Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-04-18

Louisburg Cotton Oil Mill at Louis
burg, and about 500 bales of cotton
were totally destroyed by fire. The
total loss is estimated at about $780,.
600.
Former Governor Locke Craig was
a visitor in Washington. He thinks
that the people Of North Carolina are
with the administration in it's wal
with Germany.
Albert Belcher, a young white man,
claiming Spartanburg, S. c., as his
home, was arrested in High Point
charged with severely berating the
President and the flag.
Col. Hamilton A. Brown, 80, of Wiki
esboro, N. c., who commanded a North
Carolina regiment during the Civil
War, died in Richmond last week.
h formation of Red Cross Chap.
tiers and First Aid Glasses is one of
the duties of every patriotic North
Carolinian v rsixteen years of age"
declared Governor T. w. Beckett, re-
Gently.
MI. A. S. Brown, of Charlotte, traf-
fc manager of the North Carolina
Cotton Manufacturers Association,
was chosen manager of the traffic bu-
reau of the Raleigh Chamber of Com
merce. He will begin his duties
May 1.
operations are going forward with re-
markable rapidity. 1t is evident that
the farmers are as a whole consider
ing the food situation, and while the
cotton and tobacco acreage may not
be materially decreased the food crop
will doubtless be increased.
H. Gary Webb, train robber who was
being transported to Atlanta Federal
prison from West Virginia and escap-
ed from the officers on a train while
in the yards at Charlotte was captur-
ed at Badin, near Salisbury, and was
Immediately carried to Atlanta to be-
gin his sentence.
Governor Beckett appointed DR.. J..
Howell Way, member of the State
Board of Health, for a term of six
years to succeed himself. Likewise
he appointed DR.. e. G. Register, of
Charlotte, to membership on the board
for a smear length or time to succeed
DR.. w. o. Spencer, whose term ex.
pires April 25.
The North Carolina Library Associa-
ton will hold it's eleventh annual meet
ing in Salisbury April 24-25, the ses.
sions to be in the Community build
ing. The officers of the association
are: Miss Mady B. Palmer, of Char
lotte, president; Mrs. D. A. Garrison,
of Gastonia, vice-president; Mrs. L. P.
Coltrane, of Concord, second vice-pres-
ident; Miss Carrie l.. Broughton, Of
Raleigh, secretary; Mrs. A. F. Griggs,
Of Durham, treasurer.
Henry E. Seeman, senior proprietor
of the Seeman Printery and a master
craftsman of the trade, died at his
home in Durham from an attack Of
apoplexy. His unexpected death was
f~oreshadowed in an illness of twelve
hours duration, sinking into a coma
last night, from which he never re-
gained consciousness. He was Sc
years old.
Manteo High School will send two
all girl teams to Chapel Hill for the
High School Debating Union contests
April 10th and Goth. The query is
Resolved, That the Federal Govern
ment Should Own and Operate the
Railways" The affirmative will be
upheld by Misses Lorena Miller and
Edna Crisp and the negative by Misses
Carrie Westcott and Eula Griffin.
General T. R. Robertson, of Raleigh,
formely Of Charlotte, was recently
elected superintendent Of State Build
ings in Raleigh. The office becomes
effective May 1 He was elected by a
committee composed Of Governor T.
w. Beckett, Secretary of State ]. Bry.
an Grimes, State Treasurer B. R. Lacy
and Attorney General J. S. Manning.
General Robertson was formerly Adiu-
tant General Of the state and Chief Of
There was, at one time, a difference
OF opinion as to the advisability of
entering the world war, but when Con.
gress acted, all discussion ended. The
country is unitedly back of the Gov
eminent in what it has done so far.
There can be no doubt as to the final
outcome of the struggle, in my opIn-
ion. What we may have to pass
through before the end comes is mere
guesswork, and 1 prefer not to guess"
Thus spoke William Jennings Bryan,
as he stood on the steps of a bank
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