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fTEATHER REPORT for North Carolina Generally fair tonight and Wedneay; Gentle to moderate west winds. f3 F3 ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 AFTERNOON DAILY "ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL'' Volume XI. No. 13. Four O'Clock Edition Scotland Neck, N. C, Tuesday, August 31; 1920 Telegraph Service Price Five Cents lnil u m lywEi PICTURES SENT BY TELEPHONE ft IHQUGH NEW T french Engineer Gives A Practical Demonstra tion of Wonderful De- GOOD ROADS ARE THE ' SLOGAN OF HALIFAX CTY. FACTS BEING SHOWN DM E FACTS WHICH HAPPENED OVER THIRTYf YEARS AGO vice AMERICANS WITNESS THE TEST By Lincoln Eyre Paris, Aug. 28. There was re vealed here THE LATEST TELEGRAPH DESPATCHES TAR HEELS BUY 40.000 WORTH Wednesday in a lab- oratory ai xvucn functioning of &' machine that is likely to place the name of its l.wvolflf, lirea nf Tvlnrs and Man-on i m tlie scientinc nan of fame. The machine in question GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS is a device, recently perfected by , OF THE WORLD . M. Edouard Belin, a young French j We are certaily glad to note the Last night, Just 34 years ago fact that our County Commission- we had an earthquake jvhich last ers have done something toward ed five or ten minutes, and no inproving some of our county doubt some of our readers will roads. We notice especially that remember the fact. We remember the road passing through Deep the incident very well, and were Creek has been receiving a good only last night thinking Ihat prob deal of attention. This is very nly the; same thing might occur commendable on the part of our a?ain, as' the" same weather condi- County Commissioners, and no tmns were similar and the air was ' ! doubt the farmers of that section still and close,and greatly resem-; highly appreciate this act on their bled the night of the fambus part, and of course the efficient earthquake, hut we are very road supervisors come in for their thankful that . the same catastro part of the praise. phe did not occur again this year, and of courseither are many of our readers that will appreciate the esis required unaer agreement same fact. f with .Department of Justice con- . - template the sale of such inter ests of fifteen cities to F. H. Price and Co. of Boston. The State Is Buying Automobiles Faster Than Any Other State In The Union FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR EPSCOPA L WILL TAKE PLACE PICIIIC The Trinity Episcopal Church Sunday School picnic will take place tomorrow in the fine oak nnnnnn f ,..',Ak:i-,i. According to the National Au tomoblie Chamber Commerce, North Carolina is buying automo biles faster than any other state in the union, buying them at a rate of $50,000,000 worth a year, or $40,000 worth a day. In ten years the state has boght $100,- and auto-' JP UNTIL FOUR O'CLOCK P. M. mission of photographs graph messages. ir p.im' junfizino- invention , , .. IS (llimniTia' hpr snrnlns nt itiroriftr ilifls already been inspected by the - , , Washington, Aug. '31. Germany l grove at Mrs French Government and described tiift French press. Wednesday's ition was designed to - j. ;L American uovermneni,, nthe : .-.sons of its diplomatic and consular representatives, this la- goods in the U. S. and England and marking exports to Great Britian "Made in America ' ac cording t official advices today. German exporters following the piactice to sell articles, which otherwise might not be sold be- aof Qf.liioanipnt nf Frp.nph sniftnee UV -V. V. ' - - A ,1 .... eailSft OT tnp Tinnn 1 nr nramrlipac rhose who were present were the " Pii4- A rvti.viiin 4-f ' c a Tr i rt ;raph of an American general- LondonriggSl. Anti-Bolshe- ewkced swiftly' d cfearfy ! cross hiindreds of miles ortejle- General Wrangel in the province ihone wire, and to receive, just Keuan Have been completely an- s penned by the sender, a mes- nihilated says a statement issued tage addressed bv an .American from the Russian tradp delo-a- w o osul in far-off Lyons to his col- tion today recounting the advices eague in the capital of France, from Moscow and that Wrangle These miracles verT performed now holds only Crimea- fy a transmitting apparatus very imilar in aspect and size to a Aug. 26, the national treasurer Upham testified today before thf senate committee. $618,000 of this n ,,. . , m, is for the national campaign he Dublin, Aug. 31. The Camron ., , V , Highlander troops boarded special orroo A m . j u t j 12589 contributors who presented dence. Isaac Smith's resi- Automobiles will call trains today and are believed to be enroute for Belfast the budget showing the committee had, planned to spend 3,079,000, Warsaw, Aug. 31. Lelvia ag- chairman White ofthe Democrats reed to permit Poland and Rus- said party would tel1 ihe commit sia to transfer to Minst t-hp aoo tee Democrats had collected $67,- percapita investment at mk .v.- the church at 10:30 tomorrow 4 morning for the children, and the V The t'je indicate the baskets will be taken up at 11 :00.Vfst P?fdes ia. the automo- hile fielwin this state and show REMARKABLE RECORD OF that the industry has reached a HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION ?oint where it is of tremendous importance in. the development of .North Carolina's commercial ac- conference to Riga. 000. Columbus, Aug. 31. Cox and' London, Aug. 31. Lerranco Mc Roosevelt and Dr. Watkins, the Sweeney, Lord Mayor of Cork on prohibition presidential candidate hunSer strike was still alive to are at the Ohio State Fair today da but his lister said the end andirea hasplannedaspeechi this afternoon, London, .Aug. 31. Russians are Chicago, Aug. 31. Upham de Belfast, Aug. 3JL Nine persons cessful in Crimea. krlindrieal nhonoranh: and hv nied the Cox uota list- He said receiving apparatus consisting of vvu uauKS 111 iiew f orK naone are dead as a result ot yesterday's fiv or six simnlp narts and oc- ln mcag aild one m boston ana .noting and two are dying. These kmin a t,QKifl oo. one in San Francisco contributed I fi' Q " lUIHt" i3VC (IMUUL till Marion, Aug. 31. The Repub- fighting the Poles north of Brest licaff governors and governors Litovisk and occupied a number elect, and former governors form of villages ten to twenty miles 14 states had a turn at"Harding,s southeast of Bailystok, says a front porch callendar today to Moscow wireless and that heavy hear the nominee on reclamation fighting which is favoring the sov and conservation. iets continvues in the vieinity of Lemberg while Bolshevik are suc- Washington, D. C, Aug. 31. The Government under the pres ent Democratic Administration is spending more money for good road construction in cooperation with the various States than it cost to build the Panama Canal. The result of this work has been to . initiate and complete road im provements and construction that aggregate in length more than 9 times the distance from San Fran- tivity. CARTRIDGE SILK MAKES GOOD SUIT -Newton Washington, Aug 28. D:: BakeV secretary of 'war,is$o ing his best to popularize a new cisco to New York. In 1915, the and inexpensive fashion in dress Federal state governments oods for men and women. "Car- expended in all for roads and tridSe silk" is &e stuff in ques bridges $267,000,000. This year tion- Mr- Baker bought it not they are spending together $633,- lonS ao at $1 a yard from the 000 000. army stores, had his tailor make Manv of the roads now beiny him a business suit out of it, and built of the permanent kinds, such found t so satisfactory that Mrs. as bituminous concrete, Portland- Baker decided to order a dress cement concrete and vetrified-of the same material. "Cartridge Columbia-, S. C, Aug. 31 S. ,brick. Roads of this type, when Sllk ' 18 described as embodying are omnous signs of further trou- C. Democrats voted in the pri- 'completed, will add 7,600 miles to cnedPnes siyiisnnQgs, and dur- "IV. O 1U VV II Wilt V - - W I m 1 . j it tt 1 1 -i . . - . I n hihfi feet square. A portait of General 10 Tne inree fundred and sixty bie ushered m the new day. Groups manes for several state and con- national permanent highways. mum which was the first docu- tll0Usana dollars toorrowed by the were collecting at carious points ressional offites today. Th4 I ' , . m I . pnt transmitted form Lyons, H eisrht minutes to send. M. ot constute legal obligations on 8elin' system thus makes it pos- whlch. the banks could sue the m to reorodnce a nhotocrranh ,commmee ambers. aken in San Francisco in a news-' r . . . .t paper in New York m little more .-.., i ine live Dig meat pacKers ior tne one hour. gave unmistakable indications of chief interest being in the race Republican senatorial and cori- trouble. Chicago, Aug. 31. The Repub lican National Committee has re ceived $1,017,255 in contributions Mr. Charlie Malone left today for Roanoks Rapids to sepend a for the senate in whicvh Senator gressional committees are to raise few dayg visitjng friends and Smith is opposed by three candi- separate tunds. Me said the nation- relatives. dates. al committee was to advance this amount to two committees which ing to the chief statistician of the Chicago, Aug. 31.-700,000 has wiH be returned."" ' .census bureau the total population for both the state and national j been added to Hays' figures by disposition of stock yards inter- campaign between June 14 and Upham who declared that the Washington, Aug. 31.- of the U. S. is estimated at one -Accord- hunderd and five million. T Pip ft, Of Wsike By W. R. Cullom I'1 what is perhaps the most dig-! tfied and stately of all the obser- us of the frailties of life to found in any literature we read k'S: "The davs of our years ara ree-seoic firul tpn. or even bv Mm 0f strength four-score ; yet "leir pride but labor and sor Prof. Luther Rice Mills Nd his eightieth birthday on imd nassintr into what he thvM room" on Ausiiit 18. 11 the followino- rlav thp remains ,'re ad io rest beside those of beloved wife in the Wake For- 'meterv. w.m v.tmt; 111 111S OIU IlOllie akc Forest where he gradu- 1861 and where he became 'essor ot mathematics in Jan- . ' ne was ie son 0f a .'st minister of Halifax coun and brother of the lament- l- 'hirk Mills, fnnndpr nf nr; '111 VTTAnlr -C-m "T , nl-1. - I'" till. VVUIIV 111 -Li J1 LJJ. Carolina. It will be observed that his graduation took place at the very opening of the Civil War. No man ever followed General Lee with greater loyalty arfd faithfulness through the great struggle than did Pro. Mills. Nor did any man follow the great hero of the Con federacy .with greater or more genuine affection throngh the sub sequent years of his life than did he. If he could have adctect a chap ter to Carlyle's "Heroes and Hero Worship," the subject of that chapter would have been Robert Edward Lee. He was wounded in the battle of the Crater, and was a prisoner in Washington at the time of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. The situation with the prison ers became so grave and threaten ing that they were moved to John son 's Island for safety. The remin iscences of the trials and suffer ings of those horrible days con stituted a fovorite topic with him for many years. Nor were those observations mere idle talk: they were keen, discriinating and al ways informing and helpful. Three books he always tried to have near by him whether in camp,on the march or in prison. These booKs vere, his New Testament, his Shakespear andone of the Latin classics. One need not be told as to the quality of the culture of a spirit that fed on such food in the midst of an awful war. Like General Lee, when he re turned home, he began to help re build his beloved Southland by dedicating his life to the work of the school room. The Royalls, fath er and son, Simmons, Wingate, Taylor and Mills are the sexette of heroes that areated and fos tered the post bellum Wake For est. The names of these men should forever be household words in the homes of the levers of Wake Forest. Besides teaching mathematics, Prof. Mills was for many years bursar of the college. And who, : among the older alumni of this 'college, can ever forget the kind liness, the accuracy, the patience and the helpfulness of the noble man? It has been my good privilege to be associated with Prof. Mills in several capacities. He was my teacher, he has been my collegue in the faculty, my neighbor, my personal friend. His was a rare and choice spirit. He had in a very marked degree the rare gift of making the Divine Presence seem to be. the most real, the most vital and the most present of all the realities of life. Nor is this ever done in any studied, mechanical of perfunctory way. Of course it could be done in that way. It came rather in the most natural, easy and spontaneous way in the course of every eanversation. What a gift ! j Prof. Mills was a philosopher, 'where others passed along with out seeing any thing, he saw the I wonders of the Creator. The 'weather, little children, the sim- ioiinians, have been glad to claim this gifted woman as belonging to their family circle. To Prof. Mills and Anna Lewis were born five children, all of whom are still living, and glad to rise up plest thing in nature, an unnoticed and call their parents blessed. verse of Scripture, a statement These are Mayor John G. Mills, of from Bacon, a choice poem any Wake Fowst; Mr. Luther Mills, of a thousand things touched b , of Scotland Neck ; ..Mrs. Claude him carried forever afterwards, Kitchin, of Washington, D. C. ; a new significance. Mrs. Jno. A. Wray, of Monroe, N. t- , o , . i C, and Msis Anna Mills. For the past few years physical i infirmities caused him to lay aside J When General Lee -was asked to his class room work, but not his become president of an insurance i interest in life, in people, in pro-,company at the close of the war, jgress, in all that goes to make y , S & and was assured that his name was : worthy world. i , j all they wanted, his reply was: In his early manhood he mar- ' 'ried Miss Anna Lewis. The mother name is a11 1 hae' and tha of Miss Lewis was a Battle, fromfie not for sale." Whatever else 'Edgecomb county. Dr. Kemp P.(Prof. Mills' children may possess :Battle, of Chapel Hill, Elders El-(or not possess, it is ea.sy to under ish and Amos Battle, Dr. Lewis of 'stand that their proudest posses- Kinston, Dr. R. H. Lewis, of Ral-'sion is their name. News and eigh, and other distinguished Car- Observer.
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