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Messenger and Intelligencer Published by Estate of J. G. Boylin. Published Every Thursday $1.00 a Year, Due in Advance ESTABLISHED 1881 WADESBORO, N. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1917 VOL.

XXXVII. NO. 7 WILSON MAY GO BEFORE CONGRESS. May Ask Authority to Protect American Lives and Property--Nothing Decided Yet--Preparations for Any Eventuality Going Steadily Forward. Washington, Feb.

steady accumulation of violations of American rights by Germany made it pear possible today that President Wilson would go before Congress to ask authority to protect lives and property without waiting for a serious disaster which might shock the country. There were no indications, however, that he believed the, time. for such a step had come and it was again stated authoritatively that he would move deliberately and with full appreciation of all the consequences involved. Official reports of the sinking of the American schooner Lyman M. Law, in the Mediterranean by an Austrian submarine added only slightly to the tension, for while the act is believed to have been illegal, no lives were lost and the vessel apparently was warned.

The incident was not looked upon as one itself sufficient to hurry the development of the situation. 7 Preliminary reports began coming to Government departments showing the piling up along the Atlantic Seaboard of goods destined for export to European ports. No serious effect frm this condition will be felt, however, until lapse of sufficient time for ships remaining in American ports to have gone to Europe and returned. While only approximately 10 per cent of American commerce with Europe is carried on American ships, the sailing of vessels of other Nationalities in many instances have either been cancelled or postponed, and therefore the results of the ruthless submarine campaign in time will result in far-reaching disturbances of the industrial life of the United States. Preparations Go Forward.

Preparations by the government for any eventuality still are going forward without any interruption. Much important work of the Conner of National defense, which is holding. daily sessions for the purpose of learning at first hand from Americans of experience what provision must be made to co-ordinate American resources. E. S.

Stettinius, of J. P. Morgan New York, was again before the Council today, furnishing information gained from experience as head of his firms huge transactions in war orders for the Entente Allies. It was stated during the day that it was entirely possible the Government would take no steps towards actually furnishing arms to American ships unless and until the President decides he should go before Congress. While the State Department takes the position that the Government has the right to furnish the guns, other questions which make the question more complex, have arisen.

The greatest of these is the determination of the President to do nothing which might give Germany any excuse in any trouble which may follow to place the responsibility upon the United States. Consul Treadway, at Rome, forwarded dispatches today showing that the schooner Law was sunk by "an Austrian submarine without flag," aparently by placing a bomb aboard after the vessel had been stopped. The reports indicate that the vessel was illegally sunk, as her cargo of lumber is not considered by this Government and that the recognized rule of the sea is that a war craft must show its flag before taking hostile action was violated. Huntley -Hill. Mr.

Frank T. Huntley, was married on Saturday, February, 3rd, at Stuart, Florida, to Miss Edith Hill. Mr. Huntley is a son of the late F. T.

Huntley and Mrs. Huntley, and has been living in Florida for several years. He has many friends here. Pinkston-Dudley. Mr.

Bryan Pinkston, formerly of Wadesboro, and Miss Mary Lee Dudley were married yesterday morning at the home of the bride's parents at Cheraw, S. C. Mr. Pinkston is a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Pinkston, formerly of Wadesboro, and is a popular young man. He is telegraph agent at Cheraw. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pinkston, of Wadesboro, attended the wedding.

Subseribe for The M. I. Land Transfers. The following real estate deeds have been filed for registration during the past week: Hattie R. Covington and B.

G. Covington, executors of the estate of E. A. Covington, to W. C.

Leary; lot on Chappel consideration, $40.00. E. P. Liles to J. C.

Galloway; timber on two small tracts in Lilesville township; consideration, $500. H. H. McLendon, trustee, to W. Marshall; Ann Eliza Kersey tract of land; consideration, $1,250.

H. H. McLendon, trustee, to W. L. Marshall; Henry Leak tract of land; consideration, $1,050 H.

H. McLendon, trustee, to T. A. Marshall; Watt Spencer land; consideration, $750. J.

S. Bennett to F. E. Covington and F. Dunlap; timber on tract adjoining Mrs W.

Bennett and others; consideration, $100. Mamie Hill and husband, L. L. Hill and Fannie Casey and husband, J. P.

Casey, to F. L. Dunlap; 46 acres adjoining T. J. Allen; consideration, $100.

M. E. Threadgill and others to John A. Kendall; acres adjoining Stephen W. Cole; consideration, $200.

D. A. Liles and wife to F. Thomas; deed made in 1896. John P.

Huntley and wife to J. E. Hart; two tracts containing acres. Virgie Rushing and others to E. A.

Faulkner; 50 acres on Brown creek: consideration, $1,247.50. J. C. McIntyre and wife to W. M.

Simms; 150 acres on Brown "creek; consideration, $1,800. J. E. Hart and wife to John P. Huntley; 100 acres in White Store township.

This was a swap for the above acres. W. H. Carter and wife to H. E.

Allen; small tract adjoining the lots of Messrs. Carter and Allen on East consideration $150. W. wife to A. C.

Short; then dower lands of Mrs. Hanna. Short; consideration, $300. App Charge. 1st.

Sunda Hill, 11. a. Sandy 3 p. Morven 7:30 ening: Sund New Hope, 11 a. Bethel Pleasant Hill 7:30 evenin 3rdi Sunday- Morven, 11 a.

Pleasant Hill, 8 p. Morven 7:30 Wening. 4th. Sunday- Union, 11 a. Long Pine 3 p.

m. A Tale of the Rabbits. Elsewhere in today's M. I. appears an item, in the Wharftown news, telling of the large number of rabbits caught by the sons of Mr.

J. W. Stamper, of Ansonville township. Mr. W.

E. Hendley, of the same township, reports that in the fall of 1915 he sent a colored man to sow two bushels of wheat on a tract of land some distance from his house. A good while later he visited the tract expecting to see a good stand of the grain, but was astonished to find that there was none at all. He thought at first the colored man had not sowed the wheat, but a closer examination showed that the wheat had been sowed and the young stalks had been eaten by rabbits. Mr.

Hendley says that he looked over the whole field and found only one sickly stalk of wheat. War and the Farmer. Farm and Fireside. The Germans have built monster submarines with a scope of operation as broad as the Atlantic; the Belgians have invented a powder that makes dynamite seem like a joss stick; the French have mounted a 52-centimeter gun that hurls a ton and a half of explosives twenty miles; the British have constructed that terrible battleship, the "tank." But American farmers have done their share to render these things possible. They have vied with muni.

tion makers they have made the United States a stockyard and a grainery for Europe. They have furnished cotton and wool for uniforms, leather for harness and saddlery, horse and mule power for artillery, beef and grain for the commissary. They have achieved scientific farming triumphs, parallel to the creating of great guns and stable aeroplanes and war machinery. And more people are be. coming farmers, or studying agriculture, or reading farm literature than ever before--well aware that the farmer represents one of the biggest forces in American life today.

A MR. JOHN J. LAMPLEY ROAD COMMISSIONER. Was Appointed by County Commissioners at Meeting MondayMay Not Be Able to Take Position. At a special meeting of the county commissioners last Monday afternoon Mr.

John J. Lampley, who has been living in Florida for the past several years was appointed to fill the new of. fice of road commissioner and purchasing agent. Mr. Lampley was superintendent of the chaingang for several years, and went from Anson to Florida, where he has been engaged in road work.

He has had much experience, and has the reputation of being a very capable road man. No salary was fixed for Mr. Lampley, but the new road law provides that whoever holds the position shall not receive more than $125 per month. Some doubt has been exp: eased as to whether or not Mr. Lampley will be able to qualify for the position, it being said that there is a constitutional provision prohibiting a non-resident of the state holding a public office in the state.

However, in the past this constitutional provision has been violated frequently. There were quite a number of applicants. for the position, and some of them and their supporters express surprise that the commissioners should have thought it necessary to go to Florida for a man when there were many local "good men and true" anxious to serve the county in this position. UNITED STATES AMPLY ABLE TO DINE ALONE Should All Imports of Foodstuffs Be Cut Off, Country Would Suffer Not at All. Washington, Feb.

ed States is amply able to feed herself, even if all imports of foodstuffs should be cut off, the department of agriculture announced today in an official statement. The statement, prepared by Assistant Secretary Vrooman, follows: produce, in round figures, 23, 000,000,000 pounds of meat, and wet import less than 100,000,000 pounds or less than one half of 1 per cent, the bulk of which comes from Argentina, Australia and Canada. "We produce here slightly over 000,000 pounds of sugar and we import over 5,500,000,000 pounds from Cuba. "We produce about 7,500,000,000 gallons of milk importing about 500,00 worth, mostly condensed milk from The Netherlands and Canada. imports are: Cheese- Produce 300,000,000 Ibs; import, 30,000,000 pounds, mostly from Italy, Switzerland and France.

Eggs- -Produce 2,000,000,000 dozens yearly; import less than 000, chiefly from Canada, England and China. Corn, wheat and rice -Produce 000,000,000 bushels; imports of corn, 5,000,000 bushels, practically all from Argentina; imports of wheat bushels, practically all from Canada; imports of rice, 2,500,000,000 pounds, mostly from China, England and The Netherlands. Fish-Production, 1,000,000,000 IDs. imports something over $17,000,000 worth from Norway and Canada. Sweet and Irish, potatoes- -Production 450,000,000 bushels; imports slightly over 200,000 bushels from Bermuda, Canada and Mexico.

Oranges, Lemons, grape fruitProduction 25,000,000 boxes, imports $2,100,000 worth from Italy and the West Indies. A Big Family. The Leviner boys were here the other day. They gathered here for the purpose of taking steps leading to the winding up of the estate of their father, the late Hiram LeViner, who died at his home near Osborne a year ago. The Leviner family contains six sons and six daughters, all living and married, and each family has from three to eight children.

Mrs. Leviner is quite a young woman in appearance, notwithstanding the fact that she is 64 years of age and the grandmother of 59 grandchildren. Her twelve children are scattered over a half dozen States. -Rockingham Dispatch. "I am not afraid that my daughter will ever marry in haste." not "It will take at least six months to prepare any she would consider fit to marry in--Kansas City Journal.

Subscribe for The M. I. M. H. COLLINS DISAPPEARS.

Clothes Were Found on Banks of Catawba River Supposed He Committed. Suicide by Drowning--Body Has Not Been Recovered. Mr. M. H.

Collins, of Charlotte, whose wife died Wednesday of last week and was buried here Friday, has disappeared from home, and it is thought that he committed suicide by drowning in Catawba river. Nothing has been seen or heard of Mr. Collins since his wife's death, and his clothes were found Wednesday afternoon of last week on the banks of the Cataw. ba. The river has been dragged for several miles below the place, and the woods surrounding have been searched, but thus far without result.

Membere of his family believe that he committed suicide as above stated. Mr. Collins disappeared Wednesday morning. Neighbors saw him about the house early that morning, and it was found later that he had performed his usual household tasks. It is believed that his wife, whose death was told of in last week's M.

was alive when he got up, but died soon after, and that when he discovered her death he left home, presumably with the intention of committing suicide. Mrs. Collins' death was discovered about noon by her son, Mr. M. H.

Collins, when he went to her home to take dinner. At that time the elder Mr. Collins had been gone several hours. elder Mr. Collins was about 60 years of age, and was 2.

highly respected man. The sudden death of his wife and his own disappearance were tragic in the extreme, and have created much sympathy for the bereaved family. There have been many rumors, goaround, some of which have been printed, but they are without foundation. The facts as given above are all that is known. Incorrect Reports Refuted.

Many reports in the papers about Martin Collins are hearsay and are not true. The only thing pointing to his whereabouts, since he discovered that his wife was dead, in the early morning of Feb. 7th, his clothes found on the bank of the Catawba river. He left no note to his son with his clothes as reported. His family are sure that he is drowned.

D. A. McGREGOR. John P. Cameron, of Rockingham, Dead.

Rockingham, Feb. P. Cameron died at his home here this afternoon at 7:30 o'clock. On February 4 he was operated on for stomach trouble and though he rallied after the operation, erysipelas and other complications set in from other causes and for several days his death was feared. Mr.

Cameron was born at the old Cameron place, 12 miles from Rockingham, on the Laurinburg road, in December, 1860. When a very young man he came to Rockingham as deputy sheriff, under Sheriff John Smith, and was a courageous and fearless officer. He afterward took up the study of law and for a number of years has been president of the local bar association and considered one of the most prominent attorneys of this section. He was a keen student of human nature and in the trial of his cases before a jury he was unequalled. Though he was one of the leaders of the Republican party in the state and chairman of the executive committee of Richmond county, he nevertheless took an active interest in the promotion of things for the town's welfare even under Democratic administration Mr.

Cameron is survived by his wife, who prior to their marriage was Miss Estella Terry, and one daughter, and one sister, Mrs. Virginia Smith. Five brothers also survive him: Messrs. D. Phillips, Duncan, M.

and W. D. Cameron, all of Richmond county. The funeral will be held from his home Friday afternoon by the pastor of the Presbyterian church, of which he was a member. Interment will be in Eastside Cemetery.

Forty New Houses to Be Built in Albemarle. Albemarle, Feb. Contracts have just been mlosed with Holbrooks Bradshaw, contractors and builders, for the erection of forty new dwelling houses in Albemarle. These buildings are to be erected by the Wiseassett Mills the Efird Manufacturing Company, and the Lillian Knitting Mills Company. Poultry Club News.

Mr. A. G. Olliver, who is well known throughout the county, has been visiting schools and homes where there are poultry club members who are doing something in the raising of purebred poultry. At a meeting at Mrs.

Rosalind Redfearn's there were a num. ber of gown folks besides children to counsel with Mr. Olliver. Miss Sadie Covington who raises Rhode Island Reds, and, who has made a success of them; Miss Nellie Bennett who has the barred Plymouth Rocks; Mrs. Will Richardson who has white rocks; Mrs.

Covington who prefers black minorcas, James and Walter Tice who have Minorcas and Plymouth Rocks, besides a number of other interested persons. Mrs. Redfearn and Miss Nellie Bennett have just received cockerels from Newton, which Mr. Olliver considered very fine. The poultry club boy who supplied these chickens has cleared three hundred dollars in the last year.

He sold ninety dozen eggs in January. Two years ago he began the poultry business with two settings of eggs. Mr. Olliver says succes depends upon early hatching. When you don't have, to fight lice and mites.

Good housing, proper feeding, (baby chicks should not be fed until 60 hours old and then on well baked corn bread) and good stock. He said chickens of one color and weight would sell for more by 2 or 3 cents on the pound than the mixed color coop. He said he had orders now for 500 dozen eggs for setting and wanted to Oget the supply from home clubs. He insisted that coops should be tight on three sides and floored for the baby chicks. Another suggestion was to set two hens at one time and then give both hatchings to one mother.

Thoroughly dust her and reset her in a freshly prepared nest and keep hr fed well. Mr. Olliver is very anxious to get the grown folks interested to help the younger ones. Children need encouragement. What the Canning Club Has Done.

The canning club of Anson county, known as the Tomato club, was organlized in the spring of 1913 with 26 girls as members. The rules of the club were that a tenth of an acre of ground was to be planted in tomatoes, and that this plot of land was to be worked by directions from the agricultural department. These tomatoes could be marketed either fresh or if canned with the 4H brand label as a guarantee that the contents were up to the standard. From year to year this canning work has grown, and in 1916 an enrollment of 154 girls and 281 women, who not only canned tomatoes from a tenth of an acre, but canned all other products from the garden and field. These products have been shipped in large quantities to the leading colleges of the United States.

In our own State we have as customers the following: Meredith, A. Fassifern and Horner's. We have marketed canned vegetables and preserves in Englewood, N. Newport, R. Cooperstown, N.

New York City, and Cornell University. There have been sold in the county 300 canning outfits, besides some families who built furnaces and bought galvanized tubs which they used. These products were not put on the market by people who had to can for their daily bread, but by the people who are the substantial citizens of Anson county. These girls and women who were progressive and wished to make preserves of the golden hue rather than do as they had formerly done cook them into a dark mass. Many women are interested in this work who were tied down by home cares so that they felt they could never leave their own premises for a visit to neighbors exon an errand of mercy during sickness.

Engineer Killed Near Monroe. Mr. A. M. Horton, an urgineer on the Seaboard, was killed in a wreck near Mon Inst Friday morning.

Mr. Horton's train was running from Wingate to Monroe and collided with sixteen freight cars which were running wild. The conductor and fireman on the train were hurt, but are expected recover. Mr. Horton married a Miss Garland, sister of Mrs.

W. A. av, of Wadesboro. He is survived by his wife and two children. 94 Ships Sunk Since February 1st.

The German submarines have sunk 94 ships since they began unrestricted submarine warfare February 1st. Five ships were sunk yesterday. Two of the ships sunk were American; other neutrals, 33; British, 52; other belligerents, 7. 72 AMERICAN SAILORS ARE HELD IN GERMANY Will Hold Men as Prisoners Until Sure Germans in America Won't be Imprisoned. Washington, Feb.

notification of the retention of the 72 American sailors brought in as prisoners on the prize ship Yarrowdale was given the state department today by Dr. Paul Ritter, Swiss minister here, acting for the German government, together with an inquiry as to the status of the crews of the German war- ships in American harbors. Germany, Dr. Ritter said, had decided to hold the Yarrowdale prisoners until she had the definite assurance that German crews in American harbors would not be held or imprisoned. This development, wholly unexpected, was amazing to the American government.

Officials here had come to the conclusion that the early reports which misled the German government as to the treatment of German crews here had been effectively displled by the forwarding of complete details. A query was at once cabled to the governor of Hawaii the only section where German ships are bound where all the conditions are not known. There is not the least thought that any variation will be found there in the uniformly courteous treatment accorded German vessels. Eventual release of the Yarrowdale prisoners is regarded as assured" but an urgent protest against their reimprisonment will be made at once. AMERICANS BEING HELD FOR RANSOM BY VILLA BANDITS Salazar Heads Band Camped on American Owned Ranch--Cavalrymen Patrol Border.

El Paso, Feb. Ynez, Salazar, with his Villa conunand occupied Ojitos, an American-owned cattle ranch in Mexico, 45 miles southwest of the Corner Ranch, yesterday. One American negro is being held there for ransom, and three American Mormon cowboys who were captured during the raid yeste.d day on the Corner Ranch, also are believed to be held for ransom at Ojitos. American trops tonight patrolled the border. Interest in Mexican border affairs shifted suddenly from the contemplated Villa attack on Juarez to the operations of Salazar and his force.

Following the raid on the Corner Ranch on the American side of the boundary, Salazar's forces occupied Ojitos, taking prisoners nine Mexicans together with "Bunk" Spencer, an American nervo, emplovod by T. K. Warren Sons, according to reports received today. No ens killed when Salazar 0 A demand fer $5.6 TE was made unon Bob Morehend, ranch overseers for the Warren interests, and forwarded from Hachita to E. K.

Warren, at Three Oaks, Mich. Reports from Hachita said that Warren had instructed Morehead to protect Spencer, and had ordered the ransom paid, but tonight reports said the ransom had been ordered withheld. Two troops of the Twelfth United States Cavalry went to the border today, but are not believed to have crossed in pursuit of the bandits. There are also troops at Dog, Cienegas, and at Alamo Hueco near the boundary. What it Costs to Feed the Dogs.

Atlanta, Feb. it costs forty million pounds of pork to feed the dogs of Georgia every year, or more than enough to supply ample food for the orphan homes and charita ble institutions of the State, is asserted by a Camilla, statistician who has made a study of the subject. He does not mean that the half million odd dogs in Georgia actually eat forty million pounds of pork a year, but he claims they eat enough to raise four hundred thousand head of hogs, and that these would supply the missing forty million pounds of pork. He recognizes, of course, that bird dogs serve a good and useful purpose, but he makes the assertion that there are fifty worthless curs for every dog that corns his keep. Gentleman (giving alms to a begger): Now play me a beautiful piece on your clarinet! Beggar: No, sir; Lean't play! I only the instrument to frighten Blatter,.