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""'-..-- ?'' - A Family Newspaper: For trje Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the People VOLUME XXXIII. TVICE-A-WEEK SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1916. READ IT FIRST IN THIS PAPER NUMBER 45. $ 1 0,000,000 LOSS BY WORST RAINS FORTY YEARS THE INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT OF A PUBLIC INDUSTRY Asheville and Biltmore, N. C-, PartialllT Inundated by Ris ing Rivers. Thousands of Dollars Saved Annually By the Introduction of Modern Methods in P. O. Department Tlio interest of people in public af fairs is considerably heightened when Ihcy learn that the rercnucs of the Government are wisely and judicious ly managed. A statement of eeononi' cal expenditure which is susceptible of proof will alwavs attract attention and please the thoughtful reader. Among the vared iiidustr-al enter- FIVE TO FIFTEEN ARE DEAD ;rrises of the Post mce Department in I Washington is an establishment devo- I ted entirely to the manufacture cf mail locks and the bag attachments used in mail transportation. When the admin istration came into power the Depart ment sorely needed an improved type of mail lock. The shop was immediate ly reorganized, placed on a business basis, and its activities enlarged so as to meet tfis imperative demand. With in a very short time a new and great ly improved lock had been devised and Many Cotton Mills and Railroad Bridges Carried Away by Mountains of Water. ties of the Post Office Department have been centered along lines which will not only produce large economies to the people of the country, but will also prove a great convenience to those in service. During the past three years two objects have been kept constantly in view, viz., saving the public money wherever possible and serving the peo ple to the fullest extent. There was room for great improvement and there has been much accomplished. It is but common justice to award due cred it in these administrative reforms to the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral, in whose Bureau these measures of economy were developed and who has so faithfully devoted his time to that purpose. REPUBLICANS TO CONTEST SEATS ths: 'Uncle Joe" Cannon and Other "Big Guns" to Circulate Among People. the "old folks at home their friends hope they and most of ' "WILD TURKEY" HARMON will never tie IS HOLDING ON TO LIF Serious floods in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia have caused live known deaths, rendered SHOT IN THE LEG. SRITT'S JOB TO WEAVER? mndreds homeless, damaged property ! ;ts production boirun. ami I'liU'S to me I'Mi'iii ui -t wi, according to first estimates, and de moralized railway, telegraph and tele phone communications. Following the hurricane that struck the South At lantic coast Thursday, unprecedented rains have fallen, driving rivers and smaller streams from their banks and imperilling many lives. The French Broad river has broken from its course near Asheville, flood ing factories and homes in the lower part of the city. At Biltmore three ''aptani J. C. Line, -Miss .Nel- Ricfcard Powell, Colored, Recipient of Bullet From Another's Pistol Richard Towell, colored, who is an employee of the Greenwood Lumber Co., at Hobgood, came to town Sunday Sliipman Says Tenth District will Return to the Democratic Column. called upon for actual service in Mex-: ieo, from which so many of them would Deputy Marshall Bought a Coffin Fov j be apt to succumb to the diseases pe- 1 Elockader, But May Find It on i cnliar to that climate if they escaped i His Hands Keeps Healing. j Mexican bullets and "the knife un-i Raleigh, Je.lv 10. Deputv Marsh-ill! der the fifth rib." i Gaston Dortch bought a coffin for Ed; Better Care for Soldiers' Eoms Vet-; Harmon Tuesday and the blockade.-; erans. j with the top of his head blown off, is ; Despit Col. A. II. Boyden of Salisbury; Gen. j living, healing, cussing every hour. i J. S. ('ai r, of Durham; and Col. W. P. j The federal officer consulted the doc- j Wood, State Auditor, the three most ; tors and from thorn gathered the sug- active- members of the Soldiers' Home board of diroetors, together with the other members of the board, have or dered increased facilities for the care .. BRITISH CONTINUE TO THREATEN THE TEUTON 3d LINE Great Resistanc0 English Under Sir John Haig are Maiding Gains. person:' lie Lip id Mrs. Leo Muiholland were ;i the Lipe house was persons drowned wl flooded.. Two persons were drowned at Asheville while trying to put food into the uj per story of the Glen Bock hotel. Many are marooned in their residences along the river? and rescue parties for hours have fought their wav against the rushing current in an effort to reach them. Swift streams of water are flowing down some of the streets of lower Ashe ville. The Southern Railway; ptatten j y ,.onic to ;,0tiec wherein the D is flooded to a depth of six feet as arc j t ..s .,reatlv profited bv this umie poticv. all other buildings in that vicinity. The city proper, ::09 feet higher, is j t-ont withoutlights tonight, but otherwise not "ffeced. . Throughout Western North Carolina the situation is reported serious. . The big dam at Lake Toxawny, the noted resort, and two dams at Henderson ville. are reported to have collapsed, loosening hundreds of tons of water. The Southern Railway bridge over the Catawba river at Belmont, N. C, has been washed away, carrying ten or twelve men into the river. Whether thev were drowned or not has not been learned. The Seaboard Air Line bridge over the Catawba river at Mount Hol ly. X. ('.. has collapsed, as has that over the Catawba on the Salisbury Ashovillo line. An earth fill at Lookout Shoals pow er dam. near Shelby, has yielded, and the East Mondo. West Mondo, Lila daun ami Alspaugh cotton mills are ii::d-r cater. A wall of water 40 feet high is reported rushing down from Lookout Shoals. Reports from Spartanburg, S. C, tell of heavy crop damage by the rains that have fallen in South Carolina during the past few days. Practically all railway traffic, in southwest Virginia and eastern West Virginia was tied up by washouts and slides resulting from the heavy rains of the past week. Many bridges have been carried away by swollen creeks and rivers, telephone and telegraph lines are down and heavy crop dam age has been reported. The Dravo Power Company's dam on Broad river, near Die-k-n-g. S. The lock in use weighed 51-. ounces; the new one weigh 2 4-5 ounces. As 4..0.O0O of this new product have been put into service, the difference in weight (the Government paying as much for the weight of equipment as it does for the mail itself) can be eas ily calculated. The locks replaced by this new and better style cost 21 cents each to make; those now being manu factured cost, S1L. cents, direct and in direct charges considered, the saving thus shown on original cost of produc tion to date amounting to $5.,750. Of the old style, ."0,000 were annually re turned for repair at a cost of about 9 cents cacti. vJi tne new styie, oui o. a great number sent into service, but 90(5 have been returned, and as these new style locks can bo repaired at a cost of : cents each, the annual saving on this item will amount to over $2,100. The Department has in this admin istration encouraged its employees to .. . ii-'" i o-tve their host service to xue uoeru j meat and manv instances have recent- avt-wise lie pnlicv. In tne lock shop a ie- Raleigh, N, C, July 18. The com ing of Unlo Joe Cannon and some i oilier riepuiMican speiiumuers to JNortn seeking medical attention. According Carolina during the approaching cam to the negro, he and another boy of j paiga is enlisting some interest and the same color were pranking with a ! discussion. The Republicans are nn pistol when a bullet glanced and struck j xious to capture the next Congress, him in the leg. lie says the shooting j and it is understood that they have was accidental, ed. The" bullet was local. - DEALERS CONTRACT FOR $100 000,000 WORTH OF OVERLAND CARE BEFORE PRICE IS DECIDED UPON of the 103 old veterans now at the home here, which include an additional nurse and an assistant housekeeper. All of these old soldiers are over 70 years of age, and most of them spend much of their declining days in the hospital wards. In a few more years the last of them will have passed into the better world. Meanwhile they are fortunate in having such devoted friends as Col. Boyden, Gen. Carr and Col. Wood. State I'iremen's Tournament. The firemen from the various towns who constitute the State Firemen s As sociation are holding their annual con ention arid tournament here this week. It began today, with Wednesday and Thursday scheduled as the "big days" of the tournament, and they are having a great time. Commissioner of Insur ance Young, whose department has of gestiou that Harmon could hardly pliv j such a joke on him. The marshall did ; not "pass money" but he picked the , GERMANS ARE PAYING IIIQII box and was ready to receive it any j hour the past week. i Harmon lies tn his bed in Rex hos pital with a hole through one leg, a hole through his head, an eye gone and a patch of skull half the size of one's hand removed by a bullet which enter ed his hard head Tuesday morning an 1 carried the top thereof away in the ex plosion. The "wild turkey" fell to lie ground, but to this hour he has not lor.t Captured Evidence Indicates the Gcrn:an Casualties are Enormous. LONDON, July 17. armv under General Sir -The .John Britisk llaif; is designs on several North Carolina dis tricts the third, eighth and tenth, and probably the seventh and ninth being the fields which they intend to cultivate. Talking about the' tenth district with I recent years been taking much inttr- Coimnissioner of Labor and Printing i Recently there gathered at the AVil-lya-Overland factory 250 distributors from various sections of the country. All were clamoring for more Over land's and Willys-Knights. Now it happens that the Overland in the firemen "s organization, ex- Shipman. whose home is in that dis- j presses much rratineation in the splcu triet, and who is especially well qiml-j did progress they are making. company is aooi :t to introduce certain achievement in this direction is an improved cord fasterner, the work of threeof- its . employees, for i so m bags; also one designee! for locking large quantities of parcel-post matter, v. hich has heretofore been without this protection. It can be made at a very low price requiring less material and a fewer number of operations. The in significant part of this lies in the great number required in the service, be tween three and four millions, the out put being 500,000 annually. As the cost has been reduced by the new me thod from 4'2 to cents each, it will be seen what a splendid showing this makes for administrative economy. Another valuable improvement has been the perfected locking cord fas tener designed for use in the sacks, something the Department for yt-ars has needed and vainly endeavored to ncnmplish. This device will be of great value to the postal service at, large by increasing the capacity and efficiency of mail bags to a degree dif ficult to estimate. The modern system of business methods and the proper en couragement of employees to take an active ami earnest, in ic t-M, m rk, both of which desirable features Lml-r., Hihii" of. the electric supply for Spartanburg and nearby textile towns and menacing the Hou thern Tower Company's plant at Ninety-Nine Islands, at Cherokee Falls. The flood threatened Jonesville and other nearby towns and the residents have moved to higher grounds. The Yadkin river has reached the hi"hest stage recorded in years and continues to rise around Lexington, X. C. Crop? and saw mills have been destroyed and livestock drowned. De bris litters the swollen river as it is sweeping past Lexington. wo this administrations of the. Department has favored and put into prat-ice, is re sponsible for the many improvements made and the advantages gained. Active experiments are constantly being made for the betterment of the service. For many years a tremendous expense has been labeling of the im mense quantity of mail bags in use. The form of label used in the past and still used by clerks ail over the eoun trv is doubling and refolding of what is known as a "facing slip." The pre paration of these labels by the thou sands lias been and is an expensive pro position, yet there appears to have been no effort on the part of previous ad ministrations to progress from the old method. Under present direction a per forated label in sheets and runs haf. been designed which is practically ready for use when furnished to em ployees. Kvery postal clerk in the country and thousands of post office new types of cars, but, in view of un certain niarket conditions and limited material sources, the price of the cars for the fall season had not yet been established. The distributors were in formed to this effect but, one and ail they wanted a guarantee that they would be appropriated a definite num ber of cars tor the fall business, irre speetive. of price and other details. The result, was that they left the plant, those alert distributors had left con tracts with the company calling for between $75,000,000 ' and $l00;000,0O0 worth of cars to be delivered between now anel January 1, 11)17. "Yes, it was probably the largest contract for an unlisted popular and medium price car ever recorded, ' said John X." Willys, president of the Willys-Overland Company. "Although it assurer, us. beyond question, of a i even greater production than we had planned on for the next twelve months there is an intense personal satvsl rc- J tien for me in the achievement which is almiost as attractive as the bii:-i : ness end of the transaction. "The confidence which those dis-' tributors placed in our product pays it a higher "tribute, concerning its ef ficenoy and selling qualities, than all the alluring descriptions of the ex pert, engineers who have designed tli5 car and all the statements which ao manufacturers may make concern ing the high standard of the product we arc turning out. It is obivious that the engineers would be proud of the result of their endeavors because of the labor involved and the long hours they have spent in perfecting their work. It is natural that we should speak in the highest terms of the Overland and Willys-Knight cars because we believe in them. The dis tributors, however, have no personal bias to sway their opinions concern- make of automobiles, lney ified tr speak on the subiect, T an; told that the prospects of Republi cans there are not very encouraging this year; that, on the contrary, "th-i Democrats are sure to redeem that dis trict in November." The nomination of Mr. Weaver has given entire satis faction, and there are no "disgrnnt- LLKWXAM. "BUCK' DAEDEN NOW MANAGER Appointed HHead of the Franklin (Vs,.,) Baseball Club Saturday Night. will lie interesting news to the It friends of Mr. Josev I" led" Democrats in the tenth this vcar. ! home Lack of harmonv and the consequent i learn that he has been mad. disorganization among the Democrats ! of tl arden to manager two ".ears ago made the election Britt (Republican) possible. The triet Ship is normally Democratic. nn added: Franklin, Va., baseball club in of j the Tri-Town League. The following dis-! article appeared in yesterday's Noi- Mr. folk Lcdger-Dispateh : ; Frar.kiin will remain in the Tri tovvn League. At a large mass meet ing of citizens Saturday night suffi cient funds were raised to keori the team in the league, for the remainde- sensibility. "I ain't hurt as bad as i forcing an over-deepening salient into Knight," he said yesterday, and Mr. thc Cerman lines and lias improved its Knight is the posseman who caught the I position along practically the eitire desperate blockader and received a ! battle f ront, capturing by assault 10 shattered leg as then- went together to I yards of German second line posiior.s the ground. j m t'10 'w ('ays- Strong German "Ami 1 want to get well to get even j positions have been takeu north of th with him, "Harmon again said. " And ! Bazeutin-L"-lVtit wood, Waterlot farm the government has got to pay me for i between Longueval and Guillemont this .injury. Oh, I am going to get well, ! and tne entire village ot Ollivers aal don't you worry about that. 1 kuowiBa B,o':sse!!e has been captured,, who told on me about that still. I mar- Evidence in the shape of docu.nei-ta ;icd that fellow's cousin 14 years ago. j captured from the Germans give tcsti 1 haven't seen her in a long time and ! "ony as lo the high price the Oerr.un T don't want to see her, but 1 would ! are paying in casualties. like to see my children." j 'Harmon's head had not been bridg- ed by any metallic brace up to this ; writing. When he was picked up in the woods, his brains were running out from the wounds and his unprotected ! scalp moving as he breathed, nobody thought he could live and the necessity for an armor place in his head was not even considered. He gives promise to day of recoverv and an operation may The British have improved their posi tion along almost ihe whole of thur line of the battle front, capturing by assault, 1,500 yards of German second line positions north of the Ba.entin-Le-I'etit wood, a strong German posi tion at the Watt riot farm between Longueval and Guilleaiont, beside com pleting the capture of the whole of th villages of Ovillers and La Hoissoll. ! These gains bring the Lritish almost neeessar'. The fellow talks ! to the crest of the Albert plateau, "Weaver is a strong candidate and, besides, the Republi cans never carry the district twice in succession." Commissioner Shipraan spent, a week in the tenth ditsriet receu tty, ami be of the Tri-town sc-heerule.; . . The Birds knows what he is talking about, for he is one of the clearest thinkers and one, of the hardest party workers in the. State. "Ve are united to a man his year with all of us enthusiastically for Weaver, and we arc just as eortabi to put Congressman Britt. out of business in November as any future contingency can bo." Mr. Shipmen left Raleigh Saturday for Buffalo, New York, to attend the annual convention of th National Association of Government Labor Officials of the United States and j Canada, which is in session there this week. Keep the Rud&or True. purpose or wo ive-- however, place i !o:r.o guard all the time and relishes company. He says that he is ::.; years old. He looks 50 and must have lived two or three years in one. "Can you shoot a pistol?" he said in reply to the sug- where stretches the German third line. The news from the eastern front to day was equally important. The Rur sian commander, General Kuropatkin, ! has launched an offensive against in public ans announce out" its in all the counties on tneir Republican activity for Con- ilav Roanoke Rapids in Franklin to day and Tuesday. "Buck" Harden has been appointed manager to suc ceed G. Wr. Billow, who has been man aging from the bench, and new play ers will be secured at or.ee to strength en the club. A scout is in Richmond now looking for good ameteur mater ial. Jake May, a pitcher, has already been signed.." gestion that he must have met pretty j Field -Marshal von Hindenburg on tint good marksmen. "Well, I am not much Dvina river, and General von Linsing nf n xnt. P.nt T ran take, a cartridge Urn's troops southwest of Lulsk hav V4- M'.-AV - " - - n . put it on a stump, stand off 15 steos ! been compelled to retire and knock it off more times than I'lIjLipar river, while miss it. I can plug a man's head in CHAPEL HILL LETTER. Chapel Hill., X. C, July 17. The present week, the last of regular class- work during tl summer school, wnt in many respects be the busiest and most interesting of the session. Lectures yards away any time. Collector Bailey is happy that liar- : iiou is healing. The collector's men did the shooting, but hail to do so. And even Marshal Dortch is willing to take a chance on using the coffin for some body else. Harmon had strength j in which the Russians smashed the enough left to make necessary being '; Teuton front on a w idth of a mile and bound to bed. W. T. Boost in Greens- j penetrated several miles into their pos-l.;- lsrTvs. itions. behind th the course of Sunday's fighting in Yolhynia th Russians captured an additional l.KlOO prisoners and -10 guns. General von Linsingvii s retirement, act ording t the Tetrograd military critics, repre sents a great Russian tactical succors. It was preceded by heavy fighting gressionnl candidates wilt, o; course, have its fleet on the candidates for state ofl'ict-. and for the legislature, and our folks : hould- not run the risk of allowing 1 he interests of any nominee to suffer in default lack of effort, be cause of fancied security is one of the most dangerous shoals that threaten nuvinT'eui atong me cti'i,' o. "Keep the. rudder true!" rann Women's Convention. The program for the Farm Women's Convention, which meets in Raleigh, at the A. & M. College, August 29 :il, has been prepared. It shows that prom- deliver addresses on the and entertainments will be many, while the eia,-.s work will probably the most important of the summer. The at tendance upon the summer school this vcar has held up in a remarkable man ner, about four-fifths of the students ,-,in,:i',iiiiio- for the entire six weeks. This means that more than ever before are taking work for college credit, or are determined to stay long enough to maste r the subjects in the graded an ) bifh school courses, rather than obtain LONGEST -CONTINUED .SERVICE IN II. B. Cleveland, July 17. Miss Bettie V. Button, 70, just retired as principal of the Kentucky grade school here, is be lieved to hold the record, for the long est continuous service in the public r-chools of this country. Beginning at 18, she has taught in this one school for 5S years. She has educated thnv generations of chldren. ins our c.;,,i,1-.- liei-fiiise thev know l input experts will i.o ,!,!ie. wants them and when the that occasion, including Mrs. have 1 - . - .. -A.-.1 - 1 .In. certa ,i product ilrew amraan, noieu n:nn .w." public clamors tor a that product must have already de monstrated its worth and superority over other products in the. same. line. "The Overland and Willys-Knight cars are not new to the public. They have been on the manse, v ie;.g enough to have firmly established grade of motor vehicles. The distri $75,000,000 and $100,000,000 worth of them, without a definite selling price, were not taking a chance. They had monstrator on home economics. Kverv "farm woman" who attends will be certain to derive benefit, as well as enjoying what promises to be a most pleasant occasion. State Funds for County Fairs. Commis-sumer of Agriculture Orannm desires to be notified at once by all the counties which contemplate hold ing county fairs this year, so he car, apportion the fund each is to receive. merely attendance credit. The conferences of the high 'school teachers and ofiicials here last week re sulted in a threshing out oi many per plexing high school problems, and was extremely helpful. Dr. Thomas E. Fin egan. Commissioner of Education from New York, delivered a series of five helpful lectures before the coufereice on problems of the modern school, its GIVE THE BABY A CHANCE Bad air. bad milk, over-crowding, j i . i povertv, dirt, ignorance, nen . ui"m' j combine in summer to kill the city ' baby. It seems as though the brunt r the cities' sanitary sins were focused ! on the baby. The baby didn't ask to! come, to live in a hot, dark, air-tight j tenement, to be fed on dirty, half j spoiled milk, to be pestered with fiies a'nd mosquitoes. He is not responsible ' of these conditions and it is I The war now is costing Great, Bri tain O.doiijOOO pounds sterling daily, but with such news lis the !uTees of the entente allies this sacrifice n nowhere grudged. While the powers of endurance of the Teutonic allies, should they be forced to act entirely on the defensive, have still to be test ed, the British nation is full of con fidence. It is taking nothing for granted, how ever, but is fully prepared to acquiecu in the advice of its leading ministers, like Foreign Secretary Gray and Chan cellor of the Exchequer McKeiinaj who arc pipdicly exhorting the nation to tM need of patience. Mr. McKonnn told iti the 1 .ire of commons today that fitinnte wlmi. the na nditares might be in a le also intimated that it would necessary this week to ask ut for fresh borrowing pa- nobody could t ion 's wa r exp mouth. 1 become 'arii.im' iers. enlarged, h-dd lor useiuJne as a health agency, and it the entire community. 11 wider school i; value cdatior, t led for a nnil more economic use of the plant, and for vocational train- acc: Mr. S All county fairs which desire to share MUCK STREET PAVING IS ORDERED AT ROCKY MOUNT the watched our methods of doing bus Thev knew that the best of j ; Ti,c :;.O0O appropriation which materials would be placed in tne cars j statc makes for this purpose must no i mon last Sunday right Department of Agricul ing for every boy and girl, not, how ever, to the neglect of the culture ol jects. Tiie union services in Memorial Bali each Sunday night have been unusually well attended and interesting. Rev. B. j go an hour?" P Hinke of Xewbern delivered the ser- ! In 1910 "How ninny his right, that he nave i resit au, nr,u. , i i 4. Tlio ! surroundings ana uec-ut i,ns United States Public Health Service is- j . I rues free of charge to an applicant a , (r ,.ir(, 'bulletin on "The Summer Care of i n- ! t;eJ"()(ln if ants." It should be in the hands of i ? !V;,,l;1iV j every mother. jtlonal Bank I I to the local i?TS A POSITION HERE. C. Pogram of Washington, N. aecrptr i a position as book- the Hardv Hardware Co., THE VITAL QUESTION. ju i)i5 "How many miles rec'onmei r. I'd entered upon his du moinlng. Mr. I'grnm connected with the -.-t Washington, and comes harilwar' concern highly ided. Tiie citi.enr, acre ex- will it! tend to Mr. I'egram a hearty welcome. miles will it Rocky Mount, July 17. Between $15,000 and $25,000 in street improve ments are now being made in this city, or have been ordered by the aldermen and the slate includes a pressing of i 4.1.... work though it may le eariy in coming year before it is completed. The'big item for street work and for which there may be made a bond issue by the board of aldermen under the, general act is that of a rebuilding of i ....ii c.,.1 tliii! new method " 1 " ' . ... ii. U,1 more important to them troni a j tif v the State p ,nq a. v;tntn(re ami it win resuu . .. . i Kiwi" f, in a large economy in the service. There have also been some other no table improvements made, viz., the sub stitution of steel where brass was for merly used, at a very consielerable les-onine- of expense: a device for fasten- i. ' ng foreign mail pouches, tloing away with the old-fashioned method of string and seal; a scheme for saving twine bv means of a simple holder which per mits free and easy use with out waste, and a flexible stamp design, for which ev,, nr!i(t price was 34 cents, but L 1 1 V , . V, , v - - x which will now be made at a cost of but 8 cents. A mechanical pick-up or facing table for use in facing and stacking letters in first class post of fices has also been developed and will soon be perfected. This device is con- o tnose now tn selling standpoint, they knew that on- long experience in tiie maiiueactiiriug world ami our unexcelled factory sys tem would enable us to sen tuus; at a rrice just as attractive to the i liv ing public, as our prices have been i:. vears gone by. "Therefore, confidence in Overland and "Willys-Knight cars and faith in tu w:;!";.Ovprl::inl Companv led tc , 4. 1 A4.U tare iy .uigusi ioeu. Tar Heel Soldiers i nGcod Shape. The health of the Tar Heel soldiers at Camp Glenn seems to have been carefully looked after, according to Dr. W. S. Rankin, Secretary of the State Board of Health, who has return ed to Raleigh after completing a san itary survey of the camp, during which 1,4. ;snlM.tP, the water supply, handling Falls road for about one mile between Thomas street and the city limits li.ie at the North Rocky Mount fire depart ment The cost of this work could ,,.,. i.. Gmntod at less than stdrrrd superto "I. Jfllt-' " . A the! to manufacture. Tho?e at present in the bithulithic and I use cost approximately $1,500 one of the most unique and probably j Qf food, kitchin facilities and condi- the largest contracts ot its kihu nearly $100,000,000 of automobiles un seen and unpriceel. ooo tvY-ifl a much, jnreer eTeiPlcd if the street is put into same condition as asphalt streets of the city. Chattanooga, Tenn., July 17. Corn, cotton and hav within a radius of from c7 an milo nf Chattanooga was dam tJ I IP ,y ' ..... -v . ' aged to the extent of approximately 1 000,000, according to a survey com- .,h5rH nt nint h pleted by Brad?treets. i 4.1 i rt4? .i ; nno: i-i r,,, na tions, antl- mciiiuiia ei ih.ii.v.i.v.. waste and sewerage arrangements. Dr. Rankin, who will prepare a formal re; port on the suirjject, states that the sauitarv conditions at Camp Glenn are ', .. , 4-z,m Os good tnai man; iuvus the "mil- so If the ra1 4.:.,- v,q nmiup will be srenti , COIltlllll.- v.t.".. ,- 1 increased, the report added . j vantageouslv pattern aicr itary city." Whi'e some of the boys are repres ented as chafing under the restraint -? nnKiiiration camp" life and are an- local ministers has preached one day night there. Although the opening of the fall term of the University is six weeks off, the number of applications and certi ficates that has already been sent in in dicates that next year will break all re cords for attendance. The dormitory rooms have practically all been taken for some time. The University, with such a large increase, will insist that those who enter this fall are adequate ly prepared for college. It is desireu that those with many conditions re move these before applying for en trance, inasmuch as those improperly prepared must needs be refused annus sion. Registration for the begins on September 12. Each of the; go on a gallon of gasoline ? " Cornell j mu- I Widow. I LECTURE AUGUST 1ST. Kev. .!. A. Megaron of Brooklyn, N. Y., will hold services at Madry's Op era Ilous" at S:.10 I. M., -August 1st. The public is cordially .invited to hear the lecture. CREEK STILLWELL'S EOCY WAS RECOV ERED. Matawan, X. J., July 15. The body j cELEERATE KC ORE'S of Lester Stillwell, killed in Matawan BATTLE, creek by a man eating shark, was Wilmington, July 15. The program found Friday. The corpse bore the hag Wn annoml(.0,i for the annual mark of the fatal accident. Watch- (.(qtqr.,tioil 0f the Moore's Creek bat Imen believe they have three sharks j t,c w,,?.u be held at the battle ! penned up in the creek and plan t( ! , Carrie on Thursday. Ansr- l J ' . c- i kill them at low tide. I ;iSt '. Th" event all BROUGHT CONIGTENT OF DIA MONDS. London, July 17. It has been learn - term led from a good source, says Keuter s (Amsterdam correspondent in a dispatch 'today, that the principal object of the marine. Vcatc was io con'. Heav j It will thus be seen that the activi-1 showers were frequent today. vions for the fray at least to tne poinx jof proceeding to the Mexican border are el, r.00.000 reo'-de die ef com municable di&ease each year in tiie United States, -and more than 5,000,000 sick as the result of infection. j impossible to export. ,f l,r. O'-rr-'r'i rrwvrr s"'o Dentschland t' the United v a ; ( u i- nmcnt -icepts which lb l.i ul hitherto be.e is always attended by from 5,000 to 10,000 people from this section. The orator of the day this year will b Hon. J. T. Murphy, of Asheville. A very enjoyable fea ture of these celebrations is the picnie dinner that is served. There will be music by a band. President George .7. Moo-e. of tb Btleg-ound As"0"i ... i 4. 4.1. ..l,l-. ir,n v .o:. will prriie at - V'.'- afternoon the annual tl.j. V!i federate veterans coiuitv will be held. meeting of of Ponder P
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