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NEW BERN, N.C., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1913
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THE DRUGGISTS
ARE IN SESSION
Annual Convention North Carolina
Pharmaceutical Association
Begun Yesterday.
Many delegates detained
Day Brought To A Close By A
Most Brilliant
Reception.
The thirty-fourth annual convention
of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical
Association convened in this city yes
terday morning. Owing to the fact
that a number of the druggists were
detained at home on account of bus
iness only about seventy-five members
were in attendance at yesterday's
sessions but a number of others, among
whom will be President, J. G. M.
Cqrdon of Clayton, will arrive this
morning.
The business sessions were held in
the High School building and the first
meeting, in the absence of President
Cordon, was called to order by Vice
President C. P. Harper of Selma.
Following a very impressive invocation
by Rev. B. F. Huske, rector of Christ
Episcopal church, an excellent address
of welcome, was deleiered in behalf
f thecity of New Bern by E. H. Mead
ows. Mr. Meadows was among the first
organizers of the North Carolina Phar
maceutical Association and his remarks
were both interesting and instructive
After bidding the visiting druggists
to enjoy their visit to the "Athens
of North Carolina" Mr. Meadows
spoke for a few minutes on matters
which were of vital importance. He
urged them to take no backward step
but to progress with the times. He
suggested that all applicants to prac
tice pharmacy become proficient in
microspocial examinations.
Mr. Meadows also suggested to the
Association that they encourage the
education of females to practice phar
macy. "There is none so well adapted
to pharmacy as ladies," said Mr
Meadows, "Their care, reliability,
neatness and intelligence recommend
them.
"They have but one disqualifying
quality, from a bachelors view-point,
their inability to keep a secret, the fals
ity of which is known by all men save
and except our bachelor brothers
Why are they so wise? They have
made good in the fields of human en
deavor as bankers, educators, man
ufacturers, railroading, and commercial
enterprises I venture to say not one
in these presence, but have the impress
of their minds in their early education
"They are noted for their honesty
and disinclination to gamble in stocks,
which commends them as bankers
I know of an instance where a lady
was made president of a small bank
whose capital .stock was. only $5,000,
00 who by her financial ability built
up the institution whose recent ex
hibit to Dunn and Bradstreet's Agency
showed capital stock, surplus and un
divided profits of $450,000.00, and de
posits of 1750,000.00, the like of which
. Is phenominal another instance of
a lady who was engaged in railroading
m secretary and treasurer of a road
la this : State,' the duties of general
manager having often devolved upon
her,' so managed its affairs, through a
short line branch road, 'sold out its
holdings at approximately J wo millions
of dollars. , ' -' -"
1 "Among the educators of our State
. has any a more brilliant reco.-d than
Miss Robinson of Greensboro Female
' College, Mrs. Shlpp of Fassifern and
Miss May Hendren and ' Miss Mabel
; Chadwick of the New Bern Graded
. School? ;
" '"So open wide your doors to the
ladies and bid them to your member
;l 'In, concluding )m address,,' Mr.
Cf ?- Meadows 'sntdW v.-i ' f;
:'v "Again 1 tender you In behalf of the
r ' ;' local Pharmacists a whole-hearted wel-
, come, a welcome to the smiles of New
' Bern's fair daughters, a welcome ,0
'our ' parks, a welcome" to our beauti
ful rivers, but f prey you to take none
. of them from) us, If such appeal to you
abide with us and they are all yours,
'and If you ars not so impressed, com
. again, and remember that ths latch
trlng hangs on tht outside." ' '
Dr. C P. Harper of Sctma, Vke-
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TYPHOID PROVED FATAL
Ira Dixon Succumbed To The Dis
ease Last Noght.
Ira Dixon, a prosperous farmer of
Olympia, Pamlico county, succumbed
to an attack of typhoid at Stewart's
sanitarium last night at 10:25 o'clock.
Mr. Dixon was stricken with the
fever about three and a half weeks ago.
He was brougi.t to this city from his
home at Olympia and was placed in
Stewart's sanitarium" for treatment.
Despite the fact that his case was a
severe one the attending physicians
did not think that it would prove fatal.
Yesterday afternoon he seemed to
be much improved but just before
nightfall he was seized with a hard
chill and his condition rapidly grew
worse until death occurred.
The deceased was thirty-two years
of age. He is survived by his wife,
formerly Miss Mary Holton of Olympia;
one brother, Carl Dixon of Olympia,
and three sisters, Mrs. V. K. Baxter
of this city, Mrs. R. H. Baxter of Dur
ham and Mrs. J. H. Stephenson of
Bellair. The remains will be taken to
Olympia this morning and at 1 o'clock
this afternoon will be interred in the
family burying ground near that place.
RECEPTION III
BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT AT
HOME OF MR. AND MRS.
C. D. BRADHAM.
The beautiful reception given last
evening from eight-thirty to eleven
o'clock by Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Brad-
ham at their handsome colonial home
on Union and East Front street, in
honor of the delegates to the Phar
maceutical Convention, is to be num
or! as one of the most elaborate
and brilliant social functions ever
given in New Bern.
A wealth of flowers, artistically
arranged made the house very at
tractive.
The doors were opened by the daugh
ter of the house, little Miss Mary
Bradham and -Miss Lydiaj Speight.
daintily attired in lingerie frocks. In
the spacious hall the guests were we!
corned by Mrs. George Stratton, Misses
Laura Ives and Mannie Baxter
Receiving with Mr. and Mrs. Bradham
in the parlor were the wives of the local
druggists, Mrs. Ernest Wood, Mrs
Walter Lane, Mrs. abez Hollowell
Mrs. Wm. Pinnix, Mrs. Lcinster Duffy
and Mrs. Daniel Henry.
tttcctivc decorations in the parlor
were formed entirely of sweet peas,
while a great mass of lovely roses ar
tistically decked the library. Mrs.
Kosomund Hancock invited tlu guct3
into the library where they were re
ceived by Mrs. S. L. Dill, jr., and
Mrs. Benjamin Moore. The dining
room, , was artistically decorated in
nastutriums. The massive mahogany
table with its exquisite appointments
had a handsome chuny lace cloth
caught with bunches of nasturtiums
and softly lighted with hanging tapers
in silver candelabras.
The handsome punch bowl filled
with refreshing fruit punch formed
the centerpiece of this attractive table
which was gracefully presided over
by Miss Mildred Ball and Mrs. John
Cox, assisted by Misses Sara Rich
ardson and Mary Ward. Mrs. Samuel
Small wood receied in the dining room
and was assisted by Misses Bessie
Summerell, ' Gladys Carter, . Edna
Speight, and Maud Hurley.
Delicious cream and cake wis seived
by Misses' Ivy Willis, Lottie Mae
Bennett, of Elizabeth City, Matilda
Hancock, Alice Ward, Celia Moulton
Pauline Barrington and Sara Hollister,
Worths' Orchestra furnished exquh
Ite music during the evening.
All sections -of, the State, were rep
resented and .Mr. and Mrs. Bradham
were kept busy in giving greetings to
men and women from the seashore to
tht mountains. ' '.' ' : ;
Puring1- the receiving hours the
spacious rooms were literally thronged
with guests who were lavish In their
praise of the genuine hospitality of the
event..
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B. E. Rice, of Norfolk,- Land and
Industrial Agent of tht Norfolk South
rrn Railway Company, was among
" '. So tnf city yesterday.','
II DRUGGISTS
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HIE NOW FREE
Jury Returns Verdict Of Not
Guilty In Hard Fought
Case.
JUDGE GIVES GOOD ADVICE
Ugres Sam Small And Berkley
Harker To Be Better
Boys.
Yesterday's session of Craven
County Superior Court was taken up
Imost entirely with the case in which
Sam Small and Berkley G. Harker.
while youths of this city, were charged
with the larceny of several boxes of
tobacco from the Norfolk Southern
Railway Company.
I'his case was begun on the
previous day and was hard tought
by both the attorneys for the pros
ecution and also counsel for the de
fense. A large number of witnesses were
placed on the stand and the taking
of evidence consumed considerable
time. The arguments were begun
yesterday afternoon just after court
had taken a recess and these contin
ued until about 4:30 o'clock and it
was at least 5 o'clcok before the jury
were given the case. After being out
for more than an hour they returned
a verdict of not guilty.
Before Small and Harker were re
leased from custody Judge O. H.
Allen had a heart-to-heart talk with
them in which he warned them against
evil companions, late hours and urged
them to keep "the straight and nar
row path" in their walk through life.
Just before the close of the day's
session Charles Spencer, colored, charg
ed with the murder of Alice Hargett,
colored, on the night of December
26, 1912, was brought into court and
tormcrly presented. the solicitor is
only asking for a second decree vcr
diet in this case and Silencer entcrct
plea of not guilty. The deietidaut
is represented by J. Leon Williams
and the case will be taken i:p this
morning.
TURKISH GRAND VIZIER SLAIN.
Constantinople, Jnuc 11. Turkish
Grand Vizier was assassinated at
noon today by two men armed with
revolvers while he was proceeding in
his automobile to the sublime porte.
It is believed in government circles
t.iat the assassination was outcome
f a plot against the young Turks.
The victim who was a pure Arab was
a moving spirit in the revolution
which caused the Sultan's fall.
FISHERMEN CAN'T DO BUSINESS
IN WEATHER LIKE THAT
OF LAST FEW DAYS.
Fish dealers said yesterday that
they had the best demand for fish
that they had had in a long time.
"Of course there are no fish on the mar
ket in such a time as this," said one
of them. "The fishermen cannot
get out to catch them. New Bern
people ought to be sufficiently familiar
with the circumstances under which
fish are caught and marketed to know
know this, but it appears that they
don't or if they do they have for
gotten, for if I have had one call for
fish this afternoon, I have had fifty
and there was actually one inquiry
to know if I had any oysters!"
Only three boxes of fish went through
here from Morehead City for Beau
fort on Tuesday according to the fish
a eater irora whom the above men
tioned facts were obtained. He said
that there was also a fish famine at
Norfolk due to tht continued stormy
weather which completely knocks out
the fishing Industry.
' General . Passenger Agent Croxton
and Traveling: Passenger Agent Adsit
of ths Notrfolk 1 Southern Railway
with headquarter in Norfolk" wera
business visitors in the city yesterday
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IN FISH MARKET
DEAD NEGRO IS
FOUND IN DIVED
Keeper Of Trent River Draw Bridge
Made A Gruesome Find
Yesterday.
THE CORPSE UNIDENTIFIED
Dr. Waletr Watson, Acting Coroner,
Views Remains And
Holds Inquest.
The body of an unknown negro
man was tound floatinc up 1 rent
river between nine and ten o clock
yesterday morning by 11. B. Spruill,
keeper of the railroad dr.:w bridge.
Just a few minutes niter the time
that Mr. Spruill first saw the bodv,
lin McNeill, a colored boatman,
came along in his boat and Mr. Spruill
asked him to aid in tying the body I
to a post. McNeill told the bridge
tender that he did not want to have
any thing to do with the corpse and
the latter then placed a rope
around the body and anchored it by
one of the brigde supports.
Immediately after doing this he
came to this city and called upon
Dr. N. M. Gibbs, formerly county
coroner, with the intention of telling
him of his gruesome find. Dr. Gibbs
told Mr. Spruill that he was no longer
acting in the capacity of coroner and
referred him to W. B. 'Flanner, clerk
of the Superior Court. After having
been informed of the case Mr. Flanner
appointed Dr. Walter Watson as act
ing coroner and after empanelling
a jury consisting of the following gen
tlemen: O. A. Kafer, forman, C. F.
Ellison, H. K. Land, Isaac Cohen,
Capt. J. M. Sattcrfield and C. P.
Bartling, Dr. Watson drove over to
James City, where the body had in
the meantime been carried, and viewed
the remains.
The corpse was in a fair state of
preservation and had probably been
in the water for a week or ten days.
In life the man would have probably
tipped the scales at one hundred and
seventy-five pounds and was probably
five feet nine inches in height. After
viewing the body, Dr. Watson turned
it over to a colored undertaker to be
prepared for intermc.'!.
At 8 o'clock last night the jury met
in ur. watson s otnee and held an in
quest at the completion of which they
rendered the following verdict:
"We, the coroner's jury empanelled
this the 11th day of June, I'M 3, to in
vestigate the finding of the dead body
ol an unknown colored man in 1 rent
river at the draw bridge of the A. iV
N. C. R. R. Co., find that death was
caused by drowning in a way unknown
to the jury."
Who the dead negro is or where he
came lrom is a mystery. Hundreds
of colored people viewed the body
yesterday and not one of them could
identify it. It is supposed that the man
came to New Bern from some other
town on an excursion a week or more
ago and that he in some way fell into
the river and was drowned. This
is only supposition and it is probable
that his identity will never be learned.
GRAPE JUICE FOR BRYAN
Delegation From Richmond, Cal.,
Bringing 36 Bottles.
Chicago, June 11. A delegation of
residents of Richmond, Cal., passed
through here. on the way to Washing
ton bearing a plush-lined chest, with
36 bottles of grape juice, which awaits
the inspection of Secretary of State
Bryan.
The chest bears a silver plate, which
contains the inscription "Diplomatic
Peace Cocktails."
The representatives of the Western
city will attend a conference on June
16 before the Federal Rivers and Har
bors Engineering Board.
Index to New Adrertisements.
Bradham Drug Co. Everything you
need In the drug, medicine or toileC
line.
National Bank of New Bern The
road to wealth.
CltUens' Savings Bank & Trust Co.
Are you protecting your business?
New, Ben! Banking & Trust Co.
Easy and pleasant banking.
; Fuller Music . Co. Lester player
planoe, , " , j
"S. Coplori & Son Exrta special at
Coplon'a Friday. ! -V,, ;
FEVER SWEEPS FAMILY
Two Children Dead, Mother And
Two More In Hospital.
New York, June 11 Mrs. Mamie
Cahill, thirty years, of No. 107 Pros
pect street, Januca, I.. 1 , and two
of her children are in the Willard
Parker Hospital, Manhattan, suffering
from scarlet fever. Two other children
in the family have died of the same
disease within the last two week..
Mrs. Cahill and one of the surviving
children kte ftl 6 dangerous condition.
A month ago Ihe eldest Cahill child,
George, seven, contracted the fever.
His mother nursed hint. Another son,
six years old , was stricken next, With
ina a few days Vincent-five, and Law
rence, two were seized.
The two older children died within
a few days of each other. Last Sat
urday the mother became ill, and tile
Health Department
of the three siilYen
!ei i ll 1 he removal
The annual llag d.n
Llks will be !uld on 1
at X:3l p.m. at ;!. re
m : vice; ol 1 lie
rid.: v, June 13,
te:u;.!e and I he
cordial invita
Moore will de
public L extended a
tion to attend. L. L
liver the address of tl
le occasion.
MEETING 10 BE OF
MERCHANTS OF NEW BERN
ARE URGED TO GATHER
TOMORROW NIGHT.
There will be an important meet
ing oi the .Merchants Association
(the Retail and Wholesale Kxtension
Committee) on Friday night of this
week at 8:30 o'clock and every merchant
who is a member of the Chamber of
Commerce is urjrcd to be present.
At a recent meeting of the Retail
ten-ioii Committee of the ( handier
of Commerce it was sui'-jested t li.it the
Merchants' Association and the Whole
sale and Retail Lmchmoii Committee
of the Chamber of Commerce be merged
and to be known in the future as the
Merchants Association of New Kern.
Under the new arrangement every
merchant who is a member of the Cham
ber of Commerce will not only be a
member of that organization but will
be a member of the Merchants Asso
ciation of New Hern which will be a
branch of the North Carolina Merch
ants Association.
At this meetini; delegate-, will be
selected to attend the (uveiilion ot
the Merchant-, A- nidation of North
Carolina whic h uiil In Id at Wil
mington on June 17-10.
NELSON W. CARTER WAS TO
HAVE DIED FRIDAY FOR
MURDER OF WIFE.
Richmonf, Va., June 11. Nelson W.
Carter of Spottsylvania, sentenced to
die next Friday for the murder of his
wife, whom he stabbed to death, has
been granted a respite for two weeks
by Governor Mann. Carter made no
defense at the time af his trial save
that he was insane. The man has
been in the death colony for some
time. Carter is the man whose daughter
figured in a marriage here a few weeks
ago. She came to this city following
the death of her mother and the sen
tence of her father to death, obtain
ing employment and going to work to
earn her own living.
She was only about eighteen years
old, and when she appeared with her
husband-to-be for the license it was
found that she could not wed because
of her age. Then Judge Moncure of
the Chancery Court got into the mat
ter, agreeing to hear argument and to
name a guardian for her. This was
done, the guardian was named and
his consent to the marriage was ob
tained, the ceremony being performed
by "Parson" Mike Macon.
Mrs. George Daley has returned
from i visit at Seven Springs.
KH INTEREST
RESPITE GRANTED
IE MURDERER
1; BRYAN SPEAKS
10 FARMER BOYS
The Most Important Subject Of Ed
ucation, Secretary Says,
Is The Heart.
IS ORATOR AT DRIVER, VA.
Too Many Men, He Delcares, Have
Sold Their Brain To The
Cause Of Injustice.
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ion iii i he human
K, according to the -ecreta.rv, is
heart, m "'lei t of which In- lielievi.
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is the source of nosr of the troubles
that wreck men and nations.
"This country and mankind at large,"
said Secretary Bryan, "are governed
by educated men, but the pity of it
is that educated men, so many of them.
have sold their brain to the cause of
injustice to mankind. My message to
you is that you improve your bodies
and make them strong, improve your
farms and make them productive, in-
prove your schools and colleges to the
end that your minds may have every
facility for improvement; but, unless,
at the same time, you develop in your
spirit of justice to mankind,
of service to your fellows rather than.
means to material profit through time,
then it is all wasted and life has been
failure.
'I believe that the cure for the dif
ficulties and sins about which individ
uals anil nations degrade themselves by
conllict and blood-!, cd lies in lurmon-
iinj flie heart with the Cie.oor .in, I
to attain tliat end must .r the ide d of
all propel y directed ed::-. il i..n."
1 lie occasion was the closing exer-
cises ol the Seconi ( on-r.s-i, .n., Dis
trict Agricult'ir.il High Si hool hen.
Representative L. L. Holland having
previously arranged for the secretary
to speak. Mr. I'.ryan went to Old Point
this morning to receive Dr. I.auro Mid
ler, minister of foreign affairs of Bra
zil, who arrived i:i Hampton Roads at
5:3(1 o'clock in the evening on the Bra
zilian dreadnought Minas t ier.ies.
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Despite the inclemency of the weather
the Sunday school of All Saints's Epis
copal chapel picniccd yesterday at
Client park. There were about seventy
five members of the school together
with their mothers, brothers and sis
ters participating in the event and
in the estimation of all the event
was one of the most pleasant ever
participated in by them.
PROGRAM AT TUB ATHENS TO
DAV.
NEW VAUDEVILLE
Broe and Maxim
acme of corned v and
The
song.
A comic uproar.
PICTURES
"The Man Who Wouldn't Marry"
An Edison picture showing that
scllishncss was tin casuc ol an old
bachelor leading a sad single life.
"The Sheriff Of Stone Gulch"
A thrilling VVestrrn drama by Kalem.
"Cutey and the Chorus Girt"
A Vitagraph comedy drama, very
amusing. Cutey tries to escape .the
old maids no use trying they hang;
onto him I ;
Tomorrow we will show PatheV
two-reel feature production
im iai ran ormaocr: V, ?
a spectacular story ol circus luV - Osttfc :
" ujimig uu veiling;
moving pictures ever made. . v , y , , uy;
Matlnea daily at, S o'clock. TW "'
shows at night, first starts at 8 o'clock.
second about 9;1S or , Immediate!' x
ftet first la over. ' f , .
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