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VOL. XXXII. E COMMITTEE AGREES ON OUTLINE PROPOSED ARMY BILL CALLS FOR FEDERALIZATION OF NATION AL GUARD. AlSO plenty of supplies Total Peace Strength of 575,000 Men Guardsmen and Regulars is Pro vided For By Bill. Washington. National preparedness legislation took a long step forward in congress when the house military com mittee reached a practical agreement on the outline of the army bill it will unanimously present for pasage. Chairman Hay was authorized to frame the measure, which is a compromise for the continental army plan advo cated by former secretary of war and President Wilson. Complete federalization of the Na tional Guard will be substituted for the proposed continentals, and the White House was- informed during the day that the committee was a unit in supporting the- plan. The measure will grant virtually the en ure program mapped out by Secretary Garrison for the regular army and go even farther than he recommended in providing for reserve military sup plies. A total peace strength of 575,000 men in the standing army and the guard combined will be provided for, with reserve systems to more than double the force in war. The expense for the whole establishment this year is roughly estimated at $174,000, 000. This is exclusive of Panama Canal defenses, proposals for addition al military schools in all states carried in the McKello'- bill favorably report ed with an appropriation of $3,840,u00 and whatever camp may later be de cided upon to foster one fixation of at mospheric nitrogen in the United States and give this country its own supply of ingredients for explosives. The first year of the Garrison plan would have called for a total expendi '"' of !2 000.000- ceptable to President Wilson has not been indicated but the committee be lieves its plant will over-ride every objection to the substitution of the National Guard for the continentals and that congress has full legal au thority for its accomplishment. FRENCH BAG BIG ZEPPELIN. Incendiary Shell of Anti-Aircraft Gun Reaches Its Mark. London. Another of Germany's big Zeppelin airships has come to grief, and it is probable that some, if not all, of its crew perished, as it was engulf ed in flames as it fell to earth, a vic tim of an incendiary shell fired from a French anti-aircraft gun. The Paris official communication reports that the airship was south ward bound from the region of St. Menehould when the French guns at Rexigny began shelling it. At least one of the missiles found, its mark and the huge aircraft took fire and fell in the vicinity of Brabant-le-Roi. The Germans near Iihons, to the south of the Somme Rtver, have met with repulses at the hands of the French in an intended attack extend ing over about four and one-third miles. The offensive movement was preceded by a heavy bombardment and clouds of asphyxiating gases. When the German infantry endeav ored to come out of their trenches for the attack, however, the barriers fire and the fire of the French rifle men stopped them everywhere, ac cording to Paris. Earthquake In Six States. Atlanta, Ga. An earth tremor of slight but distinct nature that made itself felt throughout Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, and por tions of Eastern Tennessee and Ala bama was reported as having been felt at about 5:45 p. m., Central time. In no case was any damage reported and while in some instances persons hurriedly left buildings there was noth ing in the nature of a panic. Army Aviation Dangerous. Washington. A congressional in vestigation into he army aviation ser vice was recommended to the senate by the military committee, which re ported favorably Senator Robinson's joint resolution for appointment of a special investigating committee of two senators and three representatives, with an appropriation of $10,000 for expenses. The resolution was voted out of committee after Senator Rob inson had added a further statement to the sensational charges against the service made by him. Charges Against Tom Watson. Washington. Attorney General Gregory made public a letter to Chas. R. McCrory of Ellavllle, Ga., stating the position of the department of jus tice in regard to prosecution of Thos. E. Watson of that state for alleged sending through the mails of obscene and indecent matter. The letter ans wers protests of Georgia members of Congress against reported plans of the department to prosecute Watson out side the State of Georgia -on the ground that a fall trial could not b( hid in that state. oo 1 A Family C. C. DILL C. C. Dill, a new congressman from the state of Washington, is the young est member of the house. . SEND FACTS ON MEXICO RESipENT RESPONDS TO FALL RESOLUTION AND SENDS HIS REPORT. Facts Leading Up to Recognition of Carranza Government Sent to Senate in Form of Letter. Washington. President Wilson has sent to the Senate his response to the Fall resolution requesting him to re port on facts leading up to recognition by the United States of the Carranza Government of Mexico. It was in the form of a letter from Secretary Lans ing, summarizing the events whith preceded recognition and transmit ting a great volume of data. The President through Mr. Lansing declined to comply with that part of the Fall resolution asking for diplo matic and consular reports on politi cal conditions and events in Mexico. The senate was informed that it was not compatible with public interests to furnish this correspondence inas much as it was of a highly confiden tial nature and "submitted by consu lar officers of the United Statesl bv er governments wmcn nave gracious ly consented that their officers might supply this government with Informa tion during the necessary absence of American representatives and by oth er persons residing in Mexico." As to the ability of Carranza to ful fill his promises to protect foreign lives and property, Mr. Lansing said that under all the circumstances, the de factor government, which at the time of recognition controlled more than 75 per cent of Mexico's terri tory, was affording "reasonable ade quate protection to the lives and prop erty of American citizens." The data disclosed that 76 Ameri cans were killed in Mexico in the years 1913, 1914, 1915 and compared with 47 in the three years preceding, and that 20 civilian Americans and 16 soldiers were killed on American soil in the last three years as a re sult of Mexican troubles. SEABOARD LIMITED WRECKED. Third Accident in Two Weeks Occurs Near Richmond. Richmond, Va. Eleven nersohs were injured, several of them ser iously, when the. northbound Florida Limited No. 10 on the Seaboard Air Line Railway, crashed through a trestle spanning Kingsland- "Creek, eight. miles south of Richmond... .The engine passed over the trestle in safe ty but the baggage car leaped from the track tearing up the ties and rails and through this gap four coaches plunged and turned over on their-sides at the bottom of the 20-foot embank ment. Fifty-seven passengers were aboard the train and that there was not heavy loss 'of life is attributed to the fact that all of the derailed Pull man coaches were of heavy steel con struction. The derailment of the limited was caused directly by the dropping - of an arch bar on the rear truck of the engine as the train approached the trestle. The bar opened a switch where the track branches off toward a gravel pit. As the front truck of the baggage car struck the open switch it left the tracks and ran on the ties a distance of 1,000 feet until it struck the guard rail on the trestle. This was the third accident which has befallen the Florida Limited with in the past two weeks. One Tuesday of last week it was wrecked near Southern Pines, N. C, when Enginer David K. Wright was killed, and again on, Tuesday of this week it met with disaster at Franklinton, N. C, when the engineer and a negrro fireman were killed and other trainmen were seriously injured. Pan-America In Peril. Washington. "Pan-Ameican" Is in peril! Information in possession of the senate's foreign relations committee indicates a great German influence in Latin-America influence amounting to the establishment of footholds in several American republics that would gravely imperil the Monroe doctrine. Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Nicaragua and the Danish island of St. Thomas, now under German lease, are the localities in which Heutonic power is unmasked. Newspaper: For the Promotion SCOTLAND RUSSIAN PRESS PURSUIT UE TURKS CAPTURE REMAINDER OF DIVIS ION AND LARGE QUANTITIES OF SUPPLSES. UTTLE FIGHTING IN WEST Some Important Troop Movements. Austrians Bring Down One Italian Machine During Air Raid. London. The latest official state ment by the Russian War Office re ports the capture of; the towns of Mush, in Asiatic Turkey, lying 83 miles southeast of Erzerum, and Ahlat. Th,e pursuit of the Turkish forces who retreated from Erzerum is being con tinued and the Russians have taken prisoner what remained of the thirty fourth Turkish division, with a large quantity of war supplies. An air raid by a squadron of Ital lian machines against Laibach, Capi tal of Carniola, Austria-Hungary, is officially reported from Rome. Bombs were dropped on the town, and they are thought to have done consider able damage. Austrian aeroplanes ascended for the purpose of driving off the raiders, and six of them sur rounded one of the Italians and brought him to earth. Asia and Africa figure more prom inently than Europe in the current war news. The Russians are follow ing up with vigor their recent suc cess in Turkish Armenia; Constanti nople reports a reverse for the Brit ish in Mesopotamia, while London announces the completion of the con ques of the Kamerun, the important German colony in western equatorial Africa. The immense forces massed in the European war areas are just now comparatively inactive. The Russians meanwhile are active along the Black Sea coast and have recently reported a landing on the Armenian littoral, 15 miles east of Trebizond, which - city is considered one of the next objectives of Russian land forces by a march of about one zerum. "---.--. Along the Black Sea coast, Rus sian warships are pounding at the Aurkish batteries and harassing the retreating troops. The northern wing of the Russian army has captured the town of Widje and is driving the Turks back in the direction of Gumish Khaneh, which is on the road to Treb izond, while large Russian forces are moving westward from Erzerum with the object of cutting off these Turkish troops before the yean reach a new line of defense. DANIELS ASKS FOR MONEY. Emergency Appropriation of $2,757,000 For Needed Repairs. Washington, A$2,757,000 emergen cy appropriation for repairs of machin ery in battleships, torpedo destroyers and submarines, to increase the sup ply of mines and, for the first time, to equip battleships with anti-aircraft guns was asked of Congress by Secre tary Daniels. "Many of our destroyers have reached an age where renewals of ex tensive portions of their machinery equipment is necessary," Secretary Daniels said. "The same is true of submprines, both classes of vessels making a big drain on this year's ap propriation." The boilers of the battleships Geor gia and Virginia, both of which" have been in almost constant service for ten years, have shown such weakness, Mr. Daniels said, as to require that these vessels be withdrawn from ac tive service to have their boilers re placed. In addition, the Virginia has recently broken an important part of her machinery, which must be re newed, and the long stay of the fleet .in Mexican waters last year also caus ed an unusualy repair bill. Capt. William Lauder Dead. Norfolk, Va. Capt. William Lauder, one of the best known marine men along the Atlantic Coast, died at liis home here. He was the marine under writers agent here. Belgian Relief Plan Falls. London. The plan of aiding Bel gium to feed herself by rehabilitating the industries of the country under control of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium has failed, ac cording to a letter written by Sir Ed ward Grey, the British foreign secre tary to M. Hymans, the Belgium min ister here, because the Germans thus far have failed to reply to the request for guarantees that raw materials and manufactured goods will not be seiz ed by the occupying armies. Lieut. Berg Not Hospitable. Newport News, Va. Two deputy United States marshals were in dis tress aboard the prize ship Appam when Marshal John G. Saunders ar rived from Norfolk to see how things had been going since his men theoreti cally dispossessed the German prize crew yesterday. The deputies had spent- last night on deck, with no where to sleep and nothing to eat and had utterly failed to Impress Lieuten ant Berg, the German commander, with the fact that this ship was sub ject to their orders. of the Political, Social,' Agricultural and Co . : : 1 1 . , ' ...... . ' - NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, WILLIAM H. COLEMAN William H. Coleman of McKeesport is the new membeV of the house of representatives from the Thirteenth district of Pennsylvania. Mr. Cole man, a Republican,, was born Decem ber 28, 1871, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and is a lawyer. He was mayor of McKeesport from 1906 to 1909 and clerk, of the Allegheny county courts from? 1909 to 1915. NEW ORDERS ARE ISSUED ANOTHER HITCH IN SUBMARINE CONTROVERSY WITH GER MANIC POWERS. Must Not Alter Previous Assurances of Safety to Neuirals and Non Contraband. Washington. The submarine con troversy with Germany cannot be closed until the United States has fully considered tae ppsible effect of the declared intention of the. Ger manic Powers to slafe all armed mer chant ships of Iheir-enemies Without uoancement was made by Secretary Lansing instead of the long expected announcement of a satisfactory settle ment of the Lusitania negotiations. Perfected by months of patient and at times perilious negotiation, the Lusitania agreement was presented by Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador in a form which would have been acceptable to the United States had not the Germanic Powers had not the Germanic Powers an nounced tneir determination to re gard armed merchant ships of their enemies as warships. The Lusitania agreement will not be accepted as finally satisfactory to the United States until President Wilson and Secretary Lansing have decided whether any of its terms would be nullified by the principles of the new submarine campaign. It is practically certain that the United States will ask to be specifi cally informed that the assurances previously given for the safety of neutrals and non-combatants at sea have not been and will not be altered by the latest declarations of the Ber lin and Vienna admiralties. American officials fear that the United States and Germany may find themselves at the same point they stood in the first days of the subma rine crisis with the United States con tending unreserved'y for the princi ples of law and humanity in naval warfare and confronted with a long series of diplomatic exchanges, the result of which they cannot foresee. Count von Bernstorff, told Secre tary Lansing it was his personal opin ion, that, in the 'new .submarine cam paign, his Government intended to abide by its promise not to sink un resisting "liners" without warning, given in the Arabic case and referred to in the Lusitania agreement. Mr. Lansing informed the Ambassador that such a declaration from his gov ernment would be highly desirable. RUSSIANS CAPTURE EZERUM. Chief Turkish City In Armenia Taken By Czar's Troops. London. Ezerum, Turkey's chief city in Armenia, is in the hands of the Russians. Heavy assaults by the Rus sains against the long line of detach ed forts protecting the city, lasting over a period of five days and describ ed by Grand Duke Nicholas, the Rus sian commander-in-chief as "unprece dented," having resulted in the "cap ture of the fortress. Unofficial reports early in the pres ent month said the German Field Mar shal von Der Goltz with 80,000 men. was besieged in the city with provi sions for only a fortnight. Two Steamers Burned. New York. The steamships Bolton Castle and Pacific, and a 900-foot pier belonging to the New York Dock Com pany, at the foot of Pioneer street, Brooklyn, were destroyed by the most disastrous fire on the Brooklyn front in years. Another steamer, the Pal lazia, was damaged, about 25 scows and lighters were partly or wholly burned and several coolies from the Bolton Castle and Pacific were miss ing after the fire. The loss is estima ted at considerably more than $1,000, 000. The origin of thl- fire is unknown. " - I I 1 mmercial Interests FEBRUARY 24, 1916. NICARAGUA!! TREATY RATIFIED BY SENATE FIVE DEMOCRATS OPPOSE AND 15 REPUBLICANS VOTE FOR RATIFICATION. OPTION" ON CANAL ROUTE Also Naval Base in Gulf of Fonseca and Pays Nicarauga Government $3,000,000. Washington. The senate' by a vote of 55 to 18 ratified the long-pending and persistently opposed Nicaraguan treaty, whereby the United States would acquire a 99-year option on the Nicaraguan Canal route and a naval base in the Gulf of Fonseca for $3, 000,000. t , Included in the ratification resolu tion was a provision declaring that the United States in obtaining the naval base does not intend to vio late any existing rights in the Fon seca Gulf of Costa Rico, Honduras and Salvador, which had protested against the proposed acquirement. Five Democratic senators voted against the treaty. They were Cham berlain, Martine, Clarke of Arkansas, Thomas and Vardaman. Fifteen Re publican senators joined the adminis tration forces in support of the treaty. Immediately after the senate had acted, Senator Chammorro, the Nic araguan Minister, said he would at once communicate with his govern ment and that he expected ratifica tion of the convention by his gov ernment would soon follow and ex changes made to put the treaty in force. Senator Clarke of Arkansas led the Democratic opposition to the treaty, while the Republican opposition was headed by Senator Borah and Smith of Michigan. During the long debate declarations were made in the senate that Ger many had offered Nicaragua more than had the United States for the canal route option, and this is said to have -beea used as an argument for ratifica- Senator Stone. chairman or the Foreign Relations, Committee, will call up the Haitien financial portec torate treaty next, this to be followed by the amended Colombian treaty. Regarding the Colombian treaty there is grave doubt whether it can receive the necessary two-thirds vote for rati fication. LEGISLATORS IN FIGHT. Oklahoma Solons Throw Ink Bottlej and Paper Weights. Oklahoma City, Okla. Tumultuous scenes occurred in the Oklahoma House of Representatives while the members were voting on a section of an election law designed to take the place of the famous "grandfather law" which recently was declared unconsti tutional by the United States Supreme Court because in effect it disenfranch ised the negro population of the state. Partisan feeling over the new meas ure culminated in a near riot precipi tated by charges of corruption and the passing of the lie between mem bers, during which ink bottles and paper-weights were used as weapons. Arthur H. Geissler, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, was knocked down and rendered un conscious by Representative Lorris E. Bryant of Big Heart, Osage county. The proposed law, the product of a Democratic caucus, has passed the senate and was up for final passage in the house, with Republican and So cialist members offering vigorous op position. Geissier was on the floor through the courtesy of a visitor's per mit issued him as Republican State ehairman. Thousand of Armenians Dead. London. While full details of the capture of Ezerum, Aurkish Armenia, are still lacking, semi-official advices from Petrograd are to the effect that most of the Turkish garrison made their escape. Thousands of Armenians are declared to have been massacred by Kurds before the evacuation. Francis Named Ambassador. Washington. David R. Francis of St. Louis, secretary of the interior in Cleveland's Cabinet and former Gov ernor of Missouri, has been offered the post of Ambasador to Russia to suc ceed George T Marye. Mr. Francis has not replied, but President Wilson is understood to have urged him to accept. Mr. Marye has advised the state department that his resignation has been mailed from Petrograd. It is informally stated that his health would not permit him to remain in the Russian climate. merchant Ships Have Right to Arm. . Washington. All American diplo matic and consular officials abroad have been notified by the state de partment that the position of the Unit ed States is that merchant ships have a right to carry defensive armanment. This is the first formal announcement that the United States does not accept as legal the announced intention of Germany and Austria to sink armed merchant ships without warning after February 29 as coming within interna, tional law. - ' of the People. FIGURES ON STATE, ITEMS Main Items For North Carolina In cluded in Rivers and Harbors Bill. Washington. The Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House has drafted the river and harbor bill, and there have been secured unofficially certain items of appropriation which are included in the bill. There is a possibility that these items may be changed, but it is not probably. The items are: Inland waterway from Norfolk, Va., to Beaufort Inlet, containing improve ment, $1,000,000. Shallow Bag bay for maintenance. $2,000. . Beaufort inlet for maintenance, $10, 000. Harbor at Morehead City for main tenance, $2,600. Meherrin river for maintenance, $2,506.' Fishing creek for maintenance, $1,000. Pamlico and Tar rivers for mainten ance, $4,500. Bay river for maintenance, $1,000. Trent river for maintenance, $2,000. Swift creek for maintenance, $1,000. Waterway from Pamlico sound to Beaufort inlet for maintenance, $6,500. Waterway connecting Core sound and Beaufort harbor for maintenance, $2,000. New river and waterways to Beau fort for maintenance, $6,000. Northeast and Black rivers and Cape Fear river above Wilmington for main tenance, $8,500. Cape Fear river above Wilmington for continuing improvement on locks and dams, $83,000. Cape Fear river at and below Wil mington completing improvement and for maintenance, $135,000. Cape Lookout harbor of refuge $600. 000. This appropriation is to be made in the sundry civil appropriation bill under authorization heretofore made. Mayors to Talk Preparedness. Durham. When the mayors of North Carolina assemble in anual convention in Kinston early this spring, the subject of national defense will unquestionably force itself to the front for debate. The National Se curity League will present the merits of preparedness and the powerful le ver of the mayors of North Carolina and other states will be sought to Wleid ar sarc- and effective strode for the cause. The National Conference of Mayors, called to meet in St. Louis on March 3 and 4, is a forerunner of the-movement that will identify itself ultimately with the local and state municipal leaders. Mayor B. S. Skin ner ,of Durham, has been flooded with literature and special delivery mes sages from the National Security League to detail a representative for the St. Louis conference, and, more over, for a local branch in Durham. Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, of New York City, heads the national confer ence committee and North Carolina mayors are being prevailed upon to forward the names of the committees appointed to New York's municipal leader. "Concerted action will hasten preparedness legislature," reads a parapraph in the letter to North Car olina mayors. McNeely's Body May Be Found. Washington. It is believed that the body of Robert Ney McNeely has been washed ashore near Alexandria, Egypt. Information to this effect was telegraphed the state department by American Consul Gerris. The body was so decomposed that it was diffi cult to distinguish the features. The message follows: "Body very decomposed, washed up on Egyptian coast. Marks on clothes and watch indicate American origin. Body possibly Consul Mc Neely. "Description and marks on clothing which follow may serve to identify wearer: trousers and vest, black or blue, made by Wright; no coat; yellow striped Manhattan shirt; black tie, green and pink design; black high shoes, marked Boyden; leather money belt with 34 sovereigns; Knicker bocker watch, gold dial, works stamp ed Knickerbocker Watch Company, New York and F. Cornioely, who is probably seller; case marked Illinois Watch Company, Elgin, U. S. A.; No. 2797860; photograph on paper in lid of watch obliterated." NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. Austin Dunston, highly respected colored' man, aged 55 years, died a few days ago from pneumonia after a short illness. Austin was janitor in the Governor's office and was a thor oughly reliable, trustworthy man. He was made janitor by Governor Vance. The Durham Hosiery Mills have in creased their capital stock from $1, 750,000 to $2,500,000. Olin Ramsey, aged 20, of Hickory, was crushed to death recently under the wheels of a freight train. A committee of the Cotton Manufac turers' Association of North Carolina, met in Charlotte recently and award ed the contract for 250,000 ions of coal. Kire destroyed the Sandy. Plains Prssbyterian church in Polk county, 16 miles west of Rutherfordton a few d8ys ago. The population of Charlotte at the census of 1910 was 34,014, and it if estimated by the census bureau that it was 38,000 on July 1, '1914. - More than 500 physicians are ex pected to attend the state annual con vention in April at Durham. NO. 8. BICKETT JOINS III FILING BRIEF FIFTEEN ATTORNEYS GENERAL REPRESENTS STATES IN LIQUOR CASE. FIGHT FOR THE QUART LAW Brief Covers Sixty-Three Pinted Pages and is Dedicated to Two Principle Propositions. Raleigh. Attorney General T. W. . 3ickett has joined with the Attorneys General of the state of Arizona, Geor gia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma. Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington and Alabama, in filing a. brief before the Supreme Court of the United States in the celebrated case of Clark Distilling Companyv which case brings before the Supreme' Court the constitutionality of the Webb-Kenyon act, and involves also the validity of the North Carolina quart law. The brief covers 63 printed pages and is dedicated to two propositions: 1 That the Webb-Kenyon act is a Talid exercise of the power of Con gress to regulate commerce between the states. 2 That a state In the excercise of its reserve police power may prohibit or regulate the receipt and possession of intoxicating liquors within its bor ders and that since the enactment of the Webb-Kenyon act such legislation is not in violation of the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution. One of the authorities emphasized in the brief is Glenn vs Southern Ex press Company decided at the Fall term, 1915, in which Associate Jus tice Allen, speaking for a unanimous court, ably reviews the 'law of the subject and sustains both the Webb Kenyon act and the North Carolina quart law. The granting of a writ of error by the State Supreme Court in the Glenn case going up from Wake is interest ing as showing the desire of the North -Carolina .Supreme Court to, have the case settled as soon as possible. George M. Glenn was a Raleigh policeman until the Summer of 1914. That does not account for his thirst. ' if he had one, but he tested the Grier act last year and the Southern Ex press Company refused to forget that he had received his legislative allot ment earlier in the month. The com pany wanted the collection, but fear 3d to take the chances and declined to leliver the goods. Change Plans at Badin. Charlotte. Rivaling in interest the recent anouncement that a portion of the Badin or Yadkin Narrows develop ment would be put in operation this summer is that which now comes from Albemarle to the effect that the entire hydro-electric . outlay and plan has been radically changed, that the pow er house is to be placed on the Montgomery side of the river, that the two big "wells" in the dam for the handling of the surplus water have been filled in, that a spillway is being built to take their place and that the complete equipment of elec trical machinery has been altered and that instead of using direct current as originally contemplated that alternat ing current would be generated in stead. Paper Mill Proposed. Southport. There is a prospect that northern capital will build a paper mill at Southport. A representative of the capital has been here the past several days making inquiries, as to site, etc. It is said that the mill, if built, would be to eastern Carolina what the Champion Fiber Company at Canton Is to the western part of the state. The representative Is quoted a? saying that 1,000 men would be em ployed. Begin Operation Soon. Concord. Concord's new cotton mill, the Norcott, will begin opera tions either the last of April or the first of May. Asheville Woman Lawyer Qualifies. Asheville. Miss Lillian Exum Clem ent, Asheville's first and only woman attorney, appeared in Superior Court recently and, in the presence of almost the entire membership of the Ashe ville bar, and a large number of friends, took the oath necessary to finally qualify her as an attorney. After administering the oath. Judge W. F. Harding delivered a short ad dress .welcoming Miss Clement into the ranks of the legal lights, and of fering her a little friendly advice. "Pay-Up-Week" at Statesville. Statesville. Statesville's business men have entered heartily into the "National Pay-Up Week" iovement and the public generally is showing considerable interest in the campaign which is being waged by the business men. Mayor Caldwell has issued the formal proclamation designing a week as pay-up week for Statesville. "Let Everybody Pass Prosperity Around." "I Will Pay My Bills so You Can Pay Yours," and similar phrases in bold type may be seen everywhere. n re.
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