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mm stL. LEADING NEWSPAPER AND BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN MADISON COUNTY. VOL, IV. MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOPER 20, 1910. NO. 24. ! ) POPULATION HGURES FORSOUtHERN CITIES CENSUS BUREAU ISSUES STATIS TICS FOR A NUMBER OF . SOUTHERN CITIES. LOUISVILLE, KY.. HAS 223,928 Tampa, Florida, Now Has 38,524 In , habitant., an Increase of 143.2 , , Per Cent. Over 1900. Washington. Population statistics enumerated in the thirteenth census were announced by the census bu reau (or tae following cities: Roanoke, Va., 34,874, an increase of 13,379, or 62.2 per cent over 26,000 In 1900. Tampa, Fla., 38,524. an increase of 32,685, or 143.2 per cent, over 15,839 In 1900. Louisville, Ky., 223,928, an Increase of 19,197, or 9.4 per cent, over 204,7323 In 1900. Lexington, Ky., 35,099, an increase of 8,730, or 33.1 per cent, over 26,369 in 1900. Charlotte, N. C, 34,014, an increase of 15,923, or 88 per cent, over 18,091 In 1900. Shreveport, La., 28,015, an increase of 12,002, or 75 per cent, over 16,013 In 1900. Montgomery, Ala., 38,136, an in- crease of 7,790, or 25.7 per cent, over 30,346 in 1900. Austin, Texas, 29,860, an increase of 7,602. or 34.2 per cent, over 22,- 258 In 1900. Bloomlngton, III., 25,768, an In creaase of 2,482, or 10.7 per cent over 23,286 in 1900. Wilmington, N. C, 25,748, an in crease of 4.772. or 22.7 per cent. over 20,896 In 1900. CROPS IN FINE SHAPE. Aggregate Condltiona on OctoBer 1 la 1.8 Per Cent. Higher. Washington. A general review of the crop conditions of the country by the Department of Agriculture Just issued says: Aggregate drop conditions on Octo ber 1 (or at the time of harvest) in the United States were about, 1.8 per hlcher than on the; correspond- date i A ago jiu0,i per aunt lower than the average . condition on October 1 (or at the time t harvest) of the last ten years. The Vlrea under cultivation Is about 3.2 per cent more than last yean The condition of certain crops on October 1 (or at time of harvest) 100 representing for each crop, nor 1U normal condition, but its average condition on October 1 (or at time of harvest), (ten-year average for moat crops) was: Corn 102.4; rice 102.3; cranberries 102.3; lemons 101.3; sorghum 89.8 ; peanuts 99.2; cotton 98.9; sugar cane 98.7: buckwheat 98.1; sugar beets 97.2: sweet potatoes 96.7; tobacco 96.6. ' The total production of hay for, 1910 was 60,116,000 tons compared with 64,938,000 tons in 1909, the yield per acre being 1.34 tons compared with 142 last year and 1.44 the ten year average. General King Dead. Sulphur Springs, Texas. Gen. W. H. King, who Joined the Confederate army as a private, but rose to the rank of acting major general, died at hla home here. General King was a well known politician and lawyer and served for ten years as adjutant gen oral of this state. He was 71 years old and a native of Georgia. 23 Seamen Go Down With Ship. St. Nazaire, France. The French turner Ville de Rochefort was ram med and sunk by the British steamer Pevertl, off Noirmourtiers slland. The Peverll picked up the first and arnnd mates and the chief steward of the French craft, but the 23 others of the crew were arownea, : .Urges Farmer to Hold Cotton, t Union City, Ga. President Charles P.' Barrett of the National Farmers1 Union has issued a statement to the Southern farmers urging them to hold their cotton,' and calls upon them to borrow money, if necessary, In order 'to hold the crop. . : s:''',;.i''', " '"'- v-i Ruling on Mother-ln-Law. ' ' ' New Yorfc-rThe new court of do mestic relations here has officially 'ruled that a.. man is not obliged to support his mother-in-law. There is no legal ground for the belief of many women that when they" 'marry a man they' can saddle their whole family .on him," declared the magistrate in "a divorce case. "A man is. not obliged to support ills mother-in-law. Further more, if wife leaves her husband and 'goe to live with her mother, the hug band Is not required to support her, nor her mother." : I Savannah Gets Auto Race. New Tora-City .The contest com mittee of the Automobile- Club of America acted 'favorably upon the ap plication of the Savannah Automobile Club and the munii.yui authorities of that city to transfer the' grand prise automobile nice from Long Island to Savannah.. .- ,. : , - (The decision of the contest commit tee is subject to ratification by the board of governors of the Automobile Club of America. .. , ; A tentative date of November 12 rim FARMERS SHOULD ADVERTISE In Speech Before Arkansas State Fair John M. Parker Showt Value of Publicity. Hot Springs, Ark. Advice to the Southern farmers to advertise limlr farm products in newspapers was giv en here at the state fair in an ad dress by John M. Parker of New Or leans, president of the Southern Com mercial Congress. "The Northern and Western farmer is up-to-date," said Mr. Parker. "He advertises what he has to sell, and pays the expense of that advertise ment and derives the highest price for his product." Newspapers, Mr. Parker, said, have led in the diversified farming move ment; have helped bring settlers into the South, and have been of great practical benellt to Southern agricul ture, but nevertheless their "adver tisements are totally disproportionate with those of Northern papers." The loss to the farmer in failing to adver tise, Mr. Parker thought, was even more serious than tne loss to the papers. PORTUGAL EXILES PRIESTS. Lisbon Soldiers Sent to Rout Jesuits Out of Subterranean Passages. Lisbon, Portugal. Battles between soldiers of the republican provisional government and Jesuit priests, who have defied the order to leave Por tugal, are being fought in subterra nean passages leading from the mon asteries. The Jesuits are the only priests who have openly disobeyed the mandate of the new republic. Instead of leaving the country, they took refuge in the ancient underground passages, some of which were dug over a century ago. Soldiers have been sent after the priests and Bring was heard often in the ancient subway3 under the city. Nearly 500 nuns from the Quclhas and. Trinas convents are being es corted to the frontier, where they will be driven Into Spain. Many of them are in ill health and a few are ac companied by orphan children. Great animosity is shown toward the remaining Catholic prelates, es pecially toward the Jesuits, who are being expelled as rapidly as they are found. PLAN FOR RAISING MAINE. 8pain s to Be Shown How the Maine Was Wrecked. Beverly, Mass. President Taft finally approved plans for raising the wreck of the battleship Maine from Havana harbor, which' call for the completion of the work on or before the thirteenth anniversary of the de struction of the war vessel, February 15, next. The ' work is to be done according to plans made by army en gineers, and is to be under the di rection of an engineer officer. President Taft Bald that the para mount question in the raising of the Maine is the determining for all time of the cause of the explosion and whether the source of destruction was from the outside or Inside the vessel For this reason he desires that the work shall be retained in the hands of the army engineers and not let out by contract. By direction of the President, Spain has been invited to send a representa tive to Havana to be present during the work of exposing and rehioving the wreck. WAR ON THE HOOKWORM. Experts Will Try to Rid Alabama of Life-Sapping Disease. Montgomery, Ala. From now on the hookworms which are thriving in Alabama soil will have a hard time of it if it is at all possible for Dr. W. W. Dinsmore of Decatur, Ala., to put into effect some of the ideas that he has regarding the eradication of the parasite. The physician has tak en up his headquarters at the capitol as head of the Alabama department of the Rockefeller hookworm commis sion, and' is throwing out lines which aw aimed with the end in view of permanently ridding the state of the life-sapping pest. ' Promotion for Peary. Washington. Commander Robert E. Peary, the Arctlo explorer, will be prqmoted to the rank of captain in the corps of naval civil engineers, asj the result of the retirement of Cap tain U. C: G. White, on account of age.: Naval orders to this effect were Issued at the Navy Department 14-Cent Cotton In Montgomery. Montgomery, Ala. Owing to the excellent weather which haa prevailed throughout this week, cotton from sec tions immediately in the neighborhood of Montgomery Is . being regularly brought to market, where It Is bring ing ' a record 1 price around the 14- cent - mark for this season of the year. As a consequence, the planter la feel ing-disposed to rid himself of the staple while the excellent prices pre vail, despite advice which he haa had which urges him to hold the fleece for a flat 15 cents. Confederate, Monument. Improved. Washington, Marking the last rest ing place of 4.500 officers and, men of the Confederate army and navy who died as prisoner . of war at Camp Douglas between 1862 and 1865, a 125,000 monument on a mound la Oak wood cemetery Id Chicago is to be improved greatly.'; Under a spe cial act of congress, a contract has been awarded for raising the but, and building sixteen tablets. These tablets will bear the names; rank, the company and regiment Of .the 4,500 TATT PLANS A TRIP TO THE CANAL ZONE PRESIDENT WILL 8AIL ON BAT TLESHIP NORTH CAROLINA FROM CHARLESTON. EXPENSE OF THE CANAL The Total Appropriations for Canal Work to Date Amount to About $250,000,000. Reverlv Murh. President Taft will Bail for the Isthmus of Panama on November 10 from Charleston, S. C. He will make the trip on the ar mored cruiser North Carolina, and will be conveyed by the sister ship the Montana. The President will be gone about twelve days. The North Carolina and Montana can make the iournev in each direction in four days. This will give Mr. Taft about four days on the isthmus. The President had practically giv en up all idea of visiting the canal this year until Col. George w. Goe thals. chief engineer of the canal, vis ited him. At the end of the visit Mr. Taft had been convinced that the problems, confronting the officials at Panama require his presence on the isthmus. Although his visit will be a flying one, the President expects to be able to secure first-hand information re garding a number of problems of which he will call upon congress to deal at its session. Some of the prob lems to be dealt with In the lmmeat ate future are as follows: The extent and cnaracter of the for tiflcations, the fixing of tolls for the passage of vessels through the canal, a proposed Increase in wages, the fu ture management of the. Panama rail road, the form of permanent govern ment for the Canal Zone and tie reg ulation of the sale of coal at the ter minus noints. The date for opening the Panama canal has been set for January 11, 1915. President Taft and Colonel Goethals believe it will be completed and open long before that time. Washington. It Is estimated that $47,920,848 will be required 'to con tinue the construction of the Panama . i .L 41 ...... I .... n .. canai uunug iuo unw. w Thi principal Items! are $19,211,806 for skilled and unskilled borwt $19,186,751 for the purchase ana de livery of material anu supplies. An nstlmate of I1J000.0OO is submit ted for the re-locatlon of the Panama railroad. The totaf. appropriations on arv-nnnt nf the canal to date are $248,- 002,668. Of that amount $40,000,000 wa spald for the Frencn rights and $10,000,000 to Panama. Steady progress in the construction nf the canal is shown by the month ly report of Chief Engineer Goethals to the isthmian canal commission. SUNDAY FUNERALS TABOOED. Cemetery Guardians Are Not Willing to Work en Sunday. Chattanooga, Tenn. The twenty fourth annual convention of the Amer ican Association of. Cemetery Superin tendents closed; The convention passed a resolution agreeing to use their .earnest efforts to, abolish Sun day funerals " except where the na ture, of the disease of the corpse ren dered immediate interment necessa ry. The committee on location rec ommended that Philadelphia be the scene of the next convention and the Quaker City was unanimously agreed upon for the convention of 1911. ' L. & N. Employees Receive Increase. Louisville, Ky. B. M. Starks, gen eral manager pf the Louisville and Nasbvlle railroad, and representatives of the passenger and trainmen of that road, reached an agreement whereby the men are to receive an increase in wages of from 10 to 17 1-2 per cent, effective November 1. Nine hundred conductors, 1,700 brakemen?' besides flagmen, baggagemasters and porters will benefit by the increase. . , r Decrease in Army Desertions. Washington. Desertions from- the army are not so frequent now as in the past. During the fiscal year Just ended there was a decrease of 23 per cent, in the number vof desertions from the previous year. . Berry to Mark Confederate ' Graves. Washington. The appointment i of former .Senator James H. Berry as onmmlnsioner v to superintend the marking of the graves of Confederate soldiers who died in- Northern prisons during the war is greeted with ex pressions of gratification in Washing ton. '; "" .. ' : Toe late Gen. William c. XJates or Alabama, whom he succeeded, had ac complished a great deal toward iden tifying and having marked the graves of the Confederate soldiers, who died far from their homes. . ;i Greatest Boll Weevil Damage, Waahlnaton. The greatest .damage dnna to the cotton crop by the boll weevil this season was in the, district of Madison parish, Louisiana, south of . Baton Rouge, according to Dr.' L. O.' Howard; chief of. the bu reau of entomology of the Depart ment of Agriculture. . "There are, all told, about 80 ene mies of the boll weevil,'' said Doctor Howard. "The government has intro duced six of these parasites to Louis iana and other states, and we intend to turn loose at least Bix more." DAMAGE BY BOLLWEEVIL Moderate , Deterioration (In, Condition of the Cotton Crop 8hpwn by Re port of the Corerspondents. New Orleans. Based on , reports from correspondents throughout the cotton belt, the ' Tinges-Democrat makes, the following report of cot ton crop condttlon;rV:v -W'"- Taking the belt as a wtf mod erate deterioration has ocod. The boll weevil has done extensive dam age in parts of Mississippi, Louisia na and Arkansas, and there are com plaints of other insects in some sec tions. . ; . iJvf The ultimate outcome jis still large ly dependent upon the date of killing frost Farmers seem' disposed to sell enough to pay their debts and hold the remainder. :, CAUSE OF CIVIL WAR. General Grosvenor Says War Was the Fault of the Constitution. Chattanooga, .Tenn. Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor-otr Ohio delivered the annual oration before-the Society of the Army of the Cumberland here. The general told hft hearers it was high time to quit vraving the "bloody shirt;" that tie war' la over, and that we are all Americans now. The South ern soldier fought for the principle he thought to be right, said the speak er, and he did the best be could. In studying the history of the Civil war one should not stop at Appomattox, he said, but should follow the Southern soldier as he bullded up a nation from desolation and ruin. "An indissoluble ' union of indissol uble states," was. thqjpmisslon from the constitution of the United States which caused ye war of the sixties, was the declaration of General Gros venor. -.:, : ' I, - t ALABAMA SCHOOL FUNDS. $2,036,360 Spent Each Year for the Schools tn Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.-t-TUe si. m of $2,- $36,367.76 represents the a nount of money spent for the purpose of edu cation in Alabama during the past fiscal year, 4 minus tba amount of money which' ia set alide every year for high school appi5-is and normal school requi bt these appropriations Jejerso, fnty re ceived the largeft amoyt a sum ag gregating 18f,7i0.6!Slgainst $160,- 3364.78 for. thj preceding year. Mont gomery couni received iiu.uz.aa against $6941.50 the year, preceding. Mobile cn XrVai"l All Will Depend on Howl He Stands the Work In December. f : Trenton, S. C "If my health con tinues to Improve, I expect' to be a candidate for the United States sen ate in 1912, otherw4natv All will depend, on how I stafidTthe work in Washington when I go there in De cember." j v This statement by Ulited States Senator B. R. Tillman,! disposes of the recent persistent rumors' that be cause of failing health the" senior South Carolina senator had decided to retire from public lift' at the conclu sion of his present term tin the sen ate. ' ' 4 EX-SENATOR INDICTED. Ex-8enator Gardner Alleged to Have Offered $25,000 Bribe. New York. Former State Senator Frank J. Gardner of Brooklyn was indicted as. a briber by the New York grand Jury. The indictment was re turned ..after ex-Senator Foelker, whose one vote defeated the anti-race track gambling bills, had testified be fore the grand jury. ' A detectlvo was sent at once to Scranton, where Gard ner Is held in $10,000 bond as a fu gitive from Justice. ; He is alleged to nave offered Foekler $25,000 to vote against the bill, -j :'f; J' " Art Dealers Defrauded Government.. New York City. The entire Fifth avenue' establishment of, the five Du veen brothers, known the: world over as dealers in rare art objects and an tiques,Va seized by Federal officers an Benjamin J. Duveen, the only members of the firm in the city, was arrested, charged ;wlth conspiracy to defraud the government of customs dues. J Henry A. Wise, United States district attorney, in asking for heavy bail, (said the frauds would reach more than $1,000,000, and that ail five; brothers, were implicated. Roosevelt Talks to Catholics. Peoria, lit Ex-President : Roose velt came up from the South into Il linois, denounced corrnpt legislators and commended work which the Cath olic church l doing in ml) parts of the world. - ;' "; .".',' N- Jt was Colonel Roosevelt's first pub lic utterance- to Roman Catholics since the Vatican incident last spring. He said he favored the broadest meas ure' of religious toleration, and be lleves that aome time in the future a Catholic will be president of the Unit ed States. :' , ., . ', Army Will Honor Oglethorpe. urkin0-tnn the temiest of a Georgia delegation, headed by Repre sentative SHlwarua, wukq cnueui m w nanartmeni orders were is sued (or the participation of the army in the ceremonies attending the dedi cation of the monument, to General Oglethorpe, the founder of the colo ny of Georgia, at BavaE h, on . No vember 84. A aiuadron of) the eleventh ..irv t Vnrt Orlethorrte and a com pany of the coast artiijery at Fort Screven will go to Bavarian ior tne ceremonies. j Si-' jillmAW COnON JJjN FAILS SCHEME TO GUARANTEE COTTON flILLS OF LADING RECEIVES A DECIDED SETBACK. SOUTHERN BROKERS'OPPOSE Southern Exchanges Contend That Plan Would Place an Unjust Tax Upon the Farmers. New York. Due largely to the un compromising attitude of" some South ern cotton exchanges, the plan to cre ate a "guaranty company" to over come the difficulties now attending the European bankers and Sir Ed ward W. Holden, representing the Eu ropean banking interests, would ratify the previous action, and work out de tails of the plan; instead o which the meeting broke up abruptly with a general misunderstanding. ; It was learned after the conference that the protesting Southern ex changes openly condemn the "guar anty company" plan as unreasonable and visionary. This opposition was so pronounced that it caused the American committee to pause. The outcome was .hardly a general disap pointment, however, for some of the conference are inclined to adopt a policy of inaction In the belief that the foreigners will soon extend the ac ceptance of American cotton bills from October 31 to December 81. In this event the American committee will have ample time to arrive at a definite understanding. New Orleans. General opposition throughout "the South manifested it self when announcement was made in EJew York of the plan to organize a oreign company to guarantee cotton bills of lading. Although the proposed charge for guaranteeing Is only 6 or 7 cents a bale, , Southern cotton men contend that in the aggregate such a scheme would place a heavy burden on the planter, broker and merchant, and that the reputable firms of the South should not be made to suffer for the alleged frauds of concerns which have been pretending for several years to sell vast quantities of a staple com modity at bargain counter prices. Such a plan "is an insult to the re: putable cotton firms of the South," is the gist of a resolution passed by the. Memphis cotton exchange, while prominent Atlanta business; men 'are quoted as declaring that whatever, is done -it will come out of the farm ers' pocket.' f Resolutions passed by the Houston cotton exchange declare it an un just tax," and similar resolutions have been passed by the cotton exchange at Dallas, while the resolutions of the New Orleans exchange assert that "the proposed ' guaranteed proposition would single cotton out from all other products and make it the peculiar ob ject of discrimination and burdensome conditions." The resolutions of the Southern ex changes were telegraphed to William A. Nash, who is presiding at the con ference of representatives of Ameri can banks and foreign banks and for elgn buyers in New York. Although many private suggestions have been made as to the advisability of Southern cotton jnen holding a con ference. the resolutions of the vari ous Southern exchanges did not crys tallize in the form of a call for a general convention to discuss the mat ter, Parson Charged With Fraud. Boston. Federal authorities viBlted the extensive offices of the Redeem able Investment company at 85 Dev onshire street, and came away with Manager Charles H. Brooks, and sev eral thousand dollars in cash, all tak en under a warrant charging the use bf the mils in a scheme to defraud. Officers are hunting for Rev. Norman Plass, the president, of the company, who has the alleged indorsement as an individual of a number of promi- ment men, including of Secretary of the Interior Richard A. Ballinger. ; 43 Injured In Wreck. Fort Smith, Ark. Forty-three pen sons were injured, thirteen seriously, When St. Louis and San Francisco pas senger train No. 5 went through a bridge one mile west of Compton, Oklahoma. s ; . ;'U "7y- Two Wall Street Failures. New York City. Two New York brokerage houses failed with liabili ties' aggregating ( nearly two million dollars. One is the stock exchange of Charles Mlnseshelmer ft Co, the oth er the firm of Thomas vq. Gay lord, who -was engaged in business under the name of Latham, Alexander . k Co.. "Veotton' and atock brokers. " In each esse assignments for the benefit of creditors were made'. Batnbridg Oalby. attorney for- the firm, - was named as assignee, by the Minzeehei- mer company. 'Extreme Cholera Precautions. Maw York City. The health au thorities ,of every city and town in the United States where immigrants coming from the infected districts of Russia and Italy take up their resi dence, will be asked by the Federal immigration authorities to assist in nreventlng cholera irom. gaming a foothold, in this country. This decis ion rfcached at a conference be tween the Ellis Island authorities and a representative of Dr. Walter Wy man, surgeon general of the United States marine'hoepltal service. . GOES UP LIKE A ROCKET GOMES DOWN LIKE A STICK METEORIC CAREER Of YOHE, ONCE THE SENSATION OP TWO CONTINENTS. San Francisco. Formerly the wife of a lord and the talk of two conti nents, now destitute not only of money but of reputation, May Tone lies In a hospital here at death's door. Death from paralysis, the doctors In charge say, is only a matter of a short while, and then for all that is mortal of May Yohe a grave in Pot ter's Field. , No stranger life story has ever been told than that of this one-time Idolized stage favorite. Born near San Fran cisco, as a child her beautiful voice was greatly admired, but no one who saw her pretty face in the church May Yohe. 1 t choir dreamed that her actions, sen sational and unwomanly, would at one time engage the attention of virtually the entire world. " . When sho was very, very jyouag. that is young from the point of view of ordinary, normal mortals May was taken to New York city of her dreams to "go op the stage." She made a tremendous hit in New York, and duplicated It in London. Society flocked to hear her sing and play boys' parts a favorite role. She was pronounced by all to be "stunning." At the hlght of her success she met Lord Francis Hope. He became ln fauated in a twinkling. His mother, the Duchess of Newcastle, had left him a large fortune, and he stood to Inherit the dukedom should his elder brother, the Duke of Newcastle, die without a son. Ypung Lord Francis spent thousands of dollars In financing May Yohe in new plays, and showered more than $10,000 worth of Jewels upon her. Finally he proposed mar riage, and was accepted. They were married in 1893. The Hope family was furious, but Lord Francis de clared It was his own affair and that he would brook no Interference. May Yohe had been Lady Francis Hope for seven years. Meanwhile Putnam Bradlee Strong, son of former Mayor. William Strong, of New York, returned from the Philippines, where he served in the gallant Sixty-ninth New York Regiment. Lady FranclB Hope was In San Francisco, still, on the stage and at the height of her beauty. - Lord Hope had gone back to England. Captain Strong and Lady Francis met. The boy captain was smitten with the charms of the actress. Tbey were seen together everywhere. Then came a scandal that shocked two continents. May Yohe flung everything to the wind her title, position on the stage, her career, her husband. She ran away with Strong. As for Strong, his sacrifice was as great He lost his social position, . the1 affection of his family, and had to give up his com mission In the army. In the mean time, Lord Francis procured a divorce, and Capt. Strong married May Yohe. Strong afterwards left her and for aome -years she dropped out of public notice and It Was only recently that the news went abroad from San Fran eiaco that May Yohe waa singing in 'l0-eent vaudeville houses. N When last heard from Strong waa - running a .gambling house in Macoa, China. ,.' .' From a lowly origin to the hlghta of aristocratic society circles and mon eyed ease and then a fall step by step until the bottom rung of the lad der was reached. That la the story of -the- life of May Yohe. now. waiting quietly for death In the 'Frisco hos pital. , Hog Bite, Kills Man. Hartford, Conn. John H. Bartlett a tanner, is dead at his home m Dalton, as the result of a hog bite. He was 'attacked by the hog, a white Chester boar, weighing 400 pounds,' and re ceived a slight wound In his leg bef re be could escape. The leg soon be an to swell badly and blood poison devel oped. At Sheffield, another nenrby town, Paul Jonas is under the euro cf surgeons with a severe c of I I poisoning which followod a iacv i bite In the ankle. It will be necc y o amnntate hla foot. NORTH CAROLINA j ' I .v... ' MAY w44HS)tttfJS)t 43 PER CENT. ILLITERATE. Ten Years Ago 83 Per Cent, of Ne groes Were Ignorant. The work of educating the negro has progressed so steadily during the last ten years that only 43 per cent of the rai-e in the United States at present are illiterates according ta Mrs. Emma Erskine Hahn, of New York, who addressed the students of the National Religious Training School at Durlvam at the formal opening of its fall term. he point ed out tliat ten years ago 83 per sent, of the negroes of the country were il literates. Over 100 students are enrolled at the school which is dedicated to the trainitisr of colored ministers and medical missionaries. Except for a six-weeks term of summer school, the institution is yet untried. Twenty members of the board of advisers, presided over by Judge Jeter C. Priichard, liive decided to continue the work of building up the institu tion, although there is a serious need of funds. $500,000 Mill for Piedmont Section. Anofuer of the new fine cloth mills in the South is soon to-be erec ted by O. A. Robbins, a prominent mill man and engineer of Charlotte, who lias interested New England par ties iu the proposition. The new property will be capital' izatl at from $400,000 to $500,000, having 20.000 to 25,000 epindls run ning on fine yarns, togther with th complement of looms, and the product will be a particularly fine grade of cloth, the sole product of this new mill. Mr. .Robbins states that the loca tion of the mill has not yet 'been de termined, though it is understood that it will certainly go to some see tion of the Piedmont. The Doctor wag Deceived. The warrant against Dr. B. JT. Witherspoon, charging -him with, is suing a prescription to one not a bona fide patient under his care, was dis missed 'by the recorder at Charlotte after a hearing. Dr. Witherspoon, said" the 19-year-old boy, Berry Petty, who is pale and frail looking came to him and asked for a pre sription. i v A well dressed youth who said t was William M. Lazenby, 24 years' old. entered police headquarters- at -New, York, and told Lieutenant Dunn that lie 'had stolen $500 from tbe) . Central of Georgia Railroad mails he was the cashier in its freight of- flees at Birmingham, Ala., and said he" desired to give himself up, tha lost of the stolen amount, $34, waa ' . v taken from 'him by a pickpocket. " rj William Lazenby, mho surrendered : himself as a cailfeseed thief .in New ' Tork, acted three days as the, cashier of the Central of Georgia Railroad. , , H went there from High Point, and . .. previously worked for tbe Atlantis v Coast Line at Jacksonville, Fla. '. Hist shortage is 'said to be less than $500. Same League Next Tear. " At the annual meeting of the di ' rectors of the Carolina Association ' '' of Baseball Clubs at Charlotte it decided to retain the present organi- ' nation of Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Anderson, Greensboro, Greenville) and Spartanburg, though there is yet some little doubt as to whether An derson will stick. The salary limit ' was reduced from $1,500 to $1,200) .' and the player limit entirely remor- -ed. The election of officers wa postponed until the spring meeting ; and the efforts of President Wearat r to resign ware thwarted. ' ' 7' " " Summary. The number of children enrolled ire . Charlotte graded schools is 5,003. Of these 3,391 are white and 1,563 'r , are colored. r ' '..vv' Mr. R. L. Gill, of Spencer, had . poultry on exhibit at the Greensboro fair that took seven prizes. '.,'; . Freight train on the Southbound are running between Winston-Salem j. and Lexington. - , ' The total number of acres in Wake , county Mated for taxation is 506,572, valued , at $4,483,276, or $8.85 . per l Ex-Sheriff : J. .T- Ellington, of - , Johnston count? is dead. - The new of the death' of this" splendid type of . North Carolina manhood, a leeadin figure of i the State, Trill be heard wi-ia the deepest regret. ' He passed ,way ' at his home at Clayton. . ' ' . I Proposals issued from the r e of Capt. Earl I. Brown, Unite! i , engineer in charge of V, . 'l " I ... 'i y f I i t La district invite bids for dre,1 ' Creek harbor at Morehea i s the "harbor at Beaufort, the 1 opened at the engineer's oV.'., city November 12. .'trinity College will me t more College of Pennr;! forum. Two ' delmlcs for February 15. ; A blue Gage plu n reau cherry tree v bb'isoms at Tho' of fk-tober f -nl.'n- t ' tl' r : co'V T;.e I e pi- -e f. J
The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.)
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Oct. 20, 1910, edition 1
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