mggEirrtzLE m the
aSABT EA8TKBH
\OSTR OAROUNA. IT BAS
'A POPULATION OF POUR
WBOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED
%9D ONE. AND tS SUR
ROUNDED BT THE BEST
ifABMINO OOUNTRT.
INDUSTRIES OF ALL
KINDS ARE INVITED TO
LOCATE HERE FOR WE
HA VS EVERTTHINO TO
OFFER IN THE WAT OF
tOBOB, OAPITAL AND
raiBUTABT FAOIUTIES.
W9 BA^E AN VP-T04>ATE
fOB AN 9 NEWSPAPER
KABT.
i
m
WE HATE A OrB€BEA‘
TION OF TWELVE HUN
DRED AMONG THE BEST
PEOPLE IN TEE EASTERN
PART OF NORTH CARO
LINA AND INVITE THOSE
WHO WISH TO GET BET
TER ACQUAINTED WITH
THESE GOOD PEOPLE IN
4 BUSINESS WAT TO TAKE
4. FEW INCHES SPACE AND
TELL THEM WHAT TOU
^AVE TO BRING TO THEIR
ATTENTION.
OUB ADV EBTISIN G
^ATES ARE LOW AND CAN
BE HAD UPON APPLICA
TION.
QBBBNTILLE, N. C. F&EDAT AFTERNOOX, FEBRl'ARY IS, 1915.
M'MBER HT
llOOESMT
Mef Mitters of tnler&st lakeo
ip by Ike legislature
Yesterday
IliRimCE QUESIIOK IS UP
Ijiw Hakorh Are Making Satiaiacton
l*n>grAH8 With The State’s BdsI*
esi*—llave Made Very Good
Record So Far.
Haleigli, Ft>b 17—The Weaver ChilJ
lAbor bill, whU:b had been sot tor
H|M>icial ordor ai noon y.>»terday, canif
■p on the calendar in due courso
4l«nator Weaver, the maker of the
bill and onf^ of the members ot thu
committee submitting a minority re
port, withdrew this report. Th>ere
was no argument, and no explanation.
'l\j all intents and purposes, the hill
is dead. This ia not saying, however
that another bill of like import but
mt different form may not be intro-
dHced later.
Senator Ward introduced a resolu
tion yesterday morning to memorial
ize the North Carolina Representa
tives in Congress to umo their efforts
for the passape of the ship purchase
bill now Congress.
Senator \V«r.j earue;Uly dibclaimed
any such puryoae In hia resolutloii.
•tfering it In good faita without pur
pose beyor.1 that of the public good.
The root light in the Senate yester
day was on the Cooper bill to provu'e
for the taking ot collections up to tlie
limit of len per cent in fce.^ upon
jxidgiaeut.s on contnicts proniisinK tlif
sauie. It turned out in the round
np that 9o:j!’ or Cooper wa.^j about th'’
y i.,f one favoring *he meauuro. Sen
a' - r.'i Il.'ynioro, Mi'.itichral, Hpelglit
Muse, V "I'll, At .vat:-r, uallou all >i
them foii.iil grievous wrongs opcnlnii
up thrdUgU Ki’.c'u .1 measure. It wum
jjron^ unciiti unconatUutional, imju:'*'
wnfhir. the acnu' of pornirious legisJa
tion, the ir. irei t r.m't; o' ohi-giri;
us’u'y, a ' i'l to opt n l.i. uoo; for -p-
pression, and a ,iood bill only to.* tv. .■
by four lawjorii and inoney jhiirl:s.
Senator Coopor v ..-3 not lookir^i for
this. He ofTered 'r. >vithdrn'.v hi.s bill
or to table it if ou.ii v're the imprr?-
nion of the Senate rcrnrdfiig it. A'
any rate this; is tbo course it lin.-il-
look, swamped in unfavorable crlti-
fisni not iliri'oted at Senator Cooper
but lit his bill.
House I’roewdhurs.
Debate on the K-^nvell bill »o ea-
large the power.s o:' the Insurant.^'
Colan1iH^i>'iier and regulate fire insiir
ance raft ! in North Ciirolina foatur.-d
the Hoii>;t; pr.ic’eeili’itc■ ytst''rday an 1
wlien the 'lour of ;Ml]uiirnr;'’;it a.'-
rived the vote on f measure h;id
not been reached rnd further eon
pideratlon will be t,i‘en ii« It today
SpelliDg Bee last Nigfil Was
Yenr interesting Occasion
to large Crowd
The spelling bee which was given
last night at the Court House waa
greatly enjoyed by a large number
of people who were present In spite
ot the bad weather. After the crowd
had assembled the sides were choao i
under the leadership of Mr. Roy
Flanagan and Prof. Hoy Taylor.
Prof. reele gave out the words from
the old “blue back" spelling book
Some of the best spellers In towa
were pitted against each other and
some good spelling was done. The
moBt interesting and funniest part of
the contest was the way some crack
spoilers were tripped on simple words
The first words given out were com
paratively easy but the ranks began
to thin out at once, one of the best
“pellers in the house solnt down on
“discreet’’. Other words which prov
ed the undoing of the spellers were
schism, guinea, bdellium, daguerreo
type, ingenious, and others. The con
test finally narrowed down to Mrs.
Ij. C. Arthur on Mr. Flanagan’s side
and Supt. Underwood and Ur. Fit.i-
gerald on Prof. Taylor’s Bide. The
final contest was between the last
two gentlemen and resulted in a vic
tory for the County Superintendent.
Bvory one present reported a very
pleasant time and quite a nice sum
of money was raised for the Mission
ary Circle which waa giving tbo ilee
the total receipts being $28. As a
general good time producer and fun
maker a spelling bee is hard to beat.
British Make Successful
Air Raid on Germans in
Belgium and Drop Bombs
Bleokade Stiii (eoter of Httentioii
in Western Zone of '
Fighting
HEAV1I wim in m\
Valentine Party.
The Fourth Grade at the Model
School waa given a valentine party
by the Third Grade on Friday after
noon February 12, 1915 The room
was attractively decorated with art ti
tle Valentine’s which were niiul.' by
Ue children. After a number of m-1
teresting games were played on tlioj
school grounds the children again
went to the Third Grade where they
were given candy hearts. The rhil-
dri'H amused themselvi's by writim?
Valentine letters to each other.
('((don and rotton Seed I'riees
The prices on cotton, cotton seed
and cotton seed meal at various
places in the State as -reported hr:
the past week range from 7 to 8 1-2
cents a pound for cotton. 30 to 4*^0
a bushel for cotton seed and to
?>;!2 a t'Mi for co*^'m sctHl meal. The
Kerllu ClalmK Big Gains* in ProN.shi
But AIUch Claim Retirement is
in Aecordanco With The Re-
gslar Move
London, Feb. IC.—Forty British and
French aeroplanes and seaplanes to
day attacked the Gorman positions at
Ostend, Middlekerke, Ghistelles, and
Zeebruggo in Belgium and, accordins
to the official report, with good rr,-
suits. Bombs were dropped on gun
positions, trawlers, and bargea aa'.l
an aerodrome.
The official statement. <.onceruias
the raid, says;
"The air operations of the naval
wing against the Bruges, Ostend and
Zeebrugge district were continuc.l
this afternoon. Forty aeroplanes and
seaplanes bombarded Ostend, Middle
kerke, Ghistelles, and Zeebruge.
"Bombs were dropped on the heav>
batteries on the east and west sid»
of Oetend, on gun positions at Middle
kerke, on transport wagons on th'j
Ostend-Ghistelles road, on the Moie
at Zeebrugge, t<> . len the breach
damaged in fonito- :'”acks, on tlin
locks at Zeebruggt'. ,>argeB outside
Blankenberghe, and on trawlers out
side Zee-brugge.
"Instructions are always issued to
confine attacks to points of military
importance, and every effort is maiie
by the flying officers to avoid droppin,;
bombs on any residential portions of
towns.’’
Blofkudc Overshnd<t>» All.
Ixmdon, Feb. 16.—In the absence of
any striking news from the two Kuro
pean battle fronts, public attention in
lOngland today waa centered on th ‘
threatened blockade of the British Is
lands by German submarines and
mines in retaliation for great Britain's
act in prohibiting the carrying of food
to Germany.
Other Xeiilrals Join Protest.
Holland and Italy, like the I'nit -<i
States have protested to Gerrjany
against her sea war zone threat and
have asked Great Britain not to mu'..-'
fref> use of neutral flags. Simila:
to ll*'
back in North Poland for the Ger
mans today announced the occupation
of Plock and Bielsk which the Rus
sians recaptured from them a short
time ago.
Stiil Culled Retirement.
•>
While tht Germans seem to hav.j
inflicted heavy losses on the retirii.p:
Russian armies military men boi >
and the newspaper correspondents in
Petrograd continue to refer to tiK!
Muscovite movement as a strategi’o!
retirement to the fortified lino alon^
the N'lemen river which runs throu:;h
Kovno, Grodno and Loniza amj
thence southwest to the Fortress of
N'ovoo Qeorgiewsk.
Heavy fighting continues in the Cat-
pathiana and Bukowina. In Bukowina
the Huseions also are falling back
but they continue to hold the Car
pathian passe farther west and ara
offering stubborn resistance to ri.e
Auatro-German offensive in that
ri'gion. Here the armies are fightins;
in deep snow and both sides are suf
fering severely.
Some Aftivit} in >Vesf
Although there have bt>en no eveni.3
of outstanding importance on th u
front a long official report of the
Hrltish operations from N'ovember to
the beginning of February, issued to
day, shows that there is more or lea's
acti%dty there. The report says there
has been a lot of trench fighting in
with the Indians and British terri
torials have distinguished them-selves
General French, in the report pays
high tribute to the Indians, He says
the territorials have far more than
justified the most sanguine hopet? en
tortained of their value in the ti> icl
Tl:e report adds that relnforcomenf'’
ar'> arriving regularly.
SIGHTED A WHALE
fioveriinient Parfj Took Observations
Bnt Didn't Molest.
Wilmington, Feb. 16—The mem
bers of a surveying party from the
office of Maj. H. W. Stickle, United
States District Engineer, sighted a
whale on the ocean bar at the mouth
of the Cape Hear Friday but as
they didn't get within a mile of th’’
fish they were unabl<> yesterday to
give .1 very clear description of it.
It was reported, however, that it
wa.H T.'i feet long and ever so bij:
around.
Son!" ol' the nth<'r rnf’mbers nf tfie
enginf*fring office force were disposed
to treat the story >vith .some scorn
yesterday, declarint? that it was ,i
"fish story." The doughty survey
ors, however stuck to their guns
and maintained stoutly that it was a
whale and also calliHl attention to
the fact that it wasn't the first whiue
thnf has been seen in that vicinity.
TAKf>G THE ‘OFFICIAL BATH.
A Loudon •‘'I'ommy” Tells How the
Operation is Conducted.
London, (Correspondence of I'Ijo
Associated Press.)—A description ui
the soldiers monthly "official hath" is
sent from the front by a member of a
London Scottish Regiment:
"Vestorday we had a novel exper
ience," he says. "As none of us h.-i'i
seen soap or warm water for ov»r
live weeka, we were ordered to t iV.e
to a town in the rear of our lines
and escorted to a large building, w Ivre
facilitioH had been arang«'d for th.
purpose In the first room wo were
E
BILL PASSES
LOWER HOUSE
leans Try To Delay Passage
lit are
Oefealeil
IlilBUI[S 10IHE Pil[!ilD[HI
Result a DecldtMl Victor) to The Ail-
mlui'tration Which Has I rged
The Pasage of This .Mea'un‘
A( TLIh Coni'rex?*
Waiihington, U. C,.. Feb. 17- Tat
government ship purchase bill, as an
am mdment to the Weok’.s naval aus ■
lliary bill, was passed by the Uou.-5
ot Kepresentatives at 1:20 o‘cloc.i\
this morning, by n vote of 21.5 to 12'
The passage of the bill lollowed a
fourteen hoar parliamentary slruggl«'
which,, tuuil long after midniglit
throdteni'<l Lo extend interminably be
cause of a determined filibuster di
rected by minority leader, ilann, who
>-ielded only after administration
leaders decided to apply a secoiui
spt'ciul rul<! to bring the ti«ht lo iin
end.
To Vote on Kill
Waiihingion. IV I',, Feb !t>—Dein
ocratic leaders in both houses of Con-
icriiss aijrocd tonight that the gover.'i
IMTKI) STATKS EMBASSY
.HAV l-KAVK MEXHO
numbertiii into scr ds of t<‘n men
or bo. In a s<>cond room \>e »‘mplieil j ment ship purcha.He bill either would
our pockets and laid aside our iKujis-.j o iM’fore Pri-sident Wilson for hi«
bonnets, puttees, and sporrans. I’v a siguatun- within a few days or dead
third room we threw the re_t ol o^ii- .so far as this ■ ..sion is concerntHl.
cloths into s heap, and then mau'' t| I'hi- House rt-uiaini'd in session lat’-
.loublt'-quick to the showers. Thirre j tonight to pass the Wei>k-Gore bill
wore two men lO each nUowev, and wi-!as the ami’udt^i uicasnre i.s known ant
were allowed ten minutes under tlie j tomorrow th*' administration forces
•'ot ,att>r witli a pc(‘i\erous sup'1 / oi iwill bepin a final utTort to get v.
laundry soap. in t!\e St\nat>‘ 0!i the Hou^.■
"At the end of our ’.en niinuic wv. ! niu iitinu nis ,iv(>r th-; ^position ol
tiitrried on to a drjin'- " i,
each man gof a huge lOWi I
.‘,n 1 rjt:gli as a ^-a'jct Tht ii . •
t'li off to a dre&i<ir.g r loui. v. Ii
ushered info a room where a siiu:' 1 ef j ,ii.. ;.,,v
[)r:i-e r i'l for cotton in th’s
s. f iitm of fh.' Si \»e for cotton was ^'representations are expected
;-l lents at Fayi-tiovillo. Th" avi- to the two countrie.^ tomorri
a,:;.' prire is abm'i (onts. Ci.rn is ^ j,, j„i„t note by Norway, S'vol^
seHn,'; for SO to $1.IM> a 'and Denmark.
',Vh>'3l accordins to market qui'tation^
is selling for $1.36 to $l.fi2.
Cliillln Creditors Get Dhidend
On the battle fields of Kurope nuli
tary movements of the first iin,)>r
tance are faking place, especially^ ‘ti
the Kast. The German offenr.ivi'
\<-w Vork, Feb fT—The noteholder-! stronglv support<*d but French troop
I I
and other creditors or the H. H. Cl.i-^is Iming pushed with great vigor bolhlwcr
ilin Company, the big combination of j,, Voland north of the Ix>wer Vistul i
Wa.shington, Feb. If! - rni'.i-
States, President Wiis'ni said loUaA
has received no conlirr.-:uion of >'«■ j mtendant ga-.'e us auythi 13 v,-..
ports that Spain h.ul addressed
powers on rc.sioring ord« r 'ii V \iito
The I’resi told ia!i..r.- Uice was
no material change in the Mei;ican
-Vnicri^'an alto hes of the l.ni'.cd
'-;taU3 embasv.y in .Mexico City, I:U..'ly
attached to the Hrailian legatio.i
V i'l K-ivo iU';;iro v ily if a'l other dip-
■ ii'ativ' rupresenta:. t'opurt.
The State Deprirti unit has informed
■v Pr:i:-;Iian n''ini.n:^r that it pre-
h ' will ll ■ guuled bj instru^ -
ti.in * ii'i.iti his <p'vn povernnn'nt with
respcct lo loaviiii:, i,ut asks him to
ad'ise the .Ann'r'can attaches tlun
they ni.iv leave if oth .rs do.
I'o'ilirmatory 'lii^pairiie;, of the t'a|'-
tiire of Guaihr..i,;ara by Villa I'orces
and .1 .steady advance on Mexico CMv
leceived today.
I
stores that failed last sumnu r, today The Hussians have evacuated Kast
received a divldent of 15 P'T cetr. Prussia except for a small area ne:»r
under the terms of the reorganization Lyc-k. and also are apparently fallin..^
Whai most niarricl men would re
i III- to see is a war tax on oh
ba‘-helors.
..anti'd
■r-vi ;.r
■I 'liiuiiiig neiiin-
loniidonliy
t of victory and
I’l V.'il.srn. after a conferem e
wiih Si'iuMor IvMM, toll! ealers fh''
\vi V. l;,'puhlicans a:'.'l
lUi i. era'
M.! ii'i y ;iii- '!■;
i.ajtoda' (if the pro.-l)'
in the way of brai J-i 'w >i
shirts, and socks, wude <vi hooUs or. bill won'.I ix' pasM'd.
one side were our ','lLlaes, wli’. li h.id j oi; VuiU oi: tin* I'apitol, bi-
been thoron.'^hiy fuinij.’" led. jli. f wa.-- . r t . li. t it 'i.e Senate fei;
".\ftcr we had got back ou. '101.' cs j throuf.h ■ siiio b;)! vosild be a'.'Oii-
iKKits and other property, we were , ,i;k ! aiiU ail eiiorts centered upon
barbers aw.iited us. When tluy we. ■
through ve marc’ied, ?pic ard spi.i
again, into a tea room for tea and ci;-
a>'ette:,. Could anything be b,'ttcr ar
ranged."—N'ew York Herald.
If'.ti
ll..' of ; ppr. i)r,a'-ien hills t>i
iieiess.'.r/ an cxf.ra hcs.'‘on
; a:;' b.ll ii-f ii w’;l f..o tj tho
Senate from th Ue'ir-e Inchules t'
ship piueha.se lUt a-'Ure as n?"ee ’. up :i
in Si-nate caucus ac.d a provirlon th.it
two years after the < lose of ih.» Kuro-
poan w; r ?hipn acqnired hj the I’nite.l
States shi'.ll be tu 'ned over to t!i '
StH-retjiry of tho Navy to be oiier’ti il
or I 'ii^'O" for comirercial purposes ui’-
iler !b" terms of the V’eka bill
Big Dcraand for Horses
Dillion, Montana. Feb. 17—The an
nual I>illon Horse Sale, which begj’!
today drew an unnsnal number ot
buyers from the East. Hieh pr:ces
were paid bomt, of them r' cotu-bre''';-i. p,,s8ed by the Senate.
ers for this section. Tho be:.^;• do i
mand for h.irses by Kiropenn ro\ 0 ’ j I y the tit.’.” file av‘,;rage man rt'af
m“'it has exliausteu tho oa.'iern ni r-je:, th.' age of fi‘‘!y he Iinows a lot
l;rt, and the .^Ton^ ina r"nc'; ov. nen- of tlu:-'s he would like to get rij
enil’.ed to see the bidding rise to rood-: of ai 1*:'' jk r cent, V.'Ss than coit —4
ly prices today.
jf hicagu News.,