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MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 29, 1815
Outside of the wreck at Salisbury
the night before Thanksgiving there
•’vere no Thanksgiving accidents to
amount to, anything in North.Caro
lina. This is very unusual for it is
custonwry for several people to be
shot and many fights on this day. We
are evidently doing better.
« Will Be^Solicitor.
- Newton,^Noy, 25.—County court of-
..ficmis for the ensuing year will be
named by the county con^missioners
when they meet Monday, December
6. It is understood that Jesse C, Sig
mon, lately moved here from Charlotte
wil be appointed solicitor and that the
judge, C. H. Mebane, will be reap
pointed.
J. S. Lancaster of the Virginia
Shipp hotel for the past two years
has leased the St. Hubert Inn property
from J. F. Stewart and will open that
hostelry December 1, The Shipp Hotel
rwill also contiune to operate, though
the name of the new lessee has ont
been given out. St. Hubert Inn has
been closed for more than a year, its
operators having retired from the
hotel business.
Dr. Frank Foard, son of Dr. Fred
T. Foard, who has been practicing
medicine with his father in the wes
tern part of the county, has gone to
Chicago to take a position as doctor
in one o fthe city’s hospitals.
Effective Sunday, the Carolina and
North Western trains mostly used by
persons going to Charlotte will ob
serve a more convenient schedule.
The southbound morning pasenger
train No. 7, which now arrives at 0:30
will arrive at 7:55, and returning, will
arrive at 7:08 p. m., in stead of 6:02
as in the past. The change will make
it possible to visit Charlotte and re
turn in a day, with some time to spare
Mrs. (ieorg:e Smyre, of the mill vil-
HENKY FORD CHARTERS
STEAMSHIP OSCAR IL
which^^ay piove fatal. In thejj^een uiJder way for some time to get
Auto Manufacturer to Send Peace
Advocates to Europe—^W'ould End
War by Christmas.—Wants to “Get
Those Boys Out of Trenches.’
New York, Nov. 26.—Henry Ford,
automobile manufacturere and ardent
peace advocate, chartered the steam
ship Oscar II today from the Scandina
vlan Line to take prominent Ameri
can men and women to Europe. His
idea i« 9 conference of nuetral nations
in an effort to induce or compel bellig
erents to establish peace on or about
Christmas Day.
The destination of the vessel has
not yet been determined, said Mr.
Ford. “We decided on this move only
about 1 o’clock this morning. We don’t
know yet where it’s going or whom
we will invite,” he stated.
“We are trying to get those boys
out of the trenches by Christmas Day
and have them back in their homes.”
The Oscar II will sail from New
York on December 4. Reports from
peace advocates in neutral countries
will determine whether the liner will
be cleared for Holland or one of the
Scandinavian countries. The Oscar
II is now on its way to New York and
is booked to sail on its regular sched
ule on December 4. Mr. Ford, who is
financing the project, induced the
company to turn the vessel over to
him and to notify passengers that
they would be transferred to another
liner.
Mr. Ford would not admit that his
decision to charter the vessel was the
result of his conference with Pres-
dent Wilson in Washington yesterday.
He added that he didn’t whip the idea
into concrete shape until midnight.
“Just what is the definite purpose
of this expedition?” Mr. Ford was
asked.
“To call into life the neutral coun
tries,”
“In what way?”
“I’ll tell that later.”
“Has this the backing of the Ad
ministration?”
“I’ll tell that later.”,
“Do you intend to accompany the
expedition?”
“I’ll be eager to go if I can get
away. And if I manage to get away
I’ll go on that liner even if I know it
may be sunk just outside the harbor.
I’m with this thing right to the finish,
even though it takes my last cent to
carry out the peace idea. It’ll be
worth it and I can make a living any
time.”
“What do you^xpect to accomplish
in that short period?”
'^WeMj/try to crush militarism and
get t^se boysj^ome from the trenches
movement has
PORK PRODUCTION IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
midst of an attack to which she
subject she fell into an open fireplace,
and half of her face and much of the
surface of her body was burned fear
fully.
-dis-
Lincolton Hustling.
' Lincolnton, Nov. 26.—The Lincoln
ton streets which are now being cover
ed with asphalt by the Noll Construc
tion Co., of Chattanooga, Tenn., will
be completed within the next week
or so. Alongside the asphalt streets
the alderman have awarded to the
Nol Company the contract for cement
, sidewalks, and the county commis
sioners have awarded the contract to
the same company to cement all the
walks running through the court
square. When complete, the entire
main street and two of the side
^eets will have cement walks and as
phalt paving.
The Childs-Wolfe Drug Company is
is expecting its fixtures within the
next week or so, and expects to have
the door of the new drug store open
in time for Christmas holidays. This
new firm makes three drug stores for
the city of Lincolnton.
The Johnston Ice & Fuel Co.,
which has just been incorporated, is
building its new ice plant with a ca
pacity of 12 tons a day. The incor
porators Joseph B. Johnston, W. H.
Childs and R. M. Roseman, Jr., be
ginning business with a capital of
$15,000 subscribed.
On the old home place of the late
V. A. McBee the Methodist Church
expects to build one of the hand
somest churches in this section of the
State, and on the rear of the lot a
parsonage.
At present the furniture.factory is
compelled to run night and day ow
ing to its increasing business. It is
said that the factory will soon be
doubled in capacity.
. .Then the Row Started.
Congressman Jacob E. Meeker of
St. Louis, addresing a suffrage meet
ing in that city, created an unroar
vhen he said that in Denver so he
had been told, women soi'! their votes
•fc* $50 each an*! liiat the votes of
society women there could be bought
with theater tickets.
Whei^ the ;Congjressman tried to
leave the room women blocked his
path and hurled arguments at him.
Mrs. Kate O’Hara said the woman
who sold her vote for $50 shewed
more intelligence than the man who
sold his vo:& l(r a gli.s% of beer.
a confere^ice of neutral nations-
interested neutr^als.
“You’ll remember that telegrams
were sent last week to the President
in furtherance of this idea. Well,
more telegrams will be sent next week
by women’s organizations through
money given by Mrs. Ford.
“Prominent men and women will be
invited to be in the expedition. We
haven’t had time yet to decide who
will be asked. They needn’t necessar
ily be pacificists. But they’ll be per
sons of such a type as to indicate the
seriousness of the movement.
“If necessary the belligerents
should be compelled to _ establish
peace.”
“In what way will the conference
induce combatants to cease fighting?”
“No definite program has been out
lined yet and we wont know just what
action we will take until we get into
conference.”
“Are you confident of better success
than the Hague meeting of Women?”
“There’s this difference—that rep-
resentatives of the belligerent coun
tries attended the Hague meeting.
There will be only neautral delegates
at our conference.
“It also differs in that only women
were present at The Hague and in
this conference there will be both men
and women,” he added.
“Is there material evidence that the
move \vill be welcomed in Europe?”
“It will prove welcome all over,
even in the fighting nations. When
the women peace delegates went over
they were received in 40 places,
alw^s cordially, even in France and
England.’'
He asserted that a large part of the
populations of the belligerent coun
tries were urging movements for the
establishment of peace.
“I hope that every person in the
world will bring pressure on all people
to stop the war by Christmas.,” he
said.
“And they shoi^ld stop it in this
country for preparedness is war. No
by ever killed a bird unless he had
a sling shot or a gun.”
Wanamaker Joins Ford Party.
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov.. 25.—John
Wannamaker, former Postmaster Gen
eral, announced tonight that he had
accepted an invitation to become a
member of the Ford Peace Commis
sion.
Only Twenty-sLx Counties Raise Suf-
ficent Pork to Run the County—
Those in the West.
The Eastern Counties Ahead of
M. H. Randolph, of Mecklenburg
county, writing in the University
News letter says;
The facts that follow upon pork
production in North Carolina are bas
ed on the 1910 census report of swine
sold and slaughtered in each county.
Assuming every pig at 200 pounds;
dressed weight, gave the total amount
of pork produced in each county. Di-
viding the pounds of pork produced
by the population of each cojinty gave
the per capita production. The coun
ties were then ranked in order from
high to low.
The yearly average of meat con
sumption in the United States is 156
pounds per person. The yearly aver
age consumption of pork in Nwth
Carolina is around 125 pounds per per
son. Only 26 counties in the state
produced enough pork for home use in
the census year.
The production of pork in North
Carolina in the census year averaged
93 pounds per person; which means
that 32 pounds of pork was imported
for every- man, woman and child. On
this basis 70,000,000 pounds of pork
were imported into North Carolina for
consumption by 2,206,000 people. If
we estimate the price of pork at 15
cents per pound $10,000,000 of wealth
went out of the state for pork which
should have been produced at home.
Every one of the heavy pork pro
ducing countiy is in the eastern part
of the state. All are east of the fall
line except Chatham. The next im«
portant pork producing counties west
of the fall line are Moore, Randolph,
Davidson, Yadkin and Alexander, with
Alleghany, Ashe, Yancey, Madison,
Jackson, Macon ,and Clay in the moun
tain region. None s>f these counties,
however, produced pork enough for
home consumption except Chatham,
Clay, Alleghany, Yadkin and Ran
dolph.
The majority of the counties pro
ducing less than 60 pounds of pork
per person are in the piedmont region
—in a cereals and hay producing
area where one would naturally ex
pect to find pork produced in adequate
abundance.
The average for the state is 93.3
pounds. Gaston county only ^-aises
37.5 pounds per capita.
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Cigar Blew up Zeppelin. (
Copenhagen, Nov. 2^The Zeppe-
explosion at Torndern, Prussia, had
*iade only a single trip westward, over
the Island of Sylt. The shed which
housed it had been completed at the
time of the disaster. A few altera-
lOns wgre being made, of which the
hief change was removal of the anti-
j.*rcraft gun platform from the roof
-o the ground, at the corners of the
shed, in accordance vrith the new pol-
.cy of defense.
A number of marines were assist
ing the workmen, and, not withstand-
.ig strict orders, several of them
smoked cigars. It is reported one
man dropped a lighted cigar on the
gas-filled balloon, resulting in an im
mediate explosion.
The casualties are now given as 11
killed or wounded.
Hats Come High in Republic of
Mexico.
Durham, Nov. 26.—A letter from
Ben Johnson, an American in Mexico
City, to Benjamin Muse, of this city,
throv/s arv intei'esting^, sidelight on
conditions in the chief city of the
southern republic. The letter com
menting on the high prices, says that
the writer had to pay $500 for a hat
to wear. Flour, sugar and all of the
necessities of life are proportionately
high. While conditions are somewhat
better than they were a few months
ago, the letter says that there is still
German Submarine Taken in Trap
Short Time After Being Launched.
Liverpool, Nov. 27.—The Daily Post
publishes a report of the capture of
one of Germany’s latest super-sub
marines, 250 feet and carrying in ad
dition to torpedo tubes four guns of
fairly large calibre. The submarine
was launched at Stettin a fortmght
ago.
The Post states that within a few
hours after leaving her base she was
caught in “one of the traps we have
so skilfully laid for th^se craft some
where in the German ocean,”
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1915 are not paid by Jan. 1st, t^o
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Trains Leave Charlotte Effective May
30, 1915..
EAST AND NORTH BOUND,
tatfhed. . Connecting at Hamlet
No. 14—5:05 a., m.—Through train
for Wilmington, with parlor car at-
with train for'--Portsmouth, Nor
folk, Raleigh and all points north
and south. Also for C. A, & W.
for Charleston. Dining car service,
vestibule coaches and sleeping cars
to Washington and New York, con
necting at Maxton foi- .A C. L.
points north.
No. 34—10:10 a. m.—For Raleigh
and Weldon and all local points.
No. 20—5:05 . p. m.—For Wilming
ton, sleeping car; passengers can
stay in sleper all night at Wilming
ton. This train connects at Hamlet
for Savannah, Jacksonville and all
points south and north. Arriving
in Washington 7.10 a. m., in New
York 12:57 p. m.
No. 16—7:50 p. m.—Connecting at
Monroe for Atlanta and all points
south and southwest, alsr connects
at Monroe with fast train for Nor-
follk, Richmond, Washington and
New York, through steel vestibule
coaches. Pullman sleeping cars
to New York, dining cars Rich
mond to New York.
WEST BOUND.
U',. 15—9:05 a. m.—Local for Ruth-
erfordton, connecting at Bostic
v/ith C. C. & O. for all points on
that line to Johnson City, Tenn.
C. & N. W. points north at Lincoln
ton.
N"o. 31—3:25 p. m.—Local for Ruth-
erfordton, from Raleigh and Wel
don, connecting at Lincolnton with
C. & N. W. for points on that line.
For further information call ’phone
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