Re
publican Leader Mann fought ide by
side in the house for adequate Nation
al defense. With' party lines obliter
ated, most of the members followed
their leaders and two nary measures
passed without a dissenting vote. One,
to provide for adding 300 midshipmen
to the entering class at Annapolis
next July, passed 173 to 0, and the
other to equip navy yards for construc
tion of battleships Nos. 43 and 44,
passed without a roll-call.
Mr. Mann tried to put the anti-pre-preparedness
advocates on record by
calling for a division on the Naval
Academy bill, but there were no neg
ative responses.
The appearance of Speaker Clark
on the floor to champion preparedness
measures aroused wide interest. Ru
mors persisted that he would take
active charge of the fight to increase
the army and navy.
Immediate improvement of the
navy by designing new battleships
Along the lines of the best now in
use, doubling the membership of
both Annapolis and West Point,
creation of many additional regiments
for the army and short term enlist
ments to produce a reserve , were
I r5
RIVER FLOODS DO
SER OUS DAK
MISS MARIE SIMMS
BREAKS IN ARKANSAS RIVER
LEVEES DISASTROUS TO
LARGE SECTION.
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS
Charles A. Korbly, former represen
tative from Indiana, is legal adviser to
the comptroller of the currency.
BURN CANADIAN HOUSE
FIRE WAS CAUSED BY GAS BOMB
OR AN ' INFERNAL
MACHINE. X
Building Was Valued at $5,000,000
and the Contents Were of Inesti
mible Value.
Ottowa Ont. The historic Cana
dlan Parliament building was destroy
ed by a fire declared unoff iciallly to
have been caused by the explosion of
a gas bomb or an infernal machine:
Two women, guests of the wife of
Speaker Sevigny, were overcome by
smoke and perished. Several police
men and firemen were buried under
debris when one end of the building
among, the suggestions made by the collapsed. The number of persons
speaker. He said he expected to dis- taken to hospitals had not been de
cuss the subject of preparedness gen- termined. Frederick F. Pardee, chief
erally soon. liberal whip, and William S. Loggie,
Mr. Mann reiterated his previous memb- of Parliament from New
pleas for a larger army and navy and Brunswick are missing and it is fear
ed they have lost their lives.
Two Dominion policemen and two
house of commons attendants are de
clared to have been killed when the
roof fell.
It has been established that the
aided in maneuvering the bills to
passage. "This is not the time for
crimination and recrimination," said
he. "It is not the time to find fault
with that which has been. It is the
time for all kinds for that which may
come."
Mr. Clark urged haste in getting first burst of flame in the reading
new battleships into commission. He room of the House of Commons was
asked Chairman Padgett of "the nival preceded by at least one' explosion
committee why it would not be a good and possibly by two. The flames
plan to pattern the two new battle- spread so rapidly that the Ottawa fire
shops, Nos. 43 and 44, after the best brigade was utterly helpless. Aid
United States ship now afloat and was sent from Montreal on a special
get them completed quickly. train.
The loss cannot be estimated in
money. .The building was valued at
about $5,000,000, but the contents are
Colombain Treaty Not Approved on Df inestimable value. There was no
Account of Reduction. Insurance. At midnieht the commons
Washington. President Wilson has and senate chambers had been de
not approved the amendments to the stroyed and as the great clock boom
Colombian treaty reported by the sen- ea out the nour names were swirling
ate Foreign Relations Committee, and up the magnificent tower and licking
Democrats in the senate are by no their way to its top. Soldiers were as
means unanimously, in favor of them, signed to carry out its contents.
Sixteen Lives Have Been Lost. Prop
erty Damage Will Run Into Hun
dreds of Thousands.
Little Rock. The rapidly widening
lake in southeastern Arkansas, form
ed by the flood waters of the Arkan
sa river pouring through breaks in
the levees, had engulfed a score of
towns, leaving several thousand per
sons homeless. Sixteen lives have
been lost in the last few days, and
damage that probably will run into
hundreds of thousands of dollars has
resulted in the rich farming territory.
Still greater damage is feared if the
Mississippi continues to rise as in the
last few days. Predicated stages at
Arkansas City would endanger the le
vees there and a break in the Missis
sippi levees would precipitate a ser
ious situation in the river valley.
All day the 700 men who remained
in Arkansas City toiled in an effort
to strengthen the levees against the
fast rising waters . and they were
hopeful that the levees would hqld and
the town be saved. The narrow strip
of levee is the only land in sight
there. On one side is the river, swol
len until its surface is 15 feet above
the level of the town. On the other
side of the levee is the great flood
lake nearly 40 miles long and 20 miles
wide. From it only the upper stories
of buildings in Arkansas City pro
trude. At the levee are three steam
boats, one of which is ready to carry
the workers to safety should they
lose their battle with the flood. They
are living in the second stories of
their homes and in box cars on the
levee. 1
WILSON OBJECTS TO REDUCTION.
GERMANS HARD PRESSED.
'110 MEW
WE TO
Miss Marie Simms, daughter of Rep
resentative Simms of Tennessee, Is
one of the season's most popular debu
tantes in Washington.
CROWDS CHEER WILSON
DEMANDS BACKING TO DEFEND
AMERICAN LIVES AND COM
Sixteen Thousand in Hall, 20,000 Turn
ed Away and Another 10,000
Watch For Him.
DEMANDS
GERMANY
THINKS BERLIN FAILED TO UN
DERSTAND THE LAST LUSIA
TANIA NOTE!.
WORD "ILLEGAL" ONLY BAR
Situation is Considered Very Grave-
Berlin Hopes to Satisfy the Unit
ed States.
BREWER HEADS MEREDITH
RALEIGH, HEWBERtl
tSHElLE CENSUS
Dr. Charles E. Brewer Formally In
ducted Into Presidency.- College
is Prospering.
Raleigh. The inauguration of Dr.
Charles Edward Brewer as president
of Meredith College drew a great
crowd of people not only from Raleigh POPULATION JULY 1, 114, 20000,
but from all parts of the state. The 10300 an D 20,000 RE8PEC-
juereauu auunonmu was laxea vo uio i .
limit. Prar.tlcallv all of the colleares ; TIVELY.
of the state were represented. No
table among the visitors were Dr. Ho-
7na:-Jlenl". T CAPITAL HAS " INCREASED
wucgo, tv iuoiuuoaicui f iui( w.
H. Wright, president of the Eastern
Carolina Teachers' Training School,
Grenville, N. C; Dr. William Alex- Many Increases Are Shown to Census
ander Webb, president of Randolph-
Macon Woman's College; Dr. William
Louis Poteat, president of Wake For
est, and Dr. E. W. Sikes, Dr. W. R.
Cullom, Prof. J. H. Highsmith, Dr. R.
E. Flack of the University of North
Carolina; Dr. F. P. Hobgood, presi-
Estlmate of Manufacturing In
dustries, etc.
Washington. Preliminary state
ments of the general results of the
census . of manufacturers for Raleigh,
Asheville and Newbern have been is-
Washington. The one word "ille
gal" as differently interpreted in the
United States and Germany protrudes
from the tentative draft of the Lusi-
tania agreement, perfected by Ambas
sador von Bernstorff and Secretary
Liansing as the stumbling block
which has caused Berlin to refer to
the negotiations as having reached a and other state officials were present prepared under the direction of Wll-
dent of Oxford Female Seminary, and Bued by Dlrector Sam, L. Rogers of
many other well-known educators. tha Burean of thft nnun. Ttaev con-
Gov. Locke Craig, Supt J. Y. Joyner, aist of BU3nmarleB comparing the
maj. w. a. wanam, m. u. ampman figureB 1908 and im by totaiB,
Ham M. Stuart, chief statistician for
manufacturers.
The figures are preliminary, and
subject to such change and correc
tion as may be found necessary from
a further examination of the original
reports. "
-The population of Raleigh at the
census of 1910 was 19,218, and Is es
timated that it T?as 20,000 on July 1,
It developed that a strong effort
probably will be made in the senate
to defeat the Changes which would
reduce the proposed indemnity to
Colombia for the partition of Pana
ma from $25,000,000 to $15,000,000 and
revise the expression of regret that
anything should have marred the re
lations between the two countries so
as to make it mutual instead on the yj Jn jggQ
part of the United states aione.
Minister Betancourt of Colombia,
called on Secretary Lansing during
the day and was assured that the
President had not given his approval
to either of the amendments. Later
it became known that many of the
Democrats of the Foreign Relations
Committee opposed the changes.
A Republican, Senator Smith of
Michigan, by changing his vote on a
tie in the senate, carried the amend
ment reducing the indemnity to $15,-000,000.
Among those severely burned was
Minister of Agriculture Burrell, who
fell unconscious after plunging
through a curtain of fire and groping
his way along smoke-filled corridors.
The Canadian Parliament buildings
were erected from 1859 to 1865 and
the cornerstone was laid by the then
Prince of Wales, later King Edward
Fourteen Thousand Interned in Span
Ish Guinea, West Africa.
London. The British are pressing
the Germans hard in. the Kameran
region 'of " German "West Epuatofial
Africa. A Spanish official communi
cation says that 900 Germans and 14,-
000 of her colonial troops have cross
ed the southwest border and sought
asylum in Spanish Guinea, where they
were disarmed and interned.
Excepton the Western line in
France and Belgium and on the Cau
casus front, little fighting of moment
is in progress in any of the war the
aters. In northwest Russia there have
been aerial raids by both the Germans
and Russians and in Galicia and Bu-
kowina small infantry and grenade at
tacks. At one point along the line
where the Russian general Ivanoff is
in command the Russians found a sys
tem of Teuton mines and having wired
it, detonated the mines.
The British and French in Bel
gium haves helled, with destructive
effect, German trenches in Boesinghe,
and the French heavy guns have si
lenced a German battery to the east
of Boesinghe.
Kansas City, Mo. President Wilson
demanded that steps be begun during
the present month: to back him up in
defending American lives and com
merce abroad. His demand met-with
shouts and applause from an audience
of 16,000 persons who waved Ameri
can flags, leaped(j to their seats and
cheered. ij?
When the President ceased speak
ing he leaned forward and asked the
great throng . to join him in singing
"America." The band played softly,
the audience stood i and the words of
the patriotic anthfem came in a glori
ous burst of songj
The-big1 errwd ink1 -for -the Presi
dent from the start. It waited pati
ently an hour to see him and cheer
ed itself hoarse in a three-minute
demonstration when he appeared.
Sixteen thousand heard him; 20,000
crisis and Washington to characterize to show their interest in the institu-
the situation as grave. Germany's tion and its new president.
answer, presented to Secretary Lan- The exreises were presided over by
sing by Count von Bernstorff, . pro- W. N. Jones of this city, president
poses instead of an out-and-out admis- of the board of trustees of Meredith,
sion of illegality of the method of Fine music marked the occasion, the
submarine warfare used by the Ger- wel-trained Meredith choir being as-1
man naval authorities in sinking the slated by the Wake Forest Glee Club.
liner, an acceptance of liability for Music such as these young people
the loss of neutral lives which Berlin furnished is seldom heard and the big
hones will satisfv the TTnitp.d States audience enioyed it thoroughly.
and still not bind Germany from The principal address of the morn- 114.
continuing her submarine campaign. ing, aside from the splendid inaugu- The summary of the increases for
German officials believe their prev- ral address of President Brewer was the several items rank as follows:
ious promise to discontinue sinking by President William Alexander Webb Wages, 34.1 per cent; services, 29.4
unresisting merchantment without of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, per cent; materials, 27 per cent;
warning brings the submarine cam- Lynchburg, Va. Doctor Webb is a na- value of products, 22.7 per cent; sal-
paign within the pale of international tive Tar Heel, a man of fine hearing aries, 19 per cent; value added by
law and that any inclusion of that and a speaker at unusual impressive- manufacture, 17.8 per cent; primary
phase in the Lusitania agreement is ness. His subject was "The Place of horsepower, 4.1 per cent; wage-earn-
unnecessary and humiliating to the the Humanities In a College of Liberal ors, 2.7 per cent.
Imperial Government. The word Arts. ' The ppoulation of Asheville at the
"illegal" in the draft the German census of 1910 was 19,762, and it is
Ambassador transmitted to his Gov- Gastonia's New Postoffice Open. estimated was 20,000 on July 1, 1914.
ernment as meeting all the conten- Gastonia. Two thousand ' or more The summary for the manufacturers
tions of the United States, is taken attended the Informal reception which shows" an increase in the number of
to have been regarded in Berlin as marked the opening of the city's persons employed, the power used,
being susceptible of application not handsome new $75,000 postoffice the capital invested and amount paid
to the Lusitania case alone, but to building between the hours of 8 and annually for services. Increases rank
the entire submarine campaign. 10. The weather was anything but as follows: Primary horsepower, 24-3
That is the only explanation off I- pleasant but this did not deter people Per cent; wages, 10.7 per cent; ser-
cials here can find for the statement from coming out. The ; public was Tices, 8.9 per cent; capital, 5.1 per
of Doctor Zimmerman, under Secre- given an opportunity to see the work- cent; salaries, 4.3 per cent; wage
tary of Foreign Affairs, that "the Ing rooms and in fact all the various earners, 2.9 per cent; persons engag-
United States suddenly made new de- departments of the structure and the d in manufactures, 1.5 per cent. The
mands which it is impossible for na opinion was unanimous thfct Gastonia capital Invested as reported, In 1914,
to accept."
PASSES PHILIPPINE BILL.
Senate Would Authorize President to
Grant Independence.
WQcTiincrm TVi d "PViiIitittio Mil
were turned away and 10,000 more 1 wh,ch wouW extend tQ tfae islands a
has not only a handsome and attrac- was $2,954,000, a gain of $144,000 or
Mw.:1nrf1ffiiM.iiyl fcifft rt.h 5.1 perpemt ory .8812.000 In lt09.
is equipped with all the modern de-T It Is estimated that the population
vices for the rapid and efficient hand- of Newbern on July 1, 1914, was 10,
ling of mail matter. 300. There were 29 establishments
reported In the - corporate- limits dur
ing 1914. The capital Invested
PRESIDENT WILSON RETURNS.
Education Board Appropriates.
New York. The General Education
Board of the Rockefeller Foundation
announced appropriations of $335,250
to various colleges throughout the
United States. These appropriations
bring the total amount distributed by
the board since its organization 13
years ago to $12,322,460.
The larger amounts donated were:
Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.,
$75,000; Western College for Women,
Oxford, O., $100,000; Milwaukee
Bo wener College for Women, Mil
waukee, $100,000.
Among several appropriations for
negro schools in the south was one
of $2,000 for the Manassas, Va., In
dustrial School. For home-makers
clubs for negroes in the South $16,
250 was distributed as follows:
Believer That People Are With Hir
-Plans Another Tour.
Washington. President Wilson has
returned to Washington believing that
the people of the Middle West are
with him on the issue of national de
fense and are prepared to insist that
Congress take speedy action. He fin
ished his speaking tour at St. Louis
President Wilson's advisers believe
he has explained clearly why he con
siders immediate preparedness im
perative, 1 has won many converts to
the movement and has given new im
petus to a discussion of the cause.
From the sympathetic attitude of
most of his audiences, from the en
thusiasm his every appeatance in
public has evoked, from the huge
crowds which have greeted him, they
have drawn the conclusion that the
people overwhelmingly support his
plans at least in the Middle West.
The President's official family want
him to start soon on another tour
Some of them liken his swing through
the Middle West to an operation not
ret completed.
Canadians Warned.
Guelph, Ont. After the fire at the
Jardine munitions plant at Hespler
warnings were received by the chief
of police that an attempt was to be
made to destroy the winter fair
buildings in this city that now are
occupied by the military and the arm
ories where two batteries are housed.
Special guards were assigned to these
points as well as to several of the
factories in the city.
tried to glimpse him as he left his
hotel for the hall. . 1
"Why, some men in Washington
are questioning if we could get the
500,000 men for which the Govern
ment is asking," he said, at one point
of his address.
"Would they volunteer?"
A man in the far end of the hall
shouted "yes" and others echoed the
word until the hall was in a turmoil.
"Why, I believe," the President
said, "you could raise the 500,000
men in almost any state. I believe
you could get 5,000 men right here
in this audience. I have been thrilled
by the experiences of these last few
days, and I will go home to Wash
ington and smile at the gentlemen
who say the United States is not
awake.
"These gallant men who sit on the
hill in Washington and make our
laws are going to deliver the goods,'
the crowd cheered. "Don't misim
derstand me, they are going to de
liver the goods because you want the
goods delivered."
greater degree of self-government and
Child Drinks Kerosene; Dead.
Greenville. The 14-month-old son
amounted to $2,562,000.
Ferdinand Will Visit Germany.
Berlin, via London. King Ferdinand
of Bulgaria is coming to Germany, it
has just been learned to return the
visit paid by Emperor William to the
King of Nish, Serbia, on January 18.
British Steamship Sunk
London. The British steamship
Balgownie, 1,061 tons gross, has been
sunk. The crew, with the exception
of the second officer, was saved."
Zeppelin Lost in Sea. -
London. A Zeppelin airship and
Alabama, $2,750 ; Arkansas, $2,200 ; probably all her crew has been lost in
Georgia, $2,000; Kentucky, $1,500;
North Carolina, $3,500 ; Tennessee,
1.800; Virginia, $2,500.'
the North Sea and it is possible that
she met her fate through the fire of
Dutch anti-aircraft guns.
English and French Watch Port.
Newport News, Va. Coincident with
with the announcement that the Ap-
Meet at Home of Secretary Daniels.
Washington. A meeting was held
at , the home of Secretary Josephus
pam will be allowed to take on 200 Daniels by the John Paul Jones Asso-
tons of coal for port uses, British ship- ciation, incorporated, for the purpose
masters arriving here report that an Qf discussing and devising plans for
English and a. French cruiser patrol preserving "The Grove," which is near
the Atlantic coast in the vicinity of Halifax, N. C. This was the home of
the Virginia capes. The cruisers do Willie Jones, : where John Paul, the
not wait the departure of the Appam. great American naval hero, spent a
but rather the expected arrival of number of years of his early life. , A
other German prizes or sea raiders. iar;e number of prominent ladies and
for the Appam's crew is not large gentlemen attended the gathering,
enough to man her and it would be whlch was addressed by Secretary
suicide to taKe tne steamer out. I Daniel
Wilson Thinks Appam a Prize.
Washington. President , Wilson 1b
understood to hold the opinion that
the British steamship Appam, brought
into the Hampton Roads by a German
crew, must be considered as a prize
of Germany under the Prussian-American
treaty of 1628. It was stated
that this accords with the view of the
state department. The president has
not had an opportunity to discuss
with Secretary Lansing the details of
the case and therefore no final decis
ion has been reached.
Great Fighting Machine.
New York. The United States has
in its navy the nucleus of the greatest
fighting machine in the world, accord
ing to Frank J. Sprague, chairman of
the committees on electricity and
shipbuilding of the naval consulting
board, who returned here after spend
ing a month aboard the battleship
New York and witnessing the amn-
euvers of the Atlantic fleet in South
ern waters. Mr. Sprague declared
the two most vital requirements of the
navy at present are more officers and
men and efficiency in target practice
of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Stepp. who live TQe summary for tne city rouows:
would authorize the president to near this city, died from the effects Number of establishments, 29 ; per
grant them absolute independence Gf kerosene oil which' he drank His sons engaged in manufactures, 939;
within four years passed the senate i older brother had used some oil to I proprietors and firm members, 17;
52 to 24. Various Democrats, led by start a flre set aside a bottle salaried employes, 909; wage-earners
Chairman Stone of the foreign rela- containing only a small amount. The average number, 832; primary horse-
tions committee, men unsuccessiuuy llttle fellow got bottle and drank power, 2,550; capital, $2,562,000; ser-
to amend certain features of the Inde- enough to cause his death about three ices. $483,000; salaries. $109,000;
penaence clause, Dut in tne ena tne hours late medical aid not beine able wages, $374,000; materials, $1,206,000;
Democrats joined by six Progressive t ....,,. ita off(Wn T.a.t ralue of products. $1910.000; value
Mr. and Mrs. Stepp lost a little daugh- added by manufacture, $705,000.
ter, whose death resulted from her
dress taking fire while standing close Should Manufacture Toys.
to the flames. Klnston. This section of North
voted solidly for the
Republicans,
measure.
It is understood the bill will go to
the house with the backing of Presi
dent Wilson and will be passed for
early passage. Administration lead
ers seemed confident that the bill
would have the approval of the house
Democratic majority.
The Republicans who voted for the
bill were Borah, Clapp, Kenyon, La
Follette, Norris and Works. By
Carolina should manufacture toys for
the entire country, Edward W. J.
CHILD LABOR BILL PASSES.
House Gives Keating Bill Majority
Vote 337 to 46.
Washington. It was by an over
whelming majority that the Keating
child labor bill passed, the vote being
337 to 46. The North Carolina dele
gation to a man voted against the
measure, Representative Britt on the
Republican side being conspicuous for
his vote against, when the Republi
cans voted favorably and unitedly for
the act.
Representative Webb was again
leading the fight against the act, be
ing joined in speaking by Doughton
and Britt from North Carolina and
representatives from South Carolina.
The bill will meet strong opposition
when it reachse" the senate side, as in
dicated by the expressed purpose of
Senator Overman to prevent its fav
orable report from the, committee.
Seek to Provide District Nurse.
Fayetteville. In seeking to provide Proffitt, a new England business man,
a district nurs for Fayetteville, the told the Chamber of Commerce here.
Civic Association has given out a He advised that the chamber get
statement declaring that it will cost northern capital interested. "Tell
at least $1,200 a year to maintain such them that the scrapwood that might
overwhelming majorities the senate an office. To raise this fund for the go Into toys are being burned, that
had refused to modify the Clark office which is practically assured factory sites are dirt cheap, that there
amendment, adopted several days ago, or the near future, the association is is no complicated labor trouble and
which contains the independence pro- calling on the churches, fraternal or- that freight rate's are remarkably
vision and also gives the president ders and clubs of the city to help low," he advised in suggesting to tne
authority to extend or withhold inde- raise the necessary amount. It is ex- Klnston business man now tney
pected that it will be taken kindly to might Interest capitalists in sw.
and that the office will be established England and the Middle Atlantic
pendence at the end of the four years.
Turks Evacuate Erzerum.
Petrograd. The Novoe Vremya as
serts it has received truhtworthy in
formation that the Turks have evacu-
very soon.
states who would jump at the chance
of Investing here.
Big Prices For Tobacco.
Reidsville. Some phenomenal
ated Erzerum, one fo their principal prices have been recorded for tobacco
strongholds on the Caucasian front, during the past week, and buyers
have been free to admit that Reids-
Mayors' Conference. . ville is paying the highest prices for
New York. Mayor Mitchell has tel- all grades at present. Reidsville has
egraphed the chief executives of 600 this reputation anyhow; but it is' not
cities, asking them to appoint dele- usual this season to see as high as
gates to the Mayors' Conference on 45 cents paid nor complete outputs
National Defense in St. Louis, March
3 and 4, and to attend themselves if
jossible.
Have Signed Agreement.
London The Adeverul, a newspa
per of Bucharst, declares that Greece
and Rumania have signed a dual neu
trality convention, according to a dis
patch received here by wireless tele
graphy from . Rome. . ,
British Want Appam.
Washington. In the name of the
British owners of the steamship Ap-
! pam, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the Brit
ish Ambassador, lodged with the
State Department a formal request
that the ship be turned . over to the
British Consul under the terms of The
Hague Convention. Notice also was
served that it would be in violation
of international law if the United
States permitted the German prize
commander of the Appam either, to
increase the efficiency of the ship; to
add to her offensive power or crew.
I
Sharp Attack on Child Labor Bill.
Washington "Some of the idle-rich
sentimental women who are urging
this bill to strike against three or four
states of the South will probably wear
National Capitol Closely Guarded.
Washington. The extra number of
guards appearing about Capitol Hill
proveto be reminders that some fa
natics may undertake to repeat some
on . their hats flowers made by tiny destrictive exploit like that of last
children of New York tenements that summer when a bomb exploded in
never see the sunlight," said Repre
sentative Webb, of North Carolina,
during debate on the Keating child
labor bill. The measure bars from
interstate commerce products of child
labor. Representative Britt, of North
Carolina, declared , the bill "an outra
geous invasion of state rights."
one of the corridors. The destruction
of the Parliament building at Ottawa
has also caused apprehension. The
flre-proof character of the Capitol Is
regarded as f nearly perfect. Addi
tional guards have been put at the
Capitol. It has been decided, more
over, to search the Capitol at nieht.
disposed of at an average of 25 cents,
yet there were several instances of
this kind on the market recently.
Hog Cholera Decreasing.
Newbern. J. W. Sears, farm - de
monstrator for Craven county who is
engaged in making a fight on the hog
cholera epidemic in this county, states
that it was his opinion that this epi
demic was decreasing and that if the
farmers would use the proper precau
tion, the disease- would be entirely
eradicated within the course of two
of three months.
NORTH CAROLINA BRIEF8.
Over 20,000,000 pounds of tobacco
were sold on the Greenville markets
during the season just closed.
Wilkes county canning club report
ed for 1915: Girls enrolled, 234; re
porting, 200; total number pounds to-
White Way For 8helby.
Shelby. The Board of Aldermen
has about decided to put a white way
in the business section of Shelby. It
contemplates the erection of 55 large
iron lamp posts equipped with several
lights on both sides of , the court
square and on several streets leading
out. The Investment will be in the
cans, tin and glass, 49,940; number neighborhood of $3. 000. In addit on
pounds vegetables sold fresh, 15,627;
money value, $5,204.77; cost, $1,997.60;
profit, $3,207.17; number of acres
farmed, 20; average profit per acre,
$160.35.
Lincoln county's cotton crop was
3,000 bales short last year.
The comptroller of currency has
announced the failure of the Fourth
National Bank of Fayetteville.
J. J. Farriss has been confirmed
postmaster at High Point.
Troy and Mount Gilead is soon to
have electric lights. ;
Governor Craig has offered a re
ward of $100 for the capture of Char
He Carroll, wanted in Clay county for
the alleged murder of Everett Smith.
Dr. Chas. E. Brewer was Inaugurat
ed president of Meredith College at
Raleigh lst Thursday.
to this, they have been discussing
very freely and favorably the matter
of placing asphalt or bitulithic on the
streets in the business section, but
this has not ben decided on. .
Rebuilding Railroad Shops.
Newbern. The contractors who
have been awarded the contract . for
the erection of the Norfolk Southern
Railway Company's new shops, to re
place those destroyed by fire a few
months ago, have begun the work of
constructing these buildings. The
new shops will be larger and more
modern in every particular than those
which went up In smoke and ashes.
They will be as fireproof as it will
be possible to get them and attention
will be paid to every detail which
will tend to make them complete.
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