Newspapers / The Daily Journal (New … / Nov. 17, 1914, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
NEW BERN, N. . C", ' MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1914 FIVE CENTS PER COPY fr:11ar;tell!2iii3sille 'M!m THE Fill LIFE . SCHOOL MAKES ATTRACTIVE OFFER SEVERE WEATHER 6E VOL LXII.-No. 160 IES RIU If ASSAULTS WEAK VWill Sue For Peace .Independent Of, Germany Says ' Report teaching Petrograd. - Nine Persons : Killed In Holland When Mine Explodes. Germans Take Twenty-Three Thousand y Regiment. Annihilated., f i Athens, Nov. 16. Diplomatic dis ' patches - from Petrograd' state . that - information has reached the Russian , -capital to the effect -that Austria is contemplating asking for : terms of peace independently from German. NINE PERSONS KILLED ' IN MINE EXPLOSION. '" West Eappelle, Holland; Nov; 16 Nine persons were killed here this afternoon by the explosion of a mine -Which had been washed ashore." Thfey were killed while endeavoring : to secure the mine. West Kappalle ' is near i Flushing on . the west coast of the- Scheldt river. RUSSIAN ARMY CORPS DEFEATED BY GERMANS. Berlin, Nov. 16. -The war office announces officially that the Germans operating in Russian Poland defeated several Russian army corps thirty miles northwest' of Plock, taking twenty-three thousand prisoners and many pieces of artillery. , JAPANESE GUNNERS ARE TO AID THE FRENCH. c Paris, Nov. 16. Japanese gunners, skilled in : the use of the heavier types of artillery are on their way to France-to aid the Allies. -,.( ... FRENCH AND BRITISH H TROOPS BEGIN CAMPAIGN Paris, Nov. 16.- French and Bri tish troops today opened a vigorous aggressive- campaign in western Bel--gium after having defeated all efforts of the Germans to break through their 'lines at Dunkirk. Important strong holds near" Ypres has been taken by ' the Allies and an entire German regiment of three thousand men were annihilated at Bixshoots. - THE 19. C. CONFERENCE SEVENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL . SESSION WILL BE HELD ' -IN WASHINGTON. T. Bishop Richard Green Waterhouse will call the seventy-eighth session of all North 'Carolina Methodist Con ference to order in the Methodist church at Washington, 'N'. C, Wed nesday morning. November, 18. fol lowing the opening service and annual sermon bv Rev. ' II. A. Humble of 1 Kinston on Tuesday evening .;- The conference now has a membership of more than 85,000 members with more than 700 sunday schools and 75,000 . Sunday school members. .:? ;Rev. Eugene M. Snipes is the pre sent pastor and will be the host of the conference. This is ., Mr. Snipes first year at Washington, having been appointed to that charge by Bishop McCoy -at the last session on of the conference ' at Oxford. He had just completed - a four years pastorate at Roxboro, Rev. J. T. Gibbs, pre siding elder of the' Washington , dis trict, is completing his four years of service and will this year be one of . those looking for a new home. , ' ' Washington entertains the confer ence for the third time, the sixty third having been hold there in 1899 and the ninth session in 1845. . Since the last seession of the conference there in 1999 the body had . grown largely. . The membership was "then 05,304. At the session at Oxford, 1913, a membership of 84,245 was . reported. The membership this year will reach over 85,000. Bishop E. U. Hon.! ix was the presiding officer when eonlVretiee mot in Washington in 1. J, Llr.-Vt. L. Cunninggim being i "iifrenee is now 1 ( ' o first mooting t ' ". ' ! V. ,' -- Prisoners. Entire Teuton T' after it was set off from the Virginia Conference in 1837. Bishop Andrew presided and there were only 20,493 members, icluding the colored mem bers who Were a part of the conference at that time. One hundred and four teen Sunday schools were reported then with ; membership of 4,414. The A North Carolina ; Methodist conference was set off from the Vir ginia conference in February, 1837, In 1850 and again in 1870 North Car olina territory in the South Carolina conference ; was ..transferred to the conference in 1890 North Carolina territory in the -Holston conference andin the Virginia conference, ex cept that beyond the Chowan River, Was transferred to the North Caro lina conference and the conference was then divided jnto the North Carolina' and the Western North Carolina conferences. The remain ing North Carolina territory in the Virginia conference was transferred in 1894 so 'that the two conferences now embrace the wnole of Nortn Carolina. Of IT FATAL AFFAIR AT MULLINS, S. C, LAST SATURDAY NIGHT. Wilmington, Nov. 16 B. D. Strick land, a prominent merchant and far mer of Mullins, S. C, died in the James Walker Menmorial Hospital in this city yesterday afternoon, following three bullet wounds in the abdomen received Saturday night at his home near, Mullins, said to have - been received, following a fight on one of the principal streets of the town earlier in the night with Frank Price, also a farmer and a next door neighbor of Strickland. . -It was stated that Price fired five shots at Strickland three of which took effect and that the "shooting fol lowed-the. fight earlier in the night after "Mr. Strickland had drivan in his buggy to his' home where he was met by Price. It is stated that Price fired while .Mr.; Strickland was still in his buggy, having .been. met there by - the former.--' Further than, this no particular's could be learned yes terday after the death, though several telegrams: of inquiry were .sent to Mullins. Immediately after the shooting Mr. Strickland was taken to the station by his' physician, Dr. Smith, and hurried to the hospital here, the incoming train from Florence having been held 25 minutes at Mullins in order' to get the wounded man on board. ' IIe was accompanied to Wilmington by his brother-in-lawMr.' Luther Martin, of Mullins,. who was with him when he died. Dr. R. B. Slocum met the train upon its arrival'and after the man was taken to . the hospital, an . operation was performed with the hope of sav ing Mr Strickland's life, but this was in vain. ' . : ,. . Mr. Strickland is quite" well known in his section and in one of the strong est planters in that section, running about 18 plows. - He was well known to; many Wilmington people, enjoying their confidence and. esteem. . He is a brother-in-law ; of ; Miss , Martin, a resident trained nurse here, and every thing possible was done for him, al though is was seen practically from the first that his wounds were fatal. The remains were prepared for bur ial and will be taken to Mullins on the 5:25 o'clock train this morning. ELKS ARRANGING FOR MEMO. RIAL EXERCISES. -. . The local lodge of Elks are making preparations for their annual mem orial exereisos which will be held l the 'first Sunday in December. l,o ");--' le program will be an- pope Senedict XV. M r h ;L t f 3 lip77 Ig i I f it 1 1. " Copyflght. 1914. by Americas Press Pope Benedict XV yesterday issued an encyclical in which he asked God to grant a reign of peace over the whole earth and to end the on in Europe. Opening Service of Revival Well Attended INCLEMENT WEATHER DfD NOT HINDER PEOPLE FROM GOING OUT. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather on Sunday, the opening services of the revival meeting at the Tabernacle Baptist church was well attended. The rermon at 11:00 o'clock by Pastor Thiot on the "Wis dom of Soul Winning" was a master pieoe of oratory and the evangelis tic address of the evening was de livered with great force and power. The singing at' each service was a feature of unusual interest because of the presence of Mr. James W. Jelks, the singing evangelist.; Mr. Jelks was on the scene at the opening ser vice and was given -charge of the musio during the meeting. A large choir was on hand to greet him and as they began to sing under his leader ship, it. seem, to lend unusual impe tus to the meeting. A large chorus is being organized which will be com posed ..of the Tabernacle 1 choir and all the singers from other churches who will assist in the lunging during this meeting and a full musical pro gramme : will be" rendered at each servioe. ' 1 The Sunday evening congregation was possibly the largest that has been in attendance, at , the Tabernacle during v the , . present ' Pastorate and doubtless . all who . can will attend the service to-night. . Mr. Calloway is expected to arrive -in New Bern today and will preach at 7:30 O'clock evening and each night during the meeting. A special invitation has been .ex tended the pastors and congregations of, the other churches of the city to attend and takft part in these ser vices, and it is hoped that the meeting will be helpful to each church of the city as well as to the community at Irtvrn. .'"-'';'' ' , j Association. great struggle now going Loafing Must Stop Declare the Police go to work. leave town or go to Jail is the order issued "This loafing business must be broken up" was a remark made by Captain A. L. Bryan, of the local police force, a few days ago. "As long as the people are allowed to loaf around oh the streets" said Cap tain Bryan, "there will be a great deal of law ;breaking." And this is substantiated by the fact, that there has been less violation in New Bern since the officers have been so strict in enforcing the vagrancy law. 'About a month ago -thirty negroes were ar rested in Jerkins alley and in Smith's hall and carried before mayor pro tem , William Ellis and tried on a warrant charging them with being vagrants, and since that time about twenty more have been tried on the same;, charge Chief of Police C. Lupton, remarked that the last month has been th ; dullest of any since he has ' beenjfqn ,'the force, and it is largely attabuted, to the fact that most of the jfcafin element of the colored peoplavji&tfk been either made to go to worli-run out of the city. .i-'teVw-V'-.,'--. Washington, D. C, Nov. 16. Tranquility iii Mexico hangs on the word of ytlla. I , Carranzaj' wired Gutierrez, so the ; Siatfe..,; Department learns, that'he is In readiness to retire. .Thls is taken to mean that he is ready to leave the country. 'ti',' No word Jlias.' been received from Villa and lacking .this, is the opinion here that Villa may try to hold on to the' con- trol of Mexl in affairs. ' ' Arranges a Three Months Course For Young Men and Women Over 16 Years of Age. FARM WORK LIGHT DURING THIS PERIOD. Work Will Begin On Monday November 30 and Con tinue Through February. Vanceboro, Nov. 16. The Farm Life school at Vanceboro offers a course of study of three months for young men and women over the age of sixteen. In other words, it is an opportunity to attend school three months in the year while there is very little work to be done on the farm. This work will begin on Mon day, November 30 and continue until the last of February. The instruction Will be given by the entire faculty of the Farm Life school. Grammar, arithmetic, spelling, ag riculture and domestic economy will be taught. Special attention will be given the boys on fertilizing the home farm, the use of lime to liberate potash in the soil. The price of potash has already advanced over 201) per cent, due to the war, and in ease none is shipped from Germany, it is like ly to advance still more. We have just completed a series of fertilizer tests on corn at the school in which the various fertilizing ele ments were used separately and in combination of two's and three's. The test shows for the year that nitrogen was the most uirnportant element on the soil. This was ex pected on account of the run down condition of the soil and a lack of vegetable matter. We want to study this experiment and similar ones in the class room in order that we may save money in the purchase of fer tilizers for the home farm. Another very interesting experi ment conducted vvilli corn w.:; "Ear to Row Test." Two rarities of corn iere used and 101) rows w. re planted, each row from a different ear of corn. Fifty-two ears of one variety were used and fort y-cii; lit of the other. The fertilization and cultivation was the same for all the rows. In one series, the best ear yielded S( bushels per acre and the poorest ear only 2." bushels per acre, a difference of (il bushels per acre. The average yield of this series was 5G bushels per acre. The boys in the regular classes did the actual work of harvesting and weighing this corn and boys in the three months course will have this explained to them. If it is true, as government fig ures show, that each day in school means $10.00 to the average boy in a life time, boys cannot afford to stay out of school during the win ter months, for it will cost them near ly as much to stay at home as it will to spend the time at the Farm Life school. Board and room will be $12.00 to $12.50 per month if students stay all the time and $10.00 to $10.50 if they spend the week end at home Books will cost about $5.00. No tuition will be charged. Boy's and girls, get ready to attend this course and if you are pleased with it credit will be given towards the regular courses. The only requirements for entrance to this course is that you are sixteen years old and can read and write. If you are expecting to enter schoo after Christmas it will be better for you and for us for , you to enter November 30, when we will form new clftSS63 J. E. TURLINGTON, Supt. AUSTIANS SINK OWN CRUISER OF TSINGTAO. . Vienna, (via Berlin and Amsterdam) Nov; 16. Official announcement was made today that the Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Augusta was sunk off Tsing tao, after her ammunition was ex hausted. . She was sunk by her Own crew and, not by a Japanese shell fire. The crew was added to the Tsingtao garrison and fought "bravely on land. Eight of the sailors were killed and 80 wounded. . Heavy Rains Have a Tendency ju increase i luuaea Area . .. . -1 . Between Nieuport and Dixmude. GUNS AND WAGONS HAVE BEEN ABANDONED. Countless Bodies Lie Floating In Swamp Fierce Ef fort Is Soon Ex pected. Paris, Nov. 16.- The diminish ing intensity of the German assault in Flanders is due to some extent to severe weather conditions. The flooded section is increasing in area as a result of the continuance of heavy rains and the country between Nieu port and Dixmude is a vast swamp in which guns and ammunition wa gons abandoned by the Germans lie embedded and in which float count less corpses. The Germans have been washed out of their trenches in several places, says an eye witness, who has just returned from the front, but they continue to send an occasional shell to the French trenches. It is not probable that the Germans will make further attempts in this sec tion of the front, but a, 'ierc effort is to be expected from Dixmude to Arras as soon as the Gor lin troops have recovered from their t.-emendous exertions of last week a. id new men can be brought up to fill ;.ho gaps in the ranks. The fate of the war d -pends now, says Colonel Feyler. an eminent Swiss military writer, essentially o:i the re serves of men that th.- armies are able to bring up, and in this respect, according to military opinion here, Germany appears to be in a state of inferiority. Not only does the Rus sian offensive prevent Germany from transferring men from the eastern to the western front they point out, hut troops that are now bein?v instructed in I he interior will nen-ss against the Russian-:. It' is also pointed out t 1 has lo ooerate on !', i nearly l.OOi) miles with active army corps, wiii have at their disposal uniiv corps for a line li rily be sent 1 -lermany totaling t wetity-fivc the allies nty-nine th.m half as long. Thus from the point of view of available troops it is argued the comparison is unfavorable- to th 1 Ger mans. So far as equipment is con ernod, t he infantry on both sides ar equal ly well supplied. At the beginning the Germans were much belter off with quick firers, but the allies have now caught up by intensive produc tion in the arms factories. In the artillery the. allies iire said to have advantage as far as l'gbt pieces are concerned, but the Germans heavy ar tillery is eontestibly superior. They are not likely to retain th.it superior ity long, however , since both the French and British at'senals are be ginning to deliver big guns and the allies have plenty of trained men to serve them, irrespective of the Jap enese gunners whose early arrival Marscillos is announced. VANCEBORO MAN BEFORE COMMISSIONER HILL. Barney Taylor, white of Vance boro, was brought to New Bern last Saturday by Deputy Marshal, C H. Angc, and carried before I . S. Commissioner Charles B. Hill for a hearing on a warrant charg ing him with violating the Internal Revenue Act by selling spirituous , liquors without a government li cense. After hearing the evidence in the case, Commissioner Hill failed to find probable cause and the de fendant was released from custody. FIVE VISITED DELGADO. .. ' . i' ; '" :-:.,v ' Wilmington, Nov 16. Frightening Delgado. citizens from their beds, fire consum- ed by a series of explosions this morning the plant of the Cape Fear Oil Company nsaf Delgado, at a loss estlma'dJ at $40,000 with insurance about $20,000. j ' , i , - '' v ' , . , ,'' i:
The Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 17, 1914, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75