Smitljfirlb ftef&lit Price On* Dollar Per Year . "TRUE TO OUR8ELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." Single Copies Five Cents. VOL. 28 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1910 Number 47 BUSINESS FINE IN SOUTH. President Emerson Sees Signs of It on Every Hand. Planters Have Money From Cotton and Other Products and Are Pros perous. Reports from the South, par ticularly the Southeast, indicate that section to be enjoying the greatest prosperity in its history. This applies to all lines of trade and farming communities. The Southeast suffered comparatively little from cotton shortage and j returns from the product break all previous records. Money is abundant everywhere. President Emerson, of the At lantic Coast Line Railroad, re cently returned to New York from a tour of inspection over the entire system from Washington to Tampa, and is quoted as say ing of conditions in Dixie: "The farmers and planters have more money just now than! they ever had before. Not only did they get the highest price in years for cotton, but the same is true of about everything they grow. The result is they are all j making improvements and pre paring bumper crops for next | year. "Every crop was sold easily,| ? and the demand was not oxce-ti ed. In fact, it was mucli larger than the supply. This is especial ly true of Florida citrus fruits and every sort of vegetable. The improved transportation facil ities and cheap rates make it --?1-1 4. .. _ .4. possioie iur me giunt-i to gi-u his crops into the big Northern market almost as soon as though they were grown near at hand and at only a little advance in freight. It is this reason, per haps, which is rapidly increasing the population of this section." President Emerson announced that it was the intention of the directors of the Atlantic Coast Line to double-track the main line of the system from Florida to its Northern terminus, lie said that 250 miles of double track had been constructed in the year just ended and that 30 miles more are in hand. The company has begun work replacing the five miles of wood en trestle across the Peedee, San tee and Savannah rivers with con crete, and it is expected that the improvement will be completed next month. The Atlantic Coast' Line is to spend many million of dollars on improvements during the year.?Washington Herald. ] 30 CLOCKS STRUCK IN VAIN. Robert Willoughby, the Punctual Motorman, Was Dead. New York, January lfi.?For the first time in 30 years Robert Willoughby failed to wake up this morning when his 30 clocks, simultaneously setting off a series of gongs, gave their customary) alarms at 6 o'clock. lie had died sometime during the night of Bright's disease. Willouclibv was f>7 veiirs old and had been employed as a motorman by the Third Avenue Elevated Railway. He was the most punctual employee in the service. No matter what the weather was, Willoughby was never late. the secret of his punctuality came to light when his room was inspected today. Ranged round near his bed were 30 clocks of different sizes and makes. All struck the same hour at the same time. Willoughby came from an old Maryland family. Aurora Giant Dead. Chicago, Jan. 16.?Peter Rlees, police magistrate at Aurora, who weighed 595 pounds, is dead. A portion of his residence will be torn away to permit the body being taken out. There is no hearse big enough, and a bobsled will be used in its place. It pays to raise corn. Mr. J. D. Johnson, of Robeson county, says he sold for one of his sons the corn from an acre and it net ted $9i?"after paying all expenses. It looks like the boys are going to teach their fathers how to grow hog and hominy as the best pay ing crops.?News and Observer. STATE NEWS. Nine houses occupied by ne groes were burned Saturday morning in New Bern. It is now an assured realisa tion that a railroad will be built from Goldsboro to Seven Springs. As the result of a fight, Kich ard Bivens stabbed to death with his pocket knife Vassar Fowler, in Granville County Saturday af ternoon. Hardy Kay, a little seven year old boy, of Charlotte, lost his life Thursday morning of last week in an effort to build up a fire with kerosine. A plucky llowan County wo man saved herself last week from criminal assault from a burly negro by shooting a pistol. The negro made good his escape. L. D. Robinson, Solicitor of the eighth judicial district, has re signed to take effect January 24. There are several prominent Dem ocrats who are canidates for the job. The annual meeting of the North Carolina Merchants' Asso ciation will be held this year in June at Salisbury. This thriving city is preparing to give the vis itors a hearty welcome. The Guilford County Poultry Association held a full show of chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks etc, at Greensboro last week. The exhibit, which has created much interest, closed Thursday night. Mrs W .T Pliimmt'r ail jtL'eil woman of eighty-five, who lived at Salisbury, met an awful death Tuesday of last week, by falling into the fire. She started to re plenish the fire when she fell, with her head in the open embers. A dreadful accident occurred in Burlington Saturday, when Mr. Frank Philips, an employee in Plaid Cotton Mills, was caught in the shafting and his right arm torn off just below the elbow. A serious wound was also inflicted in his left side. The town authorities of New Bern took four children from Mrs. A. L. Price last week and bound them out to farmers of Pamlico County because she was not able to properly care for them. She was allowed to keep her youngest child. Fourteen boys from Granville won a' trip to Raleigh in corn growing contests. Last Week, nine of them made this vi.vt. The young men, ranging in age from 14 to 17, w?irj escorted ;ibout the city by Prof. 1. O. Schaub, of the U. S. Department [of Agriculture. A society to be known as the " Anti-Tuberculosis Society of of "Wilson County," has been or ganized in Wilson. An interest ing feature of the meeting, which was held in the Mayor's office, was the reading of a paper on '"Etiology and the History of Tuberculosis" by Dr. llcnry B. Best. Tne Ifo year old girl ol Mr. A. S. Cratch, of near Wash ington, was burned to death 011 Thursday of last week. Hav ing been left with some smaller children for only a few minutes, the mother returned to (he room and found a broom on fire and the clothing of the youngest child in flames. Wednesday of last week was the anniversary of the first birth day of the Stonewall Jackson Training and Industrial school at Concord, which is accomplish ing so much in the noble work of saving wayward boys of North Carolina. Appropriate exercises followed the annual meeting of the board of trustees. Judge W. II. Allen has render ed a decision sustaining the Clerk of Harnett County in his refusal to remove II. C. McNeil as exe cutor of the estate of the late W. A. Stewart who was killed by a train in Dunn about a year ago. After the railroad company compromised the suit against iI j by agreeing to pay the estate of ' Stewart, the sum of $25,000, Mrs. Stewart, the widow, sought to I have McNeil removed as execu tor, and enjoined the railroad company from paying the money over to him. The courts so far have sustained McNeil. An ap peal has been taken to the Sup preme Court. MAY OBEY SPINSTER S WILL. Though Relative Objects, Trus tee Demands That the Body Be Stabbed. Pittsburg, Jan. 16.?The police had to be called out this after noon to keep a crowd from tear ing down the house at i!42 Main Street, where the body of Miss Laura White, the rich recluse, was found yesterday. Miss White's will has caused a clash between the Fidelity Ti tle and Trust Company of Pitts burg and Dr. Robert White of Connellsville, her only living rel ative in this vicinity. Dr. SVhite insists 011 disobeying the provis ion of the will asking that her heart be stabbed three times af ter she has been dead ten days. President C. S. Gray of the trust company insists that the re quirements of the will be carried out. Dr. White may enter court to-morrow in an attempt to pre vent what he calls desecration. Prom those who had known the woman long it was learned to-day that she had been haunt ed with a fear that she would be buried alive. Forty-fiv? years ago she was engaged to marry a young man named Graham, who died suddenly. Months later it was necessary to move the body to another cemetery. The coffin was opened, and the body was found to have turned on its side. ?New York Times. FLOOD LOSS $14,000,000. Salt Lake Railroads Washed Out For Ninety-three Miles. Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 17.?Advices from the flooded districts of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake road, fil ter in slowly, it is now known that ninety-three miles of track arc washed out. All trains, save four locals, have been abandoned. It is estimated that it will cost $14,000,000 to rebuild the Hue, which must follow a different route, and one which detours to Meadow Valley, Wash. The wash out of three years ago entailed a loss of $3,000,000 and delayed traffic only a few weeks. The damage wrought by the present flood is so stupendous that the officials themselves cannot give comprehensive details. It is con sidered the greatest railroad ro- ; duction of Russia surpassed that of the United States, the first in 1904. when the crop here was a j partial failure. The wheat acre age in .Russia lias been rapidly increasing for many years. Last year it was over 65,000,000 acres, i Rye was grown on 72,000,000 acres last year. Rye is the chief , bread grain of Russia, while wheat is the "money crop," about one-fourth of the whole be ing exported. Heavy Snow in New York. Kingston, N. Y., Jan. 14.? . Twenty-nine inches of snow had fallen on the level at Davenport Centre, Delaware County, before a blizzard started through this section of the state at noon. The pale increased in violence stead ily as the sun went down, and to night all traffic is seriously ham pered throughout the Catskill Mountain region. Tn some places j the roads are already impassable. Klk Park, a town of 1,200 in Mitchell county, was swept, by a destructive fire last week. Twenty buildings in the center of the town arr ashes, with an esti mated 1; af $75,000. NOTES OF INTEREST. At the Royal Normal College for the Blind in London IK) pt-r cent of the students are self supporting. The coining value of silver pro duced from the mines of the world since 1492 is practically equal to that of the gold pro duced in that period?115 billion dollars. Canada has 100,000 Indians among her population of 6,000, 000. The Government has iso lated them, as wards of the na tion, in reserves, which are scat tered all over the Dominion. In 1851 there were over 8,000. (XX) people in Ireland, but in 1901 the population was no more than 4,456,000. Thus in half a century the population decreased to al most half that which it formerly was. Citizens of Concord, N. 11., pro pose to erect there a statue of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to cost $20,000. and the sculptor, Daniel French, who in his youth was Mr. Emerson's neighbor and friend, has consented to under take the work. Rev. Watson Dana, 73 years old, of Ohio, who is visiting Kan sas City, has never raised his hat to a woman, and declares that he never will. "The Bible teach es us to uncover on entering the temple of the most high," he said, "and this mark of respect 1 re serve for my Ood." According to the reports of the Manitoba Department of Agricul ture the value of the butter pro duced in this province during 1!X)8 was $1 ,21(>,97(i, an increase aver that of the previous year of iibout $170,000. The cheese pro duced in 1908 was valued at ?183,294, compared with $1t>8, 997 in 1907. The total area under cotton in India, including both the early and all the late crop sown up to the end of September, amounted to 18,722,000 acres. For the same period last season the area was Hi,990,000 acres. There was, therefore, ail increase of 10 per jent., as shown by the figures of the present season. According to the census of 1901, the production of eggs in I'rinee Edward Island amounted to 2,42ti,2C>l dozens, valued at ?248,423. The production in 1909 is estimated at 4,000,000 dozens, af which 3,000,000 dozens will be shipped to Quebec and the other maritime provinces, to England, and to the United States. Another "melon" of large pro portions?the distribution of $20, J00,000 in common stock- is to be given the stockholders of the International Harvester. Com pany. The directors of the com pany have recomended that the entire $80,000,000 of stock be placed on at 4 per cent, div idend basis, commencing next April. The number of persons of all races employed on the railways in India in 1883 was: Europeans, 3,995; Eurasians, 9,982; Indians, 177,287. At the close of 1908 these figures had amounted to: Euro peans, 7,180; Eurasians, 9,982: Indians, 499,594, showing the tendency toward decreasing the relative number of European em ployes. The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church in New York city is to give a salary of $12,000, together with a home whose rental value is set at $5000 a year, to get as its pastor Rev. Dr. Ilenry Jowett of Carrs Lane Congrgational cha pel inn Birmingham, Eng. Dr. Jowett is also promised a yearly vacation of two months. But the latest news from England is that Dr. Jowett has declined the call. The New York Convention of the Layman's Missionary Move ment for the evangelization of the world, which was in session in New York for a week was brought to a close with a meet ing for men in the Hippodrome Sunday afternoon. The Hippo drome was crowded with minis ters and laymen, and before the meeting closed a resolution was adopted calling for the collection of a fund of $725,000 this year for the foreign missions. Last year the sum raised was about $400,000. ROCKFELLER NURSE DEAD. Miss Williams, 100 Years Old, Had Lived 80 Years in Cleve land. , Cleveland, Jan. 16.?Miss El eanor Williams, once a nurse iu the home of John I). Rockefeller, died Saturday night. She was 100 years old. Eighty years ago, when Cleve land was a malaria-stricken vil lage at the mouth of a stagnant creek, she began to nurse the children of the settlers. She was alone, an English emigrant, and to none of her friends did she ever reveal who were her parents or whether she had any rela tives alive. A quarter of a century ago sbo * was sent for by Mr. Rockefeller to nurse one of his children, who was ill. The affection for the kindly people in the old Euclid Avenue home which she gained then she never lost. Kor the past ten years she has lived with Mrs. Samuel II. Crowl. STATE NEWS At a meeting of the Harnett county bar held at Lillington Tuesday resolutions were unan imously adopted ? endorsing Mr. J. C. Clifford, of Dunn, for Judge of the sixth Judicial dis trict. Mr. Billic warren, of Sampson, carried a load of turkeys to Dunn, last week, which included two weighing 36 and 38 pounds re spectively. He received for the two $11 10 This is hard to beat on fowls. Mrs. llaywood Baker, of Wayne County, was burned to death Friday while dressing one of her children for school. Her husband who is a paralytic, l>eiug unable to help her. was compelled to witness the horrible scene. Mrs. George W. Wynne, of Greensboro, was buried at La Grange Tuesday afternoon. While her bereaved husband, age 79, was waiting at the station for' the train he was xpecting to take to return to Greensboro, he was suddenly stricken and died of heart failure. An unfortunate fire caused by the explosion of a lamp which was setting on a shelf above a stove, resulted in the horrible burning of two young ladies, Misses Le^sie and Bessie Wes cott, at Maiiteo, last week. No hope is entertained for the re covery of one, while the other, though she will recover, will be maimed for life. A Good Roads Meeting will be held at Raleigh, N. C., on January 27, 1910. This meeting is called by the State Geologist ' for all tiiose interested in im proved roads for North Carolina to discuss what can be done to assist the various counties throughout the State in putting forth still greater efforts for the construction of good roads within their borders. The meeting will also take up the discussion of State aid to counties in the con struction of good roads. 4 ?i1 T- 1 -- 4ixuiiir uuniistJii, ii youiig muu, of Salisbury, had a very narrow escape from death last Friday. Mr. Johnson, having delivered a load of lumber, was driving to wards the railroad crossing. The flagman detained him a few mo ments, then told him to drive on. He did so, and his team was struck by a car. The wagon, a total wreck, the mules and Mr. Johnson were shoved along the track some distance before the engineer could stop the train. It is miraealous that the mules nor the young man were killed. Orange Crop Million Short. Los Angeles, Jan. 16.?This year's orange crop has been dam aged approximately $1,000,000 by the heavy frosts of the last few days, according to the estimates made by reliable growers. Some believe this amount will also cover nursery stock and the coming year's crop, but others figure thu total to be several millions. Compared with the $35,000,000 valuation of the present crop, this is not a discouragingly largo V' . -