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f FMOGMESg A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY. ESTABLISHED 1896. MARION, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1913. VOL. XVII NO. 43 lb W. W.XOOPER, SUICIDE Cuts His Throat With Knife in Statesville Sanatorium Fun eral Here Saturday. The Statesville Landmark gives the knife was afterward found un der his body.. Where and how he obtained the knife is not known. When a patient enters the Sana torium his personal, effects are put in a package, labeled and deposited in a safe place until he is dis- the following account of the tragic charged. This rule was followed death of Mr. W. W. Cooper, who with Mr Cooper as with all others, committed suicide at Dr. Long's He had no knife when he entered sanatorium in Statesville last Fri- the Sanatorium and it was not day morning: known that he had one until the Mr. Cooper's suicide' was de- deed was committed. It is sup liberate and evidently premeditat- pose(j he obtained it surreptitious ed, although so far as known he jy with the pUrp0se in view that had dropped no hint of such a pur- he carried out. pose. During the four weeks he William W. Cooper was the sec had been a patient at the Sana- ond son of the jate William M. torium, being treated for carbun- Cooper, a prominent and well cles, he was very quiet but much known citizeo of Statesville. He u'u Mjr owxxx w was reared in statesville ana was from melancholia. He remained in his 41st yeaft gome years 0 in his room and in bed practically he engaged in business in Marion all the time and did not want to and lived there until six years ago, see people. When spoken to he when he moved to Statesville. He talked pleasantly and naturally but married in Marion, his wife being he had nothing to say unless spok- a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. F. en to; usually he was cheerful and E Gruber of Marion. About a xaiKative, ms wire, wno lives at year ago he returned to Marion to p . ovhonctAi nn,i Oimocf fom Marinn vicitorl him on TnwW T- . , . Peak exhausted and almost fam " ' - uve. ud. account or an lnnrmity. It had been suggested to him that which was his only enemy, he had he was well enough to leave the committed to institutions Sanatorium. Thursday Dr. Long severai times. Last year he was told him he would be able to leave for some months in Dr. Taylor's next day. He was averse to leav- sanatorium at Morganton and last ing. An effort had been made to winter he was in the State Hospital get him to sit up in his room and at Morganton for a few months. go out on toe porcn, oui ne od- He was discharged from there jected to this, preferring to stay eariy n April. naturally Mr. uooper was a Friday morning, probably about kindly, generous man and readily K'4.0. fkV.lv.lr T-fnrall nnrco i -r-r -v.-, , maae inenas. ne was a success on auiy in tne room next 10 mat ful business man and leftconsider- SUNSETON MT. MITCHELL A Trip to Mitchell's Peak and a Description of Sunset and the Scenery. To the Editor Mario Prog rim : Last week I met several friends in Black Mountain, N. C, plan ning a trip to Mitchell's Peak. It had been raiding a week and was raining still so our party dispersed. One man and myself decided to spend the nieht and irive the weather one more chance. An old man down street said "it will clear off to-night for the Almanac says the moon changes." Our faith in the moon was well placed for sure enough the morning dawned bright and clear. We left Black Mountain at five o'clock, hitting the trail through Montreat with our packs on our 1 v . . 1 r. oacKs. ay eetung a nil on a logging train of five of six miles we reached the foot of Black Mountain by 11:30 and by 1:30 reached the summit of Mitchell's the artist and the gifted touch of the painter to portray even faintly the grandeur of the scenery. The rein of clouds, which skirt the mountains for miles, once crey and leaden now has a silver lining. while the edges seem touched with - II Tt t 1 goia. ine azure sy imc is now transformed into pink. At 7:10 the great yellow dusk begins to sink into the silvery sea. Below, between rifts of clouds, it can be seen again until finally the last golden outline has disappeared, leaving behind a halo of glory. It seemed as if Heaven had pronounc- STATE NEWS OF THE WEEK Items Concerning Events of In terest and Importance Through out the State. The State Btr Association will mct in Asheville next week. A. C. link wat Tuesday rtcorn- mcndM by Congressman Webb to be postmaster at Hickory. Burgin Smith, an Atheville ho tel man wm found dead in hi room in Asheville Friday morning. It if estimated that 9 to 1.000 Confederate veterans from this LState will attend the (fettraburff ished. After satisfying our hunger we began to admire the scenery. It was a perfect day, hardly a cloud was to be seen; after a rainy spell the mountains are wonderfully clear. On every side nature's grand panorama was stretched out before us. To the east, south. west and north, in never ending 1 1 . succession, we cquia see mountain after mountain, here and there a bare place where the industrious od a benediction upon earth. The -l : 1 . t 1 , mowing reu 01 wie non.on grows cclcbration next week. fainter and fainter until nights shadows fall and c wend our way in silence to our camp. We looked forward to a repeti tion of glory at sunrise but the morning's sun was hidden by heavy clouds and scarcely shone at all s until we were well on our way to firanhit villi To my readers I have some Bd- -orio croi.nm .Mcimxmi varer- !... i;t.. vi t m;...!..!! I.- .11 ence. his been unsmrooujlj-rlccttd means but take plenty of heavy of Mr. Cooper, heard him letdown able estate. consisting of oersonal , tl,A ' , , . T . . vniage ana V r; . property ana vaiuaoie real estaie 1 , f, o- door. Almost immediately she in statesville and Marion. Sur- 71 . lJ hand of man tilled the soil, hamlet, town gave faint evi- The Boone Democrat xy that In two wrcks J. A. Profit, a WaUugm farmer, caught in dradfall traps around a two-acre lot of corn, 100 field mice and 72 ground tquirrels. IW. W. W Sherrillof Pineville, Mecklenburg county, and a well known member of the Western clothing and blankets and an extra supply of rations. T. G. T. 1 College at Lenoir. Tlie Asheville Citizen .aya Got. Craig has agreed to furniih 10 Public Schools of North State Plalc COD v,c u 10 tld 10 " COQ' Moving to Front. 11 . 0 railroad, now under con.tixctioa Washington, D. C, June 20. j from Andrews, N. C. tia Marble Illiteracy is rapidly on the decre.se am lo HiawjLVS, Ga. The in North Carolina, owing chiefly ! rotfj is an electric line, 21 miles lone and will be a standard guage. 1 J - 1.1 1-1 a- neara a noise iiKe mat or a railing viving him are his wife a brothei body. Finding the door fastened Mr. R. A. Coooer of Statesville. and the shade down, Miss Pennell and four sisters Mrs. F. L. De- called Miss Davidson, head nurse. yam Mrs c E 0r, and Irs The key to the door of Mr. Chas M Jr of Brevard. Cooper's room was broken but he and Mrs. R A Setzer of Hickory. had fasted the door by placing a Four haif brothers and two half chair against it with the back of sisters aiso survive Messrs. J. B.. the chair under the door knob. Frank, Albert and Marius Cooper miss uaviason torced tne door and Misses Bertha and Helen open, breaking the chair in doing Coooer. all of Statesville. so. and found Mr. Cooper on the The f uneral was held f rom the noor with his throat cut. Miss residence of Mr. Gruber here Sat Davidson caught the gaping wound urday at 3:30 p m conducted by ana aia wnat sue could to stop tne j c Story assisted by Rev. now or 0100a. ur. iong, wno naa Ira Erwin and interment made in been summoned, arrived promptly Qak Grove cemetery. Many hand ana ir. oampoen a ntti3 later, out some floral designs covered the the patient had lost so much blood casket Xhe pan.bearers were: 4.1 i. J.1 1 1 TT. I una, tue case was nopeiess. - rie Messrs. R. H. Bennett, M. J. ' died in a little more than an hour Hoover, W. W. Neal, J. H. Tate, aiter tne wound was mnicted. tie Q M. McCall and Thomas Morris. was conscious when help reached him and refused aid, in fact re sisted as best he could, while con sciousness lasted, efforts to aid him, except that he asked for re lief from pain. 4T did it," he said with reference to his wounds, and he told those about him that he wanted to die. The fatal wound was on the right side of the neck and was three or four inches long, extending in depth to the gullet and windpipe and severing the big artery and vein. Investigation after death disclosed that Mr. Cooper -had first stabbed himself in the left breast over the heart but the knife had been deflected by a rib and this wound would not have been fatal. JChe weapon used was a two- bladed knife. The smaller- blade, probably an inch and a half long, had been used. Effo rts to save Mr. Cooper's life were made as ;he lay in the floor when he fell and southwest we imagined we could see Tennessee, to the north, Vir ginia, and to the east the smoke of the Southern railway arose. But it was the sunset I have set out to describe. Leaving a roar ing 6re of balsam and spruce, we climbed about fifty yards to the summit. About 6:30 we decided to watch the sunset for'la bov in the lumber camps told us that to tho wide-awake leadership of men and women of prominence, especially women, who have set industriously to work to improve the schools of the state and secure a greatly increased attendance, ac cording to information obtained today from the national board of education. Reports have been received from different counties in the state from timn to timi show in it thft stArlr - ' 11 1 n-n - e Kcneral improvement in school', U"erooa ' n senate Uaucut. school facilities, general attendance Washington, June 20. Import and the deeper interest taken by 1 ant reductions in the Underwood parents in the education of their tariff bill rates on iron, steel and Kxpert Yeggmeo pried open tho door of the Woavcrvillc postodco some time Sunday night, opened the safe without injuring the com bination, abstracted between $300 and $400 in stamp and monej, closed the tafe again, and disap peared without leaving the slight est clue to their identity. children, but the most notable im provement is that reported from when the sun came within five or Wilkes county. other metal products; the addition of cattle, wheat, pig iron, Angorm wool and many other articles to six feet (?) of the horizon it just In discussing the report received the free list; and an increase in rates on many classes of cotton goods and some silk products, were the chief features of the rerised tariff bill, as it was laid before Senate Democrats today by Chair- of the Finance Robt. Hresnell Dies at Morganton. Morganton, June 23. Mr. Rob ert K. Presnell, one of Burke county's honored citizens, died at his home here this afternoon at the age 77 years. He is survived by his wife and six children. Mr. Presnell was for many years in the mercantile business in Mor ganton and was known throughout this section for his honesty and up right dealing. He retired from business some years ago, turning his business over to" his son. For the past few years he spent his life in looking after his farm ing interests, being owner of a valuable farm near here. He was also a large property: owner in the town. He was an' elder in the Presbyterian church and was consistent Christian and gentleman of the old school. Mr. Presnell was a first cousin to Mrs. T. A. White of. Marion and was well known here. drapped clean out of sight all of a from Wilkes count3 tho educA- sudden." We therefore went up tional board has the following to early but the sun was two hours say: high it seemed. We therefore re- 4Thanks to the wide-awake lead- turned and rebuilt our fire, for ership of men and women, especial- balsam burns out verv nuicklv. lv women, interested in the schools. : man Simmons, and it was 7:30 before the sun a number of southern communities Committee. actually began to set. are making iu winning tightagainst After weeks of work, in which Let us now imagine wo are on illiteracy. Wilkes county, N. C, every item had undergone close the highest peak east of the Rock- for instance, reports, together with scrutiny by subcommittees of the ies, 6,711 feet above tho sea level, other notable indications of school majority membership of the Fi At our backs stands a simple bronze betterment, tho fact that illiteracy (nance Committee, the redrafted shaft about ten feet high marking decreased from 13 per cent in 1000 measure was brought into the the fitting resting place of Elisha to 2 per cent in 1012." Democratic caucus today. For Mitchell. It is shameful that this Several other counties in the two hours tho important changes shaft should be so meanly treated, stato showed improvement almost were explained to Democrats and It is riddled with bullets, hacked as marked as that of Wilkes, and the bill was then made public and scarred with stones, and liter- the prediction is made that before Experts of the committee at once ally covered with the names and long North Carolina will bo ablelOTQ work on a comprehensive addresses of visitors from New I to compare favorably with any of (summary of tho changes. York, to Florida and Maine to the other states as far as education- President Wilson' desire for California. Cannot public senti- al facilities are concerned. free sugar in 19 1C and free wool ment be aroused against such Z at once prevailed in the redrafting . Mitkn A ill Pft! ftk r t ! a U i- n rVt I . t t ii i-n . . wholesale desecration. It is 7:35 "cuw WC.,BU, u,c 01 ine oiu. 10 me list 01 mar- and the sun can be seen to perccp- Nebo will celebrate tho Fourth kct baskets reductions the Under- tibly lessen the distance from the of July as is its usual custom, wood bill contained, .the Senate rein of, clouds over the horizon. An interesting program is planned I Committee added many important It is a great ball of fire revolving and everybody is invited to attend litems. in space nearing tho enshrouding and bring a full basket There Senator Simmons, chairman of clouds below. About the rim of will be all kinds of amusements, the committee, bclieres that the the sun appear all tho colors of balloon ascensions, speaking, base- caucus will discuss the "bill not the rainbow; now yellow, violet, ball and lots of other attractions, ffirT u -rNfL , S rrr L j j j it : i j bill has then been submitted to the green.. . We stand uncovered in A good time is promised and it fnll mrmvwrhin o( tho Finance the biting wind and with' bated I will be worth while to take a day Committee, it will be reported to breath. It would take the soul of i od and attend this celebration. . I the Senate. - . ."
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