Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-04-25

AAo WAN oSoIS ANbl
Association will hold it's fifteenth an.
nula convention in Fayetteville May
22-25. All nurses are invited to at
tend.
Mrs. Georgia T. Boddie, of Louis
burg, has the honor of furnishing four
sons, all she has, for the service of her
country.
The board of aldermen has empow-
cred the city of Durham to employ a
whole-time sealer of weights and
measures and 5000 copies of the Or
dinance are being printed for distri-
button.
Pay checks are being delivered this
week to members at Spencer of the four
Observation-Disclosures, Conductors,
Firemen and Brakemen-for back
time during the month of January. In
the face of the checks it is stated
that this is for time made under the
Adamson eight-hour law.
In a letter to the editors of the
state, Mr.. M. L. Shipman, Commits
Sioner of Labor and Printing, is call
ing attention to the grave danger of a
serious shortage of labor on the farm
and urges cooperation betweent may
Ors and Industrial organizations in
cities for the aid of the farmers.
Mr.. R. L. Huffines, general manager
Of n of the largest insurance and
realty companies in the state, has Of
fered every school pupil of Rocky
Mount under ten years of age, who
will volunteer to tend a garden,
to plant the garden.
The Fayetteville Independent Light
Infantry, a military organization
which has kept it's integrity through
the generations since the Revolution,
has made application to the National
Guard authorities of the state for &C
ceptance as a unit of the state
troops.
Fire of unknown origin at Tyro,
Davidson county, destroyed the large
roller mill owned by Baxter Leonard,
a large amoun of grain, -four and
feedstuff, also a sawmill, lumber yard
and n1l1nb Inn, har nu-nal INV Mr. T oN,
ard and a store building and contents
owned by j. c. Davis.
A tremendous effort will be made
enroll a great many more members in
the various clubs in the state during
the next two months, the purpose be-
ing the stimulation of the production
of food and feed crops. An enroll
ment of two hundred boys and girls
in each county in the state would
mean an army of 2 10000 industrially
inclined, productive young men and
young women Already SOL club
members have begun their activities.
Last year the boys corn crop increas-
ed the assets of the state by $29, 900;
the pig club work produced $10,056
worth of pork; and the poultry clubs
were responsible for raising $4,000
birds for egg production.
A notable session of the North Car
DINA Medical Society closed at the
Battery Park Hotel here. The last
hours of the sixty-fourth annual gath
ering were devoted to papers and dis
cussions of children's diseases. Ear
lier session the house of delegates
reported on the election of new Off
GERS as follows: President, DR.. l. w.
Faison of Charlotte; first vice presi-
dent, DR.. VIM. D. B. McNider, of Chap
ell Hill; second vice president DR..
Joseph B. Green, of Asheville; third
vice president, DR.. Ben F. Royal, Of
Morehead City. The secretary, DR..
Benjamin K. Hays, of Oxford and the
treasurer, DR.. w. M. Jones, of Green's
boro, hold over until the next meeting
which will be at P%inehurst next
April.
A. Blanton, of Marion, was instantly
killed, midway between Shelby and
Kings Mountain, when the big auto
mobile he was driving was over
turned.
While few recruits have been en-
listed for the Army and Navy from
this city, Concord has the distinction
of being one of the first Southern
cities to send a m recruit to
the war. The recruit from this city
is Miss Cooper Miller, who writes that
she enlisted at Philadelphia.
Wake county farmers have passed
resolutions to increase food crop
acreage.
Our country is at war-every
pound of non-perishable food prOduc-
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