The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-12
NEW BERN MlLITIAMEN
COMPLETE CAMP PLANS

CUMFLclE CAMP PLANS
New Bern, Oct 1O.-At a meeting
tonight the members of the New Bern
division Of the North Carolina naval
mlhtla made final arrangements for
the encampment at Camp Glenn in
which they will participate next deck.
Ihe New Bern division Of the
militia and four other divisions will go
down to camp on Monday morning,
their cars being attached to the regu-
lar passenger train leaving New Bern
shortly after 9 o'clock. Immediately
after arrival there they will begin
getting the camp in readiness for an
occupation Of five days.
On the second day the actual work
Will begin. This will consist of tar
get practice and instruction in the rae
OF small arms. Adjutant General l..
w. Young went down to Camp Glenn
TINS morning in order to get every
thing in readiness for the arrival of
the sailor soldiers.
The campaign against typhoid fever
IN Craven county which has been in
progress for the past four weeks
comes to a close today, patients in
| this city, at Bridgeton and James City
receiving their last inoculation of the
treatment.
About three thousand persons have
| taken this treatment and Drs. Bulla
| and Deans Of the State Department
| Of Health and DR.. Joseph F. Rhem,
county physician, are greatly pleased
1 With the interest which has been
| shown in the campaign by the citi-
zens Of Craven
This campaign has cost the coun-
| ty but four hundred dollars and. ac-
cording to statements made by those
who are in position to know, it has
been worth ten times that sum.
Today at noon Judge W. M. Bond,
of EdentOn, who is presiding over a
ltWO-Weeks term of Craven county su-
perior court, adjourned the court un-
TIL Monday morning at which time the
case of the Allison heirs VS. the Nor
folk Southern Railway Company will
be resumed.
In this case the plaintiffs are suing
for DANA ges in the sum of three thou
sand dollars, which they claim was
done to their property by fire orig
mating from one of the defendant
companys locomotives.
The case is being hard fought by
both sides and is proving very inter
| eSting.
Regardless of the fact that inclem.
ent weather has prevailed in this sec
ton practically all Of the week. in
the neighborhood of two hundred
: thousand pounds of tobacco have beer
5 warehouses at prices ranging from
] seven to fifty cents per pounds will
t an average of about thirteen cents.
L. At the beginning of the week loca
tobacco men predicted that the sale
= this week would eclipse any held thu
a far. However, inclement weather in
| tervened and cut the sales down.
IL Indications are that the sales dur
= ing the coming week Will be unuSu
3 ally large.
n After suffering for months with a.
r iincurable disease, Daniel Hooker. O
+ Bayboro, one of Pamlico county's bes
zens, died at his home at that plac
y last night at $50 o'clock
Mr.. Hooker is a native of Pamlic
:. county and during the course of tn
three-score and ten years that his lii
spanned he has done much to aid i
its development and was at all time
willing to give aid to any movemer
! that tended to its progress.
Fl He was the third sheriff that tn
county elected and this Office he we
n and capably filled for eight years II
was known in every town and hamis
Is in the county and those who kne
l. him liked and respected him.
s. He is survived by his wife. who ais
l. is in failing health. and two childrel
n Mrs G. T. Farnell of Bayboro an
1t M. w. Hooker of Alliance, and thel
are a large number of near relative
ye to mourn the passing Of this likeab
of character.
l. The funeral service will be col
e. Quoted at Bayboro tomorrow morniT
N at 10 o'clock and the remains Will (
d inferred in the cemetery at I'M
,e place.