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VOL. XXII. NO. 283
Government Figures Show
This State Manufactures
MuchXotton
CONSUMPTION AHEAD
OF THAT LAST YEAR
Over Seven Million Bales Us-
id During Last Cotton Year
in United States North
Carolina Consumed Over
One Million.
( By GEORGE H. MANNING.)
Washington, D. C, Oct. 23. The
consumption of cotton in American
mills during the cotton year ended
July 31. 1916, was 7,278,529 bales of
cotton and 880,916 bales of linters, it
is announced today by -Director Sam
uel L. Rogers, of the Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce. -
Tins was an increase or 14.3 per.
cent in consumption over tne year
191".. when 5,597,362 bales of cotton j
and 411.S45 bales of linters were con
sumed, and an increase of 14.7 per
cent over the cotton year "!14, when
.',,."77.405 bales of cotton and 207,325
bales of -linters were used.
The enormous increase in consup
tion of linters in 1916 which repre
sents an increase of 113.9 per c-"l
over 1915, and 186.6 per cent over con
sumption in 1914, due to the very
large increase in the use of this pro
duct in the manufacture of explosives.
The number of cotton spindles
active during the cotton year 1916
throughout the United States was 32,
S0."),SS3, representirigincreases of -2.6
per cent and 2.2 per cent, respectively,
as compared with the corresponding
figures for the cotton years 1915 and
1914.
North Carolina retained her posi
tion as second largest consumer of i
cotton of any of th States, her con
sumption being exceeded only by Mas
sachusetts. -" T (
North Carolina . also showed in-
'.'oas?s in the. number jot active, spi
dies, and in consumption of cotton
and linters.
There were 3,988,098 active spindles
in North Carolina in 1916, compared
with 3,823,298 in 1915. The bales of
cotton consumed in the State in 1916
were 1,067,288, compared with 910,154 ;
in 1915. Linters consumed
were 0,272 compared with
in 1916
3,758 in
1915.
Massachusetts was again the great
est consumer of cotton, with North
Carolina second and South Carolina
third.
Massachusetts employed 10,896,774
spindles and consumed 1,462,888 bales
of cotton and 58,960 bales of linters.
WOMAN ACCUSED OF
SLAYING HUSBAND
Newark, N. J., Oct. 23. The case of
Mrs. Margaret C. Beuttinger,. the
Caldwell society woman under indict
ment for the murder of her husband,
came up for trial today in the Court
of Oyar and Terminer in this city.
The tragedy which led to the indict
ment of Mis. Beuttinger on -a first
upgree mr.rder charge occurred in the
T!i!t linger home on July 11, last. Ac
coming io evidence at the prelimi
nary hearing of the case Mrs. Beut
tinger had had several quarrels with
her husband before the shooting and
she claimed that he tried to cnoke
her and nearly gouged out one of her,
eyes. After that she bought a revol
ver and kept it under her pillow.
When her husband entered the room
-i -iy on the morning of July .1 she
s: iv! :-he feared he was going to kill
,! Mid she shot him five times, kill
'" nirr instantly. Ever since the
the tragedy Mrs. Beuttinger has
J e n confined in jail. Self-defense
v.'in he the plea at the trial.
COAL REACHES ITS
HIGHEST PRICES TODAY
Pittsburgh, Oct. 23 Bituminous
foal reached $4.25 a ton at the mines
here today, $2.65 a ton higher than the
customary price and probably the
highest price it ever demanded.
Xew York, Oct. 23. Strike activi
ties in the city transit service was re
sumed today, when a Third Avenue
elevated was bombarded with stones
thrown fromroof tops in the Harlem
district. Two passengers were injur
ed. .
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COTTON STILL JUMPING.
" It begins to look as if the sky
; is the limit for cotton. Today
:' the fleecy staple took another
upward bound and at the close
- 'oday spot was quoted on the
': Wilmington - market at 18 1-4,
which,
of course, again breaks )
'lie altitude record.
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DISPATCH JD. GETS BOTH TEAMS OUT'
M BLUE RIBBON lMmi OF THE RUINING
Awarded First Honors in Con
test thataCavered Almost
Entire U. S.
Demonstrating -conclusively the
high artistic character of Dispatch
advertisements, as well as their value
otherwise to the advertisers, it is not
amiss to mention .that in a contest
participated in by many papers, that
brought to bear all the-ingenuity and
dexterity of. their advertising experts,
as well as their latest and most ex
pensive novelties in the way of me
chanical adornments; a Dispatch ad-
vertisement came under the
wire
, first. The real brilliancy of this
achievement, one which all Wilming
ton should feel proud of, as The Dis
patch is a Wilmington institution, a
Wilmington industry, is found in the
fact that the contest covered almost
the entire United States and there I
were almost one thousand contest
ants. Yet The Dispatch has been
awarded first honors.
It was an advertising contest pre
sented by the noted Craddock-Terry
Company, and the radius was fromi
Maine to Texas and from the Atlantic
seaboard to Colorado. The Dispatch '
entered simply because it had the!M . , T D r
chance and the pleasure of publishing ! National Republican Commit
the advertisement for the Wilmington
Shoe Company. Much care ys spent
upon the designing and the make-up
of the advertisement, i but that was
only according to custom, as each ad
vertisement that comes into this of-
fjce is carefully considered and plenty
of time taken by expert ad. men in its
construction and presentation. The i
Wilmington Shoe Company submitted j
- fdg andth -oJteniretters tell
the happy -tale:
Wilmington, Feb. 21, 1916.
The Wilmington Dispatca, City.
Advertising Manager.
Dear Sir: It is with pleasure that
we can inform you that the Red Rid-
ing Hood ad. that appeared in your
paper recently won the prize offered
by the Craddock-Terry Co., Lynch-,
burg, Va.
In addition to the enclosed letter
they write as follows:
"This contest was very widely in
dulged in and we really think you
ought to feel right much set up that
you won the prize in this contest.
"The contest extended into our ter
ritory, which is from Maine to Texas
and from the Atlantic coast to Colo
rado." We wish to compliment you on set
ting this up as you did and also state
that our sales on the Red Riding
Hood Pla-Shu has been very satisfac
tory indeed.
Assuring you of our appreciation of
the assistance you gave us in winning
this prize, we beg to remain,
Yours very truly,
WILMINGTON SHOE CO.
L. W. Wesseii, Manager.
Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 17.
Mr. L. W. Wessell,
Care Wilmington Shoe Co.,
, Wilmington, N. C.
Dear Sir: The judges in the Red
Riding Hood Ad Writing Contest have
awarded you first prize in Class B and
we take great pleasure in handing you
herewith our check for $20 and have
to advise also that the prize in this
class for the best window went to Mr.
J. R. North of the Graham-Fagg: Co.,
Greenville, Texas.
Thanking you for the interest man
ifested in this contest, and with cor
dial good wishes,
Yours very truly,
CRADDOCK-TERRY CO.
R. Winston Harvey,
Advertising Manager.
The moral to this story is plain,
and 'should be appreciated by the ad
vertising public. It is: Dispatch ad
vertisements are bound to command
attention, because they, are the acme
of artistic design, representing the
careful work of a skillea advertise
ment department, headed by one of
the best-known '. experts, Mr. C. A?
Wootton. So presented in most at
tractive form, that catches and de-
liehts the eye,
and offered to thou-
sands and thousands of daily reaaers, i
a Dispatch advertisement is mnd to
, i i. JA-n hartroel tn th'p WISP
liUlU UUl a guiucu uaii-K,
advertising reaper.
BIG AUTO. CONCERN
' FOR THE QUEEN CITY
Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 23. The Cen
tral Motor Company, of Charlotte,
with capital stock of $100,000, filed
application for a charter with the Sec-
retary of State today. The concern
proposes to build, repair ana seu automobiles.
WILMINGTONNORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 23, 1916
It isn't often that one of the boys in the trenches has opportunity to emulate the "Sleeping Beauty" or to
enjoy a "beauty sleep," but this English Tommy is doing both with the utmost unconcern amid scenes of rack
and ruin. Sometimes, contrary to general belief, the fortunes of war turn up the comforts of home and in this
instance "Tommy" has taken advantage
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wreckage isn't
exactly a discomfortafter several months spent in the trenches, as may be easily imagined.
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TAR HELL ORATORS
TD HELP THEM
tee Has Drafted Many
Speakers of This State
THEY ARE ASSIGNED
TRAIL DEMOCRATS
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Only , a Few1 Republican
, Spellbinders Left ' to Do
Dutjfethe Old Noilh
. State
Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 23 Political
observers of North Carolina find as
the campaign enters its last twoi
weeks perceptible loss of confidence
among the Republicans who hoped for
two congressional districts, six new
senatorial districts and 15 new Re
publican counties.
The Republicans are responsible for j
the hope. While they are fighting in
spots just as apparently hard as ever,
the steady exodus of North Carolina
campaigners to other states has been
remarked upon so often that it looks
significant to Democrats. Gilliam
Grissbm and Frank Linney are still
here and Grissom has been left with
the bag to hold.
For the last several days the papers
have been carrying nsws of Settle,
Meekins, Butler and lesser ones in
other states and it looks good to Dem
ocracy from any attitude. If Hughes
needs these three from North Caro
lina it makes Wilson Democrats feel
good and if they have concluded that
the job of showing North Carolina's
government to be extravagant and in
competent, is too big for them, Dem-1
ocracy wonders what must be the con
tract that those remaining have essay
ed to carry out.
But such it is. Settle has been in
Virginia, the newspapers have carried
the story of Senator Butler in Balti-
more and Ike MeeKins is aoing tne i speak to them as usual. He made
bloodhound to Josephus Daniels. If, his first address to a negro audience
Ike finds nothing in the trail worth three years ago at this fair and made
following then some other North Car- j SUCh a hit as to fix him perpetually
oliniian will be assigned to the task : as the midweek orator. The Gov
of throwing sand in the secretary's ( ernor missed about twenty-five years
eyes. But Settle, Butler and Meekins j0f his life in beginning so late to
have been outside the state leaving j speak to the colored audience,
the inside to Grissom and his indif-j
ferent help.
Various explanations are offered.;
Most anybody can guess Ike Meek-'
in's reasons for leaving the state. Sen-!
ator Butjer's convention here in
March pleased - nobody less than Ike j
and Dr. Cy Thompson and Carl Dun-J
can were right here. Ike Meekins has j
tried to Dersuade North Carolina!
when Senator Butler wasn't the issue. ,
The. Elizabeth City song bird pannot
Aing when such men as Dr. Cy and -
Mr. Duncan agree that the former sen
ator is the issue and find concurrence
among a thousand Democrats who satj
in the auditorium and saw them fight-
ing as plainly as tne wart upon
a
nose obtrudes Itselt upon hls
vision. So Ike Meekins had no busi-
BeSS here-
MAN WHO KILLED
LECTURER ON TRIAL
' rtoivaetmi Oct.. 23. The Tenth Ju
dicial Court was crowded today for
th opening of the trial of John Cope-J
land of Marshall, in connection with j
th killing of William Black, an anti- J
Catholic lecturer in a hotel of that city
'February 3, 1915. i
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THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN WILMINGTON.
of this rather extraordinary turn of
STATE FAIR
BIG SUCCESS
Number of Records Broken
On Different Days Col
ored Fair This Week
Raleigh, Oct. 23. The State Fair
has not finished casting up accounts
and does not know ibw much money
it did 'take in.bufc was a great go
and laid all others itf&he; shade.
The good Fridayhich closed t
jshowed; jjLoret
money as was taken : m the same day
last year. The Thursday preceding
banked $94 more than Thursday of
last year and the day was half bad.
The fair made money this year. It is
hefty
It did so well that it now has'miSSion came after seven bodies of
resolved -to ask the legislature for an
appropriation of $10,000 next year.
Some Republicans don't like that.
They heartily disapproved of the man
agement's consent to the Wake coun
ty Democracy to rig up a float and
flaunt politics in the faces of those
who watched the parade on Wake
County Day. Visiting Republicans
and exhibitors concurred, but they
understood that the State paid for
this "Democratic bad taste." It is a
mistake, of course, tb.e Wake county
candidates did that. But the $10,000
is the thing.
Guilford county oiueau nerself. Last
year sne anu Haywood contended
mightily for the mastery. This year
Guilford was an easy winner. She
took all that her capacious hands
could pick up in red and blue rib
bons and both the first prizes among ;
the counties and among the girls' can
ning clubs went to that county. Mt.
Airy apples ranked highest, but were
t
run a clogp race by others
The colored 'people have their fair
this week. They have hitherto claim
ed "the first rainy week after the
white folks fair" as their time. They
begin Tuesday and run through Fri
day. Governor Locke Craig will
WILL NOT CHANGE
GOVT. POLICIES
Killing of Prime Minister Not
of a Political Nature-
Private Character
Vienna,-Oct. 12 (Via London), Oct.
J. i 1 3 hn
t?5 Z Z
, whlch to no
n-c intorW A,vith t.hft nnlip.ipa or the
YT lOO liitVll-Vlv
courseof the war. This statement
was made to a correspondent of the
Associated Press by a person high in
official quarters.
It is pointed ut that at the time
that the assassin stands alone. His
act is disavowed by Socialists and by
press.
The city , is quiet. The murder,
while of national interest, is regarded
as purely a private wuw.
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events. A feather bed among shell
Y LOST THEIR
LIVES WHEN SHIPS
HIT BY STORM
Owners of the Steamer Merida.
Admit That Ship Has Gone
down
ENTIRE CREW WAS
LIKELY DROWNED
I Those On the Steamer L. Ed
ward Hines Drowned WJien
Hurricane Hit
Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 23. Local
managers of the steamer Merida cpn
ceded today that the ship was lost in
Friday's gale on Lake Erie. The ad-
the crew had been picked up in mid
lake by two other steamers. So far
as is known, not a man of the crew
of 23 survived the tragedy.
The loss of the Merida makes the
fourth lake steamer which went down
in the gale. The total loss of life is
supposed to be about fifty.
Steamer Lost in Hurricane.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 23. Sixteen
members of the crew of the steamer f
L. ' Edward Hines, including her cap-
tain, wfire drowned when the steamer
sunk in the Carribean sea, 45 miles
east of Belize, British Honduras, in
the tropical hurricane of October 15,
according to" a wireless message re
ceived here today. Only three mem
bers of the crew were saved, the mes
sage stated.
EIGHTEEN MEN LOST
LIVES IN ACCIDENT
Sixteen Bodies Have Been
Brought from Mine in
Alabama
Marvel, Ala., Oct. 23. Eighteen
men lost their lives as the result of an
explosion in the Roden coal mines
here yesterday, and early today res
cuers had brought 16 bodies to the
surface. Six were negroes. Two men
are still in' the mine and all hope of
their ..being saved alive has been aban
doned. Later. The last of the 18 bodies
were brought to the surface shortly
before noon. Of those who lost their
lives seven were negroes.
FIFTY KILLED IN
News of Fatal Crash in Mexico
Just Reached The Bor
der Today
Laredo, Texas, Oct. 23. Fifty per
sons were kUIed and a great number
injured in a rear-end collision of a
freigjjt and passenger train at Ram
os Arispe, Mexico, on last Friday, ac
cording to a report that reached the
border today. The scene of the acci
dent" was between SaltHlo and Tor
reon. '"'
MAN
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Neither Carolina Nor Virgina
Can Secure Southern Foot
ball Championship
Raleigh, Oct. 23 Georgia Techs'
10 to 6 victory over -North Carolina,
in Atlanta, and Georgia's 13 to 7 de
feat of Virginia, at Charlottesville,
Saturday, were the two events around
j which North Carolina football enthu-
siasts centered great interest. The
j defeat of both North Carolina and
1 Virginia, that were considered two
j of the strongest elevens in the South,
j eliminates them in the race for the
championship. Washington and Lee
j is now the only representative of the
j Virginia-Carolina section.
! The Georgia Techs' victory over
North Carolina was not an easy one,
the game being won by hard work
The Tar Heels played a brilliant,
game, but a little ragged work hurt
their chances.
The Citadel's holding Davidson to a
7 to 7 tie at Davidson, after David
son had defeated A. & M. 16 to 0, was
the surprise of the games played.
Davidson had anticipated a victory,
not by overwhelming odds, but the
game played by the Citadel eleven
7" u lttucl U1CVC" tion of fighting in the Cerna river re
unlooked for Skill m handling gion southeri.,t MonaStir, on the
I was
forward passes and heavy weight in
the line were responsible for the good
game.
ALSO MAKES OE
But Admitted That Hughes
Had a Conference With the
O'Leary Crowd !
New York, Oct. 23. A telegram
from Frank Seiberlich, of Boston,
was given out today by the Republi
can National Committee in support of
Khe denouncement of Charles Evans
Hughes last night of the Democratic
National Committee's charge that the
Republican nominee entered into a
secret agreement with the American
Independent's conference, of which
Seiberlich and Jereiaiah O'Leary are
members. The telegram said
f "The statement made by Mr.
KHughes relative to a conference with
a committee of the American Inde
pendent's conference is absolutely
"true. Mr. Hughes saw the commit
tee, of which I was a member, madej
no promises, did not criticize Theo-;
dore Roosevelt and made the state
ment tjiat he stood for all American
! rights."
William R. Willcox, Republican Na
' tional chairman, said the telegram
was voluntary.
y The charge of the Depaocratic Na
tional committee contained what pur-j
ported to be a repetition of a report j
made by Mr. O'Leary at a session of J
the conference of what occurred be-1
tween Mr. Hughes and tne commit-
'tee headed by Mr. O'Leary.
WHEAT TAKES YET
f ANOTHER JUMP
Chicago, Oct. 23. Wheat made a
prenomenal jump of 5 cents per bush
el here today. The December option
reached 1.75 7-8, and May 1.75 3-4, as
against, respectively , 1.70 1-2 to
1.70 3-4 and 1.701-2 to 1.70 7-8 at the
finish on Saturday.
STEEL MADE A
NEW HIGH RECORD
' New York, Oct. 23 Urited States
Steel made a new high record in this
morning's strong and . active market,
a block of 3,100 shares changing hands
at 120 3-4.
Other industrial shares, particularly
the steel, iron and sugar, Central
Leather and moderate priced rails
were higher 2 to 6 points.
Steel ascended to tthe new high
mark of 121 3-4 during the noon hour
for the first time in its history
TAKE IMPORTANT RUMANIAN
FORT.
Berlin (Via London), Oct. 23.
The Rumanian fort of Con-
stanza has been captured by the
Germans, the war office an-
nounced today.
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PRICE 5; CENTS
Teutonic Forces Push the Rus
so-Rumanian " Armies to
Their Last Line
CONFLICTING REPORTS
FROM CERNA REGION
French Make Successful Ad
vance Along the Somme-Pe-trbgracl
Reports Slackening
of Battle in Part of the Ga
lician Theatre of Strife '
The Teutonic drive at the' Ruma
nian front has pushed the Ilusso-Itu-manian
armies approximately to. their
last possible line of resistance south
of the railway leading to internal Ru
mania. The entente resistance in
Dobrudja is declared by Sofia to
have been broken. Petrograd admits
the continuance of the Russo-Ruma-nian
retreat in Dobrudja, declaring,
however, that the Russian and Ruma
nian forces are offering stubborn re
sistance as they fall back.
On (he north, where the Teutonic
pressure is being applied, the success
of the operations seem less pro
nounced. The Rumanians are mak
ing successful stands in the various
passes leading from Transylvania to
Rumanian territory. In some of the
hilly regions Rumanian forces are
reported by Petrograd to have driven
the Teutonic troops slightly back
ward. Conflicting reports of the resump
Macedonian front, come from the op
posing camps. Sofia announces a suc
cessful deevlopment of the Bulga
rians' counter attack, while the Bulga
rians failed to regain lost ground in
the battle for Monastir, is the entente,
war office statement.
On the western front along tha
Somme the French have made a suc
cessful push in the vicinity of the
Perronne-Bapaume road, capturing
HnfeaknowTf- as" 128,' according to T
today's Paris bulletin. ;
Petrograd reports the slackening of
the battle in the Narayuvka river re
erion. in Galicia. whpro Ttarlin anrt
Vienna yesterday announced that im
portant Teutonic victories had been
gained. The repulse of the Teutonic
attempt to cross the Voldurka, north
of Brody, in the district northeast of
Lemberg, is claimed.
HELD IN VIRGINIA
But Richmond Is Supporting
Raleigh for the Farm Loan
Bank Location
Richmond, Va., Oct. 23. The Feder
al Farmers' Loan Board opened its
hearings here today with agriculture,
banking and commerce in strength
represented. 'All members but Secre
tary McAdoo were present.
Although Petersburg, Va., is a vig-
orous applicant, Richmond Is support-
ing Raleigh, N. C, which supported
Richmond in its fight for the Region-
al Reserve Bank.
SOCIAL SERVICE
.IS
Board From House of Bishops
to Co-operate With House
Deputies
St. Louis, Oct. 23. Announcement
of the appointment of a standing so
cial service committee was made 'to
day by the House of Bishops of the'
Protestant Episcopal general conven
tion in session here.
The committee will cooperate with
a similar committee from the House
of Deputies, the lower body of the'
convention.
Today marked the beginning of the '
final week of the convention's discus
sion on the advisability of changing
!'the method of representatives in the -
House of Deputies. The House of
Bishops will debate today on the prop
osition to open the sessions to the
public.
Washington, Oct. 23. The weather
bureau's report indicated the pres-
ence of another storm 200 miles off ,
the North Florida coast and moving
Tmrtliwnrrt Storm WaniittgS haV6 '
'been ordered displayed irom
For-
tress Monroe
to Charleston.
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