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NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS __________ Occurrence* gf htemi 6lea.i\ed From All Sectioue of the Bwjf Tu Heel State HEW SCHOOL INSPECTED. VRutees of Eastern Carolina Teach en* Training School Surprised to Find Sach Magnificent Buildings and Beautiful Grounds. Greenville, Special.—The trustees af the Eastern Carolina Teachers' Training School aod the State board pt education met here Thursday to Inspect the buildings being erected for the school. Nearly all of the State officers, as well as several other distinguished visitors, were hare. These were met with carriages at the flepot by committees from the cham ber of commerce and the Carolina Club and driven to the school site, where they thoroughly viewed the buildings and grounds. It was a sur prise to the visitors to find such mag nificent buildings and beautiful grounds for the,sehool. After the infection the trustees held a meeting to receive a report from the executive committee and the architects of the work so fas done. The forty-seven acres of land and four buildings now ncaring com pletion cost $115,000, of which the State appropriated $15,000 and Pitt eountv and flreenville $50,000 each. All were agreed that the school plant here is the best investment the State has made, and they could hardly see how such splendid buildings could be •rected for the amount expended. The Building and Lumber Company, of Orecnviile, is the contractor. ' After the meeting of the trustees all tlia visitors, about fifty in number, wer®\given n banquet at the Carolina Club, where after-dinner speeches were made by Governor Glenn, State Superintendent Joyner, Auditor Dix von, ex-Governor Jarvis, Editor Jose jbhus Daniels, Treasurer Lacy, Editor 6. J. Hale, Insurance- Commissioner Young, County Superintendent Rags dale, State Senator Armond and J. 0. Carr. of Wilmington, all of whonj referred to the magnanimity of Greenville and Pitt county and the wisdom of the school being located here. Shot to Death by a Woman, Washington, Special.—John Emer son Stone, a?ed 22, highly connected in Boston and New York, was shot and killed early Tuesday br May Woolard, who then shot herself twice and may die. Stone went to the wo man's house to a\ow his intention of leaving here. It is said she coaxed him into the house and when he re fused to remain drew a revolver and shot Stone in the right temple. When he fell she fired again the ball lodg ing in the base of his brain. Then she shot herself twice in the fore head and temple. The doctors at the hospital say that the woman has a fighting chance for her life. To Be Guests of Ex-Governor Jarvis. Raleigh, Special. Preparations are being made for the North Caro lina State officers to tro to Greenville Thursday as the guests of ex-Gover nor T. J. Jarvis for the special pur pose of personally inspecting the grounds and buildings in process of erection for the Eastern Carolina Teachers' Training Snhool, Mr. Jar vis being a member of the board of directors and giving his personal at tention to the work. Dentist to Meet in Asheville. Raleigh. Special.—A meeting of the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Slate Dentnl Association was held in this city Tuesday nierht for th« purpose of selecting a time and place- for holding the next an imal meeting of the Association. It was decided to hold the meeting in Asheville, June 23rd-26th. ' Fearful Blow. High Point, Special.—West Smith, colored, Monday night knocked in the head with a piece of iron another no gro after a row near the depot. The wound inflicted was quite a serious one, and the negro receiving it will always remember the blow. Smith's trial took place Tuesday and he was bound over to court. Asbestos in IredelL Raisbury, Special.—An asbestos mine is being developed in Iredell county by Mr. Charles Lambert, of Pittsburg, who l.us recently spent cop«uerable time on the property, re turning last week to Pennsylvania. The product is said to abound on the surface of the ground at a point near Statesville, where 50 acres or more have been purchased for the develop ment of the myie.. The quality is said to be excellent and the yield is over 00 per cent pure asbestos. Charter Granted. ~ A barter was granted Monday to A* Woodworking company, of Mur fftfjr, which is to manufacture and deal in lumber, Hs authorised capital •toek being - This company wiU begin business with $5,000. The fVieipal incorporators are: Messrs. 8. W. Lovingood, A. JL Fain and J. White Man Bona Amuck. Raleigh, Special.—Scott Shadrach, a white man, if the charges made against him are true, had a case of running amuck a few daya ago at Neuse, and having been arrested is to stand trial on Saturday at noon be fore Justice Roberts. Shadrach, so the reports and char ges are, first made an assault on Mr. J. D. Lee at his store in Neuse, driv ing the proprietor out and taking gen eral charge of affairs. Next he is said to have broken into the house of Mrs. Frank Videll and to have made ian assault on her, the warrant in this case being for assault and battery. Having gotten the best of two adults, is said to have next turned his attentions to the rising generation. Will Shorter, a boy, was the victim this time and the warrant charges that Shadrach kicked him. Shadrach kept in hiding for a time, but was at last caught by the officers and landed in jail here. On Saturday the wit nesses will tell what they know about the doiugs of Scott Shadrach. Department of Insurance Enlarging. Raleigh, Special.—State Commis sioner of Insurance James R. Young says the receipt of the deportment at this time show an increase of $7,- 000 over the receipts at this time last year, the fiscal year ending April Ist. The receipts of the department have increased steadily from $6,000t0 $lO,- 000 each year since the Department of Insurance was created. The com missioner is up against the necessity of asking this Legislature for an ad ditional clerk for the department, there being six at this time. The re ceceipts of the department for the year will be upwards of $'225,000. Shipping Cotton to Belgium. Wilmington, Special. From the compresses of Messrs. Alexander Sprunt & Son Wednesday there was cleared the British steamer Holmleh, Captain Airey, with 5,700 bales of cotton, valued at $285,000, and con signed to Ghent, Belgium, this being the first cargo of the staple from Wilmington to Ghent this season. The receipts at the local port keon tinue vpry satisfactory incidento to Ihe holidays. Tuesday 1,931 bales were received, of which number 42 were from the upper Cape Fear by *he steamer City of Fayetteville. Robinson's New Court House Lumberton, Special.—The board of county commissioners of Robeson county met at Lumberton Tuesday and accepted the new court house, which is practically completed, and will be ready for occupancy shortly after January Ist. The court house is one of the handsomest and most complete in the State, and is a source of pride to the citizens of the county. IT. L. Lnzenby, who was employed to supervise the work on the building:, left Friday for his home in Btutes ville. 12-Year-Old Boy Crushed by Car«. Raleigh, Special.—Miles Goodwin, the 12-.v.ear-old son of Mrs. Miles Goodwin, a widow, fell under the Raleigh and Southport train Monday morning near the union station and narrowly escaped a horrible death. Both feet were crushed in such a way that he will be crippled for life. Game Warden Appointed. Raleigh, Special.—H. M. Ballanee is appointed by Governor Glenn a bird and game warden for Currituck county, and J. Z. Stroup for the Hon dersonville section, the appointment being at the request of the president of the Audubon Society of the State. Forged Sisters Name. Greensboro, Special.—Clyde Morris better known M "Kid" Morris has worked a slick game here, by which ho seoured 3060 in cash. He forged the name of his sister, Mrs. Geo. R. Blackwell, to a check of $6(30, and left S4OO to clear up another trans action. It was a most cleverly ex ecuted piece of forgery and deceiv ed two lawyers, to their sorrow. Mansion for Kitchen. Raleigh, Special.—Governo? Glenn is j sp9nding'*tiro or thtve Jays with his mother, Mrs. Chalmers Glenn, in Greensboro. In his absence Private Secretary A. H. Arrington has moved his desk into the executive office while a handsome new carpet is being put down in the general office of the ex ecutive departments, replacing a car pet that has seen very much service. Other work of renovation and over hauling is in progress preparatory to turning the executive department over to Governor-elect W. W. Kitchin and Private Secretary Alex J. Fields. Preparing For Dissolution. Raleigh, Special. rive whiskey corporations in Salisbury on Monday filed with the Secretary of State no tices of dissolution preparatory for the State prohibition law to go into effect Januarv Ist. They are: The Bailey Distilling Company, North Carolina Distilling Company, J. M. Summers Company, the Summerson Distilling Company and the R. J* Summerson Company. INLAND WATERWAYS Enthusiastic Meeting at Elizabeth City Address by John H. Small, J. Hampton Moorland Others. Elizabeth City, Special.—Congress man John H. Small, accompanied by a party of inland waterway enthus iasts, engineers, newspaper men, etc., arrived here Wednesday hfternoon on a government yacht from Beaufort and other points further South. They were met and escorted to the South ern Hotel for dinner. ✓ Wednesday night at S o'clock a most interesting and masterly address was made by Congressman J. Hamp ton Moore, of Philadelphia, who ia president of the Atlantic Deep Water way Association of America. Ha re viewed the history of the movement and dwelt at length upon what bene fits are to be derived, not only to this seetion, but including his own and other, frdm the great* project. Others following with talks were Maj. Joseph E. Kuhn, corps of engi neers, U. S. A., in charge of Norfolk district; Capt. Earl S. Brown, corps of engineers, U. S. A., in charge of Washington district; A. Addison Burke, secretary Atlantic Deep Waterway Association; Edgar C. Snyder, Washington correspondent and representative Associated Press; Cod. Fred A. Olds, veteran newspaper man, and last but not least, Congress man John H. Small, who always warms up on the inland waterway subject. He fully sustained his repu tation on facts and figures to support his argument. Much enthusiasm and interest has been manifested throughout tho trip, although the trip was made solely for inspection and to gain further in formation to present before Congress, in session. JL After the Moonshiners. Oreensboro, Special.—Deputy Col lectors J. H. C. Norman, E. A. Aiken and W. W. Harkins have just return ed from a raiding expedition in Sur ry county, where they captured three large blockade distillery outfits in the region of Round Peak Mountain, in Surry county. Not having any deputy marshal along, nono of the blockaders were arrested, lut war rants will be issued for them. Ai one big still of 120 gallons capacity the rovenuers had to pass a sawmill about a mile from the place they were bound for. This mill, as soon as they were out of sight, gave severad blasts from its steam whistle, clearly noti fying the owners of the blockade out fit that the revenuers were coming. Tho officers were much amused at this old-fashioned sign language,and, of course, found the operators of the still absent, but the worm was such a big one it had been impossible for the moonshiners to "tote" it off; so* it was destroyed and a large quantity of "beer" poured on the ground. That Dates May Not Gonfliet. Raleigh, Special—Secretary Joseph E. Pogue, of the North Carolina Stnle Fair, announced Friday that there will be hold at an early date at some central point a meeting of the secre taries of big fairs in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia for tho purpose of organising a grand circuit of fairs, such as has never been attempted in the South before. One of the special results expected is that there will be no conflicts of dales for big: fairs that woij|d_mnke. inroads on either attendance at gen eral attractions that would follow fair circuits. It is expected that at least three or four of the larger North Carolina fairs will be included, af fording them advantages never before enjoyed. Alamance Girl Dies of Burns. Burlington, Special.—Miss Bessie j Loy, whose clothing was burned from | her body and who was badly burned ' n few days ago, died Wednesday from ! her injuries,and was buried Thurs day. To Fill Dead Man's Place. Waynesville, Special.—The election was held in the county Saturday to elect a member to the House to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late H. R. Ferguson. W. T. Lee was nominated by the Democrats to fill the vacancy. Ths Republicans did not put out a candidate. Killsi by Wounded Deer. Raleigh, Special.—That F. R. Swin dell WHS killed by a wounded deer was the verdict of the coroner's jury at the close of the investigation into the death of a prominent citizen of Beaufort county, whose body was found Friday in about three feet of water in a creek near the spot where he suddenly disappeared from a par ty of hunters Wednesday near Broad Creek. Hundreds of men had search ed two days for tbe missing man, whose body was located by blood hounds in a mill pond, a large buck deer being found near him, wounded. Govenor's New Tear Sentiment. Raleigb, Special. —Being asked for a New Year sentiment GOT. Glenn said:. "Let the New Year resolve of every good citizen in the State be to make tbe State better, richer and mo*»- progressive, because he lives in it, and to encourage all things that look toward the material, eduaationl and moral up-building of the State, and decry all things that tend te make it worse." i E. M. WILLIAMSON'S : CORK METHODS. I "Southern Corn for the South" For a number of yeara after I be gan to farm, I followed the old-time method of patting the fertilizer all under the corn, planting on a level higher, six by three feet, pushing the Clnnt from the start and making a ig stalk, but the ears were few, and frequently small. I planted mueb com in the spring and bought much more corn the next apring, until fi nally I was driven to the conclusion that corn could not be made on up lands in this section, certainly not by thd old method, except at a loss. I did not give up, however, for I knew that the farmer who did not make his own corn never had suc ceeded, and never would, so I began to experiment. First I planted low er, and the yield was better, but the stalk was still too large; so I discon tinued altogether the application of fertilizer before planting, and, know ing that all crops should be fertilized as a side application, and applied the more' soluble nitrate of soda later, being guided in this by the excellent results obtained from its use as a top dressing for oats. Still, the yield, though regular, was not large, and the smallncr>s of the stalk itself now suggested that they should be planted thicker in the drill. This was dona the next year, with results so satis factory that I continued from year to year to increase the number of stalks and the fertilizer with which to sus tain them; also to apply nitrate of soda at last plowing, and to lay by early, sowing peas broadcast. This method ateadily increased the yield, until year before last (1904), with corn eleven inches apart in six-foot rows, and sll worth ef fertilizer to the acre, I made eighty-four bushels average to the acre, several of my best acres making as much aa 125 bushels. Lust year (1905) I followed the same method, planting the first week in April, seventy acres which had produced the year before 1,000 pounds seed cotton per acre. This land is Tandy upland, somewhat rolling, rieasons were unfavorable, owing to the tremendous rains in May and th« dry and extremely hot weather later. Trom June 12th to July 12th, the .hne when it moat needed moisture, there wns only fire-eights of an inch of rainfall here; yet with $7.01, cost of fertilizer, my yield was fifty-two bushels per acre. Rows were six fee t and corn sixteen inches in drill. With this method, on land that will ordinarily produce 1,000 pounds of seed cotton with 800 pounds of fer tilizer, fifty bushels of corn per acre ihould be made by usinsr 200 pounds cetton wd meal, 200 pound" /id phosphate, and 400 pouhds of Kainit mixed, or their equivalent in other fertilizer, and 125 pounds of atirate of sodn, all to he used as side application as directed below. On Jand that will make a bale and ine-half of cotton per acre when well fertilized, a hundred bushels of corn ihonld be produced by doubling the amount of fertilizer above, except that 300 pounds of nitrate of soda diould be used. In f*aeh case there should be left on the land in corn stalks, peas, vines and roots from sl2 to sl6 worth of fertilizing material per acre, be side the preat benefit to the land from so large an amount of vesre table matter. The place of this in the permanent improvement of land can never b* taken by commercial fertilizer, for it is absolutely impos sible to make lands rich as long as they are lacking in vegetable mat ter. Land should be thoroughly and deeply broken for corn, and this is the time in a syst*m of rotation to deepen tho soil. Cotton requires a more compact soil than corn, and while a deep soil is essential to its best development, it will not produce as well as loose, open land whew oorn does best on land thoroughly broken. A deep soil will not only produce more heavily than a shallow ■oil with good aeasons, but it will stand more wet as well as more dry weather. In preparing for the corn crop, land should be broken broadcast dur ing the winter one-fourth deeper than it haa been plowed before, or if Qiueh vegetable matter is being turn ed under, it may be broken one-third deeper. This is as much deepening as land will usually stand in one year and produces well, though it imay be continqpd each year, so long as much dead > vegetable matter is being turned under. It may. however, be subsoiled to any depth by follow ing in bottom of torn plow furrow, provided ito more of the subsoil than has been directed is turned up. Break with two heavy plows, if possible, or, better, with disc plow. With the lat ter, cotton stalks or corn stalks as large as we ever make can be turned nnder without having been chopped, and in pea vines it will not choke or drag. Never plow land when it is wet. if yon expect ever to have any use for it again. Bed with turn plows in six-foot TOWS, leaving five-inch balk. When ready to plant, break this out with icotter, following in bottom of this furrow deep with Dixie plow, wing taken off. Ridge then on this fur row with same plow, still goimr deeo. Run corn planter on this ridge, drop ping one pram every five or nix ncbes. Plant early, as soon as frost danger is past, gay first seasonable "pell after March 15th, in this section. Rspecially is early planting necessary on very rich lands where stalks can not • otherwise be prevented from Trowing too large. Give first working with harrow or any plow that will not the plant. For second working, use ten or twelve-inch -iweep on both sides of corn, which nhould now be about eight inelies high. Thin after this working. It ii not necessary that the plants should be left all the same distance apart if the right number remain to each yard or row. Corn ahould not be worked again nntil the growth- has been so retarded and the stalk so hardened that it will never grow too large. This is th« most difficult point in the whole pro cess. Experience not judgment are required to know juat how much the atalk ahould be stunted, and plenty of nerve is required to bold hack your com when your neighbors, who fer tilized at planting time and cultivat ed rapidly, have corn twice the size of youra. (They are having their fan now. Yours will come st harvest time.) The richer the land the more necessary it ia that the atunting pro cess should be thoroughly done. When you are convinced that your corn has been sufficiently humiliated, you may begin to make the *ar. It abould now be form twelve to ei«»M een inches high, and look worse than you have ever bad any corn to look before. Put half of your mixed fertilizer (thia being the first used at all) in the old sweep furrow on both sides of every other middle, and cover by breaking out thia middle with turn plow ; About one week later treat the other middle the same way. Within a few days side corn in first middle with aixteen-inch sweep. Put all your nitrate of soda in thia fur row, if less than 150 pounds. If more use one-half .of it now. Cover with one furrow of turn plow, then sow peaae in the middle broadcast at the rate of at least one bushel to the acre, and finish breaking out. Tn a few daya side corn in other middle with same sweep, put balance of nitrate of soda in thia furrow if it has been divided cover with turn plow, sow peaa and break out. This lays* by your crop, with a good bed and plenty of dirt around your stalk. This should be from ,Tune 10th to 20th 'unleas season iB very late, and corn should be hardly bunching for teasel Lay by early. More corn is mined by late plowing than by lack of plow ing. This is when the ear is hurt. Two good raina after laying by should make you a good crop- of corn, and it will certainly make with much less rain than waß required in the old way. The stalks thus raised are very small and do not require anything like the moisture even in proportion to size, that is necessary for large sappy stalks. They may, therefore, be left much thicker in the row. Thfs is no new process. It has long been a custom to cut back vines nnd trees in &rder to increase the yield and quality of fruit; and so long as you do not hold back your corn, it will go, like mine so long went, all to stalk. Do not be discouraged by the looks of your corn during the process of cultivation. It will yield out of all proportion to its appearance. Large stalks cannot make large yileds, ex cept with extremely favorable sea sons, for they cannot stand a lack of moisture. Earlv applications of man ure go to make large stalks, which you do not want, and the plant food is all thus used up before the ear. which you do want, is made. Tall stalkg not only will not produce well themselves, but will not allow you to make the pea vines, so necessary to the improvement of land. Corn rais ed by this method should never srrow over seven and one-half feet hicb, and the ear should be near to the ground. I consider the final application of nitrate of soda an essential point in this ear-making process. Jt should always be applied at last plowing and unmixed with other fertilizers. I am satisfied with one'ear to the stalk unless a prolific variety is planted, and leave a hundred stalks for every bushel that I expect to make. I find tbe six-foot row easiest to cultivate without injuring the corn. For fifty bushels to the acre I leave it sixteen inches apart; for seventy fire bushels to the acre, twelve in ches apart, and for «ne hundred bush- Sis, eight inches .apart. Cora should be planted from four to six inches below the level and hid by from four to six inches above. No hoeing should be necessary, *nd middles may be ifcept clean until time break ont, by using harrow or by running one shovel furrow in centre of middle snd bedding on that with one or more rounds of turn plow. I would advise only a few acres Jjßftd by this method the first year, or unMl you are familiar with its appli cation. Especially is it hard at first, to fully carry ont the stunting process this is ths 'absolutely essential pari of the process. This method I have applied, or seen spplied successfully to all kinds of land in tht» section, except wet lands and moist bottoms, and I am confident it can be made of great benefit throughout the entire South. In the niiddel West, where corn is so prolific and profitable, and where, has been produced, the stalk does not naturally grow large. As .we eome South its sine increases, at the ex rense of the car. until in Cuba, and Mexico, it is nearly all stalk (witnesa Mexican varieties.) The purpose of this method is to eliminate this tendency of corn "to overgrowth at the expense of yield in this Southern climate. By this method I hare made my corn erop more profitable than my cotton erop, and mv neighbors and friends who have adopted it have, without exception, derived great ben efit therefrom. Plant your own seed. I would not advise a change of seed and method the same year, aa you will not then know from which yon have derived the benefit. I have used three ve rities and all have done well. I have' never used this method for late plant in?. In faet, I do not advise the late planting of ecorn. unless it be necevary for cold lowlands. The increased cost of labor and •he high price of material and land ira rapidly making farming nnprofi fable, except to those who are getting from on# what they formerly got from two. We must make our lands richer by plowing deep, plant ing peas and other legumes, manuring them with aeid phosphate and potash, which are relatively cheap, and re turning to the soil the resultant vege table matter rich in humus and ex pensive nitrogen. The needs of our soil are sueh that the South ean nev er reap the full measure of prosperity that should be bors until' this is done. I give this method » a fanner to the fanners of the South, trusting that thereby they may be benefitted aa I have I—»ii. E. lu xVER WILLIAMSON. Married, ia County JaiL Birmingham, Ala., Spocial.—Mies Jessie Collar, of Adamsville, Ala., was married to Chester A. Linn, in the county jail here. Rev. Thoma* Eeard, Episcopal minister, perform ing the ceremony. A number Qf wit nesses, including relatives of the couple, was allowed by the sheriff to attend the wedding. ■ Linn is being held as a deserter from the United States army and was taken to Fort Oglethorpe Ga., Wednesday where he'will face a courtmartial. Scientists Working For Humanity's Baltimore, Md., Special.—That the influence and efforts of the leading scientists in the conntry will be con centrated in the effort to establish a national organization, with regula tions and rules of its own, for the conservation of disease generally was demonstrated in the symposium on public health of the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science Wednesday. The Pleasures of Hope. "This poem upon 'slay Day,"* said the editor, "Is not at all 'bad—" The ftttlc poet flushed with de light. " but sinoo we hare enough ma terial on hand to last us for the next ten years, I am obliged to decline It/* The poet still smiled hopefully. "Dut, air," ho said, "you will re quire something for the eleventh year."—New Orleans Ciroee-Jjnfoocrat You Ma Need I Ask your doctor about the wisdom of your keeping Ayer's Cherry Pectortl in the house, resdy for colds, coughs, croup, bronchitis. If he stys U's all right, then get a bottle of it at once. Why not show a little foresight in such mstters? Esrly trestment, early cure* Jk Wi »■>»■> on> Jx > SMStJSSS filters w ~sp.- Many a boy is called doll and stupid, when the wbele trouble is dua to s lazy liver. We firmly believe your ow» doc tor will tell yon that aa occasional doss of Ayer's Pills will do such boys s great deal of good. They keep the liver active. ■ Xxia by lh» /. C. Ajr«r 00.. LmU, M— ' ORINO Laxative Freit Syrup Plmsnt to tsks The new laxative. Does nol gripe or nauseate. Cures stomach and liver 'fi troubles and chronic con stipation by restoring the natural acUonof the stom ach, liver and bowels.
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