North Carolina Newspapers

iiii.i.i n mi i- -t irimwwriir.-7-g-, t Year, In Advance. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." . SInle Copy 5 Cet. j VOL. X. Villi " I - ' PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1907. NO. 29. V $!f:!2s ?35!2i .v '" -jf f rk Items Gathered From AS! BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. Baptisms and Conversions Far Ex ceed Those, of Last Year Report on the Orphanage Read by Mr. Hobgood, and Appeals Made By Rev. Burton Craig and Rev. M. L. ; Kcsler. "Wilmington, Special. The conven tion met at 9 o'clock, Prof. J. B. C'ar 3yle in the chair. " After devotional exercises and the reading of the minutes, the commit tees of the convention were named by the president. II. II. Hulfen is on the Sunday school committee. E. E. i Bomar, on foreign mission commit tee; S. F. Conrad, on home mission 'committee; L. li. Pruett is one of the vice presidents of the convention; Livingstone Johnson submitted the feport of the board of missions and Sunday schools. During , the' past year 3,229 conversions-were reported; 2,372 baptisms, and 1,313 additions to church by letter. The total amount reported raised by missionaries is $55,088.01. During this year 155 more baptisms are reported than last year; 330 more .'conversions ; and $2,101.20 more mon ey has been raised by missionaries. The report of the treasurer showed .- tliat during the year just closed, $30, ' 1315.54 -has been received for State ".missions; $35,004.91 for foreign mis sions, and $17,429.85 for home mis sions. The report of the orphanage was - read by F. P Hobgood and Rev. Bur ton Craig addressed the convention on the interests of the institution, as did Rev. M. L. Kcsler, manager of the orphanage. The orphanage at Thomasville is the largest in the Stato and one of the largest in the South. Reports showed the health - .of the children to be good and every interest of the orphanage to be pros- - perous. The work of the superinten dent and of Rev. Archibald Johnson, editor of Charity and Children, were highly commended. This "excellent paper has made a fine showing and has a balance of $2,000 on hand. Mr. . Kesler pleaded strongly for funds with which to equip the orphanage with every needed improvement. The ' infirmary is now in course of erection, the Baptist women having contribut" ed $3,000 for the purpose. There are 365 children now. in the orphanage. The report on education was read nad will be fully discussed at a special hour Thursday. The report showed "there 'are now 73 ministerial students ... at Wake Forest College, 53 of these getting aid from the convention. . " "The report on education will re ceive full discussion at a future hour during , the convention. Rev. ' J. R. Sampcy addressed the convention in the interest of Louisville Theological Seminary. There are now about three hundred students in the seminary, 23 of these being North Carolinians. A collection was taken for the . benefit of the 20 students who receive aid from this convention while pursuing their seminary course. The collection amounted to $1,900. Important interests of the denomina tion will claim the attention at the afternoon and night sessions. North State Briefs. Releigh, Special. Among the new charters are the following: Elastio Leather Garter Company, Greensboro, capital, $100,000; M. W. Thompson, Lee II. Battle, W. E. Cochran, incorporators. '.'" Farmers' Quickstep Telephone Company, of King, Stokes county; . capital, $25,000; J. E. Wilson,' J. E. . Smith, C. II. Lunsford, W. RKiger, incorporators. A charter is granted the Holladay Studio Company, at Durham, Wal ker Holladay and others stockhold ers, capital stock $15,000, to do pho tographic work. Another charter is to the M. W. McKethen Company, at Supply, Brunswick county. . Insurance Commissioner Young says this has been a very good year for the formation of home insurance companies and fraternal Organiza tions. The Jefferson Standard Life at Raleigh, and the Scottish Fire, at Fayetteville, have been chartered; also Hiirteen fraternal and assess ment companies. A charter is granted the Elastic Leather Garter Company to make gar- ters, suspenders and all L sorts of elas tic wearing apparel, the placo of bus- K iness being at Greensboro, the I ; 7 amount of capital stock $100,000. W. j M. Thompson and Lee II. Battle be i vig the chief stockholders. Sections of the State Jjf North Carolina Day; Teachers Get Programmes. Raleigh, Special. Copies of the programme fo North Carolina Day in the public schools has been for warded to the country school teachers by the county superintendents of edu cation. . . The subject for the day 'a exercises this year will be "Tho , Scotch-Irish Settlements," and the book, with the programme included, contains some very interesting matter to Charlotte and Mecklenburg people. In his preface to the book sent out, Superintendent' Joyner says: Following the chronological order of the State's history, the subject of the North Carolina Day program mes have been as follows: In 1901, the First Anglo-Saxon Settlement in America ; in 1902, The Albemarle Sec tion; in 1903, The Lower Cape Fear Section; in 1904, the Palmico Section; in 1905, the Upper Capo Fear Sec tion. In 190G it was deemed advis able to turn aside from the adopted plan of chronological study to devote the day to the study of the life, char acter and splendid service of Dr. Charles DT Mclver. We return this year to the plan adopted, selecting "The Scotch-Irish .Settlements in North Carolina'' as the subject. In succeeding years the" history of other sections of the State will, be studied somewhat in the order of their settle ment and development, until the,cn tire period of the State history" shall have been covered. '" ; The book this year treats of tho following subjects, all of great inter est to people living in Charlotte and Mecklenburg. "Origin or the Scotch-Irish," by C. IT. Mebane. "Counties Settled in Part by tho Scotch-Irish," by C. II. Mebane. , "The .Scotch-Irish in Orange," by Frank Nash. "Tho Regulators," by E. C. Brooks. "Capture of Charlotte by Cornwal lace," by M. S. C. Noble. - "Battle of King's Mountain," by W. C Allen. The above chapters aro followed by a number of papers on various men of the period who played an import ant part in the making of history of those times. Work of Board of Agriculture. Raleigh, Special. The State board of agriculture continued its sessions Thursday. State Ilorticulturalist Hutt is acting as secretary in the ab sence of T. K. Bruner.. Mr. Hutt made his report as horticulturist and it was a very satisfactory one indeed. All the reports so far made are very complete, though of course volumi nous. The illness of Secretary Bru ner has somewhat hampered the im migration ' work. . The board has adopted a resolution of thanks to him for his 21 years of faithful service and expressing regret at his illness. It is said he will probably be out at the end of this month. The report by State Chemist Kilgor referred to work at the test farm and also to the puro food department work done, particularly that by Ceburn D. Har ris in exposing the frauds in starch sold to cotton mills. The board of agriculture is asked by J. F. Murphy of Asheville, to establish a test, farm in Buncombe county. It is the pur pose of the board eventually to have test farms in each of the ten con gressional districts. There are now farms in flv? of these. Work of Game Warden. Nutbush, Special. Game Warden W. C. Ellington was up in this town ship looking after the violators of the game law, and arrested C. D. Emerson, of New Egypt, N. J., for hunting on Sunday, and also war ranted him for hunting without li cense. Costs and fines amounted to thirty-four dollars. Gets Some Certificates. High Point, Special. Tho Commer cial National Bank of this city has been allotted $07,008 of the 3 per cent certificates issued under the re cent order of the Secretary of the Treasurey and approved by the President. The com mercial was thereupon made a Unit ed States depositary and received $50,000 deposit of government funds. Mr. J. Elwood Cox, president of this bank, has just returned from a trip to New York and Washington on this errand. N, C. CONFERENCE CLOSES Cession at Newberne Closed Sunday Night With Reading of the Appointments. Newbern, Special. Following is the list of appointments made by the North Carolina Conference for the year 1903 and read in meeting by Bishop Galloway Sunday night: RALEIGH DISTRICT. Presiding elder, R. B. John. Edenton Street C. M. Chandler. Central L. B. Jones, Brooklyn and Apex G. W. Star ling. Epworth (Raleigh) E. D. Wood all. Gary J. D. Pegram. .... Cjayton G. B. Starling. SmithfieldJ. H. Shore. , Kc-nly A. L. Ormond. Wakefield and Zebulon A. D. Wilcox. . t Millbrook G. T. Simmons. Youngsville D. B. Parker. : Frauklington N. E. Coltrane. Louisburg- L. S. Massey. Tar River H. G. Stanley. ' Greenville C. W. Robinson. Oxford F. M. Shamburger. Oxford Circuit A. S. Barnes. Editor Raleigh Christian Advo cate T. N. Ivey. Superintendent Methodist Orphan age J. N. Cole. DURHAM DISTRICT. Presiding elder, J. B. Hurley. Trinity G. T. Adams. Main Street, Durham Rev. M. Bradshaw. Carr Church J. A. Daily. Branson J. W. Autry. Mangum Street H. E. Stanfield. West Durham J. H. McCraeken. Durham Circuit G. W. Fisher. Chapel Hill W. R. Royall. Hillsboro-M. M. McFarland. Mount Tirzaji J. B. Thompson. . Leasburg N. C. Yearby. Roxboro J. A. Hornaday. Milton M. D. Giles. Yaneeyville G. R. Reed. Burlington E. M. Snipes. . Burlington Circuit E. O. Durant. East Burlington, 'Graham and Haw River W. F. Stanford. Alamance C. M. Lance. President of Trinity College J. C. Kilgo. Headmaster of Trinity School II. M. North. FAYETTE VILLE DISTRICT. ' Presiding elder, J. T. Gibbs. Hay. Street, Fayetteville G. F. Smith. Fayetteville' Circuit V. A. Royall. Hope Mills T. II. Sutton. Cokesburg N. M. McDonald. Roseboro M. D. Hussey. Bladen E. B. Craven. Buckhorn J. II. Buffalo 'Sampson Circuit L. D. Fanshaw. Dunn A. J. Parker. Duke J. M. Daniel. Newton Grove N. H. Greyton.' Pittsboro G. P. Jerome. Haw River N. M. Watson. Goldston J. W. Hoyle. Carthage II. M. Euro. ' ' Elise E." M. Pattishall. Sanford R. W. Bailey. Jonesboro L. II. Joyner. Lillington W. C. Martin. Siler City E. R. Welch. ROCKINGHAM DISTRICT. Presiding Elder, W. H. Moore. Rockingham J. E. Underwood. Roberdel A. J. Grober. ... Richmond N. L. Seabolt. Mount Gilead L. P. Howard. Pekin W. A. Jenkins. Troy J. W., Bradley. Aberdeen D. N. Caviness. Hamlet T. A. Sikes. Laurel Hill F. B. Noblitt. Gibson L. L. Nash. Laurinburg N. II. D. Wilson. Maxton and Caledonia E. II. Mc Whorter. Red Springs R. II. Broom. Rowland J. M. Ashby. Lumberton E. M. Hoyle. Elizabeth E. M. Watson. Robeson T. J. Dailev. WILMINGTON DISTRICT. Presiding elder, R. W. Townsend. Grace Church W. 11. Townsend. Fifth Street K. D. Holmes. Bladen Street W. E. Hooker. Market Street W. L. Rexford Scotts Hill J. T. Stanford. New River I. II. White. Onslow D. C. Ceddie. Jacksonville and Riehlands J. C Whedbee. Kenansville F. E. Dixon. Burgaw A. J. Parker. Magnolia W.- E. Brown. Ciinton S. E. Mercer. Whiteville and-Chadbourn Y. E. Wright. Columbus C. E. Salter. Carver Creek J. M. Marlowe. Waccamaw L. E. Sawver. Shnllotte A. D. Betts'. Soulhport G. D. Langston. Student in Yanderbilt University J. M. Culbreth. NEWBERN DISTRICT. Presiding elder, 11. F. Bumpass. Newbern R. C. Beaman, Goldsboro, St. Paul E. II. Davis. Goldsboro, St. John W. P. Con stable. Goldsboro Cirenit--J. M. Carra way. Mount Olive and Faison W. E. Rowe. Mount Olive Circuit W. O. Davis. Hookerton R. F. Taylor. Snow Hill J. D. Bundy. Dover W. F. Galloway. Grifton W.. II. L. McLaurin. Craven W. B. Humble. Jones J. M. Wright. ' Pamlico J. II. M. Giles. Oriental W. M. Usry. Carteret D. A. Futrel. Morehead City M. D. Rowe. Atlantic F. S. Becton. Straits M. W. Dargan. Ocracoke and Portsmouth J. J, Boone. WASHINGTON DISTRICT. Presiding elder, A. M. Cvdlen. Bath J. M. Lowder. Aurora W. A. Pilau. Swan Quarter E. C. Sell. . Mattamusket R. R. Grant. Fairfield J. L. Rumley. Greenville M. T. Plyler. Farmville W. A. Forbes. Robersonville W. E. Breen. Bethel J. W. ! Martini . ' Tarboro R. II. Willis. Rocky Mount, First Church D. II. Tuttlo. South Rocky Mount B. H. Black. Nashville W. H. Kirton. Spring Hope and Mount Pleasant B. E. Stanfield. Stanhope II. E. Lance. Wilson F. D. Swindell. . Stantor.sburg-j-R. . E. Hunt. Fremont C." R. Taylor. Missionary secretary lif U. Willis WARRENTON DISTRICT. Presiding elder, W.' S. Rone. Warrenton Rev. Mr. Moyle. Warren B. C. Alfred. Ridgeway L. M.: Chaffin. Henderson R. C. '. Craven. North and South"Henderson J. J. Porter. j? Littleton J. D. Duncan. Weldon H. A. Humble. Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary J. T. Draper. Roanoke--G. D. Perry. Enfield and Halifax II. B. An derson. - Battleboro and Whitaker W. Everton. '- Scotland NeckJ. E. Holden. " Wiiliamston and Hamilton C Y. L. Reed. " ' . 'Garysburg D. L. Earnhart. Northampton J. C. Humble... Rich Square B. C. Thompson. Conway W. F. Craven. Harrellsville C. A. Jones. Bertie W.. C. Merritt. President of Littleton Female Col lege J. M. Rhodes. ELIZABETH CITY DISTRICT. ; Presiding elder, J. II. Hall. Elizabeth City, First Church L. E. Thompson. Elizabeth City Road L. E. Cotton Pasquotank J. Y. Old. Camden L. M. Chadwick. Moycock W. E. Cotton. , Currituck II. M. Jackson. North ' Gates B. P. Robinson. Gates Rufus Bradley. Perquimans E. D. Westbrook. Hertford R. A. Willis. Chowan William Towne. Plvmouth L. T. Singleton. Roper F. D. McCall. Pant ego and Belhaven W. E. Ho cutt. Columbia A. W. Price. Roanoke Island W. II. Brown. Kitty Hawk Edward Johnson. Kennekeet E. W. Reed. Hatteras S. J. Kilpatrick. Missionary to Cuba R. E. Porter. Director Correspondence School J. L. Cunningham. Federal Trop3 May Be Sent to Gold field. Washington, Special. General Oli ver, acting secretary of war, and gen eral Bell chief of staff, are holding themselves in readiness to send Fed eral troops to Goldville, but will take no decisive action until more compre hensive reports are received. Orders have Ix'C'ii issued to General Funston at San Francisco to have troops pre pared to move at short notice into the mining districts. Glenn on PJvers and Harbor3. Washington, Special. Governor R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina, spoke before the National Rivers' and Har bors' Convention here Thursdav morning, lie iiiade an enthusiastic appeal for tho improvement of tht rivers and harbors and aroused con siderable interest. He cited the great crowd assembled in the hall on the lentil floor of the New Williar Hotel. The applause provoked by the stirring spsech was general and vig orous. ONLY TIIEX "Doos your husband snore in his sleep, madam?" "Well, doctor, I have never noticed him snoring at any other time." BaV ticre American. SHOOT UP A TOWN Horrible Outrages Committed By Kentucky Night Riders A VERITABLE REIGN OF. TERROR Sw , Band of Five Hundred "Night Eiders," Masked and Heavily Armed, Shoot Up and fire Ken tucky Town. Hopkins vi lie, Ky., Special. Five hundred "night riders," masked and heavily armed, marched into Hop kinsville early Saturday and destroy ed property valued at over $200,000, while citizens, in terror of their lives, feared even to open their windows. The police, fire depart ment, telephone and telegraph offices, and even the railroad stations, were in possession of a wild mob, shoot ing right and left, flames from burn ing buildings meanwhile lighting up the city and the surrounding coun try until it seemed that the whole town was ablaze . Windows in the front of business houses and banks on the main street of the city were shot out and the entire front of one newspaper, which had been especially ' severe in its condemnations of the raids of the "night riders," and which was own ed by the mayor of the city, was de molished. Brakeman Shot. .Only two men were injured, one of them being Lindsay Mitchell, a tobacco buyer, , who was severely beaten with switches and clubs, and the other a brakeman, who was shot in the back .while . trying to move his train from the path of the flames. '' The raid of the "night riders" caught the country unawares, as for some time the depredations result ing from the tobacco war had been of a minor nature and it was gener ally thought that in the "dark dis trict" at least the 'worst was over. The property destroyed was as fol lows : W. H. Tandy, independent tobacco warehouse building, owned by J. H. Latham. B. M. Wooldridge, association warehouse. Tandy and Farleigh, buyers' ware house. In addition, the entire glass front of ' The Hopkinsville Kentuckian, Mayor Meacham's paper, was de stroyed, while windows inthc front of the Commercial Banking and Savings Company, the First National, the Planters' Trust Company and the Bank of Hopkinsville, were punc tured with bullet holes. A number of other business houses . and residences bear the marks of bullets and it is considered remarkable that no one was killed. The insurance is believed to be about $60,000. Militia Chase Raiders. As soon as the "night raiders" left town a posses of about 13, headed by Major Bassett, of the local militia, and Deuty Sheriff Cravens, entered buggies and followed the trail. As soon as the posse could get near enough they opened fire on the fleeing mob and the pursued returned the shots. It is believed none of the "Night raiders" was hit. Governors Respond. Washington, Special. Protident Roosevelt has received replies from most of the Governors whorj he re cently invitod to confer with him next 'May, from .the 13th to the 15th. on the conservation of the natural re sources of the country and fll of them are joining in with in.tersst in the programme. The conference will be a success. Chicago Gets Convention. Washington, Special Chicago was elected as the place and June 10th, 190S, the time for the meeting of the next Republican national convention This decision by the Republican nat ional committee followed a long and hard-fought contest between the ad vo?atc of Chicago and those of Kan sas City, Denver, Colo., com!.' in at the end with a formal but not im portant effort to secure the.- conven tion. Te b.i'lot showed 31 vote for Chicago, 13 for itan?as City and four for Denver, the vote being made un animous after the result was an WATERWAYS PLANS Prominent Speakers Distusi the Country's Needs- : SOME SIGNIFlANT UTTERANCES Among the Speakers at the Meeting Were J. J. Hill, Mr. "Finley and Gov. Glenn. Washington, Special. A notable feature of the Uivera and Harbor Congress convention, now in session in this city, was the address delivered by James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad company, who was introduced to the congress as "a wizard of transportation and one of the greatest railroad builders in the world." Mr! Hill created great enthusiasm among the 2,500 delegates by declaring that the railroads of tho country would support cordially any proper plan for the development of the legitimate waterways of the Unit ed State. lie -produced figures to show that the traffic of the country had become so great and was increas ing so tremendously that it was be yond the physical power of the rail roads to handle it. He made a most important and significant statement of the attitude of railroad' men to ward legislation which has been di rected against rail carriers in Ameri ca and declared .that all the railroads asked was permission to conduct their business in a proper way under fair regulations and fair laws. Notable addresses were delivered to the congress by . governors of Stato and by other men prominently identi fied with the political and commercial life of the nation. Among -those ' present at the sessions of tho conven- . tion were scores of membrs of con gress, upon whom it is the desire ol the convention that its ideas be par ticularly impressed. "; The convention will conclude its work by the adop tion of a series of resolutions incor porating its idea that a comprehen sive scheme for the improvement, of ths internal waterways of the . coun try should bo crystalized into law. Gov. Glenn's Address. , Gov. Glenn, of North Carolina de clared that the matter before this congress was the most important that had been approached in the last 100 years. Continuing, he "said : ; . .r - ; "We demand the deepeningbf '-oar various rivers and harbors. We will take no denial. We must. haye. $500, 000,000 for the improvement of rivers and harbors, paid in sums of $50,000, 000 every year." , . ," Gov. Glenn said that this nation-was the greatest producer of. prosperity that ever was born since the dawn of creation. "We have," said he, "a population of 90,000,000, people; we have unlimited resources. " We, have a money circulation aggregating $2,733-000,000 we - produce 25,000, 000 tons of pig iron- and 230,000,000 tons of coal annually. , In the South alone there are singing daily - 9,500y 000 cotton spindles. To my ear' the music of these-spindles is the grand est in the world". . ' He called attention to the fact that last year the South had . added $7, 300,000 a day to the industries of the country. In North Carolina, the . increase in -manufactured ' producta during the past five years was .150. per cent and in . agriculture tha in crease had been 86 per cent in the past five years. "We took," said the Governor, "second place in the manu facture of cetton goods, being second only to Massachusetts, and were first in the manufacture of plug tobacco, and we made so many chairs during the past year that evry man, woman and child in the country could obtain a chair to 'go . way back and sit down.' " ' . Gov. Glenn said that the improve ment of the inland waterways of the country would do much to. solve the rata question. He suggested 'that if the harbors of the country were .im proved properly the great warships of America would be able to enter these harbors and thus be able effi ciently to protect them in the event of emergency. At the conclusion of Gov. Glenn's address he was given a notable ova--tion. President Finley. President Finley of the- Southern railway said that he was heartily in sympathy with the purpose's of, the congress. '',' "Water . transportation and rail transportation largely snpuft'tnent csch other. To a large extent, the waterways are feeders of the railways and the railways, in turn, art: feeders of tho waterways. There is a general tendency to a division of traffic be tween water ana rail carriers."