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CNE DOLLAR PER YEAR. EDUCATION GOOD ROADG GOOD HEALTH PROGRESS five cents per copy. A BIG DAY FOR SELMA. A Melon Fair, A Re-Union of Old Veterans and Speeches by the Four Senatorial Conditions if Confined to The Subject. "What I Know About Farming,” Growing and Eating Melons. Everybody Invited, i It has been suggested that at a date to be announced later between the 20th of July and the first of Au gust that a Melon Fair be held in our town. To be confined to water melons, muskmelons, cantaloupes and tomatoes—melons for a feast and tomatoes for a source of novelty. Thousands of cans are shipped into this county every year. No neces sity for that. It is a big source of income for many to grow and can to matoes to ship. Why not do it in Johnston? A liberal cash premium list for the above can be and no doubt will be raised here by our bu siness men; say $10 for 4 of the largest watermelons; $5 for 3 next largest or heaviest; $3 for 3 next best. The first prize melons to be given one to each U. S. Senatorial candidate, if present, and will “tote” it to the depot. Liberal premium for the best large muskmelon, best cantaloupes, best wagon load water melons, muskmelons and cantaloupes. Best display of tomatoes not less than three to five bushels. At least one melon must be contributed by each exhibitor (not the best however) to the old soldiers’ dinner; that’s the only admission fee. It is well known that the Henry L. Wyatt Chapter of the U. D. C. will too prepared to feed the old Vets. All others can bring well filled baskets and all have an open outside dinner. Business for two or three hours can be entirely suspended and a day of enjoyment be had by all. I make the motion; can I get a second! Amendments in order. Get your seed, prepare the ground. I see in the distance the melons coming. My mouth is filling with water. My curiosity is up at a high pitch to hear what Judge Clark, Gov. Kitchin, Ex-Gov. Aycock or Senator Simmons knows about farming. We can have the biggest meeting ever held in Johnston by starting now and keep moving. Give a second and amend ments to the motion. Again get your seed, prepare your ground and meet together in Selma the last Thursday In July, 1912. JNO. A. MITCHENER. Selma, February 21, 1912. BUZZARD IN THE SOUTHWEST. Railroad Traffic Demoralized and Lowe* Will B« Heavy. Dallas, Tex., Feb. 20.—Ushered by ft windstorm, varying at different points from 90 to 70 miles an hour, the most severe blizzard of the win ter is sweeping the Southwest to night. Railroad traffic is demoraliz ed, wire communication is hamper ed, and meager reports from outlying districts tell of damage to property and cattle. In north Texas the temperature fell from 70 degrees this morning to freez ing to-night. In the Panhandle to night the snowfall reached a depth of 4 inches. At Hobart, Okla., buildings were unroofed by the storm. H0U8T0N TEXA8 FIRE-SWEPT. Loss Runs Into Millions—More Than a Thousand People Homeless. Houston, Tex., Feb. 21.—In the wake of the most destructive fire in the history of Houston, smouldering wreckage tonight covers an area about one and a half miles in length and varying in width from two hun dred yards to half a mile in the northeastern section of the city. More than a dozen of the city’s most important industrial enterprises are in ruins; two hundred or more dwell ing houses and store buildings are in ashes and approximately one thou sand persons are homeless. The most conservative estimate is that the monetary loss will reach at least $7, 000,00<k The insurance carried will not exceed forty per cent. No cas ualties attended the fire. “Oae-half the world doesn’t know how fate other half lives,” quoted the Wise Guy. “I never knew there were so many people to mind their own business,” murmured the Inno cent One.—Puck. EIGHT KILLED BY TORNADO. Occupants of Cabins on Outskirts of Shreveport Are Sufferers. Shreveport, La., Feb. 20— Eight per sons are dead and about 50 injured as the result of a tornado which swept through the western outskirts of Shreveport late to-day. All the dead are negroes, with the exception of the 2-month-old baby of A. J. Man heim, whose home was demolished. The baby’s body was found a block from the Menheim residence. A num ber of negro cabins were destroy ed in the outskirts of the city and on nearby plantations. The tornado approached Shreveport from the Southwest, sweeping a path through the negro sections, and crossing Red River struck two plantations, where negro cabins, barns, and outhouses were destroyed. In the city proper no damage was done. North Carolina Child Labor Commit tee. The following gentlemen make up the North Carolina Child Labor Com mittee : Chas. B. Aycock, Raleigh; J. W. Bailey, Raleigh; Jos. Blount Chesh ire, Raleigh; Robert F. Campbell, Asheville; J. .J. Hall, Fayetteville; Thos. J. Jarvis, Greenville; Julian S. Carr, Jr., Durham; Henry A. Page, Aberdeen; William L. Poteat, Wake Forest; Hubert A. Royster, Raleigh; A. M. Scales, Greensboro; W. E. Stone, Raleigh; R. T. Vann, Raleigh; Heriot Clarkson, Charlotte; Julius 1. Foust, Greensboro; Robert Strange, Wilmington. These names, within themselves, give assurance that the Committee is engaged in work that is not only good,. but needful. It may be well, however, to explain to the State at large just what this Committee feels should be done. The Committee is a sort of self constituted guardian oi the childhood of the State. There are defects in the present child labor laws which permit the employment in factories of children at ages when they should be either in school or out in the op en air, and which also permits the employment of children at night. The North Carolina Child Labor Commit tee believes that the time has come when the State should say that her innocent children should not be em ployed at work which will be hurt ful on the one hand to their physical growth and which will prevent their mental and spiritual development on the other; and especially that chil dren should not be made or allowed to work during the night hours at the very time that nature has provided for their rest and growth. The Child Labor Committee further believes that in addition to placing upon the statute books the proper sort of laws for the protection of children, machinery should be creat ed for the Inspection and for seeing that the law is obeyed.—W. H. Swift, Field Secretary. Must Look to the South for Meat. Tt is apparently a vain expectation to suppose that we may hereafter get an increased beef supply from Can ada. Canada cannot help to swell our Bupply of breadstuffs indefinite ly. It has, untouched, great areas of wheat lands, but the Dominion does not raise enough cattle for home supply. Its export trade in meats has dwindled to the vanishing point. It is pointed out that more cattle might be raised in lower Canada with advantage to producers sure of fair markets for their surplus, both in the United States and Great Britain, but the severe winters are a draw back. The farmers find other pro ducts more profitable. There is a lack of a corn supply. The beef centers of this country must look southward for a replenishment of the meat supply and future deliver ance from the extortions of the or ganized monopolies now in control of the trade.—Philadelphia Record. Twenty-Five Dead in Blizzard. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 21. The worst blizzard experienced in this State in years, was responsible for the deaths to-day of possibly twenty-five per sons. Steam and electric railroad traffic is paralyzed. Several trains are buried in snowdrifts. Kenly High School Has An Inter Society Debate. Kenly, Feb. 20.—At no time in j the history of the Thalian and Philo- i logian literary societies of Kenly i High School has enthusiasm reach ed such high pitch as it did on last Friday evening. The occasion was 1 an inter-society debate. A few weeks prior to the debate the managers of the societies ar ranged the debate to be given on some Friday afternoon at the time for the regular session of the socle- ! ties. When the arrangements had been completed, however, and much interest had been manifested it was decided that it should be given on , laBt Friday evening instead. The j change was for the better. The lar gest audience of the entire school year assembled for the occasion. And in this audience were sympathizers j for either side. They caught the spirit of the evening and manifested it very heartily at opportune times. Enthusiasm was first injected in to the debate by the girls. A few days prior to the debate the girls, under the direction of Misses Hun ter and Keiter, arranged yells and toasts suitable for the occasion. The , boys in the meantime made no pre- J arrangements; their yells and ap plause, however, were not surpassed. ] Every feature of this little debate j was interesting and many times hu- j morous. Each debater manifested “nerve” and tenacity. Even the rejoinders were spicy with irony and sarcasm. The most amusing fea ture, however, was the placing on the rostrum in front of the debaters a chair draped in black to resemble j | an electric chair used for executions, i j On the chair was a placard to this j effect: “For Justice and Human ity.” The audience yelled. The grue some chair was dragged from its j position by a Thalian sitting near by, J but not until its purpose had been 1 accomplished. The question discussed was: Re solved, “That Capital Punishment Should Be Abolished.’’ The following Thalians discuss ed the affirmative: Gladys Kirby, Faye Barnes, Mattie Pierce, and An nie Edgerton. The Philologian socie ty was represented by the following individuals who discussed the nega tive: Zeb Atkinson, Harvey Pitt man, Fred Wellons, and Jim Stal lings. The judges, Messrs. Zeb. V. SnipeB, J. W. Hooks, and Dr. Grady, decided the q...btion was won by the nega tive. _-__ INDIAN8 IN UNITED STATE8 Census Bureau Places Number At 265,683, With 193,811 Taxed. A statement giving for the United States, exclusive of Alaska, the whole number of Indians enumerated at the thirteenth decennial census. together with the number and proportion of the Indians who were taxed, was is sued ''onday by the bureau of the census. The total number of Indians In con tinental United States in 1910 was 265,683, as compared with 237,196 in 1900 and 248,253 in 1890. The number of taxed Indians was 193,811, or 73 per cent of all Indians, in 1910, as compared with 107,706, or 40.4 per cent, in 1900; 58,806, or 26.3 per cent, in 1890, and 66,407, or 21.7 per cent In 1880. Prom 1890 to 1910 the Indian popu lation increased 17,430, while the number of taxed Indians increased 135,005. Taxed Indians now constitute twen ty-one one hundredths of 1 per cent of the total population of the coun try. The numbber of voters has not been calculated. Must Not Be Overlooked. About eight hundred thousand women will have the privilege of voting for President this year, in the States of Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. As all these States went Republican four years ago, the opportunity to set their 37 electoral votes right is one which should not be overlooked.— Charlotte Observer. If Not Put Out She’s Safe. When a woman gets married she has made a home run.—Atchison Globe. I PAY OUT MORE THAN WE GET j W« Pay Into Undo Sam's Money- \ Chest Each Year Nearly Seven And Half Millions, and Get Back From It Less Than Two Million Dollars. Washington, D. C., Feb. 15.—In re sponse to a request from Senator Overman for information as to the amount of revenue paid by the State of North Carolina to the Federal government and the amount of reve nue received by the State of North Carolina, from the Federal govern ment for the fiscal year 1911, the Treasury Department furnished the Senator with the following figures: Receipts from customs, internal revenue and corporation tax (paid by North Carolina) and miscellaneous reoeipta, (not classified) amounted to $7,316,977.18. Disbursements made by the Fed eral government for North Carolina, public buildings, customs service, in ternal revenue service, life saving service, revenue cutter service, pub lic health and marine hospital serv ice, assay office (Charlotte) rivers and harbors amounted to $1,354, 100.58. Amount paid by North Carolina to the Federal government for the fis cal year 1911 exceeded the amount of revenue received by North Carolina from the Federal government $5, 962,876.60. Platform of Walter Clark, Candidate For U. S. Senate. The following, taken from Judge Clark’s letter to Hon. A. Hall John ston, 17 May, 1911, accepting the in vitation of friends to become a can didate for the United States Sen ate, expresses objects for which he will work, if chosen to that body: 1. Adequate and unequivocal leg islation that will destroy the Trusts. 2. Tariff for Revenue only. Pro tection levies tribute, in favor of a class, upon all other classes. It is unjust and undemocratic. 3. Election of U. S. Senators and U. S. Judges by the people. 4. Election of Postmasters by the people of each locality. 5. The adoption of the Initiative, the Referendum, and the Recall—the lat ter for such officers. State, County or town, as may be designated by law. 6. State-Wide primaries for U. S. Senators and all State officers. 7. A Parcels Post for the country districts. 8. Public regulation of Railroads and other common carriers, but ope ration of the Telegraph and Tele phones by the Post-office, .as in all other countries. This will give low er rates to the public, with shorter hours and better pay to employees. 9. Extension of Public Schools and Good Roads. 10. Enforcement of laws regulating hours of labor, prohibiting child la bor and requiring safety appliances. 11. He advocates the destruction of corrupt methods by Strict restric tion of the purposes and amounts for which candidates, or others for them, can expend money at elections and in Primaries, and Full publicity of all Buch expenses, before and after each primary and election. 12. He also favors putting Con federate soldiers on U. S. Pension List, not only in justice to them, but to stop the financial drain from the South, which has already paid to Federal Pensions more than the War Indemnity (1,000 millions dollars which France paid to Germany. 13. Execution in good faith after election of all pledges made before. BAPTIZES 12 THROUGH ICE. Mennonits Pastor's Faith That None Will Take Coid. Shamokin, Pa., Feb. 18.—After a big piece of thick ioe had been cut from Edgewood Park Lake a large crowd assembled there to-day, when Rev. George F. Yost and his flock of Mennonites appeared with 12 con verts. As they sang and prayed the preacher led the converts into the chilling waters and immersed them. The pastor said htey were in no danger of contracting colds, as the Lord protected them. There are many ways of doing most things, but there is only one best way.—Manchester Union. v STATE NEWS. The Yadkinville Buggy Company has been chartered at Yadkinville, by J. H. Dobbins and others, with on authorized capital of $25,000. New Hanover Democrats usually get into the game early. They have called a primary for March 27 to nominate a legislative and county ticket. James Houchins, 40 years old, was killed Friday by the fall of an eleva tor in the leaf tobacco warehouse of the Whitaker-Harvey Company at Winston. Charity and Children, the paper published in he interest of the Tho masville Baptist Orphanage, has 15,000 subscribers and a campaign has begun to give it 20,000. J. D. Misenheimer, aged 35 years, a farmer of the Rockwell neighbor hood, Rowan county, died Saturday from the bursting of a blood vessel in his head during a fit of coughing. He had been sick several days with grip. Drug store liquor license has been abolished in Greensboro. Only two drug stores had license to sell liquor on prescription, but as the druggists violated the law the municipal author ities decided to cut out the whole business. Mrs. Charlotte Gamble, of Benham, Wilkes county, is 84 years old and never took but one dose of medicine in her life—that to allay pain when a tooth was exrtacted. A few weeks ago she walked a distance of six miles aud didn’t complain of fa tigue. The Raleigh Times says so far none of the State officers have any oppo sition for renomination except Mr. E. Li. Travis, who is filling an unex pired term on the corporation com mission. The friends of S. G. Dan iel, of Warren county, have announ ced Mr. Daniel a candidate to oppose Mr. Travis. The sentence of P. H. Thrash, of Asheville, sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment by Judge Long for violation of the prohibition laws, was changed to a fine of $2,000, defen dant to give $2,000 bond to appear at every criminal term of court for 12 months to show good behaviour, and to serve 30 days in jail unless the county commissioners accept a fine of $500 in lieu of the jail sen tence. At New Berne last week Baker Bryan, white, was acquitted of the murder of a young white man. The verdict was generally denounced. So licitor Abernethy presented affidavits charging two of the Jurors with im proper conduct. The affidavits were not sustained but when the solicitor denounced the verdict as “one of the grossest miscarriages of justice ever perpetrated in North Carolina” the spectators in the court room ap plauded. John Ross, colored, who was to have been electrocuted in Raleigh Friday for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, in Cleveland county, was respited until April 12. Ross still stickB to his story that the murder of Mrs. Dixon was committed by Frank Gladden, a white man, who was tried on the charge and ac quitted. While this story is not be lieved the respite was granted in the hope that Ross may later tell the whole truth or that there may be new developments. ^ - The counties of Martin, Greene, Lenoir and Duplin have made pro vision during February to have the State and County Dispensaries for the free examination and treatment for hookworm disease. These addi tions bring the total number of coun ties making such provision to thirty one. The work has been completed in twenty counties. The work is carried on simultaneously in five coun ties. Up to this time the records show that about 60,000 people have been treated. Many of the results of cures may be seen in each county and are truly remarkable. She Brings Two to Jail. Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 16.—Sher iff Nancy A. Williams, of Laclede county, the first and only woman Sheriff in Missouri, to-day brought two prisoners to the State Penitenti ary here. Love makes the world go round too fast sometimes and we get dizzy and cannot see straight.—Manchester Union. I CUTS FOR HIS OWN APPENDIX. Surgeon Begins Operation ono Him self, but Others Finish Work. San Francisco, Febb. 20.—Dr. Ber« tram E. Alden, chief surgeon of ill* French Hospital here, carried ou£ fts part last Sunday his theory that self* operation for appendicitis is not fttt* possible. On diagnosing his symptoms _Dr. Alden called in his profession* friends as witnesses. In the opera** Ing room he injected the spinal ane*» thesia which left his mind clear aiut gave him the control of his arms. He made the necessary abdominal"" cuts, but at this point the matter 'spa deemed too serious for experiment, and two fellow surgeons oomple|*d the. operation, removing the appen dix while Dr. Alden remained mat interested witness of their manipula* tions. Dr. Alden is reported to be rapid ly recovering. FOUR OAKS NOTES. Four Oaks, Febb. 21.—Mr. B^b Lamb, of Fayetteville, was here 9Ua day the guest of his sister, Mrs. T. H. Sutton. Mr. Paul Johnson, of Polenta se« tlon, was here Monday, on his way to Buies Creek, where he is ta school. Miss Nan Hollowell, of Goldsboro, is viisting her sister, Mrs. C. R. Adams. Mr. C. F. James, of Florence, S. C., was in town Sunday. Mr. J. M. Scott, of Fayetteville, has taken Mr. Clarence Pearson's pt&cet as operator for the Western Union Telegraph Company. We welcoine Mr. Scott to our little city, although, we regret very much to lose Mr. and Mrs. Pearson. Mr. Pearson goes to Sharpsburg, N. C., as agent for A. C. L. Mr. Hunter Creech has been at tending school at Buies Creek, was home laBt week visiting his mother, Mrs. Laura Creech. Mrs. E. P. Baker went to Smith field Wednesday to visit her bro ther, Dr. N. T. Holland. Rev. E. J. Rodgers, pastor of the Missionary Baptist church, was hfere Sunday and preached an able ser mon . Mrs. N. Y. Scarborough, of Fay etteville, spent Tuesday with her sister, Mrs. D. W. Adams. Mrs. Cora Creech Stanley, M}ss Golda Creech and Mr. Ira W. Keftpet " went to Smithfield Tuesday ni||ht to the play "Little Minister.” Mr. Johnson, representing the Apia* tin Stephenson Co., of Smithfield, has located here, buying cotton, eofjpn seed and delivering fertilizer. We wel come Mr. Johnson to our town. ♦ V* Mr, Burwell Temple passed augpy at his home at Duke. He was fbv merly of Four Oaks. Mr. Temple had been suffering a good majy years with rheumatism. He wlur brought to Four Oaks Monday £th<* buried in the family burying ground. BENSON NEW8. , Benson, Feb. 22.—Miss Janie Oajjca and Mrs. J. H. Godwin spent Sun$ky in Kenly with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse McLamb fpftr Sunday to visit near Clayton sever al days. Mrs. J. R. McLamb left Monday ter Jacksonville, Fla. Senator O. A. Barbour is in Rft eigk this week assisting Solicitor Nqe ris in the investigation of tlk» deaths of Porter, Johnson and JernA gan, who died in Raleigh. Mr. Will Weeks was in Smithfield Tuesday on business. Mr. Jno. Stewart was taken fio Fayetteville Sunday, where he wge operated on for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Grant left Monday for Florida, where they w|U make their home. Mr. C. G. Jernigan was married at Wilson to Miss Deans. They w&l make their home here. Mr. Dallas Langdon was marripd yesterday afternoon to Miss Refhk Morgan, daughter of Mr. J. D. Mor gan. These young people are bQtk well known in our county. President Taft’s implicit confe* dence that he will be renominatg# and re-elected merely shows that tJifif politicians who have been misinform ing him for three years are still at it.—Kansas City Times.
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