The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-09

Industrial centres. Our STOWtH dilu
success can be accounted for to large |
extent to the efforts Of our Champer
of Commerce and our Commercial
Club. both having accomplished much
to aid the town."
Rev. a. 3. Hunter, principal OF st.
AuguStine's Episcopal School IN Raj
eigh, arrived in New Y York early IN
the week to spend the month of March
in this and various other Northern
cities in the interest Of his institution.
Mr.. Hunter left yesterday for a brlef
stay in Troy, n. Y, and will return
to New York next week to be Joined
by Mrs. Hunter. Mr.. Hunter told T2le
News ard Observer correspondent that
his school is experiencing an unusually
good year, having 80 pupils enrolled.
Mr.. George l.. Lyon, who has been
at the Holland House for six weeks
competing in the gun club shoots IL
this vicinity, left early in the week
| for his home in Durham, taking with
| him several cups he won here.
| Mr.. J. NJ. Connolly, of StatesVille,
| North Carolina representative of q
| large New York that manufacturing
| company was in town for several days
| of this week on a business visit. Mr..
Connolly travels throughout the Pied
| mont section and insists that condi-
tions there are most encouraging.
| Farmers in my territory" he said,
"do not depend upon one crop, as do
those in the strictly cotton sections,
and therefore business has not suf-
fered from any amount of depression.
| Trade conditions have been good all
along, and l see no immediate reasons
why they should not remain so."
, Col. William F. Beasley, Of Ply
mouth, was in New York this week
furthering plans to put a new emer-
gency automobile tire which he in
| vented upon the market. Colonel
Beasley is contemplating the build
ing of a factory in Plymouth for the
, manufacture of the tires, and hopes tc
; secure the aid of much local capital
The emergency tire is made in three
sections, and Colonel Beasley says
| that with the assistance of a nail il
| can be placed on a wheel with little
; or no difficulty and even on the dark
! est of nights on a country road. Colo
E mel BeaSley is an eX-colOnel OF the
- Seventy-first North Carolina Troops
:, and is we'll known throughout thu
State.
e Ex-Congressman Francis e. Shober
v several months has been living in Sal
y Francisco, has returned to New Yorl
n to again become An associate edito
o OF the Hearst publications. Mr.. Sho
Il her, whose family still resides in Sal
isbury, represented North Carolina i
70 he Forty-first and Forty-second Con
j., crosses. He then came North an
q entered the newspaper field, servin
in succession on the Poughkeepsi
if NewS-PresS, the Rockaway Journa
as and the New York World
ae Lieutenant and Mrs. r. l.. Eiche
,e berger arrived in New York this wee
j. from Panama and left immediatel
I'd after landing for Asheville where the
will visit Judge and Mrs H A. Cue
a ger. Mrs. Eichelberger was Mis-
er Emma Gudger, of Asheville. Lieuter
wv ant EichelberSer has been statione
lis in Panama for the past three year
al and has just been transferred to
New York State post.
u Mrs. Williamson w. Fuller. prom
ey nent n~~"'eHr of the Tar Heel color
vo IN NCr Z, gave a luncheon at IL
he Ritz Hotel Thursday for MI
IT. Richa aknall, of Durham, who
he visitinG he metropolis.
Mrs Thomas c. Wetmore
cn SITlSl SCHOOL. ArQen. N. u, mas Det
re- passing fortnight in New York sto
as ping at the Martha Washington Hot
he and being extensively entertained
20 we'll known Southern women of Ne
ng York. Mrs. Wetmore addressed t
ay members of the Washington Heigh
a., Chapter Of the Daughters Of t
gh American Revolution at rece
ect meeting, choosing as a subject "Wo
zee among the poor in the mountains
gh | North Carolina"
lie,
s. North Carolina sent large dels
ted ton Of buyers to the metropolis IL
nd week. Among those here for tn,
CIV various firms were r. A. knight.
an Durham: .. F. Gilbert, of Elizabe
ing City; Mrs A. Lankauer. of Lumb.
yes ton: A. Goodman and J. We'll of "
mington; A. 3. Johnson, Of Stat,
Vile; J. c. Williams, of Sanford;