The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-09
SUU-OUIIITdClUT.
Chapel Hill, n. c., August 8.
A PEST OF CATERPILLARS.
High Point May Have "a Military
School,. ElwOod Cox
Returns
Especial to News and Observer.

Especial to News and Observer
High Point, August S.-A whole
sale destruction of the persimmon
trees in Randolph county is going on
and the cause is the insignificant
caterpillar A gentleman who has
just returned from trip along the
line from Keever, a little negro settle
ment near Archdale, to Asheboro tells
me that in all directions as far as the
eye could see the persimmOn trees
are literally covered with catcrpillars
which are sapping the very life out
of the trees. In districts where the
trees of this kind are in abundance he
failed to notice a single tree that had
not been captured by these little pests.
The question naturally arises: What
is the colored gentry of that county
going to do for their persimmon beer
this fall, as we'll as the festive 'possum
since his sustenance is being taken
from him." With no beer and no fat
possums Randolph county is up
against a hard proposition.
There has been organized here a
claim and adjustment Company, known
as the Golden Rule collectors 1t
will act as an informed AIRY for settling
disputes and Observation-Disclosures ad-
just all matters between debtor and
creditor. This is a unique organiZa-
ton with unique methods employed
in the way of collecting debts and set
Ting differences between individuals.
IN short it is a local peace tribunal.
The motto of the Claim and Adjust
ment Company is: Reason, Justice. "
For sometime there has been under
consideration a military school for
High Point, and negotiations have
been going on quietly in that direction
for several weeks. Yesterday Mayor
M. j. Wrenn received word from par
ties who are interested asking for
further information about the city, as
interested parties wanted to take ac-
ton at an early date.
The township Sunday-school con-
vention held at Springfield Saturday
was one of the best in the history Of
the county organization. Among the
prominent speakers We're Rev. Mr.
Spicer, of New York, who is in North
Carolina to attend Yearly Meeting;
President Johnson, of Greensboro, the
county president. Mr.. Fl. A. Moffitt
was reelected president and Mr.. A.
M. Idol, secretary of the township Or
ganization.
Mr. and Mrs. j. Elwood Cox, and
Miss Clara Cox and Joseph Cox, have
returned from an extended trip
through the West, embracing in their
journey the Lewis and Clark EXPOSE
ton. Yellowstone Park, San Francisco,
British Columbia, Utah and Seattle.
In all the party travelled about eight
thousand miles.
The Friends Meeting House.
The North Carolina Yearly Meeting
of Friends begins tomorrow at Gull
ford College. Quite a large number
of Friends from a distance have al
ready passed through here en- route
there. This year there will be the
usual quota of foreign visitors and
the meeting will be full of interest to
all North Carolina Quakers. The mat
ter of disposing of the meeting house
and grounds here will again be
brought up and if the meeting decides
to hold it's future meeting at Guilford
College it is quite likely some DISPOSE |
ton will be made of the property, as
the matter was left over from last
meeting pending a trial meeting this
year at Guilford College. Since the
Quakers of High Point have built them |
1 handsome new meetin~ house up |
town the old meeting house is unoccu- |
pied 1t is argued that the property |
S too valuable to stand idle the whole |
year around save only when the an |
lual meeting is held, and that a hand |
some sum can be realized from its |
sale and the money put into a good !
cause which would be far greater to |
he usefulness of the denomination |
han meeting once a year there. High |
Point, of course, misses the Yearly |
meeting this year.