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. - HHHrlHHVl III M-l-iMM 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n i i 1 1 1 1 1 ) 1 1 1 f MADISON COUNTY RECORJ), &6e Medium Through, which you reach the J. UUbTuhedJunt 28, 1901. t FUENCH BR.OAD NEWS, 1 ttab'hed May 16 1907. r pec pis of Ma.dion County. JL f Consolidated, : : Nov. 2nd, 1911 i Acver ising Rates 01 Application 4 THE MEWS THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN MADISON t OUNTY. VOL. XIV ' MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. C. 'FRIDAY, MAY 17. 1912. NO. 20. Madison County. Established by the Legislature Sat don 186f'61. , Population, 10,111 . County Seat, MarthalL 1644 feet abort aea level New and modem Court Houie, coat (33.000.00. New and modern Jail, ooat $15,000.00. New and modern County Home, coat 110.000.00. Officers. Hon. Jaa. 1 Hyatt, Senator, 81 District Burnsvllle, N. C. Hon. J. C Ramsey, Representative Marshall. N. C. W. H. Henderson. Clebk Superior Court Marshall. N. C. W. U. Buckner, Sheriff, Marshall. N. C James Smart, Register of Deeds, Marshall. N. C. a F. Runnion, Treasurer, Marshall, N. C R. F. D. No. 1 R. L. Tweed. Surveyor, White Rock, N. C Dr. J. H. Balrd. Coroner. Mars Hill, N. C. Mrs. Elisa Henderson. Jailor, Mar- ihalL N. C. John Honeycutt, Janitor, Marshall N. C Dr. C N. Sprinkle, County Physician. Marshall N. C. James Haynie, Supt County Home, Marshall N. C. Home located about two miles south west of Marshall Courts. Criminal and Civil first Monday be fore First Monday in March, Com mencing Feb. 26th, 1912. . Civil 11th. Monday after First Mon day In March, commences May 20, 1911 Criminal and Civil, First Monday after First Monday In Sept Com mences Sept 9th, 1912. Civil th Monday after First Mon day In September. Commences Octo ber 14, 1912. BOARDS. County Commissioners. W. C. Sprinkle, Chairman, Marshall tf. C C. F. Cassada, ' Member, Marshall, N. C, R. F. D. No. 1. Reubln A. Tweed. Member, Big . Laurel, N. C. C. B. Mashburn, Atty, Marshall, N. C. Board meets first Monday In every month. Road Cpmmleslonera. A. E. Bryan, Chairman, Marshall N. C, R. V. D. 2. . , J. A. Ramsey, Secretary, Mara Hill, ' N. C R. F. D. 2. Sam Cox, Member, Mara Hill N. C R. F. D. No. 2. . v " G. W. Wild, Big Pine. N. C. Dudley Cblpley, Road Engineer, Marshall N. C. George M. Prltchard, Atty., Marshall, N. C. Board meets first Monday In Janu ary, April, July and October each year. Board of Education. Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring Creek, N. C V Thos'. J. Murray, Member, Marshall, N. C, R. F. D. No. 2. W. R. 8ame, Marshall N. R. F. D. No. 2. - Prof. M. C. Buckner, Supt of Schools, Mara Hill N. C R. F. D. . NO. 1. Board Meets first Monday In Janu ary, April, July and October each year. Colleges and High Schoola. Mara Hill College, Prof. R. L. Moore, President Mara Hill, N. C. Fall Term begins August 17, 1911. Spring Term begins January 2, 1912. Spring Creek High Sohool. Prof. Q. C. Brown, Principal Spring Creek. N. C. I Mo. School opened August :' 1. 1911. -.f'V,-' Madison Bemlnary High School. Prof J. M. Weatherly, Principal. Mar- shall N. C, R. F. D. No7 8? 7 Mo. Sohool began October 2, 1911. Bell Institute. Miss Margaret E. Griffith, Principal Walnut N. C 8 Mo. School began September 9, 1911. Marshall Academy. Prof. - R. O. Anders, Principal 'MarshaU, N. CV t v Mo, School began Sept 4, 1911. ' NoUry Publics. J. C. Ramsey, Marshall N. O. Term expiree Jan. 11, 1912. A. J. Roberta. Marshall. N. C. R. D. No. 6, Term expiree May SO, 1912. Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek, N. C. Term expires August 10, 1912. C. C. Brown, Bluff, N. C. Term ex pires December , 1912. v J. A. Leak, Revere, N. C Term ex piree January 10, 1913.' W. T. Davla. Hot Springs, H.y C. Term expiree January 10, 1913. J. H. Southworth, Stackhouse, N. C Term expires January IB, 1913. , 1 N. W. Anderson. Paint Fork, N. C. Term explrea February 8, 1913. - , 3.11. Hunter, Marshall N. C, R. F. D. No. 3. term expires April 1, 191f k J. F. Tllson, Marshall N. C, R. P. D. No. 1 Term expires April 3, 1913. , C J. Ebbs, Marshall N. C. Term, explrea April .21, 1913. J. W. NetBon. Marshall N. Cv Term , expiree April 25, 1913. , i Roy L. Ondger, Marshall N, O. Term expires May 3, 1918. f Geo. M. Prltchard, Marshall N. C. Term expires May 25, 1918. Dudley Cblpley,. Marshall K O. Term expires July 29, 1913. ' ' W. O. Connor. Mara Hill. N. C. Ten xplroa November 27, 1913. . POST. - George W. Gahagan Post, No. IS O. A. R. B. W. Davla, Commander. J. H. Ballard. Adjutant Meets at tin Court Hons Batnrday erore the seoond Sunday is month at 11 A, M, BODIES LOGGED LIFEBOAT'S PATH BRITISH INQUIRY INVESTIGATING 8INKINQ OF TITANIC BRINGS GRAPHIC STORIES. .i ii ii ii It BOATS WERE NOT FULL Hundreds of the Dead Floated About as Rescued Rowed to 8afety, 8aya Morris. London. A graphic picture of the loenea that accompanied the sinking of the. White Star liner Tltanlo giv Ing a new viewpoint to tale already told many times, was painted for the British government's court of Inqui ry which la Investigating the great ea horror. Frank H. Morris, a baker of the lost ship, told how foreign steerage pas engera were prevented from rushing the lifeboats, how sixteen persons were saved from a collapsible boat' as It waa sinking, and how the lifeboat In which . he waa rescued passed among hundreds' of human beings Boating In the water In Its path, while only three of them cried out for help, Morris' explanation waa that he aup- posed the others were either dead or unconscious, being buoyed up by their lifebelts. "When I went upon the boat deck I was told to help get lifeboat No. 16 away. There were a number of wom en by the boat, and there was hardly any excitement at all as theysentered. Not a man tried to get Into the boat, They stood bravely by and bade fare well cheerfully to their wives and families who put off In the boats. "I waa ordered into lifeboat No. 14 by Fifth Officer Lowe, to help man the oars. . Some foreigners tried, to rush the boat but Lowe drew his re volver and firtd half, a dozen shots, which gent them scampering back. There were 53 women and children In our lifeboat when it -swung over the ship' side.. 'We pulled away from the vessel, but aa there waa plenty of room In the boat, It waa decided to go back. We met some other boats that were not full, and transferred some of our passengers to these boats. It waa mighty ticklish work, too, for the women had begun to grow excited. "Then we pulled back toward the Wreck. On the way We passed a col lapsible lifeboat Which waa so crowd ed that it waa awash and would not have lasted much longer. We took 18 persons out of that boat In our own. The abip went down while we were rowing toward it. Soon we were passing; among many bodies. There must have been hundreds of them, All were held up by the brand-new lifebelts which were buckled around their bodies, and were drifting slow ly with the current. Only three of them called out for assistance. I sup pose the others had become uncon scious from the ice cold water. It may be that they were dead. We row ed around for a while, then set off after the other boats." ,v STORM RUINS LEVEE WORK New Orleana Haa the Greatest Storm In Her History. New Orleans. New Orleana with stood the severest rainstorm In her history. All of the lower half of Lou isiana waa affected, and thousands .of the people who live behind the al ready terribly strained levees that hold back the Mississippi's flood wa ters were panicky.'' . : The wind ranged from 27 miles an hour at New Orleans to 40 miles at Baton Rouge, and at many points along the river It swept the waves of the swollen stream over the lev ees. The Mississippi rfver here was banked up by the high winds, and rose eight inchea In two hours, forc ing the waters over the levees at several points. i .-'..'-.. . ' After four days of welcome sun shine, hard rains set in again In Lou isiana, with high winds reported 100 miles north of New Orleans, and all along the Mississippi river, where such a hard battle la on to save weak strechea in the levees, gloom came to dispel the extreme optimism that Tiaa prevailed, .v -.... -, ' Brysfi Working For. Nomination. -- Washington. An attack upon W. J. Bryan, stating that "his attitude in this pre-convention campaign be ac counted for only on the hypothesis that he hopes to be again nominated at . the Baltimore convention," was given out here by the Harmon 'na tional headquarters. : The statement calls upon "the Democrats of the country to give candor to the real situation." . It declares that a suc cessful Democratic candidate must carry Northern states, as well aa those that Bryan carried in laat race. Young, Commander of Veterana. Macon, Ga Gen. Bennett H. Young of Louisville, Ky, commander of the Army of Tennessee, waa elected com mander lnchlef of the United Confed erate Veterans, succeeding' Acting Commander-ln-Chlet Gen. C. v Irvine Walker of Charleston,' S. C. The names of General Walker and Gen. W. K. Van Zandt of Texas were both presented, but they withdrew and the election of General Young was made unanimous by a rising vote. Gen. Ir vine C Walker was uanlmously elected honorary commander-ln chief. MAJ. GEORGE C. SQUIER. fa,,,,, -wwjSfc. nii,i";i. ..J Major Squler, an officer of the sig nal corps, has been appointed to mili tary attache of the American embassy In London, succeeding MaJ. Stephen Slocum. v Major Squler Invented the multiple)! telephone and gave hie pat ent to the government PRIMARY IN HiSSlSSIPP 08CAR W. UNDERWOOD BEATS GOVERNOR WIL80N BY BIG MAJORITY. Vote of Underwood Practically Dou bled That of Wilaon Giving South erner Entire Delegation. Jackson, Miss. Oscar W. Under wood of Alabama carried the state of Mississippi in the Democratic pres idential primaries held in this state. His vote approximately doubles that polled for Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, hia only opponent for the support of this state in the national convention. Underwood haa received a majority in three-fourth of the counties of the state and in nearly every congres sional district delegates favorable to him have been elected. The names of Clark and Harmon do not appear on the ballots. The four delegates-at-large elected are Senator John Sharp Williams, C, H; Alexander; senator-elect J. K. Var- daman and Gov. Earl Brewer. The two former had expressed a personal preference -for Wilson and the latter two for Underwood, but under, the vote of the primary they will, as will the sixteen district delegates, be com pelled to vote as a unit for Under wood. No regularly established headquar ters for either of the two candidates existed In this city, their canvass be ing in the hands of their supporters Annuities for Old Employees. Washington. President Taft sent to congress a message approving the plan of the commission of economy and efficiency to retire all govern ment employees at the age of 70 years on annuities equal to half sal ary with a maximum limit o: ibuu, The plan provides that employees en tering the service after adoption of the superannuation shall make an nual contributions to provide a re tirement fund., , The commission esti mates that the plan would cost the government $227,000. ; - ; ' Kanaaa 8tanda for Roosevelt Independence, Kan. After adopting resolutions favoring the entire Pro gressive movement the Republican state convention named four dele gates at large to the national con vention and instructed them for Colo nel Roosevelt Tltanlo Wreckage On Iceberg. Philadelphia. What probably was the Iceberg which waa struck by the Titanic was reported , by Captain Wicke of the German tank steamer Clio. The captain aays that on April 29, in latitude 41.25 north, longitude 48.43 west, he saw an Iceberg about 130 feet high, one end of which was broken aa if in a collision. The mass of ice waa surrounded by steamer sa loon fittings, deck chairs, cushions and Innumerable pieces of wreckage. Endless Prayer Chain Floods Malla. Chicago. Postoffice . authorities here are annoyed by the circulation of numerous anonymous postal cards arglng the recital and spread of a re ligious prayer and are endeavoring to learn the identity of the senders in order that the flooding of the mails with the appeals may be Btopped. The postals, it la believed, are being cir culated by religious fanatics. They ask that the recipient recite the pray er for nine -days and then send nine postals with the same words to other persona.. , '., . ' . Clark Gets Washington Delegation. , Walla , Walla,' Wash, The state Democratic - convention voted to In dorse Champ. Clar aa lta candidate for president TKe vote stood: Clark 455. Wilson 106, Bryan 135 1-2, Har mon 1 1-2. An attempt Was made to stampede the convention for Bryan, but it was unsuccessful. The plat form adopted advocated presidential i preference primaries, the Initiative, referendum and recall and publicity of campaign contributions before the election. The convention adopted a resolution endorsing woman'! suffrage. BLUE AND GRAY TO JOIN HAND S VETERANS ACCEPT INVITATION OF G. A. R. TO MEET ON GET TYSBURG BATTLEFIELD. CHATTANOOGA GETS REUNION ' Tennessee City Will Entertain Veter ans In 1913 Won After a Fierce Fight Macon, Ga. The choosing of Chat tanooga, Tenn., as the convention city for 1913, the unanimous, enthusiastic acceptance of the invitation of Gen eral Trimble, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., to merge the blue and the gray at Gettysburg in July to heal all remaining- sores of the long internecine strife of the sixties, the crowning of MIbs Mary Scandrett of Macon as queen of the 1912 reunion before 20,000 people on Coleman'a hill, and a Georgia sun melting mel lowly over the city all day, featured the third day of the twenty-second annual reunion of ' the Confederate veterans In Macon. ' Chattanooga's victory in the fight for the 1913 reunion was a sweeping victory over both Jacksonville and San Antonio, and came at the close of a rather stormy session, although the uproar which retarded the prog ress of the convention was not alto gether the outcome of the fight for the next meeting place. The United Confederate Veterans, In solemn session, paid eloquent and loving tributes of esteem and rever ence to their deceased comrades and leaders. The annual memorial exer cises were held In the vast audito rium at Camp Gordon, with the Sons of Veterans, the Ladles' Memorial Association and sponsors and maids in attendance. Especial trtbutea were paid to the late Gen. Clement A. Evans, honor ary commander-in-chief, and to Gen. George W. Gordon of Memphis, who died subsequent to his election as commander-in-chief at the reunion In Little Rock last year. At the final session of the South- era Confederate Memorial Associa tion the following officers were elect ed for the ensuing year: Mra. Daisy M. L. Hodgson, New Or leans, recording secretary;, . Mrs. J. Enders Robinson, Richmond, Va., cro responding secretary; Mrs. J. H. Max well treasurer; Miss Mary Hall, Au gusta, Ga., historian; Mra. Virginia Frazler Voyle, Memphis, poet laure ate- Mrs. A. McD. Wilson, Atlanta, vice president for Georgia. CHARGES AGAINST JUDGE Houae Committee Hearing Case of Judge Robert W. Archbald. Washington. Charges against Judge Robert W. Archbald of the com merce court were unfolded before the house committee on Judiciary which is to determine if Impeachment pro ceedings shall be brought against the jurist. How Judge Archbald, In partner ship with Edward. J. Williams, a Scranton coal dealer, while deliberat ing as a judge on the "lighterage cases" to which the Erie railroad waa a party, is alleged to have nego tiated an option from that railroad for 42,000 tone of culm dump property to be sold at a $12,000 profit, waa re leated to the committee by Williams himself. Judge Archbald heard the testimo ny, and occasionally looked at photo graphic copies of letters bearing on the case, one of them a letter- in which the judge told of his connec tion with the culm bank negotiations in his own words. In addition to that transaction Wil liams told of another deal in which he said Judge Archbald acquired an Interest with him in an option on a million acres of Venezuelan timber land for which the Judge gave a note for 8500. Williams tried to discount this note with C. J. & W. P. Boland of the Marlon Coal company of Scranton, who had at that time had case pending before Judge Arch bald in the Federal court The Bo- lands refused to discount the note, and later lost their case. -f. ; Pressmen Plan National Strike. Chicago. Apparently beaten In their efforts to tie up Chicago news papers officers of the Web Press men's union, according to a statement issued by the publishers, have started movement, for a nation-wide strike of newspaper pressmen. This and charges by the publishers that ' the pressmen were using misleading state ments In efforts to gain sympathy were the principal developments in the situation. The publishers said they expeoted normal conditions to prevail before the end of the week. Flood Refugeea In Terrible Plight Melville, La. The destitution and distress that follows In the path of crevasses had a practical demonstra tion here when the steamer Whitman with 750 refugees from the McCrea section of Point Coupee parish, land ed at Melville.- These unfortunates were picked up along the levee where they had been for three days without shelter, and an almost continuous rain had prevented' the cooking of the ra- tloaa which had been given them. Many, however, refused to be taken away. ; . MISS ELEANOR ANDERSON. 4 if 'Mil Miss Anderson, who la the daughter of Medical Director Frank Anderson, U. S. N., Is to be msrrled on Msy 14 to Ensign Rush 8outhgate Fay, U. 8. N. 9 KILLED 1NJRAIN WRECK TRAIN BEARING DIXIE VETERAN8 TO THE MACON REUNION RAN OFF TRESTLE. Old Soldiers Assisted In Caring fo tne Injured Passengera After the Wreck. Hattlesburg, Miss. Nine persons, Including three women and two chil dren, were killed and fifty-six persons injured when the first section of the "Van Zandt Confederate Veterans' Special" of eleven cars, en route from Texas to the annual reunion at Ma con, Ga., was wrecked on a trestle, one mile south of Eastabuchle, Miss., on the New Orleans and Northeastern railroad. The locomotive, bagage car, on day coach and three tourist sleepers were derailed and tumbled down a high embankment, making a conglomerate mass of wood and iron debris. Though several hundred Confeder ate veterans were aboard the train, not one was numbered among the dead. Several of the veterans were injured, though none fatally. , The dead are: . Mrs. J. L. Cameron, Henderson!) Texas; Mrs. Charles Holmes, Big Springs, Texas; J. S. Downing, At lanta, Ga., president of the Downing Locomotive Draft Appliance compa ny; W. A. Wood, Meridian, Miss., en gineer; two children, aged 3 and 5, unidentified; one man, aged about 35; weight 150, unidentified; one man, aged 30, smooth face, brown hair, uni dentified; C. C. Jones, a negro fire man. The derailment waa on a straight line and the train waa running about thirty miles an hour. The dead were brought to HattieBburg. The scene Immediately after the crash was made particularly dlstres Ing by the cries of the Injured. Those among the aged veterans who were uninjured immediately went to work willingly asisting in extricating lest fortunate comrades, carying them tc improvised hospitals in the few coach es not overturned. , CLARK CARRIES MARYLAND Roosevelt and House Speaker Gel Maryland'a Delegation. Baltimore, Md. Maryland's sixteen votes in the national conventiona will be cast for Theodore Roosevelt and Speaker Champ Clark. - . The results werec lose and Colonel Roosevelt, on the faoe of the returns, had but one more than the numbei of votes necessary to control the state convention. The primaries divided the delegate! to the state convention aa follows: Republicans Roosevelt S, Taft 63. Democrats Clark 72, Wilson 44,. Harmon 4, In doubt 9. Majority necesary to control the convention, 65. Although the preference vote of the state aa a whole did not determine the result. It favored Roosevelt and Clark by pluralities more conclusive than the division of state delegatei based on the county preference vota 600 Rebels 8lain In Mexico. Mexico - City. Six hundred rebels were killed and the remainder of .a force of 1,500 were sent scurrying to Cuatro Cienegas during a .fight with 400 Federals under Colonel Pato Gonzales, according to reports receiv ed from the field of action. The Fed eral loss is not given. The numbei of dead, considering the force of the government, is considered remarka ble. , The battle took place between Cuatro Cienegas sjnd Monclova. It waa the second I engagement within four days. ; Titanic Victims Killed by Exposure. Halifax, N. S. Only one of the seventeen persons whose bodies were recovered by the cableshlp Mlnla in the vicinity of the Titanic tragedy died from drowning, in the' opinion of the cable ahip'a physician. The other sixteen perished from . expoa nn death ensulna aome four honrt after the vessel sank!. Thla waa dem onstrated by examination of the bod ies, water being found in the lunga of but one person. Thla statement was made by Rev. W. H. Cunning ham, who accompanied the Mlnla. MUST ATTEND THE SUMMER SCHOOL THI8 ORDER TO THE TEACHER8 BY THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TWO WEEKS TERM AT A. & M. 8everal Schoola In the State Will Con , duct Summer Terms Teachers Who Attend Entire 8ession Will be Allowed an Increaae In Salary. Raleigh. By order of the county Board of Education of Wake county and with the consent of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and of the authorities of the A. and M. College, the two week's May School of that Institution haa been adopted as the regular Biennial Coun ty Teachers Institute for Wake county: Provided, that any person or persons who wish to teach In the pub llo schools of Wake upon aome regu lar county teachers' institute or sum mer school approved by the Wake County Board of Education, for atten dance upon the A. and M. May School The A. and M. School begtna May 14th. The State Normal and Industria' College, of Greensboro, will conduct a two week'a Institute. This work will be In charge of expert teachere and superintendents. The Board of Education heartily recommends thlF institute to such Wake county teach ers aa cannot attend some summer schools of longer duration. Several schools in the state will conduct summer terms. The Unlver slty of North Carolina, the State Nor mal and Industrial College, and the East Carolina Teachers' Training School have submitted their courser of study for approval by the Board of Education. Teachers wishing tc attend other summer sessions are re quested to submit announcements of courses of study for approval. Primary teachers who attend the entire aession of the above-named summer schools and of such others as may hereafter be approved will be allowed an Increase of thirty-five dollars, or seven dollars per month for a term of five months In their next year's salaries, and grammar grade teachers and principals will bf given an Increase of fifteen dollars or three dollars per month. Man Been Missing Several Daya. . James McCulloch, white, is missing from Wilmington. When last seen he was dozing on the stern of r launch bound for Southport. He was alone at his place on the launch, and his absence was discovered about 10 miles south of this city. Whether he went to sleep, fell overboard and he was drowned, Is a question. It, how ever, la probably the truth. There Is a possibility that he swam ashore but this is not probable. It is th( general opinion that he was drownedJ Special Tax Electlona to Be Held. The county board of education hag approved the calling of special fax elections in two townships of this county. In district No. 3, Barrlnger township, a special tax of fifteen cents on the hundred and forty-five on the poll will be held June 22. A similar election will be held in district No. 2. Coddle Creek township, June 8. The board decided to help In th( building of a new school house in what is known aa the county line district. v Reconvene County Convention. Col. J. C. L. Harris has sent out the call for the reconvening of the Republican county convention of Wake May 18th at 1 o'clock in the after noon. The action Is taken upon find ing that there Is a law that seems to make obligatory the holding of the Republican primary. This would set the date for June 1 and the Re publicans want to be regular. Before that time the state and congressional conventions will have met and set tled the right of the Harris conven tlon to convene. Hookworm Dispensary In Wilson. Drs. R. W. Covington and G. F. Leonard. In charge of the work, at tended by a committee of Wilson physicians, appeared before the board of county commissioners at their regular monthly meeting and ufged the adoption of hookworm dispensar ies in Wilson county under the aus pices of the Rockefeller Commission, who have charge of the fund donated by Mr. John Rockefeller . for this purpose. Dr. Covington stated that It la one of the most beneficial move ments that has yet been made. State School for the Faeble-Mlnded.. With the Impressive ceremonies bf the Masonlo order, the cornerstone of the first building of the North Caro lina Shhool for : the Feeble-Minded waa laid at Ktnston. The ceremonies were conducted by Grand Master W. B. McCoy, of Wilmington, and other officers of the Grand Lodge of Ma sons and local lodges. A mixed Quar tet rendered several selections and in strumental muaio waa furnished by the Second Infantry band. Concluding the Masonic ceremonies, Grand M ast ir McCoy divered an address. FOR CRAVEN COUNTY FAIR Mr. Williams of New Bern la Boosting the Project He Haa Made Many Visits In County. 1 Raleigh Mr. J. Leon Williams, re) resenting the Eastern Carolina Fal Association as secretary, waa here from a long junket in which be had visited the fair grounds of seevral states. t Mr. Williams had been to Brock ton, Massachusetts, the Trenton Tri Stata fair grounds of New Jersey, the Allentown fair of Pennsylvania, the, Mecklenburg fair and ended his trip in Raleigh with Col. Jos. E. Pogue: He brought back blue printa and pic tures of those associatlona visited and will have something upon which to work. The New Bern fair will be held In October. This is the plan now and there doesn't appear to be anything in the way of making it one of the greatest things of lta kind ever at tempted by any county association. It has plenty of money as a starter and the Craven county folks expect to make It every bit anj grain as good as the Mecklenburg or Greensboro demonstration. From the pick of all. the grouds visited, the Craven people will get their plans. Mr. Williams will de vote a good part of his time between now and October towards getting everything In readiness and work will soon start on the development of the grounds. Though Mr. Williams found Meck lenburg in a rather bad way, the ex perience of the county in the fair bualuess was worth s great deal. It always did things worth while and had a great exhibition. New Bern has an advantage hardly vouchsafed - to Charlotte. That city had a dosen rivals near the Queen City, while New Bern has a great territory without actual opposition in the fair line. Mr. Williams is remembered well by Trinity boys aa the 1907 red-hea ed leader of the Trinity Glee Club Interest In Southeaatern States. Never before has there been ucb widespread interest In the South eaatern States as Is now being mani fested throughout the North and Went. The resources and opportun ities of the entire section are better known than ever before and the' agents 'of the Land and Industrial Department of the Southern Railway Company are meeting with encour aging success in the solictation ol farm settlers and tho establishment of new Industries. The growing interest of the peo ple of other sections in the advan tages of the Southeastern States is summed up in the following para graph from a recent report of the Western Agent of the Southern Rail way Land and Industrial Depart ment: ''The work of this office reveala the continued and growing Interest on the part of resldenta of the North and West In the Southeast and lta opportunities in agriculture and the various lines of business, and our territory was never before so well and favorably known In the sections' In which we are soliciting new busi ness, or had aa active Inquiry con cerning its resource, advantages and possibilities. We are anticipating an active spring and summer business." North Carolina New Enterprlaea. Charters were Issued for two new corporations aa follows: The Pied mont Hardwood Company, Statesville, capital $100,000 authorized and $10, 000 subscribed by B. R. Thurman, A. J. Saley and others. The Como Auto mobile Supply Company, Charlotte, capital $50,000 authorized and $10,000 subscribed by Morehead Jones, C. C. Coddlngton, Mrs. Maggie M. Jones, and Mrs. Marjorle L. Coddlngton. First Real Steps For County Fair, ' The first real steps toward the es tablishment of a county fair In Meek Ineburg this fall is being taken In the advertising for bids for the con struction of a race track on the prop erty of the Charlotte. Fair Association west of Charlotte, near Lakewood Park. The advertisement for bids recites that fact that the contract will include the removal of aome 25,000 cubic yards of earth and that plans and specifications can now be seeir at the office of Mr. C. A. Spratt. Special 8chol Tax Election. At its regular session the Wain - oounty board of education recom mended to the board of commission, ers a special school tax election for the .village of Wake Forest It will be recalled that an election was call ed for this district on the first Mon day In April. : On account of certain technicalities the election waa' called off and a new one ordered. The peo ple of the classic town of Wake For est are to. be congratulated upon their determination to have firat-claat achool facilities for their children. Judgea For 8peclal Election. ; The county commissioners have appointed G. G. McCain, registrar and L. W. McDonald Judgea t hold an election tor apeclal school tax In district No. for the negroes on the line between Buford and Jackson townships. Aa it waa agreed that the whites should not be taxed for the colored race, the negroes have not been taxed, and this is the only negro district that haa applied for ' the special tax. It la believed there will be many more and it is commen dable, ahowfcac-the progressive spirit