North Carolina Newspapers

V m-E WILMINGTON DISPATCH. THURSDAY; MAY 1 6, 1 9 1 8. j ESS 1ST IS GROUND TO ITS ' - ---- - y bowse mce Must uet ma. or YQtJ?3lF or rnjLfjaru Eor . OH L. A5.' V .'TV.- Propertyand Leave ? ? City. ' - mm Or IN REASON DEATH OV 11 Mr ! i ... jJSpeclal to Th Dispatcfc.) Vlfllateigh, May 16.Without calling .?. anf extra session of the general as I '. . f . aembly Governor Bickett has set in , ;' : fiotion ; a substitute which will ' deal j with, the problems: of vagrancy," of Jobless men and menless jobs, - 5?The governor first calls a : meet- tag for May 29 when the delegates vrUf. come here and discuss the best ' methods of enforcing, the vagrancy .'Jaws. Then June 4 a state convention wlll.be held and delegates from the J first meeting will be sent here- The proclamation issued today calls idle ness treason. The governor seks to set folks to work. He will allow the ,i Able-bodied vagrant, now 'in limbo, a v chance. Greensboro Men Ask Rate Raise. - .The North Carolina' Public Serv ice Corporation, the most modest of - flhm all seeking to get a light lift in jpevenue, has presented its cause to the corporation commisison and gone away without any despair. ;jThe Greensboro " delegation . had x Mayor Stafford, Ralph Hole, Aubrey - - is' Brooks, Charles A. Hines, Joe Rob & rtson, the Salisbury representative, A; - ?slnd though not all were on the same v side,: there was mighty little to quar- '(rel about. The " North Carolina Pub--' IJte Service company Asked to go only to 51.50 net. It was fair enough to .. V intimate that It might be able to get i . ' ajcmg somehow - with--i5 cents, the . jate now being ?f 1.25, Only Char: Jbtte has. a better one .and the Gate - .'City appellants-did quite- as well as ' -: "Charlotte. . . r -Must Skip or Serve. . iGovernor Bickett's return to put the finishing touches ; to the Louise x "Price case, a . vagrancy sentence iwhich she will -not serve if she gets ,, ; 1d of the property that she holds hereabouts, causes -him to . remark :npon his purposes "in estopping the conviction of the courts. ; The governor, declares, that he iciever had- any purpose to interfere, . ,Jbiat he did desire to vgive anybody ;Sho wished to reform a chance, to do ; what the law contemplated." Many Electrocutions ' Ahead". ; Governor Bickett's refusal to in "terfere with the execution of Frank ; , JJoore, , Duplin County man charged -'with murder, puts seven men beyond ixope and Moore will be one of the : Irio to be electrocuted the latter part pi May. Toore abandoned his appeal rv making it, and Governor Bickett went x over all the evidence. He declared ,. fcimselY unable to find anything on V which to base Executive'-interference, y;. ; Had he been a juror her declares that . ' ' 1 jbe would have - found the prisoner - guilty, rthat " "the murder showed every element of long premeditation, ; that the prisoner, deliberately hunted .the victim and -deliberately shot him. ! 5 Moore will die Friday, May 24, and Saturday following Ernest Byhum of ' Northampton, and Herbert Perry will be double, victims. Lonnie Council of Durham- will be executed June 7, and i Napoleon Spencer of Forsyth, June 2L !The dafis of Emanuel Roderick, mur derer ,4t his wife, New Hanover case, and Jesse Bowden of Craven have not been fixed, but they lost their ap peals. Body Sent tV Carthage. . The body of Thomas A. Frye, epi x -ptic patient , at the State, hosoitaj, K Raleigh, has been sent to Carthage am", the state can do nothing with R. Robinson,,, of Buncombe, who killed Frye last Sunday morning, r The men frequently quarreled, but never ai. reared to become dangerous. Sunday vhey went ferociously at each , Other, words being the weapons, but later Robinsc struck Frye over the head with a bioom handle and concus sion of the brain resulted. Frye died several hours . laier. There is, of course, nothing to e done legally ' about the killing. ' t From Zebulon, 25 i.v.es from Ra leigh, a story has come that Wiley S. i - . BY?, SHIFTING ENGINE New Bern Colored MarrStruck While Hiding His Bicycle Last Night. ( . . -'. - ' (Special to The Dispatch.) :New Beh, May 16. While at tempting to cut across in Eront of a Norfolk Southern shifting engine Tuesday : evening shortly after . 7 o;clocl, Charles Harden, colored, who has for a number of years been em ployed a.s janitor at the local fed eral building, fell In front of the lo comotive and was ground to death before he could manage to get out of the way of the oncoming train Harden was riding along on his bi cycle between the main line and a side track. When about 50 feet away from the man Engineer Richardson, in cbtLrge of the locomotive, blew the whistle and the fireman rung the bell. Harden looked back and' cross ed immediately in front of the train and fell in the center- of the track." He attempted to rise and get out of danger but the locomotive struck him just as he rose to a kneeling posi tion. The lower part of his body was horribly mangled, ope leg being com pletely severed. The body was dragged for a distance of 30 or 40 feet before the locomotive was brought to a stop. , Coroner Dr. Ernest W. Dunn empan eled a jury to investigate the acci dent and they returned a verdict to the effect that Harden came to his death asMhe result of being run over by a shifting . engine In tne Norfolk Southern yards. No blame for the accident is attached to the trajn crew. Senator F. M. Simmons, chairman of the finance committee of the United States senate, and who had been spending a short while Inhe city attending to business matters, has returned to the nation's capital to resuume his official duties. Senator Simmons, in discussing the war, said that the people of America are fast awakening to-the fact, that this country is engaged in the con flict and that they are liberally re sponding to the call of the govern ment for assistance from the public. He mentioned the last liberty loan drive and declared that it was won derful and showed, more plainly than any word that' could be spoken that the public is backing up the president and is intent upon helping the United States be. victorious in the conflict . . MAKE YOUR SELECTION AND PHONE U& Nadine Face Powder Velvetina Face Powder Djer-Kisa Face Powder Fruman Face Powder Swan Down Face Powder LaBlanche Face Powder Sanatol Face Powder Mavis Face Powder Azurea rFace Po"4w Carmen Fa6e Powdef Dagett Ramdale Tc Powdtf R, &,J..Face Povder Melba Face Powder Our Soda Fount Menu la - Complete. PAYNE DRUG CO. 5 th and Red Cross Streets.' Phone 520. TAX LISTING! We will be at the Court House during the month of May daily, except Sundays, from 9 a. m, to 5 p. m. for the purpose of taking Tax Lists of Wilmington Resi dents and Property. Holders. Attend Jo, This Duty in Time to Avoid the Penalty for Neglect. B. F. King H. K. Nash, "Tax Listers for Wilmington Township. Both Out for Good. Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of the war industries board, says that he has quit Wall street for good. And it is estimated that he had taken several millions of dollars out of It also for good. New York World. For the Stomach and Liver Just try one 50c bottle of LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN. A LiquM Digestlvo Laxative. Pleasant. to take. There Is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases pat to gether, and for years it was supposed to be. incurable. Doctors prescribed local rem edies, and by constantly failing to care HAVE DARK HI AND LOOK YOUNG Don't Stay Gray I . Nobody Can Tell When You Darken Gray. Faded Hair With Sage Tea and Sulphur. Grandmother kept her hair beautiful ly darkened, glossy and attractive with with local treatment, pronounced it incur- a a brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur, able. Catarrh, is & local disease, greatly lniu j Whenever her hair , took on that dull, uenced by constitutional conditions and j xaaea or streanea appearance, mis Big Still Captured. . Sheriff Joseph McLawhorn Deputies Taylor and.Hyman and Police Officer j Brewer went down four miles below Ayden, near Carr's Landing, on Con tentnea creek and captured a. large hundred-gallon copper still. From the condition of the outfit the .officers think the charge was run off Saturday night, and the operatives left with the liquor, as the still was warm when found. No one was there and 20 empty barrels were found and a small quantity of beer. Greenville Reflector. therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hairs Catarrh Medlelnev-manuftctured by dimple mixture was applied with won derful effect. By asking at any drug t- What is "Spring Fever"? Tt is simply low Vitality, a lack of Energy caused by impure ' blood. GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC restores Vitality and Energy by puri fying the Blood and you can soon feel its Strengthening, Invigorating Ef fect. 60c. Broughton, while looking for his wife, who was. missing, found her dead, stooped to pick her up and dropped dead over her. Mrs. Broughton had been visiting and after -returning home went to the woodhouse, where she died. Mr. Broughton, who was 65 "years old, and about 15 years her senior, was look ing for her, and doubtless found her dead before falling into - an uncon pciousness from which he died almost immediately. Mrs. Broughton must have been dead for hours. of the System. One Hundred Dollars re ward is offered for any case that Hall's Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. . Send for circulars and testimonials. P. j: CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio, i Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Adt F. J. Cheney & Co., ToledcuOhUv is a con-j store for "Wyeth's 8age and Sulphur stitutioni remedy, is taken internally and Compound," you will get a large hot acts tnru tne 0100a on tne mucous Hurxsces ; tlft Of this Old-time recipe, improved by the addition of other ingredients, all ready to use, at very little cost. This simple" mixture can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair. - V .'.. - A well-known - downtown druggist says everybody uses Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound now because it darkens- ao naturally and erently that nobody can tell it has been applied It's 6 eay to ' ue, too. You simply dampen a comb or soft brush and draw it through your hair, taking one tand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears; after another appli cation or two, it is restored to its na tural coe? and looks glossy, soft -and beautiful. This preparation is a de lightful toilet requisite. It is not In tended for the cure, mitigation or pre vention of disease Advt NO NEED TO HAVE Simply apply to your hair and scalp HERO LIN POMADS HAIR DRESSING It makes, stubborn, coarse, sappy, or kinky hair softi pliable, silky flnlTy, lone nn pretty, so. you can easily comb and brash It any. style. HeDolin stops falling- hair, dandruff and itchlnr scaln. and makes new hair crop out all over yonr bead so your Lair becomes lots, soft aad beanti'uL Hcrolia is up to dat and is not sti&y or rnmmr. Pleaaantlr oer- jf limed easy to apply. Cct made. I You Musi Try it iSFTJn (Sumps cr coiiJfor a box. AIkmoU rilff.. - Siorei. Asenti Wanted HER0LIN MEDICINE CO, Atlanta, Ga. tfTea J1 if ? "Jis i f M WW f Relieves CATARRH of the BLADDER im vim yiscoarfism 24HOURS lack espfnl ban tlM Bevartef (Mil cwntMftiu. V. SaMDraOffeiMj. jnr 1 H F0W1 R GUtT f ATOM FOR THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER It Will Run Astride the Row for Barring Off and Weeding Both Sides Leaving a Fine Loose Mulch. Does Not Leave Any Furrows for Washing or Tearing Up Rows or Middles Between the Rows forGrass r To Grow SPECIAL FEATURE Equipped with Short BJiade to Throw Fine Mukh in Roots of Plant after Plant is too Large to Run Astride! ' I CALL AND SEE IT TODAY AT z N. JACOBI HARDWARE CO. l WILMINGTON, N. C. I THE ALL jYEAR ROUND tttt mr X TOP - - a . i .v. I UR request for an increase in rates for our service in certain Icities in North Carolina -is the result of condi- : : . l I- i." ,- - ; j.- -1 . t - -" -.. ' . ... ,1 'i S t . ) . -' ' ' - tibns over which We haveo control and which are reflected in every American bueijhome. , The kdreasjed cost of living, produced by the increased cost of material, food and blhw essentialsr; is a familiar fact and an increased cost of labor has bero the natural result A company such as ours must pay the increased cost of both material and labor and Unless there is added revenue from s6me source, the net return, which is the difference be- tween revenue and expenses, will soon be afceorbed, and there will be an actual loss. . ) , . . Our only source' of revenue is the money paid for our ser- r vice by our patrons and the public It is to meet, in a meas- ure, the great increase in the ost of labor and material that we are requesting an advance in the rates for our service. The net returns of bur operations in North Carolina and in this city have always been lowrnever such as would sat- isfy the stockholders of a private enterprise. The revenue produced :by the new -rates will not be sufficient - to jrivet us a net return the statea equal taf the net return in 1 9 17. During the past four years the cost of the principal material and equipment used in the operation $nd maintenance of telephones has advanced an average of 77 per cent Some of the typical increases are as follows: Lead covered cable Equipment Hardware Poles Insulated wire Bare copper wire Wooden ware j Misoellaneons material Printing and stationery average increase. v. 86 124 73 69 141 64 57 53 Added to this is the increased cost of labor alone which, in 191B, will be greater than the revalue to be produced by the new rates. We are making a hrank, cornplete, detailed showing to the State Corporation Commission, which is the legally consti tuted authority in such matters. We are not asldng for in creased profits, but for thelprivileg of increasing our revenue so that we may not cmte at a lo S - J