FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH'
VOL. XXII.
PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1911.
Ymt, la A4rsaca
OFFICERS AFTER
COCiEjELLERS
GREENSBORO HAS BEEN WHOLE
SALE DEPOT FOR THE DRUG
FOR MANY YEARS.
THE DOCTORS AND DRUGGISTS
It is Alleged There Has Been Collu
sion on Part of Physicians and Drug
gists in Evading Law and Making
Money on Sale of Drug.
Raleigh. A special states .that for
years it has been generally known that
Greesboro was something of a depot
for cocaine supplies to dealers In Vir
ginia, where the law is very stringent
against druggists supplying it, and in
j North Carolina, where the law is less
stringent against druggists, so far as
filling prescriptions is concerned, but
which does prohibit a physician from
filling a prescription for a known dop
ist. A year or more ago, when Sim
mons was arrested in Norfolk for co
caine distribution, the purchase of the
drug in almost wholesale lots, was
traced to this Greensboro supply firm,
running as a drug store, but no action
was taken, since the law did not reach
the firm, and the last North Carolina
Legislature did not see fit to amend
the law so as to take in this offense.
About a month ago, when the city
commission form of government had
got well under way Commissioner of
safety Brown notified the police force
not to make a specialty of any partic
ular offense, but to execute all laws,
regardless of who. got hit. In conse
quence, within sixty days Municipal
Judge Eure has had before him over
30 retailers of -cocaine, nearly all of
them being negro men. The evidence
in most cases" was bang up, and as a
result 25 able-bodied negro male dop
peddlers are now at work on the
street convict force as punishment
and about half a dozen fat negro wom
en are doing duty for the county at
the county house of correction, and co
caine blind tigers have become scarce
in Greensboro.
The police have been quietly endeav
oring to locate the physician who was
in evident collusion with these co
caine dealers, since the law of North
Carolina only requires that a druggist
shall sell only on prescription of a
- practicing physician. They were able
to, locate the physician when they ar
rested J. H. Henderson, colored, of
Danville, for dealing in cocaine.
Farmers Institute at Taylorsville.
The farmers' institute under the
management of Mr. Franklin Sreman,
entomologist of the Department of
Agriculture, i was held in the court
house here. Quite a good number of
the farmers and their wives and
daughters were in attendance to hear
what the speakers had to say in the
way of better and more remunerative
methods of farming, beautifying the
home, etc. Close attention was given
thespeakers, who made several very
interesting and instructive talks on
improvement of the soil cultivation,
seed selection, spraying, etc., and
should the tillers of the soil follow tho
. 1 1 - M xtN .tiVii em a a It
instruction vi luese- iucu, wuu "fcon
!roat experience, they would soon have
better farms, better homes and larger
bank accounts. The meeting no doubt
' will bring forth fruit. The prize for
the best speciment of corn was award
ed Mr. John B. Echard.
Hoke County's First Court.
The first term of the superior court
of the new county of Hoke convened
Judge H. W. Whedbee presiding. It
has been almost entirely occupied In
the trial of capital felonies. Two have
been disposed of with verdicts of man
slaughter, and it is understood another
will be disposed of by the prisoner
submitting to murder in the second de
gree. The case of Will Clark, charged
with criminal assault, is now in pro
gress and is attracting much Interest.
A venire of 150 men was necessary to
get a jury. In this case Mclntyre &
Lawrence are assisting the solicitor
and Shaw & Currie and Cox & Dunn
are representing the prisoner.
Drainage in Robeeon County. . :
State Senator W. S. Cobb, of Robe
eon county, arrived in Washington to
see Congressman Godwin on a matter
of the greatest importance to Robe
Bon county and the state, that of mak
ing of Robeson an entire drainage dis
trict with subdivisions. Mr. Godwin
and Mr. Cobb will go to the Agricul
tural Department to try and induce
Secretary Wilson to send government
engineers to Robeson for the purpose
of inspecting the whole country with
a view to a survey by the government
without expense to th county. "
COMMISSIONERS BESIEGED
Delegation From Various Organiza
tions Appear Before Greensboro
City Fathers With Petitions.
Greensboro. Tho most interesting
and by far the most largely attended
meeting of the board of city commis
sioners held since Greensboro's com
mission form of government went into
effect was that of a few days ago. Dele
gations from the Greensboro Retail
Merchants' Association, the Guilford
County Farmers' Union and a mass
meeting held in the county court
house, reinforced by citizens from both
town and country, appeared and asked
for a modification of the milk and
meat inspection ordinance and the re
peal of the ordinance prohibiting far
mers stopping their vehicles on Elm
and certain other streets and offering
their produce for sale.
After numerous arguments had been
made, the commissioners voted to re
peal the street sales ordinance, the
same to become effective at once.
Further consideration of the milk and
meat inspection ordinance was deferr
ed. The farmers have asked that they
be relieved of the trouble and expense
of driving their cattle, hogs, etc., to
Greensboro for inspection before be
ing killed at a licensed slaughter
house. They do not object to an in
spection of the fresh meat after it
reaches the local market, but the
farmers contend that it is unjust to
force them to drive cattle and stock
to Greensboro for slaughter, and it is
not to be disputed that wiey made out
a strong case before the commis
sioners. - -. .
It is common street talk that The
commissioners will be subjected to
the recall provided for in the city
charter if they fail to give the, relief
demanded.
Are To Shoot at Camp Perry.
A team of expert riflemen that will
represent North Carolina national
guard in the national shoot at Camp
Perry, the teams to leave the state
and return September 1, arcjust an
nounced from the office of adjutant
General Leinster here. The men are:
First Infantry Capt, C. I. Baird, Ashe
ville; Capt. J. H. Kohn, Asheville;
Sergeant M. S. Newton ; Sergeant J.
C. McClure, Charlotte; Sergeant J. H.
Brown, Charlotte.
Second Infantry: Lieut. S. E. Ma
lone, Lieut. O. C. Jones and Corporal
Ralph Wade, Goldsboro and Private
H. L. Best, Rocky Mount.
Third Infantry: Lieut. E. R. Par
rish, Raleigh; Sergeant J. T. Mc
Adams, Burlington; Privates J. C.
Morefield, Reldsville. Alternates, Capt.
J. B. Maloy, Lumber Bridge; Ser
geant H. C. Somons, Raliegh; Ser
geant R. G. Ray, Reidsville.
Adjutant General Leinster will go
a3 team captain; Lieut. Col. J. W.
BIzzell, Goldsboro, as team coach;
Capt. R. G: Gladstone, as tram spot
ter; Capt. F. J. Clemenger, Asheville,
as surgeon. Lieut. J. Lee Skinner of
Raleigh will be a range officers.
Jury Fails to Agree In Suit.
The jury in the case, of United
States vs. Hiawassee Lumber company
in the circuit court of the United
States, after twenty-four hours of de
liberations, failed to reach a conclu
sion and the jury was dismissed the
case resulting In mistrial. In this liti
gation, the government is suing for the
possession of about 5,000 acres of tim
ber land in Clay county, which it is
contended was granted to E. R. Olm
stead before the civil war; that Olm
stead sold the land to a man named
Stevens, who subsequently conveyed
it to the United States.
Freight Depot at Clyde Robbed.
Information was brought here by a
gentleman returning from Clyde to the
effect that the freight depot and post
office at that place was entered, four
gallons of liquor and about one hun
dred pennies were taken from the de
pot but nothing was found to be miss
ing from the postofflce. It seems that
one window of the postofflce building
was opened and some effort made to
enter the registry department and the
supposition is that whoever entered
the building became frightened and
left before committing robbery.
Raleigh. A charter was issued for
the Wachovia Realty Company of
Winston-Salem, capital $40,000, by W.
Reade Johnson, A. W. Welsner and
others for real estate development.
Central Highway Is Near Completion.
State Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt
says the surveyors for the entire line
of the - proposed great central high
way from Beaufort and Morehead the
length of the state to Asheville and
the Tennessee line will be completed
in a few days and that work is being
pushed along very many sections of
the road. He estimates that about 25
per cent of the highway will be new
road because many sections of the
rr .f i to be relocated. He has
mlv a)
route J
THE COTTON CROP
IS GOOD TO FAIR
LITTLE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE
BY DROUGHT, RAINS OR
BOLL WEEVIL.:
BETTER THAN THE AVERAGE
Cotton Is Slow in Maturing This Year.
May Be Exposed to
Frost.
Memphis, Tenn. The Commercial
., Appeal weekly cotton crop review
says:
"Lack of rainfall in the Carolinas,
part of Oklahoma and Texas and west
ern Oklahoma gives rise to complaints
of shedding of a rather severe kind,
while in all other states excessive rain
fall is producing a very rank growth
of stalk,- is retarding the proper set
ting of new bolls, and is rotting a few
already made.
"The natural maturity of the plant
is also being delayed, and the crop
will be exposed to unusual danger
from frost if the rains continue.
."Preceding the inauguration of this
drouth in the extreme east and the
southwest and heavy rains in the cen
tral states the plant was well fruited
and comparatively early in growth, so
that, although the loss has been rather
heavy during the past two weeks, the
promise is still good to fair. On the
bright side it is also worthy of note
that in many localities showers have
been neither excessive nor scant, and
the crop is extremely good.
"Except in. Texas and South Caro--lina,
but little cotton picking has been
done, and the bolls are opening slowly
because of the continued growth of
the plant due to the rfainai The boll
weevils in southern Mississippi and
Louisiana now appear active enough
to stop' all further setting of squares.
The worm damage has not been ex
tensive. "Texas correspondents report that
a good soaking rain within the next
week will restore much of the loss,
and- enable the plant to make a late
crop."
Montgomery, Ala. Alabama's ' . cot
ton crop has not been damaged as
much as some of the alarmists and
pessimists have predicted.' Reports to
The Advertiser from practically every
county In the state Indicate that the
injury from the caterpillar, cotton
worm and other pests is Inconsequen
tial. That there has been some de
terioration is true, due much to the
rain, which has caused the weed to
take on abnormal growth at the ex
pense of fruiting. This deterioration is
from the condition of several weeks
ago, when every indication pointed to
the largest and most perfect crop ever
grown in Alabama. With regard to
the normal, the average crop of re
cent years, the reports show that the
crop even now is better than the av
erage, and with continued dry weather
and no unusual hot waves, the fruit
will develop more rapidly and with
better results -
ENGLISH STRIKE .SETTLED
Railroad Employees of England Sign
Agreement With Officials.
London, England. A tremendous
wave of relief swept over England,
when announcement was made from
the board of trade that the railway
strike had been settled and that the
men would return to work immedi
ately. ,
Telegrams were dispatched to all
Important railroad towns, bearing the
information, and those crossed In tran
sit messages to London describing the
strike riots in Llanelly and smaller
points in the kingdom. '
The cabinet had been working night
and day since the strike threatened to
arrange a compromise. . Most of the
credit for the ultimate success of their
efforts appears to rest on the shoul
ders of Chancellor Lloyd-George, who,
in his statement to parliament, and in
an interview with the managers and
the men, worked for conciliation when
all othsrs of the interested parties
seemed to have abandoned hope
So far as technical advantage in
the compromise goes, it appears to be
in the men's favorparticularly as -the
managers consent to meet their rep
resentaives. .
Cuban Editors Exiled.
Havana, Cuba. Jose Maria Villa,
verde, managing editor of the news
paper Cuba, and his nephew, Manuel
Villaverde, an editorial writer on The
Cuba, were seized at the residence of
the former, placed on board a steamer
and deported to Spain. The Cuba has
been assailing the government. A
presidential decree issued concerning
the deportation denounces the Villa
verdes, who re Spaniards, as perni
cious foreign fra, "actively hostile to
the Cuban gnjernment
I LIFE'S DISAPPOINTMENTS
(Copyright. 1811.)
TWO AVIATORS ARE KILLED
William R. Badger and St. Croix
Johnson Drop to Death at
' - Chicago.
Chicago. Two aviators, William R.
Badger of Pittsburg and St. Croix
Johnstone of Chicago, both young men,
lost their lives at the international
aviation meet here. In dying both re
vealed the frailty of the craft in
which two score more aviators were
curving and gliding about the air,
with scarcely a pause for the deaths
of their contemporaries.
Death in both cases was due to un
explained accidents, probably the re
sults of unsuspected defects -in the
mechanism, J le machines and was
in no wayi. ,-ded by carelessness nor
lack of responsibility of the drivers.
Badger, a wealthy young man, ca
reeed to his death in a pit In the
aviation field. There had been a flaw
in one of the Wings of the propeller
of the Baldwin machine he drove. Cen
trlfugal force broke the propeller, up
set the delicate equilibrium of the ma
chine and Badger dashed 100 feet to
the bottom of the pit, his neck being
broken. Johnstone fell 500 feet un
der his engine and was drowned as
the f result of an equally unsuspected
defect.' Caught under the heavy en
gine in the Moisant monoplane, he
was carried deep into Lake Michigan
and his body was not brought to the
surface until an hour later.
STATEHOOD BILL IS VETOED
President Refuses to Endorse Recai I
of Judiciary.
Washington. President Taft's first
Important veto message ; disapproving
the joint resolution providing for the
admission into the Union of Arizona
and New Mexico was sent , to the
house of representatives. The presi
dent's disapproval is directed on'ly at
Arizona, in which constitution there
la a clause Providing for the recall of
all elective officers, including judges,
but New Mexico suffers also.for botn
territories are coupled together-In the
resolution. The president already has
approved the constitution of New
Mexico, but further legislation will be
necessary to have either territory ad
mitted at this session of congress, un
less both the senate and house pass
the present resolution over the, pres
idential veto. That the veto may be
overridden in the house is not unex
pected, but as to its fate in the sen
ate there is much doubt.
A final attempt to secure statehood
for New Mexico and Arizona began in
both houses of congress following the
receipt of President Taft's emphatic
veto of the statehood resolution as it
had been sent to him.
Senate Report Denounces Peace Pacts
Washington. The arbitration trea
ties with France and Great Britain
are characterized by the senate com
mittee as a "brooder of war cod not
of peace" in a report presented to
the senate. The report defends the
committee's action in striking, out, of
the treaties the provision authorizing
the. arbitration committee to determine
the justifiable' cl cter of any given
subject without v srence to the sen
ate's power of ratitcation.
. An Inch of Tongue Wanted.
Kansas City. Mrs. J. L. Long of
Independence, Mo., mother of Mis
Inez Long, who recently bK off he?
tongue in a motor car accident, has
received on an average of 'fifty let
ters andf elegrams dally for! the last
three dftys m response 'lo-aer an
nouncment that a reward would be
paidor an inch of some one's tongue
to bf? used to cure the, girl." The
wri'l r cf e letter S0li he thought
$30 W would be a reasonable "price
. for 'aV inch of tongue. V . y
PLAN FOR JCOJTON BILLS
NEW ORLEANS COTTON EX
CHANGE RAPS ENGLISH BILL
OF ' LADING COMMITTEE. '
Plan Is Reflection Upon Exporters and
Stab at Planters of South, Says
, the Exchange.
I New Orleans. Branding' the pro
posed plan of the Liverpool, . cotton
bills of lading committee to institute
in New York a clearing house for the
validation of cotton bills of lading as
a "direct reflection and insult upon
those engaged in the exporting of cot
ton," and placing itself upon record
as opposing the plan in its entirety,
the New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
through its board of directors, passed
resolutions to this effect and approved
the report of its special' committee ap
poitted to Investigate the proposition.
The directors also adopted resolu
tions authorizing its president to is
sue Invitations in the name of the
exchange to all Southern exchanges,
boards of trade, bankers and exporters
and others interested in the handling
of cotton to meet here in joint cot
ference, probably during the annual
convention of the American Bankers
association about November 20, next,
for the purpose of adopting measures
for the protection of their respective
and mutual interests.
The local exchange expressed itself
as being willing, in the future as in
the past, to co-operate in any feasible
and just plan for the protection of the
legitimate cotton trade and the elimi
nation of practices, contrary o com
mercial morality; any feasible plan
that will not take further tribute from
the " Southern planters. All cotton ex
changes in the United States were
urged to oppose the proposed plan.
In the report of the special commit
tee made public, it was stated
that Charles S. Haight.' representing
the Liverpool interests at a confer
ence, explained the entire plan to the
local committee, but as to change from
the original plan was, noted he was
informed that an adverse report would
be made and the proposition opposed.
The committee, in giving reasons
for opposing the plan, reported that
the losses through Knight, Yancey &
Co.," and Steele, Miller & Co. were
nothing, and "consequently there was
nothing to justify the complex and
cumbersome methods of handling cot
ton," as proposed. -'-.-
LIQUORS BARRED ON TRAINS
Against Law to Sell Liquor on Dining
Cars in Alabama.
Montgomery, Ala. It is against the
sanction of the Smith " regulation, bill
which controls the sale of whiskey
in the state, to sell intoxicating liquors
or beverages on the dining cars in
Alabama, according to . an opinion
which ha3 been rendered to Governor
O'Neal by Atty. Gen. Robert C. Brick
ell. ' - -'
In another opinion, which has been
submitted to Governor O'Neal atr the
reouest of Chairman John C. Sprag-
gins of the Tuscumbia commission, the
attorney general holds that section 27
of the Smifh bill forbids connection
of a bar ro tn with a pool room.
Negro Banks Will Be Aided.
Little Rock, Ark. The National Ne
gro Bankers' association approved a
bank guaranty, plan for fifty-four ne
gro banks in the South whereby it
is proposed to 'protect 'the depositors
of the banks to fwrect any evil which
may develop iriNuture. The plan
adopted is to'uiKXsuaranty fund
of $25,00(ySj Tipie fund will
be i'V
'Hitv
i- finli:.
into m'.'.
guuraBt1i
?1 "(,003,000 in .
. ,1C07. the fort
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TOO
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HOU.SE FAILURE TO MU." TT.
TWO-THIRD3 VOTE KILLS WC
: AND FREE LIST BILLS!
WILL AGREE TO C0TTC;: B
The Democratic House Went
With Flying Colors in BatUoo.
Override President- the
con-'
and
Washington. In ' a succ
dramtic events the Demoon
6f representatives mt '.
supreme effort to pai- ;s t
irther
lse is
'jents.
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free list bills over tbs
toes. The house wM
cotton tariff revision X-h'
in the senate, but ,w"
gress in session to r.frf
veto of that measur
cleared away all its b, wi
ly adjournment is assur J
ion of the leader o b
the house. - '
The Democratic Iwnm
a great demonstr ' .(
marshaled its rank J,,. I
tie to override th : L"j
down with flyic '
leaders ' tailed to
surgent Republican
the tariff legislation ?:t
dent's head. .'.'"V -
The Democrat)?' j ; . .. . ..
ways and mear ,
de .to end th f il
The house will J
as amendettro tui n k . ', . .
the iron and steer, 'chemaiV i
ton machinery schedules eud . -o
lprocal bituminous coal aero?.' th
nadian border provision anl v. "1
it -to the president.
RACE WAR IN SOUir
Mob Applies Torch to Ne : r
' jakln, Georg;.
JDonalsonville, Ga. As a ;
the killing; of Marshal X, 1
Jakin the people of 'that t -Early
county and those V
the river in Alabama L " 1 i
thoroughl yaroused and h
plying the torch rather f
gro lodge buildings, school ' -zi
churches. Three negro k-!f, t
churches and one school .
laid In ashes by the mob, . : "i
bent on revening the deaih
shal Newberry.
New trouble- arose' over ?
groes barricading themsclvt
house and firing upon" a c . .c
whites who were in search of i1"
ero murderer, Wrest. This
returned by the whites and t!.
ing in which "the negroes haa
caded themselves was riddled
bullets and three of the negro
killed. . ; V;. ',
Report comes here from relir.- s
KvHtv that a lare-A fthinmPTlt. of
key was received at Jakin, and
crowd has begun to drink heavily ; ...
are brandishing -their ' rcvo'j'iej-
each others' faces.'; The mure pe.
able of the whites have, been i
in their power to, tnd the trouble r.
let the law take a,hand.f This has
raged the more vicious element of
mob, and it is now feared that tU
lives of the whites, are, endangered
from the mob, taking it aj an in
that ihev should not revenge tho
death of Marshal Newberry. ,
All business at Jakin is at a stp.M
stiil, stores , being , closed , and tj
whites remaining in. their homes. Th
nesroes are scattered and fe wean I'1
seen in or around Jakin. The negroes
living In the country who had cot
heard of the trouble . there went to
Jakln to. transact business, but were
not permitted to remain in the town
noBiallowed to purchase goods.
Aviator Brea'ks Altitude Re;erci,
Chicago. Oscar A. Brindiey soa: 1
higher from, the ground than an a.-nj-plane
has-even been and set a n -'w
world's record at 11,72a feet. - rh',r
O. Parmalee followed him in tho isir,
passing the former Anerican re"- -1
and reaching 10,837 f?et bvrre h
scended. , The world's rrev'.-us h. :
was 10,761. feet. Captain r ,;x
a height of 11,132 ftwt t "
France, but his flight h-- : ..3 - 1
made official.
fuch of the car., .ted wn:-r
mixed with tfcvL.'TPrv -.-.-anW.
Such a Eiixtf-e :
Iarsited by law. A nre:;i r r
TT:-'f tiie f.awr Is ma.:.- i: v
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