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THE In ni mi L4 TUT "XVI.--NUMBER 59. II COUNTY DFRCEBSiLL BE SELECTED tFGISLATIVE TICKET ALSO itp FOR NOMINATION. NOMINATION MEANS ELEC-! i ?tnw AS THERE IS NO OP POSITION VOTE IN THE COUNTY. I The Democratic Primary for nomination of County Offi- ... members of then next'. Legislative will be held tomor- There are numerous candidates for the various offices, particular for county commissioner. Four "are running for the legislatore, two to he selected, while there are two candidates for county treasurer, a woman, for the first time, heiner on the ticket. It is expected that a large vote. will be polled, as there lias been considerable interest manifested for sometime in the selection of these officers who will have charge of County affairs for the next two years. OF JEW L Stockholm, Aug. 24. -Costumes and other relics of the two Swed ish nightingales, Jenny Lind and Christina Xileson, will be dis- f played along with a collection of other treasures ot theatrical his- Museum which will be opened during' the latter part ot Au- f'lisf. Thp fnllpp.tirm is hfin? y . ... - - o k installed in the historic old Jl Royal Theater in the Castle of ll Drottnisrholni. which was pat ronized nearly 200 vears ago by teet or of drama and the arts. Among the interesting stage "props" that delighted the gal lery gods of the 18th century, and have been stored away ever since in the mouldy vaults of the castle, are a dust-covered set of ocean waves and a couple of chariots, with clouds attached, for the exclusive use of the gods of Olympus. The picture collec tion, includes stage "settings, costume plates, portraits, etc., covers the theatrical history of various countries, and with res m to certain period, of French Hwtory is the most o.nTnnlftt w the world. The theater itself and the stage machinery will be restored to its original character. Jenny Lind, it will be rem em- cnu is mc singer who gavei music m America its first great impetus when she appeared at Castle (iarden. New York, in hoO under the management of T. Barnum. TO COME mim IT iti niTin r Hr H fl I Ull ANT r LIIILIl nl rt I Lnll I lU I ma ND ii! IF HI IN SWEDEN lira DIVISION m SrnT nniltnnnT A I Company offered enough crush fr 1 1I UNll III. I I I ed stone f6r the roadway in front Washington, Aug. 25. A call m , been issued by Lt. Col. A. ,T.i iieureux, former adjutant, to meinbers of the 78th (Light- ine) division to n fonrl fiVcf uMlai reunion nf m o i;Tr-v uant.f. r;ir o 1 - j ra 1 mi ne tlivis10n, which, was organ Hl UamP Dlx. N. Jl, from rmy men of New Yo.rk.j At. Y New Enjrland States. W ancl in the St. Mihiel and : " ' -nsives. . jW General James II; Mc- diirinV1 i.eommanded the division ) $1 the war, Colonel Charles! lieot,rChie fof Staff, and son a??nAr olonel Wait C. .Tohn- ktZ l?J!r ames Frink, fc; r1? staff with the 1 m in if in , . . . . amono i nn" the wr, will b? 111 111m. ii . I ion. i ar announced, FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION The Pare mt - T e a c her Association .Meeting The August meeting of the Parent-Preacher Association was held Thursday afternoon at the? Graded School, the meeting be ing called to order by the presi dent, Mrs. RC. Josey. In the absence of the secretary, Mrs. J L. Dunn acted The treasurer reported that all bills hat had been presented had been paid. The city beautiful committee reported that the peas had been planted in the school yard. The Association returned thanks t the following gentlemen. Mr. John Gray and Mr. Charlie Law rence tqr two days time, (Mr. John Gray and Mr. Leland Kit chin for man and team for two days. Mr. R. C. Josey for man and team one day, Mr. John Gray for two bushels of peas, and Mr. J. B. Edwards and Mr. R. C. Josey for selling peas and fertilizer at cost, Mr. Harper Alexander for the use of his machine to sow peas. These gentlemen have been thanked personally, but a motion was made that their name berecorded in the minutes. A note of thanks was given to the ladies who gave cream, milk, etc, and to those who help ed at the cream festival in the summer. The civic committee decided to give a Thanksgiving entertain ment in which the Association as a whole will take part. It wraa recomendjed that th? side walks be kept clean and a committee to see the commiss ioners about passing a law to that effect appointed, viz. Mrs. D. E. Josey, Mrs. O. F. Smith, Mrs. Ashby Dunn, - Mrs. Clee Vaughan. A committee to see about beautifying the new filling station viz, Mrs. Charlie Shields, Mrs. A. C. Livermon, Mrs. R. P. Byrd. As some money is needed it was decided to ask Mr. Madry to put on a picture early in Sep tember for that purpose and Mrs. Tyler Wheeler, Mrs. C. F. and Miss Elizabeth Kitchin were placed on that com mittee. : A committee to confer with Mr. Littleiohn. the asricnltnral agent, about cutting the peas in i.ne scn(fji yaru was appoimeu, viz. Mr. Norfleet Smjth, Mrs. Ernest Leggett, Mrs. Reuben Meredith. Full authority was given this committee to act ac cordingly. Mr. Norfleet Smith very kind ly offered space in the Common -l. i i : a. . j i wealth to advertise pea hay for Mrs Josey ;8cionsly thanked Mr. Smith in behalf of the assocition for his help in giv' ing space in the paper and for his great interest in the assort tron. It was announced that ' any person desiring to give trees for beautifying can get them from the woodis and have them set out for one doHar. Any person desiring to do so will please con sult with Mrs. J. B. Edwards, chairman of the city beautifid committee about the kind of I trees wanted. Mr. Norfleet S. Smith wil1 give crepe myrtles, Mr. Smith reported that Mr. Lassiter, of R. G. Lassiter and would pay the freight. Mr. M. A. Huggins was appointed n committee of one to wi-ite Mi, Lassiter about the same. A mUaa. rf lfirlips in TTiePt JU 41a hoi falra them to their boarding places was appointed, viz. Mrs. Paul Kitchin, Mrs. T. B. Wheeler, IyTt-o Par 'TlnvAttA and Mrs. Sam Dunn. A list of the teachers and their boarding places win be furnished by "Mrs. O. J. Moore A committee to nominate oi fleers for the coming year was appointed,viz..Mrs. Stewart omirn .Mrs';" K. "A. Phillips arid Mrs. J. B. Edwards. The " election will fake plac at the' 1 'September rieoting. f e-ciation wiU give a public ' reception to the teather at .the Graded School early in September. The par- . . cnts of the children are espec the teachers. SCOTLAND NECK, N. 0.. PROTESTAHT TO TAKE PART KtlM (By Associated Press) Chicago, 111., August 25. Protestant churches of Chicago were urged today to join the Catholics, Jews and negroes in a definite stand against the Ku Klux Klan, following an anti Pvlan demonstration at a meeting of commercial and religious lead ers last night. T)r TTnwnrv? A .TWt Ti! dent of the Chicago Church Fed eration said that he would call upon the trustees of the federa tion to deal the Klan a death blow. URGED AGAINST SiEDESTOVOTE (By Associated Press) ) "gAt. , fturaay tair, except Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 25. i for Prbable showers on , the Tlia fiwiaii nQAnia .'Coast. Free South and Southwest next Sunday give their decision at the polls for or against prohibi tion. The belief prevails that the cabinet will make no move in the direction of prohibition un less 65 per cent of the votes of the men favor it. """"" DEMVILLE, FRANCE (By Associated Press) Deauville, France, Aug. 25. Deauville will see a notable gathering of Kings during this mont hof August. King Albert 'of Belgium, King Alfonso of Spain, King Ferdinand of Ru mania, the Shah of Persia, and the Emperor of Annam all are expected to spend several weeks m this fashionable watering re sort. Most of them will bring their wives, and a gay season is anticipated. Deauville hopes that King Con stant ine of Greece may )e lured temporarily from his throne to taste .some of the pleasures and diversions of the smart seaside town, and that King Alexander of Jugoslavia and his youthful i consort Queen Marie, may spend, a jart 0f his protracted honey moon here. As all the sovereigns, are well known to one another, it s likely they will seize the occas ion to talk over affairs of stata and the national problems of their countries. This will be the first time in a generation that so many European rulers have gath ered at one snot. "A Conclave of Kings" is the phrase applied to the event by Deauville a KINGS AND DUEL! DESCENDING Chamber of Commerce, and Fm-jjn saving the government 39,000, peror FrancisJosepli's historic I00O kroner annually. Super admonition to King Ferdinand ; fuous employes have been dis- of Rumania is recalled: "It ' a a time for us Kings to stick to gether." . Russia Buys Meat In (By .Associated Press) Moscow, Aug. 25. The Rus sia"n Government Grain Produce Company has purchased 2,000,000 pounds of "meat in the, Argentine, payingSOO gold, rubles " in cashi and the balance in Rus sian raw -products, according t local newspapers. Arge FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1922. THE 1 0. W. ft SUCCESS NINE COUNTIES WERE REP RESENTED. BUSINESS MEETING OPENED AT 3 P. M., DEPUTY A. O. KIFF. PRESIDING. Hon. T. B. Cook, of Ahoskie. was elected President. Mr. W; B. Strickland, Jr., of Scotland Neck was elected Vice President and Mr. A. C. Yandle I of Scotlajnd Neik was elected Sec retary and Treasurer. The nert "vc"" l" xvoNemary ana ; x -c j KoanoUe Kapms. Those two camps joining in asking for the nert convention which convenes in April 1923. The convention was a success in everyi particular and closed voting thanks to the Chamber of Commerce, Merchants Associa-t tion and people of Scotland Neck generally for the royal hos pitality accorded them. WEATHER REPORT For North Carolina: Local thunderstorms this afternoon or winds. IMPROVING STEADILY (By: Associated Press) Washington, Aug. 22. Busi iieisvto5yMonfin Denmark aie showing distinct signs of im- J provement and the expenses of government have been materially reduced, according to a statement given out here by the Danish legation. By mutual agreement betwee?a employes and workers, wages have been reduced about 15 per cent, and Danish manufactures again are competing with Ger many. There are today but 39,000 unemployed in Denmark, as against 100,000 a year ago. The shipping situation is bet ter than it has been since the bot tom fell out of the market. The idle tonnage in Denmark is de creasing week by week. Accord ing to the Danish Shipowners' Association, the number of ships laid up today is only 14, with a total tonnage of 33,413. In Jan uary 95 Danish ships with a total tonnage of 258, 300 were idle. f At the same time government ftxrenses are beinsr reduced. Dur- ing an(i after the war the salar- ies of all government empioyes were raised as tne cost or living increased. Now they are going down, and the reductions already total 44,000,000 krbnor. Wartime conditions made the government railroads, postal -i .i i p ii i j;nd telegraph services highly r unprofitable, and large deficits bjitrn "jsS" ; were appointed to bring expenses down, and thev havesucceeded missed : overtime pay reduced, and while the eigt-hour day haej 1 ' i :. i 1 : t 1 za. T I, not Deen auoiisneu, 11 uas uccjii made more reasonable by an ef- jhours. The railroads and the telegraph service now show surpluses. , Plans have .been perfected to excavate Drogden, the Danish port on the sound between the is lands of Imager and; Saltholm, southeast of Copenhagen, to a depth of 24 feet with a width at the bottom of 800 feet. This project is considered important because it will . enable large freight steamers to pass through the sound' and shorten .. their Voyage to the Baltic ports." Work on the excavation probably will be started in the very near fu ture. ' BUSINESS CONDITIONS TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE In eg TV otiatioms o etwees! Rail Executives And Big Four Broken Off An Absolute Divorce For ist (By Associated Press) -'Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 25. Judge Dunham, of the Super ior Court today awarded a de cree of absolute divorce to Mel vin E. Trotter, superintendent of the Grand Rapids rescue mission, and nationally known evangelist. He dismissed the suit for sep arate maintenance - brought by Mrs. Trotter. He held that her charges that her husband r .v been unfaithful and had t ner cruelly naa not been tiated by the evidence. LIGHTER SID TO (By Associated Press) Havana, Cuba, Aug. 23. Cred it is given President Alfredo Zayas for the only humorous sidelight that has marked the re cent reform upheaval in the Cu ban administration, in which the disposal of public funds has fig ured tc a considerable degree. Asked by a personal friend bow he replied to certain pert inent questions regarding Cuban affairs asked by the special American representative, Major flnnnwnl Li1 XT -x 1 r 1 rf li ' president is quoted as saying: rOh, I have adopted the princi ple embodied in the XYZ Method of teaching languages." Pressed for further explanation, he ad ded: "For example, if I am asked "Have you your brother's unbrella?' I reply, "'No, but I have my grandmother's golosh es BUDGET DIRECTOR LORD TO SETTLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SEC. FALL Ai THE SHIPPING- BOARD (By Associated Press) Washington, Aug. 24.- Presi dent Harding, it is learned today has entrusted to budget director Lord the task of breaking the deadlock existing between Secre tary Fall and Chairman Lasker, of the Shipping Board, on the question of a renewal of the Shipping Board eolitract with the Interior Department for naval royalty oils. The deadlock has been a question of price J. - - Cancels Ordeors For Number Locomotives t? xini Stocol -Au. 25. After having ordered 1,000 locomotives from an engineering firm here" and having received 300 of them, the Russian government has in timated that it is "now unable it pay. When the contract was made it was agreedJhat the engines were to be paid for as they were delivered, and the manufacturers obtained a guarantee for their money. It is now considered probable that the Soviet government will cancel the balance, of the order. i and that the present financial state of Russia and the failure of the Genoa and -Hague confer lences is responsible Evangel CUBAN POLITICS 5 CENTS PER COPY BREAK CAME 'WHEN THE LABOR MEN REJECTED WHAT THE RAIL EXECU TIVES CONSIDERED A BIG CONCESSION ON THEIR PART. (By Associated Press) New York, Aug. 25. Attempts to end the shopmen's strike by a separate settlement with individ ual roads failed today and tha conference was broken off. Rail executives are preparing to leave town. In announcing the break o negotiator David Williams, head -of .stern Stricke Com- raiti- - .d: "Nothing else avTe happened. If they & ouit fussiner we will hfai aese fellowsV From unofficial sources it was learned that the break came when the labor men rejected a proposal regarded by the rail executives as a big concession Irish Irregulars Losing Ground (By Associated Press) Belfast, Ireland, Aug. 25.--National Army troops today cap tured the towns of Kinsdale and Dunnaway, the last two points held by Irish irregulars in the county of Cork, according to ad vices received here T HONS COME TO END (By Associated Press) Paris, August 25. Negotia tions in Berlin between, the Mis sion, and the (German Govern ment came to an end today with out haying produced any "com promise on the German . repara tions question acceptable to both sides, not the British and French, representatives, according to ad vices reaching French official circles' this af ternojft. ' HEALTH OFFICIAL GOING TO PORTO RICO San Juan, Porto Rico, Aug. 2k As a result of the interest of thhe Porto Rico Chapter of the Red Cross and an appeal from Governor Reily, the United States Public Health Service. Washington, has agreed to send Dr. F. C. Smith, of the tubercu losis section, to the island thia month to make a 'preliminary sur vey of the extent of the disease. Work of "the Red Cross durjng the past year revealed the fact that there is a great deal of tu berculosis not only in San Juan, but throughout the island, and in the annual report it was stat ed that: "There are no clinics especial- ly for diagnosis or treatment of this disease, and only about 12a hospital beds available on the is land. We have often- found as many as 10 individuals sliving in a single room with an active case of tuberculosis." COTTON MARKET TODAY'S MARKET October - , 22.10 December 22.08 January . . 21.95 ..March 22.07 May . 22.19. yesterday s Market October 22.44 December 22.44 January 22.26 March v 22.27 May 22.13 REPARA IONS NEGOTIA WITHOUT DECISION
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