North Carolina Newspapers

1 ( 1 COLA. B.ANDREWS IS DEAD ITU PilDfll IMS. 10 1111 UHnULIHHIU MARKABLE STATE i GREATER PER CENT OF NA- E BORN PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER STATE. PATCHES FROM RALEIGH frga and Happening That Mark -Progress of North Carolina Peo- Gathered Around th State :oltol. J Raleigh. forth Carolina, according to the jstract of the thirteenth census of jq United States, taken in 1910, is I most remarkable State. She has v lore native born people a greater er cent than any other state in the Inlon. At the same time she has ent abroad more of her sons and (aughters than most other states. Other States of the Union have rawn from the North Carolina pop ulation as follows: Maine,-160; New i . Hampshire, 107; Vermont, 91; Massa chusetts, 3,832; Rhode Island, 541; Connecticut, 1,742; New York, 14,450; New Jersey, 7,720; Pennsylvania, 12, 577; Ohio, 5,841; Indiana, 8,183; Illi nois, 5,417; Michigan, 867; Wiscon sin, 280; Minnesota, 524; Iowa, 2,081; Missonri, 7,258; North Dakota, 659; South Dakota, 400; Nebraska, 1,360; Kansas, 4,128; Delaware, 320; Mary land, 4,257; District of Columbia, 4, 482; Virginia, 73,813; West Virginia,' 9,174; South Carolina, 42,749; Geor gia, 28,953; Florida, 17,642; Ken tucky, 4,994; Tennessee, 29,066; Ala bama, 8,722; Mississippi 10,554; Ar kansas, 15,459; Louisiana, 3,769; Ok lahoma, 9,483; Texas, 18,863; Mon tana, 1,100; Idaho, 1,681; Wyoming, 521; Colorado, 2,746; New Mexico. 768; Arizona, 461; Utah, 588; Neva da, 156; Washington, 5,502; Oregon, 2,345, and California, 4,358. The last census gives North Caro lina a total population of 2,206,287. of this number 2,089,278 or 94.7 per cent were born in the state, and 108, 605 or 4.9 per cent in other states, while 6,092 or 0.3 were born in for eign countries. North Carolina has the smallest for eign born population of any state in the Union. Her foreigners come as follows; From Austria, 139; Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro, 2; Belgium, 5; Canada (French), 29 and (all oth ers), 514; China, 61; Cuba and other West Indies, 43; Denmark, 36; Eng land, 940; Finland, 18; France, 114; German, 1,074; Greece, 174; Hun gary, 37; Ireland, 306; Italy, 521; Ja pan, 2; Mexico, 10; Netherlands, 28; Norway, 39; Portugal, 20; Roumania, 7; Russia, 711; Scotland, 435; Spain, 8; Sweden, 112; Switzerland, 68; Turkey (in Asia), 402; Turkey (in Europe), 107; Wales, 35 and all other Nations, 95. North Carolina has sent her sons to every state in the Union. It is esti mated that about 2,000,000 of he sons spent their best days in other Commonwealths. In 1910 North Caro lina had as residents from other states as follows: Maine, 268; New Hampshire, 141; Vermont, 203; Mas sachusetts, 668; Rhode Island, 134; Connecticut, 323; New York, 2,315; New Jersey, 509; Pennsylvania, 3, 063; Ohio, 1.393; Indiana, 818; Iilli nois, 660; Michigan. 469; Wisconsin, 202; Minnesota, 100; Iowa, 235; Mis souri,, 482; North Dakota, 25; Kansas, 251; Delaware, 246 f Maryland, 1,626; District of Columbia, 273; Virginia, 29,939; West Virginia, 903; South Carolina, 42,525; Georgia, 6,589; Flor ida, 675; Kentucky, 1,180; Tennessee, 8,104; Alabama 1,377; Mississippi, 688; Arkansas, 393; Louisiana, 272; Oklahoma, 81; Texas. 629; Montana, 7; Idaho, 67; Wyoming, 12; Colorado, 103; New Mexico, 13; Arizona, 15; Utah, 18; Nevada, 20; Washington, 81; Oregon, 28; California, 123; Phil ippine Islands, 2; Porto Rico, 1; born at sea under United States flag, 10, and American citizens born abroad 127. Salisbury Company Disbanded. Report of the recent inspection of the Fourth Company of Coast Artil lery. Salisbury, by an officer of the War Department, shows that this company, will have to be disbanded for failure to conform to the Coast Artillery regulation. Adjutant Gen eral Young says that preference will be given to Salisbury for the forma tion of a new company to take its place, but that it will be,, necessary for definite assurances to be given that the company offered shall meas ure to standards required. Enlarging the Market Report. The weekly statemert of prices of cotton, corn, oats, soy beans, cow peas, sweet potatoes, butter and eggs Issued by the division of mar kets of the State Department of Ag riculture shows strong market con ditions and prices well maintained with decided advances in a number of products. Greensboro is the only market that reported 10-cent cotton, with nine &nd one-half cents report ed tor middling at Charlotte and the prices on oilier markets ranging H'dii 7-S io 9 1-4 cents. Tennesse Sends State Greetings. Governor Locke Craig has received from the Legislature of Tennessee a copy of the resolutions passed by that body in response to resolutions pass ed by the North Carolina General As sembly at the recent meeting in rf erence to the Southern National High way which was established by a com mission representing all the Southern States. The resolution signed by Albert H. Hill, Speaker of the Senate, and by William R. Cooper, Speaker of the House of Tennessee, read as follows: "Whereas, the General Assembly of North Carolina has sent resolutions of greetings to the State of Tennessee in reference to the Southern Highway which was established by a commis sion representing all the Southern States and calling attention ,to the great loss resulting to the South be cause of the unfinished condition of certain links in the road and asking for the co-operation of the eight States traversed by the highway the entire South and the Federal Government for the completion of the road. "Therefore, be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring. "First, that the State of Tennessee sends greetings of response to the State of North Carolina expressing its appreciation of the situation taken by the Honorable Locke Craig, Governor in the incpection and prosecution of the great -enterprise. "Second, that the State of Tennes see complies with the request of the resolutions in confirming the action of the Asheville convention in adoption of the name selected and in the sug gested plan of co-operation. The gov ernor of this State and the State High way Commission, if one shall here after be authorized and appointed, are hereby authorized and requested to act for the State in taking such steps in co-operation with others as may seem best fitted to secure the desired results. "Third, that a copy of these resolu tions be sent to the Governor of this State for transmission to Governor Craig and to the General Assembly of North Carolina. Chemical Society Has Good Meeting. The ?orth Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society held a most interesting business session in connection with the annual meeting of the section that opened with ad dresses and a banquet. The society heard numerous -papers on technical subjects of vital interest to chemists and these papers elected numbers of lively and profitable discussions. Enthusiastic praise Is accorded the address delivered By Dr. C. H. Herty, University of North Carolina, presi dent of the American Chemical So ciety, In, which he asserted that the chemists of the United States are in no way to be blamed for the shortage Of dvestuffs for tho Amoripnn toTHlo industry and that while the textile manufacturers readily cry out as to shortage of dye materials and call on the chemists to relieve the situation. they at the same time fail to provide any financial backing for efforts of chemists to produce the dyestuffs. The North Carolina Section elected officers as follows: President, Dr. J. W. Newell, Wake Forest; vice presi dent, Dr. J. K. Plummer, Department of Agriculture, Raleigh ; secretary treasurer, Dr. J. T. Dobbins, A. & M. College, West Raleigh; councilor, Dr. A. , S. WTheeler, University of North Caj-olina; reporter, J. W. Pratt, South ern Cotton Oil Company, Charlotte. Unjo . 4j on of Live Stock Association. ans are now under consideration to make"afl County Livestock Associa tions and their members subsidarv to the state organization. It is thought that such an organization with the financial strength and moral backing of a state membership will be able to do much more effective work. At the next annual meeting of the state association direct, steps will be taken toward this end. Attending Commercial Congress. Lieutenant Governor Daughtridge and Commissioner of Agriculture Gra ham have gone to Muskogee, Okla., to attend the sessions of the Southern Commercial Congress to be in session there all this week. New Enterprises Authorized. The Forquor Weating & Ventilating Co., of Greensboro, capital $25,000 authorized and $5,000 subscribed by S. H. Hodgin and others. Opinions of the Supreme Court. State, vs. Collins (in re Bell and Jenkins) Jones reversed; Keenan vs. Board of Commissioners -of New Han over County, dismissed; Love vs. West, New Hanover, reversed; Mer ritt vs. Dick, New Hanover, no errpr; State vs. Gibson, Rockingham, revers ed; Massey vs. Railroad Company, Durham, no error; Edwards vs. Year by, Durham, affirmed; Lloyd vs. Rail road, Orange, reversed; Snider vs. City of High Point, affirmed; Hedge cock vs Tate, affirmed; Cambier vs. Kimbal Guilford, no error. Mr. Parker Returns From Meeting. Mr. T. B. Parker, head of the Farm ers Institute work in North Carolina, has returned from Washington where he went to confer with the executive board of the American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers relative to the next meeting of the associa tion,' which will be in California, at the University of California, August 12th, 13th, 14th. The other members of the board are Edward Van Alstyne, of Albany, N. Y., L. R. Taft, of East Landing. Mich,, and A. P.' Yanvels of Columbus, Ohio. Death Claims Vice-President of South ern Railway After Brief Illness.. Aged 74. Raleigh. Col. A. B.' Andrews, first vice president "of the Southern Rail way, died here after a brief illness at the age of 74. Colonel Andrews was born in Frank lin county, North Carolina, July 23, 1841, and received only a common school education. He entered the Confederate Army as second lieuten ant, First North Carolina Cavalry, was wounded twice and was a captain at the close of the war. After that he engaged in railroad work and in 1869 was superintendent of the Raleigh & Gaston Railway, which afterwards was converted into part of the Seaboard. He occupied official position with a number of railroads in this state and Georgia, in 1892 going to the Rich mond & Danville Railroad as third vice-president, later second vice-president, being finally general agent of the receivers. When the road became the Southern Railway he was made first .vice-president and has held that posi tion since, being president of a num ber of smaller roads belonging to the Southern. . His greatest constructive work in North Carolina was the build ing of the Western North Carolina Railroad about 1870. It is estimated that his estate will be about half a million dollars. The burial took place at Oakwood cemetery at Raleigh. Officers of the Southern Railway and many other prominent persons were present. Long Lost Medal Found Asheville A medal which was lost 24 years ago and which the owner had no hope of ever seeing again wTas returned to Marshall Charles A. Webb by his son, Bruce Webb, a student at University of North Carolina, to whome the medal was given a few days ago. Marshall WTebb, as a stud ent at the Universary won the medal in a debate in 1889. Returning to Chapel Hill two years later he lost it and a thorough search was fruit less. A few days ago the chief of Po lice was searching a home of a negro at that place and he found the medal in the bottom of an old trunk. It bore thje name of the owner and was im mediately turned over to his son. $20,000 Creamery Plant Hiskory The remodeled building of the Catawba Creamery Company is now practicajly finished just as . the creamery is rounding out its fifth an niversary. Starting five years ago with only a shed room to house the fix tures, worth in all about $1,500, the plant has grown until today it is worth $20,000. The receiving and testing rooms In the front of the building are enlarged by this change and an additional J story added. In the rear a room 30x40 feet was added to be utilized for a modern ice plant. The managerial form of municipal government was lost in the election at Burlington by the overwhelming vote of 378 to 21. NORTH CAROLINA MARKET. Prices of Cotton, Corn, Oats, Peas, Butter, Eggs, Etc., on North Caro lina Markets During Past Week. AKheville Cotton, 8-9c; corn, 85c bu; oat?, dAc bu; peas, $1.85 bu; sweet po tatoes, 90c bu; Western creamery but tfj. 34-35c; N. C. creamery butter, 34c; eggs, 16-17c. Ahoskie Cotton, corn, 95c-$l bu; oats, 72-75c bu; soy beans, $2 bu; sweet potatoes, 75c-$l bu; Western creamery butter, 40c; eggs, 15c. Charlotte Cotton, 9Mc; corn, 95c bu; oats, 68c bu; soy beans, $1.75 bu; peas, $1.75 bu; sweet potatoes, $1.50 bu; West ern creamery butter, 33c; eggs, 18-20c. Durham-r-Corn, $1 bu; oats, 70c bu; peas, $2 bu;N. C. creamery butter, 30c; eggs. 20c. Elmore Cotton, 9c; corn, $1 bu; oats, 70c bu; peas, $2 bu; sweet potatoes, ifOo bu; N. C. creamery butter, 35c; eggs, 20c. Fayetteville Cotton, ,9c;. corn, 93-95c; oats, 67c bu; peas, $2 bu; sweet potatoes, $1 bu; Western creamery butter, 28c; N. C. creamery butter, 32c; eggs, ISc. Greensboro Cotton, 10c; corn, $1 bu; oats, 70c bu; peas, $2 bu; sweet potatoes! $1.00; Western creamery butter, 32c; N. C. creamery butter, 32c; eggs, 17c. Hamlet Cotton, '8c; corn, $1 bu; oats, 72c bujsweet potatoes. $1.25 bu; Western creamery butter, 36c; N. C. creamery but ter, 35c; egga, 20c. Hendersonville Corn, 90-93c bu; peas, $2 bu; N. C. creamery butter, 33c; eggs, Lumberton Cotton. 9c; corn, $1 bu; sweet potatoes, 80c bu. Maxton Cotton, 9c; corn, $1 bu; oats, 75c bu; soy beans, $2.20 bu; peas, $2.25 bu; sweet potatoes, 75c bu; Western creamery butter, 35c; N. C. creamery butter, 35c; eggs, 15-20c. Monroe Cotton, 9c; corn, $1 bu; oats, 70c bu; soy beans, $2.25 bu; peas, $1.50 bu; sweet potatoes, $1.50 bu; N. C. cream ery butter, 30c; eggm lc. Mooresboro Cotton, 90; corn, $1 bu; oats, 75c bu; sweet potatoes, 75c bu; N. C. creamery butter, 33c; eggs, 15c. New Bern Corn, 85c bu; soy beans, $1.60 bu; peas, $2.40 bu; sweet potatoes, 75c bu; eggs, 18-20c. Newton Cotton, 9c; corn, $1.00 bu; peas, $2 bu; sweet potatoes, 85c bu; eggs, 16c. Riggsbee Cotton, 9-9e. Raleigh Cotton. $Vt-9 3-8c; com 92c; oats. 67o bu; peas, $2 .bu; sweet potatoes $1.25 bu; Western creamery butter, 35ct N. C. creamery butter, 33c; eggs, 18-21c. Scotland Neck Cotton, 8 -9c; corn, 90c-$l bu; oats, 70-75c bu; soy beans, $2.25 bu; peas. $2 bu; sweet potatoes, $1 $1.25 bu; Western creamery butter, 32 35c; N. C. creamery butter, 35c; eggs, 15c. Shelby Cotton, 9V4c; corn, $1 bu; oats, 72-75c bu; peas, $1.75 bu; sweet pota toes, $1 bu; N. C. creamery butter, 32c; eggs. 15-17V&C. Vanceboro Cotton, 94c; corn 85-90c bu; soy beans, $1.50 bu; peas, $2.35 bu; sweet potatoes. $1; Western creamery butter. 30c; eggs. 16-lSc. Waclesboro Cotton, 9c; corn, 94-97c; oats. 67c; sweet, potatoes. $1.50; Western creamery butter, 2Se; eggs, 12-15c. Wilson Cotton. 914,c; corn, 90c bu; oats, 70c; eggs, 20c. ; Woodland Cotton, 834c; corn, 87c bu; sweet potatoes. 7."c bu; N. C. creamery butter. 30c; eggs. 15c. Norfolk. Va. Cotton 9-9c. Chicago. 111. No. 3 white corn 73-77a (delivered in Raleigh 89-91Ae); No. 2 yellow corn 74-77Vfec (delivered in Ral eigh 88-92c); butter, 22-31c (creamery); egs, 19-1 Vic (firsts. New York Butter, 31-32c (extra): eesrs. 22,,i-23'je (extra). era MR 7I Plkn ( HItaiLP U lilliL U LniUJiL yU Hew Discovery! Dodson's Liver. Tone Acts Like Calomel But Doesn't Gripe, Salivate or Make You Sick Don't Lose a Day's Work Harmless Liver Medicine for Men', Women, Children Read Guarantee! Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. It's horrible! Take a dose of the dangerous drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose a day's work. , Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when it comes into contact with sour bile crashes into it, breaking it up., This is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you are sluggish and "all knocked out,"' if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness, coated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, Just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone tonight Here's my guarantee Go to any store and get a 60 cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, Take a spoonful Initial Cost. Patience What was the initial cost of your hat, dear? Patrice A V.. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and see that it Bears the yr stT7 . Signature of Qtajyffiu(fa In Use For Over 30 Years. . Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria t What a picnic, the insurance com pany must have had collecting the premiums from the late Mr. Methu selah! THICK LOVELY HAIR Because Free From Dandruff, Itching, Irritation and Dryness. May be brought about by shampoos with Cuticura Soap preceded by touches of Cuticura Ointment to spots of dandruff, itching and irritation. A clean, healthy scalp means good hair. Try these supercreamy emollients if you have any hair or scalp trouble. Sample each free by mail with Bock. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XT, Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv. Doubtful. "How Is your mother. Tommy?" "She's beter, but not so better as she was yesterday." Plan Humane Sunday in May. The American Humane association, a federation of societies and individu als for the prevention of cruelty, re quests clergymen of all denominations throughout the .' country to observe Sunday, May 23, as Humane Sunday, calling attention to the need for pro tection for suffering and helpless chil dren, and also for unfortunate ani mals. Dr. Wm. O. Stillman, president of the association, Albany, N. Y., will send literature to all persons interest ed in the work of humane societies. Rooms for Rent. Even college professors furnish some of the humor of school life. It was the registrar of a large university who, to an inquiry for a suite of "large, light, airy rooms," answered: "Why, I don't just recall any now; but I've got a lot of 'em in my head." And a flustered professor told a class of young ladies,. "You may have fifty minutes of the hour to tell me what you know on the subject, and I will take the remaining ten and tell you what I know." Then Was the Time. Dr. Winnington Ingram, the bishop of London, is possessed of a some what cynical wit. He was once .en gaged in conversation with a very bumptious man, who was boring him terribly. "What a fine life a bishop's must be?" exclaimed the bore, enthusiastically. "1 would give anything to change places with your lordship for just one hour to experience what it must be like." "Ah," replied Doctor Ingram, fer vently, "I wish you could this very moment." Couldn't See Any Face. An old friend, whose name I won't mention, told "me this one: "I was born and brought up on a farm, and I had the habit of going around with my mouth wide open, especially If there was anything unusual going on. One day an uncle whom I had not seen for years paid us a visit. ' "Hullo, uncle!' said I, looking up at him with my mouth opened like a barn door. "He looked at me for a moment without answering, and then said: " 'Close your mouth, sonny, so I can see who you are.' " Gossip. "Why didn't you keep the secret I told you?" "Why didn't you keep It yourself?" Riches hhrt wings, but they don't seem to have any tail that you can put salt on. ' In the Cloudland Flats. Harker Do you live downtown? Parker No; twenty-three 6torIes up. Indianapolis Star. For thrush use Hanford's Balsam. Get it into the bottom of the affected part Adv. The Beady Vine. Singing -was just over in the kinder garten, and immediately a small hand flew up. "What is it, Alice?" asked the teach- "I want to know what is a beady vine," asked the little girl timidly. "I always wonder what kind of a vine it is when we sing that song, 'Little lives may beady vine' (be divine)." Showed Discretion. Betty was milking the cow when the mad bull tore over the meadow. Betty did not stir, but continued milking. Observers who had run into safety saw, to their astonishment, that the bull stopped dead vithin a few yards of the maid and cow, turned ground and went away, sadly. "Weren't you afraid? Why did he run away?" asked every one of Betty. "He cot scared," said Betty. "This cow is bis mother-in-law." , Selfisn Automobilist. In an argument about world politics welt politik Senator Lodge Bald the other day in Boston: "The morality of too many govern ments seems as frankly selfish and as frankly unjust as the man Smithers. "As Smithers, Havana in mouth, came out of an expensive restaurant and started to get into his automobile a creditor held him up. "'I tell you what it Is, Mr. Smith ers,' said the creditor, 'you wouldn't go riding round in a fine automobile like that if you paid your debts. "'Ha,' said Smithers, 'quite right! My point of view exactly! Glad to know you're in agreement with me. The golf club, Alphonse. " There's no one to be pitied more than the man who has loved and lost unless it is the man who has loved and won. WHS tost tJXAS and if it doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous I want you to go back to th store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone ia de stroying the sale of calomel because It is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore it can not sali vate or make you sick. I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver Ton will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will . keep your entire family feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. It is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like its pleasant taste. Dubious. "Have- you any use for an astro nomical expert on your staff?" "Well, we do need a star reporter. For bunions use Hanford's Balsam. Apply it thoroughly for several night and rub in well. Adv. How "Sam" Registered. Not far from Lexington lives a young farmer, "Sam" Woolridge, who found occasion to stop at the Phoenix, (in Lexington. Just before Mr. Wool ridge registered, James B. Haggin of New York, owner of the beautiful Elmendorf stock farm, walked to the desk and wrote: "James B. Haggin and Valet, New York." , Mr. Woolridge was the next to reg ister, and this is what he wrote: "Sam Woolridge and Valise, Versailles." Knew Where He Was Headed. The story is told of a very crusty, gouty bid gentleman who lost his pa tience with his doctor, because he did not make enough fuss, over the pain he suffered. "Doctor," he cried out, twisting and turning because of the agony, "you don't understand! You don't seem to grasp the case! You talk as though there were nothing the matter with me, whereas, I assure you, I am en during the torments of the lost!" "What, already?" replied the doctor. Taking Precautions. "Mr. Mulligan," said Dennis, "yon must have binifflted by the death of your mother-in-law, for whom you had shmail affection while she lived." "I did." "What did she leave you?" "She left me alone isn't that enough?" - "But I understand you've been splnding a hundred dollars, If you've spint 'a cent to get her out of purga tory." ; "Whisht now, and isn't it worth It to get her out before I get In?" Ex change. . Fascinated. Bill Is she a good dancer? Jill Well, she looks good to ms when she dances. A Favorite In Dixie Throughout the Southland, famed for its cookery experts, a delicious food made of corn holds its place of superiority. That food is Toasties Only the inner sweet meats of the choicest corn are cooked, seasoned "just right, rolled thin, and toasted to an appetiz ing, golden-brown crispness. Toasties are FRESH-SEALED0 and come to your table as fresh, crisp and delicious as when they leave tho big ovens. Insist upon having Post Toasties the Superior Corn Flakes Sold by Grocers everywhere 'ri