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VOL. 22. SMITH FIELD, X. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1903. NO. 13.
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Short Items of Interest Clip
ped and Culled From Our
Exchanges.
The graduating class at Wake
Forest commencement last week
numbered 42.
Tyrrell county will soon build
a new court house at Columbia
to cost $12,500.
Henderson voted $40,000 in
bonds for street improvements
and a sewerage system Monday.
The first shipment of peaches
was made from Southern Pines
May 20th, nine days earlier than
ever before.
The Farmers' Bank, with a
capital of $12,500, has been
chartered to do business at Jef
ferson, Ashe county.
The Winston Sentinel has
started a boom for Mr. R. B.
Glenn for the Democratic nomi
untion for Governor.
The commencement at the
State Normal and industrial
' College took place last week.
There were B0 graduates.
John Cox, about 40 years old,
was drowned Thursday while
bathing in McCauley's mill pond,
eight miles from Durham.
Frank Pate, colored, killed
Link Barber, colored, at Spencer
Sunday night. The men were
engaged in a game of cards.
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Dtiure nt*ai/ oopicuiuvi u, miitric
in^ plant to cost $150,000 will
be in operation in Mecklenburg
county within six miles of Char
lotte.
Maj P. F. Duffy, an editorial
writer on the Wilmington Star,
died Monday. He was one of
the ablest paragraphers in the
State.
The State Hoard of Agriculture
at its meeting this week increased
the salary of B. W. Kilgore, State
Chemist, from $2,500 to $3,000
per j ear.
Col. Frank Coxe, proprietor of
the Battery Park Hotel at Ashe
ville, died suddenly Tuesday. He
was one of the State's wealthiest
citizens.
The Sailsbury Sun says the
Southern Railway has raised the
wages of all the machinists in the
shops at Spencer from 28 to 30
cents an hour.
The largest individual life in
surance claim paid in North
Carolina during the year, was
upon the life of the late Preston
L. Hridgers, of Wilmington?
$35,393.
The Southern Loan and Trust
Company at. Greensboro has in
creased its capital stock to $200,
0(10 and will establish a life in
surance branch to begin business
July 1st.
The governor re-appointed the
State board of elections, com
posed of Wilson G. Lamb, J. R.
Lewellyn and R. T. Clay well,
Democrats, and Clarence Call and
A. B. Freeman, Republicans.
\\ hue out driving with his
brother, J. G. Shaw, Esq., at
Fayetteville Sunday, Mr. 1>. S.
Shaw was thrown out by the
horse running away and died
from his injuries a short time af
terward.
The alumnae association^* the
State Normal College, has decid
ed to raise a fund of S7,500 to
loan to worthy students. This
amount will be supplemented by
a fund of equal amount by the
general education board.
No l>ss than 21 new graded
schools will open in this State
next fall. It is not bad prophesy
to predict that in a score of years
there will be a graded school in
nearly every township in the
State and a county high school
at every county seat.
J. H. P.uis, of Salisbury, who
died recently in New Jersey, left
an estate valued at $10,000 to
$15,000 and willed the bulk of it
to the Catholic college at Bel
mont, Gaston county, for the ed
ucation of young men of North
Carolina for the Catholic priest
hood.
Governor Avcock delivered the
commencement address at Klon
College this week.
Fireman Kobert Burnett, of
Asbeville, fell from a rapidly
moving freight train Saturday
morning near Melrose and was
seriously hurt.
W. M. Mitchell, a young white
man. was convicted of bigamy
in Mecklenburg Superior Court
Tuesday and sentenced to seven
years on the roads.
Col. 1). Worthington, the au
thor of "The Broken Sword,"
will deliver the commencement
address at Haverhill College,
New Hampshire, June 12th.
J. J. Oakey, of High Point, has
constructed and putin operation
what is said to be a high class
automobile and one that gives
perfect service, at a cost of about
$700.
While shooting frogs on Tar
river, at Tarboro, Saturday, Lee
Collins fatally shot Lizzie Battle.
Both colored. The man claims
that the shooting was purely
accidental.
Dr. It. T. Vann, president of the
Baptist Female University, de
livered the commencement ad
dress at the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Louis
ville, Ky., this week.
Friday night burglars entered
the Avalon Cotton Mill Co.'s
store at Avalon, Rockingham
county, broke open the safe and
stole about $40 in cash. Some
goods were also taken from the
sf,nrp.
A charter is granted by the
State to the Farmers' Club, of
Henderson, with $125,000
authorized capital, the main
object of which is stated to be
the dealing in lands and aiding
negroes in securing homes on
easy terms
The six men who have been
held in jail for the murder of
Percy Jot.es at Wilson havebeen
allowed bail under habeas corpus
proceedings. The amount of
bond has been placed at $5,000
each. Piver and llarnes are the
only ones that have yet furnished
bond.
The Southern Railway people
proless to think that the wreck
of the passenger train near Ral
eigh on the 19th was due to the
placing of a spike or other ob
struction on the track and a re
ward of $500 has been offered
for evidence to convict. The re
ward will probably not be claim
ed.
Ilr. Richard H. Lewis,secretary
of the State board of health, has
completed his report for the
twelve months ending May 1, and
finds there were 4,400 cases of
smallpox in Northx Carolina
during that period and over 100
deaths from this disease. This
is the largest number since small
pox appeared, five years ago.
State treasurer Lacy Thursdav
received from the takers of the
special issue of $300,000 of
State bonds the money therefor
and at once began the payment
oi tne uents tor wnicn ttte bono
issue provides. He first paid the
#200,000 borrowed a little over
a year ago from the National
Park Hank, of New York. In a
week all the debts will be paid
The bonds are very handsome.
Their engraving and printing
corn if1.700.
A special term of court for Wil
son county has been ordered to
begin June 15, Judge Shaw to
preside. It is expected that the
men who killed Percy Jones, the
insurance agent, in Wilson a few
weeks ago will be tried at this
term. People who hope that
justice will be done in this case
will be glad to know that Judge
Shaw is to preside at this court.
Efforts should be made to have
counsel assist the solicitor in the
prosecution.
Thousands suffer and hundreds
die everv year in this country
from some form of Bowel Com
plaint. The best remedy for
these diseases in children or
adults is Dr. Seth Arnold's Bal
sam. Warranted to give satis
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Some of the Week's Events
Scissored and Condensed
from the Press.
It its tsuid there are no idle men
in Kansas to harvest the wheat
crop.
A Southern railway wreck in
Alabama last week resulted in
nine deaths.
More than 75,000 textile work
ers went out 011 strike iu Phila
delphia Monday.
A gale at Valparaiso, Chile,
this week caused loss ol life < sti
mated as high as 100 persons.
.J. 1*. Burke, a blacksmith, has!
been elected mayor of Burling
ton, the largest city in Vermont.
The Southern Presbyterian
General Assembly asked for
$250,000 for mission work for
next year.
United States manufactured ex
ports in April last were valued at
$?'$9,846,509, having been exceed
ed only twice before.
I11 New York City 8,000 iron
workers have decided to stay out
until they win or lose their strike.
They spurn compromise.
Two young men werekilled and
another wounded from ambush
by unknown persons in Laurel
county, Kentucky, Monday.
it. is estimated mat persons
seeking divorc in South Dakota
spend, while gainimr residence
for that purpose, $900,000 a
year.
In Montreal, Canada, another
large street ear strike is on.
About 2,000 men are affected.
1'ublic sympathy is largely with
the company.
Ambassadors Joseph H. Choate
and Robert S. McOormick and
Senator N 15. Scott, of West Vir
ginia, arrived in New York from
j Europe Tuesday.
Pensylvania Republican State
| Convention Wednesday endorsed
President Roosevelt to succeed
himself and declared against any
? change in the tariff.
The number of persons certain
ly killed by the floods at Topeka,
Kan., is now put at 34. At Kan
sas City also a considerable num
ber of lives have been lost.
Another general strike in the
anthracite region is threatened
as a result of a dispute about
the appointment of members of
the board of conciliation.
Representative William Rich
ardson, of Alabama, says he be
lieves ex-President Cleveland's
views will be sought in making
the next Democratic Presidential
nomination.
A cloudburst near Enid, Okla.,
Saturday night destroyed many
homes and damaged property to
the extent of $300,000. Floods
also did much damage in other
portions of Oklahoma.
Fire at Eacona, X. H., Tues
day. burned over about 1 AO
acres, destroying 100 buildings
and making homeless about 350
persons. The loss is estimated
at from $350,000 to $100,000.
Henry G. Morse, of Camden. N.
.1., president of the New York
Shipbuilding Company, died sud
denly in New York Tuesday, af
ter being stricken with apoplexy
in the offices of J. Pierpont Mor
gan.
The appointment of a negro
postmaster at Gaza, a small vill
age in Copiah county, Miss., has
caused trouble. It is said the
white patrons of the office will
boycott it and have their mail
sent elsewhere.
Twenty thousand homeless
dogs are running at large in Chi
cago and placing citizens in dan
ger of rabies, according to ("has.
A. White; deaths last year in
Chicago from that disease were
unprecedented.
Out of the eight?>eii candidates
voted for the judicial election in
Cook county, Illinois. Monday,
the Democrats elected fourteen
nnd the Kepublicans four. The
Democrats carried the county by
110,000 majority.
KENLY ACADEMY CLOSE.
Most Prosperous Session of this
Excellent Institution.
We make the following ex tracts
from the account furnished tlie
News and Observer by Mr. \V. A.
Edgerton, Secretary board of
trustees, of Kenly commence-J
meat:
"Kenly, N. C., May 2i).?The
most prosperous session of Kenly
Vcademy came to a close on
Wednesday and Thursday of
this week, in a blaze of glory.
"The opening exercise was the
annual sermon by Rev.J. .(.Har
per, Chancellor of Atlantic
Christian College, of Wilson. The
sermon is conceded by all to
have been one of the best ever
delivered in this town.
"The Literary address by I)r.
B. F. Dixon, State Auditor, was
a superb effort, and was so
beautifully conceived and mas
terfully delivered that it touched
a responsive chord in thu breast
of every auditor from thesmallest
child to the oldest Confederate
veteran. Amostchaste, patriotic
effort.
"The Primary Department,
under the direction of Miss Myrtie
Harper, a teacher equipped and
qualified for the special work by
the omnipotent (iod, was espe
cially good.
"The orations and essavs were
of a high order and evinced the
best of training and no small
degree of talent.
"The Music Department acquit
ted itself with angelic beauty,
and precision. Too much praise
cannot be given Miss I'ossie
Harris, the music teacher, whose
work has been fruitful of best
result."
The Kenly academy has within
the last few years done a great
work in that section for the
education of the people.' It has
constantly grown in numbers
and influence. The resignation
of Prof. Harper, regretted by the
good people of that section will
not retard the growth of the
educational spirit in that com
munity, for the enterprising
board of trustees will endeavor
to continue to run a school
worthy of the support of the
people.
Terlflc Cyclone In Georgia.
Gainesville, a thriving manu
facturing town iu Georgia, 52
miles northeast of Atlanta, was
struck yesterday afternoon by a
cyclone, which, it is estimated,
left at least 100 dead behind it,
besides 150 injured.
None knew that a calamity was
impending before the great col
umn of air rushed on the town
with a frightful roar. The chief
ruin was caused at the Gaines
ville cotton mill, three stories
high. The second and third sto
ries were carried away, and near
ly- all the persons working there,
it is believed, were killed. Those
on the first floor escaped. About
500 persons were employed at
the mill.
Some buildings were torn to
f po (rnicint rttliaru iroro
ii uj.1 in me, vi ui i o nci u imrv?
from their foundations and car
ried intact for blocks. Many
persons were picked up in the
storm and hurled over trees and
houses.
The storm passed almost in an
instant. Then the work of relief
was promptly and heroically
taken up by the survivors. A
tire,'which started in the wreck
ape, added to the difficulties they
faced.?Baltimore Sun, 2nd.
startling bvidence.
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PROSPECTS MORE FAVORABLE.
Showers Visited and Rctreshed all
Parts of the State ?Plant
Inq Pushed.
The weekly crop bulletin for
the week ending Monday, June 1,
says that puring the past week
local showers occurred over a
large portion of the state, which,
though not general, caused
marked improvement in crop
conditions. The showers whre
irregulary distributed, chiefly at
the beginning and end of the
week, the largest amounts fulling
in northern counties, while along
the southern border very little
precipitation was received, and
in that section crops are still
suffering for lack of moisture.
However, in a larger number of
counties the drought was
thoroughly broken, vegetation
was much refreshed, and crop
prospects, though not flattering,
are more favorable. While the
rainfall was of immense benefit
in bringing up dormant seeds, in
supplying the immediate needs
of growing plants, and in placing
sod in better condition for culti
vation, there was not sufficient
rain except in a very few places
to thoroughly soak the ground
or to soften uuplowed land.
Hail occurred in several eastern
counties on the 24tli, wi ;k some
damage to crops. The tenmera
ture was moderately about the
normal and favorable during
the entire week, until Sunday,
Man Jllst, when cooler weather
with northeast winds set in. The
sky was more or less cloudy
during t,he week, even where no
precipitation occurred. Though
backward and generally with
poor stands, crops are clean and
are now being well cultivated.
Corn has not all been planted;
a good deal was brought up by
the rainfall this week, and that
up grew nicely. Most of the corn
has received first plowing. In
counties suffering from drought
much replanting will have to be
done. The rains caused cotton
to come up nicely, though all is
not yet up. Planting is prac
tically finished. Cotton plants
are very small, but have im
proved; stands are better and
chopping is under way. The
weather was excellent for the
work of transplanting tobacco
in the northern counties where
it progressed rapidly, while the
crop shows some improvement.
A number of crop correspondents
state that wheat is better than
expected, though the yield will
be short. Harvesting early
wheat and oats has just begun
in a few places. Spring oats are
not promising. Planting pea
nuis is well advanced and trood
stands have been secured The
yield of Irish potatoes in the
east, was reduced by the drought.
Many sweet potato sprouts were
set this week. Hardens were
much benefited by the rains.
The prospect for fruit of all kinds
continues fairly favorable in the
central-east portion of the state,
and for apples also in the west.
The blackberry and dewberry
crops will be large. Crapes are
blooming heavily. Meadows are
much damaged by the drought
and are poor.
Earthquake Kills 2.000.
Constantinople, May 28.?News
which reached here to-day from
Asiatic Turkey shows that a ter
rible earthquake occurred April
'2!) at Melazgherd, in the Vilayet
of Van, 80 miles southeast of
Hrzroom, on the Kuphrates.
The town was destroyed with
practically its entire population
of about 2,000, including 700
Armenians, as well as the troops
forming the garrison of Melazg
herd. In addition over 400
houses in neighboring villages
collupsed.
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CLAYTON HIGH SCHOOL.
Splendid Entertainment Given by
Elocution Class.
The entertainment given Tues
day evening by the elocution
class was the greatest event yet
witnessed in Clayton. The pro
gram was as fo lows:
Music?Alpengluhen, Op. 11)3
by Miss Ruby Penny. Miss Penny
played with such ease and deli
cacy as to win the admiration of
all lovers of music
Pantomime?Swauee River by
twelve girls. They showed them
selves artists in that line; not a
single gesture went amiss.
Reading ? Zengarella, or the
Gypsy Flower Girl, by Miss lone
Gulley. Miss Gulley's delivery
was perfect. Every thought was
clearly set forth and showed her
excellent talent and the training
of a first class teacher.
Tableau ? Fall of Babylon?
Misses Ellis, Sorrell, Mitchell,
Penny, Parnsh. This was a
fascinating picture.
Greek Mirth Drill ? Fourteen
young ladies. Clothed in white
Grecian gowns, the young ladies
rendered one of the most fascina
ting plays of the evening.
Reuding?The Shadow of a
Song by Mr. W. I). Young. Mr.
Young proved himself to be a
speaker of no mean ability.
Song?Won't you tell me Why
linliin hv \l iuu I lunhno \\ illiamu
*?" *kyu i - i? | / 11?? iiiiuiuui
Miss Williams is about 13 years
old aud shows a talent for vocal
music that can h trdly be sur
passed.
Pantomime?Searching for
11 appiness?M isses Gulley, 11 orne,
(lower, Mitchell, Barnes, Sorrell,
Barnes, Penny, Mr. Young and
Master Ben Milliard. This was a
vt ry interesting aud instructive
play, showing that religion is
rather to be chosen than wealth,
fame, painting, music, love, beau
ty, knowledge or power.
Heading?Jack the Fisherman
by Miss Lessie Ellis. This was a
touching piece, and was rendered
in a way that softened all hearts
present.
Tableau?Deborah's Song of
Triumph?Misses Gower, Gulley,
} Barnes, Mitchell, Barnes. Words
cannot express the beauty of this
| piece.
Music?Caprice Gavotte in Bb.,
by Miss Leta Cable. As is every
one of Mrs. Thomas' music
pupils, Miss Cable is in a fair way
I to a great success.
Play?Aunt Jerusha's Quilting
Party, .lerusha Dow?Miss lone
Gulley. HepzibahSpooner(deaf)
?Miss Norma Sorrell. Hannah
Pike (old maid)?Miss Christine
Gower. .Johannah Hines (widow)
?Miss Lela 1'arrish. Patience
Peabody (old maid)?MissSwan
nanoa Home, llachel Gray
! (Quakeress)?Miss Lessie Barnes.
Mrs. Stubbs (gossip)?Miss
E m m a Castleberry. D r u c i 11 a
Thompkins (lecturer)?Miss Les
sie Ellis. Charity Cooper (old
maid)?Miss Ruby Ellis. Mrs.
Sinipkins?Miss Joyce Barnes.
Mrs. Pride?MissClaudieMitchell.
Pha-be Miranda Pride?Miss Ruby
Penny. John Dow?Mr. Wilkes
Barnes. Deacon Simpkins?Mr.
Burlon Hall. Squire Pride?Mr.
Roy Robertson. Rev. Lovejoy?
Mr. William Young.
Each one rendered his part in
a way deserving of credit.
Further account will he given
next week.
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May there l>e l>ehind us the
power of an endless life, a power
mightier than pen or sword, that
creates about us the very atmos
phere of heaven. -Ex.