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if VOL 30 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1911 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. EDUCATION GOOD ROADS GOOD HEALTH PROGRESS nvi CENTS PEE COPY. DR. WILEY IN CONTROL Expert'# Enemies Taken Off Govern ment Board. M’Cabe Resigns Vol untarily. Dunlap, Other Alleged Defender of Adulterants, Given Va cation Untli Taft Comes Back. Washington, Oct. 3.—In a sudden succession of orders, an initial move in the expected reorganization of the department of agriculture, George p McCabe, a department solicitor, to day was retired from the pure food and drug board, F. L. Dunlap, asso ciate chemist, closely identified with McCabe, was allowed leave of ab sence until the president’s return and Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist, left apparently in supreme command of the board. Dr. R. E. Doolittle of New York was temporarily appointed to the board to succeed Mr. McCabe. These changes were announced to day by James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, following a conference with Dr. Wiley, who has been on a long vacation. They were deemed inevitable in view of personal antag onism aired before a congressional committee the past summer and Dr. Wiley’s exoneration by President Taft, after Attorney General Wicker sham, whose views were aligned with those of Secretary Wilson and Solicitor McCabe, had recommended Dr. Wiley’s removal from office be cause of a technical irregularity in appointive methods, the responsibil ity for which he denied. The pure food and drug board is the agency which passes upon many important cases arising under the enforcement of the pure food law. Dr. Wiley, on the one hand, and So licitor McCabe and Dr. Dunlap on the other, were the members of the board. Dr. Wiley declared that lie was usually outvoted and made a pumber of sensational statements in the investigation of the controversy. Smarting under the frequent overrul ings of his views wherein he held food products deleterious to health, he told a congressional committee that he regarded his associate, Dr. Dunlap, as his superior officer. Secretary Wilson’s brief announce ment of the change stated that So licitor McCabe voluntarily resigned and that his resignation had been accepted. BOTH 14; GET LICENSE TO WED. Babyhood Sweethearts Write Home After Week’s Absence. New York, Oct. 3.—When little Ruth Day wrote to her mother, and little Arthur James wrote to his, de claring that they had at last obtain ed a license and were going to be married to-day in Long Island City, even though each is only 14 years old, it was the first word the par ents of either of the children, who live in South Orange, N. J., had re ceived from them for a week. Arthur and Ruth are babyhood sweethearts, and up to last spring they went to the Columbia High School, in South Orange. Then Ar thur left school to go to work. About a week ago, just before the chil dren disappeared, some one telephon ed to Mrs. Day that Ruth and Ar thur were trying to get a marriage license in Jersey City. Arthur, just before this, had emptied his savings bank, sold his pet pony and obtain ed $3 from his mother, in all $52. He had this when he disappeared, some hours after Ruth was missed from her home. The parents could get no clue to the children until the letters came today, if they are married when they come home, it was said, the par ents will not let them live togeth er' Baltimore Sun. w- E. FAISON FOUND DEAD. Was One Time National Councilor Of The Jr. O. U. A. M. , ^Raleigh, N. C., Oct. 3.—William E. Faison, National Councilor of the Jun !°r Or(ier of the American Mechanics c 1^04, until last year editor of that ^eT 8 aational organ and for a num r years Assistant Commission*! Qj. "at)or and Printing of North Car laa' Was found dead in his apart here tllis afternoon. Death en from heart trouble. 0jd T‘ Fais°n was about 43 years ia thBd "aS one of the larSest men e State, weighing 330 pounds. i THE JOHNSTON COUNTY CLUB AT UNIVERSITY ORGANIZED. Chapel Hill, N. C., Oct. 2—In a very enthusiastic meeting, which is always characteristic of the John- J ston County spirit at the University, the Johnston County Club was reor-t ganized Thursday night for the pres ent college term. The prime objects of the club are to put forth an organized effort on the part of the boys from the County, at the University, to increase the number of students here from John- I ston County; and to promote the so cial phase of college life, among j those who are already here, by com- j ing together in one group, once a j month, not in the routine of class i room work, but at a social gathering where the “boys” may extend to 1 each other a hearty hand-shake, know : each other bettre, and partake of the refreshments, which the club is always sure to have in abundance. The club in the past has done very effective work, having increased its membership from 16 last year to 23 this year, making it, now, one among the largest county clubs here. Any boys who are anticipating en tering college, in the near future, will be furnished, gladly, information concerning the University by writ ing to the Secretary of the Club. The following are its officers: R. E. Parrish, President. A. S. Oliver, Vice President. Ezra Parker, Secretary. C. W. Johnson, Treasurer. The members of the club this year are: James Eldridge, Jesse Tur lington, H. H. Boon, C. C. Canaday, H. D. Lambert, R. F. Coats, and Ezra Parker, Benson; C. W. John son, and J. I. Lee, Four Oaks; R. E. Parrish, J. H. Rand, I. M. Bailey, C. L. Lassiter, W. R. Sanders, and Ben Wellons, Smithfield; A. S. Oli ver R E. Parker, Y. Z. Parker, and Avery Winston, Selma; J. P. Cor don, and A. E. Barbour, Clayton; and Tyre Bailey, Kenly. Educating the People to Save. It is being established beyond any doubt that the postal savings banks are the beginning of a cam paign for national thrift. Savings is made easy when savings institutions are near. Some one with an analyti cal turn of mind has figured out that of 60,000,000 adults in this country, old enough to save, more than 50, 000,000 are not within convenient dis tance of savings banks. Still, prac tically all of these are in one post office or another at least once every day or once every week. We anticipate that savings bank depositors will increase fivefold through the establishment of the post banks, because the latter have begun to pave the way for a national education in thrift, which, once start ed in this country, will put into the shadow anything attempted or car ried out in other lands. The Ameri can people, perhaps not very thrifty as a whole, but watchful of their interests, have begun savings on a larger scale. In the past ten years the owners of shares in 242 of our great corporations, with a capital of $9,000,000,000, have grown fourfold, and now number 873,000. The total corporate capital in the eountry to day is something like $60,000,000, 000, largely divided. All of those small owners have gained their shares by small savings. Post banks are going to increase this army of small investors enormously, by giv ing absolute security for small sav ings until they are large enough for the purchase of shares. We are safe in predicting that by 1920, perhaps sooner, there will be 2,000,000 shareholders of record in the United States—Washington Her ald. 240 LIVES LOST IN STORM. More Than 100 Bodies Washed Onto Northern Shorefe. Antwerp, Oct. 3—Two hundred and forty lives are known to have been lost in coasting craft during the storm of Sunday in the North Sea. More than 100 bodies have been washed ashore. When side tracks are taken into account, we have more railroad mile age than all the rest of the world. It is said that two and a half mil lion dollars are spent annually on hnnting in Ireland. ITALIAN—TURC0 WAR Italy declared war against Turkey last week. Italy has attempted to seize Tripoli on the northern coast of Africa and the latest news from the seat of war is to the effect that the city has been bombarded by the Italian fleet. The war has caused consternation at the Turkish capital, and the cabinet immediately resign ed. The Sultan has had much diffi culty in forming a new cabinet and all is at sea as to the course to be pursued. Turkey’s hope is that the p< '<*' ers will intervene and stop the wai without serious loss to her army and navy and her prestige. However it is not likely that there will be any intervention. It now looks as it the ‘‘sick man of the East” will yet grow sicker before he recovers. A dispatch dated Rome, Italy, Oc toher 5, states that the Italians have captured the Sultaina fort at Tripoli. FOUR OAKS NOTES. Four Oaks, Oct. 4.—Several ol our townspeople attended the cir cus at Smithfield Monday. Mr. Jesse B. Adams went td Sel ma Monday to open a law office. Wt wish Mr. Adams much success in his chosen profession. Mr. G. W. Salmon, postmastei here, spent last week in Ashevillt attending a meeting of the Nortl Carolina postmasters. Rev. H. H. Goff preached Satur day and Sunday here in Sanders Hall. Prof. J. H. Brackett and family, o; Polenta section, were in town Sat urday. Mr. W. B. Morgan is all smiles It’s a boy. Mr. H. E. Upchurch has purchas ed an automobile for his mail route. Mr. P. G. Keen, who went t< Rex Hospital, Raleigh, Friday for ops ration for appendicitis, is rapidly im proving. Miss Ava Parker left recently foi Dillon, S. C., where she will entei school. Miss Carrie Wilson, of Dunn, ii visiting her sister, Mrs. G. K. Mas sengill. Mr. G. K. Massengill left Satur day for Mexico City, Mex. after his nephew, Mr. Eugene Lee, who wai recently shot by a Mexican. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Parker return ed Monday from a visit to Mrs. Par ker’s parents at Godwin. Miss Alice Wellons visited he aunt, Miss Ozella Wellons, recently. Mrs. C. C. Creech and little chil dren are away on a visit to Mrs Creech’s mother near Benson. Rev. Rom Jones, of Smithfield preached at the Primitive Baptis church here Saturday and Sunday. Mr. C. H. Williams, who has beei quite ill, is improving rapidly. At a recent meeting of the Bap tist Philatheas here the followinj new officers were elected: Miss Mary Barbour, President. Miss Golda Creech, Vice-President. Miss Annie B. Langdon, Secretar; and Treasurer. Miss Ella Keene, Assistant. Mrs. W. T . Hurst, Teacher. Mrs. O. D. Stanley, Assistant. Mr. Eb Strickland, of near here passed away Sunday night, at o’clock, at a ripe old age after ai illness of several years of rheuma j tism, with which he has been help less for some time. Mr. Stricklam held the highest esteem and respec of his fellowmen. He leaves sevei al boys and girls together with : host of friends to mourn their loss. BRYAN NOT A CANDIDATE. Declares Two Republican Pres dents Have Used His Platform. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 3.—Williar ■ J. Bryan in an address at the Mis souri Valley Fair here last night sai j that he was not a candidate for Pres j ident of the United States. “In addition to the many othe reasons why I should not again ru for President,’’ said Mr. Bryan, “i that one Republican President hm ing used my platform in part and ar other Republican President having u ed it entirely, I am afraid if I b« came a candidate again the Republ cans would bring the thlrd-terr charge against me.” Never listen to loose or idle cor versation. LOSS IN AUSTIN FLOOD Last Saturday the dam of the Bay less Pulp and Paper Company, at Austin, Pa., burst one mile and a half north of the town, turning loose 500,000,000 gallons of water upon the community. Sunday’s papers stated that per haps 800 people lost their lives. The ! town of Austin was a mill town of j 3000 population. The property loss has been roughly estimated to be $6,000,000. As soon as news of the disaster was received, Governor Tener order ed the State health and charity offi cials to the scene and every effort was made to relieve the suffering and recover the bodies of the dead. The latest news indicates that the death list will perhaps be not more than one hundred fifty. Death of Mr*. Peacock. Mrs. Allie Peacock, widow of Mr. George N. Peacock, died at , her home in Smithfield, Friday af ternoon, September 29th. Her death was not unexpected, as she had been ill for some time. The burial took place Saturday at 4 o’clock in the Smithfield cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. A. S. Barnes, , at the residence. She was born here December 16th, 1852. She was a daughter of Col. Sam Horton, who lived here, and was a merchant of Smithfield many years ago. Her mo ther was a daughter of Dr. Telfair, who is remembered by some of our , oldest people. On February 27th, 1873, she was married to Mr. G. N. Peacock, whom she survived only a year or two. Having spent her life here, she had many acquaintances and friends in and around Smithfield. She was , a kind wife and mother and neigh # bor and an estimable lady. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. She leaves three daughters, Miss . Annie and Rosa Peacock and Mrs. W. L. Fuller, and three sons, Messrs. , Hugh Peacock, of Chicago, and Char ley and Clyde Peacock. POLENTA NEWS. I l t t T Cotton picking is the order of the day. About all open, not over half of the crop picked as yet. Hands scarce and high. The crop will be some larger than last year. Friday of last week the gin anc saw mill of Mr. W. D. Tomlinson was burned, causing considerable loss to Mr. Tomlinson. The fire, it is thought, started from a hot box. It was only a short time after the dis covery of the fire until the building was in ashes. Very little was sav i ed. With the gin and saw mill about 38 bales of cotton was virtually de stroyed. There was no insurance The loss is estimated at between foui 1 and five thousand dollars. This is a severe blow to Mr. Tomlinson, but being young and energetic he will soon be on his feet again. Mrs. F. T. Booker is visiting this week her daughter, Mrs. W. T. Ad ams. Mrs. Abram Lassiter has gone to Richmond, Va., where her husband 1 is at school at the Presbyterian Sem L inary. Mr. W. H. Johnson and Mrs. A1 bert Stevens were married last Sun I day, J. E. Jones, J. P., performing the t ceremony. Preaching at Shiloh Sunday by the t pastor, Rev. Mr. Horrell. A number of our people took in the circus at Smithfield last Mon day. Last week Mrs. Archer Hardie was - taken to the hospital at Raleigt and an operation performed, since which she is Improving. Her friends i hope to soon see her fully restorec . to health. I The low prices for cotton is com - ing; the farmers look blue makin? cotton on a 15cts basis, and having r to sell It for 9%, Is not an encourag i ing outlook for the farmer. Let the 3 farmers come together and agree te - plant less cotton and go into some . thing else, and there will be bette: 3. times. Certain It is, the farme; - can’t make cotton at 9% cents, witl i- everytSing else as high as it is. i TYPO. The frames of the most reoentl; constructed locomotives of large size are made of vanadium steel. THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER TO CHANGE HANDS. J Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 5.—On No- | vember first the Observer Company, publishers of the Charlotte Daily Observer, is to undergo a reorgani zation. On that date Major J. C. Hemphill is to become the editor-in-chief of the Observer, and Mr. A. E. Gon zales is to assume the office of pub lisher and managing director. Both of these gentlemen become £ stockholders in the company. Two i other new stockholdres will be Mr. j George Stpehens and Mr. Word H. j Wood. Mr. D. A. Tompkins, the present controlling stockholder, will retain some of his stock and wdll continue to be identified with the Observre. The announcement will be made in the Observer tomorrow morning. , The plans for the reorganization for some time, were perfected to- , day. , The new editor of the Observer is known the South over as one of its ablest editors, having won fame as j editor of the Charleston News and Courier, on which paper he spent ‘ twenty years of his journalistic ca reer. For the past two years he has been editor of the Richmond-Times Dispatch. I Mr. Gonzales is owner of the Co- . lumbia State, which he has had a large part in making one of the most ( successful and Influential newspaper ^ properties in the South. In Messrs. Stephens and Wood the < Observer Company, acquires two of j the most active business developers ( in Charlotte.—News and Observer. ( BENEFACTIONS OF THE DUKES. ( Gifts Aggregating $235,000 Announced < At Trinity College—President Sny- I der a Speaker at Celebration Yes- ’ terday. Durham, N. C., Oct. 3.—At the cele bration to-day of Benefaction Day at Trinity College, gifts in the aggregate j of $235,000 were announced, besides 1 books for the institution. For building, James Buchanan Duke and Benjamin Newton Duke contri- | buted $201,000, and for running ex penses $27,500. The North Carolina | Conference donates $4,369 and the Western North Carolina Conference $1,000. , Trinity college belongs to these two Methodist bodies and their conrtibu- | tions have been for the purpose of raising jointly $200,000 to which the ' Dukes will add $800,000 for a million j dollar endowment. These gifts are independent of the building. President Henry N. Snyder, of Wofford College, Spartanburg, S. C., delivered the ad dress. Dr. Snyder will go from here to ■ Toronto, Canada, to attend the Ecu menical Conference of tho Methodist Church of the World. He will rep resent the Southern Methodist Church. The Ecumenical Conference is a meeting of world-wide Methodism and representatives are to be there from all parts of the world. The con ference meets every ten years, the last meeting having been held in City Roads Chapel, in London, in 1901. President W. P. Few, Bishop John C. Kilgo and Dr. Franklin N. Parker, of the chair of Biblical Liter ature, all of Trinity, will occupy * prominent places on the programme. Death At Pine Level. Mr. Charles E. Thompson died at Pine Level on Monday, October 2nd. He had been confined to his home from sickness about six weeks. The burial took place Tuesday at the i Watson graveyard. He was about i forty-five years old. He leaves a wife and six children. Mr. Thomp son was a good business man and had many friends. He did a con ; siderable amount of business every ; year although for the past year or ■ two he had not made as much ef i fort as formerly on account of the » condition of his health. He was a • member of Bethany Primitive Bap • tist church. He was a clever man • and will be greatly missed in the t community. He was a cousin of Mr. D. B. Oliver and the late J. U. Oli ver, our former Register of Deeds. Any person well acquainted with Mr. ’ J. u. Oliver would be constantly re- , > minded of him when with Mr. Thomp son. IDMIRAL SCHLEY DEAD ero of Battle of Santiago Died of Brain Hemorrhage. Caught Cerve ra< Wae a Native of Mary land and 72 Years Old. New \ork, Oct. 2.—Unrecognized by single person in the curious throng lat rushed to his aid, Rear Admlr I Winfield Scott Schley, U. S. N., 5tired, fell dead in front of the erkeley Lyceum on West Forty )urth street this afternoon. The admiral’s suddne death is at ■ibuted to verebral hemorrhage, hich attacked him shortly after he, ith Mrs. Schley, reached New York lis morning from a visit to Mount isco and had called at the New ork Yacht Club for his mail. As the admiral was walking on Zest Forty-fourth street, a passerby ho saw him stagger grasped his arm nd tried to support him. Despite the tranger's service, however, the ad liral fell helpless to the street, and physician who pressed his way irough the crowd that quickly gath red pronounced him dead. His identity was quickly establish d by letters and'papers found in is pocket, and from an inscription 1 his gold watch, which had been resented to the admiral by his na ve state of Marylnad “for his he jism and memorable services in ascuing Lieut. A. W. Greeley, U. . A., and six comrades from death t Cape Sabine, in the Arctic region n June 22, 1884.” The spot where Admiral Schley ied is in the very center of New ork’s club district, and members f organizations whose houses are lickly clustered there soon penetrat d the throng and confirmed the iden fication of the famous commander 'ho figured so prominently in the aval engagement of 1898 at San iago. Winfield Scott Schley was born in Tederick county, Md., in 1839. After raduating at Annapolis in 1860 and erving during the Civil war in mi or capacities, he was commissioned \ 1866 as lieut.-commander. At the utset of the Spanish war in 1898 Ad liral Schley was placed in command f what was known as the flying quadron, which sailed from Fort ess Monroe to co-operate with Ad liral Sampson in operations in the 'arribean sea. Under orders from ampson he steamed through the Yu atan passage to the vicinity of Santiago while Sampson passed round the east end of the island ichley’s squadron stood beforevSan iago for some days and was about o leave when it was announced that lervera’s fleet was in Santiago har or. A junction with Sampson oc urred almost immediately. On July , 1908, Cervera undertook to es ape. At the time Sampson, aboard lis flagship, the New York, was some ailes away at Siboney in conference dth Gen. Sliafter. An engagement followed in which Ichley’s flagship, the Brooklyn, took .n active part, and Cervera was cap ured and his fleet destroyed. After the war closed numerous harges were made that Schley had >een guilty of inefficiency if not :owardice, and he asked a court of nquiry. After prolonged period, he vas acquitted, but failed of the ad vancement which he had claimed was lis due. He was retired Oct. 9th, 901, as a rear admiral. A. A M. COLLEGE NOW HAS 530 STUDENTS. At the end of a month’s work the A. and M. College shows an attend ance of 530 students. The agricul tural students head the list with 207 men. The mechanical engineering students come next, with 110. The others in order are: Electrical en gineering students, 90; civil engineer ing, 74; textile, 25; chemistry, 24. These figures are for the entire student hody. An examination of the freshmen registration shows that while the agricultural students lead in number, as in the student roll at large, the electrical engineering course is second instead of third in popularity The figures in the fresh man class are as follows: Agricul tural men, 64; electrical engineering, ;32; mechanical engineering, 27; civil engineering, 20; chemistry, 7, tex tile, 5.—News and Observer.