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FROM COUNT Y TO COUNTY Iforili Carolina News Prepared sad Published For" the Quick Perusal of Our Patrons. Meeting of Ootton Mill Men. Resolutions condemning the rules f the New York exchange, which en courage speculation and manipulation were adopted at the annual session at Charlotte of the North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association. The association admitted Virginia mills to the organization. Plana n-ere also adopted dividing the asso ciation into five sub-organizations yray or white goods, colored goods, hard yarns, soft yarns, knit goods. The parent organizations will re main intact and in control, but each department may hold separate meet ings, to thresh out the problems pe culiar to itself. Reports show 392 eotton mills and 171 yarn mills in the organization, with 3,229,119 spin dles, amounting to about one-fouTth the looms and one-third the spindles in the South. R. M. Miller, Jr., of Charlotte, was re-elected president. The association failed to take any official action on the matter of cur tailment, as had been anticipated. 3t is "understood unofficially, how ver, that probably all the members have agreed to a complete curtail ment in August, to continue until the market advances. North Carolina Teachers' Assembly. At the closing session of the North Carolina Teachers' assembly at Ashe vilh, Saturday, the following officers were elected: President, Charles L. Coon, Wilson. Vice president, E. C. Brooks, Trin ity college. Secretary and treasurer, R. D. W. Connor, Raleigh. The feature of the morning session was the address by Clarence II. Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer. Sir. Poe made a stirring appeal for the introduction of agricultural eourses in all public schools of the State. He declared that while boys had been taught everything about Greek and Latin roots, they knew absolutely- nothing about corn roots. "You have taught them all about the Greek chariots,'' ho said, "only to he ran over by the 20th ceutury , auto mobile." North Carolina's Work on Roads. J. E. Pennypacker, the chief of the good roads bureau ia the. Agricultural Department, Washington, has return ed home from a trip of inspection in the Southern States, which took him to Wrightsville, while the State Press Association was in session. He -as pleased with the noticeable ad ranee North Carolina is making in ihe way of road development, and had a good word for the action of the State Press Association in pass ing favorable resolutions. Mr. Penny packer's department has received tentative reports, which show that Letween the years 190-1 and 1909, the increase in good roads building in North Carolina was 173 per cent. The showing is regarded as an ex ellent one by Mr. Pennypacker. Wilmington Hurt by Wireless Co. The people of Wilmington are per haps more deeply interested in the affairs of the United Wireless Tele graph Company than in any other xown in tne &tate and the news that all of the head officers had been ar rested in New York caused various jeople there to wear anything but a cheerful countenance. Befo'j the . trouble was reported it was stated hy a representative of the company ibat about $25,000 of the stock had heen placed in Wilmington. The very evening the officers were arrested was when the stock was supposed to be withdrawn from the market. Lutheran Normal School Convention. The third annual Sunday School Normal for the North Carolina Luth eran Synod convenes at Misenheimer Springs, Stanley county, July 5th, and will be in session three days. A coarse of lectures on Sunday School vork by leading speakers from vari ous, parts of the country will be a feature of the gatherin?. It-is ex isted that delegates will be present !rom all parts of North Carolina. Judge Pell Brings Parents Together. A happy climax of the legal fight between Mrs. Lelia Whisnant and Walter Whisnant, of Charlotte, over the possession of their bright little 20-months-old baby was enacted when an amicable settlement was reached between the two parties. Tha parents will live together again and enjoy their baby over which they fousrht and each will contribute to its trailing to useful citizenship. Their ibve for the little child reunited them and they agreed to go back home and forgst all enmity which at one time existed "between them. It was through Judge Pell's efforts that they were brought back together. Trial of Trust Case in Fall. Judge Connor of the Federal court, at Raleigh, says the case of the Ware-Kramer Tobacco Company against the America Tobacco Com pany, involving one and a half mil lions of dollars damage, for the de stroying of the eitrarette business of the plaintiff of Wilson and Norfolk, fcy trust methods against competition, must go to 'jury trial this ' filh NORTH CAROLINA EVENTS Life in the Land of the Long Leaf Pine Grand Lodge K. of ,P The Grand Lodge Knights of Pyth ias of North Carolina, closed their fortieth annual convention at Char lotte Thursday, installing the new officers elected Wednesday, headed by A." E. McCausland, Grand Chan cellor, selected Asheville as the place of meeting for the 1911 gathering on invitation of Mr. A. S. Bernard. The new orphanage at' Clayton was fur ther discussed and a rising vote of thauks extended to Rev. Br. P. R. Law, chairman of the orphanage com mittee. The lodge also held further discus sion of the question of colored lodge making use of the Pythian name, and the supreme lodge will probably be memorialized, or other steps taken for the desired relief. The Grand Chancellor announced the following appointments of com mittees: Grand Tribunal, C. R. Bar ger, Salisbury; Dr. D. J. Hall, Lex ington; J. C. Clifford, Dunn. Judiciary Committee Walker Tay lor, Wilmington; M. Y. Bell, Mur phy; A. A. Whitener, Hickory. Finance Committee J. II. Hoff man, Statesvile; F. L. Hunt, Ashe ville; A. B. Ellington, Greenville. -State of the Order Committee A. II. Holland, Winston-Salem; C. E. Brooks, Henderson ville; WCt. Lake, Charlotte. Credentials Committee George C. Goodman, Mooresville; L. J. New borne, Kinston; McBryde Holt, Gra ham. Uniform .Rank Committee Y. C. Crist, Winston-Salem; A. S. Bernard, Asheville; W. Y. Wilson, Raleigh. Fraternal Correspondent N. B. Alexander, Fayetteville. State Deputy Grand Chancellor J. D. Nutt, Wilmington. The district deputies for the four teen districts into which 4he State is divided, and who act in their dis tricts as the representative of the Grand Chancellor, were appointed. North Carolina Furnishes Granite. A contract has been awarded from the United States engineer's office in Wilmington- to the .North Carolina Granite Corporation at Mount Airy for furnishing the government 12,000 tons of granite to be used in con tinuing the work of constructing a dam near the mouth, of the Cape Feat river, the amount involved being over $16,000. There -were a number of bids but that submitted by the Mount Airy concern was the lowest, being $1.40 for small and $1.35 for large The granite is to be delivered at once Celebrate 100 Birthday June 30. Mrs. Harriet Baity, who. resides at Courtner, nead Yadkinvilla, will cele brate her 100th birthday June 30 and her many relatives and friends are planning to give her a royal country banquet. She was a Miss Maynard and moved to Yadkin county from Massachusetts, being married to Pleasant Baity, January 23, 1830. He has been dead ten years. Twenty nine great-grandchildren will be among the participants of the celebra-' tion. Want Taft at Firemen's Convention. The committee of arrangements who have charge of the preparations for 'the State Firemen's tournament and bi-centennial which v, ill be held in New Bern July 25-30, are endeav oring to secure President Taft to deliver the opening address for the occasion. Bishop's "Retreat" at Wrightsville. The bishop's "retreat" at Wrightsville Beach for the Diocese of East Carolina will begin on the 28th of this month and continue for ten days. The program for this "re treat" consists of a series' of papers relating to phases of the English Reformation. 3fatent3 on New Inventions. Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington patent attorneys, report the grant, last week, to citizens of North Caro lina of the following patents: Stuart W. Cramer and W. B. Hodge, Char lotte, air-eenditicning apparatus; David Hill, Washington, ventilating apparatus; Cabell Jones, Spray, price computing attachment for measuring faucets. Architects at WrightsviUs July 1. The North Carolina Architects and Master Builders will meet at the Sea shore hotel July 1 to 5. Interesting exhibits will be made of building ma terial and plans of residences, etc. North Carolina Merchants Included. The campaign started by the De partment of Justice against the South ern Wholesale Grocers' Association will include North Carolina mer chants. It is said here that the Federal authorities would proceed at once to try the cases started in Ala bama under the anti-trust law. Eig Robbery by Burglars. The store of Boyles Brothers at Winston-Salem was entered by three men and about $700 worth of mer chandise was carried away and over $2,500 worth of merchandise was scattered over the floor, being piled up as high as two feet in some places. Entrance was effected from the rear by the use. of a ladder and the break ing out of a glass. The burglars left a note saying that they had just left. VARNER ON GOOD ROADS One of the most striking and help ful addresses delivered at the Wrightsville Beach session of the North Carolina Good Roads Associa tion and the North Carolina Press Association, on June 9th, was that of Mr. II. B. Varner, editor of Southern Good Roads, Lexington, N. C, in which be told how the press may help in the good roads movement, which is now well nigh universal. Mr. Varner said in part: Mr. President, Brethren of the Press and Good Roads Enthusiasts: Giving an illustration of the truth of his obesrvation by citing a num ber of articles of local interest and importance contained in an issue of a country weekly, editor Clarence H. Poe, of The Progressive Farmer, re cently wrote very aptly. I think as follows : "There is hardly any more grati fying development in the South today than the tendency of our newspapers fro give less attention to faraway is sues and theories and more attention to the big, vital, throbbing problems of building up the counties and towns in which they are located that God given task to which they are called." This is indeed gratifying, and the tendency, apparent to all who review the scores of newspapers of the State, is making itself more and more mani fest. The papers, weekly and daily, are giving more space to homo topics, a discussion of which makes for im provement and progress, than ever before. This is especially true of the weekly, which has too often wasted space on subjects of no immediate concern to its readers. Every live weekly today carries editorial com ment and news stories on such sub jects as more corn and wheat to the acre, crop rotation results some far mers have obtained. Macadam cannot be, secured in all counties at the present, and there re mains then the gravel road and the sand-clay road, both serviceable types and inexpensive. And finally, where H. E. VAZNER, Editor Ncrth Carolina Good Roads Magazine, Lexington. there is no immediate opening for any considerable road improvement, we think that one of the most attrac tive, direct opportunities of the press to aid the good" roads movement in North Carolina today is to educate the people to the value of an ab surdly simple ,yet wonderfully effec tive invention, known as the split log drag. Few communities can afford to build permanent stone roads, and for years to come dirt roads must be used in most of Carolina territory. This being so, the problem of good Toads in the majority of our, counties resolves itself into the proposition of making dirt roads as good as possi ble, at the smallest expense. Here is where the drag comes in. It is ex tensively used in the West, where miserably hod roads have been trans formed into boulevards at practically no expenditure of money. In the South, strange to say, the people have not taken hold cf the idea. North Carolina papers have published quite a good deal about it, but there is much more to be said of it, and con stant hammering cn the subject is bound to bring the drag into general use. There is an abundance of liter ature on the theme, meaty' and con vincing, and it should be used liber ally by the press. The Saturday Evening Post earned an article. May 7th, that ought to be reproduced in every weekly newspaper in the State, and. I am glad to ay, was in several. The government .office of public roads gladly furnishes special articles about the drag, as it docs about road mak ing in general. I am convinced that when the fanners of the State once take hold of this method of road im provement, they will he astonished at the power it possesses for perform ing miracles, and will wonder why they endured bsd roads so many years when within their reach there was saeh an inexpensive, yet thoroughly effective means fcr making their com mon dirt loads veritable boulevards. A weekly pape in any county can start a gorJ .ids revolution by heading ar. efTovt to have a number of such drags built. Get the merchants of the town to contribute. The drags cost about two dollars cneh. Select a road leading -into town fo experi ment. Get the farmers living on it to agree to drag, say, a mile each. In a short time agood road, properly shaped, crowned and drained, results, and the .whole county has b"en edu cated and coDvinced. Sometimes I think that the drag and this little pian of co-operation have. not been taken hold of in our' State just be cause the whole thing is so simple and inexpensive. The press ought to begin a lively campaign for the plan, because it is the only possible way for road improvement in some coun ties for years to come. It stands midway between tho unimproved road and macadam, and serves its purpose well. There are various ways of creating road sentiment and in bringing about road improvements without money, one simple expedient being to have the connty commissioners set apart certain days for road work by all hands, designating such days as good roads days. This was tried in David son county last summer with most excellent results. The commissioners named three days in July and called on the people to turn out and work the roads. Fifteen hundred citizens answered the call and gave the public roads such a thorough working that it was said that more was done dur ing those three days than had been done on the roads in ten years. The Davidson county commissioners think so well of the idea that they have set apart July 28th, 20th and 30tb, as good roads daj's in Davidson coun ty, and the roads will again receive a much needed working Proposed highways connecting dis tant towns should receive instant and hearty encouragement at the hands of the press, for the time is coming when North Carolina will be travers ed in every direction by such roads, and they will prove a tremendous fac tor in the development of the com monwealth. They will not only ac complish what a good road always does for those who live along its course, but these highways will at tract tourists from abroad, and that means a largely increased money cir culation. It is said that in one small resort in New England last summer as much as $6,000 a day was spent by aufomobile tourists drawn thither from many States by alluring roads which penetrated a territory rich in scenic attractions. And the country weekly in taking the lead in the improvement of the farm and the roads connecting it with the market becomes a force for the upbuilding of the whole country with all its diversified interests, be cause the farnl is the foundation of the republic and it is through agricul tural evolution that real, lasting prosperity and greatness will come. If the farmers are in good shape, so is the country as a whole, and the reverse is likewise true. The condi tion of the highways is of vital inter est to the farmers and has a far reaching influence on their business. Community after community has shown that good roads contribute to the prosperity of the farmer and to hi wealth, and in aiding the good roads movement, the" press is thereby adding to 'the assets of the country. In arguing the road question, it seems to me that it would lie wise to urge the construction of high-class roads ' for the main highways. Like the amiesite road, a costly but en during type of construction that will boar any sort of trafiirTfrom automo biles down. Next to that stands the. ordinary macadam, and while it too is expensive, yet, the press in urging good roads should not fail to hold up always the ideal cf the best roads possible. I have yet to see a newspaner fail that labored for the people. You may undertake a movement that is prompted by selfishness, by a desire to extend your circulation and make you money, and yet if you are at the same time doing something for the uplift of your country, you are doing much more than laboring for your self, and the results will justify any thing you may do. If you wage a strenuous campaign for good roads in your county you are working for yourself. The man who does good in this world is sure to be rewarded. I know of a certain gentleman who began life with a contract written out with God Almigty as party of tha second part, in which it was agreed that if the efforts of the party of the first part prospered. ' he would help the poor and do all he could for the material betterment of the people about him. That man today is rich. He has kept his word and his con tract, he has done inestimable good in the world, he has carried new ideas and education to many, alleviating human suffering and squalor, beauti fied barren places and has done a thousand and one things from dis tributing free flower seed to exploit ing a country where victims of the great white plague may find hope, and yet he has made money for himself, and has -what is more than wealth the satisfaction of knowing tfiat he did what he could to make this world better than he found it. The labors of the press are largely performed with this same spirit. Countless acts are done by the newspaper man, for which he neither gets nor expects to get anything whatever, nct even thanks, but he finds pleasure in the work. This good roads question is out ranked in importance by no other question. In it is bound up the hap piness and progress ' and prosperity of the country. The press can lay its bards on ' nothinar that will re dound more to the welfare of the peo ple than the cause of good roads, and it must answer to the fullest degree the .all that duty makes. With good roads. North Carolina will be immeas urably bigger and better and greater, and all other improvements will be added to this improvement. The South with good roads will be a greater South, and the seers t'"i us through a Greater South will .ome ' the Greater Nation. THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD The Heart of Happenings Carrel From the Whole Country. Evelyn . Nesbit Thaw 's engagement ring is in pawn; she is living in a Sat; she can't pay her tailor bills. Secretary Davis of the National Farmers' Union announces that the next convention of the union would be held at Charlotte, September 16, 191Q. Th latest move to secure more revenue for the railroads is a plan to charge au excess fare for all pas sengers riding in Pullman and parlor ears. The German Government ordered an investigation of the flood eonditions in the valley of the river Ahr, where between 200 and 250 people have been drowned. Death caused by a rattlesnake bite ended nearly a week of torture en dured through religious fanaticism by Oliver Pugh, 1 60 years old, of Zion City, 111. The first change made in dressed beef prices in three weeks by whole-v sale, of Chicago, went into (affect Friday, and it was . a reduction of half a cent a pound. The official inventory of the estate of the late E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin, filed in the Los Angeles probate court, fixes $10,930,801 as the total value of the estate. The two lions which the late King Menelik of Abysinia presented to the Pope a year ago, died from the ef fects of poison which, it is believed, some visitor to the Vatican deliber ately gave to them. A representative of a moving pic ture concern has made an offer of $150,000, it is said, for the Jeffries Johnson fight picture privileges. The promoters and principals have the offer under consideration. Cromwell Dixon's dirigible balloon broke away from its mooring . at Chillicothe, Ohio, carrying with it a 10-year-old boy t a heighth of half mile. The balloon landed several miles distant. The boy was unin jured. Fremont Johnson, a trusted yon u 55 clerk in the office of the York, Pa., Carriage Company, was arrested by Chief of Detectives White on charges of taking more than $1,000.. Johnson, whose salary was $9 a week, is ac cused of padding the payroll. He was recently married. A concerted movement,- looking to the entry of W. J. Bryan in " Ne braska Senatorial race, was begun when certain Democratic leaders sent all over the State petitions asking Mr. Bryan to enter the contest. These petitions are to be signed and re turned by the time Mr. Bryan re turns from Europe. As a result of having a sore bunion on his right foot treated five weeks ago, Peter Morgan, aged 60, foreman of the machine shop at the Pennsyl vania South Altoona foundries, is dead. Following the treatment gan grene and blood poisoning developed, and he suffered great asronv until he lapsed into a state of coma prior to) death. Dr. H. L. Bonner, C9 years old, 'big eater and ready digester,' died at Marion, Ohio, of diabetes, brought on by his many eating contests, it is said. ' In one contest he ate a double steak as heavy as a roast, 12 -large potatoes,, two dishes of onions, two loaves of bread and a pound of butter and finished with three dozen hard boiled eggs. At the field day meet held in con nection with the graduation exercises of the Ingleside School for Giris, New Milford, Conn, Carolyn Hale, of the class of 1911, of New York City, broke the world's record for girls in the running high jump by clearing the bar at 4 feet 75-8 inches. She also won five of the six events on the program. It was just plain Theodore Roose velt when he left us. He comes back Theodore Roosevelt, A. B., L.L. D., Litt. D., Ph. D., D. C, E. T. C. What he asserts is the largest hen's egg ever laid in New Jersey is now on exhibition in the home of Joseph M. Kelley, of Summit, N. J. Kelley says one of his -prize hens laid the egg. It measures seven inches in length and has a circumference of six inches. Justice Aspmall, of tne supreme court of Brooklyn, has upheld the constitutionality of the Hart-Agnew anti-race betting law and refused to dismiss indictments pending under the law. Although Deputy Marshal G. W. Morris was dangerously wounded by a hatpin which penetrated his abdo men Monday while attempting to ar rest a woman, at Globe, Ariz., he did not realize tho fact until Saturday. The woman fought desperately, beat ing the officer over the head with a bottle, and he did not notice the tiny wound in which the steel had broken off until examined by a phy sician. Morris probably will die. A bullet which he has carried in his body ever since the battle at Spottsylvania,' 40 years ago, when a Confederate sharpshooter planted it there, was located near the heart cf Joseph Miller, of Danville, Pa., ?fy an X-ray used by a local physician. Tho bullet, which entered the left fchoulder and penetrated the left lung, has lately been giving him trouble. It probably will be removed. Miller was one of the famous "Iron Guard" who got their baptism at Antietam. CAPITAL FACTS. Interesting News Gathered in the District of Columbia. rHB AMERICAN CONGRESS. . Personal Incidents and Important Happenings of National Import Published for the Pleasure and In formation of Newspaper Readers. Distinguished , Woman Lawyer. Mrs. Beeva Lockwood, the first wo nan to be admitted to practice be fore the United States Supreme Court, as a result of a bill she caused to have passed by Congress in 1879, was sued recently for .$10,000 dam ages for alleged "malicious abuse of criminal process." The plaintiff was Pame3 R. Brackett, whose arrest she saused on a charge of larceny 'after trust. ! Mg. Lockwood was one of nttnn n-ll COllirOfl 111 fl ITjrl fn t. against tlf5nited States for the Eastern Cherokees in 1900 and the luit grows out of the payment of ibis money to the descendants of the Indians. Brackett, after receiving H,600 on behalf of his family, re fused to pay the commission claimed by Mrs. Lockwood. Mrs. Lockwood is in her eightieth fear. She once ran for, President of the United States. Save Yon Got Your Share? Treasury officials figur a out that' if all the money in circulation in the United States were divided .equally, have $34.59. This is 14 cents per il t U 2jipiia more man mey suuum uavo had by the same process of reasoning 1 month ago. Compared yvith a year ago, there was on June 1 $14,000,000 more money in circulation, and yet, strange as it may seem, the per sapita was 42 cents less. This is due to the increase in population, it be ing proportionately more than the growth of the circulating medium. The general siock of money in tha United States on June 1 was $3,419,- .4 382,284, of which $298,070,537 was held in the Treasury as assets of tha Government. Washington Police Record. Cleveland is a larger and busier city than Washington, with a larga proportion of foreign population, and yet the number of arrests averages only one in fourteen persons. Baltimore is a larger city than Washington, and yet the number of arrests averages only one in fifteen Buffalo has a record of one arrest ... ..L.J v.. -j v- Cincinnati has more population than the .entire District "of Columbia, and the arrests average one.. .in twenty two persons. Detriot is a city resembling Wash ington in nearly all of its character istics. 'Tn that city the police arrest Dnly one in thirty. But in Washington the figures' show H-inf nnr.n Mia avornfto rmo TinreriTi in every ten na3 nis name upon uic youiib 01 a station-uouse, ana is ta&en to the Police Court. Warning Bulletins About Drugs. In its effort to protect the public against the insidious efforts of prepa rations containing drugs injurious to health, the Department of: Agriculture has issued a Farmers' Bulletin treat ing the subject. "The. Harmf ulness of Headashe Mixtures," was issued in September, 1909, and 70,000 copies have been dis tributed; nbw "Habit - Forming Agents, Their Indiscriminate Sale and Use a Menace to the Public Welfare" giving the results of recent investiga tions by the department has been is sued as a' warning to mothers, inva llids, and users of medicated soft drinks, of the .cJgerous contents ot many of the inianj; syrups, so-called remedies, and soft drinks containing eooain, caffein, and similar drugs. tsetter and Cheaper Eatable. Uncle Sam will go into 3'-ies8 auii:ii lilt; iuuu iiusi, iiw iiiiuj uiiu navy will jgel better' fond cheaper eatables, and Washington will have eminent at a cost of $1,500,000, if the bill to be introduced by Representa tive A. C. Stanley, of Kentucky, be comes a law. What Offended tha Pre;id4i. Rnm-pspntntivc Harrison wa3 re fused an audience with Mr. Taft the White House. , Mr. Harrison wa3 quoted on May 13 as having said, in a spsuch in the House, of the back-dating of the Wisfcersham cummary of the Baliin ger case: "This confession of the Attorney General amounts to a conclusion thai tb.3 President and the Attorney General had agreed to furnish U Congress misleading information it surmlv an official document as of ont date which was really prepared manj "L Change Against Army Medical Officer. John J. Sheridan, of Chicago, coun sel for the Illinois Voters' and Tax Payers' Association, testifying in op position to the proposed Department of Health, told the House Committee on Interstate Commerce that the medical officers of the army, navy p.nd marine hospital service so arrang ed .the entrance examinations mUjI those branches of the government tu 1 i 1 1 1 1 . 1 to exciuae uui aiiupuiiis. j
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