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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Accused Of MESSAGE Interference.

St Joseph, Mo.-Joseph POW"
ers a Burlington telegraph oper-
ator at Waldron, Mo-, has been ar
rasted for interfering with CONNER
c,al messages and train dispatching.
The officers expect to make furtneT
arrests The operators sought to
hsrrass Western Union and Associated
Press operators who took striEers
nlaces some time ago.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Women Hurt in Bargain Rush.

Kansas City, Mo, - Three thou
sand persons, mostly women, at
tempted to crowd into a 1Oc store that
opened on Main street. A panic re-
suited, A dozen women tainted,
baby was trampled upon, but not seri-
ously hurt, and three women were
slightly injured.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
r,ra periIs River Passenger Boat.

Ealliopolis. Ohio-The passen-
gAr nacket Tacoma, running between
Pomerov and Cincinnati, caught hre
near Keneva, w. Va, and for time
was threatened with destruction Inc
messengers were taken ashore and the
fire extinguished.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Nav Fine Santa Fe Million.

San Francisco, Cal.-After
hriof deliberation, the jury in the case
Of the Santa Fe Railroad Co., charged
with rebating shipments rendered a
verdict of guilty on all counts enumer-
ated in the indictments found by the
grand Jury. The maximum fine Tor
the offenses charged is 81, 100000 and
the minimum is $4,000.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
n.Aon Not to Succeed Tower.

Washington, D. Cit is authorl-
tatively announced at the state depart
ment that there is no foundation for
the report that Robert Bacon, first as
sistant secretary of state, is to sue
coed Ambassador Tower at Berlin.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
New Director at jamestown.

Norfolk, Va. The board OF d.
ractors of the Jamestown exposition
accented the resignation Of ]. M.
parr as director general Of the expos
tion Alvah H. Martin, first vice presi'
dent and governor of the transporta'
ton of the exposition company wa
o,acted director general to succeed Mt
Parr and accepted the office.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
aim Starts for ST. Louis.

New York, N. Y.-Frank S. Lahm'
veteran aeronaut and father of Lieut.
Frank P. Lahm, winner of the BenneA
cup, left here for st. Louis TO take
charge of the arrangements of the in
ternational aeronautic cup race in that
CITY Oct. q.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Banker Is Found Guilty.

Chardon, Ohio--R. N. Ford was
found guilty on one count in the
Indictment which charged him with
wrecking the bank at Burton U. Inc
Jurors found the banker guilty on the
count which charged him with secret
;no with intent to embezzle.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Quarrel in School Fatal.

Denver, Colo. e. T. Osborne
hookkeeper for the Green Canon Coal
Co., was shot and instantly killed by
T /, Pierce, a claim accountant for
tho Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
during a quarrel in a night school.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
postoffices Discontinued.

Washington, D. C.-The postothce
At Granville, Monroe county, Mo-, and
Lingo Macon county, Mo-, will be dis.
continued Nov. 16. The patrons OF
both Offices, after that date, will be
supulIed by rural delivery.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
ro chanoe Greed for Count.

Newport. N. Y.-Gladys Wander
b,lt will renounce Professionalism and
become Roman Catholic in order that
a priest may marry her to Count SEE
chenvi in a Catholic church. This an
nouncement has been confirmed.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Earthouake Recorded.

Observation-Disclosures Mines IN
struments record a most unusual Sc
ries of four earthquakes since Ihurs'
dav evening. The fourth, which was
the severest seems to have orig
mated in the middle of the Pacinc
ocean.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

Keen it in mind that diversifcation
dooe not mean that you shall simply
nIont some other crop; 1t means that
ron must, to be a diyersifier, plant a
variety of other crops.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

It begins to look like the cotton is
going to be sold to the man who Is
going to spin it, after all, instead Oh
to fellow who wants to make a few
dollars between the millman and the
farmer which few dollars would come
out of the farmers pocket
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Twins Born in Runaway Auto.

Turin, Italy-With auto car III
which she was passenger tearing
down a steep hill at 60 miles an hour
and beyond control through oreah
in the mechanism, the Countess oiiAA
gave birth to twins.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

It is not time nor money wasted Tor
tbp children to have provided for them
nIontv of amusement. "All work and
no play, etc." never was more true
than it is to-day, in this artificial sort
of a life we are living.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
RowIsnds Freed of Murder Charge.

Raleigh, N. C.-The jury in the
Rowland murder trial returned
verdict of acQuittal. DR.. and Mrs.
Rowland were charged with poisoning
the woman's former husband, Chas r.
Strange.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
-r ar..k Jail at Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, Ohio. - Three prisoners
oscaned from the county jail here.
Tbev dug their way through an inner
wall with pieces of iron broken from
+ho,r beds, One has been recaptured
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

The interurban is going to put the
farm next to the town In the matter
of convenience to everything you want
and the city is doing its best TO get
ov nuch of the cleanness and the pure
air of the country they can.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

Every day we get further and furth'
er away from nature, and the further
wo get the worse we are for it. Plant
a few plants and flowers even If you
have to plant 'em in boxes. Touch
nature somehow.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

Running over Texas Is a craze lot
the peanut as a new crop 10 no'
over do this thing while the world Is
CRYING for more broom corn and you
are paying forty cents for only a toll
erably good broom.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
p..urns Shot for Insult.

Norman, Oklahoma, - Miss Hat
rio Guv, daughter of a farmer, shot
and perhaps fatally wounded Isaac
Chitwood at a dance given at her
uncle's home near her
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

Hurry up and fix plenty Of shelter
for the stock. 1t is a heap cheaper
than feed. and it is your duty to take
care of the poor animals which you
are holding in slavery to your adVant
900
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

All who have tried the split log
drag have pronounced 1t a frst-rate
implement. The beauty about its best
use is that it works best Wnen 1t -
foo muddy to do anything else except
drag The muddier the better for the
drag,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Father of "a Children.

Philadelphia. Penn.-Charles Grit
fifth of Morristown, aged II, the father
of "a children, has been sued by Eli
wood Miller for alternating the affec
tons of the latter's wife, aged "a.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Even AsheviIIe. N. c., Goes "Dry."

Raleigh, N. c. Governor Glenn
was deeply gratitied by a tele-
gram from B. H. Tucker Of Asheville,
telling him the prohibitionists had de-
feated the saloons and made the city
dry" by 700 majority.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
ROBBERS HOLD HIGHWAYS.
Russian Trade at standstllI-C'erey
breaches Boycott.

st. Petersburg, Russia.-lspahan dis
matches state that bands OF ROBBERS
hold the highways, OBTAINING goods
and posts, and that trade is at stand
still. Many merchants are bankrupt
and the clergy is preaching boycott
Of European goods.
Voronezh dispatches explain that the
mob tried to burn the home OF a priest
while the Bishop, Vladimir, was lodg-
ing there.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Moorish Tribes Accept Peace Terms.

Tangier, Morocco.-Four Of the re-
hellious Moorish tribes have accepted
the French peace terms, leaving only
six even nominally hostile. The re-
naming half dozen are believed to DO
holding out from fear of heavy pua-
ishmer. and it is not likely they witt
long refuse.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Socialist Leader to Visit U. S.

Berlin, Ger. - Herr Bebel, the So
cialtst leader in the reichstag, intends
to visit the United States next year
and deliver a series of speeches on so
cialism.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

7, YOU are not getting all the value
# vour products, the Union IS in a po-
0ition 10 take the matter up for you,
pa holm YOU to the right thing.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

u is not time nor money thrown
onav to hunt the farm over for the
Soyt seed on it. A few years select
W. will nroduce wonders in this line.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
Ely Date for Bio Graft Trial.

Harrisburg, Pa.-The fourteen de-
PENDANTS in the capitol prosecutions
will be arraigned in the Dauphip
county court for trial jap II next
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
farmers EDUCATIONAL
AND
COOPERATIVE union
- OF AMERICA
OF AMERICA

Tho farm that has not a good gar
So md orchard is not farm at all,
S,t merely a small ranch.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

To the man who owns the farm, the
money he makes does not always rep
resent the years profits. 1t might oe
that there was not a cent OF money
In sight and yet the year might be the
hest one in ones life. What Is Ine
condition of the farm, It's stock, lts
buildings, its fences, the condition OF
the lands with regard to the years 10
come or through the crop tnat Is W
follow? These are things that are ol
as much importance as the money you
take in from the crop, yes even hofe'
Some experiments this summer
nroye that there is nothing so great
an enemy to trees as Bermuda grass
Pecan trees that were I carly oeao re.
yiyed at once upon removal oil tull
of Bermuda, and when 1t grew PACK 10
the trunk of the trees, which 1t ola III
q few weeks, they again droopeo anu
we're again revived upon the remo'"i
Of the grass.
Some one has asked how farmer
can sell his stuff below cost ana sun
live The answer is dead easy. w
to the average cotton farm and see
the men women and the children ID
a mad race from one years enc "
the other See them up before oa'
:. .,1 q 20 too dark to Work.
Who is it that loses?' IL IS uo' 'n
farmer, but 1t is his wife, his sons anu
his daughters. 1t is these who ioSe' -
is these who do for the most nii'el
able sort of board, and almost ~
clothes. and none of the comforts -, u
life, the hardest work on eartn' -
is who loses, and 1t is TINS pIoD wv
money that some time and somew .it Is
must be atoned for. whose lauiI - -
1t? Il is the fault of any ana al me,
who can change it. DO you nnu ; w.
place In the ranks Of the respoH'A"
---------- - Ito
Are you getting ready Tor tue we
gest tree planting campaign IN so oo
life for this fall? II you let ln.S So y
pass unimproved, you have thio"'
away more than you can aHofo'
Have yon taken into conS'ue." 60 49,,
the consolidation of a number OF YOU
schools? This is an important maj
If it il worked up right. The MI
step, however, like all good thlnsS
a public nature, is the question
GOOD roads. Get the split log ul9
habit and then make your scnoU
bigger and better, the houses ~
commodious and the terms loneeF'
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE

1t is expected that the output OF
automobiles in 1908 will be $4,000, as
against $4,000 in 1907.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

| week.
Among the voters who have regis
tered in the East Side Ghetto, New
York City, is Samuel Harris, who gave
his age as 1O4 years. The OLD man
registered and went to and from tne
office without assistance.
II IS thought that Admiral Evans
nil, ask to be relieved of his COM
wand as soon as he lands his squad
ron from the Atlantic at San Fran
cisco. H.
new prospecting we'll Is going
down at Dixon, Hunt County.
THE one-year-old son of Thomas E.
1eadon, a painter, is dead at his nome
IN New Yorw City from the effects OF
nicotine poisoning caused by eating
mart of a cigar which his father
loft on the sideboard few days ago
An autopsy performed on the body
Of Daniel Lyons, forty-six years Of
+! 600 Pennsylvania Railway watch
man in New York City, VINO wa
Found dead a day or so ago, developed
Il. the fact that the mans brain weighed
only twenty-five ounc
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18

Are you getting ready for the N,S
gest tree planting campaign IN you,
life for this fall? II you let .n lawn s
pass unimproved, you nave 'n'0
away more than you can aHofo'
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-06-11

The annual meeting of the
board of education for the city of
Durham was held Friday after
noon. At that time many busi-
ness matters were disposed of by
the board.
The faculty for the ensuing
year was elected with the except
ion Of the superintendent, who
was elected at the regular month
ly meeting in May, Mr.. w. d.
Carmichael being reelected to
that position.
The following principals were
elected:
Principal of high school--E. ].
Green.
Principal of Morehead school
B. S. Skinner.
Principal of the Edgemont
school &C. F. Jenkins.
Principal Of Fuller school-G.
o. Ferguson.
Principal of North Durham
school-W. A. Bivins.
Director of Manuel training
w. T. Martin.
Supervisor Of drawing Miss
Lydia Bancroft.
Supervisor music-Miss Inez
Wooten.
Domestic science-Miss Mary
Shaw. g=
Teachers were also elected at
this meeting.
All the old teachers for the
colored schools were reelected
for the ensuing year.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-06-11
COUNTY TAX LEVY.
1 Slight Increase Made on Property
and Poll TO Pay off Railroad
Bonds.

L " r.
Besides purging the jury list
the county commissioners had
many matters to claim their at
tention at the meeting held last
week. No business claimed their
attention that was of more in
terest to people generally than
the fixing of the tax rate, which
shows an increase on property
and poll tax, this being necces-
sary to pay for the bonds that
recently came due, the bonds be-
ing those issued for the Durham
and Lynchburg road.
The tax assessed last Friday
was as follows.
For state purposes-21 cents
on property and 63 cents on poll.
Schools Is cents on property and
54 cents on schools. Pensions,
4 cents on property and IL cents
on polls.
County Eleven cents on each
500 of property valuation, and
80 cents on each poll. Roads,
nineteen cents on each S100 of
property and 81 cents on each
poll. Railroads. ten cents on
each $100 valuation and 80 cents
on each poll.
This makes a total of SO cents
on each 500 valuation ofproperty
and S2.49 on each poll. This is
an increase of s cents on pro-
perty and "a cents on the poll.
The board also leviedthe special
school tax for both the East and
West Durham districts. Both
these were as provided by law,
the tax rate by property and poll
being named in the act. In East
Durham the rate is Is cents on
each 500 valuation and 45 cents
on each poll. In West Durham
the rate is 10 cents on each 500
valuation and 80 cents on each
poll.
The matter of moving the
court house was discussed and
| G, A. Owens was appointed a
committee of one to investigate
and report at next meeting.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-06-11
From The Chapel Hill News.

Last evening a committee con-
sisting of Messrs. F. B. Rankin,
Prof. N. r. Clayton and ]. F.
Spruill, representing DR. Thos.
Hume's classes, presented him
with a beautiful loving cup, show.
ing their high regard and devo-
ton for him. DR.. Hume retired
from the chair of English Of the
University with this commence
ment.
Mrs. Woods. relic of the late
Elmore Woods. one of Chapel
Hills oldest land marks, passed
over the dark river into the great
beyond yesterday morning. She
was close to the 95th mile post.
She had made her home at Mrs.
A. B. Roberson's since the death
of her husband. The remains
were inferred in the Robertson
cemetery at 10 o'clock this morn
ing. She was one of the oldest
members of the M. E. church.
Rev. w. r. Royal conducted the
burial services.
Thos. Myrick, who was mar
ried only a short while since, was
before his honor, Esq. Barbee
Tuesday for administering a Sc
we're thrashing to the woman
whom he promised to protect and
love. Mr.. Myrick was fined $25
and the cost and placed under a
$50 bond to keep the peace.
Died, David Garrett, well
known in this section, at his home
in Coles store neighborhood, one
day last week of a complication
of diseases. Mr.. Garrett, was
aged about 60 years. He was a
brother of Mr.. Woodson Garrett,
a asplendid farmer of that vicinity.
Deceased leaves a wife and sew
eral grown Children.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-06-11
Panama Canal Erie Canal.

Machinery Is digging the Panama
Canal a thousand times quicker than the
shovel dug the Erie.
Machinery produces the L. & NJ. Paint
at so times less cost for labor than IL
made by hand.
The l.. & NJ. gives the best Job in the
world, because L. * M. Zinc hariens l..
x NJ. White Lead and makes l.. < NJ.
Paint wear like iron for 10 to IS years.
Il only requires 4 gallons Of this Ceie-
brated Paint and ) gallons Of Linseed oil
al 6oc. per gallon, to paint a moderate
sized house.
II any defect exists In l.. NJ. Paint, will
rrpaint house for nothing.
sold by HACKNEY BROS, Durham,
Nc.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-06-11
Saint Johns nay Celebrated al The 0rfsrd
orphan Asylum.

Orphan Asylum.
In the great oak grove at the
Oxford Orphan Asylum, on Sat-
urday, June 22nd. 1907. the an
nual celebration Of Saint Johns
Day will be held by the Masons
of the State.
A special communication of the
Grand Lodge of Masons of North
Carolina will be called.
The Oxford Orphan Asylum
Association, composed Of former
girls. and boys Of the institution,
has planned to hold its second
meeting.
Grand Master Francis d. Win
ston has appointed Past Grand
Master. F. II. Busbee, of Raleigh,
Orator for the occasion.
The children of the Oxford
Orphan Asylum will assist in
carrying out the interesting pro-
gram of the day.
A hearty invitation is extended
to the good people Of the State to
be present.
A large attendance is expected.
Many bring baskets and enjoy
an old-fashioned picnic dinner in
the grove.
Barbecue dinner. lunches and
refreshments will be for sale on
the grounds.
The Seaboard R'y. will, in all
probability, operate excursion
trains from Raleigh, Durham and
Weldon to Oxford.
Other roads will likely give
special rates.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-06-11
Officers Elected.

The Retail Clerks Association
have elected the following of.
ficers for the ensuing term:
Presidential. D. Bright.
First vice president-W. D.
Switzerland.
Second vice president-J. P.
Horne.
Recording secretary-van Pat.
terson.
Corresponding Financial secre.
tary-A. w. Grady.
Treasurer-H. S. Torrey.
Guide. L. Adkins.
Guardian w. A. Poston.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-06-11
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS.

Rev. E. M. Hoyle preached a
special sermon to the Odd Eel
lows Of East Durham last Sunday
afternoon in Carr Methodist
church.
A team of base ball players
from Chapel Hill defeated the
Durham Hosiery Mills team last
Saturday in a game of ball on the
grounds of the latter team. The
score was IL to 5.
| Deputy Sheriff j. F. Harvard
carried Bennie Young, colored,
to Raleigh last Saturday, where
he was wanted on two or more
charges and was arrested here
on warrant from Raleigh.
The rural mali carriers of North
Carolina will hold their annual
meeting in Durham, beginning
July 3 and continuing for two
days. It is expected that quite a
number will attend this meeting.
The funeral and burial of the
10-month-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dutch Olive took place last
Saturday afternoon, the funeral
being conducted by Rev. T. A.
Smoot, pastor of Main Street
church.
A Tax Payer" writing in the
Morning Herald last Sunday
gives as reasons why the present
court house should not be done
away with that the county has
not the money to pay for the
same, and thinks it much better
to pay as you go.
Mrs. Dorson Mangum, mother
of Mrs. A. L. Phipps, of this
city,swhese home was in Gran
will county, died last week and
the interment took place at the
family burying ground. A num-
ber of relatives of this city at
tended the funeral.
]. H. Miller, who has been a
resident of Durham for some
time and who has been conduct
ing a grocery store in the Far
thing-Warren building on Main
street, has left Durham, and
several people are in the hole.
1t is said that the stock of goods
ne left here will not begin to pay
off his indebtedness.
A negro woman by the name
of Mary Collins was the victim
of an accident last Saturday. In
some way she was run over by a
carriage which broke her leg.
She was carried to Lincoln hos
pital where she was given med
ical attention. From what could
be learned it was purely an ac-
cident due to the fact that the
driver of the carriage nor woman
noticed the approach of the other
until it was too late.
/
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-06-11

DIR. James E. Seepard, Field
Secretary Of Sunday school work
among negroes, has returned
from a trip abroad which lasted
several months, during which
time he visited several foreign
countries, and attended the Inter-
National Sunday School Conven-
tion which was held in Rome.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-06-11

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Angler
have announced the approaching
marriage of their daughter. Inez,
to Earle NJ. Stokes. The cere-
mony will performed in Main
Street Methodist church June
10Th, at 1890 o'clock.